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Hatching Snake Eggs
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[00:00:02] hallelujah hallelujah we worship you mighty god heavenly father we exalt you
[00:04:30] we exalt the name that is above every name today the name of Jesus the one who
[00:04:34] died on that cross for our sins rose from the dead we exalt you Lord we
[00:04:40] praise your name we thank you Lord God for everything you've done for us and the
[00:04:46] things you're going to do Lord you have great plans for your people Lord here in
[00:04:51] this time and in the age to come Lord you have great things for us and we thank you
[00:04:57] Lord that there is not just hope but God there is excitement and joy and just
[00:05:03] amazing things we know they're ahead we don't want to miss them for anything
[00:05:07] Lord we're gonna lay down every weight every sin every compromise every bit of
[00:05:12] lukewarmness every distraction lay it aside and let you wash our sins away so
[00:05:20] we can walk with you I walk with you a newness of life walk with you and
[00:05:24] holiness and obedience to walk with you being led by your spirit that's what we
[00:05:30] want so help us today Lord I ask you to move through this time speak through me
[00:05:38] today Lord as we get into your word we pray this in Jesus name amen amen you
[00:05:46] may be seated this morning welcome everyone fire and grace church those of
[00:05:49] you out there watching listening from all over the place Denmark Soren you
[00:05:58] always say thank you to Soren in Denmark for doing the denotal Europe page I
[00:06:06] noticed last night I do look at the comments I can't comment because you
[00:06:12] won't know it's me because YouTube won't let me have a an actual account with
[00:06:17] them anymore but I do see the the comments and I appreciate and I saw
[00:06:22] where the deal Europe page is up to almost 10,000 subscribers and that's
[00:06:28] pretty amazing so he has to edit me quite a bit to keep that up in Europe but but
[00:06:36] that's okay as long as they get some of it they can get the unedited version at
[00:06:41] our website I've entitled this today we're gonna get into the world we got a
[00:06:46] lot of scriptures we don't cover today I've entitled this today hatching snake
[00:06:50] eggs and it's something I'm gonna tell you right now we're gonna show you in
[00:06:57] the word you don't want to be doing that's actually a baby cobra coming out
[00:07:02] of that thing right there why anybody I started looking this up means people out
[00:07:07] there that raised baby cobras something is not right up here with that whole
[00:07:13] concept right there right and anyway I want everybody to take your Bibles and
[00:07:20] turn to Isaiah 59 is where we're gonna start and we'll start at verse 1
[00:07:26] there and if you're wondering what this means you're gonna see that this
[00:07:31] sermon today this message today is about lying it's about lying it's about
[00:07:40] slander it's about bearing false witness and this is something I think the body of
[00:07:48] Christ does not take seriously enough as a serious sin that you are going to be
[00:07:56] held accountable for and I think there's just two mouths wagged too easy these
[00:08:02] days against your brother your sister your leadership it's just there's too many
[00:08:10] lies slanderous words said and I just want to say something at the outset of
[00:08:18] this we get into this today really be careful when you say thing something
[00:08:25] about someone else unless you absolutely know positively know that it
[00:08:32] is true because you don't want to be a liar you don't want to be bearing false
[00:08:41] witness you don't want to be hatching snake eggs I'm gonna show you the Bible
[00:08:47] says this it's like hatching snake eggs when you do these things all right let's
[00:08:53] read this Isaiah 59 verse 1 behold the Lord's hand is not shortened that it
[00:09:01] cannot save neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear but your iniquities have
[00:09:06] separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you that
[00:09:11] he will not hear now you don't want that in your life he's telling you the problem
[00:09:16] the problem always comes back to one thing it comes back to where if we're
[00:09:19] feeling separated from God we feel like he's not blessing us or now yes we can
[00:09:24] walk through seasons of trial it doesn't mean that we've sinned but a lot of
[00:09:27] times it is because we've sinned and listen a lot of our sins come straight out
[00:09:32] of our mouth all right now and and the Lord he is this is a big deal to him okay
[00:09:40] but he says he goes on say he tells them he said for your hands are defiled with
[00:09:45] blood and your fingers with iniquity why your lips have spoken lies your tongue
[00:09:53] hath muttered perverseness things that are twisted they're not exactly right
[00:09:58] it's what perverseness is none call it for justice nor any pleaded for truth
[00:10:04] they trust in vanity and speak lies they conceive mischief and bring forth
[00:10:10] iniquity they hatch cockatrice eggs that there is a viper a poisonous snake they
[00:10:19] hatch these eggs these snake eggs and weave the spiders web he that eateth
[00:10:25] their eggs diet and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper now
[00:10:34] we're gonna stop there for just a second and I want you to put up the
[00:10:38] definition this word cockatrice it's only in the Bible like three times I
[00:10:42] think but it's an important the definition kind of gives you a little
[00:10:49] understanding of it it's either sepa or sepa here is the Hebrew word the
[00:10:54] outline of biblical usage meaning they've taken from all the lexicons to
[00:10:59] basically get you a definition but poisonous serpent a viper snake or adder
[00:11:04] the strong definition of this word for cockatrice means to extrude what is to
[00:11:12] extrude means something that goes what out right so it's alluding to the viper
[00:11:18] as it's thrusting out its tongue and hissing using its tongue so what he's
[00:11:26] talking about here in the context of this he's saying that if you speak lies
[00:11:32] deceit falsehoods that literally you are like the mouth of the serpent the
[00:11:42] serpent's tongue is coming out of you yours like the hissing of a serpent and
[00:11:46] you are a serpent also that's multiplying because you're laying you're
[00:11:53] laying eggs to be hatched out and make more little serpents and that's why he
[00:12:01] says he says you're basically just spreading demonic stuff and really
[00:12:07] helping the kingdom of darkness because remember in the book of Revelation
[00:12:13] Satan is called the accuser of the brethren right and this is a very
[00:12:21] important issue see I and the reason I'm bringing this up to is because I sat
[00:12:27] down one day you know I've heard Greg locks latest rant basically at me
[00:12:36] throwing me under the bus with everybody else that's into biblical cosmology aka
[00:12:42] flat earth now he sent me an apology and the reason I didn't make a big deal
[00:12:46] out of the apologies because I believe the apology was not real and it wasn't
[00:12:51] because the things he apologized for which I have the text messages to prove
[00:12:55] it the things he apologized for he went on a podcast the other day and said the
[00:12:59] same lies that he put out on that press release right after the debate and I
[00:13:06] sent him a personal text yesterday a very long one because what he's doing
[00:13:12] is telling lies and the things that whole press release was a lot and then
[00:13:17] you know I have the text message where I asked him I said you should have
[00:13:20] taken that down and he had his staff take it down now why would you take
[00:13:24] down a press release if you thought it was true so if you took it down you
[00:13:29] thought it was incorrect but then you're gonna go on a podcast with 500,000
[00:13:34] subscribers and basically pour out the same poison and I told him I said you
[00:13:41] are you are a liar and a slanderer and I said I hope you repent before the
[00:13:48] Lord brings his discipline upon you because you don't get to lie about
[00:13:54] another fellow minister and get away with it I'm sorry you don't get to
[00:14:00] slander and put things in ways where you are trying to hurt their character and
[00:14:08] their their reputation it's slander but see here's the thing and this is
[00:14:16] something that we all need to work on to make sure that we're not doing this
[00:14:23] to each other you know there were people after the debate you know pastor Greg
[00:14:29] was pretty nasty anybody that watches the debate from beginning to end knows
[00:14:34] who was nasty and who wasn't okay and then he tried to act like two he tried
[00:14:39] to act like I threw the mic at him I said buddy I put this in the
[00:14:44] text yesterday I said I was a quarterback from Pee Wee to college if I
[00:14:50] was throwing the mic at you able to hit you between the eyes I said that is
[00:14:57] ridiculous you know I wasn't throwing it at you I said that's dishonest and
[00:15:01] he's still he still let that go out there and I'm like well how can you be a
[00:15:10] Christian a man of God and just lie and slander and misrepresent somebody so
[00:15:17] blatantly and do it so publicly I'm telling you if he doesn't repent it's
[00:15:25] all coming down it's all coming down and it's not just him though I got people out
[00:15:35] there because you remember our Skyfall shirts this year our Skyfall that had
[00:15:40] the dome which is the firmament right we had the Polaris and we had the pillars
[00:15:45] it's sitting upon the pillars just like the Bible says somebody posted something
[00:15:49] where because of the pillars the two pillars there that we're Freemasons
[00:15:52] because the pillars the Freemasons have two pillars and I was like really
[00:15:59] but and then it's probably Russian vids because he's just got he's got this he's
[00:16:05] got just a everybody everybody but him I guess is a Freemason or part of the
[00:16:13] cabal or something but he's a clickbait it's all about clickbait and views for
[00:16:20] him but let me just tell you right now Russian vids the people you keep
[00:16:26] slandering and telling lies about you are not gonna get away with it see
[00:16:31] liars are gonna be in big trouble let's let's read a few more verses about this
[00:16:37] we're gonna go over to the New Testament for a second and let's go to revelation
[00:16:48] 21 first and this is why I'm making a big deal about this because lately too
[00:17:01] we've had pastor Mike Signorelli with dr. Michael Brown we've had this
[00:17:08] cessationist guy what's his name Justin Peters we've had Ray comfort who else am
[00:17:18] I forgetting I'm forgetting somebody has really come out hard against biblical
[00:17:25] creation that we teach and believe and it's funny I watched this Justin Peters
[00:17:31] little video the other day and you know Rob Skiba and I disagreed on many
[00:17:38] things but Rob did some neat experiments where he did the you know the Sun on a
[00:17:44] flat table and going down and using the the atmosphere recreating the atmosphere
[00:17:50] and the moisture in the air and things and Rob did some some really great
[00:17:53] experiments well he debunked the idea because Justin Peters said well because
[00:17:56] there's the Sun reflects under the clouds sometimes that means the earth has
[00:18:01] to be round because the Sun is going around you know we're going around it's
[00:18:05] going that way and that's why but Rob showed seven years ago debunked that
[00:18:11] nonsense when he showed a cloud and as the Sun his Sun moved away how the light
[00:18:18] went underneath it I mean it's an easy little experiment to do to prove that
[00:18:22] yes it's possible on a flat plane to have the Sun at a distance lighting up
[00:18:29] things under the clouds that's why the shadows get really long it's not
[00:18:33] complicated Justin but here the thing is this guy's supposed to be Justin Peters
[00:18:37] is supposed to be this apologist he's supposed to be this you know wolf hunter
[00:18:41] he's supposed to be this guy that gives us the truth you know right he's out
[00:18:45] there doing all these videos about people and yet he tries to debunk the
[00:18:51] whole flat earth biblical cosmology thing and uses no scripture whatsoever none in
[00:18:57] his video not one and then Greg has the audacity on that podcast the other day to
[00:19:06] act like he's the one that gave scripture during the debate that is a
[00:19:11] misrepresentation and dishonest people counted it up he gave about six
[00:19:17] scriptures and I was over 40 plus I didn't just give scriptures over 40
[00:19:24] scriptures but I broke down the words in the scriptures the Hebrew and Greek
[00:19:28] definitions of those words which he did none of and actually did wrong and I had
[00:19:32] to correct him about it but yet he puts out like he was the biblical scholar
[00:19:37] there that night and I was it I was putting out nonsense I'm gonna tell you
[00:19:43] right now this issue of biblical cosmology the truth of what the
[00:19:49] Bible says about creation is a big deal and you're really picking sides by
[00:19:58] deciding that you're gonna come out and fight it and mock it and say that the
[00:20:04] Bible's all about all the descriptors of creation it's just poetry it's just
[00:20:09] figurative language everybody you really what they're saying I said I heard Dr.
[00:20:14] Michael Brown say this that basically all the stuff unless it agrees with
[00:20:18] NASA and the heliocentric model all of it's just poetry all of it's just
[00:20:24] figurative language and I'm like wow and then they sit there and laugh ha ha ha
[00:20:31] like it's all funny I'm gonna tell you what happens when you depart from the
[00:20:39] truth of Scripture and I don't care what truth it is and you start mocking it the
[00:20:45] Holy Spirit departs from you the anointing leaves you and it's gonna
[00:20:51] happen to some of these people because it what they're doing it's not just like
[00:20:55] they disagree they have decided to attack and mock and ridicule what's
[00:21:02] clearly in the Bible and you know what it's not just this subject it's the the
[00:21:09] gift of tongues it's the gifts of the Holy Spirit the gifts of healing and
[00:21:15] working of miracles casting out demons we got people out there mocking Christians
[00:21:19] mocking other Christians about believing in casting out demons and yet it's
[00:21:24] throughout the New Testament that both Jesus and his followers cast out demons
[00:21:31] it should be normal but they mock and ridicule that and I'm just here to
[00:21:40] announce today that all of this slander and ridicule and especially coming from
[00:21:47] a place that is lies it's just complete lies I mean I'm gonna tell you right now
[00:21:53] if you say the Bible says that we live on a sphere spinning and flying through
[00:22:00] an ever-expanding universe that's not in the Bible so if you're saying that
[00:22:05] then you are a liar plain and simple you are preaching and teaching lies y'all
[00:22:13] can say what you want about us biblical cosmology people we stick to the word on
[00:22:18] the subject I wrote a four hundred and seventy nine page book going through
[00:22:24] the scriptures on everything from the firmament to the shape of the earth to
[00:22:29] the nature of the Sun moon and stars from the scriptures no one no one can
[00:22:35] tell me it's not biblical when you write a book you're basically sitting
[00:22:42] down to write years of research and then I spent hours upon hours researching
[00:22:48] again and reconfirming and and my sources on everything I know what the
[00:22:55] firmament is from Genesis to Revelation and if you try to say it's just an
[00:23:01] empty expanse of outer space when the Bible clearly says no it's a molten
[00:23:05] glass crystal dome over the earth upon which God's throne sits that's what the
[00:23:12] Bible says that's what the Bible teaches that's what the ancient Hebrews believed
[00:23:18] but somehow we are smarter than Moses today we're smarter than Joshua Joshua
[00:23:27] didn't know what he was talking about when he told the Sun and and moon to
[00:23:30] stand still and they did ah you know it's amazing to me these guys know more
[00:23:37] than the man that was up in the mountain in the glory of God talking to
[00:23:42] God face-to-face isn't that something and they get they have the audacity to
[00:23:46] say that God didn't mean when he said to Job where were you when I laid the
[00:23:50] foundation of the earth oh there's no real foundations that's just figurative
[00:23:54] that's what dr. Michael Brown said there's no real pillars of creation no
[00:24:01] that's just figurative God said there were pillars God said there was a
[00:24:07] foundation to job why would God use figurative language when he's talking
[00:24:11] directly to job about creation job just oh he just wouldn't be able to get it
[00:24:19] dr. Michael Brown even went so far as to say that the Bible does not the Bible
[00:24:27] does not have scientific information in it about anything we shouldn't look at
[00:24:32] it about that for anything I'm like my god you sound like one of these
[00:24:36] liberal scholars and he's supposed to be a Holy Spirit filled leader in the
[00:24:42] church world and it's embarrassing in fact it's sickening I used to have some
[00:24:50] respect for the man but I have lost all of it now you know I contacted him years
[00:24:56] ago when I was writing the polluted church I contacted him years ago and
[00:25:03] showed him where Mike Bickle was teaching false doctrine and occult
[00:25:08] mysticism and Roman Catholic mysticism and how there was all kind of sexual
[00:25:13] demons evolved with Bob Jones and all in Paul Kane and all of that and how it
[00:25:17] was going to be a disaster in 2010 11 dr. Michael Brown and I was emailing back
[00:25:24] and forth he said he would read my book when he found out I was naming names
[00:25:29] Oh Mike Bickle's my friend he ignored it he ignored it the warning that God
[00:25:37] gave me to give to the body of Christ about I hop and Mike Bickle and look at
[00:25:41] what has happened now we have found out that it has been going on for over 20
[00:25:45] years that Mike Bickle has been using his position as a spiritual leader and
[00:25:49] as a prophet and using his so-called prophetic gifts to have relationships
[00:25:55] with women some 14 years old and much younger than him the question now is
[00:26:03] easy going to go to jail how much could have been stopped had dr. Brown gone to
[00:26:09] his friend and said this is what's going on you guys better get a handle on this
[00:26:13] back in 2010 and 11 uh-uh but he wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole
[00:26:18] cuz Mike Bickle was his friend this is the kind of crap that goes on and I'm
[00:26:27] gonna tell you right now I I lost respect them because I trust here's
[00:26:32] another thing if you give your word about something you best do it I mean
[00:26:40] unless just something comes in and you just can't you know there's just no way
[00:26:44] you can't then you go to the person you say look I know I said I would do this
[00:26:48] but this is what's happened and I just can't but other than that you better keep
[00:26:53] your word because let me tell you something if you say you're going to do
[00:26:56] something and you don't do it you're a liar you just told a lie and God
[00:27:04] wants his people to be about the truth in everything how many young women would
[00:27:11] not have been abused over the last 20 years or how long has it been since I
[00:27:17] wrote what what 12 years had there been some intervention back then see I knew
[00:27:32] then that just about the entire so-called prayer movement prophetic
[00:27:37] movement within the charismatic church has been corrupt sexually doctrinally and
[00:27:44] and a cult in an occult pollution I have known this for years and years you
[00:27:52] know in 1995 when God had me start the church I started in Montgomery he spoke
[00:27:59] to me these words said the charismatic movement is over I mean he spoke it to
[00:28:05] me strong it has been nothing but a shell of a so-called church slash
[00:28:13] movement slash whatever you want to call it it's over it's I don't blame some of
[00:28:20] these guys like Justin Peters and some of these people that are cessationist and
[00:28:24] anti everything charismatic because most of it I agree with them has gone into
[00:28:29] Kukieville it has gone into error it has gone into counterfeits and extremes it
[00:28:35] is demonic and it is riddled that entire movement is riddled with sexual
[00:28:43] immorality and they hide it and lie about it all the time I remember going
[00:28:52] into some big charismatic church I won't even name name and the moment I
[00:28:55] got around the praise and worship leader 99% of them are homosexual and if
[00:29:02] they're not they're in sexual sin with somebody on the praise and worship team
[00:29:06] it's like a meat market like a dating service or something it's insane y'all
[00:29:14] and then they get up there and lead us in worship no I think about Brian Houston
[00:29:26] lying covering up for his pedophile father for years which allowed his
[00:29:36] pedophile father to continue to be a pedophile and molest kids and then a
[00:29:45] pastor Hillsong biggest church in Australia then he lies about it to the
[00:29:55] authorities he lies about it to the church until it all comes out and you
[00:30:02] know here's the thing about truth it's always gonna come out oh it may take
[00:30:10] 20 years it may take 30 years it may take 40 years it's gonna come out the
[00:30:16] skeletons are gonna come out that's why as the people of God you have to be
[00:30:23] about telling the truth living the truth being real not hiding anything
[00:30:29] because it will come out and this is why again God is serious about lying I
[00:30:40] told you turn to Revelation 21 go down to verse 6 we'll read 6 through 8 I've
[00:30:46] read this many times in this church gonna read again this is a warning to
[00:30:56] these lying preachers out here and these lying prophets these people that
[00:31:02] they get up and lie about healings or miracles in their services that search
[00:31:09] on the internet and get information about you and then act like it's a prophetic
[00:31:13] word or many of them are doing that right now it's so easy I get your name
[00:31:23] when you come in the church somebody gets your name from me I can look up your
[00:31:27] Instagram your Facebook and then I could go hey does this number mean anything to
[00:31:33] you and and give your address or where you live before this is the game being
[00:31:40] played in the charismatic church you know why it is because there's no power
[00:31:42] left anymore because they're so immoral see the Holy Spirit anoints holiness he
[00:31:54] doesn't anoint immorality and corruption and lying Jesus speaking here he said
[00:32:03] unto them it is done I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end I will
[00:32:08] give unto him that is a thirst of the fountain of the water of life freely he
[00:32:13] that over cometh shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he
[00:32:17] shall be my son but the fearful and the unbelieving and the abominable and
[00:32:24] murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have
[00:32:33] their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second
[00:32:37] death do you hear that if you are a liar a slander a false witness bearing
[00:32:50] false witness or not bearing false witness it's one of the big ten by
[00:32:54] the way but he tells you here in the book of Revelation this is your end if
[00:33:03] this is the kind of person you are some politicians on their way to hell so oh
[00:33:15] yeah they laugh like it's well I'm a politician I'm supposed to lie well
[00:33:21] guess what you know what's a breath of fresh air is somebody in politics tells
[00:33:32] the truth even if it cost them an election tell the truth how about that
[00:33:37] novel idea let's tell the truth how many lives would have been saved if more
[00:33:43] people would have told the truth about you know that jibity thing cancer rates
[00:33:49] are up death rates are up it's all coming out now but we all knew it back
[00:33:54] then we all knew exactly what's gonna happen yeah we got a new jibity that's
[00:34:03] going to help you yeah okay okay jibity huh yeah help you help you help me right
[00:34:14] get rid of you so there's more for me all right I just saw a girl young girl
[00:34:23] just stroked out it's not normal for young people have strokes it's not normal
[00:34:31] for young men to have heart attacks lies lies lies this is why listen lies always
[00:34:40] are it's hiding something some sin some evil some wickedness that's going to do
[00:34:47] more harm and listen if there's a lie the only reason a person lies or a
[00:34:56] government lies or an institution lies the only reason there lies is to hide
[00:35:00] something it's always to hide something because if you knew the truth you
[00:35:09] wouldn't take the jibity you wouldn't buy the product you wouldn't go to the
[00:35:14] church you wouldn't do this or do that so they can't tell you but as Christians
[00:35:21] folks we have to be about the truth we can't be lying about anything to anybody
[00:35:28] and see there's not gonna be blood on my hands because I'm telling you if you're
[00:35:36] a habitual liar you will not go to heaven when you die you will not have
[00:35:41] eternal life with Jesus Christ this is crystal clear liars do not go to heaven
[00:35:53] because who's the liar Satan right and I've said this many times you're going to
[00:36:01] end up in the place of the one you act like in the one you follow so you best
[00:36:08] be acting like Jesus and Jesus is the way the truth and the life you know when he
[00:36:15] called his he called Nathaniel one of the beautiful things he said about
[00:36:19] Nathaniel his disciple he said there's no guile in him there's no deceit
[00:36:25] there's no falsehood there's no lying in him I believe that's why the Lord
[00:36:31] picked him because he was a he was genuine the Lord's I saw you into the
[00:36:38] fig tree there's no guile in you he's like how do you know me see that's
[00:36:45] another thing the Lord knows you you might fool everybody else might fool me
[00:36:54] it's hard to fool me but you might fool me because I'm not perfect I might miss
[00:36:59] it and you might fool me but you're not fooling the Lord Jesus Christ he
[00:37:03] knows your heart he knows everything you thought every word you've spoken and you
[00:37:08] know the Bible says that we're going to be judged by every idle word that has
[00:37:12] come out of our mouths so let me tell you those words that come out of your
[00:37:19] mouth better be truth children don't lie to your parents don't lie I know
[00:37:29] foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child and it's natural to lie don't
[00:37:34] lie start breaking that habit now you know I have four rules when I had my
[00:37:42] my kids coming up and these four rules are simple rule number one this if you
[00:37:50] broke these rules automatic spanking and when I spanked it hurt right automatic
[00:37:57] spanking and possible grounding as well but it any disobedience after you've been
[00:38:03] warned I give you one warning like go clean up your room and as you still
[00:38:08] playing I told you to go clean up your room that's your warning you got your
[00:38:15] chance you were told once you didn't do it you got a warning after that if I saw
[00:38:19] you not doing it your butt was lit up number two was any
[00:38:28] disrespectful tone or words out of your mouth toward me or your mother that comes
[00:38:37] out belt comes out paddle comes out something's coming out we're going out
[00:38:43] to the woodshed number three was if you lie to me if you broke the lamp you
[00:38:52] best confess you will get more mercy telling me the truth than you will if you
[00:38:59] lie to me I catch you lying to me it's gonna be a bad day for you and then I
[00:39:06] told him if you hit your and I always had girls I didn't have any boys so if
[00:39:09] you hit your sister I hit you real easy right and you know what I did never
[00:39:17] wavered on those rules and by the time they got about eight nine years old they
[00:39:24] knew really like are we do we have to do this you see them start scooting like
[00:39:33] that y'all know that's that's good right but the lying issue is serious God is
[00:39:44] serious about lying and the truth let's read I love this right here let's go to
[00:39:52] Colossians chapter 3 started verse 1 give you some New Testament then we're
[00:39:58] going back to some Old Testament now he's speaking to Christians here born
[00:40:09] again Christians should should be living different we shouldn't be living
[00:40:14] according to the old man the old ways the old life we should be living a new
[00:40:17] life through the power of Jesus and his Holy Spirit living in us we should
[00:40:22] we should be different than the world but see a lot of us still let the old
[00:40:27] man rise up and rule us we let the flesh rule us and it's and we become
[00:40:35] carnal you cannot the carnal man will lead you to death and that death is a
[00:40:43] second death eternally separated from God in hell forever you cannot let the
[00:40:48] carnal man win this war but he's in there he's in all of us trying to make us do
[00:40:54] these things but look at this he says here Colossians 3 says if you then be
[00:40:59] risen with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on
[00:41:04] the right hand of God set your affection on things above not on
[00:41:08] things on the earth for we for you are dead and your life is hid with
[00:41:13] Christ in God when Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also
[00:41:18] appear with him in glory mortify that means to put to death therefore your
[00:41:24] members which are upon the earth fornication uncleanness inordinate
[00:41:28] affection evil concupiscence covetousness which is idolatry for which
[00:41:33] things sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience in which
[00:41:38] she also walked sometimes when you lived in them but now you put off all these
[00:41:44] anger wrath malice blasphemy filthy communications out of your mouth lied not
[00:41:52] to one another seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds and have
[00:41:58] put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that
[00:42:02] created him lie not that's not a suggestion it's a command do not lie to
[00:42:11] each other is that not clear and why does he tell us this he said you are not
[00:42:21] supposed to be living like you did when you were unsaved back then we told lies
[00:42:29] about stuff when it would have been easier to tell the truth you know that
[00:42:36] you ever lie when you didn't even need to lie it just was natural like just
[00:42:40] flow especially when your parents caught you somewhere you shouldn't be
[00:42:47] you're doing something you shouldn't be doing boy you could come up with a story
[00:42:49] quick or the principal or the police officer I've had all those
[00:42:57] conversations I found the best thing with police officers though I just
[00:43:02] tell them the truth yes I was speeding I deserve a ticket go ahead and write it
[00:43:06] and they'll go hey hold up I'm not wasn't necessarily gonna give you a
[00:43:09] ticket truth will set you free I have been set free from many a ticket by
[00:43:18] just saying yes I did it sir y'all seen it I don't argue they saw me get pulled
[00:43:24] over twice in the same day in the same County going to a campaign event and
[00:43:28] coming back I don't know if the state troopers were worried I was gonna be
[00:43:33] their next boss cuz that Dino for governor on the truck but I got
[00:43:36] warnings and I was flying down that mountain I'm gonna tell you that one
[00:43:39] coming back home but that's not my watch no I'm not the fast driver in
[00:43:47] the family I didn't grow up in Atlanta lie not just tell the truth tell me the
[00:44:00] truth is always better say Pastor Dean I don't think so sometimes yeah it is let
[00:44:08] me show you let's go to Psalm 63 I love this y'all don't mind if we go through a
[00:44:19] little bit of the Bible this morning do you know there's gonna be a judgment upon
[00:44:26] liars it's gonna be bad and the judgment will not just be when you die
[00:44:33] or when Jesus returns the judgment can start here and now and especially if you
[00:44:44] slander in good people in public you slandering the righteous you slandering
[00:44:49] God's people in public you best be careful better to keep your mouth shut
[00:44:55] than to go down that road here's what David said love this and we're gonna
[00:44:59] read the whole psalm it's only 11 verses but it's just too good now the reason
[00:45:04] too is my Bible I hope your Bible has it in there says this is a psalm of
[00:45:08] David when he was in the wilderness of Judah you know why this is important this
[00:45:13] is when he was being chased by Saul his life was in danger every day and Saul had
[00:45:19] told lies about him Saul had made David out to be a criminal that saw had
[00:45:25] convinced other soldiers that David used to know and command he had
[00:45:31] convinced these soldiers David is a criminal come with me to hunt him down
[00:45:36] and kill him now you couldn't be in a more precarious situation than David was
[00:45:43] in because the little band he had with him was highly outnumbered by the
[00:45:47] Israeli army at the time and King Saul was after him and he was in the
[00:45:53] wilderness and he said this he said Oh God thou art my God early or diligently
[00:45:59] earnestly will I seek thee my soul thirsted for thee my flesh longest for
[00:46:04] thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is and he was out into this
[00:46:09] wilderness and in the desert and there was scarce water but he says to see thy
[00:46:13] power and thy glory so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary because thy loving
[00:46:18] kindness is better than life my lips shall praise thee thus will I bless thee
[00:46:23] while I live I will lift up my hands in thy name my soul shall be satisfied as
[00:46:28] with marrow and fatness my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips now
[00:46:33] think about this he's in the wilderness hiding being hunted down and he's saying
[00:46:39] I will praise you Lord I will rejoice in you when I remember thee upon my bed
[00:46:46] and meditate on the in the night watches because thou has been my help
[00:46:51] therefore the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice or in the shadow of thy wings I
[00:46:55] will rejoice my soul follow with heart after thee thy right hand upholdeth me
[00:47:01] but those that seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the
[00:47:05] earth well we just read that right he's saying this liar this person falsely
[00:47:12] accused me this person trying to kill me this person using their words against
[00:47:17] me this is where they're gonna go into the lower parts of the earth that's
[00:47:21] hell they shall fall by the sword which is interesting as a prophecy about
[00:47:25] what it did happen to Saul and Jonathan and he says they shall fall
[00:47:32] by the sword they shall be a portion for foxes but the king shall rejoice in God
[00:47:37] everyone that sweareth by him shall glory but the mouth of them that speak
[00:47:43] lies shall be stopped see we got some Saul Christians out there you know what
[00:47:51] Saul Christians are King Saul Christians King Saul Christians started out right
[00:47:57] like saw Saul's heart was changed he was humble he was small in his own sight
[00:48:04] so he had a humble attitude about himself and when God decided to anoint
[00:48:10] him and make him king and Samuel went to him and anoint him with home it says
[00:48:14] Saul got a brand new heart became like another man then the anointing of the
[00:48:19] Holy Spirit came on him when he got around the prophets and he started
[00:48:22] prophesying they said it's all among the prophets so here Saul is blessed
[00:48:28] God has lifted him up to be king of Israel given him his Holy Spirit the
[00:48:35] anointing and then Saul begins to decide to do things his own way not wait on
[00:48:42] Samuel Saul wasn't a priest but he then he did he does a sacrifice all this
[00:48:50] stuff starts happening but here's what happens after that when Samuel tells him
[00:48:55] the Lord's rejected you and has picked somebody else better than you well you
[00:49:00] don't want that to be said of you because here's what can happen to you
[00:49:05] the deception that comes in because the Lord will allow the gifts the gifts
[00:49:11] and calling of God are without repentance meaning the anointing and the
[00:49:14] gifts may stay there may still operate in you but then an evil spirit will come
[00:49:20] and operate through you too and you'll start throwing javelins at the people
[00:49:25] of God and one minute you're throwing javelins and trying to hurt God's called
[00:49:32] and chosen ones and the next minute you're flowing in the gift yeah Greg
[00:49:41] Locke it's you this is why he flows one minute in the Spirit Holy Spirit the
[00:49:50] next minute he's slandering a brother and not even afraid to lie serious very
[00:50:05] serious go to Jeremiah chapter 9 I spent two days going through these
[00:50:23] scriptures on this I really wasn't planning on it I just started looking up
[00:50:29] lying when you know you start there's a lot of variations of that lying liars
[00:50:39] tail bearers backbiters whispers bearing false witness Jeremiah chapter 9 verse 1
[00:50:56] somebody says now this is Jeremiah was prophesying to the people of God and
[00:51:02] he was prophesying about judgment that was about to come upon them and they
[00:51:06] were oblivious to it and didn't want to hear what he had to say about it but he
[00:51:12] defines the problem in among the people God now this is not again this is the
[00:51:18] children of Israel he's not talking to a forward nation he's not talking to a
[00:51:21] heathen nation and hear what he says here he says oh that my head were
[00:51:27] waters in my eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for
[00:51:32] the slain of the daughter of my people oh that I had in the wilderness a
[00:51:36] lodging place of wayfaring men that I might leave my people and go from them
[00:51:41] for they be all adulterers an assembly of treacherous men and they bend their
[00:51:48] tongues like their bow for what lies but they are not valiant for the truth upon
[00:51:59] the earth for they proceed from evil to evil and they know not me saith the
[00:52:05] Lord take ye heed every one of his neighbor and trust not in any brother for
[00:52:12] every brother shall utterly supplant and every neighbor will walk with slanders
[00:52:17] now let's put this up slanders here's the Hebrew word for this he's saying
[00:52:22] that this is the problem among the people of God they just all of them walk
[00:52:27] with slanders and here it is the word rocky you strong's here says a scandal
[00:52:39] monger right somebody just loves to cause them and speak them to slander carry
[00:52:46] tails a tail bear that's traveling about to carry tails oh boy we got some of
[00:52:55] those don't we he goes on verse 5 and Jeremiah they will deceive everyone his
[00:53:02] neighbor and will not speak the truth they have taught their tongue to speak
[00:53:08] lies and they weary themselves to commit iniquity line habitation is in the
[00:53:15] midst of deceit through deceit listen this deceit which means falsehood lies
[00:53:21] they refuse to know me sayeth the Lord therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts
[00:53:27] behold I will melt them and try them at least test them for how shall I do for
[00:53:33] the daughter of my people their tongue is as an arrow shot out it speaketh
[00:53:40] deceit as lies again one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his
[00:53:45] mouth but in his heart he lieth his weight shall I not visit them for these
[00:53:51] things saith the Lord shall not my soul be avenged on a nation as this he's like
[00:53:59] their whole their whole habitation about where they live and how it's there
[00:54:06] it's all lies I think about some of this stuff I think about just the
[00:54:11] condition of most of the church in America whether you talk about Baptist
[00:54:19] Presbyterian charismatic Pentecostal most have made lies their refuge like I'm
[00:54:28] once saved always saved no matter how I live I'm eternally secure there's
[00:54:32] nothing that can separate me from the love of God I can be a homosexual I can
[00:54:35] be a fornicator I can be an adulterer I could be God still loves me and I'm on
[00:54:39] my way to heaven that's a refuge of lies oh the baptism of the Holy Spirit
[00:54:47] the gifts of the Holy Spirit being led by the Holy Spirit hearing the voice
[00:54:49] of God being led by God oh that's not for today that all ended but the
[00:54:53] Apostles that's a refuge of lies all demons aren't active in North America
[00:55:00] like they teach at the Baptist Southwestern Theological Seminary in
[00:55:02] Fort Worth Texas they say demons aren't active in North America have you looked
[00:55:06] at Canada lately Trudeau if no one in Canada has a demon Trudeau has demons
[00:55:16] no demons are active all over the place and need to be bound and cast out and
[00:55:24] rebuked and resisted by true believers who have authority in Jesus Christ but
[00:55:29] if you say that no no no demons are operating y'all a bunch of y'all looking
[00:55:35] for a demon behind every bush they're not behind bushes no they're in your
[00:55:40] house they're trying to break up your marriage they're in your head they're in
[00:55:44] your heart they're in your car with you talking in your ear no they don't hide
[00:55:48] behind bushes because most of you don't have enough anointing to make them
[00:55:52] scared enough to go hide behind a bush because you like them they're your
[00:55:59] friends I'm not getting some people are more used to their demons than they are
[00:56:08] the Holy Spirit and I'm talking about Christians because I've spent the last
[00:56:15] 36 going on 37 years casting demons out of Christians I like Keith Green used to
[00:56:20] say that his ministry was to get Christians saved because the church
[00:56:26] world is a refuge of lies it's one false doctrine after another after another
[00:56:31] after another and so many people have made that their home their habitation
[00:56:36] that's where they live lies lies more lies piled on top top of lies and then
[00:56:42] there's the new ones like Jesus already came and the millennial reign already
[00:56:47] happened that's just another lie there the lies are abundant you have to
[00:56:55] remember we just read a minute ago he said these they're not valiant for the
[00:56:59] truth you know it takes bravery courage boldness strength to be for the truth
[00:57:05] in a time of unbelievable just mountain of lies that are everywhere and in that
[00:57:18] I'm it blows my mind that really we only have one thing we can know as
[00:57:27] Christians that we know for sure is the truth and that is the God breathe
[00:57:35] God inspired holy Word of God and yet many won't even read it or they pick up
[00:57:48] a corrupted version of it like the message and think that's the Bible
[00:57:52] that's another refuge of lies are you valiant for the truth do you tell the
[00:58:09] truth do you speak the truth see some people lie because they just don't want
[00:58:16] the pressure they don't want the persecution they don't want the tax the
[00:58:23] resistance they don't want to lose friends they don't want to lose
[00:58:26] relationships so you lie and let me tell you even if it's a little white lie
[00:58:35] like you know your wife makes the worst meatloaf you ever had your life if you
[00:58:42] don't tell the truth about that you're gonna be eating that meatloaf for many
[00:58:47] years to come oh it's great honey oh she gonna make it again tell the truth I
[00:58:59] tell my wife the truth she cooks good stuff she's had some stuff she bombed on
[00:59:05] I just tell the truth up mm-hmm that wasn't too good tell the truth I can't
[00:59:12] remember there was some preacher I remember years ago talking about he went
[00:59:14] and visited a house and I think I can't remember now I think it was down in
[00:59:18] Louisiana and they were cooking gumbo I love gumbo good real gumbo and said
[00:59:24] you know this guy that never went to church it wasn't saved and said his wife
[00:59:27] made the worst gumbo ever in the world and the preacher came in and ate some
[00:59:34] of that gumbo is like this terrible and then she asked how it was and he was
[00:59:37] like and the Lord said don't you lie don't you lie don't you lie to her he
[00:59:44] goes it's it's crap and the man stood up and said you the first preacher that
[00:59:51] ever told the truth and the man got saved uh-huh we think it's not important
[01:00:01] but just think about that he could have just said oh it's wonderful and he's
[01:00:04] never gonna be there again but he told the truth and that man said somebody
[01:00:10] told her the truth he was the first preacher ever set in this house told her
[01:00:14] the truth it's important tell the truth it sets people free amen y'all
[01:00:23] don't mind this do you think about our world if everybody in our world told the
[01:00:30] truth say well that would be running around a lot of people get their feelings
[01:00:36] hurt but let me tell you what we'd have we'd have a lot more real relationships
[01:00:43] we'd just be honest with each other you know there's some folks out there think
[01:00:54] they can sing and they cannot sing somebody has to tell them for the rest
[01:01:02] of us it's amazing though you know I remember years ago watching some
[01:01:10] American Idol when my daughters wanted to watch it and I'd see these people who
[01:01:13] truly deep down believed that what was coming out it was beautiful and you're
[01:01:17] just like the dogs are howling and it's hurting your ears and those judges would
[01:01:24] tell them the truth I'm sorry you're not a singer but my mama said I was your
[01:01:31] mama lied to you need to go into something else other than singing see and
[01:01:41] if we lie think about parents if we lie to our kids about their gifts and
[01:01:44] talents and don't tell them the truth it may send them down a road they don't
[01:01:48] need to go there it would cause them to be unsuccessful you tell them the truth
[01:01:53] if they stink at singing give up trying to be a singer I know one of Nancy's
[01:02:01] brothers oh he wanted to play basketball wanted to play basketball just oh the
[01:02:07] basketball coach finally told him said son I just got to tell you you're
[01:02:11] terrible you're terrible at basketball you need to put your energy and time
[01:02:16] in something you're good at and he did that and he became successful in the
[01:02:21] thing he did I know a guy that played football for Auburn many years ago
[01:02:25] played for Pat Dye and he's big guy big lineman offensive lineman here from
[01:02:32] here in Alabama he passed away he was a good guy sprayberry Tim sprayberry and
[01:02:37] he told me this story he said you know he said I was working hard I wanted to
[01:02:42] I wanted to play I want to become a starter and I was just working hard I
[01:02:45] was working hard to weight room I was working hard he said finally Pat died
[01:02:49] called me in his office one day and he just said son I love your heart I love
[01:02:54] your work ethic I love how you're you're on time every day and you give it
[01:03:01] your all he said but you're not gonna play for me he said you're not big
[01:03:05] enough you're not strong enough you're not fast enough and I just don't want
[01:03:09] you to waste your time because you could be doing something else and he
[01:03:15] said I'll let you stay if you want to stay and and continue to practice and
[01:03:19] help the team he said but you're not gonna play and he was honest with and he
[01:03:24] said he appreciated that because he went into what he needed to go into just
[01:03:31] telling the truth say why I don't want to hurt people's feelings but sometimes
[01:03:39] that's what they need to get them on the right path see I hurt somebody's
[01:03:47] feelings nearly every week it's part of my job but it's not cuz I hate people
[01:03:56] it's not cuz I don't love people it's not I want people to grow I want people
[01:04:01] to find their gifts and callings in God I want them to find their own
[01:04:05] relationship with Jesus and and and hear from the Holy Spirit and do what he
[01:04:11] wants you to do for your life that's all I want that's why I don't tell
[01:04:16] people yeah you got to come to our church I come to our church if the Lord
[01:04:20] tells you to come to our church that's what I do because I don't want you to
[01:04:25] come here if you're not supposed to be here I want the will of God for your
[01:04:29] life because I know what that's gonna be what's best for you and I remember
[01:04:36] the years ago I remember telling somebody there was somebody that oh they
[01:04:38] wanted to be a preacher but they could not preach at all it was painful
[01:04:44] to listen to but they did have gifts and talents in other areas to help a
[01:04:51] ministry and I remember telling them yeah I'm sorry you're a horrible public
[01:04:56] speaker you can't do it you just there's no anointing and no gift there but
[01:05:03] that's okay because God doesn't call us all to do that and that's okay you got
[01:05:09] to find what God wants you to do and it ain't standing up here preaching
[01:05:13] because that just torture everybody and I told them the Lord made me tell them the
[01:05:24] truth I fired somebody one time and I said you're gonna be mad at me now I said
[01:05:32] but you I know the Lord wants you out of the nest because you're gonna find your
[01:05:40] own gifts and your own calling and your own ministry and one day you'll love
[01:05:43] me again because you'll see it oh they're mad at me oh they left mad mad but
[01:05:51] it's happened it made them seek the Lord find what he'd called them to do
[01:05:58] and they've called me and apologized and we're friends and we're gonna help them
[01:06:05] do what they're called to do and if I hadn't have pushed them out of the nest
[01:06:09] things would have things would have went bad for them and us because it needed
[01:06:15] to happen and some of you need to get honest with some children some grown
[01:06:23] children there's some people listen and may I this is for somebody I feel this
[01:06:31] very strongly stop enabling your drug addict children you make the ultimatum
[01:06:40] you get no more money no more assistance from me until you go get in a rehab if
[01:06:45] you got to get in a rehab whatever you got to do but I'm not helping you
[01:06:48] anymore and somebody need to hear it you need to stop they're draining you
[01:06:57] financially spiritually mentally emotionally it's time to you make them
[01:07:01] grow up and if they if they end up out on the street maybe living under the
[01:07:08] bridge will wake them up that maybe they want something better out of life I've
[01:07:13] had some people end up under the bridge or end up in prison and they finally woke
[01:07:17] up and said you know what I'm gonna do what's necessary to get this addiction
[01:07:21] broken and all for the drugs or the alcohol and I'm gonna change my life
[01:07:26] and they've changed their lives for the better but they had to be allowed to
[01:07:30] hit rock bottom and if mom and daddy keep catching them and facilitating and
[01:07:35] helping them out they're gonna stay a drug addict they're gonna stay in that
[01:07:40] life so that's mean Pastor Dean no it's truth truth hurts sometimes truth is
[01:07:51] painful but it must be told and it must be walked out I mean even here we have
[01:08:01] people all the time we we help people that have needs we help people in this
[01:08:05] church all the time we help people that come in off the street with stuff
[01:08:08] but I'm not handing money to them to go down to the liquor store you understand
[01:08:16] or go go to the drug house and buy drugs if I if I feel like they're still on
[01:08:21] drugs and they're still drinking like I smell it on one individual that pops in
[01:08:25] here from time to time I told him the other day you're not getting any cash
[01:08:29] you need something to eat we'll get somebody take you down to one would get
[01:08:32] you something to eat we don't mind getting you some food to eat but I'm
[01:08:35] not giving you money to go buy liquor or drugs it's not happening told him I
[01:08:39] said I smell it on oh no I don't drink I even I smell it things people forget
[01:08:47] that I wouldn't always a Christian I know what every type of alcohol smells
[01:08:52] like I remember when we started the school the the school the high school
[01:08:59] you know in in Montgomery I remember you know it was it was junior high and high
[01:09:03] school kids and then we had a room full bout like this but there were little
[01:09:07] few more and they were tables they were at round tables and I taught the Bible
[01:09:11] class and I taught the origins of civil government right to the high school so I
[01:09:15] taught two classes in that school was Christian school and I remember walking
[01:09:20] around giving them their little Bible devotion one morning I walked around
[01:09:23] here and then I walked over here and I said you know what's funny I got over
[01:09:26] here to this table is about always about 910 people around the table I
[01:09:30] said when I get at this table I smell marijuana I said well when I walk over
[01:09:35] here I don't now wait a minute let me come back over here yes I smell
[01:09:40] marijuana right here you should have seen them up like how does he know you
[01:09:48] can smell it y'all feel like like they can hide smoking cigarettes today that's
[01:09:53] funny you're not hiding it I said y'all better confess I said cuz the next the
[01:10:03] next phone calls to the police so if but if you confess what you've done we'll sit
[01:10:06] down in the office and talk about it and you might get some mercy but if you
[01:10:09] lie I'm just gonna call the police because you can't be bringing dope on
[01:10:13] a campus with kids from kindergarten on up it just can't do it guess what they
[01:10:19] all went to the office and confessed and we had a little conversation my nose
[01:10:26] knows but tell the truth see the truth I used to have a deal with my kids too it
[01:10:34] was always better to tell me the truth because I'm all about I'll give you
[01:10:38] mercy what is mercy when you deserve punishment but I choose in my good and
[01:10:45] sweet heart to not give it to you that's mercy you deserve it but you're
[01:10:52] not going to get it cuz I'm letting you off this time and you know what that
[01:10:56] teaches them it teaches them God's nature he's a god of justice but he's also a
[01:11:04] god of mercy if you humble yourself and confess and admit the truth and tell the
[01:11:09] truth and tell the truth about your own heart look getting saved or getting out
[01:11:14] of sin or out of the pig pen if you're a back-sleeping Christian you've gone
[01:11:19] back to the pig pen the first they'll tell you it doesn't matter what you're
[01:11:23] into the first step is admitting what you are and what you were doing if you
[01:11:29] could admit I'm a sinner I'm lost I let myself be deceived I let my flesh take
[01:11:37] over and I am just indulging evil and wickedness I am sinning against heaven
[01:11:43] I'm sinning against the Lord I need his forgiveness I hope he will forgive me
[01:11:49] you have a humble heart and you go to God and say I need your forgiveness I
[01:11:53] repent of this I don't want to live this way anymore you're telling the truth to
[01:11:58] God and when you do that he is faithful and just to forgive you and to cleanse
[01:12:07] you and to give you another opportunity that's the beautiful thing about the
[01:12:12] gospel and Jesus dying for our sins and what he is provided through that is man
[01:12:19] we can completely blow it and he can restore us and have mercy on us but we
[01:12:29] got to be honest if you're an adult or you say you know what adultery is a sin
[01:12:34] unto death will put me in hell I'm gonna stop this adulterous affair and
[01:12:39] repent and seek the Lord for forgiveness and restoration see so many people they
[01:12:48] lie to themselves you know you know what you want to tell you a lie to the
[01:12:50] devil that you believe the lie to yourself it's not that bad God
[01:12:54] understands you start hearing those things in your head let me tell you what
[01:12:58] that is the liar let's do this real quick because it's just a little laughter
[01:13:03] 12 just a little laughter but I got to read a few of these verses these are in
[01:13:09] Proverbs y'all ready to do a little race through Proverbs chapter 6 starting
[01:13:18] verse 16 I'm gonna read a few these six things that the Lord hate yay seven
[01:13:27] are an abomination and him that means says abomination something he really
[01:13:31] hates a proud look a lying tongue do you see that everybody see that a lying tongue
[01:13:38] hands that shed innocent blood a heart that devises wicked imaginations feet
[01:13:45] that be swift to running to mischief a false witness that speaketh lies and
[01:13:51] he that soweth discord among brethren God says he hates these things and twice in
[01:13:58] there he says lying lying let's go to Proverbs 10 18 gonna do a look come on
[01:14:07] we're gonna do it quick Proverbs only right now Proverbs 10 18 says he that
[01:14:14] heighteth hatred with lying lips and he that utter earth a slander is a fool so
[01:14:22] I don't have to call you a fool the Bible will call you a fool if you're
[01:14:25] doing foolish stuff all right but notice he says he that heighteth hatred with
[01:14:32] lying lips see here's the thing you're gonna see there's another verse right
[01:14:37] here in fact jump to Proverbs 26 28 because these two go together remember
[01:14:45] 10 to 18 there says he that heighteth hatred with lying lips and he that
[01:14:48] utter earth a slander is a fool and then he says this in Proverbs 26 28 a lying
[01:14:54] tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it and a flattering mouth worketh
[01:15:00] ruin so he says that hatred is really what's behind lying oh you say pastor
[01:15:11] Dean now wait a minute now if I lie about somebody slander somebody I'm not I
[01:15:16] don't hate them oh yes you are because you are doing harm to them you're doing
[01:15:21] harm especially okay for instance somebody tries to turn people against
[01:15:26] me and I'm trying to lead this people to Jesus and they might have needed to hear
[01:15:32] what I have to say so they might be saved and you got somebody out there
[01:15:35] slandering me so they're going to interfere with that person listening to
[01:15:40] what they might need to hear from me it's it's the same it works for
[01:15:43] everybody that way but deep down if you're willing to to lie slander bear
[01:15:49] false witness you are really destroying somebody's ability to do what God's called
[01:15:57] them to do or to help the people they're supposed to help so it's really a
[01:16:01] chain reaction this is why it's hatching snake eggs because let me tell
[01:16:07] you these little vipers they're able to kill you it's about the producing
[01:16:13] death spiritual death there's been people that have been turned away from
[01:16:18] our ministry that needed our ministry because of the mouths of people I'm not
[01:16:23] saying we're the only ministry there's other ministries out there that people
[01:16:26] needed to get to and they got slandered by somebody and those people said no I'm
[01:16:29] not going to that one either but notice he talked about hatred being connected
[01:16:38] to lying I find that very interesting when it talks about slander there in
[01:16:45] Proverbs 10 18 the brown driver Briggs lexicon says slander is
[01:16:51] whispering defamation an evil report that glides stealthily oh this is what
[01:17:01] happens in church last time negativity starts floating stealthily through you
[01:17:09] know what it just starts happening in our church a lot of people let me just
[01:17:13] tell you something I need to get this out because I know there's been attitudes
[01:17:20] and things said against my wife and negativity folks I want to tell you right
[01:17:27] now they're in a person that loves this church body and is willing to do
[01:17:33] whatever is necessary to help you and to help this church that my wife she does
[01:17:38] more than I do she's a better she's really the pastor heart I'm just the
[01:17:43] preacher okay and I want to tell you right now the devil come we've had
[01:17:52] people actually come in and try to sow division between me and my own wife try
[01:17:58] to be negative about her to me we had one crazy woman coming in saying I
[01:18:04] should I should divorce my wife I looked at her like yeah I know you're a witch
[01:18:12] now I mean we've had some psycho stuff going but what bothers me is not that
[01:18:22] it's just when the negativity starts swimming stealthily through our own
[01:18:27] church and for some reason you ladies are worse than men about this stuff I'm
[01:18:32] just gonna be honest with you you're men for most part we don't care y'all get to
[01:18:41] talking and this thing you know oh this one did this one did oh you know she did
[01:18:46] that you know she you know she said that you know she looked at me this way
[01:18:48] and then it passes down and us men like what are y'all talking about don't get
[01:18:57] around this a minute get involved in it too sometimes but you hear what I'm
[01:19:00] saying it can start real stealthily I like that word the word defamation
[01:19:11] because it's in this definition here the definition of defamation is the act of
[01:19:16] communicating false statements about a person that injure the reputation of that
[01:19:21] person y'all hear that so slander is the act of communicating false statements
[01:19:28] about a person that injure the reputation of that person this is
[01:19:32] serious stuff go to Proverbs 1217 we're coming in for landing Proverbs 1217
[01:19:41] then we're going to go to verse same chapter verses 19 and 20 and verse 22
[01:19:46] we'll go through them quickly says he that speaketh truth showeth forth
[01:19:51] righteousness but a false witness deceit verse 19 the lip of truth shall
[01:19:57] be established forever but a lying tongue is but for a moment that's why
[01:20:03] God's gonna deal with it deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil but
[01:20:09] to the counselors of peace is joy verse 22 lying lips are an abomination to the
[01:20:16] Lord but they that deal truly are his delight lying lips are an abomination to
[01:20:26] the Lord he hates it he did the word abomination means not just he hate he
[01:20:32] detested you understand young people children y'all hear me God detests he
[01:20:40] despises he hates it when you lie but it goes from mom and dad to God he and let
[01:20:53] me tell you when the Lord hates something and you do it it's making him
[01:20:59] angry just go on and he will make him start getting angry this you don't want
[01:21:06] I know one of the things you read through the book of Judges and when the
[01:21:09] Israelites would get on God's bad side it would say and the anger of the Lord
[01:21:13] waxed hot against Israel guess what I don't want that let's keep going these
[01:21:25] are these Proverbs 19 verse 5 verse 9 and verse 22 a false witness shall not
[01:21:37] be unpunished and he that speaketh lies shall not escape you hear that you want
[01:21:45] to guarantee the punishment of God in your life be a liar be a slander be a
[01:21:51] false witness verse 9 a false witness shall not be unpunished and he that
[01:22:00] speaketh lies shall perish think about that that's two verses in the same
[01:22:06] chapter that say almost the same thing there verse 22 the desire of a man is
[01:22:12] his kindness and a poor man is better than a liar saying I'd rather take a
[01:22:21] homeless man than a dressed-up liar Proverbs 21 6 and verse 28 the getting
[01:22:32] of treasure by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that
[01:22:36] seek death I think about these ministries Oh $1,000 seed for a
[01:22:42] prophecy $1,000 seed you get your miracle we better give better give to
[01:22:50] our ministry if you if you give to our ministry you'll get deliverance well
[01:22:54] that's what that's the new one some of our doing that's what that Catherine
[01:22:57] Crick is doing I saw the video if you come give you'll get your deliverance
[01:23:05] God that makes me sick but think about it getting the getting of treasures by
[01:23:14] a lying tongue is vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death verse 28 21
[01:23:22] that's 21 6 verse 28 a false witness shall perish but a man that heareth
[01:23:28] speaketh constantly if you look that word up constantly in the Hebrew it means a
[01:23:33] man that speaks with a bright words with a goal that speaks truthfulness and that
[01:23:44] constantly speaks with strength and victory so he's it's King James is a
[01:23:50] little vague there you have to look up the Hebrew word it's not incorrect but
[01:23:54] it's just vague but he's talking about a false witness shall perish but a man that
[01:24:00] hereth and hereth speaketh with victory and truthfulness and strength see that's
[01:24:08] another thing I I get accused of being prideful because I speak with strength
[01:24:12] and a lot of people somebody even said on one of the comments the other day be
[01:24:15] careful pastor Dean you say I too much okay here's the thing I don't care if it's
[01:24:24] Paul or Peter or James or John when they were telling stories about what God did
[01:24:31] they had to say I did this and I did that and we went there and we did this
[01:24:37] it's not her crime y'all okay because let me just go ahead and inform you in
[01:24:42] case you don't know I don't believe I can do anything in my own strength of
[01:24:46] power for God because if I do it's emptiness I can tell you right now that I
[01:24:53] wouldn't even be here today if God had not intervened in my life again and
[01:24:58] again and again so I don't think I'm anything I know it's been the grace and
[01:25:03] mercy and power and protection and deliverance of God even at times when I
[01:25:08] know I didn't deserve it when I was in a bad place with a bad attitude and God
[01:25:14] still was loving me and helping me through that time period so I don't think
[01:25:19] I'm anything y'all but if God does something in my life if I pray for
[01:25:23] somebody and God heals them or if I cast the demons out of somebody guess what
[01:25:26] I'm gonna say I cast the demons out of Maggie yes I did and I'm not ashamed of
[01:25:31] that but it's by the power and authority of Jesus Christ it's by his
[01:25:35] anointing it's what he has given me I have nothing of my own I wonder how
[01:25:42] these people talk without using I I'd like to hear those conversations yeah me
[01:25:51] something me y'all ready to two three more Proverbs 21 28 in the amplified a
[01:26:03] false witness will perish but a man who listens to the truth will speak
[01:26:08] forever and go unchallenged Proverbs 21 28 in the complete Jewish Bible a lying
[01:26:17] witness is doomed but one who heard what was said will testify successfully
[01:26:23] folks it could go on and on and on we are called to be people who are speaking
[01:26:34] truth and not lies so if you've got a problem with lying you need to confess it
[01:26:41] as sin and repent of it and stop it if you've been a false accuser or jumping
[01:26:46] to conclusions about people and situations or passing on rumors that
[01:26:52] can't be verified you know when I was in Tennessee leading up to the debate right
[01:27:02] before we went to Tennessee I had people giving me information people who said
[01:27:07] they were in Greg Locke's church who worked for him I have things that they
[01:27:14] told me that were going on do you know why I don't say anything and have
[01:27:20] never said anything because I didn't see it myself do you know how many people
[01:27:25] would take something like that and just pass on stuff one of the reasons I
[01:27:31] separated myself from Tim Greer is because he was slandering Greg Locke and
[01:27:36] saying things about him and his family that could not be verified were rumors
[01:27:43] you don't do that to somebody those things could be complete fabrications
[01:27:51] somebody right now could just go out and make up something about me this is why the
[01:27:56] Bible says against an elder receive not an accusation but before two or three
[01:28:03] witnesses meaning you better have some eyewitnesses of the situation and if
[01:28:10] you're not an eyewitness you probably don't need to be talking and if you
[01:28:16] are an eyewitness and it's a minister of the gospel then you need to go to
[01:28:20] the proper people around him to talk to them or go to him first at least in fact
[01:28:29] the Bible says if you got a problem with somebody you got an issue they've
[01:28:32] trespassed against you or they've offended you in some way you're
[01:28:36] supposed to go talk to them first it doesn't matter if they're famous it
[01:28:41] doesn't matter if they thousands of people around them you're supposed to
[01:28:44] go to them and a lot of this stuff can be handled but don't yeah oh I heard
[01:28:53] you know what I heard we're really how do you know that's true that's the first
[01:29:00] question you said should that how do I know what they're telling me is truth
[01:29:06] and even though let's say they're convinced it's truth but how did they
[01:29:09] know the person who told them told the truth do you know witches and Satanists
[01:29:17] come in churches and pretend to be Christians and one of the ways they
[01:29:19] start division and divide church is to start spreading rumors about people in
[01:29:23] the church and particularly leadership and they start sewing those things and
[01:29:26] because Christians won't get control of their mouths and stop spreading slander
[01:29:32] and lies it ends up tearing up the whole church that's why I kicked one out not
[01:29:39] too long ago when I found out she was going around to different people and
[01:29:43] telling little lies and making little negative comments and trying to sow
[01:29:46] division between our church family and me and my wife as the pastors and I
[01:29:52] was like time for you to pack your bags sweetie pie and move on out the door
[01:29:57] because you're causing division I've marked you bye-bye it's time to go the
[01:30:09] church is supposed to be what what what the Bible called the church the
[01:30:14] apostles called it the pillar and ground of the truth we supposed to be
[01:30:19] ground zero of nothing but truth the name for the whole one of the names
[01:30:25] for the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit of even the Spirit of truth just the
[01:30:30] Spirit of truth we want him on our lives we want him working through us we
[01:30:36] want him flowing through us we want his power his anointing his gifts if he's the
[01:30:41] Spirit of truth we better be about the truth hundred percent and how many
[01:30:47] things could be avoided when we start struggling with something maybe we're
[01:30:50] struggling with a sin maybe we're starting to fall maybe we're starting to
[01:30:54] feel overwhelmed by some temptation and you know what the Bible says to do
[01:30:57] your says you're supposed to go confess your faults one to another and pray
[01:31:00] one for another that you may be healed you may be delivered how many people
[01:31:04] would have not completely fallen into some big huge scandalous mess if when they
[01:31:10] started struggling would have went and told somebody the truth hey man I'm
[01:31:14] struggling pray for me so many people just hide it and try to cover it up and
[01:31:19] try to say I'll just do it myself and they end up falling apart and things get
[01:31:26] worse I know it look if alcoholics and drug addicts the first thing that they
[01:31:33] have to do is admit the truth they've got to admit they're a drug addict they
[01:31:38] gotta admit they need help they gotta admit they're in a place where they
[01:31:41] can't do it themselves if that's what they have to do guess what that's what
[01:31:46] all of us have to do with this issue of sin and temptation you hear me let's
[01:31:54] stand remember our verse we started out with don't be hatching snake eggs
[01:32:02] here's the thing you start hatching snake eggs you know what it said right
[01:32:06] after that those who eat those eggs die because see when you start hatching
[01:32:14] snake eggs you start feeding them to other people and the snakes start
[01:32:19] hatching out you hear me and then he says this is something else you start
[01:32:24] hatching snake eggs and he says here's what happens he says you crush them you
[01:32:28] try to crush them somebody comes along like like me like you you start
[01:32:31] making your life a refuge of lies in these snake eggs and somebody like me
[01:32:36] come start stomping on them it says they break out into vipers this is why
[01:32:44] people get mad you start stomping on their on their lives that they believe
[01:32:49] and cling to oh here come the snakes so yeah you find it interesting Jesus
[01:32:56] called the Pharisees a generation of vipers because he said out of your
[01:33:04] heart comes these evil things you say and teach so he was literally telling
[01:33:10] them you guys are hatching snake eggs you guys are spewing things that should
[01:33:19] not be spewed out what would they they were going around what Jesus broke the
[01:33:23] Sabbath Jesus blaspheme and here they're talking about the one who never sinned
[01:33:31] you want to talk about slander you don't talk about lying you want to talk about
[01:33:37] falsehood they even lied even when Jesus told him and said you guys are
[01:33:43] seeking to kill me they go what you're crazy nobody's seeking to kill you they
[01:33:47] start lying immediately new generation of vipers and then he tells them twice he
[01:33:57] says it one time he says it about what's coming out of their mouth the next time
[01:34:00] he says it he says you generation of vipers how will you escape the damn
[01:34:04] nation of hell because what their problem was they were lying false
[01:34:11] teachers false accusers and it was their hatred and jealousy because of
[01:34:19] the anointing and power on Jesus life they couldn't do what he did they
[01:34:23] couldn't teach like he teach and instead of humbling themselves their jealousy
[01:34:29] their religious pride caused them to become liars false accusers and the
[01:34:40] Lord tells them how shall you escape the damn nation of hell you are a bunch
[01:34:44] of vipers and you're laying eggs ain't nothing listen y'all ever been around a
[01:34:54] snake ever into a snake den you know if you crawled into a cave at night you
[01:34:59] know say you got in you know you're in the desert you're in the wilderness
[01:35:02] somewhere you thought oh I found me a nice little cave and you crawled in it
[01:35:05] and you smell a stench I'll tell you what it is it's a snake den because they
[01:35:11] stink I smell it smelled rattlesnake den oh it's terrible they're hatching
[01:35:23] those eggs and I just it's just how to put it ain't nothing clean about a
[01:35:30] bunch of snakes hatching and a snake den it's nasty it's dangerous so you should
[01:35:39] want to have nothing to do with this snake egg business right so just think
[01:35:46] about it this way every time you want to start believing a lie telling a lie
[01:35:49] speaking a lie telling a falsehood spreading the rumors
[01:35:54] slandering somebody false accusing somebody that you don't have proof of
[01:35:57] something you should start saying it you're the snake you're the one so in
[01:36:06] the eggs out putting the eggs out don't do it amen we got a good song ready let's
[01:36:16] worship one more song oh sure why not crushing snakes I love my actually is one
[01:36:32] of my top three favorite songs let's do that we'll sing that and go out on a
[01:36:40] happy note and y'all don't run out just yet after the song you just got one
[01:36:46] more announcement and we can go out and cut off after that right now come on
[01:41:46] give him praise thank you Jesus we have power and authority through the blood of
[01:41:52] Jesus and the resurrection of Jesus against all the forces of darkness we
[01:41:56] thank you Lord for power and authority over and we don't have to be liars and
[01:42:01] we don't have to live in sin we don't have to be rebel we don't have to
[01:42:05] spread rumors and speak falsehoods we don't have to be false accusers we
[01:42:10] don't have to align ourselves with the devil because of the blood of Jesus
[01:42:13] Christ and the power and authority he's given to us we just have to apply it we
[01:42:19] have to exercise it amen let me tell you all a funny story real quick we're in
[01:42:25] Huntsville no Huntsville no we're in Birmingham and doing one of the first
[01:42:30] debates and it was actually we had like the six Democrat candidates for governor
[01:42:35] and the five or six of us that were there as the Republican candidates for
[01:42:40] governor and one of the questions at the end was what is your theme song of your
[01:42:44] campaign just we had to write these things down and I wrote crushing snakes
[01:42:49] and held it up they were like what is that I guarantee you every one of them
[01:42:55] went home and listened to it that night hey man God is good well we'll say bye
[01:43:01] to those out there y'all hug some decks out there before you leave and those
[01:43:04] here but we got just a quick announcement just let everybody know
[01:43:08] something real quick