The verse I wanted to focus on this morning was verse 13 where the Bible read,
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth,
and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me,
and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men.
The title of the sermon this morning is Fake Christian Spirituality.
Fake Christian Spirituality.
And you say, what are you going to preach about this morning?
Well, I'm not preaching about the Catholics today.
I'm not preaching about the lame Baptists today,
the ones that are saved, that have just forsaken, you know, God's word,
that have forsaken going out and preaching the gospel,
that don't really want to teach doctrine, that are stooped in false doctrine.
I'm not preaching about them.
I'm preaching against fake Christian spirituality.
What is this? You're Joel Osteen.
You're Hillsong. I mean, Hillsong.
I mean, all these Christian temples today, these buildings,
filled with thousands and thousands of people this morning,
and they claim to be Christian.
They claim to have spirituality.
They claim to be Spirit-filled.
Now go, if you would, to 2 Peter chapter number 2.
2 Peter chapter number 2.
You say, well, what's wrong with these type of, you know, institutions today?
I don't even like to call them a church,
because they're not a church in the eyes of the Lord.
If you read Revelation chapter 2 and 3,
he tells you what's a church and what's not a church.
And they're not a church. They're just a social club.
They're just a gathering of unsaved, fake Christian people.
Now, the world today, they'll label, you know, billions of people Christian.
They'll even lump the Catholics as Christian.
But we see from the Bible, that's not what a Christian is.
A Christian is one that's actually believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's saved by faith.
Now, Christian can also mean Christ-like.
So, if we're really going to take a strict definition of a Christian,
it would only be those that are saved and trying to be like Christ.
Trying to actually follow in his footsteps.
Now, I'm not against you saying anybody's, you know, that's saved is a Christian.
There's a backslidden Christian.
But I'm just saying the purpose of being called a Christian is you're trying to be like Christ.
And Antioch is the first place they're called Christians.
Why? Because they're trying to be Christ-like.
They're starting the church. They're going out and preaching the gospel.
They're persecuted for Christ's name.
You're not going to be calling the guy hiding in his house,
not letting anybody know that he's a Christian a Christian.
You just don't even realize that he's a Christian, right?
The ones that are going out and being persecuted, you're like,
these guys are the Christians, right?
It's kind of a good title, a good name to be called.
I would love to be called a Christian by my persecutors.
Why? Because they're saying you're trying to be like Christ. Amen.
That's what I'm trying to be like this morning.
Look at 2 Peter 2, verse 18.
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity,
they allure through the lust of the flesh, through much wantonness,
those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
So what's wrong with these megachurches today?
What's wrong with hell's song?
What's wrong with this church that's just reaching millions and millions of people?
I mean, have you heard their music?
I mean, their music's so fancy and it's so alluring.
Oh, man, it just sounds so great.
Guess what? It's great swelling words of vanity.
Now, you say, how can you preach against their music?
I mean, they're singing about Jesus.
They're singing these great songs.
It's so catchy.
Well, let's understand why we wouldn't want to sing their songs.
Now, I picked out a song.
It's not the most popular, but it's one of the most popular songs they have.
It's called I Surrender.
I Surrender.
It has 80 million views on YouTube.
They're just one video of this upload.
Some of their videos have 200 million views of some of their songs, okay?
Now, I'm just going to read for you the lyrics of their song I Surrender.
Here I am, down on my knees again, surrendering all, surrendering all,
and find me here.
Lord, as you draw me near, desperate for you, desperate for you, I surrender.
Drench my soul as mercy and grace unfold.
I hunger and thirst, I hunger and thirst.
With arms stretched wide, I know you hear my cry.
Speak to me now, speak to me now.
I surrender, I surrender.
I want to know you more, I want to know you more.
I can repeat that about four or five more times, and that would be the song.
The song's like 10 minutes in length.
I mean, they just say the same thing over and over and over.
Now, get your hymnal back out this morning.
Turn to hymn 308, 308.
Say, didn't we sing that this morning? Yes, we did.
I didn't pick that. Somebody else picked that.
308.
Now, we sing a song that's pretty similar.
I mean, we just sang a song this morning, I Surrender All.
So you say, well, what's the difference?
What's the difference between, you know, the hell song version
and what we have in our hymnal this morning?
Well, my first point is that the hell song version is lack of doctrine.
It's void of any doctrine.
Now, obviously, they're repeating the same words over and over,
and if you read 308, the chorus, hey, we repeat the chorus four times, don't we?
So we're singing things in repetition.
We're singing certain things over and over.
Is that what's wrong with it?
Not at all.
Let's focus first on the things that are positive about the hell song version, okay?
First of all, they use the name Jesus, okay?
Some songs in this modern, you know, fake Christianity, fake spirituality,
they won't even use the name of our Savior in their song.
They won't even use the name of God anywhere.
It's just this generic blend of just secular music.
But at least this song, it does mention Jesus somewhere in it.
So we'll say positive check mark, all right?
I'm just giving them the most benefit of the doubt.
I'm just trying to be as, you know, generous as I can with this song today.
It says that they're surrendering.
I mean, that's a pretty good, you know, concept.
At least, you know, they're wanting to surrender.
Now, they don't really define what that means in their song.
You know, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
The Bible talks about us trusting the Lord.
The word surrender is not in your King James Bible this morning.
If you were like wondering what that word is, it's not in your Bible,
but there's similar words like trust, submission.
So we'll just give them the positive, we'll say maybe that's good.
Both songs talk about surrender.
Both songs mention Jesus.
Not only that, they also mention being down on my knees.
Well, this song also mentions being down on your knees.
Look at verse 2.
All to Jesus I surrender, humbly at his feet I bow.
So they both kind of give the same imagery of being surrendered in some way,
submitting unto the Lord, giving reverence unto the Lord.
In the Hillsong version, they also say arms stretched wide.
Now, I preached previously that the Bible does talk about men lifting up their holy hands without wrath and doubting,
that you would lift up your hands in the sanctuary and you could praise the Lord,
would be a biblical concept.
It's not something that's unbiblical.
This version in your hymn doesn't mention that.
Okay, so there's their one real positive check.
That's all the positive, okay?
That's all the things that I was just trying to look at and say,
if I was just going to look at the positive, it mentions Jesus, talks about surrender,
it's down on your knees, arms stretched wide.
But here's the negative, okay?
If we compare it with the hymn this morning, what does verse 1 say?
All to who?
All to Jesus I surrender.
So we know who we're surrendering to.
This song's just I surrender, I surrender, I surrender.
Who are you surrendering to?
What are you surrendering to?
I mean, who are we going to actually surrender to?
What is it that you're surrendering to?
Is it, you know, another spirit?
Is it the Lord Jesus Christ?
What is it that they're surrendering to in this song?
You don't know.
It's just generic so it can be applied to any person for any reason.
Not only that, let's look at the second part of verse 1.
All to him I freely give.
So in your hymn this morning, we already destroyed the false doctrine of Calvinism.
Calvinism says you don't have free will.
This song we're singing, hey, even though I'm surrendering,
even though I'm trying to trust the Lord and getting on my knees and bowing to him,
I realize I'm doing it with my own free will.
I'm freely giving this unto the Lord.
It's not this tractor beam where God just says, you better surrender.
I hope you're going to.
No, he begs us, he pleads us, he commands us to trust him,
to bow down unto him, to give him reverence.
But you have a choice this morning.
You don't have to be here this morning.
You can go do whatever you want.
You can go, you know, fake worship with all the fake Christians today,
with the fake spirituality today,
or you could come into a church that actually honors the Lord Jesus Christ,
that's going to give him the praise and the glory,
and we've already destroyed false doctrine in verse 1.
This other song, I don't know any doctrine.
There's no information here that's from the Bible.
I'm not learning any points.
We're not destroying any false doctrine.
Look at the third line.
I will ever love and trust him.
So, wow, we've already destroyed Calvinism and we've defined surrender.
We talk who we're surrendering to.
We're surrendering to the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's who we're surrendering to.
We're giving him, you know, honor.
Not only that, we're saying that we're going to freely give it.
Not only that, we say we're going to trust him,
meaning what we meant by surrender.
We're helping define our mind.
What did we mean by surrender, since it's not even a biblical word?
We're saying we're going to trust the Lord.
We're going to trust Jesus Christ.
Let's skip to the second verse.
Okay, so all to Jesus I surrender, humbly at his feet I bow.
Let's look at the next line.
Worldly pleasures all forsaken.
So not only that, he's telling you what it even means to surrender.
Because it's cool to just say it.
Hey, I surrender.
What does that mean?
Well, you know what?
Your hymn this morning told you what that means.
Hey, you're giving up worldly pleasures.
You're dying to yourself.
You're getting the filth of the world off of you this morning
and you're trying to put on holiness and righteousness
and true godliness that comes from God's Word.
But you know what?
This song, it doesn't talk about that.
It just says, I surrender.
But that just means something different to every single person.
But see, when we sing our hymn this morning,
we all realize worldly pleasures are not of the Father.
This world is not of God.
God is at enmity with the world this morning.
Not only that, if we look at the next line, it says,
take me Jesus, take me now.
Hey, we get some rapture doctrine.
We're talking about the day of the Lord.
We're saying, man, I just can't wait to be redeemed.
I can't wait to take on that new body.
I can't wait to see the Lord in the air.
Just take me now.
I mean, we get excited about the day of redemption.
We get excited about the rapture.
How many doctrines have we already covered?
I mean, it's just doctrine after doctrine after doctrine.
You say, why do you sing the hymns?
Because it's just doctrine after doctrine after doctrine after doctrine.
And you know what?
This fake Christian spirituality,
they're void of doctrine.
None of their songs talk about doctrine.
You know why?
Because doctrine divides people.
The Calvinist can't come in here and want to sing this song
because he's not going to talk about it.
He's going to freely give.
He's like, well, I'm going to forcibly give.
I'm just going to do it not of my will.
It's his will.
It's just irresistible gively.
I'm just going to irresistibly give you everything
because I just can't make any other decision.
What kind of song is that?
It's like being a slave.
That's not being a cheerful giver.
That's not giving the Lord of love.
Not only that, the Bible says in verse 3 at the very top,
it says, I surrender.
Make me Savior, holy thine.
So we also are defining other things about the Lord Jesus Christ.
He's our Savior.
Let's skip down to verse 3, the second part.
It says, let me feel the Holy Spirit.
Some people accuse Baptists because they don't believe in this false speaking in tongues
that we, like, deny the Holy Ghost or something,
that we don't believe in the Holy Ghost.
Look, this, we're talking about feeling the Holy Spirit this morning.
You know how you feel it?
When you hear God's word and it's convicting your heart.
When the Holy Ghost is bringing to remembrance God's words
and they're wanting to change your life for the good.
To be more godly, feel the Holy Spirit this morning
when God's words come off the page into your heart.
That's feeling the Holy Ghost.
That's the power of the Holy Ghost.
Don't tell me I don't have any spirituality.
You're the one with the fake Christian spirituality
getting up and singing, oh, I surrender, I surrender.
What does that mean? Nothing.
It means nothing to them.
But you know what, when we sing the doctrine,
when we sing how we're not going to go out and get those worldly pleasures,
it can convict our heart this morning.
God's word can convict our heart.
We can feel the Holy Spirit when God's word is convicting us.
Not only that, he says, truly know that thou art mine.
Look, we're the Lord Jesus Christ.
Skip to the next one right there just below.
Fill me with thy love and power.
God's word has power.
The word of God is quick and powerful,
sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing, even dividing asunder a soul and spirit,
and of the joints and marrow,
and is the discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The Bible says that word of God has power this morning.
It says, let thy blessings fall on me.
Let thy blessing.
It's the Lord's blessing that we receive.
In our chorus, we also talk about how the Lord himself
blessed Savior.
We're talking about our blessed Savior.
Look, all this great doctrine, all this great information,
all this reverence of the Lord,
is just stripped out of these modern songs,
of these modern worship songs.
They sing them for ten minutes,
and they don't give any honor and glory to the Lord Jesus Christ.
They don't have any doctrine.
What is that doing?
It's removing the spirituality of their song.
The spirituality comes from God's word,
and when you strip out all of God's word,
you just stripped out all the spirituality.
Now you're just like the world.
Now you're just like secular man
that's just singing vain words.
They're great swelling words of vanity.
They don't mean anything.
Now go to, in your hymnal,
go in your hymnal to 243.
This is going to prove my point
that just because it's in the hymnal this morning
doesn't mean it's a good song either.
And that's why it's important to have doctrine
because, because of doctrine,
I will choose to sing or not sing a song.
But, you know, that's why these other songs,
they strip out all the doctrine.
Because then someone comes in,
they're like, well, I don't agree with that.
I'm not going to sing it.
So they have to make a song that anybody can sing.
Let's just make sure not to offend anybody
for any reason with any doctrine
because then somebody might decide it's a bad song.
They might decide not to sing it.
So they have to just get this stripped down version
that just everybody can love and enjoy.
Well, let's look at 243 this morning.
Say, why do you not sing this song?
Because of the tune?
No, I like the tune.
I think it's a good tune.
It's catchy.
I mean, I've heard this song a lot of times.
I really like the tune.
I heard an old, old story
How a Savior came from glory
How He gave His life on Calvary
To save a wretch like me
I heard about His groaning
Of His precious blood atoning
Then I repented of my...
What?
I repented of my sins?
What is this song talking about?
Show me that in the Bible.
Show me that phrase in your King James Bible this morning.
It's not in there.
You know what?
I saw the blood of Calvary.
I didn't do anything to earn my salvation.
I didn't turn from any of my sins.
I just believed on His Son.
That's what the song should say.
That's how it should be sung.
Of His precious blood atoning
Then I believed in Jesus Christ
And won the victory
Now, if it said that, I'd love to sing this song.
But you know what?
Because it has this false doctrine in it,
because it has this wicked false teaching,
I'm not going to sing that song.
That's what's wrong with all these fake Christian spirituality.
None of their songs have any doctrine.
People just love that song.
Everybody can just love the song.
It can be iconic forever.
Our God is an awesome God.
He reigns.
Who's offended by that song?
The Muslim's not even offended by that song.
I mean, anybody that believes in a God
is not offended by that song.
The atheist might not even be offended by that song,
because he's really not an atheist in his heart.
Now go, if you would, to 1 Corinthians 14.
1 Corinthians 14.
Why are you giving them such a hard time?
Because they're ruining people's lives.
Because they're making people like us see,
oh, y'all aren't spiritual.
Because y'all aren't up here swinging and swaying,
and you don't have all the lights turned off,
and it's super dark, and you're worshipping Satan this morning.
I mean, you're not doing any of that, so you're not spiritual.
You don't have this song that has no meaning,
that's devoid of any doctrine,
that's devoid of any intelligence.
Look, their song doesn't even have complete sentences.
Did you notice how your hymnal,
it's actually like completed sentences.
They actually flow together and make sense.
These are just random sayings that just kind of flow together,
have no meaning.
You don't actually learn anything.
You're just teaching your kids how to text.
People today, they don't even know how to write sentences anymore.
They don't even know how to spell,
and you get these stupid songs
when they're just listening to rappers
who just make up words, don't know how to spell,
don't write in complete sentences.
Oh, shock! Your kids can't write complete sentences?
Your kids don't even know how to spell?
Hey, why don't you get them to read the hymnal a couple more times?
Maybe they'll actually learn a complete sentence,
they'll learn grammar and sentence structure,
they'll actually learn how to write.
Look at 1 Corinthians 14 verse 15.
What is it then?
I will pray with the Spirit,
I will pray with the understanding also.
I will sing with the Spirit,
and I will sing with the understanding also.
God gets no honor, no glory,
from you just making vowel sounds.
That's not glorying under the law father,
and just vain words,
that doesn't give him any honor and glory either.
We should be singing with understanding.
That's why we need doctrine in our songs,
that's why we need the Spirit in our songs,
we need God's word in our songs
so that when we're singing,
not only are we giving him honor and glory from our heart,
we actually understand what we're saying.
We're validating the doctrine,
we're getting it stuck in our mind,
we're building ourselves, we're edifying ourselves
with the word of God.
Now go to 1 Corinthians 11 if you would.
1 Corinthians chapter 11.
What else is wrong with this hell song music?
What's also wrong with this hell song church?
Well they have,
their songs are devoid of any doctrine.
Not only that,
I mean they're not giving any honor and glory
to the Lord Jesus Christ,
but how about this?
How about every single person on stage
looks like a sodomite,
looks like a queer,
looks like a sissy,
doesn't even want to follow God's commandments.
They're sitting there like I surrender all
while they're dressed like the world,
while they're dressed like the devil,
while they're dressed like celebrities today.
Let's look at 1 Corinthians 11 verse 1.
Be followers of me
even as I also am of Christ.
Now I praise you brethren
that you remember me in all things
and keep the ordinances I delivered to you,
but I would have you know
that the head of every man is Christ
and the head of the woman is the man
every man praying or prophesying
having his head covered
dishonoreth his head.
You say, well who's the guy's head?
It's Christ.
When a man has long hair,
he's dishonoring God.
He's dishonoring Christ.
Let's keep reading.
Verse 5, but every woman that prayeth or prophesieth
with her head uncovered
dishonoreth her head
for that is even all one
as if she were shaven.
They might as well just shave it all off.
That's how shameful it is.
That's how ungodly it is.
And the Lord Jesus Christ gets no honor
and no glory
from the man who has long hair
praying or prophesying.
From the woman who has short hair
that's looking like a boy.
That's looking like a butch dyke this morning.
And if you look at this hell song worship,
that's what they all look like.
All the women look like a bunch of butch dyke lesbians
on stage.
Glory to God.
All the men are dressed like effeminate queer sissies.
That's not giving any glory unto the Father.
And they're sitting there,
I surrender all.
Sounds like they can't even surrender to this.
Due to the obvious point,
this whole chapter is talking about hair length
and they can't even get that right.
But they're going to get all the rest of the Bible right.
Yeah, I'm sure.
What are they surrendering to?
Well, they're not surrendering to 1 Corinthians 11.
Hey, it's in your Bible.
Let's keep reading.
It says in verse 6,
Let's read that one again.
Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman,
neither the woman without the man,
and the Lord.
For as the woman is of the man,
even so is the man also by the woman.
But all things of God,
judge in yourselves,
is it comely that a woman pray unto God
uncovered?
Doth not even nature itself teach you
that if a man have long hair,
it is a shame unto him?
But if a woman have long hair,
it is a glory to her,
We said earlier it was talking about women having covering on their head.
Yeah, according to the Bible,
it's her hair.
If you want a woman to be covered, it's her hair.
Some people have stupid false doctrine
that women have to wear like this prayer shawl.
They have to wear this stupid blanket over their head.
The Bible is saying her covering is her hair.
Having long hair.
And the man, if he has long hair,
that's a shame.
He's like, look, nature teaches you this.
I don't have to teach you.
God's word doesn't even have to teach you, but it did.
Just nature itself says it's obvious.
It's just so obvious.
And if you look at a billboard today,
and the billboard's primary goal
is to be like seductive,
like trying to advertise and attract men,
the women will always have long hair
and they'll be always dressed very
feminine. They'll be dressed like a woman
in a dress.
They'll be dressed, maybe they might be just provocative,
but they're going to be dressed very female oriented.
They're going to have really long
flowing hair that's going everywhere.
They're not using these butch dyke lesbians
to attract men.
Because it's not comely. It's not attractive.
It's not beautiful. And God says,
look, a godly lady, I gave her
hair for glory.
Look, it's so pretty when a woman has
long hair is what the Bible teaches.
Go if you went to Deuteronomy 22.
Deuteronomy
chapter 22.
You say, I thought it was just what was in the
heart that mattered.
Well, guess what? Whatever's in your heart
is going to come out in the outward appearance.
If you love the Lord, if you actually
do want to surrender to Him, you actually want to
trust Him, then your outward appearance
will be a reflection of what's in your heart.
That's why the Lord Jesus Christ is saying,
I want to get in your heart. Because if you're just
trying to make outward changes, but it
isn't what you really believe, it won't
last for a very long time.
That's what all these other fake churches
try to do. They try to get you to make a change
that you don't actually agree with. That's not really
in your heart, so you just do it temporarily.
You just do it for a little while, but
God's saying, look, if I can just get into your heart
and say, I want you to trust me with your heart,
look, all the other stuff's going to get taken care of.
All the other little things, all the minor
things, you're going to say, no problem.
I just want to follow God's word. But if you're
looking at just trying to follow a checklist,
I mean, usually it's not going to last.
You'll drop out of church, you'll go
back to the world. The temptations of the world are too
strong. God says, look, I need to get
in your heart. I need to get my word in your heart.
You need to be filled with the Spirit
this morning, which is God's word.
That's how you're going to make the changes that you need to.
Look at Deuteronomy chapter 22,
verse 5. The woman
shall not wear that which pertaineth
unto a man, neither shall a man
put on a woman's garment.
For all that do so are
abomination unto the Lord
thy God. Now,
before I even interpret this verse,
I have an illustration with me
today.
And I need to volunteer.
I was hoping I could get Henry to help me out.
Can I have one of you ladies?
Can I have one of you come help me real quick? Yep.
You want to come here? Come up here.
I haven't even told you what I believe
this verse means. I haven't even said anything.
What's your name?
Lauren. Tell everybody. Lauren, this is Lauren.
Nice to meet Lauren. Alright, I want you to
tell me which one of these is a boy
and which one of these is a girl, okay?
That one's a boy and that one's a girl.
How'd you know that? Because that one's
wearing a dress. Hmm.
How old are you?
Ten. Ten.
Alright, Henry.
You weren't paying attention. I need you as a volunteer.
Ready? How old are you this morning,
Henry? Seven. Seven years old,
okay? Can you tell me which one's a boy
and which one's a girl?
How'd you know that?
Because boys have short hair.
Well,
so he did get the right answer, but
maybe he didn't understand the explanation. Okay.
Do they have different hair links?
No. So why'd you pick
this one for the girl and this one for the boy then?
You're not sure? Okay.
Thanks for my volunteers.
So a ten year old, for sure,
can figure out what's going on in this picture.
Now here's my question. Did I use
misleading, like, coloring?
Now honestly, I just looked, just the
gender, you know, for bathrooms.
What do the signs look like
in America, in China,
in India? It doesn't
matter what country. They all look like this.
Every single one. Without wording.
They sell signs without any
wording, without any lettering. You don't need
language to understand this this morning.
Now what's the difference? Is it the hair
link? Now if you look at older ones,
they actually did, you know, kind of
put their hair like a lady should be.
But even now, even without
1 Corinthians 11, you can still tell this is
for a lady, because it's just obvious
that women wear dresses and skirts.
And if I was wearing a skirt this morning,
I would hope all of you would run away screaming.
That you would not sit here and
let me preach you the word of God this morning.
My question is then, how come
men and women don't dress
like this anymore? Well, in the
60s, a bunch of lesbians decided to put on
a pair of pants, and all the celebrities
decided to follow after them. And guess
what? The celebrities infected the culture
with wickedness, with ungodliness.
It used to be against the
law in America
for a woman to walk down the street in a pair
of pants. And less than 100 years
ago, they would be arrested.
Wow! I think we've made a change
today, haven't we? What happened?
Oh, we were infected with God's Spirit, weren't we?
No, we were infected with fake
spirituality. Fake Christian
spirituality that says God's commandments
don't matter anymore. And anytime
you want to argue with me on this verse, come argue
with this sign. I guess you can't go out
to the restaurant this morning. You can't
go out and get lunch today and figure out
which bathroom to use. You're just so offended
this morning. Let's understand
what it's saying. The woman shall
not wear that which pertains to a man.
Let me help you with what that is. Pants.
The Bible teaches that a woman
should not wear pants.
Not only that, it says, neither shall
a man put on a woman's garment.
You think that, well, I'm just attacking the women today.
Well, guess what? Unfortunately, in America,
there's a time coming where men are gonna
start dressing like women. They're gonna start
putting on the skirt and the dress,
and it's wicked as hell. And even though you
think, well, that's wicked, look, the other's wicked, too.
It's just our whole culture's been infected
with ungodliness. And we see
this hell song, all the women are dressed
up like dykes, like lesbians,
not dressing like godly ladies,
singing, I surrender all.
Do they? Do they really surrender all?
Look, it sounds like people who are honoring
me with their lips, but their heart
is far from me.
Why? Because it's fake spirituality
today. They don't care about God's word.
They don't care about God's commandments.
Go to First Peter chapter number three.
First Peter chapter
number three.
Not only that,
they dress in the fanciest,
most, you know, provocative
type of clothing. They dress
like the celebrities in their, you know,
thousand-dollar denim jacket that looks
like a bum wore it. I mean, these clothes
look like trash, but you can tell
the way they're manufactured
that they probably paid like a thousand dollars
for that stupid jacket that looks like some
derelict bum rolled around in the garbage,
you know, pail in it. And they're like, oh, look
at my cool jacket. I'm so studly.
It even looks like a girl with his skinny jeans
on. Look at First Peter three
verse three. Who's adorning, let it
not be that outward adorning
of plaiting the hair and wearing of gold
or of putting on a
parable. Look, the Bible makes it
clear godly men and women should not be dressing
to attract attention. It should not
be, oh, I'm just going to put all the fancy clothes on.
They get in in their thousand-dollar
clothes, dressed completely
wrong, don't even have the right haircut,
and they're screaming, oh, I surrender all.
It's fake.
It's feigned. It's not what God
said. God is not pleased
with them for one second.
Oh, but they're singing about Jesus.
Doesn't matter. They're either honoring with
them's lips, but their heart is far from, they've
removed their heart from the Lord. They don't
care about God's word. It's not spiritual.
It's vanity.
It has nothing to do with the Bible.
Go over to Psalm
17, Psalm 17.
My question is, what are they surrendering
to? They look like a bunch of
feminazis. Look at this Tanya
Smith. This Tanya Smith of
Hellsong, she's buzzed her hair
a complete buzz cut, like a
guy in the military. My
question is, why don't you just shave it all off, Tanya?
Why don't you just get it all off? Why don't you just
be shorn then? Why don't you just get it all
off if it's so cool, it's so
trendy, dressed like a lesbian,
this Jonathan Douglas with his
hair down to his nipples. I mean, this guy
looks like a long-haired, effeminate hippie.
And you know what? They dress like
wolves. They don't even dress like
godly people. They dress like wolves
so when the wolves are in their church,
they blend in. The wolf doesn't even
have to put in the lamb's clothing anymore.
So then they have these campuses, like
in New York City, where the choir
director comes out as a sodomite. He gets
married to some dude in the choir.
And they're like, this is the response of the pastor.
We were all shocked.
We were so surprised. We
didn't know. Well, I guess if every single
dude in your choir looks like a faggot,
shock! I mean, I guess you'll be surprised
when someone comes out as a faggot?
Wow. I mean, look, if you
haven't really dressed like a man, and
dressed like a woman today, it would be
a surprise if someone comes in dressed like a fag.
Dressed in in, you know, this
effeminate type clothing. Look, we should be as
far away from that as possible.
There is a war today for your mind
and for your soul and for your children.
They're trying to get you to dress
so wicked. Dress like an effeminate
faggot today. Dress like a sodomite
today. And my question is, do you care
for God's Word? Are you going to be filled with His
Spirit? Or are you going to say, oh, I got that fake
Christian spirituality. I just love everybody.
I'm never going to judge anybody. I
surrender all. I surrender all. But I don't
care about any of His commandments. I don't care about His
Word. I don't care about the chapters of the Bible.
Look at Psalm 17 verse 1.
Hear the right, O Lord,
attend unto my cry. Give ear
unto my prayer that goeth not
out of fanged lips.
Let my sentence come forth from my presence.
Let thine eyes behold the things that
are equal. Thou hast proved mine heart.
Thou hast visited me in the night. Thou
hast tried me and shalt find nothing.
I am purpose that my mouth
shall not transgress.
We're talking about a godly person this morning.
This is the type of songs we should be singing.
And he's saying, look, I don't want what comes out of my
mouth to be fanged. Meaning that I
say I'm going to surrender all, but I don't mean
it. I'm just fake.
But I'm not really godly. But I don't actually
want to follow God's commandments. He's saying, look,
try me, Lord. Figure out if
I'm doing anything wrong. I don't want to do anything
out of fanged lips. I don't want to be
fake today. I don't want to be a hypocrite
today. I don't want to be, you know,
someone that's against Christ while
I'm trying to serve Him at the same time. What a
worthless life. What a worthless life
to say you spent your whole life trying to serve
God, but you didn't care about any of His commandments.
You did it all. It was all fake
and it was all fanged. And look,
they're sucking real Christians into this
junk, into this trash, into this
filth. It has nothing to do with God's
word. It's so wicked.
Go to Colossians chapter number three. Colossians
chapter number three. They get up and they sing for
ten minutes. They think they're so spiritual.
They think they're so much more spiritual than
us than saying, I surrender all in two minutes.
Although we learned, like,
twenty more doctrines than they did in two minutes.
Even though we actually, you know, sang to
the Lord and Spirit and the truth this morning.
Colossians three, chapter
verse fifteen.
So according to the Bible, you say, well, what is the purpose of our singing?
To let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.
Look, if you strip out all of God's
word, if you strip out all the doctrines,
you're not letting Christ dwell in you richly.
That was the point. He's like, I want the
word of God to dwell in you richly.
How are you going to do that? By singing
the hymns, the psalms, and the spiritual
songs. You say, what's a spiritual song?
It's one that's got lots of God's
spirit in it. God's word.
Here's a great one in your hymnal.
I have it in my notes, I believe.
But I know
whom I have believed
for I'm
persuaded
that he is able
to keep that
which I've committed
unto him against
that day. Now is that in
the psalms?
Does anybody know where that is?
It's in 1 Timothy.
It's in Timothy. So we learn from
God's word. We learn
all kinds of spiritual songs. Why?
Because it's God's commandments.
It's God's words. It's God's
spirit. You say, what's a spiritual song?
It's the words from God's book.
It's not from your own heart.
Now look, the Bible says to sing a new song.
I'm not against using words that aren't found
in the Bible explicitly.
Look if it's a Bible word. If we're learning a Bible doctrine
we're putting in modern vernacular. We're singing
the Lord a new song. But it should be filled
with God's spirit. And if you don't have any
of this book in it, well I'm not going to sing that song.
I'm not going to sing a song that's not
giving honor and glory and praise to the Lord
because I want the words of the Lord to dwell
in me richly.
Now go if you would
to 2 Timothy chapter number
4. 2 Timothy
chapter number 4.
Now you say, how do you know
that all this stuff is fake?
How do you know this is all for show?
Because after they do their jumping and
jiving, after they do all their fake
singing, they go and they listen to the
worst sermon ever. They listen to the sermon
worse and more devoid of doctrine than that
stupid song.
Say, what's wrong with these
churches? Well not only do they have these
worthless songs, they have worthless preaching!
They have worthless, they have no doctrine
in their preaching!
Look at 2 Timothy chapter 4 verse 1.
So according to the Bible we're supposed to get God's word.
Look at verse 3.
Now here's the reality.
They could sing that song for their 10 minutes.
They could sing that song for 10 hours!
I surrender all!
And then I get up and I rip on
1 Corinthians 11 and they're all offended
and they all want to walk out!
None of them want to hear any of God's word!
Because it's fake! It's not real this morning!
They're not actually being filled with God's
word, so then they have to hear some sermon
that just agrees with their doctrine already.
Some weak, filtered, watered down
sermonette that's not going to
offend anybody because they can't
endure sound doctrine. If I start
reading Deuteronomy, oh that's Old Testament
I don't want to hear that. You start reading the
New Testament, well that's not what my
Bible says, even though it is still what this
says. I mean they just have to come up with some
excuse. So they're just willingly ignorant
of God's word so it won't affect them.
So they can't try to follow God's
commandments. And you say, well they're
turned into fables. What are these fables?
Well how about these fables? Have you ever
seen a picture of Jesus?
I mean have you ever just gone online and
looked at a picture of Jesus? What does he look like?
Some effeminate faggoty queer!
That's a fable today! That's not God's
word! So it excuses their doctrine!
They say, well Jesus was in a dress
and Jesus had long hair
so I'm going to have this long hair
effeminate queer sissy. That's a fable today!
That's not God's word! The Lord
Jesus Christ didn't look like that! He looked
like a man! He dressed like a man!
He wore a pair of pants
and he had a short haircut and he did all
those things that pleased the Father!
He wasn't one of these faggoty dudes but they
have to listen to all these fables.
Oh look at Jesus! He's just you know this
prancing fairy! That's wicked as hell!
That's blasphemous! That's not the Lord Jesus
Christ! And they just want to tear in their ears
of these fables. Oh men have
always worn dresses and skirts.
Yeah maybe in Roman wicked sodomite
culture but that's not how most
men have dressed throughout history.
Men have always worn men's clothing.
Women have worn women's clothing. That's what the
Bible teaches. That's what normal history
teaches but if you listen to these fables
today you'll be led astray.
You'll be led into deceit and
destruction of your life and your soul.
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 22.
The Bible says in Mark 7
but in vain they do worship
me.
Matthew chapter 6
Jesus warns about vain repetitions.
They just get up and they just say the
same thing. I want to know you.
I surrender all. I want to know you.
I surrender all. They don't want to know
Christ. They don't want to hear the Bible
preached. They don't want to read the Bible.
Let's see what they
really want. 1 Kings
chapter 22 verse 5
and Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel
inquire I pray thee at the
word of the Lord today. Then the king of Israel
gathered the prophets together about 400 men
and said to them shall I go against
Ramoth Gilead to battle or shall I forbear?
And they said go up for the Lord shall
deliver it in the hand of the king.
And Jehoshaphat said is there not
here a prophet of the Lord besides
that we inquire of him? So Jehoshaphat
figures it out. He's like look at these fake
you know Christian preachers. They're all
just like hey just go to battle. You'll win.
And Jehoshaphat's like isn't there like
another guy? Like a real
preacher? Someone that actually knows the word
of God. Look at verse 9
then the king of Israel called an officer
and oh let's back out of verse 8
I'm sorry and the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat there is yet one man
Micaiah the son of Imlah by whom we
may inquire of the Lord but I hate
him for he doth not prophesy
good concerning me but evil.
And Jehoshaphat said let not the king say so.
He's like I don't want this preacher
he's going to give me a negative message. He's
going to tell me what I'm doing is wrong and
I don't want that. Don't tell
me I'm wrong this morning. Don't tell
me I'm doing anything bad this morning. That's
what they want at these churches. They want
nothing bad. Nothing negative.
No hate. It's being pushed down
our throats from all this fake
celebrities and the government. Hey
no hate. No wrong.
No judgment. Nothing bad.
I just want good and love
and puppies and rainbows
and let's just wave our rainbow
flag while we just
sodomize America.
It's wicked as hell. Let's keep reading
verse 9.
Now is this guy sounding really weak?
I mean when I read it I felt like this guy is
you know with a lot of power a lot of authority.
Look these fake preachers they'll
get up and scream. They'll yell.
They'll say thus saith the Lord.
Look don't take it just because
someone's real serious and real
bold. I mean oh they must be right.
Oh they must be you know a prophet of
the Lord. Look the fake prophets
today they'll get up and scream their false doctrine
too. Look at verse 13.
Behold now the words of the prophets declare
good unto the king with
one mouth. Look they have
hundreds of prophets they all say the exact
same thing. And you know what you go to these big
mega churches they say the same
thing. It's the same mouth.
It's the same lying spirit.
They only want to preach good.
Let thy word I pray thee be like the word
of one of them and speak that which is good.
And there's pressure on God's
man to speak just like them.
Hey you better get in shape buddy.
I don't want any of this hate speech. You better
just love and preach what's acceptable
and what we tell you. Let's
filter down the Bible. Look if
you preach the whole Bible you'll lose people.
Yeah I'll lose weak people that don't want to serve God.
I'll lose all the people that have fake spirituality
this morning. The people that don't actually
want to serve God.
Let's keep reading.
Speak that which is good.
Notice he doesn't say what is true.
Notice he doesn't say what is
right. Just what's good. I don't
care if it's right. Don't you actually want to
know the truth though. I just want to
hear something good. I don't really care if it's true. Just
give me a fable. Just give me a story
about how everybody loves everybody
and it's all this pleasant place.
Look at verse 14. And Micaiah said as the Lord
liveth what the Lord saith unto
me that will I speak.
He's just going to preach the Bible. He doesn't care
good or bad, ugly
you know rebuking.
I'm just going to say whatever the Bible says.
Verse 15. So he came to the king and the king said
to Micaiah shall we go up against
Rhema of Gilead to battle or shall we forbear?
And he answered him go and prosper for the Lord
shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
So he's just mocking him. He's just lying.
And he says and the king said unto him
how many times shall I dare thee that thou
tell me nothing but that which is true
in the name of the Lord. So I assume when he's talking
to him because he's giving all this pressure like just
tell me good. Just tell me good. Just tell me good.
You know Micaiah is probably just like yeah you're going
to prosper buddy. Go for it. Yeah see you.
It's going to be good. He's like no tell
me what the Lord really said. He's like don't lie
to me. Give me that word of the Lord.
He finally wants to hear the truth.
He says in verse 17
he said I saw all Israel scattered
upon the hills as sheep that have not a shepherd
and the Lord said these have no master let
them return every man to his house in peace and the king
of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat did not I tell
thee that he would prophesy no good concerning
me but evil. And he said
hear thou therefore the word of the Lord. I saw
the Lord sitting on the throne
and all the host of heaven standing by him
on his right hand on his left and the Lord said
who shall persuade Ahab
that he may go up and fall at Ramath Gilead
and one said on this manner
and another said on that manner and there came
forth a spirit and stood before the
Lord and said I will persuade him and
the Lord said unto him wherewith
and he said I will go forth
and will be a lying spirit
in the mouth of all his prophets
and he said thou shalt persuade
him and prevail also go forth
and do so. Now therefore
behold the Lord hath put a lying spirit
in the mouth of all these thy
prophets and the Lord has spoken
evil concerning thee. You know what all these
fake Christian preachers Brian
Houston the pastor of Hillsong he's
got a lying spirit in his mouth today
he's preaching lies today
and it's like all of them I'm
just preaching on one of them they're all the same
they're all cut from the same cloth they all preach
the same wicked messages they
don't want to preach doctrine they don't want to preach
God's word they're not going to teach sound doctrine
and they're just going to bring in the masses
let's just come worship with us
come get that spirit we've got
oh I surrender
it's just this rock
concert it's fake Christian
spirituality they think
because they go there and rock out
and jam for Jesus oh I'm so
spirit filled but you know if you open
the Bible wow let's get that
out of here let's not listen to any of God's
words today just preach something that's good
just make me feel good about the fact of how
fake my spirituality is today
now go if you would to
Ephesians chapter number 5 Ephesians
chapter number 5
I'll just
read for you a couple places I want to get
through a lot more of my sermon this morning
hopefully I can get through it
in Matthew chapter 15 when the Lord Jesus Christ
was rebuking the Pharisees he says
thus have you made the commandment of God
of none effect by your tradition
when he's rebuking the Pharisees he's saying
look they're not teaching God's word
they're teaching their traditions they're teaching
the commandments of men and that's what you
get when you go to these fake churches
they just preach love to everyone
no matter what that's their doctrine
that's not a commandment of the Bible
that's not what the Bible teaches
they just want to teach their convenient
doctrine to not judge anybody for any
reason another one of their traditions
false doctrine Jesus Christ said
judge righteous judgment
oh is that not in my Bible this morning that came out of the Lord
Jesus Christ's mouth he said judge not
according to appearance but judge righteous judgment
that means not what you think
what the Bible thinks what is the Spirit
of God saying to you this morning
not only that they'll teach that divorce is okay
I mean they'll say hey if you're neglected
if you're being abused
if your relationship's not what you thought it was
you know just move on
get the next one that comes around that's not what the
Lord Jesus Christ said the Lord Jesus Christ
said it was adultery the Lord Jesus Christ
said let not men put asunder what God
has joined together look men and women
are supposed to be married forever
until they die it's not
forever like the Mormons believe it's
forever on this earth it's forever
in this life you're supposed to be married
till death do us part not
only that they'll
they'll rail on people for calling
them heretics look
when you call a false prophet a false
prophet it gets them stirred up like a
bees hive I mean it gets them so hot
he'll start speaking all kinds of perverse things
at you cursing you in the name of the Lord
saying all kinds of wicked evil manner
about you look don't fear
evil doers don't fret the
wicked don't fret these false
prophets don't fear them the Bible
says when someone would speak in the name of the Lord
presumptuously and it would not come to pass
don't fear them have no fear of these
wicked false prophets you know there's Paul
Crouch this is an old TV
preacher he had his wife had the big
pink hair and then she died her dog
pink like she literally had this poodle
that she died pink they're on TBN they were on
TV for a long time this guy is constantly
be called a heretic so he'd get on TV
and he would curse him he's like I'm gonna
shoot you if the Lord doesn't and curse
you in the name of the Lord you know what makes me think of
Balaam you know Balaam did he was
trying to curse the children of Israel in the name of the
Lord but the Lord wouldn't let him do it
the Lord didn't hearken unto his
word and these TV preachers
they'll get up and say thus saith the Lord
give me two hundred dollars
thus saith the Lord give
me a thousand dollars thus
saith the Lord give me fifty others
you need to obey the voice of the Lord
this morning and call in and give us your
two hundred dollars is that in your
Bible I mean this is some egregious
filth that they're preaching this Mike
Murdock this guy is a wicked
false TV preacher and look all
the TV preachers they have the lying spirits
you say how do you know I just listen
to one of them they're all wicked as hell
if you're on TV you're a wicked false
preacher this is fake Christian
spirituality today this Mike Murdock
I saw a short clip
it's so wicked
he just sits there and he's bragging
about how much he loves money
I'll just read for you what he says
I love new money
I love stacks of new money
I love brand new money
I don't want any money around me that's not
new money is there something
that excites you more than new money
you like a hundred dollar bills
he says all those statements right in a row
and then the moderator the guy that's talking to him
is just so uncomfortable he's just like
he's just like uh did you just hear what
she said he's like do you love
hundred dollar bills and you're just kind of
like yeah yeah
I like hundred dollar bills
he's like I haven't seen
a woman as good looking
as a new hundred dollar bill
what kind of wicked filth is coming
out of this guy's heart look I don't care
how much money you stack up my wife's always
better looking than any amount of money
that's stupid look the Bible
says a godly woman is to be treasured
above precious rubies there's no
a hundred dollar bill those things
are gross I don't even like touching money
it's so filthy and disgusting
all these people that you know
stuff it in their body parts it's wicked
as hell he says it's a
commandment of God to give him money
he says look I
want to give you a stack of money just to make you
feel good wow
where is he getting his love there
not only that he says brother Mike he's talking about
somebody talking to him and he says brother Mike
when I give to God I expect
nothing in return so then Mike
is like well I wrote a song for this guy
how dumb thou art
how dumb
thou art he's singing against the guy
who says well I give to God I want
to be out of a cheerful heart not expecting
any return like the Bible teaches
like the Bible says in Luke chapter 6
but love your enemies and do good
and lend hoping for nothing
again that's what the
Lord Jesus Christ is saying in his Bible
this morning but these wicked false
preachers they're trying to get you in their fake
Christian spirituality oh I
feel so spiritual I gave
$200 to this TV preacher
look that was wicked as hell
you just funded Satan directly
you just put money directly into Satan's
pocketbook this morning look
that's not spirituality you're not spiritual
that's not hearkening under the
voice of the Lord the Lord said
to lend hoping nothing in return
and look these guys want to be like a
slot machine they want to be like give us money
and pull this lever and see what you win
see if all sevens line up
look that's not the God of the Bible
go to John chapter 4 this morning
the Bible says God loved the cheerful giver
now I've been hinting at this point but I really want to
explain it for a minute I've
been talking about spirituality
well let's understand spirituality
from the Bible look at John chapter 4 verse 23
but the hour cometh and now is when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and
in truth for the Father seeketh
such to worship him go to Numbers
chapter 11 Numbers chapter 11
so when Jesus Christ is talking to the woman at the well
she's a Samaritan they don't actually
worship the Lord they've
got fake Christian spirituality they
they don't have the right religion and
he's saying look the true worshippers are of the
Jews look the true worshippers are God those are
the Jews and in the future the
true worshippers are going to be the ones that worship in spirit
and in truth now a lot of
false doctrine could arise from this you say
what does it mean to be in spirit
you know the Pentecostals say oh this is talking about
speaking in tongues that's not what the Bible's talking
about I'll explain what it means
here look at Numbers chapter 11 verse 25
so what's happening Moses
is basically the one leader
he's the one preaching the word of God he's given
the commandments and then the Lord says
hey I'm going to point 70 others also
it's a picture hey Jesus Christ appointed 70 others
also too but we see that God
places his spirit on these other guys
now when someone gets the spirit
what happens
what does it say it says and they
prophesied look when
the word of God comes into you richly
guess what comes out of you the word
of God so what is it talking about
being filled with the spirit being filled with God's
words that's what it's talking
about and if you're going to worship God today
what does he want he wants the word of Christ
to dwell in you richly that's what it
means to worship in spirit and in truth
but if you have no Bible in your heart
this morning you don't know anything
in the Bible it's going to be really difficult
for you to worship the father in spirit
you're not going to be filled with the spirit
look you need to start singing the songs to then become
filled with the spirit get some of God's
word into your heart so now you can
worship him in spirit but you
go to this fake churches where they don't know any
of the Bible their song has none
of the Bible in it guess what
there's no spirituality
period none
zilch there's no spirituality
then they hear a sermon without any
of God's word no spirituality
it's fake Christian
spirituality today look all of
our spirituality comes from God's
word go to Ephesians chapter 5
the Bible says
that spirit
filled preaching is expounding God's
word not only that the Bible says
a word fitly spoken is like apples
of gold and pictures of silver
look when you apply scripture
wow you're like wow the spirit really you know
look how the spirit works the Bible
says in 1 Corinthians 2 comparing
spiritual with spiritual
what does he mean by that
everybody knows what that means he's talking about
comparing scripture with
scripture so what are we talking about
being filled with the spirit being filled with
scripture being filled with God's
words the Bible talks
about Saul it says but the spirit of the Lord
departed from Saul an evil spirit
from the Lord troubled him you know the interesting thing about
Saul is after the spirit of the Lord departed
from him he never heard God anymore
he wasn't hearing God God wasn't
talking to him hey
if this goes away guess what
God's not talking to me anymore
look we see the exact same parallels throughout
the whole Old Testament look at Ephesians 5
verse 17 where for be not
wise but understanding what the will of the Lord is
and be not drunk with wine
where in his excess but be
filled with the spirit
how do you get filled with the spirit
you're like oh it's a mystery nope look at verse 19
speaking yourselves in psalms
and hymns and spiritual songs
singing and making melody in your
heart to the Lord
look you don't want to just honor the Lord
with your lips and you want your heart to be
far removed from him look you need to be singing
with the spirit get the words of Christ dwelling
in you richly let it not come
out of feigned lips this morning
go if you would
to Isaiah 11 Isaiah chapter
11
Colossians chapter 1 says who also
declared unto us your love in the spirit
for this cause we also since the day
we heard it do not cease to pray for you
and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge
of his will and all wisdom and spiritual
understanding spiritual
understanding now in the revelation the Bible
talks about the Lord having seven spirits
the seven spirits of God
in Isaiah chapter 11 it's
interesting because it mentions seven
spirits I believe this is the seven
spirits of God let's see what these
spirits are how do we worship God in spirit
well look at verse 1
and there shall come forth the rod of the stem of
Jesse talking about the Lord Jesus Christ
and a branch shall grow out of his roots and
the spirit of the Lord so there's
the first one the spirit of the Lord
shall rest upon him the spirit of
wisdom too and understanding
the spirit of counsel
and might the spirit of knowledge
and the fear of the Lord now
what do all those things have in common
hey it's talking about the word of God right
how do you get the spirit of the Lord from the word of
God how do you get the spirit of wisdom from
the word of God how do you get understanding from the
word of God how do you get counsel from the word of God
how do we get boldness to preach God's
word today from the word of God
not only that how do you get knowledge from the word
of God and the Bible says that men
fear from evil because of the fear of the Lord
that comes from God's word when you hear God's
word and you decide I'm not going to do that sin
I'm going to fear the Lord
that's how you depart from evil today
and look it's all through God's word
so when Jesus Christ is saying you know
you got to worship him in spirit and in truth what is he
talking about he's talking about God's word
that's what he's saying
not only that go to
1 Timothy chapter 4 we'll finish
my last point last point this
morning not only do they have a fake
music not only they have fake preaching
but they have fake evangelism
fake evangelism today they're not
getting anybody saved and they think
well just look at all of our numbers
they have all these altar calls
and they have all these you know
big charades where they go
around and they think they're getting all these people saved
look it's wicked
this guy named Reinhard Bonnke
he's like the world's
greatest evangelist this guy
travels to Africa he boasts
of the most ridiculous
salvation numbers I've ever seen
you won't even believe it if you go
to his website he boasts
to have 78
million people saved
78 million
people saved
and one of his crusades
and one of his crusades in Nigeria
he claims to have had
360,000
salvations in a one five day event
so in 2010 they go to Nigeria
they have these big gatherings
they claim they had 360,000
people saved
in this five days it gets worse
it gets way
worse than that
and then he has a later crusade
where this is the recap
of the crusade okay
he asks these as questions
for when if ever have 1.6
million people gathered into one
place to hear the gospel
when in human history have 1.3
million people simultaneously
cried out to God in new tongues
there's their Pentecostal speaking in tongues
who but God alone
had heard the worship of such a multitude
until that moment when have
nearly four million books been given away
at one time when before in a single
week and a single city
have over 3.4
million souls recorded
decisions to follow Christ he
claims that in one crusade
of five days they had 3.4
million
people saved
and you know what people look at that
and then they look at the hempstead soul winning
marathon where we had 26 people
actually saved and they're like
well y'all guys need to get filled with the spirit
because if you get filled with the spirit
you'll get 3.4 million people
saved but guess what I know
that it's fake today why
because of the word of God and you know what
he also explains how he got all these
people saved but if you just notice
his wording he says that 3.4
million souls recorded decisions
to follow Christ is
that salvation I don't think that's
I think that's discipleship I think
that's being a lover of God
let me read for you how he gets
people saved he says the Bible says
that whosoever calls upon the name
of the Lord shall be saved and I constantly
preach to people of all different religions about Jesus
who he is and that salvation
he came to bring he didn't just sin salvation
he came to bring it himself
I tell them that we are all sinners who need
a savior and Jesus personally made it possible
for all our sins to be forgiven
and for our relationship with God to be restored
salvation is Jesus and Jesus
is salvation swelling
words of vanity that is it is an act
of God not of clever persuasion
the Holy Spirit convicts
of sin righteousness and judgment
and confirms the spoken word of the gospel
in a personal and powerful way
so at this point he really
hasn't said anything too bad
you know it's kind of weak in some areas but he's
just saying generally look the gospel is going to save
it's through Jesus this is then
what he explains once
someone has heard the gospel
this is what they do he leads them to
respond by repenting of their sin
which means turning away
from the old sinful
lifestyle towards Jesus Christ
who forgives them Jesus said in Revelation
I will come in and that is
an iron cast promise
because Jesus always fulfills his word
if a person prays with
all their heart their life
will in all caps be changed
because Jesus will in all caps
come in and take control
wow
take control
now I get an understanding
I surrender
they go through these motions
look they're all unsaved, wicked
they don't even know the Bible
they want some demon spirit called Jesus
to come into their body that's another Jesus
look the Lord Jesus Christ gives you a free gift
the free gift of eternal life
it has nothing to do with
repenting of your sins you say how do you know that
well the Bible says so then faith
cometh by hearing and hearing by the word
of God the Bible says
someone gets saved from God's word
so if repenting of your sins
is never found in this book
then it's impossible for that to be what
saves you it's impossible
why? it has to be in this book
that's why the book's filled with believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shall be saved
whosoever believeth in him shall not perish
but have everlasting life that's what the Bible says
hey when I hear the gospel
the gospel calls me to believe
to put my faith in Christ
not to say well I need to
just give up all my sins
and just try to follow
and just take control of me
that's not the gospel that's weird
that's like a demon trying to take possession
of you not only that
he explains how you lead someone
in the prayer of salvation
he says now that they've
come to receive this offer of salvation
so someone's ready to offer you need
to then lead them in repentance
of sins and a commitment
to turn away from evil to the
Lord Jesus Christ
think about going out and saying
hey buddy are you ready
to give up all of your sins
no evil only
surrender everything to Jesus Christ
are you ready? can I help
you pray that real quick?
people are going to be like what in the world?
I'm not going to do that
that's why they think soul winning doesn't work
because they're not preaching the gospel
they're not preaching believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
they're preaching their fake Christian spirituality
it has nothing to do with God's word
it's not the words of God
that's not the spirit that they have
they have another spirit, they have a lying spirit
they have a wicked spirit
and people look at this and they say
look how spiritual this guy is
no, he's damning that many people to hell
by teaching them a false gospel
by teaching them lies
look at 1 Timothy 4 verse 13
this is the cure
I'm going to give you the quick
cure this morning to all this fake
Christian spirituality
you say what's the cure? verse 13
till I come give attendance to reading
to exhortation
to doctrine, what does that mean?
that means when we come into church
we're going to read the whole chapter of the Bible
when I preach God's word
I'm going to read scores of scripture this morning
we're going to look at a lot of Bible
this means that I need to exhort you
to read the Bible also
you need to go home and open up your Bible
and read it
read it every day
read it all the time
be filled with the spirit today
look, I'm supposed to exhort you and encourage you to read your Bible
to pray
to go out soul winning
not only that, to have doctrine
the Bible teaches the core elements of the faith
and look
if you're filled with reading of God's word
if you're filled by being exhorted
to follow God's commandments
if you're filled with doctrine
you will never be tricked
by this fake Christian spirituality
you won't, you can spot it a mile away
you want to get as far away
from this hell song as possible
but when people start losing that
I'm not reading my Bible
I'm not hearing good preaching
I'm not filled with doctrine
I don't have God's word dwelling in me richly
you can be led astray in this wicked filth
you can start to say
well, you know, I mean
what's the big deal, look at these people
they're real zealous, they're singing for ten minutes
y'all are singing for two minutes, you know, your little song
I mean, look, they got 3.4 million people saved
you'll just start believing all their lies
but when you know what God's word says
you'll be like, whoa, that guy's lying
that guy is a wicked false prophet
that guy is deceiving me
and look, there's plenty of false prophets
this is a verse I always show when I go soul winning
go to 1 John chapter 4
this is the last place I'll have you turn this morning
1 John chapter number 4
look, I can't fix apathy today
I wish I could
but you know what, people
they don't want to realize how apathetic they are
so they have to have a fake spirituality today
they have to make up their spirituality
and these lame Baptists
who I'm not preaching against today
the ones that stop really reading the Bible in the church
they stop singing the Spirit-filled songs
they stop encouraging their people to read the Bible
and to go soul winning
they stop encouraging people to learn the doctrines of the Bible
their people
start becoming so nutritionally void
of anything
that they can be sucked away into this fake Christian crap
they can be sucked away
and led astray into this junk
that has nothing to do with the Bible
it's a warning today
for Godly churches
to continue reading
continue exhorting
continue teaching doctrine
so that your people will not be led away
with this fake crap today
this fake lie
look at 1 John chapter 4 verse 1
Beloved, believe not every spirit
but try the spirits whether they are of God
because many false prophets
are gone out into the world
the reality is
most every church is fake
is false, is wicked
teaching lies
look, they're not of God, they're not of his spirit
just like Micaiah, there was one of him
and hundreds of the other lying spirits
and look, you can go to
four other churches in this building today
there's four other churches
that will give you a lying spirit this morning
but you know what? I love you
and I don't want you to be affected by this fake crap
I want you to have real spirituality today
from God's word
and you know what? Praise the Lord
that we got 26 people saved yesterday
the Lord was blessing us
that's real spirituality
that's getting real people saved
and don't let this fake crap discourage you
oh man, they got 3.4 million people
damned to hell
yeah, they didn't get anybody saved
zero people have been
let me give you an update
he needs to change that 78 million to zero
or negative 78
I mean, he's never gotten a person saved
why? Because he preaches a false gospel
all those things are in vain
they do honor me through their lips
but their heart is removed far from me
what's going to protect you?
you need to read your Bible
and get spirit filled
you will fill your spirit with God's word
not only that, you need to come to a church
to hear sound doctrine
from a spirit filled preacher
that'll fill up your spirit this morning
that'll get you more spirit filled
when you hear God's man getting up and preaching God's word
not only that, when we open our hymnals
this morning, you need to be singing
God's word this morning
to get spirit filled
that's what the Bible teaches
the Lord Jesus Christ sang the hymns
that's why it's important to sing the hymns
to be filled with the spirit
don't get carried away with this fake spirit
with this fake Jesus
let's not only honor the Lord with our lips
let's also honor him with our heart
by getting his word dwelling in us richly
let's close in prayer
thank you Father so much for your word
thank you so much for warning us
against all this fake Christian spirituality
I pray that we would just stay as far from it as possible
that we would want to honor you
with not only our lips
but our hearts
and with our minds
and with the understanding
we would understand what we would sing
we would understand what we would read
we would understand why we go to the church we do
we would understand the doctrines of the Bible
that you would fill us with your Holy Spirit
that we would not be ignorant
and foolish and led astray
to the destruction of our lives
the destruction of our children's lives
but rather that we would try to serve you
that you would breathe life into us through thy word
in Jesus' name I pray, Amen