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Walk in Truth
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[00:00:21] Yes, give him praise this morning. Hallelujah. Praise you, Lord. We exalt you, almighty God, creator of heaven and earth. We exalt your name, Jesus, the name above every name.
[00:06:03] God almighty who came in the flesh and died on the cross for our sins and rose from the dead. We love you. We worship you. We exalt you today. King of kings and Lord of lords.
[00:06:16] We're thankful, we're thankful, God, that we can know you, that we can be saved, that our sins, the bad things in our heart, the evil things we've done, the things in rebellion against you, Lord, can be forgiven.
[00:06:30] They can be washed away by the precious blood you shed on the cross as the sacrifice for our sins.
[00:06:37] Lord, you just want us to ask you, just ask you to forgive us and to dedicate our lives to following you and obeying you.
[00:06:48] You want us to repent and believe. So, Lord, we pray that anybody here today, if they don't know you today, they will come to know you through your spirit and your truth, the truth of your word.
[00:07:04] In Jesus' name, everybody say, Amen. Alright, you may be seated this morning. We want to welcome everybody to Fire and Grace Church this morning.
[00:07:14] I felt led by the Lord to bring out the big book, the replica, the 1611 King James Bible they used to have in churches.
[00:07:30] They used to have these chained to the pulpit back in the day. They were huge and it's an exact replica.
[00:07:39] But I brought it out today because I'm going to talk to you about something that's very important, vitally important in your life.
[00:07:50] It's the truth, the truth.
[00:07:55] We're going to define what that is, but let me just say this. Any time that there is any kind of a lie, you can hear me, any kind of a lie in your life is to hide something.
[00:08:13] Lies are always to hide something. Now, sometimes the lies are simply to just hide the truth from you, right?
[00:08:27] But lies are never good. And let me just go on and tell you this. We got this terminology in America, half truths.
[00:08:36] There's no such thing as a half truth. If you mix a lie with the truth, it's still a lie. It's a deception.
[00:08:45] Actually, it's more evil because you're definitely trying to fool people when you mix a little truth in with a lie.
[00:08:55] There's a proverb that says that I can't remember where it is right now. You guys can find it for me.
[00:09:02] But that if you lie, you hate those that you are afflicting or putting the lie upon.
[00:09:11] So if you lie to somebody, the Bible is telling you that you actually hate them.
[00:09:16] Now, some people say, I don't hate anybody. I hate a strong word.
[00:09:20] Well, the hate definition is I've given you many times from the Greek New Testament simply means to love less than you should.
[00:09:29] So if you lie to somebody, you love them less than you should. But let's define what is truth because we live in a world now that's full of lies everywhere.
[00:09:43] Media lies, Hollywood lies, the government lies, your doctors lie, pharmaceutical companies definitely lie.
[00:09:55] I mean, the biggest lie we've been told in recent years, it's safe and effective, right?
[00:10:01] Yeah, that one, that one right there. You know, I think I marveled at during that whole time period.
[00:10:14] I marveled at how many people trusted the government.
[00:10:20] I'm like, wow, yeah, I'm going to shoot something in my body that's never been done before. Let's go for it.
[00:10:32] Bad move. Let me establish this real quick. Jesus said this in John 14 six.
[00:10:39] Y'all can put this up. Oh, there it is. Lying tongue hated those that are afflicted by it and a flattering mouth working through.
[00:10:50] But let's put that up. Jesus said in John, the gospel of John, he said, I am the way, the truth and the life.
[00:10:59] No man cometh unto the father but by me. So Jesus said, I am the truth.
[00:11:06] Now, another thing Jesus said, or it was said about Jesus to find him and go to John, the gospel.
[00:11:14] John, go to chapter one and verse one. I'm going to show you something here.
[00:11:20] Now we're going to ask a question. What would Jesus do?
[00:11:29] All right. Says in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.
[00:11:35] Somebody say the word was God, but he was with God. Oh, so that's that whole Trinity thing, right?
[00:11:43] Now let's keep going. The same was in the beginning with God.
[00:11:49] All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made.
[00:11:53] So the word that was with God and the word that was God is also the creator of all things.
[00:11:59] So God, then we find out in verse 14, who is this word?
[00:12:05] Who is this word? And the word was made flesh or God was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory.
[00:12:13] The glory as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth, truth.
[00:12:24] Let me let me just tell you how many times think about this, the gospel of John.
[00:12:28] You could call it really the truth gospel, not that they are not all truth.
[00:12:33] It's all the Bible is truth from Genesis to Revelation. But think about this.
[00:12:39] The gospel of John uses the word truth 27 times.
[00:12:44] Matthew uses truth only three times. Mark, truth, three times.
[00:12:50] Luke uses truth five times. But John, 27 times.
[00:12:58] Why do you think that? Just like that.
[00:13:02] Let's go to another one. I want to go to John, the gospel of John, chapter 17 and verse 17.
[00:13:09] So I want you to see what Jesus said about the word of God, the Bible.
[00:13:13] Genesis to Revelation, the 66 books we have right here in this good King James Bible.
[00:13:22] That is the truth. This is what Jesus said here and we're going to read.
[00:13:32] Just put up 17. We're going to go through 19. He says sanctify them through thy truth.
[00:13:39] Thy word is truth. Everybody see that sanctify them through thy truth.
[00:13:46] Thy word is truth. Let's go to the next one. As thou has sent me into the world,
[00:13:52] even so have I also sent them into the world.
[00:13:56] Verse 17 and for their sakes, I sanctify myself that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
[00:14:03] Somebody say sanctified through the truth. What is sanctified mean?
[00:14:09] Sanctified means to be cleansed, to be set apart, to be holy, to be different,
[00:14:20] to be set apart for God's use, meaning he's cleaned you and made you holy.
[00:14:26] Now that only comes by faith in the blood of Jesus shed on the cross in his resurrection.
[00:14:33] But you have to exercise faith in that.
[00:14:36] But then he says this thing about what? That we need the washing of the water of the word.
[00:14:43] That's Ephesians chapter five. So here's the thing I'm making clear to you.
[00:14:50] You are sanctified by your faith in the word of God and faith that has enough true belief in the heart
[00:15:02] to actually act upon it, to obey it. Faith without works is dead being alone. Right?
[00:15:10] So then what? I have really got to be a person who is in the word, studying the word, meditating on the word,
[00:15:21] soaking myself in the word of God in the truth so I can have the faith to experience the holiness
[00:15:30] that Jesus has provided for me. Okay? Now I said a minute ago I'm going to ask you what would Jesus do?
[00:15:37] Anything that deviates from this book, the doctrines of this book, anything that deviates is a lie. Okay?
[00:15:50] Now let me ask you something. What would Jesus do? Would Jesus ever say,
[00:15:56] I know that you're not following my word exactly and that's okay. No.
[00:16:05] Or you know, it's okay that you're not about doctrine and you don't teach it all correctly.
[00:16:12] I'm just going to overlook that. Are we required to do our very best to make sure that we,
[00:16:22] if we're teachers of the word and every Christian should be teaching someone else, making disciples,
[00:16:28] but especially those called to leadership, we have to be sure what we're teaching the truth.
[00:16:37] And now, as I've said before, the truth, doctrinal truth, all comes from taking what?
[00:16:44] The word of God first and foremost in its context. I've said it before, old preacher said this one time,
[00:16:51] you can make the Bible say anything you want if you take stuff out of its context.
[00:16:56] For instance, the Bible says Judas went and hanged himself in one story.
[00:17:00] Another one says, what about the good Samaritan go down and do likewise?
[00:17:06] Well, I could pull out Judas went and hanged himself, go down and do likewise.
[00:17:09] You can take it apart. You have to stay in context.
[00:17:14] You also have to let the Bible interpret the Bible.
[00:17:18] You don't get to make up your own private interpretations of things.
[00:17:23] You must also look at the definitions as what the Hebrew words mean, the Greek words mean,
[00:17:32] but also not just those definitions in lexicons, but you have to look at how God uses a word
[00:17:39] throughout the Bible. That's how it's defined.
[00:17:42] The way God uses it is how it's defined, not by man.
[00:17:47] I have found even some lexicons that you have to go back and go, okay, that's a definition,
[00:17:54] but let me see how God used this word throughout the Bible.
[00:17:58] Then I know what it really means, what it's really defined as.
[00:18:05] Now, why am I bringing this up? Because error is everywhere.
[00:18:11] And for some reason, the church of Jesus Christ, the majority, seems to be okay
[00:18:20] with ministers that teach false doctrine.
[00:18:24] It blows my mind. Oh, I know that's wrong, but I like the small groups.
[00:18:37] I just sit back sometimes and go, wow, y'all like that. Okay.
[00:18:41] Here's what the blue letter Bible usage says about the word truth.
[00:18:46] I'm going to read this.
[00:18:47] The truth as taught in Christian religion respecting God and the execution of his purposes through Christ
[00:18:55] and respecting the duties of man opposing it like to the superstitions of the Gentiles
[00:19:00] and the inventions of the Jews and the corrupt opinions and precepts of false teachers even among Christians.
[00:19:06] Thayer says that universally what is true in any matter of consideration
[00:19:12] opposed to what is false, fictitious, and so forth.
[00:19:16] Now, put up 1 Timothy 3.15. He says this.
[00:19:29] 1 Timothy 3.15. He tells Timothy, if I tarry long,
[00:19:35] he's given him instructions of how things should go in the church, the order, the elders, all that stuff.
[00:19:43] He says, but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God,
[00:19:49] which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
[00:19:55] How do you say truth? All right. Jesus made this statement and he made it very clear.
[00:20:02] He said, I will build my church and the gates of hell should not prevail against it,
[00:20:09] meaning that from the time Jesus established the church with his 12 apostles and Paul and those that came after,
[00:20:19] he was very clear by saying that, that he would always have a church that he was building.
[00:20:26] He would always have a true witness. He would always have people that will stand up and stand for the truth
[00:20:36] and refuse to compromise, always.
[00:20:41] When I came along in 1987, I found people like that.
[00:20:47] There was David Wilkerson. There was Leonard Ravenhill.
[00:20:50] There were some great preachers, great teachers of the word.
[00:20:56] Most all of them now, they're dead and gone.
[00:21:02] And part of what I do is carry it on what they did.
[00:21:05] Keith Green, one of my favorites.
[00:21:12] Because, you know, when they did after Keith Green's death,
[00:21:15] and I believe he was killed by the Roman Catholic Church, I believe he's a martyr.
[00:21:19] But after his death, and the book that came out about his life was entitled, No Compromise.
[00:21:27] When you die, and unless you're in the rapture, whenever that happens, all of us have an appointment with death.
[00:21:39] But when you die, what do you want it to be said of you?
[00:21:44] Well, I know they went to church, but they didn't really live it in their life.
[00:21:49] Well, I don't know, you know, what they believe.
[00:21:56] They believe a little of this and a little of that.
[00:21:58] Or do you want people to say, the one thing I can tell you about that person is that they loved Jesus.
[00:22:08] They loved him as the truth. They loved his word.
[00:22:13] And they kept seeking after him, and studying, and praying, and worshiping, and drawing near to him,
[00:22:20] and constantly wanting to understand and know the Scriptures for themselves,
[00:22:26] and what we call sound doctrine, the truth.
[00:22:30] And there was no compromise in that person.
[00:22:35] Because, see, now the pressure is the world and the lukewarm church out there.
[00:22:42] The pressure is for us to not be so, you know, strict about things.
[00:22:52] What's wrong with y'all?
[00:22:54] All right, don't y'all know it's okay for the little teenage girls wearing miniskirts to church?
[00:23:02] No, that's not okay.
[00:23:09] I've had to tell guys, there's been some guys that wanted to wear some, what, Richard Simmons shorts.
[00:23:14] I'm like, no, no, not going to do that either.
[00:23:19] Y'all have seen everything there is to see in church just about.
[00:23:23] But you get what I'm saying? The pressure, except this.
[00:23:29] Say homosexuality is okay.
[00:23:33] Say fornication, sex before marriage is okay.
[00:23:36] Oh, yeah.
[00:23:39] Say smoking weed is okay.
[00:23:41] Getting drunk once in a while is okay.
[00:23:43] Now it's what?
[00:23:48] The gummies.
[00:23:49] But we got to go by, what does God's word say about it?
[00:24:02] What does God's word say about homosexuality?
[00:24:04] He says it's a sin.
[00:24:05] Fornication, adultery, drunkenness, drug use.
[00:24:14] What's he say about these things?
[00:24:15] See, that's the truth.
[00:24:17] And sometimes the truth hurts.
[00:24:19] Sometimes it stings a little bit.
[00:24:21] Sometimes it makes us uncomfortable because our flesh, the sin nature side of us,
[00:24:27] the flesh, the carnal mind wants to do those things.
[00:24:32] And there's not a person alive that don't want to do things that they shouldn't do.
[00:24:37] If you tell me you don't want to ever sin, you're a liar.
[00:24:40] That's what I heard Todd White say another day.
[00:24:43] He'd never sinned.
[00:24:44] He hadn't sinned since he'd been saved.
[00:24:46] Hadn't told lies since he'd been saved.
[00:24:47] Well, he told one right there.
[00:24:52] Yep.
[00:24:53] Never done anything to violate his conscience.
[00:24:55] And I'm like, okay, so you're Superman, right?
[00:25:01] You're super Christian.
[00:25:03] No.
[00:25:05] And a bunch of people now are coming out of his ministry and telling the truth about him.
[00:25:09] That he is not Superman.
[00:25:12] I mean, he tried to tell everybody that, you know, all his working out was natural in God's blessing
[00:25:20] and find out he's been taking all the stuff that, you know, you can take all the juice and lying about it.
[00:25:28] But if you're doing that, if you're even if you're lying about say lying about your what you're doing in your workouts,
[00:25:36] why are you telling lies to people?
[00:25:38] But let me just tell you right now, even all this truth comes out about him.
[00:25:46] There's still going to be hundreds of thousands of people still falling behind him and worship him
[00:25:52] as some super Christian.
[00:25:57] And because he's put that image out there of being a super Christian.
[00:26:02] Right.
[00:26:02] And other people want to be super Christians.
[00:26:04] They look at him and just follow everything he says when they need to be following this right here.
[00:26:12] Right.
[00:26:14] Oh, but some miracles happen around him.
[00:26:18] Are you following after miracles or are you following what the word of God says?
[00:26:22] A lot of you are going to be led astray in the days ahead by signs and wonders
[00:26:30] because some of you already are.
[00:26:34] Oh, that must be God doing that.
[00:26:38] The devil will give you a show.
[00:26:44] He says the church of the living God is the pillar and ground of the truth.
[00:26:49] You know what that is?
[00:26:50] What is a pillar is the support.
[00:26:54] All right.
[00:26:55] But he also says the ground, which means the base.
[00:26:59] Some say somebody say foundation and pillar.
[00:27:08] But people just cast aside the church because see, they've had experiences out there,
[00:27:14] bad experiences with this church, with that church or whatever.
[00:27:17] Or that church is an error.
[00:27:18] This church is.
[00:27:19] And yes, most of it's bad.
[00:27:21] The majority now are so far off base.
[00:27:24] They don't even preach the basic gospel anymore.
[00:27:27] Jesus is just a self-help thing.
[00:27:31] You might as well just go buy an Oprah book.
[00:27:36] Right.
[00:27:39] But they don't adhere to this.
[00:27:41] And let me tell you, when Jesus said man shall not live by bread alone,
[00:27:46] but by every word, somebody say every word, every word in this book,
[00:27:55] God breathed and inspired Peter, John, Paul, Isaiah, Jeremiah.
[00:28:05] He came upon them and had them write it exactly what he wanted.
[00:28:12] Word for word.
[00:28:13] That's why all these different versions has come along and changed things from this.
[00:28:21] There are Bibles out there that are not the truth.
[00:28:24] They got Bible on them, but they've been changed.
[00:28:28] The NIV, the RSV, the message, the passion, the living, the good news.
[00:28:37] Oh, you mean my NIV Bible is not the truth.
[00:28:43] Well, you tell me if God gave us his word through his prophets and apostles,
[00:28:48] word for word, and Jesus said every word is important,
[00:28:51] and you've got a Bible now, a new one, that takes out over 10,000 words
[00:28:55] or changes them, changes verbs, changes conditional phrases,
[00:29:01] is that still the truth?
[00:29:03] No.
[00:29:07] Let me show you what he said here.
[00:29:11] Go to Titus 2.7.
[00:29:19] Y'all don't mind if we go through some scriptures, do you?
[00:29:21] Titus 2.7.
[00:29:22] I want you to see, Titus was another pastor that Paul was training
[00:29:28] and then giving authority to.
[00:29:34] And he tells him this in verse 7.
[00:29:37] He says, in all things, showing thyself a pattern of good works,
[00:29:41] so be a model or an example to the believers.
[00:29:45] Notice what he says here, in doctrine, showing uncorruptness.
[00:29:51] Everybody see that?
[00:29:52] Y'all read it with me.
[00:29:56] In doctrine, showing uncorruptness.
[00:30:01] You know what that command is from the Holy Spirit through Paul?
[00:30:07] There is to be no corruption in your doctrine,
[00:30:11] no perversion, no twisting, no error.
[00:30:15] That's the command.
[00:30:16] It's not a suggestion.
[00:30:18] So when I take somebody and show them,
[00:30:25] your teacher is teaching this, but the Word of God says this.
[00:30:32] And they go, I don't care.
[00:30:38] What the heck is that?
[00:30:39] It is rebellion.
[00:30:44] Because folks don't like to be corrected.
[00:30:49] And I saw somebody put something on Facebook the other day,
[00:30:53] I thought it was a good quote, I don't know who said it,
[00:30:55] but I don't remember now, but it basically said that a person
[00:30:59] that won't receive correction will never really grow.
[00:31:02] You know?
[00:31:04] And growing sometimes is tough because you have to change.
[00:31:12] Change, right?
[00:31:14] That I got to do something different.
[00:31:19] I got to choose to follow a different path.
[00:31:21] I got to choose to not be lazy.
[00:31:24] I got to choose to study and follow.
[00:31:27] I got to choose to know the truth.
[00:31:30] Let me show you something here.
[00:31:32] This right here showing uncorruptness.
[00:31:35] See, I can tell you this much right now.
[00:31:40] I don't pretend to know everything.
[00:31:42] I don't.
[00:31:43] Every day God teach me, God open my eyes,
[00:31:45] God show me what I don't know.
[00:31:47] I don't know everything about this book yet.
[00:31:49] I'm trying.
[00:31:53] But if I teach you something,
[00:31:56] I am doing my best to make sure it's in context,
[00:32:02] properly defined, sound doctrine,
[00:32:06] healthy doctrine that's going to help you grow.
[00:32:10] That's going to protect you from error.
[00:32:13] I'm trying to, and I have been now for going on 17 years
[00:32:17] of this church, trying to make sure that I establish people in the truth,
[00:32:22] that I give them the truth.
[00:32:24] Not my opinions, not my feelings,
[00:32:28] but the truth of God's word.
[00:32:31] Because one day I'm going to stand before him and give an account.
[00:32:34] And like I've told you, I'm not going to hell for any one of you.
[00:32:38] Not for your tithes and offerings, not for anything.
[00:32:42] Not going to hell for you all.
[00:32:43] Love you, but not going there for you, right?
[00:32:47] If you go there, you paddle your own canoe,
[00:32:50] and that canoe will be full of Pastor Dean's sermons.
[00:32:54] And you're paddling right on with them.
[00:32:58] Yep, heard that one, heard that one, heard that one.
[00:33:01] But I'm not going to be in that boat with you, right?
[00:33:08] I talked about that a few weeks back, about blood on your hands.
[00:33:12] Blood is not going to be on my hands.
[00:33:16] Let me show you this.
[00:33:17] First John, he made this statement.
[00:33:28] This is when the Apostle John was much older.
[00:33:33] He was the elder.
[00:33:36] He said, we are of God.
[00:33:40] He that knoweth God heareth us.
[00:33:44] He that is not of God heareth us not.
[00:33:47] I'm sorry, I thought I said it.
[00:33:50] First John 4.6.
[00:33:52] He said, we are of God.
[00:33:54] He that knoweth God heareth us.
[00:33:57] He that is not of God heareth not us.
[00:34:01] Hereby know we the Spirit of truth and the Spirit of error.
[00:34:07] The Greek word planet, we get the word planet from,
[00:34:13] but we won't go there today.
[00:34:15] But the Spirit of error means to stray from the truth.
[00:34:27] And guess what?
[00:34:30] You can't stray from something you don't have
[00:34:32] or you haven't been given.
[00:34:40] And there is a Spirit of error.
[00:34:43] It's a demon.
[00:34:44] And I've seen this demon come upon people.
[00:34:49] And it's like it causes a blindness and a confusion
[00:34:56] to come on them.
[00:35:00] And they'll start spreading their error
[00:35:03] and not even realize they're causing confusion and division.
[00:35:07] Think they're helping people with terror cells.
[00:35:13] I got to share this one.
[00:35:15] Old Brother Mike at Hardcore Christianity
[00:35:18] instructs people to go into churches
[00:35:21] and create terror cells where they basically go around
[00:35:27] and undermine and do things behind the pastor's back
[00:35:30] in secret.
[00:35:31] And he used a Roman Catholic term.
[00:35:33] What was the Roman Catholic term?
[00:35:36] Zabrosa?
[00:35:38] Yeah, Roman Catholic term.
[00:35:40] I'm talking about using stealth, sly.
[00:35:44] Yeah, that's not the Spirit of rebellion, is it?
[00:35:48] Let me tell you right now,
[00:35:54] I'm not going to go into another church
[00:35:56] where I'm not in authority
[00:35:58] and start trying to teach everybody
[00:36:00] and pull everybody to my doctrines.
[00:36:02] You know what I'm going to do?
[00:36:06] If that's the way I feel,
[00:36:07] I'm going to go down the road and start a church
[00:36:09] and y'all can leave that one if you want to.
[00:36:12] I don't, you know, it's free choice out here, right?
[00:36:16] All right, y'all quiet this morning.
[00:36:25] It's a bunch of Episcopalians.
[00:36:28] Let me give you a little go.
[00:36:32] We're going to go to, let's go to 2 John.
[00:36:37] It's only one chapter.
[00:36:39] Just start with verse 1.
[00:36:41] Think about this.
[00:36:43] In the book, John wrote the Gospel of John.
[00:36:46] He wrote 1 John, 2 John, 3 John.
[00:36:51] He wrote the Book of Revelation, right?
[00:36:54] In these epistles, when he was an older man,
[00:36:58] he says this, think about this,
[00:37:05] in 2 John that we're about to read,
[00:37:08] he uses the word truth five times in the first four verses.
[00:37:12] In 3 John, he uses truth six times in 14 verses.
[00:37:17] First and second Peter together,
[00:37:20] truth is a total of three times.
[00:37:22] But I want to read this.
[00:37:24] I want everybody to read this and look at this.
[00:37:26] So this is when the Apostle John was a much older man,
[00:37:30] probably well into his 80s.
[00:37:32] He says, the elder unto the elect lady and her children.
[00:37:37] So he's speaking as the elder to the church
[00:37:40] and the baby Christians in the church.
[00:37:43] He said, whom I love in the truth,
[00:37:46] and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth.
[00:37:50] Keep going.
[00:37:53] For the truth's sake which dwelleth in us
[00:37:55] and shall be with us forever.
[00:37:57] Grace be with you, mercy and peace from God the Father
[00:38:01] and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father,
[00:38:04] in truth and love.
[00:38:08] Let's keep going.
[00:38:09] I rejoice greatly that I found of thy children
[00:38:12] walking in truth as we have received
[00:38:15] a commandment from the Father.
[00:38:17] We'll just stop there.
[00:38:18] I greatly rejoiced when I saw your children.
[00:38:25] That means the church family that you shepherd
[00:38:30] walking in truth.
[00:38:34] If you're walking in truth or you're walking in error,
[00:38:39] you can't be both.
[00:38:45] You understand?
[00:38:46] You adhering to the Word of God or you're not.
[00:38:50] It's real simple.
[00:38:55] Now if I come up and I find somebody,
[00:38:58] we all still learning,
[00:39:00] maybe I find a pastor or a TV preacher or whatever,
[00:39:03] maybe they're a little off on this little thing over here
[00:39:05] and maybe we all think, well, it's not a big deal.
[00:39:08] All right, well, okay, you can go,
[00:39:10] all right, well, we'll just see what happens here.
[00:39:12] And then you keep watching.
[00:39:14] And then you find another one.
[00:39:17] Then you find another one.
[00:39:19] And then you find another one.
[00:39:22] What you are beginning to discover is a pattern,
[00:39:26] a pattern which is a problem.
[00:39:29] And remember, all lies hiding something, all of them.
[00:39:43] But remember this, Jesus said this too
[00:39:45] about these false teachers out here.
[00:39:47] Remember what Jesus said from the abundance of the heart,
[00:39:50] the mouth speaks?
[00:39:53] Sooner or later, that spirit of error that they have,
[00:39:57] sooner or later it speaks to them clearly.
[00:40:01] You go, oh, there it is.
[00:40:05] This one we can't overlook.
[00:40:10] And what you establish is a habit, a pattern.
[00:40:14] And if you see that, it's not okay to just go,
[00:40:17] it's no big deal.
[00:40:20] Because what it is showing is a fundamental problem in them.
[00:40:27] And it's dangerous.
[00:40:29] One error, like what I was dealing with last week
[00:40:32] about binding and losing binding demons,
[00:40:35] how to bind demons, resist them,
[00:40:37] how to suspend their power.
[00:40:39] Simple truth, if the Christians don't get a hold of that
[00:40:42] and do that and exercise that,
[00:40:44] the devil's going to beat their head in.
[00:40:47] If you don't speak the word of God,
[00:40:54] if you don't bind the devil, resist the devil in Jesus' name,
[00:40:58] he will beat you to death.
[00:41:02] He will pound your little brain and your thought life
[00:41:06] until you finally fall and submit to what he wants.
[00:41:13] And most of you, if I got you to, you could give me an example.
[00:41:17] You could say, you know what, Pastor Lee,
[00:41:19] I know exactly what you're talking about.
[00:41:21] Because I got tired, I got lazy, I listened to this fool over here,
[00:41:24] over there, I listened to him,
[00:41:26] and I just kind of stopped doing what I needed to do,
[00:41:28] and the devil beat me down.
[00:41:34] And see, I know it, man.
[00:41:36] You want to talk about being bombarded.
[00:41:40] I can't tell you how bad the devil wants to smite the shepherd
[00:41:48] so the sheep will be scattered.
[00:41:50] He works night and day over time.
[00:41:55] And sometimes, because of this warfare,
[00:41:59] I have absolute miserable weeks of my life.
[00:42:06] But then I'll get snail mail.
[00:42:20] I love snail mail.
[00:42:23] You sweep people out there that watch and consider yourselves part of
[00:42:26] Fire and Grace Church that write me real letters
[00:42:30] and say, Pastor Dean, I want to encourage you.
[00:42:33] The truth you have taught has changed my life.
[00:42:37] I was this, I was that, I was a drunkard, I was an alcoholic,
[00:42:40] I was this, and the fear of God came into my life
[00:42:43] because you taught the truth.
[00:42:45] And I repented.
[00:42:47] I got one this week.
[00:42:49] My mother-in-law gave her life to Jesus.
[00:42:51] She was an addict.
[00:42:52] And his life has been transformed.
[00:42:56] I could bring letter after letter after letter after email.
[00:43:00] And see, this is why I want to tell y'all.
[00:43:02] Why this little church is important, why it's important
[00:43:04] that you guys help me do what I need to do
[00:43:06] because it's helping a whole lot of people out there.
[00:43:09] Even though you can't see it sometimes,
[00:43:13] just by being faithful, just by praying for them,
[00:43:16] just by being here and helping us,
[00:43:19] we are doing, we are fulfilling the call of God upon our lives.
[00:43:23] I can't do it without you.
[00:43:26] Now if y'all left, I would keep doing it
[00:43:28] because God told me to do it.
[00:43:30] But it helps when I have people praying
[00:43:33] and when people visit, and that's why we have people visit
[00:43:36] from all over the place.
[00:43:38] We never know when people are going to stop in
[00:43:40] from Australia or Canada or New York or Texas or wherever.
[00:43:47] We're reaching thousands and thousands of people out there
[00:43:52] through live streams, through videos, through the books.
[00:43:59] And if I didn't have you guys,
[00:44:01] all this wouldn't have been done over the last, say,
[00:44:06] what is it, 17 years.
[00:44:09] So this is why the church, the local church is important.
[00:44:16] It's not really a matter of how big it is.
[00:44:18] It's a matter of how on fire it is.
[00:44:21] It's a matter of how much truth that it hungers for
[00:44:25] and stays faithful to.
[00:44:27] And that's why, too, it kind of blows my mind
[00:44:34] when I got people all over the world
[00:44:36] saying they wish they could come to our church
[00:44:39] and we got people around here getting an attitude and leaving.
[00:44:42] I'm like, it's just a weird, weird world we live in.
[00:44:50] And it's getting weirder by the moment.
[00:44:53] I want to show you something.
[00:45:03] Go to the book of Psalms.
[00:45:07] Psalm 40.
[00:45:21] Y'all don't mind if I read a few here?
[00:45:25] It's not even 12, y'all. We're good.
[00:45:28] Can't let y'all out yet.
[00:45:31] I think some things I don't say it.
[00:45:40] Self-control right there.
[00:45:43] Something I saw last night.
[00:45:46] I'm not going to say it.
[00:45:47] I keep wanting to say it.
[00:45:50] Psalm 40 verse 10.
[00:45:58] Well, actually verse 10 and 11.
[00:46:04] He says, I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart.
[00:46:09] I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation.
[00:46:14] I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth
[00:46:17] from the great congregation.
[00:46:20] Withhold not thy tender mercies from me,
[00:46:22] O Lord, let thy lovingkindness and thy truth
[00:46:25] continually preserve me.
[00:46:29] So here he says, and David wasn't just the king.
[00:46:34] He wasn't just a prophet.
[00:46:36] He wasn't just a psalmist, but he was also a teacher
[00:46:39] and a preacher.
[00:46:40] And he says, I did not withhold the truth
[00:46:42] from the great congregation.
[00:46:44] He was talking about the whole nation of Israel.
[00:46:46] He would preach the truth of God's word to them.
[00:46:52] I can tell you right now I've not withheld the truth.
[00:46:55] You want me to tell you something?
[00:46:57] I have caught more hell and persecution
[00:47:00] and ridicule and mocking and reproach
[00:47:04] because I took a stand in 2015
[00:47:09] about what the Bible says about the nature of creation.
[00:47:14] To this day I take more hate,
[00:47:21] more attacks, more ridicule,
[00:47:25] more mocking than any other thing,
[00:47:29] but I did not withhold it from you.
[00:47:33] Once God showed me the truth
[00:47:38] from Genesis to Revelation about creation,
[00:47:41] I asked the Lord,
[00:47:43] Lord, people are going to call me crazy.
[00:47:47] It's going to bring reproach and ridicule and attacks,
[00:47:54] and it may even run people off who listen to us and get fed.
[00:48:01] I said, Lord, do you want me to go down this road?
[00:48:06] And he said what he said to me,
[00:48:09] have I ever told you,
[00:48:10] I heard the Spirit of God say this,
[00:48:12] have I ever told you to hold back any of my truth?
[00:48:17] I said, no, no, Lord, you have never told me that.
[00:48:22] He said, then you have your answer.
[00:48:25] And I was like, well, here we go.
[00:48:34] October, end of October 2015,
[00:48:38] I spent the next month digging into it.
[00:48:43] In November of 2015,
[00:48:47] I did a private teaching, first teaching,
[00:48:52] on the truth about creation from God's word,
[00:48:55] the firmament, the flat earth,
[00:48:59] heaven above, hell beneath.
[00:49:05] Went through what the word says about the sun
[00:49:08] and the moon moving in a circuit,
[00:49:10] not the earth moving.
[00:49:12] The earth is still and at rest.
[00:49:18] And let me tell you,
[00:49:21] it's been worth every bit of persecution
[00:49:24] and ridicule because I have seen the truth of God's word
[00:49:28] just in that one area set so many captives free.
[00:49:32] There will be no regrets for me.
[00:49:39] I know a lot of ministers, I can tell you,
[00:49:42] big time folks who know the truth about this
[00:49:48] but have hid it, they've buried it
[00:49:50] because they will not take the heat.
[00:49:55] But it's the same, guess what?
[00:49:59] People have compromised about homosexuality,
[00:50:03] they've compromised about transgenderism,
[00:50:06] they've compromised about all sorts of things,
[00:50:10] not just creation.
[00:50:12] But see, what God says is true,
[00:50:15] this is what I believe.
[00:50:19] God said in here through the Apostle Paul,
[00:50:21] let God be true and every man a liar.
[00:50:24] Put that one up for him, Romans.
[00:50:27] Let God be true.
[00:50:31] This right here, I've spent 38 years
[00:50:35] researching the history of where this came from,
[00:50:38] how it was passed from the Apostles to the next generation
[00:50:42] to the next generation, how God preserved it.
[00:50:45] And then, of course, by the 1940s,
[00:50:49] the late 1940s and 50s, the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered
[00:50:53] and we found out that the Bible we have today
[00:50:59] is the same one they had 3,000 years ago,
[00:51:05] that God promised to preserve his word, his truth,
[00:51:08] and he has preserved it.
[00:51:10] And I'm going to tell you right now,
[00:51:15] they're going to try in the days ahead
[00:51:17] to take this from you.
[00:51:24] You better get it in your heart and in your mind,
[00:51:27] in your spirit.
[00:51:31] And if you see anything depart from the truth of God's word,
[00:51:36] you need to run away from it, you hear me?
[00:51:41] Because one of the things God asked,
[00:51:43] he said, where's the fear and trembling at my word?
[00:51:48] That was one lady wrote in one of her letters
[00:51:51] that I got this week.
[00:51:53] Thank you, and tell your congregation thank you
[00:51:56] for being a church that still respects
[00:51:59] and trembles at the word of God,
[00:52:02] that still respects it as God breathed holy scriptures,
[00:52:08] exactly what God wanted to say to mankind.
[00:52:12] Let God be true, and every man a liar.
[00:52:24] I'm going to show you something.
[00:52:25] Go to Psalm 15.
[00:52:37] Just go to verse 1 and 2 there.
[00:52:39] All right.
[00:52:47] It's a question.
[00:52:50] Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?
[00:52:53] And he's talking about the one in heaven.
[00:52:55] Who shall abide in thy tabernacle?
[00:52:58] Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
[00:53:01] Who wants to dwell with God forever?
[00:53:05] I do.
[00:53:06] I don't want to miss him.
[00:53:07] It says, he that walketh uprightly
[00:53:09] and worketh righteousness and speaks the truth in his heart.
[00:53:14] God wants the truth in your heart
[00:53:18] and speaking it out of your mouth.
[00:53:20] He wants you to have it.
[00:53:21] And this is the truth.
[00:53:24] The Bible is the truth.
[00:53:28] This King James translation in English is the truth.
[00:53:32] It is correct.
[00:53:33] Any preacher says it's not, run away from them.
[00:53:36] Because either they're stupid and ignorant as the day is long
[00:53:42] or they're part of the corruption.
[00:53:44] A lot of them are Jesuits, y'all.
[00:53:49] They hate this book.
[00:53:52] They murdered hundreds of thousands,
[00:53:55] millions of Christians over this book,
[00:53:57] the Roman Catholic Church did.
[00:53:59] They tried to stomp this book out of existence.
[00:54:03] People have been asking me,
[00:54:06] what do you think about the Pope's death?
[00:54:08] I don't care.
[00:54:09] I mean, I know about the St. Malachi prophecies.
[00:54:17] I read the book, Petrus Romanus.
[00:54:19] It's about that thick.
[00:54:21] And one of the things, you know, that they said in that book,
[00:54:23] and it was really good,
[00:54:25] they said they didn't know if Francis was going to be the last
[00:54:28] or there was going to be one more.
[00:54:29] So it looks like we're going to get one more.
[00:54:31] And the prophecy over the last Pope is that his name
[00:54:35] or nature or whatever is going to be Peter the Roman
[00:54:40] and that when he becomes Pope
[00:54:42] is when we enter the Great Tribulation.
[00:54:46] Now, that's a prophecy going back.
[00:54:48] I can't remember Malachi was 1300s
[00:54:51] or 1100s way back, 1300s.
[00:54:55] I mean, we'll see.
[00:54:59] But the bottom line, everything is converging now.
[00:55:02] You all need to listen to me right now.
[00:55:04] Y'all know that Pakistan and India are about to go to war,
[00:55:09] both nuclear powers.
[00:55:12] If they go to war, China will get involved.
[00:55:15] The United States will get involved.
[00:55:17] They hate each other.
[00:55:21] They're already in shooting at each other on the lines
[00:55:25] because from out of Pakistan there was a Muslim group
[00:55:29] that attacked and killed a bunch of people.
[00:55:32] A terrorist attack was brutal
[00:55:35] and India is fed up with it.
[00:55:38] They've had enough.
[00:55:42] And so just what Jesus said about the birth pains of us
[00:55:46] about to enter into the Great Tribulation
[00:55:48] and we don't get raptured out of here beforehand.
[00:55:51] That's another lie you've been told.
[00:55:53] But we are seeing wars and rumors of wars.
[00:55:59] And the rumors are getting bigger
[00:56:01] and bigger and more intense.
[00:56:05] And then we got this crazy guy come up.
[00:56:10] Y'all go ahead and start the pictures from the top.
[00:56:16] This I started looking into yesterday.
[00:56:20] This guy.
[00:56:22] I don't even know what his name is.
[00:56:26] But this guy's claiming to be the real pope.
[00:56:30] He's claiming to be.
[00:56:32] I think some people say he's claiming to be the Mahdi.
[00:56:35] I don't know.
[00:56:36] I couldn't pin him down.
[00:56:38] If he's claiming to be the Mahdi
[00:56:39] or he's saying he's going to introduce the Mahdi.
[00:56:42] But the way he talks I think he may be.
[00:56:45] He may be proclaiming himself to be the Islamic Mahdi.
[00:56:52] But he may not be.
[00:56:54] I mean this may be.
[00:56:56] Jesus said there'll be many false Christ
[00:56:59] and false prophets rise and deceive many.
[00:57:02] So this just may be a guy proclaiming it
[00:57:05] but he's really not.
[00:57:06] But just the fact that you've got some nutcase
[00:57:08] with a bunch of people following him.
[00:57:10] I mean he's got people down there
[00:57:11] just worshiping him like he's a god.
[00:57:14] And he's saying he's a descendant of Muhammad
[00:57:17] and so on down the line.
[00:57:18] And who knows?
[00:57:19] This might be the guy.
[00:57:20] I don't know.
[00:57:21] This might be the antichrist we're looking at.
[00:57:23] We don't know yet.
[00:57:26] We'll know when certain things happen.
[00:57:32] But soon whoever the antichrist is going to appear.
[00:57:35] But look at some of the stuff this guy's teaching.
[00:57:37] You want to talk about twisted.
[00:57:38] I listened to him twist the scriptures yesterday.
[00:57:41] Boy he's good at it.
[00:57:43] Look at this raising Mary.
[00:57:44] How did Mary mother of Jesus die?
[00:57:48] And look what they say the Mahdi has appeared.
[00:57:50] That's the YouTube channel.
[00:57:52] Keep going.
[00:57:54] Here's another one.
[00:57:55] God's door is open to everyone.
[00:57:58] The Mahdi's message to the LGBTQ community.
[00:58:02] But see he's Muslim.
[00:58:06] So what he believes about Jesus,
[00:58:07] he don't believe Jesus died on the cross.
[00:58:09] He doesn't believe Jesus is the door
[00:58:11] that you have to go through.
[00:58:14] He believes Muhammad is the greatest prophet of them all
[00:58:19] and that you have to follow the Quran
[00:58:22] to maybe get in.
[00:58:25] But let's just look at this.
[00:58:26] He twists some Christian things.
[00:58:28] How to recognize the Imam Mahdi.
[00:58:31] And why do I bring this up?
[00:58:33] Because the Muslims have a prophecy of the Imam Mahdi
[00:58:37] of a man who's going to come and rule for seven to eight years.
[00:58:40] He's going to make the Christians subservient
[00:58:42] and put a mark on their forehead or in their hands
[00:58:47] and make them slaves to Islam.
[00:58:50] Everything they say about the Imam Mahdi
[00:58:53] is what the Bible says about the antichrist.
[00:58:55] In fact they even say Islam teaches
[00:58:58] that the number 666 is a holy number
[00:59:01] and that Christians are the ones who twisted it
[00:59:04] into a satanic thing.
[00:59:06] But just remember that the Bible came along
[00:59:08] hundreds of years before Muhammad and the Quran.
[00:59:13] And Muhammad's own mother said he was demon possessed
[00:59:18] and Muhammad married a six year old girl
[00:59:22] and then had sex with her when she was nine.
[00:59:24] So he's a pedophile.
[00:59:26] Her name was Aisha.
[00:59:29] And they don't deny any of this.
[00:59:32] This is why the practice of bride marriage
[00:59:35] goes on in some of these countries like Pakistan.
[00:59:40] I mean I'm sorry to be so blunt
[00:59:44] but it's a false religion.
[00:59:46] It's an antichrist religion.
[00:59:46] Islam is antichrist.
[00:59:48] The Jesus they talk about, their Isa
[00:59:52] that they talk about Jesus
[00:59:54] is not the Jesus of the Bible.
[00:59:56] It's a false Jesus they've created.
[00:59:58] They've created a false gospel and a false message
[01:00:01] but they are ready.
[01:00:03] This guy, I watched a clip of him talking about
[01:00:05] they are ready to bring violence upon the Christians
[01:00:10] to make us submit.
[01:00:12] And this guy's actually saying he's the actual pope
[01:00:15] that has authority now over Christians.
[01:00:17] That over Christians on his mother's side
[01:00:20] and Jews and his father's side over Islam.
[01:00:25] This is guy, this is a, I mean either this is the guy
[01:00:29] or we got a complete nutcase on our hands here.
[01:00:31] All right?
[01:00:34] But I just want you to see.
[01:00:35] And this guy, just listening to him for a few minutes,
[01:00:38] I could feel the demonic darkness coming off of him
[01:00:41] and he was so good at twisting the New Testament
[01:00:47] and quoting the New Testament
[01:00:51] and just twisting it around.
[01:00:54] And I thought, man, he's good at doing this.
[01:00:58] How many Christians are going to say, oh, yeah, this guy,
[01:01:01] yes, this is the guy.
[01:01:05] I mean, how many, look, 43,000 views on just this one.
[01:01:11] Was there another one I sent you?
[01:01:13] Oh, here we go.
[01:01:15] The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the ultimate solution.
[01:01:18] This guy's got it, right?
[01:01:21] This guy's going to bring the peace between Israel
[01:01:25] and the Palestinians.
[01:01:27] We'll see.
[01:01:28] If he does, hey, he may be the guy.
[01:01:32] Like I said, we don't know.
[01:01:34] We'll see.
[01:01:36] But these people are arising.
[01:01:39] False prophets, false teachers.
[01:01:42] And they know, too, how to take a little bit of the Scriptures
[01:01:45] and twist them in their way.
[01:01:47] This is why you have got to read and study
[01:01:50] and get the word in your heart and be in, around people,
[01:01:54] be in a good church and be around elders and older Christians
[01:01:57] who are solid in what they believe.
[01:02:00] This is why we need each other.
[01:02:02] This is why we're not to forsake the assembling of ourselves
[01:02:06] together as the manner of some is.
[01:02:08] Matter of fact, put that up. Hebrews 10, 25.
[01:02:11] See, I'm not ashamed to say this.
[01:02:17] I'm going to tell you, and you can not like it
[01:02:19] or whatever, I don't care.
[01:02:23] I believe our church, Fire and Grace Church,
[01:02:25] is a true New Testament church that we are a pillar.
[01:02:31] We're not the only one, but we are a pillar
[01:02:34] and a ground of the truth.
[01:02:36] We are one of the witnesses to stand for the Lord
[01:02:41] in the last days, period.
[01:02:45] That's what God called me to do when I was 19 years old.
[01:02:49] I was called to do this.
[01:02:52] I was told by Him, Jesus appeared to me
[01:02:55] and told me, this is what you're going to do.
[01:02:57] This is not a game for me.
[01:02:59] I'm not playing church.
[01:03:00] I'm not trying to get rich.
[01:03:01] I'm not trying to build a big church.
[01:03:02] I don't care how big it is.
[01:03:03] I don't care about any of that.
[01:03:05] My calling is to preach and teach the truth
[01:03:09] of God's word in the last days.
[01:03:12] And through the years, the Lord has given me
[01:03:17] understanding and wisdom and revelation
[01:03:20] about what's happening and how it's going to happen,
[01:03:24] and I have given it all out there to you.
[01:03:29] I love the fact that Kelsey, good to have Kelsey back in church
[01:03:32] with little baby Matthew and Lance,
[01:03:36] but Kelsey arranged the website, denodal.org.
[01:03:40] It's got everything.
[01:03:41] Even the audio is going back to 2009.
[01:03:44] Everything about the last days,
[01:03:47] every sermon I've done here is there
[01:03:52] on deliverance, on healing, on dealing with unforgiveness
[01:03:56] and wounds in your life of you name it.
[01:04:01] It's there.
[01:04:03] I've held back nothing.
[01:04:05] I've kept back nothing from you.
[01:04:07] And if you're new here, it's all there for you to go back
[01:04:14] and learn and get caught up.
[01:04:17] The School of Ministry, everybody goes,
[01:04:20] what are some of those classes that you didn't make public?
[01:04:23] Everything that I have teach in the School of Ministry
[01:04:26] I have taught in a sermon over these 17 years here, everything.
[01:04:33] So the school just makes you learn it.
[01:04:36] Going through the School of Ministry
[01:04:37] just makes you dig in, study it, and learn it.
[01:04:42] That's what it's about.
[01:04:43] That's why the Lord wanted me to do the School of Ministry
[01:04:45] because it's an intense year or two years, however long it takes you.
[01:04:50] And it's an intense baptism in the truth of God's Word.
[01:04:56] So I am not ashamed to say,
[01:05:08] I know the Fire and Grace Church.
[01:05:11] I know we are of God,
[01:05:13] and I know there's many out there that are not.
[01:05:17] And so I say, oh, that's just arrogant to say.
[01:05:19] No, it's just the truth.
[01:05:21] I mean, if I didn't believe that I was giving you the truth,
[01:05:24] why would I be doing this every Sunday?
[01:05:26] I could be fishing, skiing, playing golf,
[01:05:34] building birdhouses or something, you know.
[01:05:43] Because sometimes y'all drive me crazy.
[01:05:47] I need to start basket weaving.
[01:05:53] I need therapy.
[01:05:54] Go out and shoot something.
[01:05:56] That's what I need to do.
[01:05:58] Not a person, some delicious animal out there.
[01:06:06] I won't even name any.
[01:06:11] I did make Mike a promise.
[01:06:12] Mike said, you got to make me a pinky promise
[01:06:14] when I went to Birmingham.
[01:06:15] He said, we're going fishing.
[01:06:17] I said, okay, we're going fishing.
[01:06:19] I need to take time and do that stuff.
[01:06:22] Amen?
[01:06:24] I'm probably going to go play golf one more time
[01:06:26] before I go be with Jesus.
[01:06:28] But this right here, the truth.
[01:06:36] I think I've tried to give you the truth.
[01:06:42] And I'm not perfect.
[01:06:43] I got my own.
[01:06:44] I tell the Lord all the time,
[01:06:45] I don't know why you picked me to do any of this.
[01:06:47] I got my own personal struggles.
[01:06:51] I deal with hurts, family problems.
[01:06:55] I got things that have hurt me for years,
[01:07:01] people that have hurt me.
[01:07:03] I deal with just like the stuff you have to deal with.
[01:07:06] We all got, you know, they say you can pick your friends,
[01:07:09] but you're stuck with your relatives.
[01:07:11] Well, that's true.
[01:07:12] So, you know, sometimes people think that pastors
[01:07:20] and ministers, that we got some kind of special thing with God
[01:07:23] and that we don't have the same struggles that everybody else does.
[01:07:26] No, we have the same struggles everybody else does.
[01:07:32] So I'm going to tell you right now, I am far from perfect.
[01:07:36] I'm just doing my best that I can do to fight through the demons
[01:07:42] and the people and the haters
[01:07:44] and all the false teaching
[01:07:47] and all the slick deception
[01:07:50] to give you the truth of this book the best I can.
[01:07:54] So you can, I know some people don't like me
[01:07:57] because I'm a little rough around the edges sometimes.
[01:08:01] Maybe I'm a little too blunt and frank,
[01:08:05] but I know this, 1994, one of the second prophetic words,
[01:08:14] I think it was the second or third prophetic word
[01:08:16] that Jean May ever spoke over me,
[01:08:18] was the Lord said, I'm putting the shepherd's heart in you.
[01:08:21] Now, at that time, I planned to travel as an evangelist.
[01:08:24] I wasn't going to be pastoring anybody.
[01:08:27] I was going to be hopping from one church to the next,
[01:08:29] so I don't have to deal with your problems.
[01:08:31] That's your pastor's job, deal with your stuff.
[01:08:33] I could just blow in, be like an iron.
[01:08:36] As long as I'm moving around, I'm getting the wrinkles out,
[01:08:39] but I stay in one place too long, I burn it up.
[01:08:41] That's what somebody said to me when I was a young man,
[01:08:45] they're like, you're like an iron.
[01:08:47] If you stay in one spot too long, you just burn it, slap up.
[01:08:50] But then the Lord said, no, I'm putting the shepherd's heart in you.
[01:08:53] You're going to pastor.
[01:08:54] And I was like, oh, I was like, first time he missed it.
[01:08:57] I am not doing that.
[01:08:59] Nothing in me wanted to do it.
[01:09:01] The Lord said, no, you're going to do it.
[01:09:04] But, you know, let me just tell you,
[01:09:06] I might not visit you every time you stump your toe.
[01:09:10] I might not call you every time you're absent,
[01:09:14] but I do care about each one of you.
[01:09:16] I do pray for you all, all the time.
[01:09:20] And what I'm praying is that you will walk in the truth
[01:09:26] with the Lord Jesus and be faithful to him until the end.
[01:09:31] That's all I want for you.
[01:09:33] I want you to make it to heaven, to eternity,
[01:09:39] and I'm doing my best to kick you in the bottom on the way there
[01:09:46] to make sure you go in the right direction.
[01:09:48] Pull your hair a little bit.
[01:09:49] No, let's go this way.
[01:09:51] Poke you.
[01:09:52] No, let's go that way.
[01:09:55] Don't follow that dude or that one right there.
[01:09:58] I'm going to do my best.
[01:10:00] Amen.
[01:10:01] But you got to also do your part.
[01:10:06] Don't be lazy.
[01:10:08] Pray for each other.
[01:10:09] Pray for me.
[01:10:11] You know, we're going through a lot as a family.
[01:10:16] There are some things that's happened over the last week
[01:10:20] that I can't even talk about that could have been very bad.
[01:10:25] And God's intervened.
[01:10:27] Thank you, Jesus.
[01:10:28] But there's some bad people that want to do bad things to us.
[01:10:33] Okay?
[01:10:35] And it's about to get worse because I'm getting word coming down
[01:10:40] from the powers that be in the political realm in this state
[01:10:43] that they do not like what I'm doing and what I'm saying.
[01:10:46] In fact, there's an all-out war now
[01:10:50] against one thing that I'm focusing on.
[01:10:53] So it's going to get more real than it's ever been around here.
[01:11:04] Just make sure that you're praying for God's protection
[01:11:07] and blessing and anointing and discernment
[01:11:11] because sometimes I need to know from the Lord don't go there
[01:11:15] or don't get close to this person or whatever.
[01:11:19] You know, I just need to be hearing the Lord very clearly
[01:11:23] on what to do and not to do.
[01:11:25] And sometimes I will just simply cancel going to a certain place
[01:11:30] if the Lord tells me don't go.
[01:11:32] And I've had him do that as well.
[01:11:34] We are moving into what Paul said would be dangerous or perilous times.
[01:11:39] They're going to get worse and worse as the days go ahead.
[01:11:44] And whenever World War III kicks off, and I say when, it's going to happen.
[01:11:50] However, it kicks off with Iran or Pakistan and India
[01:11:54] or China and the U.S. or whatever, it's going to kick off at some point.
[01:12:00] Nuclear bombs are going to start hitting some places.
[01:12:04] Power outages, economic failures.
[01:12:08] They're going to move everything to digital, tokenized money.
[01:12:15] Then everything will be controlled.
[01:12:18] And we're going to have to be very tough, strong people
[01:12:22] to withstand that level of tribulation and persecution that's going to come.
[01:12:33] You're going to see things in America that are going to change quickly once it starts.
[01:12:43] They caught a Mexican gang, I think Terracell,
[01:12:51] with multiple AK-47s and 180,000 rounds of ammunition.
[01:12:56] They caught them in Colorado the other day.
[01:12:59] The only reason you have that kind of weapons and ammunition is you're preparing to go to war.
[01:13:06] And we have drug cartels that are going to go to war against us.
[01:13:12] We have Muslims that are going to go to war against us.
[01:13:15] We have Chinese all within the country already that are preparing to go to war with the United States.
[01:13:26] So there's going to be what's called Day X.
[01:13:30] And when Day X happens, you'll know it.
[01:13:36] Day X is when Pastor Dean will look like a guy that's a SWAT team member.
[01:13:42] I will protect my family.
[01:13:45] Pile of hot brass.
[01:13:48] Because let me tell you right now, you think the police are slow getting to your house now?
[01:13:56] Just wait till then.
[01:13:57] When they're overwhelmed by stuff going on all over the place
[01:14:03] and you call them and they're like, we got nobody to send.
[01:14:08] And I've had to call the police before and waited 15 minutes.
[01:14:12] And you know how I stopped a guy from breaking in and hurting my aunt?
[01:14:16] He was trying to break in her house because I had a gun.
[01:14:20] And I told him to stop or I'm going to shoot.
[01:14:23] And he got his hands up and stopped breaking in her house.
[01:14:26] And I waited for 15 minutes until the state trooper drove up and handcuffed him and took him away.
[01:14:34] So that's why I'm pro-gun.
[01:14:37] I hadn't had to shoot anybody, but I sure have stopped some bad things from happening.
[01:14:42] I picked up a girl running from a guy out here, clearly being trafficked.
[01:14:53] I stopped a girl getting beaten and probably going to get her head smashed in the curb in Trussville a few years ago.
[01:15:01] I had to pull my gun on a whole group of people and tell them to scatter and go home.
[01:15:09] She would have probably been killed that night.
[01:15:11] So I'm saying that's just now.
[01:15:15] That's just in little old Opelika and Trussville, Alabama.
[01:15:20] Can you imagine if the lights go out for a month or two?
[01:15:25] What's going to happen when it's dark out there?
[01:15:29] I remember when the street lights and all the power went out at my house one time and it was overcast.
[01:15:35] There was no moon and you couldn't see the stars.
[01:15:38] Could not see my hand in front of my face.
[01:15:41] That's how dark it was.
[01:15:43] That's when you better know you better have a flashlight.
[01:15:45] That's why my shotgun, the sawed-off one's got a big old flashlight on the end of it, like 500 lumens.
[01:15:56] You all understand?
[01:15:57] All right, let's stand.
[01:16:06] The truth will set you free.
[01:16:08] Amen.
[01:16:09] Can we put up one more?
[01:16:10] I forgot this scripture.
[01:16:11] Let's put up this one.
[01:16:12] Put up John 8.
[01:16:16] I think it starts about verse 30-31.
[01:16:19] Let's read this before we go.
[01:16:23] Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him.
[01:16:28] And the word believe means they had faith for salvation through Jesus.
[01:16:32] They believed he was the Messiah.
[01:16:34] He said to them, if you continue in my word, then are you my disciples?
[01:16:39] Somebody say if.
[01:16:43] If you continue in what?
[01:16:48] Which is what?
[01:16:49] The truth, which does what?
[01:16:52] Sanctifies you and sets you free, right?
[01:16:55] Jesus said to those Jews which believed on him, if you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed?
[01:17:02] And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
[01:17:08] Meaning you have to continue in it to be free.
[01:17:12] If you depart from it, you will not be free.
[01:17:16] Now I want to do that song, rest on us.
[01:17:21] And I'm going to give this time, if you have never given your life to Jesus,
[01:17:28] you've never made a public confession of your faith in front of the church.
[01:17:33] This is a day I believe you're supposed to come forward and we're going to pray together
[01:17:41] and you're going to confess Jesus before men and ask him to forgive you and be your Lord and Savior.
[01:17:46] Now if you haven't ever done that, let me tell you, it's a powerful moment if you truly surrender
[01:17:52] and you truly repent and you step forward publicly to say,
[01:17:58] I am going to follow Jesus from here on out.
[01:18:00] The Holy Spirit is going to touch you in a powerful way.
[01:18:03] There are also those who have slipped back.
[01:18:06] You've fallen away, you've gotten lukewarm, you've gone back into sin and rebellion.
[01:18:12] If you need to come back to Jesus, let's do that today.
[01:18:17] I want you to come step up here. It's only 12, 15, but we're going to do this song.
[01:18:23] We may do it twice if we have to, but I'm going to give you an opportunity today
[01:18:27] to come make Jesus Lord to repent and publicly confess Jesus.
[01:18:32] Because Jesus said, you have to confess me before men.
[01:18:38] And if you don't, if you're ashamed of me, he says I'm going to be ashamed of you.
[01:18:42] And it's just something I believe every Christian at some point should do.
[01:18:46] Even if you got saved in a closet somewhere, I praise God for that.
[01:18:51] You can get saved by yourself, but at some point you've got to stand up
[01:18:54] in front of the church and say, I am a follower of Jesus.
[01:18:58] I have given my life to Jesus or I'm giving my life to Jesus.
[01:19:01] I'm turning from my sin and I'm letting Jesus be Lord of my life
[01:19:05] and I want everybody to know that. Amen.
[01:19:09] So bow your heads. I'm going to pray and we're going to do this song.
[01:19:12] Father, I pray right now in the name of Jesus.
[01:19:14] If there's anybody in here today or even watching,
[01:19:17] this never truly surrendered, never truly said that's it.
[01:19:23] I give up all my ways, all my sins, all my own plans.
[01:19:28] I surrender to you and I'm going to let you Jesus be Lord of my life,
[01:19:34] God Almighty in my life.
[01:19:36] I'm going to submit to you and I'm going to continue in the truth
[01:19:39] and be a true disciple from this point on.
[01:19:44] Lord, I pray you convict and draw anybody that's never done that
[01:19:48] or done it publicly and they need to do it in here today.
[01:19:54] I pray God you give them the courage and the boldness to step out of that seat
[01:20:00] and move in front of the church and say, I am now made the decision
[01:20:04] to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, a follower of Jesus Christ.
[01:20:11] Let's do it. Let's do this song.
[01:20:15] Need to come. I want you to come this morning.
[01:20:30] Anybody else, come on, be bold.
[01:21:01] I want to confess Jesus in front of the church.
[01:21:05] The church loves you. I hear that prayer.
[01:21:12] To touch us, speak to us, convict us, move us out of our ruts,
[01:24:11] out of sin, out of looped warmness, out of bad attitude,
[01:24:16] out of error, move us out of it Lord.
[01:24:22] Holy Spirit, Lord. Yes.
[01:32:03] We worship you today.
[01:32:06] We ask you to come rest upon us and fill us with your Holy Spirit,
[01:32:09] the Spirit of truth.
[01:32:12] Show us where the Spirit of error is working.
[01:32:15] Lead us and guide us into all truth, Holy Spirit.
[01:32:19] And may we never compromise.
[01:32:21] May we truly be uncorrupt in doctrine
[01:32:25] because we stick to your word, to the Scriptures,
[01:32:30] and we let your Holy Spirit lead us and guide us in the Scriptures.
[01:32:35] Bless your people, Lord, today.
[01:32:38] Those watching and listening, those here today,
[01:32:43] I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
[01:32:47] All right. Y'all know the drill out there.
[01:32:49] Hug some next before you leave.
[01:32:51] And here we need to put up real quick.
[01:32:54] Don't forget, next weekend is it,
[01:32:56] the Battle Ready Marriage Conference.
[01:32:58] So you can still register even now.
[01:33:02] I think we still have some room, right?
[01:33:04] Still have some seats available.
[01:33:09] The dinner meetup on Friday is at Chick Chick Pork Pork.
[01:33:13] Yes, and that is the true name of it.
[01:33:15] It's delicious though.
[01:33:17] It's Korean Chick Chick Pork Pork.
[01:33:20] All right. It's good.
[01:33:23] All right. God bless.