God Is the Judge Part 1: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 In Matthew 13:30, Jesus said, in the parable of the [unclear] and the field and the enemy coming in and sowing tares, He said, “Let both the tares,” the righteous and the wicked, “grow together.” Let both the tares and the wheat grow together, the righteous and the wicked grow together until the harvest. And He tells us the time of the harvest is at the end of the age, the end of the world, when Jesus returns again. So what He’s saying is the wicked and the righteous are going to be in the earth, and the wicked are going to get more wicked and the righteous are going to get more righteous until the time of the harvest. They are to grow together. All right. Now we’re going to also answer these two questions, or these two challenges, by our enemy: “If the Bible’s God is good, why does He allow sufferings and wars in the earth?”

▶ 1:02 And “Why does God require the killing of women and children?” And “The Bible is just a bunch of BS,” bull, sh-, sh-. Okay, that’s the challenge for my enemies. We’re going to answer these questions while we are addressing “God is the Judge.” And what we’re going to do, we’re going to establish that God is Judge and has the right and necessity to judge. Then we’re going to establish the evidence of God’s judgment before the law was given and then after the law was given, and then we’re going to show you how the righteous and the wicked are to grow together until Christ come. God is the Judge, and He has sentenced the wicked to eternal life in the lake of fire, according to Jesus Christ and His statement. He is the Judge, and He has sentenced all the wicked to the lake of fire. All right.

▶ 2:08 Now, establishing that He is the Judge and has the right and the necessity to judge: Psalm 75:7 plainly says God is the what? Judge. Ecclesiastes 3:17: “God shall judge the righteous and the wicked.” Okay, and he says there is a time. In this Scripture, “there is a time, there is a season for every purpose and for every work.” You see, so what does that tell us? He is the Judge of the righteous and the wicked both now and when He comes at the harvest, at the end of the time. Okay, and I can give you proof. Herod Agrippa, in Acts 22:23, they exalted him as God, he did not renounce it, and so the Bible says God smote him with worms, that he died. See, God didn’t wait for the Judgment Day, He dealt with it now. And my submission to these people that challenge my God, the God of the Bible, is He is the Judge, and He has the right to judge, and He has the necessity to judge. It is necessary that He deals with things now, and if He cannot deal with things now, He is worthless. And why would I want to serve a worthless God?

▶ 3:55 In the Old Testament, [unclear] was the king of Judah. He killed his own brothers, he caused Israel to sin, commit adultery, sexual immorality, and everything else, the king. So God comes along. He was 32 years old when he began to reign, and God came just six years later and smote him with an incurable disease of the bowels. For two years he suffered in pain, and then died from that incurable disease, and the Bible says God smote him. God judged him. He also judged his whole family, his wife, who was the daughter of Ahab, an evil king of Israel that served Baal. Her children produced were all dealt with. Are you there, church? See, God has a right to deal with wickedness right now, because He’s the Judge, and don’t you go calling my God unrighteous and unfair and everything else because He’s doing His job. Can I hear an amen? As you can tell, I get upset and I get fired up when people attack the Bible and God. There are Bible answers for this stuff.

▶ 5:39 So he died at the age of 40. See, there is a time for every purpose of judging, and God needs to deal with things now and in the eternities. Ezekiel 18:30: “I will judge you. I will judge all of you according to your ways,” your lifestyle, your choice of living. I’m going to judge you. And now remember, “judge” is a lawgiver, He is an executioner, He is a punisher, and He is a justifier of the innocent. That’s what a judge is. Does that sound like our God? Absolutely. And I don’t like it when the homosexuals and the humanists and the atheists and the liberals and all that attack the Bible and attack God. Church, we have answers, and we have a God that isn’t a fairy tale. It’s not just a philosophy, as Bill O’Reilly said. Christianity is more than a philosophy. It’s an entryway into the spiritual kingdom, the spiritual domain. Hallelujah. The supernatural. Don’t ever reduce Christianity down to just a mere philosophy of principles to live by. We do have principles to live by, but we have a supernatural God that empowers us to live rightly. There’s no other religion in the world that has that.

▶ 7:18 Romans, the New Testament, 2:6: “God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.” You think you’re hiding something, huh? God sees it all. You might hide it from your mama, your daddy, or your wife or your husband, you ain’t hiding it from God, and God will judge you even though you’re doing it in secret, not publicly. He’s going to hold you accountable. Romans 3:5-6: God, here’s the statement. See, they said my God was unrighteous, that’s what they’re saying, that the Bible is just a bunch of BS, it’s a bunch of fairy tales and myth. That’s exactly what the homosexual leader said, that was his words: “Don’t believe the BS of the Bible.” That was his exact words. The atheists call it a myth, a fairy tale. And so God answers them in Romans: “Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance?” You know what vengeance is, don’t you? Yeah, making things right because someone has done something wrong, a day of reckoning, you hold them accountable.

▶ 8:37 I told you before, when I was in Salvador, a band came into a church family’s home and killed the father and took all the livestock and the valuables that they could carry away. Well, the people in that little village went after them and slaughtered them right there where they found them, just killed them, took matters right into their own hands. And I got to deal with it there. There was Baptist people, they invited me to come and preach at their Baptist church, and I got to address all these issues and preach there and baptize this family. God, yes, He does allow suffering. He allows it because He deals with the wickedness and the sin in this world now. So there is suffering, there is wars, there is genocide, through plagues and so forth. He allows the killing of women and kids because of unjust living and unjust violence. He comes, and yes, He sentences the women and the kids of Canaan land to death. He’s the Judge. They had been sinning for hundreds of years, their sin come to maturity, and God said, “Okay, the time for accountability is here. It’s going to cost you everything.” Folks, He has the right to do that. So don’t go twisting things around like our God is some kind of nitwit. He will deal with a whole nation. “God forbid” that He’s unrighteous because He’s doing His job. That’s what God does.

▶ 10:20 “For how shall God judge the world?” If He can’t take vengeance, if He can’t punish the wicked doer, how’s He going to judge? How’s He going to correct things, how’s He going to deal with things? And He’s not unrighteous when He deals even with a whole nation and has women and kids killed. That’s His business, that’s His decision, and we need to fear God and avoid those kind of decisions. Hallelujah. The problem in America is we get sweet-talked every Sunday in most churches. It’s just a bunch of flattery, sweet talk, and we’re really focusing on worship and just touching Jesus, and we’re not getting the strength of God’s Word in us that will break the strongholds of the enemy. We living in a fairy-tale land where we think just our little prayer is going to change everything. Are you kidding me?

▶ 11:28 Now, 2 Timothy 4:1: “Jesus Christ shall judge the living and the dead at His appearing.” See, there it is again. When He comes, He’s coming as the Judge, not as the Savior, He’s coming as the Judge. Hebrews 13:4: “Marriage is honorable, and the bed undefiled, but whoremongers,” sexual immorality people, “and adulterers God will judge.” And He won’t wait for the Judgment Day to do that, He’ll deal with it now. Genesis 18:25: “Be it far from You to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked, be it far from You. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?” See, the God of all the earth will justify the righteous. Yes, we may make some mistakes, we may fall, get back up, repent, keep going, but God will justify the righteous, and He will deal now, and I’m going to show you proof of that, with the wicked, and He will deal with it when He comes for eternity. See, He’ll deal with it now to get our attention to repent, He’ll deal with it when He comes for eternity, and I don’t want God dealing with me then. How about you? I’d rather He deal with me now and get me turned around.

▶ 13:01 All right, Romans 14:10: “Why do you judge or show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.” How many? All. And it’s in this context that “every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess to God.” I’ve told you many times from the pulpit that when God gave me a vision of the judgment, nobody was arguing. God was saying what was truth, and nobody answered back. They admitted that everything they did, they knew they were wrong when they did it. So don’t think there’s any debate going on up there. God is laying out truth, and you, when you hit His light, it’s exposed. Folks, God is a God of light, and everything you’ve done in darkness is exposed. Everything. And there’s no arguments up there, there’s no debate. You see, He is the Judge. Can I hear an amen? You know, we debate in America, we negotiate, we compromise. Obama’s wanting the Republicans to compromise and so forth. There’s no compromise when it comes to truth and right. We can’t do a little wrong so we can get a little right. Are you there?

▶ 14:35 This God is powerful, and I guarantee you, you’re going to bow. Hitler’s bowing right now. You see Hugh Hefner, he’s going to be dying pretty soon, and he’s going to be bowing to the Lord Jesus Christ. And he said in an interview that I saw last year that he is a righteous man, a man of character. I thought, my Lord, aren’t we really getting ridiculous in America? And when he stands before Christ, let me tell you, he ain’t going to say a word. In that light you’re exposed. “And we’re going to receive the things done in our body.” All of us must appear before the judgment seat, 2 Corinthians 5:10, “whether it be good or whether it be bad. Therefore, knowing the terror of the Lord,” we know what God is going to do to unjust people, wicked people, both now and eternity, because we know that “we persuade men.” Christians that are not persuading people, you’re worthless. You’re just like the other religions’ gods, their gods are worthless. And if you’re not persuading people by your lifestyle and by your word, you’re worthless, you’re not helping anybody.

▶ 16:07 Does God care about the wicked? Absolutely, yes. He’s going to judge them, yes. He’s going to deal with them, but He’s dealing with them so correction and get them to change, and if they won’t change, yes, they deserve what they’re getting. So Bible morality escapes the judgment, both now and eternal. Hallelujah. Bible morality is blessed and protected by God, and I wouldn’t be standing here before you today if that wasn’t true. I’ve had guns pulled on me, I’ve had, I’ve told you these stories. Okay, the Bible clearly states that God will punish all that do evil, both now and for eternity. Can I hear an amen? And churches that refuse to preach this are worthless. They’re just worthless.

▶ 17:22 Historical evidence of God’s judgment, God doing His job before the law came. We’re going to deal with it before the law. So the law didn’t come in till over 2,000 years after the creation. Genesis 4:13: Cain killed Abel. God came and personally judged Cain Himself, and Cain complained and said, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.” Oh, it’s okay to kill your brother, but God forbid that we do anything to you. Huh? Isn’t that the way the mentality is here? It’s inhumane to execute anyone. You know, women leaders are really getting me upset. They’re beginning to really irritate me, because they’re all for gun control, they’re all for stupid things, because they follow their emotions instead of truth. And folks, I have no problem with women leaders, the Bible has women leaders, but they got to be leaders. You can’t decide things on your feelings. You can only decide things with truth, and I don’t care how emotional you get about things, you’ve got to decide things by what’s right. And we’ve got a bunch of women in Congress, and we’ve had them for years, and they’ve done nothing to help America. If you’re going to be a leader, be one. Don’t give me your women stuff. Same way with minorities. We got all kinds of minorities now in governmental places, and they’re worthless.

▶ 18:59 They’re not changing America. Why? Because they’re not turning America to Bible morality, they’re not standing up for Bible morality. Can I hear an amen? And the men leaders have been worthless for over 200 years, or 200 years, letting this nation go to where it is. It’s gone now. So his punishment was, he was banished. He was banished and he was sentenced to hard labor. “No, this is too much. This is inhumane. I got to spend my life in solitary confinement, and I got to work hard to eat, feed myself? You’re not even going to give me food?” That’s one of our problems. We put them in jail and we feed them, give them an exercise room, give a TV, all the comforts at home, and we pay for it. Are you hearing me today? Did God judge him? And you can’t get any more emotional than God. He has all the emotions that we have, and yet He stood for right and truth.

▶ 20:26 Genesis 5:24: “God took Enoch,” because he was righteous. See, He sentenced Enoch. When He judged Enoch, He justified him and took him. Enoch did not die, showing us there’s a time coming where all on the earth will be taken the same way, rewarded with heaven. How many want the reward of heaven? Yeah. Hallelujah. And there’s a generation that’s going to be taken, that righteous, this generation, and let me tell you, I’m one that doesn’t believe it’s a handful just surviving, just hanging on when Jesus comes. Genesis 6: God saved Noah plus seven. Okay, God saved Noah and those that heard his preaching, and those that heard his preaching were his three sons and his wife and three heathen women that responded to Noah’s message and his boys married them and watch their family destroyed in the flood. Hallelujah. You ever think of that? Ah, three. Most of us give up persuading men if we don’t get one soul saved in one week of effort, we just quit. Noah preached 100 years and only [unclear] his family and three women converted, and kept on preaching, and then He destroyed the wicked. Ever how many was there? They were destroyed. Children, babies, pregnant women, poor, rich, they were all destroyed. And don’t you call my God an unjust God because He’s doing His job. I’m going to get fiery and I’m going to get you with the Scriptures, so you better be ready to take the punches. You may talk to other people that way and get them all confused, but you ain’t confusing me. I know this God, He’s real.

▶ 22:54 Now, Genesis 9:6, after the flood, God gives judgment to mankind. You see, about 1,500 years ago by here, and God gives judgment to mankind, 15,700, somewhere in there. “Whosoever sheds man’s blood, by man’s blood shall he be shed.” Capital punishment was instituted by God and given the responsibility to human beings to do it. So this is what I tell them: you’re blaming my God for the suffering and the pain that’s in the earth when it’s your fault. You’re not doing your job. If you would be punishing the wicked and persuading them, we wouldn’t have this nonsense going on. Don’t you blame God for your lack of strength and guts to punish and correct wicked people. Good place for a clap. Yes. Hallelujah. Judgment is given to man. He doesn’t wait for the Judgment Day, folks, doesn’t wait for the Judgment Day.

▶ 24:16 Genesis 38:7. All right, Judah had a couple of kids. The firstborn, [unclear], was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and no one did anything about it. See, they’re not doing their job, so God come down and slew him. His younger brother, not learning from it, messed up too, and God slew him. Judah wouldn’t correct it. “Oh, that’s my son.” Their mother wouldn’t correct it. “Oh, that’s my boy, he’s a good boy.” “Oh, mama’s kid, you’re a good boy.” So God came and dealt with it. Are you there? Now whose fault that God had to come down and do His job? Mankind’s job, because they didn’t do their job. It’s mankind’s fault, I’m sorry, because they didn’t do their job. Proverbs 10:27: “The wicked’s years shall be shortened.” Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Don’t ever forget that.

▶ 25:38 Now after the law, God is doing His job after delegating judgment to men, but He still does His job when men won’t do their job. Exodus 24:12: “I will give you tables of stone.” That’s the Ten Commandments. “I will give you a law.” That’s all the other laws and commandments, that’s the statutes, that’s everything. Remember, there are shadow laws, civil laws, there are spiritual laws, and there are wise laws that He gave him. Okay, civil laws have the punishment of eternal damnation. When you habitually hurt yourself and others, God will judge you eternally, and He will come and deal with you now. Shadow laws are illustrations of what Christ was going to do when He came, and that’s the law that was ended by the Christ. It’s not the civil law. It’s never okay to commit adultery, it’s never okay to murder. That is a civil law that stands firm for eternity.

▶ 26:55 Amen. And when these people say, “You’re not under law, you’re under grace,” and they think that the whole law was banished, “Now I can commit adultery”? No, no, no, no. Civil laws stay. It’s the shadow laws that are fulfilled, is what’s ended, in Christ. See, the lamb being slain for sin back there was a shadow of Christ dying, and see, we don’t need shadows anymore, we got the real deal. Amen. You see, not eating, not eating catfish was a shadow law about righteousness and living rightly. You see, Christ comes, He was just, no sin, and we live rightly, that’s fulfilling it. You can eat catfish all you want to, and nobody got stoned for eating catfish. Are you there? They try to twist things around, you know, “He gets stoned for eating shrimp.” That’s what the homosexual say: “You get stoned for eating shrimp.” You don’t even know the Bible. Don’t. Only one person was ever stoned for a shadow law, and that was picking up sticks on the Sabbath day. God did it one time, never did it again. Okay, the illustration of the punishment for breaking the real law that was to come. Are you there? Does that make sense? If God goes around killing everybody, how’s He going to save them? Especially shadow laws, and you’re to teach them. So what is the church supposed to be doing? We supposed to be, you know, looking down on the wicked, or we supposed to be teaching them, teaching them, persuading them? “God’s going to get you.”