you
Welcome the first words baptist church go on and please stand with me
As we sing number song number five when I survey the wondrous cross with a powerful song
Song number five when I survey the wondrous cross on the first verse
when I
survey
the
wondrous
cross
on
which the
prince of
glory
died
my
riches
gain
I count
but loss
and
pour
contempt
on
all
my
time
forbidden
and
born
that I
should
lose
save in the
death
of
Christ
my
God
all the
bad
charming
host
I
sacrifice
them
to
his
mother
seek
from his
head
his
feet
sorrow
and
love
mingle
down
did
ere such
love
and sorrow
means
poor
some
soul
rich
a
crown
were the
whole
realm
of nature
mine
that
were a
present
far
too small
love
so
amazing
soul
divine
amen
deep
my soul
my
life
my
let us pray. Father, thank you for this wonderful, beautiful
night that you've given us. Father, I just pray
for your Holy Spirit to fall upon the preacher
that the word come forth and hearts be convicted
and that we please bless
the music as we're singing. Father, we
love you in Jesus' name. Amen.
Go ahead and please be seated. Song number
10, Near the Cross.
Song number 10, Near the Cross.
The page is over.
On the first.
Jesus,
keep me
near the
cross
there a
precious
fountain
free to
all
the
healing
stream
flows from
Calvary's
mountain
in the
cross
in the
cross
be my glory
ever
till
my raptured
soul shall
find
rest
beyond the
river
near
the cross
a trembling
soul
love
and mercy
found
me
there the
bright and
warning
star
sheds its
feet
around me
in
the cross
in
the cross
be
my glory
ever
till
my raptured
soul
shall find
rest
beyond
the river
on the third
near
the cross
O Lamb
of God
bring his
seeds
before me
help
me walk
from day
to day
within
shadows
o'er
me
in the
cross
in the
cross
be my
glory
ever
till
my raptured
soul
shall find
rest
beyond the
river
on the last
near the cross
I'll
watch and wait
hope
be trusting
ever
till I
reach the
golden strand
just
beyond
the river
him
the cross
in the
cross
be my
glory
ever
till
my raptured
soul
shall find
rest
beyond
the river
ever
and then our Thursday night Bible study at 7 o'clock
you see the summer
schedule for the family nights right there on the
left hand side we begin
this coming Sunday night with
carnival nights and that will be after the
evening service that's probably one of the biggest
things that we're going to do for the family nights
aside from the bonfire towards the end
but we're going to have a mechanical
bull we're going to have a jumper
for the adults we're going to not I'm for the kids
for the adults afterwards
we're going to kick all the kids out
we'll have food we'll have
games it's going to be a lot of fun and so
really we're doing it so that families
can stick around a little longer if they're not accustomed
to coming on a Sunday night stick around a
little longer fellowship have some fun
for the summer and so we're looking forward to
the carnival night on July 9th
and on the 16th is the ice cream social
the 30th is the kids
olympics and men's preaching night and
then we conclude it on August 4th
with the church bonfire and we'll give you
more information about that as we approach that
we're looking forward to this coming
Sunday night tomorrow night
on Friday at 7pm here at the building we're
going to have the men's prayer night and so I want to encourage
all the men to be here we will have dinner
provided for everyone who comes and
so be here for that we
do as I mentioned family night starts this Sunday
and along with that really
of course we're going to have a lot of fun throughout the next couple of weeks but
the main reason why we're
having family nights is because I'm going to be preaching a series
on the family
starting this coming Sunday and I want to
encourage you as
a church of course
if you're married whether you're married or not
you have kids or whether you don't to be
here for that be consistent
every Sunday night for family nights
and take
notes be in prayer over that
it's not just something that you should just blow off
it's just like another sermon
whatever it's not that important I've heard this all before
this is a great time to hit a reset button
regarding principles of the family
and so I want to encourage
you to be there and we're looking forward
to just a great summer
Samaria soul winning is on Monday July 10th
meeting at the building at 1130
you can see brother Elise Hernandez for more details
and then Pastor Anderson will be
preaching for us on Thursday July
27th and that'll be
the week after the Red Hot preaching
conference of course he's doing his
his road trip and
last year he started with our church and he ended at
Mountain Baptist Church this time it's the other way
around so he's starting at Mountain Baptist Church and he's going to be
including his trip here
with us at First Works and so we're looking forward to
having him come it's always a blessing to have him
and so that is it for the announcements
of course you see the regular reminders
there at the bottom please make sure
you silence your phones during the preaching
so as to not be a distraction during
the service put out your prayer sheet there
we're going to go over that briefly
and of course brother Marcos is
going to come up and pray pray for God's
favor in our church pray for the soul winning
the teams the missions pray
that our church continues to reach more
people whether that be door to
door through missions
through social media pray that I
become more merciful towards the gamers of this world
as well you know what I mean we had
a gamer named
Penguin Zero
what kind of name is that and
apparently he's a really famous gamer
who knows who that is anybody know who that all the gamers
all the gamers
he recently made a video about me about my
preaching on gaming and
he was reacting to me destroying the
Xbox and all that and
you know I didn't really watch the whole thing
because
he's not a pleasant sight to look at
and you know
I mean what is he going to say to refute what I'm saying
you know and he was just kind of
criticizing the whole sermon and saying
I only have seven people in my church
and you know
getting on me for not liking
anime and I'm a secret anime lover
you know because that's of course that's
like you know of course I am right
and so coming up with all these nonsensical
arguments but I'm thankful that he made
that video though because
I don't have a YouTube channel right now
so I need I need help
you know getting the word out there
and so you know it has
like 1.7 million views
and in my opinion
when you get a video that goes viral like that
the majority of people
are just going to hate me for it and in fact my
Instagram right now is filled with people who are just getting on me
because of the video
they're like I can't believe you're saying this about video games
and I just
I have these notes saved
that I just copy and paste and it's touch grass
you know I just touch grass
quit being a weenie
softy you know just things of that nature
and but some of them
are being won over you know they kind of see it
our way and they realize
that this guy is obviously
kind of he's basically just being a jerk about the whole thing
and I don't think
he has anything of substance in the video anyways
but in my opinion when you have
a million people watching your video
the vast majority are going to hate it
at least a thousand are going to
reconsider it right
you got about a thousand who say okay he might have made a good point
in that sermon
out of those thousand you might have a hundred
who will go a little further and say well
let's see what else he's preaching
out of those hundred you might get about 50
who actually might breeze over the gospel
presentation and out of those
50 you might get about 10 who actually
watch it and out of those 10 you might
get like 5 who actually get saved
and so those are the law of numbers
and so I'm willing to suffer
approach at the hand of some weenie
gamer if it means that at least
5 people get saved or something
or at least if people just hear the word of God period
and so pray that you know
people would hear the word of God
through that and
from what I've heard he wasn't
100% against my sermon
because once I started beating the crap out of that
xbox he kind of was just like
I actually kind of like this church I don't want to be a part of
one of those services but I don't know
he might like you know freak out
and I think he said I beat up like an
N64 it wasn't an N64
I mean it was his xbox
that's why I'm asking him
I mean give us credit
it was an actual xbox okay
but anyways pray that you know the word of God
would spread forth even more
whether through the enemies of God
or through door to door
that we'd continue to see more people saved
continue to pray for Belize
as we are preparing for our trip out there
at the end of the year
spiritual numerical growth, more laborers and new people
pray for the leadership
and for the pastors in training as well
and of course just the individual requests
there
I'm not going to go over all of these
but if you can keep them in prayer
some of these are just reoccurring
and things that are just ongoing
in your mind and take them to the Lord in prayer
at your convenience when you're home
I'm sure we would all appreciate that
if you have any additional prayer requests
that you'd like to be mentioned
you can put that at the bottom there
tear that off and put it into the offering plate
and we'll make sure that it gets on there for the following week
and that's it, Brother Marcos why don't you come on up
and pray over these needs
Amen let's bow our heads and pray
Dear God, my Father we thank you so much
Dear God for just allowing us to be here
in your house this evening
I pray that you would please bless every single individual
that's here, Lord God
that made time to hear the preaching of your word
and I do pray, Lord God, for individuals
that didn't get to make it, Lord God
I do pray that whatever case may be
Lord God, I pray that you would please just put it on their hearts
to make the house of God important
Lord, I do pray for our church, Lord God
I do pray that you would please
that you would please help us, Lord God
to continue to find favor in your eyes, Lord God
to continue to prosper us, Lord God
to continue to be used mightily of you, Lord God
and to continue, Lord God
to just do the first works, Lord God
for you, Lord Heavenly Father
and I do pray that you would please just bless our soul
Lord God, I pray that you would please just
just give us wisdom, Lord God, as we go out door to door
I pray that you would please just soften the hearts
of the people that we're going to be speaking to, Lord God
this week and I pray that you would please
Lord God, help us to be fruitful in that area
help us to see people saved, Lord
and I do pray for our missions, Lord God
as, Lord God
as Belize is still in our mind, Lord God
I do pray that you would please, Lord God, just bless that
and Lord, I do pray for
the spiritual and numerical growth of our church, Lord God
I do also pray for the more laborers, Lord God
and I pray that
Lord God, as our church grows, Lord God
that more people will get on fire, Lord God, to soul win
and Lord, I do pray that you would please, Lord God
just bless the soul winners, Lord God
that go out each and every single day
and I pray that for the new people, Lord God
to just get plugged into our church
as well
for our leadership, Lord God, here in our church, Lord God
the pastors that are in training, I pray that you would please
just continue to
help them, Lord God
to just desire
the office, Lord God, and to continue to go forward
in that area
I do pray also for those that are in authority, Lord God
Lord God
the ones that
run the city, Lord dear God
I pray that they will just leave us alone, Lord God
that they will just let us do your work
and there will be no hindrances, Lord God
towards our church
Lord God, I do also pray for just
prayer requests, the individual prayer requests
of our church, Lord God, I pray
just for families to continue to grow, Lord God
and along with that, just the barren women, Lord God
I pray that you would please, Lord God
just be with the
ladies' wombs, Lord God
I pray that you would please open them up
and help us, Lord God, to just
continue to have babies here in this church, Lord God
and I pray that you would please also just be with the new expecting mothers
and newborns, Lord God as well
I pray that you would please just bless them
help them, Lord God, to be healthy
that there be no complications, Lord
and I pray that you would please
keep the babies healthy in our church, Lord God as well
Lord, I also do pray for
Brother Moses'
general requests
Lord God, I pray that you would please just be with that
for Brother Michael Kasimov
his general requests, Lord God
and Lord, I do pray also for
Brother Brash
for his unspoken requests, Lord God as well
and for his father's health
Lord, I do also pray that you would please
just be with Ms. Stevie's
father, Lord God as well
for his health, Lord God, I pray that you would please just continue to be with him
for Brother Maury's mom, Lord God
for the recovery of her surgery, Lord God
I do pray that, Lord God
that you would please just be with
these individuals, Lord God
please just increase their faith, Lord God
that you would please, Lord God, allow them, Lord God, to be healed
and please meet their needs, Lord God
and the requests, Lord God, and I pray that you would please, Lord God
if there is not a request on here, Lord God
that hasn't been submitted, Lord God
I do pray that you would please just
meet that need, answer that prayer, Lord God
and I pray that you would please, Lord God
also just be with us, Lord God, tonight
in the service, help us, Lord God
to be attentive to your word being preached, Lord God
and I pray that you would also just be with our pastor
that you would please just fill him with your Holy Spirit
guide him through the scriptures, Lord God
bring to remembrance of the things that he has studied, Lord God
and I pray that you would please just again
continue to bless our families
we got here in our church, pray now these things in Jesus name
Amen
Song number 187
Jesus loves me
Song number 187
On the first verse
Jesus
loves me
this I know
for the
Bible tells
me so
little ones
to him
belong
they are weak
but he is strong
yes
Jesus
loves me
yes
Jesus
loves me
yes
Jesus
the Bible
tells me so
Jesus
loves me
he who died
heaven's
gates to open
wide
he will wash
away my sin
let his
little job
come in
yes
Jesus
loves me
yes
Jesus
loves me
yes
Jesus
loves me
the Bible
tells me so
on the last
Jesus
loves me
he will say
thou hast
bled and died
for me
I will
henceforth live
for thee
yes
Jesus
loves me
yes
Jesus
loves me
the
Bible
great
singing as the ushers come forth for the offering
please turn your Bibles to Matthew chapter 12
Matthew chapter 12
Good evening, we are in Matthew chapter 12
and the chapter reads
time Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the corn and his disciples were
in hungered and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat but when the
Pharisees saw it they said unto him behold that disciples do that which is
not lawful to do upon the Sabbath day but he said unto them have you not
read what David did when he was in hungered and they that were with
him how he entered into the house of God and did eat the showbread which
was not lawful for him to eat neither for them which were with him but
only for the priests where have you not read in the law how that on the
Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless
but I say unto you that in this place is one greater than the temple but if he
had known what this meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice he would
not have condemned the guiltless for the Son of Man is Lord even of the
Sabbath day and when he was departed then he went into their synagogue and
behold there was a man which had his hand withered and they asked him
saying is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath days that they might accuse
him and he said unto them which man shall there be among you that we shall
have one sheep and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day will he not lay
hold on it and lift it out how much then is a man better than a sheep
wherefore it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days then saith he to
the man stretch forth thine hand and he stretched it forth and it was
restored whole like as the other then the Pharisees went out and held a
counsel against them how they might destroy him but when Jesus knew it
he withdrew himself from thence and great multitudes followed him and he healed
them all and charged him that it should not make him known that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by his eyes the Prophet saying behold my
servant whom I have chosen my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased I
will put my spirit upon him and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles
he shall not strive nor cry neither shall any man hear his voice in the
streets a bruised wreath shall he not break and a smoking flag shall he not
quench till he sent forth judgment on to victory and in his name shall the
Gentiles trust there was brought unto him one possessed with the devil blind
and dumb and he healed him in so much that the blind and dumb both
spake and saw and all the people were amazed and said is not this the
son of David but when the Pharisees heard it they said this fellow doth
not cast out devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devil's and
Jesus knew their thoughts and said unto them every kingdom divided against
itself are brought to desolation in every city or house divided against
itself shall not stand and if Satan cast out Satan he is divided against
himself how shall then his kingdom stand and if I by Beelzebub cast out
devils by whom do your children cast them out therefore they shall be your
judges but if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God that the kingdom of
God has come on to you or else how can one enter into a strong man's
house and spoil his goods except he first bind a strong man and then he
will spoil his house he that is not with me is against me and he that
gathered not with me scattered abroad wherefore I say unto you all manner of
sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men but the blasphemy against the
Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men and whosoever speaketh the word
against the Son of Man shall be forgiven him but whosoever speaketh
against the Holy Ghost 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 Oh generation of vipers how can ye being evil speak
good things for out of the abundance of the heart and mouth speaketh the good
man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things and an
evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things but I say
unto you that every idle word that man shall speak they shall give
account thereof in the day of judgment for by thy words thou shalt be
justified by thy words thou shalt be condemned uncertain of the scribes and of
the Pharisees answered saying master we would see a sign from thee but he
answered and said unto them an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after
a sign there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of the Prophet
Jonas whereas Jonas was three days and three nights in the well's belly so
shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the
earth the men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation and
shall condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonas and behold
the greater than Jonas is here the Queen of the South shall rise up in
the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it for she came from the
uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon and behold a
greater than Solomon is here when the unclean spirit has gone out of a
man he walketh through dry places seeking rest and findeth none then he
sayeth I'll return into my house from whence I came out and when he has
come he findeth that empty swept and garnished then goeth he and
taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they
enter in and dwell there and the last state of the minute of that man is
worse than the first even so shall it even so shall it be also unto this
wicked generation while he had talked to the people behold his mother and his
brother and said without desiring to speak with him then one said unto him
behold thy mother and thy brother and stand without desiring to speak
with thee but he answered and said unto him that told him who is my mother and
who are my brethren and he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples
and said behold my mother and my brethren for whosoever shall do the will
of my father which is in heaven the same as my brother and sister and
mother let's pray well we thank you dear God for a wonderful church you
have given us for dear brothers and sisters in Christ you have given us
thank you for our pastor we pray that you please bless it with your
Holy Spirit tonight as he preaches your word on to us in Jesus name we pray
amen amen okay tonight we are continuing with the book of Matthew and we're
actually gonna continue with Matthew chapter 12 I'm gonna cover the second
half tonight but let me just bring you up to speed here with Matthew
chapter 12 what we covered last week last week we were talking about the
Sabbath and of course we have the disciples and Jesus going through the
fields and they're plucking the ears of corn I want to get some to eat
they're simply satiating their hunger and the Pharisees see it and they
begin to bring up this false accusation that the Pharisees in the
excuse me that Jesus and his disciples are profaning the Sabbath only because
they're plucking the ears of corn and they're eating them and of course
Jesus Christ he corrects them on this by using David's example of going
into the temple in the days of Abiathar and the fact that Abiathar gave
David and his men showbread to eat which is only lawful for the priest
to eat and then of course he gives them also the example of the priest in
the Old Testament working on the Sabbath in the temple doing the animal
sacrifices and fulfilling their duties as priests and the reason he gives
them these examples is because of the fact that any I'm sorry the reason he
gives those examples is because of the fact that they believe that they're
profaning the Sabbath but they're only profaning the Sabbath with
respect to what the disciples believe right they essentially think that you
know Oh doing anything on the Sabbath is sinful not realizing that they're
adding to the laws of God they're adding rules to what the Word of God
says whereas when the Bible talks about remembering the Sabbath to keep
it holy he's referring to the fact that no one should work doesn't say
that you can't pluck the ears of corn to eat it doesn't have any laws
restricting people from getting food right and of course the Pharisees are
viewing them plucking the ears of corn as essentially threshing or
harvesting food and so he corrects them on that and the that passage could be
summarized in verse 7 where it says but if he had known what this meaneth I
will have mercy and not sacrifice you would have not condemned the guilt the
guiltless and what is he saying there well it's a quotation from Hosea
chapter 6 and verse number 6 and what he basically says is that or what
he means here is that when he comes when it comes to the commandments of
the Lord if you're to put them on a spectrum okay you would quickly see
that even though all of God's commandments are important there
are some that are weightier than others okay for example when the Pharisees when
Jesus Christ is rebuking the Pharisees in Matthew chapter 23 he says he paid
tithe of mint anise and cumin but omit the weightier matters of the law
judgment mercy and faith these ought to you have to have done and not to
leave the others undone basically saying all these commandments are
important but judgment mercy and faith are obviously weightier than tithing
and so if you're to look at the spectrum of God's commandments all of
them are important they should all be fulfilled but obviously there's certain
commandments that are far more weightier in the eyes of God than
others and in this particular case you know the fact that the men are
hungry and they need food is weightier than not going outside and getting a
bite to eat and and plucking the ears of corn you know the fact that David
and his men were hungry is a weightier matter than having the just the priest
eat the showbread and not sharing with those who are in need and who are
hungered and so that's what he's trying to get across to them is the
spirit of the law versus the letter of the law and of course the
Pharisees would claim that they abide by the letter of the law which they
didn't they claim to have but they don't but they were missing obviously
not just the letter of the law the specifics of God's commands but they
are also missing the spirit of the law which is to love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart so mine and strength and to love thy neighbor as thyself
okay so we went over that last week and then we talked a little bit about
Jesus Christ essentially not crying in the streets right he's not bruising a
broken reed he's not quenching a smoking flax he's essentially balanced
in his preaching there and then I kind of breezed over the blasphemy of
the Holy Ghost but I'm going to cover that a little more extensively tonight
because it has to do with what I'm going to talk about towards the
latter end of the sermon and so let's go ahead and start in verse
number 22 it says here then was brought unto him one possessed with
the devil blind and dumb and he healed him in so much that the blind
and dumb both spake and saw and all the people were amazed and said is not
this the son of David so the Lord performs these miracles and the natural
byproduct of that there is the natural result as it should be is that people
automatically realize oh this is the son of David referring to the fact
that he is the Messiah he is the Christ he is the anointed one this is
the proper response right to the miracles that are being performed and
then it says in verse 24 but when the Pharisees heard it and I want you
to remember that phrase heard it okay they said this fellow does not cast
out devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devil's so the natural
response to the miracle should be oh this is the son of David this is the
Messiah but the Pharisees instead of responding in such a manner to
recognize them as being the Christ the Son of God they bring this
railing accusation that he's possessed with the devil because that's what
Beelzebub is it's the devil and I want you to notice a very interesting
point here that I want to make about verse 24 okay because the Pharisees it
does it's not that as though the Pharisees were present when the
miracles were being performed it almost seems to imply that they're
getting the miracle secondhand because it says that they heard it right you
said what's ironic about that well later on in the chapter it says in
verse 39 or verse 38 that certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered saying
master we would see a sign from thee right and of course we know Jesus says
that no sign should be given to but to them but the sign of Jonas the
Prophet and I'll cover what he means by that later but what's
interesting here is the fact that in verse 24 you know they're rejecting
what they hear about Jesus Christ so naturally Jesus Christ is not gonna
allow them to see anything okay now why is that well because of the fact
that you know faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God
so they hear about the miracles and they're so wicked in their heart that
the the response is oh he's possessed with the devil I mean think about that
the people are seeing it visually believe that he's the son of David the
people are getting a second hand which are the Pharisees they hear about it
and automatically jump to conclusions oh he must be possessed with the devil
okay and so we see why the Pharisees can't be saved and we see why Jesus
Christ was not willing to perform the miracles before their eyes because
they're already rejecting what they're hearing with their ears you
understand and so even if a miracle was to be performed before their eyes
they would not believe the one one rose from the dead you understand
because we walk by faith and not by sight and so this isn't as it's not
like they were there they viewed the miracle they heard about a second hand
and automatically they're already thinking oh he's possessed with the
devil what a wicked response to the miracles there and so that's why I
believe verse 38 tells us that you know verse 38 and on tells us that
Jesus Christ is not willing to give him a sign but the sign of Jonas the
prophet because they weren't even to listen to the testification of those who
saw the miracles which reinforces the fact that you know what miracles
today although you know are real in the sense that God can perform
miracles they're not necessarily the best way to convince people that God
exists okay it's not necessarily the what we should be praying for looking
for so that people can believe in God because at the end of the day we need
the Word of God to be preached unto them because the Bible says that the gospel
is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth to the Jew first
and also to the Greek and faith is the the substance the evidence of
things hope for that excuse me the faith is the substance of things hope
for the evidence of things not seen and that he that cometh to God must
believe that he is and that he's a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him God is looking for faith right and so if they're not even willing to
believe the testimony of others regarding his works regarding his
actions regarding what he's accomplishing here you know they're not
gonna believe though one rose from the dead they're not gonna believe even if
he did show them a miracle right before their eyes and we actually see
examples of that throughout the Gospels but in this particular instance it's
very much clear that they're not interested in the Christ they're not
interested in getting saved they hate Jesus Christ so he performs this
miracle and they jump to this conclusion that he is possessed with a devil now
look at verse 25 Jesus Christ begins to give him reasons logically why
it's impossible for him to be possessed with the devil now we would
look at this and say well obviously he's not possessed with the devil he's
Jesus Jesus Christ he's the son of God he's God himself but he's
presenting this argument to the Pharisees to teach them to show them
why it would be logically impossible for him to be possessed with the devil he
says and Jesus knew their thoughts and said unto them every kingdom divided
against itself is brought to desolation and every city or house
divided against itself shall not stand and if Satan cast out Satan he is
divided against himself how shall then his kingdom stand so basically saying
you know if I was possessed with the devil then the kingdom of God that I'm
preaching would automatically cease to exist it would be it would be brought to
naught right it would essentially self-destruct because Satan can cast out
Satan and you know this is one of my favorite passages to use when I'm
talking about for example which is it's a personal belief of mine many
people agree with me but maybe some don't this is one of the reasons why
I believe Judas Iscariot was able to cast out devils okay a lot of people
think well you know he wasn't saved so how can he cast out devils if he wasn't
saved well here's the thing is that the prerequisite to cast out devils is
not to be saved the prerequisite to cast out devils is that he had to be
an apostle right like well how do you know that well because of the fact
that he wasn't saved so you know and he was an apostle so the apostle was
an office that Jesus Christ gave to the disciples and he gave it to them
with the authority to cast out devils and you know I've had people say oh
that's impossible because every Kingdom divided against itself is brought to
desolation and a city or house that's divided against itself shall not stand
this is what they often answer and my response is well isn't that what
happened to Judas I mean he essentially hung himself and killed
himself meaning he was brought to desolation meaning he was not able to
stand meaning his ministry did not proceed any further okay whereas Jesus
Christ's ministry still exists 2,000 years later and even after he was
crucified he still resurrected and Christianity still spread and still
gained traction and accomplished much whereas Judas Iscariot though he was
able to cast out devils because he was given the authority not based upon
his salvation because he wasn't saved but based upon the fact that he was an
apostle he was given that office he didn't stand he ended up hanging himself
he fell headlong and his bowels burst asunder okay now people get
uncomfortable when I talk about that they're like oh man I don't know how I
feel about that you know and people don't have to believe it but you know
it would make a lot of sense why Matthew 7 says that many will say to
me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy
name have cast out devils and in thy name have done many wonderful works
okay obviously he's foreshadowing Judas Iscariot there and you know people can
also bring the argument yeah but there's no example of Judas actually
casting out devils and my response is well there's no example where it says
that he didn't it just says the Apostles did these works and they cast
out devils okay and so you know Judas Iscariot was not able to proceed
further his folly was made manifest he was not able to stand because of the
fact that Satan can't cast out Satan okay and so this is a great passage of
scripture to prove that and that's what Jesus Christ is telling the the Pharisees
here and he says in verse number 27 if I by Beelzebub cast out devils by
whom do your children cast them out therefore they shall be your judges but
if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God then the kingdom of God is come
unto you or else how can one enter into a strong man's house and spoil
his goods except he first bind a strong man and then he will spoil his house now
what does he mean by verse 29 what is he talking about there well he's
simply giving the example if a thief were to break into a house and the
owner of the house was present how is the thief going to be able to rob
him of his goods if he doesn't you know bind that person first right like
stop that individual from stopping him from you know stealing his things there
he obviously has to be strong he has to bind that individual first in order
for him to accomplish his his robbery or whatever now in Luke chapter 11 this
is actually worded a little different you don't have to go there I can read
it to you here in Luke chapter 11 in verse 21 it says when a strong man
armed keepeth his palace his goods are in peace but when a stronger than he
shall come upon him and overcome him he taketh from him all his armor wherein
he trusted and divided divided his spoils so if we were to compare those two
passages what it's what's what it's being stated here is that Jesus
Christ is essentially the one who is going into that house right to spoil
that house of his goods and if we were to compare that to Luke chapter 11 no
altar calls right now please okay I'm just kidding he feels led to the spirit
you know it's because David was part of an old IFP Church so you know what
he's saying here in verse 29 is that here's the proof that Jesus Christ is
not possessed with the devil okay logically because Satan can't cast out
Satan because if not it's brought to desolation as we see with Judas but
secondly because of the fact that in order for someone to essentially break
into a house and steal the goods they have to be stronger than the person
living in that house well Jesus Christ is stronger okay which is why
he's able to do so okay and in fact the Bible says greater is he that is
in you than he that is in the world so he's basically saying obviously
these are two different parties these are two different entities that are not
one in the same they're not part of the same team because the stronger
man which is Jesus Christ is able to come and bind the man of the household
figurative figuratively speaking so that he may take his goods essentially cast
the devil out of that person and they can be free of that now let me
make this statement real quick because you're gonna need to know it for later
on is that I don't believe that every time a devil was cast out of a person
in the Bible that that means that they were saved automatically okay you say
well how do you know well because to get saved you have to believe on Jesus
Christ okay you guys know that right you know you know in order to get saved
you have to you have to believe on Jesus Christ now obviously there's
individuals in the Bible that had a demon cast out of them and they got
saved you know Mary you have the maniac Adara who you know it's it
would seem to indicate that they did get saved and they began to follow the
Lord but I guarantee you there are people in the Bible who are healed of
their blindness they were they were healed of their dumb mouth and their
deafness and they were healed of a devil and they still didn't get saved
okay let me make myself very clear now here's the thing though once a
person gets saved they can no longer be possessed with the devil because the
Bible tells us in Ephesians 1 verse 13 and whom he also trusted after
that you heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation and whom also
after he believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise which is the
earnest of our inheritance essentially telling us that once we get saved we're
sealed with the Holy Spirit and there's no vacancy left okay and so we
have the inward man along with the Holy Spirit of God residing within us
and a demon cannot possess us at that point now can a devil oppress us yes
can they tempt us and fight against us absolutely but they will never be able
to reside within us because we're saved but keep in mind that a person can be
exercised okay of a devil and still choose not to believe on Jesus Christ
thereafter very important point for later on okay please do not take it
lightly just keep a mental note of that okay it says if I by be else
above or let's skip down to verse number 30 he that is not with me is
against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad oh man I
thought Jesus wanted us to just like be friends with everyone and partner with
everyone no it's either you're with him or against them that's what the
Bible is saying okay and obviously he's telling this to the Pharisees
because he's basically saying you know if you're not with me then you're
against me okay if you're not you know yes he thinks it absolutes okay
regardless of what Star Wars teaches you only a sith thinks in absolutes no
Christians think in absolutes dude stop trying demonize Christians okay the
Jedi's are the wicked ones amen they're the ones who want to kumbaya with
everyone he's saying you know if you're not gathering with me you're
against me and he's speaking to the Pharisees there now keep in mind that
he's bringing up these arguments and these he's teaching these statements
about you know casting out Devils and things of that nature because of the
fact that he's dropped he's about to drop a bomb on them okay look at verse
31 wherefore I say unto you so because of all this all manner of sin and
blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men but the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost shall
not be forgiven unto men so we say look talk trash about me it's
forgivable okay if you blaspheme Jesus Christ which pretty much people
do all the time you know they use his name in vain they use him as a cuss
word they mock Jesus Christ well Jesus Christ says that can be forgiven that
that's under the blood okay but then he says however if you blaspheme the
Holy Ghost now what does it mean to blaspheme the Holy Ghost well in
context it's essentially saying that the Holy Ghost isn't holy at all it's
a devil okay because Jesus Christ is God which means that he's indwelt by the
third person of the Trinity which is the Holy Ghost okay and they're looking at
the works that are being done through his hands by the Holy Ghost and they're
saying oh that's not the Holy Ghost that's a devil that's Satan that's
Beelzebub essentially stating that this guy's possessed with the devil and
therefore they're blaspheming the Holy Ghost they're essentially saying
that the Holy Spirit of God is unholy he's profane he's an unclean
spirit he says in 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 so the consequence of blaspheming the Holy Ghost is so
severe that the Bible says not only will you not receive forgiveness in
this world but also you won't receive it in the life to come what
does that mean it means you can never be saved because forgiveness and
salvation go hand in hand my friends when you believe on Jesus Christ you're
forgiven of sins past present and future we're not Catholics here that
believe you have to confess your sins daily to stay saved or something
you have to repent of your sins day to stay saved confess your sins daily
to stay saved no and so what the Bible is teaching here is that if you
blaspheme the Holy Ghost you have essentially relinquished your privilege
to ever be saved now and forever okay and I think it's pretty clear there it
says neither in this world neither in the world to come you have
essentially damned yourself oh man I thought like you know he is merciful I
thought he's he was gracious I thought that you know there's nothing no one's
too far for God well apparently yeah you can get too far actually maybe you
should stop reading those devotionals written by people who probably blaspheme
the Holy Ghost people who are reprobates because according to the
Bible you can get to a point and when I say you I'm not referring to
believers because believers cannot blaspheme the Holy Ghost referring to
unsaved people who want to claim that the Holy Spirit isn't holy at all that
he is essentially profane he's an unclean spirit and so you know it's
a major consequence it's a major penalty for that he says in verse 33 either make
the tree good or his fruit good or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit
corrupt for the tree is known by his fruits well generation of vipers how
can you being evil speak good things for out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaketh a good man out of the good treasure of his heart
bringing forth good things an evil man out of the evil treasure of his
heart bringing forth evil things but I say to you that every idle word that
men shall speak shall excuse me they shall give an account thereof in the day
of judgment for by thy words thou shall be justified and by thy words thou
shall be condemned notice it doesn't say by thy works thou shall be
justified by thy words thou shall be condemned it says by thy words because
it's all about the words why because it the words are attached to a belief
and so when the Bible says out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh it's saying what you claim to believe or what you say you believe
obviously is attached directly to what you actually believe it's attached to
you words to come out of your mouth so when you knock on the door and you
ask someone are you 100% sure that if you die today you go to heaven and
they say yes and you say what do you have to do to be saved and they say I
believe I have to repent of my sins to be saved and that you have to be a
good person they're testifying of the belief in their heart now obviously do
people get mixed up in terminology yes so when we dig a little deeper and we
find no water and they just keep saying repent of your sins keep saying
you have to do works then guess what it's a dry well that person's not
saved okay and I'm all for giving people the benefit of the doubt and
saying some people are mixed up but what I'm not for is when that person
gets a clear explanation that they're wrong they're clearly told that it's not
by repenting of their sin and they persist in that doctrine okay it's not
that they're just a little off they're completely wrong they're unsaved
because we have pastors today and Christians that will you know that
they admire certain pastors or movements or churches who teach
damnable heresy about salvation and they'll follow them because you know
they like a certain segment of their ministry maybe their modesty maybe it's
their music maybe it's their stance on X Y & Z but when you look at their
statement of faith when it comes to salvation they believe in a repent of
your sins gospel they believe it's by works they believe it's by baptism
regeneration and when you tell them hey this person's not safe they'll say
well they're just a little off well all you need is to be a little off of
salvation to not be saved though right like you have to be fully right on
salvation to be saved you can't be a little off there's just a little off
is enough to damn you to hell and so he says by thy words thou shall be
justified by thy words thou shall be condemned because of the fact that what
we say often transmits what we actually believe in our heart and again I'm not
saying that if you run into someone who has some weird terminology but then
when you corner them they say well actually that is what I believe what
you said there because obviously some people just go to lame churches where
they don't really articulate salvation well they don't talk about doctrine
very well so the people in the pews are not very educated spiritually you
understand what I'm saying they don't know how to word things they don't know
how to articulate salvation they don't know the verses they're just kind of
going by what they've heard or what they're repeating and so you know when
you actually corner them they say well actually that's what I believe I
don't believe you have to because it's not by works I just I you know I
asked Jesus Christ into my heart and that's not the best terminology but
you know what fundamental Baptists even say that when when when talking about
placing your faith in Jesus Christ now we're a church that we teach use the
right terminology don't use this lived-tard Christian Christian ease you
know the simplified Christian ease or whatever you understand it's just like
well I want to simplify it no use Bible terminology there's nothing more
simple than saying I believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you know
unfortunately fundamental Baptists have been duped and and deceived into
thinking that that's somehow like a bad description of salvation because they'll
say well yeah the devil's believed it's like shame on you you're a
fundamental Baptist of course the devil's believed they should God made
them but in James chapter 2 when the Bible says the devil's believe it has
nothing to do with salvation and often churches take that position because of
the fact that they're so tired of soul winning and not seeing fruit from that
soul winning you know people who claim to believe but then they're living a
wicked life or whatever you know and they say you know I don't even know if
they're saved because they're just living a wicked life or you know
they're involved in the world or something like that and it's just I
don't know you know you got it you got to get right with God and so they
start delving into damnable heresy because of that but folks who told you
that soul winning is supposed to get people in church you have the wrong
expectation of soul winning. Soul winning is a ministry of the church to get
unsaved people the gospel so they can get saved so they can go to church no
so they can go to heaven the cherry on top is if they come to church okay
and you know the best way to grow the church is actually not through soul
winning it's hard to burst a bubble there and maybe it was you know 20 30
years ago but not today the best way to get people in the church is to tell
the people in the church to go and buy people their friends families
co-workers to come to church the best way to grow in church is to
teach the church to have a bunch of babies to have their quiver full amen
who cares what IBLP teaches cares whatever documentaries out there of
Amazon Prime it's biblical to have babies can't point to a verse in the
Bible that contradicts that teaching my friends one of the best ways to grow
a church and yes I'll say it one of the best ways to grow a church is to
teach the families in the church to get off that stinking birth control
start having babies stop taking that damn birth control that's killing babies
and start having babies being fruitful and multiplying and that'll guarantee
organic growth you know what I mean over the you know the lifespan of the
church so having babies in church this is why I want I want to have a
big family so they in case I offend you guys I'll always have someone to
preach to there will always be you know a group of people they have to
listen to me the church we will never have an attendance of zero at our church
because of my family you know over the years I'm always gonna have someone to
preach to but as long as we can get half of you to agree you know and and
have babies and stuff I'll always have someone to preach to so organic
growth through having babies organic growth through you just inviting your
family friends and co-workers you say but what if I just run out of people
to invite though well this is the key we get you to exhaust your friend
co-worker family resource of bringing them to church and then you teach them
to go invite their friends family and co-workers is also so then we dip into
their network of people that they know and then they start coming it's the
best way now another way to grow a church and it's not necessarily the
best way is through evangelism and track dropping believe it or not okay
now we don't do track drops here or should I say let me correct that we do
do track drops we do a track drop when no one answers the door that's the
only time we do a track drop and I'm just gonna confess something to you
right now I'm not proud of this at all but I'm grateful for it we've
gotten people in our church because of that the reason I'm not proud of it is
because I talk so much crap about it but it actually works but it I think it
works not because we're depending on it I think it works because we're
actually out there preaching the gospel because we get people they come
to our church because they'll say you know they'll come in like yeah how'd
you hear about the church like I got a track on my door and I'm like hey I
invited you I'm just gonna tell them that but it's just like okay you know
I'm just like dang shut my mouth I guess you know that doesn't mean that
we're gonna start a ministry track dropping because I have much
experience with track drops I probably have more experience in this church with
track drops other than probably brother Albert my wife and miss suong we've
had a lot of experiences with dropping off tens of thousands of tracks and in
fact our old church plant that I was a part of many moons ago you know the
the the guy who the pastor who he wasn't the pastor at the time he
wanted to do this this I think it was like a twenty five thousand you
know I don't know it might have been less but every year it gets more in my
mind you know me it was like fifteen twenty thousand track drop for Easter
and he's like we're gonna give out twenty twenty five thousand tracks and
have this big crowd and all this stuff and you know most of most of the track
job was done by your Shirley so we went out and dropped off a bunch of tracks
and on Easter Sunday we had one visitor who didn't come because of the
track they just wanted to look for it they just wanted to go to the church
on Easter so they just looked up a church on the internet they found that one and
they went there and you know he's like promoting is just like twenty five
thousand tracks you know all these people are gonna come it's like cricket
cricket is one guy comes and it's just like well that was a bust and
you know why because instead of dropping off fifteen twenty thousand
tracks we should have just been knocking fifteen twenty thousand doors
preaching the gospel to fifteen or twenty thousand people and even if no one came
from those salvations I assure you God would have brought someone to the
church because of the effort that was placed by the church in getting
those people saved and by the way let me say this I have experience with
that as well because when we started that church my father-in-law for like
two months or maybe it was like three is that we're gonna go out there
we're gonna go sowing for three months and then we're just gonna start the
church so we're out there getting people saved collecting information and he
told all the staff members I want everyone to collect like I think it was
like a hundred prospects that they're gonna come you know the church or
people you went to the Lord you collect their info and so we worked our
tails off to just preach the gospel get a bunch of people saved and collect
info and I think at the end we had I don't know like 200 or something
prospects okay that we collected and it's just like this is gonna be great
none of those 200 came none of them came because we kept good records and
none of them showed up but yet we have 300 people in church on the first
day just different people who I believe God just brought to the church because
of the effort that the people put into going out there preach the gospel just
put in the work basically it shows us that God makes up the difference
understand and so I'm not sure how I got off on that I don't know how what
it has to do I don't know but you know again we have tracks and stuff
but we're not we're not going to turn into a track dropping church or a
gospel preaching church and when we go there we're gonna open our mouths boldly
and what they tell us is important because by thy words thou shall be
justified by the words that should be condemned I'll just tie it in that way
all right let's move on looking for a 38 says then certain of the scribes
and of the Pharisees answered saying master we would see a sign from thee
and he answered and sent it to them and evil in adulterous generation
seeketh after a sign and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of
of the Prophet Jonas I always wondered why does he call them a an evil and an
adulterous generation what's up with that why does he call them an adulterous
generation we obviously know that the Pharisees were really wicked they're
probably were involved in adultery are just very evil and wicked people but
I think what he's saying here when he says adulterous he's essentially saying
that they're sensual okay they're more about sensuality rather than faith
driven you understand and in fact you know he says in another passage of
scripture he calls them an evil and perverse generation okay I'm sorry he
says a perverse and faithless generation is what he says and so
they're faithless meaning they're sensual that's why he calls them
adulterous and adulterous generation now when he says that there shall be no
sign given it to it but the sign of the Prophet Jonas Jonas is referring
to who Jonah right so why does he say that well if you go back to the story
of Jonah we see that he was a sign unto the Ninevites because of the fact
that he was swallowed by a whale and when you're swallowed by a whale you
know people just expect for you to die but he lived and when the well
threw him up after being there for three days he's in the well's belly
for three days and three nights all that stomach acid is just destroying his
pigmentation he probably looks pretty morbid and so when Jonas gets to Nineveh
and he's preaching for them to repent he becomes a sign unto them
because they're just like whoa dude what happened to you and it's just
like judgment happened to me and then everyone repented in sackcloth and ashes
so him coming out of the well's belly with all the you know the dew coming out
of different race because he's probably all you know his pigmentation is
completely gone or whatever looking just completely destroyed you know the
Ninevites they're like oh this is a sign unto us and then they of course
repented so he's saying that he's gonna be a sign like Jonas because of the
fact that he's gonna come out of hell after three days and three nights and
of course we know that he has the scars in his hands and in his side and he is
gonna present himself alive after his death three days and three nights
being in hell and it says in verse 40 for us Jonas is three days and three
nights in the well's belly so shall the son of man be three days and
three nights in the heart of the earth this is another portion of
scripture that really confirms that Jesus Christ went to the literal hell
okay not Abraham's bosom not paradise okay he went to hell because of the fact
that hell is in the center of the earth and because of the fact that he
uses the example of Jonah being in the well's belly which in Jonah chapter 2
he describes himself as being in the well's belly but then he he switches
and says that he cried from the belly of hell okay we obviously know
that Jonah did not go to hell he's using figurative language because it's a
prophetic passage dealing with the future Christ who was gonna go to hell
for three days and three nights and when you look at the description that
Jonah's giving it's just like whoa dude are you in hell are you in the
well because it's just like he starts getting to other descriptive you
know visuals that don't coincide with being in in the well's belly it
coincides with being in hell okay and this isn't the only scripture to prove
that Jesus Christ went to hell you know the Bible talks about it in Acts
chapter 2 talks about in Psalm 15 many pictures of the Old Testament for
example of the animal sacrifices being burnt or burnt offering and Jesus
Christ is obviously the fulfillment of that lamb being sacrificed for the sins
of the world he became a burnt offering the Bible talks about in
Isaiah how his soul was made an offering okay and you know people just
kind of like oh no heresy they get all weird about that and you kind of
wonder like why why are you so like wimpy about this whole thing why
do you get so sissy about Jesus Christ going to hell if it's so evident in
the Bible that he did you know what's the problem and what's funny is
that it's most of the time it's these dispensationalists who get really
offended by this a bunch of hypocrites because they get all offended over the
fact that the Bible teaches that he went to hell for three days and three
nights but they don't get offended at their beloved Jews teaching that
Jesus Christ is currently in hell burning in his own instrument which is
worse we're saying what the Bible says that he went to hell for three
days and three nights to pay for our sins because that's exactly where we
would go if we were to die without Christ they're teaching that Jesus
Christ went to hell for his own sins he's a blasphemer that he's Beelzebub
you know that you know they're blaspheming the Holy Ghost in that
Talmud but you know why don't they get on that it's pretty clear in
the Bible that his soul was not left in hell neither that his flesh seek
corruption and here's the thing is they say well when it says hell it's
not referring to like the literal hell it's referring to Abraham's bosom
it's like then why does he use hell you know and here's the thing it's just
like you're using the modern version interpretation of those scriptures
because the King James uses hell the other versions uses the Greek words
for that okay Sheol and Hades and so that's why they come up with these
weird interpretations because they somehow think that that's referring to a second
compartment next to hell so if your King James only stop being a hypocrite and
actually believe what the King James says did the King James make a mistake
by putting hell there obviously it did it okay that was a rhetorical
question for those dispensationalists so that's the sign he says in verse 41
the men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation and shall
condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonas and behold it
greater than Jonas is here so he's condemning Israel because he's like you
know Jonah when he went to Nineveh they actually repented at his
preaching you have Jesus Christ in the flesh here and you're still not
repenting then he says in verse 42 the Queen of the South shall rise up
in judgment with this generation and shall condemn him for she came from the
utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon and behold a
greater than Solomon is here what is he doing he's elevating who he is as he
should right because he's God and he's saying look the Queen of the South is
not part of Israel she's not part of the Covenant but she was willing to
come pass land with great trains and spices and gifts to me and hear the
wisdom of Solomon she is gonna condemn you guys in the judgment because of
all she was willing to do to come here the wisdom of Solomon of course Solomon
is a picture of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament because he's the wisest man
that ever lived but Jesus Christ is the source of all wisdom and he's like
a greater than Solomon is here you don't have to come pass land with
gifts and trains of spices and animals and do all these things he's
right there and yet they're still not repenting they're still not believing
on him as a whole Israel is it said what he's saying here as a whole Israel is
rejecting Jesus Christ all right verse 43 so then you know the he gets
into this little parable here and it almost seems out of place but I'm
explaining what he what he's referring to here says verse 43 when the unclean
spirit has gone out of a man he walked it through dry places seeking
rest and finest none then he saith I will return into mine house from once I
came out and when he has come he findeth an empty swept and garnished now
what is he talking about here well if we're to take everything in its
context it almost seems to indicate that this unclean spirit left a man
because he was potentially exercised right someone came and cast the devil
out of this person so the unclean spirit takes off it's kind of bored
he's walking through dry places he doesn't find anywhere to rest so then he
decides to come back to that person whom he was cast out of and he finds
it lo and behold it says they're empty swept and garnished and notice
it says empty swept and garnished meaning he left and no one took a
vacancy there no one came to live in there so you know he left that
apartment but no one you know came up after you know for the apartment but
you know the owner of the apartment just kind of cleaned everything up
repainted the walls and everything got everything ready he found it good
as new so what does he do verse 45 then go with he and taketh with
himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter in
and dwell there and the last state of that man is worse than the first so he's
just like oh great more space so he gets all his demon buddies to come and
possess that individual and it says that essentially the last end of that
man he waxes worse is what's going on here now let me give you the
practical explanation of this and I'm gonna give you the underlying meaning
why Jesus Christ is bringing this up okay first and foremost this is why I
said that when a person gets a demon cast out of them it doesn't
automatically mean that they get saved okay because of the fact that if
a person chooses not to believe on Jesus Christ after they've been
exercised of a demon what often happens and let's just let's just get
specific here you know you think of like these Pentecostal churches or
something right where they supposedly get this some demon exercise from them
and what happens you know they begin to clean up their lives they stop doing
cocaine and drinking and fornicating they were a pent of their sins you
know cuz they've had that the demon of pornography like left them you know
I mean the demon of alcohol the demon of marijuana and cocaine and drug abuse
and whatever that stuff leaves but you know what Pentecostals aren't saved
they have the wrong gospel so then what you find out is if a person persists in
that condition long enough without getting saved they actually get worse
they actually become far more wicked and evil and perverse why because that
spirit that dwelt there in the beginning went and got all his little
porn buddies his alcohol buddies and even found some other buddies with
other vices to dwell within them greed covetousness go to 2nd Peter if
you would 2nd Peter chapter 2 let's get some scripture to back this up look
at 2nd Peter chapter 2 like well you know you can't a person like clean up
their lives without Jesus though yes of course and in fact did you know that
someone can someone who's unsafe can clean up their life are you guys cold
in here not cold raise your hand if you're cold all right what is it at
69 put it at 69.5 no just kidding put it at 71 72 or something so let me
say this yeah they can clean up their lives without Christ but let me
say this there's people in this world that can use biblical principles and
improve their life and still not be saved did you know that I mean people
do it all the time where they use biblical principles to succeed to
improve their life but they're actually not even saved now let's
look at some scripture to back this up it says verse 19 and 2nd Peter chapter
2 while they promised them liberty they themselves are the servants of
corruption this talk about false prophets for of whom a man is overcome
of the same is he brought in bondage for if after they have escaped the
pollutions of the world to the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ what does that say they've escaped the pollutions they've escaped
the sins they've escaped all these things through the knowledge of Jesus
Christ they are again entangled therein and overcome listen to this the
latter end is worse with them than the beginning what is that talking about
talking about a reprobate talk about a person who might get involved in some
religious affiliation it doesn't preach the right gospel but they teach you
how to clean up your life excuse me they make you think that you're saved
to get the demon out of you and then what happens is it's like the demon
comes back and it's just like oh no more cocaine oh no more alcohol oh no
more stealing cool I'm gonna bring those guys back I'm gonna get seven
other demons and then what happens that person becomes worse in the latter
end because salvation was never applied so don't think just because you see
someone who's living a clean life or even because they're teaching the
right doctrine that that means that they're saved okay and I think I should
say this but you know do you think of if you guys don't know who this is don't
worry about it but let you know IBLP and the whole Bill Gothard movement the
guy is a wicked false prophet okay he's a wicked false prophet you said
how was he able to deceive so many people because he gave so much truth he
gave a lot of truth he taught a lot of biblical things but you're supposed
to if you're a false prophet and if you're gonna deceive people right you
can't you got to mix it in with some lies and that's what he did he taught
the right salvation he even taught about spiritual gifts which is what I
preach spiritual gifts he talked about how to overcome sin and so people are
like how can he be such a wicked person I'll tell you how because of the
fact that he never got saved that's how when you are trying to have
relationships with like teenager teenage girls trying to sneak him into
your office so you can have sexual relations with them you're a freaking
pervert you're a false prophet and the people were taking over after him the
Duggar is Jim Bob he's he's just as wicked I mean his son is a pervert
pedophile who should be hung and shot in the head because he's such a
wicked piece of crap who molested his sisters he molested his sister's
molested girls he committed adultery on his wife and did all manner of
wickedness and then when his dad like went and like brought him to the sheriff
you know to turn him in the sheriff is just like just don't do it again and
lo and behold it's because the sheriff was a pedophile too so don't
think that just because someone teaches the right doctrine or it's cleaning up
their life you know automatically that means that they're safe check their
salvation all right check what they believe about salvation and I can say a
whole lot of things about IBLP because I know a lot about it I have their books
I've studied them out in years past but time will not permit for me to do so
go back to Matthew chapter 12 and so this is essentially showing us that
people when they become reprobate they do become worse become extremely
wicked and evil and I mean really bad now why is he talking about this in this
chapter and let me just finish off here he says there then go with he
into a verse 45 then go with he and taketh with himself seven other
spirits more wicked than himself and they enter in and dwell there and the
last day of that man is worse than the first listen to this even so shall
it be also unto this wicked generation so this is definitely applicable to an
individual as we clearly see right where people were possessed but he's
applying it to this generation referring to the generation in Israel
now how why is that applicable to the generation in Israel well because of
the fact that Jesus Christ performed a lot of miracles in Israel he was there
he healed the blind the deaf he resurrected the dead from the grave he
cast out devils but you know what he came into his own and his own received
him not so we did all that so that they can get saved so they can believe
on him so they can believe on Jesus Christ for salvation but instead what
do they do they crucified the Son of God they rejected him crucified him
hated him now is this applicable to Israel yes you know why because it says
they're the last state of that man is worse than the first okay well we're
in 2023 Israel is way worse today than it has ever been before in the
history of the nation it's a freaking wicked nation it's a perverse
disgusting nation who the Bible literally says is spiritual Sodom and
Egypt why because of the fact that ever since they rejected Jesus Christ even
though he kind of cleaned them up a little bit when he first came he he
symbolically cast out the demon because they rejected him that demon
came back known as Satan found the house empty because they rejected Jesus
Christ and what do they do it just it's just a cesspool of demons now it's just
a cesspool of demonic activity the Jews are cursed people it's a cursed
nation okay who hate Jesus Christ and have been a curse into the nations
ever since then and so the reason he's bringing this up is because he's saying
you know what you guys are gonna be like that guy you guys are that wicked
generation because I'm performing all these miracles before you but you're
rejecting me and therefore the your last state is gonna be worse than the
first you're pretty bad now but you're only gonna get worse Israel was
pretty bad in times past in the history of Israel oh but there's so
much worse now Jews were pretty bad back in the day oh but there's so much
more wicked now though and that's what he's saying does that make sense to
everyone we don't got any Zionists here do we okay I'm gonna I'll finish there
and of course the latter end you can read it yourself it's not very hard
to understand he's just he's basically saying that you know the real family
that we have is those who we have in Christ okay those who are who are doing
the will of God and adhering to the commandments and serving God the same as
our brother sister and mother and so we'll finish off there let's pray father
we thank you so much for your word help us as your people Lord to take it
to heart and Lord I pray that you help us Lord to take a passage like
this to help us to realize that there are people out there that can be
on the brink of reprobation and help us to get to them before it gets
to that point maybe they just need the gospel preached unto them and they
can get saved and avoid that eternal damnation Lord and I pray that you'd
help us to to love your commandments Lord and to have discernment Lord that
sometimes there's people out there that try to mask themselves as as being
Bible believers but at the end of the day behind closed doors Lord they're
doing they're performing wickedness there's greater abominations and I do
pray that you destroy that organization Lord IBLP and that the
the people who are in those movements who are very sincere would just get
under a local New Testament Church those are parachurch ministries that
are just useless Lord and they get people away from the authority of God's
Word and then the authority of a local New Testament Church and I pray to you
bless us as we go on our way in Jesus name amen
tell your song books please to song number 325 trust and obey song number
325 trust and obey
number 325 trust and obey on the first when we walk with the Lord in the light
of his word what a glory he sheds on our way
while we do with goodwill he abides with us still and with all who will
trust and obey trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy in
Jesus but to trust and obey not a shadow can rise not a cloud in the skies but
his smile quickly drives it away not a down or a fear not a sign or a tear
trust and obey trust and obey
Jesus but trust and obey on the third not a burden we bear not a sorrow we
happy Jesus but to trust and obey but we never
Oh trust and obey trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy in
Jesus but to stand away on the last then in fellowship
sweet we will sit at his feet or walk by his side in the way
What he says we will do, where he sends me will go, never fear, only trust and obey, trust and obey
For there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Great singing. You dismissed.