you
Then buns said Koresh claimed all marriages in the group were dissolved
And that all of the women would be his wives if he wanted them
Even though Koresh was legally married to one woman
So he said hey everyone in this compound needs to embrace celibacy and by the way all of your women are now my wives
Why because he's the son of God because he's apparently King David
Then it says David creches justification for taking all of the women for himself was theological
He's the one that had the power. He's the one that had the authority
Adding that if he was to have physical relationship with a woman that she was now in the house of David
And so is this really special thing for the women to get into the house of David?
There were allegations from some of creches followers that it wasn't just the adult women he wanted
But he also pursued several of their daughters some of whom were teens or even younger
Kerry jewel who told ABC News in a 2003 interview that her mother Sherry was one of creches wives
She said herself became creches youngest bride when she was just 10 years old and
Later testified before Congress that creche molested her at a motel by Jules account
Cres had as many as 20 wives by the time that he died then this person said it's sick
It's perverted and yeah
It's one of the things about David creche that probably bothers me the most my position now is that David crash was a pedophile
And I wish I would have done something. I don't know what I would have done, but I wish I would have done something
I'll call it a cult
That's what it is
It's people doing things that they wouldn't normally do like giving up their wives and letting their kids be with adults in a physical way
Which is crazy, but that's what you do when you're in a cult
He said someone says they have authority and then impose upon your rules and restrictions and expectations
And it gets down into your soul, and it really screws you
now
Does anyone get the impression after hearing this that these are Christians?
That these are Bible believing Christians that these are good people okay yet
What's so weird about the whole Waco situation is that there's a lot of people in the truth movement and even people that would call
themselves Christians and conservatives that would look at these people as
Victims and that would make excuses for them and that would defend them
But obviously just by that alone if you do any level of research in these people they were sick
Sick twisted individuals
this is the definition of a cult David crash is like the definition of a false prophet and
What are some spiritual lessons that we can learn from this and before I get into my first point by the way?
There's this documentary made by Alex Jones, and it's called
America wake up or Waco now Alex Jones said in this documentary that he believes these people were good
God fearing people
So after hearing all those things that I just read to you that was Alex Jones's conclusion of the people in Waco that they
Were good God fearing people and he actually went out of his way to rebuild the compound in Waco
And there's now a church that stands in Mount Carmel, and you know who built it Alex Jones
Alex Jones built this church and his whole documentary is just like you know everyone clap for Alex Jones because he made he rebuilt a
Church for a cult okay, and we're supposed to get excited about this
We're supposed to you know feel bad for the branch Davidians
It's like the only time in history that I was like rooting for the ATF
It's like I'm as Pro Second Amendment as it comes
It's like if I'm rooting for the ATF you know these people are bad, okay?
But here's the first lesson the first spiritual lesson that we can learn from this group is that God wants us to fight a spiritual
Battle before we get to second Peter chapter 2 go to Ephesians chapter number 6 Ephesians chapter number 6 because the branch
Davidians mentality David crushes mentality was hey, we're gonna amount amass all these guns
We're gonna make grenades, and we're gonna have all of these machine guns, and it's not because they wanted to defend themselves
It's not because you know they were just you know believing in the Second Amendment
It was because he was telling his congregation to prepare for war
Physically speaking and he said that basically the book of Revelation
Revelation teaches that how that compounds end is going to be is in a physical fight with the US government
Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy
It's like hey
I'm gonna violate all these super serious federal laws on bombs and machine guns and grenades and then just tell my congregation
Yeah, we're gonna end in a bloody fight with the government, and that's what the Bible teaches is what he said
So what did he believe in he believed in having a physical fight, but what does the Bible say Ephesians chapter number 6?
Verse 10 the Bible says finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might
Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil
Notice verse 12 for we wrestle not
against flesh and blood
What is flesh and blood just human beings in the Bible saying hey look our fight our wrestling our struggle?
It's not with other human beings physically speaking. We're not gonna go punch people in the face for Christ
We're not gonna go shoot people for Christ
We're not gonna go build a compound and fight the ATF and the FBI for Christ
That's not what the Bible says the Bible says we fight we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities
Against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world and see the naysayers would say well
You don't understand the principalities that is the FBI all the rulers of this world that is the ATF
That is the US government, but hold on keep reading it says against
Spiritual wickedness in high places
That is really the enemy that we're facing is a spiritual enemy
It's not actually physical flesh and blood that we're gonna go fight a physical war against no
It's a spiritual war wherefore
Notice he says because of this take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand
Withstand in the evil day and having done all to stay to stand notice
He doesn't say hey because of this you know gird on
The body armor and gird on it's your m16 conversion kit and convert it to a machine gun
Hey, let's order all this black powder all this powdered aluminum all this magnesium in these empty grenade cases
For Christ no that's not at all what the Bible says yet
That's what they were doing and he was explicitly telling his congregation. Hey, we need to fight a physical fight
That's not what the Bible says now. Here's the thing I'm all about self-defense
Obviously I'm all for carrying guns. I'm all for the Second Amendment in fact
I don't even think any of the weapons that they had on that compound should be illegal
I think that citizens should be able to own any type of firearm any type of weapon, but here's the thing I am
Against saying that we should use weapons in a physical fight against the government. That's what I'm against hey
I'm all for defending yourself
I'm all for using deadly physical force when someone's trying to kill you when someone's trying to create
Great bodily harm to you or your family or someone you love that's fine, but what's wrong is when you say hey
Let's fight against the government
And there's people like this that are Christians that think that we need to go fight some sort of physical fight against the government
That's not gonna fix anything and that never goes well for anyone
Fighting that type of fight as a Christian. That's not what God wants you to do, but here's the thing we are
Actually in a real fight
We are according to the Bible go to 2nd Timothy chapter number 2 according to the Bible we are actual
Real soldiers in an actual real army, but here's the thing it's a spiritual army
We're spiritual soldiers. It doesn't make it any less real. No. We are really in a fight
We are really in a war. We are really soldiers. Okay, but we're not physically in a war
We're not physically in a fight. We're not physically soldiers notice 2nd Timothy chapter number 2 verse 3
It says thou therefore endure hardness notice what the Bible calls us as a good soldier of Jesus Christ
No, man that warth entanglement himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who hath chosen
Him to be a soldier so notice the Bible says hey, we are soldiers. We're in a real war
We are in a real fight and guess what our fight has real consequences
Just like a physical word war does but I would say that the stakes are even higher in our war than in a physical fight
You know in a physical fight. What's at stake money?
land
Assets stuff like that, but what's at stake in the spiritual fight people's eternal souls where they will spend eternity
Causing people to grow in the Lord and to affect the next generations that come after us to get churches started all this
You know there's a lot that goes on in the spiritual fight, and that is more important. It's more impactful
It has higher stakes than any physical fight, but you want to know what there's a lot of people that are super carnal
And that's why they want to fight a carnal battle you want to know why David crash?
Wanted to fight a carnal battles because he couldn't understand any of the spiritual
You want to know why there's people like Alex Jones or just some of these you know real right-wing extremists that really want to fight
a physical war the reason that they're doing that is because they are carnal and they don't understand that we are in a
Spiritual war, but think about that you shouldn't you shouldn't be like oh well
It's kind of less cool to be in a spiritual war than it is a physical war no because we actually still are soldiers and
Think about this how would you live your life if you woke up tomorrow, and you were going to be in a physical war
How would you live your life if tomorrow you woke up, and you were going to be a physical soldier going to combat?
I'll tell you how I'd be living my life. I'd be waking up super early in the morning, and I'd be training okay
I'd be reading enemy intelligence and getting as much knowledge and understanding as I could I would know my orders
Inside and out so that I could prioritize and execute those orders
I would be making sure that we have good leadership and good
Teamwork and good camaraderie so that we can get our mission done, right?
These are the types of things that I'd be doing if I was in a physical war
But how many people take the spiritual war that we're in that seriously
How many people are reading the intelligence how many people are getting the orders how many people are out there?
Training how many people are out there waking up early and working hard for God?
Right, but you want to know why a lot of people aren't doing that is because they're carnal
That's why because if you knew you'd have bullets flying at you tomorrow. You would take it real seriously real fast
Every single person in here would take it seriously, but yet the the spiritual battle that we're in is way more important
The consequences are way higher the stakes are higher
and you know what we should treat our lives as Christians as if we are in a constant war because we are and
Look at how soldiers you know look at how soldiers live their lives look at how they train and apply that spiritually
You know some of these guys these special forces guys. They're just like incredible human beings from a carnal perspective
I mean, they're waking up early. They're working out
They're super intelligent right a lot of these special forces guys are just like crazy from a carnal perspective
Well like apply what they do carnally to the spiritual life, and you'll be a great Christian
You'll be a great soldier for Jesus Christ now. Here's the thing of course someday
Someday the battle will be physical
Someday Jesus Christ is gonna come back on the white horse, and he's gonna be stacking bodies, but guess what he's the one doing the fighting
Anyways, we're just watching and cheering right hey someday
There will be a physical Kingdom of God on this earth where we are physically
Reigning with Jesus Christ where Jesus is gonna physically rule the nations with a rod of iron
Hey, that's the time that you get in the physical fight, but even then guess what it's still spiritual
Because it's still regarding the Lord Jesus Christ. It's still regarding God's commandments
We're always gonna be in a spiritual fight, but right now. It truly is a spiritual fight that we're in now
Here's the thing I'm not against prepping okay. Go to Proverbs chapter number 27 because these people
They kind of get attacked for for some good reasons and some reasons that are a little bit misguided
Some some people want to act like any level of prepping is bad any level of prepping is not trusting Lord or something like that
But look at Proverbs chapter number 27 verse 12
It says a prudent man foreseeeth the evil and hideeth himself
But the simple pass on and are punished someone that's prudent. Hey, they could foresee
Harm coming their way they could prepare for that and guess what they're not going to be punished
I'll give you a good example
I spent a large part of my life in Idaho and
Every single person that lives there prepares for the winter
when there was that big shutdown in the winter of 2020 here in Texas and
Everyone's losing their mind that doesn't happen in Idaho because everyone's ready everyone's got water
Everyone's got their propane stove everyone's got the wood right the power goes out. It's no factor. No big deal
We're used to it it happens right, but when you're not prepared whoa evil is coming upon you right, so it's it's okay to have a
level of prudence and
Intelligence to say hey there could be evil situations that happen in life. We should prepare for those things right
Nothing wrong with
Saving for an emergency having a saving account and say in case there's emergency right there's nothing wrong with
Having a little bit of food a little bit of water
But obviously you know if you're if that's consuming your life
That's taking precedent over your spiritual walk with God
That's where it crosses into the line of not being prudent and possibly even being sinful in my opinion Proverbs 21 verse 31 says this
The horse is prepared against the day of battle, but safety is of the Lord
So does God want us to be prepared absolutely right? You know we're talking about battle. We're talking about warfare
God wants us to be prepared for this warfare
So what does that look like that looks like actually knowing the Word of God right that looks like actually memorizing scripture
Knowing how to preach the gospel to someone so when that opportunity when that spiritual battle comes your way
Hey, the horse is prepared for that battle right, but of course safety is of the Lord
We know that there is a supernatural element coming from God giving us safety, but that doesn't mean that we don't prepare
Think about this on a physical perspective, okay, okay?
Hey, we're talking about protecting ourselves. You know a lot of people carry guns to protect themselves. I hope you prepare
I hope you train. I hope you know how to use that thing not just like oh, I bought it
And that's good enough. It's like no. That's not good enough you actually
you
we go soul-winning because we read the Bible let the world hate us for those things
But it shouldn't be because of sin it shouldn't be because you're doing a bunch of weird stuff, but notice Titus chapter number two
Verse 11 it says this for the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men
Teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts. We should live soberly
Righteously and godly notice this word in
This present world
So does the Bible say hey go out in the middle of nowhere have a little compound cult where you could be away from all?
The ungodliness and worldly lust and you could be sober and righteous
No
He's saying be in the world and be away from the ungodliness and the sinfulness and the lust hey still be in the world
But live according to God's commandments still live amongst unsaved people, but you live according to God's commandments
That's what the Bible teaches
It doesn't teach us to completely separate ourselves have our own little compound or anything like that physically speaking
That's not what the Bible teaches
Go to John chapter number 17 John chapter number 17
This is a famous prayer where Jesus Christ is praying to God the Father and we get to see inside of the heart of the
Lord Jesus Christ as he's praying to his father look at verse number 18 of John 17
Notice what Jesus said as thou hast sent me notice this
Into the world even so have I also sent them into the world
So did Jesus go live on a compound in Waco, Texas?
How many of the cattle could he be rebuked out there, you know, how many of the chickens could he have gotten saved out there?
That's ridiculous. Right? No, Jesus was in the the wolf's den. He's going in the synagogues. He's withstanding people to the face
He's turning the world upside down
That's what Jesus did he went into the world and in the same way Jesus sent us into the world verse 19 and for their
Sakes, I sanctify myself that they also might be sanctified through the truth
Neither pray I for these alone speaking of the Apostles, but for them also which shall believe on me
Through their word. So the Lord Jesus Christ actually prayed for us that are in this room right now because he's saying
I'm not just praying for these safe people right now
but also all the people that get saved by their word and
The people that get saved by their word and the people get saved by their work all the way down to every Christian
That's here today
Jesus was praying the same prayer for you individually in this room verse 21 that they all may be one as
Thou father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in
Us let me take a quick, you know commercial break on oneness real fast
Where people will teach that Jesus is the Father and Father is Jesus Holy Spirit is Jesus and they're just all one
Person. Well, here's the thing. He's saying I want all these Christians to be noticed one as
Meaning in the same way and like manner thou father art in me and I in thee that they also may be noticed one in
Us so he's saying look I want these Christians to be one in the same
Manner in the same way that you and I Lord are one right now. Am I James Perry am
I evangelist or bannock am I pastor Shelley?
No, and pastor Shelley's not Dylan Oz Duncan urbanic is not Dylan Oz that's stupidity, right?
But that is what literally oneness Pentecostals believe about Jesus and the Father but how are we one we're unified
With our mission we're unified. We have the same goals. We have the same commander
We have the same orders. We're executing those same orders. We're in the same army, right? That's how we're one and
What is that mission that we have?
Notice in verse 21 the last part of this he's saying why do I want these people to be one notice that the world may?
Believe that thou has sent me and what happens when someone believes on Jesus Christ they get saved
So what is Jesus's desire for this world is that Christians would be sent into the world?
Just like Jesus Christ was sent into the world and that we would be one like him and the Father are one
The same army were the same team why that the world may believe on Jesus Christ
That's why to get people saved
That is our mission verse 22 in the glory which thou gave us me. I have given them that they may be one
Even as we are one so look the Lord Jesus Christ
What is his heart's desire its soul-winning that's his desire, that's why we're on this earth
That's why God hasn't taken you home yet is because he wants you to win people to Christ
He wants you to get people saved
He doesn't want you to just separate from the world away from anyone you could possibly get saved and live in the middle of
Nowhere the outskirts of Waco, Texas and start building bombs
That's not God's will for your life. That is ridiculous
But you know you know what the people that want to do this they want to do it for a selfish reason
Because they don't have the same heart that Jesus Christ has where they want to see the world safe
All they want to do is care about themselves and from a selfish perspective
Does it sound great to be in the middle of nowhere? Yeah, it does
Right because this world is getting jacked up and there's crime everywhere and there's sodomites everywhere
And our president craps his pants and can't even speak okay
I get it. It's like I want to go in the middle of nowhere sometimes
I want to get out of this crazy rat race, but why are we here? It's so that people will believe on Jesus Christ
Otherwise it's all pointless. What's the point of living in Houston, Texas? What's the point of living in Dallas, Texas?
What's the point of going to church? What's the point of even living if it's not to get people saved there is no point?
It's vain
read
Ecclesiastes our life carnally speaking is meaningless
Why do you think the world is costly asking this question?
What's the meaning of life because they'll never ever ever find it without getting saved and without realizing what our mission is
That's the meaning of life
So don't be like the people in Waco and go build a compound or move out in the middle of nowhere now
Here's the thing if you can live in the country and still go to church and still preach the gospel
Still read your Bible still pray and still provide for your family. There's nothing in the world wrong with that, right?
I mean outside outside of the DFW metro
There's people that live in the country and come to church three times a week and they're great soul winners
There's nothing in the world wrong with it. And hey, like if I could do that, I would do that too
Okay, but I'm never gonna sacrifice serving God. I'm never gonna sacrifice preaching the gospel
I'm never gonna sacrifice my mission that I was given by Jesus Christ to just serve myself
And my flesh out in the middle of the country. That's not what God has called us to do
What has he called us to do go to Matthew chapter number 28. Let's read the Great Commission here
Matthew 28 everyone knows it verse number 18 and
Jesus came and spake unto them saying all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth
Go ye therefore and teach all nations
Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever. I've commanded you and lo I am with you always even unto the end of the world
Amen
Notice what is Jesus's command? What is our commanders orders to us? It's to go into all the world
Not just one place not just move out in the middle of the country and just hope that people come to you
No, we need to go to
Houston we need to go to Dallas. We need to go to the small towns around that
We need to go to other states. We need to go to the other countries. Amen
We need to go to the Bahamas next week and bring them the gospel
We need to bring the light of Jesus Christ to this whole world. Why why would we do that?
because God told us to
because this is our orders from God and I'm not gonna think for one second that David Koresh and the
Stupid people that followed him are real Christians when they're just completely disobeying God's commandment to go into all the world
They're really just living for themselves
They're living to fulfill their own lust and that's all David Koresh cared about was his flesh and fulfilling his sick
Twisted lust and you know what people like David Koresh give Christians a bad name
Because you know what? I bet I bet you he used the King James Bible
I haven't looked into that to know for sure but someone fact-checked me on that after the sermon
I bet you he used the King James Bible, you know, all the women in the compound they wore skirts and dresses
Right. So there's a lot of similarity. I mean he's pro Second Amendment. That's for sure, right?
But you know, he just makes us look bad because he's a fake version of Christianity. He's a false prophet
I'll read for you Romans 8 28
Says this we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called
According to his purpose. Here's the thing
Even if the world is collapsing around us
Even if America is a nation in decline
Even if there's crime everywhere and sodomites everywhere and you look around the city's dirty and there's needles and their shootings
There's all this crazy stuff going on
God can still work that out for good for you and your life when you love God and when you keep his commandments
But you know what? You can go hide in the country all you want
This promise isn't going to apply for to you. If you don't love God
God will just send a bear to destroy your house and destroy you
God can still destroy you and curse your life no matter where you try to hide on this earth
But no matter what dirty city you're in no matter what kind of high crime rate is going on
God can still work that out for you for good and God can still bless you if you're keeping his commandments
So I'd rather be in the most cramped dirty city in the world winning people to Christ than being in a peaceful
You know being wherever this is undisclosed location in Idaho. It looks like Idaho what's going on here?
Go to actually let me have you turn to 2nd Chronicles
I'm sorry Titus keep your place in Titus chapter number 2
I want to read for you a couple verses James 4 14 says whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow
For what is your life?
It is even a vapor that appearth for a little time and then vanish it away
You know Bible describes our life as a vapor
It's just there for one second and it's gone never to be seen again
Our lives are extremely extremely short and what are you gonna do with that vapor of a life that you have?
He's gonna say oh, I just spent it in the woods
I just spent it out in the country doing absolutely nothing but trying to please my flesh or did you do it?
Or did you live your life winning people to Christ?
Fulfilling the Great Commission doing something that actually has eternal value
Actually being a real soldier in a real war and actually kicking some spiritual butt out there doing something. That's real
Right, you know preaching against the sodomites and getting protested that's the real battle, right?
That's the real war a lot of Christians don't want to get in on that war today. Do they?
I'll read for you 2nd Chronicles 7 14 says if my people which are called by my name
Shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways
Then will I fit here from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land
You know God's people that are actually doing these things are actually humbling themselves praying seeking God's face
Keeping his commandments soul-winning going to church
We are the people that are actually keeping God's wrath off of our nation because if God's people weren't there being the salt
What's to stop God from nuking this thing tomorrow?
What's to stop God from ending this thing tomorrow if no one's out there preaching the gospel if everyone's out there just pleasing themselves
In the mountains in the woods in the country, there'd be no point
The point is hey
We're actually keeping God's wrath off of America by doing what God has called us to do and of course someday
It's all going to come to an end someday
God's long-suffering is going to expire, but I believe God's going to be more merciful to our nation when God's people
Actually obey his commandments and do what he's told us to do
Here is the third spiritual lesson that we can learn from this branch Davidian cult is that the qualifications of a pastor?
Are there for a reason?
They are there for a reason now. Here's the thing. I'm not a pastor
No one in this room is a pastor, but this is in our Bible for a reason
Because even people that are not pastors and will never be pastors should know the qualifications of a pastor
Why because you should be following a pastor and you should be following a pastor that?
Matches what the Bible says a pastor should be not David Koresh
Not
This weird pedophile
Antichrist in the middle of Texas that takes all your money and all your women and all your kids
What kind of an idiot are you it's someone that's never read the qualifications of a pastor
I'll tell you that go to Titus chapter number 2
Titus 2 verse 5 let's start reading it says this for this cause
Left I thee in Crete that thou should have said in order the things that are wanting and ordained
Elders in every city as I had appointed here's the qualifications of a pastor if any be blameless
husband of one wife
Having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly, so let's talk about this word blameless
Okay, and let's think about David Koresh was David Koresh someone that was blameless
Well way before this whole siege ever took place David Koresh actually was charged with attempted murder
Because he was in some sort of fight over who's going to take leadership of this cult and
Ended up getting in a shootout with the rival person and that person survived
And he was charged with attempted murder and the case basically ended because of judicial mistrial
You know the court messed up did something wrong the prosecution
Maybe just did something that wasn't according to the rules and so basically he didn't even have to face any consequences for that
He wasn't officially declared guilty or innocent or anything. It was just a mistrial
And here's the thing of course there are people that
Are innocent that get ruled guilty in court of course that exists and of course we should give people the benefit of the doubt
You should be innocent until proven guilty in America
But here's the thing you should probably check if you're gonna follow a man of God
Into the story of back when he was charged with attempted murder
That's something you should probably get some more details on and and search that out and see if that was true
If there's any merit to that because if that's true
That's not someone you should be going to church and following amen. I mean that's pretty simple. That's pretty obvious
How about this it says the husband of one wife, okay?
He told every single person in his compound about a hundred people
Hey all of your marriages basically are absolved you all need to be celibate and all the women are mine
And these idiots said sure if you're the son of God if you're the prophet
Why not why did they do such a foolish thing because they didn't know the qualifications of a pastor
Because the Bible says that you're supposed to be the husband of one wife
Now obviously David Koresh is an extreme example of this right just saying I'm just gonna take all these wives
But how many people go to churches where the pastor is divorced and remarried?
That's the same thing
That is a sin in the sight of God and that person is not qualified to be a pastor
So why would you go to the church of someone that's not qualified to be a pastor?
Why would you go to Greg Locke's church just because he's a conservative?
Just because he makes the news sometimes when he committed adultery with the secretary and got married to her
You know it's people that again. They don't care about the qualifications of a pastor, but I'm telling you they're there for a reason
God is trying to protect his flock
Saying hey, don't just listen to any person that tells you. I'm a man of God
I'm a pastor follow my lead no
There's things that we can look at and see does this person's life match what the scripture says and if it doesn't
You don't follow that person
Period end of story check your feelings at the door check your heart at the door
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding
God loves us he's given us his word for a reason he wants to protect us
Okay, verse 7 for a bishop must be blameless so the Bible repeats that one twice as the steward of God not
Self-willed not soon angry not given to wine no striker not given to filthy lucre
One of the qualifications is not to be self-willed. What does it mean to be self-willed?
It means that I just do whatever I want I preach whatever my heart thinks I make rules of just whatever
I think right person that's self-willed. They're not submitting to God's authority
They're not submitting to the any authority in their life really now
What could be more self-willed than just saying I just want to take every woman unto me
Just because I want my flesh wants that that's a self-willed person obviously someone that would just disregard
God's commandments and do something so sick in fact. He's so self-willed. This is a quote from him. He said this
If the Bible is true, then I am Christ
Talk about being self-willed and what kind of logic is that anyways if the Bible's true. I am Christ what?
What kind of stupid people followed him?
People that obviously didn't read the Bible people that obviously were carnal people that obviously weren't safe
How self-willed do you have to be to change your name from Vernon Howell to David Koresh? I mean, that's your self-will
I'm just gonna rename myself. I'm King David just cuz I thought so just cuz I wanted to be
How about not soon angry well how about getting in a shootout with someone over disputed leadership in a church
That's not self-defense. That's not you being attacked
He showed up in all camo fatigues with his face painted with four or five other dudes with rifles
To go have a physical fight with this guy
That's soon angry obviously
first eight
But a lover of hospitality a lover of good men sober just holy temper it does that sound like David crash to you
No
Verse 9 holding fast the faithful word as he have been taught that he may be able by sound doctrine
Both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers
Hey anyone who's actually ever read the faithful word knows that David crash is not preaching it
He's not having any sound doctrine
It's all things coming out of his heart as nothing what the Bible actually says where does the Bible say that?
Revelation is about the ATF having a physical war with people in Waco Bible doesn't say that
again
Not meeting the qualifications of a pastor
And the reason why you want to know why Alex Jones says that these are good
God-fearing people you want to know why a bunch of conservatives say all these poor little Christians these poor
Victims in Waco, Texas that were just murdered by the FBI and murdered by the ATF if it could happen to them
It can happen to us you want to know why people think that's because they don't read the Bible
Because they are thinking that these are Christians. They are thinking that these are normal people
No
The reason why false prophets like David crash existed and exists today is because people empower them to exist
Why is it that David crash had a compound and was able to have all this it's because idiots went to his church
Because stupid people empowered this sick freak. That's why he existed and why is it that any false prophet exists today?
it's because people empower them to do this because if people actually read the Bible and
Saw if the preacher was holding fast the faithful word as he had been taught and actually speaking good doctrine
They would be able to discern between someone that's a false prophet and someone that's not but because people aren't spiritual because people aren't
Reading the Bible they're empowering people like David crash to exist
Look at 2nd Timothy chapter number 4
2nd Timothy chapter number 4
Why did someone like this exist how did this happen verse 3 of 2nd Timothy?
Chapter 4 says for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine
But after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears
They shall be they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto tables, you know people
Believe what they want to believe people hear what they want to hear and if someone wants to be lied to
There's going to be someone that's ready to lie to you. You want someone to preach you false doctrine
Hey, there's someone ready to take your money and preach you false doctrine
You you don't want to hear God's Word. You don't want to hear the hard things in the Bible the truth of God
Hey, there's someone that's ready to take your wife your kids your money and tell you any lies you want to hear, right?
Hey, you want to hear what you want to hear? You're gonna get it then you're gonna get it and these people got
exactly what they deserve
Now obviously the children are innocent these poor kids that died in this compound
They're completely innocent and you know what it might be God's mercy that these children died
You want to know why because if those children had grown up and survived you think that they would have gotten saved
You think that they would have been receptive to God's Word after the spiritual and physical abuse that they were getting by David Koresh
And maybe it was God's mercy that these kids actually died in the fire
But you know what the reason that happened was because it was exactly
What those people asked for how do they ask for it because they wanted to be lied to
Because they wanted to keep teachers to themselves having itching ears. They wanted their doctrinal itch scratched whatever that was
They wanted to fight against the government. They wanted to get in that physical fight
They wanted to live in the middle of nowhere and not have a job and be lazy not actually contribute to society
And so they got exactly what they asked for by following a false prophet
2nd Timothy chapter 4 verse 2 says this
Preach the word the instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long
suffering and doctrine that's the real that's the real
Instructions to a preacher is hey preach everything, you know rebuke people reprove people exhort people
You're not always going to be making people like you you're not always gonna be telling people exactly what they want to hear
But as a preacher of God's Word, you should always be submitting to this
Not being self-willed and you should never follow any preacher that is self-willed and that does not submit to what the Bible says
Want to know why we're not a cult because we don't follow any man as our final authority
This is our final authority if you want to say that we're a cult of Jesus. Sure
Go ahead. Call us a cult of Jesus
You want to say hey, we're a cult of the Bible?
Sure
Because the Bible is our final authority and how is it that Jesus actually in practice is the head of any church?
Because he's the Word of God and if the Word of God is the head of your church
that's how you're actually following Jesus Christ, but hey following a man and
following his doctrine and his ideas and his thoughts above what the Bible says that actually is a cult and
People want to falsely accuse us of being a cult
But let me tell you what most new evangelical churches are
Closer to a cult than this church has ever even thought about being why because they're saying well you can't trust this
You have to listen to me tell you what the Greek says you have to listen to my
Earthly understanding of Greek and Hebrew and I'll tell you what the Bible really says because you can't trust this you can't understand this
Hey, that's the cult
Hey
You could believe every single word in your King James Bible and if anything that ever comes behind this pulpit doesn't match up with the
Bible says the Bible's right and the preacher's wrong. There you go. That's always the case
and
Here's the thing Koresh, David Koresh, this is an extreme example right of a false prophet, but the truth is
Every false prophet harms people in different degrees
But every false prophet harms people and here's my fourth point is that when you follow a wicked person
You are putting yourself and your family in grave danger
When you follow someone that's evil when you follow someone that's wicked when you follow someone that's a false prophet
You are putting yourself in a bad situation and you're getting yourself into something you may not realize how horrible a situation you're getting into
You think these people knew that they would end their lives in a fiery death and a 51-day standoff with the ATF and the FBI
The largest law enforcement endeavor of ATF history in the middle of Waco, Texas
You think these people knew that that would happen?
No, but the truth is when you follow a wicked person you are putting yourself in a dangerous situation
Because here's the thing you want to know why?
25
precious innocent little kids died
Exactly 30 years ago yesterday
Was it the FBI's fault? No. Was it the ATF's fault? No. Was it God's fault? No.
Was it David Koresh's fault? No.
It was the people that empowered David Koresh. It was their fault. That's why that happened
That's why there was 25 dead kids
That's why that 51-day standoff happened is because a bunch of idiots a bunch of self-willed people that didn't care about the Bible
Empowered a wicked person and does he bear responsibility? You better bet he does
He's burning in the lowest hell right now, but those people also bear the blame
Because they enabled him now go to Proverbs chapter number one
We're gonna go to a lot of verses in Proverbs here
Remember this point is that when you follow a wicked person you're putting yourself in serious danger
Now there's a report called the report of the Department of Treasury on the ATF investigation David crash
and on page 27
One of the former cult members was interviewed and said this quote
cult members surrendered all their assets meaning money to crash and
Permitted him to have physical relations with all the female members of the cult. Okay, Proverbs chapter number one. Look at verse 10
My son if sinners entice thee consent thou not if they say come with us. Let us lay wait for blood
Let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause let us swallow them up alive as the grave and whole as those that go down
Into the pit we shall find all precious substance. We shall fill our houses with spoil
Cast in thy lot among us notice let us all have one purse is what crash did. Hey, give me all your money
We're all just gonna have one purse here. Give it all to me. I mean the Bible
This is the Word of God right here so applicable to every situation
Let us all have one purse those little Bible says my son walk not thou with them in the way
Refrain thy foot from their path for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood
So hey the people that follow David crash they were in violation of the Bible
they disobeyed God's Word by following David crash so they bear part of the responsibility for that and
They put themselves in danger
They put themselves in a terrible situation because they didn't listen to what Proverbs chapter 1 said look at Proverbs chapter number 14
Proverbs chapter number 14
We'll see if the Bible matches my point that if you follow a wicked person you're putting yourself in danger
Proverbs 14 look at verse 11. It says the house of the wicked shall be overthrown
Isn't that exactly what happened to that compound? It was overthrown
The house of the wicked was overthrown, but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish
Proverbs 14 15 the simple believeth every word. I'm God. I'm Christ
I'm King David. Give me all your wives. Give me all your money
You fool you idiot you simple person that believes every word God warned you not to be that way
But the prudent man looketh well to is going like actually opening up Titus opening up first Timothy and saying what is the
Qualifications of a pastor that's looking well to you're going a wise man fearth and departed from evil
the wise man goes to the first service there and saying what in the literal hell is
This place and you depart from evil
Right and then guess what those people don't burn in a fiery death in a fight with the ATF and FBI
Imagine how that works
Proverbs chapter 4 flip back Proverbs chapter 4 verse 14
Says enter not into the path of the wicked go not in the way of evil men avoid it pass not by it
Turn from it and pass away
Why because they sleep not except they have done mischief and their sleep is taken unless they cause
Some to fall don't even go in the path of the wicked don't even go in the same way as them if your neighbor
If you own the house, that's neighboring the compound you need to sell your house and get away from that
Get away from the evil man get away from the wicked
Proverbs chapter 10 verse 6
Blessings are upon the head of the just but violence
Covereth the mouth of the wicked and that's exactly what happened to David crushed violence covered his mouth
Violence took him violence finished him Proverbs 11 verse 21 Proverbs 11 verse 21 though hand join in hand
You know though a hundred people have machine guns though a hundred people have grenades though a hundred people have 50 caliber sniper rifles
Though hand join in hand the wicked shall not be unpunished
But the seed of the righteous shall be delivered
The wicked was absolutely punished that day 30 years ago in Waco, Texas
And you know what? They shouldn't have been joining hands with the wicked the people that suffered that death
They shouldn't have been joining hands with the wicked. They shouldn't have been in the path of the wicked
They shouldn't have been there Proverbs 12 7 it says the wicked are
overthrown and are not but the house of the righteous shall
Stand are you starting to get the picture here? Does it sound like the Bible saying?
Hey, it sounds like a great idea to hang around wicked people to be around it
No, the Bible over over saying please don't be around these people. Their house is gonna be overthrown. They're gonna be destroyed
Violence is gonna cover their mouth
And so what happens when you're hanging around that person when you're around them all the time, you're gonna suffer the same fate
You're gonna suffer the same fate
And so the people that empower false prophets even other false prophets than David crash, okay
You want to follow Joel Osteen? Well, guess what? He's going to hell and so are you?
Right. You want to follow the Pope? He's going to hell and so are you?
You're gonna have the same
punishment and
It's like it's not like these people didn't have any red flags
Okay
Okay attempted murder
You are seventh-day Adventist that's already a red flag a cult member of a seventh-day Adventist
You tell everyone to give you all their assets you tell all the marriages to be celibate you take all the women to yourself
You're with children
physically
You're taking kids away from families giving them to other families
It's not like these people didn't have any warning not like they didn't know what was going on
And when you watch interviews of the people that survived this cult they are stupid people
They're scum some of them even still defend it defend David crash to this day
And you know
These are the people that Alex Jones is calling good
God-fearing Christians and these are the people that the truth movement is saying all the FBI and the ATF
They murdered them. Shut up. I
Wouldn't have cared if the FBI dropped a bomb on that place
honestly
What why did four ATF agents have to die? Why did people have to lose their dad?
Why did people have to lose their brother? Why did people have to lose their husband for these sick?
Freaks that didn't care about God's Word that let their children be fodder to a wolf that let their wives be
Fodder to a wolf. I don't feel bad for these people. I don't feel I'm not sad at all that this happened now
Of course, I'm sad for the children that were innocent died. But like I said, that was probably God being merciful to them anyways
So
Don't come to me with this, you know right-wing garbage that the FBI started the fire
I don't believe that for one second because you're gonna tell me a guy that's so sick
To do all these things that we're talking about isn't sick enough to murder his entire people and to commit mass suicide
I mean hello
There's anyone on the earth that would do this it'd be David crash and on top of that you have FBI
That implanted listening devices in the wall and they're like, hey, have you poured the gas yet?
Oh, I'm over here pouring the gas
What more do you need look?
Look, there are conspiracies that are legit, but you should look into everything. Not everything is fake
Not everything is real
Okay, there's things that are false flags or things that are lies did the ATF
Do things that are wrong?
Absolutely. Did they lie and cover up certain things that happen tactically?
Absolutely, but it's like just because one conspiracy is true doesn't mean that everything is just fake
Okay, you have to actually look into things you have to actually study things and not just say okay
Well, you know 9-eleven
so therefore the moon doesn't exist and the earth is flat and no one's ever been to space and
The FBI murdered a bunch of kids in Waco, Texas. No, that's ridiculous. I don't believe that for one second
There are consequences back back to the sermon here go to go to Hosea chapter number four there is actual consequences for being stupid
There are consequences for being a fool. There are consequences for being simple and just believing every word
There's consequences for this Hosea chapter number four look at verse six
Says this my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge
Wow, is that not true that not true that these people that were just they had no knowledge and no understanding
They were just stupid. They were they were simple and they were destroyed just because thou hast rejected knowledge
I will also reject thee that thou shalt be no priest to me seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God
I will also forget thy children
Wow, that is a serious statement. That's a hard statement
But what happened to the children of those people in Waco?
It's not a pleasant thing to say
But it's the truth. Look at what the Bible say verse 7 as they were increased so they sinned against me
Therefore will I change their glory into shame?
They eat up the sin of my people and they set their heart on their iniquity and there shall be notice like people
like priests and I will punish them for their ways and
Reward them for their doings. He's saying hey you want to reject me?
You want to reject my commandments you want to reject my warnings you want to reject Christianity? Okay?
I'll give you someone just like you David crash
You don't want to care what the Bible says
You don't want to care about anything that God has already warned you about. Here's David crash for you
Like people like priests. Okay. Oh, you don't care about the Bible. You just want to be patted on the back. Here's Joel Osteen. Oh
You know, you're a racist black person that hates all white people, you know, here's the what are those churches called in Dallas the
Hebrew roots black. Yeah, Israel Hebrew roots people. Yeah, exactly. You know what I'm talking about
I called one of those churches and asked if I could attend if I'm white and they straight-up said no, right?
Hey, you just want to be a stupid racist black person. There you go. Here's the churches for you, right?
God will give you like people like priests
Verse 10 for they shall eat and not have enough
They shall commit whoredom and shall not increase because they have left off to take each the Lord
They don't want to listen to what God says anymore verse 11 whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart
Notice this my people ask counsel at their stocks
What are stocks?
Remember Jeremiah was put in the stocks and it's basically like a piece of wood that goes around your neck in your head
And it just confines you and he's saying these people are so stupid that they're asking counsel
Hey, give me advice. Tell me what the Bible says at stocks
You get the picture. Imagine someone's walking up to a piece of wood and just like please tell me what God says
Please tell me give me some advice for my life piece of wood God saying like that's how stupid these people are
That's how foolish these people are and guess what?
People in Waco were even more stupid because not only were they asking counsel at a piece of wood
That would have been better than asking counsel at David crash
That would have made more sense than asking counsel of this sick pervert false prophet
This is on their staff to Clareth unto them
But the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err and they have gone a whoring from under their God verse 13
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills
Under Oaks and poplars and Elms because the shadow thereof is good notice this
Therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom and your spouses shall commit adultery
Does that not fit the Waco Texas scenario perfectly Wow, I mean the Bible is incredible
Verse 14 notice this this is a verse that is perplexed
Some people says I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom
Nor your spouses when they commit adultery
They themselves are separated with whores and they sacrifice with harlots notice this therefore
the people that doth not understand shall fall and
Here's the thing. I believe that there's a difference between God actively punishing someone
Supernaturally God punishing someone God can you know have a supernatural thing happen where you know?
Elisha curses the children and God sends some she-bears out of the woods. That's God doing that right?
But then I believe there's God's passive judgment where basically God doesn't even have to judge you actively
Because you're destroying yourself
You're punishing yourself, right? You're so stupid. You've rejected knowledge. You've rejected God's Word
You're asking counsel at the stocks you forsaken his word your daughters are committing fornication
Your wives are committing adultery against you and God saying look. I don't even have to punish your daughters when they commit whoredom
I don't even have to punish your spouses when they commit adultery because it says this the people that doth not understand shall fall
You're destroying yourself
God
Didn't have to start the fire in Waco, Texas to punish these people because they did it themselves
They literally destroyed themselves, and you know what that is a good physical picture of what every false prophet does
These people they physically destroyed themselves. They physically lit the match and burn themselves up and kill themselves literally
Okay, but it's the same thing for every false prophet and the people that follow them they are punishing themselves
The lies that they're believing is hurting their life
Them not taking heed to the Bible is causing them to make decisions that hurt their life
Then believing that you have to repent your sins to be saved
You know ask the priests for forgiveness to be saved
Go do all these rituals to be saved bow down to an idol to be saved. Not only is that hurting your life
you're gonna split hell wide open and
The people that died in that fire 30 years ago yesterday. You know that they're still on fire right now 30 years later
And you know that in 30 years, they'll still be on fire and in 30 years. They'll still be on fire for all of eternity
and
These people are they literally destroyed themselves
That brings me to my last point
Is this we need to always reach hard against false prophets
This is why this story is why go to 2nd Peter chapter number 2
This is a perfect example of why we need to be loud
why we need to scream and yell why we need to pull people out of the fire and
tell people when someone is a false prophet because they will get hurt and
This is an extreme example these people got hurt physically they lost their money they lost their wives
They lost their kids they lost their life, and then they went to hell
Okay, and maybe not every false prophet. It's gonna be bad obvious
Maybe the punishment that people receive is not going to be that severe in this life, but they're all going to the same hell
They're all still going to be burning in 30 years. They're all still going to be burning for all of eternity
That's why we have to preach so hard against false prophets 2nd Peter chapter number 2
Is the chapter we read before the service look at verse 1 it says?
But there were false
Prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you who?
privately shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them like when you're believing David crushes the Lord and
Notice bring upon themselves
Swift destruction is exactly what happened to David crash and notice it says and many shall follow their pernicious
Ways pernicious means harmful hurtful evil by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil
spoken of and
You know many people followed David crushes
pernicious ways and
What happened sudden destruction came upon them just like what the Bible says go to Acts chapter number 20?
now the reason why I
Hate false prophets so much
Reason why this church preaches against them the reason why your evangelist and your pastor?
Preaches against this these people so hard is because the people that died in Waco were real people
with real souls that went to a real hell and will really be there forever and ever and
It's the same thing of any person that dies
Believing a false gospel that the Catholic priests told them believing a false gospel that Billy Graham told them
Believing a false gospel that they went to a repentier sins Baptist Church and was told that they have to stop sinning to be saved
they're all going to the same hell and
So we need to preach just as hard
Against the false prophets that are still alive as we would against someone like David crash
Because even though the physical punishment could be different on this earth. They're all having the same spiritual punishment
They're all going to hell. They're all going to hell
The Apostle Paul did this he understood this and he made sure he preached hard against false prophets
Look at Acts 20 verse 29. It says this
For I know this that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock
Also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away
Disciples after them therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years
I cease not to warn everyone night and day with tears. I
Mean the Apostle Paul said that he was warning about this night and day and he was in tears over it and think about this
If you can go back 30 some odd years ago
And you could talk to one of these people who were going to go to David crash his compound
Would you not just be pleading with them day and night with tears?
Would you not just like care for them and know what's coming for them and just say please don't follow this guy
Please believe on Jesus Christ
Please take heed to the warnings in God's Word. You're gonna be destroyed your children are gonna burn
Your wives are gonna be given to them. You're gonna lose everything
Wouldn't you just be screaming? It's like losing your mind to warn people. But guess what? That's the reality for every person. That's unsafe
that's the reality for every person that's under the spell of a false prophet right now and
So we need to be like the Apostle Paul and realize that and say okay
I see what happened to those people in Waco. My eyes saw the flames, but that's happening spiritually in hell, too
And we need to let that motivate us to warn about false prophets and to warn people that are under their spell
Reach them the gospel hold them out of the fire
Pull them out of the fire. So what can we conclude from this? Obviously, you know this Waco thing was such a tragedy
It was a worldwide news
Everyone was following this. This is worldwide news is talked about today
There's documentaries that are made about this today people still think about this and here's the thing. This was a tragedy
Not because the ATF and the FBI came into Texas and tried to serve a search for it
This wasn't a tragedy even for the lives that were lost though
that is tragic but you know was a lot more tragic was all the people that went to hell and
all the people that are still in hell and all the people that are going to go to hell someday and
So that should motivate us. We should look at this story and motivate us. Hey, nothing is more important than winning someone to Christ
Nothing is more important than warning people about health. Nothing is more important than warning people about false prophets
So hey when your evangelist gets up or your pastor gets up and starts screaming and yelling about someone who's brought into the church a damnable
Heresy or someone who out there is preaching false doctrine. Don't think like oh, you know
The passage is getting worked up for no reason. No, it matters. It's real
We're in a real fight where people really suffer and really go to hell and you need to back them up and hey do the
Same thing not just listen to your pastor warn people. Why don't you go out there and warn people too?
Why don't you knock on people's door and they tell you?
Oh, yeah
I'm I'm going to heaven because I'm a really good person and my grandpa was a pastor and I've repented of all my sins and
You need to warn that person
You don't think about this situation and let it motivate you to save other people and to pull them out of the fire
And don't get caught in
To every single conspiracy theory and say well just because the government's bad
That means that everything's fake and that means that the people in Waco were innocent
And that means that the people in Waco were good godly Christians. That's not necessarily the case
Okay, you need to look into everything on your own but most importantly
I hope that you could take the spiritual lessons from this situation
Apply it to your life and be someone that warns people about how to have a word of prayer Lord
Thank you so much for this day and thank you for
The examples both in your word and also in real life
Lord, of course we mourn when people die senselessly
But I pray that that would just motivate us to warn other people get away from false prophets
To study the Bible to actually care what God says so that we don't have to be punished for our own foolishness
Or for those of people around us pray that you would give this church wisdom that you would strengthen evangelist Duncan and pastor Shelley
And that you just bless this church in Jesus. Let me pray. Amen
We have a fitting
Song for it tonight as well kind of goes along with it
370
throw out the lifeline
I
Throw out the light lifeline try to get people out of cult try to get them saved
370 throw out the life
There is a mother who someone should save
Somebody's brother though who then will dare
To throw out the lifeline his peril to share
Throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline
Someone is drifting away
Throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline
Someone is sinking today
Throw out the lifeline with it quick and strong
Why do you tarry? Why linger so long?
See you sinking. Oh, hey soon today
And help with the lifeboat
Awaken away
Throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline
Someone is drifting away
Throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline
Someone is sinking today
Throw out the lifeline to danger frogmen
Sinking in anguish where you've never been
Winds of temptation and billows of wool
Will slew all them out where the dark waters flow
Throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline
Someone is drifting away
Throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline
Someone is sinking today
Soon will the season of rescue be over
Soon will they drift to eternity shore
He's led my brother no time for delay
But throw out the lifeline and save them today
Throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline
Someone is drifting away
Throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline
Someone is sinking today
Amen. Thank you all for coming. God bless you.
Thank you.