- Amen.
John chapter number six is one of my favorite chapters,
especially John 6, 47 that says,
"He that believeth in me has everlasting life."
One of my favorite verses to show people out there
when I'm knocking doors,
and obviously John 6, 40 is also a great verse,
but the verse that I wanna focus on,
if you can go very down to the very bottom,
you know, and that'll be verse number 70 in John 6.
Verse number 70 says this,
"Jesus answered them, 'Have not I chosen you?'
"and one of you is the devil."
One of you is the devil.
And that's where I get the title of my sermon tonight.
And the title of my sermon is this,
Devils in the House of God.
And really quickly, what do I mean by devils?
Well, I'm not talking about the devil.
I'm not talking about Satan tonight.
And I'm also not talking about Christians
that can act like the devil.
For example, Peter, when he was telling Jesus,
no, no, no, you're not gonna be crucified.
Jesus told him, get behind me, Satan.
Because you're not trying to do the things
that the father wants to do.
I'm not necessarily talking about them today.
But what I am talking about, since we're starting 2026,
I wanna just take a time or take a moment
to kind of preach something
that is mostly for newer people.
Something that I wish somebody would have taught me
early on in my Christian life.
And that's to beware of devils, i.e. false brethren,
i.e. false prophets.
Now, let me start out by saying this.
The most dangerous devil you will ever face in your life
is not outside God's house.
He's not.
The most dangerous devil you will ever face
is the one inside God's house.
The one that sits in the pew,
the one that sits there pretending to be safe,
ready to strike, ready to devour you,
ready to devour your children.
And it usually comes in the form of false doctrine,
damnable heresy.
Give them time, they will start spreading it
in one way, shape or form.
But let me just quickly read where you go to Acts 20.
You go to Acts 20, meet me in verse number 28.
While you go there, I'm gonna read from Acts.
I'm gonna read from Acts 20, 28.
I'm sorry, just go to Acts 20.
I'm gonna basically read there as well.
I know it's pretty far from John, but it's not that far.
So what I'm gonna do is just start out by reading 20
and go ahead and meet me in verse number 31.
It says in Acts 20, 28, this is the apostle Paul talking.
He says, "Take heed therefore unto yourselves
unto all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost
have made you overseers to feed the church of God,
which he has purchased with his own blood."
Great verse on the Trinity.
It says that God purchased the church with his own blood
and we know who shed his blood, that was Jesus Christ.
"For I know this, that after my departing,
grievous wolves shall enter in among you."
Among you, "not sparing the flock,
also of your own selves shall men arise,
speaking perverse things," to what? To draw away disciples after them.
And if you've been here long enough, unfortunately, we've had our devils.
We have our devils who have come in, and what did they come in for?
To try to draw away some disciples after them, and they ended up succeeding.
But let's look right there in verse number 31, "Therefore watch, and remember,
that by the space of three years I cease not to warn
everyone night and day with tears." And for the last 20 years that Pastor
Anderson has been preaching, he has been warning us over and over and over again
that devils shall be among us. Be careful because the devil will plant
tears, and that's what I'm here to do this evening is just to give you guys a
refreshment, a reminder, because what I want is I want you guys not to fall for
these people because they are out to destroy you. They will infiltrate, and
that's what they're here to do. And so like it says in Matthew 7 15, "Beware of
false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly there are
ravening wolves." Jesus didn't say that the wolves, they live outside the flock.
He said they come to you. They come to you, and sometimes it makes me laugh when
you hear heart preaching, and the world gets a hold of our heart preaching, and
then they start to quote-unquote persecute us. They start to give us the
emails. They start giving us the voicemails. They start saying all kinds of
stuff against us, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. If you're a church,
let's just say you weren't even on the internet, but you're out there winning
souls. You're out there getting people into the kingdom. You can take it to the
thing. The devil doesn't like that. He just doesn't. So whether we're on YouTube
or we're not on YouTube, if we were out there doing the work of the Lord, getting
people saved, getting people into the kingdom, guess what? The devil's gonna
send his tears to us. He's gonna do it. Now the churches that are dead, they're
not doing any works. I'm not talking about reprobate churches. I'm talking
about churches that God will say are dead because they're not doing the first
works. They're not out there soul-winning. You know, they're not out
there getting people baptized. They're not out there teaching God's Word. Then
maybe you will not be as attacked as much as a church that is doing something
for the Lord. And last time I checked, it says 10,000
salvations in that bulletin, does it not? You think the devil's happy with that
number? You think he's in wherever the heck he is right now? Do you think he's
like, "Oh well, Faithful Word is doing great works. Keep it up." I highly doubt
that. You better believe that he's going to send some devils among us to do what?
To destroy us, to hurt us, to take over the church as best he can. And that's
what I'm doing here tonight, trying to warn you. Warn you with what? With
knowledge. I'm trying to get you ready for when they do show up, you will not
become a victim of them. Because it's clear, the Bible clearly says, that a
prudent man foreseeeth the evil and hideeth himself, but the simple, the
simple pass on and are punished. So do everything you can, not to be the simple,
the simple-minded Christian. So arm yourself with knowledge. And that's what
I'm going to do this morning, is I want to give you knowledge, because our people
are destroyed for lack of knowledge. But with that said, point number one is that
devils, we can never say this enough. I don't want you guys to be the naive
church, the naive Christian, but devils will always be among us. Perfect example
is Judas. It says in John 670, Jesus answered, "I have not chosen you 12, and
one of you is a devil." Judas, he served for three and a half years. Judas, he was
here for every sermon. Judas, he saw all the miracles. Judas, he even preached, he
went so many. Judas was trusted so much, he even had the bag of money. But yet he
was the devil, or a devil, from the beginning. And you may wonder, well am I,
is there so many to be worried about? No. Worry about yourself first, do
what you need to do. You fear God, you keep His commandments, because at the
end of the day, I don't know. I don't know who's the devil. All I know is that the
devils, they will be among us. They will be among us. Now they may flee for a
season, but take it to the bank, they'll be back, they'll show up, they'll
infiltrate, they have a mission. The mission is to damn people to hell, if they
can. Now most of us are saved, but our children are probably not. So I'll tell
you right now, those are gonna probably be their primary targets. If your child
does not get old enough to understand salvation, but they'll do what they can.
It's happened in my life. Praise the Lord, I had a good relationship with my kids,
where they flat-out told my wife, "Hey, Auntie such-and-such just told me that
there is no God." What do you think she's trying to do? She's trying to help my kid
or hurt my kid. Maybe she doesn't know, maybe she's just blinded by sin, but at
end of the day hey those are usually the primary targets so we need to be careful to allow our
children to just run around and be friends with people that you barely even know keep an eye on
them i don't want you to be paranoid the sermon is not to scare you but i do want to scare you i'm
just going to tell you flat out i do kind of want to scare you but i also want to save the save what
i mean by save the save those that are safe i want to save you from destruction that's what i want to
do i want to give you knowledge i want to remind you i want to just get you ready again for this
year because i'm telling you we had a great year last year when it came to salvations so i expect
attacks to happen i just respect them because that's how the devil works he goes after those
that are doing a lot trying to get them to fall they go after the leadership try to get the
leadership to fall because if we fall you guys are probably going to fall as well that's right
prayer is important a lot of things are important you know but let's not forget that jesus christ
said in Matthew 26 20 now when the even was coming sat down with the 12 as they did eat he said
verily i say unto you that one of you shall betray me and they were exceedingly sorrowful
and began every one of them to say unto him lord is it i and the answer is said he that dipped his
hand with me in the dish the same shall betray me the son of man goeth as it is written of him
but woe unto that man by whom the son of man is betrayed they have been good for that man that
he had not been born then judas which betrayed him answered and said masters that i he said unto him
thou hast said so when it comes to these devils these infiltrators you know jesus knows who they
are but i want to just constantly remind you that they will be among us they just always will but i
don't want you to be so paranoid so concerned that it affects your testimony it affects your
christianity because at the end of the day just like jesus knew right here what i just read that
he knew from the beginning who was going to betray him and he chose judas knowing that he was a devil
from the beginning and he didn't care if he went out soul winning he just he just knew that hey
this guy's going to betray me one day i made this guy for the day of evil i'm going to use him he
has a purpose for me right now and so it is what it is the devil also has a purpose for these false
prophets for these false brethren for these reprobates these rejected people that have no
chance of salvation but in matthew 13 24 you can go to first timothy i'm sorry go to second timothy
three seventy second timothy chapter number three i got bad news for you guys forgot to start my
stopwatch so the sermon begins now amen so while you go to second timothy i'm going to read from
matthew 13 again matthew 13 says the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man which sowed good seed
in his field but while man slept he worked slept i'll talk about that in a second while man slept
his enemy came and sowed tares among the weak and went his way but then we see jesus explaining
this in matthew 13 38 he says the field is the world the good seed are the children of the
kingdom that's us but the tares are the children of the wicked one in case you didn't know the
wicked one he has his children now really quickly not every unsafe person is a child of the devil
not every unsafe person is the child of the wicked one but the wicked one does have his children
they're reprobates once you're a child of the devil you can never be a child of god but don't
don't freak out too much if you're an unbeliever and you're not sure what to believe at this point
at the end of the day it is what it is the devil has his children god has his children we know how
god has his children because we're all the children of god by faith in christ jesus we know how the
devil gives his children when god rejects them he gives them up to their father their father the
devil that's why jesus called the Pharisees after they rejected him over and over and over and over
and over again he said ye are your father the devil they were done it was over for them they've
been rejected now they were held down but what i want to show you guys or remind you guys up
is that it says while man slept while man slept and it's clear that the enemy is the one that
sowed these tears these tears and the enemy will try to sow tears in our church and the thing about
the weed and the tears it's pretty hard to tell the difference in the beginning but let them grow
and then you'll be able to notice differences to where you'll realize oh yeah for sure this is a
tear and we got to get rid of the tears once we know that they're tears but for now just live your
life do what's right keep being faithful god knows who these tears are god knows just like he knew
that judas was the devil he knows who the devils are in our church he knows who the devil is going
to be when they come when they show up he knows who the devils are in other churches as well
and guess what no good thing would he withhold from them that walk up rightly and one of the
good things that god promises is is protection protection so keep walking up rightly and that
good thing he would not withhold from you so don't worry too much about them don't fear them don't
fear the children of the wicked one don't feel these false prophets don't feel don't fear these
wolves and sheep's clothing hey if you're going to waste any time fearing fear god fear god and
keep his commandments what would that do it will take care of these judices it will take care of
you it will protect you from them but it clearly says that wild man slept wild man slept in first
corinthians 1534 says this awake to righteousness and sin not for some have not the knowledge of
god i speak this to your shame romans 13 11 says this and that knowing the time that now it is high
time to awake out of sleep why because if you're asleep you're probably going to be the one that the
wolf sneaks through and our church i believe is a church that has a pretty good foundation you know
we have a pretty good idea about what the bible says hey keep it up keep it up keep learning keep
growing keep serving keep getting god's blessings upon you keep staying awake keep doing what's
right because we don't want to be the sleepy church we don't want to be this church that's
filled with infiltrators you don't want to be that church because your life will be destroyed
and is it even possible to have a church filled with infiltrators listen we've had our infiltrators
i'm pretty sure a watered down church is probably going to have more it's just how they do business
they're just so weak so soft they're sleeping they're not awake they're not being fed very well
and then here comes the false prophets here comes the weirdos they'll infiltrate but because the
church is so nice so lovey-dovey they don't do anything about it but here at faithful word once
we identify you as a terror once we identify you as the devil it's not going to be a good day for
you you're going to be gone quicker than you showed up and so of course god wants us to be awake it
says to awake out of sleep and i think if you're pleasing god you'll be able to see clearly and
you'll be able to notice when somebody shows up and then you'll let us all know hey this guy you
might need to go talk to him because he's passing around damn noble heresy and this has happened
before you know we get the call or we have the conversation hey such-and-such told me this the
other night and we're like hey that's damn noble heresy then we investigate identify and then we
end up just getting rid of the individual because that's what the bible says to do all right now to
my second point so the first point is is that they never forget they will be among us they will
devils will always be among us the devil will always try to sow his tears among us so never
forget that pass it on remind yourself as much as you possibly can so point number two is that
devils they disguise themselves with godliness they disguise themselves with godliness they're
not usually going to show up with a metallica shirt or acdc or whatever they're not going to
be that clear they're going to talk like us walk like us sound like us and let me just read really
quickly second timothy 31 says this this know also that in the last days perilous times shall come
from men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient
to parents unthankful unholy without natural affection truthbreakers false accusers incontinent
fears despisers of those that are good traitors heady high-minded lovers of pleasure more than
lovers of god having a form of godliness form of godliness but denying the power thereof let's just
keep reading for such turn away so what do we do with these people and what what are these people
who are these people well let's keep reading for this sort are day which creep into houses
and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with diverse lust ever learning and never
able to come to the knowledge of the truth what do these people sound like what are these devils
what do these tears sound like they sound like reprobates and you don't have to wonder if that's
what it is verse eight now janice in jammers was still moses so did these also resist the truth
men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith so that's the list right there besides
romance one that you can use to figure out hey what's wrong with this person well are they a
false accuser well is he a truth breaker well is he high-minded well is he is he a lover of pleasure
more than lovers of men is he unthankful unholy covetous bolsters proud without natural affection
you know who that sounds like those that know me closely kind of know how i'm pissed off right now
because of what's going on in the world but you know who this sounds like our president in the
white house does it not if people wonder is even is he safe i think he's a reprobate based off this
list i mean does this list not have everything that man does and the guy will lie it to your
face it's crazy but you know what hey the devil at the white house is not the one that i'm worried
about it's the devil in our house that i'm worried about that's what i need to focus on you need to
focus on because that guy's out to destroy us specifically the one running the white house let
him do whatever we know that we don't wrestle against higher powers or with flesh and blood
it's a spiritual battle that we fight sorry if you're a donald trump fan but you better start
reading the bible 2nd corinthians 11 for such a false apostles deceitful workers transforming
themselves into the apostles of christ and no marvel for satan himself there it is again
is transformed into an angel of light therefore it is no great thing if its ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of righteousness who shall whose end shall be according to their works
it's clear that satan can look like lights as ministers they look like ministers of light this
is new for people who have written the bible for a while in fact when i read the bible the first
time through this stuck out to me and obviously i would see you know these false prophets i mean
who are the false prophets besides the ones that you know we pretty much know about the guys i'm
like drawing a blank right now sorry i had a long day but td jakes right i thought the guy was safe
i thought it was legit i listened to a few sermons i didn't know better who's the other guy the main
guy the smiley guy the one that we always rip on joe hosting is he still alive good night man that
guy has devil armor i've been praying for that guy to die so many times but hey better him than
someone else i guess is there anybody out there the dollar guy see this is how you know i don't
like to retain these people in my knowledge i'm not big fans of them just like reprobates don't
want to retain god in their knowledge i don't like retaining this reprobate in my knowledge either
well i need help from all you guys to remind me who are these guys again these false prophets
what about the guy that's worth 800 million the old guy that has like a million planes
who is it copeland copeland tenneth copeland you know these guys hey i'll be honest with you
i didn't know what to think about them when i first got saved i'm like hey man praise the
lord i had no clue because they weren't doing or saying anything crazy i mean they're up there
talking about jesus they're up there sounding like they care about what they're talking about
you know they have that charismatic personality so when i would watch him i didn't know what to
think and then later little by little start figure out hey they have a different gospel they believe
in you know repenting of sins tongue speaking all that craziness so it wasn't hard to figure
these guys out because of one thing and that's the gospel that's the gospel this is why when
we had our devil our ex deacon you know when he showed up he seemed like he was a godly guy
he made it very clear hey i grew up in a christian home i grew up in a christian school
you know i grew up in uh whatever i think even i'm not sure i think he was even trying to go to
maybe a college at some point and he was here for who knows how many years and i went so many with
this guy i've seen him give the gospel to people i've seen him give people to pray i didn't think
anything of it until he started preaching damnable heresy until he stopped believing in the trinity
until he went from the trinity to believing that god sent the son to be the savior to god sent
himself to be the savior that's two gospels that's not the same without even having to really think
about it it's like okay he believes that guess what the son is the father the father is the son
but there's no three there's no trinity he sent himself to be the savior that's not what the bible
says Jesus says hey nobody comes to the Father by me why would he say that if he was already the
Father but this guy went from believing or at least preaching right all of a sudden he's preaching
wrong and not just wrong but dead wrong as indamnable so once that was crystal clear he had to go he had
to go and then I'll talk about it as my third point but the mistake that a lot of people made is
they still fail like oh you know I just can't believe it because I've seen him all night I've
seen him give the gospel I've seen him bring people to church I've seen him give people baptized I
just don't believe the guy is saved could he just be a little lost could he just be a little off a
little off how do you go from believing that the son you know the son is the savior that eternal
life is through Jesus to believing that oh well you know what now I just think that they're the
same person no distinction no difference nothing it's a different gospel sorry but that's damn
noble heresy exactly what the Bible says it's going to happen when these people come in
now imagine if your child's not saved but you ask this guy to go give the gospel to your kid
get your kid to pray guess what if you're not saved you can't get people saved you don't have
the power of God in you so then that kid's going to be the clear saved and guess what then we're
going to baptize him and then guess what we're going to constantly just tell him hey aren't you
glad you're saved and because the kid is the only better he's just going to grow up he's going to
grow up and then he's going to be in middle school and everybody's going to be having activities and
they're like hey raise your hand if you're saved he's going to raise his hand next thing you know
he's in his late teens next thing you know he leaves the church next thing you know you find
out the guy was never saved why because this wolf this devil came in the church house and gave the
gospel to your child that's what i believe happened to tyler baker because it's clear when you look
at his church it's repenting your sins even though it says baptize on it don't mean anything but you
wonder what happened to this guy here's what i think happened to this guy his church was asleep
his church was asleep a bunch of people dead asleep a lot of people to creep in they didn't
really look into what they really believe they just trusted because that's what sometimes christians
do they just trust anybody that says jesus that's how trump get into power jesus i'm a christian
well let's vote for you never really seeing what the guy believed when it was crystal clear what
he probably believed based on how he act based on how he talked based on how he walked but this is
why it's so dangerous not to take this serious to just think well i know we'll have you know
infiltrators but i think for the most part you know we can relax with everyone here i mean come
on the bible says in romans that they don't like to retain god in their knowledge so no way with
some infiltrators just come in here sit in sunday morning sunday night wednesday night you know is
that even possible hello judas judas with the apostles with jesus listening to his preaching
hey he must have loved money so much he didn't care if he hated everything he heard but don't
think that oh reprobate they don't like to hear the word of god reprobate they don't even want
to think about god there's a good chance those really bad ones yeah they'll attack us but there's
no way they're going to come into the church house and sit here day in and day out and go so winning
and even saying that ems well i'm going to tell you if you have them and tell them you're an idiot
you're a fool i'm here to wake you up because i love you because i love you we need to be careful
because you just don't know at the end of the day you guys can't guarantee that i'm safe you're
going to guarantee that you're safe obviously if i'm not just keep praying that god would expose me
and destroy me it'll happen if i'm not the real deal it will happen god doesn't answer prayers
and it seems like every single wolf every single devil that ever came into our church
they all got exposed they all got exposed and some people just like myself were like wow i can't
believe it this person went soul winning this person walked the walk he talked the talk he came
to every service this person was out there when the extra mile wow i can't believe it i'm shocked
but should you really be shocked when the bible says that his ministers are angels of light should
you really be that shocked see the person that you're wondering about that's probably not the
devil the person that you're looking at like man i bet you this guy too many red flags that's
probably not the one that's probably not the one because the satan is going to use you know anyone
is going to get his best guys to infiltrate and hallelujah amen praise the lord sing the hymns
and then when it's time to strike they'll strike they'll strike they'll start drawing away disciples
secretly that's how they roll that's what we've seen that's what we're always going to see but
these guys are smooth talkers let me just remind you roman 16 not beseech you brethren mark them
which caused division and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid them
i'll get to that later on for they that are such serve not the lord jesus christ but their own
belly and by good words and fair speeches deceives the hearts of the simple the simple that could be
safe or unsafe so let's just remind ourselves not to get too lax with people you barely know
and even people that you absolutely do know you just never know i'm just going to be honest with
you you just never know and you can say to yourself well i know that i'm i'm locked on i
know the word there's no way i can ever be deceived the apostles were deceived and i've been deceived
more than once i think i've been deceived at least five times by people that i thought were the real
deal then it turns out that they're one that's heretics as well i was thinking man this guy's
a good dude later on one is heretic wow this guy's a good dude later on one is heretic
wow this guy's a good guy man he brought his family from wherever just to come to faithful
word i was like wow this guy's a good dude turns out nope he's bad he's bad and i'm thinking wow
man these these guys are angels of light i got duped and don't feel like hey i'm an idiot because
at the end of the day if the apostles got duped guess what you can too so take heedless you fall
they sound loving they sound like they really care but at the end of the day they don't they
just want to devour you amen and they will look clean they will look clean on the outside
matthew 23 27 warn to you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you are like unto whitest
hypocrites which indeed appear beautiful outward but are within full of dead man's bones and of
all uncleanliness even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto man but within you are full of
hypocrisy and iniquity and that's the thing about these people is they are full of hypocrisy and
iniquity but sometimes we can't see it but then we'll see it like crazy afterwards once they get
exposed once they get kicked out once their life goes downhill we'll see the hypocrisy left and
right but until then just got to be careful don't worry about it too much like i said if Jesus knew
that Judas was the devil he knew that from the beginning he knows who's the devil in this church
who's the devil in other churches and just keep praying for the destruction nothing wrong with
that but now i'm almost done i think i'm 30 minutes in if not oh well i'm 18 minutes since
i started and i think i started five minutes late or something who knows who cares right we're
having a good time amen people that love church make me happy so my last point is that devils and
now this time i'm talking about devils from all levels from all levels i'll just give you three
levels first is the devil the devil all devils must be removed must be removed period how do
you remove the devil well what does the bible say resist the devil and he will flee flee so keep doing
right you feel like you're under attack you can't really figure out what's going on in your life
things are going downhill whatever they may be sicknesses who knows the devil can't do that
sometimes he did it to job but at the end of the day just assume okay if it is an attack that's
the only one thing you can do about it hey keep resisting keep resisting and he will flee he will
flee that's what you get rid of that guy but then of course you got these devils the ones that have
been talking about for the last 30 minutes the bad ones the reprobates the false brethren the
false prophets we haven't had a lot of false prophets come through here said maybe Ken Hoeven
but hey i thought he was safe too so if you think that we fell for a whatever easy one i don't think
he was that easy to figure out but if you believe he's safe i don't know what to say keep reading
but of course these devils they got to go soon as we realize hey get out of here you're a heretic
boom and obviously once we found out that our former deacon was a heretic he was gone it was
over get out of here and even then we wonder is he just confused is he just lost but give it time
it'll make it very clear that they're not they're preaching damn noble heresy and they're damned
they're damned ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth that's what
we see with these people and their followers the ones that he took with them but now the other one
the other devils that i want to talk about you can say are like the peter type devils the ones that
are saved but they're not really understanding that what they're doing is not god's will the
ones that were like jesus said get behind me satan for down the fence unto me those are the ones
that you also have to get rid of let me just read really quickly roman 16 i already read it but i'm
going to read it again now beseech you brethren mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary
to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them avoid them these are the ones these are the
christians that get backslidden these are the christians that cross the line these are the
christians that commit sins that are worthy of being kicked out of church railing fornication
Drunkenness these are the guys that are living like the devil and they need to be kicked out as if they were the devil
But once we kick them out don't make the mistake that I made don't make the mistake that a lot of people have made
In the past when we kick people out when it turns out that the committing sins that are worthy of being kicked out
Because yes, we're all sinners, but we all know there are certain sins that will get you kicked out
That will get you kicked out of church and we kick you out because we love you
We kick you out because we want you to be ashamed. We want you to get right with the lord
Not because we want to see you be destroyed
But if the devil has to destroy you to get you back on track, so be it so be it
But at the same time when it says you mark those people that are causing problems in the church
They are being on the fence unto other brothers that don't want to repent you kick them out
The bible doesn't say then try to restore them. It says avoid them avoid them
So when we have another one that just ends up being like the devil
Another member that we have to unfortunately kick out for whatever reason for some serious sins
Remember this avoid them avoid them if they get kicked out by pastor
Guess what? They probably have pastor's number if they ever want to talk to anyone
They better talk to pastor first get right with him
Then we can talk because I got a text message like a week ago
By somebody who left the church and i'm thinking man i'm offended that they even text me
When he kicked this person out
But this person left because they felt that our pastor was disqualified that our pastor was living a double life that our pastor
Shouldn't be up here preaching that our pastor was wicked. That's why they left. Oh, they left quietly. Whatever
Everybody knows you're not here. That's not really quietly. So of course I get a text and i'm like what in the world
It's like did this guy think i'm dumb is he testing the waters?
What the heck is this because I don't know about you
But when people message me and it hasn't been that many I just do what the bible says. I avoid them
I block their number and i'm like hey
They got pastor's number if they want to call anyone call him and apologize call him and get right
They get back in church and we can be friends again
That's how we shoot the business all the time
But the mistake is is the mistake that I made when we finally when we kicked somebody out somebody that was closest
I think this is a guy that i've been the closest with since i've been a faithful word
This guy crossed the line. He railed he got rebuked. He didn't repent. He got kicked out then sure enough
I feel bad for him. I'm like, man, what should I do?
I should have followed what god told me to do here because then I decided you know what i'm gonna try to set this guy straight
I think I could do it. I mean if anybody can it's probably me. I'm his closest friends
We hung out a lot. We talked a lot and so I decided i'll give him a call
So I call him. Hey, let's meet sure where you want to go. Let's go get something. Let's meet. Let's talk
Let's talk about what happened because I felt bad. You got kicked out in front of everyone
I really feel bad feel bad for you your wife your kids your kids started screaming or started crying when you got kicked out
So i'm thinking man, you know what i'm gonna try to be the peace maker
I'm gonna try to see if I can talk some sense into this man
And so when I finally met and we went to go eat somewhere quickly ate then we started talking right away. He starts crying
He starts crying. He feels bad for what happened. So I just let him cry
So he starts crying
He feels bad that this person said this this person said that the people that he thought were his friends
You know, they're all basically telling him how wrong he is
What an idiot he is and he was just crying in front of me and i'm just like man
Maybe this was a great idea
But then next thing, you know
Once those tears dry up then he starts getting vicious
Then he starts talking about all the bad things our church is doing all the bad things pastors doing all these false railing accusations
And I started talking to this man
No joke from 6 p.m. All the way to 6 a.m. The next day. That's how much I cared about this guy
They don't believe me talk to my wife
Then after that I had to go to work at 6 30 in the morning
Then I went to work from 6 during the morning all the way to 9 or 10 at night the next day
And guess what it didn't help this guy it made him worse and emboldened him until this day
He's still the same because all he wanted to do was just drop everything everything that he had inside
He just wanted to drop it on any idiot that will listen because when he was being excommunicated nobody was hearing him out
Nobody it was breaking him down and like a fool
I went and got in the middle of god's chastisement when if I would have just paid attention a little more to the bible
I would have just said you know what the bible says mark them that cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine
Which you have learned and avoid them avoid them. It's for their own benefit. They call you text you block them block them
They get right unblock them
But if they ever get kicked out if we ever have church members that act like devils and we have to get rid of them
We have to kick them out
Do what the bible says and avoid them if you really want to help them avoid them ex communicate
You're done with communicating with them
But you don't understand meaning you're going to make the same mistake that I made and same mistake that other people have made
It doesn't really work
What works is when no one's talking to them then they start to wonder am I doing the right thing?
Then it starts to break down, but if you give them that ear to hear all you're going to do is embold them
Because then they're going to think well see I think he's I think he believes me
I think he's on my side and then he'll roll with that
It'll go to their head because you listen to them and I did my best to get this person right on the track
I'm telling you were wrong. You shouldn't have said that. He's like, what should I do?
He said you need to apologize to pastor apologize to the church and that's it call it a day
That's what he asked but he's like, I don't think I could do that because I'm right. Everyone else is wrong, but that's what happens
So when it comes to devils in the house of god, we will have tears. Don't worry about those
God knows who those people are. He knows who they are
Don't go around trying to figure them out because honestly if you were to ask me
Do you think anybody in our church is a devil i'd be like, yeah, you know red flags
Maybe with some people but honestly, I don't know and I don't care. I don't worry about that at all
I don't fear these people. I don't fear them because of what i've seen happen to them. God exposes him at the perfect time
He does but at the same time I like to tell people listen if there's somebody who you're pretty much thinking
Is some infiltrator chances are they're probably not because these guys are really good
These guys are really good these devils these wolves and sheep clothing
They're really good where when it happens when they finally get exposed you're going to be shocked
You're going to be confused. They're like wow, I never thought I thought they were perfectly good people great people
But once they get identified they're out. Hey, especially if they're preaching damnable heresy
I don't need to tell you anything. You know what to do when they're preaching damnable heresy
But then we got the other devils backslidden christians the peters where it's like, oh, I don't want to I don't want to do
You don't do that. Jesus this ain't going to happen is they get away from me get behind me say 10
Those christians that are backslidden or they're just deceived by their own hearts
Those that end up just being devils in our church that we have to kick out
Those are the ones that i'm telling you it does help when you kick people out
It will break them unless you step in and you become that buffer between
You know god and the chastisement they're receiving and it's not hard to see what it says mark them those that are causing division
And avoid them avoid them don't explore them
Avoid them and it's going to mess you up if you continue to be friends with them
Let me just finish with this first corinthians 5 7 your glory and it's not good
No, you're not that a little levin levin at the whole lump perch out therefore the old levin that you may that you may be a new
Lump, so what is this saying?
Anything that's bad for you. Just get rid of it people that have been kicked out of church. They're not good for you
I know it's hard to say goodbye to your friend who you've known for who knows how long like I did
But as soon as we were done with that conversation
I was like hey i'm done if he wants to talk to anyone
He needs to go talk to pastor apologize until then i'm not going to call him ever again
And and the thing is that we're all going to have to go through this probably at some point
Where you're going to be friends with people they're going to screw up
They're going to say or do something that gets them kicked out of church. We end up doing it
You were close to that person. You're going to feel like hey, you know what?
I think what happened was a little overboard
I think I could still you know, kind of like not necessarily bring them to church but be friends with them
Don't be that person because now you're probably going to bring god's curse upon you as well
So they say okay, you don't want this guy to get right you want to kind of get it in my way
Why don't I take you out with him? It could happen because a little leaven will leaven the whole lump. That's why this is there
It's a warning. It's not just a cool teaching or a cool verse
It's a warning to us because we will at some point like it says in first timothy 5 20
There will be a point when we have to rebuke rebuke before all that others may fear and rebuke
If it's unloving it's like how could you be so unloving?
How could you like rip this person to shreds in front of everyone? How could you be so mean?
Well, if rebuke and it's unloving then the bible is unloving then god is unloving because last time I checked
Whom I love I rebuke is what it says in revelation
I believe so people that will rebuke you it's because they love you
A church that won't rebuke sin or even people that come in with damnable heresies and my last church had that
We have people that were allowed to come to church over and over and over again and they believe a totally different salvation
But they came to our church because believe it or not they like the people but I just think they were trying to destroy the people
But they would just let let them just stay here and just continue year after year just believe stuff
That's that's damnable. But at the same time all I want to do tonight
Is just help you guys to remember that the fight is still on
Help you guys to remember that the devil's not happy with any of you with you your children any of us
We probably got him so upset last year because it wasn't just the best year for us
It was the best year for the whole niv
So he's probably doing a counter attack trying to figure out okay, I gotta do something because this is something that just angers
Satan it has to and his minions as well. So i'll just say this
Acts 20 29 once again, I know this that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter
In among you not sparing the flock also of your own selves shall man arise speaking perverse things
To draw away disciples the devil doesn't have to attack us from the outside
He doesn't have to he can easily try to get us from the inside
That's what he can also do and with a church like this
The outside the world has been talking bad about us for who knows how long I think it's like nothing now
We're used to the devils out there saying whatever they want to say about our church because they don't know the bible
They're atheists. They're liberal whatever the case may be
But the inside is what I think is the bigger danger if we allow ourselves to get sleepy
If we allow ourselves to get weak if we allow ourselves to get careless
I think that's what the devil will bring in his best and that's what they'll do the most damage they can
But if you're going to stay in the fight long term, you just got to take heed of god's word and you'll be okay
God will protect you and just remember at the end of the day
It doesn't matter whether we're on youtube or we're not youtube you're serving god. Those that live godly will suffer
Persecution remember that let's pray their father. Once again, we thank you for giving us another great day for church father
We ask you to just be with everybody here as they go home
Please protect them and after that door, this is the winstonite service
So these people go above and beyond for you
So I ask you to go above and beyond for them
And love we ask you to do all this to bring honor and glory to you and your son
And we thank you once again and name your son jesus christ. Amen