He shall surely be put to death and if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand
Then will I appoint thee a place whether he shall flee?
But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile
Thou shall take him from my altar that he may die the time of my sermon this morning is
Insanity makes you culpable
Insanity makes you culpable here next to this 21
We find that if a person plans to deliberately and deceptively take a person's life
They are guilty of murder regardless of mental and social conditions. Okay. They're still guilty of murder. It talks about them lying in wait
waiting presumptuously
slaying him with guile
This is these are all phrases that involve what we would call today
Premeditated murder and according to the Bible the person who commits these things is surely put to death. It's a capital crime
That it merits the death penalty according to the Bible go to Daniel chapter 4 if you would
Daniel chapter number 4. I'm gonna read you a lot of verses here in my introduction
Regarding the sermon here before we get into Daniel chapter 4 my main points
But let's just talk about the death penalty for just a second number one
Let me start off by saying that we as Christians should be pro death penalty
Okay, meaning that we should believe in justice
We believe that the Bible teaches that if a person commits a capital crime that according to God according to his word
Which is our final authority?
They merit the death penalty and no we don't need to figure out whether the person was
Mentally sane or not because according to the Bible the mosaic law does not carve out insanity as being excused to kill people
Okay, you're still held culpable for your crime if you have
Committed murder and even if you think you were insane even if you think you were not in your right mind at the moment
It doesn't matter according to the Bible and it's important for us as Christians to have that worldview
Okay, to understand that this is what the Bible teaches and not allow your emotions to get involved in situations and think to yourself
Well, I know that's what the Bible says, but I just feel well
There's your problem Bible says lean not unto thine own understanding and all thy ways acknowledge him
And he shall direct thy path. It's important for us to recognize that sometimes our emotions can deceive us
The heart is deceitful above all things
Desperately wicked who can know it and so the Bible tells us that because our hearts are often
susceptible to deception
We need to make sure that we govern our hearts according to the Bible and sometimes the Bible goes against the grain of what we
Believe sometimes the Bible rubs us the wrong way
But folks let me just remind you it is the final authority and we need to side with what the Bible says
And if you read the Bible and see what the Bible says regarding something and it
Contradicts what you believe it just kind of goes to show you that you've been conditioned to believe a certain way
Contrary to the word of God and you need to be brainwashed
Okay, you need you need your brain to be washed from the filth of this world
The Bible says be not conformed to this world, but be
Transformed by the renewing of your mind the Bible says, okay
And so it's important for us to recognize that you're like, oh man just the death penalty just sounds so bad though
Like is that Christ's like is that really in the Bible and the answer is yes
The reason you don't know that is because whatever church you've gone to whatever pastor you listen to never talks about it
always stays out of the Old Testament always, you know
You know forbids themselves from talking about controversial things and so it's important for us to preach the entire counsel of God
So you can have a plenary understanding of what the Bible says regarding these issues
Let me read you a couple verses here before we go to Daniel chapter 4
Numbers 35 verse 20 says this but if he thrust him of hatred or hurl at him by lying of weight that he died or
In enmity smite him with his hand that he died he that smote him shall surely be put to death
Listen to this for he is a murderer
The revengeer of blood shall slay the murderer when he meeteth him. Well, that's in the law though pastor
We're not under the law. Well, actually the death penalty existed even prior to the mosaic law being instituted
Genesis chapter 9 verse 6 says this Genesis which comes before
Exodus which comes before the mosaic law God said this who so shed of man's blood
By man shall his blood be shed for an image of God made he him the Bible says
The Bible is telling us here that if a person murders another individual takes their life
According to the Bible by man's blood a man shall shed his shed his blood and murder that
But not murder but kill that person put them to death for the crime that they've committed
Okay, there's no question that God demands the death penalty for those who commit capital crimes
You say well, okay, you've proven that from Genesis, but what would Jesus say?
What about Jesus that's a that's a big thing, you know the New Testament, okay?
Well, you know Jesus said in Matthew 7 10 to honor your father and mother who so cursed at this father mother let him die the death
That's Jesus
But somehow that's not good enough, huh?
Somehow once you call what Jesus said is like well, you know, I still don't think so it doesn't really matter
How many verses we give people how much evidence we provide at the end of the day?
Usually those don't like what the Bible says
So Moses says it God said it Jesus Christ said it, you know
Various people throughout the Bible were for this they were for the mosaic law
It's up to us as Christians to just embrace it and recognize that this is what the Bible teaches now
It's important for us to make the clarification here that we're not saying the Christians should go out and put people to death
Okay, that's absurd that's nonsensical and you're like well
We live in a society that doesn't really promote the death penalty
So it's kind of irrelevant to say someone deserves the death penalty
No, because the Bible teaches us that we should still preach the counsel of God
Yeah, and when we preach about certain capital crimes deserving the death penalty
It helps people to realize that there are sins and then there are certain sins that are exceedingly sinful
There are certain sins that are not just sinful
They're crimes in the eyes of God to the point where God says this person has forfeited
They're right to live and therefore they should be put to death. Okay
Now you say why are you preaching this?
Well, obviously I'm preaching this because of the whole Lindsey Clancy trial
Obviously the jurors are gonna be deliberating tomorrow and let me just remind everybody in case you don't know, you know
The trial isn't to determine whether she killed her children or not
Let me just repeat that again
the trial is not to determine whether she killed her children or not because
Everyone including Lindsey herself said that she did it
The only people listen to me the only people who are claiming she didn't are tick-tock investigators
True crime tick-tock
Investigators who just think they have all types of evidence, but no one cares about their trial
No one cares about their testimony
No one cares about their evidence because they're tick-tock investigators and no one really cares what they have to say, okay?
Lindsey herself admitted that she did this. Well, the system failed. Oh, well, you know
I failed to realize or see a passage in the Bible that says if a system fails you you're free to just kill your children
Anybody got a verse anybody got some evidence doesn't exist
Okay, and so the trials to determine whether she is criminally
Responsible based on whether she was sane or not
So the trials not about to you know
They're not trying to figure out did she do it or not everyone knows that she did it
The trials there just to simply you know, it's a stupid trial by the way
It's a trial that should not exist at all because it's simply there to determine whether she was in her right mind
You know according to the law and if she wasn't in her right mind then she you know
She's not gonna
You know be charged
Criminally with murdering her children because she was just mentally insane
She'll be institutionalized for the rest of her life and quite frankly even if she were to be found guilty
Meaning that they don't believe she was insane, you know all all that's gonna happen
She's gonna go to prison for the rest of her life
Which according to God is just not enough
Tooth for tooth eye for eye life for life. That's what the Bible teaches
So this morning I want to preach on the subject of insanity and the fact that it still makes you culpable
So let's just say for let's just say hypothetically that she was mentally insane and I do believe she's cuckoo for sure. I
Believe she's insane because you have to be insane to kill your children
You have to be with the Bible calls past feeling
You have to be a reprobate
You have to be just absolutely out of your mind not only to kill your children kill three of them and kill them in the
manner that she did it
Okay, but despite all that let me tell you this insanity still makes a person culpable for their actions
Okay, I'm gonna keep reading here a couple verses before we get into Daniel chapter 4
Ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse number 3 says this is an evil among all things that are done under the Sun that there's one event unto all
Yay, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil and
Madness is in their heart while they live and after that they go to the dead
What is the Bible telling us here madness is another way of saying insanity to go crazy
It's just a synonym for that and the Bible saying here that pretty much all of humanity has the potential to go insane
Whether you're a Christian or not whether you're saved or not
Everyone has the potential to just absolutely lose their minds
It's possible for anybody to come under this type of condition and I'm gonna explain to you
I'm gonna show you a bunch of different examples in the Bible both saved and unsaved who just completely lost her mind everyone is subject to this right
Now why do people go insane? Why is it that people lose their minds? Why do they go through a state of psychosis?
Well, I'm gonna give you a couple reasons first and foremost as a form of judgment from God
Okay, so you have to understand this before we could ever even get into the examples
Before we can give a conclusion to this we have to recognize that this is a spiritual thing
Meaning that when people go insane it could be because of the fact that God is punishing them and in fact
Let me read you from Deuteronomy 28 verse 27
You can write these verses if you want to read them later
Deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 27 says this the Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt and with
Emeralds and with the scab and with the itch whereof thou canst not be healed the Lord shall smite thee listen to this with
madness and
Blindness and
Astonishment of heart the Bible says so this shows us that the source of insanity for a lot of people in this world is God
You see people just going insane. It's possible that God has
Strictened that person with absolute insanity as a form of punishment. He said why would God do such a thing?
Well, I don't know maybe because they're blaspheming God in their heart
Maybe because they're just an absolute wicked person
Maybe because they're a reprobate maybe because they're blaspheming and cursing God and harming others and rejecting the truth and therefore God
Removes their mental faculty so they can no longer function as a normal human being. That's a punishment
He smites them the Bible says with
Madness second Thessalonians 2 verse 10 says this and with all the
Seevableness of unrighteousness and them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved and
For this cause listen to this God shall send them strong
Delusions that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who believe not the truth that have pleasure in
Unrighteousness so according to second Thessalonians chapter 2 the Bible tells us that sometimes God makes people mentally insane
He gives them a strong delusion as a result of their rejection of the truth
So they just continually reject the gospel
Continue to reject that it's by faith in Jesus Christ and then on top of that
They have a hatred for the truth and a love for the lie God says okay
I'll just give you a strong delusion that you should believe a lie and be damned
Now this is different than the God that you hear about in your Sunday school class
You don't really hear this on a Sunday morning in Sunday school class because pastors don't really know how to explain all this
But I'll explain it to you. God just does it
Here I'll explain to you. That's why you shouldn't reject the gospel
Here's a good reason not to reject the gospel aside from the fact that hell is real and
If you reject the gospel you reject salvation
You will go to hell for all of eternity and burn there and be tormented day and night
If you don't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, here's another thing while you're here on this earth
You can go mentally insane
You can become delusional and it's God's form of punishment on your life for
Rejecting the truth. Okay, so, you know, sometimes people go mentally insane as a form of judgment from God
But also just persisting in sinfulness and sinful activities can cause you to go insane
Ecclesiastes 10 13 says the beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness and the end of his talk is mischievous
Madness another way to describe this would be, you know, if someone is
Delving into, you know, mind-altering drugs
They're, you know, experimenting with LSD. They're experimenting with trumes
They're experimenting with any form of drugs that can just completely change your mind. They can just permanently be fried and
We've seen this if you don't know what I'm talking about go to downtown LA
You see tons of examples lots of illustrations there, okay, and then you think there's a what's wrong with these people
They just seem insane. They are insane and obviously, you know
We can say some of them are demonically possessed and we're gonna get into that in just a bit
But sometimes they just had a bad trip and they stayed on that bad trip
God allowed them to suffer the consequences of their actions of their sinfulness
They destroy their minds look folks. This is why it's important for us to value the virtue of being sober
That means we abstain from alcohol abstain from marijuana abstain from drugs because the Bible exalts being sober and being vigilant
So why do people go insane? Sometimes it's a punishment from God
Sometimes because of the fact that they are just persisting in sinful behavior
Persisting in you know drugs and alcohol it can cause them to go insane. Here's another reason and this is gonna shock you
You know, sometimes people go insane just because they're faking it
Me and they're not really insane
You notice people in this world that just fake being crazy
either because they want to
Get the drugs get the anti-depressants and you know get whatever or just because they want people to sympathize with them
Sometimes people actually fake it now in first salmon 21. We have an example of this of David
feigning himself to be mad and he's literally like, you know
He's allowing like saliva to come out of his mouth
He's scribbling on the doors and they're just like why are you bringing this crazy guy around me?
He wasn't really insane. He just acting like it
But you know you have a lot of people today that feign themselves to be insane as well
Okay
They're just faking it
Here's another reason
It's because of false religion. You know false religion can cause you to go insane
Yeah, how do you know well when you look at the religions of this world and the fact that they actually have followers
You think to yourself these people got to be crazy
The fact that Islam have so many converts
You guys are crazy
The fact that their leader is a pedophile and you're still following that you gotta be crazy
The fact that Mormonism exists and that there's people following Mormonism and doing the holy underwear thing
And believing they're gonna get their own planet and have eternal babies. That's insane
Well, you know what false religion can make people go crazy
Because along with that is just a rejection of the truth
Therefore God allows them to be given over to the lie Jeremiah chapter 50 verse 38 says this a draw is upon her waters
And they shall be dried up
For it is the land of graven images and they are mad upon their idols
Mad meaning crazy insane and look you can go to India
You can go to Southeast Asia and see this all these idols on every corner
Just being performed to just demonic entities demonic idols and you think to yourself
How can these people believe these things? Yeah, because they're crazy. They've gone insane
Their mental faculties are not operating because of the fact that they knew God, but they glorified them not as God neither
We're thankful, but became listen to this vein in their imagination and their foolish heart was darken. Okay?
So sometimes they're faking it. Sometimes it's a judgment from God. It's persistent sinfulness
It's because of false religion. Let me also say this is that physical conditions can affect a person's mental state
Where they think that they're going crazy. I mean think about this, you know, Elijah was so
Emotionally and physically depleted that he literally told God take my life away, right?
And no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourished it than cherished it
So obviously he must have been in a very bad physical and mental condition to have those thoughts
Job's physical condition was so profoundly devastating that he said in Job 7 14 15 excuse me
Well, let me read to you from verse 14 then thou scarred me with dreams and
Terrify us me through visions so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than my life
I loathe it. I would not live all way. Let me alone for my days are vanity now with Elijah the solution to his
You know depression to his mental state. God just said sleep and eat
You just need more sleep you need to get some food in you and then you can be replenished and you know
You'll be fine. How about this fear can often be a result of insanity, you know people who are just paranoid
Just constantly wondering what's going on thinking that people are after them
This is fear
But the Bible says that God didn't give us a spirit of fear but of power love and a sound mind, okay?
And look, I've known Christians are just paranoid
I'm known Christians that were so paranoid that you know, they have and look if you have a security system
You know, it's all good, but this this guy was like overkill like he was like Batman
You know, I mean he just had like all these screens in his room
And then he just had all these web and I'm like, have you been threatened? He's like no
I haven't I'm like have people said they're coming after he's like no. No, I'm just getting ready for what? No one knows you
nobody knows you
She's paranoia
But the Bible says perfect love casteth out fear fear has torment the Bible says
And so people can go insane because of fear they become paranoid they become so overly worried
That they lose their minds
The Bible tells us in Leviticus chapter 26 verse 36 and upon them that are left alive of you
I will send a faintness into their hearts in the land of their enemies and the sound of a shaken leaf
Shall chase them and they shall flee as fleeing from a sword and they shall fall when none pursue it
Here's another reason why people go insane and this is very common and that is demonic possession
Sometimes people absolutely lose their minds because they're possessed by devils. Yes, that's a real thing
Okay, and an often worse in conjunction with drugs
You know, like I don't know if this person is on drugs or the demon possessed. Yes
Yes, because sometimes it's the drugs that kind of opens up the door to demonic possession
Okay, the Bible says in Matthew chapter 4 verse 24 and his fame went throughout all Syria
And they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with diverse diseases and torments and those which were possessed with
Devils and those which were lunatic and those that had the palsy and he healed them
And lastly, let me say this is that people go insane because they're reprobates
Okay, meaning that they have been rejected by God indefinitely for salvation because of their rejection of the truth
Romans 128 tells us this even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge
God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient
And so that's important to note there as well
Sometimes people are just mentally insane because of the fact that God removed their conscience
Their conscience is seared according to the Bible
They don't have the mental capacity to differentiate between good and evil because they have a reprobate mind
Okay, so the point being here is that people go insane for a variety of reasons
But in every single instance if they're to commit a crime, they're still culpable for that crime
If they murder someone they are supposed to be held responsible for that murder doesn't matter how insane they were
Okay, now let's look at a couple examples of people who lost their minds in the Bible. You're in Daniel chapter 4
Let's talk about Nebuchadnezzar. Okay
Nebuchadnezzar was made insane by God because of his pride and unwillingness to repent and correct his ways
Look at verse 27. It says, wherefore, O King, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee and
break off thy sins by righteousness and
Iniquities by showing mercy to the poor it may be a lengthening of thy tranquility
So Nebuchadnezzar is a pretty godless person. He's a very angry individual short fuse
power-hungry and the guy is just extremely arrogant
Unmerciful you could read the chapters prior to this and so he he you know
He is boasting. He's prideful and they're basically saying hey, you know if you act
Righteously as a king this doesn't mean he's saved, but if you act righteously you show mercy to the poor, you know
God can lengthen your peace
He can lengthen the peace of mind that you'll have here on this earth, right?
You can live out your day. He's just living in peace and I don't believe this is God dealing with Nebuchadnezzar as a
Saved person. I do believe that God just deals with
magistrates and kings and presidents in their own
Type of position where if they act righteously, you know, God can bless that nation
He can bless that individual and so forth and I believe that's what's taking place here
He's saying hey, you know repent of your ways stop being a wicked person and you'll lengthen your peace your tranquility your
soundness of mind verse 28 says this came upon the kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar at
The end of 12 months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon
The kings vacant said is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom
By the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty
So what's going on here? You know he the prophet tells them. Hey
Repent get right. Don't be arrogant
You know be good to the poor break off your sins by righteousness and for a full 12 months. He just ignores this
So I would say that God is being pretty merciful to Nebuchadnezzar
Now what's the principle there that we can learn that's outside of this sermon?
I'll tell you what, you know, just because God hasn't punished you right now for your sin doesn't mean you're not gonna get it
You might be in the fifth month
You might be in the sixth month. You might be in the ninth month. Hey, you might be in the 11th month
Don't think just because God has not punished you
That just automatically means that he places his stamp of approval on your actions
Because the Bible says here that on the 12th month when he walked out and he said these things evil came upon him
What does he say? He said, oh man, this Babylon is because of me. I did this. No Nebuchadnezzar
God did it not because he likes you not because he favors you, but because it's working towards his ultimate plan
verse
31 says while the word
Was in the king's mouth there fell a voice from heaven saying oh
King Nebuchadnezzar to thee it is spoken the kingdom departed from thee
And they shall drive thee from men and thy dwelling shall be with the beast of the field
And they shall make thee to eat grass as an oxen and seven times shall pass over thee until down
No, it's that the most high rule it in the kingdom of men and give it to whomsoever he will
So as he's just boasting about his greatness and how he's awesome. God just speaks to him and
He basically says like you're gonna be punished for this. I'm gonna remove your sanity
I'm paraphrasing verse 33 the same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar and he was driven from men and
Did eat grass as an oxen and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hairs were grown like eagles feathers and his nails
Like birds claws
So what do we have here? We have that he just completely goes insane. He thinks himself to be an animal
So he goes from being this awesome king
This conquering king this powerful magistrate to being reduced to acting like an absolute animal
He becomes a vegetarian his nails grow his hair grows
He just looks absolutely horrendous even to the point where his subjects are just kicking them out
They don't want nothing to do with them. Why because he went insane. He went crazy
His insanity was a punishment for his pride and his sin now
This is actually today referred to clinically as
Boanthropy
Okay, where people say, you know, there's been people throughout history that they thought that there were like a cow or an ox
And they start literally eating grass
You know like a cow like an ox and there's actually a recorded
Instance of this in the 11th century with the ruler from Persia
Who basically thought he was a cow and he would eat grass like an ox and everything?
I believe it was God's punishment on that person for doing so. Okay, and you know what you say
Well, do you have any modern examples? Well, you know furbies are kind of like that, right?
Well, is that what they're called furries furries not fur piece furries
Furries are the little animals, right?
Furries are an example of this or just people who just think that they're animals
You know these these reprobates who just want to be you know a call the dog
They want to be called a cat they want to identify themselves as some sort of animal, you know
This is a curse upon them. They're acting like animals and God saying okay because you've rejected the truth
I'm gonna make you go insane and
Yeah, they're not being driven physically from society, but society's looking and saying you're weird
You're a freak. What is this?
You know, I know a furry, you know, yeah, you know an insane person
It's insane
It's God's punishment on that person because that's embarrassing
Okay, it's embarrassing to frolic like a little fox
It's a frolic like a deer or something act like you know, put the little
Ears on your head and act like you have a tail and all this that's nonsense
It's embarrassing stop doing that and parents don't let your kids get involved in being a furry
You're a grown man
Walking around with the tail. What is that?
Bring bullies backing man
I
Why do people go insane? I'll tell you why because I reject the truth
But here's a clear example of someone who went insane not because he had some sort of chemical imbalance
Not because the system failed him not because of any of that. It's because he disobeyed God
Prideful and arrogant and rebellious God exalted him to the position of being a king of
Conquering all these nations. He gives no glory to God and God says okay
You want to take credit? Then I'll just make you an ox for seven entire years
Bro became a vegetarian for seven entire years
Where he's just eating grass like an ox looking like an absolute beast just completely embarrassing himself
Living out there like an animal, okay?
You know and by the way homos act like animals
So you can see how that's like associated with that. Yeah, they act like animals and
So this is part of the punishment, okay?
Like anthropy or broanthropy is what it's often called like anthropy is just when people think they're transitioning into becoming an animal
This is what's happening to Nebuchadnezzar go to 1st Samuel chapter 16 first Samuel chapter 16
We would look at Nebuchadnezzar today and say that guy went
Mentally insane that person is crazy. Would we say oh put him on anti-depressants put on you know
Give him some medication. No get right with God
And in fact it wasn't until the seven years are over that Nebuchadnezzar gave glory to God
He gave credit to the God of heaven
Recognized that he's the only deity and what happened his saying is his mind which is reason the Bible says returned unto him
Because God is able to just flip the switch
And say, okay now you're thinking right? Let me just flip the switch and guess what he
Reinstated him to his former glory. He became the king again
His life was restored as normal as before but it took an entire seven years for him to get right
He didn't need medication. He didn't need pills. He didn't need the apothecary
He didn't need a sorcerer. He needed the great physician and he needed to get right with God
Insanity sometimes plays out because people are just rebellious against the Lord. That's why and let me say this
Obviously Nebuchadnezzar is an unsaved example, but I'm I guarantee you there's an example of saved people doing this
And in fact, we're gonna look at one right now
Let's look at example number two of someone going absolutely insane and that is Saul
Saul's probably the greatest example of all of these okay
Look at first Sammy chapter 16 verse 14
It says then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him referring to David in the midst of his brethren
And the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward so Sammy rose up and went to Ramah now
We obviously know that Saul was the first king of the United Kingdom of Israel and he started off great
He was head and shoulders above the rest. He was a humble person
He was little in his own sight the Bible says I mean the guy had a great beginning
But then pride snuck into his heart
Rebelliousness snuck into his heart and he began to disobey the Lord
He wasn't carrying out the commandments of God and therefore God ended up punishing him and in fact part of his sin
Was that he was envious?
Towards David
Now God had already determined once Saul disobeyed him that the kingdom of God was gonna be taken from him and given to David
Okay, which is why David is being anointed at this time
But even though David is one being anointed, you know Saul still has to fulfill his term so to speak
So he's still the king even though David is the runner-up after he goes away
I look at verse 14 says the spirit of the Lord
departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord
Troubled him and Saul's servant said unto him behold now an evil spirit from God
Troubly, let our Lord now command the servants
Which are before thee to seek out a man who is a cunning player on a harp and it shall come to pass when the evil
Spirit from God is upon thee that he shall play with his hand and that shall be well
So, you know he the Lord departs from him in the sense of God's power is no longer with him
Now people often point to this and say well isn't this proof that
Saul was not saved because the spirit of the Lord departed from him
No, because in the Old Testament when people got saved the Holy Spirit would come and regenerate them
Bring their dead spirits to life, but he wouldn't necessarily live within them as he does with us today
The part of salvation that the Holy Spirit plays in is that he regenerates the dead spirit
You know the Bible tells us you hath he quickened who were dead
Interest passes in sin not by works of righteousness, which we have done
But according to his mercy he saved us by the washing and regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost
So the Holy Spirit comes at the moment of salvation
Brings your spirit to life and that's it
But in the New Testament the Bible tells us that he sealed there until the day of redemption
The major difference between the two is the temple
Tabernacle and temple the Bible says in the New Testament that we're the temple of the Holy Ghost
Which we have of God and we are not our own the temple in the Old Testament was a literal physical building
So God's presence in the Old Testament was in that physical tabernacle and temple
Well since our bodies of the temple in the New Testament the Holy Spirit resides within us
And so in the Old Testament when the Holy Spirit would save people he would do the same exact way that he does it today
The difference is he would not abide in them as he does in the New
He would come upon them in order to give them wisdom
Courage boldness and so forth, but that was it
So when the Bible says here that the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul
It means that he's not a spirit filled person anymore
And then God sends an evil spirit
A demonic spirit to oppress him
Okay
Now the funny thing is is that you know the servants see this they're like oh man this guy's tripping out
You know
He's got like an evil spirit on him. And what do they do? They're like he needs antidepressants
You know he needs antidepressants
He needs you know, we need to take him to the doctor. He needs a psychiatrist
He needs a therapist because what they're doing is creating a solution with music, but it doesn't really do anything
Chills him out for a moment, but it doesn't really take care of the job
Because he's listening to it, you know, he calms down for a little bit
But then later on he goes on his murderous spree. They're after
You know, and this is kind of like your pharmaceutical industry
Where people pay millions of thousands and millions of dollars for medication doesn't do anything
They're still depressed. They're still angry. They still got mental issues does absolutely nothing but put
Money into the pockets of those who are promoting it, you understand and so look at chapter 18 if you will chapter 18
First Sammy chapter 18 look at verse 7 it says in the woman
Answered one another as they played and said Saul has slain his thousands
And david his 10,000 so david comes back from a war
And you know david's he is a mighty warrior gods with him
He's a man's man. He's taking care of business. He's not the king. He's subject them to saul
But you know, he's famous. He's famous in the congregation so to speak
And so, you know, he has these fans
Who are making songs about him and one of the songs is just like, you know, hey, saul slain
He slew his thousands, but david is 10 thousands. In other words, they're giving him more credit
Than what saul has accomplished. Oh, you know, look in my opinion though
If I was saw I'd be like, yeah, he works for me. So he's supposed to be doing the bulk of the work
You know, he's working for the kingdom. We're on the same team
It doesn't matter how many people I've slain or he slain we're both on the same team
But because he has the evil spirit because he's envious it's bothering him
Look at verse 8 and saul was very wroth wroth means that he's wrathful
And the same displeased them and he said they have ascribed them to david 10 thousands
And to me they have ascribed with thousands and what can you have more about the kingdom?
He's just being just kind of throwing a fit
Why don't you guys just give him the crown already?
You know, he's like throwing a little fit verse nine and saul
I david from that day forward. What does it mean to I am? It means that he's envious of him
He's just kind of like
Those guys think he is, you know, he's suspicious of him. He's envious of him
It's because of that evil spirit verse 10 says and it came to pass on the morrow
That the evil spirit from god came upon saul and he prophesied in the midst of the house
And david played with his hand as at other times and there was a javelin in saul's hand. So, you know, he has the evil spirit
He's being tormented. He's in a bad mood. He's angry. He's wrathful
So he's doing what the servants basically recommended which is to listen to some music
And david's there, you know, he's playing with the harp and the bible says here that saul is prophesying
Prophecying in the bible doesn't mean just preaching. It actually also means to sing
Which is why we have him prophesying while david played
So he's trying to sing his favorite song or whatever
But he has a javelin in his hand
Okay
verse 11 says and saul cast the javelin for he said
I will smite david even to the wall with it and david avoided out of his presence twice
So he's just like, you know, he's singing and then he's just like
I mean david is pretty awesome to be able to like hit those keys and still move out of the way
Twice
You're like, well, you know the system failed saw though
I know he was trying to kill david, but you know, it wasn't the right song david should have played something else
There's a particular song that he wanted that's probably what it was
He wasn't playing that who put that javelin in his hand
Who who put those conditions? I don't think it was saw. I think it was jonathan
It was jonathan who did that not saw
But saul took responsibility wasn't him though. It was his wife
Verse 11 says and saul cast the javelin for he said I will smite david even to the wall with it and david avoided out of his
Presence twice and saul was afraid of david because the lord was with him and was departed from saul
Therefore saw removed him from him and made him his captain over a thousand
And he went out and came in before the people and david behaved himself wisely in all his ways and the lord was with him
So, you know saw so paranoid
By david that he's just like I don't even want him to play for me anymore
Just have him be you know a captain so I don't have to see him because I'm just worried about him
I'm scared of him. I'm afraid of him because it's that evil spirit that is tormenting him go to chapter 19 chapter 19
And look at this whole thing no one's sympathizing with saul
Who we're sympathizing with david
He's the one that merits the sympathy
The bible says that he's behaving himself wisely in all his ways that the lord is with him that god is with him
He's protecting him
There's not like a band of servants outside of the kingdom
for saul
Right no, it's just like free my boy saul
Look at verse 8 of chapter 19 and there was war again
And david went out and fought with the philistines and slewed them with the great slaughter and they fled with him from him
And the evil spirit from the lord was upon saul
And as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand and david played with his hand
And saul sought to smite david even to the wall with the javelin
But he slipped away out of saul's presence and he smote the javelin into the wall and david fled and escaped that night
saul also sent messengers unto david's house
To watch him and to slay him in the morning
And macau david's wife told him saying if thou save not thy life tonight tomorrow thou shall be slain
So macau let david down through a window and he went and fled and escaped so again. He's trying to kill david
He's not in his right mind. He's demonically
Oppressed his mind isn't all there. He's not acting the way he's supposed to act
But you know what he's still responsible for this
He's mentally insane. He's not behaving
Appropriately. He's not behaving sanely
He has an evil spirit upon him yet. He's trying to carry out a literal murder upon an innocent individual
And he's culpable for that go to chapter 20 chapter 20
And then we're going to go to 22 look at first sam at 20 verse 33
First sam at 20 verse 33
Insanity makes you culpable verse 33 says in saul
Cast the javelin add him to smite him whereby jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay david
He's like well, you know trying to kill david, you know
All right, i'm not for that, but you know, it's not really that bad, right? I mean well, how about trying to kill jonathan his own son?
You're insane
He's trying to kill
His own son everyone with me here
His own flesh and blood his own son why because he's crazy
Go to chapter 22 chapter 22
Here is the
You know the degradation of saul. He just went from being a great king
an awesome king
A wonderful king a righteous king
To just being an absolute insane
murderous
Backslidden godless person
Like well, you know, okay, you know david. I get that you know that's pretty bad jonathan. Okay. I see the tide that you're making there
But really, you know, it's just maybe he's just being irrational. Yeah, you think
He's being a little irrational
But look what it says in verse 13 of chapter 22 and saul said into him
Why have he conspired against me?
Thou and the son of jessie and that thou has given him bread and a sword and has inquired of god for him
That he should rise against me to lie and wait as at this day's being paranoid here
Then a himilek answered the king and said and who is so faithful?
Among all thy servants is david
Which is thy king's son-in-law and go without at thy bidding
And is honorable in thine house. So, you know david came and a himilek helps him out
He gives him bread. He gives us his guy's bread. He gives him food to eat
And saul is just super bothered by this. He's like, how could you do this to me?
How can you conspire with david? You guys are trying to kill me and the himilek has no idea what's going on
He's just like, isn't this your son-in-law?
I thought you would want me to feed your son-in-law. Who's the captain and his men. What's wrong here?
Verse 15 says did I then begin to inquire of god for him be afar from me
Let not the king impute anything unto his servant
Nor to all the house of my father for thy servant knew nothing of all this less or more
And the king said thou shalt surely die a himilek thou and all thy father's house
Talk about overreacting
And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him turn and slay the priests of the lord
Because their hand also is with david because they knew when he fled and did not show it unto me
But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the lord
And the king said to doeg turn now and fall upon the priests and doeg the eat of my turn
And he fell upon the priests and slew on that day
Four score in five persons that did wear a linen e-fod
Who just murdered a bunch of priests for no good reason
Now you think to yourself well, you know if he's trying to kill david
He didn't succeed. He tried to kill jonathan didn't succeed
Yeah, but he actually succeeded in murdering a bunch of innocent men here though
priests of the lord
Oh, but it doesn't stop there
It says in verse 19 and knob the city of the priest
Smote he with the edge of the sword listen to this both men and women
Children and sucklings
An oxen and asses and sheep with the edge of the sword go to first chronicles chapter 10 first chronicles chapter 10
Insanity moves all to murder
It's not because they didn't play the right song. It's not because the system failed him. He's the king
It's not because it's his own rebellion. It's his own godlessness. It's his own sinfulness his unwillingness to repent
Made him go insane and you know what god holds him responsible
And look you say well, doesn't it say that the evil spirit from the lord came onto him?
Yeah, but it's working in conjunction with his sinful condition though
Because it's not like Saul is just a robot
Under the oppression of a demon carrying out these things
He knows exactly what he's doing
Look at first chronicles chapter 10 verse 13
So Saul died listen to this for
His transgression which he committed against the lord
Even against the word of the lord which he kept not and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit to
Inquire of it. What does that mean? It means that he was culpable. He's responsible
Insanity demonic oppression
demonic troubling
No matter what you can come up with he still held responsible for his actions and look folks
Lindsey Clancy, you might say she was insane. She was going through postpartum depression
She was in in a right mind medication this medication that according to the bible
You have to have this right position, which is that she still deserves the death penalty
It's still her fault
The system failed her I can point you to a bunch of people who system
You would say the system didn't fail them and they came out of it just fine. What about that?
Oh her husband fell there. Well, you know what that might be true, but she's still responsible for her actions
You know what we need to stop letting our wives
Just go online and just go through every single conspiracy
Every single tiktok video
Every single instagram video every single conspiracy theory to just come up with all these wild narratives
Look folks women have a tendency
Women have a tendency just go overboard on that stuff
Because they're just emotional beings
You know, they watch a couple of forensic files and all of a sudden they're just experts
on finding the killer
And we live in a society that just absolutely saturates their minds with any form of conspiracy whatsoever
I'm surprised aliens haven't gotten involved in this
I'm surprised Jeffrey Epstein isn't involved in this conspiracy. I'm surprised that somehow
Trump isn't involved in this somehow
It's crazy
It's absolutely insane. You're like, oh man. I feel like my wife. Well, then just keep her off the internet
And then you know you ladies out there's like, oh, what do you mean keep them like keep them off?
Like you're not allowed to go on the internet
I mean, that's what I told my wife and my wife had the right position on this
You know, my wife understood that she's 100 guilty, you know
But here's the thing my wife is a woman whose heart
You know her heartstrings can be pulled in the wrong direction
And she has to like intentionally say like this isn't a right way of thinking
I need to think biblically about these things and why does she feel that way?
I'll tell you why because it's just all over the internet. It's on youtube
It's constantly being talked about it's all these articles and then when she told me I said, all right, you can't go on there anymore
Case closed. Oh, what are you some kind of dictator? Yes
Yes, I am
You know because I need to protect my wife's heart her mind her emotions because we have six kids
She has a ton of responsibilities and I can't have an overly emotional wife
Just completely breaking down every single day because of what's taking place. I need her mind to be fresh. Amen
On the things of god reading the word of god spending time with our kids
Fellowshiping with their awesome husband, you know things of that nature
Cooking cleaning doing that. Oh man. This sounds so chauvinistic. I can't believe yeah
Well, go ahead and look outside the courtroom of Lindsey Clancy. And if you don't do it this way, that's what you'll get
pink shirts
Throwing hearts at a murderer
insanity
crazy
The virus is keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life
You know what it means to keep means guard your heart
Why because deception is rampant and you know who satan always goes for first and foremost the woman
Prove it eve
Case closed
Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the transgression
That's what the bible says
And that's why it's important for us as husbands to do our part to protect our wives and you know, you're like, I'm just too scared
Can you tell her no I gotta tell her you need to stand up to your wife
Can you just say can you just say that to her please? No, I didn't marry her you did
What is that?
You tell your wife
I'm not saying be mean to her anything like that. You know, I'm just saying like you need to go to your wife and say
Hey, we're done with this
You're not looking this stuff up anymore. Right. Okay. This is it's over with I'm checking the history and you better not be on it
Because it's going to destroy their minds
And all this is and look folks look you think well the people out there in the court, you know outside the courtroom
They're just deceived. No, they're reprobates
A lot of these people are just agitators
They're agitators that are just meant to go there and just spread feminism and godlessness and try to control the narrative
Because they know how easily persuaded people can be
And they know when there's a lot of numbers of these people. Oh, it must mean it's true then
false my friends
Okay
You know and again look look she's not even claiming that she didn't do it
Right
So you stop defending someone who claims that she they did it
I just think it was the husband. I just think it was you know aliens. I just think it was bigfoot. I just think
And then when people finally come to realization we're like, okay, yeah, she did it, but the system still failed her well
Wrong wrong in wrong opinion wrong opinion
The opinion needs to be biblically based
The biblically based opinion and statement that we need to make is that
Three children were killed by their mother. Therefore she deserves the death penalty
Case closed
Who cares about the system?
Who cares about you know, there's a lot of people in this world who actually had it worse than her
Just remember that
This woman had a lot of money. She had a nanny. She had all types of things. Look folks
I know people. I know moms who had it way worse than that
Who did not have those resources. They didn't have that help
They didn't have all the glitz and the glamour and you know what they turned out just fine
The point being here is we need to stop standing with murderers
We need to recognize that this is
You know part of satan's agenda to cause women and cause society to just
empathize with absolute criminals
To empathize with murderers to hate children
It's crap a bunch of nonsense
You're like, well, I don't like what you're saying. Well, you're just gonna have to like refute what i'm saying according to the bible though
Because it's in the bible and i'm not interested in your emotions or your emotional explanation to this
I'm not interested in how you feel. I'm interested just not in this particular case
I'm not interested in, you know, well, I just feel as though
You know and look folks again. I do believe women go through post-partum depression for sure. That's a legitimate thing
I'm not undermining that at all
That's a real thing and it makes me thankful that i'm not a woman, you know
Because women are emotional for sure
And if women you're offended at that, I don't know why because you know that's a fact
And everyone around you knows that too
We all know that that's that's that's just part of the fall
Look at all the men looking around to see if women are offended or whatever
Don't trip. You're good
male oriented
You know, I know that that's a thing. I get it for sure. But you know what?
Doesn't justify strangling three children and you'll never be able to convince me of that
Well, who are you to speak on these things a pastor someone who knows the bible?
You know a man
And you know, I'm sick and tired of hearing men should not be talking about these things
Oh, yeah, but you're okay with the man performing an abortion though, huh?
Ain't that right? It's called hypocrisy
And I'll speak on these things as much as I so please
And the more you, you know, give me the looks the more you criticize me the more I'm gonna do it
All right, go to act chapter five now that I made half the women mad in our church
We'll work on the other half at the end here
Hey, it's true folks
We need to cast down imaginations every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of god
We need to bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of christ
So the bible says the bible teaches that if there's an ideology that contradicts the word of god
We need to go with what the word of god says
Regardless of how many millions and millions of people don't agree with that
And I get it, you know, you're a lady in our church and you're just like, oh man, this is just oh
I don't know about this, you know, just give it some time
Just look at what the bible says
Say lord help me to accept the truth because it is there
This is the biblical position. I'm just bothered by it
And I get it
I get I get why you would be bothered by it because the society has conditioned women to think contrary to the word of god
So I get it
But you know, I recommend for you to spend time meditating on the bible not making excuses for it
Well the cultural context the cultural context is murders is always wrong
All right, here's another example of insanity a form of insanity should we say
Is ananias and sapphira
Okay, and you know, I couldn't say that they are they would be considered clinically insane
But this is an example of people who were influenced
By demonic entities to carry out a specific thing
Look at acts chapter five verse one and certain man named ananias with sapphire his wife sold a possession
And kept back part of the price his wife also being privy to it and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles feet
But peter said to ananias
Why have satan filled thine heart to lie to the holy ghost?
And to keep back part of the price of the land
Whilst the remain wasn't not thine own and after it was sold wasn't not in thine own power
Why has thou conceived this thing in thine heart?
Thou has not lied unto men but unto god and ananias hearing these words said the system failed me
My parents failed me
No, he fell down and gave up the ghost
Now it says here that satan filled his heart
to lie
And the interesting thing here is that peter says why
Has satan filled thine heart to lie into the holy ghost
Meaning that there had to be some sort of invitation from ananias to do this
Working in conjunction with satan in order to lie into the holy ghost
So we could say oh, oh man, you know, this person was just demonically possessed
They were demonically oppressed satan deceived them well ananias still suffered the consequences of that though
He fell down and gave up the ghost because he's the one
He is the body that carried out this lie. Okay
It says in verse number five and ananias hearing these words fell down gave up the ghost and great fear came upon all
Them that heard these things and the young men arose and wound them up and carried them out and buried him
It was about the space of three hours after when his wife not knowing what was done came in
And peter answered her unto her tell me whether you sold the land for so much and she said yay for so much
Then peter said into her
How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the spirit of god?
And this is the most you know mafia cold statement here behold the feet of them
Which have buried thy husband or at the door and shall carry the out
And of course she ends up dying as well
She's carried out even though they were influenced by demonic entities. It doesn't matter go to luke chapter 22
luke 22 if you would
Luke chapter 22
Insanity still means that you're culpable. It still means you're at fault
Even if you say well, it was for that short duration period of time that I was insane. Oh, how convenient
The you were just completely mentally insane for that short window of time
Not necessarily before and not necessarily after it's called being calculated there. Okay
But let's look at an example here. Judas Iscariot is a prime example
Of someone who is possessed by satan himself
And carried out a betrayal that led to someone's murder
okay
Luke 22 verse 1 says and now the feast of 11 bread drew nigh
Which is called the Passover and the chief priests and scribes saw how they might kill him for they feared the people
Then entered satan into Judas sir named miscaria
Being of the number of the 12 and they went his way
And he communed with the chief priests and captains how he might betray him
Onto them and they were glad and coming in coming in to give him money
And he promised and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude go to Matthew chapter 26
We see here that satan enters Judas Iscariot now
Here's the thing when it comes to demonic possession. Okay
I believe demonic possession is a legitimate thing. It's a real thing
I do believe that demonic possession can lead people to committing
criminal acts
Murderer it could commit that cause them to do just horrendous things
But I will say this is that I do believe that people I don't believe demonic possession happens on a whim
Like a demon just selects someone at random
I believe they have to like invite that into their life
Because you have Judas Iscariot who was wicked
From the beginning
He didn't believe from the beginning. He's rejecting the gospel and in conjunction with that. What is he doing? He's stealing money
He's the thief
He's stealing money. He's playing the part and by this. I believe he's inviting
Satan to come and possess him which is why he did so
Now he does it. He betrays Jesus Christ. He's crucified because if you look at Matthew 26 verse 24
Jesus held him responsible for this
It says in verse 24 the son of man goeth as it is written of him
But woe unto that man by whom the son of man is betrayed
It had been good for that man if he had not been born
There's nothing here. Hey, I know you guys are really rough on Judas
I just want to let you know he was the monarchy possessed if we would have gotten the help that he needed
We could have helped him out. It's not his fault
You know and let me just say this when he said father forgive them for they know not what they do
It didn't include Judas
Did it include Judas?
In fact, he said of Judas you should have never been born
Why why is he not rebuking Satan?
Why is he not defending Judas say well, he was just demonically possessed. It doesn't count
He shouldn't be held culpable. No because it was Judas who carried out this crime
Look at Matthew 27
I just think Judas got the raw end of the deal there
Who's going to be able to resist Satan? You know, it's the most demonic. He's he's Satan. He's the devil
Look at verse three then Judas which had to betrayed him
When he saw that he was condemned listen to this
Repented himself and brought again the 30 pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders saying
The devil made me do it
It was the devil that made me do it
The system failed me the chief priests. They knew I was weak when it comes to money
No, I have sinned
And that I I have betrayed the innocent blood and they said what is that to us?
See thou to that and listen to this and he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed and went and hanged himself
Why did he hang himself because he knew he was guilty
Why did she throw herself out the window because she knew she was guilty
That's why
Amen
Because no parent can live with themselves knowing that they did that to their children
And even if she didn't even if she was already past feeling after she killed her children, you know what she knew
I'm gonna get it for this
And so let me just throw myself out the window
And unfortunately she didn't succeed
She didn't succeed in killing herself
We wish she would have succeeded because that's what she deserved and that's exactly what Judas did
And you know what the bible doesn't say and it wasn't Judas's fault
And it was satan who did this and let's not hold him culpable for this
No, Judas was a son of a man of perdition the son of perdition
He is an antichrist picture. He was possessed by satan
He was a devil from the beginning to bow down in the truth
This man was a wicked person a thief
He was the man who masqueraded as a believer and you know what he's the one that carried out the crime
What's the point here the point is this just because someone is mentally insane doesn't mean we just automatically excuse their crimes
Get away from that way of thinking
That's what our that now that is what our country does though
You know
Again this trial with Lindsay Clancy is is retarded
It should not exist
Well, we're just trying to see if she was
You know mentally insane or not
So she could either go to the insane asylum for the rest of her life or prison
And bible believe in christians like gas chamber. What do you mean?
Lethal injection electric chair firing squad
All of the above what do you mean? Why is this person even living they have forfeited their right to live?
Go to proverbs 28
Proverbs chapter 28
You know women who are being deceived by this don't even know
That the people who are convincing them don't even believe what they're saying
They're just reeling them in trying to get them away from biblical values and biblical principles and just corrupting society
Corrupting women corrupting families trying to get their minds to be evil affected against their children
Against their husbands against their family. It's a godless wicked movement and that you know that uh video needs to be shut off
That social media needs to be shut off
You need to control your mind start getting into the word of god and go with the truth side with the truth
What the bible says? Okay
Now here's my concluding verse here. Okay and proverbs 28
regarding insanity
Making you culpable
You know if after this sermon you're like well, I still think you know
I still think that like I get what you're saying
It's my favorite phrase when someone's about to disagree with me, right? I get what you're saying
I totally like agree with that
But I just think that she is it wrong though to have like empathy
For her though, even though I do believe that you know, yeah, she's she's held accountable
But you know, I just empathize with her. Is it is it wrong? Well look at proverbs 28 verse 4
They that forsake the law
praise the wicked
But such as keep the law contend with them
They that forsake the law
Praise the wicked they side with the wicked
They empathize with the wicked
They're with the wicked and you know what if you sympathize and empathize with an absolute child murderer
The bible says you forsook the law
You can't have it both ways
No, I stand with the law. No, not if you side with her
Well, I believe what the bible says. Well, then stop siding with her because the the bible tells us here that a
An indication that you're no longer adhering to the laws of god
The evidence is that you are praising the wicked. You're siding with godless wicked people
And what am I doing? I'm keeping the law. Why because I'm contending with them
And so may your mind be renewed today and look if you say well, I agree with you
But I'm just never coming back to this church. Well, I still got my job accomplished though
Because my goal was to just change your mind on this
My goal was to just renew your mind show you what the bible says and get you back on the law of god
Agreeing with the lord and not siding with child killers. Yeah
Let's pray father. We thank you so much for your word
And thank you for a sober and sound mind
It's so important to have lord and I pray that you would help us as your people to
Keep the sound mind by keeping our minds fixated on you
That will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusted in thee
Help our minds to be renewed
According to the word of god to adhere to the biblical principles to preaching to the bible
And I pray that you fulfill us with your spirit lord
And I pray that lord you would find that woman guilty
But we know that she will receive her due punishment in the in the hereafter
And I pray that that would come speedily lord. We love you. We thank you pray this things in jesus name. Amen