 Hey, man, it's to keep your place there in Leviticus chapter 20. We're going to get there in a minute, but let me just say this about Leviticus chapter 20. You probably don't hear this chapter read in too many churches today, I wouldn't think. Leviticus chapter 20. But the point is, let me just say this, before we even begin the sermon this morning, I love Leviticus chapter 20 as much as I love Leviticus chapter 21 or John chapter 5 or John chapter 2 or any other verse or part of the Bible. It's just as true as every part of the Bible, whether people want to read it today or not. Now, Leviticus chapter 20 is a chapter covering many of the civil laws in the nation of Israel. It's kind of showing us what God's morality is in the Bible. But let me just say this, Leviticus chapter 20, and that's what we're going to talk about this morning. Leviticus chapter 20 in many other places in Leviticus shows us that the book of Leviticus is a book of consequences. We're talking about in Leviticus chapter 20 specifically, just these consequences. I mean, I always think when I read or when I hear Leviticus chapter 20 read or I read it myself, I always think to myself like, man, we're bad, God had to like make up these rules. Ever think about that? Like God had to like write this stuff down in the Bible. Because if you're a normal person and you're reading all these things, it's just disgusting to you. It's disgusting. God is literally having to list out in the law that things like, you know, perversions like incest and lying with the beast and homosexuality and all these things that we don't even like to think about are, you know, to be punished with capital punishment. God has to list that out. And it's like, man, it's so bad that God has to actually make rules for these things. And it goes into things like adultery, even cursing your parents. It's capital punishment in the Bible here. God has to list all these things out. But all that to say this, what I want to focus on this morning is that the Bible is a book of consequences. And I want to actually look at the first few verses of Leviticus chapter 20 because we see some very specific crimes and very specific perversions listed out later on in the chapter of Leviticus chapter 20. But what I want to point out is that the first part of the chapter, look at verse number one, we see something very specific because God, he puts a punishment not only on the person doing the crime but somebody that would pretend that the crime was not happening. Look at verse number one of Leviticus chapter 20. And we'll see what God's standards are this morning. The Bible says in Leviticus 20 in verse number one, the Bible says, And the Lord spake unto Moses saying again, Thou shalt say to the children of Israel, whosoever he be of the children of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech, he surely shall be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. Verse three, and I will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people because he hath given of his seed unto Molech to defile my sanctuary and to profane my holy name. So what we're talking about here in verse number two and verse number three is people that were literally sacrificing their children to this false God. And this was commonplace amongst the nations where the children of Israel went into the promised land and went to war with all these nations. They were literally so wicked, their evil was so full at that point that they were literally sacrificing their own children to false gods. And the Bible here is saying, I mean verse number two, verse number three, I mean that's understandable. You have people that are murdering their own children. And the Bible is saying, you know, those people should be put to death. Now look at verse number four. Now we see something different. Look at verse number four. It says, And if the people of the land do any ways hide, if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech and kill him not, then will I set my face against that man. This is super important and this is what we're going to talk about this morning. The Bible here is saying, yes, there's this wickedness going on in the land, but then God takes this standard further and he says, oh by the way, not only is that person to be punished for what he's done, but anybody that pretends that is not happening, literally hiding their face from that man, like just looking the other way, that man is guilty as well. And that's what I want to talk about this morning, that God teaches clearly in the Bible that it is not only the people doing the sin that are going to suffer, but also people that are pretending that it is not happening. God will hold them accountable too. That's what it means, hiding their eyes. They know what's happening. They know what's going on in their heart, but they just don't want to look. They don't want to see what's happening. We want to talk about people that no sin is happening, that don't do anything about it, that even go as far as to support it. This is how God looks at things. This is what he's talking about in Matthew 20, 30, that we talked about a few weeks ago where it says, if you gather it not with me, you are scattering abroad. It's the same theory applied here. God is saying just hiding your eyes from sin is not good enough. Look, this isn't what you're taught today. This is not the philosophy that is taught in our world and even in these liberal churches today. Because we're taught today that, oh, we're not to pretend that sin just doesn't matter. We're to pretend that people that are in sin that, oh, God forbid you would say or rebuke or reprove anyone that has sin in their life. That is not what the Bible teaches. And that is what Leviticus chapter 20 is pointing out. This morning, the title of the sermon this morning is enabling sin. Enabling sin. Hiding your eyes from sin. Turn to Proverbs chapter 22. Or look at the front of your bulletin. It is the verse of the week. We're going to talk about enabling sin today. We're going to talk about hiding your eyes from sin that you know is going on or even supporting sin that you know is going on. Not in your life, but in the lives of people that you are associated with. The Bible teaches something very different than it's being taught today. The Bible teaches that we should not enable sin. We should not support sin in any way. Look at Proverbs chapter 22. I want to show you where enabling sin begins with almost everybody in their lives. Look at Proverbs chapter 22 and look at verse number 15. Proverbs chapter 22 and verse number 15. The biggest areas that you will see people enable sin and the biggest areas that people will start enabling sin in their lives is with their own children. Look at Proverbs 22 and verse number 15. The Bible says this. It says, foolishness is bound in the heart of a child. But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. You say, oh, that's a simple verse. No, it's not. That is super important. That is exactly opposite of what the world teaches today. The Bible does not say foolishness is going to be in the heart of a child. It doesn't say children will do foolish things. It says foolishness is bound in the heart of a child. It says it's already there. I don't care. I know you think your child is great and your child is the best looking and best behaved child in the world. But foolishness is bound in the heart of every child. You say, how is that possible? Why? Turn to Romans chapter 8. This should be the entire sermon right here, or at least half the sermon, because you need to understand as a parent, as a grandparent, as somebody that would be a parent one day that foolishness will be bound in the heart of every child, even yours. Look at Romans chapter 8. Go to Romans chapter 8 and look at verse number 3. Romans chapter 8, look at verse number 3. The Bible says, 4, what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh. I want you to just notice these two words that are used together here, sin and flesh. What the Bible here is saying is if you have flesh, which all of us do, you have that sin nature. That's what the Bible is saying. That's what Paul is talking about all throughout the book of Romans, is that just having that flesh, having this body. Look, I'm saved today. Hopefully you're saved today. If you've trusted on the Lord Jesus Christ, you are saved. But if you still have a fleshly body, you still have a sin nature. That is the problem that we have. That is why foolishness is bound in the heart of a child. In Romans chapter five, verse number three, the Bible talks about how that sin nature comes from our father, which if we want to get into doctrine about this, who was Jesus' father? Jesus' father was not Joseph. It was God, the father. So Jesus was without sin even though he had the flesh. It's just kind of a neat little connection there. But the point is foolishness, back to children. Back to children. You have this wonderful child, and he's super cute, and everybody loves him. But guess what? He is foolish. It's there. It is bound in him. Meaning it is attached to him. It needs to be driven from him or her. You must unbind the foolishness. Doing nothing, you lose. Doing nothing, Satan wins. Because it's already bound. It's already there. That's why the Bible talks about the rod of correction. I don't want to spank my child. If you don't, you hate your child, the Bible says. Why? Because the foolishness is bound there, and it needs to be removed. So this is the first stage in people's lives where they enable sin. This needs to be half the sermon because the philosophy today, especially raising children, let my child explore himself. Let my child find themselves. You know what they will find? They will find foolishness. And wicked evil people will find them. There's an agenda behind this philosophy. There's an agenda that Satan is the driver of to just let your child explore themselves. Keep them foolish. That's what Satan wants. It wasn't hard for me to find some article on what I just said. You just go and do anything, Google anything on raising children and you will get this kind of garbage come up. I found how to raise children. I just Googled it. I picked the first article that came up. I actually stopped reading the article at some point because I'm like, this can't be real. This has got to be somebody making a joke just so I can make a sermon out of this. I'm going to read you this article. I don't know how to raise kids. What should I do? Let's go to Google. Let's use AI to raise our children. This is what AI will tell you right here. Here's the first article that came across. Seven clever ways to help your child be themselves. When I read that, if you know the Bible and you just read, you don't even have to read articles like this. You can just read that and you're just like, seven ways to ruin your child if you know what the Bible says. Seven ways to make sure the devil gets your child is what you can just read that saying. I'm going to read you a few of these because it's entertaining. This is out there. This is the common philosophy today. This is the politically correct way to raise your children today. Remembering Proverbs 22, that foolishness is bound in their heart. When they're born and they start walking around. Anyone who has raised children knows this. That foolishness is bound with him. Here's number one. I don't know. This is some parenting website. I don't even feel like it's necessary to list it. Here's number one. Give your child a space to call their own. You know what that means. I'm just going to explain it to you. This is the quote from the article. We're talking about seven clever ways to help your child be themselves. Seven clever ways to send your child to hell. Now I'm just kidding. I'll stop. Seven clever ways to help your child be themselves. Note this article without being cynical. Give your child a space to call their own. There will be days when your amazing child comes home from school feeling well, less than amazing about themselves. First of all, you have to ask yourself, now this is me commenting. You have to ask yourself, why would my child come home from school feeling bad about themselves? Why would that happen? Are the wheels turning with anyone that reads this type of stuff? Back to the quote, at these times, a safe, loving home environment offers them all the resources they'll need to process, recharge, and regroup. You see what this is doing? This is totally admitting that the public school system is unsafe and unloving. I mean, it's literally like you have to, the child has to come home after being destroyed all day long. They have to come home and recharge. Recharge, why? Because they're being torn down every day by an unloving, unsafe environment. Is anyone registering this as I read this? And the answer is this. Now I'm going to go back to the article. Establish their own space at home that is theirs alone, a bedroom, a desk, a cubby house, or even just a corner. So the answer is you send your child to a public school system that will abuse them and tear them down is to bring them home and put them in the corner or put them in a room by themselves. I mean, encourage them to be alone. Step number, I'm going to skip step number two. Step number three is one of my favorites out of this article. Use a favorite TV show for reinforcement. Oh, I bet parents today love that one. Because they're like, I can just sit in front of a TV and that will raise them for me. You know what people do this though? Let me quote this. I'm going to quote this without being cynical. Try to get through the whole thing. Sometimes, no matter how many times you say something to your child because it was said by you, they're not going to listen. Saying it's normal that your children wouldn't listen to you. So try this sneaky trick. Seek out a favorite age-appropriate DVD, you know, age-appropriate, meaning it's okay for adults to watch perverted things, but not children, which the Bible doesn't teach that, okay? If it's wrong for your children to see it, it's wrong for you to see it. That's what the Bible teaches. There is no, you know, situational ethics taught in the Bible. Anyway, back to the article. I'm having a hard time here. Seek out your favorite age-appropriate DVD with a character that experiences similar issues to your child and then sit back and let the characters do the work for you. Let TV raise your children. For example, in the popular kids animation series, Lego Ninjago, one of the team, Zane the White Ninja. First of all, I'm reading this. I'm like, this must be an old article. Is it even legal to have a white ninja today? I mean, that's, I mean, I'm just like, racist! The white ninja is different from the rest of the team. He is literally, he doesn't understand simple jokes. He seems to be bewildered, whatever. For young children in early primary school who are struggling to fit in, the white ninja is a wonderful role model who brings his own special skills and personality to the group. Parents can use Lego Ninjago on DVD as a tool to help kids identify and understand the unique talents and personalities. At this point, I was checking the website to see if it's fake. I'm like, this is just made up for my sermon at this point. It's just training kids to be weird here at this point. Or encourage them to fit in. Like, these are all bad things. First of all, your kids should listen to you. If your kids aren't listening to you, that's a problem. Your kids should be listening to you, but instead they're saying, if they don't listen to you, set them in front of the TV and let the TV raise your kids. Which, I don't know, I looked at this stat like a year ago when I did a sermon on TV and it's like, I don't know, I think the boomers have the record for TV hours per day at seven and a half or eight hours per day, but the average child is watching six plus hours of TV every single day in the United States. The problem is, folks, though, when it comes to character reinforcement and all these things, if there is no anchor in your life, if there is no what is the right way and what is the wrong way, if there is no absolute truth, TV will raise your kids. Somebody else will raise your kids. Item number five. Don't go into battle for them. This is a really bad one. Don't go into battle for them. You know what this is subtly saying? Don't protect them. This is subtly saying, let them go out and experience things. They literally says this. When their baby is kissing a child's sore, it makes the hurt go away. As your child gets older and starts to navigate their way through challenging situations that threaten to dim their dazzle, your first instinct may be to jump in and make it all better. But as difficult as it may be to watch from the sidelines as they stumble or feel unhappy, it is imperative that you let them figure it out on their own. This is Satan wrote this article right here. Let them figure it out on their own. You know what they're going to figure out? Foolishness. This is a wolf is going to get them because they're foolish. It's bound in them. The article here is literally saying that you should... These are the people. These are the people that tell you when you homeschool and you remove your children from these wicked environments that tear them down and attack their Christianity and attack their beliefs. These are the people that tell you, no, no, you need to let them go out and experience the world. Those are wicked people that say that to you. They're saying that you should let your child go out and fall into sin, fall into the hands of evil people. Let them figure it out on their own. But how can they figure it out on their own when foolishness is bound within them? They will not figure it out on their own. Somebody will take them and figure it out for them. These people are trying to get parents to drop their guard and let TV raise your children. Let other people have access to your children. Let people tear your children down. Number seven. I'll just skip to number seven. Turn to Proverbs 24 as we finish up this quote here. Seek out further resources. Again, pointing you to outside resources for the raising of your own children. Despite your best efforts and those of your child, sometimes their situation may require you to seek outside help. Calling in the experts actually works to increase your child's support network and reinforce your own efforts. It's talking about taking them to a psychologist here. So yeah, let's just go and take them to some secular psychologist that'll put them on a bunch of drugs and ruin their life that way. This is wicked stuff. Look, this should be your guide, folks, right here. This has to be your guide if you want to be successful. This article and this philosophy that we're talking about, let them be themselves, let them go out and figure it out on their own, let the TV raise them. It is spoken straight from the mouth of Satan. It is exactly the opposite of what the Bible wants you to see. Look at Proverbs 24 and verse number nine. See, Satan relies on the fact that that foolishness would remain bound in your child even as they go into adulthood. Look at Proverbs 24, verse number nine. The Bible says this, it says, the thought of foolishness is sin. You see, the Bible is saying if that foolishness, I mean, maybe you haven't read it this way before and you haven't connected this verse two, Proverbs chapter 22. But the Bible here is saying is that that foolishness remains bound, that foolishness will lead to sin in their lives. I mean, just the thought of foolishness is sin. So it's sinful to think of foolish thought, but that foolishness will actually get into their heart and it will come out in the actions that they do. That's what the Bible teaches. So, folks, parents, if you think that they're by default good, you are training the foolishness to stay when you are supposed to train the foolishness to become unbound and to leave. So, back to the point of the sermon this morning. The point of the sermon is enabling sin. This is where it begins with many people when their children are very young. These are the my child can do no wrong people. This is the mother who stands up and I'm still at the young children, but this is the mother after some child has murdered many people or committed some horrible crime that stands up in the courtroom or talks to the reporter and says he was always such a wonderful child. No, you enabled his sin. The foolishness stayed and it turned into this wicked adult. The foolishness must be unbound. So, look, don't be one of these people that thinks, oh, my child is the smartest. Look, here's the signs of it. People that are constantly bragging about their child, my child's the smartest. They always want their child to be at the front of the line. You need to be kind of the kind of parent that teaches your kid when they're at a birthday party that you go to the back of the line. You let all the other kids get what they want first because you need to teach them to unbind that foolishness that in that case would be just pointing them to gratification of self. My kids go to the back of the line. My kids are the last ones. You know what? You should understand, child, that it's important that the other children get something as well. Teach them to think about other people. That's unbinding that foolishness. Then when they throw a temper tantrum and they're like, no, I want that and this is that and they throw a temper tantrum they get a spanking. That's what the Bible is saying. The Bible is talking about real, the rod, reproof. It's talking about spanking your children. It's not talking about child abuse. It's talking about spanking your children so that foolishness gets unbound and they stop being that sinful, foolish creature that their selfish nature will want them to be. This parent is enabling sin that it's just giving their child everything that foolishness, that foolish desire of theirs wants. A child is given to you to train. A child is given to you to train not to be an idol to you, not for you to worship that child. A child is there to be trained by you. And as children get older folks, this foolishness is going to get more and more and more serious. Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 5. And your, look, your enablement, if you enable them when they're four, you enable them with their five, you enable them when they're six, your enablement will get more serious and more serious and more serious and more serious. I mean, the problem is this, folks, the problem is this. Two things. First of all, sin spreads. Sin spreads and sin grows. This is the point of 1 Corinthians chapter 5 in verse number 9 through verse number 11 talking about how the church should be managed because sin spreads. Sin spreads and it gets worse and worse and worse if it is not dealt with. In verse number 9, it says, I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators. Yet not altogether with fornicators of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or with idolaters for then must you needs go out of the world. So it's talking about just how to deal with saved people in the church. It says, but now I've written unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or idolater or railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such an one know not to eat. Brothers and sisters in Christ you're not to allow these certain things to be inside the church house if someone wants to become a member of the church and wants to continue coming to the church it's like these things need to be taken seriously because sin spreads. A little leaven it says leaveneth the whole lump. Turn to Proverbs chapter 22 go back there go back to Proverbs chapter 22 and look at verse number 24. We're talking about enabling sin this morning and the consequences of it. In Proverbs chapter 22 verse number 24 the Bible says make no friendship with an angry man and with a furious man that shall not go lest thou learn his ways you see what happens there if you're hanging out there's danger to you if you're enabling sin if you're just hanging around sin and you're validating sin you know what the danger that 1 Corinthians 5 is talking about and Proverbs 22-24 is talking about is that you could become involved in those sins as well. So there's literally there's danger to you personally as a Christian there's danger but the main danger is this turn to 1 Timothy chapter 5 the main danger is this so there's danger to you there's danger to the church and there's danger to brothers and sisters in Christ that sin would spread but the point I want to get you to understand this morning if nothing else is that it is not loving to enable sin it is not loving for the person that is in sin people don't want to call somebody out they don't want to rebuke somebody for their sin because they think they're being nice to them they think they're being tolerant to them but the Bible actually says that you hate them if you do that the Bible says that you're doing the opposite of loving them if you enable their sin look at 1 Timothy chapter 5 verse number 22 lay hands suddenly on no man neither be partaker in other man's sins keep thyself pure so the danger to you is that you become a partaker that it would spread to you but the main danger folks is to other people around you the real problem with enabling sin you say I would never fall into those sins I would never I can hang around this person that drinks and does these things I have no temptation to do those things no problem but you know what the Bible also says that you are damaging that person because what you are doing by enabling sin by supporting sin is what did I say at the beginning of the sermon the Bible is a book of consequences what you are doing is you are removing the consequences from them in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 there was somebody that was actually thrown out of the church and the Bible says that the consequences that they are to face as they were put out of the church were to help them get right or so they could in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 the very next letter they were brought back in they got right because they faced those consequences consequences are a way for God to get people right and guess what Romans 6 23 we use it every single day when we go out soul winning the Bible says the wages of sin is death you know what that is that's consequences so if you have somebody you think about this closely if there's somebody in your life that is not saved and you are enabling their sin it is very possible because what is the consequences of sin what is that death that the Bible is talking about for the unsaved that death is hell the sin the wages what people have earned that are unsaved for their sin is an eternity in hell it's real it's what the Bible teaches and by you removing those consequences from them the first thing somebody needs to understand before they can get saved is that they're a sinner and they deserve to go to hell for their sin why would I need Jesus why would I need to be saved save from what if I don't think that I'm a sinner if I don't think that I deserve this eternal damnation that the Bible clearly spells out why would I need to stand why would I need Jesus at all save from what this is why we talk about the wages of sin because the wages of sin for somebody that is not saved is eternal punishment you're gonna stand in front of that you're gonna try to take you're gonna try to make the sin in somebody's life more tolerable for them you're helping them to hell you are helping them along to eternal damnation is that loving that's why the Bible says well we'll get to it in a second but look at Galatians chapter 6 do not stand in front of God the Bible is a book of consequences and these consequences of sin are real on this earth and eternally look at Galatians chapter 6 look at verse number 7 the Bible says be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth shall he also reap the real problem with enablers is they are removing the wages of sin they are removing not only are they in danger of sin themselves of judgment themselves as I've already showed you but they're standing in front of the judgment of God who do you think you are is what I want to say to people that do that to the unsaved eternal judgment but what about enabling somebody that's saved well they're saved they're not in danger of hell you know what you're removing the consequences from them that God needs to use to get them right turn to 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3 an adult that refuses to leave sin is going to deal with consequences especially an adult that is saved that refuses to leave sin they're going to deal with consequences in their life look someone should have taught them this as a child but if they didn't and they're adult and they're in sin they're going to deal with consequences who are you to mask those consequences we should have nothing to do with this as Christians look at 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3 I'm sorry folks but consequences that's the Bible that is the Bible that's the problem with our society today there's no consequences for anything that's why everything's getting worse why? because there's no consequences is everybody standing in the way of consequences 2nd Thessalonians 3 look at verse number 10 here's one example for even when we were with you this we commanded you that if any would not work then he should stand on a corner and we should give him money if any should not work neither should he eat you know what that is? that's consequences that's consequences you know what? that should be there are a lot fewer people standing on a corner asking for money if nobody gave him money because they're like you know if you don't work you shouldn't eat you say oh you know what about the you know what the vast majority of the people I see out there standing today are young men under the age of 30 with 2 arms and 2 legs and get their tails out there and they can work or they should go hungry that's the Bible that's the Bible you know what? you stand and you see some 29 year old man standing in the corner and he's standing there with a sign give me money and you hand him 5 bucks you hate that man that's what the Bible teaches he should get hungry and he should get to work you know hunger is one of the is one of the strongest desires that a human being has like when you get hungry it's just like forget about it you can't even think straight get really hungry people get hungry they'll get to work not eating that's a big consequence look at verse number 11 if we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly working not at all but are busy bodies now them that are which we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ that with quietness they work and eat their own bread they're not supposed to take money from somebody else you're not supposed to give them a piece of pizza a lot of people are like oh I never give them money but I'll give them a hamburger you know how many stories I've heard of people walking up to me on the street and trying to get oh you're really hungry hungry anything helps and somebody gives them a hamburger and they throw it in their face they throw it back at them they say no I want money now they just have signs that say there's a guy that stands out here about you know half a mile away and he just says cash please they're just like right to the point now but I mean if you're not over 60 if you're not a widow of good reports these are and statements anyway if you're not a widow over the age of 60 if you're not a widow look you could be a widow over the age of 60 and not have a good report and you're still not to be helped a widow over 60 that is a good report if that's not you meaning all men get to work every male oh you're being sexed you bet the bible is sexist the bible men and women are different they're to be treated different if you're a man or if you're a hungry get to work that's what the bible says or go hungry that's the consequences remove those consequences you destroy the man nothing will destroy a man faster than handing him everything if I wanted to ruin a person I'd give him everything for free and I'd destroy him I'd destroy his life I'd destroy his character I'd destroy his family I'd destroy his chances of ever getting right on anything just give him everything for free this government hates people that does this to people consequences that's God's motivation don't you get in front of that as a Christian today this is a problem with our government they just reward slothfulness they reward drunkenness they reward theft they reward murder they reward perversion so what do you get more of all of it they reward everything that we talked about in Leviticus chapter 20 so what do you get you get more of all of it there's supposed to be consequences there's supposed to be wages of sin remove all that you just get more sin it's not rocket surgery that's it the bible is not complicated it just doesn't fit the culture of today you need to ask yourself today with help that you're giving people with help that you're giving people ask yourself, am I masking consequences with this help that I'm giving this person or that person am I masking consequences am I masking things that they have caused through sin in their life am I covering those things if that's the case you are hurting them you are hurting people in that case go to Proverbs 13 go to Proverbs 13 the bible says if you do this with your children if you cover up your children's sins look I'm talking about your 5 year old I'm talking about your 3 year old I'm talking about your 2 year old 2 year olds can learn how to behave themselves if you mask all these things when your children are young look at Proverbs 13 24 the bible says he that spareth his rod hadeth his son but he that loveth him chaseneth him be times be times means early means when they're young you got to get these things you got to get this foolishness unbound early in their life the bible says he that spareth his rod hadeth his son but you know what I've seen they're child people that will not punish their child they don't do it out of love for that child because the bible clearly says they do not love that child they're doing it out of love for themselves they're doing it out of love it hurts my feelings to spank my child you need to become a man you need to become a man in your life when I come home from work and I haven't seen my kids all day long they think I want to go and spank my kids no you know what I want to do I want to go out and hang out I want to throw the ball around I want to have nerf wars I want to do all these fun things but if I do that and my wife comes to me and says here's the list of offenses that have happened today that I was not able to curb they need to be spanked and I say you know what I love myself too much it's going to hurt my feelings to spank my child first of all as a man you shouldn't be ruled by your emotions you need to become a man and do what the Bible says no matter how it makes you feel you should not be ruled by how you feel that's disgusting as a man you should do what the Bible says and not be this selfish creature that just wants to make yourself feel as good as possible all the time but you think that's what I wanted to do no but here's the beauty of spankings it takes five seconds all this other stuff that they implement today it's just hours and hours and it doesn't work anyway whereas you know what you go in and say well here's what you did I don't really want to spank you but you did this right? guilty all that pass the punishment out do you know how to spank your kids in anger it should just be something that has to be done because the Bible says you need to do it to unbind that foolishness get over yourself do what the Bible says that foolishness in their heart and then guess what? within two minutes you're moving on and then you are playing nerf wars it's the same thing that's why spanking is such a beautiful thing if done properly without anger I'm not talking about harming children but it is very biblical and should be done and people that do it they can't handle it themselves they're not able to get over themselves but the point is those people are not loving let's keep the love of the love of the Bible here turn to Matthew chapter 7 I want to land the plane right here the Bible says thou shalt beat us in with the rod shall deliver his soul from hell you know what's on the line with unbinding that foolishness from your child their salvation is on the line your child is not saved there's going to be a point when they're 6, 7, 8 years old where they need to make that decision for themselves they realize they're a sinner they need to make that decision to trust Jesus themselves if they don't want to have anything to do with what you say if you're the parent of that article where they just won't listen to you go show them the white ninja then how are they going to listen to you when you try to teach them the gospel how to show them how to go to heaven if they don't already don't want to have anything to do with what you say when they're 7 it is salvation or not folks everything's on the line everything what's the point of this sermon this morning the point is there's this philosophy today folks there's this philosophy today folks that we should never call out sin don't judge someone just told me this a couple weeks ago that we should never call out the sins of others and I was like I was biting my heart my tongue so hard I think it started bleeding but it is a false doctrine that is a lot many people use this verse to teach this doctrine but look at verse number one of matthew chapter 7 the bible says judge not that you be not judged see never judge never judge anyone that is not what that says the bible says judge not that you be not judged what the bible what the king james bible is saying and it explains that the next few verses will read it but what it is saying is that don't judge people with a judgment that you are not willing to have put on yourself well let's read don't take my word for it let's just keep reading this is what people do they teach false doctrine they grab one verse they grab one verse out of the bible they misquote the verse don't judge that's not what that says judge not that you be not judged for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged and with what measure you meet it shall be measured to you again and why beholdest thou the moat that is in thy brother's eye but consider us not the beam that is in no night a moat is a tiny little sliver so the bible is saying don't call out something that's in your brother's eye some tiny moat that's in your brother's eye when you got a railroad tie in your eye the bible is saying get yourself right get yourself right before you go call somebody else out because the judgment that you make on somebody else is going to be brought on you is going to be the same judgment that you have the bible is teaching against here let's keep reading it says the bible is teaching against being a hypocrite try to be a parent and be a hypocrite you think there's a reason that god made children little hypocrite detectors they're hypocrite detectors like when they're four years old they'll be like but dad i saw you doing that like what they're hypocrite detectors because god doesn't want you to be a hypocrite so you go out and you live this life you're complaining all the time you go out and you're saved now you go out and live the life of a drunk and go out and just live this party lifestyle and then go try to open the bible to your kids when they're eight years old they're going to laugh in your face that's what the bible is saying here in matthew chapter 7 it says how would it make sense to judge not if it means just have no judgment which makes no sense at all by the way we'll go there in a second when john chapter 7 judge righteous judgment the bible is just saying be right about your judgment i can't walk up to you know brother so and so and say hey think you got a drinking problem when i'm a drunk that's what the bible is saying the bible is saying get the beam out of your eye so you can help your brother with the moat in his eye that's what the bible is saying it's teaching against hypocrisy look folks this idea that we should never you know what judgment means judgment literally means being able to tell evil from good and this world is teaching christian churches today are teaching that you should not teach your children to judge of course it's satan that wants your children to know hey don't know the difference between evil and good everything's okay don't judge they're literally teaching people to raise their kids and not have judgment today but the bible says judge righteous judgment don't be a hypocrite you know what folks that's loving this philosophy today that we should never call out sin we should never rebuke sin we should cover up the consequences of sin it is straight from hell and it is not loving look i i once knew a man and i'm not going to name any names i once knew a man that when he was a young man everybody loved him when he was a teenager even into his twenties he was the greatest person everybody loved him his family all loved him and then later on in his young adult life he got into some very serious sins he got into sins like alcoholism fornication many other things that i won't list here he did not live much past 50 is that loving that people knew this man and nobody said anything to him about what was destroying his life you say was he saved no he wasn't saved he's in hell he's in hell and nobody would stand up and rebuke him that would have been the loving thing for someone to do but you know what there wasn't many people around him in his life who wouldn't have been hypocrites for rebuke him there wasn't many people around him that had authority in his life that even were qualified to judge what was happening in his life guess who suffered for it he did it's not loving everybody around that man hated him that's what the bible says because they enabled everything that he was into and everything that he got into his physical life on this earth early but he never got saved as far as i know as a matter of fact he was very anti god in the last few years of his life and there was nobody around him that loved him judgment with righteous judgment and not enabling sin is the most loving thing we can do for our brothers and sisters especially our children everything is on the line otherwise i would much rather be seen folks as judgmental than somebody who would stand by and watch somebody that i have responsibility for destroy themselves and i will never do it ask yourself are these consequences from sin when you are helping people along am i covering up what god is trying to do here ask yourself those questions today because if you are and you find that you are you get out of the way of the lord in that situation lets bow our heads and have a word of prayer