Bless the message. Please let it bring glory to you.
Please open our hearts. Please open our ears to your message.
And help us keep distractions to a minimum. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Man, it's great to be here tonight. Thank you everyone who came out.
And I just want to say before I get started preaching that there is
a bunch of stuff out there in the lobby. Audio CDs, USB flash drives.
Alright. And also DVDs
of a film that we put together recently called Professing Themselves to be Wise.
And we brought a few hundred DVDs so there should be plenty
for you to grab one, two, three, whatever you want to do with that. And it's got a
wonderful picture on the back of me with the Dr. Spergel glasses
with the taped up and everything like that. I was out soul winning the other day
and I gave it to a guy that we had just won to the Lord. And he said, oh is this a picture
of you back in the day? And I was like, no I was never that geeky.
It was just a joke. But anyway, yeah, be sure to grab that stuff.
It's all free. Load up on it. Make sure it all goes to a good home.
Give it away. Use it. Don't enshrine it. But Matthew chapter
number 16 is where I want to start tonight. The title of this sermon is
The Signs of the Times. The Signs of the Times. Starting in verse number
1, the Bible reads, The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came
and tempting desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven.
He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, it will be fair weather
for the sky is red, and in the morning it will be foul weather today, for the sky
is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern
the face of the sky, but can ye not discern
the signs of the times? A wicked and adulterous
generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given unto it,
but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them and departed. Now if you
would turn to 1 Thessalonians chapter number 5. 1 Thessalonians chapter
number 5 of course follows up the famous passage on the rapture
at the end of 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. One of the most
common scriptures quoted in a Baptist church, one of the most famous
scriptures of all time is that scripture at the end of 1 Thessalonians
chapter 4, but not a lot of people follow it up with reading into
chapter 5 and getting more of the context where Jesus
and his second coming are said to be
as a thief in the night only to the unsaved.
But he says that we that are saved are not in darkness that that
day should overtake us as a thief. We are not going to be taken
by surprise because we have the Bible telling us all the things
that will lead up to it and we can see the
signs of the times. That's why he says in verse number 1 of 1 Thessalonians
5, but of the times and the seasons, brethren, you
have no need that I write unto you. You don't need me
to tell you. You already know, he's saying, you yourselves perfectly
know, verse 2, that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief
in the night, for when they shall say peace and safety,
then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with
child and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness
that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children
of light and the children of the day. We are not of the night nor
of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as do others
but let us watch and be sober. Let us
watch. We don't have to be in the dark tonight. We have the
Word of God to tell us about the events of the end times.
We know the sequence of events. We know what things will be like when the end is
approaching. We can read it in the Bible and then if we have our eyes open
we can discern the signs of the times that we're living
in. I submit to you that if we look around today we can
see many signs that we are living in the last days.
No man knoweth the day or the hour of Christ's second coming.
I don't pretend to know when it's going to be. It could be a few years
from now. It could be a few decades from now. I have no idea
but I'll tell you this right now. There are many things that we see today
that would indicate to us that we are rapidly approaching
the end. We can discern the signs of the times as God's people.
Go if you would to 2 Timothy chapter number 3. 2 Timothy chapter 3
there are many scriptures in the New Testament that talk about
what things are going to be like in the last days that describe
the world shortly before Christ's second
coming and we see a lot of those things happening all around us.
Even if we were to just look at the technology we can see now that the
technology is in place where the scriptures in the book of Revelation
could literally be fulfilled. Many people in the past looked
at things in the book of Revelation and they thought a lot of it was
figurative that was actually literal because they thought to themselves
this would be impossible. For example if a few hundred years
ago you're reading a scripture that talks about how no man
is going to be able to buy or sell without a mark in his right hand or in his
forehead you'd say to yourself how could that be? There's always
going to be a black market. There could always be people that would just pay with
cash and that would use silver and gold and coins and paper
money and there's already a great black market. They can't really stop
people from buying or selling but now in 2016 we
see the technology in place for a cashless society.
A cashless society and the wallet that you have
filled with paper money is only worth anything because people
have agreed that it's worth something and as soon as the government were
to say at the end of this year, December 31st
whatever the year, that money is going to be no good anymore. You need to turn that
into the bank and it will go in your electronic account then that paper money
would be worthless at that point and we're getting to the point now where you
could see the transition is very possible to a
society with no cash where every transaction is electronic
and look how easy it was for them to shut down our PayPal accounts
as soon as we started preaching things that they didn't like and obviously
that's not the tribulation but it just shows you
how that's where things are going. You preach the
word of God, you don't get on board, we'll shut down your account. Now thank
God there's still cash, there's still checks, we could go shop around
and find other companies to do online banking
through and online transactions but what when it's all integrated
and they just push a button and your account is frozen, your account is seized
we can see how that's possible. The technology is there. It's not far
fetched at all. Then you look at scriptures for example in
Revelation chapter 11 where it refers to the two witnesses and how
they'll be killed and their dead bodies will lie in the streets of Jerusalem
for three days and it says the whole world will see
their dead bodies lying in the street. A couple hundred years ago you'd wonder
how could the whole world see these guys if they're in Jerusalem?
But of course now we have the internet and satellite TV
and cameras and so you could see how it would be broadcast live
to the entire world and the technology is in place for these things
to be fulfilled quite literally.
We could be approaching the end. The Bible says
in 2 Timothy chapter 3, a description of the end times
it says, this know also that in the last days, hey children
sit still. 2 Timothy 3, 1 this
know also that in the last days perilous times shall come. Perilous
means dangerous. He says for men shall be
lovers of their own selves. One of the things that characterizes
the end times is that people would be self-centered
self-absorbed lovers of their own selves
and we see that in this generation more than any other
generation. This overly sensitive, just worried
about themselves, everything's about me. You know people have called it
generation me, generation selfie
generation selfie stick, generation everybody, it's all about
me. I mean think about the fact that as our society
becomes more sinful it becomes more selfish.
I mean what could be more selfish when you think about major big sins
sins like murder and adultery. What could be more selfish
than murdering your own child for your own convenience? And that's exactly
what abortion is. You're so concerned with yourself that you're
willing to murder an innocent baby just so that you can have a
different quality of life. That's total selfishness. You think about
how selfish it would be for you to cheat on your spouse
to commit adultery with another man or commit adultery with
another woman and to bring that pain
and suffering upon your spouse, upon your husband or your wife. I mean
what a selfish thing to do. Sin is
selfish. That's why the Bible says that all the law is fulfilled
in this one word. Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.
He said look if you love your neighbor you're not going to kill your neighbor. You're not going to commit adultery
with your neighbor. You're not going to steal from your neighbor. You're not going to lie to your neighbor.
You know sin at its core is self-centered
selfish, self-absorbed and we're living in a day where men
are lovers of their own selves.
Where people when they choose a church they just want to know
what that church can do for them. What kind of programs do you have
for me? What kind of programs do you have for the children?
They don't stop and ask themselves hey is this a team I want to be a part of?
Is this a place where I want to go and work and
serve God? Serving in the local church, working in the local
church. You know we have a room at the back of our church, well now it's actually
off to the side, but it's a room that has like a
refrigerator. You know most churches have some kind of a kitchen or some
kind of a place with refrigerators or tables. You know
at our church I call it the break room and the reason I call it the break
room is because I consider the church a place of
business, a place of work, a place where people are doing work
and they go in there to take a break from the work that they're doing.
It's like a job. You know they go and
they win souls and preach and serve and roll up their sleeves and get involved.
It's not a place where you go like a theater and just sit down and enjoy the show
and then walk out. No, no it's a place of work, but lovers of their own selves
don't understand that. They just want to come and have their itching
ears tingled. They want the sermon to feed them and
they just want to feed and feed and feed when they need to get out there and
work for the Lord. That's why we have a break room at our church.
You say, I can't believe you say business. Well you know what
Jesus said I must be about my father's business. You know what the first four letters of business
are? Busy. Busy! And only communists and hippies
don't like the word business.
Now look what the Bible says here in 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 1 it says
We know also that in the last days perilous times shall come
for men shall be lovers of their own selves. Why? Because those are
dangerous people. People who just only love and care about themselves. They'll kill
you for twenty dollars. They'll murder their own child. I mean
a person who is just absorbed in loving themselves is going to
create a dangerous environment for others. They're going to grow up and be a criminal.
Children who are never taught to think about the needs
and the feelings of others and empathize with others.
The Bible says men shall be lovers of their own selves.
Covetous. Meaning that they desire that which doesn't belong
to them. They lust after more money and more things and more
possessions. The Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil. It says
they're covetous. They're boasters. Meaning that they brag and
talk about how great they are. Which again goes along with being a lover
of your own self when you're a braggart and a boaster. Proud.
Again, that goes right hand in hand. Blasphemers.
Disobedient to parents. Unthankful.
Unholy. These are the type of things that we're seeing abound in our culture
in America today. People are disobedient to their parents.
They're blasphemous. They're boasters. They're proud. They blow off
their mouth against God and against the Bible and against his
anointed and they have no fear of God today. The Bible says
they're without natural affection. Truths breakers. False accusers.
Incontinent. Fierce. And then look
at this last one. Despisers of those that are good.
We're living in a day where the wicked
despise those that are good and now it's even getting to the point
where even mainstream America is starting to despise
those that are good. Now what's interesting about the word despise
is that it pretty much means hate. I mean if
I said I despise something or despise someone
that would mean that I hate that person or hate that thing.
Despiteful or despising. These are synonyms
for hating. And what's interesting today is that
these bunch of freaks and perverts out there for example that are protesting
this event, they are despisers of those that are good.
And you know what? These people from the media here
I mean unless they turn over a new leaf and start telling the truth which probably isn't very likely
but these bozos from the media over here, they're going to show
all the love wins and love conquers hate. They won't show you
how God fearing, family, men and women
walk in this church and women are called a slut and a whore and they've never even
seen these women in their life because they just rail and hate
and spew out all their filth and they're disgusting but you
won't show that on the media will you? No. You'll show all the
little pretty little sodomites and they all love each other.
Why don't you go to age.gov and show what these people really like
where they're 50 times more likely to get AIDS. Why don't you do a story
on how homosexuals are 50 times more likely to get AIDS?
Why don't you go to age.gov? Why don't you go to
cdc.gov? Because you're a coward, that's why. Because you'd be
fired if you did that, that's why.
Hey and by the way
Hey and by the way, learn how to count.
Go back to school and learn how to count.
This isn't 75 people. You want to make it out like
it's just a few people. Hey, there's still 7,000 men in this country
who haven't vowed to need a bail.
But the Bible says
despisers of those that are good. Every single one of these homos
would love to tear me apart limb from limb. If they could
get in here and the police wouldn't stop them, they'd love to come in here
and rip us apart and kill us all and they don't just hate me.
They don't just hate Brother Jimenez, they hate all Christians.
And they would love to destroy us all. And you know that's right
and yet they say that we're hateful. Well you know what, at least I admit
that I do hate pedophiles and perverts, but these people are hypocrites.
They won't admit it, but they hate my ever-loving guts.
Let's continue with this passage.
2 Timothy chapter 3, it says in verse number 4
Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers
of pleasures more than lovers of God.
This is the people who don't have time for church because they're too busy
out having a good time. They're out playing and they're going to the lake
and they're going out. And look, I love going to the lake, but you know what?
I'm not going to go to the lake when I ought to be in church. Because I don't love pleasure
more than I love God. And the Bible says having a form
of godliness but denying the power thereof from
such turn away. You see there are all kinds of churches around Sacramento
and across our nation. They have a form of godliness.
They have a form of Christianity. They have a form of biblical teaching.
But they deny the power thereof. You know what the power
thereof means? It means the authority thereof.
It means the might and the strength behind it.
You see there are churches out there that claim to be a Christian church but
they'll even deny the miracles of the Bible. They'll say that
the children of Israel didn't really part the cross on the Red Sea after
Moses parted it through the power of God. They'll say that it was just a land
bridge or it was the wind that did it or it was just some kind of a reed sea
instead of the Red Sea. They'll claim that Jesus
was not born of a virgin. They'll claim that Jesus didn't walk on water.
And they teach a social gospel and they have a fake Christianity.
I'm talking about the United Methodists tonight. Let's call it what it is.
The United Methodists, they'll sit there and deny the virgin birth,
deny the bodily resurrection of Christ. They have a form of godliness
but they deny the power of God. They don't believe in the
miracles of the Bible. Not only that, but they deny
the power of God's word. They believe that
their views and their understanding trump God's word.
No, God's word has the power. God's word has the authority.
God's word is what we ought to go to, not to
whatever's popular or whatever the opinion of the month is that the media
is cramming down our throat.
So what we see in this passage, if we were to take the whole thing in aggregate
and obviously we don't have time to talk about each point on the list, is that in the last
days, when he lists all these sins, he's saying the last days are going
to be very sinful days. If we were to just sum it up in one sentence,
we'd say in the last days, perilous times will come because sin
will abound. There's going to be a very, and what do we
see? We see our country is more sinful than it was
ten years ago. It's more sinful than it was
thirty years ago. We can see clearly that the morality
in our country is going down, and it was going down like this, but in the last
three, four years, it seems like it's just on a bobsled to hell.
That's what we see today. Now if you would, turn to Luke
chapter 17. Luke chapter number 17.
Luke chapter 17, we're talking about the signs of the times.
Jesus Christ said that his second coming would not catch
us unawares. It would not come upon us as a thief in the night because we can
look around and see these things begin to come to pass. We see
a world government forming, the United Nations.
We see the United States relinquishing its sovereignty to
this world body. The last time the United States declared war
on anyone was when they declared war on the country of Hungary in
World War II. Ever since then, we're just
enforcing United Nations resolutions. The last declaration
of war from the Congress of the United States was World War II, but have we
fought wars since then? With no declaration of war because we're going
under the authority of the United Nations. We are seeing
a world government forming. That's a sign of the times.
When we see the stage being set for
as the Bible says, all nations, all tongues,
all kindreds, and all people to look to one leader,
the Antichrist, to worship one man, the Antichrist.
That's why we see all of the religions coming together. We see the Catholics
and the Protestants coming together and saying that the Protestant Reformation
was just a big misunderstanding. It's just a big
mix-up. Finally, we can clear it up 400 years later.
What are we thinking? We all believe the same things. That's what they're saying today in the news.
We see today that Eastern
Mysticism is even coming into the church and we
see that the Buddhists and the Hindus and the co-exist
mentality where all religions come together. We can see the New
Age movement today rolling out and becoming
mainstream doctrine in the United States of America. Universalism.
Universalist religion that says,
well, Christianity is a way. Jesus said,
I am the way. And they say, oh, well, you know,
that's a way, but Islam has a way, and Hinduism has a way, and they're following
the light that they have, and we're following the light. No, no, no. There's only one light
and it's Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is the only way
to be saved. It's the only way to heaven. Through the blood of Jesus
Christ, his death, his burial, and his resurrection.
And at the second coming of Christ, the Bible says in Luke 16 verse 26,
and as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also
in the days of the Son of Man. They did eat, they drank,
they married wives, they were given in marriage until the day that
Noah entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Likewise also, as it was in the days of Lot,
they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted,
they builded, but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom,
it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed
them all, even thus shall it be in the day
when the Son of Man is revealed. At the second coming of Christ,
the Bible teaches that in the days leading up to that, it will be
like it was in the days of Noah, and it will be like it was in the
days of Lot. This passage in Luke 17
contains the famous scriptures about the rapture where it talks
about two being in the field, one taken and the other left, two women
grinding at the mill, one taken and the other left. That passage
about the rapture in context is compared to
the days of Noah when the flood came and destroyed them all,
and the days of Lot when fire and brimstone rained down from heaven
and destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. This is referring
to the fact that the day that the rapture takes place, it will rain fire and
brimstone upon the earth, according to the Bible, which of course takes place after
the tribulation, but before God's wrath is poured out. And all God's
people said? Amen. Whoa, no pre-trippers here tonight, huh?
If so, don't say anything. But anyway,
somebody will be glad to explain it to you after the service. But in
Luke 17, he compares it to the days of
Lot for a reason. It's funny, when I was growing up, my dad,
my dad's here tonight, he used to always say,
I don't think the end is yet, he said, because it's not like
it was in Sodom yet. And I remember thinking to myself, I don't think
he's right about that. Because I read the story of Sodom, and I said,
it's never going to be like that. So I thought, he's misinterpreting that.
But you know what, dad? You were right! Because you know what? It's starting to
look like the days of Lot out there. I mean, I got off the
airplane in Sacramento. I thought, yeah, it seemed like San Francisco.
I got off the airplane in Sacramento, California this
morning, and it was two minutes before I saw a dude walking through the airport with
a skirt on. I mean, we're living in days
that are getting to be like it was in the days of Lot. And you know what I think is so funny?
It's when people attack us, Bible-believing preachers,
and they say, ah, why do you preach about homosexuality so much?
Why do you keep bringing that up? Why are you so fixated on that? Why do you bring that up?
Hey, because it's being crammed down our throat every stupid day.
Because not a day goes by that the TV
and the magazines and the newspapers aren't cramming this trash down our
throat. And you know what? We didn't pick this fight. The fight came to us!
And you know what? I didn't write this book, and this book
already predicted thousands of years ago that that's what
would be happening. I mean, I didn't choose that
hey, in the end times, before the second coming of Christ, we're
going to have to be rip in face about a bunch of perverts and homos, and that's
going to be the big issue in America that everybody talks about every single
day in America. Hey, I didn't choose that. I didn't even predict that.
I thought my dad was wrong about that, okay? I didn't choose this fight.
This fight has come to us, and you know what I say? Bring it on!
Hey, look, whatever fight the devil wants to bring me,
bring it on. Because I'll preach any part of the Bible, and I'm not
ashamed of any of it. I like all of it.
But we didn't choose this, well, why do you make that your battle?
I didn't make that my battle. I preach 156 sermons a year.
I preach every book of the Bible. I preach out of Genesis.
I preach out of Exodus. I preach out of Leviticus. I preach out of Numbers.
I preach out of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. I preach on the Gospel.
I preach on Heaven. I preach on Hell. I preach on the deity of Christ.
I preach on the Trinity. I preach on salvation by faith. I preach on the
eternal security of the believer. I'm preaching on repentance. I'm preaching on this.
I'm preaching on that. And then you preach on sodomy, and all the cameras show up.
I didn't choose that. They chose it because it fits
their agenda. But you know what? They don't realize
that they come in here because it fits their agenda, their little narrative,
their brainwashing campaign that they're a part of whether they know it or not
or believe it or not. You know why they're here?
They're here because their bosses want them here.
And they're here to demonize Christianity. They're here to demonize
God's people. But you know what? You can't even make us look
Take me out of context all you want because you know what?
The stuff I say from the Bible is so true. Even out of context
it's still, I still like it. I still like it.
I mean, even the TV pieces where they attack me and can you believe
Look, I'm watching all your guys' coverage of Pastor Jimenez. I got popcorn
and I'm thinking, man, he looks good on there. Yeah!
Tell them. I like all of it. I like it all.
And you know what? But these people
in the media, they're so deluded, they think like, oh man, when we
put this on TV, man, everybody's going to hate Pastor Jimenez. You know what they don't realize
Brother Jimenez is that half the people in Sacramento are sitting at home
and they're seeing you on TV and they're saying, hey, there's a guy with some guts.
There's a guy who's finally telling it like it is.
There's a guy that
actually believes the Bible. And you know what? They just
don't have the guts to say it. But they're sitting there at home in the comfort of their
home saying, it's about time somebody told it like it is.
That's what they're saying. So all the media is doing
is just helping get the Word of God out. And you know what? The Apostle Paul
talked about how some people were spreading the Word of God
for the wrong motives. You know, he said, they preach Christ even of envy and
strife. They preach it of contention, trying to add affliction to our
bonds. You know, trying to add persecution to us. But you know what?
Hey, I just rejoice that people are hearing about Verity Baptist
Church. Great! Because then they're going to tune in and they're going to
get the gospel. They're going to get the soul winning. They're going to get everything else he
preaches 95% of the time when he's not talking about perverts,
all the other good stuff from the Bible. They're going to tune in
and then, you know, some of these cowards, once they see him go through
the storm, once they see him stand tall. See, a lot of people
are sitting at home right now just wanting to see how it's all going to turn out.
They want, look, nobody wants to get on board with a loser,
with a quitter. Now, I know you're not a loser. I know you're
not a quitter, but they're sitting back and they're watching. And let me tell you something, he's going
to be like a rock because he's founded on the rock. And
I'm going to tell you something, when the battle's over, when the dust settles, and
when the media's moved on to their next faggot promoting story
that they want to write, their next wicked godless story to promote
the downfall of morality in America, and when they go back to printing more
smut and crap in their stupid newspaper and their stupid TV
show and television, you know what? He's going to still be standing
and this church will just grow and grow and grow. And you know what?
I already know. Hey, I've already been doing it.
I went through this in Phoenix, Arizona seven years ago, and you know what? Our church
is bursting at the seams. We just can't knock out the walls fast enough
to expand our auditorium because you know what? People want
the truth!
The Bible says in Daniel chapter 12, go to Daniel chapter 12.
We're going to look at some things from Daniel. Let's go back
to the Old Testament. Daniel chapter 12.
We're going to look at some things from Daniel chapter 12 and
Daniel 11. These are two scriptures that have to do with the
end times, that have to do with the second coming of Jesus Christ,
where Daniel is actually seeing things way into the future. In fact,
in Daniel chapter 12, he's told, we'll seal up these things
because these things are not going to happen for a really long time.
We're living in those times where we're getting close to the fulfillment of these things.
Let's see some things that characterize the end times leading up to
the second coming of Christ. Daniel chapter 12, verse 1, the Bible reads,
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth
for the children of thy people, and there shall be a time of trouble
such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time.
That's referring to the tribulation. In Matthew 24, he used almost the same
wording, then shall be great tribulation such as never was
since the beginning of the world of this time, nor ever shall be. If you look at the word
trouble, and you look at the word tribulation, you'll notice that
the consonants are the same, t-r-b-l, right, trouble,
tribulation. These are related words. He says,
At that time thy people shall be delivered, everyone
that shall be found written in the book, and many of them that sleep in the dust of the
earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame
and everlasting contempt, and they that be wise shall
shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many
to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. But thou, O
Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the
time of the end. Many shall run to and fro,
and knowledge shall be increased. One of the
things that God points to as coming shortly before the end
is that many would run to and fro, and that knowledge would be
increased. Go back to Daniel chapter number 11.
Many would run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Now that is something
that we're seeing happen very rapidly today. I believe when the Bible says
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased, that has to do with
the technology that we see where transportation is so much
faster, where people can just run to and fro. I mean, we have people here
tonight at this service from a whole bunch of foreign countries. I know
my friend here, Rob, from Canada. Where's Nar? From Canada,
right? And then we've got brother Logan Robinson from New Zealand. Who else is here from a foreign
country tonight? Anybody else from a foreign country? Yes?
Where are you from? New Zealand also.
Okay, so one, two, three, four, five.
Australia, all right. Anybody else from a foreign country?
Canada. Yeah,
Kazakhstan, all right.
That just shows you the amazing transportation
where people can just hop on a plane and come here from Kazakhstan,
Australia, New Zealand, different parts of Canada,
and be at a place like this. Why? Because the technology is facilitating
that, and then he says knowledge shall be increased. You know, one of the most amazing things
about the technology that we have today in
2016 is the way that we can just get information on the
internet. I mean, I remember when I was even a child, if you wanted to learn about
something, if you wanted to know some piece of information, you had to take a trip down to the
library, and you'd pull books off the shelf that were 20 years old,
or 10 years old, and you're trying to get up-to-date information. Sometimes
you had to travel to distant cities to access larger libraries
and find the data, find the information. I mean, we can just be walking around
and see some plant or some animal now. All we have to do, hey,
what kind of plant is that? Just take a picture of it on your phone. There's an app that'll tell
you what kind of plant it is. Hey, what was the name of that? Oh,
everything. Any question you have, any piece of information you want to know,
anything you want to learn about, it's just so simple. You just Google it.
All that information is at our fingertips.
Obviously, there are a lot of bad things that are also available on the Internet. There are a lot of people
that would use it for, you know, pornography or use it for
online gambling or use it for adultery or
other nefarious purposes. But one of the things that the Internet
has done is it has allowed us to preach the
Word of God to a mass audience. We don't need the media
anymore. That's why they already walked out, you know. We don't need them anymore.
Nobody listens to them anymore. That's why the Sacramento Bee
keeps getting thinner every year. Nobody cares.
And we are living in a very special time
because we can actually be the media. YouTube.
YouTube. MeTube. I mean, we can actually
broadcast the truth and get millions of viewers.
Let me tell you something. The Internet is the printing press of the 21st
century. I mean, it's the most revolutionary thing
since the invention of the printing press and we can actually upload
true biblical preaching. I mean, in the past, to be a TV preacher
you have to be a total compromiser. You have to be bought and paid for by the devil
to get on TV. But now anybody can upload
sermons. Brother Jimenez, myself, other men of
God all over the world preaching the truth can upload
it and have access to millions of viewers. It's amazing.
And so many pastors are just, they're not even capitalizing
on that opportunity. I mean, I guess if they were living back in
the 1500s and the 1600s, they would, ah, forget the printing press.
We're happy with our little church, us four no more.
But I'm telling you, we have an opportunity to broadcast this
stuff to the world in all languages and get it out there. Look, I don't know about
you. I want to work hard and I want to pull out
all the stops because I don't know how long the party's going to last. I mean, when are they going to
start censoring us on the internet or pull the plug on the internet? I don't know, but
I'm going to put as much stuff on the internet as I can and get it out to as many
millions of people as I can before that happens.
And then we'll just switch to just flash drives. Yeah, that's
going to be next. Just flash drives, CDs, DVDs.
Have fun collecting up all those and trying to censor us.
But look what the Bible says in Daniel 11.
Go back a few verses to Daniel 11 32.
It says, and such as do wickedly against the covenant
shall he corrupt by flatteries.
But the people that do know their God shall
be strong and do exploits. Exploits are
great works, legendary works, amazing works, epic works.
He says they that be strong and do know their God, he said
they'll be strong and they'll do exploits, verse 33. And they that
understand among the people shall instruct
many. They will instruct many. They'll be, they that
understand, they that know the Bible, they that are preaching the truth
shall instruct many. I believe
that in the end times there will be one last great
push where the Gospel will go all around the globe
and where people will hear the Gospel like they've never heard
it before in the last days. And look, it's not just through the power of the
internet, it's going to be through door to door soul winning because a lot of people don't ever go on the internet.
But let me tell you something, we need to have a
multi-pronged attack. We need to be out there physically, flesh and
blood, knocking doors every week, up one street,
down the other, every door in Sacramento, every door in
Citrus Heights, every door in Elk Grove, every door in Roseville, every
door in Orangevale, every door in Carmichael, every door in West Sac,
every door downtown, every door in this whole area
physically boots on the ground, knocking those doors and then
broadcasting to the whole world on the internet. But I've talked to some
past and they say, well I agree with what you're preaching, but I'd never put it on YouTube because
I don't want the persecution. I guess you forgot that verse that told you to leap for joy
when the persecution comes. I guess you forgot the part
about whoso findeth his life shall lose it, but whosoever will lose his life
for my sake shall find it. I guess you forgot that verse that said many are the
afflictions of the righteous, but out of them all the Lord
delivers him. And let me tell you something,
with the doors being knocked and the soul winning churches springing up all over
America, and let me tell you something, it's starting to accelerate.
We're seeing new churches start, we're starting three new churches
this fall, just what our church is doing, let alone what
Verity is going to be doing, let alone what Steadfast is going to be doing, let alone what
Word of Truth does, let alone what Old Path does, West City Bible
Baptist, whatever other churches that share the same vision
of knocking every door and of preaching
from the housetops, all the counsel of God, uncensored
unadulterated, unfiltered, well refined!
Preaching!
Brother Garrett Kershway, our missionary to Botswana, he just indicated
to me this afternoon, he said, hey I've gotten you the opportunity
while you're in Botswana, because I'm only going to be there for a week, to preach in a public
school. He said you'll be preaching to hundreds and hundreds of junior
hires, he's trying to get me into the high school in that village as well.
I'll tell you what I want to do Brother Garrett, I want to get a list of every
high school and every junior high in the country of Botswana
we're going to work down that thing like a checklist, and we're going to preach the gospel
in every single school that will let us, and we're going to keep calling them
and we're going to offer them free Bibles, free New Testaments, free DVDs
free CDs, a flash drive if you've got a computer, and you know what
we'll come and preach the gospel, and we're going to do great works
God willing, through his strength, if he allows us to
we're going to continue doing the greatest works, look
I want to do the greatest works that the world has ever seen, and I'm going to tell you something
it's not because I'm anything special, because you know what, he's doing
the same thing, all these other pastors are doing the same thing
all the speakers you're going to hear from are all sharing the same vision
look, it's not anything about me, look
in 10 years, 20 years, there are going to be 100 of me, and you're going to forget that I even
exist, because there's going to be 100 of me, praise God!
I don't matter! All I am
is a guy who just decided to get up
and preach it like it is, and let the chips fall where they may, and you young men here
you could be that guy, I'm not talented, he's way more talented
than I am, brother Jimenez is a lot more talented than me
you know, it took me about 500 times preaching
before I preached like him, like on his third time, I'm not joking
I'm not kidding, you know what, young man out there who's
listening, you could be one of the 100
I believe that in my lifetime, there will be hundreds of preachers
that are just like me, greater than me, doing better works
than me, putting me to shame, hey, that's what
I believe God has told us will happen in the end times, he said this gospel
of the kingdom shall be preached in all nations and then shall the end come
and I believe we're starting to see that happening
and you know what, it's a sign of the times
it's a sign of the times that Sacramento is hearing the truth, and you know what
whether they hear or whether they forbear, whether they sit at home
how dare he offend the LGBT, HIV
ABCDFD community
how dare he offend all these people, you know what, it doesn't matter, you know what's for sure
they'll know that a prophet has been among them, they shall know that a prophet has been among them
and I'm here to tell you
that we are living in the last days, we don't know when it's going to be
but I don't know about you, I want to be one of the people that does great exploits
I want to be a part of it, and I want to be on the ground
I want to be just knocking doors one at a time, I want to be one of God's
people that's a part of the team, I want to be a part of a church
I want to be a part of a movement
that is not backing down and going, oh man
I mean, you know, they're taking over, we've got to do something
we've got to do something, I don't want to do something
I want to do the greatest things that the world has ever seen
that's what I want to do, get a vision tonight that's big
do something big for God, and you know what, every man, woman
boy and girl can be a part of it, but I'm not talented
you know what, you don't have to be talented to be a soul winner, and if you're a consistent
soul winner, you will be great in the kingdom of heaven, period
period, period
you will be great in the kingdom of heaven, look, it doesn't take any special talent, it doesn't take any
special ability, you know what it takes? Guts
it's all it takes, it's all it takes, and you know what, anybody who wants to
can have guts, because the Bible says that if we pray for boldness
he will grant us boldness, even the most shy
and timid can become as fearless as a lion
when they are filled with the Holy Spirit of God
that's what the Bible teaches, the Bible says when they had prayed
the place where they were assembled together was shaken
and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they
spake the word of God with boldness, man, woman, boy and girl
we're all filled with the Holy Ghost, and you know what, you want to be filled with the Holy Ghost
you better be in the right place at the right time, because they were all filled with
the Holy Ghost because they were there, which goes back to what brother Al said
about being in the right place, being in the right church
getting around God's people, the signs of the times are everywhere
are you able to discern them, are we living in days that are beginning
to resemble the days of Lot, before he went out of Sodom and Gomorrah
are we beginning to live in days where people are exceedingly
sinful and lovers of their own selves, do we see the technology
do we see the police state in place, do we see
the world government forming, do we see
all of the things that the Bible told us would happen, coming to pass
right around us, and do we see a great fire
and a great movement amongst God's people
for a soul winning revival unlike
anything the world has ever seen, why not?
God's arm is not shortened that he cannot save
it's you and I that have the power
to limit God by our lack of vision and our lack of
faith, or we can do
the greatest works that the world has ever seen, but it's up to
us, what are we going to do, are we going to be
ordinary, are we going to be the usual run of the
mill, Joe church member, or are we going to
rise up, don't tell me about some greatest generation of some
old, I don't want to hear about that, let's talk about the greatest
generation, how about 2016,
how about the people that were winning to Christ in 2013, 14,
15, the spiritual babies that are born in
2012, 2013, 2014, you know what
I don't care what Dan Rather says, or Tom Brokaw or whoever that was
that put that thing together, hey, when we get to heaven, the greatest generation
is going to be the God's people
that did the most works for God and the most soul winning for God
and I pray that it would be the people that got saved in 2010
2011, 2012, I pray there would be a great baby
boom of spiritual babies that are born
and that these spiritual babies would go out and rise up and be the
greatest generation of Christians
that literally would shake the world and would literally
just spread the gospel to every person
on the planet, to every nation, it's possible, you write
the book, you decide whether it's going to happen or not, I can't
because I can't do it by myself so I can't make that decision, I can decide
to be a part of it, but you have to decide to be a part of it too
and together we can get the gospel to Sacramento
like Sacramento has never seen it before
I don't know the history of Sacramento, I don't know what
kind of soul winning churches have been here in the past, I'm not sure exactly
what they accomplished, which doors they knocked, you know if we were to be able to get in
a time machine, go back to the 1960's or the 1970's, I don't know
what kind of great soul winning churches existed, but you know what
I believe that Verity Baptist Church can
and I believe that it will, by the grace of God, be the greatest
soul winning church in the history of this city, that ought to be the goal
go big or go home, let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer
Father we thank you so much for your words