Now the part of the chapter in Galatians 1 that I'd like to focus on is where Paul talks
about those who come preaching another gospel, and he says in verse number 6,
I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ
unto another gospel, which is not another, but for there be some that trouble you
and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we or an angel from heaven preach
any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let it be a curse.
As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you,
then that ye have received, let him be a curse. For do I now persuade men or God,
or do I seek to please men? For if I yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Now Paul here is warning that there will be people who come along and preach another gospel.
Even an angel of heaven might come along and preach another gospel.
Now the particular gospel that he's referring to here is a gospel that teaches a works-based salvation.
There were people coming in, and if you read the rest of Galatians, this becomes obvious.
There were people coming in teaching salvation through adherence to the law of Moses,
through circumcision, through doing good works, in addition to believing on Jesus Christ.
That's not the gospel that I'm going to preach against tonight.
But notice, he said if there come any other gospel,
he didn't say just those who preach the gospel of works salvation,
he said anyone who preaches any other gospel,
any gospel that is contrary to the true gospel of Jesus Christ,
to the gospel laid out in the word of God, let him be a curse.
We are not to accept any false gospel, and we should curse those who would preach a false gospel
and pervert the gospel of Christ.
And tonight I want to preach a sermon, and every once in a while I preach against a specific person,
a specific false teacher, not all the time, but it's biblical to do so,
because in the Bible we see Paul constantly naming the names
and exposing the false teachers of his day and explaining what their false doctrine was.
For example, he brings up people like Hymenaeus, Alexander, Philetus, Phygelus, Hermogenes,
brings up their errors, he exposes their lies and fallacies.
And tonight I'm preaching the gospel according to Bono.
Did you say Bono?
I'm talking about Bono, the lead singer of the group U2, a famous rock band,
one of the most popular rock bands in the world.
And it sounds like a funny title for a sermon, but this sermon is filled with Bible.
And you know, people say, oh, I just preached the Bible.
Well, that's why I'm doing that, because I have a huge stack of notes
filled with a ton of scripture exposing to you the lies and the heresy
and the wickedness of the gospel according to Bono.
Now you say, well, who's Bono?
Well, Bono is the lead singer of the rock band U2.
And also this sermon kind of does double duty tonight,
because I'm preaching against the false doctrine of the so-called social gospel.
I'm calling it the gospel according to Bono,
but it's also known as the social gospel.
You might have heard that term.
But not only am I exposing the lies and wickedness of the social gospel,
I'm also doing double duty tonight explaining why you shouldn't be
listening to U2 and why you shouldn't be listening to a lot of the music
that you probably listen to.
Because if you look into it, a lot of these people, this is their gospel.
This is their message.
Now what is the gospel according to Bono?
Well, I'm going to read for you some quotes from Bono and explain it to you.
But understand something.
Bono is a false prophet and a false teacher.
You say, no, he's just a musician.
It's just entertainment.
Okay.
Well, then why does the Episcopalian church in the United States
do something called the Eutucharist?
What?
Now the Eucharist is something that they refer to the Lord's Supper or Communion as.
They do the Eutucharist.
I mean, churches across America today that are United Methodist or
Episcopalian or that stripe, they will literally bring in U2 songs.
They'll literally bring in quotes from Bono, and
they'll have whole church services revolving around Bono as a prophet, as a preacher.
Let me read some quotes for you.
Here's one quote that I read on the internet.
U2's unprecedented impact on world politics and universal human rights.
U2 is the most influential band because they make the most tangible
international historical impact regarding issues such as human rights,
world peace, and AIDS.
They continuously, listen to this, they continuously influence the masses.
That's very true.
With their impassioned music and
go above and beyond by directly affecting public policies.
In short, U2 is the PBS of music.
They are there for the public good and bring profound truths to the masses.
I mean, if you just go on the internet, people are calling Bono a prophet.
They look to him as a religious leader.
He conferences with pastors across America today, and
they will promote his message and his gospel.
Let me tell you something.
His gospel is a false gospel of Satan.
I'm here to tell you tonight.
He's loved by the world.
In November 2007, he was honored on the NBC Nightly News as someone making
a difference in the world.
And he received a Nobel Man of Peace Prize in 2008.
He's loved and revered by the world, and he calls himself a Christian.
And he claims to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and be a Christian.
And many Christians today are fooled by his lying false gospel.
And they actually think that he's really a Christian when nothing can be
more further from the truth.
Now I'm gonna get into the Bible tonight, but let me start off by saying this.
Bono is right up there with Bill and Melinda Gates for
promoting just globalism, promoting one world government,
promoting everything that is anti-Bible, anti-truth, anti-God,
anti-righteousness all across this world today.
And I'm calling him out as such.
Number one, I'm gonna give you five tenets tonight of the gospel according to Bono.
And this is something that we need to reject outright.
Now, Calvinism has five points to two of them, okay?
This is not the five points of Calvinism.
This is the five points of the gospel according to Bono tonight.
And I reject all five outright.
Number one is a social gospel.
You say, what's a social gospel?
Well, let me give you some quotes here.
This is what Bono said.
Bill Heifels has convinced me of the importance of the church as the moral
force and practical infrastructure for solving the world's problems.
Open the doors of your church and make them an AIDS clinic.
Your charity is important, but your passion for justice is needed.
I'm asking for your voice and for
you to get permission to fix these problems that are fixable.
It's not a burden, it's an opportunity, it's invention.
It's the philosophy that basically teaches that the purpose of Christianity
is to solve all the world's problems and to basically bring in world peace.
And this has nothing to do with the second coming of Jesus Christ.
This has nothing to do with the tribulation and
the rapture that the Bible clearly teaches about.
This is just a doctrine that says that somehow,
through the principles of the Bible, and of course,
it's not really the principles of the Bible,
it's their warped interpretation of the principles of the Bible,
that our job is not to get people saved, not to deliver people from hell,
but it's to feed the hungry, it's to create world peace,
it's to promote all these positive changes all over the world,
so that we can live in a wonderful utopian world,
where we're all holding hands and singing Kumbaya.
Let me tell you something, it'll never happen.
It's a lie, because there's no peace to the wicked.
And people today that believe in the social gospel,
they are not emphasizing the gospel of Christ.
They're not emphasizing heaven and hell.
Jesus Christ said, my kingdom is not of this world.
And yet they believe that it's an earthly kingdom of setting up
a world where everybody is living by the Sermon on the Mount.
But it has nothing to do with salvation,
it has nothing to do with heaven and hell.
You see, the social gospel is the emails that I constantly get telling me how,
instead of spending so much time out soul-witting,
we should be feeding the hungry.
We need to be giving out free clothes.
We need to set up a pregnancy crisis hotline.
That's what we need to be doing.
And this is what many people think.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for helping poor people.
I'm all for feeding and clothing the poor.
I'm all for helping people, and reaching out to people,
and trying to make a difference in our community.
But let me tell you something,
that is not the emphasis of this church, and it never will be.
Our emphasis is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
God sent us to preach the kingdom of God,
to preach that people need to believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ,
because somebody can eat and be filled
with malt o' meals spooned into their mouth
by some kind of a charitable worker
who flew across continents to Africa to bring that to them.
But let me tell you something,
if they don't get the gospel, they're gonna burn in hell.
And what does a man profit if he gains the whole world
and loses his own soul?
What are you profiting if you get medicine and food
and nobody preaches you,
the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ
is gonna profit you nothing?
Now there are missionaries out there
that do help and feed and clothe,
but they preach the gospel,
and that's their main emphasis is getting people saved.
You're doing more for somebody by getting them saved
than just feeding them.
People throng to hear Jesus Christ preach,
and he'd rebuke them for coming for the food.
He said, you're not coming because you saw the miracles.
You're not coming because you believe in me.
He said in John chapter six, I'm paraphrasing,
but he basically said in chapter six and seven,
he said, look, you're coming to me
because you ate the food and were filled.
He said, it's not the meat that perishes
that you need to work for.
He said, you need the bread of life.
You need everlasting life
that's gonna feed you spiritually.
And this is exactly what the social gospel
does not give out.
They give out the bread that perishes.
Jesus said, if you eat the bread that I gave you,
you'll live forever.
Let me finish this quote by Bono about his social gospel.
He says, there are 2,003 verses in scripture
about the poor, second only to personal salvation.
Jesus speaks of judgment only once.
Now hold on a second, did you hear that?
So Bono says that there are 2,003 references
to helping the poor,
but that Jesus only speaks of judgment only once.
Now do you believe that?
Do you believe that Jesus only spoke of the judgment once?
Do you believe he mentioned hell once?
Do you believe that he warned people
of the fires and damnation that await those who believe,
not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ only once?
No, it's just an outright lie.
It's just perverting the truth of the Bible,
just getting up and just telling a bold-faced lie.
Oh, the Bible's all about helping the poor.
The Bible's all about feeding the hungry.
It mentions that 2,003 times,
second only to personal salvation,
but it only talks of the judgment once.
He said Jesus only mentioned judgment once,
and that is the passage in Matthew
where we are asked who clothed the naked,
who fed the poor, who visited those in prison.
That defines whether you're a part of the kingdom or not.
So the gospel according to Bono is a social gospel
that says if you help the poor,
you're part of the kingdom of God.
If you feed the hungry, you're part of the kingdom of God.
If you don't, you're not.
Nothing to do with whether or not
you believe on Jesus Christ.
It's whether or not you've helped people.
That's what determines whether or not
you're part of the kingdom.
Hey, this is another gospel.
This is a social gospel.
This is a false gospel,
and Bono is not preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.
He's preaching a social gospel that says feed the poor.
And look, I've run into people who believe this way
even amongst Baptists.
I went to a Baptist church when I was a teenager,
and you know how teenagers are.
And I was just a typical teenager.
And so we were at this thing,
and the church I went to was a very watered down church
that's preaching the NIV and had the Christian rock
and all that, and that's the type of church it was.
And they would cancel the Wednesday night church service
for the whole summer,
and the teenagers instead would go
to what was called pool and devotions.
And it was basically we'd all strip our clothes off,
and basically just the girls would have their bikinis on
and the guys would have their trunks on,
and we would all go mixed swimming for an hour and a half.
And then if we had time, we'd do a five minute Bible study
after feasting our eyes on all the teenage girls
and their bikinis.
This is what church was, okay,
this liberal church I went to.
And so it was called pool and devotions.
And we were at pool and devotions one day,
and this girl was walking across the swimming pool
in her scantily clad nudity that's called a swimsuit,
and she had a towel over her head.
And somebody said, oh, you look like Mother Teresa
with that towel over your head.
And I said, hey, have you ever seen
my Mother Teresa impression?
And I basically just made out like a dead body.
And then I said, oh wait,
I got another Mother Teresa impression.
Ah!
And I said, because she's burning in hell right now,
according to the Bible, because she's a Roman Catholic
who did not believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ,
but believed in total work salvation.
And I said, that's my impression.
And then they, everybody, everybody became angry,
started telling me how wrong I was,
and she's the one, she's in heaven,
she's with Jesus Christ right now, how dare you?
And I said to them, I said,
how do you know she's in heaven?
Why?
Because of all the works that she did.
And I said to these guys, is that how you get to heaven,
by doing good works?
So you can be a false religion,
believe a totally different gospel,
but as long as you did the works, you're in heaven.
Well, according to Bono's Gospel,
I'm sure Mother Teresa's in heaven with Jesus right now.
I mean, and they basically, and I said to them,
I said, have you ever heard Mother Teresa say anything?
I said, do you even know what language she speaks?
She probably never heard her talk
if you don't even know what language she speaks.
And they said, no.
Have you ever heard her talk about what she believes?
No.
Well then, how do you know she's saved?
Oh, because she helped all these people.
Did you ever see the people that she helped or anything?
Have you ever talked to her?
Do you know what her religion was?
Because let me explain to you what her religion was.
Die hard Roman Catholic.
Total work salvation.
Nothing to do with putting your faith in Christ
for salvation.
But this social gospel says, hey, if you're good,
if you help people, if you're doing all this stuff,
hey, you're part of the kingdom of God.
Doesn't matter what religion you are.
That's the thing.
Well, let's see if Jesus only mentioned judgment once.
Well, first of all, I looked it up.
The Bible used the word judgment or judge 758 times.
And I can't even take the time tonight
to read you all the scriptures
where Jesus preached about judgment
because it would take the whole night.
But let me just give you a few.
John 5.22, for the Father judgeth no man,
but hath committed all judgment unto the Son.
So Jesus said, all judgment is committed unto me.
I'm the top judge.
I'm the one who does the most judging
of anybody in the universe.
Is basically what Jesus is saying there.
John 5.27, that he said that the Father
had given him authority to execute judgment also
because he's the Son of Man.
Verse 30, I can of mine own self do nothing.
As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just
because I seek not mine own will,
but the will of the Father which sent me.
John 7.24, judge not according to the appearance,
but judge righteous judgment.
John 8.16, and yet if I judge, my judgment is true,
for I am not alone.
I am the Father, but I am the Father that sent me.
John 9.39, and Jesus said, for judgment,
I am come into this world.
He said, that's why I came into the world, to judge.
Now you say, well, he didn't come into the world
to condemn the world.
That's because the world's condemned already.
But he is the judge.
He is the one who makes the final decision.
He said, I have the keys of hell and of death.
And you say, well, he was talking of judgment
in a different sense.
I have a whole list of scriptures that go on and on
about judgment.
He even said that judgment was one
of the most important things in the whole Bible.
Because he rebuked the Pharisees in Matthew 23.
You don't have to turn them.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,
for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin,
and have omitted the weightier matters of the law.
He's saying, you left out the weightier matters
of the law.
What are those, Jesus?
Judgment, mercy, and faith.
Those are the three things that he said.
These are the big things of the law.
Judgment, mercy, and faith.
But he only mentioned the gender woods.
And it was just to say that everybody who helps people
is going to heaven.
Luke 11 42, but woe unto you, Pharisees,
for you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs,
and pass over judgment and the love of God.
Judgment and the love of God.
He talked about both, my friend.
He said, well, you know, he talked about hell.
Well, look, don't tell me Jesus didn't preach
about hell but once.
He said, if thy right hand offend thee,
cut it off and cast it from thee.
For it is profitable for thee that one of thy members
should perish and not that thy whole body
should be cast into hell.
He said, if your right foot offend you,
cut it off, hell fire, pluck out your eye.
There's hell, hell fire, damnation.
He told the story about the rich man in Lazarus
to warn us of hell.
And over and over again, he preached about hell.
He said, there's a furnace of fire.
He said, there's weeping and gnashing of teeth.
He said, there's wailing and there's gnashing of teeth.
It's everlasting fire.
It's everlasting punishment.
Hell, sin, judgment, wickedness.
That is the message of Jesus Christ.
Not just help the poor, help the poor, help the poor.
Oh, and by the way, I'll mention judgment once.
You don't help the poor, I'll judge you.
That's not what the Bible teaches, my friend.
And I'm all for feeding the hungry.
I'm all for helping the poor.
But let me tell you something.
The most important thing that we do on this earth
is preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ,
proclaiming the good news of salvation.
And that is what determines who goes to heaven and hell.
Those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and his death, burial, and resurrection
are going to heaven.
And those who do not believe will go to heaven.
Nothing to do.
And by the way, those who trust in their own works
will go to hell also.
Yeah, that's right.
You say, well, I heard Bono say
that our works don't get us into heaven.
But wait a minute.
Did he ever mention to you
that about anybody going to hell?
Did you ever hear him talking about people going to hell?
No.
Because what he believes is what's called universalism,
where basically what they actually believe
is that nobody's gonna burn in hell for all eternity.
They don't even believe in hell.
And so yeah, he says, oh, it's God's grace
that gets us into heaven.
Yeah, so do the Catholics say the same thing.
It's God's grace that gets us.
It's not our good works that get us there.
It's grace.
That's what they say too.
Is that what they believe?
No.
Because you gotta do the works to be saved.
And Bono's acid test
for whether you're in the kingdom of God or not
is whether or not you have helped the poor
and fed the hungry.
That is not the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Let me keep reading this quote.
He said the church, remember he said
we should turn our church into an AIDS clinic?
By the way, our church is an AIDS clinic.
We do more to prevent AIDS
than these bunch of stupid AIDS clinics do.
When I get up and scream and yell
about phony patient and adultery
and sodomy and homosexuality and perversion,
I'm doing more to stop AIDS
than these bunch of phony AIDS clinics
handing out all their drugs and devices.
Hey, this church is the greatest AIDS clinic
that I know of.
Amen.
We'll fix the problem of AIDS.
Quit being a pervert.
That's right.
Get married as a virgin
and stay married for the rest of your life
and we wouldn't see AIDS spreading across the planet
and spreading across Africa
if people would be taught not to be a queer
and a faggot and a sodomite
because that is where the AIDS is really coming from,
my friend.
That's where it's spreading like wildfire.
That is the true AIDS clinic.
But listen to this.
He says, you know, the reason the church
has been slow to respond,
I'm talking about AIDS,
is that the church has historically
always been behind the curve.
Civil rights, apartheid,
the church is afraid of politics.
So he's saying, you know,
the church is always the last people
to know what's going on.
Well, that's funny
because the Bible's being preached every week.
You'd think we'd be the first one
to know the truth about things,
but apparently not.
He said the second reason the church
has been so slow is less palatable.
Now what does it mean to be palatable?
What's that mean?
Tastes good.
Tastes good, right?
If something's palatable,
your palate is the roof of your mouth.
And if something's palatable,
it means it tastes good.
He said the second reason the church
has been so slow is less palatable.
He's saying it's a bad taste.
He said the church has been very judgmental
about the AIDS virus.
It believes that it is about people
living irresponsibly.
Yes, I do.
That is what it's about.
When people are at 13 and 14 fornicating,
that's why AIDS is infecting
three quarters of people in certain parts of Africa.
What somebody ought to go over there and do
is preach against sin and wickedness.
What they ought to do is implement Leviticus 2013.
That'll cure a lot of AIDS.
That'll quarantine them in the cemetery.
I'm not condoning going out and murdering the gays
because I'll tell you right now,
it's not our place.
It's not our job to take the law into our own hands
and to decide to execute judgment upon facts.
But let me tell you something.
The Bible's real clear about how God prescribed
to solve the problem of sodomy in our world today.
He said if a man lied with mankind,
as he lied with a woman.
If a man lied also with mankind,
as he lied with a woman,
even both of them have committed an abomination
they shall surely be put to death.
Their blood should be pumped.
I didn't write that.
That is Bible.
That is the truth.
And you say, oh, that was back then.
And I'm sure that God just loves facts now.
No, he said they should be put to death, okay?
And look, again, I'm not taking it into my own hands,
but that's how you're gonna solve
that AIDS problem in Africa
is if they would institute those kind of laws over there
and if they would teach people
and preach and thunder forth from the pulpits against it.
Is that what Bono's doing?
Is Bono condemning fornication?
Is Bono condemning sodomy?
No.
But yet he pretends that he's doing so much
to fight AIDS and he says that it gives him
a bad taste in his palate,
how the church is judgmental about the AIDS virus.
Well, maybe this is why we're judgmental
about the AIDS virus.
Maybe it's Roman 127 that gave us the wrong idea.
When the Bible said, and likewise also the men,
leaving the natural use of the woman,
burned in their lust one toward another,
men with men working that which is unseemly
and receiving in themselves
that recompense of their error which was meet.
He said they receive in themselves
the consequences for their sinful actions
of men with men and that is what AIDS is.
That's what HIV is.
My grandma was 90 years old in Tucson.
God bless her heart.
I have her old Bible and in that Bible
next to Romans 1, she has all kinds of notes
on every page because she read her Bible a lot,
made a lot of notes.
It just says HIV next to that verse
and it's a trick.
Even grandma took a stand on that and said,
hey, that is what that is
and that's what everybody used to preach.
I grew up here and that preached.
But today Bono's gospel has influenced us unfortunately
and now we don't want to be judgmental.
And you say, oh, but Pastor Anderson,
there are some people who get AIDS
and they weren't a sodomite.
Yeah, they're suffering from the sins of others.
If they got it through a blood transfusion
or from their parents.
Our sin always hurts and affects the people around us
but it is still sin that was the root of that problem.
It came from sin and sodomy.
That's where it started.
That's where it came from
and just because someone contracted in an innocent way,
they're just suffering from the sins of someone else.
But it is still sin that caused that disease.
And look, all throughout the Bible,
I could preach a whole sermon called pestilence
if I wanted to and just look up every time
the Bible talks about him sending a pestilence
as a judgment and as a punishment for sin.
I believe from the top of my head
to the bottom of my feet
that AIDS is the judgment of God.
That's what I believe
because it's so clear in the Bible
when he talks about the pestilence
and when he talks about
how they're gonna receive in themselves
the recompense there which is me.
He said that Bono said this.
Do you notice there's a kind of a difference
between what Bono's saying
and what I'm preaching tonight a little bit?
Only 6% of, I shouldn't even have to tell you like,
hey, this is a quote from Bono
because you'll instantly know
when it's no longer me talking.
Only 6% of evangelicals felt like they were to act
in response to the AIDS epidemic.
Well, count me in the 94% Bono.
Actually, no, I am the 6%.
I do think we should act.
Pre-charter, live cleaner.
That's my way of acting.
But the Christ will not let the church
walk away from the AIDS emergency.
It's like a car crash.
We have to act.
AIDS is the leprosy of our age
except you didn't get leprosy by being a sodomite.
You just got it by being near somebody
who had leprosy.
It wasn't an STD.
But then something tragic happened.
The church woke up and began to act
and they ruined it for me.
I couldn't hate the church anymore.
So he's saying, I hated church
until they started getting involved in fighting AIDS.
Now I can't hate them anymore.
Do you see how this social gospel
has nothing to do with getting people saved
but it's just all about healing the body?
Not teaching people, hey,
you know why you're all getting AIDS?
You know, and here's what you need to change.
No, just get them on drugs.
And by the way, the pharmaceutical companies,
they love Bono.
Because they're making a fortune
on all these drugs and medicines.
People donate to charity tax free
and then it pays for a bunch of drugs
and pharmaceutical companies laugh all the way to the bank.
But number two, I gotta hurry up, man.
I'm running out of time.
Number one is the social gospel.
The gospel according to Bono.
But the second tenet of the gospel according to Bono
is respect for all religions.
Go to Psalm 16.
Respect for all religions.
He's been known to where?
Who knows that coexist bumper sticker?
Yeah, it says coexist and it has all the symbols
of the major religions of the world.
And that coexist bumper sticker is something
that he wears on his head as a bandana at his concerts.
When he's not dressing in drag,
when he's not dressing up like a woman,
and people still think he's a Christian.
When he's not dressing in drag
or dressing up as Satan at his concerts,
he wears a coexist bandana.
And look, I grew up listening to YouTube.
Let me confess my sentence to you right now.
I grew up listening to YouTube's early music
in the 80s, okay?
And I went to a YouTube concert before, okay?
And thankfully at the concert I went to,
I don't think he dressed up as Satan.
But at that time, he would literally
put on a devil costume and wear horns.
Who knows what I'm talking about?
Who can verify that what I'm saying is true?
Got one sinner, worldly person here, I'm just kidding.
It's true, he literally, at his concerts, I've seen it,
he would literally put on red devil horns
and dress up as Satan and sing several of his songs
dressed up as Satan, okay?
And because it's cool to be the devil,
it's cool to be Satan, it's cool to dress in drag.
And look, it's easy for you as a Christian
to just hear it on the radio and buy the CD
and say, I don't know why Pastor Aniston's preaching
against all this worldly music, what's the big deal?
But you know what, the guy's dressing up like Satan,
he's dressing in drag and he's preaching another gospel.
He's preaching the gospel according to Bono,
not the gospel according to Mark or Luke or John or Matthew.
But number two, respect for all religions.
He wears his coexist bandana.
Let's see if the Bible would condone us
promoting other religions or wearing their logos
or tolerating all religions and respecting all religions
because that's the mantra today, respect all religions.
Okay, look at Psalm 16 four.
Their sorrows shall be multiplied
that hasten after another god.
Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer
nor take up their names into my lips.
He said, I don't even want to mention
the names of other gods.
Did you hear that?
He even said in the Old Testament
not to make mention of other gods.
We should not be having the logo of a false god
and wearing that logo and saying,
well, I don't believe it, I'm a Christian,
but I just respect, I don't respect lies.
I don't respect another gospel.
The Bible says if anybody freaks another gospel,
let him be accursed.
Islam preaches another gospel today.
They teach that Jesus is not the son of God.
That's not the truth.
So that crescent symbol is promoting a false gospel.
Let Islam be accursed tonight.
Let Judaism that does not accept the Messiah,
Jesus Christ, let it be accursed tonight.
Let Hinduism with their thousand false gods
be accursed tonight.
Let the religions of this world, Buddhism and atheism
and all these different new age mysticism,
religions and Taoism, let them be accursed tonight.
Don't wear their logos and respect it and say, coexist.
In Exodus 23, 13, he said, and in all things
that I have said unto you, be circumspect
and make no mention of the names of other gods.
Neither let it be heard, out of thy mouth.
And you're gonna tell me we should wear it as a bandana
or put a sticker of our car on it?
He said in Numbers 33, 52,
then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land
from before you and destroy all their pictures.
Doesn't sound like God likes those logos
when he says destroy all their pictures.
And destroy all their molten images
and quite pluck down all their high places.
Did Jesus tolerate and wear the logo of the Pharisees
on his forehead?
You know, there's somebody else's logo
that's gonna be in somebody's forehead someday.
What was that again?
Oh yeah, the Antichrist wearing a logo of a false religion.
Did Jesus tolerate the Pharisees and the Sadducees?
Did he tolerate the corrupted Judaism of his day
when he went into the temple and flipped over the tables
and chased them out with a whip?
Is that the message of religious tolerance
that we hear today?
I think not.
I do not respect other religions.
Cain was the first man who brought up a false religion
when he tried to bring his own works
instead of the blood of the lamb in Genesis chapter four.
And God had not respect unto Cain nor unto his offering.
He didn't respect Cain or his offering
or his false religion.
He didn't respect any of it and neither do I.
But number three, a message of world peace.
Now you say, whoa Pastor Anderson,
how can you not be for world peace?
How can you say that you're not for world peace?
Well let me just explain something to you.
I'm not for world peace.
You say everybody's for world peace.
Well that just shows you how brainwashed you are
if that's what you think,
because I'm not for world peace.
But you say, wait a minute Pastor Anderson,
but you speak out against a lot of war
and you speak a lot about peace
and you're for peace.
I'm for peace, but I'm not for world peace.
Did you hear me?
I am for peace.
I am for peace in my life.
I am for peace in my area.
I am for peace in my nation,
but I am not for world peace.
Because you know why?
In order to have world peace, that's a one government.
Because as long as you have governments
they're gonna fight each other.
Look, there's fighting today in Asia,
there's fighting today in Africa,
there's fighting today in Europe,
there's fighting today in South America,
there's fighting all over this world today.
And let me explain something to you.
And really there's a little bit of a quasi warfare
even going on pretty close to where you're sitting
right here on the border of the drug war.
And you've got hundreds of people dying.
You've got tanks, you've got weaponry.
Both sides are armed to the teeth.
Both sides are killing each other.
So that is a warfare perhaps on a smaller scale.
But there's really warfare going on all over this world.
And I'm not saying that I wanna go get involved
in everybody else's fights
and meddle and strive not belong to me.
I think the United States should mind its own business
and whatever.
But the bottom line is there's always going to be war
in this world.
And a message of world peace is a message contrary
to the message of the Bible.
I'll prove it to you.
Go to Matthew 24.
You say Pastor Anderson, I believe in world peace.
I believe in world peace after Jesus comes back
and says of his kingdom.
But there will never be peace before that.
And if you believe that there will be peace before that,
and if you believe we should be working toward world peace
if you're gonna be like these beauty queens,
isn't that the cliche, you know?
Oh, I'm for world peace.
These airhead ditzes that wanna sound
like they're compassionate and smart and intelligent
and care about the world.
Rawr, world peace, world peace, rawr, world peace.
It's a great buzzword, but I'm out for it.
I'm against it right now.
I don't wanna promote world peace
because it's a lost cause.
Because the only world peace is gonna come
when the antichrist is in charge
and then later when Jesus Christ is in charge.
And let me tell you something,
when Jesus Christ is in charge,
it's not gonna be something that we worked for.
It's gonna be something that he did by the sword
that's coming out of his mouth.
He'll bring world peace instantly
when he comes the second time,
when he comes on the white horse.
He will come and bring world peace.
But the only world peace before that is of the antichrist.
You see, there will always be warfare
on this planet all the time.
Look what the Bible says in Matthew chapter 24.
I lost my place here, Matthew 24.
I got a lot of scripture, a lot of notes.
I'm skipping stuff for sake of time.
Did one of my pages disappear on me?
Or am I just not finding what I'm looking for here?
Let's see here, judgment, oh, here we go.
Okay, Matthew 24, look at verse five.
For many shall come in my name,
saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many.
And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, right?
Wars and rumors of wars.
See that ye be not troubled,
for all these things might come to pass.
He said all these things must come to pass,
but the end is not yet.
That tells me that until the end is,
there won't be any world peace.
There must be wars, there must be rumors of wars
until the end comes.
Why is that?
Well, maybe it's because in Isaiah 48, 22,
the Bible said, there is no peace, saith the Lord,
unto the wicked, and we live in a wicked world.
We live in a sinful world.
We live in a world where the majority
rejects Jesus Christ.
We live in a world where there's none righteous,
no, not one, and as long as there is wickedness,
there will not be peace.
And so that's why the Bible says there's no peace,
saith the Lord, unto the wicked.
There are many wicked nations and wicked people.
There will always be warfare.
And he said it again, Isaiah 57, 21,
there's no peace, saith my God, unto the wicked.
He said in Nahum 115, behold upon the mountains
the feet of him that bringeth good tidings,
or the good news, or the gospel, or glad tidings,
that publisheth peace.
O Judah, keep thy solemn peace, perform thy vows,
for the wicked shall no more pass through thee.
He's utterly cut off.
God said there'll be peace when the wicked are cut off.
That's what brings peace.
That's not gonna happen in our lifetime,
unless it's with the coming of Jesus Christ
setting up his kingdom on this earth.
Notice in Nahum 115 also, I know I read it quickly,
but it's the gospel that brings peace.
That's why Paul, at the end of all his epistles,
did you notice that he always says something
at the beginning and end about grace and peace?
I'm sorry, at the beginning.
At the end, he says, grace be with you.
But at the beginning of his epistles,
he says something always along the lines of, you know,
grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Or grace and peace, grace, mercy, and peace,
every one of his epistles, pretty much,
with probably with the exception of the book of Hebrews,
but, and you know, I have most of it memorized,
but I just don't have it on top of my head right now.
But honestly, he always says something along those lines.
But do you notice, it's always that order.
It's never peace and grace.
He always says grace and peace.
Grace, mercy, peace, grace.
Why?
Because it's the grace of God that brings peace,
and it's faith in Christ and salvation
that gives us peace with God.
And the only thing that's gonna bring world peace
is when Jesus is ruling the world.
It's that simple.
He's the prince of peace.
The fruit of the Spirit is peace.
God's word brings peace,
and anything else that's a peace symbol,
you know, people wear a peace symbol around,
oh, it's a world peace, oh, we're bringing peace.
If it's not associated with the word of God
and the gospel of Christ, it's never really peace.
It's always a false peace.
It's a lying peace.
They'll say, oh, peace, peace.
And really, what they mean is that more warfare
or more killing, it's just they're killing different people.
I mean, look, the Antichrist's gonna bring peace
as he's beheading all believers.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
His version of peace is killing all believers,
forcing everyone to receive the mark of the beast
or they can't buy or sell,
but it's all in the name of world peace.
Now, look, this is gonna fit in perfectly
with the gospel of Orlando.
I mean, he's gonna be right there with the Antichrist,
and it's gonna be great for them
before God comes and destroys them all.
But look, Romans 5.1 said,
therefore, being justified by faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Peace with God comes through the gospel.
Peace in the world comes through
the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Wickedness can never coexist with peace.
And so, what was the part that I wanted to turn to?
Oh yeah, Jesus Christ, of course, said,
think not that I've come to send peace on earth.
I came not to send peace for the sword.
He will bring peace someday,
but his first coming was not about bringing peace,
and he hasn't come the second time.
But the Antichrist will bring peace.
Go to Daniel 8.
One more thing on this point.
I gotta hurry to get to my other two tenets
of the gospel according to, not St. Bono,
but the gospel according to Bono.
See, in Daniel 8.25, the Bible makes it clear
that the Antichrist is gonna come in the name of peace.
First of all, the famous passage,
while you're turning to Daniel 8,
he said in 1 Thessalonians 5,
but of the times of the seasons, brother,
and you have no need that I write unto you,
for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord
so cometh as a thief in the night,
for when they shall say, peace and safety.
So that's what they're gonna say.
Are you listening?
They will say, peace and safety
when the Antichrist is ruling this world.
When there is a one world religion
around the false prophet and the Antichrist,
they will say, peace and safety.
Those are their two buzz words, my friend.
Peace and safety, just get it down.
Look, safety's of the Lord.
He's the Prince of Peace,
but they will hijack those two words,
and those two words will be their motto.
He said, when they say, peace and safety,
then sudden destruction cometh upon them,
as travail upon a woman with child,
and they shall not escape.
Their world peace that they're working toward,
eventually they will achieve it for just a few minutes,
a few hours, or a few days,
because when as soon as they say,
we finally got peace and safety,
then all of a sudden, the trumpet sounds,
and guess who comes to ruin their party?
Right.
Guess who comes to ruin their global government,
their one world system?
Guess who comes to ruin it?
Jesus Christ in the clouds.
Then they're gonna be weeping.
It's gonna be a Belshazzar moment,
where they go from pride and haughtiness
and peace and safety to fear, dread, and trembling,
just like Daniel chapter five with Belshazzar.
Go to Daniel 8.25.
This is about the Antichrist.
And through his policy also,
policy is where we get our word politics.
This comes from the same root word.
And through his policy also,
he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand,
and he shall magnify himself in his heart,
and by peace shall destroy many.
So do you see how the Antichrist
is associated with a false peace
that's a destructive peace?
By his peace, he'll destroy many.
He shall also stand up against the prince of princes.
That's talking about Jesus Christ.
But he shall be broken without hand.
Number four, and I'm not gonna spend any time on this
because I'm running out of time.
But number four, the Gospel of Bono
just prostitutes the name of Jesus Christ
and just associates it with whatever he believes.
That becomes what Jesus represents.
Now, I'm preaching against Bono tonight,
but he's not the only one who believes
in the Gospel according to Bono.
I mean, there are all kinds of people in this world,
all kinds of social gospel believers
who believe all the same things that Bono.
They believe a social gospel.
They believe in coexisting with all religions.
They believe that our job is to promote
and fight for world peace.
You think he's alone on these things?
You think he invented this?
Do you really think that Bono
invented the Gospel according to Bono?
There's nothing new under the sun.
It's just the devil's lies that are believed
by millions across the world.
It's the spirit of antichrist that's already in the world.
But number four, he just uses the name of Jesus
to just attach to whatever he believes.
This is like when I've been told by a sodomite
or just an open atheist,
you're not being very Christ-like.
Now, I've always thought that was funny
when somebody who's an atheist,
someone who hates the Bible and hates God
begins to teach me what it's like to be like Christ.
You're not Christ-like.
Since when are they the expert
on what it is to be like Christ?
And think about it, their prophet, their leader,
or one of their prophets, one of their leaders,
is saying, well, Jesus only mentioned judgment one time.
So when they say you're not being Christ-like,
it ain't the Christ of the Bible.
It's a Christ that's been formed and fashioned
in the mind of Bono and in the mind of many other people
where they formed and fashioned a false Jesus Christ
that basically just condones of everything,
universalism, nobody's gonna go to hell,
no condemnation for fornication,
no condemnation for sodomy, respecting all religions.
Hey, we're not supposed to be out preaching the gospel.
We're supposed to be opening a food pantry
at an AIDS clinic.
Forget soul-winning.
And you say, do people buy into this?
Well, let's see.
How many soul-winning powerhouses are there in Phoenix?
How many people are really going out
and knocking a ton of doors?
Now, there are some other churches out there that do it,
but you know what?
It's not a huge number of churches in Phoenix
that are really knocking doors aggressively
and preaching the gospel.
There are a few, but it's not a lot.
It's not a whole lot.
But how many churches are there in Phoenix
that are helping the poor?
Tons.
So it sounds like the gospel of Bono is more popular.
I'm not against helping the poor,
but should we forsake the gospel to wait tables?
Should we forsake the word of God to wait on tables?
Should we reject the soul-winning commission
that he gave us in order to just focus
on just the social problems of our city?
You know what?
If you're gonna fix the social problems of this city,
you're pouring water into a bucket with holes.
We could literally, we could put all of our energy
and time, all kinds of churches,
and we could all join together.
And look, wouldn't you think they'd have,
look, think about this for one second.
Wouldn't you think they would have solved hunger
by now in Africa with all the millions of people
that are working on it and all the billions of dollars
going into it?
Wouldn't you think it'd be solved?
But no, it isn't solved, because they're putting money
into a bag with holes, because they're pouring water
into a bucket with a hole in it.
They're fighting for something that can never be achieved,
the poor you have with you always.
And yet they think, you know, it's just,
we gotta feed the poor, feed the poor, clothe them,
end poverty, war on poverty, you're never gonna end poverty
because poverty is the result of sin.
Now look, I'm sad today about people starving in Africa.
I wish they weren't starving.
I'm not a cold, heartless monster.
If I went over there and saw people starving,
it would bring tears to my eyes,
it would bring pain to my heart,
but I know the root of that starvation in Africa is sin.
It's wickedness.
It's people who hate the Bible,
who are causing that sin and wickedness.
It's evil governments throughout Africa
and throughout the world and throughout the United Nations
that are promoting the starvation
of people in Africa today.
Because let me tell you something,
the gospel of Jesus Christ would bring peace
and prosperity and good things,
but that's not what's being promoted.
When you have a bunch of wickedness and filth
and sodomy and smut and perversion,
sin when it's finished, bring it forth death.
And when you see starving kids in Africa,
look, I'm all for feeding them,
but you know what, lay the ax to the root of the tree.
Instead of clipping at the leaves
and putting money into a bag with holes,
maybe you should address the root of the problem
is that hey, there are wicked people here
that are causing this problem.
Why are we not starving in America?
People aren't starving in America.
Nobody's starving to death in America today
that can't just go up to any.
There are all kinds of government things
and non-government things alike.
There are food pantries and soup kitchens
and rescue missions, and I'm not against rescue missions
that preach the gospel.
If they're preaching the Bible,
if they're preaching the gospel,
I have friends who preach in rescue missions every week.
Great, God bless them.
But let me tell you something,
people are not starving here.
There's food for them,
but people are starving in Africa and Asia and other places.
Why?
Why are they starving in some places and not in others?
Do you think Africa doesn't have natural resources?
Africa has more natural resources
than the United States probably.
They've got diamonds and oil
and all kinds of plant life and animal life.
They have a lot of resources over there.
You know why they're starving?
Because of somebody's greed and wickedness and sin.
That's why they're starving.
And let me tell you something, Bono.
You think you're helping the Africans
by feeding them malt-o-meals today
and giving them that shot
of whatever you're injecting them with.
You know, you think you're fixing their problems
while you promote sinful behavior,
while you dress up like Satan.
Listen, Bono, when you're dressing in drag,
when you're dressing as a woman,
when you're dressing as Satan,
when you're blaspheming Christ in your songs,
let me explain something to you.
You're part of the problem, Bono,
because it's the sin and anti-Christ philosophy
of this world that promotes sodomy
and filth and wickedness
that brings that kind of a curse upon a continent.
And God said, he sent famine as a curse.
He said he would send pestilence as a curse.
It doesn't make me heartless to say
that sin causes famine and pestilence
to be sin as a curse from God.
And if you want to solve the problem,
get rid of the sin.
You get rid of the sin and you get rid of the curse
because the curse causeless shall not come.
That's what the Bible says.
Curse doesn't come for no reason.
People don't starve for no reason.
It comes because sin and wickedness causes it.
That's why it comes.
And today, the Bonos of this world
are making things worse by promoting a sinful lifestyle.
With their music, with their message,
with their examples, with their lifestyle,
he rebukes the church for trying to condemn and judge sin
when sin is really what's gonna feed and clothe.
I mean, preaching against sin is what's gonna feed
and clothe and end the pestilence.
When we do God's work and do God's will,
then we'll be blessed.
Look, my pastor back in Sacramento,
who, in the church in which I learned soul-winning
and everything, he used to always say,
the path to God's blessing
is through the door of obedience.
You know, obedience brings the blessings
of God upon your life.
And disobedience brings the curse of God
on a continent and on a nation.
Our country has been blessed at certain times
throughout our history, and in some ways,
because of goodness.
Even though we have a lot of bad things
about our country, you know,
the righteousness exalted the nation, the Bible says.
But sin is a reproach to any people.
And any prosperity we've enjoyed in America
has been because of righteousness.
And any curses and bad things we've suffered in America
are a result of our sin.
This is the way the world works.
And so, number one, a social gospel.
Number two, respect for all religions.
Number three, world peace as a mantra.
Number four, taking the name of Jesus
and just slapping it on whatever you want to believe.
Just making blanket say, well, Jesus taught this.
Jesus said this.
Jesus never even mentioned this.
And it's just an outright lie.
But Jesus becomes a brand name.
He becomes a trendy fashion statement or logo
to just attach to whatever you believe.
You believe your false doctrine
and it has nothing to do with the Bible.
Your gospel according to Bono
and then you just say, it's Christianity.
I'm a Christian.
You're not a Christian.
Christians believe the Bible.
He that is of God heareth God's words.
He therefore hear them not because you're not of God.
That's right.
So it's that simple.
Bono's not of God.
He doesn't hear God's word.
But number five is this.
The gospel according to Bono
only accepts the positive parts of the Bible.
You know that he accepts heaven.
He'll talk about heaven but not hell.
He'll accept all the parts about loving your neighbor.
Look, people will accuse you
when you preach a sermon like this,
they'll accuse you of not wanting to feed the poor,
not wanting to clothe,
not wanting to love your neighbor.
I'm all for loving your neighbor.
I'm all for doing to others.
Hey, I like what Jesus said.
Sell all that thou hast and give it to the poor.
Amen.
I'm not against that.
I think that's great.
I think it's great to reach into your own pocket
and to sell stuff that you have
and to give it to the poor.
Amen.
Praise God, hallelujah.
Now, I don't think he said reach into somebody else's pocket
and give it to the poor.
But he did say reach into your own pocket
and give it to the poor.
He said to love the poor.
He said to feed both.
I'm not against loving your neighbor.
I'm not against do unto others, the golden rule,
which is from the mouth of Jesus,
when he said therefore all things whatsoever you would
that men should do unto you,
do ye even so to them
for this is the law and the prophets.
I'm not against these positive things in the Bible.
Look, the Bible talks about love.
Amen.
Mercy, peace, grace, forgiveness, redemption.
I love all these things.
I'll preach them all.
But guess what?
That's only the positive side.
There's a very negative side to the Bible.
What?
Well, you just show that you ever read it
if you don't think so.
Because he talks about heaven, that's positive,
but he also talks about hell.
He also talks about cursing and wickedness.
He talks about famines and pestilences.
He talks about a lot of negative things.
He talks about positive things,
and he talks about negative things.
He talks about a positive place heaven,
talks about a negative place hell.
But the gospel, according to Bono,
embraces all the positive.
Love your neighbor, peace, the golden rule,
but he rejects all the parts that are negative.
It's a positive only gospel.
Now, the verse that comes to my mind
is in Jeremiah.
Turn there, this is the last place we'll turn.
Jeremiah 48, verse 10, because
I'll say this, most independent Baptists,
and really anybody who's saved,
are you listening to me?
Anybody who is saved, anybody who is one of the saints,
anybody who is a true believer in the Lord Jesus Christ
does not only accept the positive parts of the Bible,
they accept the whole thing.
If somebody's coming to you
and saying that hell doesn't exist,
if somebody's coming to you saying
that God is a God of love
and will never punish or judge anyone,
and that he'll never condemn anyone,
that person is not saved,
because that's not the God of the Bible,
because he does condemn people to hell.
He does punish the wicked.
He does hate sin.
And so anyone who's a saved Christian,
they don't only accept the positive parts of the Bible.
And then look, I'll take it a step further.
If we were to go to any Baptist church,
okay, are you listening to me?
And I'm not saying independent fundamental Baptists,
I'm not saying they're King James only,
I'm not saying that they're even preaching
the same gospel we preach,
because Baptist is a pretty broad spectrum.
But if we went to any Baptist church
in Phoenix, Arizona tonight,
and we were to ask the pastor,
do you believe that there's a place called hell?
I think that probably 100% would say yes.
Wouldn't you probably agree with that?
Whether it's a Southern Baptist,
and I'm not saying that they believe
the gospel we believe or whatever,
you know, many do, many don't.
But I'm saying that if we went to any church
that has Baptist on the sign,
and you ask them, does hell exist?
They're gonna say yes.
If you ask them, are Muslims gonna go to hell?
Probably 100% or 99% are gonna tell you yes,
because they don't accept the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you were to ask them,
do you believe that God punishes people on this earth
for bad things they do?
That they're gonna reap what they sow,
and that people who go out and live a sinful,
wicked life, God's gonna punish them in this life.
And they're gonna be recompensed in the earth
for the actions that they do.
99% or 100% would say yes, God does punish people.
There is a hell.
God does punish people.
I mean, don't you think what I'm saying is true?
But can I tell you the colossal difference
between faithful word Baptist church,
and these 99 to 100% of Baptist churches in Phoenix
that will believe on paper the same thing?
The difference is that they won't mention it.
See, I went to an independent Baptist church,
the church I alluded to earlier.
I went there for a couple of years
when I was a teenager.
And I'll tell you right now,
the pastor never ever mentioned the word hell
from the pulpit for two years that I was there.
Never.
Not once, not in any context.
In any way, shape, or form did the word hell
ever come out of his mouth.
And I confronted him about it respectfully.
The Bible says rebuke not an elder,
but to treat him as a father.
I respectfully confronted him about it and said,
you know what, I've never heard you mention hell.
Ever.
Do you believe in hell?
And he said, yes, of course I believe in hell.
Now look, that's where a lot of preachers are at today.
And it's not just the subject of heaven and hell.
There are a lot of other negative subjects
in the Bible besides hell.
There are a lot of sins that God condemns.
There are a lot of negative portions of scripture
that most pastors wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole.
And yet you go to these pastors and say to them,
do you believe this passage?
You can turn to any passage in the Bible, right?
And 99% or even 100% of churches in Phoenix
that have Baptists on their side,
if you went to them and said,
do you believe that this chapter is God's word?
They'll say yes.
But see, the difference is, will they preach that chapter?
Will they mention hell?
So here's the thing.
The universalist says hell isn't existing for people.
People don't go there.
But you know what?
When you never mention hell,
even though in your heart you're not a universalist,
aren't you actually like a de facto universalist
in your preaching?
I mean, you might as well be a universalist
if you're never gonna mention it.
I mean, you see how people can preach,
be saved, get saved,
but no mention of what you're getting saved from.
And today there are many pastors and churches today,
and many that although they do not subscribe
to the gospel according to Bono and any of its tenets,
they still, even though they believe
in the negative parts of the Bible,
they never wanna mention the negative parts.
And every Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night,
it's sweetness and light, every time.
And this is the verse that comes to mind.
Jeremiah 48, 10.
Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord
deceitfully, and cursed be he
that keepeth back his sword from blood.
Now, today we're not in a physical battle.
We do not live by the sword, okay?
We do not use a literal sword or a gun or a weapon
to actually fight against or kill other people, okay?
Our battle is a spiritual battle.
The Bible says we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places.
So our battle is not a physical battle, is it?
We're not going out, you know,
okay, it's still winning time.
Everybody got enough rounds of ammunition?
Yeah, you got enough swords?
Yeah, we're ready to go?
That's not what our mission,
that's not what our battle is.
Our battle is a spiritual battle, okay?
Now, God is using the illustration of a physical battle
to represent a spiritual battle.
And the Bible calls the word of God itself,
what does it call it, the what?
The sword of the Spirit, the sword of the Lord,
the sword of the Spirit right here in my hand.
And what the Bible is saying here when he says,
cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord
deceitfully, and cursed be he
that keepeth back his sword from blood.
It's the person who doesn't want
to get in the fight at all.
They want to do the work of the Lord.
They want to serve God with their life,
but they don't want to get any blood on their sword.
They don't want to get their hands dirty.
They don't want to get involved in any kind of fighting.
They don't want to get involved in any kind of strife.
They want to just be at peace with everybody.
Now look, hey, I want to be at peace,
but when I speak, they're for war.
As David said, I'm for peace,
and I speak, they're for war.
You see, we as believers are doing the work
of God deceitfully when we only preach
a positive message, because what we're doing
is we're deceiving the people in the pew
to think that God's a positive only God.
And yet, when you preach the gospel,
when you preach that Jesus died on the cross
and was physically buried and physically rose again,
you're doing the work of God
as a believer when you do that.
And when you preach love one another
and care for the poor and do unto others,
you're doing the work of God.
But when you keep back your sword from blood,
you're doing the work of the Lord deceitfully,
because you're not preaching the whole counsel of God,
and you're only focusing on the positive message.
You know, you're using the sword
to preach the good things,
but you don't want to combat any of the bad things.
Well, that's part of the job of being a preacher
is to focus on both the positive and the negative,
because it's all holy, it's all God's word,
it's all the word of God.
And so, I hope you'll take two things
from the message tonight.
Number one, you know, let this gospel,
according to Bono, be a curse.
This social gospel where basically
he can have such common ground and fellowship
with Jews and Muslims and Hindus,
as long as they're all feeding the poor
and giving out drugs for AIDS,
as long as they're fighting AIDS,
as long as they're feeding the poor,
we can all join hands.
I'm not gonna join hands with the Muslims.
I'm not gonna join hands with Hindus.
They're gonna be in hell, my friend.
And look, I'm not happy about the fact
that one billion Muslims are on their way to hell.
I wish that they would get saved.
In fact, let's go knock some doors and get them saved.
This city's got Muslims in it.
I've preached to many of them.
I reject the social gospel of Bono.
Number two, his respect for all religions.
I reject it outright.
It's a false gospel.
It's not the truth.
Number three, his message of world peace
is actually a message of the anti-Christ.
It's not of God.
It's not righteous.
It's not the gospel.
Number four, his using of the name of Jesus
to just attack onto his own God
that he has formed and fashioned in his own mind.
Look, if I met a golden calf and said this is Jehovah,
that don't make it Jehovah,
and that's exactly what they did in the book of Exodus,
they said, these be thy gods, O Israel,
that brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
And they said, tomorrow, Aaron, Aaron, Aaron,
after he made a golden calf,
said, tomorrow's a feast unto who?
The Lord.
Capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D, Jehovah.
He said, tomorrow's a feast to the Lord.
And he's pointing at a golden calf?
That doesn't make it the Lord, my friend.
And attaching Jesus' name to a bunch of false doctrine
and lies and wickedness has nothing to do
with the words of Jesus Christ.
Look, if you don't believe in what Jesus said,
you don't believe in Jesus,
because that's who he is.
His word and himself are inseparable
because he was the word made flesh.
He is the word.
If you reject the word, you reject him.
It's that simple.
And number five, his accepting
of only the positive parts of the Bible.
I'll accept the whole thing.
And unlike so many Baptists that have fallen
into this trap of doing the work of the Lord deceitfully,
not only do I believe the whole Bible,
I seek and hope that I preach the whole Bible.
And I don't do the work of the Lord deceitfully
by trying to hide certain parts of the Bible,
you know, that are a little bit negative, you know,
so as not to offend people.
I'ma preach the whole thing.
Amen.
And so reject the Gospel of Bono, that's lesson one.
Lesson two, get rid of your U2 CDs.
Don't listen to his music.
Because the Bible says teaching and admonishing one another
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.
You know, music has a message.
And one of the first quotes I read you
was talking about how U2 has had such a powerful influence
with the world through the message of their music.
It's not a biblical message.
And we need to get that music out of our lives of U2.
And you know, it's a popular group.
Maybe you haven't been a U2 fan.
You know, like I said, I grew up listening to,
it was not my favorite band,
but it was something that I grew up listening to.
But you know, once I started to see
what the Gospel according to Bono was really about,
that caused me to have to make a decision in my life.
Am I gonna reject the Gospel according to Bono
and reject his music completely?
Or am I gonna just look the other way,
listen to the music, and just pretend that, you know,
it's somehow compatible with being a fundamental Baptist
and listening to U2?
You know, and I made the decision to forsake U2
and to follow Christ.
Okay, and that's the same decision that you need to make.
And let's go ahead and have a word of prayer.
Father, thank you so much for the chance
to be in your house, dear God.
Thank you for all these scriptures
that we looked at tonight that really cut through
the garbage of Bono and the garbage of the social Gospel
and it really just cuts through all the lies
that are out there in this world.
Help us not to get sucked in by these things
and help us not to listen to the music
because we're being brainwashed by that music
if we allow them to do so.
Help us to take a stand for the truth.
Whether it's positive or negative,
help us to stand for the truth at all times.
And in Jesus' name we pray, amen.