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Welcome to God's house. God bless you today for being here. And I know he will.

[music] Thank you, holy heavenly father. I pray it often. [music] I pray it today.

Thank you for sending Jesus [music] to pay for the sins of the world. But I thank you that my sins have been bought and paid for by your blood. I thank you Jesus for sending the Holy Spirit.

[music] The same spirit that has helped us worship you today. The same Holy Spirit that will guide us into all truth. [music] And yes, the same Holy Spirit that will help the preacher preach what thus sayaith the Lord.

Now Lord, I ask you in front of them, don't let me say one word more or less than would be exactly pleasing to you. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

>> Everybody said, "Praise the Lord." >> Praise the Lord. Uh >> go ahead and be seated. I'm trying to get some direction here.

Maybe every week I go to Acts chapter 20 because that passage where Paul meets with the Ephesian elders, they go down by the river to pray and he's about to bid them farewell and told them that this would be the last time he would see his face. He also said to them, "Remember now that for three years I did not cease to warn you day and night with tears." I don't know why that grips me. Three years I did not stop warning you day and night.

And I did it with tears. Paul knew and he told them after I'm gone grievous wolves are going to attack this flock and in fact some of you he said will be the wolves. What a stark startling statement.

And the Bible says they began to weep and they fell on his neck and kissed him because he said they would never see him again. And it always confused me why they would not be weeping on his neck about the fact that some of them would actually invade the flock and cost them their faith. Paul spent most of his ministry warning.

You know that, don't you? Over in 1 Timothy chapter 4, this is Paul talking to a young pastor. Now, the spirit expressly, pointedly, emphatically says that in the latter times, that's where we are, some will depart from the faith.

Did you hear it? Some will depart from the faith. Every time I get up, I wonder who in here if Jesus terries will depart from the faith.

How does that happen? They give heed. They listen to deceiving spirits.

Old King James says seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, teachings of the devil. I don't get it. I don't know how people can sit and hear the Bible preached and and rightly divided correctly interpreted under the anointing and then depart from the faith.

No, it's not faith. It's the faith because they still have faith. They just put it in the wrong doctrine.

They've turned around and put it in the wrong teaching. So there's Paul warning Timothy about the last days and warning us. And remember what's written in the Bible was written for us.

1 Corinthians chapter 10, Paul said, "What was written about them was written for us that we might learn not to sin as they sinned." Second Timothy, another letter to Timothy, chapter 4. Again, I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who will judge the living and the dead. Actually, that's the saved and the lost.

The dead are always referred to as the lost or vice versa. Who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom preach the word. I see an exclamation point there.

Preach the word. Be ready in season and out of season. Convince.

Oh, King James says, "Rebuke." Well, this one does, too. Convince, rebuke, and exhort with all longsuffering and teaching. and teaching his doctrine.

For the time will come, we're here, the time has come, when they will not endure sound doctrine. Endure means to put up with it. We won't have it anymore.

We don't receive it. We don't believe it. The time will come when they will not put up with sound doctrine, but according to their own desires.

It's no longer about Jesus. It's no longer about hungering for the truth. It's what I want, what makes me happy, what fits into my life.

Because they have itching ears. How many of you have a dog? >> Let me know.

Just do you have a dog? >> Do you have a cat? Have you ever noticed when you scratch behind their ears, >> sometimes the dogs will act like they're scratching with their hind leg and they will cidle up to you and ask for more and cats will rub against you and ask for more because their ears itch and they love for their ears to be scratched.

Paul says that's exactly what's going to happen to some people in the latter times. They will start heaping up, piling up, gathering up teachers for themselves because they have itching ears. They want that teacher, those teachers to scratch their ears.

There was a day when people had a pastor and you looked to that man of God that you believed, prayed and sought him and studied and preached the truth. That's who you look to for guidance and direction. Not today.

People have multiple pastors. Some of you call me your pastor, but you got 10 online you listen to. And then you try to figure out who's right, who's wrong because they contradicted this pastor and surely they must know more than this pastor does.

So you you you start deciding who do I listen to? And Paul goes on to say, "They up, they pile up teachers plural, and they turn away their ears from the truth, and they are turned aside to fables, fiction, stories, madeup events, misinterpretation of scripture to ex excite people. But he said, "But you be watchful in all things.

Don't let this take you by surprise." Timothy, "Endure afflictions. Do the work of an evangelist. Preach the truth anyway.

Fulfill your ministry." He says, "It's going to happen. You can't stop it. But what you can do is preach the word.

Lay the truth in front of the people. That's your call. That's how you fulfill your ministry.

But I think that we need to look at verse three as a church today and figure out if he's talking to us about anything. The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. So I just wonder in this modern era of evangelical Christianity where we call ourselves an evangelical spiritfilled full gospel church.

Wouldn't Wouldn't you say that's an appropriate description of our church? I wonder if we have folks in our midst that can't endure some sound doctrine anymore. because of the culture, because of society and pressure.

Are there some teachings that we can't take anymore? We won't deal with them anymore. We will not receive them.

I can tell you for for in truth that there are plenty of pastors who will not deal with some issues anymore. They can't take the sound doctrine and put it on the table before their people because of the repercussions, the feedback. So in prayer and I really do mean that when I looked at that not enduring sound doctrine.

I I wonder are for us is reading the Bible like going to the grocery store. Everybody here goes to the grocery store [clears throat] and everybody here goes to a certain aisle and you get certain things every time. Women get really upset when the grocery store mixes the stuff up and you got to search for it.

And they do that, you know, purposely to get you to look at other things. But women want to get in and get out of a grocery store. And if I ever go shopping for Sandra, I thoroughly dread it.

You cannot know the angst that that that I I'm feeling it now. I'm beginning to stutter. Uhhuh.

When she says, "Get this, this, this, and this." I said, "Okay." And then I take a picture of it and I go to the store like a little boy. [panting] And I look at it and I say, "But that's not on the shelf here." And I have to call her. It's not on the shelf here.

Well, look beside that. Do you see that? No, I don't.

And women are looking at me like I'm a little boy. And that's all I'm going to say about that. except that we go to the grocery store and we go to to a certain place and that's where we eat from.

That's what we buy. I just wonder if we do that with the Bible. Now, there are certain things we just don't want to deal with.

We're comfortable. We've got our scripture comfort zone. That's all we ever read.

We don't get involved in anything else. I wonder if pastors have gotten to the place now that they have edited out of their sermon material those things that offend, those things that are hard to explain. And maybe that's the reason that the congregation can't endure sound doctrine anymore because they haven't heard the whole gospel of Jesus Christ endure.

So, can the church endure the sound doctrine of divorce anymore? Or have we just let society convince us that for most people the first marriage is the experiment? You learn on that one and then you find the one you really can make it happen with.

You know, there Paul does deal with it. Jesus dealt with it. I mentioned Paul because he he's speaking to the church and he says there's no such thing as a no fault divorce.

There there there are Bible guidelines. You got to have reasons. And and I wonder sometimes if if we just don't want to deal with it anymore.

Paul said the reasons are abandonment and adultery or unfaithfulness. And we certainly believe that if a life is under threat, they have no obligation to stay there. But is is that one of those doctrines we just can't endure anymore?

Uh, honestly, how about homosexuality? I don't know about you, but there seems to be a I'm going to use the term an an acquiescence, a a a softening of preachers, especially megaurch preachers like Andy Stanley in Atlanta. And I could just go down the list who have now taken the stance that it's just not wrong.

We're the we're the ones who are wrong for mistreating these people. I I wonder if if that means we can't endure that sound doctrine anymore. The the you know the whole doctrine of money.

Paul deals with it. Jesus deals with it. We're Americans and that's what our whole life is built on the economy and commercialism and and uh experimentation and entrepreneurship and success in the amount of things that you own.

Can we endure the sound doctrine of Paul when he says, "You better run from these things because they that want to be rich will find themselves in traps and snares that will draw them in destruction and predition. They will destroy themselves. That it will destroy the family.

You better run from these things." Is that doctrine we just don't want to have to endure anymore? How about preaching on modesty? Especially ladies, not only, but especially modesty.

Do we not want to deal with that anymore because it we're now overwhelmed and it's just not worth it because people are going to dress any way they want to? Can we handle the doctrine, the teaching of a woman should be covered and modest and present herself as a a servant of the Lord, not with, you know, all kinds of finery and jewelry, but that of a sincere heart, a a heart of submission to Christ and to his word. We don't care what New York or Fifth Avenue produces.

We don't care what's in style anymore. If it doesn't represent Christ, we won't wear it. We want to dress modestly.

We want to become holiness in all that we do. Is that out the window? Can we handle that doctrine anymore?

Can you mommies tell your daughters how to dress anymore? Is it wrong for you moms to say, "You can't wear that to the prom. You can't wear that to the wedding.

That's too short. That's too low. Moms, where are you?

Dads, where are you?" Or can we just not handle that anymore because the girls will cry and say, "We look weird. Everybody else is dressed this way." And that's the whole problem. >> The whole problem is we feel this com compulsion to look like everybody else.

Can we handle the doctrine teaching of modesty anymore? What about you never hear about this, but Paul talked about it quite extensively. Turning people out of the church, excommunication.

Now, that's not that word is not in the Bible. You will find it in the Roman Catholic doctrine, but it still means the same thing. Paul said, when there's a disagreement, you go to your brother and you try to work it out.

And if if he won't listen, you take it to the council of the church. And if that doesn't work, you take it to the church. And if that doesn't work, throw him out.

[laughter] Let him be as a publican and a gentile. Paul chastised the Corinthians because they had a man in their midst who was sleeping with his mo his wife's mother. Mother's which one is it?

It was incestuous to say the least. And he said, "I can't believe you people haven't done something about this. Don't you know a little levan leavenvens the whole lump?

Why would you let this go on and on?" I'll tell you why. Because Christians don't want to be seen as hard-hearted and intolerant. So, we will let sin and levan stay in the church and stay in the camp and infect us and and and suck the life out of us because there's some doctrines we just cannot endure anymore.

How about how about this one? Paul said, "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in submission in silence." What happened to that? Because feminism invaded the church.

The spirit of Jezebel has gotten a foothold in the church. Yeah. I I do not allow a woman to have authority over a man.

Is that outdated? Is that uh beyond our culture today? I don't think so.

Because we say the Bible is the word of God. It's fit for every situation in life. We say the Bible is our only rule for government and faith.

And yet that's what it says right there. And people get all been out of shape. Well, I thought we were all equal.

Paul says there's neither male nor female, Jew or Gentile, bond or free. Paul's not talking about equality. He's talking about function.

Everybody's the same in Christ, but not everybody has the same call or function in Christ. God has order people. Even in the Trinity, there's Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

They are all equal. They are all exactly the same in essence in everything. But the father has a function.

The son has a function. The holy spirit has a function. Not one is inferior to the other.

But one has a particular divine function. And that's the same thing with the church. The angels have orders.

There's function and orders. You got mighty angels. You got serving angels.

You've got worshiping angels. And the fact of the matter is God did this. God's the one that establishes order in heaven and on earth.

And when that order is interrupted, Satan is free to work. >> And the reason that churches are preaching false doctrine today is because they can't endure sound doctrine today. And the church is all messed up.

Look at the leadership in the Bible. Jesus didn't choose six men and six women as apostles. They were all men.

When Paul gives qualifications for leadership in the church, bishops, deacons, elders, he doesn't say, "Now include some women there so it'll look good." They're all men. That's because God has an order. And if you will allow me to remind you of the importance of God's order way back in Genesis when the sons of God interacted or had relations with the women of uh the beautiful women of men, those were angels that got out of order.

They left their first estate according to Jude and Peter. They did something God did not design them to do. And they interacted with women.

And right now in the darkest, lowest, deepest, blackest pit of hell, those angels are in chains because they broke God's order and they defied his will. And you don't break God's order or you don't reorganize God because society is putting the pressure on you. Church denominations have been forced into letting women be their general superintendent and overseers because of society.

And we don't want to look like a bunch of rednecks and hillbillies and holy rollers. So, we've decided to surrender to the will of a lost world. And because of the image that we want to portray, we have broken God's order.

And I want to say again, you won't ever do it without consequences. I don't know how long ago it was, but I was telling you about the danger of this whole thing of of of gender enhancement. Not enhancement, of changing the gender.

I wish I could find the right word to say right now. And you, what's wrong with that? You You've got people going around saying, "I'm not happy as a woman, so I want to be a man." Are all men happy?

[laughter] I'm looking around. Whoever you are, wherever you may be listening to me from, I guarantee you if you're not happy as a woman, you won't be happy as a man. I want to be a woman.

I think I'm supposed to be a woman. I think that's where my joy will come from. You think every woman is happy?

Absolutely not. Because happiness is not based on the restroom you can use. >> Happiness comes from knowing that as a sinner you are saved and accepted in Jesus Christ.

[applause] But we are afraid the world will laugh at us and call us ignorant and old-fashioned. So we just kind of go along with it. And the very ones, and I'm talking about pastors, who ought to take the lead and saying, "Folks, doctrine is not always easy and it's not always pleasant, but it's always right.

And we're going to have to learn to endure it, put up with it, live it, and receive it. Cuz I do honestly with all of my heart believe that there is a spirit of Jezebel, a spirit of feminism that wants to get in and take over and control. It wants to tear up the family, the church.

It's already torn up the world. And it's only going to get worse. When I turn over to the letters to the churches in Revelation chapters 2 and three, I read these words in two and 18.

And to the angel of the church in Thotyra, write these words. These things says the son of God who has the eyes like a flame of fire and his feet like fine brass. I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience.

And as for your works, the last are more than the first. You're working harder than you've ever worked. YOU'VE GOT MORE STUFF GOING ON FOR JESUS than you've ever had.

Nevertheless, I have a few things against you because you allow that woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetus to teach and seduce my servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. In other words, she has seduced them, tricked them, deceived them, deceived them in departing from the faith, and they can no longer endure sound doctrine. She's taking the scriptures cuz they let her get up.

They let her take over and she's the one twisting the scriptures to say, "Well, that doesn't the Bible doesn't really mean it that way and that's too harsh. You know, you can overdo it. You can make it a burden to bear rather than a freedom to enjoy.

So, you you just go ahead and live your life. God wants you to live your best life. And all of a sudden, people are saying, "Hey, I throw off the shackles, the restraints.

You mean you mean salvation has shackles and restraints?" I certainly do. It has guidelines. >> I I'll say it again.

The reason we have these rails up the steps and across the balcony is so children won't just walk off the edge or so you won't in your discussions and having fun just kind of back up and fall over the edge. You got to have guidelines or you get hurt. Yes, the Bible has guidelines and yes, the scriptures are guidelines.

SOUND DOCTRINE WILL KEEP YOU SAFE. SOUND DOCTRINE WILL KEEP YOU IN THE FAITH. You won't abandon THE FAITH.

YOU WON'T WALK AWAY FROM THE FAITH IF YOU KNOW SOUND DOCTRINE. IF YOU KNOW WHAT God wants. [applause] >> SOUND DOCTRINE WILL MAKE YOU WANT GOD.

AND [screaming] GOD WILL MAKE YOU WANT SOUND DOCTRINE. >> So there it is. She calls herself a prophetist.

Nobody else did. I am so sick of women prophetesses. I don't know what to do.

Let me move on. He said, "I I gave her time to repent cuz God's a good God. And if you're testing him today with a a life of sin, trying to live both lives, one in the church and one in the world, God will give you TIME TO REPENT.

GOD'S MERCIFUL. >> God's gracious. God's patient and longsuffering.

That's what he said here. I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed, I will cast her into a sick bed, and those who commit adultery WITH HER, THOSE WHO FOLLOW HER, BELIEVE HER, support her, and I'll cast them into great tribulation.

Wow. Sounds like they're going to miss the rapture of the church. Unless they repent of their deeds, I will kill her children with death.

And then all the churches shall know that I am he who searches the hearts and minds. And I will give to everyone according to your works. You know, this spirit of Jezebel thing, this whole feminism thing, nah, nobody really wants to deal with it.

I remember when TD Jake was having these woman thou art loose conferences. Did it just get uncomfortable? Are you just waiting to see what I'm going to say?

Well, let's just move on then. He's kind of fading away now. His his daughter has taken over the church.

Oh. She's in charge. A suffer not a woman to have authority over a man.

Okay, whatever. But when TD Jake was having these woman thou art loosed conferences, I was appalled at 50, 60, 70, 80,000 women showing up in a coliseum, football stadium, an auditorium, hoping that this man could you could say the magic word, use the magic phrase. to set them free from all of the the agitation in their life, the emptiness in their life.

They filled it up and listened and hoped and longed for. I estimated in my own mind, you know, you you include a a plane ticket to wherever and then you got to get hotel rooms and then you got to eat. Hey, no place that has a convention has cheap food.

And then you have to register to get to it. Before you walk through the door, you got to lay down hundreds. And then when you get in there, AND THIS IS FOR ALL THESE PEOPLE.

SORRY. When you get in there, you hear some stuff. And then you got to give an offering.

You got to give a seed offering. So the what you heard works. What you heard won't work until you give an offering.

Hey, that enliven it. That resurrects what you heard. So then you give an offering and before you know it, you've spent thousands of dollars to go hear a man say something that makes no sense.

It didn't come out of here either. I heard it. And and so I ask you if you went if you're watching me online and you went, did you get loosed?

Did it work? Did you buy your deliverance? IF YOU DID, WHY'D YOU GO BACK NEXT YEAR and the next year?

And why did you buy all the books so you could read them and mark them up? Folks, this is a scam. And it goes on every week in this country by some big time mega something or another, somebody, man or woman.

By the way, TD Jake had as his sidekick a little lady called Paula White, Pastor Paula White, who I heard personally say, "God told me to tell somebody, you're going to give a $100,000 today and your family will be saved." Or that's the same one that was preaching and said, "Yeah, I I'm going to lay hands on you, but I won't lay hands on you till you lay an offering right here on the altar." Right? What is that? That's a false prophetist.

That's a self-appointed prophetist who is a heretic and a blasphemer. The things I've heard her say about Jesus Christ is blasphemy. The things I've heard TD Jake say and not say is heresy and blasphemy.

And there you Why'd you pick them out? Cuz I don't have time to pick out a hundred more. Oh, by the way, Paula White is the woman that the president appointed to be his faith advisor.

She has an office in the White House. She's available to the president to give him advice on faith, to keep him apprised of the evangelical temperature. She is there and I heard her say, "Let me tell you, preach trying to preach like a black woman and she's in an totally inappropriate clo clothing with spike heels.

Everywhere I put my foot on the White House loan is holy ground. I'm embarrassed. She does not represent me.

She cannot tell the truth. Whatever the president heard from her is a lie. He needs help and he needs it bad and he needs it now, BUT HE WON'T GET IT FROM HER.

[applause] SEE, that's the spirit of feminism. Spirit of Jezebel, a behind the scenes controlling woman that makes sure things get done. Even though she can't be out front, she can make sure it's done out front.

And I want to tell you something, church. Human rights can never replace God's righteous requirements. >> WOMEN HAVE RIGHTS.

EVERYBODY'S GOT RIGHTS. You know, the Christian really doesn't have a right. You have the right to die for the name of Jesus.

>> You have the right to preach the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ. We don't walk around with this world crying about lack of rights and more rights. We go around crying because this world is dying without Jesus and people are going to hell.

And I walk around crying because in my congregation and in my listening audience, THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT CANNOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE ANYMORE AND THEY'RE GOING TO DEPART FROM THE FAITH. We cannot allow God's word to be like a grocery store. We just go where we want to go and get what we want to get and forget everything else.

Especially especially in the church. Sound doctrine. Now folks, please you don't don't email me cuz I can't mention everything and I can't mention everybody.

Don't do that. I only have a limited time here this morning and I'm just giving you what I feel as a man, but I'm called as a man. I'm called to preach.

I've prayed and I've sought the Lord and I'm just giving you what he laid on my heart for this 40 minutes or so. Don't do that. But there are some other things that go against sound doctrine that preachers do all the time.

They get into stuff that does not matter. They speculate. Books are written, me uh conferences are had on speculative things from the Bible, from pullpits when people are sheep needing to be fed.

YOU'VE GOT AND AND FED BY PASTORS. YOU GOT PROFESSORS TRYING TO TITILATE the mind of people rather than touch their hearts with sound doctrine. things like, well, you know, how long after God created Lucifer did how long was it before he sinned with pride?

What's that got to do with anything? OR HOW LONG AFTER ADAM was made did it take him to sin? There's no answer in the Bible, folks.

There's no answer. When there's no answer, all you do is speculate. And the speculation is intriguing.

The thing with the ark, the ark of the covenant. Where's the ark of the covenant? Oh, he thinks he found it OVER IN JERUSALEM.

OH, THE ARK [screaming] OF THE COVENANT. OH, IF WE COULD JUST DISCOVER THAT. Or the or the ark of Noah.

How many times have I preached on this? WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? ZERO.

NONE. OH, THEY'VE DISCOVERED THE REMAINS of an Egyptian army in the on the bed of the Red Sea. Okay.

So what? SO WHAT ARE the Nephilim? The giants.

WHERE DID THE GIANTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT COME FROM? And this is another ploy of the devil [snorts] that gets preachers that excited about stuff and then they walk to THE PULPIT AND VOMIT OUT this speculation. WHEN A MAN IS DYING OVER THERE AND GOING TO HELL.

WHEN A FAMILY'S ALL TO PIECES over here. WHEN PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING WITH CANCER REPORTS AND HE LOST HIS HOUSE AND THESE PEOPLE ARE IN TROUBLE, LET ME TELL YOU WHAT SATAN DID BEFORE HE FELL WON'T HELP YOU AT ALL. FINDING THE ARK OF THE COVENANT WON'T HELP YOU AT ALL.

THERE'S ONLY ONE THING THAT WILL HELP YOU. HIS NAME IS JESUS. HE DIED.

HE ROSE AGAIN. HE'S COMING BACK. JESUS.

JESUS. [applause] HALLELUJAH. You see, sound doctrine will POINT OUT SIN.

SOUND DOCTRINE, I KNOW I'M GETTING LOUD NOW. SOUND DOCTRINE WILL TELL YOU YOU GOT TO REPENT, THAT YOU'VE GOT TO BE BORN AGAIN. SOUND DOCTRINE WILL TELL YOU NO MATTER WHAT YOU'VE DONE, THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST CAN CLEANSE YOU AND SET YOU FREE.

SOUND DOCTRINE SAYS HE'S COMING BACK TO GET US. HE'S COMING BACK FOR A HOLY BRIDE. AMEN.

AMEN. [applause] HALLELUJAH. COME LORD JESUS.

Stand with me. [applause] PREACHER, DON'T WASTE THE MINISTRY. FULFILL YOUR MINISTRY.

DO THE WORK OF AN EVANGELIST. CALL PEOPLE TO THE FOOT OF THE OLD RUGGED CROSS. PREACH HOLINESS.

STAY WITH SOUND DOCTRINE. [music] I worship you, Lord. [music] Every word in your word is true.

Lord, I love you for your word.