Everyone, welcome back to our services here at Faith Ward Baptist Church.
Very good to see you all here for our Sunday night service.
If you would please find your seats now and take a hymn on.
Go to hymn number 43.
We'll get started this evening.
Hymn number 43.
We're marching to Zion.
Hymn number 43.
Once you find your place, we'll begin singing together on that first verse.
Come we that love the Lord and let our joys be known him number 4 3 lift your voice together now number 43 come we
good start to our thing tonight. We want to go before Lord and ask his blessing on the service
so I've asked brother Fidel Gonzalez to be with us for a please. Father in heaven we want to thank
you for Lord his Savior Jesus Christ. We want to thank you Lord for this beautiful weather today.
We also want to thank you Lord for taking care of Pastor Anderson keeping your your healing hand
on him Lord. We pray that you continue blessing him and bring him back to 100 percent.
Please bless him. Fill him with your Holy Spirit and bless every aspect of his sermon tonight.
It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen up to him number 227 number 227 saved by the blood.
Him number 227. We'll begin singing on that verse now. Saved by the blood of the crucified one.
All right, at this time,
we'll go through our announcements together.
If you don't have a bulletin,
slip up your hand nice and high.
We'll get to you with one on the inside.
We have our service time Sunday mornings at 10 30
is our preaching service.
Sunday nights at six, Wednesday nights at seven
is our Bible study.
This week will be in Psalm 85.
We've got the soul winning times listed there below
as well as salvation and baptisms.
Next Sunday morning, right after the service,
we will just take a quick group photo
right out here to my right.
And so just giving you a heads up so you can get your ensemble ready for that.
It's really not a big deal because it's a very zoomed out thing because it's just
a giant crowd of people, but we just like to take a picture every year for the
yearbook. So right after the service, Sunday morning, be sure to be here.
We'll just step out, take a couple of minutes, take a picture and be done.
Below that, we've got the trip to the Navajo Reservation coming up this Friday and Saturday,
leaving Friday morning, returning Saturday evening.
The itinerary and sign up is over here to my right, and of course there's zero cost.
We pay for the transportation, food and lodging and everything like that.
You get to see some sights and do some great soul winning.
So that is available also in Denver, Colorado this weekend.
We're gonna be doing a soul winning marathon out there.
I know there are some people from our church
that are going out to Denver for that as well.
And Brother Caleb Akinoshio is gonna be heading that up.
So if you have any questions about that
or if you know anybody in Colorado,
definitely point them in that direction.
Crew's mission strips, of course, are out there as well.
Keep praying for our expectant ladies
that they'll have a safe and healthy pregnancy and delivery.
And then one other announcement,
the online soul winning marathon,
the OME TV soul winning.
It looked like there were 14 soul winners
that participated in that with a total of 60 salvations.
So good job to everybody who worked on that yesterday.
And with that, let's go ahead and count up
the soul winning from the past few days.
So going back to Thursday,
any soul winning to report from Thursday?
Okay.
Anything else from third gotcha. Okay, anything else from Thursday?
All right, how about Friday?
Okay, got it. Okay
All right anything else
How about yesterday of course we got the 60 from the marathon anything outside of that yesterday any other groups from
yesterday soul-winning
All right, and then how about today?
Okay, so main group with brother Ian three got one over here
Okay, anything else from okay. Is that a five? Okay any other groups from today?
12 for the van, but that's not that's different than Ian's crew. Oh
The 3 p.m. Gotcha. Okay, so 12 for the 3 p.m. Time any other groups from today gotcha
All right, anything else?
Okay, got it.
All right, very good.
Keep up the great work on soul winning.
And with that, let's sing our next Psalm.
Come lead us.
All right, you should find the insert
in the front of your hymnal with the Psalm 11.
If you don't have an insert, please raise your hand
and you'll receive one.
We'll sing it on that first verse together.
And the Lord put on my trust.
my soul, flee as a bird to your mountain, for all the wicked then they're gone.
They may tread in their air from above the stream,
that a day in April we should have,
a life in Earth, with foundation we destroy,
Oh
a good singer, everybody.
Go in your hymnos now to hymn number 104,
hymn number 104.
Lean on his arms, hymn number 104.
104, lean, just lean upon the arms of Jesus,
he'll help you along, hymn number 104.
Think it out together now, 104.
Just lean upon the arms of Jesus.
He'll heal you along.
You won't trust His love, but will.
You will fill your heart with salt.
Lean on His arms, trusting in His love.
Lean on His arms.
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Let's turn our Bibles to Revelation chapter number 13.
Revelation chapter number 13, as we always do, we'll read the entire chapter beginning
in verse number 1.
Follow along silently with Brother Dan as he reads Revelation 13, beginning in verse number one.
And the beast which I saw was likened to a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth is the mouth of a lion.
And the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondered after the beast.
And they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast, and they worshiped the beast saying, Who is likened to the beast? Who is able to make war with him?
and it was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies,
and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months,
and he opened his mouth and blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle,
and them that dwell in heaven, and it was given unto him to make war with the saints
and to overcome them, and power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations,
and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of
life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any man have any ear, let him hear.
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity.
He that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.
Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth,
and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
And he exercised all the power of the first beast before him,
and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast,
whose deadly wound was healed.
And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
and deceiveeth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles,
which he had power to do in the sight of the beast.
saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword and did live,
and he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak
and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads,
and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast or the number of his name.
Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred, three score, and six.
Dearly Father, thank you for tonight and everything that you've done for us. Lord, thank you that our names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life, because we have believed on Jesus for our salvation.
Lord, please bless this sermon and please give Pastor Anderson your Holy Spirit so that we can be edified in Jesus' name and pray amen.
Men, this evening I'm going to be preaching on the subject of the mark of the beast and
the mark of the beast.
And let me start out by saying this, is that because end times prophecy is a complex subject
and some of the scriptures are obscure or difficult, this is something that false teachers
will love to just grab ahold of and sort of spin your mind, just kind of hit you with
end time stuff out of context and teach all kinds of weird things and so you have to be really careful
when people are coming at you with end times teachings because a lot of the end times teachings
that they're coming at you with are wrong and unbiblical okay and when it comes to the right
approach to the end times what you need to do is just read the bible and just take it for what
it says at face value okay especially the book of revelation read it read it in context
And you know, the reason why people's heads are so spun
on issues of end times
is simply that they don't know the Bible.
They don't read the Bible.
So people can come at you with all kinds of clever arguments
and grab a verse here, grab a verse there
and get you to believe the craziest things.
And you know, like just to give you an example,
and I'm not preaching on this tonight,
but there are people out there who believe
in something called post millennialism.
But here's the thing about that, anybody who just opens their Bible and just reads the book of Revelation
and just gets to Revelation chapter 20 and reads about the Millennium,
there is no way any logical, normal, literate person is going to read Revelation 20 and go,
It's premillennial. It's obvious. That's the order that it happens, you know, you have the millennial
You have Christ return and then you have the millennial reign of Christ and it's just it's just simple
It's just right there
but of course people are gonna come along and try to spin your head and teach all these crazy things and that's another
Sermon in and of itself
But the mark of the beast is one of those subjects that is just one of the most abused subjects imaginable
We're in my lifetime
It seems like every year something else is being pointed at as being the mark of the beast.
And I think that once we actually see what the Bible says,
you're going to be ready for this and you're going to realize,
hey, none of this stuff is the mark of the beast
and you're not going to be so easily duped by these things, okay?
Now, let me just start out by just showing you in the Bible basic what is the mark of the beast.
Look down at your Bible there in chapter 13 verse 16.
And the context here, we just read the whole chapter,
but it's about the Antichrist and the false prophet
in the end times.
And it says he causeth all, both small and great,
rich and poor, free and bond,
to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads.
And that no man might buy or sell,
save he that had the mark or the name of the beast
or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom, let him that hath understanding
count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man,
and his number is 603 score and six.
So this is sort of the root text
where we get the idea of the mark of the beast.
It's mentioned elsewhere in the book of Revelation.
We're gonna look at that tonight.
But the idea here is that someday this is going to happen,
this is prophetic, that there will be this evil world leader,
the Antichrist, the beast, and he...
is going to require people to receive a mark in their right hand or in their forehead and without this mark,
they're not going to be able to buy or sell.
Now, it's easy to see how this could be implemented in the year 2025.
If you did away with cash, if you stopped using precious metals as currency and everything's
digital, then you could easily see how you cannot do any digital transactions without
having this mark in your right hand or in this forehead.
So it could easily be fulfilled literally.
There's no reason in the world why this couldn't literally happen.
And I do believe that the events that are described
in the book of Revelation will literally happen
as far as God sending all these cataclysms upon the world.
And again, here's the thing about this.
When we read the book of Revelation,
doesn't it remind you of another Bible story
when you read about water being turned into blood,
hail and fire and brimstone raining from heaven?
What other Bible story comes to mind
when you read Revelation?
What?
Exodus, Moses, exactly.
Isn't that what you think of?
The plagues upon the Egyptians.
So you have these people coming along now
and telling us that everything in the book of Revelation is figurative.
and these preterists that are claiming,
oh, this all already happened in the first century,
it's all over, nothing to see here,
it happened in 70 AD.
Well, why didn't any of these things happen in Revelation
about water turning into blood
and fire and brimstone raining from the sky?
You know, oh, it's just all figurative.
Well, then here's my question for you.
Was it figurative in the land of Egypt?
Because I'm pretty sure that we all believe
that the story of the Exodus is a true story.
that the Israelites were slaves in Egypt and that God delivered them with a
mighty arm and with a stretched out head and that he plagued the Egyptians
with turning the water into blood, raining down hail and fire and all these
different things.
If those things were literal, then why would we just assume that in the end of the world,
it's all figurative and there aren't going to be any natural disasters,
or in this case, really supernatural disasters and cataclysms as described?
No, my friend, these people need to just read the book of Revelation,
take it seriously, and understand that these things will literally happen.
They will be literally fulfilled.
Sure, they've had figurative fulfillments in the past.
In the first century AD, there were definitely a lot of things that foreshadowed the end times,
but there's going to be an ultimate, literal fulfillment surrounding the second coming of Jesus Christ.
And so I do believe that all nations of this world will unite.
and that there will be an anti-Christ,
and that there will be a false prophet
who promotes the anti-Christ,
and who demands that everyone receive a mark
in their right hand or in their forehead
in order to buy or sell.
Okay, these things are literally going to happen.
Now, I'm going to give you three important points that can easily be proven beyond any shadow of a doubt in the Bible tonight.
Before I do, let me just bring up some of the craziest, absurdly idiotic theories about the Mark of the Beast that you'll hear.
One of them is by the Seventh-day Adventist who claimed that Sunday is the Mark of the Beast.
Sundays I don't what does that have to do with your right hand? What does that have to do with your forehead?
Who in the world ever said you can't buy or sell unless you observe Sunday?
Right, but this is what is out there that the 7th Avenue is literally believe this and it's just one of their
Crazy bizarre cult teachings that worshiping on Sunday is the mark of the beast
Here's what's so stupid about this is that we as Christians we observe Sunday as the Lord's Day and so in most
Christian nations is a day off for most people on Sunday. Whereas the Jews do
Saturday and the Muslims do
Friday, right? So the Muslims do Friday.
Muslims do Friday, Jews do Saturday, Christians do Sunday.
So here's the thing about this. If supposedly Sunday worship is the mark of the beast or something,
first of all, it doesn't fit the text at all, as we're going to see.
Nothing about going to church on Sunday fits the text.
That's just a made-up, crazy teaching.
But, you know, the Bible says that basically everybody in the whole world has to do this.
And so I don't see the Muslims doing it.
I don't see the Jews doing it.
And in fact, as we go on,
it seems like Sunday is being less and less observed anyway.
I mean, unless you're Chick-fil-A or Hobby Lobby or something,
pretty much everything else is open on Sunday anyway.
But these Seventh-day Adventists are so crazy and deluded,
they keep saying that there's a Sunday law coming.
You know, when the Antichrist is going to come and just enforce Sunday and make us all take a day off every Sunday or something.
It's the most far-fetched crazy thing.
Okay, but you think that's dumb? I got something even dumber for you.
How about this? The COVID vaccine is the mark of the beast.
I mean, what in the world? Like, it's so crazy.
It's so absurd that, you know, the COVID vaccine is the mark of the beast.
And look, I didn't take the COVID vaccine.
And by the way, during the whole COVID situation,
we were just churning out exemption letters.
We gave out hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
of exemption letters, not only for our own church members,
but even for just anyone who emailed the church,
who just randomly emailed the church.
We're just like, yup, here's an exemption letter for you,
exemption letter for you,
everybody gets an exemption letter.
But to say that that is the mark of the beast just shows such an absurd disregard for what the Bible says.
It's like you just don't even care what the Bible says at all. You're just making things up at that point.
So let's see what the Bible actually says because the first point is the most important point.
Okay, so I hope you get this first point.
In order to receive the mark of the beast, you have to worship the Antichrist.
Okay, the mark of the beast is not something you just go down to the post office, fill
out a form, go to Walgreens, pay 20 bucks or something.
No, you have to worship the Antichrist.
The whole point of the mark of the beast is that you worship the Antichrist to get the
mark of the beast.
So if something doesn't involve you worshiping the Antichrist, or if the Antichrist isn't
even revealed yet, the Antichrist isn't even on this earth yet, then how could anything
be the mark of the beast if there's no beast?
If there's no Antichrist, how can anything be the mark of the beast?
You know, this reminds me of...
I was on one of these cruise mission strips
and they seat you at a reserved dinner table every night
and sometimes they seat you with strangers at the dinner table
and on the last one that I went on, I was seated at table 666.
You know because it's just random. It's just a three-digit number
And so I'm seated at table 666 with some strangers and I sit down at the table and I'm talking to strangers
They said oh man, I've got a sister who's this really hardcore
Evangelical Christian and man if she was here she would never sit at this table
She would never go for this and I said well
I I said I'm an evangelical Christian and I said
I'm pretty religious, and I said,
I'm totally fine sitting at this table
because I'm not superstitious.
You know, I ended up giving them the gospel.
They didn't get saved, but they were friendly
and listened to the gospel,
and you know, they were cool people
to hang out with throughout the week.
But the point is that, you know,
I'm not superstitious about the number 666.
Okay? The whole point of the Mark of the Beast is that it involves worshiping the Antichrist.
So don't worry if you scan a UPC symbol, drink a monster energy drink,
got a COVID vaccine, or went to church on Sunday.
I mean, you can still be saved!
I mean, what kind of crazy stuff is this?
But let's look at the biblical evidence, okay?
First of all, even if we look at the original passage
that we just looked at on the Mark of the Beast,
if we back up a couple of verses to verse 14, it says,
and he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth
by the means of those miracles,
we're in verse 14 of Revelation 13,
which he had power to do in the side of the beast.
So notice, he's deceiving the people.
sang to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword and did live.
and he had power to give life unto the image of the beast,
that the image of the beast should both speak
and cause that as many as would not worship
the image of the beast should be killed.
Now that is the key phrase there at the end of verse 15,
is that the false prophet commands
that they make this image to the beast,
and that if anyone won't worship the image,
they are to be killed.
So who gets killed?
People who are not willing to worship.
the image of the beast, there's a decree that these people are going to be put to death.
Now as far as what the image of the beast is, again, in 2025 it's easy to see how these things could be interpreted literally
because making an image speak isn't really that hard, is it?
in 2025. And so you can understand why a lot of these Reformation types from the
16th, 17th, 18th century, they had a hard time understanding how the book of
Revelation could be literal because they're looking at some of the things in
the book of Revelation and saying well how can these things be? Like for example
when the two witnesses
are laying in the streets of the city of Jerusalem for three and a half days
and it says that everybody in the whole world, all nations,
all kindreds, all tongues, all see their dead bodies lying in Jerusalem.
That would be impossible without modern technology, right?
It's not like everybody on the whole planet comes and sees them.
But now it's super easy to understand how it could just be a TV feed,
a satellite image, it could be internet, webcam,
And a lot of people speculate about the image of the beast,
if it's some kind of a hologram, AI, who knows, because the technology keeps changing.
So whatever we preach about this today is going to be different 20 years from now,
40 years from now, 50 years from now, depending on when the Lord returns.
You know, those type of speculations are going to change with the times.
But there are certain core ideas here that don't change,
which is the fact that the goal
of the Antichrist and the false prophet is that the entire world will worship the Antichrist,
and so anybody who doesn't worship him will be killed.
And in the next breath, after saying that he'll cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed,
in the next breath he says, and he causeth.
Notice the word cause again.
He causeth all both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads.
So the idea is that the mark of the beast is a certification that you have worshipped the Antichrist.
You have pledged allegiance to the Antichrist.
That is the whole point of what the mark of the beast is.
So it's not something you're accidentally going to get.
So for example people talk about the mark of the beast perhaps being some kind of an implantable chip or something
Where you could scan to pay because if you can't buy or sell without it that makes sense
That it's some kind of a chip or something you scan it when you pay or you scan your forehead or whatever
Even if it were just something superficial some kind of a tattoo or code or image or implantable chip or whatever
But here's the thing about that is that in order to get this thing
you have to worship the Antichrist.
That's the whole point.
It's the mark that you have done that.
Okay.
So, for example,
let's say someone just uses some biometric technology.
Let's say that you got some chip and planted in your hand
to scan to get into your job or something.
Is that the mark of the beast?
Or, oh, maybe, I don't know, I'm scared.
No, it isn't.
Nothing could be the mark of the beast
unless it involves worshiping the Antichrist.
Does everybody understand what I'm saying?
So, things like an implantable chip or biometric technologies or cashless society, none of these things are the mark of the beast per se.
Bitcoin is not the mark of the beast, okay?
Cryptocurrency is not the mark of the beast.
It's just that these things could be an infrastructure that could eventually be deployed when the mark of the beast comes out.
But you don't want to mix it up and think,
oh, that is the Mark of the Beast or something like that.
It's just technology that could facilitate the Mark of the Beast.
That's all, right?
Does that make sense?
So Revelation chapter 13 says that he causes them to worship the beast
and he causes them to get this mark.
Now let's look at more evidence.
Look at chapter 14 verse 11, because remember,
I'm giving you three important points tonight
that will keep you from being deceived on the Mark of the Beast
Very clear. There's no guessing. There's no, you know, having to infer anything.
The Bible spells these things out.
And point number one is that you worship the beast in order to get the mark of the beast.
Worshipping the beast and getting the mark of the beast, go hand in hand.
You don't just receive this thing without doing the worship.
We saw it in chapter 13 look at verse 11 of chapter 14 and the smoke of their torment ascenteth up forever and ever
And they have no rest day nor night who worshipped the beast and his image and who so ever received with the mark of his
Name so notice it's whoever
Receives the mark of the beast and worships the beast because these two things go hand-in-hand
The mark is the sign that you have worshiped the antichrist look at chapter 19 verse 20 of Revelation chapter 19 verse 20
It says in the beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him
With which, watch this, he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshiped his image.
Same group of people who received the mark and worshiped the image.
Same people and they are deceived by the false prophet and they are cast into the lake of fire.
And so notice, it says that he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast.
The people who received the mark of the beast are deceived by the Antichrist.
They worship the Antichrist.
They pledge allegiance to the Antichrist.
That's how they got that mark in the first place, okay?
And then in chapter 20 verse four,
these things are again associated.
I saw thrones and they sat upon them.
Judgment was given unto them.
And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded
for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God.
And which had not worshiped the beast,
neither his image, neither had received his mark
upon their forehead or in their hands.
And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Notice that these things are brought up
over and over again in tandem.
that you worship the Antichrist in order to receive the mark of the beast. That's point number one.
Point number two is this, no saved person will worship the Antichrist and
no saved person will receive the mark of the beast, consequently. It's not going to happen.
Go if you would do 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, and let me give you some biblical evidence on this point.
First of all, the Bible says in Matthew 24, verse 24,
for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets
and shall show great signs and wonders.
And this is in the context of the end times.
That's exactly what Revelation 13 describes,
a false Christ and a false prophet doing miracles.
And it says that they shall show great signs and wonders
in so much that if it were possible,
they shall deceive the very elect.
So notice it says these guys will be so good that if it were possible
They would deceive the very like and you know what that means that it's not possible
For the elect to be deceived
So, only those who are not saved will be deceived, the ones who are not-elect.
It's impossible to deceive the elect, meaning that when the Antichrist comes on the scene,
anyone who actually thinks that that's Jesus and thinks that that's the Messiah and thinks that that's the Second Coming,
it proves that that person was never saved to begin with.
because the elect will not be deceived.
And by the way, this is a huge problem
for the pre-tribbers and dispensationalists of this world
who try to claim that the Jews are the elect.
And they try to take this word elect in the New Testament
and apply it to Israel or the Jews.
Cause what does elect mean?
Chosen.
It's like our word select, right?
Just take the S off.
And so the word elect means chosen.
Who are the chosen people?
Well, according to Faithful Word Baptist Church
and other people who know what the Bible says,
we know what elect means.
We know who the chosen people are.
Christians are the chosen people.
Saved, born again, Christians are the chosen people.
Every saved Christian child of God,
that's God's people.
That's God's chosen people in the New Testament.
In the Old Testament,
Israelites were God's chosen people.
In the New Testament, Christians are God's chosen people,
and so we are the chosen.
But here's the thing, you have these dispensationalists,
Zionists, all the people that are surrounding
our president right now, and Paula White, and Ted Cruz,
and Joel Osteen, and John Hagee,
and all these false teachers, John MacArthur,
and so forth, these guys, what do they say?
They say, well, no, the Jews are God's chosen people.
Israel, that's the elect.
Here's a problem with that doctrine.
The Bible flat out says that false Christ and false prophets will rise,
and if it were possible they would deceive even the elect.
Sounds like the elect, it's impossible to deceive.
So explain to me this, why are Jews deceived?
You want to know why Jews are deceived is because they're not elect.
And the Bible says,
Who is a liar but he that denyeth that Jesus is the Christ?
Christ means what?
Messiah Christ Messiah being interpreted Christ the Bible says so who is the liar?
But he that denied that Jesus is the Christ he is anti Christ that denied the father and the son
So the Bible says if you deny Jesus and the Messiah, that's the spirit of anti Christ
Not believing that Jesus is the Messiah. So then you're gonna turn around tell me the elect or not deceived
Yeah, that's right. The elect aren't deceived because Christians aren't deceived
But are Jews deceived?
Every last one of them, every last one of them.
And so this is just another piece of evidence
that the elect is referring to saved Christians
because they can't be deceived by the Antichrist.
Okay, Mark 13, verse 22, same thing.
For false Christ and false prophets shall rise
and shall show signs and wonders to seduce
if it were possible even the elect.
Like if it were possible, these people are so good,
the Antichrist is gonna be so good.
he would deceive even the elect.
And this is why it's silly when people will say that someone like Trump is the anti-Christ, or something like that.
Whoever the anti-Christ is, he's going to be so good that the whole world's going to follow this guy.
He's going to be so good that if it were possible, even the elect would be deceived.
Meaning that the only thing that's going to keep the elect from being deceived is the Holy Spirit.
Because these guys are going to be slick, the anti-Christ and the false prophet.
You really think that Trump is the kind of person that can bring the whole world together and everybody loves him?
Half of America hates him.
And then now the half that supports him, they hate him too.
Because of the whole Epstein thing.
But then people said, oh Obama is the anti-Christ.
Again, the anti-Christ is going to be someone that everybody loves.
So it's not going to be this divisive person that half of America hates and
Look my friend. I know we live in a very divided time and a very divisive time and America is very divided right now
But in my lifetime even in these divisive times there have been characters that have risen up that
Everybody loved on both sides
That everybody loved
That's the kind of person that the Antichrist is going to be let me give you some examples guys like Billy Graham
Everybody, atheists love Billy Graham, Catholics love Billy Graham, liberals love Billy Graham,
Jimmy Carter love Billy Graham, I believe, and, you know, but then also, even evangelical
Christians and fundamentalists, we're getting sucked in and thinking that Billy Graham is
a good guy.
It's going to be that kind of a guy that's real smooth, real slick, that's the kind,
it's going to be the kind of guy that everybody likes, okay.
But look down to your Bible at 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2.
It says in verse 8,
And then shall that wicked be revealed,
talking about the Antichrist,
Whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth,
and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming,
even him who's coming is after the working of Satan."
Right? That's what Revelation 13 said about the Antichrist.
With all power and signs and lying wonders.
Did we see that in Revelation 13? Absolutely.
and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish,
because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved,
and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie,
that they all might be damned to believe not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
Now look, the Bible's really clear here,
that the people who are going to be deceived and deluded are unsaved people.
God's going to send a strong delusion upon them so that they'll believe a lie.
That is their punishment for not receiving the love of the truth that they might be saved, okay?
And so this is not something that saved people will fall for. Matthew 24 says no. Mark 13
says no. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 9, it talks about the lying wonders in verse 9 and with
all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, meaning unsaved people, are going to be
Because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Meaning that if they had received the love of the truth, if they had been saved,
then they would not be deceived and they would not be a part of this grand delusion of the Antichrist.
Which goes perfectly with what Matthew 24 and Mark 13 said.
Now go back if you would to Revelation chapter 13. Revelation chapter number 13.
So what have we said so far tonight, and I'm showing you these things directly from the Bible.
We're looking at all the verses about the subject.
I'm not trying to just build some weird case for some, you know, thing that you have to trust me
or believe me or, oh, listen to this sermon and then it'll make sense or something.
No, no, this is stuff that you just read it and it's obvious that, like,
okay, you'll worship the Antichrist, you get a mark.
These two things are mentioned hand in hand.
And then, oh, looks like saved Christians aren't going to fall for it.
But people who rejected Christ will fall for it.
Okay?
Look at Revelation chapter 13, verse 8, it says,
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,
whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb,
slain from the foundation of the world.
So notice that the all people worshiping him
It's not all people period. It's not the whole planet worshiping him
It's all the people whose names are not written in the book of life. That's who's worshiping the antichrist
All the people whose names are not in the book of God. Let me ask this are saved Christians names in the book of life
Yeah, and they're not gonna be worshiping him
Now, I'm not going to do a super deep dive on this right now.
I've done other sermons on this.
I've done sermons on the book of life, sermons on the land's book of life, where I did a
deep dive on this.
But here's what you're going to find if you do study out the subject of the book of life,
is you'll find that there's never any reference to anyone's name being added to the book of
life at any time except before the foundation of the world.
But what you will find frequent references to is people being removed from the book of life.
Okay? And so I think that if you study this and look up all the different verses,
and I don't have time to develop this or prove this in tonight's sermon,
I've done other sermons on this where I've looked at all the examples,
but the idea here is that everybody's name starts out in the book of life.
Everybody's name starts out in the Book of Life, and if you believe on Christ, if you're saved, then you don't get deleted.
That's why the Bible says to him that over cometh, it says,
I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels, and I will not blot out his name out of the Book of Life.
So if you believe in Christ, if you believe that Jesus is the Son of God,
then he will not blot out your name out of the Book of Life, but he will confess your name before his Father and before his angels.
Okay.
So you see people getting deleted, but you don't see people getting added, okay?
And here's an important thing to understand, is that people
eventually lose the opportunity to get saved.
You know, it's like you have a chance to get saved in this in this earth, but it doesn't last forever, does it?
Let me ask you this, if a person dies without receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior,
is there a second chance for them to get saved?
Absolutely not. You've got to get saved while you're still alive on this earth.
You've got this lifetime, and if you die without Christ, you go to hell, and that's it. You're done.
And I think every evangelical Christian believes that.
All of us as Baptists understand and believe that if you don't get saved, before you die, you go to hell.
And there's no second chance. It's not like, oh, it's really hot in here, you know, I changed my mind.
No, you've got to get saved while you can.
So eventually there comes a point where it's too late for you if you die without Christ. It's too late for you
Your name is removed out of the book of life. It's gone. You're doomed
You're damned and there's no hope for you unfortunately
But guess what it's possible to come to that point even before you die
And this is where a lot of people disagree, but they're wrong because the Bible is very clear on this point,
that there are things that you can do on this earth where you will lose your opportunity to ever get saved in the future.
And while we're in Revelation, let's look at the most famous example, Revelation 22.
Revelation 22, this is the most famous example of the fact that a person
could get to a point where it's too late for them, even before they're dead.
And I don't understand why people struggle so hard with this concept,
because we all agree that there's a time when it's too late.
When you die, it's too late.
So why would it be so hard to understand that for some people,
that time could come before they die?
Where it's too late for them.
Look what the Bible says, Revelation 22 verse 18 says,
for I testify unto every man.
that here is the words of the prophecy of this book.
If any man shall add unto these things,
God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy,
God shall take away his part out of the book of life
and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in this book.
So what is the Bible saying? The Bible is saying, look,
if you add to the word of God, if you remove from the word of God,
what does it say?
It says that you are damned and doomed and going to hell, period.
If you add to these things, all the plagues that are written in this book are added to you,
and the plagues that are written in the book of Revelation are geared at unsaved people.
And then he says, if you take away, he'll take away your part out of the book of life.
Well, if you're not in the Lamb's book of life, you're going to the lake of fire.
So let's say a guy comes along and intentionally changes God's word.
He intentionally adds or deletes, like let's say Joseph Smith, right?
He added stuff, you know, adding stuff, removing stuff.
Okay, if someone comes along and intentionally does that, okay,
then can you really say, well, this guy can still,
he can still be saved?
Is that what the Bible says?
The Bible says his part is gone like the place where his name would even be is gone
There's no place for his name in the book of life. He's done
So this is what I understand if people claim you can get everybody can get saved up to the last breath
And as long as you're breathing air, it's not too late for you no matter who you are
How does that jive with this verse right here is what I'd like to know
Because this verse right here is saying that if you do this, if you tamper with God's word intentionally, you are done.
You're done.
Your part is taken out of the book of life, out of the Holy Spirit.
Now look, this is not teaching that you lose your salvation because no saved person has ever done this or ever would do this.
You cannot lose yourself people try to twist this road. Oh, you're teaching you lose yourself
No, what we're teaching is that a person loses the opportunity to get saved in the future an unsaved person
Loses their chance to get saved
Right, so here's the thing unsaved people in this world. They can change their mind and get saved tomorrow
Right? The people that you work with that are unsaved, the people in your neighborhood that are unsaved,
those people
tomorrow
could change their mind and say, you know what? I'm gonna believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm gonna get saved.
And we see that happen all the time.
That's why we go out soul winning and knock on doors and preach the gospel. We're trying to get people to get saved.
We're trying to preach the gospel to them so they can get saved before it's too late.
Okay, but let's say we knock on the door of some guy
who is intentionally added to or taken from God's word.
Guess what? That guy can't be saved.
We could preach to him. We could pray for him.
No, nothing you say, nothing you do
is going to change the fact that this guy is done.
And that is what the Bible calls a reprobate or a reject.
Right? That's what reprobate means, a reject.
Somebody who's just done. It's too late for them.
Right here the Bible tells you how to become a reprobate right add to God's word remove from God's word
Well, there's another mention of this concept the the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
Right the Bible talks about in Mark chapter 3 that the the Pharisees and the Jews that rejected Jesus
They did not believe on him
And when they saw him casting out devils by the Spirit of God,
they said he casteth out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of the devils.
And Jesus said that by saying that, by saying that I'm casting out devils by B.L.s about the prince of devils,
you have blasphemed the Holy Ghost.
And he said, you will have no forgiveness, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
He said, look, all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men,
but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
And he said, you know, neither in this world, neither in the world to come, it's eternal damnation for you, buddy.
Now look were those people who were saved and lost their salvation? No, it's impossible to lose your salvation save Christians have eternal life
But guess what save Christians are indwelled by the Holy Spirit and they don't blaspheme the Holy Ghost and
They don't add to and remove from God's word. These are things that save Christians are incapable of doing. Okay
Save Christians can go out and commit a bunch of terrible sins, unfortunately,
but one thing you're not going to see them doing is blaspheming the Holy Ghost
or adding to or removing from God's work.
All these examples are unsaved people losing their opportunity to get saved in the future.
The people who blasphemed the Holy Ghost, they were unsaved people who had never believed in Jesus,
and he's basically telling them that they're never going to believe in Jesus because it's too late for them.
And look, let's just look at it in John chapter 12. Let's flip over there, in fact.
Let's look at an example of this in John chapter 12.
and not think like, oh, I'm going to do it later.
I'm going to wait.
I'm going to hold off.
And someday I'll do that.
Or when I get older, I'll think about that.
I'm just not ready.
I don't want to think about that now.
Here's the thing, you can lose your opportunity.
Because, first of all, you could die on your way home tonight, number one.
Number two, over time, as you hear the gospel and reject the gospel, you can become hardened
and hard-hearted and blinded to the point where you become a reprobate eventually.
If you keep rejecting the Lord, eventually you become a reprobate.
And look what the Bible says in John chapter 12 because, you know, people just teach, well,
you can just always get saved all the way up to the bitter end.
Everybody who's breathing air can still be saved.
That's not what the Bible says.
People who've tampered with the Word of God are done.
People who've blasphemed the Holy Ghost are done.
Look what the Bible says in John chapter 12 verse 37.
It says,
and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed, therefore they could not believe."
Now look, anyone who believes on Jesus is saved.
No exceptions to that.
Zero, anybody who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, their Savior,
anyone who puts their faith and trust in Jesus as their only way to heaven is saved.
Zero exceptions.
But the reason these people aren't saved is because they can't believe.
They don't believe, and now that they have either blasphemed the Holy Ghost or tampered with God's Word or done one of these things
that makes you a reprobate, now they can't believe anymore.
You know, and that's what people will try to twist what we're teaching when we talk about people who are reprobates and can't be saved.
Oh, you're saying if they believe in Jesus, they won't be saved. No, we never said that.
What we're saying is that the reprobate can't believe in Jesus.
And, in fact, that's what the Bible just finished saying in John chapter 12 verse 39.
Therefore, they could not believe.
Why could they not believe?
Well, the Bible tells us.
They could not believe because, as Isaiah said again, he hath blinded their eyes.
Who's the he?
God.
He had blinded their eyes and hardened their heart that they should not see with their eyes
Nor understand with their heart and be converted and I should heal them the Bible flat out says that they could not believe
Because God hardened their heart and blinded their eyes serious
What happens if somebody tampers with the word of God God hardens their heart and blinds their eyes and now?
They can't be saved because they can't believe
Somebody blasphemes the Holy Ghost same thing happens
Now the Calvinists will come along and try to say,
oh God just blinds people's eyes and hardens their hearts willy-nilly,
arbitrarily, because of some mysterious will before the world began that nobody understands.
And of course, I already dealt with that garbage last Sunday morning,
that steaming pile of garbage known as Calvinism.
But the thing about that is that, no, no, no, this is a result of their rejection of the Lord.
They did this to themselves in Romans 1 it says when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful
They became vain in their imaginations, and then what's the result their foolish heart was darkened
So God darkening their heart blinding their eyes hardening your heart comes after they have rejected the Lord
God didn't heart of hardened Pharaoh's heart until Pharaoh first hardened his own heart then God hardened his heart
Okay, that's what the Calvinists conveniently like to leave out
So, you may think that this is a little bit of a rabbit trail but it's going to become
very important with the third point and that's why I'm taking the time to go on this little
rabbit trail to show you that people can lose their opportunity to get saved, unsaved people
can get to a point where their hearts are hardened, their eyes are darkened and of course
we've probably all known people like this in real life.
You know, I didn't know the Bible as well as I do now.
I hadn't read it cover to cover as a child, as a young teenager.
But, you know, my dad was familiar with this biblical concept.
And he was most familiar with it from Hebrews chapter 6.
But there are lots of different scriptures that teach this, you know,
Romans 1, Hebrews 6, you know, all these different places that we could look at.
We're not going to look at those tonight, but we've done it many times.
But my dad told me, he said, your Uncle Mike is a reprobate, okay?
He said, Uncle Mike is a reprobate, okay?
And he said, this is why I believe that Uncle Mike is a reprobate, he said, because he started
listing all the people that have given this guy the Gospel.
and given him just clear presentations of the gospel,
and he had just rejected it, rejected it, mocked it,
and just totally turned on Christianity and just become just super-evil and blasphemous.
And, you know, my dad was just kind of speculating,
but he basically said,
Uncle Mike will never be saved.
He's evil.
He's a reprobate.
And so I was like, whoa, man.
And he said, yeah, he said the best, some of the best soul winners ever have preached the gospel to this guy
and he won't get saved because he's a reprobate.
He hates the Lord, he's wicked and a reprobate.
You know, so I was like, wow, that's crazy.
You know, and I kind of believe my dad, but you know, I wasn't really 100% sure that my dad was right or not.
So I started reading the Bible cover to cover and I started reading Romans chapter one.
And I'm reading Romans chapter one, and Romans chapter one is talking about people being a reprobate,
and it talks about how God gives them over to vile affections,
so that they would become perverted, and that they would become homos,
and have all these unnatural, gross, disgusting vile affections and everything like that.
Well then it turned out that this uncle was a pedophile.
And so once it was found out that he's a pedophile,
I'm like, well, this makes perfect sense
because my dad's been telling me for years
that this guy's a reprobate.
And I'm reading Romans one about these unnatural affections.
And sure enough, Uncle Mike turns out to be a homo,
or actually I'm getting ahead of myself.
He turned out first to be a pedophile,
but it was girls that he had molested, okay?
So, based on Romans 1, I predicted, well, he must be a homo as well, because, you know,
if he's going to be a pedophile, and he's a reprobate, God says that these reprobates
are men who burn and lust toward other men.
So I predicted that he was a homo, and I christened him with the name, Sodomike.
Okay.
So here's what we you know, my dad had predicted for years that this guy was a reprobate
Today's my dad's birthday. Happy birthday dad
Also the anniversary of the moon landing
Sorry, you know not to open a can of worms on X or anything with that, but anyway
So I predicted this guy's a sodomite, right?
So you fast forward a couple years and there are all these like bleeding hearts in the family
Trying to defend this guy even after he's outed as a pedophile. There's always these bleeding hearts that are always defending freaks, right?
People mad about us ostracizing sodomyke in the family
My brother Clint, but anyway, so basically yeah, and my brother Clint
Let me just give him a little shout out to he was defending fags in the 90s before it was even cool all the time
He was he loved faggots in the 90s before that was even cool, but anyway, so
Soda Mike next thing you know on
his MySpace page
Remember MySpace I
Didn't have MySpace, but my sister have MySpace he comes out of his MySpace page and says he's bisexual
So my sister calls me up on the phone and says hey Steve she said it's time for you to say I told you so
because you predicted this years ago
and you were right, Romans one was right,
because Sodomike just put on his MySpace page
that he is bi.
And we all know what bi means, it means you're a faggot.
There's no such thing as bisexual.
There's straight people and faggots.
Okay, so then I call up my bleeding heart idiot brother.
And I tell him, hey, you know, Uncle Mike is, his MySpace page says he's bisexual.
Silence. I'm like, hey, is this thing work?
Is anybody there? Are you still there?
Yeah. I'm like, so he's a faggot?
Oh, I don't know. Let's not jump to any conclusions.
Calls him up on the phone and says, hey, you know, what is this on your MySpace page that says that you're bi?
And, you know, he happened to be,
Sotomayor happened to be a little drunk at the time.
And he said, F my space.
And my brother's like, excuse me?
F my space.
And he's like, oh, that's not really an answer.
You know?
So then he gets off the phone with him
and he gets a text from my uncle.
10, 20 minutes later, they just says, my space is gone.
You know, this is a long time,
this is before they were as out and proud as they are now,
right?
So then, you know, then my sister fires up my space
and his my space profile has just been deleted.
She's gone.
So what was my brother's conclusion?
Is that it was inconclusive,
whether Uncle Mike's a homo or not.
And I bet to this day you could probably ask him and he'd probably say he doesn't know.
He's not sure, right?
Anyway, that was for free.
But the point is, the point is that these vile affections, perversions, pedophilia, homosexuality,
these are symptoms of the reprobate mind according to Romans chapter 1.
Okay, these are symptoms of that and here's the thing my dad already called this he already predicted this this guy is a reprobate
He will never be saved. He doesn't care about the gospel. He doesn't want to hear the gospel
He hates the Lord. He hates Jesus Christ and he saw it looking back. He was always seeking
to corrupt us and pervert us and be a bad influence on us
our whole lives that we were around this guy
until he got exposed as a pedophile
and we cut him out of the family.
Up to that point though,
he was always trying to be a bad influence on us,
you know, and just expose us to sinful things
and expose us to wrong things.
So there's an example. I'm sure that you have examples in your life of people that are just hard-hearted, blinded,
evil people who hate the Lord, hate the gospel, and maybe even are deviant, pervert,
sodomites, pedophiles, whatever.
These people are reprobates. It's too late for them. They cannot be saved. That's what the Bible teaches.
So we saw that number one we said you must worship the antichrist in order to get the mark of the beast now
We're gonna get back to the antichrist and you're this rabbit trail
I took is going to be important
It was not in vain
Number two we said no we said number one you have to worship the antichrist in order to get the mark of the beast
number two no saved person will receive the mark of the beast
Because the Bible is clear, no saved person will believe in the Antichrist.
No saved person will be deceived by him.
The elect cannot be deceived according to Matthew 24 and Mark 13.
And 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 describes the delusion as being upon those who are unsaved.
And then what did Revelation 13 say?
Everybody in the world is going to worship this guy whose names are not in the book of life.
Okay?
So every reprobate
We'll worship this guy.
So Uncle Mike is going to worship the Antichrist
and receive the Mark of the Beast.
If he hasn't died of AIDS or Mercer or Syphilis or gonorrhea
before that, because last I checked,
he was filled with disease and whatever,
because these live in a perverted lifestyle.
So he's probably not going to live to be an old man when
he's filled with disease as a faggot.
And look at the life expectancy of homos
is like 20 years shorter than the average life expectancy
of a normal dude anyway.
The wicked shall not live out half their days, is what the Bible says.
So here's the thing, not every single unsaved person is going to worship the Antichrist.
The Bible doesn't say every single unsaved person is going to worship him.
No, the Bible is saying that people who have, everybody who's been deleted from the book of life is going to worship him.
Okay, and here's the thing, if you worship the Antichrist, and this is my third point,
and this is a key point, if you worship the Antichrist, you are deleted.
and you will never be saved.
No one who receives the mark of the beast can be saved.
Okay, and that's the thing that we're gonna see next.
And so the people who are worshiping the Antichrist
are people whose names are not in the Book of Life.
Everybody whose name is not in the Book of Life
is gonna worship him,
and everybody who was just like a Joe unsaved
and they still had the chance to be saved,
once they worship the Antichrist, they're done.
Let me put it to you this way.
Worshiping the Antichrist is tantamount
to blaspheming the Holy Ghost.
It is tantamount to adding to or removing from God's Word.
It is an action that you take that will seal your fate forever.
Anyone who receives the Mark of the Beast is going to hell.
This is what the Bible clearly teaches.
Okay.
Now, before I prove that from the Bible, and I'm going to prove that in just a moment,
I want to overcome an objection that some people will bring up.
They'll say, well, what if, what if a Christian does take the mark of the beast?
And I submit to you that it will be impossible for a Christian to take the mark of the beast.
So there is no, well, what if somebody does it anyway?
It just isn't going to happen, period.
Okay? So, that is just a made-up scenario,
a made-up hypothetical that does not exist in Scripture.
According to Scripture,
none of the elect are deceived,
unsaved people worship the Mark of the Beast,
and they're eternally damned as a result of doing it.
That's what the Bible says.
If we only go by what the Bible says,
the Bible talks about saved people not being deceived,
unsaved people, yes, being deceived,
taking the Mark of the Beast,
losing their opportunity to get saved,
and being forever damned.
Yeah, but what if they just do it?
They won't be able to.
Now, there could be a couple of reasons for this.
There are a couple of different ways that this could be true.
One idea is that perhaps whatever you have to do to worship the Antichrist will be so repugnant
and so evil that no true saved Christian with the Holy Spirit inside of them could bring themselves to do it.
Perhaps the Holy Spirit's indwelling will just prevent you from doing it because it's something so reprehensible.
Or you could look at it from a technological point of view.
It's possible that there will be some kind of lie detection software set up,
some piece of hardware that can detect the fact that you're not being sincere.
I mean, think about it. We already have incredible technology of brain scans and all these different things,
and it's advancing at a rapid rate. It could be a thing where, okay, you pledge allegiance to the Antichrist,
and basically a machine says, this guy's questionable.
And then you get secondary. You know what I mean? You get sent to secondary for further screening.
you get some additional screen.
It's like when you go to TSA or something,
take off your shoes, you put your stuff in the X-ray
or whatever and then you walk through
and most people are just kind of coasting through.
But then every once in a while, it's like,
oh, you've been sent to secondary
for some additional screening.
It could be something as simple as a brain scan
or something or some kind of a lie detector.
I mean, lie detectors have been around for 50, 60 years.
They have all kinds of problems and people know how to beat the lie detector and blah, blah, blah.
But the point is, though, that as that technology improves and advances,
it could be easy to basically make sure that only the real ones get the mark of the beast.
Only the people who really believe in him.
And since no saved person is really going to believe in him,
no saved person is going to get the mark of the beast.
Does everybody understand?
Now you say, well, I think you just made that up right now.
Okay, well, it doesn't matter why or how, the Bible says everybody who believes in Jesus
is going to heaven, and the Bible says everybody who gets the mark of the beast is going to
hell, and since the Bible is crystal clear that you can't lose your salvation, then it's
clear that no saved person is receiving the mark of the beast.
So just, you just need to just take that, and you just deal with that however you want.
You don't have to like my explanation about the brain scan or lie detector.
You don't have to like my explanation about it being something so repugnant
that a saved, spirit-filled Christian or even just spirit-induelled Christian
wouldn't be able to bring themselves to do it.
However you want to rationalize it, that's what the Bible says.
End of story.
Now remember, and to further support my point on this,
what is the purpose of even giving out the Mark of the Beast?
What's the point? Like, why is the Mark of the Beast even implemented?
To make sure that everybody worships the Antichrist, right?
But there's another purpose behind it.
Look at Revelation chapter 12 verse 17.
Revelation chapter 12 verse 17, this is the verse that leads us into the Mark of the Beast chapter, Revelation 13, it says in 12, 17, the dragon, which is Satan, was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
So the dragon, the devil, is going out to make war on Christians. He's making war on the saints, war on those who believe in Jesus.
So then what does he do in chapter 13?
The Bible says of the Antichrist at the end of verse 2,
the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority.
So the dragon at the end of chapter 12 says,
I'm going to go make war against Christians.
Chapter 13 verse 2, he puts the Antichrist in power.
What does the Antichrist do?
It says in verse 7, it was given unto him
to make war with the saints and to overcome them.
and power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations.
So who does the devil use to carry out his war on the saints?
The Antichrist.
And how does this end up being a war against the saints?
Well, the Antichrist and his false prophet say,
you have to worship the Antichrist,
and if you don't, you'll be killed,
and here you have to get this mark to certify that you have worshiped him
or you can't buy or sell.
Does everybody understand?
So, therefore, the purpose from the devil's perspective of the mark of the beast is to kill Christians.
Now, what sense would this make if Christians are just...
getting the mark of the beast because they suck as Christians or they're just they're just scared or lame or
They're just kind of pulling an apostle Peter, you know denying the Lord or something and just oh whatever
I'm just gonna fill out the form of Walgreens
I'm just gonna go to the post office and just go get it just because you know
I need to buy food or something if it were that easy then what would even be the point
There wouldn't be a point because the entire point is to separate
The saved from the unsaved the whole point is to kill Christians. That's the devil's goal with it is to kill Christians
And so therefore
You know Christians can't get the mark of the beast. It's not available for Christians. So the question
What happens if a Christian takes the mark of the beast is a foolish question?
It has no answer because it's a scenario that doesn't exist
Does everybody understand?
That's like saying well, what if one of these out-and-proud homos believed in Jesus? Would they go to heaven?
Well, here's the thing the reason that they're a full-blown homosexual is because they are a reprobate and they've been given over to a
Reprobate mind they've been given over to vile affections therefore they're not going to believe in Jesus
So it's kind of a moot point
But again theoretically anyone who believes in Jesus will be saved
Anyone who believes in Jesus will be saved.
But my point would be that
Sada Mike is never going to believe in Jesus.
Remember our friend Sada Mike
from earlier in the sermon?
Sada Mike is never
going to believe in Jesus. He cannot
believe. He cannot be saved.
His foolish heart has been darkened.
His eyes have been blinded.
And so he's done.
He can't get saved. He's a reprobate.
And so
Getting the mark of the beast will do the same thing now. Let's look at that in the Bible. Let's see the Bible is clear to you
I got a hurry. I'm almost done
but look at Revelation 14 verse 9 and tell me if this is not crystal clear because I think this is the clearest thing ever
Verse 9 it says the third angel followed them saying with a loud voice if any man worship the beast in his image and
Receive his mark and his forehead in his hand notice if anybody
If anybody worship the beast in his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand,
the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation,
and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb,
and the smoke of their torment ascended up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day nor night,
who worship the beast in his image and whosoever receive it the mark of his name."
So notice at the beginning of verse 9 because this is a three verse little speech at the beginning of verse night
It says if any man does this and then at the end it says
Who worships the beast and the image and who so ever receive at the mark of his name?
How can you not understand this? It's pretty clear, isn't it?
Verse 9 says anybody any man if anybody does this and then at the end it says who so ever does this
So it's like a sandwich
Okay, and on both sides of the sandwich, you have this statement anybody anyone if anyone does this
Whosoever does this and yet you have false teachers coming along saying oh you can take the mark of the beast and still be saved
Even though this is a crystal clear statement, isn't it?
Let me give you some false teachers out there who teach that you can still get saved after receiving the Mark of the Bees in
direct defiance of Revelation 14, 9, 10, and 11.
John MacArthur.
John MacArthur who just died on Tuesday and let me tell you something he was not saved
And he was a false teacher and he is burning in hell right now
And you know here's my statement to anyone who tries to say that John MacArthur is in heaven because everybody's praising him and saying he's
Heaven then here's what I would say okay well in order to believe that John MacArthur is in heaven you'd have to believe that anyone
who even vaguely believes in Jesus is going to heaven,
no matter if they believe in works or faith
or what they believe,
everybody must be going to heaven then,
if John MacArthur is in heaven.
Because John MacArthur taught works-based salvation.
There's no question about it.
It was blatant.
His Lordship salvation heresy is a total work salvation.
And so here's what I say.
If you're gonna believe that John MacArthur is in heaven,
you must believe that all Catholics are going to heaven.
Right and always kind of blows my mind when people come along and say oh this guy who teaches work salvation
Yeah, he's wrong about that, but he's still going to heaven. Well, then then I guess the Catholics are all going
Because because what how could God how could God let John MacArthur into heaven for teaching work salvation?
But then send the Catholics to hell that doesn't make what are they go? What are the Catholics even going to hell for? I
Mean it are you hearing me?
Is this thing on? You know? Here's the thing, okay? Roman Catholics are going to hell. Why?
Why are they going to? Is it because the Pope wears a funny hat? Is that why they're going to hell?
No, the Roman Catholics are going to hell for one reason and one reason alone.
Because they are not
trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for their salvation. They are trusting in works to save them.
That is the only reason they're going to hell.
You understand?
Like, what is even the difference between being an evangelical Christian and being a Catholic?
Is it that we don't light candles and sprinkle Fufu dust everywhere
and we don't cross ourselves and go confess to the priest and call the priest's father
and he wears a dress around and doesn't get married and so...
Is that the problem?
Look, those are all problems.
Those are all problem, but you know what that doesn't mean that they're not that that wouldn't mean that they're not going to heaven
They could just be stupid in those areas or making things up or doing weird things
No, there's only one reason why Catholics aren't saved and it's because they are not
Trusting in the finished work of Jesus Christ to get them to heaven
They are trusting in their own works their own good life and that is exactly what these Lordship salvationists are doing
They just polish the apple and guess what?
Yeah, yeah, but John MacArthur said he doesn't believe work's safe.
I could walk up to a Catholic priest right now and he'd tell me that salvation is not by works.
Right.
Right?
If I showed a Catholic priest Ephesians 2, 8, and 9,
for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it's the gift of God,
not of works, doesn't he mention most?
And I asked him, is this Bible verse true?
A Catholic priest would say, yes, my son, that's true.
But he's going to have a way of twisting that.
And ultimately, what he's going to tell you is if you don't do these works, you're not saved.
You have to do these works to be saved.
You have to do this other stuff or you're not going.
But he calls that salvation by faith.
It's through grace.
But that means something totally different to them.
De facto, they're telling you you have to get rid of these sins.
You can't do this.
You have to do this.
Follow this.
Does everybody understand what I'm saying?
So I submit to you that if you're going to believe that John MacArthur gets to go to heaven while teaching Lordship salvation
Then I guess all the Catholics are going to
Is that what you believe you know because now I believe that people have to put their faith and trust in the finished work of Christ
To be saved unfortunately Catholics are lost and we need to get them saved
And we do get Catholics saved every single week at this church. We're out there getting Catholics saved
And then people are just like, well this is different because the Catholics have a lot of idols and stuff.
Okay, but here's the thing. All of those things are bad, but you know, that's not why they're going to hell.
Because you know what? Everybody's got sin in their life. Every church has problems.
Every church gets things wrong. I'm sure that I have doctrines that I get wrong.
Everybody's wrong on things. Everybody makes mistakes. Everything does things wrong.
It's not like, well, they just do a lot of weird goofy stuff. No!
they deny the gospel of Jesus Christ.
And the Bible says that if any man
teach any other gospel, let him be accursed.
And if you're going to teach the gospel is,
turn from your sin and make Jesus the Lord of your life
and obey him and follow him and live for him.
And it's going to cost you everything in order to
follow Christ and get to heaven by working your way to heaven.
That is garbage as another gospel.
And it is just as much another gospel if John MacArthur's saying it as if the Catholics are saying it as if Luther
I don't care who's saying it. It's works
Works based salvation
Okay, that was a rabbit trail that had nothing to do with sermon except for the fact that John MacArthur taught
Repeatedly that if you get the mark of the beast you can still go to heaven
And you can find all kinds of videos on YouTube
of him saying this, not once, not twice, again and again.
And the funniest one is where they ask him,
hey, do you think somebody could get saved
after taking the mark of the beast?
And he just goes, I don't see why not.
He doesn't turn to a Bible verse.
He just, he literally says it just like that.
Well, I don't see why not.
Well, I mean, like almost like it's a stupid question.
Then what what is the Bible even talking about this? This is a warning in Revelation 14
Revelation 14 is saying look if you get that mark of the beast
You're gonna burn in hell if you get that mark of the beast
Don't get the mark of the beast because if you do you're gonna burn in hell and there's a well. I don't see why not
I don't see why you can't just get the mark of the beast. Just go to heaven anyway
I don't see why you don't see why not because you're spiritually blinded because you're unsaved
And by the way, everybody that I've seen teaching this is unsaved.
Funny how saved Christian Bible teachers don't teach this.
Who else teaches that you can get the Mark of the Beast and still be saved?
Ken Hovind.
Ken Hovind says, oh, you can receive the Mark of the Beast and still go to heaven.
And you say, why do you say Ken Hovind's not saved?
Ken Hovind promoted a doctrine that says that if you don't live right, if you don't do works,
You'll still go to heaven in the long run,
but you'll spend a thousand years
in the lake of fire temporarily, a Baptist purgatory.
And this is taught by a cult leader named Joey Faust
in Missouri, out in the middle of nowhere,
a town so small it doesn't even have a hotel in it.
And he's out there in the middle of nowhere,
this backwoods preacher teaching
that if you don't live right,
you'll go to lake of fire for a thousand years.
That's not salvation by grace through faith.
The Bible says that if we believe that Jesus is the Son of God on us, the second death has no power.
But he teaches, Joey Faust teaches this, Ken Ovan brought Joey Faust on his show
and said, I've read his book four and a half times and I can't debug it.
He uploaded a video promoting Joey Faust in his book.
The title of the video was, This is a must-see video that every Christian must watch.
You can go to the Lake of Fire for a thousand years, even if you're saved.
Now, does that sound like a saved Bible teacher to you?
No.
And isn't that interesting that that's the same person who teaches, oh, by the way, you
can receive the Mark of the Beast and still be saved.
Who else teaches this besides John MacArthur, Ken Hoven?
How about Ruckmanites teach this?
I've specifically heard this from Gene Kim and Robert Breaker, but I think that they
all teach this.
They all believe that if you get the Mark of the Beast, you can still go to heaven.
So if you get the mark of the beast in your hand as long as you chop off your hand, you're still good to go
But again, they're kind of missing the whole point because the whole point is that you know
You worship to the Antichrist to get the mark of the beast and if you do that you're toast
Okay
So I don't know who other Ruckmanites have taught this I've specifically heard this from Jean Kim and chipmunk guy Robert breaker
Gene Kim is, you know, a diploma mill PhD, Gene Kim,
who tries to deceive people because he got a bachelor's degree in, like, business or something
from UC Berkeley. He tries to make it sound like his PhD is from UC Berkeley.
His PhD is from Ruckman's Funny Farm in Pensacola,
Ruckman's Insane Asylum Fake Diploma Mill, PBI. That's where his PhD is from.
from a diploma mill, just like some other people
who have fake PhDs from diploma mills
that like James White, excuse me.
So anyway, I'm out of time,
but I just want to say this, you know,
don't be superstitious.
Okay, you know, don't worry about everything that just randomly comes up with the number.
You know, I've had people point out, hey, I clicked on your YouTube video and it had
666 views when I clicked on it.
Well, here's the thing, like, every video is going to have 666 views at some point,
you know?
Somebody's got to be that 667th view.
to get us out of the Antichrist zone.
Oh, your video has 666 likes.
You know, okay, why don't you carry around a rabbit's foot,
throw some salt over your shoulder,
step on a crack, break your mother's back.
You know, give me a break.
Don't buy into this crazy talk
of everything's the mark of the beast.
You know, it's like that meme with the butterfly,
like is this the mark of the beast?
You know like that your Sunday is that is it monster energy drinks is a UPC symbol
You know I mean there are people who refuse to buy products that had a UPC symbol when it first came out
Because the UPC symbol had a 666 in it, but again
You know the UPC on a box of Cochio Crispy's is not the mark of the beast
It just isn't it can't be
because it has to do with worshiping the Antichrist.
So here's the takeaway from the sermon, okay?
Here's the application, because possibly the Mark of the Beast
will not even be deployed in our lifetime.
If it is deployed in our lifetime, none of you that are saved
are going to be tricked by it.
You're not going to fall for it.
Now, it's better to go into end times understanding what's going on,
but even people who are goofed up on end times,
as long as they're saved, they're not going to fall for the Antichrist.
Okay.
But here's the important takeaway, whether Christ returns in our lifetime or not,
here's the important message behind the Mark of the Beast. What's the lesson?
The lesson is that people don't have forever to get saved.
They have a window to get saved in this life.
And if they die, the window is closed.
But it's even possible for some people to lose that opportunity before they die
Like if they blaspheme Jesus like if they took the mark of the beast like if they tampered with God's word
Etc. Okay, so there are ways and that's a sermon of itself. There are ways. So here's the moral story
We got to get people saved
Before it's too late and instead of whining and crying about this doctrine how much you hate this doctrine that it's too late for certain people
Instead of worrying about the people for whom it is too late,
what about all the billions of people for whom it is not too late?
Let's get out there and pull them out of the fire.
Let's get as many people saved as we can before it's too late,
because someday it will be too late.
And instead of being a bleeding heart,
whining and crying and defending homos
and defending sodomites and defending reprobates
and pedophiles and all these wicked people,
you know what, why don't you just worry about
getting the people saved that are actually worth your time
because they can actually be saved
instead of casting your pearls before swine, right?
Give the gospel to the lost out there.
There are plenty of people that could still go either way.
and we gotta get him saved before it's eternally too late.
Let's pray, let's have a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for your word, Lord.
We thank you so much for the clear teaching of scripture.
And Lord, there's so much goofy stuff out there
on the internet about the COVID vaccine
being the mark of the beast,
or this brand name, or this technological device.
Lord God, I pray that everyone would understand this subject
and do some study on their own.
Read chapter 13 and 14 of Revelation themselves,
the whole book of Revelation.
And Lord God, help us not to be tossed to and fro
with every wind of doctrine.
And help us to just face this reality that,
yeah, it is too late for some people.
And let's focus on the people for whom it's not too late.
And in Jesus' name, we pray amen.
Hey Amanda Wright everybody, if you need the words for the BIBLE, it's number 467.
We'll sing it twice and be dismissed tonight, number 467.
The B-I-B-L-E, yes that's the book for me, I stand alone on the word of God, the B-I-B-L-E, the B-I-B-L-E, yes that's the book for me, I stand alone on the word of God, the B-I-B-L-E.
Man, good thing tonight we are dismissed.