says and if some have compassion making a difference and we cannot make a
difference if we're not different now here's the thing Satan is in the
business of keeping things alike Satan is in the difference of keeping things
similar Satan would like you to be as little different from the world as
possible go with me go with me real quick to Isaiah Isaiah chapter 36 Isaiah
36 Isaiah 36 we'll begin reading at verse 11 let me just give you kind of a
head start at what's going on in the story here King Hezekiah the king of
Judah is being attacked by the Assyrians by King can't read my notes here and I
remember his name whatever his name is weird anyway king of Assyria and he
sends this guy that's like ambassador his name's Sennacherib or whatever and
he comes to the people he comes to the wall you know he comes to the border of
the city and he's pretty much just calling them out he's saying hey look
don't trust in your God don't trust in Egypt don't you know you're gonna die
we're gonna take over just give up now look at verse 11 it says then said I'm
gonna grab Roger I'll put your hat on if you got it all right verse 11 says
then said Eliakim and Shabna unto Joah unto rapture kick so this is a good guy
speaking to the bad guys speak I pray thee unto thy servants in the Syrian
language for we understand it and speak not unto us in the Jews language in the
ears of the people that are on the wall so these guys are just coming to the
people they're just saying hey you guys gonna die don't trust in God don't trust
in Egypt you know because they thought they were going to Egypt for help don't
trust in your king he doesn't know just give up now and the good guys they say
to him hey look we understand your language you know because these are
these are the good guys that King Hezekiah sent to meet them and they say
to him we know your language speak to us in the in your language don't speak in
the Jews language the reason they said that is because they didn't want the
Jewish people or the people of the nation sitting on the wall to get scared
when they heard all these threats verse 12 but rapture case said unto said unto
said have my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words
have he not sent me to those men that sit upon the wall that they may eat
their own dung and drink their own piss with you so the enemy he come he says
hey look I'm gonna speak in the Hebrew language because I want the whole nation
to hear what I'm saying I want them to get scared like you're scared I want
them and he uses you know he said I want them to eat their own dung and I
want them to eat their own piss why because they're so scared like you're
scared that's what the enemy says verse 13 then rapture kids stood and cried
with a loud voice in the Jews language so he's saying this in the Jews language
it ain't in a loud voice and said hear you the words of the great king the
king of Assyria thus saith the king let not Hezekiah deceive you for he shall
not be able to deliver you so Hezekiah is the king he says don't let your king
deceive you he's not gonna be able to deliver you verse 15 neither let
Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord saying the Lord will surely deliver us
this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria hearken
not to Hezekiah for thus saith the king of Assyria and look what he says he says
make an agreement with me by the present by a present and come out to me and eat
ye every one of his vine and every one of his fig tree and drink ye every one
the waters in his own sister so he says if you just give up now you just make a
deal with me I'm gonna let you live in your own house you're gonna live you're
gonna eat out of your own vine you can drink out of your own sister and he says
you're gonna get to live in your own house verse 17 until so he says I'm let
you live in your own house until I come and take you away and look what it says
verse 17 to a land like your own land a land of corn and wine
you see that verse 17 he says until I come and take you away to a land like
your own land a land of corn and wine now what's the problem with that what's
the big deal well here's the thing and and I could show you verses I'm not
gonna waste your time but the Bible is clear from Abraham all the way up to now
all the way God had promised the children of Israel what a land flowing
with what honey right that he promised him a land flowing with corn and wine
God said hey Abraham I'm gonna give you a land flowing with milk and honey and
here comes the enemy who I I believe illustrates Satan in our lives and he
says hey I know God promised you a land flowing with milk and honey but he said
if you just give up now I'm gonna take you to a land like your land flowing
with corn and wine did God promise them corn wine God promised the milk and
honey so he said it's kind of like it but it's a little different this is how
Satan works Satan says hey I know you want to be different I know you want
your land here that God promised you but I'm gonna give you something like it
I'm gonna give you something it's kind of it's not exactly the same but it's
kind of like it you know what it's kind of like the NIV it's kind of like the
perversions of the Bible today you know God says hey I'm gonna give you a King
James Bible and what the Saints in well I'm gonna give you something like it you
know it's got a binding and it's not totally Bible and some of the verses
sounded like let me tell you something that book those perversions the NIV the
RSV the AV whatever you would call it they're not the Bible they're not the
Word of God they're not the King James Bible why because they're different
they're not the same now now Satan says well it's similar it's like it and that's
how Satan wants to ruin your life that's how Satan wants to stop you because he
says hey I want to give you something that's like it but God says no it needs
to be different you know what's different this book right here this King
James Bible is different it might look similar and some verses might sound
alike and it might have you know Genesis and Exodus in the right order but it's
not the same you know what what to land it what's today what's an example of
something flowing like corn and wine you know I think of we've made this
application many times but the independent fundamental Baptist says I
take a stand against the movie theater and saying says well let me give you
something like it you don't have to go to the movie theater you can just watch
it at home on a little TV called the hella vision and if you're here today
and you say well I here's the thing I go to faithful word but I just I'm trying
to grow slowly and I just haven't gotten to the point yet where I've
gotten rid of my television hey let me tell you something that is the stupidest
thing you could do that is the dumbest thing you could do especially if you've
got kids in your house that TV is gonna ruin your life it's gonna ruin your
family and if you say well it doesn't bother me it's gonna bother kids it's
gonna bother your children when they when they sit there and watch adultery
glorified and they take the name of God and they curse and they don't go to
church and they don't put God in his proper place in the life of those
characters and they teach him just that that socialism was okay Obama's the
greatest president who's ever lived and and all these stupid things that
television is gonna ruin your life and you say well I've done my part cuz I
don't go to the movie theater and saying comes along and says well let me give
you something like it I know it's not exactly what God said but it's kind of
like it it's a little different so you have to feel bad about it it's a flan
flowing with corn and wine you know what's another example daycare daycare
is a land flowing with corn and wine oh the Bible says God says that a woman
should stay home and nurture her children and raise her kids and and and
teach them the fear of the Lord and Satan says well let me give you
something like it I've got a little daycare center here with a bunch of
women and and they can raise your kids or the public school or whatever it
might be the the point I'm trying to make is this Satan is in the business of
keeping things similar if he can keep you to be if he can get you see you're
right if you're saved he can't hurt your salvation we've heard that and once
you're saved you're safe hey but if God can but if Satan can keep you from being
as little different as possible then he's one why because the Bible says
that if some have compassion making a difference how are you gonna make a
difference if you're not different how are you gonna make a difference if
you're not different so how do we make a difference
well step number one it's there in Jude and if some have compassion making a
difference and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even
the garment spotted by the flood how are you gonna make a difference you say well
I want to make a difference in my family's life get them safe I want to
make a difference at my job get them safe I want I want I want to make a
difference in my community get them say no one's ever and like I said salvation
doesn't automatically mean you're different but you're never gonna live
for God if you're not saved right I mean good die if you never accept Jesus
Christ as your personal Savior how you know you say well I got problems with my
wife and we're struggling and I don't know how to deal with our marriage why
don't you try getting your say that would probably help or your parents or
your cousins or your neighbors or whatever it might be hey there's still a
hell do you believe that do we I think sometimes I appreciate what brother
Jason was saying last night I think sometimes we go into this mode where we
don't it's easier to just pretend like it's not real brother I can I can
understand how you feel I was thinking about my wife her grandmother grandma
hitch she's an elderly lady she's very sick she's probably gonna die soon she's
very sincere lady very nice lady very loving lady I'm sure she's more
moral than any of us here in her life she's a Roman Catholic she's gonna die
and go to hell you know my wife and I were talking about this it and we've
tried my wife has given her the gospel many times we flew up to she lives in
Washington about 14 hour drive so we flew up to Washington I tried to give her
the gospel my wife tried to give her the gospel and we were not successful and I
understand that you know we're still gonna try to get her saved obviously
before she dies it's getting harder and harder the more sick and an unconscious
and uncoherent she gets it would be so easy for us to pretend like she's in
heaven when she dies I mean it'd be it'd be really easy it'd be comforting it
sure helped my wife when we get that phone call and we're told that she's
passed away it would be I would love to be able to to hug my wife and say don't
worry about it I think she's in heaven that's how most Christians want to live
their lives most fundamental Baptist they say well I believe in hell and you
ask him is your grandpa safe well I think he is really when he's going to
like these weird churches and he tells you that he doesn't believe in each other
security he tells you all these things I mean you you got it and it's easy it's
easy it's easy to just pretend and say well I think she's saved oh I hope she's
safe but hey you got to understand there's still hell there's still a
heaven people still dying go to hell and they will continue to die and go to
hell unless we make a difference unless we decide we're gonna get them
saved and look I'm we might not ever get grandma here say but I can get every
grandma saved that I come in contact with right you might not ever get your
dad safe or your neighbor safe or your friend safe but you get my friend say
no what to God some preacher would knock on on grandma hishes door and got her
saved yep well I go around trying to get every other person's grandma safe the
reason we're dying we're failing I mean just this year America I mean we last
camping trip we're preach preach about how America is going down the slopes one
year and one month less later I don't think any of us would have imagined
we'd be in the state that our nation is in today last night who knows what we're
gonna be this time next year yeah and the reason we're failing the reason
we're not making a difference is because you don't want to be different it's too
hard I don't want to do it how are you gonna make a difference get people saved
how you gonna make a difference once they get saved we need to teach people
to hate sin man what's what's the difference between a right with God
preach or Christian and and somebody's not right with God they're saying how
do you fix that hate your sin it says it says enough huh and if some have
compassion making a difference and now they're safe with peer pulling them out
of fire hey hey hey even the garment spotted by the flesh said hate the sin
and we got to teach that to people we got to get them safe we got to teach
them to hate their sin but how are you gonna teach them to hate their sin when
you're living in it right yeah see I'm saying you cannot make a difference if
you're not different has Anderson talked about this many times used to try to go
so winning and he knocked on doors to try to get people safe and he finally
realized I'm not gonna get anybody say to like it right with God that's right
and he started it started purging you know the sin out of his life he started
getting rid of of different things and then but lo and behold people started
getting saved man lo and behold faithful we're Baptist Church and thousands of
people have been reached and saved and and gone right with God why because
somebody decided I'm gonna purge myself I'm gonna hate sin I'm gonna make a
difference I'm gonna be different
here's here's the question here's the question I have for you here's the
question I have for me and here's here's this question that's scary are we ready
for something different I'm saying you personally I'm not talking about
preachers I'm not talking about mission I'm saying Christians gathered here
today you're listening to my voice are you ready for something different when I
think of someone who's radically different in the Bible first thing that
pops in my head Elijah you think of somebody who just showed up in town and
he was radically different from his society showed up in town and he was
just radically different from the other Christians the Bible tells us that when
Elijah was doing his ministry there was many people there who believed like him
but nobody stood up with him he was radically different people were afraid
he said he said hey you come here go tell the king that I'm here and he's
like hey look I'm a Secret Service Christian I helped didn't they tell you
I helped 50 prophets and 50 prophets but I can't go to the king and tell him I'm
a Christian why cuz Elijah was different he was different than the
average Christian in his time let me give you some a few a few verses just to
kind of remind you how Elijah was different Elijah prayed for an economic
downturn of his nation so they would turn back to God first King 17 1 and
Elijah the Tishbite who was of the inhabitants of Gilead said unto Ahab as
the Lord God of Israel liveth but for whom I stand there shall not be a due
nor rain these years but according to my word Elijah think about how radically
different this is Elijah gets down on his knees and he prays to God and he
says God don't let him rain for three years you want to talk about a recession
you want to talk about a depression I mean when the rain stopped the famine
came people died and Elisha was different enough and concerned with
people's souls enough to say God I'd rather you ruin the economy and people
get saved and people turn back to God that was different that is radically
different from the average pastor today I mean that affected Elijah you think
Elijah was living great then he was living in a house in Maui and traveling
all over the world pretending like he's Obama preaching all over he wasn't doing
that he was affected by it but he said I don't care I don't care if I lose my
family I don't care if I lose my home I don't care if I lose my income I don't
care what I lose the most important thing to me is that I make a difference
what was different about Elijah he was willing to do what God said even if it
made him look bad I won't read the verses but it's always funny to me when
Elijah goes to the to the widow and and she's uh well let me just read you the
verses so he arose and went this is first King 1710 and he arose and went to
Teraphith and when he came to the gate of the city behold the little woman was
gathering of sticks and he called to her and he said fetch me I pray thee a
little water and a vessel that I may drink and as he was going to as she was
going to fetch it he called to her and said bring me I pray thee a morsel of
bread in thine hand and she said as the Lord thy God liveth I have not a cake
but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruise and behold I am
gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we
may eat it and die and look at what Elijah says and Elijah said unto her fear
not go and do as thou hast said but make me make me thereof a little cake first I
mean you read that and you think yourself man Elijah you are a jerk you're just a
capital J jerk this lady just told you hey I've got enough food to eat the last
meal my son and I are gonna eat it and then we're gonna die and he says okay go
ahead but make me food first feed me first but see God told Elijah to do that
for thus safe the Lord God of Israel the barrel of meals shall not waste neither
shall the cruise of oil fail until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the
earth God said Elijah go do this and I'd be thinking myself man I'm gonna look
like a fool in front of this lady I'm gonna look like a jerk I'm gonna look
like I'm selfish like I don't care about anybody and but he said okay I'm
gonna do it anyway and here we are and we say well I know I know I'm supposed
to go so winning but it's just if I knock on that door I'm gonna look like a
fool if I if I knock if I knock on that door I might look like a weirdo they
might they might think I'm weird that's why Elijah was different you know what
made Elijah radically different from Christians today he prayed fervently and
God heard him he prayed fervently and God heard him I doubt God is hearing
many of us tonight 1st Kings 17 19 and he said unto her give me thy son and he
took him out of her bosom and he carried him up in a loft where your boat and
laid him upon his own bed and he cried unto the Lord and said Oh Lord my God
has now also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn by slaying her son
and he stretched himself upon the child three times and he cried unto the Lord
and said Oh Lord my God I pray thee that this child's soul come into him again
look what it says and the Lord heard the voice of Elijah that's different than
what we've got today and the soul of the child came into him again and he
revived Elijah faced enemies of God he faced 450 prophets I'm almost done let
me just say this I wonder is America ready for an Elijah is America ready for
a Christian who's gonna say I'm gonna be radically different and then here's
here's the next question is there anybody who's willing to be that
is there any Christian here I'm not talking about Bible College I'm not
talking about the mega churches I'm talking about in a faithful word Baptist
Church and affiliates you know and I'm not about the camp people I mean
probably the most fundamental crowd in America tonight right here I'm talking
are you ready to be different are you ready to be that radically different
because here's the thing you know we were we're coming we're driving up here
and uh we stopped in Barstow California and we went into a little church service
on a Wednesday night there and it was a good service the pastor was really nice
guy see no it was a small town they had 50 people there 50 or 60 on Wednesday
night they seemed like they were good people the pastor preached a sermon on
revival and uh he had a lot of good points but but one of his main points he
was making is breaking my heart when he's saying that he's saying America
needs to revival and it broke my heart cuz he was an older man and he's
probably not gonna live too much longer I mean I'm not he wasn't like you know
he probably got another 10 years like and and he was just preaching you know
and saying America we need to bring revival to America and when revival
comes unsafe people are gonna get saved and I was just it's breaking my heart
cuz I think myself this man has devoted his life his ministry his strength and
as a young man you know 27 and under and uh and uh and he was preaching you
know and he devoted his life and he said I want revival so people get saved and I
was thinking myself revival when revival comes people don't get saved revival
doesn't come and you know just like lightning strikes and revival comes and
and and you start preaching it and thousands of people can say revival
happens in the heart of a Christian revival happens when a Christian decides
he's gonna revive his life when he's gonna be different and then people get
saved when that Christian goes up and gets him safe revival just isn't you
know oh I'm gonna preach now and thousand people are getting saved
revival is you deciding I'm gonna be different here's the question
Brett Stuckey Jason here's a question brother Dave and the 28 and up are you
willing to be different I mean are you willing to be radically I I know you're
already different from the world right now that's not enough I'm talking about
Elijah different I'm talking about King James Bible different I'm talking about
John the Baptist different I'm talking about the Apostle Paul different are you
hey Ruben you are you gonna decide you're gonna be different are you gonna
decide my life is not gonna be dependent or built upon my dreams or my finances
or my success hey if I've got to lose everything if we've got to go into
depression I'm gonna be different and I'm gonna make a man a difference I gotta
be different you say well I'm already different that's not good enough my
family already thinks I'm weird that's not good enough you've got to be
radically different man because we are never gonna make a difference until we
are different and Satan says just take the corn and wine I know God promised
you a land flowing with milk and honey but look I got something like it just do
it you'll be fine and here's the question are you gonna be different I
don't even know that America's ready for it but I even sadder statement than that
is I don't know that we're ready and we've got to decide and I hope and I
pray that tonight these young men and young women and and the not so young man
and not so young women will decide I'm gonna be different starting tonight
well what do you got to change I don't know you have to write your TV yes you
guys start reading your Bible yes you guys start praying fervently yes you've
got to change your desires and your wants and revive your spiritual life
that yeah maybe you're saved but maybe it's your faith is it's just useless it's
dying because there's no difference there aren't you decide tonight I'm
gonna be different let's pray dear Heavenly Father thank you Lord so much
for these people when I come around them I'm encouraged there is still a remnant
there are still people in this nation who want to be different and make a
difference and I pray God that you would help us to change sufficiently that you
would help us to make a difference thank you Lord for these people thank
you for faithful word Baptist Church thank you for Pastor Anderson in your
precious name I pray amen man 270 all right