Participants: Carlton P. Byrd
Series Code: BOL
Program Code: BOL000523A
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00:02 BREATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES PRESENTS B523 Thou Shalt Not Kill
00:10 PB: It's joy to be in the house of God on this blessed Sabbath 00:25 as we continue with revival, and so, someone said "What are 00:31 you preaching today?" I said, just following the sequence, 00:35 "Number six." Commandment number six, love letter number six, 00:39 and that's where we'll come from today. Exodus chapter 20. 00:47 Exodus chapter 20, let's read from verse number 1. 00:53 The Word of God says, "And God spake all these words, 00:55 saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought 00:57 thee out of the land of"--where, everybody? Aud.: Egypt. 00:59 PB: "Out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt 01:01 have no other"--what? Aud.: Gods. 01:02 PB: "Before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any 01:04 graven image, or any likeness of any thing that 01:06 is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, 01:08 or that is in the water under the earth. 01:10 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, 01:13 nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God 01:15 am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity 01:18 of the fathers upon the children unto the 01:20 third and fourth generation of them that 01:22 hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands 01:24 of them that love me, and keep my"--what, everybody? 01:26 Aud.: Commandments. PB: "Thou shalt not 01:28 take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; 01:29 for the LORD will not hold him guiltless 01:32 that taketh his name in"--what, everybody? 01:34 Aud.: Vain. PB: "Remember the sabbath day, 01:35 to keep it"--what? Aud.: Holy. 01:36 PB: "Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy"-- 01:38 Aud.: Work. PB: "But the seventh day is 01:40 the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou 01:42 shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, 01:44 nor thy daughter, thy manservant, 01:45 nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, 01:47 nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 01:49 For in"--how many days? Aud.: Six. 01:51 PB: "The LORD made heaven and earth, 01:52 the sea, and all that in them is, 01:53 and rested the"--what day? Aud.: Seventh. 01:55 PB: "Wherefore the LORD blessed the"--what day? 01:56 Aud.: Sabbath. PB: "And did"--what? 01:58 Aud.: Hallowed it. PB: "Honour thy father 02:00 and thy"--what? Aud.: Mother. 02:01 PB: "That thy days may be long upon the 02:03 land which the LORD thy God"--what? 02:04 Aud.: Giveth thee. PB: Now, 02:05 commandment love letter six. Verse 13. 02:08 "Thou shalt not kill." Thou shalt not kill. 02:21 Father, speak, Lord. We spoke Saturday night 02:27 and Sunday night and Tuesday and Wednesday 02:29 and last night, but we need to speak now. 02:32 And God, not just speak but convict and convert. 02:39 When the appeal time comes, have Your way. 02:44 Forgive me of my sons. In Jesus' name, amen. 02:50 Thou shalt not kill. In other words, 02:58 you shall not murder. Not merely killing, 03:04 but murder. You shall not murder. Love letter 03:12 number six speaks of a moral act, of people 03:16 who take the lives of others without any regard. 03:21 Senseless killings. I'm talking about what 03:26 took place this week on the campus of UCLA. 03:30 I'm talking about what seems to be taking 03:33 place every day in Chicago, Illinois, 03:36 where the murder rate in that city is up 03:38 84 percent this year. I'm talking about 03:42 what takes place every hour in the Middle East. 03:47 I'm talking about what happened to Treyvon Martin, 03:51 Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice. Murders. 03:58 Senseless killings. Sadly, the frequency of 04:04 murder is so rampant that we have now become 04:07 desensitized to the subject and accustomed 04:10 to hearing about killings on the 6 o'clock news. 04:13 But according to the World Health Organization, 04:18 one person commits suicide every 40 seconds. 04:21 One person is murdered every 60 seconds, 04:25 and one person dies in armed conflict every 04:29 100 seconds. We live in a culture of killing. 04:35 But not just in real life, but also in the 04:39 life of make believe. Millions of dollars 04:43 have been made off killings. In fact, 04:46 if we don't see a murder in a movie, 04:48 the movie is boring. In music, in arts, 04:53 in the movies, in video games, killing 04:55 has become a kind of entertainment. 04:58 In fact, the ratings of our movies 05:01 are determined by how much violence 05:03 there is. Our world, then, has an 05:06 appetite for the culture of killing. 05:10 One day it's Ted Bundy; the next day 05:14 it's Jeffrey Dahmer. One day it's 05:18 Saddam Hussein; the next day it's 05:21 Osama Bin Laden. One day it's a terrorist 05:25 attack on the World Trade Centers 05:27 in New York; the next day it's terrorist 05:29 attacks throughout the city of Paris. 05:32 One day it's a shooting massacre in 05:34 Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado; 05:38 the next day it's a shooting massacre at 05:41 Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. 05:44 One day it's a shooting at Virginia 05:47 Tech University; the next day it's a 05:50 shooting massacre at UCLA. That's why 05:54 I tell people all the time, even on 05:56 this campus: Don't think that just 05:59 because we come in the gate everything 06:01 is secure. Everybody that comes in 06:03 this church, everybody that attends, 06:05 everybody that's talking about Jesus 06:07 ain't loving Jesus. Are you hearing 06:09 what I'm saying? We live in a culture 06:11 of killing, but we don't have to go beyond 06:14 our city, state or community to have 06:16 records of killings and murders. 06:18 Because right here in Huntsville, 06:21 if you go in the wrong place at the 06:24 wrong time, you're going to find some 06:25 killings. And it makes you wonder, 06:28 has this commandment gotten lost in 06:30 the midst of all this activity? And so, 06:33 my question for us this morning is simply 06:35 this: In this culture of killing, do we 06:39 still hear God's voice? Thou shalt not kill. 06:46 If we're honest with ourselves, there are 06:48 people in this congregation right now who 06:51 are watching this broadcast, and I know 06:53 personally they've lost a son, they've 06:56 lost a daughter, a grandson, a granddaughter, 06:58 a sister, a brother, a friend to some senseless 07:01 killing. But God says, Thou shalt not kill. 07:07 Now, when this commandment was written, 07:09 when it was given, it was given to a group 07:10 of men and women, you will remember, who 07:12 had recently been released from slavery, 07:15 recently been emancipated from bondage, 07:17 recently been released from oppression 07:21 in Egypt. When they were in Egypt, Pharaoh 07:23 told them when, Pharaoh told them where, 07:26 Pharaoh told them how. They had rules, 07:28 they had restrictions. But now this group 07:31 has been set free, and often they would 07:34 senselessly kill somebody if they violated 07:39 someone. But God says to them: Thou shalt 07:41 not kill. In other words, you are not to 07:45 take the right of God in your own hands. 07:48 You are not God. You didn't give life, 07:51 so you can't take life. And that is the 07:53 interpretation of this text, that God 07:56 is the only One who had the right to be 07:58 the Author and Orchestrator of life. 08:01 Not man, but God. God says, 08:03 Thou shalt not kill. So, don't kill. 08:07 Don't plan to kill. 08:09 Don't pay somebody to kill. 08:12 And don't pray somebody is killed. 08:15 Do I have a witness in this place? 08:17 But in our postmodern, contemporary 08:19 society, what about the controversial, 08:22 ethical and moral issues that are 08:24 associated with killing? To church 08:26 folk today, what about abortion? 08:30 It's a dicey situation. It's a 08:34 controversial, ethical dilemma. 08:37 There are some people in the Christian 08:38 community that fundamentally stand and 08:40 say that regardless of what happens, 08:42 abortions are absolutely a no-no. 08:46 And so what we see in America are 08:48 people lined up, down the street, 08:51 with placards of their anti-abortion moments. 08:54 These are people who bomb, however, 08:56 abortion clinics, gun down abortion 08:59 doctors, blow up buildings, 09:02 kill innocent people. They're 09:04 anti-killing in the womb, 09:06 but pro-killing outside the womb. 09:08 [Aud. reaction] PB: I'm not 09:11 here to argue the rightness or 09:13 wrongness of this issue, but I'm 09:15 just merely saying it is an issue, 09:17 and whether or whatever choice one makes, 09:19 it must be made under the caption 09:22 Thou shalt not kill. But what about 09:25 euthanasia? Mercy killing. You see, 09:28 there are a lot of things that 09:31 we're very religious and adamant 09:32 about when we're not in the thick of it. 09:35 But it's amazing how some ethical 09:37 ideas change when they start affecting us. 09:41 We make the rules but we don't want 09:44 to live by them. We tell people, Oh, 09:47 oh, oh, I'm a vegetarian. But you'll 09:49 sleep with somebody. I can't get a 09:50 witness in this place. [Aud. reaction] 09:53 PB: What does God have to say about 09:57 euthanasia? Mercy killing. What does 10:00 God have to say about Dr. Death, 10:03 Dr. Kevorkian, as some called the 10:06 man who popularized mercy killing 10:08 in the '90s. There's a person whose 10:11 body has been withered by cancer; 10:13 there's someone who had an active 10:15 life and experienced a life-changing, 10:16 crippling accident that has made 10:18 them immobile. There is somebody who 10:20 knows their diagnosis is not good, 10:22 so they'd rather end their life. 10:24 But then, what about capital punishment? 10:27 People say they deserve it. Look at what 10:30 they've done, they killed children. 10:33 They killed an innocent person. 10:35 They deserve to be killed. But even 10:37 in the face of the most evil criminal, 10:38 the love ethic of Christianity is this: 10:41 Don't seek their death but seek their 10:43 conversion and restoration. 10:44 Thou shalt not kill. 10:47 But what about suicide? We have all 10:50 the modern conveniences today. 10:52 We make more money than we've ever made. 10:55 We drive better now than we've ever driven. 10:58 We live better now than we've ever lived. 11:00 We have more resources than we've ever had. 11:02 We're living good, but underneath the 11:05 skin we're crumbling. And when life 11:07 gets too hard for some people, 11:10 suicide becomes more than an option. 11:13 Suicide becomes a reality for some people. 11:16 So people are taking their lives because 11:19 they can't resolve certain issues; 11:21 they're never accepted or appreciated; 11:23 nobody knows their name; nobody cares 11:25 about them; they feel as if they've been 11:27 rejected and they can't stomach it anymore, 11:30 and so they decide to take their life. 11:32 But thou shalt not kill. 11:35 What about war? Incessant fighting. 11:41 Country against country. Leader against leader. 11:46 Military against military. Young men and 11:51 women leave their homes, some to 11:54 escape the murder-filled streets 11:56 of the city only to be killed on 11:58 the battlefields of our country. 12:01 Thou shalt not kill. How do we handle, 12:08 today, abortion, euthanasia, 12:11 capital punishment, suicide, war, 12:15 when the Bible says thou shalt not kill. 12:22 Paul said in Colossians 3: "Whatever 12:24 you do in word or deed, do it in the 12:28 name of Jesus." So whatever you cannot 12:31 do in the name of Jesus, it can't be done. 12:34 If you can't perform abortion in the name 12:37 of Jesus, then you ought not do it. 12:40 If you can't mercy kill somebody in 12:44 the name of Jesus, don't do it. 12:46 If you cannot lethally inject somebody 12:49 to take their life in the name of Jesus, 12:52 don't do it. If you cannot commit 12:53 suicide in the name of Jesus, don't do it. 12:56 If you cannot engage in war in the 12:59 name of Jesus, then don't do it. 13:01 Thou shalt not kill. But friends, 13:06 it's not just the act of murder today 13:09 that's the problem, but it's also the 13:11 attitude of murder that's a problem. 13:14 Jesus teaches this in Matthew chapter 5 13:16 when He says, "I know that many of you 13:17 have never killed anyone, so you feel 13:20 that love letter number six is not for you. 13:23 It was said to the people long ago, 13:25 Thou shalt not kill. I'm in the Word, 13:27 Matthew 5. And anyone who murders is 13:29 subject to the judgment. I know you 13:31 heard that. He goes on in verse number 22, 13:33 Jesus does. He says, But any one of you 13:35 in here who is angry with their brother will 13:38 also be subject to the judgment. And anyone 13:41 who says to their brother, Raca, is 13:43 answerable to the Sanhedrin. But any one 13:45 of you who says Thou fool shall be in danger 13:48 of hellfire." Jesus takes speech very seriously. 13:54 Jesus has moved from the act of murder to 13:57 the attitude of murder. What Jesus is saying 14:00 in the text is this: Most of you will never 14:02 kill anyone in the fundamental sense of the word. 14:06 But I'll tell you what, Jesus says, interpretively, 14:09 there are a lot of murderers who come 14:12 to church; who come to the Sanhedrin. 14:14 I can't speak about the people who are 14:17 not in the kingdom of God; we know what 14:19 their condition is. But I'm talking 14:21 about those in the family of God. 14:24 But I wonder today how many murderers 14:27 do we have. Somebody said, Pastor Byrd, 14:29 we don't have any murderers. Nobody, 14:31 Pastor, because if we did, they wouldn't 14:33 be in here right now. But every killing 14:35 has not been with a gun. Has not been 14:38 with a knife. Has not been with a shotgun. 14:41 Has not been with a bomb. Has not been with 14:44 a bow and arrow. Has not been with a tank. 14:47 Has not been a bridge jump. But whose 14:49 killing has been killed by somebody with their tongue. 14:53 [Aud. reaction] PB: With their speech. 14:56 Who's been talking to somebody like a dog? 15:00 Who talks to somebody mean, cold and crass? 15:04 I mean, we're quick to say if somebody has 15:07 gods other than God, that's a problem. 15:10 We'll call somebody out if they take the 15:13 name of the Lord in vain. We'll point the 15:15 finger at somebody if they're not keeping 15:17 the Sabbath. We'll look at you with a 15:19 jaundiced eye if you don't honor your 15:21 mother and your father. But what about 15:23 killing somebody with your tongue? 15:25 What about killing somebody with your mouth? 15:28 What about killing somebody's character 15:30 with your tongue? What about your tongue. 15:31 The power of life and death are in 15:34 your tongue. We've got all these Bible 15:36 quoting, commandment-keeping, hand-clapping, 15:38 foot-stomping folk who don't know how to 15:41 watch their mouths. [Aud. reaction] 15:45 PB: They kill with their tongue. 15:48 But God is saying to you today, 15:50 thou shalt not kill. So somebody's 15:53 sitting here and saying, Pastor Byrd, 15:55 that's a stretch. That's ___ Jesus. 15:56 Killing is murder; killing with your 15:58 tongue is a stretch. Let me help you 15:59 understand some things. By rabbinical 16:05 interpretation, the sixth commandment 16:07 includes not just the literal taking 16:10 of life. But according to the rabbinical 16:12 intellectuals of old, publicly humiliating 16:15 someone was figuratively akin to murder. 16:18 Whereas the third commandment warns us 16:22 about how words can harm our relationship 16:25 with God, the sixth commandment warns 16:28 of the dangers against other people. 16:30 Words have the power to hurt. Words 16:34 have the power also to heal, 16:35 depending on how we use them. 16:36 Words can convey compassion, 16:38 encouragement, blessings and love, 16:40 but words can also kill spirits and 16:43 relationships. If you go to Leviticus 19, 16:46 you will see a reiterated paraphrase of 16:49 the Ten Commandments. The Bible says in 16:51 Leviticus 19 verse 16, "You shall not 16:54 be a gossip monger among your people. 16:57 You shall not be a tale bearer among 16:59 your people." In other words, 17:01 stop killing folks. How are you 17:03 killing folks? Quit spreading gossip 17:04 and rumors. Gossip has the potential 17:06 to destroy people's lives. Gossip, 17:09 therefore, is like murder. Rumors 17:11 are carried by haters, spread by fools 17:14 and accepted by idiots. [Aud. reaction] 17:17 PB: The Word says in Psalm 34:13, 17:19 "Keep thy tongue from evil land thy lips 17:21 from speaking guile." But it's not just 17:23 the dog who carries a bone, it's the dog 17:25 who will take a bone. Even listening to 17:30 gossip is like standing idly by while 17:33 your neighbor is murdered. In spite of 17:36 the biblical condemnation of gossip, 17:38 unfortunately it's a social epidemic. 17:41 We know it's wrong, but everyone does 17:43 it to one extent or another. I was 17:44 reading the Word of God, even great Miriam. 17:46 Tambourine-playing Miriam, hand-clapping Miriam; 17:52 Miriam the prophetess. Numbers 12 teaches that 17:57 she is punished with leprosy for gossiping with 17:59 Aaron about Moses. Sometimes gossipers try to 18:05 pass on the responsibility of the gossip to 18:07 the listener; but Jewish law considers the 18:10 listener to be much worse than the one who's 18:12 even spreading the gossip. Because it's on 18:14 the listener's account that the gossip can 18:16 be spread. Proverbs 17: 4 says "An evildoer 18:20 pays heed to malicious talk; but a liar 18:22 listens to a slanderous tongue." And you'd 18:26 better believe--this is practical. 18:28 This ain't the gospel according to Matthew, 18:29 it's the gospel according to Byrd. 18:31 If a person gossips to you, the same 18:35 person will gossip about you. 18:37 I wish I had a witness in this place. 18:40 [Aud. reaction] PB: Stories of false 18:41 accusations constantly fill the headlines. 18:44 The media does not care. Listen to me. 18:46 The media does not care about killing 18:48 people's reputations or the impact that 18:51 the shame and embarrassment have on 18:53 individuals and their families as much 18:54 as they care about ratings and revenue. 18:57 They mostly care about selling magazines, 19:00 selling newspapers, selling commercial time. 19:03 And lawsuits are seen as the price of 19:06 doing business. But you know, it's not 19:10 just the tabloids. It's not just the magazines. 19:13 It not just the newspapers. It's not just the Star. 19:18 It's not just the National Enquirer. 19:21 But sometimes, Jesus says in Matthew 5, 19:23 in the church, in the Sanhedrin, we have 19:27 our own version of the Enquirer. Child, 19:31 did you hear? Child, did you know? 19:35 Anybody come to you saying "Child," 19:37 run like you've never run before. 19:40 We know this is a problem in the world, 19:42 but what's the church's excuse? 19:45 We're not to wound our already 19:47 -wounded soldiers. We're not supposed 19:50 to kill with the tongue, and it baffles me. 19:52 It baffles me, it amazes me, it blows my mind, 19:55 how people and somebody could come, for example, 19:59 into a big church like this, and they don't 20:02 know anybody. They come in here and know no one. 20:07 But if they were a liar in another church, 20:10 they will come into this church and for 20:13 whatever reason, they will find all the liars. 20:16 If they were a gossip in their old church, 20:18 they will come in this church and in some 20:20 kind of way find all the gossips. It's almost 20:22 like they have some magnetic force under their 20:25 tongue that leads them over to a gossip. 20:27 Next thing you know, they've hooked up with 20:29 other gossips and other liars and they go to lunch. 20:30 They hang out with each other, because it's 20:32 a known fact that people like to be around 20:33 people who have the same weakness that they do. 20:37 So, all the gossips on one corner. 20:40 All the thieves in another corner. 20:41 All the drunkards in another corner. 20:43 All the adulterers in another corner. 20:46 You don't even have to point them out 20:47 to one another, they'll find each 20:48 other themselves. The old saying is 20:50 birds of a feather flock together. 20:52 Who are you flocking with? [Aud. reaction] 20:55 PB: Stop killing people with your tongue. 21:00 Thou shalt not kill. But let me give 21:02 you some advice. If you're being 21:05 talked about; if you're being 21:07 gossiped about; if you're being 21:10 killed with the tongue, just keep 21:11 it moving. Tell the person gossiping 21:15 about you, tell them this. This is 21:17 my new phrase. Keep talking about 21:20 me behind my back, and watch God 21:21 keep blessing me in front of your face. 21:24 [Aud. reaction] PB: How about that? 21:26 I'm not worried about the naysayers. 21:28 I'm not worried about the gossipers; 21:29 I'm not worried about the slanderers; 21:30 I'm not worried about those that kill 21:32 by the tongue. Let me tell you, 21:33 you just do what God tells you to do. 21:35 You just go where God tells you to go. 21:37 The steps of a good man are ordered 21:39 by the Lord. The Bible says that God 21:41 will make your enemies your footstool, 21:43 which means your haters are just 21:45 pouring the concrete that you're 21:46 going to walk on, because your 21:48 haters are your elevators and God 21:49 is about to do something in your life. 21:51 Let me tell you something. 21:53 Dogs never bark at parked cars. 21:57 [Aud. reaction] PB: Dogs bark at 22:02 moving cars. Are you hearing what 22:04 I'm saying? So all I'm tell you today 22:06 is just keep walking. The dogs will 22:08 keep barking. Are you hearing what 22:09 I'm saying? Every place the sole of 22:11 your feet touch, you've got the 22:13 devil nervous. Because at the time 22:15 that you start walking, the devil 22:17 knows God is up to something. 22:19 Every time God is elevating you 22:20 to places, the devil knows God is 22:22 about to do something in your life. 22:24 So keep walking in your destiny. 22:25 Keep walking in your victory. 22:27 Keep walking in deliverance. 22:28 Keep walking in your healing. 22:30 Don't worry about what people 22:32 are trying to kill you with 22:33 their tongue, that's their problem. 22:37 But one more thing and I'm through. 22:39 Don't physically kill anybody; 22:41 don't kill anyone with your tongue. 22:44 And then number three: Stop killing 22:48 yourself with what you put on your tongue. 22:53 [Aud. reaction] PB: So this is a sermon 22:56 for everybody. Don't kill somebody physically; 22:59 don't kill someone with your tongue; 23:01 and don't kill yourself by putting 23:03 something you have no business 23:05 putting on your tongue. Now, 23:07 too many people are killing 23:08 their bodies, putting things in 23:10 them that they have no business 23:11 putting in them. Too many people 23:13 are dying from stuff they don't 23:15 have to die from. The Word of God 23:17 says Whether therefore ye eat or drink, 23:18 or whatsoever ye do, 23:19 do all to the glory of God. 23:21 The killing of our bodies is 23:24 important to God. God said, 23:27 thou shalt not kill. T thou shalt not 23:29 what, everybody? Aud.: Kill. 23:30 PB: Now, when Jesus was on this earth, 23:32 you will remember that His ministry 23:33 included preaching, teaching and healing. 23:36 But in fact, He did more healing than preaching. 23:40 Which means He's concerned with what you 23:42 put in your body. Healing was a big part 23:44 of Jesus' ministry. It wasn't just teaching, 23:47 it wasn't just preaching, but Jesus, 23:49 the Bible says in Matthew chapter 4, 23:50 healed every kind of disease known to man. 23:54 You name it, Jesus healed it. Physical; 23:57 He healed it. Social; He healed it. 23:59 Emotional; He healed it. Economic; 24:01 He healed it. Mental; He healed it. 24:04 Spiritual; He healed it. You name it, 24:07 my Jesus healed it. One minute, 24:10 He was a podiatrist. The lame were walking again. 24:14 The next minute He's an ear, nose and 24:15 throat specialist; the dumb are talking again. 24:19 One minute, He's an audiologist; the deaf 24:21 are made to hear. The next minute, 24:23 he's a hematologist; the woman with 24:26 the issue of blood. One minute, 24:27 He's an ophthalmologist. He's given 24:29 sight to the blind. The next minute, 24:32 He's a cardiologist. He's fixing broken hearts. 24:35 One minute, He's a dermatologist. 24:37 The lepers are walking again. 24:38 The next minute, He's a gynecologist. 24:40 He's given new life. One minute, 24:43 He's a psychiatrist. He's fixing 24:45 deranged minds. The next minute, 24:47 He's an anesthesiologist. 24:49 He's easing the pains of life. 24:51 Because all manner of sickness, 24:54 all manner of illness and disease were 24:57 healed by him. And because He created us, 25:00 He knows what's best for us. He's telling us, 25:03 don't kill your bodies. Thou shalt not kill. 25:05 In fact, the Word says in 25:07 First Corinthians 6:19 and 20, 25:10 "What? know ye not that your body 25:13 is the temple of the Holy Ghost which 25:14 is in you, which ye have of God, 25:16 and ye are not your own? For ye are 25:17 bought with a price: therefore glorify 25:19 God in your body, and in your spirit, 25:21 which are God's." The Word also says in 25:24 First Corinthians 3:16 and 17, 25:26 "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, 25:27 and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 25:29 If any man defiles" God's temple, the Bibles 25:33 says God Himself will destroy, because 25:35 "the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 25:38 " Thou shalt not kill. So, for review for some, 25:45 new for others: stop killing your body. 25:52 Stop killing your body, even church folk, 25:57 with alcohol. Oo, quiet now. 26:02 [Aud. reaction] PB: A little wine is 26:06 good for the soul--leave it alone. 26:07 Leave the 32-ounce. That alcohol, 26:13 that wine, wine cooler--leave it alone. 26:18 Alcohol kills 3.3 million people worldwide 26:21 each year, which is more than AIDS, 26:23 tuberculosis, and violence combined. 26:24 According to the World Health Organization, 26:26 alcohol-induced violence and abuse, 26:28 including drunk driving, causes 1 in 20 26:30 deaths globally each year. That's one 26:32 death every 10 seconds. Drinking is 26:35 linked to more than 200 health conditions. 26:37 Cirrhosis of the liver; cancers. Leave 26:41 alcohol alone. Leave wine alone. 26:45 Adventist Christians, leave wine alone. 26:48 Leave beer alone. But Pastor, I thought 26:52 it was good. Leave it alone! The Bible says, 26:55 Thou shalt not kill. The Bible says in 26:59 Proverbs 20:1, "Wine is a mocker; 27:01 strong drink is raging: and whosoever 27:04 is deceived thereby is not wise." 27:06 Leave it alone. But let's go to Galatians. 27:09 Lord, have mercy. Galatians. Folk don't 27:13 like to preach this anymore; I'm going to 27:15 preach it anyhow. Galatians, I come ringing 27:18 the doorbell, knocking on the door, 27:19 and you're, Oh, the pastor's outside. 27:21 He's outside. Clean up the table, 27:22 clear the table. I hear you. 27:26 [Aud. reaction] PB: Pastor, 27:28 would you like something to drink? 27:30 We have some water. That's not what 27:31 you were drinking before I walked up in here. 27:34 [Aud. reaction] PB: Galatians 5. 27:36 Galatians, what, everybody? Aud.: Five. 27:37 PB: Come on, Galatians what, everybody? 27:39 Galatians what? Everybody. Aud.: Five. 27:40 PB: Look at verse 19. "Now the works of 27:43 the flesh are manifest, which are these; 27:46 Adultery." I'm going to preach on that tonight. 27:47 "Fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 27:54 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, 27:55 emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, 27:57 heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, 27:59 revellings, and such like: of the which I 28:04 tell you before, as I have also told you in 28:06 time past, that they which do such things 28:08 shall not inherit the kingdom of God." 28:12 I'm talking about loving God the way 28:14 >: Thank you for joining us for another 28:15 exciting Breath of Life television broadcast. 28:17 Tune in next week at the same time, 28:19 as Dr. Byrd will deliver another 28:21 dynamic message from the Lord, 28:24 just for you. Until next time, 28:27 may God bless you. |
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