The Congregation of the Dead
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[00:05:17] worship you, mighty God. We worship you, Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Holy One of Israel,
[00:05:24] the only Messiah, the one who died and rose from the dead, the one who is alive forevermore.
[00:05:31] You have the keys of hell and death. It is only through you there is eternal life. There
[00:05:37] is only forgiveness of sins through you. You are the only one by which we can be saved
[00:05:44] from eternal damnation. We come to you, Lord, today and give thanks for your love
[00:05:51] that you willingly laid down your life on that cross to become the sacrifice, the
[00:05:56] atonement, the propitiation for our sins and not for our sins only, but also for
[00:06:02] the sins of the whole world. And you said, if any man will hear your voice and
[00:06:07] will come to you, Lord, you'll give him the water of life. But you call sinners
[00:06:14] to repentance, Lord. You call us to turn from sin and wickedness and to follow you
[00:06:19] with all of our heart. And so, Lord, we pray that you will make that clear today
[00:06:26] and, Lord, the rest of this time, whether it's until you come, Lord, whatever it
[00:06:33] takes, Lord, that you move upon the true message of the gospel. We pray that
[00:06:40] today in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. You may be seated this morning. Welcome,
[00:06:47] everyone to Fire and Grace Church, those who are watching and listening and half
[00:06:54] our congregation that's at home, I guess. I want everybody to turn to Second
[00:07:01] Chronicles this morning. We got a little I don't think I've ever preached
[00:07:08] anything from this passage. I want to point out something here. And yes,
[00:07:15] Second Chronicles, Chapter 12. Just go ahead and turn there. We'll get get
[00:07:21] ready. And I don't know. I guess we this is kind of like part two of come out of
[00:07:33] her, my people. I know we didn't call the last one that one, but that's what the
[00:07:38] Lord spoke to me. Come out of her, my people. I went ahead and had them name
[00:07:42] it the Roman Catholic or Babylon, just so people would understand what we're
[00:07:48] talking about. But it's not just the Roman Catholic Church. It's the
[00:07:51] problem. Okay, it's not just the extreme Charismani acts that have taken things
[00:08:01] way too far and have connected with Rome and have all kinds of false signs
[00:08:06] and wonders and Kundalini spirits. We addressed that last week. And of course,
[00:08:14] for those of you that want to know more, I addressed it in great detail in
[00:08:19] my book, The Polluted Church from Rome to Kansas City. I addressed it and exposed
[00:08:23] it and defined it and named the main players 12 years ago. Okay. And of course,
[00:08:32] a few weeks ago, I've mentioned this, but it really is a problem. Um, but when
[00:08:39] we talk about the church world, you've got these extremes. You've got the
[00:08:44] extreme Charismani act. Anything goes supernatural. We don't discern anything
[00:08:53] and we don't keep anything out. Anything goes. That's your Bethel Church.
[00:08:58] That's Benny Hen. That's on down the line. In fact, yesterday, I found out
[00:09:01] something about Benny Hen. I did not know. I found out that Benny Hen had a
[00:09:08] spiritual experience in which the passed away dead Catherine Coleman
[00:09:14] appeared to him. And then after that, he said, and he spoke to her. And then
[00:09:18] after that, he said, that's when the anointing came on me. Now, let me tell
[00:09:21] you, if you're communicating with the dead, the anointing that comes on you
[00:09:25] is not the Holy Spirit. And that explains to me why in 1991, when I went
[00:09:30] to a Benny Hen crusade in Mobile, one of the things that was absent from the
[00:09:36] entire show, and I'm going to call it a show, the carnival, uh, one of the
[00:09:42] things that was absent is the anointing, the presence of God, the power, the true
[00:09:47] power and glory of the spirit. And you know, it was amazing because it was an
[00:09:51] arena full of people worshiping God. Um, they had a beautiful choir singing and
[00:09:59] I'm sitting there on the main floor just wondering, where is the Holy
[00:10:05] Spirit? Where is the anointing? Where is the glory of God? And what I
[00:10:11] saw was some counterfeit crap. He comes up and waves his hand and blows on
[00:10:17] the crowd and all these people start falling backwards. And I'm going to tell
[00:10:20] you, here's what happens. If the rows in front of you fall backwards, you're
[00:10:25] going down. And if I hadn't, I mean, the people in front of me, the chairs
[00:10:30] collapsed, fell on me. I had, I mean, and then back then I was in my 20s.
[00:10:34] So I was a lot better shape and balance and all this stuff. I had to
[00:10:38] spin around and I was falling down and there was a little four year old
[00:10:43] girl right under me that if I hadn't caught myself with both hands, I
[00:10:48] would have just crushed that portal. And one of the things I said back then
[00:10:53] was, you know, and I went with some true brothers and we went there truly
[00:10:58] open to see is this God or is it not? And we did not find God there. We
[00:11:04] did not sense his spirit, his anointing, his power. Did we see some
[00:11:09] supernatural manifestations of some nonsense? Yeah, we did. Here's
[00:11:14] what's interesting though. It was wild because back in those days I was
[00:11:18] troubled by it, but the Lord spoke to me and said, do not talk about it.
[00:11:24] Now, do not put your mouth on Benny hinges yet. And I didn't know why. And
[00:11:29] I think maybe the Lord was trying to deal with him as he did kind of try
[00:11:33] to repent of some things after that. Um, but as we see that nothing
[00:11:40] really has changed. And to me though, it's troubling because like I found
[00:11:46] out yesterday, I didn't know this, but, uh, Bill Johnson's deceased late
[00:11:51] wife, Benny Johnson, that's not her real name that she changed her name
[00:11:57] to Benny because to, uh, Benny hint. And there's just so many weird
[00:12:05] things. She was the one, uh, the wife of Bill Johnson that would go to
[00:12:10] the lay on the graves and try to soak the anointing up from dead, uh, you
[00:12:15] know, ministers of the past. And of course they caught a lot of hell and
[00:12:20] flack for that as they should. Um, let me just tell you right now, we don't
[00:12:25] have to seek the dead to have the anointing. We seek the living and we
[00:12:29] seek Jesus. That's where the anointing comes from. Uh, and here's
[00:12:33] the thing. If you love righteousness, as Hebrews one says, if you love
[00:12:38] righteousness and hate iniquity, hate sin, and that means these occult
[00:12:44] practices, that means the compromise. If you hate it, the Bible says the Lord
[00:12:48] will anoint you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. You want the
[00:12:53] anointing, you've got to hate all of this stuff that's evil. All this
[00:12:58] counterfeit, all the compromise, all the sin, the Eastern religious
[00:13:03] practices and occult practices that they've adopted. You got to hate all
[00:13:07] that. And then if you do, if you hate it and speak against it and stand on the
[00:13:12] Lord's side, you will be anointed. That's a fact. And the anointing, and when
[00:13:19] I say the anointing, that means the presence of God, the touch of God, the
[00:13:24] power of God, the unction, as they call it, the unction and moving of the
[00:13:29] Holy Spirit will be upon you to pray, to fast, to witness, to lay hands on
[00:13:36] the sick, to cast out demons. You will have the real anointing, to discern
[00:13:40] what is of God and what's not. But if you are just open to anything,
[00:13:46] if you think God's not serious about sin, if you don't think God's not serious
[00:13:51] about repentance from sin, if you don't think God's serious about
[00:13:55] keeping his house, his sanctuary clean of all of this counterfeit,
[00:14:01] demonic occult practices, if you don't think all that's important,
[00:14:06] then what's going to happen to you is you're going to be swallowed up
[00:14:10] by this nonsense. I was blown away to find out. I mean, there's so many weird
[00:14:15] stuff there. The worship leader at Bethel, just to give you an example of
[00:14:18] what I'm talking about, the worship leader at Bethel says that
[00:14:23] the Holy Spirit hers like the genie from Aladdin.
[00:14:27] Okay, now the genies are gins in Islam and they are demons. How would
[00:14:33] you would ever compare the Holy Spirit to a demon?
[00:14:41] That's actually blasphemy and she's up there giggling about it.
[00:14:48] I heard Bill Johnson say yesterday, I'm listening to this whole series on it, I
[00:14:52] heard Bill Johnson admit that he was never called to the
[00:14:56] ministry. It's amazing how the Lord hits these
[00:15:01] people, I think, with the truth serum and they just tell you the truth
[00:15:05] sometimes, right? But here's what blew my mind.
[00:15:10] That church has about 11,000 people that attend
[00:15:13] and 2,500 students in their school of ministry that might as well be
[00:15:19] Hogwarts. I mean, they're literally teaching people how to prophesy
[00:15:30] by just letting them try over and over again, no matter how many times they get
[00:15:33] it wrong. They're basically training soothsayers.
[00:15:40] There's none of this wait till the Holy Spirit comes upon you
[00:15:44] and as he wills, let the gift of prophecy or word of knowledge or whatever flow
[00:15:48] through you. There's no balanced teaching whatsoever
[00:15:53] because the gifts of the Holy Spirit are as he wills,
[00:15:57] not as we will. You can't just decide I'm going to prophesy.
[00:16:05] I don't get this and you can't teach people how to prophesy.
[00:16:12] This is what's so insane, but here's the thing,
[00:16:17] that is just one of our problems out there
[00:16:22] and what I've tried to teach everybody is this and I've spent the last
[00:16:27] 15 years, but even before that I was preaching and teaching on this
[00:16:31] is that we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
[00:16:34] The gifts of the Holy Spirit are still for the church, the true church,
[00:16:38] the true gifts. We don't have to settle for the counterfeit. We don't have to
[00:16:42] settle for an imitation, but what blows me away is how I think
[00:16:48] about this. Thousands upon thousands go to that church
[00:16:51] every Sunday and it is a complete fiasco. I call it a crack fair.
[00:16:59] Y'all don't know what a crack fair is. I'm gonna show you in a minute. Well let's
[00:17:02] put the picture up. This is a crack fair. Why do we call it
[00:17:06] a crack fair? Because most of the workers there, they
[00:17:09] pull off the streets in Atlanta or somewhere
[00:17:12] and most of them are crackheads or meth heads or whatever, but let me
[00:17:20] explain something to you. You see this carnival up here.
[00:17:26] Let me tell you, you take a child, you drive a child by this place and they
[00:17:30] think, oh look at the pretty lights and there's
[00:17:33] cotton candy and there's fun things to ride
[00:17:36] and the children want to run over there and go to this, but the adults know
[00:17:41] that this is a charade, right? And that the crackheads and the games
[00:17:46] there are meant to take your money, right?
[00:17:51] But children are attracted to this. Adults
[00:17:54] know better. The kingdom of God is the same,
[00:18:00] but here we go. The children, the immature
[00:18:04] in the church world are attracted to these carnival churches.
[00:18:11] That's why this men's thing put up put up the thing, you know, the thing that
[00:18:15] happened at this James River church with this male stripper who
[00:18:24] stripped in gay bars and straight bars and he's up there ripping his shirt off
[00:18:28] and swinging on a pole in a church in a men's conference.
[00:18:34] And let's just say, okay, let's just say he wasn't a male stripper, but he was.
[00:18:38] It's a fact, but let's just say that he wasn't,
[00:18:43] but it was just a circus act. Let me just go on and tell you,
[00:18:47] this is what the church world has come to to attract a crowd
[00:18:51] to get people's attention. They have created a crack fair.
[00:18:56] They have created a circus environment and this is what they use to draw
[00:19:01] people. Let me just go on and tell you right now,
[00:19:04] whatever you use to draw people to church
[00:19:08] or to Jesus, that's not biblical. Whatever you use to draw them
[00:19:13] is what you got to use to keep them. So this is why
[00:19:18] the show must go on. Let me put up the other one. Here's a picture.
[00:19:24] I just saw this. Somebody posted this little meme.
[00:19:28] The modern church versus a nightclub. Do you see any difference between the two?
[00:19:36] And instead of alcoholic drinks, you've got spirits all right
[00:19:42] that are flowing. But let me tell you something. If the Holy
[00:19:46] Spirit is upon something, if the Holy Spirit is moving,
[00:19:51] he will draw people. He will convict people. He will convince people
[00:19:57] and you can't keep people away from it. See,
[00:20:02] I'm talking about the true ones. Now, let me just say this. The true ones
[00:20:07] that are hungry for the real thing are always going to be in the minority.
[00:20:12] It's always going to be that way. Wide is the gate that leads to
[00:20:17] destruction and many go that way. Narrow is the way that leads to life and
[00:20:22] few there be that find it. But these carnivals, and let me just go
[00:20:28] ahead and tell you what a crack fair church is like.
[00:20:32] Oh, they're going to have program after program after program.
[00:20:36] They're going to make sure that they keep you entertained as much as possible.
[00:20:40] Lots of jokes and funny stuff going on. Lots of videos. Lots of
[00:20:46] media. Usually coffee shops, donut shops. Get you high on sugar before you go in
[00:20:53] church. A lot of talk. I looked up one of our
[00:21:03] local mega churches. And you know what's so funny? As I've made
[00:21:07] this kind of funny statement of that pretty much what they preach on is how
[00:21:11] to deal with stress in church and sure enough some of their last sermons are
[00:21:14] how to deal with stress, how to deal with anxiety. Let me just tell you, you
[00:21:18] want to deal with stress and anxiety? Get close to Jesus. He is the Prince of
[00:21:22] peace. Draw near to him. The reason there's so
[00:21:26] much stress and anxiety is people don't know
[00:21:29] who their rest is. They don't know him. They're not close to him.
[00:21:32] They haven't drawn near to Jesus by repenting
[00:21:36] from sin and lukewarmness and deadness. And you know, I was talking
[00:21:46] to somebody last night and I was explaining
[00:21:49] that why why some of these getting people to come out from this nonsense.
[00:21:53] These these crack go back to my crack fair these crack fair churches
[00:21:59] because what they do is these crack fair churches they put
[00:22:03] enough of a facade forward that looks good
[00:22:08] and most people can't handle strong powerful confronting dealing with sin
[00:22:17] christianity. So it appeals to the flesh nature of give me give me
[00:22:24] christian light. Give me christian light right less
[00:22:30] filling less calories. Give me christian light because I
[00:22:36] can't really take that hellfire damnation stuff. I can't
[00:22:41] take that stuff. I gotta learn to love my wife as christ love
[00:22:45] the church or oh or the wives. I need to learn how to
[00:22:49] submit to my husband. You know this biblical stuff. Oh I can't divorce
[00:22:54] my my wife and marry my secretary. Oh no that's that's too biblical
[00:23:07] and all this crap's going on and these scandals are going on
[00:23:12] and I told somebody last night it said you know it's not so much
[00:23:17] they they put forth enough truth enough of facade to keep people around
[00:23:26] and then here's what they do the leadership may be completely off
[00:23:32] but then they'll have people that are true come into the church and start
[00:23:36] serving small groups and Sunday school
[00:23:39] classes and this and that and so you got true people
[00:23:42] right that that are genuine christians
[00:23:47] and then a person goes there and they go to one of these small groups and they
[00:23:51] get some help or they get some truth or they
[00:23:53] they grow a little bit and then there's no convincing them
[00:23:57] after that that they're actually the institution itself
[00:24:00] is off base and that they should come out of it and flee from it
[00:24:06] it's amazing it's almost i call it getting
[00:24:10] inoculated from christianity what what is the
[00:24:16] i can't see i can't even say the word even though i'm not talking about
[00:24:19] anything i cannot say the gibbity gibbity judo right you know
[00:24:24] what i'm saying but what is the idea behind that the
[00:24:30] idea behind that is to give you a little bit
[00:24:33] of the virus so that your body creates your immune system creates
[00:24:39] antibodies where it creates an immunity to it
[00:24:41] well this is the problem this is what most people don't understand
[00:24:44] that we have so many churches now and they're like like somebody said our
[00:24:51] friend jeffrey said they're like they pop up like dollar generals
[00:24:57] or we call them mick churches and how do i put it where was where was i
[00:25:06] going with that completely lost my train of thought there
[00:25:11] what's that oh the immunism yeah but we've got all these that give just a
[00:25:18] little bit and here by here what it is what they
[00:25:21] do they get this they get this weak water down christianity
[00:25:24] inoculation and when somebody comes along and says hey
[00:25:29] you're not getting the whole story you're not getting the whole picture
[00:25:34] you're not going deeper and really coming to the knowledge of the truth
[00:25:40] they're like you're crazy you're a cult you're this you're that i mean i've
[00:25:45] heard it all and this is what the problem is now i
[00:25:53] want to show you something we said second chronicles i'm going to show you
[00:25:55] let's just read this story here verse one and it came to pass when rea bowam
[00:26:03] had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself he forsook
[00:26:07] the law of the lord and all israel with him
[00:26:10] now let's stop right there i'm going to keep reading in a second but
[00:26:14] this is when solomon had died and when solomon died the lord said because of
[00:26:19] solomon sin and all the idolatry and paganism and
[00:26:23] everything that solomon opened the door to him brought into israel
[00:26:26] the lord said i'm dividing the kingdom and ten tribes are going to be in the
[00:26:31] north and two tribes i will reserve in the south and jerusalem and of course
[00:26:36] jeroboam became king of the northern kingdoms and they created their own
[00:26:40] religion up there and then rea bowam became the king of
[00:26:45] the south but what does it say here it says he forsook
[00:26:48] the law of the lord meaning he forsook the word of god
[00:26:53] and because of that trouble began all right and it came to pass in the fifth
[00:27:00] year king rea bowam shishak king of egypt came
[00:27:03] up against jerusalem because why why did the
[00:27:07] enemies come against them why was their war
[00:27:10] because they had transgressed against the lord
[00:27:13] and so this king of egypt came with 1200 chariots and
[00:27:17] three score thousand horsemen and the people were without number that came
[00:27:21] with him out of egypt the lubines and the
[00:27:24] sukins and the ethiopians and he took the fence cities which pertained to juda
[00:27:30] and came to jerusalem then shimaya shimaya however you say that
[00:27:34] the prophet to rea bowam and to the princes of juda that were
[00:27:39] gathered together to jerusalem because of shishak and he said in
[00:27:43] to them thus saith the lord you have forsaken me and therefore have i also left
[00:27:48] you in the hand of shishak now let's let's pause right there for
[00:27:52] a second here's a true prophet a true prophet
[00:27:57] comes in and says here is the problem this is your sin
[00:28:02] and this is the reason why this is going on in your midst
[00:28:06] this is this is what a prophet does they don't have visions of dead people
[00:28:12] and talk to them and go lay on graves to suck up anointings
[00:28:17] okay they spend time with god and they hear from god
[00:28:24] and they're and and prophets come and point out the problem
[00:28:28] the sin the wrong direction and this is why prophets are hated and
[00:28:36] killed not loved and flourished with money true
[00:28:42] prophets are hated even by the church but a true
[00:28:47] prophets like nathan comes to david you are the man
[00:28:54] you're the adulterer and the murderer knowing that king david
[00:29:00] in a split second could order them to take his head off
[00:29:04] that's a true prophet that's going to go tell the king his sin
[00:29:09] even knowing that he may that may be his last thing he ever does
[00:29:15] he ain't there to tell you how blessed you're going to be no matter how
[00:29:19] no matter how much wickedness sin or evil you're living in
[00:29:22] you're all just gonna be so blessed the best is yet to come
[00:29:26] you hear that from somebody run away the best is yet to come
[00:29:33] these prophets are the one that's promised peace peace with the bible says
[00:29:37] jeremiah said that when there is no peace coming
[00:29:41] he says these false prophets strengthen the hands of evildoers and nobody they
[00:29:46] their words don't make anybody turn from their evil way
[00:29:50] they just go read jeremiah 23 ezekiel 13
[00:29:55] in fact he says in there they make you vain
[00:29:58] well what does that mean they make you empty
[00:30:02] worthless this is why you better be careful what church you attend
[00:30:12] because what you sit under what you absorb what you take in is what you
[00:30:16] will become you ever heard what you eat is what you are
[00:30:22] same is the spiritual thing same thing say pastor dean
[00:30:29] let me tell you cotton candy's good for a minute
[00:30:34] and then there's diabetes rotten teeth and you can't live on you could do you
[00:30:43] think you could live long term off of cotton candy
[00:30:50] no you can't but we have a cotton candy gospel being preached and they fill up
[00:30:58] those churches by the tens of thousands because they're children
[00:31:02] they see the lights and the shiny things and the
[00:31:07] in the pretty colors and they don't understand that it's really a crack
[00:31:10] fair they don't understand it's really just
[00:31:14] there to take you money you hear me now let's what happened
[00:31:19] so the king of egypt comes against them now here's what's interesting
[00:31:28] the prophet speaks to him verse six and it says where upon the princes of
[00:31:32] israel and the king humbled themselves and they said the lord is righteous
[00:31:36] now this is what happens in the midst of some of these churches
[00:31:39] they do get a few things right you hear me
[00:31:44] oh they'll say we're about jesus we love jesus
[00:31:48] come to jesus oh that's right that sounds right
[00:31:53] and sometimes they actually do humble themselves and say you know what the
[00:31:56] lord is righteous they and they they give a little bit of
[00:32:00] truth and and here's what's so amazing is
[00:32:04] that the lord has mercy on him the fact that they're
[00:32:08] allowed to continue the carnival it's because
[00:32:13] here's what's amazing is that there are people that'll come in there
[00:32:17] in these churches and sometimes find some help
[00:32:19] they'll find jesus in spite of the crack fair right this is this is
[00:32:28] like we you might go to a crack fair and ride a ride in the bolts
[00:32:31] happen to be put in right that day and you don't fly off
[00:32:35] right now think about they put together these things and you know crack heads and
[00:32:38] methods are putting these things together that's why i'm like
[00:32:41] yeah right at your own risk but it's the same thing a lot of these
[00:32:47] this this whole mega church seeker sensitive
[00:32:52] mentality this whole dollar general mcchurch
[00:32:56] thing it is truly right at your own risk you know charles finney was one of the
[00:33:05] greatest evangelists that that ever there ever was really
[00:33:11] the man understood god he had such a relationship with god he had such a
[00:33:17] he had such an understanding of how to preach
[00:33:21] the word of god and how to bring sinners to repentance
[00:33:25] if you've never read anything by charles finney you need to read number one
[00:33:29] his book uh lectures on revival amazing uh i read it very early in my
[00:33:36] christian walk and it laid the foundation in so many areas about
[00:33:40] how to preach the gospel how to lead sinners to repentance how to
[00:33:46] not give false comfort to sinners how to deal with the backslidden
[00:33:51] christians it's a great book and also i mean anything he wrote but
[00:33:54] but that in particular lectures on revival and
[00:33:58] his memoirs are amazing the man did not depend on any kind of
[00:34:03] carnival atmosphere he didn't try to say we're going to
[00:34:06] have a monster truck show and get a crowd and then preach
[00:34:11] jesus loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life
[00:34:14] that was not what he did what he did he knew and he said this in revival
[00:34:20] lectures he said preaching must be direct he said you must not just talk
[00:34:25] about sin as if you're talking about somebody else
[00:34:28] he said you must make sinners figure out where they are matter of fact you can
[00:34:32] just put this up real quick these are just
[00:34:35] you you actually revival lectures you can find online there it is lecture
[00:34:40] uh lecture seven there how to preach the gospel and i love this he always
[00:34:45] talked about this he that winneth souls is wise and he
[00:34:49] talked about how it takes great wisdom but notice what he said let's go to the
[00:34:53] next one and he said right here in this point
[00:34:55] preaching should be direct the gospel should be preached to men and not about
[00:35:00] them the minister must address his hearers
[00:35:03] he must preach to them about themselves and not leave the impression that he is
[00:35:07] preaching to them about others he will never do
[00:35:10] them any good father than he succeeds in convincing
[00:35:13] each individual that he means him many preachers seem very much afraid of
[00:35:18] making the impression that they mean anybody in particular
[00:35:23] they are preaching against certain sins not that
[00:35:26] have anything to do with the center he says it is the sin and not the center
[00:35:31] that they are rebuking and they would by no means speak as if they supposed
[00:35:34] any of their hearers were guilty of these abominable practices
[00:35:37] now this is anything but preaching the gospel thus did not
[00:35:41] the prophets nor christ nor the apostles nor do the ministers do this who are
[00:35:45] successful in winning souls and then he says another very
[00:35:50] important thing to be regarded in preaching is that the minister should
[00:35:53] hunt after sinners and christians wherever they have entrenched themselves
[00:36:00] and he says um a minister ought to know the religious opinions of every
[00:36:06] center in his congregation indeed a minister in the country is generally
[00:36:10] inexcusable if he does not he has no excuse for not knowing the
[00:36:14] religious views of all his congregation and of all that may come under his
[00:36:17] influence if he has had the opportunity to know
[00:36:20] them how otherwise can he preach to them
[00:36:22] how can he know and to bring forth things new and old and adapt truth to
[00:36:28] their case how can he hunt them out unless he
[00:36:31] knows where they hide themselves he may ring changes on a few fundamental
[00:36:35] doctrines repentance faith faith and repentance
[00:36:38] till the day of judgment and never make any impression on many minds
[00:36:42] every sinner has some hiding place some entrenchment where he lingers
[00:36:46] he is in possession of some darling lie in which he is quieting himself
[00:36:51] let the minister find it out and get it out of the way either in the pulpit or
[00:36:55] in private or the man will go to hell in his
[00:36:57] sins and his blood will be found on the minister's skirts
[00:37:01] this is just an idea he's like preaching must be clear
[00:37:05] we must address sin we must not act like that it doesn't exist
[00:37:10] in our midst you know one of the most powerful things i've heard like
[00:37:14] sal and daniela told me years when when they started listening
[00:37:19] god used a certain truth to get their attention and they started listening to
[00:37:22] me but they still were not truly surrendered
[00:37:25] and and repented they were still drinking some
[00:37:28] some beers and partying a little bit right but they're listening to pastor
[00:37:31] dean but let me tell you what got them
[00:37:35] what got them is when i read galatians chapter five and it says no
[00:37:39] drunkard will inherit the kingdom of god and when i preached that directly and
[00:37:44] said i don't care how you slice it the bible is clear if you're a habitual
[00:37:50] drunkard you get drunk on a regular basis
[00:37:54] you will not inherit the kingdom of god you are headed to eternal damnation
[00:37:58] now that is pretty direct isn't it because the church world don't even
[00:38:02] talk about that they don't even say anything about
[00:38:04] that in fact they got a lot of sipping saints in their midst
[00:38:08] we know sal knows certain big church in town some of the
[00:38:14] leaders he happened to be doing some work in their
[00:38:16] house and they love kicking back the alcohol on the weekends
[00:38:24] and like i said oh i'm not yeah people say oh i'm not getting drunk i'm getting
[00:38:27] tipsy let me tell you tipsy is stage one of drunk
[00:38:31] you understand and let me tell you sometimes all it takes is a little bit
[00:38:37] more after tipsy and then your mind you know the bible talks
[00:38:42] about this how perverseness begins to come into mind
[00:38:46] immediately as you get to that place where it's switching gears
[00:38:50] it's amazing how all of a sudden when alcohol takes its root
[00:38:55] and the drunkenness starts to set in the mind starts going toward
[00:39:00] perversion it's like it's like it almost breaks down your resistance
[00:39:05] this is why it's so evil but it was that i remember sal telling me
[00:39:10] he was holding the beer one time and it just the conviction of the holy spirit
[00:39:14] it's like you've got to stop this and really get right with me
[00:39:18] you're not going to hear that in these mega churches i'm sorry
[00:39:22] you're not going to hear that in these dollar general make churches you're
[00:39:25] not going to hear it and this is what's so diabolical about
[00:39:28] them it's not always that you can find
[00:39:31] some serious false doctrine in some of these churches
[00:39:34] but it's what they leave out and this is why it's so hard to get people to
[00:39:40] come out of these places because they're like
[00:39:45] but but i don't see anything really seriously wrong or false or false
[00:39:50] doctrine yeah but do they address have you
[00:39:54] ever heard them address fornication adultery drunkenness
[00:40:01] have you ever heard them address lying and say if you live habitually in these
[00:40:06] things you will not go to heaven when you die you will stand before
[00:40:09] the judgment seat of christ and say and hear him say
[00:40:13] cast this wicked slothful surfeit serpent into outer
[00:40:17] servant rather serpent too into outer darkness
[00:40:22] like i've said anyway you end up in the place of the one you follow
[00:40:26] if you're a habitual liar the bible says you're going to the lake of fire
[00:40:29] and brimstone if you're a liar think about that how
[00:40:33] many people lie how many preachers get up and lie
[00:40:36] every sunday you're all saved no matter how you live you're once saved
[00:40:41] always saved oh the grace of god god understand
[00:40:44] all of these false doctrines they preach and all of this
[00:40:46] this false comfort they give oh these liars are going to find out that liars
[00:40:51] don't go to heaven deceivers don't go to heaven
[00:40:56] and what he says here charles finney says how the blood's going to be on
[00:41:00] their hands let me tell you something you do not
[00:41:02] want to stand before god with blood of others on your hands because you
[00:41:06] caused them to stumble and cause them to sin and cause them to die in their sins
[00:41:10] and go to hell you don't want to be standing there as a
[00:41:14] stumbling block oh because you left out the truth of
[00:41:20] the gospel now i didn't finish let's go back to
[00:41:23] second chronicles we got a lot to cover let's go down
[00:41:34] to verse nine says so shishak king of egypt came up against jerusalem and
[00:41:37] took away the treasures out of the house of the lord
[00:41:41] and the treasures of the king's house and he took all
[00:41:43] and he carried away also the shields of gold
[00:41:47] which solomon had made so instead of which
[00:41:51] or in the place of which king rehoboam made shields of brass
[00:41:55] and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard that kept the
[00:41:59] entrance of the king's house now this is what's interesting and this
[00:42:02] is what i want to point out here the enemy came in because they would not
[00:42:07] do things according to the word of the lord the enemy was
[00:42:12] allowed to come into the house of the lord
[00:42:15] and the king's house the leaders and take all the treasures of the lord
[00:42:20] and it's interesting it points out one of them and that Solomon had made
[00:42:25] these shields of gold and gold in in the construction of the tabernac
[00:42:32] and all this represents the the deity the power of god it represents
[00:42:36] purity because gold has to go through a purification process
[00:42:40] it represents being tried by fire and being found faithful
[00:42:45] but it says he took away this enemy was allowed by god allowed it
[00:42:49] because of their sins and transgressions and even though they humbled themselves
[00:42:54] and said the lord is righteous and god had mercy on them a little bit
[00:42:59] it still says he allowed the enemy to come in and take the treasures out of
[00:43:02] the house of the lord and so what did rehoboam do so things
[00:43:07] would look the same he made shields of brass and what's
[00:43:12] interesting is brass kind of looks like gold if you
[00:43:15] shine it up enough see and this is what's happened to
[00:43:22] most of the modern church world because they refused
[00:43:26] to preach the gospel with repentance because they refused to point out and
[00:43:32] deal specifically and directly and bluntly and frankly and
[00:43:36] plainly with sin in the camp and sin in the
[00:43:40] sinner's life because they refused to do it god's way
[00:43:45] he's allowed the enemy to come in and take everything
[00:43:52] so what do they do when the anointing's not there
[00:43:56] you got to have a carnival the shields of gold are gone but the shields of
[00:44:03] brass are there and so many people are fooled by the
[00:44:07] shields of brass oh they think the blessing of god is
[00:44:11] still here the presence of god is still here the
[00:44:14] power god's still here look at all the people coming in
[00:44:17] look at the thousands of people coming in the door it must mean that god's
[00:44:20] blessing it it must mean the anointing is here
[00:44:25] the glory of god is here no the shields of gold are gone
[00:44:33] shields of brass now and what does brass represent the lord talks about when the
[00:44:37] people of god would not do things according to his word
[00:44:40] and would sin he said the heavens will be like brass
[00:44:44] meaning your prayers are not heard and really
[00:44:51] under judgment let me show you something if you go to
[00:45:01] go go to proverbs proverbs 21 proverbs 21 16 let me show you
[00:45:28] something let me show you why these places are full
[00:45:33] and i call them the congregation of the dead
[00:45:37] because i'm going to tell you this right now
[00:45:41] if true repentance is not preached if the true repentance where you deal
[00:45:49] specifically with sin and the consequences of sin
[00:45:53] where you preach on as paul did and this is in acts 24
[00:46:00] where paul said when he stood before felix and he was preaching to these
[00:46:04] wicked roman rulers and he says it says there that paul reasoned with
[00:46:11] felix he reasoned of what righteousness temperance
[00:46:17] and judgment to come that means he dealt with
[00:46:20] righteousness he i can tell you right now he said
[00:46:24] you are sinners all his sin comes short of the glory of god the wages of sin
[00:46:29] is death how do i know that because that's the book of romans
[00:46:32] right he is saying there is only one righteous and that is jesus christ and
[00:46:37] you must come to him and you must believe in him that he
[00:46:41] died for your sins and rose from the dead and you must repent
[00:46:44] of your wickedness that is where righteousness comes into our life
[00:46:50] and then it says he preached to him of temperance how
[00:46:53] after that you must live a life of self-control
[00:46:57] that the flesh cannot be allowed to have dominion
[00:46:59] you must by faith and through jesus bring the flesh under control
[00:47:04] you can't just indulge it in drunkenness or adultery or fornication or whatever
[00:47:10] else that god has listed his sins so he reasoned of
[00:47:14] righteousness and temperance and then it says judgment to come
[00:47:19] meaning if you don't do these things the end result is eternal damnation
[00:47:26] eternal punishment in the lake of fire
[00:47:32] the smoke of your torment will go up day and night forever
[00:47:35] when paul preached these three principles to felix this wicked roman ruler it
[00:47:44] says felix trembled in fact you can put that put
[00:47:47] that verse up felix tremble think about this
[00:47:55] that's the preaching that we're supposed to do
[00:48:01] let me tell you something if if i don't make you nervous sometimes by how i
[00:48:05] preach and what i preach if you don't tremble at god's word
[00:48:08] if if it doesn't strike fear in your heart sometimes
[00:48:12] it is not the true preaching of the gospel
[00:48:17] see this is what says as he reasoned of righteousness temperance and judgment to
[00:48:21] come felix trembled and answered go thy way
[00:48:25] for this time when i have a convenient season i will call for thee
[00:48:30] now now does this modern churches these mac churches these dollar general
[00:48:37] churches these seeker sensitive churches would
[00:48:42] have told felix oh it's okay we're sorry we upset you or offended
[00:48:46] you you want a brownie you want a cup of coffee
[00:48:50] god loves you just the way you are your sins are forgiven past prison future
[00:48:54] it's okay don't cry don't don't tremble oh the fear of god you're afraid
[00:48:59] that's not of god fears not of god oh
[00:49:05] they would have given them a little blankie a little baba a little binky
[00:49:09] a little teddy bear to hold and petted him on the head and said
[00:49:13] sorry we we disturbed you who is that mean man that disturbed you made you upset
[00:49:18] come over here to our group and you'll be loved
[00:49:26] see i would rather have sinners that tremble
[00:49:30] and don't accept jesus yet because at least it's honest
[00:49:39] than to tell them say this little prayer raise your hand back there in the back
[00:49:43] nobody will see say this little prayer and you're good for
[00:49:45] all eternity this is the christianity that we've had
[00:49:54] charles finney had a thing called in his meetings he called it the anxious seat
[00:50:00] i love this the anxious seat right so what he would say is he had been
[00:50:05] preaching and he would come and preach for days you know sometimes he would have
[00:50:08] a week revival plan and he ended up being there for six months preaching
[00:50:12] but he would say this he says if you feel anxious or anxiety
[00:50:17] over your salvation or where you are like you're trembling
[00:50:22] and you feel insecure you don't know whether you're saved or not or you're
[00:50:25] you're troubled or unconviction about your sin he said come up here and sit
[00:50:28] in the front row he made him come sit up in the front
[00:50:33] and he was the one that said your preaching should be like a machine gun
[00:50:36] that just lays them out just just destroys every place that they hide
[00:50:45] this is the man though that when he went out to rochester new york in 1831 and
[00:50:50] started preaching he ended up there for six months and a
[00:50:53] hundred thousand people got saved and that was without radio tv or social
[00:50:56] media this is the man who walked into a
[00:51:02] factory and two girls there was thousands of people about three thousand
[00:51:05] people working in this factory and he walks into the factory they're giving
[00:51:08] him a tour before you know just showing him around before he preaches
[00:51:12] that evening and two two young ladies kind of
[00:51:15] looked said oh that's the preacher and kind of mocked him and laughed at him
[00:51:18] and as he said he said i just looked at him
[00:51:21] with a like finny was they said he was about six four he was a
[00:51:25] athletic man very strong and they said that he just like take his hat off
[00:51:30] and just looked at him the conviction and fear of god came into
[00:51:36] that place and they they began to tremble and
[00:51:41] they began to get like that anxious and started feeling and
[00:51:45] finally the the fear of god and the conviction of the holy spirit
[00:51:51] was so strong in the factory that the supervisor said came out and said we
[00:51:55] must shut down the factory it is more important that we
[00:51:58] deal with our souls than this factory keep running
[00:52:02] and about two thousand people out of the three thousand that worked in this
[00:52:05] factory got saved that day but it was the fear of god the
[00:52:11] conviction of the holy spirit that makes you
[00:52:15] uncomfortable if you're in sin if you're a sinner you're lost
[00:52:20] you're deceived you're you're insane or you're a backslidden christian
[00:52:26] and there is some the true power of god comes in a place
[00:52:32] the true fear of the lord the true conviction of sin the true reality
[00:52:37] of where you really are where the deception is
[00:52:40] stripped off of you and broken off of you you see yourself
[00:52:44] as you really are and you see your condition and you see your fate
[00:52:49] that is when true conversion takes place that is when true repentance can take
[00:52:56] place see i you will never be comfortable
[00:53:07] under my preaching if you choose to live in sin
[00:53:11] you will either repent get it right with god or you will find
[00:53:16] a crack church because you won't want the shields of gold you'll go find the
[00:53:25] shields of brass because that's easier to handle because
[00:53:31] they don't do things according to the word of god the law of god is not there
[00:53:34] to make me tremble i can have a good time i can relax i
[00:53:41] have had people tell me they go to these big mega churches so they can
[00:53:44] hide so they can hide what you hiding from
[00:53:56] and let me tell you there's a lot of people on this kick about churches
[00:53:59] being 501c3 all this nonsense that is not the
[00:54:03] biggest problem a church can be 501c3 and still have a
[00:54:09] pastor that preaches the truth and people that are living for god and
[00:54:13] they that that doesn't it it's it's if the pastor allows
[00:54:17] the 501c3 thing to influence how they preach that's the problem
[00:54:22] now we're not 501c3 never happened because i understand the law
[00:54:28] the church and it's on it's on the irs website by the way
[00:54:31] churches cannot be taxed you don't have to
[00:54:34] file a 501c3 you don't have to do anything the government cannot tax the
[00:54:38] church because the moment the government can tax a church
[00:54:40] then has power over a church and that would violate the first amendment of our
[00:54:45] constitution because they cannot restrict the
[00:54:48] establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof in the moment you tax
[00:54:51] something and we don't pay the tax or whatever
[00:54:54] then they can start restricting the church that's why
[00:54:58] churches are something an entity totally different
[00:55:02] they created the 501c3 thing for non-profits that were not churches
[00:55:07] and they just convinced churches sign up for this and then told them a lie that if
[00:55:11] you say certain things you'll lose your tax exempt status a
[00:55:15] church can't lose its tax exempt status so that's all a lie it's all built upon
[00:55:20] a lie so but the pastors has chosen to
[00:55:24] believe the lie and compromise that's the problem
[00:55:30] i mean i've seen god move the power of god revival happened in 501c3 churches
[00:55:35] because the pastors just they don't even regard that as
[00:55:38] anything that's just the way the church was set up
[00:55:40] probably a lot of them along before they ever became the pastor there
[00:55:45] so that's not the issue the issue is what do you let control what you preach
[00:55:49] if the if the pastor wants to keep a big
[00:55:52] congregation and big money and he's willing to compromise and water it down
[00:55:59] and make sure he doesn't preach or say anything that's offensive
[00:56:02] or would make anybody tremble or feel uncomfortable
[00:56:07] that's the problem because he's become he's become a circus
[00:56:16] you know the ring the ringmaster the ringleader
[00:56:20] instead of a preacher of the gospel a preacher of the word of god now let me
[00:56:26] show you something the people that stay in these places
[00:56:29] listen to what this says this is a this is a
[00:56:33] scary verse this is a it's a telling verse though
[00:56:37] but proverbs 21 verse 16 the man that wondereth out of the way of
[00:56:45] understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead
[00:56:55] you stay in the roman catholic church you stay
[00:56:59] in these mega churches that that don't that do not preach the gospel don't
[00:57:03] make anybody uncomfortable there's no conviction of sin
[00:57:06] there's no talk of sin there's no talk of hell and eternal punishment
[00:57:09] the judgment of god the judgment day there's no talk of the wrath of god
[00:57:16] it's only the love of god the mercy of god
[00:57:19] if that's all you ever hear in that place and you stay there you stay in
[00:57:24] that you stay in these dead lutheran churches these dead baptist
[00:57:27] churches these dead presbyterian church these dead pentecostal churches
[00:57:32] oh yes there's dead pentecostal charismatic churches
[00:57:35] i mean dead i mean the whole thing is a show from beginning to end
[00:57:44] but it says the man that wonders out of the way of understanding
[00:57:49] shall remain in the congregation of the dead
[00:57:53] what's the flip side of that coin if you get some understanding of what the
[00:57:56] word of god says and get some understanding of what the holy
[00:57:59] spirit wants you to do you will not stay in the congregation of
[00:58:03] the dead you will come out of her my people
[00:58:08] you will find a group i don't care if it's a small group that meets in a house
[00:58:13] you'll find some people that want to tell the truth
[00:58:15] and preach the whole truth and want the fear of god and the power of god in the
[00:58:20] conviction of the holy spirit even if it makes us uncomfortable you
[00:58:24] will want that and you'll want to be around people
[00:58:28] like that and let me just go ahead and tell you
[00:58:31] this as christians this is the gospel when
[00:58:36] god tells you to be a light and a witness for him
[00:58:38] this is the gospel you were to preach to people if you got a friend and you know
[00:58:44] that friends in adultery you need to be able to go to them
[00:58:48] and say look here's what the bible says no
[00:58:51] adulterer will inherit the kingdom of god
[00:58:54] you've got to come out of that you've got to quit doing that you've got to
[00:58:57] repent you've got to ask god for forgiveness and
[00:58:59] stop this mess this sin you're in and come out of it
[00:59:03] if you want to be forgiven if you want to inherit eternal life
[00:59:06] you're going to have to get right with god and get out of this stuff and
[00:59:09] quit doing it that's showing you love somebody
[00:59:13] not petting them on the head saying god loves you and just
[00:59:16] he understands your struggles no he understands you're an adulterer
[00:59:25] and adulterers will not inherit the kingdom of god he said in fact
[00:59:28] let's read this i love how kamari said this the other day he said
[00:59:32] i love these lists because it's easy it's easy to understand
[00:59:37] let's read galatians 5 19 through 20 just so y'all know what i'm talking
[00:59:41] about because there's new people listening to every day
[00:59:44] he says this real plain now the works of the flesh are manifest or revealed
[00:59:49] it's not hard to understand it's clear the works of the flesh
[00:59:54] are manifest which are these adultery fornication which fornication
[00:59:59] poor near the word is an all-encompassing word that covers
[01:00:02] every type of sexual immorality there is so he says adultery fornication
[01:00:08] uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variants
[01:00:15] emulations wrath strife seditions heresies
[01:00:21] back up heresies false doctrines if you're teaching false doctrines
[01:00:28] you're in trouble let's keep going envies murders drunkenness
[01:00:34] revelings which means drunken partying let's read it again envies murder
[01:00:52] drunkenness revelings and such like he says of which
[01:00:57] i tell you before paul saying i've already told you this
[01:01:02] as i also told you in times past that they which do such things shall not
[01:01:06] inherit the kingdom of god pretty simple the word do i've said it so
[01:01:13] many times i don't even have to look it up anymore
[01:01:15] greek word prasso means look it up strong greek dictionary to practice
[01:01:21] habitually so he lets you know if you practice any of these things in a
[01:01:25] habitual manner now a christian may do one of these
[01:01:29] things but a christian is not going to live in them
[01:01:32] a christian is not going to keep on committing them and wallow in them
[01:01:36] like a pig that keeps rolling around in the same mud puddle
[01:01:40] no the christian that repents gets up out of the mud puddle
[01:01:44] and as jesus please cleanse me and wash me i'm not going back to that mud
[01:01:49] puddle see a long time ago i was a fornicator
[01:01:56] i quit fornicating somebody say hallelujah
[01:02:02] you can quit you can repent i was a drunkard
[01:02:11] guess what not a drunkard anymore you understand that's repentance
[01:02:21] and why why we put these things look all of us know
[01:02:25] that the flesh side of us no matter how strong a christian we are
[01:02:29] the flesh side of us the carnal side the side we inherited from adam and eve
[01:02:34] that side of us wants to do all these things
[01:02:38] the flesh wants to have pleasure in unrighteousness
[01:02:42] we are always in a war with that but the false church the churches of the
[01:02:49] shields of brass the carnival churches they don't talk
[01:02:54] about these things because they want everybody to feel
[01:02:57] good about themselves and secure and happy and joyful
[01:03:02] and we just don't want to approach such negativity
[01:03:08] oh these preachers like me they think oh man
[01:03:11] if i went in there if i became the pastor
[01:03:14] of the highlands i can assure you attendance would drop dramatically
[01:03:26] why because i would preach very differently
[01:03:32] every week until i call some people to tremble
[01:03:40] i walked into a mega church in mcgrummer years ago and you know god
[01:03:42] when he called me to the ministry he called me to be a prophet
[01:03:46] and sometimes that that office will rise up
[01:03:50] and i remember i wasn't expecting anything i walk in this mega church in
[01:03:54] Montgomery alabama i walk in and then you walk in the back doors and
[01:03:59] you walk in another door and you were in the sanctuary and it's seated about
[01:04:03] i think there were about 2 000 people maybe more i don't know
[01:04:09] and i remember immediately i had my eyes open and i see a vision
[01:04:13] and it was the word fornication written and it was it was like in an
[01:04:18] in an arch going over from one inside of the congregation all the way to the
[01:04:24] other side and i knew the lord was saying
[01:04:26] that this problem of fornication sexual sin and immorality
[01:04:30] was a serious problem there so you know what i did is i started
[01:04:37] attending because one of my friends were on staff there and i started
[01:04:40] attending for a little while because the lord wanted me there
[01:04:44] and i started attending for a little while and let me tell you sure enough
[01:04:47] you know what i found out the worship team
[01:04:51] full of adultery and fornication the pastors knew
[01:04:56] it was going on and did nothing about it and
[01:05:00] and i waited and i sat there in the congregation
[01:05:04] i was there for about one year and i waited
[01:05:08] on the lord the lord was like you wait and listen
[01:05:11] for one year the pastor i was there every sunday
[01:05:14] the pastor had an opportunity to specifically address
[01:05:19] the problems in his church sin adultery fornication
[01:05:23] uncleanness lasciviousness not one time in 52 weeks 52 sundays
[01:05:34] did he ever specifically talk about sin
[01:05:37] and the need to repent and turn away from it
[01:05:41] not one time so the lord had me write him
[01:05:47] so it'd be in writing and that prophetic word
[01:05:52] that vision the lord showed me and what the lord had revealed to me what he gave
[01:05:57] me to tell him you are going to have blood on your hands
[01:06:03] you have not warned them you have not preached the truth to them
[01:06:07] you have not told them your congregation is filled with the sin it is rampant
[01:06:11] here and you never address it because he
[01:06:17] wanted to build a big even a bigger church wasn't satisfied
[01:06:22] with 2000 members wasn't satisfied with having a big nice building and land and
[01:06:27] all no not satisfied we got to be bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger
[01:06:34] see that that that whole thing about we just got to be bigger bigger bigger
[01:06:38] bigger we got to have more money more money more money
[01:06:45] you know as pastor i got to look like a big shot to have my own airplane
[01:06:53] i got to have somebody carry my briefcase for me son if you two week
[01:06:57] carry your briefcase time to get in the weight room
[01:07:07] have a little entourage i'm so sick of this
[01:07:15] but that church let me tell you it never fixed the problem
[01:07:19] you know what was funny is the day the lord told me to leave
[01:07:24] he told me when i was leaving this was the end of 2007 he said you're you're
[01:07:27] leaving now and i was i was going over to georgia
[01:07:29] to help my brother start a church and of course that god was leading me so i
[01:07:32] go find my wife that was the whole reason really i
[01:07:36] went to georgia but i remember i went to their like new
[01:07:43] year's eve service and they had this prosperity
[01:07:46] prophet come in there who called himself a seer well they love that
[01:07:51] i'm a seer really okay it's funny how much you don't see
[01:07:56] seer all right and i remember it was this little
[01:08:02] prosperity preacher prophet guy he he he had him there because again
[01:08:07] they love these prosperity guys so they come in and help you know
[01:08:10] take up big offerings for them don't shout me down when i'm preaching good
[01:08:14] now y'all got quiet like lutherans there for a second
[01:08:17] all right but i remember i was standing in the back
[01:08:21] and this guy you know he preached his little prosperity message and
[01:08:26] and i'm getting ready to leave and the lord tells me you know he gives an
[01:08:29] altar call for people and he starts giving prophetic words out and i'm like
[01:08:32] in laying hands with people like lord i i'm not going up there i don't want
[01:08:36] that guy laying hands on me and lord said go up there
[01:08:38] oh lord no i do not want this kind of leaning prophet laying hands on
[01:08:44] me i don't want this the lord said i told you go up there
[01:08:50] okay here's what's funny there were people in front of me
[01:08:54] and i went up i walked up to the altar and that basically they just had steps
[01:08:58] up to the platform and i was standing there
[01:09:00] and the pastor that i had just given the letter to
[01:09:04] about what i saw and dealing with sin a true prophetic word
[01:09:10] he was standing right like he was standing right next to me
[01:09:15] so i'm standing there the pastor standing there this little prophet
[01:09:20] this little prosperity prophet amazing how god god god will move sometimes he'll
[01:09:24] speak through a donkey if he wants to right
[01:09:26] he that little prophet guy prosperity probably walked down a few steps he
[01:09:30] didn't walk over to me and didn't lay hands on me god kept that from
[01:09:33] happening so i was hate to have to resist him
[01:09:36] right but that prophet was going around he was praying for people and he said
[01:09:44] lord let him see make him a seer let him
[01:09:46] see make him a seer and he was praying this over everybody and guess what
[01:09:49] everybody's not called to be a prophet let's go ahead and admit that
[01:09:52] all right this idea oh everybody's a seer no they're not
[01:09:56] all right and he's he's that's what he's praying
[01:10:00] everybody oh god make him a seer let him be a seer
[01:10:05] he steps down from the the steps to the platform and he starts walking towards
[01:10:09] me and he points at me and he says you already see right in
[01:10:15] front of the pastor the pastor could hear you already see everything he said
[01:10:21] and i'm like the lord had this little prophet
[01:10:25] that this pastor thinks is a prophet confirm he just got a prophetic word
[01:10:30] about his whole church you know how many years ago that was 2007
[01:10:36] do you know they have yet to deal with those problems
[01:10:42] how many people have died and gone to hell
[01:10:46] because of that not because of what they preach because of what they don't
[01:10:51] preach it's sad and there's people that i
[01:11:00] know friends old friends of mine that aren't
[01:11:03] necessarily friends anymore that know that that were true Christians
[01:11:11] that knew about all this sin going on in the camp
[01:11:15] and would not leave that are still there and i think about this scripture
[01:11:22] the the man that wanders away from
[01:11:25] understanding will remain in the congregation of the dead
[01:11:31] here's what's gonna happen if you if you start reading the bible
[01:11:35] for yourself and say god show me the truth
[01:11:38] i want you i want to know the truth he's going to show you and it's probably
[01:11:47] not going to be as comfortable as you had hoped it would be
[01:11:52] and then he's going to lead you out of these dead places
[01:11:56] i'm just going to tell you right now because see here hear me out if these
[01:11:59] places if they put up my my crack fair again
[01:12:06] if you go to these crack fairs right here and what they're made to do
[01:12:12] from buying the tickets to ride the rides to the
[01:12:15] games that are fixed and everything else
[01:12:19] is to just get money out of you but hear me out
[01:12:23] if you give money to these things these crack churches you are helping them
[01:12:32] push their message of their agenda this is why as a Christian
[01:12:40] you cannot remain in these places and give them your money
[01:12:45] and your time and your energy and your service
[01:12:48] even your attendance is helping them look successful come out of her my people
[01:13:01] see it's not just the whore of babylon the roman catholic church
[01:13:06] it's all her daughters that are the problem and she not only has daughters
[01:13:12] but she has adopted children because they pretty much do the same things and
[01:13:20] teach the same doctors they're just westernized christianized in a way
[01:13:26] little popes oh yeah you come here to church you serve in the children
[01:13:32] you're you're a good church person you're a server
[01:13:36] serving person here you just check the box to heaven
[01:13:45] no you better make sure you are where the lord wants you to be
[01:13:50] i would rather be with two or three people down by the river in a tent
[01:13:56] and have the anointing of the holy spirit and the glory of god and the
[01:14:00] fear of god there than be in these palaces
[01:14:06] that are just carnivals you hear me you know the fear of the lord
[01:14:17] you think it's not a new testament thing go to luke chapter 12
[01:14:32] luke 12 verse 1 says in the in the meantime
[01:14:41] when they were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people
[01:14:45] insomuch that they trode one upon another
[01:14:48] he began to say in his disciples first of all
[01:14:51] beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy now what is hypocrisy
[01:14:57] what is hypocrisy hypocrisy means that you
[01:15:00] pretend to be something on the outside that you're really not
[01:15:05] on the inside you're not for real it's it's a
[01:15:08] it's a faking and this is the leaven jesus is warning about
[01:15:14] the outward appearance of righteousness the outward appearance
[01:15:17] of piety and devotion religiosity he says it's this outward thing is
[01:15:26] the leaven of the Pharisees he says for there is nothing covered
[01:15:33] that shall not be revealed neither neither hid that shall not be known
[01:15:36] therefore whatsoever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light
[01:15:41] and that which you have spoken in the ear in the closet shall be proclaimed
[01:15:44] upon the housetops and i want to tell you
[01:15:47] more and more you mark my words more and more of these pastors and these
[01:15:52] mega churches and are going to be exposed because there's stuff going on in secret
[01:15:57] because if it wasn't going on in secret they would preach against
[01:16:02] the sin they usually don't preach against the sin because they're in the
[01:16:06] sin but he says this is jesus speaking he
[01:16:11] said i say unto you my friends be not afraid of them that kill the
[01:16:16] body and after that have no more that they
[01:16:19] can do but i will forewarn you whom you shall
[01:16:22] fear fear him which after he hath killed hath power
[01:16:25] to cast into hell yea i say unto you fear him
[01:16:30] jesus teaching fear him who can cast you into hell that's jesus
[01:16:37] preaching you do not hear this in these crack
[01:16:41] carnival churches this is the stuff that makes people
[01:16:46] tremble jesus said stuff that can you imagine and the word here is
[01:16:55] phobia in greek guess what it means you ever heard where we get the word
[01:17:00] phobia from but it means fear terror
[01:17:09] paul said this go to second corinthians 5 speaking to christians
[01:17:20] second corinthians 5 talking about the judgment seat of christ
[01:17:28] the judgment seat of christ is where christians will stand to be judged not
[01:17:31] the unsaved and he says this go down to verse 10
[01:17:40] he says for we now if the if the apostle says we who's he talking about
[01:17:44] he's including himself so he's talking about we christians
[01:17:47] he said for we must all appear before the judgment seat of christ that
[01:17:51] everyone may receive the things done in his body according to that he had
[01:17:55] done whether it be good or bad knowing therefore the terror
[01:18:00] of the lord we persuade men wait a minute i thought christians were
[01:18:06] eternally secure no matter how they live so what's what's the worry
[01:18:11] what's the terror why do we have to persuade christians to live
[01:18:17] holy lives to hate sin to repent of sin why if we're covered by grace and that's
[01:18:27] all that matters is grace grace grace why is there terror for christians
[01:18:38] because some christians stand before the judgment seat of christ are going to
[01:18:41] hear well done good and faithful servant enter into
[01:18:44] the joy of thy lord and others are going to say
[01:18:47] hear hear him say jesus say take him bind him hand and foot cast him in
[01:18:53] their outer darkness that should be weeping and gnashing of teeth
[01:18:56] take that wicked slothful servant take him out of here
[01:19:01] he says at the judgment seat they're going to be people come in
[01:19:04] to the judgment seat come into the wedding it's right at the before the
[01:19:08] wedding the marriage supper of the lamb and it's
[01:19:11] when all christians are going to be taken listen
[01:19:12] all christians are going to be taken up dead we are dead in christ so rise first
[01:19:16] then we which are alive it's at the last day
[01:19:19] right at the same time god starts raining down
[01:19:22] the great day of his wrath yes there's a rapture but it's at the end
[01:19:26] the last day the same day that the world
[01:19:30] god destroys all the cities of the world and all of the mountains come down
[01:19:34] and the islands are moved and we're in heaven and he says
[01:19:38] this is matthew 22 he gives this story this is parable
[01:19:41] he says we're at the wedding feast and one comes in here not having all the
[01:19:45] wedding garment and jesus turns to him and says friend
[01:19:50] how is it that you've come in here not having on a wedding garment
[01:19:56] and it says that the man was speechless and the lord said take him
[01:20:03] bind him hand and foot cast him in outer darkness
[01:20:07] this is at the judgment seat of christ this is not a thousand years later
[01:20:10] where the wicked dead are judged at the great white throne
[01:20:14] this is at the second coming of jesus there's only two judgments folks
[01:20:18] the second coming of jesus the judgment seat of christ where christians will be
[01:20:22] judged and then a thousand years later after
[01:20:27] the millennial reign the wicked dead everyone will be brought
[01:20:31] up to stand before god and that's where the severity of your
[01:20:36] eternity will be determined because you know there's going to be
[01:20:41] degrees of eternal punishment but folks you
[01:20:46] the the baptists have taught for years oh the judgment seat of christ is just
[01:20:50] where you're going to lose some rewards but you're still going to be safe
[01:20:53] you better get that out of your head oh yes rewards
[01:20:58] will be dished out there to those who make it in
[01:21:02] or the lack thereof i ain't worried about rewards i don't care what rewards
[01:21:06] i get or don't get i just want to make it in
[01:21:14] people talk about oh i'm gonna have a crown of jews i don't care about a crown
[01:21:17] i don't i don't care somebody say oh i'm gonna have a mansion i don't care give
[01:21:23] me a shack i'll take a shack in heaven no crowns
[01:21:26] just let me be there i want to make it there
[01:21:31] and that's why paul said oh i hope that i make this gospel that i
[01:21:35] preach which is why i bring my body under
[01:21:38] subjection and make it obey me because i could
[01:21:43] become a castaway paul even said if he let his flesh take over and rule
[01:21:48] him that he himself could become a castaway a reprobate don't tell me you
[01:21:54] a christian can't fall away but here here's the shocker all people
[01:21:59] talk about oh oh oh with the rapture uh if you're a lukewarm backslidden
[01:22:03] christian you get left behind no you don't
[01:22:06] see this is the scary thing you're going up there to stand before his
[01:22:10] throne whether you write with him or not think
[01:22:12] about the christians who have backslidden are now living as
[01:22:15] homosexuals or adulterers and going to be snatched out of their
[01:22:20] homosexual bed one night to stand at the judgment seat
[01:22:25] and the lord's gonna say yeah how are you what are you doing here
[01:22:29] with no wedding garment the robe of righteousness that white linen that's
[01:22:34] clean what are you doing here and see the
[01:22:41] thing that he tells you know in the the parable of the towns when he tells
[01:22:44] he said you knew you knew what you were supposed to do
[01:22:49] and you didn't do it you see it's the preacher's job
[01:22:59] it's the pastor's job to scare the hell out of you
[01:23:06] say pastor dean i just can't accept that it just disturbs me i'm just a delicate
[01:23:12] flower jesus is the one said you better fear
[01:23:18] him that after he's killed the body can put
[01:23:22] you in hell fear him look i know god loves me but i
[01:23:30] also know he means what he says and he will do
[01:23:35] what he has said he will do and if he says
[01:23:39] the drunkard will not inherit the kingdom of god if he said all liars will
[01:23:43] have their part in the lake burns with fire and brimstone
[01:23:45] i believe that so therefore it's a good deterrent in my life
[01:23:55] but if you get the idea that grace is somehow this license to sin and that
[01:23:59] god's going to overlook and you can live however you want still go to heaven
[01:24:02] you have been deceived by the devil and this is most of the church world
[01:24:06] you know years ago and i'm just gonna say it the highlands is the big mega
[01:24:10] church here in alabama i'm just going to tell you right now
[01:24:13] i had one of my staff members back in the day he's not here anymore but back
[01:24:16] in the day he decided i want to call their offices
[01:24:20] and i want to find out where they stand on the doctrine of once saved
[01:24:24] always saved no matter how you live or do they believe a believer can fall
[01:24:27] away and be lost what do they believe guess what he could not get a straight
[01:24:32] answer out of any of their staff or any of their pastors
[01:24:35] that he managed to get on the phone couldn't get an answer to the question
[01:24:40] which tells me they didn't want to answer the question
[01:24:45] because that had been too offensive to be too straightforward
[01:24:50] and we certainly don't want this out if we believe what we believe so it's
[01:24:54] better to be vague and this is and this is another
[01:24:58] problem they're just vague i've had people say
[01:25:04] pastor dean you're just too it's you're pretty just too strong for me
[01:25:07] you know why it's too strong because you've been on the milk too
[01:25:11] long you've heard weak little skinny jeans
[01:25:16] effeminate preachers too long they talk real sweet i'm gonna tell
[01:25:28] you 99 times out of 100 if they have an
[01:25:30] effeminate spirit on them they're usually in that effeminate
[01:25:33] sin if you get my drift girly men are usually
[01:25:39] problematic that's why i'm like does it take a rocket scientist to figure out
[01:25:47] that a men's conference shouldn't have a male stripper
[01:25:52] i don't know it's just me like i said who booked that guy
[01:26:03] but let me just go and tell you if you had the holy spirit
[01:26:06] if you had the anointing if you had the glory of god you don't need
[01:26:11] a male stripper you don't need a circus act you don't need
[01:26:16] a smoke machine you don't need pyrotechnics
[01:26:21] you don't need music that's so loud that it's it's
[01:26:24] damaging people's hearing literally i mean we had to have earplugs when we
[01:26:34] went to greg lachs church for the debate that's how loud it is in there
[01:26:38] they had a lady come in with a decimal reader and tell them
[01:26:43] that this is so loud this is hurting baby's ears this is damaging their ears
[01:26:47] it's dangerous and they wouldn't turn it down
[01:26:53] but guess what you don't need that if the anointing's there
[01:26:56] you know what i loved about this past skyfall 2023
[01:26:59] as we had mark and hana pong leading worship we didn't even have drums i
[01:27:04] couldn't find our drummer but we he played electric guitar and she
[01:27:10] played the acoustic guitar and they sang together
[01:27:13] and you know what it was kind of quiet it was kind of subdued
[01:27:16] but you know what the anointing was there it wasn't a show
[01:27:19] it was to worship the lord and to give him glory
[01:27:23] and every time they started worship i could feel the glory of god the presence
[01:27:27] of god coming because i know them i know their hearts right i know they're
[01:27:30] living right for god and i know where their their heart is to
[01:27:33] worship god in impurity and in truth that's why i
[01:27:39] don't call in you know striper to lead worship i'm sorry
[01:27:48] i don't want a rock band i want to worship
[01:27:54] i don't want somebody that's trying to climb their way up to christian charts
[01:28:03] and you know what talent doesn't mean you have the anointing either
[01:28:06] you can be the best musician the best singer i want the glory in the presence
[01:28:15] of god and see he promised that if we would
[01:28:22] fear him if we would reverence and respect him
[01:28:27] if we would tremble at his word if we take it that seriously
[01:28:30] i don't know if any of you but i still tremble when i think about
[01:28:35] the night i drove from auburn alabama to valley
[01:28:38] where i was living at the time 30 miles so drunk
[01:28:42] driving that i don't remember the trip the whole 30 miles and the next thing i
[01:28:51] know i had passed out at the wheel and the
[01:28:57] next thing i know something wakes me up now i had been taking
[01:29:00] we've been playing quarters with straight shots of 190 proof
[01:29:05] clear spring i was let's put it this way on the
[01:29:11] on the side of drunk i was probably close to death
[01:29:15] the level of alcohol i had in me you usually don't wake up once you pass out
[01:29:21] something woke me up and i know to this day that it was because of my
[01:29:24] the prayers of my great grandmother my great aunts praying for me
[01:29:28] that god supernaturally woke me up because the moment i woke up in my
[01:29:32] paniac firebird headed off the road i had to i was
[01:29:38] headed 70 miles an hour headed straight for a
[01:29:40] tree and i snatched the wheel back to the
[01:29:43] left and the car spun i don't know how many times it spun
[01:29:47] and i ended up in the right lane in the right direction
[01:29:52] missed the tree by maybe this much another second or two and i'm into that
[01:29:59] tree at 70 miles an hour without a seat belt and i'm a dead man
[01:30:05] and i'm waking up in hell going what happened
[01:30:11] and if that doesn't make you shudder see i shudder at that
[01:30:15] and that's what the lord says will you not tremble at my word
[01:30:21] see it's not a doubt i don't doubt that god loves me i don't doubt that jesus died
[01:30:25] for me i don't doubt that the the way has been
[01:30:28] made for me but i chose at 16 in a church i said no to him he called me i
[01:30:32] said no and it was right after that that i nearly die
[01:30:36] and i'm thinking about i said no to him i said no i'm not following you now
[01:30:42] i want to do what i want to do it was a conscious decision
[01:30:47] i wanted to still drink party and and and live in sexual sin
[01:30:53] and i could have died that night and been in hell and just the thought of that
[01:30:59] i mean to this day that's been almost 40 years ago i think about
[01:31:04] god thank you thank you that you had mercy on me
[01:31:09] when i was rebelling living in sin disregarding you choosing to not fear
[01:31:18] go to psalm 36 i'll try to bring this in for a landing
[01:31:21] this is this has been on my mind psalm 36
[01:31:30] the fear of the lord over and over over and over
[01:31:35] throughout proverbs even in the psalms the fear of the lord is the beginning
[01:31:40] of wisdom what does he say here psalm 36 verse one
[01:31:46] the transgression of the wicked sayeth within my heart
[01:31:50] that there is no fear of god before his eyes can i just tell you the
[01:31:57] transgression of the wicked can be among the unsaved and the saved
[01:32:03] the sage can choose to live in transgression and wickedness
[01:32:08] but if they do it says there is no fear of god before their eyes there is no
[01:32:17] true reverence there is no true trembling at his word
[01:32:21] and let me tell you right now if these preachers in these
[01:32:24] mega churches these make churches these seeker sensitive watered-down churches
[01:32:30] if they truly had the fear of god in them
[01:32:35] they would preach about sin and true repentance
[01:32:40] and living for god the way you're supposed to following jesus the way
[01:32:43] you're supposed to because they would be they would be
[01:32:48] terrified not to and so because they won't even address it
[01:32:55] because their goal is not to convict sinners
[01:33:00] but to build big congregations it shows me that they have no fear of god
[01:33:09] before their eyes none and it's a scary thing
[01:33:16] because i see the multitudes thousands and thousands of people go to these
[01:33:21] places thousands i don't know how many
[01:33:25] thousands were at this men's conference where they had the
[01:33:29] stripper but the problem was there were several
[01:33:35] thousand people there and what was troubling is when
[01:33:40] mark driscoll spoke against it and rebuked it
[01:33:45] he people were cursing him and i mean so-called people in the crowd were
[01:33:51] cursing him and threatening him and everything else
[01:33:54] but only a hundred they said only a hundred two hundred got up and walked
[01:33:57] out you see again and then they talk about oh
[01:34:01] but a lot of men came to christ let me tell you something right now
[01:34:07] adding somebody to your church membership
[01:34:12] or somebody that signs a card or says your little prayer
[01:34:15] does not mean they're converted it does not mean they have truly repented
[01:34:20] it doesn't mean they truly fear god enough to depart from evil
[01:34:27] somebody told me who was somebody told me somebody was talking to me the other day
[01:34:32] about a church that does evangelism and and they go out and they actually
[01:34:37] read to people they got this little thing they read to people
[01:34:41] and if people will stand and listen to them they count that person as a
[01:34:44] as a soul save for christ and then they go report that
[01:34:49] as oh we led these people to jesus you know they used to call that not
[01:34:54] evangelistic but he what is it elastic
[01:34:59] i can't remember the term exactly but stretching the truth a little bit there
[01:35:03] right so a lot of this so-called oh we had
[01:35:08] 500 men get saved really let me sit down and talk to them we'll find out
[01:35:13] how many of them really got saved this is what we're not making
[01:35:19] converts true disciples of jesus true born again
[01:35:24] believers we're making converts to our crack fair
[01:35:32] come get high on this emotional preaching we got
[01:35:36] so you can feel the bubbly joy of being at peace with your sin
[01:35:41] not being made to feel any kind of discomfort
[01:35:47] see i want to tell you right now when god truly moves
[01:35:52] the glory of god comes in the fear of god comes in
[01:35:57] the respect and reverence of god and the reverence
[01:36:00] of his word you will not take it lightly
[01:36:05] this is what he said about the false prophets that they make you vain
[01:36:09] they're light and frivolous you know i think about samuel he was a true
[01:36:20] prophet matter of fact it says he was a prophet it says he was a
[01:36:23] seer seer and the prophets the same thing
[01:36:25] not everybody's called to be a prophet slash seer but
[01:36:28] but samuel's reputation of being on the lord's side of standing for
[01:36:37] righteousness and for truth of speaking the truth like he did to eli
[01:36:41] the high priest he was a little scared as a young man to speak the truth to this
[01:36:45] backslidden high priest but he obeyed and gave him the truth and
[01:36:50] the man fell over and died and his son god killed his wicked sons
[01:36:54] that he wouldn't restrain but samuel had a reputation for walking
[01:36:59] with the lord and walking in righteousness and
[01:37:01] holiness and being a true prophet a true seer and i love this
[01:37:04] when the lord sent him to battle him this is so good to anoint david
[01:37:12] saying to battle it said the elders of the town
[01:37:16] trembled and said why are you here why did they tremble because they knew
[01:37:27] they knew god is with this man he may see through my soul
[01:37:34] he may discern i'm in adultery he may discern
[01:37:38] my wickedness in my sin what is he here to do
[01:37:44] you know i've literally had that said to me at times i went to visit
[01:37:48] this particular family that i had known for years and they knew me
[01:37:53] that i was serious about this time and i remember one of the teenagers
[01:37:58] answered the door when i what and it was like what are you doing here why are
[01:38:02] you here i was like yeah you're probably in sin
[01:38:10] i'm making you nervous just standing here but it's not because i hate people
[01:38:18] i love people enough to tell them the truth even if i know it's going to upset
[01:38:21] them so that they can truly come to know
[01:38:26] jesus as their lord and savior and understand how he feels
[01:38:30] about sin wickedness compromise lukewarmness
[01:38:34] you know jesus spoke to the church of sardus and he said this is revelation
[01:38:37] three he said you have a name that you are
[01:38:40] alive but you're dead boy how many churches
[01:38:47] give this outward appearance that they are alive
[01:38:51] oh there's a big carnival going on there's a lot of activity there's a lot of
[01:38:56] colors and lights and pizzazz but they're really dead
[01:39:08] i don't want to live in the congregation of the dead
[01:39:12] because you know what happens if you hang around dead bodies too long
[01:39:16] the stench and the rot begins to get on you
[01:39:24] and what's so bad is if you stay in it long enough you know if you stay in a
[01:39:27] place that stinks long enough that you stop
[01:39:29] it stops stinking so bad you become what they call it nose blind
[01:39:38] and this is where a lot of people are they're in the congregation of the dead
[01:39:42] and the lord's saying you know what come out of her my people
[01:39:49] time to get serious time to be part of the five wise virgins and not part
[01:39:54] of the five foolish time to make sure your lamps are full
[01:39:57] of oil and you're on fire and you're ready instead of playing
[01:40:04] the game and still asleep all ten were virgins all ten were
[01:40:10] looking for the bridegroom all ten were but only five were ready
[01:40:18] come out of her my people yeah i heard the lord say that so clear last week
[01:40:23] and when i was praying yesterday it just kept it kept reverberating in my
[01:40:27] mind and my heart from him he's just come out of her come out of this
[01:40:31] dead church system come out of it come out of the errors and the lies
[01:40:37] if you have to sit at home for a while just read your bible until you figure
[01:40:40] out the truth do that do whatever you got to do to make
[01:40:49] sure that you are dealing with yourself that you are
[01:40:53] dealing with your sin that you are repenting
[01:40:56] that you have the fear of the lord in your life
[01:41:00] because guess what most of the time there's not going to be anybody to
[01:41:04] help you you're gonna have to you're gonna have to do it
[01:41:08] and if you do then the lord can lead you to people
[01:41:13] who are like-minded who can help you grow in your faith in your walk
[01:41:16] and help hold you accountable you know we all need that
[01:41:21] that's why i tell people about a church family how important it is because
[01:41:24] you know it's one thing i know we got a lot of people that watch it we have
[01:41:27] thousands of people that watch every sunday
[01:41:30] and some of them like oh i'd love to be there i'd love to move to alabama i'd
[01:41:33] love to attend your church well yeah maybe so because it's different when
[01:41:39] you're here because we have to deal with family problems here
[01:41:44] and sometimes it's you are the family problem
[01:41:48] and that's not always comfortable that's why i tell people
[01:41:53] i love for you to come if god's leading you to come hey
[01:41:57] come to fire yes absolutely but make sure it's the lord
[01:42:01] make sure you know it's his will because it's not always going to be
[01:42:06] you know there'll be some bumpy spots in the road
[01:42:09] and you might have to get corrected and if you're too delicate of a flower
[01:42:14] you're not going to be able to handle that because we've had some come here
[01:42:19] thank god sent him here and when the rubber met the road and i
[01:42:22] had to deal with problems they ran out the door and some of
[01:42:25] them went to the highlands they'll be fine there they're just a
[01:42:35] little too delicate flowers can't handle the truth let's stand
[01:42:47] somebody say hallelujah somebody say amen or old me
[01:42:58] see jeez said the lukewarm christian gets spit out of his body
[01:43:02] say i read that now it makes me tremble lord don't let me be lukewarm what do you
[01:43:05] say about the lukewarm christian he said you don't even know that you're blind
[01:43:09] wretched miserable poor neck you don't know it
[01:43:11] you're blind to it i don't know about y'all but i pray lord if i'm lukewarm
[01:43:16] please show me i don't want to stay blind to it
[01:43:21] say well pastor dean how would you but you you you're living for the lord let
[01:43:24] me tell you we're all flesh we're all human
[01:43:26] you better all check yourself paul told the corinthian second corinthians 13
[01:43:31] he said examine yourself see whether you be in the faith he was talking
[01:43:34] christians examine yourself where are you are
[01:43:39] you on fire are you living a holy life are you
[01:43:44] seeking the will of god are you hearing his voice and following him
[01:43:47] are you sharing his word with people are you truly living for him or yourself
[01:43:58] are you fighting the flesh are you indulging the flesh
[01:44:01] it's not complicated i want to live for jesus i want to be those one of those
[01:44:09] that endures to the end so that i may be saved i want to work out my own
[01:44:15] salvation with fear and trembling philippians 2 12
[01:44:21] think about that verse work out your own salvation with fear and trembling
[01:44:26] then paul says in chapter 3 i don't count myself to attain
[01:44:29] anything but i press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling well
[01:44:33] what is the prize of the high calling in christian
[01:44:35] it's that you make it there to be with him for all eternity
[01:44:39] that's all i want i don't want to crown i don't want to mention
[01:44:42] i don't care about any of that stuff i want to be with him
[01:44:45] forever and i don't want anything here i don't want to allow anything here
[01:44:51] no sin no wickedness no pleasure no compromise
[01:44:56] the love of money whatever it may be lust sexual immorality
[01:45:00] i don't want any of that to stop me that temporary pleasures of the flesh to
[01:45:06] stop me from being with jesus forever and ever i don't want anything to get
[01:45:10] in the way that's why the true christian who loves
[01:45:13] jesus says i will cut off anything that is trying to trip me up hinder me
[01:45:20] or take me down and the true pastors and preachers of
[01:45:25] the gospel will try to remind you and show you
[01:45:28] stuff that will try to be a stumbling block to you and try to take you down
[01:45:32] because a true pastor a true minister of the gospel wants to stop you from
[01:45:36] going to hell and make sure you make it to heaven that's what we want to do
[01:45:40] i don't care about a big church i don't care about big money i don't want
[01:45:43] when i came here 15 years ago i said i'm not here to build a mega church
[01:45:47] and we have not obviously you know what's funny though
[01:45:54] even my enemies even people that hate me and i'm talking about christians
[01:45:57] watch our services every sunday they can't seem to pull themselves away
[01:46:04] because i live rent free in their heads because
[01:46:08] deep down they know they may not like me they may not like some of the things i
[01:46:13] do they may not agree with me on some things
[01:46:15] but deep down they know he is a preacher of righteousness
[01:46:21] and they go listen to others and they don't hear the same sound
[01:46:25] they don't feel the same anointing and they go
[01:46:29] and they go what's he saying today i gotta go here
[01:46:32] and i'm like praise god keep on listening
[01:46:38] but at some point they're going to have to decide
[01:46:42] not that they have to come to church here but they're going to have to decide
[01:46:47] what are they going to support with their time their energy their life
[01:46:51] their money what are they going to support are
[01:46:54] they going to support what will bring people to jesus what
[01:46:57] will bring people to repentance are they going to keep supporting
[01:47:00] the crack cotton candy church like joel osteen that's a crack
[01:47:10] fair for sure your best life now all this nonsense
[01:47:20] and what does crack do to you i know i had a friend that got addicted to it
[01:47:24] makes you feel good for a while doesn't it until you lose your car
[01:47:29] and your house your health and finally your life
[01:47:36] it's my friend that took all of that from him and he was a christian
[01:47:43] he lost everything he lost his wife he lost his daughter he lost his
[01:47:46] successful business he lost everything ended up in prison got out of prison
[01:47:52] ended up back on it the crack though he had lived for jesus for three years and
[01:47:57] stayed clean stayed free and he went back to crack
[01:48:06] and it finally gave him a heart attack and he died one of my best friends
[01:48:12] i loved ray i prayed for ray he would call me through the years
[01:48:30] it's a sad thing to think he might not have made it
[01:48:34] probably didn't the way it looks see this
[01:48:44] this thing that we do this uh preaching the gospel is life and death
[01:48:51] wages of sin is death that means eternal separation from god
[01:48:57] jesus commanded his disciples go preach repentance for the remission of sins
[01:49:05] you have to and that means you have to turn from your sin and wickedness
[01:49:09] and follow him and that didn't matter if you're
[01:49:14] totally unsaved or you're been a believer in jesus for decades if you've fallen
[01:49:21] away see this is one of those sermons that
[01:49:31] if i died tomorrow i i know i'm good i know there's not
[01:49:38] gonna be any blood on my hands or in my skirts
[01:49:42] i know i'm not going to be standing there without
[01:49:45] the robe of righteousness the wedding garment on and that's what i've said
[01:49:54] if all of you leave because you can't handle it anymore
[01:50:00] i will still be preaching it if i have to go down to the corner
[01:50:08] you understand because i will not abandon
[01:50:13] the true gospel of jesus christ it is the power of god into salvation
[01:50:19] you know we talk about healings and miracles and i believe in all those
[01:50:22] things i've seen jesus do all those things but the greatest miracle
[01:50:25] the reason the angels rejoice in heaven is when one sinner
[01:50:29] truly repents when one sinner turns from wickedness
[01:50:34] and comes to righteousness all of heaven all the angels in heaven rejoice
[01:50:40] over that the greatest thing you could do as a
[01:50:45] christian is preach the true gospel to someone and
[01:50:47] that brings them to true repentance and true faith
[01:50:50] and a true walk with jesus christ because you shared the truth with them
[01:50:54] that set them free that's the greatest miracle there is
[01:50:58] to see someone transformed given the ability by god to repent and
[01:51:04] yielding to that and truly repenting and seeing their life change
[01:51:08] them either being born again for the first time or them being renewed
[01:51:13] revived in their faith in their walk with god
[01:51:17] and we're all called to be that light to the world not just the pastors in the
[01:51:21] fivefold ministers there's nothing greater than that
[01:51:27] yes i believe in the gifts of the holy spirit tongues interpretation of
[01:51:31] tongues prophecy healing miracles all of that i've seen it all i believe
[01:51:36] it all want it all want more of it to happen
[01:51:38] but that's not the ultimate goal the ultimate goal is not miracles the
[01:51:44] ultimate goal is not supernatural manifestations
[01:51:46] the ultimate goal is to see sinners come to repentance whether they have never
[01:51:51] known jesus or they've known him and fallen away from him
[01:51:54] to bring sinners to repentance is the number one goal should be the goal of
[01:51:59] every pastor every church in across the world i don't care where they are
[01:52:03] that should be the number one goal not money
[01:52:06] not numbers not buildings not lands not fame not tv programs
[01:52:14] not trying to be have a million followers or two million followers
[01:52:18] and social media i mean this is people are obsessed with these things
[01:52:24] that's not what he called us to do he called us first and foremost
[01:52:30] to live and then preach the gospel of jesus christ
[01:52:34] period and if your church is not preaching that
[01:52:40] it's time to come out of her it's time to find a group of people you can do
[01:52:44] that with because let me tell you some of you if
[01:52:48] your children don't sit under true godly preaching you're going to for
[01:52:54] sure almost assuredly damn them to hell because they're
[01:52:58] going to hear the counterfeit they're going to hear the watered down version
[01:53:02] it's going to be sown in them as children and they're going to grow up
[01:53:05] with it and you wonder why they won't listen
[01:53:07] to you when they get older see one thing we've seen we've seen some
[01:53:13] children grow up here that rebelled john they didn't they didn't they heard it
[01:53:19] the truth got sown in them he y'all came when he was eight years old
[01:53:23] he kind of went his own way for a while but that seed that was sown in him
[01:53:29] brought him to true repentance and he's on fire for
[01:53:32] the lord now and how old is he now 24 he came he came
[01:53:36] here when he's eight years old and see you know what happened even in
[01:53:42] his time when he was kind of doing his own thing and living in
[01:53:46] the sin and living in the world and he's probably watching
[01:53:48] love john he knew deep down he stayed convicted
[01:53:54] he knew the truth he'd even tell the truth to his friends
[01:53:58] because he couldn't keep it in because his heart had been filled with the
[01:54:02] truth of god's word and it brought forth the fruit it's
[01:54:07] going to bring forth and this is why i wouldn't dare allow my
[01:54:13] children to sit in these crack churches these cotton candy
[01:54:20] carnivals oh but they got a great youth program
[01:54:24] yeah they do they play video games they play video games and sneak off and
[01:54:30] have sex sometimes even in the church building
[01:54:36] oh yeah first methodist church down here when i was
[01:54:40] in high school used to have big dance parties in the church basement on the
[01:54:45] weekends playing secular music dancing we come in there drunk boys and
[01:54:51] girls that slip off in different parts of the church and be having
[01:54:54] fornication she Cindy knows it was well known
[01:55:01] that that was the first methodist church in opal icon
[01:55:05] we used to be the club for teenagers i remember they had a
[01:55:13] little swing outside remember it outside of there
[01:55:16] i used to sit that little swing high and drunk
[01:55:20] a lot of us did you hear that i mean isn't that something
[01:55:24] that the party place in town was the first methodist church
[01:55:29] put on by the youth pastor i know you weren't a member
[01:55:34] i wasn't either but she went there that's what she's saying over there she
[01:55:38] said i wasn't a member but i went there yeah we all did
[01:55:45] and i'm like yeah great youth program how about how about these oh well let's
[01:55:53] have lock-ins remember those boys and girls
[01:55:56] sleeping all night in the church what what are you thinking who came up with
[01:56:03] that great idea i'm telling you it's all insane man
[01:56:12] anyway show me anywhere in the bible it says have a youth group and a youth
[01:56:15] pastor it's usually a big problem because i
[01:56:22] tell you what i believe the young people whether teenagers what supposed
[01:56:25] should be in the church listening to the pastor
[01:56:28] who is a mature man of god instead of a young person like them who's been
[01:56:33] putting authority too early but that's another sermon i need to quit don't i
[01:56:40] pretty crazy though so i can we could there's far more stories we could tell
[01:56:44] about that we don't need these places these
[01:56:53] congregations of the dead i'm praying more and more people come
[01:56:57] out of them and come awake and come to jesus
[01:57:00] amen let's pray heavenly father thank you for this day
[01:57:05] thank you lord god for your word we don't want the shields of brass lord
[01:57:09] we want the shields of gold we don't want the counterfeit we want
[01:57:15] you we want your presence your glory your
[01:57:17] anointing and that true anointing and that true glory comes with
[01:57:23] the true fear of the lord and the trembling at your word and the respect
[01:57:28] that you are due as god almighty is the creator
[01:57:33] of heaven and earth as the judge of the living and the dead
[01:57:39] as the one who is holy i love when isaiah saw you even though he was a
[01:57:46] prophet when he saw you high and lifted up
[01:57:49] seated upon your throne he said what was me for i am undone i am unclean
[01:57:55] when your glory is truly revealed we realize how unclean
[01:57:59] we realize the sin we realize the compromise we realize
[01:58:04] that we need to change we need to repent we need to confess
[01:58:08] we need to get right with you that's real revival
[01:58:13] and lord we want real revival we don't want counterfeit
[01:58:17] we don't want emotional hype we don't want
[01:58:21] counterfeit spirits demon spirits familiar spirits
[01:58:27] condellini spirits we don't want any of that evil compromise
[01:58:32] we want the real anointing the real gifts of the holy spirit
[01:58:36] the real power from heaven lord i pray today that if anybody here today
[01:58:43] are listening if they've been backslidden luke warm
[01:58:47] christian or if they've never truly surrendered to you and been born
[01:58:51] again and truly repented i pray that that
[01:58:55] take place in their lives that they would yield to you
[01:58:58] they would not be like i was when i was 16 when i said no
[01:59:01] and ran away but that they would surrender
[01:59:05] their lives that they would give up their sin and their wickedness
[01:59:08] turn from it receive forgiveness and the cleansing of your precious blood
[01:59:14] and then walk with you lord i pray this
[01:59:19] for them out there lord and in here i pray this in the mighty name of jesus
[01:59:27] amen amen well it is after one oh it's almost one o'clock
[01:59:39] y'all know the drill hug some next before you leave
[01:59:44] god bless y'all