Hey guys, Matt Powell here. I wanted to do this video just explaining to people where I stand on
the Hebrew Roots movement and why I stand where I stand. I would encourage you, because this is an
important video, just watch the whole thing because there's things that you need to know
about this movement that are so dangerous and so detrimental to the cause of Christ,
and it's hurting the gospel, and it's causing confusion within the body of Christ,
and you know, because a lot of people have come to me and said, oh, you know,
I feel like they're part of us. I feel like they're one of us. They just, you know,
they're just different in certain areas, but I just want to make it very clear that, you know,
my church has been mocked by the Hebrew Roots movement completely. We've been mocked and maligned.
Just about every door that I knock that's a Hebrew Rooter, they make fun of us,
just like all the other cults do, and I just want to make it really clear that I don't have
anything to hide. You know, I don't hide what I believe. You know, I tell people flat out in the
open where I stand on issues, why I stand where I stand, and people, you know, that are in these
cults, what they do is they will not tell you exactly what they believe. They have to hide
certain things. You know, and I just want to say right off the bat, half of the Hebrew Roots
movement does not even believe that Jesus is God. They don't even believe he's God at all,
and you know, as for the rest of them, I've never met one that doesn't actually
believe the gospel that the Bible says. I've never met one. You know, the gospel is very clear that
once we trust in Jesus that we're saved, we can't lose our salvation, and in fact, the people that
are in this movement mock us, and they've made fun of my church. Zachary Bauer, you know, he makes
fun of us. He thinks we're just a funny group of geeks that don't understand the Bible, and I just
want to say that when Jesus was on this earth, and when the apostles were around, they were also
mocked, and you know, people tell me that I'm a very hateful preacher, but the truth is that, you
know, if John the Baptist was here, he would not be received. If the apostle Peter was here,
he would not be received. Jesus, the Bible says he came unto his own, and his own received him not,
and so, you know, the messages that I preach, I understand they're not popular,
and I understand that the world considers that to be hate, and as for the Hebrew Roots movement,
you know, they, every time I share the gospel with somebody in that movement that I've knocked
on their door, you know, by the grace of God, some of them have gotten saved and have joined my church,
and I'm thankful for that, but there are still people in that movement. You knock their door,
and they just make fun of you when you tell them what the Bible says about how to be saved.
Levite Kahn is a perfect example of how somebody usually reacts, and somebody sent me this video.
Levite Kahn put out this video against me saying that I was a satanic heretic, me and Matthias from
Talking Doctrine, and in his video, he basically held up the phone while I was talking to Matthias
about the gospel and how, you know, you can be saved by trusting Jesus and him alone to get you
to heaven, and he made fun of it. You can see, and I want you to pay close attention to this
video, folks. You know, he's laughing, like, as he's listening to this, and it just really bothered
me. These same people come to me, and they say, oh, you know, you're taking the spotlight off of Jesus.
Look, if you believe that God would ever send one of his children to hell, you've taken the spotlight
off of Jesus. You know, we should be able to rejoice knowing that we're all in the family of
the Lord if we've trusted in Jesus, and to make fun of that, to mock that, to mock and malign people
that will come to your door with a tear in the eye and ask you if you're sure that you're going
to heaven, you know, because they think it's funny. Look, hell and the gospel, it's not funny.
It's not a joke. You know, people think it's funny, you know, this easy believism thing that
my church preaches, that we don't teach it's hard to be saved. They think it's funny, and, you know,
I just want to say it's no different than what the people in the first century thought, what the
Pharisees thought of Jesus, and, you know, people look at us, and they may laugh at us, and they may
laugh at my church and think that we're not really making a difference, but I want everybody to know
that according to God's word, I know that I stand correct before the Lord God, and I will not stop
preaching his word, and I will not compromise on these doctrines, and, you know, when Levite Khan
and these people on the Hebrew roots think it's just so hilarious, and that this idea that once
you're saved you believe in eternal salvation, and that's just funny, you know, it's not funny
to think about somebody going to hell. That's not funny. It's not a joke.
You know, people that think it's a joke, I have to wonder, like, what is what is going on in their
head? The gospel is not a joke. People dying and going to hell is not a joke, and this idea of
losing your salvation, it's not a joke. It's not funny, and so in this video I want you to pay close
attention to how Levite Khan reacted, and even people in his own movement should be able to see
that this is just wrong. It's wrong, and we're not taking the spotlight off of Christ. In fact,
we're seeing lives changed every week, just about every day. When my church, when we go out, we
knock doors, and we tell people about the Lord and the love of Jesus Christ and what he did on that
cross. It changes lives. Obviously, you don't have to have a changed life to be saved, but you know
what? Certain people, they end up joining church, and they get saved, and, you know, they start
living the life that God wants them to live. Look, folks, I'm all for living a holy life,
but God would never abort you, and that's why Paul says that if you believe in another gospel,
if you believe that salvation is not eternal, if you believe that you could be saved one day and
unsaved the next, if you believe that you could be born into God's family and God would abort you,
that you're, and I know this is a strong word, but the Bible says that if you believe that,
you're a pervert. If you fully understand how, you know, and if you say, oh, once saved always
saves, it's a lie, or you're going to tell me salvation's complicated, the Bible says that
you're not saved, and I'm not trying to be a jerk here. I love people, and I just want to tell people
the truth, but you know what? I'm not going to compromise on what the Bible says about things,
and I understand that when I get behind a pulpit, sometimes people consider loud preaching to be
hateful, but the Bible says to cry aloud. The Bible says lift up your voice like a trumpet,
and so I'm not going to compromise. My church is not going to compromise, so when you watch this
video, just really pay close attention to Levite's response and his reactions, and he said something
so awful. He said that Jesus never said that if you believe in him as the resurrection,
you know, and the one who would raise from the dead, that that's not salvation, that, you know,
he said he made fun of it. He thought it was funny. Folks, it's not funny. The gospel is not
a joke, you know, and I debate a lot of atheists. I've had a lot of, in fact, I debated Russell
Glasser from the atheist experience. I've been around the block with these people, and I don't
see anything different between this group and the atheists, and I want to make it very clear
why I stand where I stand on the Hebrew Roots movement, and, you know, when we go to door to
door, we win people in the name of Jesus Christ. We don't use this Yeshua fraud. The name of Jesus
has power. You know, if you use the name of Yeshua, you will live a powerless life, and in
the description of this video, you'll also see a link, I'm gonna put it there, for a demon-possessed
woman that was crying out, you know, saying to people, Yahweh is Lord, say Yahweh is Lord,
because, you know what, you can't say that Jesus is Lord unless you're speaking by the Holy Ghost.
This woman was promoting a false god named Yahweh. It's a false god. The thing is, this stuff wasn't
invented until the 1800s, and I did not know this until I actually researched it, so please, you know,
if you call on Yeshua or Yahweh, you're not calling on the same god that I have. You're calling on a
false god. You're calling on Baal, basically. You're not even, you're probably, if you're
hearing this, and you've received the word of God, and it's not sticking with you, then, I mean,
the Bible says, He that is born of God heareth God's words. You know, people in my
church, they have no problem just receiving the word of God and believing it, but some people,
they just, they get so hard-hearted, and they get stubborn. Look, just because I'm a young person
doesn't mean that you shouldn't listen to what I have to say. The Bible says, Let no man despise
thy youth, and this is the truth, and I want you to know that the reason that all the young people
in the Hebrew roots movement are falling away is because they don't even, most of them are not
even saved, and they mock being a Christian. They mock the phrase Christianity, you know,
and they mock Christians. You know, I identify as a Christian. I'm a Christian, and, you know,
I take it personally, and, you know, again, I want to reiterate, I have no problem telling you
exactly what I believe, but in this movement, they will hide what they believe because they don't
want to just come out and say it because they know if they do, that anybody with the spirit
of Christ in them will reject the false doctrine. Talking doctrine was interviewing Matt Powell,
and they were going over the evolution doctrine, or belief, and Matt evidently specializes in
debunking that, I guess. Matt Powell does. Especially talking doctrine couldn't help
himself. He's so obsessed with this eternal security BS, and here's some things he said,
and I will play, and then I will explain and debunk it with scripture. So, I'm going to one
minute, or I'm sorry, one hour, 48 minutes, and 56 seconds, and I will play it for a little bit.
Please stick with me. So he, like, had said that he said that God would actually divorce
the bride of Christ, that Christ would divorce his bride, which is a strange, that's a really
strange doctrine, and he said, if you forsake, the Bible says if you forsake God, he'll forsake you.
Well, excuse me, the Bible never says that anywhere in any translation.
Not, yeah, I, especially not, definitely not the King James, but no other translation
uses such pathetic wording, oh, if you forsake me, I'll forsake you. God never says that. He
says I will never leave thee, excuse me, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
It is he that goes with thee. He will not forsake thee, the Bible says, in Nehemiah,
just all over the place. The Bible, you know, God promises never, never to leave his children,
and if God ever left his children, that would make him a liar, and that would not make him a
very good father. And so, if I understand, 2018 America is pretty messed up, and we live in a
society where people feel they can just afford kids on a regular basis, but just because 2018
America believes in abortion doesn't mean that we should be reading that into our Bibles and saying,
oh, well, the world's going along with it, let's believe in abortion, too, and let's incorporate
that in the Word of God, how we do the Bible, let's add that lens in the Word of the West,
you know, you bring your bond with a fresh lens, and with understanding that God will never let
his sons come. Keep in mind that when Yeshua was doing his earthly ministry,
he did not walk around to the cross hollering, excuse me, I will be the life, death,
and resurrection, believe that, and you will be saved. That's not what he did. Jesus said unto her,
I am the resurrection, and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Believest thou this? He did not walk around to the cross hollering, excuse me, I will be the life,
death, and resurrection, believe that, and you will be saved. That's not what he did. Verse 25,
Jesus saith unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
So Jesus is saying, hey, do you actually believe this?