holiness is not legalism whatever people used to think holiness was it just
became a mess and a nightmare and really turned a lot of people off because
holiness became not smoking not drinking not cussing not dancing not playing
cards not going to parties not wearing pretty clothes not wearing anything any
makeup no jewelry not having a nice hairstyle you you had to cut or not cut
your hair depending on which brand of religion you followed and God forbid
that you have a tattoo or if you're a man put an earring in your ear I mean
that will just put the religious people over the edge come on I've been there
done that well look at look at those tattoos well just you see that man
wearing that
Wow now you know I really don't have time to do this justice but in Isaiah 44
5 it says one will say I am the Lord's and another one will call himself by the
name of Jacob and another will write or even brand or tattoo upon his hand I
belong to the Lord well now there are some scriptures in there somewhere that
tell you not to do that yeah and this is where it's at Leviticus 20 28 misquoted
which says you shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor
print our tattoo any marks on you for the dead you know we just pick stuff out
of here and leave out what we want to and the Bible says in Isaiah 49 that God
has a picture of you tattooed on the palm of his hand
I'm right on the verge of going and getting the tattoo
right back here I belong to the Lord
you'll go with me won't you I thought I might as well just push all the
religious people just right off the cliff and get it over
it took Dave a little while to get used to that idea he was like oh and in that
wrong he said don't it say in the Bible not to do that why would I do that just
to make religious demons mad no other reason because I lived in so much
bondage from legalism and everything about legalism is something you can't do
let me tell you something it is not boring to serve Christ it is so much fun
and there is so much you can do and not only that you can enjoy all of it hey
can I tell you something we're having more fun in here tonight that any one of
us ever had getting drunk and having a hangover
now this is good clean fun and I made you laugh more than any
comedian you ever went to see the told dirty jokes oh you ought to see some of
the stuff in here I mean in ezekiel 16:9 there was a big feast and a celebration
and God put earrings on all of them and nose rings well if I go and show you
you'll just be here later so I'll just give you the scripture
you're gonna look it up is they kill 16 9 through 13 then in another place he
punished the Israelites for wearing earrings because they were doing it as a
feast to bail so here's the bottom line it's all about your motive and why
you're doing things and you see we can't look at the outside of somebody and
decide for ourselves that they're an evil person because we know they don't
look like we look or say things the way we say them or have their hair the color
we have our hair that's why so many people today don't want anything to do
with the church because all they get is criticism and judgment well you're not
like me thank God
we need a little change we need a little shaken up amen that's all David I said
well you know if I do decide to get a tattoo I'm gonna get it back here where
nobody can see it he said oh you'll show everybody and I will I'll be up here
going look at that well we'll have a new news article Meyer gets tattooed
and I got earrings and pretty clothes and makeup and you ought to be glad I
got it I mean why in the world would we think
that God is colorless and boring and wants everything to be ugly and no fun
and just give you a bunch of rules and regulations let me tell you something
the Bible says that God sits in the heavens and laughs and he put a laugh in
every one of us because he expects us to use it
we need to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh
and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh
so we need to pursue holiness we need to add works to our faith we need to
realize that we're the billboard for God people want to see you happy people are
desperate to be happy they don't need a bunch of people calling themselves
Christians that look like they've been baptized and prune juice
I read a little story recently and I'll tell you this an end with this a little
girl went to visit her grandfather who happened to be a very religious man and
he owned a farm and she began to walk around the farm and see the different
animals she went to the chicken yard and saw the chickens just kicking up all the
dusty you know flying around she said well the chicken ain't got it he thought
he ain't got what so then she saw a horse out in the field and he was
running and seemed to be doing good and she said well grandpa he ain't got it
saw the cow and he was eating grass and something really ham well he ain't got
it and then she went in the barn and saw this long faced long eared
droopy eared donkey and she said he's got it he's got it and her grandpa said
what are you talking about she said grandpa he's got religion he
looks like you
come on let's all get up
oh don't you just feel like a fresh breeze just blew through amen amen amen
amen amen amen all right I love you guys I pray for you
that you will grow and grow and grow and pursue home