There's this guy on YouTube and this guy cracks me up so much and I've never actually talked
about this guy by name but I feel like it's time to talk about this guy because he's earned
it.
This guy has made literally over 200 videos specifically attacking moi and so you should
get something for that.
You should get some recognition when you've created that many.
I appreciate this guy drawing so much attention to the truth and so he's made literally 200
to 300 videos.
I don't know the exact number.
He's earned a pulpit mention.
He's arrived.
This guy, his name's Brian Denlinger.
Who's seen these videos?
Aren't they a riot?
So Husky, whatever the tag, 39XP, whatever.
But anyway, this guy is a riot.
I remember he made a video like two or three years ago, and he said, "All right, everybody.
This is my last video I'm making about Steven Anderson."
And I kid you not, a week later he started a whole other series of videos about me.
That ended up being like 50 installments, okay?
So I mean, this guy's addicted.
I mean, this guy is making video after video.
He's literally into the 200 to 300 range of videos specifically.
Plus, I think even in a lot of the videos that aren't even about us, I think he just
kind of will kind of just throw me out there as like a little illustration too.
But anyway, this guy, what's so funny is that lately he's on this thing where he's making
all these videos saying, "Pastor Steven Anderson is a Jesuit.
He's a secret Roman Catholic."
So this guy is falsely accusing me of being a Roman Catholic of all things.
But you know, one of the things that's funny about living in 2016 is the way people throw
around false accusations so lightly with no evidence.
You know, there's no evidence presented.
"Hey, here's the smoking gun.
Pastor Anderson's a Jesuit.
He's a secret Roman Catholic that has infiltrated the independent Baptist movement."
You know, it's so ridiculous to accuse me of being that.
But what's he basically saying?
He's saying that I'm a wolf in sheep's clothing.
You know, I'm pretending to be an independent Baptist, but in reality I'm secretly a Roman
Catholic, a Jesuit spy.
Now here's my question.
My question is, if I'm a Roman Catholic, if I'm a Jesuit, what am I accomplishing for
the Roman Catholic Church, is what I'd like to know.
What have I done for them lately?
Because you know, I was part of producing a major film, New World Order Bible Versions.
It's a strongly anti-Catholic film, and it's been viewed about 1.5 million times.
I'm not doing a very good job as a Jesuit Roman Catholic spy, you know.
You know, I'm preaching sermons against Catholicism.
I mean, after the tribulation, it's been viewed about 13 million times, and it rips on Catholicism
in that film.
You know, in the first few minutes, it talks about evil men are working round the clock
to bring in, it's like the Pope is on the screen while it says that, you know.
But I'm a Roman Catholic.
So, it's like, well, who do we trust?
Who do we believe?
You know, do we believe Brian Denlinger, okay, or do we believe Pastor Anderson, you know,
that he's not a Roman Catholic?
All right.
Of course, my mom's here, she knows I'm not Catholic.
You know, she raised me to be a Baptist.
She brought me to the Baptist nursery when I was a baby and, you know, she gave birth
to me and kept me Baptist-born and Baptist-bred and when I die I'll be Baptist-dead, you know.
But anyway, it's hilarious, but here's the question.
How do we identify who's the false prophet here according to the Bible?
Well, the Bible says the tree is known by its fruit.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are
ravening wolves.
Ye shall know them by their fruits.
So if we wanted to check out Brian Denlinger's fruit, I want to know where do we show up
to see that is what I'd like to know.
What's the address?
Where do we show up to the church and see?
Because supposedly Brian Denlinger is this man of God, you know, even though he just
makes videos by himself talking into a camcorder, I don't even think he goes to church anywhere,
to my knowledge.
I don't think he's a part of any church.
In fact, I've even heard him explicitly say, "Hey, Christians need to quit going to church
buildings and just worship at home by themselves with the Lord.
Just by yourself.
Have a little talk with Jesus."
But my question is, where do I show up?
Where do I go to see a fruit inspection on Brian Denlinger?
Where are all the people that he's one unto Christ?
Where are all his converts?
I want to see them and I want to do an inspection to figure out whether his fruit is rotten
or not.
So here's the thing, if people wanted to check me out and figure out whether I'm for real,
well all they have to do is come to 2714 West Southern Avenue, Tempe, Arizona 85282 and
they can come down here three times a week, Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night
and they'll find a couple hundred people to talk to, many of whom were one to Christ through
my preaching, through this church's ministry, many of whom were baptized with these hands
right here or even if they can't make it all the way out to Arizona, we hold soul winning
marathons all over the nation.
They could have shown up in Atlanta where 125 people showed up, many of whom were one
to Christ by this ministry, many of them, probably half of them, a lot of them and they
can see the souls being saved, the people being baptized and now they can talk to those
people and do a fruit inspection and figure out what they actually believe and find out
that they're actually doctrinally sound. And anybody who shows up at Faithful Word Baptist
Church Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night and walks around and talks to the people
around this room will realize that the people that are in this building are doctrinally
sound. They are rooted and grounded in the faith. The average church member, not talking
about the pastor, not talking about the deacon, the average church member in this church has
read the Bible cover to cover, knows doctrine on salvation very well, and is a productive
soul winner themselves. I mean that's just the truth. That's your average church member.
You know, I'd be more than happy for this fruit to be inspected. Now, you know, do we
sometimes have bozos in our church and false teachers? Well yeah, the Bible always talks
about weirdos infiltrating and false prophets and so forth. But the vast majority of people
that are here can show you this church is the real deal. Anybody who's been here knows
that. Anybody who's been to our soul winning marathons and just talks to the people, and
by the way, they're physically, this isn't a chat room. I'm talking about, no, I'm talking
about flesh and blood. I remember when I was a kid, they had this commercial on TV on the
Nickelodeon channel when I was a kid. They said, "It's beyond virtual reality. It's
beyond any video game. It's actual reality." You know, you go out and show the kid going
outside and he's bouncing a basketball, you actually feel the ball. You actually feel
the air blowing. It's so real. I mean, you'll swear it's real because it is real. I mean,
I'm talking about you could actually show up and there's 250 people that actually believe
and know and love and practice the Bible and they're right here. Come look at them. Come
talk to them. You could show up in Atlanta, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, San Antonio, Texas.
By the way, I'm not saying just we're not the only legitimate church. Other great churches.
Show up at Verity Baptist Church where my mother is a member. You know, show up at Steadfast
Baptist Church. Show up at Word of Truth Baptist Church. Show up and talk to people and you'll
see that the fruit is good fruit. It's good people. Doctrinally sound because people will
say, "Oh, just because your church grew or just because you're multiplying, you know,
so does Joel Osteen." Yeah, but if we went to Joel Osteen's church, we'd find some fruits
all right, but it wouldn't be the kind of fruit that we're looking for, you know. Some
fruit cakes, some tooty fruity dudes that aren't, you know. Yeah. I mean, think about
it. You know and I do. And by the way, one of the great things about going soul winning,
you learn about all the churches in your area, don't you? Those of you who go in Gilbert,
you know the Gilbert churches because you'll knock the doors of like 20 people from that
church and they're all saved. And then you're thinking to yourself, "Okay, this church must
be a pretty good church because I keep knocking doors of people from that church and they're
all giving me the right answer that they're saved." But then there'll be another church
and it could even be Baptist where everybody from that church has given you the wrong answer.
Everybody's telling you it works. Everybody's telling you you can lose your salvation. What
does that tell you about the tree? See, you're testing the fruit right there. When you go
soul winning and you're talking to the people from these churches and they're all showing
corruption, that tells you that's a rotten tree or it tells you that it's a good tree.
And honestly, I'll say this, every time I go out soul winning, I always run into somebody
who's already saved. Isn't that the truth? Virtually every -- if not two or three people.
I mean, there's a lot of people that are saved in this world and especially in the United
States of America. I mean, when I go soul winning, I virtually never go out without
running into somebody that says, "It's all by faith. You can't lose yourself." You know,
that knows for sure that they're safe. And that gives you a feel for what these various
religions and churches and pastors are teaching because you check out the fruit. It's impossible
to check out this denlinger's fruit. He doesn't have any. There's nothing there. There's nobody
there. It's just, it's him. And okay, his wife comes on sometimes and they put on funny
outfits and everything. But the point is, you know, you can't show up at most of these
places. There's no evidence. It's just, we're just supposed to take their word for it. Oh,
believe me, there's a lot of fruit from this ministry. You know, and by the way, we're
not talking about clicks and likes and cyber chats and friends. You know, and look, those
are real people. I get that, but you know what? We don't really know some of them because
we never met them or anything, right? Kind of a difference when you're standing in front
of a flesh and blood human being. I know that, you know, a lot of people are starting to
not understand the difference between real life and that which is online, but there is
a difference, right? And look, I'm all for having an online ministry. Look, our church,
we're streaming right now. We have three different live streams right now. This sermon's being
streamed to YouTube and two different Facebook channels right now, simultaneously because
the three-fold cord is not quickly broken, all right? This sermon's getting out, one
by hook or by crook, you know? But the point is that I'm all for internet ministry because,
like I said the other day, I think the internet is like the printing press of the 21st century.
It's a revolutionary tool to get information out and to get the gospel out and to get the
word of God and sound doctrine out. All for internet ministry. I'm talking about internet
only ministry, internet only preacher. Because here's the thing, if a ministry is reaching
millions of people on the internet, right, but at least if there's a physical place we
could go and actually do a sampling, check the fruit, well that's going to assure you
a lot more than some bozo that isn't even going to church. There's no physical place
where we can go and do a fruit inspection of that fruit, Brian Denlinger. And so this
guy, yeah, I just, you know what, he's earned it, folks, all right? So you say, why do you
spend time talking about him? Because he, you know what, he deserves it. He's made hundreds
of videos, and so it's time for me to give him the recognition that he deserves. But
let's move on to something else. Go, if you would, to Proverbs chapter number 22. Proverbs
chapter number 22. And again, the reason I bring that up, I'm not just trying to get
on him. I'm not saying that this guy is real relevant to your life or anything. But the
reason I bring it up, though, is because it's not just him. There's a lot of people like
him. A lot. Puns. Some of them are like him, where at least, I'll give him this, at least
he's being honest and he's actually saying, "Hey, I don't go to church and neither should
you." Some of these guys pretend that they're actually pastoring a real church. No service
times. No physical address. It's them and a buddy, is what it really comes down to.
And by the way, Brian Denlinger has the goal to accuse me of being a Roman Catholic. I'm
not a real Baptist. By the way, he came out with a video saying you can lose your salvation.
That's not Baptist doctrine. I'll tell you this, every single Baptist church in the state
of Arizona, to my knowledge, all believe in the eternal security of the believer, no matter
how liberal they are. Even if it's a southern Baptist, they'll still say, "Hey, eternal
security of the believer." I mean, I know there's some goofball Baptists in the South
that think you can lose it, but every Baptist where I grew up in California and every Baptist
where I live now in Arizona, they all believe in the eternal security of the believer. He
said you can lose your salvation, and he said that I've lost my salvation because I spoke
against the Jews. He literally said, "When you just go against the Jews, God will take
away your salvation," and he said you can lose it. So who's the Baptist here?
The other possibility would be if you start to mess around with the nation of Israel where
you're not going to be admonished anymore. We're not talking just somebody that starts
to fall for replacement theology and then turns away from it. I'm talking somebody that's
going over the edge. They hate the Jewish people. They hate the nation of Israel. They're
saying that the true Jews are some other kindred of people that lives in America or something
ridiculous and the people over in Israel are wicked, satanic, whatever. When you get to
that level, you're playing very, very close to God saying, "Okay, you're cut off," meaning
somebody that was saved loses their salvation. If you start to mess around with the nation
of Israel, where you're not going to be admonished anymore, you're cut off, meaning somebody
that was saved loses their salvation. See, so if you want a second possible justification
for somebody losing their salvation, and I do believe that this isn't just in the time
of Jacob's trouble, this could be for today too, I think if you mess with this book, you
know, I know this one wasn't on the list that he sent me, the thing of Revelation 22 verses
18 and 19, but if you want justification for somebody losing their salvation, I would say
when you have somebody that's starting to pervert God's word on purpose, not just misquoting
a verse, but somebody perverting God's word and changing it on purpose, and then coming
out and saying, this is God's holy word and it's their own words.
You have somebody there that I think if they were saved, if they were ever saved, I believe
that there's a very real possibility that they're going to be losing their salvation.
And when you get so prideful and so arrogant that you begin to change the word of God,
knowingly change the word of God and pervert scripture and then say this is superior to
what the book says, you are in serious trouble of losing your salvation.