There's this guy on YouTube, and this guy cracks me up so much, and I've never actually
talked about this guy by name, but I feel like, I feel like it's time to talk about
this guy because he's earned it.
This guy has made literally over 200 videos specifically attacking moi.
And so you should get something for that.
I mean you should get some recognition when you've created that.
I mean I appreciate this guy drawing so much attention to the truth.
And so he's made literally two to three hundred videos, I don't know the exact number.
He's earned a pulpit mention.
He's arrived.
Alright.
So this guy, his name's Brian Denlinger.
Who's seen these videos?
Aren't they a riot?
So you know, Husky, whatever the tag, 39XP, whatever.
But anyway, this guy is a riot.
I remember he made a video like two or three years ago, and he said, alright everybody,
this is my last video I'm making about Steven Anderson.
And I kid you not, a week later he started a whole other series of videos about me that
ended up being like 50 installments.
So I mean this guy's addicted.
I mean this guy is making video after video.
He's literally into the two to three hundred range of video specifically.
Plus I think even in a lot of the videos that aren't even about us, I think he just kind
of will kind of just throw me out there as like a little illustration too.
But anyway, this guy, what's so funny is that lately he's on this thing where he's making
all these videos saying, Pastor Steven Anderson is a Jesuit.
He's a secret Roman Catholic.
So this guy is falsely accusing me of being a Roman Catholic of all things.
But you know, one other thing that's funny about living in 2016 is the way people throw
around false accusations so lightly with no evidence.
You know, there's no evidence presented, hey, here's the smoking gun.
Pastor Anderson's a Jesuit.
He's a secret Roman Catholic that has infiltrated the independent Baptist movement.
It's so ridiculous to accuse me of being that.
But what's he basically saying?
He's saying that I'm a wolf in sheep's clothing.
You know, I'm pretending to be an independent Baptist, but in reality I'm secretly a Roman
Catholic, a Jesuit spy.
Now here's my question.
My question is if I'm a Roman Catholic, if I'm a Jesuit, what am I accomplishing for
the Roman Catholic Church is what I'd like to know.
What have I done for them lately?
Because you know, I was part of producing a major film, New World Order Bible Versions.
It's a strongly anti-Catholic film and it's been viewed about 1.5 million times.
I'm not doing a very good job as a Jesuit Roman Catholic spy, you know.
You know, I'm preaching sermons against Catholicism.
I mean after the tribulation has been viewed about 13 million times and it rips on Catholicism
in that film.
You know, in the first few minutes it talks about evil men are working around the clock
to bring in new, it's like the Pope is on the screen while it says that, you know.
But I'm a Roman Catholic.
So it's like, well, who do we trust?
Who do we believe?
You know, do we believe Brian Denlinger, okay, or do we believe Pastor Anderson, you know,
that he's not a Roman Catholic, all right.
Of course my mom's here.
She knows I'm not Catholic.
You know, she raised me to be a Baptist.
She brought me to the Baptist nursery when I was a baby and you know, she gave birth
to me and kept me Baptist born and Baptist bred and when I die I'll be Baptist dead,
you know.
But anyway, it's hilarious.
But here's the question.
How do we identify who's the false prophet here according to the Bible?
Well the Bible says the tree is known by its fruit.
Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are
ravening wolves, ye shall know them by their fruits.
So if we wanted to check out Brian Denlinger's fruit, I want to know where do we show up
to see that is what I'd like to know.
What's the address?
Where do we show up to the church and see?
Because supposedly Brian Denlinger is this man of God, you know, even though he just
makes videos by himself talking into a camcorder, I don't even think he goes to church anywhere
to my knowledge.
I don't think he's a part of any church.
In fact, I've even heard him explicitly say, hey, Christians need to quit going to church
buildings and just worship at home by themselves with the Lord, just by yourself, have a little
talk with Jesus.
But my question is, where do I show up?
Where do I go to see a fruit inspection on Brian Denlinger?
Where are all the people that he's won unto Christ?
Where are all his converts?
I want to see them and I want to do an inspection to figure out whether his fruit is rotten
or not.
Here's the thing.
If people wanted to check me out and figure out whether I'm for real, well, all they have
to do is come to 2714 West Southern Avenue, Tempe, Arizona, 85282, and they can come down
here three times a week, Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, and they'll find a
couple hundred people to talk to, many of whom were won to Christ through my preaching,
through this church's ministry, many of whom were baptized with these hands right here,
or even if they can't make it all the way out to Arizona, you know, we hold soul-winning
marathons all over the nation.
They could have shown up in Atlanta where 125 people showed up, many of whom were won
to Christ by this ministry, many of them, probably half of them, a lot of them.
And they can see the souls being saved, the people being baptized, and not only that,
they can talk to those people and do a fruit inspection and figure out what they actually
believe and find out that they're actually doctrinally sound.
And anybody who shows up at Faithful Word Baptist Church Sunday morning, Sunday night,
and Wednesday night and walks around and talks to the people around this room will realize
that the people that are in this building are doctrinally sound.
They are rooted and grounded in the faith.
The average church member, not talking about the pastor, not talking about the deacon,
the average church member in this church has read the Bible cover to cover, knows doctrine
on salvation very well, and is a productive soul-winner themselves.
I mean, that's just the truth.
That's your average church member.
You know, I'd be more than happy for this fruit to be inspected.
Now, you know, do we sometimes have bozos in our church and false teachers?
Well, yeah, the Bible always talks about weirdos infiltrating and false prophets and so forth.
But the vast majority of people that are here can show you this church is the real deal.
Anybody who's been here knows that.
Anybody who's been to our soul-winning marathons and just talks to the people, and by the way,
they're physically, this isn't a chat room.
I'm talking about, no, I'm talking about flesh and blood.
I remember when I was a kid, they had this commercial on TV on the Nickelodeon channel
when I was a kid.
They said, it's beyond virtual reality.
It's beyond any video game.
It's actual reality.
You know, you go out and show the kid going outside and he's bouncing a basketball.
You actually feel the ball.
You actually feel the air blowing.
It's so real.
I mean, you'll swear it's real because it is real.
I mean, I'm talking about you can actually show up and there's 250 people that actually
believe and know and love and practice the Bible, and they're right here.
Come look at them.
Come talk to them.
You can show up in Atlanta, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, San Antonio, Texas, and by the way,
I'm not saying just, we're not the only legitimate church, other great churches.
Show up at Verity Baptist Church where my mother is a member.
You know, show up at Steadfast Baptist Church.
Show up at Word of Truth Baptist Church.
Show up and talk to people and you'll see that the fruit is good fruit.
It's good people.
Doctrinally sound.
Because people will say, just because your church grew or just because you're multiplying,
you know, so does Joel Osteen.
Yeah, but if we went to Joel Osteen's church, we'd find some fruits all right, but it wouldn't
be the kind of fruit that we're looking for, you know, some fruit cakes, some tooty, fruity
dudes that aren't, you know, yeah.
I mean, think about it.
You know and I know, and by the way, one of the great things about going soul-winning,
you learn about all the churches in your area, don't you?
Those of you who go in Gilbert, you know the Gilbert churches because you'll knock the
doors of like 20 people from that church and they're all saved.
And then you're thinking to yourself, okay, this church must be a pretty good church because
I keep knocking doors of people from that church and they're all giving me the right
answer that they're saved.
But then there will be another church and it could even be Baptist where everybody from
that church is giving you the wrong answer.
Everybody's telling you it's works.
Everybody's telling you you lose your salvation.
What does that tell you about the tree?
See you're testing the fruit right there.
When you go soul-winning and you're talking to the people from these churches and they're
all showing corruption, that tells you that's a rotten tree or it tells you that it's a
good tree.
And honestly, I'll say this, every time I go out soul-winning, I always run into somebody
who's already saved.
Isn't that the truth?
Virtually every, if not two or three people, I mean there's a lot of people that are saved
in this world and especially in the United States of America.
I mean when I go soul-winning, I virtually never go out without running into somebody
that says it's all by faith, you can't lose your salvation, you know, that knows for sure
that they're saved.
And that gives you a feel for what these various religions and churches and pastors are teaching
because you check out the fruit.
It's impossible to check out this Denlinger's fruit.
He doesn't have any.
There's nothing there.
There's nobody there.
It's just, it's him.
And okay, his wife comes on sometimes and they put on funny outfits and everything.
But the point is, you know, you can't show up at most of these places.
There's no evidence.
It's just, we're just supposed to take their word for it.
Oh, believe me, there's a lot of fruit from this ministry.
You know, and by the way, we're not talking about clicks and likes and cyber chats and
friends.
You know, and look, those are real people.
I get that.
But you know what?
We don't really know some of them because we never met them or anything, right?
It's kind of a difference when you're standing in front of a flesh and blood human being.
I know that, you know, a lot of people are starting to not understand the difference
between real life and that which is online.
But there is a difference, right?
And look, I'm all for having an online ministry.
Look, our church, we're streaming right now.
We have three different live streams right now.
We're streaming to, this service is being streamed to YouTube and two different Facebook
channels right now simultaneously because the three-fold cord is not quickly broken.
All right?
This sermon is getting out, one by hook or by crook, you know.
But the point is that I'm all for internet ministry because like I said the other day,
I think the internet is like the printing press of the 21st century.
It's a revolutionary tool to get information out and to get the gospel out and to get the
word of God and sound doctrine out.
All for internet ministry.
I'm talking about internet only ministry, internet only preacher.
Because here's the thing.
If a ministry is reaching millions of people on the internet, right, but at least if there's
a physical place we could go and actually do a sampling, check the fruit, well that's
going to assure you a lot more than some bozo that isn't even going to church.
There's no physical place where we can go and do a fruit inspection of that fruit, Brian
Denlinger.
And so this guy, yeah, I just, you know what?
He's earned it folks, all right.
So you say, why did you spend time talking about him?
Because he, you know what?
He deserves it.
He's made hundreds of videos and so it's time for me to give him the recognition that he
deserves.
But let's move on to something else.
Go if you would to Proverbs chapter number 22, Proverbs chapter number 22.
And again, the reason I bring that up, I'm not just trying to get on him.
I'm not saying that this guy is real relevant to your life or anything.
But the reason I bring it up though is because it's not just him.
There's a lot of people like him, a lot, tons.
Some of them are like him where at least, I'll give them this, at least he's being honest
and he's actually saying, hey, I don't go to church and neither should you.
Some of these guys pretend that they're actually pastoring a real church.
No service times, no physical address, you know.
It's them and a buddy is what it really comes down to.
And by the way, Brian Denlinger has the goal to accuse me of being a Roman Catholic.
I'm not a real Baptist.
By the way, he came out with a video saying you can lose your salvation.
That's not Baptist doctrine.
I'll tell you this.
Every single Baptist church in the state of Arizona to my knowledge all believe in the
eternal security of the believer no matter how liberal they are.
Even if it's a southern Baptist, they'll still say, hey, eternal security of the believer.
I mean, I know there's some goofball Baptists in the south that think you can lose it.
But every Baptist where I grew up in California and every Baptist where I live now in Arizona,
they all believe in the eternal security of the believer.
He said you can lose your salvation and he said that I've lost my salvation because I
spoke against the Jews.
He literally said, he said, you know, when you just go against the Jews, God will take
away your salvation and he said you can lose it.
So who's the Baptist here?
The other possibility would be if you start to mess around with the nation of Israel where
you're not going to be admonished anymore, we're not talking just somebody that starts
to fall for replacement theology and then turns away from it.
I'm talking somebody that's gone over the edge.
They hate the Jewish people.
They hate the nation of Israel.
They're saying that the true Jews are some other kindred of people that lives in America
or something ridiculous.
The people over in Israel are wicked, satanic whatevers.
When you get to that level, you're playing very, very close to God saying, okay, you're
cut off, meaning somebody that was saved loses their salvation.
If you start to mess around with the nation of Israel where you're not going to be admonished
anymore, you're cut off, meaning somebody that was saved loses their salvation.
So if you want a second possible justification for somebody losing their salvation, and I
do believe that this isn't just in the time of Jacob's trouble.
This could be for today too.
I think if you mess with this book, you know, I know this one wasn't on the list that he
sent me, the thing of Revelation 22 verses 18 and 19, but if you want justification for
somebody losing their salvation, I would say when you have somebody that's starting to
pervert God's word on purpose, not just misquoting a verse, but somebody perverting God's word
and changing it on purpose, and then coming out and saying this is God's holy word, and
it's their own words.
You have somebody there that I think if they were saved, if they were ever saved, I believe
that there's a very real possibility that they're going to be losing their salvation.
And when you get so prideful and so arrogant that you begin to change the word of God,
knowingly change the word of God, and pervert scripture, and then say this is superior to
what the book says, you are in serious trouble of losing your salvation.