1A in your hymnals. Take the name of Jesus with you.
Psalm number 18 in your hymnal.
Psalm number 18. Take the name of Jesus with you.
All that first verse.
Take the name of Jesus with you.
Of sorrow, of love, will, joy, and comfort.
Give, take his name. Sweep a bird around you.
Gash his name, his name.
I'm going to open the service of the word of prayer.
Father, thank you for this wonderful and beautiful night
that you've given us.
Thank you for the privilege of being in your house
two times in one day and being able to hear your word.
May we not take that for granted.
Father, we love you and just pray for your spirit
to be upon the preacher and may our singing glorify you.
We love you in Jesus' name, amen.
You may be seated.
Song number 60, "Face to Face."
Face to face with Christ my savior, our savior, amen.
Song number 60.
Song number 60, "Face to Face," on that first verse.
Face to face with Christ my savior, baby, who shall see.
- Great singing.
Just a few announcements here before we sing our next song,
which would be song number 41.
If you wanna get that ready in your song list,
brother Moore's gonna come up in just a bit.
I do wanna announce, or just let you know,
or remind you, should I say,
regarding our offering Sunday, of course, that's today.
And we had a great offering this morning.
I'm not gonna say the number yet
because we still have to include the online giving
that a lot of people did.
But praise God, I saw the number and it's a great number.
It's a great start.
And so if you have not given to that,
I wanna encourage you to do so.
Just make sure you put it on an envelope that says,
sow thy seed offering,
because that will be a separate little section there
that we need to count.
And I will be revealing the number next week for that.
And so thank God for that.
Brother Moore, why don't you come on up
and give us the announcements.
- All right, good evening, everyone.
Just some announcements before we sing our next song.
Happy Mother's Day to everyone,
for all the mothers out there
for putting up with the kids and everything.
We'd like to welcome you to our Bible study next Thursday,
excuse me, this Thursday at 7 p.m.
We're going through the book of Isaiah.
We're coming up on the tail end of that there.
So many teens and times are there below.
Continue to pray for the expecting mothers.
And just for some church events here,
Tijuana Mission Strip will be Saturday, May 24th,
meeting at the building at 915.
If you'd like to participate in that
or you have some questions,
you can reach out to Brother Hernandez
and then we have our graduation ceremony
Sunday, May 25th.
For the a.m. service, it's gonna be elementary school
and the p.m. service is gonna be the high school.
And then last announcement here,
we have the ladies' prayer breakfast
Saturday, June 7th at the building at 10 a.m.
If you have any questions, you can reach out to Ms. Chanel.
Please silence your phones
to not be a disturbance to the service
and that's it for the announcements.
Please open up your hymnals to song number 41,
"Sweet, Bye and Bye."
It's actually, yeah, song number 41, "Sweet, Bye and Bye."
On that first verse.
There's a land that is fairer than dead.
My faith be shall stand afar.
The fall shall stay.
Let's just come forward for the offering.
Please turn in your Bibles to the Book of Jude.
Book of Jude, chapter one.
Good evening, tonight we're in the Book of Jude.
Book of Jude, the Bible reads, "Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James,
to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called.
Mercy unto you in peace and love be multiplied.
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was
needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for
the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
There are certain men crept in, unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation
ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord
God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having
saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
The angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation, he hath reserved
in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner give themselves
over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering
the vengeance of eternal fire.
Likewise also, these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil
of dignities.
Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body
of Moses, durst not bring against him a raelian accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke thee."
But these speak evil of those things which they know not, but what they know naturally
as brute beasts in those things which they corrupt themselves.
Woe unto them, who have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the air of Balaam
for reward, and perished in the gained saying of Cory.
These are spots in your feasts of charity when they feast with you, feeding themselves
without fear.
The clouds they are without water, carried about of winds, trees whose fruit withereth
without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, raging waves of the sea, foaming out
their own shame, wandering stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam prophesied of these saying, "Behold, the Lord cometh
with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that
are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed,
and of all their hard speeches have ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts, and their mouth speaketh
great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
But beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostle, the Lord Jesus
Christ, how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk
after their own ungodly lusts.
Please be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the spirit.
But ye beloved, building up yourselves on the most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Ghost.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto
eternal life.
And if some have compassion, making a difference, and others save with fear, pulling them out
of the fire, hating even the garments spotted by the flesh.
Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, to present you faultless before the presence
of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty,
dominion and power both now and ever, Amen.
Let's pray, dear Lord God, just thank you for your word, Lord, just thank you for the
book of Jude, Lord, just please bless this service, Lord, and please bless pastor and
fill him with the Holy Spirit, Lord, as he preaches your word unto us and give him boldness,
Lord, tonight.
That us in the congregation could be edified by the preaching, Lord, we pray this all in
Jesus' name, Amen.
Amen.
Okay, we're in the book of Jude this evening, and the title of my sermon tonight is Peter's
Profile of a False Prophet Part 2.
Last week I preached a sermon on this particular topic, but I got a little carried away talking
about feminism, and I just ended up not finishing this particular sermon.
But it was still good.
I mean, I might even dip into some of that tonight.
Hopefully not.
Hopefully I'll actually get the sermon done.
But I want to talk about and finish up Peter's Profile of a False Prophet.
The reason we're starting the book of Jude is because of the fact that a lot of the content
that we see in Jude kind of shows us that he received a lot of this content from Peter.
They're very similar books here, and some would surmise that it's possible that Jude,
this is kind of proof that Jude wrote his epistle after the Apostle Peter wrote his.
And the book of Jude and 2 Peter are essentially great chapters to really give us that profile,
the overall profile of a false prophet, gives us a lot of characteristics and attributes
of them.
Now hold your place in Jude, go to 2 Peter if you would, 2 Peter chapter 2, 2 Peter
chapter 2, let me give you a little bit of review from last week regarding false prophets
and let me just say this is that this subject is important and it's not taught enough in
churches.
A lot of pastors have a tendency to shy away from preaching on this particular topic and
you know it's to a fault because of the fact that if you're not educating their churches
and their members regarding the subject of false prophets and false apostles, then what
happens is false apostles come in, false prophets come in and the members can't identify it,
they can't beware of them, they end up getting carried away with them and they end up getting
deceived by a lot of these heresies that are infiltrating churches because pastors are
not educating their members on this particular topic.
So it's important that every once in a while we just review what a false prophet is so
that we don't just accept you know whatever comes through these church doors or whatever
you know teaching comes through, whatever weird heresy that comes through, we need
to make sure that we vet the teachings that are coming through our church and make sure
that we are aware that false prophets do exist and they seek to take advantage of those who
are unstable.
Now last week I said first and foremost we talked about their origins, where do false
prophets come from?
Well surprisingly enough they come from churches, that's exactly where they come from, that's
not the only place they come from, but they do stem from churches and the apostle Paul
when he was sending out those pastors from Ephesus in Acts chapter 20 he talks about
the fact that "even of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw
away disciples after them."
And so sometimes people who are members of let's just say fundamental Baptist churches,
you know sometimes there is a Judas amongst those churches, not sometimes, a lot of times.
And that should come as no surprise because we have the example of Judas Iscariot being
one of the twelve and it's for that reason that John says "they went out from us, for
they were not of us, for if they had been of us they would have no doubt continued with
us." He's obviously giving a personal testimony of Judas Iscariot who was numbered among them
yet he went out, he was apostate, he became the son of perdition. That should be an example to
us that we should not be surprised if one of you guys is a Judas, right? Hopefully that's not the
case. But you know what? Within the lifespan of our church we're going to have instances
where someone's going to come out and be a heretic, they're going to be a false prophet,
and you're going to be like "what in the world? You know, I couldn't believe this." But you know,
the Bible has warned us of this, it told us that there shall be false teachers among us,
they shall come out from churches, etc. Now, I will say this is that although churches, I would say,
is the primary "culprit" of producing false prophets because the truth is being thundered
forth from the pulpit, there's other institutions that are responsible for this as well, okay?
You know, you have a lot of these parachurch ministries, for example, and they have a tendency
to produce false prophets as well, it reprobates. You know, what am I referring to? I'm referring
to Bible colleges, Christian schools, these institutions that are man-made, they're not
found in the Word of God, have a tendency to produce false prophets and reprobates. Why is
that? Well, when you force the Word of God on someone who doesn't want the Word of God,
eventually you end up blinding them spiritually, okay? They become hardened towards the Word of
God. So if you place someone in an institution like a Bible college against their will,
in a Christian school against their will, they're constantly hearing the Word of God
being preached. And I would even say this, you know, some Christian schools and Bible colleges
who are heretical, period, maybe they're not, we're not even talking about Baptist colleges.
How about just, you know, these charismatic Pentecostal types? Those can still produce
reprobates because to a certain degree, they're still giving the Word of God, right? They're
still giving the Word of God, even though maybe it's not in its rightful context. And there's
people who are sitting under that teaching. What the Word of God will eventually do is harden the
heart of the recipient to the point where they begin to hate God's Word, they begin to hate the
Lord, and then they become an apostate, they become a reprobate. And in some instances,
they just become false prophets who remain within those institutions. They graduate,
they become a pastor, they become a church leader, and then they're just two-fold more a child of
hell, right? Because of that institution. So churches are not the only institutions
that can produce false prophets. Obviously false prophets come from churches. We clearly see that
in the scriptures, but other parachurch ministries can also produce that as well. And so they come
from within churches. That is what the Bible teaches. Not only that, but we see that their
inclination is to teach heresy. Now I will say this, is that, you know, as I was studying the
subject of false prophets, the majority of what the Bible has to say about them actually addresses
their actions, right? How subversive they are, their actions, what they're seeking to do, their
covetousness, their greed, their perversion. And not a whole lot, I'm not saying not at all, but
not a whole lot is actually focused on the heresy they teach. And this is one of the reasons why
people will say, you know, "Oh, you know, how can you say that Judas Iscariot was a false prophet?
You know, he wasn't teaching any heresy." And it's true, he probably wasn't. The Bible doesn't talk
about him teaching heresy. What made him a false prophet was the fact that he was greedy, he was
covetous, and he sold the Lord, right, for 30 pieces of silver, which is a characteristic and
an attribute of a false prophet. But just because they don't teach heresy doesn't mean they're not
false prophets. The Bible just seems to teach that there are certain instances where certain
false prophets are just given over to particular Morrison, given over to these particular sins more
than others. They're inclined to greed, they're inclined to perversion, but some are inclined to
heresy as well. And in fact you'll find false prophets even today who may live a moral life,
right? They're moral, they are quote unquote from all the outward appearance as being an upright
person. They're not involved in adultery, they're not involved in greed or covetousness,
but they're major heretics though, meaning they teach a lot of heresy, okay? And I mentioned one
of them last week, you know, Ray Comfort is an example of that. Now I can't say beyond a shadow
of a doubt that he's not involved in some nefarious thing behind the scenes that we
may not know about. That's a major possibility. But in general, if you were to look at his life,
you would say, okay, he's living a fairly moral life, aside from the fact that he's just a flaming
heretic, okay? And the most perverse aspect about Ray Comfort is his gospel presentation,
the fact that he teaches a repent of your sins false gospel, right? And you know, a lot of times
Christians who are uneducated in the word of God can often overlook that because they'll look at
someone like Ray Comfort and say, "Well, how can you say that? You know, he calls himself a Christian.
He's not involved in drunkenness. He's not involved in perversion. He's not an adulterer.
He's not doing all these other things that these other false prophets are guilty of. How can he be
a false prophet?" But they overlook the fact that he's teaching a damnable gospel, another gospel,
okay? And so they do, there are false prophets out there that have an inclination towards heresy.
And when we looked at the profile of a false prophet from last week, it says, the very first
verse, that they will come in "privilege teaching damnable heresy," meaning privately. So some try
to infiltrate churches privately in order to take advantage of the innocent, others seek to teach
heresy privately, okay? Now, this is a thing, especially within bigger churches. Why is that?
Well, when you have a false prophet who infiltrates a church, if it's a small church,
they're not going to be able to get away with a lot of heresy, right? Because the membership
is not as large, so word can get to the pastor a lot faster. But the larger a church gets,
the more of a possibility that they can spread false doctrine and heresy. You understand what
I'm saying? So this is why it's important that, for example, we as a church, we have the system
of leaders in our church. Whereas obviously I'm the head pastor here, but I have not assistant
pastors, but I have leaders in the church who essentially watch over the flock of God. They're
kind of an extension of the pastor. They gossip to me about you guys and all that. They tell me
about your spiritual growth. They just kind of keep me updated on how everyone's doing.
But they're also there in case someone is teaching some weird nonsensical heresy or false
doctrine because we need to keep a pulse on that. You understand? And I'm not saying that anybody
who teaches heresy in church is a false prophet because heresy is also a work of the flesh.
You know, a person who is saved but is a babe in Christ, they're uneducated in the word of God,
they're not spiritually mature, they can teach heresy, okay? They can teach some weird stuff,
they're not very mature in the Lord, and they can take things out of context, they can rest the
scriptures, twist the scriptures if they're not spiritually mature enough, and if they're not
educated in the word of God, they're not accustomed to the meat of the word, they can have an
inclination for that because that's what the flesh is inclined to do. But here's the thing though is
that for sure false prophets will teach heresy, they will teach damnable heresy, and in fact the
Bible seems to indicate that one of the reasons they do is because they're mocking the word of
God. Now to you and I, that seems like unfathomable, right? Like someone would come into a church
to teach heresy because they're mocking God's word, but this is this is what reparates do.
And you know, go back to Jude actually, I'm going to show you some verses here. Look at Jude verse
17. It says, "But beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our
Lord Jesus Christ." And by the way, verse 17 would be an indication that he did receive notes from
the apostle Peter because he's quoting 2nd Peter chapter 3 here. It says in verse 18, "How that they
told you there should be mockers in the last time who should walk after their own ungodly lust,
these be they who separate themselves sensual, having not the spirit." So he's specifically
saying there's going to come people in the last time, he's referring to false prophets who are
mocking the word of God, they're making a mockery of the scriptures, then they do it via teaching
heresy and false doctrine. And make no mistake about it, there are false prophets that try to
infiltrate and you think to yourself, how can someone be so stupid to believe such a dumb
doctrine, right? But let me tell you, a lot of the false prophets who are out there who teach really
stupid heresy, they don't really believe it. They're just making a mockery of it. I'm not
saying that all of them don't believe it because obviously some people are given over to strong
delusions, okay? But there is the case where they're just doing it because they're making a
mockery of God's word. They find it entertaining or fulfilling to go into a church and just spread
leaven for the sake of just mocking the church of God and the word of God. For you and for me,
it's just like, what in the world? But folks, reprobates are just capable of some of the most
despicable actions and practices. And so we need to realize that false prophets are inclined to
heresy. It's not the only thing they're inclined to, but that does exist in this world. The third
thing that I mentioned last week is that false prophets have an appearance of being righteous.
This is how they deceive people. Okay. And this is why it's important that we don't just base
someone's spiritual walk or their belief in the Bible just upon how they look. If we did,
we would think that every single group of people that are walking down the street
handing out pamphlets are Christians. But we know darn well that a lot of them are not.
And you know, if they're carrying briefcases with hats, you know, I know some of you carry,
I carry a briefcase, not when I'm out sewing, but you know, if they're carrying briefcases
with hats, you know they're Jehovah's Witnesses, right? Even though they have an appearance of
being righteous. And you know, a lot of people, you know, fundamental Baptists will say, well,
that's why I don't dress like that when I go out there, you know? And I get it, you know,
I, when I go out someone, I do go out in a suit, I'll go on a shirt and tie. And, but I've had
people, you know, telling me, I can't remember when this was, it was a couple of weeks ago,
where this lady kind of answered the door and she was like, are you guys Jehovah's Witnesses? I
thought you guys, are you guys, you know, like, no, no, we're Baptists, you know, she's like, oh,
okay, you know, that's, that's a relief, you know? But they have an appearance of being righteous.
And this is why the Bible says that there are wolves in sheep's clothing. They're seeking to
deceive people. And that's why we don't want to be gullible, right? Gullible, just kind of being
susceptible, the simple belief of every word. And just because someone looks like a Christian,
talks like a Christian, doesn't mean necessarily that they are a Christian. Now, in general,
you know, we would look at someone who's dressed like a fundamental Baptist and maybe says all the
right things. We would say, okay, this person's probably saved. But, you know, we just don't want
to be gullible and think, well, you know, there's just no possibility this person's not saved or
something. The reality is this is that false prophets have a form of godliness, but they deny
the power they're up. And this is why it's important when people come to our church,
regardless of their hairstyle, regardless of the clothes that they wear, we vet them by asking them
what they believe. Now, is it possible for false prophets to lie? Of course, that's one of my points
later on. But in general, though, if they make a profession of faith that they tell you what the
right gospel is, this kind of tells us, okay, this person is a legitimate Christian, they're saved.
But there are people out there that just simply look like a Christian, but they're not necessarily
a Christian. Now, unfortunately, you know, in the day and age in which we live, a lot of Christians,
it doesn't take much to fool Christians. I mean, there's this really big false prophet out there,
and I'm trying to think of his name right now. He's a black guy. I'm not being racist or anything,
it's just true. He's a black guy. He had the really blasphemous Easter. Michael Todd, right?
This guy is extremely blasphemous. He's made a mockery of the resurrection of Christ. He's
made a mockery of Easter and he just says some of the most perverse things. He has a church called
Transformation Church and he wants to put an emphasis on the trans part because he's like
pro-sodomite or whatever. And you know, this guy is just a major false prophet, right? He's just like,
come on, bro don't even need sheep's clothing. You know, he's just like, you're just a wolf.
There's nothing sheepish about you, okay? But there's people in this church and there's people
in line who think he's a righteous person. But you know what that tells me? Christians today are
just very gullible. You know, it's like false prophets don't even have to try hard anymore.
They can say some of the most wicked, blasphemous, just anti-Christ statements from the pulpit,
teach some of the most perverse things and Christians are just like, just complete idiots.
But why is that? It's because of the fact that they're not being educated on the subject of false
prophets, okay? You know, they think that is the form of godliness. It's like the devil can just
show up on their church and they just wouldn't know it. But the point that I'm making here is
that they do have an appearance of righteousness. They do it for the sake of deceiving the simple
minded. And it shows us that we can't necessarily judge everything based upon appearance, okay?
And look, even within fundamental Baptist churches, just because it says Baptist on the front,
doesn't mean it's a good church. You know, because unfortunately, a false gospel known
as the repent of your sins false gospel has infiltrated Baptist churches. And so you can come
into, you know, you can be deceived into thinking, oh, it's this fundamental Baptist, therefore,
they have the right gospel. But then you go there and they're telling you have to turn from your
sins to be saved. Obviously, false gospel, right. It has an appearance of righteousness. They're
like whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of
dead men's bones and all uncleanness. Next point that I want to make is that they're not saved.
False prophets are not saved. They're reprobate. Now you could have people that are, you know,
false prophets, but not necessarily know it. Basically, you know, they're teaching a false
gospel and then they are confronted with the truth. They're confronted with that. They change their
belief. They get saved. You know, that person should step down and not be a pastor anymore and
not continue in that office. But in general, those who are teaching false doctrine and a false gospel,
they're not saving their reprobates. Meaning that not only are they not saved, the Bible tells us
that they're twice dead and plucked up by the roots. And God actually, you know, looks greatly
down upon this particular person because it's not just like, "Oh, they're just confused. Oh, they're
just a little deceived." No, they're deceiving and being deceived, right? These are people who have
essentially relinquished their right to ever, their privilege to ever be saved because they've made it
their ministry and their full-time job to damning souls to hell in spite of the fact that they've
they've been confronted with the truth okay and the Bible specifically says when
it talks about the false prophets in 2nd Peter chapter 2 that they've denied
the Lord God that bought them so it's just like oh they're just a little
deceived well actually the reason they're a reprobate the reason they're
teaching false doctrine the reason they're in that position to begin with
is because they denied the gospel that was given to them long ago so no mercy
for the false prophet there should be no pity for the false prophet no mercy for
the false prophet you know no mercy no pity for the Pope you know and this new
Pope that's coming out Leo or whatever his name is this American Pope all he
did when he became a Pope let me just explain to you all he did he just
graduated to a lower part of hell that's all it is I mean the dude was
already gonna split hell wide open but now he just bought himself a deeper
floor to the core of earth known as hell that's always doing okay and you know
there should be oh you shouldn't say you know he does believe it no the guy is
just folks every Pope God hates every Pope let me just tell you that right now
God hates every Pope and every there's no Pope in heaven right now okay they're
all gonna split hell wide open this last dude that kicked the bucket he's in hell
right now and you know he you know he's probably wondering where all those hell
marys went you know they didn't help him much the guy's burning in hell right now
and this current Pope is gonna burn in hell too and it's it's just kind of
funny they always get all these old geezers to become you know popes it's
like this guy's about to kick the bucket too but quite frankly it doesn't matter
because they're all twice dead and plucked up by the roots now this is not
to say that every Catholic is a reprobate because I don't believe that
at all I believe Catholics need to be saved they need to come to the saving
knowledge of Jesus Christ but the architects of Catholicism are in hell
and they are going to hell if they haven't died already point that I'm
making is they're reprobate you know I don't care how conservative they are I
don't care what their view their political views are I don't care if
they're pro-Trump I don't care you know if they are pro-life and they seem to
believe in the Bible and promote family values the guys are reprobate you see
all that promotion of conservative values is the form of godliness just
remember that you know a lot of Christians you know some some fundamental
Baptists they don't get carried away with these false prophets who have this
form of godliness because they know their false prophets but sometimes when
it gets into the political realm they get caught up in that nonsense well this
politician said Jesus so I don't know he might be he might be Christian or
something you know he promotes Christian values so all of a sudden he's just
automatically a Christian don't work that way you know you you're gullible too
you're just as gullible as the other ones who believe that Mike Todd is a is
a righteous man the difference is your Mike Todd is a Republican and just
because they promote conservative values or even biblical values
automatically they're just righteous people don't work that way you know
don't be so gullible they have a form of godliness but quite frankly they
deny the power thereof and look you know the Pope might that the current Pope
might live a moral life you know I'm not saying he's not a pedophile because you
know but you know let's just say he's not he's never been involved in things
like that doesn't mean he's not an evil wicked person and it doesn't mean that
God does not hate him because God does hate him he said what's the proof that
God hates him the fact he's a Pope the fact he's a Catholic is proof that God
hates him because Catholicism is a punishment for anyone who rejects the
truth punishment the delusion point that I'm making here is that false prophets
are not saving their reprobate we should have mercy for those who are being
deceived by the false prophets and by the reprobates no mercy no pity for the
reprobates in the false prophets of this world okay and the reason I say the
reason I echo that over and over again is because I've just seen that too much
where people are just like I think you know you should just pray for him it's
like I do pray for him it's called a precatory you should pray for them maybe
they're just being a little deceived no they're the ones who are doing the
deception they're the ones responsible for damning people to hell we need to
be able to separate the two and recognize the architects and the
preachers of the false gospel are wicked people on the side of the Lord they can
never be saved God second Peter specifically says that the blackness of
darkness is reserved for them what does it mean to have a reservation means just
like you know you call ahead yeah I like to make a reservation for two so by the
time you get there that table's been yours since you called well hell's for
them that's what it's saying you don't even need to die yet hell's already
reserved for that he's got a little flame a little pit little flame waiting
for him when he gets there that's how much the Lord hates these people okay my
next point is that they can be motivated by greed and covetousness okay and this
is probably one of the most common attributes of a false prophet that we
would be you know that we would know about and obviously probably the most
notorious one would be like Joel Osteen these mega church type preachers that
are majorly greedy and covetous and they're motivated by the money but
obviously the one that we can point to the fastest in the Bible would be Judas
Iscariot who sold the Lord for thirty pieces of silver but the Bible also gives
us the example of Balaam the son of Bozor right who loved the wages of
unrighteousness. 2nd Peter 2 2 says and many shall follow their pernicious ways
by reason of whom the way of truth shall be spoken of through covetousness shall
they with feign words make merchandise of you and you can lump in all the fake
healers into that little category as well okay these people who say claim
they can heal you and make your leg longer and take away your headache and
do all this stupid nonsense that's not real you know these people fall under
that kind of the Benny Hinn types okay slapping you with a jacket these are
people who are making a mockery of the Word of God by doing this nonsensical
things that the prophets of the Bible never did okay so they're
covetous they've gone the way of Balaam for reward go with him if you went to
Titus hold your place there go to Titus chapter 1 Titus chapter number 1 the
prosperity gospel preachers are probably the most notorious for this but this
exists in every circle maybe to the extent of the prosperity gospel
preachers but I promise you it exists within fundamental Baptist churches in
fact I know that it exists within fundamental Baptist churches okay you
know I was just talking to brother Hernandez who ran into a false prophet
recently and you know they were talking you know they're hanging out or something
like that you know you just fellowshiping with them and no he was he
was doing some other business and he ran into this person and I've always know
that this person was just a very greedy covetous person and I've and it's
because of that that I've kind of labeled him as a false prophet in my
opinion okay can I prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt yes no no I can't be
on a shadow of a doubt but that's my judgment and I stand by it and you know
but but what's funny about this and I didn't mention this to brother Hernandez
but I within pride the last month or so I've actually been thinking about that
person and you know I've been thinking like maybe I was a little too harsh in
that judgment you know maybe that person's not like that anymore you know
because back in the day when I knew him he was very greedy covetous he would
say just statements that he made about money just made me think like whoa this
person is motivated seems to be motivated by greed or something like that
like I feel like he's in the ministry for the wrong reasons and quite frankly
he would make statements prior to me even knowing about the the the reprobate
doctrine even being educated on false prophets and things that he would say
just never sat well with me I just seemed like wrong and so you know I
thought I was thinking about this earlier you know within the last month
or so and I was like maybe I was too harsh right but then Ulysses brother
Ulysses he sees this guy and the guy is just like how's the church and you know
brother Hernandez is like oh it's good you know we've seen a lot of people saved and
baptisms you know and and then you know brother Hernandez is asking like how's
the church how's your church doing he's like oh it's good you know we got this
money and we're trying to do this that and the other with money and just all
everything that he talked about was just money oriented nothing about salvation
nothing about baptisms nothing about new soul owners nothing about member you
know the growth of the membership just all money oriented and I thought to
myself the guy has not changed the man has not changed now you know what he's
probably not preaching a prosperity gospel right not you know but I'm just
gonna tell you right now I think he's a false prophet because he's so money
oriented and you know if people don't like that then stop talking about money
so much how about that because I was telling brother Hernandez I said you
know we measure success based upon like spiritual matter now obviously we took
an offering today but quite frankly the majority of the success that we talk
about is how many people have been saved how many people have been baptized all
man the church is growing the other stuff is out of necessity and when
someone asks me like hey how's the church I tell him like well last year we
got over 1,000 salvations because that is the most important thing you know
we're adding new members people are learning how to preach the gospel we got
teardown walls because more people you know are joining the church it's great
but when your answer to how the church is doing is like ching ching ching
ching ching ching ching you know there's an issue there and you know it's people
who are motivated by greed and you know if you want to join the ministry because
you want to make money number one you're either an idiot because nobody makes
money in the ministry okay you know you sometimes go broke being in the
ministry or two you're just a false prophet because you view people as dollar
signs and you're seeking to take advantage of the membership and you know
in order to make money make merchandise off of the flock of God look at Titus
chapter 1 verse 9 it says holding fast the faithful word this is the Apostle
Paul instructing Titus here regarding the planting of churches he says holding
fast the faithful word as he hath been taught that he may be able by sound
doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers for there are many
unruly and vain talkers and deceivers especially they have the circumcision now
it doesn't seem as though the Apostle Paul has changed his message much because
in Acts 20 he says feed the flock of God and then he talks about why he says
because many shall come in and you know teaching perverse things to draw away
disciples after them in Titus he says you need to make sure that you hold a
faithful word why because there's many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers
and he specifically talks about the circumcision referring to Jews so he's
like hey you need to make sure that whatever pastor is taking over these
churches that he's well educated in the Word of God because there's a lot of
Judaizers there's these Pharisees who are going around trying to deceive
people teaching false doctrine they're making proselytes and keep in mind these
are these guys got a work ethic because they're willing to capacity land and
seed to make one proselyte it says right so he says you know hold fast the
faithful word why is there's a lot of false prophets out there verse 11 whose
mouths must be stopped who subvert whole houses teaching things which they are
not because they're just deceived and we need to pray for them and they just
don't know the Bible we need to lead them in the right direction and you know
we need to disciple them no it says teaching things which they are not for
filthy lucre sake so they're intentionally teaching false doctrine
seeking to subvert whole houses beguile unstable souls because they want the
filthy lucre filthy lucre simply is referring to you know something that's
lucrative it's referring to money when it when it adds filthy next to it's
basically saying that they're getting unjust gain unjust monetary wealth okay
so what this is telling us is that teaching false doctrine or teaching the
Bible for the sake of making money automatically makes that lucre filthy
because you have the intention that you're just trying to get rich or
something okay so he says they're doing it for filthy lucre sake and he says
verse 12 one of themselves even a prophet of their own said the Cretians
are always liars evil beasts slow bellies this witness is true so you know
he's saying that one of these prophets these false prophets are going to Crete
and he's criticizing the Cretians and he's saying hey they're liars basically
they're dishonest they're evil beasts maybe they're not moral people and it
says that they're slow bellies and I would assume that that's referring to
maybe the fact that they're lazy okay they're lazy they're slothful they're
dishonest they're not moral people and I like what the apostle Paul says in
verse 13 this witness is true in other words he's like they're saying this but
what they're actually saying is actually true about them you know and this tells
me that false prophets will say true things but they'll say true things with
the different intention not to help the cretins but to fill up their own belly
and order for them to make merchandise off of them it says this witness is true
wherefore rebuke them sharply who's the them the cretins that they may be sound
in the faith so he's saying look you need to make sure you go there and rip
face on the cretins tell them not to be liars evil be slow bellies so they can
be sound in the faith they can be righteous people okay this isn't some
this isn't addressing the false prophets because false prophets can't be sound
in the faith the reprobates as the chapter actually says he says in verse
14 here's another proof that he's referring to the cretins not giving heed
to Jewish fables and commandments of men that turn from the truth so what are
the Pharisees doing what are the Jews doing they're going in giving Jewish
fables teaching false doctrine giving the commandments of men and they're
turning people from the truth so he's saying you need to make sure you go in
there and preach the truth because these people are wicked individuals and what
is the purpose of them going there and making proselytes it's not because they
love the truth it's not because they want to win people to Christ it's not
because they want to win people to their God it's literally because they want to
make money off of the creations okay and so stop using this excuse oh man
maybe they're just to see maybe we just need to pray for them they're just a
little off they're so often though that they're just completely reprobate and
it's that's not a harsh judgment it's telling us here that these there's
individuals in this world who literally will participate in ministry for the
sake of making money and making merchandise off of the flock of God go
back to 2nd Peter chapter 2 we see also the day referring to false prophets can
be motivated by power so some like to make a mockery of the word of God by
teaching heresy some do it because they're motivated by greed they want to
make merchandise off of the flock of God but others do it because they actually
like power they like authority okay let's read from 2nd Peter chapter 2 and
verse number 10 says but chiefly them that walk after the flesh and the lust
of uncleanness and despise government presumptuous are they self-willed they
are not afraid to speak evil of dignities now hold your place there and
turn with me if you would to 3rd John 3rd John and when it says that they
despise government we're not talking about truthers here okay people who are
into small government government just means like authority right so these are
people who don't respect biblical authority they don't respect the past
the pastor's authority and what they'll often do is undermine the authority of
the pastor not because they don't like any authority they just they want they
themselves want to be the authority this is why the Bible says that they're
self-willed so they will intentionally try to drag down the leadership in order
to exalt themselves now we have an example this in the Bible right Cora
Dathan and Abira who literally attacked Moses because they themselves wanted to
have the authority over God's people and it's not because they were just
ambitious and they love God's people they wanted power and let me just tell
you right now there's there's pastors out there who become pastors because
they want power over the people now there's a very fine line when it comes
to this because there's pastors out there who are saved and you know they
have a tendency maybe to get a little jealous or a little envious and they
don't like their members listening to other pastors online that's a thing and
I'm not saying that they're not saved because maybe they're just struggling
with a little bit of envy a little bit of jealousy whatever but then there's
others who are false prophets okay and they're just like you can't listen to
them and it's not because you know they feel like the online preachers are just
detrimental they're evil it's because they themselves want to have the
preeminence among that flock of God they want the power they want the
authority and this exists in a lot of ways in fact you know let me give you a
personal testimony okay I went to go preach for someone years ago and I
probably already gave this illustration well I'm gonna give it again you know
there's I went to go preach for a guy and you know his church was about like
15 deep you know which whatever you know you're running 15 praise God and you
know he literally went out of his way to tell me he said hey there's people who
actually emailed and called and said if they can come to church to come hear
you preach because they're fans of your preaching and I was like oh man that's
cool he goes yeah but I told him not to come they're not allowed to come I'm
like oh why he's like well my philosophy is is that if they're not willing to
come to church when I'm preaching and they're not allowed to come when
anybody else comes to preach so they're not attending church while I'm here and
winning souls with us then they can't come and hear you preach and you know I
thought to myself that's really weird but what's even weirder is that you
would tell me that freaking weirdo like weird that's one thing to like believe
that it's one thing to think that it's another thing to tell the preacher that
right like hey I just want to let you know people want to come hear you preach and look
for me it was just like wow that's so awesome because I wouldn't think anybody
would want to come hear me preach at any other church I'm shocked if anybody
shows up to hear me preach other than the people who actually go to that
church so if people are calling in say hey I like to I want to hear that
preacher can I come you know can I come down you know I was kind of like
offended because I was thinking myself like why would you like hinder someone
and look we've had preachers come here and you know my pastor friends come
here and people that we've never seen before don't show up right and you know
what I'm not a hater though there's not a hater bone in my body I don't drink
hater age when I see them like oh they're here for this particular
preacher and you know what once that preacher leaves we a lot of these people
we just never see them again and you know what it doesn't hurt me I'm not
like it's it's such a wimpy effeminate reaction you say well what do you do I
just let whoever come whoever wants to come come because here's my thought
here's my philosophy okay if someone comes to our church because they want
to hear one of my pastor friends my thing is well maybe they end up liking
the church and come back because they meet the people to see the friendliness
of the atmosphere you know and you know they might come to a service and say you
know what I actually like the preaching the pastor me here does too I think
that'd be great but you know what I'm not gonna throw a hissy fit though if
that doesn't happen because here's here's my here's here's part of my
philosophy okay if you don't come back to hear me preach them forget you come
hear me preach I'm joking but it for me it's just like maybe it's not the right
fit for you maybe you don't like my kind of preaching you know what I don't think
highly of myself and think to myself well I should be the only one you're
listening to you know how can you not like my preaching that's such a weird
attitude to have and it's an attitude that puts forth all I need to have the
preeminence okay but you know it just doesn't work that way my friends we
should be thankful when people listen to the truth and you know I don't vet what
who and what you're listening to and what pastors you're listening to now I
would hope you would just listen to righteous men who know what the heck
they're talking about first and foremost and if you listen to someone who doesn't
that I just be ashamed of you a little bit a little embarrassed for you but
you know I'm not going around saying so who's on your playlist you know so let
me let me check your history okay because quite frankly I don't care and
at the end of the day you honor me by coming here three times a week and you
know if a person is willing to come here three times a week listen to me scream
at them for an hour that's good enough for me it's gonna for me if you do it
one one day a week one service a week and if you are supplementing yourself
with other preaching praise God and you know at the end of the day I end up
benefiting as a pastor our church ends up benefiting from the godliness that
you're learning from other pastors the only time I would have a problem is if
you try to impose here what you're learning from someone else you know
obviously respect the administration here respect what we got going on here
but other than that free for all listen to whoever you want and you know I don't
even care if you listen to a false prophet let me just tell you that that's
your fault you're not messing me up you're messing yourself up but I think
we have a pretty smart church you know and I think we have a church that has
enough common sense to stay away from certain preachers I'm not gonna tell
you don't listen to so-and-so because you have the Spirit of God dwelling
within you you have the Word of God I'm educating you constantly on subjects
like this so if you if even after this you're still listening to false prophets
you're just stupid that's just it you know I can't believe you call your
member stupid only if they're doing that I don't think anybody in our church does
that though and if they did they're probably not gonna do it anymore
look at 3rd John verse 9 it says I wrote into the church but diatrophes who
loveth they have to bring eminence among them receiveth us not now it's just like
bro what can you have against John John's such a lovely man you know guys
he seems to be like a sweet person the guy laying on the bosom of Jesus you
know he's just he's just a cool guy and in diatrophies hating on John he's
writing a letter he's an apostle the guy is elite one of the elite apostles who
was there with the Lord and he's writing to the church and the leader of that
church diatrophies because he wants to have the authority over the church the
preeminence amongst the brethren doesn't even want to receive those
letters verse 10 wherefore if I come I will remember his deeds with you do not
the side of John we've never seen before he's like if I come I will remember his
deeds which he doeth. Praying against us with malicious words and not content
therewith neither doth he himself receive the brethren and forbid at them
that would and cast them out of the church you know if they if you write an
email to the church or call the church asking to come listen to the Apostle
pastor John preach he's just like no you can't come oh you listen to John pastor
John you can't come nonsense my friends this guy obviously has a complex about
himself where he feels like he has to be the most important person in that church
he's not content it says with his position he's not content with having
people already listening to his preaching you know he wants to stop the
ears of his church members from listening to just anybody it's nonsense
my friends and this is a characteristic of a false prophet why is that well
Jesus said of the Pharisees in Matthew 23 verse 5 but all their works they do
for to be seen of men they make broader phylacteries and enlarge the borders of
their garments they love the uppermost rooms at feast and the chief seats in the
synagogues and greetings in the markets and to be called of men rabbi rabbi but
being not called rabbi for one is your master even Christ and all ye are
brethren and call no man your father upon the earth for one is your father
which is in heaven neither be called masters for one is your master even
Christ but he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant so we see that
the false prophets in Matthew 23 the Pharisees they love the titles doctor
master rabbi right and it's not because they deserve this position it's not
because they're eloquent preachers they just want the attention they want the
admiration they want the preeminence and they want the power folks if men if you
want to be a pastor be a humble person be a servant unto the Lord and you know
what don't think so highly of yourself to think that you're the only one that
people can listen to you're the only person that people could admire you know
people attend your church that's good enough right and look let's just be
honest you know we will always have myself included a particular love for a
pastor that's just it right I have a particular love for my father-in-law
who is my pastor I have a particular love for certain preachers who impacted
my life right and you know I'm sure you have a particular love for me maybe not
necessary for my preaching but just because we have a good relationship I'm
your pastor I've been pastoral towards you right but you might have another
favorite preacher and you know what that's okay too I have no issue with
that and if you have an issue with that if you become a pastor you're going down
a slippery slope where you become a diatrophies and it's an indication that
you want to have the preeminence it's an indication that you're prideful your
self-willed and your arrogant be humble or be humbled okay and so false prophets
love to have power and they will often seek to preach sermons and make videos
trying to cut down other preachers who are doing well and are succeeding not
because they want to expose them for any sin but rather because they want to
exalt themselves that preeminence but it just never works there's still you know
in Timbuktu in the middle of nowhere some backwoods church running whatever
no one really knows who they are looks like it didn't really help you much now
did it you know and by the way if you know if you want to be admired amongst
your people you want to have respect in the admiration put in the work you know
may the members of your church see the growth of your church may they see the
salvations and the baptisms may they see the labor that you're putting forth to
grow the church you know that'll give you credibility let me tell you some
people who don't work though in the ministry that's why they have to go the
alternative route and start tearing down other people because they're not doing
any work themselves they need to deflect attention from their failure as a
pastor and place it on other pastors who are actually succeeding and make
excuses for that success oh just because you've seen a lot of people save doesn't
mean doesn't mean what what doesn't it mean doesn't mean what if people are
seeing people say if pastors are seeing people say their churches are growing
baptisms are what do you what else do you want you want us to look like you
you want us to diminish our membership to five ten people like you what kind of
success are you looking for because the success of the Bible is measured in
numbers fact that's a fact but I digress because if not this is gonna turn into a
part one feminism thing and I'm gonna go off on something else and so and look
I'm not I'm not downplaying any pastor who's running 10 15 20 people and they're
doing the work praise God for that okay and you know fundamental Baptist churches
in general have been smaller throughout the years but they've done the work
though and I've known fundamental Baptist pastors that you know they're
running you know let's say 30 people but man they're out there soul winning
they're getting people baptized and maybe they're they're in backwoods they're in
some backwards church but they're still putting in the work so thank God for
that what I'm saying is if you want to be admired which I think everyone wants
to be admired then be admired by putting in the work okay stop making sucky
videos and put good content out there stop preaching crappy sermons and
preach quality sermons and maybe someone would listen to you instead of people
who just hate the other preachers I digress my next point when it comes to
false prophets is that they are often admired by mainstream Christianity that
is the thing because Jesus said of the false prophecies is woven to you when
all men shall speak well of you for so did their fathers to the false prophets
so it's just like oh you should be like Jesus well they crucified Jesus you know
oh you're just jealous of Joel see look at his church yeah everyone likes Joel
thing who doesn't like Joel everyone thinks he's great everyone likes what he
says you guys always nice but the Bible says that that's an indicator that he's
a false prophet because the prophets of God should not be liked by everyone they
should be liked by people who love the truth they should be loved and admired
by God's people but let's just be honest the prophet of God is also hated by a
lot of people too they're despised they're hated and so you know if you
find oh man why are you saying so why do you guys call see you know Charles
Haddon Spurgeon so much because he's loved by everyone he's a false prophet
teaches repent your sins he's loved by everyone yeah but he's in the history
books of course he's in the history books you're not gonna find Bruce Mahian
the history books just not gonna happen and you know if they do put us in the
history books it will always be in a negative light this false doctrine known
as OSAS promoted by these preachers this cult who abused women believed in
spousal discipline you know believe they believe in all types of hair they're
gonna paint it up at the end of the day history is made by the winners so
they're often admired by mainstream Christianity this is why you know when
people send me videos of like these big-time preachers oh man this guy is
great it's just like you know you got a guy like two million followers though I
don't know I just don't know if the fundamental badness can reach two
million I mean I was able to hit a hundred and twelve thousand on YouTube
and then the Jews took it down you know pastor Anderson I think he hit like a
hundred fifty thousand and then he got taken down and it wasn't because we were
you know it's not because we're only preaching the gospel we're preaching
against everything and so you know they're often admired by a lot of people
the point that I'm making is that the prophet of God the man of God yeah he'll
have people who love him but let me just be honest with you the vast majority of
the world will hate him why because they're like Jesus and you know Jesus
was hated to the point that they crucified him plain and simple okay now
the next thing I want to mention here is that they can be motivated motivated by
perversion so you know there's false prophets out there that are motivated by
power they're motivated by greed they're motivated by covetousness but then
there's just some straight flat-out pervert fags out there they infiltrate
churches because they want to beguile unstable souls they want to molest
children they want to take advantage of the innocent and their perverts that
exists in the Bible okay look at 2nd Peter 2 verse 13 it says and shall
receive the reward of unrighteousness as they that could count it pleasure to
riot in the daytime spots they are and blemishes sporting themselves in their
own deceivings while they feast with you having eyes full of adultery and then
cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls and heart they have exercised with
covetous practices cursed children now again let me explain something because
this is not to say the spiritual leader a pastor cannot fall into adultery you
know as a safe person obviously that's the that that exists too but there's a
difference between that guy and the person who intentionally goes into the
ministry in order to commit adultery that's a major thing you know man his
name is Fleeming right now what's that Indian preacher the really famous one
that everyone loves see everyone Rockies all these guys know him Ravi Zacharias
right is that his name? Ravi Zacharias you know everyone exalted this guy's
being some great man of God with so many great expositions and all this great
stuff the guy's a straight pervert raping women and doing all types of
wickedness and lewdness the guy is a straight false prophet and you know what
one thing that just boggles my mind is when Christians hear about that and
they're still backing him up brother he fell brother the guy's fallen from grace
a long time ago it's called apostasy using the pulpit using the local New
Testament Church as breeding grounds to fulfill your perversion and take
advantage of people that's evil it's wicked you know what Jack Scott is
another one from the fundamental Baptist circles pastor of First Baptist Church
of Hammond the guy's a pervert the guy's wicked eyes full of adultery he fits
the narrative he fits the description that is what he was motivated by you
know what and I'm telling you you know people back that guy up they're like oh
he just fell you know David fell you know first of all David wasn't a pastor
David was a king he wasn't a pastor secondly you probably don't know
everything that went into the whole jacks cop thing the audio recordings that
he recorded just I'll just leave it at that of his perversions I mean the guy
is a sick freak but the Bible tells us that they cannot cease from sin meaning
that there's no you can't reform them you know it goes and by the way another
thing that you know this is why this is a big thing is that this is why
pedophiles infiltrate churches bus captains junior church leaders that
molest children in churches the Roman Catholic Church very notorious for that
and it's funny you know you bring this up to Catholics yeah but there's all
kinds of pedophiles within Protestant churches oh I'm sorry he's just
preceded you know business as usual then forget I say even say anything as if
that because it exists in Protestant churches it's justifiable for the Roman
Catholic Church to do it and by the way there's no pedophiles here you know if
you really want to compare when there's a pedophile here if he's able to get out
the door alive the guy will never come back in ever again we boot him out we
throw him out we don't move him to a different church whereas when there's a
Roman Catholic pedophile priests some faggot out there who's molesting children
and violating that they just move into a different Catholic Church and they
believe in this universal church so he stays within the church but you know
that this exists perverts sodomites and let me just remind you this is why we
don't allow fags in church because every fag is a pedophile according to the
Bible okay they can they are capable of some of the worst crimes against nature
and they will intentionally infiltrate churches because they view Christians as
being trusting people around their kids which is why they often want positions
of authority in children's ministries because they want to take advantage of
the kids so you know what no don't bring your faggot cousin to our church don't
bring your faggot uncle faggot cousin if you want to preach the gospel to them
and you still think they can be saved you do that out this outside the walls
of this church don't ever bring them here because it's not gonna happen look
I want to be nice to you I don't want to be awkward with you that's what I'm
telling you right now don't intentionally bring someone who's a
sodomy to our church why because the Bible tells us that they be guile
unstable so well I heard of a story of a sodomy who gave his life to Christ I'm
not gay no more you guys all you guys seen that video right it's like what you
sound like a homo we the pitch of that statement was made by home like close
my eyes on that guy's a homo I didn't have to look at the guy it don't exist
folks the testimonies of the Lord they are my counselors the Bible says I don't
care what testimony of sodomy gives about getting saved it doesn't exist in
the Bible and you know what let's just pretend let's just make believe that
maybe I'm wrong about this well you know I rather be wrong and keep our children
safe right then be wrong be like well I guess we could just try it then or
something if I'm wrong I'll find out in heaven you know but at least we keep our
children safe from pedophiles and predators for seeking to destroy kids
lives why cuz false but that's what false prophets do and you know what if
they're if we ever find a pedophile in our church or some pervert in our church
there's no rug here to sweep it under it's not like we're just gonna keep it
under wraps here or something expose that fool beat him down and just mark my
words pedophiles you come to our church and we find out that you're a pedophile
you're getting a beat down you know I'll spend it I'll spend a day in jail for
that I'll smack the crap out of you and just you're getting a whooping on your
way out you're getting a major I gotta be careful here you're getting a whooping
on the way out there's no mercy for pedophiles here they're not welcome so
you knowing that you're not welcome here and you still intentionally come you
know you're getting a whooping you're getting the beat down and we're all getting a
lick and you know if we all spend a day in jail it'll be great be great I
thereby deputize everyone here to smack the crap out of a pedophile if he ever
comes to church here smack him right across the face because they're not
welcome okay let's see here what else well the second thing is that false
prophets can often say the right things so that's another thing you got to be
careful you know obviously they deceive they lie now here's the great thing go
to 2nd Timothy chapter 3 because you know obviously they deceive so they
will intentionally say the right things in order to masquerade as a Christian as
a man of God as a prophet as a pastor and you know you think to yourself
so what do we do how do we like circumvent that well you know you just
depend on the Lord to expose him because this is what the Bible says look at 2nd
Timothy 3 when talking about false prophets in verse 9 it says but they
shall proceed no further for their folly shall be made manifest unto all men as
theirs also was so according to the Bible eventually they will slip up eventually
they can't retain their heresy they can't retain their wickedness it ends
up just seeping out so look we don't want to be this code red type of church
where it's just like maybe there's a false prophet around every corner
something like that they'll be paranoid okay I think so and so is a false
prophet you know you don't want to be all paranoid and schizophrenic about this
whole thing okay recognize they exist and then just trust in the Lord to
expose them because that's that's what he does so let's just do business as
usual and serve the Lord and pray unto the Lord and believe 2nd Timothy 3 verse
9 that says that they're folly that they will not proceed any further their
folly shall be made manifest they will eventually expose themselves at which
point we could remove them from the congregation okay and that is the
context because verse 10 says but thou has fully known my doctrine manner of
life purpose faith long-suffering charity patience persecutions
afflictions and so forth okay and so they will often say the right things
because they're seeking to deceive and this is why it says in Matthew 23 verse
14 won't you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites free devourer widows houses
and for a pretense make long prayer therefore you shall receive the greater
damnation so it's specifically saying that they will intentionally try to
look more spiritual than they really are they're hyper spiritual right they make
long prayers because they're trying to masquerade as a righteous person they
have this they feign themselves as just men in order to deceive people that's
why the long prayers are made and so that is a tactic that they will use
Titus 1 16 says they profess that they know God but in works they deny him
being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work reprobate next
point here let me just move on and that is that they flatter their victims and
this is why in our church I always promote sincerity okay be sincere and
you know obviously sometimes we're sincere to a fault we're a little too
honest sometimes right and you know it's just like man everyone's just really
brutally honest here you know it's annoying sometimes but I'll just be
honest I prefer that over the flattery though because I've been in environments
where flattery was a thing and you know it the Bible talks about people who
flatter you as though spreading a net below your feet meaning that they're
trying to trap you okay when they give you excessive compliments and it seems
insincere just recognize that's a red flag this person wants something from
you and I'll give you an example you know we had a guy in our church I don't
know maybe he's gone he's been gone for about a year and a half or so I don't
remember I try to forget but you know what this guy ended up being really bad
and he's never welcome to come back here ever again but one of the first things
he did when he met me he's just like oh man I love you man you're just like the
best you're just like the best pretty you know and let me just say this if
someone compliments you excessively and it makes you feel weird that's it that's
flattery because we all like compliments right hey lost weight oh thanks you know
you look good in that suit I appreciate you look sharp man thank you appreciate
that you know this is sincere but when it becomes too gooey and mushy and then
you're just kind of embarrassed that's called flattery when it starts
embarrassing you and they seem to just be caking it on it's embarrassing and
the same guy I'm not the only one he flattered the same guy would go to like
dudes in the churches just like man you have beautiful eyes what the hell is
that you guys remember um brother John brother John was his last I can't think
of Lee but what did I I would call him Swanson remember Swanson that's it that's
a better Swanson we used to call him Swanson you know he went up to Swanson
was just like man you got like the most beautiful eyes ever you know kind of
faggot thing is that the same such a faggoty thing to say what for another
dude to come you know hey look there's people on our trip with blue eyes you
know and blue eyes is cool but I'm not gonna go up to JC and be like you know hey just want to let
you know it's kind of weird but you got gorgeous eyes brother you know freaking
weird but you know he did it to Cody too though so obviously you know he's lying
to brother John saying that he has the most beautiful eyes all the while I was
telling Cody he has beautiful eyes too these eyes aren't that beautiful let's
go flattery excessiveness you know and and obviously this guy was just weird
and on all fronts I don't care what anybody says the guy was a freaking
weirdo he's not welcome to come back that's that's an extreme example but
folks false prophets do that okay you know you give me you show me a mega
church leader right with the purple lights I guarantee you there's a lot of
flattery going into that message you know there's a whole lot of great
swelling words of vanity as the Bible says meaning it just kind of puffs you
up and it's all lovey-dovey it's all positive and we want positive sermons but
not at the exclusion of the negative okay the Bible says in 2nd Peter 2 18
for when they speak great swelling words of vanity they allure through the lust
of the flesh so they don't use spiritual means to allure you they use fleshly
means to to allure you right to bring you in through much wantonness those
that were clean escape from them who live in error jude 16 says these are
murmurs complainers walking after their own lust and their mouth speaketh great
swelling words I want you to notice this having men's persons in admiration
because of advantage so they intentionally excessively compliment you
they flatter you because they want to take advantage of you the Bible says okay
and so we need to steer clear of the positive only messages positive
messages are necessary we need to be encouraged we need to be edified but we
need a balanced diet when every single sermon is positive there's only so much
positivity we can handle let me just be honest with you after a while just like
I need you to let me I need to be rebuked right Jeremiah 6 13 says this
for from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to
covetousness and from the prophet even unto the priest everyone dealeth falsely
and I want you to notice this they have healed also the herd of the daughter of
my people slightly saying peace peace when there is no peace you know a
dangerous preacher is the one who tells you you won't suffer the consequences of
not fearing God that's a message of peace peace when there is no peace the
preacher that gets up and tells you hey you know everything is gonna be okay
you're already safe you can live however you want nothing bad will happen don't
listen to these preachers are saying this there's no such thing as progressive
sanctification mark it down he's a false prophet he's telling you there's peace
when there is no peace and he's healing you slightly what does slightly mean it
means by slight of hand just ever so slightly I guess you could say where he
gives you this impression that you're being healed but you're not this is an
imbalanced message man I didn't finish here go to go to acts 13 I'll finish up
there I'm well over my time here let me just finish this up they often turn the
grace of God into lasciviousness and that kind of goes along with my previous
point let me just finish up with this last point here and that is that false
prophets will seek to hinder the work of God okay they seek to hinder the work of
God meaning that you know one way you can tell someone is a false prophet is
that when they try to stop people from preaching the gospel preaching the Word
of God spreading the message that is a false prophet now you may think well
they just feel like they're doing God's work you know but here's the thing
folks you know there's a lot of pastors out there that I disagree with that I
think are false prophets that are teaching a false message but my life is
not centered around just making sure I destroy that particular ministry I got
work to do I got other things to do you know every video that I make is not
about false prophets it's not about that particular church right every sermon
that I preach is not a particular church it's we got work to do I got I preach
about moms on Sunday morning you know we got a building offering we got so
many we gotta do I'm preaching at a conference on Friday on the King James
Bible I mean it's other thing I got a family we got problems there's issues
there's all kinds of things we've got to worry about so when you have people that
want to stop you from preaching the gospel hinder the work of God that's an
issue there's preachers who I think are saved they're possibly not who I
disagree with I would never do anything to try to stop the work of God from
going forward in that church that'd be a weird thing to do we're not gonna go
through X 13 you can read that on your own the gist of the story in X 13 is
Elias the sorcerer who is a Jew okay says he was a Jew he's a sorcerer but I'm
just telling you he seems to go out of his way to tell us he's a Jew he's a
sorcerer and the Apostle Paul's preaching and the guy's trying to stop
the Apostle Paul from preaching the gospel and the Apostle Paul did
something that I wish we could do today but I don't know if I had that ability I
probably use it too excessively he like smites him with blindness and the guy
is like groping he's like he can't see like he gave him physical blindness of
the spiritual blindness that he already had and he did it because he was trying
to hinder the Apostle Paul from winning someone to Christ and you know if you've
been so winning for any length of time you've run into the limaces you've had
people maybe it was a mom maybe it was a friend maybe it was just some random
person that's just following you and they're trying to stop you from
winning someone to Christ that person's super wicked it's a false prophet or at
least they're doing the work of a false prophet so what do I do just rebuke the
crap out of them rebuke them harshly scare them away you know they're they're
doing the work of Satan by seeking to disrupt you and stop you from getting
people saved that's an evil thing to do point that I'm making here is that false
prophets will make it their agenda to stop the work of God at a particular
church and we had this years ago where a guy did that he ended up dying brutally
you know a couple months thereafter but it kind of shows us that God does not
take that lightly okay and so hope that helped regarding the the profile of a
false prophet we need to remember these things in order to identify them and to
be aware of them let's pray father we thank you so much for your word thank
you for how explicit the Word of God is I pray you help us as your people to
take these things to heart and beware of those who fit the attributes of a false
prophet and Lord may you bless us as we go on our way thank you so much for a
great Sunday we love you we thank you pray these things in Jesus name Amen
song number four in your hymnals way of the cross leads home Amen song number four
in your hymnals number four the way of the cross leads home on that verse