Look what he says next.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations,
that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
and they shall serve him.
And I have given him the beast of the field also.
Then said the prophet Jeremiah and Hananiah the prophet,
Hear now Hananiah, the Lord hath not sent thee,
but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.
Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I will cast thee
from off the face of the earth.
This year thou shalt die,
because thou hast taught rebellion against the Lord.
So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
Look at the last phrase there at the end of chapter,
or verse 16, it says,
because thou hast taught rebellion against the Lord.
Let me tell you something,
the preacher who preaches that there's no consequences
for your sins is teaching rebellion against the Lord.
Now we preach easy salvation.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
Jesus did the hard part when he died on the cross,
shed his blood, was buried and rose again.
That was the hard part.
But our part is simply receiving the gift of eternal life,
and as many as received him,
to them gave thee power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on his name.
He did the work, Jesus paid it all.
And so we have the easy part of just believing on Jesus Christ.
And so our sins are washed away,
gone as far as the east is from the west.
We're on our way to heaven.
We're forgiven.
We're redeemed.
We're justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
But there are consequences to your actions in this world.
You will reap what you've sown.
Even as a Christian, you're going to heaven.
You'll never see the fires of hell.
But be not deceived.
God is not mocked.
For whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.
Saved, unsaved, you will reap what you sow in this life.
Whether you're saved or not saved.
Period.
It will happen.
And let me tell you something.
The preacher who preaches otherwise
is teaching rebellion against the Lord.
When he teaches you sin, commit wickedness,
commit adultery, steal, murder,
drunkenness, covetousness, whatever.
And everything will be great.
You'll be okay.
God's the God of the 525th chance.
And you'll be okay.
And it's all fine.
He's teaching a lie.
He's prophesying a lie.
The preacher who tells you that God's going to send revival to America.
You know, the preacher that tells you,
oh, America's going to be spared from the judgment of God.
He's a liar.
It's impossible.
I've proved it from the Bible.
When you shed innocent blood,
it can only be cleansed by shedding the blood of those who shed it.
And there's so many people with innocent blood on their hands in this country.
From abortion, from many other things.
I'm not going to go into that in this sermon.
God's judgment's coming.
The preacher who tells you about it is the one telling the truth.
The preacher who tells you that it's all going to be fine
and that America's going to be spared is a liar.
He's a liar.
Our country has become so wicked and vile in the sight of God,
His judgment will come.
Be not deceived.
God is not mocked.
And whatsoever America has shown, America will reap.
And I'm going to tell you the truth about it.
And the other people who try to say,
oh, it's all going to be forgiven because God's just loved.
I was speaking to a young guy today,
and he was a really nice guy.
I believe he was saved.
I checked him on his salvation.
I asked him what he believed.
And he said, I'm saved.
I'm born again.
I said, it's his faith.
It's his belief.
I'm Jesus Christ.
You know, that's it.
And we were talking about some other issues,
talking about the Bible.
And he said, well, you know, he said, isn't that kind of a,
like a hellfire and damnation view of God?
What about the other view of God that he's loving and forgiving?
I said, I only have one view of God.
You know, there's only one God.
He's both.
I said, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
It's a loving God.
But I said, you still cross a line where you enter into God's wrath.
You know, and every single human being in this world who rejects Jesus Christ,
does not believe on Jesus Christ their Savior,
is going to taste of the wrath of God for all eternity in hell.
And that's a reality.
Hell's a real place.
And so that's who God is.
God's the God of heaven, but he's the God of hell.
And so that's who God is.
It's not, well, this is, you know, my view of God is all love and kindness,
and your hellfire, my view is not all hellfire and brimstone.
I just believe the whole Bible.
I believe the parts that I like and the parts I don't like.
The good part and the good, the bad, and the ugly.
You know, whatever the Bible says, I believe it.
And I'm going to preach it.
And so you're teaching rebellion against the Lord when you teach people
that no matter what they do, the outcome will be good.
There will always be a happy ending.
But in real life, there's not always a happy ending.
I know on TV and the movies you watch, everything ends up great at the end.
But you know what?
Sometimes there's not a happy ending in people's lives.
And the preacher who loves you will preach that to you
so that you'll get right with God and at least stop sowing the way,
you know, you're still probably going to reap bad stuff that you've done,
but at least you can stop, start sowing some good things
and maybe reap those down the road.