Higher plain that I have found, Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
My heart has no desire to stay, word doubts arise, and fears dismay.
Though some may dwell where these abound, my prayer, my aim, is higher ground.
by faith on heaven's table, and a higher plane that I have found.
For at my feet, on higher ground, I want to live above the world.
Though Satan's dark set me be hurled, for faith has come.
the joyful sound, the song of saints on higher ground.
Lord, lift me up and let me stand.
A higher plane that I have found.
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
I want to scale the utmost out.
And catch a gleam of glory bright
But still I'll pray till heaven I found
Or plant my feet on higher ground
Or let me up and let me stand
By faith on heaven's stable land
A higher plane that I have found
Or plant my feet on higher ground
Amen. Wonderful singing. Let's start off our service with a word of prayer. Dear God, Heavenly
Father, we thank you so much, O Lord, for just bringing us back safely, O Lord God, to your house.
O Lord God, we do pray that you please just bless every aspect of the service, O Lord. We pray that
you please just bless the singing unto you. That would be beautiful to your ears. And Lord,
I do pray that you please just most of all bless the preaching of your word. I pray that you would
please just be with our pastor, fill in with your Holy Spirit, guide him through the scriptures, O
And I pray that you please also just please be with us.
What God helped us to have spirit filled ears.
And I hope us what got to receive your word
with gladness what got tonight.
We pray that you please just bless us now.
In Jesus' name, amen.
You may be seated song number 301, sweet hour of prayer.
Song number 301, song number 301.
Sing it on that first verse.
Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer
That calls me from a world of care
And bids me at my Father's throne
Make all my wants and wishes known
In seasons of distress and grief, my soul has often found relief.
And oft escape the tempter's snare, by thy return, sweet hour.
Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer,
thy wings shall my petition bear.
To him whose truth and faithfulness
engage the waiting soul to glass.
me see his face, believe his word, and trust his grace.
I'll cast on him my every care, and wait for thee,
sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer,
May I thy consolation share.
Mount Pisgoth, lofty heights.
I view my home and take my flight.
This robe of flesh I'll drop and rise
Burlasting cries, and shout, while passing through the air.
All right, great singing, just a few announcements here
before we sing our next song, which will be 116.
He leadeth me.
And just before by the more he comes up.
I just want to remind you as what I talked about this morning regarding our offering Sunday next Sunday, which is on Mother's Day.
Just a few things here, of course, please pray that God would give us a generous offering to kickstart our savings for a building.
I hope you're taking that serious and please take some time each day this week to pray over that.
Also, participate by giving a one-time gift and considering giving monthly to our building funds.
We're going to take it during the offering, but there are going to be offering envelopes
that are designated for the building fund in the bulletins on Sunday.
So I will talk about it during the announcements on Sunday, but we'll take it on that day.
But I want you to consider and of course participate in giving that one-time gift and even consider
giving monthly to our building fund.
And I also mentioned that you can give through PayPal, but preferably start giving through
but they taxed that thing.
And so if you want to give the full amount,
you can give through Zell.
If you have any questions on that,
you can talk to brother Ulysses Hernandez.
It's pretty simple.
As I mentioned, offering envelopes
with the designated section for the building
will be given out next week.
And then lastly, once again,
just please pray for God to provide.
Obviously, we're doing this for the long haul.
And so this will be our first year
of taking an offering for our future building.
And so we need to look towards the future,
be prudent about that, pray.
And we're looking forward to next week.
Brother Moran, why don't you come on up?
All right, good evening everyone and then just we would like to welcome you to our
Thursday night Bible study at 7 p.m. We're currently going through the book of
Isaiah. We're coming up towards the end of it here. We have our birthday breakfast
today. Hopefully everyone that had their birthdays in the month of May that you
guys got a chance to celebrate that and you had your muffins as well. So many
teams and times are there below. Always continue to pray for the expecting
Today and obviously past me hit on this the soley seat offering, but it will also be Mother's Day that day
So bring somebody's mom bring your mom bring somebody else's mom find a mom
You know do something bring somebody's mom and then we'll have a gift
And then there's gonna be a photo booth in the back so that we can take pictures with our moms and or whoever's mom you brought
T1 emissions trip will be Saturday May 24th mean at the building at 9 15 a.m
Just make sure you bring your passport.
If you have any questions, Brother Hernandez leads that.
And then we have our graduation ceremony Sunday, May 25th.
It'll be during the services.
The AM service will be for elementary school.
And the PM service will be for high school as well.
That's it for the announcements.
Please silence your phone to not be
a disturbance to the service.
Open up your hymnals to song number 116, he leadeth me, 116.
Song number 116, he leadeth me.
Song number 116.
See you on that first verse.
He leadeth me, O blessed thought, O words with heavenly comfort fraught.
What ere I do, where ere I be, Still tis my hand that leadeth me.
He leadeth me, he leadeth me.
By his own hand he lideth me, His faithful father I would be,
For by his hand he lideth me.
Sometimes mid-seas of deepest gloom, Sometimes worried and flowers bloom.
By water still, or troubled sea, Stilled is his hand that leadeth me.
He leadeth me, he leadeth me, By his own hand he leadeth me.
by his hand he leadeth me.
Lord, I would glass my hand in mine,
nor ever murmur, nor repine.
Content, whatever lot I see,
since tis my God that leads.
He leadeth me, he leadeth me, by his own hand, he leadeth me.
His faithful follower I would be, for by his hand he leadeth me.
And when my task on earth is done, when by...
In death's cold wave I will not flee
Since God through Jordan leadeth me
He leadeth me, he leadeth me
By his own hand he leadeth me
Amen wonderful singing at this time our ushers will be receiving the offering and please
turn your Bibles to 2 Peter chapter 2.
Good evening tonight. We're in 2 Peter chapter 2
2 Peter 2 the Bible reads
But there were false prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring
Endamnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them bring upon themselves swift destruction
And many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment
now of a long-time lingareth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered
them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment, and spared not the old world
but saved Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon
the world of the ungodly, and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned
them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly,
and delivered just lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked.
For that righteous man dwelling among them and seen and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lusts of uncleanness, and despise government, presumptuous are they self-willed, they are not afraid to speak even of dignities.
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
But these, as natural-brewed beasts, may be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not, and shall utterly perish in their own corruption, and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to write in the daytime.
Spots they are and blemishes sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you
Having eyes full of adultery and cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls and heart
They have exercised with covetous practices
Curse children which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of bozor
Who loved their wages of unrighteousness
But was rebuked for his iniquity the dumbass speaking with man's voice forbade the madness of the prophet
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with the tempest, to whom the
mist of darkness is reserved forever.
For when they speak great, swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lust of
the flesh through much wantonness, those that are clean escapes from them who live in error.
Well, they promised them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption, for of whom
a man is overcome of the same as he brought in bondage.
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled there in an overcome, the latter
end is worse with them than the beginning.
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after
but it has happened unto them according to the true proverb. The dog is returned to his own
bond again and the soul that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. Let's pray. Dear Lord God,
just thank you for this time we have tonight to hear the preaching of your word, Lord. Just please
bless us in the congregation to give us ears to hear of the preaching Lord and just please bless
Pastor and fill him with the Holy Spirit Lord and give him boldness as he preaches to us,
God bless you, child.
Second Peter chapter two, in verse number one,
is the cutest sneeze I've ever heard in my life.
Verse number one says,
but there are false prophets also among the people,
even as there shall be false teachers among you,
who privily shall bring in damnedable heresies,
even denying the Lord that bought them.
and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
The time I serve in this evening is Peter's profile of false prophets.
Peter's profile of false prophets.
And this evening we're going to go through the chapter here in 2 Peter
and just kind of look at what Peter says are some of the characteristics of a false prophet.
And it's always good to refresh ourselves regarding the characteristics
and the attributes of these false apostles, false prophets,
because of the fact that the Bible is telling us here
there shall be false teachers among us,
meaning that just as there is false prophets.
in the Old Testament, even in the New Testament,
the Bible tells us there's going to be false prophets even in our day as well.
Let me read to you from Acts chapter 20 because, you know, a lot of churches actually shy away from talking about this subject.
It's very uncomfortable for them to just pass judgment on people and kind of label them as reprobates or as false prophets.
But, you know, there's enough in the Bible to tell us and to warn us to beware of people like this.
and to show us that these people do exist
and they seek to infiltrate churches.
And this is what the Bible says in Acts chapter 20,
the apostle Paul, you don't have to turn there,
says here in verse 28,
Take he, therefore, unto yourselves and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.
So the apostle Paul, as he is commissioning these various elders that are going to go out and start different churches, these are pastors, these are people who are ordained, these are men of God who he's sending out to go start churches, he says the number one thing you need to make sure that you're doing is you're feeding the flock of God.
Now, what does that mean?
It's not referring to a potluck.
It's not referring to muffins.
These are all good things.
But he's referring to feeding them the Word of God.
In other words, you need to teach them
what the Bible says about everything.
In fact, the previous verse says,
for I have not shunned to declare unto you
all the counsel of God.
So as we study the entire Word of God,
the entire counsel of God,
what is the result of that?
He says, for I know this.
He says, teach all this.
Feed the flock of God for I know this that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you
Not sparing the flock so we saying you need to educate the flock of God because when I'm gone
Falls prophets are going to infiltrate and they're going to seek to deceive people
Teach Falls doctrine and it even says in verse 30 also of your own self
Shall I'm in a rise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them?
So, according to the Bible, it's important for us as pastors to teach on the subject of false prophets,
educate the flock of God regarding these grievous wolves, because they are a reality,
it's a real danger, and it's something that we need to know about.
Now, we're going to go through 2 Peter 2 this evening,
and we're going to jump back and forth from 2 Peter 2 and the book of Jude.
These are your quintessential chapters
that teach extensively on the subject of false prophets.
And someone even surmised that the book of Jude
got a lot of its content from Peter, okay?
You know, you see kind of a lot of the same statements
being made in both books.
And so it's possible that Jude was written after 1st and 2nd Peter
and that he derived a lot of the inspiration for his epistle there from the Apostle Peter.
So let me give you a couple things regarding the profile of a false prophet according to the Apostle Peter.
First and foremost, let's look at their origins.
Where do false prophets come from?
Right?
What is their origins?
Where do they come from?
Verse number one says,
So, what does this tell us?
False prophets actually come from church, believe it or not.
They don't necessarily come from the outside coming in,
although that could be the case in certain instances.
But in general, false prophets, unfortunately,
are bred in churches.
This is what the Bible talks about when it talks about
the wheats and the tares growing together.
There are instances where people come to church.
They feign themselves to be a just person.
They feign themselves to be a saved individual,
but they actually become reprobates in church.
Why is that?
Well, here's the thing, folks, is that, you know, the truth is powerful, and if you go
to a church that's constantly teaching the Word of God, and you have a person that goes
to church, and they reject the gospel, they reject the teaching, but they continue to
attend church.
They continue to adhere to the preaching of God's Word, the reading of the Scriptures,
but they just perpetually just forsake those things, that can actually blind them spiritually
And this is why the apostle Paul says that they shall come even from among you, even of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them.
And I've said this before, but one of the biggest breeding grounds unfortunately for reprobates are Christian schools and Bible colleges.
You know mainly because of the fact that you know sometimes people are forced into those institutions by their parents
And they're getting constant preaching. They're getting constant Bible
But if they're getting it not because they want it but because they're forced to get it
You know they can become bitter towards the Word of God
Become critical towards the teachings of Scripture and that can actually make them reprobate, okay?
So unfortunately the origins of false prophets actually come from churches themselves
And that's not to say the churches are doing wrong
by producing false prophets,
it's just the natural byproduct of rejecting,
when an unsafe person rejects the truth,
after receiving it,
weekend, week out, month in, month out,
that is the natural result of things, okay?
Go to 1 John chapter two, if you would,
1 John chapter two, hold your place there,
in 2 Peter.
And you know, this is why it's important,
this is why you place such a heavy emphasis
on witnessing to people when they come to church.
You know, when we get visitors to church,
our number one prerogative, our priority,
is to make sure this person gets saved, right?
Or at least we make sure that they get the gospel.
You know, we have a system in our church
that when visitors come, you know, Brother Glenn,
he, before the service is even over,
he already has people designated to go talk to those people
and give them the gospel.
You know, obviously because we want them to get saved,
we want them to get saved,
we want them to get baptized, get plugged in the church.
But also, you know, if you think about it, we can run the risk of causing this person to become a reprobate to a certain degree
if they continue to attend, right?
You know, they keep attending church.
They don't really believe in what we're saying,
but they just keep attending.
They can actually be blinded by God
and they could end up becoming a false prophet or a reparate.
This is a reality.
Look at 1 John 2 verse 18.
Of course, the apostle John wrote this.
And when you read this, you know where he's getting this from
or why he's saying this because of the ministry that he had.
It says in verse 18,
Even now are there many anti-Christ whereby we know that it is the last time so what does he mean? He's saying that obviously from a
prophetic standpoint
There is an anti-Christ coming okay the son of perdition
But even now there's many anti-Christ meaning that there's a lot of false prophets even now right a lot of people who are
Teaching false doctrine. They are false prophets. They are reprobates. Then he says in verse 19. They went out from us
Now, who do you think he's actually talking about?
Because obviously, if he's saying they went out from us,
he's not giving a hypothetical.
He was part of a group where a false prophet came out of.
And who was that false prophet?
Judas, Iscariot.
And he's saying here, they went out from us, meaning that they apostatized, they went reprobate, they became the son of perdition.
It says, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have no doubt have continued with us.
But they went out, that they might be made manifest, that they were not all of us.
So he's telling us here that false prophets can come from within.
Judas came from the Twelve, right?
Now, I don't want to scare you, but the reality is this is that throughout the lifetime of
our church, there's going to be false prophets that come out of our church, unfortunately.
That's just going to happen.
Now, hopefully, it's no one here under the sound of my voice right now, but if you're
under the sound of my voice and you're not saved, you better get saved immediately, right?
And quite frankly, it's just insane to think that someone would attend the church that
You know, they hate the pastor, they hate the preaching,
they hate the word of God, but they just bring themselves
to church every single Sunday to hear it.
It's no wonder God makes that person a republic,
because they're making a mockery of the truth, right?
But it's telling us here that they go out
and when it says they went out,
it doesn't mean they got out of church.
When it says they went out from us,
it's referring to the fact that they transgressed
the doctrines of Christ, okay?
They went from being supposedly a believer
to now being an unbeliever.
And this is where a lot of people get tripped up on people who go apostate.
They say, you know, oh, you know, I knew people who, now they're atheists, they say they believe in the Gospel.
They say they were saved, but now they're just a full-blown atheist.
And they say, you know, what do you say to that?
And when we say it, well, that person was just never safe to begin with.
They went to a church. They heard the preaching of God's word. They rejected the truth
They turned the truth of God into a lie and then they ended up becoming an apostate a reprobate and let me just say this
We've had people like that in our church
Where they're just like they believe they claim to believe in the right gospel
They got baptized they sat right there and listened to my preaching and then all of a sudden
They're just like oh, can I get a letter of transfer to the Roman Catholic Church?
That's insane
And let me just say this, all these Protestants
who are converting to Roman Catholicism,
you're all apostate.
That's what it is.
No, I just studied history.
Yeah, you're apostate,
because you're upholding history over the word of God.
You know, because this is a thing now, it's a trend.
It's a trend of apostasy.
where you have these Protestants who were Sunday school teachers and you know
they're teaching in a in a Christian church and all of a sudden they get down
into history and they realize oh man the Catholic Church is the one true church
they come to that realization and then they convert into Roman Catholicism
that's called going apostate.
And so, and look, it's gonna happen.
It's gonna happen in our church.
It's happening in other churches.
And the result of that is that sometimes that person,
not all the time, but a lot of times
they actually become full-fledged false prophets.
And look, here's a great example of this.
You may not know who this is, but you know,
the voice of reason is a false prophet who went apostate.
He was, previous to him being this Roman Catholic
apologist on IG, you know, he was a Protestant.
He was a Christian, he taught Sunday school class.
He was all about the Christian church
and going to church and reading the Bible
and then he became a Roman Catholic.
That's a person who became a false prophet.
He came out from the Protestant churches.
And let me just say this,
not all Protestant churches teach a false gospel.
Many of them teach the right gospel.
And I guarantee you,
the church he came from probably taught the right gospel,
which is why he went apostate, okay?
The point that I'm making here
is the origin of a false prophet, believe it or not,
comes from a Baptist church.
They come from Baptist churches. They come from churches that actually teach the right doctrine
Because of the fact that the truth blinds them and then they become the enemies of the cross of Christ as the Apostle Paul states in
Philippians chapter 3
Look at Jude if you would go to Jude
so we see that the origins of a false prophet actually stems from within a church and
I want to emphasize that because I don't want you to be caught off guard if it ever does happen if and when it does happen
Because sometimes church members can have this unrealistic expectation of our church.
It's just like, how can this happen to a new AFP church?
It's just like, it happened in the Bible.
What are you talking about?
You know, oh man, people getting divorced or something, or this sin taking place.
How can that happen?
Because it's a church filled with sinners.
And that is what takes place.
So don't allow that to blindside you, catch you off guard,
and make you think that this church is discredited
because something like that would happen.
The Bible confirms that that would happen.
We just have to prepare for it, okay?
And not be surprised.
Obviously initially we might be like,
what in the world?
More is a false problem, I'm just kidding.
I'm kidding.
You know what, the world is a false problem,
I never would have, you know?
And then let me just say this, okay?
None of us have 100% discernment on who becomes a
false prophet or a reprobate, okay?
And you know, we need to stop like, you know,
putting that forth as though we do.
Cause quite frankly, you know, I'm looking at a crowd
who probably doesn't have, doesn't exceed the godliness
of the apostles.
And the apostles didn't know, right?
And obviously you know there's some pastors out there that I'm just like in my mind. I'm thinking reprobate
But quite frankly, I don't even jump the gun on that because at the end of the day
I don't really care
You know if someone's out there teaching heresy and false doctrine and it's making me question if they're a false prophet or a
Reprobate it doesn't really matter to me because at the end of the day they are unto me as a heathen and as a public in
Plain and simple so whether he's a reprobate or not whether he's a false prophet or not
I'm treating him like one because he has he's teaching heresy
Understand, but here's the thing like
What does that do to our ego like oh?
I knew it that this person was just like a false prophet reprobate nothing
It absolutely does absolutely nothing and in fact it discredits you from everyone else because you're almost making it seem as though
Everyone else is an idiot who didn't see it or something
So let's just biblically approach these things unless someone is just for sure like and I obviously like there's false prophets out
There we just collectively agree. This person's a false prophet. They don't reprobate the popes in hell, right?
And no one's gonna argue that, you know, we could all kumbaya around that and we all and we could all say we knew it
Now look at Jude for I don't I don't remember where I was going with that look at verse four of Jude
It says for there are certain men
crept in unawares.
So the origins of a false prophet is they come from within,
but the Bible also explains that they do come from
without as well.
And these types of men who actually creep in unawares
are doing it intentionally in order to disrupt something,
in order to teach false doctrine,
in order to be guile unstable souls.
And the Bible's telling us that they're creeping in unaware
because they have a form of godliness,
but they deny the power they're of, right?
It says, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men turn to the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
The point that I'm making here is the origin of a false prophet, believe it or not, actually stems from a local New Testament church.
Because the word of God has the power to save, but it also has the power to damn as well and make a person reprobate.
And let me just remind you that a reprobate and a false prophet are one and the same.
Now, look, there might be a pastor out there who's teaching false doctrine, and they could
be considered a false prophet but not necessarily a reprobate.
And let's just say you know this pastor and you go to them and say, hey, you're teaching
a wrong gospel, this is actually what the Bible says.
And if that pastor is like, oh man, I was wrong about this, I need to change what I believe.
Right, but once that person agrees that they're wrong about what they're teaching on salvation
They should no longer be a pastor, though
Right, because at that point they've disqualified themselves
Well, how so because they're being a pastor as an unsafe person and they don't understand the foundational doctrines of the Bible
Which is like, you know salvation
And so, you know, that person needs to humble himself
and sit down and let someone else actually take care
of the job because they didn't know.
And you know, praise God that they got saved, right?
Amen to that, praise God for that.
But, you know, you need to forfeit your privilege
of being a pastor because you just got saved, my friend.
So you're a babe in Christ.
So at that point I would say okay that person is no longer a false prophet, right?
Because this person is obviously saved now they believe in the right gospel and so forth
But here's the thing if a person is teaching a wrong gospel and
You approach that if a pastor is teaching a wrong gospel and you approach them about it
And they just don't want to change then I would just say oh, so you're okay. You're an upper bait
Because if they double down on their false gospel, that's a reprobate
A person of humility, when they're wrong, when it comes to salvation, they're going to see it clearly from the Scriptures and agree to it regardless of who's saying it.
Because the Bible says it, right?
But if they just completely reject that, they want to continue in their repent of your sins, you know, gospel or what not, that person is a reprobate, that person is a false prophet through and through.
Stacey Schifflet is an example of that, okay?
Who's been corrected time and time again about teaching a repent of your sins false gospel.
He's not willing to correct that.
There's enough information. There's enough rebuked. There was enough correction given to him regarding his false gospel
He's not willing to change. It's not that he's a little mixed up is that he doubled down on his false gospel
So just just get get that little tape with the little label is his false prophet and stick it right on his forehead
That's the fact. He's a false prophet
The point that I'm making here is that false prophets come from within, but they also come from without.
There's people who intentionally try to infiltrate a church in order to deceive and beguile unstable souls.
Go back to 2 Peter 2 if you would.
The Peter's profile of a false prophet tells us where they come from.
They come from within, but they also come from without according to the book of Jude.
Secondly, we're going to look at their inclination towards heresy.
False prophets are obviously known for teaching heresy that is their major inclination now
There's other things that they are guilty of but the number one thing in order to identify a false prophet is what they teach
Look at verse 1 it says but there are false prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you
Who privately what does privately mean privately?
under the radar right in a
Deceitful manner is what it's referring to
who privily shall bring in damnedable heresies.
Now, what is this referring to?
It's referring to the fact that the false prophet
has the intention of teaching things
that are contrary to the doctrines of Christ.
Now, let me explain something here.
Because what is a heresy?
Heresy is anything that is contrary to the word of God,
right?
And let me just explain to you
that even saved people are guilty of heresy sometimes.
It doesn't mean that they're not saved.
Everyone understand that?
And in fact, the works of the flesh according to Galatians chapter 5 is what?
Heresy.
Meaning that, you know, some Christians can teach some really stupid stuff.
Some heretical teachings.
Right?
But there's a difference though between heresy and damnedable heresy.
You know, that damnedable part plays a major role in this particular definition.
Because what it's referring to is the fact that what they're teaching actually transgresses the foundational doctrines of Christ.
Whether it be salvation, the divinity of Jesus Christ, the infallibility of the Bible,
or anything that is foundational to the Christian faith.
If they teach contrary to that, that would be a damnable heresy.
If a pastor gets up into nice hell, that's damnable heresy.
Right?
If a pastor gets up and says that Jesus is the Father,
that's damnable heresy.
Now look, if a pastor gets up and teaches geocentricity,
that's not a damnable heresy,
but it definitely is a heresy, though, right?
It's stupid, and obviously if a pastor's doing that,
you kind of wonder about their qualifications
in the first place, but if that same pastor gets up
and teaches a wrong way of salvation,
then you got yourself some damnable heresy.
You know, because there's a lot of unintelligent people out there that don't know what they're
talking about, but at the end of the day, the dandelion heresy is what we're looking
at.
And you know, obviously...
Coming from an old IFB church in that old IFB world, you know
A lot of pastors are just guilty of kind of muddying the gospel a little bit
And I've known safe pastors who do this and they're saved because when you have an in-depth conversation with them about salvation
They give you the right answers
But from the pulpit they'll say something to the effect of all you got to repent of your sins
And then when you ask them privately, they're like well
We just mean that you know you got to admit to your sin or something and that is common
in old IEP churches, okay?
I don't believe they're false prophets,
I just believe they're uneducated
when it comes to what they preach about salvation.
And it's because the books that they're reading,
the people they're around, this is just a common thing.
And we have to be able to discern that, okay?
but a false prophet intentionally infiltrates the church in order to teach these damnable heresies
about salvation, the divinity of Christ, and so forth.
They have an inclination to do so.
Now, let me just say this, okay, because this is important too.
If a pastor gets up and doesn't teach damnable heresy, but teaches heresy, that's one thing.
But when that same pastor gets up and teaches heresy week after week,
Even though even if it's not dandable heresy, but you're just kind of known for teaching heresy
You're just rolling out new heresy week after week. I
Know it's not dandable heresy, but folks a pastor has to be more right than wrong
Right
And look as a pastor. I've made mistakes over the last eight years
Not about the the doctrines of Christ just about ran up stuff
And I've gone up multiple times and said,
hey, I was wrong about this.
I'm changing my view on this or whatever.
That's completely normal.
Pastors are allowed to change their position on things
throughout their Christian growth.
It's perfectly fine to do that.
What's not fine is a man who is given to change,
doctrinal change.
And let me give you an example.
Years ago, there was a pastor who latched on to the new IFB.
And his name was Tyler Doka.
Now red how many you guys remember know what I'm talking about raise your hand if you know what I'm talking about I see that hand
This guy first of all was not qualified he was like a self-ordained guy or whatever and
You know there's some red flags, but you know we thought he might have been a cool guy, but he was just you know
Self-willed or something right?
And this guy, you know, he exerted a lot of these qualities.
And obviously, you know, as a pastor,
we try to give people the benefit of the doubt.
We don't want to just like, you know,
when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
And we don't want to just think like,
everyone's just a bad person, right?
Like, I don't want to think that about people.
I don't want to think like, every pastor I come and come,
oh, this guy must be a false prophet.
You know, like I run into pastors at the gym.
I'm not thinking of myself like, oh yeah,
you're not a Baptist, for sure you're a false prophet.
You know, I don't, I wanna think this person's probably saved.
I like to think of that of other people, right?
So this is kind of how we reviewed this guy.
But then one day, this guy just rose out with the flat earth.
A pastor teaching flat earth.
And it's just like, oh no.
This guy is teaching a flat earth now look there's say people who believe in the flat earth
But may not be said that there's a
pastor who teaches flat earth, okay, and then he's trying to use the Bible to back it up and
At first we're like oh man, this is not good
But then we're thinking like okay, maybe this is just a weird thing that he believes or whatever, but then the week after
And the week after that, the teachings got progressively worse
to the point that he started teaching that Christians go to hell for a time.
You know, if you don't serve God or do whatever, you know, you're going to spend a thousand years.
You know, when everyone's parting in the millennial reign, you're going to be in hell.
You know, the Christian purgatory.
He started teaching this kingdom exclusionism. That's what it's called.
Or like you go to hell for a while to pay for the things that you did and then you get out for a little bit
Weird stuff, and this is like progressively just getting worse
Now if you're sitting listening to this and you think to yourself all pass you're so judgmental
And why are you you just always getting on people and yeah, maybe he's a little off on them
Well, you know, then he's just said he was Jesus
I didn't stutter, you didn't misinterpret what I just said.
He was teaching that he was Jesus.
And a bunch of idiots online believed him, by the way.
By the way, no matter what you teach,
you'll find some idiot that believes
you're a stupid doctrine, right?
And there's people that are like, you are Jesus.
I confess you.
And now he's just like, I think he's writing
He's just completely not a Christian. He doesn't even claim Christianity. He's not about that life anymore
But you know obviously the progression of these things
Proved to us that he was a false prophet and let me explain to you why because the Bible tells us when it comes to false
Prophets that they're folly folly a stupidity
Nonsense it says their folly shall be made manifest
And it says these shop proceed no further for their folly shall be made manifest
In other words, if this person is masquerading as a pastor, as a man of God, as a Christian, deceiving people, it will only last for so long.
They will eventually be found out to be a false prophet because God's going to allow their folly to be made manifest.
And sometimes God just like gives them strong delusions in order to teach that nonsense from the pulpit to show everyone, hey, this guy's a false prophet.
They're like, what if there's people out there
that still agree with them, then they deserve that.
They're also under that strong delusion.
Anybody who believed that guy was Jesus,
they deserved to believe it,
and God must hate those people, right?
To believe such a stupid nonsensical thing.
I mean, he was even saying that the measurements of his head
were like the measurements of the temple,
and just crazy stuff.
I mean, you can't make it up,
but he was saying this stuff.
The point that I'm making here is that, yes,
there are false prophets who
privilege bringing down to heresies,
but there comes a point where
their folly is made manifest.
And here is something to look for
when that happens, the progression of heresy
that comes from the pulpit every single week.
When the heresies just get worse every single week,
mark it down, false prophet.
Why?
I'll tell you why, because it's almost as if God
like removes the filter.
Right he like emboldens them
Because what's really in their heart is now coming out and it's coming out on a weekly basis because God wants to warn everyone
Regarding this person
Okay
Now you're in 1st Peter chapter 2 or I'm sorry 2nd Peter chapter 2 go to chapter 1 if you would 2nd Peter chapter 1
Look at verse 16 because let's get some context regarding chapter 2 verse 16 says for we have not followed cunningly devised
fables
When we may know unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we're eyewitnesses of his majesty
Verse 9 skipped down to verse 19. We have also a more sure word of prophecy
We're unto 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
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man
But holy man of God speak as they were moved by the holy ghost and then he goes into chapter 2
Regarding those who privately bring in damnable heresies. So what is this emphasizing?
It's emphasizing the obscurity of teachings from false prophets with how open the right prophets are regarding scripture and their teachings
You know, it should be that when we teach certain subjects, we make it very clear what we're talking about
We put the cooking on the bottom shelf.
You know, it's not of deceit, it's not of guile,
whereas a lot of times false prophets will say one thing
and it seems very extreme,
but then they'll kind of give it a caveat,
but that's not really what I mean by that though.
Okay, then tell me what do you mean?
And let me just explain something.
The job of a pastor is to explain things.
It's like bring things into light.
So, if I come to you and I say, you know,
this doesn't really mean what you think it means
or what people say it means
and then just never give you the explanation of what it means.
There's a problem there, right?
When they spend their entire time debunking
what everyone else says it means to fear the Lord,
but then never really give you a clear explanation
of what it actually means,
it's because they're privately trying to bring something in
to teach some heresy.
Understand what I'm saying our job is to put the kid this is why the Bible says that the pastor should be what apt to teach
What does it mean to be apt to teach?
It means you're capable of communicating the biblical truths to help you to understand
I have to help miss Kelly to understand the scriptures just like I need it. I need to communicate it to my son Bruce
Everyone in here needs to understand what I'm saying
So I have to like clearly communicate these things and not speak darkly
With obscurity to hide a certain truth or something like that
And here's the thing folks, like I know the Bible,
but I'm still learning the Bible too.
And I'm not gonna speak on things that I don't know about
or that I'm not well-versed on, right?
But when it comes to just the fundamentals
of the Christian faith, like the fear of God,
we all know what the Bible teaches on the fear of God.
If I were to ask my five-year-old,
what does it mean to have the fear of the Lord?
He can explain to me what that means.
Because it's just clearly stated.
But when you have a pastor get up and say that's not what it means and not give you the definition of what it actually means
Then you have someone who's privy trying to bring in some heresy
Because it's obscure. Okay. It's a private interpretation
Now obviously an extreme example of this is when you know false prophets teach a false gospel, right?
They use James chapter 2
They use Matthew chapter 7 they'll use portions of scripture that don't have they don't have anything to do with salvage
The message of salvation they'll pervert scriptures in order to do so the Bible tells us in Matthew 23
You don't have to turn to regard in the Pharisees
He says won't you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men for he neither go in
Yourselves neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in and Luke when talking about the the scribes the lawyers in the Pharisees
It says that they take away the key of knowledge, right?
Well, we're trying to give people the key of knowledge,
whereas false prophets seek to take it away
by corrupting the scriptures,
misrepresenting what the Bible actually says, so forth.
And so false prophets,
when it comes to the profile of a false prophet,
they come from within, but they also come from without.
We see also, look at verse number one again,
we see that they have an inclination towards heresy,
Just week after week. They just roll something out. That's brand-new that no one's ever heard of
And look, let me just make this disclaimer too though
Because you know, that's not to say the pastors can't come out with some sort of new angle of
Something that's already been established in the Bible
Understand
Like there could be a new angle to something and look the Bible is exhaustive. There's a lot to learn about the Bible
But when you start teaching things that just contradict the Bible though
and you just double down on it after you've been corrected?
There's an issue there.
Alright, next thing here is when it comes to the profile of a false prophet
is that the Bible teaches us that they are wolves in sheep's clothing.
This is what it means when it says they privately bring indemnable heresy.
How are they able to do that because they look like you and me?
When the Bible talks about a wolf in sheep's clothing,
it's referring to a false prophet who has the form of godliness,
but they deny the power they're of.
meaning they talk like us, they look like us,
they act like us, they claim to believe like us,
but they actually are not of us at all.
Now, I remember a particular example of this
where, you know, back during the bus ministry days,
we had a kid come and he was a teenager
and he was like the most fireiest, fundamental kid ever.
This kid can preach, he was super fundamental,
very Baptist, just soul winner,
and it was just, this kid was just on fire for God.
According to our definition of what we'd say was fired up.
Well, he's like married to a dude now.
He has a full blown sodomite.
And no, he didn't lose his way.
Bro's not backslidden.
Bro is hell bound reprobate.
And you know, are you saying he was a wolf in sheep's clothing?
Well, somewhere along that timeline, he went to reprobate.
And somewhere along that timeline, when he became a reprobate, he kept on the sheep's clothing.
To give a portrayal to everyone else that he was a Christian.
Okay?
And you know, obviously there's false prophets out there that are just wolves in wolves clothing.
You know, you got like Joe Olstein, he's wolf in wolves clothing, right?
They got this new anti-Christ guy coming out of where with the beanie. You guys seen that on social media?
He's like the Messiah. He's the Imam. He's all these other, you know, just some stupid false prophet
That's a wolf in wolves clothing, obviously
The ones we got to watch out for are those who claim our fundamental Baptist
Right those who claim to believe the Bible
But the Bible clearly shows us that they privily come in because obviously they are wolves and sheeps clothing
This is why it's important for us to realize and to understand that just because it looks like a Baptist
It talks like a Baptist. It looks like a fundamentalist doesn't mean that they are
Okay, and obviously, you know, we could only go by what people say
But there are instances where people just go apostate or their wolves and sheeps clothing they're trying to take advantage of people
Here's my next point and that is when it comes to false prophets, they're not saved and they are reprobate
Okay, and I've already talked a little bit about that, but I want you to notice verse number one towards the latter end
It says who privilege shall bring in damnable heresies and here's the big here's the kicker
Even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction
This is not saying that they were saved because the Lord bought them because the Lord shed his blood for everyone
What it's saying is they they denied salvation
And this is why, this is what kind of frustrates me
with a lot of pastors is that, you know,
they'll listen to a pastor who's teaching a false gospel
and they're like, well, you know,
just be patient with people.
Pray for them.
But what they don't understand is that this person,
if this person is not willing to get their gospel presentation
right, their gospel doctrine right,
it's because they've denied that gospel presentation.
The reason they're in the place that they're in
is because they denied the gospel of Christ.
Folks, Ray Comfort is not just, you know, confused.
He's not just, you know, a little mixed up.
He is a full blown reprobate
because he denied the Lord God that bought him.
It tells us that.
It says that they denied him,
meaning they denied salvation.
So a false prophet is a reprobate.
This is a person who willingly rejects the Gospel of Christ
all the while claiming to preach the Gospel of Christ.
This is a lot different from your unsafe person out in the world who's lost
Because this person is intentionally going out of his way to damn people to help
This is why no mercy for Jehovah's Witnesses who come to your door. No mercy for Mormons who come to your door
You know these these fluoride Mormons that come to your door preach in a false gospel need to be rebuked sharply
You need to scare the fire out of them and rebuke them sharply and you know
Tell them to go to hell and scare them from ever coming into your neighborhood ever again
Why because you have to understand that these people are intentionally going out of their way to damn people to hell
And you know what they know it too. Oh
They're just a little mixed up, you know
I used to be a Mormon missionary at one point and look all these testimonies from people who've been Mormon missionaries
Ask them what they believe now
I promise you they also believe a repent of your sins gospel because often what God does is he punishes these false prophets with just another false religion
You know Prince. Oh
Man, he loved the truth. Yeah, that's why he became a Jehovah's Witness Michael Jackson Jehovah's Witness
Shia LaBeouf Orthodox
It's a punishment. Yeah, he became an Orthodox guy
Oh, we just got to pray for them folks. You don't understand that God is actually punishing them with a false religion for their rejection of the gospel
okay, and
Obviously, you know, there's tons of them online like these influencers. There's a lot of false prophets online a
lot of them
You know
What's that Russo or what's that guy's name Robinson Russo? What's the name Ruslam the army? Is that the Armenian guy?
False prophet, by the way Cassidy Campbell's a false prophet too. Oh
I think he preaches the false gospel. That's funny because now he's denying calling upon the name of the Lord
And look folks at this church we believe in calling upon the name of the Lord to be saved
Well, we're in the Bible to say Romans 10 13 read your Bible
You have to ask Jesus Christ to save you and no, I'm not gonna take advice from some tranny, dude
Some Christian tranny
You know who does pray oh, yeah, I'm really gonna take doctrinal advice from a guy who's on TRT
Who dresses up like a tranny for likes and views and that's his full-time job
Who's a flat earther?
Who doesn't have his house in order?
And yet wants to give advice on others how to have a godly marriage?
Congratulations.
You just played yourself.
You're a false prophet.
False prophet my friends, and you know you could yeah, but he's just a little mixed up
No
He went to a fundamental Baptist church where the doctrine of the gospel was emphasized over and over
Where people go soul winning where the pastor gets up and distinctly talks about calling upon the name of the Lord
And he walked away rejecting it
That's a false prophet
And I know this isn't you know a lot of people don't like this kind of preaching because they think well
You know, there's hope for certain people actually according to 2nd Peter chapter 2. There's no hope for them
The Bible actually says that they're reserved
Okay, in fact look at verse 3 and through covetousness shall they with faint words make merchandise of you meaning that they want to make money off
Of you whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not and
Their damnation slumber is not
What does that mean it means like hell awaits you my friend
But you say what says it doesn't linger slumber
Why does it say it doesn't linger a slumber if they don't just like quickly die and go to hell
Well because they're twice dead plucked up by the roots
So in God's eyes, they're already they're already dead. It's as if they're already in hell
Look at verse 4 if you wouldn't
Because when you read 2 Peter 2, you start off talking about false prophets and the characteristics of false prophets,
but then it kind of takes this little detour in verse 4, all the way to verse 7.
And you kind of wonder, like, what is this,
how is this in the context of false prophets?
Because again, verse three says that their judgment
doesn't linger, their damnation is not slumbering,
God's not sleeping on the judgment
of these false prophets.
Look at verse four.
Four, because if God spared not the angels that sin,
but cast them down to hell,
and delivered them into chains of darkness
to be reserved unto judgment,
and spared not the old world,
but saved no other eighth person,
a preacher of righteousness,
bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly,
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes,
condemned them with an overthrow,
making them an ensemble unto those
that after shall live ungodly,
and deliver just slot Vex with the filthy conversation
of the wicked, for that righteous man dwelling among them
and seeing 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,
and I want you to notice this,
and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment
to be punished.
So why is he giving all these examples?
He said, look, if God destroyed the entire world,
he flamed Sodom and Gomorrah.
Don't you think he's gonna,
he also reserved judgment for these false prophets as well?
If he executed judgment upon the world,
upon cities, folks, he would do it to individuals as well.
And you know what, here's a great example of that.
You know, I forgot what his name is,
but he's dying in like five months or something like that.
What's his name?
Gallagher, which I think he just changed his last name
to his wife's last name or something.
That guy is a reprobate false prophet
who took advantage of churches,
attacked churches, sued yours truly,
interrupted my service in order to get
for them to serve me papers.
Try to sue me for tens of thousands of dollars and now guess what's happening to him?
He's dying a horrible death right now a slow and painful skin disease
I'll tell you why because he's reserved unto judgment. That's why he made a mockery of churches
He sided with faggots
He attacked God's churches. He did all types of wickedness and he was an evangelist
This is a church leader who ran a church into the ground. You say why because he's a false prophet
Where is the justice? I'll tell you where the justice is. He's getting it right now
The man has a skin disease the only a handful of people have in the world and he has the worst case of it
Where God literally
Smote him and don't let some
Limp-wristed false prophet pastor get up and tell you that's not the judgment of God. That's what he's saying
Oh, don't think just because this guy has like a skin disease that is somehow Gaza, you know
No, we're in the Bible. There's God's my people with leprosy. Well, I guess there is examples of the Bible
Okay, you know God does my people with leprosy and skin diseases. Yeah. Yeah, I mean we have a real-life example here today
Plain simple
Folks, you know, they're reserved into judgment
And look, we can go over many examples where this has happened.
And in fact, even in the old IFB, I
remember God smiting people.
I remember someone robbed my mother-in-law,
stole her bike or something like that.
And he barely made it down the street,
and the cops just lit him up.
Just died for a bike.
I believe that was God.
You know a couple years ago as I mentioned the guy who like try to stop us from preaching the gospel
Died up was bludgeoned to death
And look if you want to sit there and say why I think those are coincidence. Do you want to be a part of the coincidence?
Would you like to be that coincidence? Yeah, that's what I thought
Yeah, Gallagher is a coincidence yes a coincidence he has a skin disease only a handful of people have in the world
And he has the worst case of it
But I guess that's just a coincidence
Yeah, highly doubt it
What's the point the point that I'm making God saying here in 2nd Peter?
Hey, I just first found him in Gomorrah. Hey, I flooded the world. I
Reserved judgment for the wicked. I deliver the just out of their vices and I deliver
The judgment for the wicked they're reserved for punishment
Point that I'm making here is the fact that they are wolves and sheeps clothing
But they are also people who are not saved and they are reprobating meaning they're irredeemable
It's not worth trying to win the false prophet to the Lord people are always online telling me. Oh, you guys should just come together
Talk to inspire and philosophy you guys should you know create content? I'm like I'm not interested in
Collaborating with the false prophet
You know, when the voice of reasons,
when him and I were going at it,
he was trying to collab with me.
He sent me invitations to collab with him,
and I told him, I'm not trying to collab
with the false prophet.
You're a heretic, you're gonna split hell wide open.
I have no desire to do so.
And you know what the Bible tells us regarding false prophets
and reparates according to 2 Timothy chapter three,
that they're ever learning and never able
to come to the knowledge of the truth.
And it says, now as Janice and Jamborees were,
so do these also resist the truth?
Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith.
One of the greatest punishments that God can institute
upon a person who claims to be a pastor
who doesn't believe the truth
as he removes their ability to believe.
Plain and simple.
Bible says in 2 Corinthians 11 13 for such are false apostles to seeful workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ
And no marvel for Satan himself is transforming to an angel like well
I don't think it's right that you're just calling these pastors false prophets then tell them to stop acting like one
How about that?
Why don't you just spam their email and their messages and say stop acting like a false prophet if you don't want people to call you a false prophet?
Instead of getting on the man of God
calling out their heresies,
why don't you get on them and tell them,
hey, stupid, stop teaching that nonsense.
And maybe people will stop calling you
a false prophet heretic.
And look, if you're not a false prophet,
you're not a reparate,
then prove it to us and stop teaching stupid stuff.
Right?
You know, if people are confusing you
for a reparate and a false prophet,
you know.
Might want to review your sermons a little bit and just kind of ask yourself man, maybe I am teaching stupid crap
And obviously look
Wicked people call us false prophets all the time
But that's because they're not saved
Right
But when you have saved people
Saying this, you know, I don't care whether you're a false prophet or not, but obviously you're behaving like one though
And you know I'm sorry, but we hold we have a higher standard for pastors
Point that I'm making here is that false prophets are reprobate. They're not saved
Okay, and this is something that Christians just have to accept they have to understand this
This is what the Bible teaches when you see a false prophet just mark it down just like when you see some blue-haired
lesbo
Dyke looking overweight
Just disgusting
You know just ah
You know like all this person's a fag. Oh, it means that they're a reprobate, right?
Well, you know the same thing goes with the false prophet when you see them teaching dandable heresy and
Just progressive heresy over and over again. Just market out all this person's a false prophet
plain and simple
All right, let's move on here go back to 2nd Peter chapter 2 you might still be there
We're talking about the Peter's profile of a false prophet. I don't think it's right for you to call my pastor a false prophet
I don't think it's right that you're defending a false prophet. I
Don't think it's right that you're an idiot
I don't think it's right. I think you should correct that
Think you should stop being stupid and you know what there's people who have you know said oh man Baptist culture is trash
But that preaching is not trash
What's your definition of trash?
You know the last time I checked the Bible says that the unrighteous call what we are an abomination
So if you're saying Baptist culture is trash, but yet we're winning souls to Christ. We believe in the word of God
We're not teaching nonsensical doctrines.
Well, it sounds like you're looking in the mirror
when you say that.
All right, number five, let's move on from that.
Number 5, regarding the profile of a false prophet, they can be motivated by greeting covetousness, according to 2nd Peter chapter 2.
Look at verse number 2, it says,
Many shall follow the pernicious ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of,
And through covetousness shall they with faint words make merchandise of you.
And this is probably your most common false prophet.
are those who do it because they're trying to make money, right?
These are your prosperity gospel preachers types.
And it says that they're trying to make money off of people.
Joe Olsteins, Rick Warren, these types, they do that, okay?
And when it says that with faint words,
they make merchandise of you,
they're referring to the fact
that they flatter their congregation
in order to make money off of them.
Look at verse 14.
It says, having eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin, be guiling unstable souls and heart they have exercised with covetous practices, referring to that greed.
Okay, look at verse 15, which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam, the son of Bozor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.
So we don't have time to expound on this. I've preached many sermons on Balaam.
who was hired by Baylack in order to curse the children of Israel.
But he couldn't do it because God would not permit him to do so.
But he wanted to curse the children of Israel,
not because he thought that the children of Israel were wicked,
but because he wanted to make money.
Because Baelic's like, I'll give you all types of riches.
I'll give you honor.
And he's like, man, this is a great deal.
But he couldn't do it because God would not allow him to do so.
So then Baelum ends up construing this plan to say,
look, this is how we can curse the children of Israel.
They have to curse themselves.
So get them to fornicate and eat things offered to idols.
And if you can get them to commit idolatry
and get them to fornicate, God will curse them.
You say, why would he go to such an extent?
Because he loved the wages of unrighteousness.
That's my, okay.
And this is echoed in Jude 11,
woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain
and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward,
it says.
Now, who's probably the most common person
we can think of of the New Testament
who was guilty of this?
Judas, who sold the Lord,
betrayed the Lord for 30 pieces of silver.
Right I mean talk about greed and covetousness the only reason he even got involved with Jesus Christ and the Apostles
Was because he was greedy
It's not because he wanted to do right as the chosen says
You know he really got into this thing with the right heart and just somewhere along the way he lost his way
No, the fool was a devil from the beginning
John 6 says that he didn't believe he got into it because he wanted to be the treasurer because he wanted to steal the money
The Bible says in
John chapter 12 verse 4 says then say one of his disciples Judas Iscariot
Simon's son, which should betray him why was not this ointment so for 300 pence and given to the poor you see pastor?
He just loved the poor
This he said not that he cared for the poor
But because he was a thief and had the bag and bearable was put there in he's like man. I was gonna use that money
Giving it to the poor
He was a thief. That's all he was it for he didn't start off with the right heart
It wasn't as though like he just lost his way. It wasn't that he backslid
It's not that he got away from God the guy was a devil from the beginning. That's literally what the Bible teaches
Stop watching the chosen. It's a stupid show
Don't get your doctrine from some hybrid Catholic Mormon doctrine. That's literally where it comes from
It's Catholics and Mormons coming up with this nonsense
You know, and by the way, let me just chase this rabbit.
Just give me like two minutes, okay?
Because right now, the popular thing on social media
is there's a lot of people who believe
in replacement theology.
But there's like different facets of it,
and a lot of it is just wrong.
Because they're like, yeah, Mary's the new covenant.
She's the new Ark of the Covenant.
And they're like, what?
Someone said that in my comment section,
I'm like, come again?
Mary is the new Ark of the Covenant.
Just like you had the Ark of the Covenant
in the Old Testament.
She's the Covenant of the New Testament
because the Ark of the Covenant in the Old Testament
had the laws of God.
And Jesus is the law.
You guys remember that?
You know, in the chosen, he's like, he comes out,
he's like, I am the law of Moses.
Judge Dredd or something like that.
I am the law.
It's like, that's not even in the Bible.
Jesus never said, I am the law of Moses.
He said he came to fulfill the law.
He came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill.
But he never said, I am the law of Moses.
So this is something that's actually found
in the Book of Mormon, but this is something
also that Catholics promote.
Because they want to claim that Mary is that
arc of the covenant, because she's bearing the law,
which is Jesus.
Stupid stuff to elevate Mary is what it is.
It's nonsense.
Okay, replacement theology is biblical because Jesus said it. How about that?
Okay, the kingdom of God should be taken from you given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof plain and simple
It's called being replaced
It's not hard. You don't have to come up with weird doctrines
Marrys the Ark of the Covenant
All right, look at verse 10 of 2 Peter 2 so they can be motivated by covetousness and greed
We see that a lot, but you know what they can also be motivated by just power and authority as well
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 according to the second Peter chapter two,
one mark of a false prophet is that they actually have
a lust for power, which they display by despising power.
They despise government, they despise authority,
and it uses Korah, Deithan, and Abiram
as an example of that in Jude.
Korah, Deithan, and Abiram were those who came to Moses,
and it was just like, you take too much upon yourselves.
You know, basically saying like we could all be leaders here.
Not because he believed everyone could be a leader,
but because he wanted that position of power.
So there's instances where false prophets infiltrate
in order to take charge because they want power,
they want that authority.
So forth it says in Jude 11 won't to them for they have gone in the way of Cain
ran greedily after the air of Balaam for reward and
perished in the gainsane of
Corey and let me just remind everyone in our church that we are for biblical authority
in all facets of this life
church authority
Who's the authority here?
Myself, right?
And obviously, I have Jesus Christ over me
and I exercise authority within the confines
of our local New Testament church, okay?
But in your home, guess what?
Your husband, ladies, is the authority.
He's the authority.
Well, as long as he acts like Jesus.
Well, let me just tell you some not every
There's not a single husband here who acts like Jesus a hundred percent of the time
And the Bible never says to submit to your husband as long as he keeps acting like Jesus
Just submit to your husband
And you know what let me just explain something real quick, okay?
Because there's a lot of nonsense going on on social media right now
And I got I feel like I got to clarify my position here
And let me just remind everyone that I'm against abuse just like everyone is
Don't create the straw man as though some of us are for it.
None of us are for abuse.
I'm also against consensual spousal discipline.
I think that's weird.
It's like a white person thing, that's what it is.
And you know what, there's people out there
who are friendly to our church that might believe that.
I don't believe it.
It'd just be weird for me and my wife like,
hey, are you okay with me just spanking you
You know what, that's reasonable.
Can you sign this real quick to, you know,
can we agree on that on paper?
It's just weird.
No offense to you white people out there,
but your people came up with it.
He's like, no, I didn't.
I'm not for it.
I think it's stupid.
I think it's really stupid.
It goes along with the monsters, okay?
You know, monsters and wife being here or something.
So obviously I'm against that, I'm against abuse,
I'm against consensual, whatever that is.
Well what are you doing in your home?
Well we just, look, my wife and I, we're not perfect.
And my wife, yeah she's meek and she's quiet
but doesn't mean that she doesn't have her moments.
And I'm not just like Ephesians 5 woman, I don't.
Because at the end of the day, we have arguments.
Yeah, believe it or not, we have arguments.
But we talk it out.
Like, you know, like adults.
So I'm against abuse and everyone is against abuse
Some people are for the spousal discipline, which is really weird to me
But if that's your prerogative, you know, I'm not gonna tell you what you're doing at home because my authority's here
I'm just telling you my opinion is that it's weird
Okay, and I don't agree with it, but may I say this I'm also against this feminist liberal crap that's being promoted
where it's just like, yeah, but your wife can leave you.
My wife cannot leave me at any time.
What are you talking about?
Excuse me?
My wife is my wife.
She can't just leave me at any time that she wants.
It doesn't work that way.
And you know what?
I know that there's pastors out there
who've gone up and said something like that
and they're my friends, okay?
Who've gone up and said stuff like that.
But let me explain something to you
as the pastor of this church.
Not a wise thing to say
Because here's the thing folks is that then you plant a seed within the the minds of the women who already want to leave their husbands
To say oh, okay. Yeah, maybe I can't leave my husband or something
Don't work that way till death through his part the only time my wife gets to leave him when she dies
Or I die
Plain and simple it's till death through his part
And you know what I'm against his feminist nonsense is being promoted out there
as though us as husbands have to walk on eggshells
around our wives, because we don't want them to leave us
or something like that.
Stances, how about this, wives?
What if we just put the shoe on the other foot
and I came to my congregation and told you, ladies,
hey, you know your husband can leave you at any time, right?
Right?
Well, you know your husband can leave at any time.
You wouldn't really appreciate that.
Especially if your marriage is already on the rocks.
You'd be like, why is he saying that?
He's almost giving permission.
For my husband to leave you know, you know you better shape up ladies cuz you know your husband can just just leave
Take the kids. I just you wouldn't like that
It's not wise
It's nonsensical
And you know what this is an anti-feminist church
And you know ladies if you don't like that, sorry, oh wait, I'm not sorry
Because you know what we believe the Bible
And the Bible teaches that the man is the head of the home.
Okay, he is the boss.
Obviously they're supposed to rule with benevolence.
Oh yeah, but what do you do if your wife's a little feisty
though and she's trying to fight you
and all this nonsense or,
well here's the thing, I can't answer that
because my wife's not like that.
But let me just give you the answer that I told my wife
because I said, you know, this is kind of weird.
But you know, I said, if you ever raise your hand at me,
which is, it's unfathomable.
I can't even picture my wife doing that.
I don't even think my wife knows how to punch.
I said, let me just be honest with you.
I'm not trying to be facetious here or anything.
I said, if you try to hit me, I would probably just laugh at you.
And then after I would say, I would say jokes over.
That's probably what I would do.
And let's just say my wife would just try to assault me with a barrage of punches or something.
Cause she's a woman.
I mean, how much damage, you know,
you really think it's just like,
nah, man, I gotta hook her.
I gotta put her in her place or something like that.
And by the way, my wife would never do something like this,
okay?
Like, what about my wife?
Well, here's the thing.
If your wife is like beating on you or something,
you got deeper issues than you need to be taking care of.
And let me just say this, I do believe it is a servant
leadership type of thing that we need to concern
ourselves with, that is true.
But you know what, I'm not gonna really emphasize that
because at the end of the day, in the day and age
in which we live, us being the boss has to be emphasized
way more, because we have to undo a lot of problems
that the previous generation embedded within our culture
about feminism.
So you know what, husbands, you already know
you're supposed to love your wives.
Duh, we know that already well we have to do is undo all this nonsense is being
promoted by the public schools all the coal with the cultures promoting we have
to undo those things and assert our dominance as the male authorities in our
homes yes that's what we have to do and you know if you're in here and you're
I'm talking to you, bling twice if you need help.
And let me just say this, look, I'm not saying because people are gonna take me out of context.
I'm not saying that if you are in a marriage relationship and your life is in danger, that
you shouldn't do something about it.
Look, if your husband's trying to kill you, this is what you do.
You don't call me.
I'm the pastor, I can't do anything about that.
Go call the police.
Oh, but you don't understand, there's abusive relationships.
This is what I tell the wives, then go call the police.
And this is what I also tell the wives
if this ever comes up, I say, and if you don't do it,
you tell me, I'm gonna call the police.
How about that?
Like you wanna complain about your husband, okay,
that's fine, call the police the next time that happens,
and if you don't wanna do it,
then the next time you tell me, I'm calling the police.
Cuz I've done obviously when it comes to that didn't get the authorities involved
And let me also say this
You know it's just because this this hypothetical nonsense keeps coming out. Yeah, but what if you know?
What if she just really wants to leave and she just wants to leave and you know, what are you gonna do then?
I'm just gonna tell her you can't leave
Don't leave
Why cuz we got five kids at home
And I need dinner.
And you're my wife and you live here.
Why would you leave?
Yeah, but would you like physically restrain her?
I don't even think I have to physically restrain my wife.
Because you know what, my wife and I have already developed
a habit of like talking to each other.
I didn't marry a six year old.
I married a woman.
You know and and my woman. Yeah, my woman. We know how to communicate with each other
You know and and here's the thing folks like
Because there might be guys out there like no, I feel like I got a physically restraining
Well, if that's what you feel you got to do, then that's your prerogative
I'm not gonna tell you what to do because you're I'm not married to your wife. I'm married to my wife
But for those of you who are criticizing people
For physically restraining the right for not leaving the home. You must also be against police officers restraining women when they get out of hand
Point that I'm making is that you know what I'm I'm not for that extreme the the the spousal discipline
trailer trash, you know
Monster, you know side of it. That's weird to me, and I've told my pastor friends. That's weird to me. I
And look, I come from a culture of wife beating.
That's what Mexican culture is all about.
It's true.
I didn't grow up in a fundamental bathroom at home.
Hey, where are my Mexicans at?
Help me out here.
Right?
Your wife beats you right now.
I'm just kidding.
Right?
Look, let me just tell you something right now.
It doesn't work.
It never works.
Whooping your wife doesn't work.
I'm not saying because I know, by personal experience,
but because I grew up in that environment.
And it doesn't work.
You're just like, oh man, I'm gonna show her who's boss.
That's funny that you have to raise your hand
to do that though.
And you know what?
I never counsel, hey, just consider
consensual spousal discipline.
I don't say that at all.
And you know what, my pastor friends can criticize me
if they want about this and say whatever.
They already know where I stand on it.
And I don't care, okay?
But here's the thing though, like I'm against that,
like that extreme side of it.
But I side more towards being the authority though
than what that crap is over there.
This she-could-leave-you, she-could-leave-you,
are you giving permission?
Is that what you're doing?
It sounds like you're planting seeds in the minds of women
to use to weaponize that in case they get in some argument
with their husband and then they just bounce or something.
Folks, we need to learn how to just work things out.
Talk things out, work things out, speak to each other,
yell at each other if you have to, work it out.
And I don't mean like work it out.
I mean like work it out.
And look, if my wife just was just like,
I need to get out of here, I can't handle this.
I would tell her, okay, then go to your mom's.
That's what I would say.
I would say I give you permission to leave,
but you could only go to your parents' house and that's it.
And call me once you get there.
If it gets so crazy where my wife and I just can't coexist
because we're just arguing so much and this doesn't happen,
but I'm just kind of throwing these hypotheticals out there.
I would just tell her, okay, you can go,
but you have to go to your mom's house.
And I'm gonna call your brother right now
and tell him to expect you when you get there.
And then to send you back home once you're ready.
That's what I would say.
But that's not gonna happen because we try our best
to work things out verbally all the time.
Okay, you know, and we've already,
and we've practiced this,
that if there's ever a conflict between my wife and I,
we don't let the sun go down on that.
Like you know, I make sure that she apologizes to me. I'll apologize to her. I'll tell her like hey, you know what?
Because we don't like tension
So I go up to her and I say hey, I'm really sorry about that. That's my fault
I was in the flesh and she'll apologize as well, and then we live happily ever after
Okay, I'm not like put them up
I'm exaggerating here, but you know what?
I don't want people to confuse what my position is.
Okay, and you know what?
This is an independent church,
and like I told my pastor friends,
I don't know, not all of them,
but I've told them, you know,
I don't agree with that position.
I think it's weird.
I said, you white people are weird sometimes.
I feel like white people came up with it.
That's just my opinion, you know?
I'm talking about the consensual stuff, the contract.
And he said this on Friday.
I thought it was a great statement in this regard.
He said, if they have the discipline
to actually come together in agreement regarding
spousal discipline, don't they have the maturity
to actually talk it out instead then?
Right?
I was just like, that's a great point.
If they can come together and say,
what do you think about me whooping you
every once in a while when you disobey me?
And then the wife is like, that's a good idea.
We'll try it out.
Wouldn't they have the discipline to just be like,
hey, you know what, instead of letting it get to that point,
why don't we just talk it out, right?
That was a great point.
Spirit of the Lord was upon that man.
I don't even know how I got off on that.
I'm way beyond time.
Just read the rest of Second Peter.
You'll get what a false prophet is, okay?
But you know what, I'm not gonna give permission.
I'm not gonna throw it out there for wives
to leave their husbands at all.
It's not gonna happen, you know, and you know what marriage is not the same as
Pastoring a church by the way, it's not the same. I'm not married to you guys
You're not my wife
Okay
What a weird comparison there
And you know what I'm not lording over the the flock of God either
You know, we have a great relationship as pastor and members, but it's not the same thing as a marriage
And you know what, this is important my friends,
listen to me, if this is bothering you,
then you need it the most.
Because you know what, if you're gonna raise kids,
you better raise them on the right marriage principles.
Because you know what this feminism is just gonna keep creeping in keep creeping in and you know what I'm for authority biblical authority
I'm for authority in the home, and I hate feminism, and I don't want it to infiltrate our churches
I don't want it to influence your kids or my kids and you know what?
I want you to live happily ever after and the way you do that is by keeping feminism out of your marriage. Oh
You're just a man. Yeah. Yeah, and I believe the Bible
And you know what, any lady who's spoken to me
in this church knows how I feel about that stuff.
You know I don't hate women?
You know I'm for the safety of everyone.
You know I favor anybody in our church.
But hold on a second, we hold the biblical roles here.
Plain and simple.
And you know what, our men are not just walking around
and just be like, hey woman, no one does that.
And if you do, you're an idiot and stop doing it.
We don't just like trying to flex our our masculinity around here with the one that's not that's not the environment here. I
Think you should just really consider. No, this is just what works for us
And look obviously I haven't been married very long, but hold on a second
I've observed many successful marriages
They've been married for a long time, and you know they just never did that stuff
My father-in-law's been married to my mother-in-law for many years and obviously he's been sick over the last ten years
But even prior to that they had a successful marriage, and they just never duped it out
But you know what also everyone knew listen to me everyone knew
Grandpa's in charge
And his word is gospel
He he makes he calls the shots. He's in charge. She follows him
Plain and simple and I think that's the position. We need to take
Anyways, all right, so that wasn't about false prophets, but you know, I
Would just needed to say that let's pray father. We thank you so much for your word
Thank you for the Bible help us as your people to be aware of false doctrines and false prophets
And I pray that you just show yourself strong on our behalf Lord. Obviously, we're not perfect and our marriages aren't perfect
And we know we need to obviously follow the dictates of the word of God as best as we understand them
And obviously use examples of people that we've known
But I pray that Lord you bless our marriages and Lord
I'm for biblical authority. I want
to promote that in our church, I think that's important.
I think it's important for our kids,
for our marriages, for the church,
and I think it's even more important
to make sure that we openly speak out against
this feminism that is infiltrating churches,
seeking to undermine the authority of the man in the home.
This Homer Simpson type
Agenda that's being promoted out there to make the husband look stupid and vulnerable
To try to cause him to walk on eggshells when that is not the biblical model
That's not pleasing unto God and I pray that you'd help us to do so Lord help us to raise strong young men
Who love their wives and wives that understand their role?
Men that understand their roles Lord and help us to just honor and glorify you and all that we do and Jesus didn't we pray amen
Amen, song number 169, Come Thou Fount.
That was our last song, song number 169.
See it on that verse first.
Come Thou Fount of every blessing
To my heart to sing thy praise
Streams of mercy, never ceasing
Songs of loudest praise, teach me some melodious sonnets, sung by flaming tongues above, raise a mount I've fixed upon it, mount of thy redeeming love, here I raise my
Ebenezer, hither by Thy help I come, and I hope by Thy good pleasure, safely I'll arrive at home.
me from danger, interposes freshest blood, hold to grace how great a debtor, daily unthunstrained to be, let thy goodness, like a fatter, bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to lead the God I love, Here's my heart, O take his sealet, sealet for thy courts above.
Amen, wonderful singing, you are dismissed.