Isaac walked up the mountain, his father by his side, never realizing he would be the sacrifice.
And when Abraham raised up his hand to take his child's life in his heart, he must have wondered why.
Sometimes God will take us to unexpected places, but in every situation we will find God will provide.
On what we've imagined, so much more than we can fathom, he will suffer like God will provide.
When we trust in Him completely and take each step in living like a child, God will provide.
On another hill called Calvary, a father's only son, was offered as a priceless gift of faithfulness and love.
Amidst the cries of all mankind, God reached down from above and covered us with Christ's atoning blood.
No matter what your need is, God will always lead us. I know His grace will always be enough. God will provide.
On what we've imagined, so much more than we can fathom, he will suffer like God will provide.
When we trust in Him completely and take each step in living like a child, God will provide.
Beyond what we've imagined, so much more than we can fathom, he will suffer like God will provide.
When we trust in Him completely and take each step in living like a child, God will provide. God will provide.
All right, can everybody hear me okay? Can everybody back there hear me all right? Okay, awesome.
If you guys have your Bibles handy, we're going to go ahead and turn over to Acts 4-12.
And I just want to thank Pastor Grantham for giving me this opportunity. It's very much an honor.
There are men here, I actually spoke with Brother Brandon, who have got a lot of years on me.
So it's really a big blessing to be able to just speak the Word of God and be under such great men and great mentorship in this church.
Let's go ahead and turn in our Bibles over to Acts 4, verse number 12.
Actually, we'll start in verse number 8. If you're there, say, Amen.
All right, so the Bible says in Acts 4, verse 8, it says,
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people and elders of Israel,
If we this day be examined of this good deed done to this impotent man, by what means he is made whole,
be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand before you whole.
This is the stone which was set at naught of you, builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.
Let's go ahead and pray together.
Dear Lord, thank you so much for this opportunity to be in your house.
Lord, I thank you so much for the wonderful meal we just had and the fellowship and the wonderful time with the body of Christ.
Lord, I pray you'll bless me and you'll bless this church and that you'll bless Pastor, bless everyone.
Keep us all safe today as we go our separate ways.
I pray that you'll bless this message and that your hand will go before me and that you'll just hide me behind the cross.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
The title of my sermon today is The Hebrew Roots Delusion.
The Hebrew Roots Delusion. You might say, well, that's a really, really negative title.
Why would you title your sermon something so negative and something that's just so down?
But you know what? I think we need to preach the negative parts of the Bible just as much as the positive parts of the Bible.
And to me personally, I don't know about you guys, but I get excited about all of the Bible.
I like every verse of the Bible. The Bible says every word of God is pure.
So I'm excited by good things in the Bible, bad things in the Bible.
Nothing in the Bible is boring to me, you know, unless maybe I'm reading a genealogy that seems like it's just endless, you know, in the book of Matthew.
Sometimes those can get a little rough for me, but this sermon is very important.
It has to do with a movement that's growing, and anybody that's on the Internet knows that it's a huge movement.
And they're coming out with all sorts of videos attacking the independent Baptists and attacking anybody that believes in salvation by faith and that believes the King James Bible.
And so I think it's appropriate to address a message to this movement.
A lot of you probably know I spent two years when I was a younger kid in this movement.
My late teen years, from age 17 to 19, I was a part of this movement.
So this is a very important message for me personally, and for me it's something very deep and something very important.
And I'm going to try to stay calm. Sometimes I get a little worked up about issues that are going on in our government and false doctrine creeping into churches and these people getting recruited into the Hebrew Roots movement.
And for me personally, it's a very serious topic.
But I'd like you to notice in verse 12 of our text, the Bible says,
And that name is Jesus, right? Jesus is the name above all names.
And this particular movement, what they're doing is they're coming about and saying,
Well, the real name of Jesus isn't Jesus, and the name Jesus itself was invented in 300 A.D. and it's a pagan name.
But I'm here to prove to you from the Bible that that is a false doctrine.
There's none other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved.
Hey, let me ask you a question. If Satan knows that there's one name that you can call on to be saved by, wouldn't you think he'd have a strategy to shut down that name?
Don't you think he'd have some sort of battle plan to shut down the name of Jesus?
I mean, what a strategy. Just go into the root of our faith, the name of Jesus.
So they'll say, Well, the real name of Jesus is Yeshua.
But I'm here to prove to you today that that's a false doctrine.
The name of Jesus, every time that it was translated from the Greek, and I know this is a little bit deep, but it's important for us to understand this.
The Greek name for Jesus is I-E-S-O-U-S, and it's pronounced Ye-zus or Jesus in our language.
Or in an Arabic tongue, it would be pronounced Jesus, right?
Well, it's a universal name for Christ.
Jesus' name is Jesus in every language.
It may be pronounced a little differently, but that's the name above all names.
And this Yeshua thing was not invented till the 1800s.
Modern Hebrew was invented in the 1800s.
Did you guys know that Hebrew was a dead language for over a thousand years?
So a lot of these people will say, Well, you can't understand the Bible unless you understand the Hebrew language.
Well, wait a minute. How did they understand the Bible for thousands of years then?
Or over a thousand years?
The Bible says there's nothing new under the sun, and we need to understand that anybody that's going to come to us with this cryptic teaching that the name of Jesus is a pagan name,
they're probably not, you know, I can tell you for sure if they believe that salvation is by works and that Jesus is a pagan name.
Hey, you can't call on Buddha to be saved.
You can't call on Mohammed. You can't call on Allah.
The Bible says there is none other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved.
God says you must be saved by that name.
And let me tell you something. I get worked up when people attack that name.
And let me tell you something about this movement, too.
The reason that they had me sucked in as a young boy was because they would use the name of Jesus to reel you in.
They'd say, Oh, well, we're going to use the name of Jesus is deceptive.
They would deceive you. But you know what?
The Bible says who is a liar, but he that janiyeth that Jesus is the Christ.
It's not a surprise to me that they lied to me, you know, and later on in my years when I was about 19 years old, one of their elders pulled me aside because they meet in homes.
And he said, You know what? He says you can't speak in Jesus's name anymore.
And he tried to get me to renounce Jesus's name.
And I'd like you to notice in verse number 18, the Bible says, And they called on and they called them and committed them not to speak at all or nor to teach in the name of Jesus.
So this same issue that we're dealing with today is the same issue that they dealt with 2000 years ago in the time of Christ.
It's the same exact issue. And it's people that want you to deny the name of Jesus.
It says when they, the Pharisees, saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men.
They marveled and they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus.
So that verse is actually kind of special to me that you know what? They took knowledge that they had been with Jesus.
You know, that's a good thing. You know, I hope when people see our lives that they remember that we've been with Jesus, that they see that I've been with Jesus.
You know, I don't want them to think that that, you know, my Christianity is not real, that our Christianity, that our message isn't real because I know we have the truth.
I wouldn't spend time studying and I wouldn't stand here behind this pulpit if I didn't believe every word of this Bible.
You know, in the weapons of our warfare, they're not carnal. The Bible says they're spiritual to the pulling down of strongholds.
But this movement, back to the Hebrew Roots movement, this movement will also say that we need to go back to the Old Testament law.
We need to keep certain ordinances and certain things that were specifically done away in Christ.
And I'm going to prove to you from the Bible that that is a false doctrine. There are things in the New Testament that have changed.
Let's go ahead and turn over to Hebrews, chapter number seven.
Verse number 12.
The Bible says, and this is a very simple verse, but I love simplicity.
The Bible says, for the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
So let me ask you guys a question. Is God's law unchanged? Or is Moses' law unchanged?
It says with the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
So I don't believe for a second that we should throw out the Old Testament law. That's a false doctrine.
But I do believe that there is a change of the law, such as, you know, the Sabbath, the dietary laws.
And in chapter number nine, I'll go ahead and turn there, verse number one, it says,
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary.
Talking about, you know, the tabernacle and so forth.
If we go over to verse nine, it says,
Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices,
that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience.
And notice these words here, it says,
Which stood only in meats and drinks and divers washings and cardinal ordinances imposed on them until the time of reformation.
So there's a time, the Bible says there's a time of reformation to where these things are no longer imposed on us.
So you know what, when we were back there eating hot dogs today, that's perfectly fine.
The Bible says that these things were imposed on them until the time of reformation.
You know, and one of the things that is important to understand about the Hebrew Roots movement is,
this is a question you have to ask yourself when looking at any other belief system.
I don't care what belief system it is, are they saved?
You know, if these people can't even get the gospel right, would I want to put stock in anything else they say?
You know, if the whole movement has the gospel wrong, am I supposed to say, well, there's truth in that movement, so I'm going to follow them.
You know, what I want to look at some unsaved, unbelieving, messianic rabbi and say, oh, I want to follow that guy.
Paul said, follow me as I follow Christ.
You know, he didn't say, follow me as I follow Mohammed, follow me as I follow, you know, this prophet over here, that prophet over there.
He said, follow me as I follow Christ.
And the Bible says that he, Paul says, I fear lest by any means as the serpent beguile thee through his subtlety,
so your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that's in Christ.
There's simplicity, so when people try to complicate things and just kind of go overboard, you know, and I think we should preach against sin.
You know, people have this wild idea, this Hebrew Roots movement, they have this idea that we're just condoning of all sin and we don't care how people, no, we do care how people live.
And any child of God is not going to get away with sin, you know, but if you're not a child of God, if you're in the Hebrew Roots movement and you don't believe the gospel,
you know what, you can get away with all sorts of sin, you have a license to get away with it because you're not even God's child.
The Bible says, whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every sin, and he receiveth.
So there's clearly things that have changed, go ahead and turn over to Colossians 2.
Actually better yet, let's go to 1 Timothy chapter 4.
We'll start there.
The Bible says in 1 Timothy chapter 4, it says in verse 1, it says, now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith.
Now, pastor, you and I don't know when Jesus is coming back, but we do know that we are in the latter times because people are falling away from the faith.
This has to be the latter times, I think we'd agree on that.
And notice what it says here, folks, it says, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
So this is very serious.
Doctrines of devils?
It says, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
For some creatures of God are good.
Is that what this says?
It says, for every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the word of God in prayer.
So here's the thing, guys, every creature of God is good.
Do you see how easy that is?
And I've seen people try and reason this away and say, well, that's not really what the Greek says or that's really not what the Hebrew says.
But this is what the Bible says.
You know, I'm thankful I don't have to go back to the Greek to have an understanding of what the Bible says.
I'm glad I can just pick up the King James Bible and read it and believe it.
You know, I'm not against the Greek.
I think there's certain places where it's appropriate for, you know, somebody who's a little more qualified to get into that stuff.
But you know what?
Jesus and God, they made it very simple for us and they don't want anything to be hidden.
You know, and a lot of these Hebrew rooters, they believe in this hidden, what's known as the hidden teaching, the hidden name of God.
Right.
And they're known as the sacred name movement, which is a movement within the Hebrew roots.
And they're the ones that will, if you don't deny the name of Jesus, they will cast you out.
They'll have nothing to do with you.
And in fact, all my former friends, you know, they will have nothing to do with me.
And they claim, well, we're being persecuted.
Wait a second.
You know, I didn't shun you guys.
You guys shun me.
Ever since I became an independent Baptist and started soul winning, it's amazing.
I was out soul winning when I was first starting to really get right with God in that area.
I went out soul winning with one of my friends from that movement.
And I had no idea what he believed, but I figured, you know what?
I need to get right with God in that area.
I had no idea what he believed, but I figured, you know what?
I need to go soul winning.
I need to tell somebody about the Lord.
I got to do something about this world.
And so I go out with this guy, and we're walking, we're knocking doors, and I give the gospel to a guy,
and he ended up trusting Christ, this man that we gave the gospel to, or I gave the gospel to him.
And we began to walk away, and my friend looked at me and said,
what that man used to believe is what I believe.
And he said, we can no longer be friends.
And I just couldn't believe it.
He said, what that lost man believed, he didn't say lost man.
He said, about works having to be a part of your salvation, that's what I believe in, and you just deceived him.
And that's when I knew that it was a cult.
That's when I knew.
There was hidden things that they would not tell me.
And the whole reason that I even got involved with them to begin with is because of the home school community.
You know, when you have all your home school friends going with a trendy thing and you're a worldly Christian like I was,
real easy to get sucked right in.
And the leader of their fellowship, before I left, he told me, he says,
well I knew that you always believed once saved, always saved.
He said, I never spoke against it because I didn't want you to leave.
But he said, you'll never amount to anything preaching in the name of Jesus.
Just, just, I don't know how anybody could say that.
You know, the one who died for us, I just don't understand it.
The Bible says it's a doctrine of devils to command that people abstain from meats.
That God has, and they'll say, oh well that's just the New Testament.
You can't trust the New Testament.
Okay, let's go over to Genesis, Genesis chapter nine.
Oh, that's just Paul.
A lot of them don't even believe in the apostle Paul.
But no problem, because us Baptists, we can go in with two hands,
we can go in with half our brain tied behind our back and still debunk this stuff.
Amen.
Genesis chapter nine, verse three.
This is just after Noah had gotten off the ark.
We'll read verse, we'll start in verse one.
It says, God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them,
be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth
and upon every fowl of the air, upon every fowl of the earth,
and upon all that moveth upon the earth,
and upon all the fishes of the sea.
Into your hand they are delivered.
And notice what God says here to Noah.
He says, every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you.
Now that's before the Mosaic law.
So they say, well God's law is unchanged.
Well that's true for the most part,
but there's certain ordinances that were put within Moses' law
that no longer apply to us now and did not apply to them then.
Do you guys see how that makes sense?
You know, this idea of, you know, we have to keep kosher
was only around for about 2,000 years.
You know, they say, oh well his law has never changed.
Well, apparently there was a change here.
You know, yes the law of the Lord is perfect,
but there are certain ordinances and stuff of divine service
that the sanctuary, stuff that was instituted with Moses
that pointed to Christ, and the Bible says they were a shadow of things to come.
But the body is of Christ, the Bible says.
Turn over to Colossians 2.
And I know we're hitting on a lot of scripture.
I don't usually hit on this much scripture in a sermon,
but I want to make sure that we really have an understanding here
because you're going to come across these people
because this movement is getting very big
and we have to be able to help these people out of it.
And I thank God that I'm out of that movement.
I thank God that God, I was a child of God since I was 11 years old
and because I was his child, he came after me.
He would not let me continue in that false doctrine.
I'm thankful to God for that.
But Colossians 2.14 says,
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us,
which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way,
nailing it to his cross, and having spoiled principalities and powers,
he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
And the Bible says, Let no man therefore, or because of this,
judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of the holy day,
or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath day.
So we see all these things kind of just wrapped up in one in verse 16.
Paul's saying, look, don't let anybody judge you for not keeping the Shabbat.
Don't let anybody judge you.
That's what we call it, Shabbat Shalom.
Good Sabbath everybody.
And it's amazing because these people that say that you have to know the Hebrew,
they don't know any Hebrew. They don't know a link of Hebrew.
They just brag about how much you have to know Hebrew,
and they're like, oh, you know, you got to know the Hebrew to know the real meaning,
and then they don't even know, you know, I'm like,
and they don't even know, it's like, you know,
and they just look at you like deer in the headlights.
They don't even know what you're talking about.
You know, it just blows my mind that these people do this,
but it says in verse 16, Let no man therefore judge you in meat,
okay, what we just ate, for example,
nobody should be judging us for that.
Nobody would have judged Moses for it.
In fact, God told Moses to eat it.
You know, and in Acts chapter 10,
who knows the story of Acts 10 where Peter,
he had a vision, and God came to him in the vision.
Let's go ahead and turn over there in Acts chapter 10.
I'm going to start wrapping things up,
but I don't want to go too long.
But in Acts chapter 10, verse number 9,
it says, On the morrow, as they went on their journey,
they drew nigh unto the city,
and drew nigh unto the city.
Peter went up on the housetop to pray about the sixth hour,
and he became very hungry and would have eaten,
but while they made ready, he fell into a trance
and saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel
descending unto him as it had been a great sheath
knit at the four corners and let down to the earth.
So Peter is having this vision,
and he sees this sheath that's just coming down from heaven,
and the Bible says, We're in, we're all manner
of four-footed beasts of all the earth, of the earth,
and of wild beasts and creeping things
and fowls of the air.
And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter, kill and eat.
And notice what Peter says, he says, Not so, Lord,
for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.
And in verse 15 it says, And the voice spake unto him
again the second time.
So God's saying, Look, I've got to tell you again,
what God hath cleansed, that call thou not unclean.
So the Bible says, God says, Look, I've cleansed this stuff,
and the Bible says it was done three times.
So you know what, Peter denied Jesus three times
back earlier, but now God is coming to him
and telling him, God had to tell him three times,
Look, this stuff is clean, it's okay.
Welcome to the better testament.
Welcome to the better covenant.
So this idea that, and I was in a discussion
with Levite Kahn, who knows Levite Kahn?
He's kind of a famous Hebrew rooter.
He's a Hebrew roots teacher.
I was in a discussion with him a few weeks ago
because we interviewed him for the movie.
And he was just bragging about how he thinks
that he's going to get me to come back to their movement
during the interview of all things, which is just weird.
You don't do stuff like, I never go into a job interview
and just start talking about all my personal crap.
Excuse me.
All my personal stuff.
I don't do that, but you know what?
This guy did it.
And you know what he said about Peter?
He says, Well, Peter was having a demonic influence on him.
That's what he said about the Bible.
He said the story in Acts chapter 10
was Peter under demonic influence.
So do these people believe the Bible?
Is the Bible their final authority?
No.
So where does it come from?
I'll tell you where it comes from.
YouTube.
Study that show thyself approved unto God
is what the Bible says.
But these people are, watch YouTube
to show thyself approved unto Yahweh, or God.
You know, every single time, when I was in that movement,
every single time a new family would come in,
whether they were former Baptist, former Lutheran,
former Pentecostal, every single time
they'd come into the movement,
people would always ask them, Well, how'd you get here?
Oh, I watched YouTube.
You know, the dad of the family typically
would always let the mom run the roost.
You know, and people are, Oh, you know,
you're sexist, brother Powell.
That's like racism.
No, that's how God set it up.
And you know what?
You can't serve two masters,
and there can't be two heads of the home.
There can't be two pastors.
There can't be two head pastors here.
There's one man of God,
and the Bible says that he's the under shepherd.
Jesus being the chief cornerstone.
The Bible says obey them that have the rule over you
who watch for your souls.
So, you know, we need to have more respect
for the man of God, and a lot of times
these Hebrew rooters, they'll say,
Well, there is no pastor.
We can't have any pastor.
Well, what do you do with the verses that say
remember them that have the rule over you
whose faith follow, that watch for your souls,
the Bible says?
So to say that Acts 10 was Peter being influenced
by devils, I don't even, to be honest, folks,
I don't even take that guy seriously.
I can't even take him seriously.
Really?
Let's go ahead and turn over to Hebrews 4.
We'll start closing this thing out.
Hebrews 4, verse number 3.
Now, a lot of people will say,
Well, you know, the Sabbath day still applies
and we still have to observe the seventh-day Sabbath.
They'll always say, Well, it's a part of the
Ten Commandments, and the Ten Commandments
are part of the Sabbath day.
It's part of the Ten Commandments,
and the Ten Commandments were written in stone.
But I want to show you, actually,
I don't have time today, but the Bible makes it clear
that that is not a good argument.
You know, this idea that, Well, the Ten Commandments
are written in stone, therefore they're eternal,
that's not true.
The Ten Commandments didn't come about
till 2,000 years after creation.
So that is a false doctrine to say,
Well, they're part of the Ten Commandments,
so the Ten Commandments are totally unchanged.
Let's go join the seventh-day Adventists.
You know, the Bible says in Hebrews 4-3,
For we which have believed do enter into rest,
as He said, As I have sworn in My wrath,
if they shall enter into My rest,
although the works were finished
from the foundation of the world.
For He spake in a certain place
of the seventh day on this wise,
today after so long a time, as it is said,
Today if you will hear His voice,
harden not your eyes,
for if Jesus had given them rest,
then would He not afterward have spoken
of another day.
There remaineth therefore a rest
to the people of God,
for He that has entered into His rest,
or Sabbath means rest,
for He that has entered into His rest,
or you could say Sabbath,
He hath also ceased from His own works
as God did from His.
And so Paul is saying, Look,
you know, if you've entered into God's rest,
if you've entered into God's rest,
if you've entered into the Sabbath,
which is Jesus' salvation,
you've ceased from your own works,
the works of the law.
Well, one of the most important things
to remember here is how he references,
I think this references pretty well
back to the man who was stoned
on the Sabbath.
You know, there's a reason why
that man was stoned on the Sabbath.
It's a very sad story,
but it's also a very beautiful story.
And one of the things that I think
we can take away from that story
is that the Sabbath day,
he was working when he was supposed
to rest, and it cost in his life,
it was death.
And so when we try to work for our salvation,
when we work, when we're supposed
to rest in Christ for salvation,
what does that cause?
Death, the second death.
So when these people read this,
the veil is still over their eyes.
They can't even see it, you know.
And this movement, it's just a trendy,
and so that's one of the main reasons
that I don't believe that the Sabbath
is a person.
We rest in the finished work of Jesus Christ.
You know, this false doctrine
that is overtaking, you know,
and there's so much more I'd love
to get into on this.
Really, we've only touched the surface.
This is just kind of an elementary presentation.
I know a lot of them will criticize me
and say, well, that's, you know,
these aren't good arguments.
But here's the thing, you know,
and they'll say, well,
because it's the apostle Paul,
and how much stock do we want to put in Paul?
Well, you know, Jesus said,
man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God, you know.
They say, oh, that's circular reasoning.
You're saying the Bible,
because the Bible says it's the word of God
that you believe it's the word of God.
You know, I don't care what shape the argument is.
I don't care if it's a circular argument.
The Bible has power.
And when I pick up the King James Bible
and read it, there's no doubt in my mind
that it's the word of God,
and there's no doubt in my mind
that it's not mine, they're God's.
They come from God.
So in closing, I'd like to just encourage you all,
if you have family members that are in this movement,
just to really beware,
because they're very sneaky.
They lie to get you in, first off.
They'll say that you have to do the feasts.
There was even a guy who told me,
well, if you don't keep the Sabbath anymore,
Brother Powell, that means you've lost your salvation,
you know, which means that he thinks
God would abort his children,
which the Bible says in Galatians 1.8,
or 1.6, it says that people that believe that are,
it's a strong word, but it's a Bible word,
and it says perverted.
People that believe a false gospel,
it's perverted.
And anybody that believes that God would,
that somebody would be born of God
and then God would abort that person,
it's bad enough that we have abortion
going on in our country.
We don't need preachers teaching
that God will abort his children.
He says, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee,
and Jesus said, I am the resurrection and life.
He that believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth
and believeth in me shall never die.
Never die.
So, with that being said,
I'm gonna close with the Passover.
So, one of the most important things
to remember when you're dealing with them,
and this has been a tool for me
to be able to reach some of my former friends,
they're not all lost now.
Some of them have been reached
and they're in an independent Baptist church,
and I thank God for that,
but one of the things that I always use on them
to help them understand is the Passover.
They celebrate the Passover,
but the meaning of Passover,
God had a lamb,
and God, you know, I wanna explain this
as clearly as possible,
God had a lamb that had to be offered
and the blood only had to be applied
one time on the Passover.
One time.
You know what that stands for to me?
Once saved, always saved.
You know, how many times did they have
to cross through the Jordan, the Red Sea?
One time, Passover.
How many times did they have to
look to the serpent on the pole
before they were healed?
The Passover literally means,
to me anyways, and this is one of the things
that got me out of the movement,
was I realized when I was reading the Bible
that when God gave the Passover,
he was giving us all sorts of pictures
of the Gospel.
I realized that when we look to the cross,
we're healed.
The Bible says he died once for all.
The Bible says he died not for our sins only,
but for the sins of the whole world.
And we need to get out there
and get them the Gospel.
Let's pray together.
Lord, thank you so much for this wonderful
opportunity to be amongst the brethren
and I thank you for this privilege
to preach your word.
Lord, I pray that you'll bless us all today
as we go our separate ways later.
I pray that this message will
help people to see the need
of the Hebrew Roots movement
and I pray that we'll never forget
that these people have the same problem
that everybody else has
and that they're not saved.
Lord, I just pray that we can reach them
with the Gospel and that we'll fill our church
with people that may have been
a part of that movement,
but will get saved.
Lord, I just pray that our movie
we have coming out on it will be a success
and Lord, I just pray that people
that come out of that movement
will come out and point it out
for the cult that it is.
Lord, I pray you give us boldness, Lord
and I pray that you'll just bless us today
and that you'll bless this time
before we head out.
In Jesus' name, amen.