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says and if some have compassion making a difference and we cannot make a difference if we're not different now here's the thing Satan is in the business of keeping things alike Satan is in the difference of keeping things similar Satan would like you to be as little different from the world as possible go with me go with me real quick to Isaiah Isaiah chapter 36 Isaiah 36 Isaiah 36 we'll begin reading at verse 11 let me just give you kind of a head start at what's going on in the story here King Hezekiah the king of Judah is being attacked by the Assyrians by King can't read my notes here and I remember his name whatever his name is weird anyway king of Assyria and he sends this guy that's like ambassador his name's Sennacherib or whatever and he comes to the people he comes to the wall you know he comes to the border of the city and he's pretty much just calling them out he's saying hey look don't trust in your God don't trust in Egypt don't you know you're gonna die we're gonna take over just give up now look at verse 11 it says then said I'm gonna grab Roger I'll put your hat on if you got it all right verse 11 says then said Eliakim and Shabna unto Joah unto rapture kick so this is a good guy speaking to the bad guys speak I pray thee unto thy servants in the Syrian language for we understand it and speak not unto us in the Jews language in the ears of the people that are on the wall so these guys are just coming to the people they're just saying hey you guys gonna die don't trust in God don't trust in Egypt you know because they thought they were going to Egypt for help don't trust in your king he doesn't know just give up now and the good guys they say to him hey look we understand your language you know because these are these are the good guys that King Hezekiah sent to meet them and they say to him we know your language speak to us in the in your language don't speak in the Jews language the reason they said that is because they didn't want the Jewish people or the people of the nation sitting on the wall to get scared when they heard all these threats verse 12 but rapture case said unto said unto said have my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words have he not sent me to those men that sit upon the wall that they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss with you so the enemy he come he says hey look I'm gonna speak in the Hebrew language because I want the whole nation to hear what I'm saying I want them to get scared like you're scared I want them and he uses you know he said I want them to eat their own dung and I want them to eat their own piss why because they're so scared like you're scared that's what the enemy says verse 13 then rapture kids stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews language so he's saying this in the Jews language it ain't in a loud voice and said hear you the words of the great king the king of Assyria thus saith the king let not Hezekiah deceive you for he shall not be able to deliver you so Hezekiah is the king he says don't let your king deceive you he's not gonna be able to deliver you verse 15 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord saying the Lord will surely deliver us this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria hearken not to Hezekiah for thus saith the king of Assyria and look what he says he says make an agreement with me by the present by a present and come out to me and eat ye every one of his vine and every one of his fig tree and drink ye every one the waters in his own sister so he says if you just give up now you just make a deal with me I'm gonna let you live in your own house you're gonna live you're gonna eat out of your own vine you can drink out of your own sister and he says you're gonna get to live in your own house verse 17 until so he says I'm let you live in your own house until I come and take you away and look what it says verse 17 to a land like your own land a land of corn and wine you see that verse 17 he says until I come and take you away to a land like your own land a land of corn and wine now what's the problem with that what's the big deal well here's the thing and and I could show you verses I'm not gonna waste your time but the Bible is clear from Abraham all the way up to now all the way God had promised the children of Israel what a land flowing with what honey right that he promised him a land flowing with corn and wine God said hey Abraham I'm gonna give you a land flowing with milk and honey and here comes the enemy who I I believe illustrates Satan in our lives and he says hey I know God promised you a land flowing with milk and honey but he said if you just give up now I'm gonna take you to a land like your land flowing with corn and wine did God promise them corn wine God promised the milk and honey so he said it's kind of like it but it's a little different this is how Satan works Satan says hey I know you want to be different I know you want your land here that God promised you but I'm gonna give you something like it I'm gonna give you something it's kind of it's not exactly the same but it's kind of like it you know what it's kind of like the NIV it's kind of like the perversions of the Bible today you know God says hey I'm gonna give you a King James Bible and what the Saints in well I'm gonna give you something like it you know it's got a binding and it's not totally Bible and some of the verses sounded like let me tell you something that book those perversions the NIV the RSV the AV whatever you would call it they're not the Bible they're not the Word of God they're not the King James Bible why because they're different they're not the same now now Satan says well it's similar it's like it and that's how Satan wants to ruin your life that's how Satan wants to stop you because he says hey I want to give you something that's like it but God says no it needs to be different you know what's different this book right here this King James Bible is different it might look similar and some verses might sound alike and it might have you know Genesis and Exodus in the right order but it's not the same you know what what to land it what's today what's an example of something flowing like corn and wine you know I think of we've made this application many times but the independent fundamental Baptist says I take a stand against the movie theater and saying says well let me give you something like it you don't have to go to the movie theater you can just watch it at home on a little TV called the hella vision and if you're here today and you say well I here's the thing I go to faithful word but I just I'm trying to grow slowly and I just haven't gotten to the point yet where I've gotten rid of my television hey let me tell you something that is the stupidest thing you could do that is the dumbest thing you could do especially if you've got kids in your house that TV is gonna ruin your life it's gonna ruin your family and if you say well it doesn't bother me it's gonna bother kids it's gonna bother your children when they when they sit there and watch adultery glorified and they take the name of God and they curse and they don't go to church and they don't put God in his proper place in the life of those characters and they teach him just that that socialism was okay Obama's the greatest president who's ever lived and and all these stupid things that television is gonna ruin your life and you say well I've done my part cuz I don't go to the movie theater and saying comes along and says well let me give you something like it I know it's not exactly what God said but it's kind of like it it's a little different so you have to feel bad about it it's a flan flowing with corn and wine you know what's another example daycare daycare is a land flowing with corn and wine oh the Bible says God says that a woman should stay home and nurture her children and raise her kids and and and teach them the fear of the Lord and Satan says well let me give you something like it I've got a little daycare center here with a bunch of women and and they can raise your kids or the public school or whatever it might be the the point I'm trying to make is this Satan is in the business of keeping things similar if he can keep you to be if he can get you see you're right if you're saved he can't hurt your salvation we've heard that and once you're saved you're safe hey but if God can but if Satan can keep you from being as little different as possible then he's one why because the Bible says that if some have compassion making a difference how are you gonna make a difference if you're not different how are you gonna make a difference if you're not different so how do we make a difference well step number one it's there in Jude and if some have compassion making a difference and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted by the flood how are you gonna make a difference you say well I want to make a difference in my family's life get them safe I want to make a difference at my job get them safe I want I want I want to make a difference in my community get them say no one's ever and like I said salvation doesn't automatically mean you're different but you're never gonna live for God if you're not saved right I mean good die if you never accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior how you know you say well I got problems with my wife and we're struggling and I don't know how to deal with our marriage why don't you try getting your say that would probably help or your parents or your cousins or your neighbors or whatever it might be hey there's still a hell do you believe that do we I think sometimes I appreciate what brother Jason was saying last night I think sometimes we go into this mode where we don't it's easier to just pretend like it's not real brother I can I can understand how you feel I was thinking about my wife her grandmother grandma hitch she's an elderly lady she's very sick she's probably gonna die soon she's very sincere lady very nice lady very loving lady I'm sure she's more moral than any of us here in her life she's a Roman Catholic she's gonna die and go to hell you know my wife and I were talking about this it and we've tried my wife has given her the gospel many times we flew up to she lives in Washington about 14 hour drive so we flew up to Washington I tried to give her the gospel my wife tried to give her the gospel and we were not successful and I understand that you know we're still gonna try to get her saved obviously before she dies it's getting harder and harder the more sick and an unconscious and uncoherent she gets it would be so easy for us to pretend like she's in heaven when she dies I mean it'd be it'd be really easy it'd be comforting it sure helped my wife when we get that phone call and we're told that she's passed away it would be I would love to be able to to hug my wife and say don't worry about it I think she's in heaven that's how most Christians want to live their lives most fundamental Baptist they say well I believe in hell and you ask him is your grandpa safe well I think he is really when he's going to like these weird churches and he tells you that he doesn't believe in each other security he tells you all these things I mean you you got it and it's easy it's easy it's easy to just pretend and say well I think she's saved oh I hope she's safe but hey you got to understand there's still hell there's still a heaven people still dying go to hell and they will continue to die and go to hell unless we make a difference unless we decide we're gonna get them saved and look I'm we might not ever get grandma here say but I can get every grandma saved that I come in contact with right you might not ever get your dad safe or your neighbor safe or your friend safe but you get my friend say no what to God some preacher would knock on on grandma hishes door and got her saved yep well I go around trying to get every other person's grandma safe the reason we're dying we're failing I mean just this year America I mean we last camping trip we're preach preach about how America is going down the slopes one year and one month less later I don't think any of us would have imagined we'd be in the state that our nation is in today last night who knows what we're gonna be this time next year yeah and the reason we're failing the reason we're not making a difference is because you don't want to be different it's too hard I don't want to do it how are you gonna make a difference get people saved how you gonna make a difference once they get saved we need to teach people to hate sin man what's what's the difference between a right with God preach or Christian and and somebody's not right with God they're saying how do you fix that hate your sin it says it says enough huh and if some have compassion making a difference and now they're safe with peer pulling them out of fire hey hey hey even the garment spotted by the flesh said hate the sin and we got to teach that to people we got to get them safe we got to teach them to hate their sin but how are you gonna teach them to hate their sin when you're living in it right yeah see I'm saying you cannot make a difference if you're not different has Anderson talked about this many times used to try to go so winning and he knocked on doors to try to get people safe and he finally realized I'm not gonna get anybody say to like it right with God that's right and he started it started purging you know the sin out of his life he started getting rid of of different things and then but lo and behold people started getting saved man lo and behold faithful we're Baptist Church and thousands of people have been reached and saved and and gone right with God why because somebody decided I'm gonna purge myself I'm gonna hate sin I'm gonna make a difference I'm gonna be different here's here's the question here's the question I have for you here's the question I have for me and here's here's this question that's scary are we ready for something different I'm saying you personally I'm not talking about preachers I'm not talking about mission I'm saying Christians gathered here today you're listening to my voice are you ready for something different when I think of someone who's radically different in the Bible first thing that pops in my head Elijah you think of somebody who just showed up in town and he was radically different from his society showed up in town and he was just radically different from the other Christians the Bible tells us that when Elijah was doing his ministry there was many people there who believed like him but nobody stood up with him he was radically different people were afraid he said he said hey you come here go tell the king that I'm here and he's like hey look I'm a Secret Service Christian I helped didn't they tell you I helped 50 prophets and 50 prophets but I can't go to the king and tell him I'm a Christian why cuz Elijah was different he was different than the average Christian in his time let me give you some a few a few verses just to kind of remind you how Elijah was different Elijah prayed for an economic downturn of his nation so they would turn back to God first King 17 1 and Elijah the Tishbite who was of the inhabitants of Gilead said unto Ahab as the Lord God of Israel liveth but for whom I stand there shall not be a due nor rain these years but according to my word Elijah think about how radically different this is Elijah gets down on his knees and he prays to God and he says God don't let him rain for three years you want to talk about a recession you want to talk about a depression I mean when the rain stopped the famine came people died and Elisha was different enough and concerned with people's souls enough to say God I'd rather you ruin the economy and people get saved and people turn back to God that was different that is radically different from the average pastor today I mean that affected Elijah you think Elijah was living great then he was living in a house in Maui and traveling all over the world pretending like he's Obama preaching all over he wasn't doing that he was affected by it but he said I don't care I don't care if I lose my family I don't care if I lose my home I don't care if I lose my income I don't care what I lose the most important thing to me is that I make a difference what was different about Elijah he was willing to do what God said even if it made him look bad I won't read the verses but it's always funny to me when Elijah goes to the to the widow and and she's uh well let me just read you the verses so he arose and went this is first King 1710 and he arose and went to Teraphith and when he came to the gate of the city behold the little woman was gathering of sticks and he called to her and he said fetch me I pray thee a little water and a vessel that I may drink and as he was going to as she was going to fetch it he called to her and said bring me I pray thee a morsel of bread in thine hand and she said as the Lord thy God liveth I have not a cake but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruise and behold I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it and die and look at what Elijah says and Elijah said unto her fear not go and do as thou hast said but make me make me thereof a little cake first I mean you read that and you think yourself man Elijah you are a jerk you're just a capital J jerk this lady just told you hey I've got enough food to eat the last meal my son and I are gonna eat it and then we're gonna die and he says okay go ahead but make me food first feed me first but see God told Elijah to do that for thus safe the Lord God of Israel the barrel of meals shall not waste neither shall the cruise of oil fail until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth God said Elijah go do this and I'd be thinking myself man I'm gonna look like a fool in front of this lady I'm gonna look like a jerk I'm gonna look like I'm selfish like I don't care about anybody and but he said okay I'm gonna do it anyway and here we are and we say well I know I know I'm supposed to go so winning but it's just if I knock on that door I'm gonna look like a fool if I if I knock if I knock on that door I might look like a weirdo they might they might think I'm weird that's why Elijah was different you know what made Elijah radically different from Christians today he prayed fervently and God heard him he prayed fervently and God heard him I doubt God is hearing many of us tonight 1st Kings 17 19 and he said unto her give me thy son and he took him out of her bosom and he carried him up in a loft where your boat and laid him upon his own bed and he cried unto the Lord and said Oh Lord my God has now also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn by slaying her son and he stretched himself upon the child three times and he cried unto the Lord and said Oh Lord my God I pray thee that this child's soul come into him again look what it says and the Lord heard the voice of Elijah that's different than what we've got today and the soul of the child came into him again and he revived Elijah faced enemies of God he faced 450 prophets I'm almost done let me just say this I wonder is America ready for an Elijah is America ready for a Christian who's gonna say I'm gonna be radically different and then here's here's the next question is there anybody who's willing to be that is there any Christian here I'm not talking about Bible College I'm not talking about the mega churches I'm talking about in a faithful word Baptist Church and affiliates you know and I'm not about the camp people I mean probably the most fundamental crowd in America tonight right here I'm talking are you ready to be different are you ready to be that radically different because here's the thing you know we were we're coming we're driving up here and uh we stopped in Barstow California and we went into a little church service on a Wednesday night there and it was a good service the pastor was really nice guy see no it was a small town they had 50 people there 50 or 60 on Wednesday night they seemed like they were good people the pastor preached a sermon on revival and uh he had a lot of good points but but one of his main points he was making is breaking my heart when he's saying that he's saying America needs to revival and it broke my heart cuz he was an older man and he's probably not gonna live too much longer I mean I'm not he wasn't like you know he probably got another 10 years like and and he was just preaching you know and saying America we need to bring revival to America and when revival comes unsafe people are gonna get saved and I was just it's breaking my heart cuz I think myself this man has devoted his life his ministry his strength and as a young man you know 27 and under and uh and uh and he was preaching you know and he devoted his life and he said I want revival so people get saved and I was thinking myself revival when revival comes people don't get saved revival doesn't come and you know just like lightning strikes and revival comes and and and you start preaching it and thousands of people can say revival happens in the heart of a Christian revival happens when a Christian decides he's gonna revive his life when he's gonna be different and then people get saved when that Christian goes up and gets him safe revival just isn't you know oh I'm gonna preach now and thousand people are getting saved revival is you deciding I'm gonna be different here's the question Brett Stuckey Jason here's a question brother Dave and the 28 and up are you willing to be different I mean are you willing to be radically I I know you're already different from the world right now that's not enough I'm talking about Elijah different I'm talking about King James Bible different I'm talking about John the Baptist different I'm talking about the Apostle Paul different are you hey Ruben you are you gonna decide you're gonna be different are you gonna decide my life is not gonna be dependent or built upon my dreams or my finances or my success hey if I've got to lose everything if we've got to go into depression I'm gonna be different and I'm gonna make a man a difference I gotta be different you say well I'm already different that's not good enough my family already thinks I'm weird that's not good enough you've got to be radically different man because we are never gonna make a difference until we are different and Satan says just take the corn and wine I know God promised you a land flowing with milk and honey but look I got something like it just do it you'll be fine and here's the question are you gonna be different I don't even know that America's ready for it but I even sadder statement than that is I don't know that we're ready and we've got to decide and I hope and I pray that tonight these young men and young women and and the not so young man and not so young women will decide I'm gonna be different starting tonight well what do you got to change I don't know you have to write your TV yes you guys start reading your Bible yes you guys start praying fervently yes you've got to change your desires and your wants and revive your spiritual life that yeah maybe you're saved but maybe it's your faith is it's just useless it's dying because there's no difference there aren't you decide tonight I'm gonna be different let's pray dear Heavenly Father thank you Lord so much for these people when I come around them I'm encouraged there is still a remnant there are still people in this nation who want to be different and make a difference and I pray God that you would help us to change sufficiently that you would help us to make a difference thank you Lord for these people thank you for faithful word Baptist Church thank you for Pastor Anderson in your precious name I pray amen man 270 all right