Pastor Loran Livingston 🔥Warns: The Church Is Celebrating While Judgment Draws Near

Praise God in the firmament of his power. >> Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.

I am really delighted to see you here today. We welcome everybody that's watching on any device whatsoever. People who are at other campuses, God bless you.

We're all in this together. And one day we won't be separated. We'll be gathered with the untold millions around the throne of a risen Jesus, the lamb of God.

And we will bless him forever and forever. [applause] Before you're seated, I have a card in my hand. And when you leave today, [music] a card just like this will be offered to you.

On these cards are names of our young people in the church. 1,400 young people are affiliated with this church. [music] We did this a couple of years ago.

Each young person has their name on a card. And if you will commit to pray for that one every day, then you may take one of those cards. Please don't take it if you don't mean business.

Don't take it to be a bookmark. take it as an assignment from God to pray for someone you don't know [music] that that someone that does not know you will experience the grace [music] and the protection of our Lord Jesus Christ. So be thoughtful and prayerful about that very thing and we'll just find out what God does [music] when we all get to heaven.

We're going to be amazed >> at all the little things we forgot about that God said, "Now that's a big deal right there. Come on into the joy of the Lord." I thank you now, Jesus Christ, for everything. I'm not thankful for some things or good things.

I'm thankful for everything because in everything you have awakened me to your beautiful presence and I pray today that these words will not fall on deaf ears. [music] I want to leave here challenging my soul. I want to turn my eyes upon Jesus and look full into your wonderful face.

I want the things of this world to grow strangely dim in the light of your glory and grace. I want to see you [music] instead of man. I want to please you and all that I do.

And I believe just about everybody here feels that way today. Lord, thank you now as you help us to preach and help us to hear. In Jesus name we pray.

Amen. >> Amen. Thank you for being seated.

Watch and pray. Watch and pray. Last week when I asked you to do each of the four gospels and remember the sufferings of Christ, does anybody remember my asking you?

>> I've heard a lot of good testimonies about that. I'm sure you did not just slide over the words of Jesus when he told the apostles, "Watch and pray lest you enter into temptation. The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak." So, I'm going back to their entrance into the garden.

Again, I'm I'm going to Matthew 26. I'm going to begin with verse 36. Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane.

And he said to the disciples, "Sit here while I go and pray over there." And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, James and John. And he began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. May I make an observation?

Jesus kind of had favorites. You notice Peter, James, and John are always nearest to him. He loved them all.

If if you remember when Jesus went up on the mount of transfiguration, it was Peter, James, and John that accompanied him there. And if you remember, while Jesus was standing there, Moses and Elijah came and started talking to Jesus about what Jesus would accomplish in Jerusalem. While Jesus was standing with those two heroes of faith, the Bible says he began to glow and his garment was white as snow.

Peter, James, and John got to see that. They saw him in his glory on that mountain that day. The others did not get to see it.

And now we come down to the end. And Jesus is taking Peter, James, and John into Gethsemane, the garden of misery. and he wants them to see his grief.

They've already seen his glory, but he said, "I want you to experience this grief with me. Watch with me. Pray with me." Jesus in the spirit had already seen Judas sell him out for 30 pieces of silver.

Jesus knew the scripture. Jesus could see everything. And he knew the mob was coming with lanterns and staves and swords and uh the leaders of the religion and government officials, they were all coming to arrest Jesus.

He saw all of that. So he said to Peter, James, and John, "Sit here while I go and pray over there." He took Peter, James, and John. And they saw him as it began to weigh heavily upon him, and he was distressed and sorrowful.

And he said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful even to death. Stay here and watch with me." Jesus was saying, "Guys, I need you right now. Stay here.

I'm going over there to pray. You stay here and you watch. Watch.

Be on guard." He went a little farther and he fell on his face. What a scene that must have been. Jesus fell on his face and prayed, saying, "Oh my father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me.

Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will." Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping and said to Peter, he addressed Peter, "What? Could you not watch with me one hour?" I'm certainly I'm certain that they were embarrassed. They're tired.

They are distressed and weary. And then to have the Lord say, "You mean you couldn't give me an hour?" Then he said, "Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak." And anybody here, anybody can say amen to that >> because you know what it is for your spirit to be willing.

And you also know that the flesh can raise its ugly head and interfere. It doesn't want you to do anything spiritual. It hates anything that looks, sounds, behaves like God.

The spirit is willing. The flesh is weak. Jesus said, "Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation." Words matter in the Bible.

Jesus was talking about entering into temptation. Every one of us was has been tempted today. That's part of life.

We're in a fallen world and it still has sirens and uh lures that seem to grip us everywhere we go. You can go in this way and see something ungodly and turn in this way and see something ungodly. You can't get away from it.

Temptation is everywhere. Jesus didn't say avoid temptation. He said don't enter it.

To enter is to let go and give in. To enter into temptation is to decide to do it. It's that one quick moment.

You got a a a nancond to make a decision. If you linger long enough, your flesh will win. Yes.

>> But if you will by the Holy Spirit act quickly >> in obedience, God will give you the victory >> through Jesus Christ. >> Don't enter into it. Don't look at it so long that it becomes more appealing.

Don't have a conversation with it. Don't do what they do. Don't think the way they think.

I'm getting way ahead of myself, but I'm about to explode here. God's word teaches us stay away from bad people. >> I got a lot of young people in here today.

This is Family First Sunday. We have a dozen in the choir singing. We have them all over the place.

We have young people working in the booths and the rooms in the back. I am preaching to them, but I'm also preaching to Paul, the older ones, because we're all just alike. Folks, there is a moment you make a decision whether or not to enter into temptation.

You can fight it off like birds around your head. And I heard an old preacher say one time, "The birds are going to fly over your head, but you don't have to let them make a nest in your hair." That was pretty good. I can't believe I remembered that after all these years.

[snorts] And so I have concluded in my life that my hourly victory, I didn't say daily, my hourly victory over sin is in direct proportion to my prayer life. Unceasing prayer paralyzes flesh. Jesus said the flesh was weak.

He said it. Then he says, I say, if it's weak, don't feed it. When Jesus gave the Lord's prayer, our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread, and lead us not into temptation. lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. There's this sense that he's saying, "Don't let the father lead you into temptation." That's not what that says at all.

He He is teaching us to pray and say, "Father, there are times I yield too much to the flesh. Oh father, when I am weak and prayerless, when I'm weary AND WELLOING, DON'T LET ME HAVE MY WAY. >> DON'T LET ME DO SOMETHING I will regret.

You're in CONTROL OF MY LIFE, LORD. YOU'RE A SOVEREIGN GOD, but for some reason, you've given me the power to make choice. Don't let me make the wrong choice.

Sometimes I'm up and sometimes I'm down. Sometimes I'm on fire. Sometimes I'm an ice cube.

Lord, when I'm down and when I'm cold, don't let me have my way. Lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from evil. I say it again, the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak.

So watch and pray, folks. This is uh this is a daily thing. This is an hourly thing.

I have somehow got to get it across to some people. Salvation is not an altar event. I mean in the altar an event then you get up and live your life.

No sir, you can't say, "Well, I did it. I'm in." No, you're not. in God's sovereignty and power, the drawing power of the Holy Spirit, the shed blood of Jesus, all of that.

Somehow God says, "Use it. Make choices. Do the right thing.

If it's precious to you, treat it like it's precious. If you love me, talk to me. If you love me, read my word.

>> But you can't do it today and not tomorrow. You got to get up every day. start all over and do it every hour of every single day.

And there are people who say, "I can't do that." And you're exactly right. You cannot do that. BUT THE SPIRIT IS WILLING.

>> And if you will but offer yourself as a living sacrifice, God will give you THE STRENGTH TO GO THE OTHER WAY AND DO THE RIGHT THING. >> GOD WILL GIVE YOU THE STRENGTH. But you have to make choices.

This country, this world, this society is has a lot to offer. And it's pretty for a while and it's fun for a while. And unless you watch and pray, you won't know how to handle this stuff.

You'll become friends with the world. You'll think that the world and the church are basically the same thing. But there is a market and distinct difference between the church and the world.

The church is comprised of sanctified, bloodbought, bornagain people who are on their way to HEAVEN AND ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS JESUS. The world IS A LOST DARK PLACE AND ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS SELF and sin. OH, THERE'S A MARKED difference between them.

And if YOU PLAN TO BELONG TO THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE CHURCH of the living God, the first thing you have to learn is you'll have to do what the Bible says. >> And Jesus said, "Watch and pray. It's not always fun.

It's not always easy, but it's always rewarding. It will always strengthen you, and it will always give you victory." You see, everybody has something out there that appeals to them. We're all made up in different ways, and there's something out there that appeals to you that would lure you.

I was standing in a building the other day. Um, and a woman came up to me. Hi, pastor.

How you doing? Uh, I said, nice to see you. It's been a long, long time.

She grew up in the church at this church and she got married and her husband's talented and she's talented and they felt called to go to another church in this area. Haven't seen her for years. And she said, "While I'm thinking about it, how are" And she mentioned a family's name.

"How are they doing?" I said, "I they're not at our church anymore." She said, ' Did did they go to another church?' I said, 'I wish I could say they did, but they have just completely quit. They don't go to church anywhere. And she said, "Oh, Lord, you're kidding me, pastor.

They were so involved. I knew them." I said, "I know." She said, "Well, let me ask you about," and she mentioned another name. I said, "Well, they're gone, too.

Pastor, don't tell me they left. I said, they left. Where are they?

I said, 'N nobody knows. They were in church one day. We don't know what happened.

They just left. They didn't say bye-bye. They didn't write a note.

They didn't email. THEY WON'T EVEN TALK TO PEOPLE. They're gone and they're living their own life now.

And when I told her that, just a little tear welled up in her eye. And she said, "Pastor, every morning of my life, I get up and I go into my place of prayer and study, and the first thing I pray is,"Lord, it seems like so many people are backsliding. So many people used to be in church and Lord, I don't know what it was for them that drew them out, but whatever it is for me, protect me from it.

>> I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WENT AFTER, LORD. I DON'T KNOW HOW BRIGHT IT WAS AND WHAT WHAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN TO TO PULL THEM AWAY from you, Lord, but whatever is there for me, WHATEVER TRICK THE DEVIL WANTS to play on me and my family, deliver us from evil, oh God." >> She said, "Pastor, I don't know if you know it, but my two children, I I know your two children." She said, "Well, they both went crazy. They did it all.

We thought it was a hopeless case, but I came in that room every morning and I laid them before you or before the Lord. And now they're both saved and they've both gotten married and they're happy and they're in church and serving God. She said, 'Now I'm praying, LORD, WHATEVER trick the devil has designed for my children and their marriage.

I ask you IN THE NAME OF JESUS, deliver them FROM EVIL. >> DON'T LET THAT TEMPTATION TAKE OVER THEM. Deliver them from evil.

>> I don't know what it is for you. I don't know what will be the thing that will finally break your will and drag you back into the world. I don't know if it's the people you hang with, what you look at on the internet.

Uh I don't know if it's a greed, a greedy spirit. You just can't get enough money. I I don't know if you're just unhappy at home and you found you another girlfriend or another boyfriend.

I don't know. But everybody's got something. And while Satan does not know everything, he is not omnisient.

He can smell. He can see and he sees where our weaknesses lie. >> He He says to his evil cohorts, "They're weak in that area right there.

That's where you need to go work." And I'm standing up here this morning, desperate as I can be. I'm begging. I'm pleading.

I'm warning. There is something out there that you are susceptible to. And Satan is just waiting for you to stop watching and stop praying so that that thing can in and move in on your life and drag you down.

You see, the Bible teaches us to flee the appearance of evil. >> This is not a game. >> I People have I've been a little serious lately.

I'm serious all the time, but of late, I'm just dead. I got deathbed sincerity. I tell you brothers and sisters, CHRISTIANITY IS NOT A GAME YOU PLAY.

>> WE ARE DEALING WITH ETERNITY. >> THIS IS LIFE AND DEATH. WHAT I'M DOING RIGHT NOW TO ME IS LIFE and death.

>> I'M NOT TRYING TO FINISH UP A SERMON SO I CAN GO HOME AND WATCH SOMETHING ON TV. >> I'M NOT JUST TRYING TO GET THROUGH IT so you can say, "I went to church today." I'M UP HERE TO STIR UP YOUR PURE MINDS BY WAY OF REMEMBRANCE. I'M UP HERE TO SAY, "HOLY GHOST, DO SOMETHING IN EVERY one of us.

Help us see the SNARES OF THE ENEMY. HELP US TO STRENGTHEN OUR OUR PLACE IN THE LORD AND LET US BE aware of our weaknesses. >> Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation.

Flee. Run from the very appearance of evil. going to stand there and gawk at it or wink at it or turn around and look at IT AGAIN.

FLEE, RUN, escape >> any appearance of evil. Paul said, "Make no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lust." Don't do things that make it easier for a weak flesh to become strong. Do you hear me?

>> Make no provision. Don't provide. Don't make a way for sin to take place.

Unplug it. Tear it up. Throw it out.

Destroy it. Remove it. Get rid of sin.

And that's why it's so important for me to stress again. Don't feed the flesh. The flesh is weak and it can stay weak if we don't feed it.

But when we neglect God's word for our spirit and we stop watching, it's an amazing thing that happens inside of us. Jesus said one time near the end, "The prince of darkness is coming for me. Listen.

But he has nothing in me. >> Do you? >> He has nothing in me.

>> Boy, I love that. >> The prince of darkness is coming, but he has nothing in me. >> But does he have something in you?

>> Jesus said, "There's no lust in me, no lying, no deceit. The only perfect man that ever lived." And he said, "Oh, Satan's coming." But he's got nothing to grab on to. He can't accuse me of anything.

I have pleased my father in everything. He's coming and I'm going to let him take me, but he can find nothing in me. I FIND IN HIM NO FAULT AT ALL.

Pilate said, "And if you ever wonder, as I do, why the agony in the garden like that?" It dawned on me that from eternity and then coming into the world for 33 years, Jesus never sinned, never felt sin, never wanted to sin, never disobeyed the father. He was as pure as a human could possibly be. And so when he knelt down in the garden that night and then made his trek to Calvary, it was the first time he had ever felt sin, sensed sin, because the father took yours and yours and yours and mine and he piled them all up and he laid them on Jesus.

Sinless, holy Jesus who never did the first wrong thing is now weighs it down with the sins of the whole world. And as he commisss us to watch and pray, he is acutely aware of how innovative Satan is to get you off your knees and out of the word. There's never been a conniver like Satan.

He is smarter than any other angel God ever made. And he knows what he can get you with. >> He knows your weakness.

He knows that you have God's spirit in you, but that if you don't watch and pray, it allows him to move in closer and closer and gain more and more control. So these little you know messages I've been giving been giving you about oh you know Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot coming back out or coming out and God said don't look back and then the one about Abraham he was called out of the Caldes and God said leave it all just just leave don't try to make any amends don't try TO FIX UP ANYTHING JUST GET OUT and don't look back. And the writer of Hebrews says, "If they had looked back, they might have thought about going back." If Abraham had looked back, he might have thought about going back.

So this thing called the faith of Jesus means that I am aware. I'm alert at the power of yesterday. How it can pull me back and I'm aware of the power of sin [clears throat] around me.

I'm watching all the time. Jesus said in Luke 21:36, "Take heed to yourselves." Strong words. Take heed to yourselves.

Stop. Stop and think about yourself. Evaluate your life.

Lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing and drunkenness and the cares of this life and that day come on you unexpectedly. HE'S TALKING TO PEOPLE THAT FOLLOW HIM. Watch yourself.

Know your enemy. Know who your savior is. Know your own weaknesses.

And [snorts] you know how you are. When things are really bad, you get really spiritual. BUT WHEN THINGS IMPROVE, YOU GET really fleshy.

That's why he said take heed. You don't want to get caught up with all this stuff. You don't want to start carousing and indulging in drunkenness.

You'll miss that day. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. He said, "Watch and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all of these things and to stand before the Son of Man." Folks, THIS IS WHY IT'S SO SERIOUS.

WATCH AND pray so that you may be a accounted worthy to escape. To me, that's the rapture of the church. >> That's that ever vigilant mentality that it could be today.

>> I'm walking straight and I'm walking with the Lord, but I'm looking up as I'm walking. Stay away from that stuff. Don't let things weigh you down.

Don't get too loose with yourself. Don't let your flesh have permission to do whatever it wants in even in the book of Acts chapter 20. Now Jesus told the disciples watch and pray.

And then he told the rest of us uh watch and pray that you don't lose control. But then in Acts chapter 20, he's about to leave Ephesus and he's got a whole church in front of him before he gets on a boat and they're crying and they're kissing him on the neck and he's saying, "I'll never see you again, but I'm going to leave you with one last word." You see, we preachers are bad about this. A lot of people want things to end happy.

Let's end on a high note. It doesn't always work that way. Paul had done a great ministry in Ephesus.

Now he's leaving. But he didn't end on a high note. He said, "I'm going to warn one more time before I leave.

I want you to hear me. I'm the guy that cried night and day for three years for you. And before I step on that boat, I'm going to WARN YOU OF ONE MORE THING.

When I leave, evil men out of this group. Oo, evil men out of this group will try to take over the church and they will teach things that are contrary to scripture and they are like wolves who are about to tear the sheep to shreds. That's going to happen as soon as I get on that boat.

And so he said, "Watch, watch. You ought to know what the Holy Spirit is saying. I'm going to tell you, not every person that walks around with a Bible in their hand and speaks from a stage is called to preach.

>> That's right. >> You better watch out about the Bible translation you're reading. And you better check the people you're listening to cuz they can all put up a good front AND SAY JUST ENOUGH TO make you think, "That's a godly man right there." BUT UNDERNEATH COULD BE FALSE DOCTRINE.

WELL, HOW DO I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE, PASTOR? PASTOR, you read and you study and you know ALL THESE THINGS. HOW CAN I KNOW WHO'S REAL AND WHO'S NOT?

WATCH AND PRAY. [cheering] [applause] >> Watch and pray. If you don't, you will be deceived.

You watch around you and you pray and you ask God to give you the spirit of discernment. False teachers are everywhere. I've never seen anything like it.

Sometimes on Sunday afternoon, I'm on the sofa, the dog's in my lap, Sandra comes in to check on me cuz I guess I look like I died somewhere after lunch. And sometimes I'll say, "Hey, sit down. You got to see this.

I'm on some of these religious channels, folks. I could actually regurgitate. There are some of the biggest lying, scheming, false prophets I've ever seen in my life.

[screaming] And it all gets back to money. Always back to money. But you see that upsets me because my spirit is insulted.

God's spirit is insulted. You cannot be a gullible Christian. You cannot just listen to everybody and follow their commandments and order their teaching series because you like the way they look or you like that one phrase they said that seemed to be from God to you.

You have to watch and pray and discern the times we are in. I want to read this from the book of Psalms. You could probably quote it.

Psalm number one. How many in the youth group are here today? Stand up.

Yeah, there you go. Just Yeah, stand up. Y'all are mighty slow to be young.

>> [snorts] >> I want to preach to you for just a moment. You can stand. It's all right.

I want to ask you some questions. The Bible says, "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly." Let me ask you a question. Who is giving you advice?

Who are you listening to? Is it some influencer on social media? Is it some famous star that has 200 million people following her or him?

If you mess around with that stuff, you will lose your soul. They cannot give you godly advice. >> They give you worldly advice and when you listen the flesh becomes stronger.

They will speak slightly against faith and against Jesus and against the right thing and against morality AND THEY WILL PROMOTE LGBTQ and transgender this and that AND THEY'LL GET INTO ALL THE NASTY RACIAL STUFF UNTIL AFTER A WHILE YOU'RE ALL STIRRED UP BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE stirred up. You just watched a bunch of godless garbage and you think that person knows what they're talking about. Listen to this preacher.

They're idiots. They're morons. They're lost.

THEY ARE LOST IN THEIR SINS. I DON'T CARE WHO IT IS. YOU OUGHT NOT TO BE listening to ANYBODY THAT IS NOT A SPIRITFILLED CHILD OF THE MOST HIGH GOD.

YOU OUGHT NOT TO FOLLOW ANYBODY that doesn't believe IN JESUS and walk the road of holiness. >> I hate social media. I hate it.

Hate it. Hate it. It's ruined more people.

And yet that's what you guys are addicted to. It's amazing to walk into a mall and everybody's doing this right here, running into each other at the STOPLIGHT TODAY. I GUARANTEE IT.

YOU STOP BY the any car there and all the way back and everybody's doing this right here. People are running into you about to run into you. Listen to me, young people.

JESUS CHRIST WILL TAKE YOU TO HEAVEN. >> EVERYBODY ELSE IS GOING TO TAKE YOU TO HELL. >> I CAN'T SAY IT ANY BETTER THAN THAT.

[applause] YOU OUGHT TO SELL YOUR SOUL TO JESUS. YOU OUGHT TO WALK THE STRAIGHT AND THE NARROW. I I'M going to say it again.

And I know you think I'm an old man. So what? I've lived long enough TO KNOW WHAT I'M talking about.

Those people don't know what they're TALKING ABOUT. THERE IS A WAY THAT SEEMS RIGHT UNTO MAN, BUT THE END IS DEATH. BUT AS A CHILD OF GOD, I'VE BEEN CHARGED BY JESUS NOT TO LET ANY FOUL THING COME ACROSS my lips.

DON'T LOOK AT that which IS SINFUL AND UNGODLY. DON'T GO AFTER ANYTHING EXCEPT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND IF YOU WILL WATCH AND PRAY, GOD WILL GIVE YOU THE STRENGTH TO LIVE A VICTORIOUS Christian life.

[applause] >> [applause] >> remain standing. Don't walk in the counsel of the ungodly. Nor stands in the path of sinners.

Who are you chilling with? I tried it. Didn't work, did it?

Suit and tie, gray hair, chilling. Somehow it doesn't go together. Who you hanging with?

Blew it again, didn't I? Who are your friends? When you get together with your friends about whom are you talking?

Is it godly? Is it holy? Is it clean?

I'm I'm talking about the friends you decided to run with. Well, all the kids at church are not cool. I'm going to tell you what's not cool.

Hell. >> [applause] >> So, you decided to run with some some other guys that have it together. In what way?

Do they have the right haircut? You know, some of them are even getting tattoos at your age now. Is that Is that cool?

Tattoos? Yeah. I want one.

You do? Really? Do you?

Who are you running with? Here it comes from the pulpit. Run away from people who are not saved.

>> Oh, you [applause] because you are not yet established and strong enough. >> That's right. >> To win the group to Christ.

And when you start trying to bear fruit in front of them, they think you're an idiot. I'm telling you, until your feet are firmly stable in the word of God, until you've learned how to watch and pray, run from bad people. >> Bad people are you judging?

Yes. [applause] The Bible tells me to judge righteous judgment. >> That's exactly what the Bible says.

If they're FULL OF FOUL CURSING, they're lost. FROM THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART, THE MOUTH SPEAKS. >> What about Paul's writings in Romans 6?

Whoever you choose to obey is your master. >> If you choose Jesus and you want to obey him, he's your master. But if you choose to run with them and do all that stuff, WHATEVER IT IS, YOU KNOW, all that stuff that they're doing, then that's your master.

But I'm saved. I know I'm saved. I'm going through a difficult time right now, but I know I'm saved cuz I went to the altar at youth camp and I gave Jesus my life.

No, you didn't. If you had given Jesus your life, you would want more of Jesus than anything else in this world. >> What about this one?

Nor sits in the seat of the scornful. Sits in the seat of the scornful. You hang around with these people long enough and you'll firmly establish yourself, you'll be comfortable comfortable with them.

You'll be right at home with the scornful. You know what scornful means? Angry, agitated, I was done wrong.

There's injustice in the land. They kicked me out. They didn't accept me.

and all of this foolishness, you'll you'll get right in on it and you'll start saying things. Yeah. And it will all be anti-Christian, but you'll be comfortable there because you you decided to take their counsel, walk with them, and now you're sitting with them.

That's why we have church. That's why I preach the way I do, guys. Because the same devil that got into Judas is trying to get into you.

>> Judas let him get in. But you don't have to let him in. >> If you listen to what I'm trying to tell you today and you decide that going to heaven and serving the Lord is the greatest thing IN YOUR LIFE, GOD WILL COME TO YOUR RESCUE AND YOUR FLESH WILL BE WEAKENED, BUT YOUR SPIRIT WILL BE STRONG.

SOMEBODY SAY AMEN. [applause] You can be seated. I'm I'm finished.

Whatever that means. James said, "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God." Don't say that. For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does he tempt with evil.

Here it is. But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust. It's your fault.

It's not God's fault. >> You get in trouble. It's your fault >> because God has made a way.

>> Every man's tempted when he's drawn away of his own lust. is in you and enticed. Oh, I like that.

That's that thing in my life. I like that. Oh, that's my weakness.

That's my weakness. Then when lust conceives, it brings forth sin. And sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.

There's your process right there. That's why you have to get up every day and watch and pray. That's why you have to watch and pray as you walk through the day because that flesh in you is just looking for some morsel just a bite of something that can strengthen him so he can draw you away from Christ.

But if you feed yourself on the book and walk in the truth and talk to Jesus all the time, brother God will attend to you. God will strengthen you. Hallelujah to God.

>> If anybody's heard any truth this morning, say amen. >> Amen. >> I want all those young people to stand back up all around.

And there might be some working back there, Monty. If they if they can come forward, I'd like for them to. Oh, I see a lot in this section here.

Here's what we're going to do. I'm going to ask godly men and women, moms and dads and grandpas to lay their hands on you this morning. And I'm going to ask them to pray that they will always keep their minds centered on Christ.

Council members, if you We're going to do two things at one time. Council members and your wives, come and get around these boxes here. We have not forgotten about these prayer requests.

Come and gather around. And I want you to pray for the names that are there. There you go.

And now if you're around one of these precious young people and you're in touch with God, I want you just to gently go lay your hand on the shoulder and pray for them. Go ahead. >> [music] [snorts] [music] [snorts] [music] [clears throat] >> Indulge me just a moment.

When you go out and take one of these cards, Lord, I pray for a name. And then they give you an age. But you got to look at the back, too.

Deuteronomy 5. Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear me always and always keep all my commandments that it might be well with them and with their children forever. Now, Father, I close.

What an important day this is. And we won't even really know the depths of this, but I join with the leaders of the church, [music] with moms and dads and grandparents. And I ask you today, Lord, to help these young people [music] realize that the most important thing they [music] will ever do is meet Jesus every morning.

Watch and pray [music] that they might serve him all the days of their life. Lord, I'm asking you to drive Satan back. I'm asking you to remove demons of addictions and all the other stuff that would come against our precious [music] young people.

May we walk in you from this day forward. LORD, [music] MAY WE WATCH and pray as we never have done before. And I ask it in the name of Jesus, the son of God.

And the whole church said, "Amen." >> Amen. >> Stand with me, please. I preached.

Nah, [music] never mind that.