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Alright good evening everyone. Welcome to First Works Baptist Church.
As you all find your seats go ahead and grab a hymnal.
Turn to song number 217.
Song number 217.
He and God
Song number 217. He included me.
Let's all stand together for this first song if you're able.
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Song number 217. He included me.
On that first verse.
I am so happy in Christ today.
All together nice and loud.
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Song number 191
All together nice and strong on that first verse
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🎶🎶 I have a song that Jesus gave me
It was sent from heaven above
There never was a sweeter melody
Tis a melody of love
In my heart there rings a melody
With heaven's harmony
In my heart there rings a melody
There rings a melody of love
I love the Christ who died on Calvary
For He washed my sins away
They quilt within my heart a melody
And I know it's there to stay
In my heart there rings a melody
There rings a melody with heaven's harmony
In my heart there rings a melody
There rings a melody of love
I need endless demon glory
With the angels I will sing
Twill be a song with glorious harmony
When the chords of heaven ring
In my heart there rings a melody
There rings a melody with heaven's harmony
In my heart there rings a melody
There rings a melody of love
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That song gets you out of breath huh?
Singing it so fast
Like man
Anyways I'm just kidding
Go ahead and grab your bulletins there
Just a few announcements before we sing our next song
Which will be song number 100
Day by day if you want to get that ready in your song books
Our services are as follows
Sunday morning is at 1030 Sunday evening at 5pm
And then we have our Thursday night Bible study at 7 o'clock
We're going to be starting a brand new book
This coming Thursday so just keep that in mind
You see the soul winning times and teams
The list of expecting mothers if you can pray for them
Congratulations once again to
Brother Jose and Miss Janelle
On the news that they're expecting a baby
And so please pray for them
You see the important reminders
Of course today we celebrated the September birthdays
We had the birthday breakfast
And so happy birthday to you all
Who were born in the month of September
And then on Wednesday September 15th
PE classes resume
If you have any questions about that parents you can see brother Ulysses
For more details about that
Church anniversary special service
Is coming up on Friday September 17th
As I mentioned Pastor Anderson
From Faithful Word Baptist Church will be preaching for us
Service begins at 7pm
We will not have a service on Thursday
That will switch to Friday
And then on Saturday we're going to have a soul winning marathon
In South Central
That will be on the 18th
And we'll give you the information about that
As we approach that
And then on Friday September 24th
We have the men's prayer meeting at brother Hikes house
If you need the address you can see him for that
And you see the little reminders there at the bottom
Make sure you silence your phones during the preaching
So as to not be a distraction during the service
That was quick
And so now we're going to take some soul winning numbers
From this past week
Salvations from Monday to Thursday
Five, okay total. Anybody else?
How about Friday and Saturday
Friday and Saturday
Four, okay and then this afternoon
Salvations for this afternoon
Brother Morrie
Seven for Brother Morrie's team
Two for Brother Marcos' team
One for Brother Hikes' team
One for Brother Glenn's team
One for Brother Paul's team
Anything else? Anybody else?
Going once, twice, thrice
Okay keep up the great work on soul winning
Let's go ahead and sing our next song
Song number 100
Day by day, song number 100
Song number 100
Day by day
All together on that first verse
Day by day
And with each passing
Moment
Strength I find
To meet my trials here
Trials I find
And with each passing
Moment
Strength I find
To meet my trials here
Trials I find
To meet my trials here
Trusting in
My father's wise bestowment
I've no cause
For worry or
For fear
He whose heart
Is kind beyond all measure
Gives
Unto each day
What he deems best
Lovingly
It's part of pain
And pleasure
Mingling toil
With peace and rest
Every day
The Lord himself
Is near me
With a special
Mercy for each hour
All my cares
He fain would bear and cheer me
He whose name
Is counselor
And pound
The protection
Of his child and treasure
Is the charge
That on himself
He laid
As thy days
Thy strength shall be
In measure
Is the pledge
To me
He made
Help me then
In every tribulation
So to trust
Thy promises
Oh Lord
That I
Who's not faced
With consolation
Offered me
Within my holy
World
Help me Lord
With toil and trouble
Beating
Heir to take
As from a father's hand
One by one
The days the moment's
Pleading
Till I reach
The promised land
And
wonderful singing. At this time the ushers
will come forth to collect the offering and you can turn in your
Bibles through Acts chapter number 20.
You
Tonight we're in Acts chapter 20
And the Bible reads
And after the uproar was ceased
Paul called unto him the disciples
And embraced them and departed for to go
Into Macedonia
And when he had gone over those parts
And had given them much exhortation
He came into Greece
And there abode three months
And when the Jews waited late for him
As he was about to sail into Syria
He purposed to return through Macedonia
And there accompanied him
Into Asia
And of the Thessalonians
Aristarchus and Secuntus
And Gaius of Derbe
And Timotheus and of Asia
Tychicus and Trophimus
These going before tarried for us
At Troas
And we sailed away from Philippi
After the days of unleavened bread
And came unto them to Troas
In five days
Where we abode seven days
And upon the first day of the week
When the disciples came together to break bread
They came tomorrow
And continued to speech until midnight
And there were many lights in the upper chamber
Where they were gathered together
And there sat in a window
A certain young man named Eutychus
Being fallen into a deep sleep
And as Paul was long preaching
He sunk down with sleep
And fell down from the third loft
And was taken up dead
And Paul went down and fell on him
And embracing him said, trouble not yourselves
For his life is in him
Meanwhile, even till break of day
So he departed
And they brought the young man alive
And were not a little comforted
And we went before to ship
And sailed unto Assos
There intending to take in Paul
For so had he appointed
Minding himself to go afoot
And when he met with us
At Assos
He took him in
And came to Mydalene
And we sailed thence
To Assos
And the next day we arrived at Samos
And tarried at Trigileum
And the next day we came to Miletus
For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus
Because he would not spend the time in Asia
For he hasted
If it were possible for him to be at Jerusalem
The day of Pentecost
And from Miletus he sent unto Ephesus
And called the elders of the church
And when they were come to him
He said unto them, ye know
From the first day that I came into Asia
I have been with you at all seasons
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind
And with many tears and temptations
Which befell me by the lying
In weight of the Jews
And how I kept back nothing that was profitable
Unto you but have showed you
And have taught you publicly
And from house to house
Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks
Repentance toward God
And faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ
And now behold I go bound
In the spirit unto Jerusalem
And all things that shall befall me there
Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth
In every city saying that bonds
And afflictions abide me
But none of these things move me
Neither count I my life dear unto myself
So that I might finish my course with joy
And the ministry which I have received
Of the Lord Jesus to testify
The gospel of the grace of God
And now behold I know that ye all
Among whom I have gone preaching
The kingdom of God
Shall see my face no more
It is this day that I am pure from the blood of all men
For I have not shunned to declare unto you
All the counsel of God
Take heed therefore unto yourselves
And to all the flock
Over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers
To feed the church of God
Which he hath purchased with his own blood
For I know this
That after my departing shall grievous wolves
Enter in among you not sparing the flock
Also of your own selves shall men arise
Speaking perverse things
To draw away disciples after them
Therefore watch and remember
That by the space of three years I cease not
To warn every one night and day with tears
And now brethren
I commend you to God and to the word of his grace
Which is able to build you up
And to give you an inheritance among all of them
Which are sanctified
I have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Unto my necessities
And to them that were with me
I have showed you all things
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Unto my necessities
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Unto my necessities
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Unto my necessities
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Unto my necessities
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Unto my necessities
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Unto my necessities
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Unto my necessities
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Unto my necessities
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Unto my necessities
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Unto my necessities
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Unto my necessities
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Unto my necessities
Yea ye yourselves know
That these hands have ministered
Unto my necessities
You know when you left one region
You just didn't know if you were ever going to be back
And so as he's bidding them farewell
As he's saying goodbye
These are some of the things that he's kind of going over here
Look at verse 28 of Acts chapter 20
It says take heed therefore unto yourselves
And unto all the flock
Over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers
To feed the church of God
Which he hath purchased with his own blood
For I know this
He didn't say I think
It's a possibility
It's a gamble
He says I know this
That after my departing
Shall grievous wolves enter in among you
Not sparing the flock
Also of your own self
Shall men arise
Speaking perverse things
To draw away disciples after them
So what is it that he's telling the elders at the church at Ephesus
He says hey make sure
You're teaching the flock of God
You're teaching them doctrine
You're exposing them to the deep teachings of God
He's preaching the whole counsel of God of course
And he's basically telling them
You need to make sure you feed them and teach them the right doctrine
Because bad people are going to come in
False prophets are going to come in
They're going to come to draw away disciples after them
They're going to come teach damnable heresy
And you want to make sure that the church of God
The sheep that are in the church
Are able to discern
When it's false doctrine
When false prophets are coming
Now go to 2 Peter chapter 2
2 Peter chapter 2
Now the reason something like this is important to talk about
Or should I say emphasize
Re-emphasize
Is because this is actually a teaching that has been lost
In most churches
Why is that? You know you don't really hear a sermon
On false prophets in mainstream
Christianity or even
In Baptist churches that are
Independent fundamental Baptist churches
They don't really like to talk about false prophets
Even though it's a subject that is clearly
Talked about in the Bible
It's clearly highlighted
They have a tendency to kind of stray away from that
And avoid that subject
Why is that? Well because of the fact
That when you talk about false prophets
You have to name names
Right you got to call people out
And often these
Pastors you know
Non-denom churches or even Baptist churches
They don't really feel comfortable
Kind of pointing to the false prophet
You know saying hey this guy is a false prophet
You know they don't want to judge anybody
They don't want to accuse anyone
But you know if they don't want to do that
Then they need to sit down and shut up
And let someone else do it you understand
Because the responsibility of the elder
The responsibility of the pastor
Is to expose the wolves
And protect the sheep by doing so
You understand? So often they
Don't want to do it because they don't want to judge anybody
But even within fundamental
Baptist churches
Pastors kind of avoid this type
Of a sermon or a subject
Because of the fact that
They don't want to judge anybody
But even when they kind of delve into it
They kind of stick to the surface type
False prophets
They call out those who just basically anybody calls out
Like Joel Osteen or something you know
Like Joel Osteen is a false prophet
Come on duh
That's pretty obvious you know
Rick Warren is a false prophet
Yeah I know that
They kind of tend to avoid
Calling out the false prophets within Baptist circles
You know because
Then you get controversial
But folks you know
If you're a pastor who does that
You're just a respecter of people you understand
And we as Christians we as pastors
Should never be a respecter of people
If someone is teaching false doctrine
Or they are exerting
Qualities of a false prophet
They need to be exposed
We need to make sure that we're teaching the flock of God
To expose these wicked people
Now let me read to you from Matthew 24
In verse 10 it says
Now this is something that was spoken of 2,000 years ago
Here we are 2,000 years later
If that was true back then
How much more is it true today
That false prophets will arise
False Christ, false apostles
They're going to seek to lead people astray
And draw away disciples
After them
Now when you study the subject
Of false prophets in the Bible
Obviously as I mentioned it's found throughout the scriptures
But two of the main chapters
That really highlights false prophets
That I would encourage you to go home and read for yourself
You know word by word
Line upon line is 2 Peter chapter 2
And the book of Jude
And then you have like a snippet of it in different portions
Of the New Testament 2 Timothy chapter 3
But the really extensive
Comprehensive
Instructions and teaching on it
Is found in 2 Peter chapter 2
And the book of Jude
And in fact the book of Jude
When you read it
It's so similar to 2 Peter chapter 2
You would almost think that Jude
Basically used 2 Peter chapter 2 as a template
When he wrote the book of Jude
Okay
Because it's very similar
Obviously some wording is different but
Very similar and it's still the word of God obviously
But tonight I'm just going to give you some basic teaching
On false prophets
Just to kind of refresh ourselves
Make sure we know what we're dealing with
Make sure we know what we're looking for
You're in 2 Peter chapter 2 look at verse number 1
It says here
But there are false prophets also among the people
Even as there shall be
False teachers
Among you
So what is he saying?
In the Old Testament
There is false prophets in Israel
In the nation of Israel
And in like manner he says there's going to be false teachers among you
This is unavoidable
He says
Who privately shall bring in damnable heresies
Even denying the Lord that bought them
And bring upon themselves swift destruction
Now let me just say this
Number 1 is that the majority of false prophets
Are not saved
Okay
And so you know if you have a pastor
A leader, an elder, an evangelist
A deacon
Someone who is in a position of spiritual authority
And they exert these qualities
That we're going to look at in
2 Peter 2 and the book of Jude
You know automatically we would think okay
This person is probably a false prophet
He's probably not saved
That's the automatic thing because we see that the first thing
He talks about is the fact that
These people who are false prophets
The Bible tells us that they deny
The Lord that bought them
And they bring upon themselves swift destruction
Now let me just give you a disclaimer
Here before we continue on
Look at chapter 1 if you would
So the majority of
False prophets are not saved
But that would also mean that some of them
Maybe are saved they're just misguided
They just are
You know something that they learn
They're teaching things that they learn at their Bible college
You know they're just kind of
Unlearned okay
So I'm sure there's pastors
Out there who might be teaching
Some false doctrine that are not
Necessarily false prophets
Okay I can't point to any
Right now off the top of my head
But I'm sure it's out there
You know just people who are just misguided
And let me give you proof of this okay
Actually you're in chapter 1
Go to chapter 3 if you would
We're going to come back to chapter 1
Look what it says here in 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 15
It says
In which are some things hard to be understood
Look what it says here
Which they that are what?
Unlearned and unstable rest
As they do also the other scriptures
Unto their own destruction
So according to the Bible there's a segment of people
Who would take the scriptures
And rest them what does it mean to rest?
It means to twist them right
It means to kind of take them out of context
You're kind of perverting the scriptures
But it says here that they're just
Unlearned and unstable
That would mean that it's an individual who's just like
A novice okay
It's an immature spiritually immature
Individual who is teaching
The Bible but they don't even know what they're talking about
Okay
They desire to be teachers of the law
Understanding neither what they say nor where
They're affirmed okay
And this is definitely a possibility because
I've met people like this who
Think that they know the Bible they talk like they know the Bible
But then when you hear them talk about the Bible
You just said false doctrine like this is kind of crazy
You're obviously unlearned
And I don't write them off as a false prophet
Because here we have an example
Of the apostle Peter
Talking about people twisting
Paul's words and saying they're just
Unlearned and unstable
Okay
Babes in Christ are notorious for this too
You know that's why it's important that
A pastor is not a novice
Okay
Let's be lifted up with pride and fall into the condemnation of the devil
But even aside from the pride that he's
Susceptible to another thing
Another danger is the fact that he doesn't
Know the word of God he hasn't exercised
His senses to discern both good and evil
He's not skilled in the word of
Righteousness and therefore he can easily
Twist the scriptures to say something that
It doesn't say okay
Now you know if
If you have an individual for example
A pastor let's say you know a pastor
An evangelist
He's teaching some weird stuff
You know and you give him
And you give him the benefit of the doubt
It's like that sounds kind of weird
Let's go talk to him about that
Okay
And you kind of go to him and you say hey you said this
About the trinity or you said this
About salvation
What did you mean by that you know
Because the Bible says you know you don't repent of your sins
To be saved like what do you believe about
Salvation if he just like doubles
Down and it's just like
That's what I believe
That's what the Bible says you got to repent of your sins
Or you know Jesus is the father
And then kind of just double
Down on that at that point it's like okay you're a false prophet
This is not an unlearned
And unstable person this is an
Individual who is grounded in
His false doctrine this is a person who is a wicked
Individual okay
Because they're going out of their way they're doubling down
Because you know I've talked
To people who may have believed
Some form of false doctrine
But then when they're corrected about it they're like
Oh man I didn't even think about it that way maybe I'm not
Yeah you're right it does say that
And they kind of humble themselves
And then they change and they grow
Out of that type of thing they're just
Unlearned you understand
However the false prophet
Does not do that the false prophet
Will double down the false prophet
Or what he'll do is he'll lie to you
And then he'll just keep teaching that same
Thing over and over again
At which point it's like hey I thought we agreed
Hey I thought you said you didn't believe that
And if they keep doubling down on their preaching
Then obviously that person is a false prophet
You understand
And so not all false prophets are unsaved
So there's a person who can
Teach false doctrine out of ignorance
Because they're unlearned
They're unstable it makes them a false prophet
Because obviously they're not prophesying correctly
They're not teaching the Bible correctly
But after they're corrected if they choose not to
Rectify that teaching
Then at that point I would consider them
To be a false prophet you understand
Now go back to
Go to chapter 1 if you would
Chapter 1
So the majority of false prophets
Are not safe because
The reason they are a false prophet in the first place
Is because the Bible says in verse number 1
Of chapter 2
That they denied the Lord God that bought them
So
The first thing that the chapter starts off with
Is telling us these people
First and foremost have denied
The Lord God that bought them
What does it mean when he says they have denied
The Lord God that bought them
They've denied salvation
They denied the Lord
That's a false prophet
Because this individual
Aside from the fact that he's denied the Lord
He's made it his
Goal
He's made it his agenda
To get up and teach the Bible
To parade
As a prophet of the Lord
In spite of the fact that he has denied
The Lord God that bought them
So they're not saved
Now look what it says in 2 Peter
Chapter 1
And verse number 19 it says
We also have a more sure word of prophecy
Where until you do well that you take heed
As unto a light that shineth in the dark place
Until the day dawn and the day star
Arise in your hearts
Knowing this first that no
Prophecy of the scripture is of any
Private interpretation
So the Bible describes the
Word of God as being a light
Why? Because it exposes
It's out in the open
You know when we preach God's word
We put it on YouTube
We make clips about it
You ask me I'll tell you what I believe
We're just very open about what we believe
Because we have nothing to hide
There's nothing to hide
You can ask me in person
You can review the clips
You can review the sermons
And if I'm preaching the truth which I am
Then I should not worry about
I hope they see my sermon because it's true
And I want the truth
To spread whereas false
Prophets are often
Privy
What does that mean? They're very private
They often have a what? Private interpretation
Of the Bible
They come up with some new teaching
That's never been taught before
And it's often outside of the
Boundaries of God's word
Where it's just like that came out of left field
Where did you even come up with that?
Manly Perry
It's just weird teaching that
Mary's an oven and Jesus is literal bread
And all that stuff
That's a private interpretation
And he's saying here
No prophecy of the scriptures of any private
Interpretation
He goes on to say for the prophecy came down in
Old time by the will of man but holy men of God
Spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost
Why is it not a private interpretation?
Because holy men of God
Spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost
So this shows us as we see
With the false prophets in the book of Jeremiah
That they're prophesying a vision of their own heart
Whereas
When we're prophesying
We're simply repeating what the Bible says
This is one of the reasons why it's important
For you to bring the Bible to church
It's one of the reasons when we go through
The scriptures you actually open up the Bible yourself
To see if it actually says that
You're testing it, you're proving all things
Holding fast that which is good
Okay
Now look at chapter 2 again
So remember he says
It's a private interpretation
And then it goes on in verse 1
But there were false prophets also among the people
Even as there shall be false teachers among you
Look what it says
Who privately shall bring in damnable heresies
So look
This is how you know a person is a false prophet
If they're just trying to bring a doctrine under the radar
And they're just trying to finagle their teachings
Under the radar
Be private about it
Let's not post that sermon right now
Wait a couple weeks or something
Until the smoke dies down
Manly Perry, this is what he's notorious for
I'm sorry I keep bringing him up
But I'm not sorry, but he's just a false prophet
That's what he does
Privately bringing, and let me just say this
He does teach damnable heresy
He teaches damnable heresy
What is a damnable heresy?
Well heresy is just teaching that it's contrary to God's word
Damnable heresy
It's like a step above that
Where you teach heresy that could actually damn someone's soul to hell
You're messing with salvation
You're messing with the Godhead, deity
With the deity of Jesus Christ
The blood of Christ
Hell
If you kind of twist and pervert that
Then obviously you're teaching damnable heresy
It's false teaching that can damn a soul to hell
And so these people bring in
Damnable heresy is privilege
They don't just come out in the open and say
Hey I believe false doctrine
Hey I just want to let you know I believe a lot of false teaching
No they have to sneak their way in
And let me say this
When they infiltrate churches
Because obviously that's where they want to infiltrate
Depending upon how strict the church is
It really depends on how open they are about their false doctrine
Because there are churches that don't test anything
They don't teach about false prophets
They don't teach about heresy
And so that's kind of like an open range for false prophets to just go in
And they can just say whatever they want
Because they know the pastor's not going to kick them out
They know the pastor's not going to say anything bad about them
And look I've known churches where false prophets abound
They rise
And they're just sitting in the pews
They're going around telling people not to use the King James Bible
They're going around teaching Damnable heresy
And it's brought before the authorities
And the authorities don't do anything about it
You understand
So they don't really have to
Those are like wolves in wolves clothing
They don't even have to say
Why are you even wearing sheep's clothing? I'm good like this
And they just go in there
And they're just like we've got to win the wolf
We've got to win them over
There's still hope for them
And this, they have to kind of come under the radar
Because people are trained
They know what the Bible says about false prophets
They keep their ears to the ground
Spiritually speaking when it comes to heresies
And so they have to be private about it
You understand
Now so number one is that the majority of false prophets are not saved
Why is that? Well because of the fact that they bring in damnable heresies
You understand
Look at verse number two
Verse three is that false prophets are often loved by all
Okay
Verse two says that many shall follow their pernicious ways
By reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of
Many shall follow them
Now you know obviously Joel Osteen is a great example of that
Many follow him
But not just him
There's these non-denon pastors out there as well
These pastors of these mega churches that exist
Where that's an obvious evident token of the fact that many people love them
When you're running 10,000, 15,000
I want to see what you're preaching
I'm not saying it's impossible to run a church of 10,000, 15,000, 20,000
With teaching the right doctrine
But I guarantee you the vast majority of these non-denon churches are not preaching hardcore sermons
I guarantee you they've never preached a sermon on false prophets
I guarantee you they've never preached against the Sodomites
I guarantee you they're not preaching the right doctrine
Why? Because in order for them to grow a church to that maximum capacity
They're going to have to lie
They're going to have to flatter people, they're going to have to lie
And the Bible tells us here that many shall follow their pernicious ways
So in order for many people to follow them
They have to basically appease both sides
False prophets are basically politicians of the church
Especially what they are
A false prophet can be described as a politician in the church
Because a politician just tells you what you want to hear
Especially when they want to get voted in
Yeah, I agree with that, we're going to do that
And we're going to do that, and we're going to do that
They kind of see what people are for
What people are against in regards to that party
And they just kind of say what they want them to hear
But when they take office
They'll have to change it, right?
And then they never follow through
So the Bible also says
Verse 3
And through covetousness
Shall they with feigned words
What does feigned mean? It means fake
Fake words
We would say flattery
Through covetousness shall they with feigned words
Make merchandise of you
Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not
And their damnation slumbereth not
So here we see that one of the prime motives of a false prophet in a church is money
Because he says through covetousness
So the reason he's teaching lies
The reason he's flattering
The reason he has feigned words
Is because he wants to fleece the flock of God
He's trying to make money, okay?
You know, Brother Albert sent me
This clip of, I think it was in Vice News
Right? The Vice News clip
And it was these pastors
These mega church pastors, okay?
I mean, you guys have seen Vice News, I'm sure
But it was these mega church pastors
And it's like, are churches turning into businesses?
I think that was like the title
So this mega church pastor
He has this massive church
Massive building
But he's also starting these businesses within the church
Now obviously that's nothing new to us
We've heard that, you know, like the coffee shop or whatever
But this guy's taking it to like another level
Okay, like he bought like a Kmart building
And then he like started a gym there
And just all these things
And then the guy who's interviewing the pastor
Is not saved
He's not a fundamental Baptist
He's not a Christian
Probably completely against the Bible
He's asking the pastor, he's like
Well, you know, it kind of seems like you guys are already well to do here
Like I'm looking at your current building
It's pretty nice
It looks like you guys are making a good amount of money
He's like, yeah
He's like, so, why do you need more?
He's like, yeah, well, you know, a lot of people ask that
You know, and
You know, we just, we want to expand
He kind of just like finagled his way out of the question
He never really answered it
Because let me just say this
Most of these mega church pastors are making millions
Already
And he wants to start, by the way
He's making a house of God, a house of merchandise
First and foremost
But the main thing is that
He's starting all these businesses to make more money
More money for what?
What do you need all that money for?
And the guy who's interviewing him
Is literally questioning him
And kind of bringing it up like
So why do you need all this money?
What's the purpose of all this money?
Because that's a lot of money
He's like, well, you know
That's a good question
But we have a lot of ministry
And it's just like, what are you trying to do?
Buy a yacht for the ministry or something like that?
Are you trying to buy a helipad?
You need a helipad for your ministry?
I mean, good night
What's all the money for?
But I'll tell you what it's for
Is to consume it upon his own lust
He through covetousness is trying to make merchandise
Off of the flock of God
Which obviously he's doing
And he's using faint words
Flattery
And flattery is
You know, you think of Joel Osteen
As the prime example of someone who flatters
His congregation
Nothing negative ever comes out of his mouth
You know, God's not mad at you
And you know
It's just this motivational speech
To kind of
Get you going through the week
And get you coming back and putting your card
In the ATM to get your money
Okay
What we see is one of the prime motives
And we'll get into this just in a bit
Is that the prime motive of the false prophet
Is that he just wants to make money
He says through covetousness
Shall they with faint words make merchandise
Of you
And it's for this reason that a lot of people follow them
They love them
Let me read to you from Jude
Verse 16
These are murmurs, complainers
Walking after their own lust
And their mouth speaketh great swelling words
Having men's persons
In admiration because
Of advantage
So men admire these people
Unsafe people love these people
These false prophets
They love them
Let me give you an example
And by the way, false prophets are not always just religious leaders
As a pastor or something
Sometimes they're like musicians
Like Kanye West
I came out with a clip a while ago
Where it was just like Kanye West is not saved
How dare you say he's not saved
And
Oh man blankety blank
I'm gonna pray for you blankety blank
It's crazy
Why? Because the world
loves the false prophets
They love Kanye West
Even though he's a blasphemer
Even though he's a reprobate
Even though he claimed to be God
That was before
Before what?
Folks, once you do that
You're done
Who cares what he did
I mean, okay, I give it to you
That was before, now, before he was in this part of hell
Now he put himself like
To the lowest hell
Jesus said in Luke 6 26
Woe unto you when all men
Shall speak well of you
You know, we need some independent fundamental Baptist
Pastors to read that verse
You know, and stop trying to get it in good
With the mayor
And the governor
And the politicians
And they want everyone to like them
Woe unto you when men shall speak well of you
You know, you need to be criticized every once in a while
For the things that you preach
And if you're not being criticized
You're not being threatened
People are not saying all men are evil against you
Then you should probably question the manner in which you're doing your ministry
Because Jesus said
Woe unto you
When all men shall speak well of you
For so did their fathers to the false prophets
He's like, man, you're following in the footsteps of these false prophets
So I would look at the pastor of 2021
Who's not being criticized
Who's not being threatened
Who's not being persecuted when they're not speaking evil of them
For the things that they're preaching
And say, hey, Luke 6 26, you want to read that?
So no one's speaking evil of you
So no one, everyone's speaking well of you
What does that tell me?
What does that tell you?
It's not good
We need to be like Jesus
Then get crucified
Some people have a tendency to forget when they say be like Jesus
They tend to forget that his ministry only lasted for three years
And that he was murdered
For the things that he preached
You ever think about that?
What would Jesus do?
Jesus would preach so hard that it would get him killed
We need to be more like Jesus
Okay, you first
You know, you got a long ways to go, buddy
Why don't you preach a controversial sermon
You know, just preach in the Bible
No, but you know, the bracelet, what would Jesus do?
That's what I meant
I'm telling you what Jesus would do
People accuse us of cherry picking the Bible
They're the ones cherry picking the Bible
They pick and choose all the graciousness and the mercy of God
Which we're for
The graciousness, the long suffering
But here's the thing, we're for those things
But not at the exclusion of the other aspects of God as well
You understand?
And so, you know, they didn't speak well of Jesus
They called him Beelzebub
And if they call the master of the house Beelzebub
How much more shall they call they of his household?
So, oh ye pastor, how many times have you been called the devil and Satan
And you're doing the devil's work
You know, how many times have you been criticized
And you're called a demon or Satan
Because you're serving the Lord
If not much, then we got a problem here
Because he says, how much more
Shall they call they of his household
And if you're saved, he's talking about you
You're of his household
You're not measuring up
Well, I just like it
You know, I just think we should be above reproach
So do I
I just think, you know, people should think highly of us
Well, the Bible actually says in Luke 16, 15
And he said unto them, the Pharisees which were the false prophets of that day
Ye are they which justify yourselves before men
But God knoweth your hearts
For that which is highly esteemed among men
Is an abomination in the sight of God
There you go
I don't want to read that verse
Let's talk about how, you know, take my yoke upon you
And Jesus wept
Let's use those verses
But we're not talking about that right now though
You know, you want to just like ignore what Jesus said here
He says that which is highly esteemed among men
And look folks, don't get this confused
This doesn't mean that everyone has to hate us
Right?
Because we are loved by the brethren
Not every brother out there
Because sometimes, you know, even brothers in Christ have a tendency to hate us too
Unfortunately
Not like us and criticize us
You know, we're loved by people
There's people that love us
There's people that love our preaching
There's people that love our church
They love the work
We inspire them
We motivate them
We provoke them into love and to good works
I mean, they admire us
But these are righteous people
Shall hate you
Okay?
Those are people who are not adherents to the Bible
They're not advocates of God's word
They're not advocates of Christianity
They hate Christianity
Okay?
And when you have a pastor
Who claims to believe the Bible
And he's highly esteemed among them
Red flag
It's probably a false prophet
Okay, are you guys still in 2 Peter?
Look at verse number 10
So they are often
Most of the time, not saved
Okay?
They have a large following
Because they have
Great swelling words of vanity
They teach false doctrine
In order to appease those who believe the false doctrine
So they can retain that type of following
Okay?
And then also, they're presumptuous
Look what it says in verse 10
But chiefly, them that walk after the flesh
In the lust of uncleanness
And despise government
Presumptuous are they
Self-willed
They are not afraid to speak evil
Of dignities
So what does it mean to be presumptuous?
He's referring to the fact that they just kind of let it fly
Out of the abundance of the heart
The mouth speaketh
And if they have evil treasure in their heart
That's what they're going to speak
If they have perverseness in their heart
That's what you're going to hear
If they believe in false doctrine
That's what's going to come out
Okay?
And by the way, they're not afraid to speak evil of dignities
This is why when I run into people
Who
Bawk authority
They hate dominion or they criticize leaders
That's an automatic red flag for me
I don't write them off
As a false prophet
I don't write them off as a reprobate
But that is a red flag
Oh man, you just
Reprobate everyone
You just want to reprobate everyone
First of all, I do not
Possess that power
Okay?
Now if you say reprobate as in like reject people
Yeah, I reject people
Supposed to
Aren't you supposed to reject people sometimes?
You reprobate them?
Right?
But what they mean is like, oh, you're just saying people are just not saved
Well, I mean, I think the Apostle Paul
Did the same thing, right?
He said, you know, Christ be in you
Except he be reprobates
Oh, there goes Paul, reprobating people
Why are you going around reprobating people
For Paul?
Don't you know this is the Corinthian church?
This is a church that's in the Bible
These are people who God
We're all going to talk about for the next 2000 years
Paul
Don't be reprobating people
Don't be zapping people like that
But
Don't
Get this
Twisted
Okay?
When we say that someone is a false prophet
We don't make them a reprobate
We're pointing out who they are
It's not like you go there and you just like
Reprobate
And it's just like
They just completely change and then
The reptile comes out of them or something like that
We're just pointing out who they are
Based upon
Listen to me
Based upon
What the Bible says
People criticize us
When we actually just read 2 Peter
And say, well, this is what the Bible says
It's like, why are you getting mad at me for?
Why are you accusing me
Why are you angry with me
Because I'm doing something that the Bible actually says
Maybe, so I guess we should just ignore
What 2 Peter chapter 2 says then
When someone despises government
They despise dominion
Why? Because Christians, people are saved
Should be characterized by being under authority
We don't despise authority
We have God as our authority
The Bible is our authority
The husband is the authority of the wife
The parents are the authority
Of the children, the pastor is the authority
Of the church here
We welcome authority
We love authority, we embrace authority because
That is what Christianity is about
We love authority
We don't despise it
We don't speak evil of it
So when an individual starts coming up
And criticizes authority
And they despise government
Let's just mark it down
That's a red flag
Of a person who fits this description right here
You're calling him a false prophet
Well, I'm sorry, but you know
This is only found in 2 Peter 2
And the book of Jude where it talks about false prophets
What do you want me to do?
That's where he said it
Go to the book of Jude if you would
Hold your place there in 2 Peter
So they're presumptuous, they're self-willed
They're not afraid to speak evil of dignities
And then he says
You're in Jude, I'm going to continue reading in 2 Peter
It says, whereas angels
Which are greater in power
I mean wouldn't you agree that the angel
Michael is a powerful angel
Abaddon
Abaddon is a powerful angel
You know
I can't think of any other angels right now
Gabriel, I mean he's alright
No, I'm just kidding
But there's angels in the Bible that are very powerful
Right?
They're greater in power and might
But the Bible says
They don't bring railing accusation against them before the Lord
Right
But these as natural brute beasts
That means a stupid animal
Okay
Strong language
These are stupid animals
Made to be taken and destroyed
By the way
So according to the Bible
False prophets should be destroyed
Speak evil of the things which they
Understand not and shall utterly perish
In their own corruption. Let's look at the parallel
Jude verse 8 says
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh
Despise
Dominion and speak evil
Of dignities yet Michael the
Archangel when continuing with the
Devil he disputed about the body of Moses
Dirst not bring a railing against
Him a railing accusation but said the Lord
Rebuke thee but these speak evil
Of those things which they know not
But what they know naturally as brute beasts
And those things they corrupt themselves. When it says
But what they know naturally is like this is the only thing
They know how to do
They only know how to speak evil
Of dignities, of dominion, of governments
Of the pastor
Of authority
Of their husband
Of their parents
Of any type of authority that's just their
Natural propensity is to speak
Evil of them. You understand?
And so they're presumptuous
They speak evil of dignities
They hate authority
Go to Matthew chapter 12 if you would
Matthew chapter number 12
So they're presumptuous
This is why it's important that
Sometimes you just gotta let people talk
Right? Because out of the abundance of the heart
They're not speaking
And you know
If you're ever concerned about an individual
Whether they're like a bad person or not
Just let them talk
Just let them blabber away and talk
Cause eventually it's gonna come out
Okay
Look what it says in Matthew 12 verse 32
Whosoever speaketh the word against the Son of Man
It shall be forgiven him
But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost
It shall not be forgiven him
Neither in this world, neither in the world to come
Either make the tree good and his fruit good
Or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt
For the tree is known by his fruit
O generation of vipers
How can ye being evil
Speak good things
Now look, false prophets can speak
Good things for a season
Like they can flatter
They can say the right things for a while
But what this is teaching
Is that eventually
They will expose themselves by what they say
It says
For out of the abundance of the heart
The mouth speaketh a good man
Out of the good treasure of the heart
Bringeth forth good things
And an evil man out of the evil treasure
Bringeth forth evil things
Now let me just make something really clear
And put a disclaimer
It doesn't mean we're not gonna say anything stupid
Okay
All of us, to a certain extent
Has said something dumb
Okay
How many of you have said I've said some dumb things in times past
I said some dumb things
Today
Okay
It just happens, right?
We're fallible
People, we're human
Sometimes we say dumb things
And even when sometimes the pastor gets up
He can make a mistake sometimes
Sometimes I forget it
Maybe it was like a slip of the tongue
Where I worded something
That wasn't supposed to be worded that way
Sometimes I correct it, sometimes I forget
There's times when I catch it and I'm like
Oh man, I need to correct that, that didn't sound right
And I'll correct it
Couple weeks ago that happened, I don't remember, it was like a month ago
I had said something and then Sunday night I corrected
I said, you know, I said this, but it's actually incorrect
This is what actually the Bible teaches
Because we're fallible people
Sometimes we make mistakes
Whereas these people speak evil things
It's not a matter of
Well, it's just a slip of the tongue
Often it's just the devil coming out of them
Kind of slipping through the cracks is what it is
Now we should obviously give people the benefit of the doubt
But when it's a consistent devil coming out
It's probably a devil in there
It's like that devil popped out like five times
Satan, is that you?
It's like
Okay man, this is like the tenth time
That you've done something like this
When they start gaining a reputation
And the things that they say
It's like, I don't think this is like an accident
I think this is probably what they actually believe
You understand?
Go back to 2 Peter if you would
So they're presumptuous
They're presumptuous
So they're presumptuous
They speak evil of dignities
That's why
It's important that
We embrace authority
We're not characterized by those things
And look
If someone comes to our church
And they start criticizing the leadership
Come tell me, I'd love to deal with that
Because that's something that needs to be
Nipped right at the very beginning
When they start pulling you aside
So I'm saying, hey
Pastor me, he's great and everything
But that one thing he said
I don't know man, what do you think?
Don't tell anybody though
Hey, you're pretty cool man
Have you been working out?
Trying to like gain your confidence
And they start criticizing
That happens, I mean that's like a funny illustration
But that actually happens
And they go for what the Bible says
Unstable souls
Where people are just kind of like
Oh man, this person's cool
And maybe he does have a point or something like that
And what they do is they try to draw away
When the Bible says that men shall
Arise from among you
He's not saying like safe people are going to become false prophets
It's saying that there's individuals
Sometimes in each congregation
That's a false prophet, you just didn't see them
They're a wolf in sheep's clothing
So they come under the radar
And then they look like you, they talk like you
They act like a Christian
But then you start
Recognizing this person's probably a really bad person
But you didn't see it to begin with
Okay
Now let me just say this
I don't think we need to be a type of church
Where we're just like
Who's the false prophet here?
That's not a good way to live
What if there's a false prophet here?
Then we'll find out
Are you scared?
There's more sheep here
If there is a wolf
There's more sheep in here that can jump a wolf
It should not be a problem
You understand?
And I gave this illustration before
But I remember a couple years ago
There was a person who came
From a different church
Who believed in modalism
Okay
And they were visiting
They were like a fan of the church
And stuff like that
And I found out about it and I kind of confronted the person
Because they were on vacation or something like that
And he just kind of denied it
But he didn't
He was trying to basically back up his pastor who is modalist
And you know
The conversation didn't really go anywhere
So then someone came up to me afterwards
And was like oh man what are we going to do?
I'm like about what? He's like what about that guy?
I mean he's like I don't want like false doctrine
To be like you know come in here and stuff
I'm like what do you think he's going to do?
And he's just like
Well I don't know man
What if he spreads false doctrine? I'm like how?
How do you think
How do you think this person
Will infiltrate our church?
Like what are you scared of?
Do you really think he's just going to like
Turn everyone away here in a span of like two days?
I mean
We have the upper hand basically
You understand?
So like
You shouldn't be paranoid about false prophets
Is what I'm saying
Let's not be a paranoid church
Okay
It's very unattractive as a church
We're just like who's the reprobate?
Am I the reprobate?
Is it I Lord?
You know
You start suspecting everyone
Hey
The Bible is
A hammer
But we also have to understand that sometimes
When you have a hammer everything looks like a nail
So yeah
Study 2nd Peter chapter 2
But there's other portions of the Bible to study
We need to be balanced right
Because this is a true thing that can happen
This is a reality
There will be false prophets
False prophets will rise
But don't be paranoid wondering who's the next false prophet
That's going to come through our doors
We need to like chill out
And not think that every Tom, Dick, and Harry
That comes through our doors
Is some wicked person
You understand?
What if they infiltrate then?
Then you know this is why I'm preaching this sermon
We're feeding the flock of God
And let me just say this is that if a false prophet
Ever infiltrates our church
They're not going to get very far
So what if they stay for like a decade?
Then they stay for a decade
And if we don't know it then they stay for a decade under the radar
Eventually they'll be found
And we'll boot them out
And we'll live happily ever after
Okay
Look at verse 12
What's another characteristic of a false prophet?
False prophets are without shame
They have no shame
Look at verse 12
But these as natural brute beasts
Made to be taken and destroyed
Just want to put that in there
Speak evil of the things which they understand not
And shall utterly perish from their own corruption
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness
As they that count it pleasure
To riot
In the daytime
Isn't that weird?
Now remember when the riots took place in 2020?
Most of it was when?
At night
Right?
I'm sure there was some during the day but
A lot of it was at night
Because people want to go at night
So people don't see them
Because they're ashamed of covering their face
Or wearing masks
Because they don't want people to see them because they know it's a shameful thing
To riot
So they do it at night when people can't really see them
Whereas false prophets
Peter compares it
To people who riot
In the daytime
Understand? Yes
I mean think about this
Think about this
Think about alcoholics
Most of the time you think of someone who drinks
They do it at night
In a bar in some dingy bar
Midnight or something like that
The hardcore alcoholics
Are just those who just wake up
In the morning
And that exists
Where they wake up early in the morning
And they're drinking early
It's like have you no shame
Obviously we're completely against alcohol
You should never drink
Alcohol is for idiots and it's sinful
To drink alcohol
But folks
I mean during the day
It's like a guy who goes to the bar
At 10 o'clock in the morning
I don't even know if bars are open at 10 o'clock
But let's say you know I'm sure it exists out there
They go early in the morning to the bar
It's like have you no shame
So this is telling us that false prophets
Do not have any shame
They will go into the most
Biblically grounded
Fundamental Baptist church
With the most nefarious agenda
With no shame
You see
Us, if we go to a church
And we don't like the pastor
We just leave
I'm not coming here anymore I'm going somewhere else
And we just move on
Right? We just forget it
Move on
We go somewhere else
The false prophet on the other hand
Will actually stick around
Isn't that weird?
They will actually stick around that church
Even though they hate the pastor
Even though they hate the church
They hate the pastor
They will get up on Sunday morning
And go to that church
Say why?
Because they have no shame
And look
They will go to you and say
Brother
And then turn around and just start talking
All kinds of crap behind your back
They'll do it
They'll gossip to you about the pastor
And then literally go to the pastor and say
Pastor that was such a great sermon
Why? Because they have no shame
No shame
He says
They shall receive the reward of unrighteousness
As they they count it pleasure to riot in the day time
Spots they are and blemishes
Sporting themselves
With their own deceiving
Look what it says
While they feast with you
They'll come to the potluck
They'll eat that chicken right next to you
Knowing full well that they're a devil
And that you hate their guts
And they'll do it
Because they have no shame
Look at Jude
Go back to Jude
Jude verse 12
These are spots in your feast of charity
Verse 12
Just keep a pen there or something
Because we're going to continue to go back to that
These are spots in your feast of charity when they feast with you
Feeding themselves without fear
You know
For us it's like you should be afraid
If you come here and you're a false prophet
They do it without fear
Because they're just like animals
That's why the Bible compares them
To like being a brute beast
Because they just don't get it
Because you don't get it that if we find out
Who you are like you're in a lot
Of trouble
You're probably going to get it really bad
They don't get that. Why? Because they're like brute beasts
Okay
He says they feed themselves without fear
Clouds they are without water
Carried about of winds
Trees whose fruit withereth
Without fruit twice dead
Plucked up by the roots
And of course when it says that they're twice dead
It's referring to the fact that
God views them as though
Not only as though they're in the current hell
But even as though they're in the
Second compartment
Not second compartment
See that's the mistake I was talking about
They're in the
The lake of fire which is the
Second death
So he views them as twice dead
Because people who are in current hell right now they're dead
They shall be twice dead
As soon as they reach the lake of fire
Now obviously we can say that the ones who are in hell right now
Are basically twice dead
But when it says twice dead it's referring to
The first and second death
Current hell and then the second death
Which is the lake of fire
And this is referring to people who are still alive
So false prophets
Who are reprobates are people who are twice dead
Yeah they're living
They can breathe, they can eat
They feel pain
They feel hunger
They still have all these
These components working
But they're dead in their trespasses and sin
And God basically already sees them
As though they're in the lake of fire
They have a seared conscience
They've been blotted out of the book of life
But they are without shame
And the reason that's important to
Notice because sometimes when a false prophet gets
Exposed it's like man how did that person just like
Come to the church
How does a person go to the sowing marathon
Or they went sowing
They talked about their Bible reading
It's just like how do they
Because they're without shame
They have zero shame
In their wickedness
Okay
Go back to second Peter
Here's another thing is that false prophets
Have a nefarious motive
Okay so this is a really important
Point because a lot of people get confused
And they think well he's a false prophet he just needs to learn
You know we just need to teach him
We just got to show him the right way
But what they fail to understand is that
The Bible characterizes false prophets as being
People who have a really
Wicked agenda
They have a nefarious motive
For what they're doing
And the worst type of reprobate that there is
In this world aside from sodomites
Are false prophets
Because they have chosen a position of spiritual leadership
In order to beguile
Unstable souls for whatever
Nefarious motive that they have to fulfill
The nefarious motive
Look at verse 14
Here's a motive having eyes full of adultery
That cannot cease from sin
Beguiling unstable souls
What does that mean? Some people
Actually become a pastor so they can commit adultery
And
You know a prime example of that is Jack Scott
Okay
He had eyes
Full of adultery
The Bible says in 2 Timothy chapter 3
That they are laden with
Sins
Romans chapter 1 says that they're filled with all
Unrighteousness
Okay
They're filled with adultery
They cannot cease from sin
In other words they're not
They can't be
They can't be fixed
What's the word I'm looking for?
Rehabilitated
What do they say about pedophiles? We need a what?
Is that what they say? Rehabilitate?
You know you can't fix a pedophile
What'd you say?
Yeah, amen
You know you can't rehabilitate them
Why? Because they cannot cease from sin
He says
In heart they have exercised
With covetous practices
Some people are just motivated by
Covetousness
So you know you don't want to look at the false prophet
And say well every false prophet is like an adulterer
Because some false prophets
Are just motivated by other things
For example Judas was not motivated
By adultery
What was his prime motivation? Money
That's why he was stealing money
His heart was exercised
With covetous practices
And this is very much a prevalent thing
Amongst even non-denom churches
Or churches in general
Where you have pastors who are there
In order to collect a check and yay to even steal money
I personally
Knew a person
Who did this
Who is probably still doing it to this day
Who would literally steal
We think like man Adam Fannin
That guy stole money
I know someone who is still doing it
Who would literally take up
Offerings for himself
For his gas money
Hold on to love
Offerings
And I would constantly go to the leadership
And say this person and multiple people in the church
Would come to me and say we need your help
He's doing this and this and that
I'm like why don't you go to the leadership
And they're like we are coming to you
And we can't tell because we're afraid of him
I'm like I'll go tell
I'll go rat that fool out
And I told them
I said hey multiple people
Because out of the mouth of two or three witnesses
Every word shall be established
And I said three people told me
That this is what's happening
And one of them
Just to let you know
Was someone who currently has
Money with him
Because the pastor told him to hold on to it
He was like the treasurer for that ministry
Which that's not correct
No one should ever hold on to any money
You understand?
The treasurer should not be holding money at his house
We don't believe in the bank system
The Jews
And we'll just keep it at our house
We'll put it under our mattress or something like that
Illegal, wrong, sinful
You're not above approach
But you know
Nothing was done about it
I'm sure to this day
And I don't know
I don't know
I don't
I don't know
I don't
I don't know
I don't
I don't know
I don't
I don't know
What is he showing?
He's showing the thoroughness of his judgement
No one survives
Sodom and Gomorrah other than Lot
You know
And his daughters
And
He says that
He made them an ensemble to those that after
should live ungodly
This is not saying
This is an example for every fag out there
So they can stop being a fag or something
Like oh I don't want this to come upon me
No he did it to show
Hey this is what's going to happen to you
I'm going to get you
like this
That's what that means
It's not an example to say
Oh man maybe I shouldn't live ungodly like this
God's just showing you
the blueprints of what he's going to do to you
He goes I did this
and I let it go down in history
And just in case you don't know biblical history
He gave you know
these historical events such as Pompeii
Amen
Just to let these Sodomites know
this is what's going to happen to you
I'm going to do this to you
What happened with the world
when it was flooded? Everyone was affected
It was a complete judgment
What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah was completely decimated
He says in verse 7
And delivered just Lot
Vex with the filthy conversation of the wicked
For that righteous man dwelling among them
and seen and hearing Vex's righteous soul
from day to day with their unlawful deeds
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly
out of temptation
Look what it says
And to reserve the unjust
unto the day of judgment to be punished
So here's the thing
Even if someone is kind of mixed up
You have a guy you know I was talking in the beginning
who may be a false prophet but he's probably maybe
he might be saved
God can deliver that person out of temptation
and kind of correct him
Rectify his path
Get that guy right
He knows if that person is saved or not obviously
And he knows how to deliver
Because if you were to run into Lot
and Sodom and Gomorrah would be like what the heck is this guy
What are you doing here
Are you gay
Are you one of them
You can get confused about that and kind of wonder
You know what I mean
Because that guy is living among them
He's living in San Francisco
He's there with them
So it's just like hey bro
I'm just wondering
Are you one of them
But what happened is that
Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed and he was delivered
He was saved yet so as by fire
Literally
And so this shows me that
You know there's some Lot's in this world
Who could potentially be teaching some stupid stuff
But you know what
If they're truly saved
If they're really sincere
They're going to come out of that
They're willing to be corrected
They're willing to be rectified
And then what he'll do is that he'll take that punishment
And then he'll reserve it
For the ungodly
So this is showing us that
You know we should rest content knowing that God will
Punish the false prophets of this world
You know
Do you know a false prophet
Is there someone that you're thinking about now
You're like man this guy's getting away
With just teaching heresy
And just like he's doing it
Don't worry look God is very thorough
If he was able to just
Destroy the whole world swiftly
If he was able to just overthrow
Sodom and Gomorrah
He can do it for them too
They'll be exposed
They'll be manifest okay
And one of the reasons I'm preaching this is just because
You know it's just a good reminder to us as a church
To not be paranoid
If false prophets do
Infiltrate our church like man are they among us
I guess we'll find out
Don't worry about it
Have a good time
Walk with God
Win souls to Christ
Love everyone in the church
Give everyone the benefit of the doubt
And don't try to like
Don't try to predict who the next false prophet is in our church or something
Don't try to predict it
Don't try to call out
Oh man I don't know about this person
Get out of here with that
Okay look
The only one who really knows who all the false prophets are
Is the Lord himself
Right
From what I remember the twelve disciples
The three disciples
The ones who were closest to the Lord
Even they couldn't figure out that Judas
Was the guy
And they were with each other longer than we were with each other
Right
They're with each other every single day
They're sleeping in the same area
They're eating the same food
They're doing ministry
And you know I don't remember any of them
Ever trying to like
Man who do you think is a false prophet among us
You know
They just kind of figured everyone was a prophet of the Lord
They were following their disciples
And then they were shocked at the end
But you know what
Let me just say this
It's not a bad thing if you're caught off guard
When it comes to false prophets
Don't think someone just caught you off guard
And man they took you for
No
Because it doesn't affect you in any way
If we find out that someone is a false prophet in our church
It's like man
I was duped
My life's over
What will I do now
I don't even deserve to be here
What kind of Christian
I didn't even see it
It's like
Water off a duck's back
Oh man he was a false prophet
Well I definitely didn't see that coming
So is he out
Then you move on with your life
You don't have to be right about everyone
You understand
Now me as a pastor
Obviously I have to discern
And I pray for discernment
You know I pray that the Lord reveals things to me
But I promise you I don't go around
Like you know
Who's the Judas here
I just kind of like
And if I hear something I hear something
If I don't I don't
I don't go looking for the false prophet
I come to church looking for the brethren in Christ
Not coming in here trying to police
And figure out who the wicked person is
You understand
And so be a church
Let's be a church that is mature enough
To know that false prophets
False prophets exist
But don't be so immature
That you think that potentially there's one in here right now
And allow that
To affect your life in such a way
That you just can't enjoy church
You understand
Teachings in the Bible
And I pray God that you would help us Lord
To recognize the signs
And the red flags Lord
And I pray that they would make themselves manifest
Lord
And I pray that you would help us Lord
To recognize the signs
And the red flags Lord
And I pray that they would make themselves manifest
Lord
And I pray that you would help us Lord
To recognize the signs
And the red flags Lord
And I pray that they would make themselves manifest
Lord
And Lord may you continue to protect our church
Throughout the years
And even when false prophets do come Lord
May they be exposed
And may we take out the trash
And just continue to move on
And do ministry for you
We love you so much and we thank you and pray these things in Jesus name
Amen
Please enter your songbooks to song number 29
Song number 29
At the cross
Song number 29
Alas and did my Savior bleed
All together nice and loud on that first verse
Alas and did my Savior bleed
And did my sovereign
And I would need
That sacred hand
To such a worm
That I
At the cross
Where I first saw the light
And the burden of my heart
Rolled away
It was there by faith
All the day
Was it for crimes
That I have done
He groaned
Upon a tree
Amazing
Pity
Grace unknown
And love beyond
Decree
At the cross
At the cross where I first saw the light
And the burden of my heart
Rolled away
It was there by faith
I received my
Sign and now
I am happy all the day
Well
Like the sun
In darkness I
And shine his
Glories in
When Christ
The mighty maker
Died for man
The creature sinned
At the cross
At the cross where I first
Saw the light
And the burden of my heart
Rolled away
It was there by faith
I received my
Sign and now
I am happy all the day
But drops
Of grief can
There repay
The debt of love
I owe
Dear Lord
Myself
Awaint
Is all that I
Can do
At the cross
At the cross where I first
Saw the light
And the burden of my heart
Rolled away
It was there by faith
I received my
Sign and now
I am happy all the day
Amen. Wonderful
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