Welcome to Gospel Truth with Andrew Womack, a teaching ministry emphasizing God's unconditional love and grace.

We pray that you'll be blessed as Andrew teaches insights from the life of

Elijah and now here's Andrew. You know this is offensive to a lot of people today

but you've got to interpret this and understand in the Old Testament of people could not be born again. And because of that they could not be born

again. And because of that, they could not be delivered of demons.

This is the reason that the Lord instructed the Israelites to go in and kill the men,

the women, the children, and even the animals, because these nations in the land of Canaan, they were given over to

beastiality, having sex with animals was a normal natural thing. They

worship demons. They were demon possessed. There was a tremendous amount of

homosexuality which is a demonic

stronghold in people. And in the Old Testament people could not be delivered of these demons and so it was

similar to when we have a cancer today they will lump off parts of your body if you

have an infection they'll cut off your hand your arm your leg trying to save the rest of the body and before

there was a cure for sin that came through the Lord Jesus bearing our sins.

God had to deal with these Old Testament things like

this as an infection, as a plague that was going to kill the human race if he

didn't do it and so he just commanded extinction for all of these things.

Today we don't kill homosexuals. You don't kill people who are rebellious. You don't kill people who are

given over to false worship because there's a cure for all of these things.

That cure is faith in Jesus.

But that doesn't remove the fact that these things were wrong.

And so even though we aren't supposed to take anybody who disagrees with us and

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