Contending for the Faith — Jack Hudson

Be sure to be here tonight, now it's 730. I've got a message I want to share with you. All right, if you have your Bible this morning, let's turn to the book of Jude. Little book, just one chapter, right over against the book of the Revelation, next to the last book in your Bible, page 1328, if you have your Scofield Bibles.

Jude's Call to Contend for the Faith

The little book of Jude, just one chapter, but my, how it's filled with the things of the Lord. The book of Jude, now, chapter number one. I tell you, let's begin reading at verse number one so that we can get a picture.

I'm really bringing the message to you from verse number three. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called, mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.

We will stop there. I want you to notice that little trilogy. Did you notice it? And beloved, before you can have mercy, peace, and love, it must be in that order. You must experience the mercy of God.

You must, before you can have the peace of God and then have that love that he's offering to every one of us. All right, now, verse number three. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

I want to bring a message from that verse. For earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Heavenly Father, give us listening ears, receptive hearts this morning. Give us obedient minds that we might respond to the invitation.

Save precious souls this morning. Challenge every one of us, our Father, to be soul winners for Jesus Christ. Thank you for the ones who labored and worked this week to bring people in. Pray that you'd bless them.

Give them the warmness in their heart, our Father. Make them feel good all day because they've invited someone to be in the house of God. In Jesus' name, amen and amen. Now, I want you to notice many times what the Word of God has to say.

The Bible says, I exhort you. I want you to know, I'm preaching to you. I'm saying it sternly. The Holy Spirit is saying here, he said, I want you to know, he says, that it's necessary for you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Many times you're misunderstood when you take a stand against modernism or the liberalism that's in our society today. People think you're being cruel. They think you're being self-righteous. They think you're being obnoxious because, in essence, they say all they think is right is their particular brand of denomination.

But, beloved, I do not believe this is true, and I believe this is just another slander of the devil himself. For I want you to understand that there is a difference between the fundamental religions of this world, or the fundamental religion, this Christianity of this world, than the modern religion.

I want you to know that. I want you to know that the Christ of the fundamentalist, not necessarily independent Baptist, but of the people who believe in the fundamentals of the Word of God, that is, they believe the Bible to be divinely inspired.

They believe that God the Holy Spirit moved upon men and they wrote under the power of the Holy Spirit of God, wrote this Bible. I believe that a fundamentalist believes that in the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, in his deity, in the atonement, the necessity of the new birth, they believe that there is a literal place called heaven, a literal place called hell, and that the difference between them is in accepting Jesus Christ as your own personal Savior.

Now, I could go on, but these are the basics. These are the fundamentals. Now, the fundamentalists are people who believe that the Word of God is true, and that God means exactly what he says, and will do anything and everything that he said he would do.

Now, the liberals, or the modernists, which is the same term, really, are the people who put a interpretation. It doesn't really mean that. In other words, it's not necessary anymore to believe that the Bible is divinely inspired Word of God.

They say it's the collection of Hebrew myths, that it's something that they gathered of the Hebrew wanderings. They did not have the light, they did not have the enlightenment that we have today. And so they gave the best that they knew how in their day, but now we know more than they do.

So therefore, we can't tie ourselves to the Word of God. The standard of morals that are given in the Word of God are not the exact, but they are something that we're to understand. In other words, give a liberal interpretation.

Now, I'm saying to you that the Bible of the liberals is not the Bible of the fundamentals. The Christ of the liberals is not the Christ of the fundamentalists. The heaven of the liberals is not the heaven of the fundamentalists.

The liberals say there is no heaven. They say there is no real person called the devil, Satan, Lucifer, of which the Bible has much to say. Beloved, I want you to know there is as much difference in liberalism and fundamentalism as there is between Christianity and Mohammed or Confucius or any other religion on the face of this earth today.

You need to understand that. Now, I will say this about the modernists and the liberals. They have the best. They're the nearest to the counterfeit, and as a result of it, it's difficult to know the difference many times.

Now, when a man of God stands and contends for the faith once delivered unto the saints, he's defending the fundamental beliefs of the Word of God. Now, the liberals are going to attack it. You might as well mark it down.

Maintaining the Purity of the Delivered Faith

Now, I want us to look at something, if you will. I want you to understand, then, that God says that we're to contend for the faith once delivered to the saints. We're to contend for it earnestly, fervently, and sincerely, contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints.

Now, I want you to think with me. Forget everything else. Think with me. You're here, and you can't get out for 30 minutes, so you might as well make the best of it. Now, I want you to think with me for a minute, if you will.

First of all, I want you to see very logically that contending for the faith is necessary. The Bible says, does it not, it was needful for me to write unto you. It was necessary. It's necessary to contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints.

It's necessary, first of all, to maintain the purity of the faith. If it isn't contended for, that is, if it isn't laid out as it should be, you'll never keep it pure. I remember years ago when I was in school, in a class of logic, we had a Jewish lawyer, an old man, and he came in, and I shall never forget one thing he said.

He said, men, if somebody puts a crooked stick down before you, don't try to prove that it's straight. He said, leave the crooked stick lying there. Get you a stick that's straight and put down beside of it, and your argument is already won.

Beloved, I'm not here this morning to try to tell you that the liberals are wrong, but I'm going to show you the fundamental side of it, and then let you make your own decision. I want you to get it in your mind.

It's necessary, God said, to put the straight stick down beside the crooked one so that people can understand it. Let's cut the volume down just a little bit, if you will. Contending for the faith is necessary to maintain the purity.

I want you to know, beloved, that when the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ is besmirched, it's going to be dragged through the dust, first of all, by the preachers, and God has something to say about them in this Word.

Notice what it says. A lot of times people say, you want to talk about other preachers. You shouldn't talk about other religions. The Word of God does. Does it not? Listen to what it says. In verse number 4,.

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who before of all are ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

I want you to look again, if you will, in verse number 8. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignitaries. That's pretty plain, isn't it? Look at verse number 11.

Woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain, and they ran greedily after the heir of Balaam, for reward, and perish in the gainsayings of Korah. Beloved, I want you to understand that God, writing here through His disciple, He named the things that they were doing.

He even said things that today would be misinterpreted and said unkind things, but He nailed them for what they are. Beloved, we're living in an age today, sin is on the rampage, crime in our street, dope addiction, immorality all around us.

I'm saying to you, it's time that we came back to taking a stand and earnestly contending for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints. You know, this liquor question that's coming up to now, before long, I heard just the other day two things that somehow bothered me considerably.

One of them was that a local Baptist pastor, over a pastor of the Myers Park Baptist Church, Dr. Owens, has now joined himself with the forces and is going to be one of the active campaigners for liquor by the drink.

A pastor of a Baptist church. But before you get too excited, I have a letter here. I wanted to be sure about it. I have it documented here. This is written by a pastor. Here's the paper. I can show it to you.

On the 11 o 'clock news on WBIR-TV, May 21st, 1970, a reporter asked Dr. Billy Graham, Dr. Graham, as an authority on the Bible, does the Bible condemn drinking in itself? His answer, no sir. I think the Bible condemns drunkenness.

I think that in America where we have taken this too far and where we have such a large percentage of alcoholics, 5 million chronic alcoholics, and millions of others on the way to becoming alcoholics, that probably the best way is total abstinence.

But I do not believe that it can be proven from the Bible due to the fact that wine is a very prominent factor in the scriptures. Jesus turned water into wine. I don't think that was grape juice. Now I know that a lot of preachers teach that, and I get a lot of letters on that.

It is also true, it goes on in a documented statement, that in a local auction, liquor by the drink referendum here in Knoxville, two years ago, 1970, the liquor forces used his statement repeatedly to legalize liquor by the drinks here in the city.

I guess it has been four years, possibly five, I will say that to be safe. In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the pastor of the First Baptist Church went down to the brewing company that had built a beer distiller there in Winston-Salem, and he led in prayer on the opening night.

Now Billy Graham says you cannot prove from the Bible that it is wrong to drink. Dr. Owen says I am going to lead the forces against the wet forces. Now I am saying to you that this is the reason that you and I have to contend for the faith and take our stand against modernism and liberalism in our city today.

Number one, the problem is if you will analyze our city councilmen, you will find that by far and large the majority of them are products of a liberal church. Most of them have their membership in very liberal, modernistic churches where they are fed a steady diet of liberalized.

God does not really mean it. Putting a question mark behind everything that God says is right and the thing that God says is wrong. They are putting a question mark behind it. I am saying to you today that we are in the condition we are in because of the preachers of the city of Charlotte and the preachers of North Carolina and the preachers of America.

I am saying to you just as he said, we have not been contending for the faith that was once delivered to the saints. Billy Graham said you cannot prove from the Bible that it is wrong to take a drink.

Alcohol, Drunkenness, and the Moral Application of Scripture

All right, I will say this. I remember several years ago I was in a barbershop when these wise acres came up and he said to me, preacher, he said I heard you preaching on the radio the other day and you said something about it not being right to smoke.

He said, now what I am trying to say is if I could put my finger on the verse of scripture and the word of God that says thou shalt not take a drink, it would not make any difference with the liquor crowd.

They do not believe God's word to start with. Why are we all upset about one verse of scripture? I look back down through the card of time. I heard a preacher that was better known than Billy Graham. His name was Dr. Habakkuk.

He stood and he said, woe unto him that put his drink to his neighbor's lips. I look down through the card of time and I hear in the book of Proverbs, who is he that hath red eyes? It goes on to say, he that stays up to wine.

I have a book here that you can see, those of you who hear, it is an old worn out book. You see it here in the choir? It is a book about the life of Billy Sunday. Billy Sunday was a man of God. He feared, he did not neither fear nor courage the favor of man.

I am reading an article here from it. Listen to what it says. His biographer, before he gives us the message verbatim on the message that he preached many times called just booze, here is what his biographer said about it.

Everybody will admit, the saloon keeper first of all, that Billy Sunday is the most effective foe of the liquor business in America today. Small wonder the brewers spend large sums of money in circulating a tax upon him and then going before him to every town where he conducts meetings spreading slanders of many sorts.

There is a ghastly humor in the success the brewers have in enlisting the preachers to make common cause of them in discrediting the evangelists. Shrewd men have come quite generally to the conclusion that they will not give aid and comfort to the enemies of righteousness whose interests are best served by criticism of Billy Sunday.

All incidental questions aside, Sunday does the Lord's work. And the Lord's servants attacking him, though it is quite understandable why the liquor industry should spend large sums of money in antagonizing Sunday, it would be worth a million dollars to them any day if he could be put out of action.

Let me say that in very simple Southern vernacular. The liquor crowd found that if they could enlist the preachers to criticize Billy Sunday, it was a great aid too. Now I'm turning over and I'm going to read just a few excerpts from a message that Billy Sunday had to say.

Listen to what he said. The saloon, I want you to notice he said saloon. You know what he's talking about? Drink. Listen. The saloon is the sum of all villains. It is worse than war or pestilence. It is the crime of crime.

It is the parent of crimes and the mother of sins. It is the appalling source of misery and crime in the land. And to license such an incarnate fiend of hell is the dirtiest, low-down, damnable business on top of this old earth.

There is nothing to compare with it. What is the it referring to? A saloon, a place to sell liquor by the drink. I'm going to turn over another page. I want you to listen. I'm talking about one of the great preachers.

The day has gone by. He tags this in and he calls it, the saloon is a coward. As Dr. Howard said, I tell you that the saloon is a coward. It hides itself behind stained glass doors and opaque windows and sneaks its customers in at a blind door.

And it keeps a sentinel to guard the front door from the officers of the law. And it marks its wire with false bills of lading, offer the ship things to you in disguise. I wish I could read it all. Listen.

It strikes in the night. It fights on the cover of darkness and assassinates the character that it cannot damn. And it lies about you. It attacks defenseless womanhood and childhood. The saloon is a coward.

It is a thief. It is not an ordinary court offender that steals your money, but it robs you of your manhood and leaves you in rags and takes away your friends. And it robs your family. It impoverishes your children and it brings insanity and suicide.

It'd take the shirt off of your back and steal the coffin from a dead child and yank the last crust of bread out of the hand of a starving child. It'll take the last bucket of coal out of your cellar and the last sin out of your pocket and will send you home bleary-eyed and staggering to your wife and children.

It will steal the milk from the bread of the mother and leave her with nothing with which to feed her infant. It will take the virtue from your daughter. It is the dirtiest, lowdown, damnable business that ever crawled out of the pit of hell.

It is a sneak and a thief and a coward. Then he goes on to say it is also an infidel. It has no faith in God, has no religion. It would close every church in the land. It would hang its beer signs on the abandoned altars.

It would close every public school. It respects the thief and it esteems the blasphemer. It builds the prison and the penitentiary. It despises heaven, hates love, and scorns virtue. It tempts the passion.

Its music is the song of a siren. Its sermons are a collection of blue, vile stories. It wraps a mantle around the hope of this world and that to come. Its tables are full of the vilest literature. It is the moral clearinghouse for rot and damnation and poverty and insanity, and it wrecks home and blights life.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises health and causes disease. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. Adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery. He goes on and on and on.

Here is a man, he said, as long as there is a drop of blood in your body, he will fight against the saloon. Billy Sunday. They said over a million souls are in the kingdom of God because of that man. And when Dr. Billy Graham or any other man says that it is right and you cannot find it in the word of God, he is sure criticizing a good crowd of people.

Now, I want to take that statement and I want you to turn in your Bible for a minute to 1 Corinthians chapter 6, that you can't find anything in the Bible wrong with taking a drink. Now, God gave you sense enough to do some things.

I've told you before, but I've never found a place in the Bible where God says, come in out of the rain, God gave you sense enough to do that. I've never found a place in the Bible where God says, build a house in you or build a fire in your house when it's wintertime.

God gave me sense enough to do that. God gave me sense enough to do a lot of things and he didn't have to put it in the Bible for me to do it. Now watch. Look in your Bibles in 1 Corinthians chapter 6, verse number 9.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. Don't you be fooled by anybody. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covenants, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Watch now. And such were past tense some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. I want you to notice what he listed.

He said, they're fornicators, they're adulterers, they're idolaters, they're thieves, they're covenants, nor drunkards shall inherit the kingdom of God. All right. I put it in. God put drunkenness in with the same thing of extortioners, with the unjust people, with effeminate, that's homosexuals, with adulterers.

And he says, these people are not going to inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. Some of you used to be like that. You're not like that anymore. And such were past tense some of you. Now listen to me.

If the word of God doesn't take a stand against taking a drink of liquor, then by God's grace and as God's minister, Dr. Billy Graham is going to have to say, if God sends a man to hell because he's a drunkard and never gets saved, then Billy Graham is going to have to say, if a man can get saved and still take a drink, and if it isn't wrong, he's going to have to say that after you get saved, you can commit adultery if you don't commit it but a little bit.

He's going to have to say you can steal if you don't steal but a little bit. He's going to have to say you can extort money from your company if you don't extort but a little bit. How foolish can we get?

Moral Separation and the Need for Exemplary Leaders

...contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints. You can't make me believe that the Apostle Paul was a social drinker. You can't make me believe that any of the disciples years have been social drinkers.

It's this milk sock society in which we're living now. Brother, we've got the men looking like the women, and the women looking like the men, and the Christians looking like the world, and the world looking like Christians, and we've got such a conglomeration.

Nobody knows a difference. No wonder nobody fears the church of the Lord Jesus Christ anymore today. Brother, we need to stand up. I'll tell you what we need to come back to. We need to come back to a day when some men like Billy Graham, or pardon me, Billy Sunday, were in the pulpit.

When they'd march down the street with their hands together. When a man made the statement, he said, my business is producing a quarter of a million dollars more every month. And the man said, is it because of the Christianity that was brought in here through Billy Sunday's converts?

Well, he said, partial but mainly because they're not drinking anymore, and they've got a clear eye and a steady hand, and the production of my place has gone up. We need some men like Billy Sunday. We need some men like the former president of the First Union National Bank, who said to a group of young bankers, he said, fellows, you can take advantage of the gullible and the helpless and the widows.

He said, you can make a fortune, but he said, when you die, you'll go to hell. We need men like J .B. Ivey, who said, no liquor shall be sold in my establishment, and paper on Sunday. This is as good as you could walk down the street with your wife.

You could let your children walk down the street and play in the park at night and not be afraid of some pervert. But now we're filled with liberals who think we got to appease a nation and the ungodly lust of ungodly men to operate a city.

My God, where are we going? Earnestly contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints. It's necessary, I'm saying to you. Brother, they've brought our morals down today that where nothing anymore is decent, nothing anymore has any meaning to it.

And every little 15 or 16-year-old boy and girl today, because they don't have an experience, they call love. And God still thunders down, and you can hear the voice as it echoes and reverberates, coming like thunder from the heavens.

Honey, thou shalt not commit adultery. Divorce today is nothing but like roulette chairs. I remember when I was a boy, we used to play turning over the fruit basket, and you'd sit in chairs and somebody would say something, and you'd have to run around and change chairs, and it reminds me of that today.

And I'll be honest with you, I can't be half as sympathetic with it because maybe somebody else. Immorality on the loose today, illegitimate children, mixed marriages and things beyond belief nearly. Well, God has decided today, He says, let everybody have their own way.

I'll tell you, not only is it to maintain the purity of the faith, brother, if the preachers sell out, brother, I want you to know the people. The Bible says as the priests, so are the people. And I'll be honest with you, we're going into a new church, but I tell you, I'd like to read my titles clear.

My wife said to me the one night, Friday night, I guess it was, we had for ever since I've been pastor here, we've tried to make it a point, have a meal together at least once a week. I think you need to do that and try to stay sweethearts.

Lately I haven't been able to do that, and I've missed it, and so has she, and we finally had a little time. So we went out for a little dinner. So we were sitting there, the two of us, and she said, you know, it's been a long time since we did this.

And I said, I know. And I put my hand on hers and I said, but honey, wait a minute. I said, now it'll be a while yet, probably another three months before everything's all settled and the mood's affected and everything's all still down and things kind of halfway get back to normal.

You'd be surprised how few nights I'm at home. I said, it'll be all right. I said, but now listen, one day when our little granddaughter, the Lord tarries, has grown, has children of her own, I wanted to drive by and say, my Pawpaw helped build that church.

My Pawpaw helped do that. I want your children to say the same thing. I want your grandchildren to say, my grandmother, my grandfather helped build that place. Some of their perspirations in that foundation, some of their sweats on the carpet, they helped build it.

They built a citadel, fortress for God, a place to stand for. My beloved, here's what I'm trying to say. We've got a great indebtedness. A fellow said to me the other day, you're probably further out of that than you'll ever be the rest of your life, Brother Hudson, as far as a pastor and a church is concerned.

I didn't get over that easy. That still stayed with me. I don't want to tell you something. I want to read my titles clear. I want every deacon to hear me. I want every officer of this church to hear me.

Before I compromise with this ungodly crowd and cut our limit to try to get a crowd in here, I'd rather go back to that little one-room church and start all over again. Let's let the liberal crowd have that place out there.

Now, I want to make my titles clear. I'm going to earnestly contend for the faith that wants to deliver. If you'd like to drink liquor, you won't be happy in our church. If you believe in being unfaithful to your wife and family, you won't be unhappy in here.

And God being my helper, it's going to get hotter. I want to preach more direct and more forceful than I've ever preached in my life. Because, Brother, I tell you this, if it's rubbing your fur the wrong way, turn around, Brother, and I'll start petting you with the same licks that I'm ruffling your feathers with.

I'm trying to say, Brother, this is not a social gathering place. It's a place where saints of God meet, Brother. That's been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Go into heaven when they die, whatever their name may be.

That's not for the right things of God. And I'll tell you this, you need to maintain the faith of the people. It says, wants to deliver it unto the saints. Now, if the pastor's wrong, the people are going to be wrong.

Ideas, Education, and the Influence of What We See and Hear

Have you ever thought about it? The Lord said, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Have you ever heard the word ideology? Comes with the word ideas. It's something that you think. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

Now, you take a school teacher and give her some first graders, and she teaches the numbers, and she says, one, five, nine, seven, six, three, two. And after six months, you go out there and you say to the boys and girls, son, stand up.

You say, yes, sir. Would you count for me? Yes, sir. One, nine, six, three, four, nine, seven. And you say, wait a minute, son, what about the alphabet? Oh, yes, sir, I can say that, too. All right. This is just as my teacher told me.

A, Z, nine, you know, Y, C, four, and he goes on down the line. He stands there just screaming. Now, you know what's happened? She is not abiding by the rules that evolve from something that's truth. Now, do you know what?

If I pick up an apple, I've got one in my hand. I don't have to be a mathematician to know that's one apple. That's one. I don't know if you want to say it in Spanish. We still need some other. But there it is.

That's one. I pick up another one and I put it over there, and I don't care if I'm in Russia, in Holland, or in America, or in Charlotte, or wherever I am, that's two apples, brother. That's two. I mean, there is a rule that cannot be changed.

Now, if a teacher goes out there and teach them that they've got three apples in their hand, when they've only got two, they're disregarding the rules that have been passed down from time immemorial, brother.

These are established rules of mathematics. You take one of our teachers out there, all of our teachers out there, and say, listen, here's what she's teaching out there. Not A, B, Or she goes on down the line.

You know what we'd do? We'd say, now wait a minute, we'd better take these children, get them over here, and get rid of that person. She's disregarding these things. She's not going by the rules that were once delivered unto teachers, preaching anything contrary to what God says, not what I say, but to what God says.

They're not preaching according to the faith once delivered unto the saints. They ought to do the same thing that a teacher would do when they find a teacher teaching wrong rules of mathematics, or of grammar, or of any other subject that we have rules for.

I'm trying to say to you, brother, God says to do it. Now, I think the same thing is true, is it not? Have you been to high school lately? It'd be an education in the sense to go to, go in the classroom.

You just go in the halls. Watch the boys and girls walk outside and start smoking. Smoking what? You'll have to guess yourself. Watch how they dress. Watch how they talk. Watch how familiar they are with each other.

Now, as I said about these tapes, brother, if I can see something and hear it too, it's the greatest learning power that I have. So will you. Now, the Bible says that Lot vexed his righteous soul by what he saw and by what he heard every day.

Now, you let a boy or girl go with that crowd day in and day out, five days a week, and then they come home and you say, honey, son, you oughtn't to do this. I mean, that's not the right way. I'm trying to get you to see, beloved, that this thing that we've got to do is set the example by delivering this faith.

We've got to have the standards in our home. We've got to have it in our schools. We've got to have it in our church. We've got to have a standard to set the example of the faith once delivered unto the saints.

I'll show you something else. If we learn by seeing and by hearing, if we're influenced by it, have you ever wondered where the dress code comes from? It's because they see other people wearing it, they want to be like that.

This year they say television is going to be probably the worst we've ever had. Oh, not in the eyes of the entertainers, but in the eyes of Christians. There's one program on, I've never seen it, I'm not saying, look at me, I'm righteous, I'm not saying it.

It's one called Maud. Now the strange thing about it, I never hear Christians saying, we don't watch that. I have heard Christians say, oh, that's so funny, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. But it's so dirty and filthy that the sponsors withdrew their sponsorship.

I've never heard a Christian criticize, not one Christian have I ever heard criticize. The Lipton Tea Company withdrew their sponsorship from it because they were, they would treat abortion, sterilization, and adultery as one big joke.

And the Tetley Tea Company withdrew their support. The Norelco Company, the Norelco Shavers withdrew their support. And the General Food Company, makes many products, withdrew their support. Man, I got to where I wanted to buy me a Norelco and drink Lipton's tea and eat General Food.

And thank God for sponsors that got more sense than Christians. All in the family, it shouldn't be in anybody's family that knows God. Now you watch that day in and day out, and after a while, nothing shocks you anymore.

Did you know that? Nothing shocks you. You say, well, this is what happens all the time. Then we've got to do it if we maintain the future of the faith. It says, once and for all delivered unto them. There'll be no more faith given.

We've got to do it with clean lives. We've got to do it with consistent lives, and let me just, lives, and let me just give you the outline. Then contending for the faith as commanded, ye should, doesn't it say that?