there who sort of takes this to an extreme and his name's Joseph Prince. Who's ever
heard of this guy? He looks sort of like a cross between Prince and Michael Jackson
and Elvis Presley all kind of rolled into one, okay? So he kind of looks like a rock
star. He's got the, you know, the feathered out hairdo and he's got the tight pants
and the tight leather jacket and the pencil tie and he's real smooth and slick and he's
preaching on a platform washed in purple light and he basically teaches, he teaches some
right things and this is how people get sucked in. He teaches some right things because
he talks a lot about God's grace, he talks, and he talks a lot about how you can't lose
your salvation. Well that's a great doctrine because you can't lose your salvation, right?
So whenever lies are taught, there's truth mixed in. So he teaches a lot of true things
but let me just explain this to you. The problem with most preachers is not what they
say, it's what they don't say. Let me say that again. The problem with most preachers
is not what they say, it's what they don't say. You can go to the average liberal
church and listen to 25 minute sermonette, they're not really going to say anything
bad a lot of the time but it's just that they don't say much of anything, okay? And
Joseph Prince, I don't care what anybody thinks, is a positive only preacher. That's
why he fills in for Joel Osteen's pulpit, that's why the two are buddies, that's
why he travels in those circles because of the fact that Joel Osteen is a positive
only preacher and it's all about the money. Look, are they teaching the error
of Cain? No, because they're not really, you know, pushing a workspace salvation, Joseph
Prince that is, but what he will do is run after the error of Balaam greedily for
reward, okay? Greedily preach what people want to hear, allure through the lusts of
the flesh and teach licentiousness and this Christian liberty, we're under grace,
take it to this extreme where the God of Joseph Prince doesn't chastise anybody. He
doesn't chastise, we're all under his blessing, he's pleased with all of us, we're
all just in good graces with him all the time and so there's no reason to ever feel
bad or guilty or anything like that. You know what, that's just a lie and there's
so many scriptures that could disprove that and what it does is it sets up this straw
man for the work salvation teachers to attack when you preach on by grace through
faith, then they'll try to lump you in with this weird doctrine like, oh, well, you're
one of these people that just says to live however you want and they lump you in with
this what they call the hyper grace where it's this thing of not only do you not
need to do works to be saved, you don't even have to do works period. I mean, it's
just stupid. Yeah, we should do works. They don't have anything to do with salvation,
but we should obey the commandments, we should do right, we should get this in our lives.
According to Joseph Prince, it's all done and we just sit back and just enjoy our standing
in Christ and of course the guy has 22,000 people in his church or something because
that's a pretty popular message is do whatever you want. He said the Holy Spirit will never
convict you of sin. That's what he said. Of course, that's a popular message. Why?
Because people in the last days, the Bible said, would heap to themselves teachers having
itching ears, what they want to hear, what they want to be told, and the Bible says that
they'll make merchandise of you. So there's all these clips of his preaching on YouTube
and then it says, hey, if you want the full sermon, go to his website to download
the MP3 of one sermon, $7.99 for a download of one sermon. Okay, so I have 1600 of
my sermons on faithforwardbaptist.org for free download. So what if I charge eight
bucks each? Then I guess to get the whole repertoire, you'd have to spend about, what,
13 grand just to listen to all the sermons from faithforwardbaptist.org. I mean, imagine spending
$7.99 and listening to a one-hour sermon. It's like, well, okay, that's an expensive
habit if you want to listen to a lot of preaching. But it's about money, that's
why. It's not about just preaching the truth, getting the truth out there. He sells the
CD for $7.99 one sermon, DVDs are $28 for two or three sermons on a DVD or whatever.
You know, and look, I'm not against businesses selling things, but you know what, the church
itself should not be selling things, number one. And number two, it's charging those
kind of prices, it shows you what the motivation is when basically he's not even
putting it out there at all, the information. You got to get the download. And it's
all the same, just tell you what you want to hear, tickle your ears, kind of false teaching.
You say, well, why are you coming down on Joseph Prince? Well, how about because
he doesn't use the King James, he uses the new King James, but worse than that,
he doesn't even believe the new King James. I looked up, I wanted to see what he said
about Jude, where Jude says, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, because
that's what he's doing. So I wondered what he'd say about that. I found a video where
he's basically, he gets up and says, oh, this doesn't say what you think it means.
Jude verse four. This doesn't mean what you think it means. First he read the verse
in like five versions. He read it in five versions, right? But then he proceeded to
explain how all the versions are wrong. All 400 and some English Bibles are all wrong.
Let me go back to the Greek and tell you what it really means. And this guy goes back
to the Greek a lot. So not only is he using the wrong Bible, when it doesn't say what
he wants it to say, he'll just change it and say, well, the Greek. You know, correct
me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they speak Greek in Singapore, where Joseph Prince
is from. And I doubt that he would do very well if we dropped him in Athens without
a tour guide. But he goes, oh, the Greek, the Greek, all these 400 versions, they're
all wrong. It doesn't really mean turning the grace of God into lasciviousness. It
means that you've swapped out the grace of God for lasciviousness. It's a swap.
So basically, preaching the grace of God prevents us from lasciviousness is what
that's, but that's not what that verse is saying. That verse is saying you're turning
the grace of God. You're changing it into lasciviousness. It doesn't say you're swapping
it. And by the way, every English Bible says that. Even the versions that are wrong,
they get that part right at least. He's just coming in with some strange translation.
I mean, it's pretty bad. It's bad enough when you're, when you're shopping Bible
versions until you find the one that says what you want it to say. Shopping version.
You'll see preachers that'll use like five different versions in one sermon because
they shop around for the point that they, it's like people go to keep going to a doctor
until one will give you the oxycodone. Right? You'll find one eventually. Oh, it hurts.
Where does it hurt? Everywhere. Okay, here you go. Oxycodone. There you go. You know,
you'll get, you'll get it if you want, right? So that's the thing. They searched
versions until they find it. This guy, when he can't find it, then he just said, well,
these are all wrong. This is the Greek. He doesn't want to face what this verse teaches
because he's guilty of it because it's about him. And here's how he tries to say it's
not about him. He says, well, these people are teaching the way of Cain and we know
I'm not teaching the way of Cain because I'm, I'm not teaching works at all. We didn't
understand is that this, this, this chapter is warning about lots of different
false prophets that do lots of everything. Look, when he says that they turn the grace
of God into lascivious and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ,
it's not saying that necessarily it's the same person doing both of those things.
It's not necessarily the same person that's in the way of Cain that's teaching the
Gainsang of Korah. These are various types of false doctrine and false things that can be taught.