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Don Mackintosh

How to Be Unimpeachable? Lessons From the Prosecution & Defense

And it's a blessing to be able to worship together and be in God's house.

Today we're going to actually have a message that I wondered whether or not I should preach because, you know, how many of you have ever heard of G-rated films?

That's, You can't watch it without a parent, and this is not that either, this is X, what's X?

You should never watch it to begin with, right?

That's really, we're gonna look at the most X-rated chapter in the Bible today, because we actually live in an X-rated time, and the Bible is written for times like we live.

So let's pray together, and the title of our message today is, how to be unimpeachable, lessons from the prosecution and the defense.

Father in heaven, today we do need your blessing And we ask that your blessing would also be on the leaders of our nation today as they actually deliberate concerning impeachment.

And may we also deliberate with a focus that you specifically give us, not something that comes from Washington, D.C., but something from the headquarters of the universe.

Well, love him or loathe him, the 45th President of the United States still continues to garner quite a bit of attention.

And even though canceled by big tech and A lot of the media, he remains central in the minds of many and what he's doing.

Over the past few days, the nation has watched as he goes through his second impeachment proceeding.

And actually today as we worship, he will possibly be acquitted or convicted or they may in fact call more witnesses Bring more charges against him But this is not the impeachment that I want to talk about today.

I want to talk about an impeachment proceeding that's going on concerning you.

And they actually have a lot of evidence and it's pretty bad news.

And God has an impeachment brief both in the Old Testament and the New Testament for the Israel of the Old Testament and the Israel of God in the New Testament.

And there's even more troubling news and that is that you are guilty of high crimes and of treason and of misdemeanors.

All of you, there's no 1 that is not guilty today.

And this is the case that is clearly made once you see the evidence.

You will hopefully be shaking in your boots.

So let's pick up the proceedings that are told about and applied both to the Old Testament Israel and Israel of God in Ezekiel chapter 16.

But you trusted in your beauty, Played the harlot because of your fame and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing who would have it.

You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored places for yourself and played the harlot on them.

You've taken your beautiful jewelry from my gold and my silver, which I gave to you, which we were reminded of in our offering appeal, my gold and my silver, which I gave to you, and made for yourself male phallic symbols, literally in the Tanakh, images, and played the harlot with them.

You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set my oil and my incense before them.

Also my food, which I gave you, the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you, you set it before them as sweet incense, and so it was, says the Lord God.

This is an indictment against Israel and the Israel of God.

You think God is not interested in sexual issues, very interested, and he in fact says in the New Testament, know you not that friendship with the world is adultery.

And does God have a church he talks about in the New Testament being Laodicea that is rich and increased with goods but really wretched, poor, pitiful, and blind.

This is about you and the person sitting next to you.

Moreover, you took your sons and your daughters whom you bore to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured.

Were your acts of harlotry a small matter, that you have slain my children and offered them up by causing them to pass through the fire?

And all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare This was the practice of Ancient Israel they were actually worshipping Moloch and it says back in Leviticus Chapter 20 I will set my face Leviticus chapter 20, against that man who is practicing these things.

Verse 2, say to the children of Israel, whoever of the children of Israel or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, whoever gives of his descendants to Molech, he shall surely be put to death.

The people of the land shall stone him with stones, and I will set my face against that man.

I will cut him off from the people because he has given some of his descendants to Molech to defile my sanctuary and profane my holy name.

And if the people of the land should in any way hide their eyes from a man when he gives some of his descendants to Molech and they do not kill him, then I will set my face against that man and against his family and I will cut him off from his people and all who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry with Molech.

Molech was not only idol worship, it was idol worship with sexual immorality.

And this is what not only ancient Israel is accused of, it is in fact what Laodicea is accused of and the Israel of God.

I didn't mean to come to church today and be impeached.

But this is what the scripture says, both in the Old and the New Testament.

Now it gets worse, because not only are you accused of tyranny and treason and misdemeanors and high crimes, you also are accused and guilty of incitement of an insurrection." What does it mean to incite?

It means the action of provoking unlawful behavior or urging someone else to behave unlawfully and notice where the incitement is in the next several verses 23 through 26 then it was so after all your wickedness whoa whoa to you saith the Lord God that you built for yourself a shrine and made a high place for yourself in every street.

You built your high places at the head of every road.

You offered yourself to everyone who passed by and multiplied your acts of harlotry.

You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke me to anger.

So you can see that not only was it in the Capitol building, It was at the head of every street, and now these impeachable offenses are being incited among the whole populace.

And by the way, insurrection, as I was listening to the trial the other day, is a term that is defined in the law that involves taking over a country with a shadow government, having some plan with what you will do when you take power, and in this case, taking power was taking power through sexual immorality.

The administration coming in was saying, we're going to have all kinds of acts of sexual immorality on every street, and it's gonna be okay.

But then it's broadcast internationally as well.

Verse 27 through 29, Behold therefore I stretched out my hand against you, diminished your allotment, and gave you up to the will of those that hate you the daughters of the what Philistines they even were ashamed of your you lewd behavior and you played the harlot with the Assyrians Because you were insatiable because you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the traitor of Chaldea So notice now not only is the immorality within the kingdom it is now being spread broadcast internationally as part of the policy that needs to be given to those who receive funding.

And yet the scriptures are not applying this to the government, they're applying it to the church.

The big problem in the world is not the Democrats or the Republicans, it's Christians who are immoral.

Very clearly both in the old in the New Testament played the harlot with the Assyrians with the Chaldeans And it says you would not even receive payment, but rather would pay for others to have sex with you.

A prostitute receives payment, but you don't even receive payment, you go and pay.

So what are God's reactions to the high crimes of his bride?

Remember last week as we studied we see that God tried to be with his people closely but they didn't listen.

Then he sent his prophets and 1 of the prophets he sent that's before Ezekiel which informs both Ezekiel and Jeremiah chapter 1 through 3 Jeremiah and also Ezekiel what we're reading right now the first chapters up to this and it's not just picking on the metaphor of a woman here it also talks about the men who are in their rooms in Ezekiel chapter 8 who are looking at pictures does that sound familiar People ever look at pictures Is there a huge internet industry of pornography Did Larry Flynn just die last week did he define himself as a person in charge of all that Did Ravi Zacharias inside the church just get outed for all the things he was doing with women around the world as a great Christian apologist?

But at his funeral, as people were watching it, They said, hey, wait a minute, I know that guy.

He's the guy that took advantage of me in Thailand.

And now all this list has come out of all of these people that were supposedly giving him massages for back problems, but he was immoral with them.

He was outed by an atheist who was more ethical than Ravi Zacharias.

You say, oh man, I like to talk about the Democrats, the Republicans, about the government, and God says, no, I want to talk about you.

You're guilty of high crimes, misdemeanors, tyranny, and you're inciting to insurrection, and if you stay quiet about others you're doing the same thing.

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