Let's do some brainstorming here, alright. Everyone wake up, okay. We're gonna, we're
gonna, we're gonna do some brainstorming. Now, Jeroboam has the house of God. He
made a house of God in Bethel and in Dan. Where is the true house of God?
Jerusalem, okay. What does Bethel mean? House of God. Is Bethel the house of God?
No. So Bethel, now the name means house of God, but the house of God is not there.
So finish the sentence for me. Thou hast a name that thou and are dead. So what we
see here is this fake congregation, this fake house of God, this fake church in
Bethel and in Dan trying to take the place of the true house of God. Now
here's the thing, Sardis in Revelation chapter 3, they were actually ahead of
Bethel because they said, you know, Jesus told Sardis and basically told them
like, hey, you know, you can just strengthen the things which remain, which
are ready to die. He's kind of giving them a second chance. The glory of God are
already departed from Bethel. It's gone. The glory of the Lord is in
Jerusalem. That's where he sanctioned it. But you know what? What is Jeroboam doing?
Well, we have Bethel, which means the house of God, so we can cause people to
come here. Now how do we apply that to today? Well, you know, there's a lot of
places out there that call themselves a Baptist. There's a lot of congregations
out there that call themselves a church. There's a lot of congregations out there
that claim to believe the Bible. They have a name that they're living, but
they're actually dead. Why? Because they've already forsaken the right ways
of the Lord. The candles has already gone out. The lamp has been put out in
obscurity. They don't have the power of God in their lives, and God has not
sanctioned that place to be the house of God. How about like the Lutherans?
Well, they literally have trannies preaching the Bible, not even preaching
the Bible, having story time in drag. Folks, they can call themselves a church
all they want. That's not a church. They can call, oh, but we have Bethel on our
name. So what? It's a house of bondage. It's not a true house of God. Having a
name doesn't do anything for you if you don't have God backing you up, okay? But
even then, how about just Baptist churches in general? You know, we're
the first Baptist Church. We're like the first church in this city, you know,
because Bethel was like the first one. Bethel was where, you know, on this earth
where the house of God was first instituted was in Bethel, but you know
what? It's no longer the house of God, even though the name means house of God.
So go to the first Baptist Church of whatever. I guarantee you a lot of those
churches, especially if they're like over a hundred years old or so, they're
probably teaching some false doctrine. That's probably more than likely what's
taking place. So just because you have Baptists on your name of the church, you
know, what's your salvation doctrine? Because if you're teaching a works-based
salvation, if you're saying you have to repent of your sins to be saved, that you
have to do X, Y, and Z, you have to do this, you have to do that. Oh, oh, so what you're
telling me is that the glory of God is departed. Oh, so what you're telling me is
that you're Ichabod Baptist Church, right? It's Ichabod Baptist Church. I don't know
pastor, you know, they got a lot of activity in there. I see people going in,
people coming out. There's a lot of people at the cemetery too. The cemetery
is packed with people. All dead. Doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean a thing.
How about these just these mega churches out there, right? These mega churches, you
know, whether it's Mariners Church, which is by my house, you know, Greg
Laurie. Who else? Who's another? What? Who? Dream Center? Oh, man. Filthy dreamers, you
know, that Dream Center, that's the one in LA, right? How can you say
that about that? Because of the fact that even though they have a name that they're
living, they're actually dead folks. How dare you pass judgment? I dare to pass
judgment, yes. Absolutely. Because this is not here on accident, folks. What it's
showing us is that there's a bunch of fraudulent phony congregations out there
that claim to believe in the Bible. You know, they claim to have Baptists or they
have church or they're of Jesus and all these other things, but when you look at
the Bible that they use, it's not a King James. They use some NIV or ESV, some
modern perversion of the Word of God. You know, their salvation doctrine's off.
They don't believe in the Trinity or they don't go soul winning. I mean, you
can meet together all you want. You can ordain, by the way, a lot of these places
ordain some of the lowest people. Get a lot of unqualified people to run those
churches. You can call it a church. You can get a large following. You can get a
lot of people to come to that building and have all kinds of activities and all
types of Sunday school classes and preach sermons. It doesn't mean it's the
house of God.