seat started great to see everybody here this morning this time we'll go ahead and get started
and once you find a seat let's go ahead and find a hymnal sing song number 147 together song number
147 leaning on the everlasting arms song 147 everybody singing out we're asked you to fill
this church with your service and it's in jesus name we pray let's go to song number 185 minutes
don't have a bull raise your hand and a ring you want morning pastor shelly's visiting faith
forward baptist church preaching there so if you get a chance to check out his sermon later i highly
encourage you to do that on the front we have our bible memory verse of the week psalm 59 verse 11
wednesdays after the service if you're 18 or under and you can quote that to myself pastor shelly or
an usher we'll get an ice cream on the left side there we have our service times uh sunday morning
at 9 a.m is our weekly spanish service definitely recommend out soul winning to let people know
about that they speak spanish especially sunday morning 10 30 sunday evening 4 30 and wednesday
evening at 7 is our bible study we have our church-wide soul winning times listed there
all those meet here at the church building at their respective times and the regional
soul winning times meet throughout the dfw area in various locations at the times listed
please turn in your soul winning maps to the bin and be reporting your salvations to your soul
winning captains right there on the bottom left we have our church stats year to date and on the
top right we have our expecting ladies list please make sure to keep our expecting ladies
prayer during their pregnancies we also have our weekly prayer list listed there and if you would
like prayer added to this list you could go ahead and email our church at any time and we'll add
that and we basically update it every week so if you want it continuously every single week to
stay on the bulletin let us know we could do that for you upcoming events august 15th through 17th
we have the mighty men's conference and we have pastor roger jimenez of verity baptist church in
sacramento preaching for us during that time so you definitely don't want to miss that it's going
to be a great weekend there september 8th we have dr phil stringer guest preaching for us who he
starred in our film the preserved bible he's a well-known advocate for the king james bible
has had some great interviews with us and he's written some really good books as well so we're
So we're looking forward to having him.
October 4th through the 6th is our Heritage of the Lord conference.
That conference is more geared towards the youth.
Usually do that every other year.
So we're looking forward to that.
Here's some church rules and reminders that you could go ahead and read through at your
own time.
But that's pretty much all we have for announcements.
We'll go ahead and sing our Psalm of the Week, Psalm 126.
Psalm 126.
Psalm 126 in your special handout or in your King James Bible.
Psalm 126 When the Lord the captivity plates are being
passed around.
Go ahead and turn your Bibles to Aquavax chapter number two reads.
When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place
and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled
all the house where they were sitting and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like
as a fire and it sat upon each of them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the
Spirit gave them utterance.
And they were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together and were confounded because
that every man heard them speak in his own language.
And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these
which speak Galileans?
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the
dwellers in Mesopotamia and in Judea, and Cappadocia, and Pontius, and Asia, and Phrygia,
and Pamphylia, and Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome,
Jews, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful
works of God.
And they were all amazed and were in doubt, saying one to another, "What meaneth this?"
Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, "Ye men
of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my
words, for these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel, and it shall come to pass in the last
day, saith God, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my spirit,
and they shall prophesy.
And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire
and vapor of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before that great and
notable day of the Lord come.
And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Ye men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you
by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did buy him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves
also know, him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God ye have taken
and by wicked hands have crucified and slain, whom God hath raised up, having loosed the
pains of death, because it was not possible that he should beholden of it.
For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is
on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest
in hope, because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine holy
one to see corruption.
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both
dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day.
Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of
the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne.
He seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell,
neither his flesh did see corruption.
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father
the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which he now see and hear.
For David is not ascended into the heavens, but he sayeth himself, The Lord said unto
my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thy foes thy footstool.
Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus,
whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter, and to
the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
And Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ
for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many
as the Lord our God shall call.
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this
untoward generation.
When they that gladly received his word were baptized, and the same day they were added
unto them about three thousand souls, and they continued steadfastly in the apostles'
doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
And fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
And all that believed were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions
and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house
to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God and
having favor with all the people.
And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Let's fire our heads forward a prayer.
Father in heaven, I pray that you would be with Brother Dylan Oz as he preaches for
us this morning.
Give him the fullness and power of the Holy Spirit and clarity of mind and I pray also
Lord that you would help us to pay close attention to the message.
That it would inspire us Lord and enable us to know your word better and to do your word
as well.
We love you and in Jesus name I pray.
Amen.
Good morning.
Well first of all thank you Pastor Shelley for allowing me to fill the pulpit this morning.
Excited to preach for you guys today and we're in a very famous chapter of the Bible
Acts chapter 2, of course we love this chapter, we know this chapter is God's word, but unfortunately
there's a lot of wicked people, there's a lot of false teachers in false religions that
love to twist this chapter and they love to use this chapter to teach false doctrine.
And this morning I want to talk about a group of Christians that I just personally detest.
I think that they are just a reproach on the name of Christ and they're causing a lot of
damage to the kingdom of God, and that is the Pentecostals.
And the title of my sermon this morning is Pentecostalism Debunked.
You say, "Why aren't you talking about the Trump shooting?"
That's probably all you want to hear about.
Let's talk about the assassination.
But you know, let me tell you something.
The reason why America is in such a bad state is not necessarily because of this little
faggot that tried to shoot Donald Trump.
It's the false religion in our country.
And the communists and the weak men and the issues that we have in this nation are a direct
result of our nation not being godly and our nation not being spiritual.
So why don't we just go to the root of the problems in America and talk about one of
the false religions in our country.
And so this morning I want to go through several claims that Pentecostals make and I want to
debunk these claims from the Bible.
So you're going to be there in Acts chapter two throughout the sermon.
But this is the first claim that Pentecostals often teach, is they teach that the Apostles
here in Acts chapter two spoke some sort of secret heavenly prayer language.
Raise your hand if you've ever heard this before.
Just about everyone.
Now here's the thing.
It's amazing how many people have heard this because this is not true.
This is not what the Bible says, yet everyone has heard someone say this before.
I'm going to read to you some quotes from TD Jakes who's just down the road here in
South Dallas who is one of these Charismaniac, Pentecostal freaks.
This is what he says.
He says, "The believers at Pentecost spoke the language of heaven, but only as the Holy
Ghost gave them utterance.
When God filled the disciples on the day of Pentecost, He sent tongues of fire to sit
upon each of them.
God caused them to speak with a heavenly language, proving He had control of these believers."
Then he says this, "Speaking in tongues can occur in two different settings.
A believer may pray in tongues privately to commune with God.
This is their heavenly prayer language.
Scripture also teaches on the gift of tongues, or diverse kinds of tongues, which are used
in a public assembly.
There is a difference between the gift of tongues and tongues used as a prayer language.
The gift of tongues benefits the hearers.
The prayer language benefits only the hearers."
So just to summarize what this claim is, the claim from the Pentecostals is that the
apostles here in Acts chapter 2 were speaking some unknown language to human beings.
This isn't a language that we can identify and say, "This is Chinese, this is Japanese,
this is Russian."
It's some secret heavenly prayer language, and not only that, but that God or the Holy
Spirit was in direct control of these men, like God was possessing these men to say something
that were not under their own control.
So let's go through this story and see if the Bible matches the claims that they're
making.
Look at Acts chapter number two, let's start in verse one.
It says, "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord
in one place.
And suddenly there came a," notice this word, "sound from heaven as of a rushing, mighty
wind."
Now, remember that word.
It says, "And it filled all the house where they were sitting."
Keep your place there and go to John chapter number three, John chapter number three.
So notice, right when this situation started happening in Acts chapter two, they heard
a sound like a mighty rushing wind.
Now, what does that remind me of?
Look at John chapter three, verse eight.
It says, "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof.
But canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth.
So is everyone that is born of the Spirit."
Now, this is very similar, right?
It's talking about a sound as of a wind, and how the sounds of a wind is like the Spirit.
And so this situation in Acts chapter number two, when it's saying that they heard a sound
as of a mighty rushing wind, it's pointing us that this is relating to the Holy Ghost.
Now, why does Jesus say this?
Well, because you can't necessarily see spiritual salvation, right?
I can't just look at you guys and say, "Oh yeah, I could tell you're saved because you're
wearing a nice tie.
I could just tell you're saved because you went out soul winning."
You can't do that, right?
But you know how you could tell someone's saved?
By what you hear, right?
So you hear the sound of wind, so is everyone that's born of the Spirit.
Well, I can't see that you're saved, but I could hear your testimony as to what you
believe it takes to be saved, and then I can tell this person's saved.
Or they say something heretical and I say, "This person's not saved."
Now look at verse number three.
It says, "And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon
each of them."
And this is a very strange event that's happening.
Cloven or is like the past participle of the verb cleave.
And cleave in the Bible sometimes means to come together or to be split.
So I'm not 100% which one it's talking about here, but I've always pictured this as tongues
that were split.
And they're getting this vision of tongues that are split on these people's head.
And that kind of makes sense because of what we're going to see later on in the story.
Verse four, it says, "And they were all," notice, "filled with the Holy Ghost, and
began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance."
Now this is an important phrase because there's a difference in the New Testament between
being sealed with the Spirit of God and being filled with the Spirit of God.
Every single person that believes in Jesus Christ is sealed with the Spirit of God.
But we're not at all times filled with the Holy Spirit.
Being filled with the Holy Spirit is when God empowers you to do a great work for Him.
That's why when we go out soul-winning, we pray that God would fill us with the Spirit
so that we can accomplish a great task for Him.
Every single time that I preach, I pray to the Lord that God would fill me with the Holy
Spirit.
Why?
So that I can glorify God and edify the congregation and do a work for God.
That's why God fills us with the Holy Spirit.
But God does not fill us with the Holy Ghost to make ourselves look good or to self and
grand.
I can't even say it right now.
I'm not going to pretend to.
To just glorify ourselves, God doesn't fill us with the Holy Spirit for that reason.
But the thing that I hate about Pentecostals is that it's a religion of glorifying self.
It's not, it's not, hey, I'm going to speak a language to edify people and to try to get
people saved in Spanish or in Russian or in German.
No, it's look at how godly I am because I speak this secret prayer language that none
of you little peons know about.
That's not glorifying god.
That's glorifying self.
And these guys like TD Jakes, they do not care about the Lord.
In fact, they hate the Lord.
All they care about is serving their own belly.
And anyone that has this doctrine, you should immediately be wary of.
And I would never, ever go to a church where they speak in tongues for any reason.
Even if they give lip service to the right gospel, I would never go to a church that
has this wicked doctrine.
Go to John chapter 20 and keep your place there in Acts chapter number two.
John chapter number 20, John 20, 20, Jesus says here, "And when he had so said, he showed
unto them his hands and his side.
Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord.
And Jesus then said Jesus to them again, 'Peace be unto you, as my Father hath sent me, even
so send I you.'
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said unto them, 'Receive ye the
Holy Ghost.'
And from this point forward till today, the moment that believers put their faith in Jesus
Christ for salvation, they receive the Holy Ghost.
Every single time that we go out soul winning and we get someone to change their mind of
where they're placing their trust and their faith and we call upon the name of the Lord
with them, they receive the Holy Ghost.
But that does not ensure that they're filled with the Holy Ghost at all times.
You know, Jesus Christ was special in the sense that the Bible says that he was anointed
with the oil of gladness above his fellows.
So Jesus Christ was not only sealed with the Holy Ghost, but Jesus Christ was filled with
the Holy Ghost at all times.
That's incredible, right?
Us, we're praying to the Lord to be filled with the Holy Spirit and then our carnal nature
draws us back into sin.
And then we pray that we're filled with the Holy Spirit and then we fail and we sin again.
But Jesus Christ was always filled with the Holy Spirit, that's what makes the blasphemy
of the Holy Spirit so wicked and so disgusting is because someone could look at me or us
in this room and they could say negative things about us, but it's not necessarily because
of our God, it could be because there's problems with us that are legitimate.
But when they're looking at Jesus Christ, he's always filled with the Holy Spirit.
So when they say to him, "Oh, you're not casting out, you're only casting out devils
by the power of the devil," well, that's blasphemy of the Holy Spirit because there's nothing
wrong with Jesus to criticize, and he's actually filled with the Holy Spirit at all times to
the max.
That's what makes the blasphemy of Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit, so wicked.
Go to Ephesians chapter number one, Ephesians chapter number one.
Ephesians one, this is a verse that's probably pretty familiar to you, but if you're not,
this is a good verse to know how to turn to when you're out soul winning.
Ephesians chapter one, verse 13, it says, "In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard
the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also after that ye believed," notice
this, "ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise."
You know, and that's a great truth that we can rejoice in today, that no matter what
happens in our lives, no matter how many times we sin, no matter how many times we get back
slid in, after we had put our faith in Jesus Christ, we are always sealed with the Holy
Spirit, and we can never lose our salvation.
This verse absolutely proves that you can never lose your salvation, because it's not
depending on our works to keep us saved, no, actually the Holy Spirit has sealed us until
the day of redemption.
Go back to Acts chapter number two.
So we kind of talked a little bit about the difference between the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit and the filling of the Holy Spirit.
These men in Acts chapter two, we already know that they were sealed with the Holy Spirit
because they're saved, but something special is happening here.
Why?
Because they were filled with the Holy Spirit, and we're going to see that the reason why
is because God was enabling them to do a special work for Him.
Verse four, it says, "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost," and notice what happens,
"and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance."
Now, here's what people like to read into this text.
Here's what the Pentecostals see when they read this, "and they were all filled with
the Holy Ghost and began to say, 'Shaka laka bala laka laka laka laka hallelujah.'"
Did anyone else see that in the text?
What are you talking about?
You deranged freak.
That's not what it says happened.
It says that they spoke with other tongues.
Now, I'm going to read for you a direct quote from T.D.
Jakes.
I'm not going to change anything about this quote.
This is a direct word for word quote.
He knew he was preaching, he said, "We're going into another dimension."
If you ever hear a preacher say that, you should probably leave the church.
I'm just saying.
"God is restoring some things.
He's doing some restoration, some realignment, some adjustments."
He's like a chiropractor, I guess.
"You've gone through some painful things, but God's got purpose in the pain, and He's
restoring some things."
"The glory of the Lord is in this place," that was a direct quote, my friends.
Who thinks that that's being filled with the Holy Spirit?
You're going to tell me that you're reading Acts chapter number two, and God filled the
apostles with the Holy Spirit to do that?
That's insanity.
Yet there is thousands, thousands of churches all across America and thousands of pastors
that actually are stupid enough to think that that's what this chapter is talking about.
And they tell the congregation that they need to pray a spiritual heavenly language to God
at home or at church.
And you know what?
That's wicked as hell.
That is blaspheming God to sit there and think that God is running some sort of clown show
or that the Holy Spirit is going to fill you so that you could act like a complete deranged
animal.
It's blasphemous to teach this.
That's why I would never go to a church that teaches anything close to this stuff.
What does it mean?
Go to verse 5 of the same chapter, Acts 2 verse 5, and it says, "And there were dwelling
at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men, out of," notice this, "every nation under heaven."
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together and were confounded because,
underlining this, "that every man heard them speak in his own language."
Now think about this, why in verse 5 does the Bible need to tell us that there was these
devout Jews from all nations if what they were speaking was some heavenly prayer language
that no one understands?
Why would you even bring up their nationality?
It doesn't make any sense.
If speaking with tongues is this gibberish that's a secret prayer language, why does
it say, "Oh, by the way, there's people from every nation under heaven."
That wouldn't matter because they're speaking a language that's not even earthly.
It's not even of any nation.
Why would you bring up the fact that they have all these different nationalities?
Well, it gives us the answer.
It says, "Because that every man heard them speak in his own language."
And here, wrote the verse number seven, it says, "And they were all amazed and marveled."
Now, is that your reaction when you see TD Jakes?
I'm not just like marveling like, wow, this is a man of God doing such a great work for
God.
I'm amazed and marveling in a different sense.
I'm just like, what the hell is this cult?
Like this is scary, right?
But I wouldn't be like amazed and glorifying God.
It says, "Saying one to another, 'Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans?'"
Now, put yourself into this story.
Wouldn't you marvel?
Wouldn't you be amazed if all these Galileans got up and all of a sudden they started speaking
languages that they had never learned?
I think this is one of the coolest miracles in the Bible.
And if I could just somehow get one of these gifts, which I believe are done away, and
I'm going to talk about that later in the sermon, but this would be one of them.
How cool would it be?
Just to go all over the world and you just stroll into China and boom, you speak in Chinese.
You just stroll into Germany and boom, you speak in German.
That's amazing.
If I saw this happen, I would marvel.
I would be amazed.
But you know, I'm not marveling and amazed by some weird false prophet screaming and
speaking gibberish in his church and people running up and down the aisles and acting
like that's of God.
I'm just marveling at people's stupidity, if anything.
So here's the question.
Why did God use this miracle?
Why did God fill these men with the Holy Spirit and allow them to speak in languages that
they had never learned?
Well, let's put ourselves into the setting of the story here.
The New Testament is just starting.
They're just at the beginning of this.
So don't you think that God would want to enable these men to get the gospel out throughout
the world very quickly?
Well, what's a good way to get the gospel out very quickly by enabling these men to
speak all the languages of the world, basically?
That would be a way to get the gospel out very quickly.
Go to, keep your place there, and go to 1 Corinthians chapter number 14, 1 Corinthians
chapter number 14.
Now, here's what you have to understand about the book of Acts, and please remember this.
The book of Acts is not an instruction manual.
Let me repeat that.
The book of Acts is not an instruction manual.
It is the record of the Acts of the Apostles, okay?
You want to know what the instruction manuals are?
It's the epistles of Paul when he's correcting churches saying, "Here's what you're doing.
Here's what you should be doing.
Here's how you fix all your problems."
1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, all of his epistles, he's giving them instructions on what to do.
But you want to know what the book of Acts is?
It's just recording the actions that took place, okay?
And Pentecostals, because they have this warped view of the book of Acts, they take everything
that happens in the book of Acts as some sort of model of what their church should be like
today.
But that is a wrong mentality.
Yes, this is the Word of God.
Yes, everything in it is true.
But no, not everything that occurs in the book of Acts is what we should be doing today.
And that is a very important thing for you to remember.
Look at 1 Corinthians 14.
1 Corinthians 14 is an instruction manual.
And Paul's giving you the rules of how a church should run.
Look at verse 22, "Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe."
So is speaking in tongues meant to profit people that are already saved?
No.
Let's keep reading, "but to them that believe not, but prophesying serveth not for them
that believe not, but for them which believe."
So what was the purpose of the apostle speaking with other tongues?
To preach the gospel, to get people who don't believe in Jesus Christ to repent, change
their mind, and put their faith in Jesus Christ.
That's what it was for.
But right here in the instruction manual in 1 Corinthians 14, he says, "Hey, tongues are
not for people that already believe."
You know who it's for?
People that don't believe.
If you're prophesying, you know who that's for?
That's for people that are saved.
That's why I'm not up here this morning preaching the gospel to you guys, because I'm pretty
sure everyone in here is already saved.
And if you're not, then we'll get you saved after the service.
But I'm not going to spend the whole service preaching the gospel presentation because
that's not profitable.
You know what is profitable?
Prophesying.
Preaching the whole counsel of God.
That's actually profitable for God's people.
Go to Mark chapter number 16, Mark chapter number 16.
So that's one reason why God allowed them to do this special miracle.
He wanted to get the gospel out quick.
He wanted to enable them to preach the gospel in every language.
Here's another reason.
Again, this is the beginning of the New Testament, so God is using miracles to confirm his word.
He's giving his word, but he's also giving miracles so that in the minds of the people,
their word can be confirmed in his eyes.
Now that's exactly what the Bible says.
Mark 16 verse 20, it says, "And they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working
with them," and notice this, "and confirming the word with signs following, 'Amen.'"
You want to know why I believe that these gifts today have ceased?
There's a doctrine called cessationism, and I believe in that.
I believe that the Apostle Apostolic gifts of healing and of speaking with other tongues,
I believe that that stuff is over.
And here's why.
Because the Word of God is completed.
Because we have the full canon of scripture, we have Genesis through Revelation, God's
not coming to Joseph Smith in the 1800s and giving another testament of Jesus Christ.
No, it's over.
So God doesn't need to confirm His Word with miracles anymore.
Why?
Because we have the completed Word of God.
So these people that get up that call themselves Apostles and act like they have the power
of healing or the power of speaking in tongues, 100% of them are liars, 100% of them are frauds
and are false prophets.
Anyone says they have the gift of healing, the gift of speaking in tongues, run away
screaming the other direction.
Because the reason God gave these men this power was to get the gospel out and to confirm
the Word of God.
Notice, God gave them these powers, not for their own glory, but for the glory of God.
But what is it, what do you see today at Pentecostal churches?
They're glorifying themselves.
And T.D.
Jakes, you know, with his whoever knows how many tens of millions or hundreds of millions
of dollar house driving around in his fancy Bentleys, that's not a man of God, folks.
That's not a man that cares about the things of God.
That's a man that only cares about himself.
And all Pentecostals are just like him as far as I'm concerned.
Where were we here?
Let's flip back to Acts chapter number two.
Acts chapter number two says in verse 12, "And they were all amazed and were in doubt."
They're like doubting, like, "Did this just happen?"
Saying one to another, "What meaneth this?"
Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine."
Now as far as I could tell, this is the only time in the Bible that new wine actually means
alcohol.
Usually new wine is referring to juice.
But as far as I could tell, and if someone knows something more, I'm happy to hear it.
As far as I could tell, this is the only time in the Bible where new wine is referring
to alcohol.
And you'll see later on in the chapter that it's for sure referring to alcohol.
But I mean, you can kind of understand why maybe someone thought this way.
Because if I saw, you know, Brother Ben talking to a Chinese guy, and I know for a fact Ben
doesn't speak Chinese, and he's like, [mimicking Chinese talking] I'd be like, "Does someone
spike Ben's, like, coffee or something?
Like, is he okay?"
You know what I mean?
So this crazy thing happened, and they're saying like, "Whoa, what's going on?"
And here's the thing, like, Pentecostals, when they're speaking in tongues, they kind
of do always sound drunk, it's weird.
Verse 14 says, "But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said unto
them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you.
And he hearkened to my words, for these are not drunken as he supposed."
So Peter, he thinks they're talking about alcohol, he's saying, "Whoa, whoa, whoa,
these people aren't drunk as you're thinking right now."
It says, "Seeing it is but the third hour of the day, but this is that which was spoken
by the prophet Joel."
So now he's going to explain that the prophecies of the book of Joel are being fulfilled here
in Acts chapter 2 at the day of Pentecost.
Verse 17 it says, "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out
of my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your
young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, and on my servants
and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my spirit, and they shall prophesy.
And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire
and vapor of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and notable
day of the Lord come, and it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call upon the name
of the Lord shall be saved.
So look, in the book of Joel, Joel is prophesying several different events that are going to
be happening in the latter days.
And the phrase latter days oftentimes is just referring to the New Testament in general.
Like, from the moment the New Testament starts is considered the last days.
And so that's why you have some of the events that Joel is talking about at the beginning
of this is the day of Pentecost, way at the beginning of the New Testament.
And then some of it is literally talking about the day of the Lord, way at the end.
It's all still considered the last days.
That's something to keep in mind.
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter number 14, 1 Corinthians chapter number 14.
Let's answer this question.
Does this gift still exist today?
I think you know the answer is absolutely not.
Let's look at the Bible and get that answer.
First Corinthians 14 verse number 27.
First Corinthians 14, 27, it says, "If any man speak in an unknown tongue," which here's
the thing, we know what that means.
That means speaking in a foreign language.
"Let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course, and let one interpret."
So remember, the book of Acts, it's not an instruction manual.
But the epistles of Paul are an instruction manual.
And he's giving you the rules for what it would take to speak in an unknown tongue.
And one of the rules, it says that you could have a max of three speakers and someone has
to be interpreting.
So let me ask you this.
When Pentecostals are having their rolling on the floor and barking like a dog and speaking
gibberish services, are they getting up and speaking in gibberish and then translating
that?
No, they're not.
Why?
Because they have an esoteric guru that has a special connection with God and a special
language with God that only he knows so that he can dupe the minds of the people into thinking
he's special so that they can keep giving him money.
That's what he's doing.
He's a complete fraud, he's a complete charlatan, because if it was real, you know what he would
be doing?
He'd be obeying what the Bible says to do when you speak in an unknown tongue.
But what would this look like biblically?
Well, if we had someone that was a great preacher but they only spoke German, we could technically
have them preach, but we would have to have someone interpret what they're saying.
We couldn't just sit here and listen to a whole sermon in German because only the Chamblies
would get it.
That'd be kind of a waste of time.
We want all of us to get it, right?
Verse 28, "But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church and let
him speak to himself and to God."
Hey, if there's no one out there that can interpret TD Jakes' nonsense, then TD Jakes,
the Bible says to shut your mouth, to shut your mouth and to keep silence.
That's what the Bible says.
Verse 30, "If anything be revealed to another that sitteth by, let him let the first hold
his peace.
For ye may all prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be comforted."
And notice this, this is a very important verse, "And the spirits of the prophets are
subject to the prophets."
You know what that means?
That means that the Holy Spirit is never going to possess a believer.
That means that the Holy Spirit is not going to use a believer like some sort of puppet
and mechanically dictate all this weird gibberish nonsense out of a believer.
Why?
Because the Bible says that the spirit of the prophets are subject unto the prophets.
And you know, this is even true when you look at the doctrine of the inspiration of Scripture,
that the Bible is an amazing book because it is 100% divine, but it's also 100% human
too.
Because the prophets of God that spoke when they were inspired by the Holy Spirit, you
could still see their personality and their own style within their writings.
Why?
Because God was not mechanically dictating Jeremiah.
God was not mechanically dictating the prophets of old.
He was filling them with the Holy Spirit and guiding them to speak His words.
So definitely today in the New Testament, first of all, no one is speaking Scripture
today by any form of dictation you want to believe in.
That's completely done because we have the whole Bible.
But even if that would happen, he certainly wouldn't be possessing people and making
them speak gibberish.
But of course, any type of dictation is done today.
Verse number 33 says, "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace as in all
the churches of the saints."
And you know what word really describes Pentecostal churches is just confusing.
It's confusing.
Why are people barking?
Why are people rolling around?
Why is there a woman preacher?
Why is this guy speaking gibberish?
It's just complete confusion.
And you know what?
You know who's the author of that?
The devil is the author of that.
Because the Bible says that God is not the author of confusion.
So you walk into a church like a Pentecostal church, that's just completely confusing.
You're probably in a demonic church, because God is not the author of confusion.
Here's another claim that Pentecostals make.
We talked about the speaking in tongues.
Here's another claim that they make is they claim that baptism should be done in the
name of Jesus only.
And they're very dogmatic about this.
Many of them, they would say that if you got baptized like this, I baptize you my brother
in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, buried in the likeness
of his death, raised to walk in newness of life, that that is not a biblical baptism.
That you have to only be baptized in the name of Jesus.
Just I baptize you in the name of Jesus Christ.
That's all you could say.
Very dogmatic about it.
Now, there's a Encyclopedia Britannica article under something called Jesus Only Baptism.
This is what it says.
The Jesus Only movement of believers within Pentecostalism holds that true baptism can
only be in the name of Jesus rather than in the name of all three persons of the Trinity.
Now, I hope you know that our church strongly disagrees with this false doctrine because
I don't know if you've noticed, every single time Pastor Shelley baptizes someone, he baptizes
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
Now, let's go to Acts chapter number two.
And again, as we're reading this, keep this in mind, Acts is not an instruction manual.
It is the record of the actions of the apostles, OK?
Acts chapter two, verse thirty seven, Now when they had heard this, they were pricked
in their heart and Peter and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren,
what shall we do?
Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ
for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
So what do we have here?
Peter baptizing someone, it says that he baptized him in the name of Jesus Christ.
So go to Matthew chapter number 28.
I think there's a couple different ways to understand this.
So first, let's go back and look at the command to baptize, where it came from, who it came
from.
Look at Matthew chapter number 28, verse 18.
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and earth.
Behold ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
So here we have a clear statement, a clear command from the Son of God Himself, from
Jesus Christ, commanding His disciples to go out into all the world, to preach the Gospel,
to teach all nations, and to baptize them in the name of who?
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
So what am I supposed to do?
Am I supposed to look at the book of Acts, which is simply a record of the actions of
the Apostles, take Acts 2.38, and say, "Well, Peter baptized in the name of Jesus, therefore
screw what Jesus said, forget what Jesus said, forget the Great Commission."
I mean, who cares about the Great Commission, right?
I mean, we're a church, we don't really care about that, do we?
And just completely ignore Jesus Christ because of one verse in the book of Acts.
That is a stupid way to interpret the Bible.
You should always let the clear statements of Jesus Christ be your binoculars by which
you view all the rest of the Bible.
If you don't understand something else in the Bible, it seems a little unclear to you.
Go back to the clear statements of Jesus and say, "Okay, Jesus said this."
So I might be misinterpreting something in Acts chapter two, which is not an instruction
manual.
Please remember that.
Now, here's the thing.
I don't think that Peter even did anything wrong here in Acts chapter number two, personally.
Because here's why.
If you are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, do you
know that it's accurate to still say that you were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ?
Hey, I baptized you in the name of the Father and in the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
Were you baptized in the name of Jesus?
Yeah, because he's the Son.
So when it says that Peter baptized him in the name of Jesus, that is still true, even
if he literally said in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Ghost.
What if I said to you, for dinner, I had enchiladas and rice and beans and chips and bubbly.
And then I said in another sentence, hey, I had enchiladas for dinner.
Would that be true?
Yeah.
It's still true.
You don't have to literally spell out every single thing that you, hey, you can just say,
yeah, I had enchiladas for dinner.
There could have been other sides there that you didn't mention, okay?
So if Peter baptized him in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, it's
still accurate to say that he baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
So very, very weak argument that they have here.
Now here's another thing.
Here's another way of looking at this, is that a lot of times in the Bible when it says
"in the name of," it's actually denoting a source of authority, okay?
Acts chapter 2, let's read this again.
Verse 38 says, "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in
the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of
the Holy Ghost."
Now think about this, let's think about this in terms of authority.
Who's the one that commanded to baptize?
Jesus Christ.
So he's saying, hey, I want you to be baptized, every one of you, by the authority of Jesus
Christ, because he gave us the great commission.
This isn't turning things around and saying, oh, just forget all the instructions that
Jesus gave you in Matthew and start baptizing people in the name of Jesus only.
That is ridiculous.
Go to Matthew chapter number 21, Matthew chapter 21, let's look at some instances where the
name of actually means authority.
So you're going to see both of these interpretations are true.
Matthew chapter 21 verse 9, "And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried,
saying, 'Hosanna to the son of David, blessed is he that cometh,'" notice, "in the name
of the Lord."
You want to know under whose authority Jesus Christ was coming?
God the Father, the Lord, Hosanna in the highest.
Go to John chapter number 10, John chapter number 10.
Look through some more verses here.
John chapter 10, look at verse 24, it says, "Then came the Jews round about him and said
unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt, if thou be the Christ, tell us plainly?
Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believe not.
The works that I do, notice, in my Father's name they bear witness of me, but ye believe
not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you."
So again, where is he getting his authority to do his great works?
In the name of the Father, by the authority of his Father.
Let's look at one more, John 15, flip the page a couple times there to John chapter
number 15.
John 15 verse 16, "Ye have not chosen me, but I've chosen you and ordained you, that
ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatsoever
ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you."
He's saying, hey, when you go to prayer, use my authority when you're praying.
That's why we pray in Jesus' name.
This is not something that we're mindlessly repeating.
We're saying, Father, we're coming to you by the authority of Jesus Christ, because
he's the high priest, he's the intermediary between us and God.
And so when we say in Jesus' name, we're saying, by the power of Jesus Christ, we're coming
to you.
It's not saying that it's just Jesus-only baptism or something weird like that.
Acts chapter number three, Acts chapter number three, Acts chapter number three, verse six,
it says, "Then Peter said, 'Silver and gold have I none, but such as I give thee in the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.'"
So I hope you've seen through these examples that oftentimes when something's done in the
name of something, it's just denoting authority.
So don't get this idea that Acts chapter two, verse 38 is just saying, "Oh yeah, when we
baptize someone you can't say the name of the Father or the Holy Ghost, it's the name
of Jesus only."
No, it's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, but we're doing that in the name of,
by the authority of, Jesus Christ.
Why?
Because He gave us the great commission.
Now here's the last one I'll talk about today.
You want to definitely keep your place in Acts chapter number two, but the last claim
that many Pentecostals make that is a wicked false doctrine is that Jesus is the Father.
And they're not, they're not just like lightly mistaken on this and you show them scripture
and they immediately change.
No, what they mean is a doctrine called modalism, called oneness, and they believe that there's
no distinction between the three persons of the Trinity.
They believe that Jesus Christ is the Father, meaning Jesus Christ is getting His authority
from Himself.
And Jesus Christ is praying to Himself.
And Jesus Christ, when He's on the cross, is separated from Himself.
And when God raised up Jesus, He raised Himself.
And He's not speaking His own words, but He's just speaking His own words, okay?
That's what Pentecostals are doing.
They just completely twist everything in Scripture.
They don't understand Scripture at all.
Now, I looked up modalism and this is the definition I found.
It says, "The theological doctrine that the members of the Trinity are not three distinct
persons."
This is an accurate definition.
Oneness is a non-Trinitarian religious movement within the Protestant Christian family of
churches known as Pentecostalism.
The doctrine states that there is one God, a singular divine spirit with no distinction
of persons who manifests himself in many ways, including as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
And these doctrines, modalism, oneness, whatever you want to call it, this is what back in
like 2016 Tyler Baker, the disgraced deacon of Faith Forward Baptist Church was trying
to suck people into, is teaching this damnable heresy of modalism and oneness.
And you know, it's good to talk about this every once in a while, because as time goes
on, we're going to have people in church who have no clue who Tyler Baker even is.
And they've never heard of oneness or modalism in their life.
But look, if you hear someone teaching in this church this damnable heresy of modalism
or oneness, you should let Pastor Shelley know immediately.
Because we're not talking about a difference of opinion, we're talking about damnable
heresy and this cannot be tolerated in any biblical church.
Stay in Acts chapter 2, I want to read for you 2 John 1-9, you can stay there in Acts
chapter 2.
2 John 1-9 says this, "Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ
hath not God.
He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son."
If you reject the Trinity, you are not saved.
If you believe oneness or modalism, you are not saved.
If you twist any doctrine regarding Jesus Christ, if you are perverting the doctrines
of Christ, you are not saved.
You have to believe in the Jesus of the Bible to be saved.
If I said, if someone said to me, "I believe I'm a sinner and I believe that I deserve
hell, and I believe that the Mormon Jesus, who's the brother of Satan, came down to earth
and died for my sins, and that I'm putting all my trust in him, and I can never lose
my salvation," that person will go straight to hell.
Straight to hell.
Because it's not just enough to just say faith alone.
You have to have faith alone in the right Jesus.
So this is why you can't listen to these Pentecostals, these oneness, motilous heretics,
because they're going to say, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus."
They're going to have a Bible.
They're going to say they're your brothers in Christ, but they're not our brothers in
Christ.
They're unsaved.
Acts chapter number two, look at verse 32.
This Jesus hath, who?
God raised up, whereof we are all witnesses.
Hey, you have to have this Jesus.
You have to believe in this Jesus.
You have to believe that this Jesus rose again from the dead, not this shape-shifting, different
hat-wearing, oneness, modalist, psychopathic Jesus that talks to himself, that prays to
himself.
It's blasphemous to believe in that.
And, you know, I say that, of course, I don't believe that.
I'm saying what they believe is in a psychopathic Jesus.
They're not our brothers in Christ.
Verse 33, "Therefore, being by the right hand of God" sounds like two persons exalted and
having received of the Father, receiving it from someone else.
If I'm playing catch with Devin, I'm throwing the baseball to Devin.
He's throwing it back to me.
Receiving it of Devin.
I'm trying to make this really simple, okay?
I'm not playing catch with myself like, "I'm trying to go catch it."
You know what I mean?
Like, I know there's some guys in the NFL that could do that, but I'm too white for
that.
What a joke.
Verse 34, "For David is not ascended into the heavens, but he saith himself, 'The Lord
said unto my Lord, 'Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thy foes thy footstool.'
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made the same Jesus
whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ."
God the Father made Jesus Christ the Lord, meaning the Boss, and the Savior.
And Jesus didn't give Himself that power, Jesus didn't give Himself that title or that
authority, God the Father gave it to Him.
And you cannot read a single page of the New Testament without this oneness, Pentecostal
doctrine just being debunked in front of your face.
It's on every page of the New Testament virtually.
Go to Isaiah chapter number 9, Isaiah chapter number 9.
So if Acts chapter 2 is Pentecostal's favorite chapter in the Bible, Isaiah chapter 9 is
probably their second favorite chapter.
And you know, I love both of these chapters.
I just hate it when people pervert them and teach lies about them.
Isaiah 9 verse 6, "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government
shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty
God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace."
And they take this phrase here where it says, "Jesus shall be called the Everlasting Father,"
and they say, "There you go.
That's proof.
The Bible teaches that Jesus is the Father."
Well, not so fast.
Let's keep reading here.
Look at verse 7.
It says, "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end upon the throne
of David, and upon his kingdom to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with
justice from henceforth even forever, the zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this."
So let's look at these two verses, and I want to point out some important words just in
these two verses.
What do we have?
We have "government," "wonderful," "counselor," "God," which means Lord, "Father," "Prince
of Peace," "government," "throne," "kingdom," "judgment," "justice," what are all these
words having in common?
"Authority," "leadership," "reigning," "being a king," "being a ruler," these are all basically
synonyms for each other.
Even, like, judges in our country today, they're in a position of authority, and oftentimes
judges or attorneys will be called "counselor," right?
"Counsel."
Well, that's what it's referring to here.
Now go to Isaiah chapter number 22, Isaiah chapter number 22, and we're going to look
at this word "father," because they're saying, "Oh, the everlasting Father, that proves that
that means that Jesus is the Father, and there's no distinction between persons."
Let's look at Isaiah 22 verse 21, it says, "And I will clothe him with thy robe and strengthen
him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand," again, this sounds
like ruler, sounds like leadership, and notice what he says, "And he shall be a father to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah."
So according to this book, according to Isaiah, what is someone called when the government
is given into their hand?
What are they called?
A father, right?
When we look at even our own founding what?
Fathers?
They're the people that did what?
They established our government.
They were the rulers.
They were the ones in charge.
That's why they're called founding fathers.
And Isaiah is saying here, hey, when someone's given control of the government, what are
they called?
They're called a father.
Go to Genesis chapter number 42, Genesis chapter number 42.
Let's prove this a few different ways here, Genesis chapter 42.
Verse number six says, "And Joseph was the," notice this word, "governor over the land,
and he it was that sold all the people of the land, and Joseph's brethren came and
bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth."
So here we have a verse where the Bible's saying that Joseph was the governor.
Now look at Genesis 45 verse eight, put the page there, Genesis 45 verse eight.
Joseph said this, "So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God, and he hath made
me what?
A father to Pharaoh, and Lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt."
Now who here reads that verse and thinks, "Oh yeah, oh yeah, Joseph was the physical
father, he was the one that brought forth the children of Egypt, they're all his physical
children."
No, that's not what father means.
We have the Bible saying he was the governor, and then Joseph tells us what that word means,
he says, "I was made a father to Pharaoh."
So when the Bible says in Isaiah 9-6 that Jesus Christ is the everlasting father, you
know what that means?
It means that Jesus Christ is the everlasting ruler.
He's the everlasting king.
He's the everlasting prince.
He's the everlasting counselor.
That's what that means.
Because someday, we're going to have a millennial reign on this earth where Jesus Christ will
rule this earth for a thousand years, and you know what?
Jesus Christ will reign for forever.
He will be in a position of power and authority forever.
Jesus Christ is the everlasting father.
You know, that is an awesome truth.
That is a beautiful truth.
That is a truth that gets me excited as we look at the leaders of our world and how horrible
they are.
And isn't it great to know that Jesus Christ will be the everlasting father, the everlasting
ruler, the everlasting king.
I'm excited for that.
And that's actually a truth I could get excited for.
You know what I don't get excited for?
Reading that and thinking like, oh, Jesus is the same person as the father.
Wait, so that means Jesus is praying to himself.
He's not speaking his own words, but he is speaking his own words.
He separated from himself on the cross, but he's not.
It's like it doesn't make any sense.
There's no beautiful truth there.
All that does is just bring confusion to your mind because it's not true.
Truth dissolves doubts.
Go to Matthew chapter number three, Matthew chapter number three, look at a few verses
proving the Trinity.
And then we'll close this morning, Matthew chapter three, verse 16, and Jesus, when he
was baptized, went up straight way out of the water, and lo, the heavens were opened
unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him, and lo,
a voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved Son, and who I am well pleased.
So what do we have?
We have Jesus Christ, the Son of God, being baptized.
He sees the Holy Spirit descending like a dove, and we have God the Father speaking
in heaven.
We have all three members of the Trinity right here shown for us.
How could you read this and say that oneness is true?
How can you read this and say that modalism is true?
Go to Luke chapter number 22, Luke chapter number 22, let's look at a few more verses.
Luke chapter number 22, verse 42, this is Jesus saying, "Father, if thou be willing,
remove this cup from me; nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done."
You know what that proves?
That proves that at times the will of God within the Trinity could be different from
one another.
But you know what?
There's an authority structure in the Trinity, God the Father, and Jesus Christ will always
perfectly obey the Father.
And that's actually great because that's a good example for us of how to live our lives.
That's an example for us that, hey, you're going to be under authority in your life and
there's going to be times maybe where your will doesn't align exactly with the authority.
But we should be like Jesus and say, "Nevertheless, not thy will, or not my will, but thine be
done," and submit ourselves to the righteous authorities in our lives.
There's going to be times you disagree with your boss.
Ladies, there's going to be times you disagree with your husbands.
Children, there's going to be times that you disagree with your parents.
But we should follow Jesus's example and submit ourselves.
Regardless of what our will is, no, it's what's the will of the authority in our lives.
Go to John chapter number 5.
John chapter number 5.
Look at verse number 30.
It says, "I can of mine own self do nothing."
You know your self is a person?
He's saying, "I can of my own person do nothing."
Oh, but Jesus and the Father are the same person.
It makes no sense.
As I hear, I judge.
And my judgment is just because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father
which hath sent me.
Last one.
Go to Hebrews chapter number 1.
Hebrews chapter number 1.
Hebrews chapter number 1, starting in verse number 1, it says, "God," who's referring
to God the Father, "who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time, passed unto
the fathers," that's a good word, "by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto
us by his Son."
So we have God and the Son, "whom he," the Father, "hath appointed heir of all things,
by whom also he made the worlds, who being the brightness of his glory and the express
image of his person," underline that word person, "and upholding all things by the
word of his power, when he hath by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand
of the majesty on high."
The Bible says that Jesus Christ is the express image of God the Father's person, meaning
that Jesus Christ looks exactly like God the Father.
But it doesn't mean that they're the same person, because it's very clear in this verse
that God is speaking unto us by His Son, meaning that they're not the same person.
Look down at verse 8, "But unto the Son he saith," so God the Father saying this unto
the Son, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, a scepter of righteousness is the scepter
of Thy kingdom."
So here we have a great verse that not only proves the Trinity, but also proves the deity
of Christ, when God the Father Himself is looking at Jesus Christ and calling Him God.
That is a powerful verse.
That's a verse you should know out soul-winning and be ready to turn there if someone doesn't
believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ.
But look, I'm going to close, you could stay there, I'm going to close with this last verse
right here.
It says in 1 Peter 3, 15, it says, "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always
to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with
meekness and fear."
You know, we should be ready as Christians to give answers for the things that we believe.
We should be ready to defend the faith and especially against the wicked religion of
Pentecostalism because they are not our brothers in Christ.
They are enemies of the gospel.
We talked about three major false doctrines.
We didn't even talk about the fact that they believe you have to repent of your sins to
be saved.
We didn't even talk about the fact that they believe you could lose your salvation.
You know, we didn't even talk about these weird, you know, word of faith, prophecy churches
where you pay all your money to learn all this garbage.
There's so much wrong with these people, but look, us as Christians, we should be ready.
We should be armed with the sword and know how to defend what we believe and how to use
the sword offensively to destroy false doctrine.
All right, let's pray.
Thank you for this day.
Thank you for your word and the wisdom contained therein.
I just pray that you would help people to wake up to the lie of Pentecostalism.
I pray that you would cause their churches to fail and that people would get into a good
church that preaches the right gospel and has the right doctrine that's actually seeking
to please you and not their own bellies.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, for our last song, let's go to song number 187.
Song number 187, "Jesus Loves Me."
Song number 187.
We're singing it out together on the first.
Jesus loves me.
I know Jesus loves me.