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music edifying today. Wonderful music. And now it's time for the word of the Lord.

I pray a lot of prayers when I come to church. I pray about lots of situations. Today I've prayed that somebody here will just stop playing around and get down to business with God.

Just quit trying to fit God into your life and your dreams and your quit saying, "I'm just busy and I have to be gone." And realize you're going to die one day and you're going to face God. It won't matter to God how busy you were and what your dreams were, what your ambitions were. God just wants to know, did you serve my son?

So that's one of my prayers today. Ouch. The other prayer is that you will hear with spiritual ears what the Lord has today.

Not with your head, but with your heart. What God has laid on my heart today. You know, a pastor is kind of like a general practitioner.

I'm not a specialist. Evangelists call people into the kingdom. Then pastors treat them, grow them, and disciple them.

Sometimes we reprove. Sometimes we rebuke, we exhort, we do it with patience and doctrine. But look at the spectrum here today.

There is no telling how many different levels of faith and spirituality are in this room and watching on that screen right now. So it has to be the Holy Spirit to choose the words that apply to everybody. And so I stand before God humbly asking him to help me the general practitioner to deliver to you what you need to hear today.

Grant it Lord in Jesus name somehow someway you always make a way. And I'm thanking you now in advance for that man and that woman who will this very day decide it's time to be serious about eternity. I ask all this in the name of Jesus.

The whole church said amen. >> Amen. >> Could you do a little better?

>> Amen. >> That was much better. Smile at somebody on the way down.

If you were to ask me as a pastor, what is my greatest concern about this church over which the Lord has made me the overseer, the chief shepherd? If you were to ask me my greatest concern for this congregation and all listeners, this is the first thing I would say. Deception.

I dread to hear that people have listened to certain things and gone after certain teachings. I pray all the time that we would not be a deceived people. You see, deception doesn't just jump up and scream at you.

It's it slithers into your life, into your faith. And without being full of the word of God and the Holy Spirit, without a prayer life, there's not a person in here that's not susceptible to being tricked, including the preacher. I fear it, I fight it, and I do everything I can to run from that which is deceptive.

Jesus was concerned about it so much that he mentioned it often. Don't let men deceive you. Paul wept about it.

Don't let teachers trick you. The scriptures constantly admonish us. Guard your heart.

Filter your ears and your eyes. Keep your eyes on a straight path and make your mind up. Don't wander.

Don't be tossed about with every new wind of doctrine. Every new preacher, every new teacher, every new ecclesiastical entertainer that comes along, don't fall for that. I I read about false prophets and false teachers and false brethren.

And there's a lot of falsehood out there, even false apostles. Paul warned against it. And what concerns me is the amount of information we are privy to.

Folks, all you have to do as you well know is say Siri, what does or where will and how can and now chat chat what's the rest of the letters PT >> chat PT Q you know what I'm talking about it's astonishing it's even scary >> and so here's what I God's people are hungry for God's word. >> And see, you can't live off what I give you once a week. Your heart yearns for more and you want to go deeper.

Oh, I want to know you more. >> So, you read and you study and and then there it is. You've got books by the millions.

Christian books on every subject possible. There aren't that many Christian bookstores anymore, but you sure got it on your phone. And then Christian TV.

My oh my. Oh my. I've preached about it.

I've preached against it for years. Everybody that's on there is not saved. >> Everybody that's teaching doesn't know what he's talking about.

>> Many people are teaching falsehoods and false doctrines because they are false teachers, false prophets, and false brethren. And it it scares me. Jesus said, "Look out for wolves and sheep's clothing." Because, as I said earlier, the devil doesn't just jump up and say, "Boo." He slips into your life.

He finds you with a particular need or a particular pain that you want healed and you want help for it. and he can find the right false teaching to get to you instead of the truth of God's word that's able to heal you. I turn over to Jeremiah chapter 23.

It's one of those Old Testament books that's too long but boy is chock full of truth. And I'm just going to read some passages from the 23rd chapter of Jeremiah. Folks, the whole chapter is about false teachers, false doctrine, false brethren, wolves and sheep's clothing.

The whole chapter. And God is using Jeremiah to address his people. Listen, who ought to know better.

They've heard from God. They ought to know God's voice. They ought to know God's word.

But they have neglected that and and instead now are listening to substitutes and counterfeits. So listen to these words. My heart within me is broken because of the prophets.

I'm like a drunk man. I'm overcome with grief because of God's holy words. For both prophet and priest are now profane.

Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness, says the Lord. Therefore, their ways shall be to them like slippery ways. In the darkness they shall be driven on.

Watch this. I have seen folly in the prophets. Listen to this.

I have also seen a horrible thing in the prophets in Jerusalem. They commit adultery and walk in lies. Have you ever heard in your whole life of as many preachers that are having to leave the pulpit because of immoral failure as you're hearing today?

Heterero and homosexuality. It's shocking. It's breathtaking to me.

It's scary to me. He says, "They commit adultery and walk in lies. They also strengthen the hand of the evildoers so that no one turns back from his wickedness." In other words, their message is empty.

They don't correct. They don't call people to holiness. And they don't tell people to turn away from their wickedness.

Ah, that's the day we live in. Thus says the Lord, do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, make you worthless. They speak a vision of their own heart.

Folks, be careful when somebody comes up and says, "I got a word for you." >> Did you hear me? >> I I sounded like a dad then, didn't I? >> Please, did you hear what I just said?

>> You beware. There's no sense in coming up to me and telling me you got a word for me. You're wasting your time.

I got a word for me and I mean what I just said. Well, don't you believe God can? No.

I believe people can give good, solid, sound spiritual advice from scripture, but don't be coming up to me saying, "The Lord told me to tell you." And you ought to be aware of it as well. Let it come out of this book. So they speak a vision of their own heart.

They make stuff up, not from the mouth of the Lord. They continually say to those who despise me. The Lord has said, "You shall have peace." And everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say, "No evil shall come upon you." In other words, they're into THE THE THE POSITIVE PREACHING.

YOU'RE all right. Everything's okay with you. God likes you a lot and he knows that you're the way you are and he understands you're the way you are.

So, be peaceful. SETTLE DOWN. DON'T BEAT yourself up about everything.

Nothing bad's going to happen to you. Anybody ever heard that? >> I hear it all the time.

But then Jeremiah goes on to say, "In the latter days," that's today. "In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly. I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.

I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel and had caused my people to hear my words, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings. You see, true prophets preach the true word of God.

And when it's done that way, people get saved and they turn from their wicked ways. >> THEY DON'T CONTINUE in them. They don't justify THEM.

THEY REPENT OF THEIR SINS AND THEY GET UP AND THEY WALK IN THE WORD OF THE Lord for the rest of their lives. Here it is. The prophet who has a dream, let him tell it.

I have a dream. He said, "Let the Lord," the Lord said, "Just let him tell it. And he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully." You can't stop the dreamers.

You can't stop those lying, deceiving prophets. But you can tell the truth and you can be faithful with my word because my word is like a fire and it's like a hammer. It burns up that which is false and it breaks down that which is untrue.

And that's what false prophets do. They make sinners feel comfortable. They make people who are living contrary to holy scripture okay with themselves that God understands.

Now that's what false prophets do. But there's this other category here. I'm just boy I'm sorry.

False brethren. False brethren. Wednesday night we had prayer meeting out on the FLC.

If you were there, you heard me call brother Sam up to pray for our church because of false brethren who slightly come in and began to spread seeds of doubt and discord. And he did that. And then yesterday in a conversation, the Lord arrested my attention and reminded me of a passage of scripture which is just listen church.

There are some things in the Bible that make me cringe. I can't understand them. I don't know how to explain them.

I just preach them. I can't uh I can't customize it. I can't glamorize it.

I can't make God look better than God is acting in scripture. So, here's one of them right here. And I don't get it.

15 times in first Kings chapter 13. 15 times there is a reference to a man of God. Got it?

A man of God. Wow. No name, but he's a man of God.

Now, here's the story. Just walk with me if you would. Jeroboam is the worst king Israel ever had.

Jeroboam led Israel into the most diabolical pagan worship ever. God spoke to a man of God and said, "Go down to where Jeroboam is offering these sacrifices and tell him destruction is on the way." The man of God did it. He went down and confronted the king and said, "Destruction is coming because you are leading God's people in the wrong way." And Jeroboam the king said, "Arrest that man." And when he pointed at him, the Lord withered his arm up.

>> Here's where it gets weird. Now, the king looked at uh the man of God and said, "I don't like this. Can you please ask God not to do this to me?

Can you heal me?" And the Bible says God healed his hand. And the king said to the man of God, "Come to my house. Let's eat.

Let's drink. Let's have a good time. You're my guest." And the man of God said, "NO WAY.

IF YOU OFFER me half of your kingdom, I wouldn't come to your house, eat your bread, drink your water. In fact, God told me not to even leave the same way I came. >> And he left a different way without food, without water.

Now, it just so happened there was another prophet in town that didn't happen to be at that church service. And he had two sons who were there. These two sons come running back to the old man, the old prophet, AND SAID, "DAD, YOU WON'T BELIEVE what we just saw.

Jeroboam's arm. King Jeroboam's arm withered up. But a man of God healed his arm and left.

The king asked him to stay with him and he said, "I won't do it for anything." And he left. He said, "Which way did that guy go?" They said, "He went that way." He said, "Saddle my donkey." And he got on a donkey and he chased the man of God down. Guess where he found him?

Sitting under a tree. He must have been awfully tired. He had just performed a miracle, awfully hungry and very thirsty, just sitting under a tree.

And that prophet came up to him and said, "Are you the man of God that I've heard about? Are you the man of God from Judah?" And he said, "I am." He said to him, "Come home with me and eat bread." And he said, "I can't come home with you and eat bread. I can't go to your house.

Neither can I drink any water with you in this place. For I For I have been told by the word of the Lord, you shall not eat bread, nor drink water there, nor return by going the way you came." That's what God said to me. The other man said to him, I too am a prophet.

I'm a preacher, too. We're in the same club. I am a prophet as you are.

And an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, "Bring him back with you to your house that he may eat bread and drink water." he was lying to him. And you know that man of God disobeyed the word of the Lord and followed this false prophet home. And when he sat down to eat and drink, I don't get it.

I don't get it, but I'm going to preach it. The spirit of the Lord spoke through that lying prophet and said to the man of God, "You disobeyed me. Now I'm going to kill you." So the man finished eating and he got on a donkey and down the road a lion attacked him and killed him.

Now if you can understand that, please help me. If you can figure this God out, please help me. I'm confused.

Man of God, how can you be deceived? Well, when you get tired and hungry and discouraged, that's when Satan shows up because he's all already gotten you because of the weakness of your flesh. But he cidled up to him and said, "I'm a prophet, too, man.

I know how this thing works. And I just want you to know God sent me to tell you it's all right for you to come to me. Come with me, and we'll eat and drink.

In fact, an angel told me to tell you this." And he did it. The only thing I can get out of this is that if God has told you something, >> you better do it. >> No matter what preacher or teacher or pastor says otherwise.

I don't care if he pastors the biggest church in the world and has the biggest TV show in the world. I don't care if 10 million people follow her. I don't care >> if God has told you something is this way.

It is this way. >> If God has told you to obey this, he means for you to obey it. And nobody should be able to deter you or distort God's word in your life.

But you won't be able to fight it unless you are full of scripture. Unless you are full of the Holy Spirit. Help me.

UNLESS YOU ARE WALKING IN THE SPIRIT OF GOD, YOU CAN'T HAVE THE DISCERNMENT TO KNOW A FALSE BROTHER FROM A REAL BROTHER UNLESS YOU ARE FULL OF GOD HIMSELF. WAIT A MINUTE. and you and you can't BE THAT WAY GOING TO CHURCH ONCE A WEEK OR ONCE A MONTH OR GOING TO A CLASS OR JUST FOLLOWING SOMEBODY ONLINE on YouTube.

YOU CAN FIND ANYTHING ON YOUTUBE. YOU WANT TO FIND THEOLOGIANS AND OR ARE ARE A THOUSAND OF THEM AT A TIME. PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES PROPHETS and preachers, you can find anybody saying anything about anything.

I want to TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, AND I ALMOST FEEL LIKE CRYING, DON'T LISTEN TO MEN AND WOMEN WHO CONTRADICT THE WORD OF GOD. And I'm going to show you how that happens in just a moment. But but but I'm I'm begging you.

I beg you. Read and pray and pray and read and then turn around and read and pray and pray and read again. Be filled with the spirit of God.

Obey God. >> God won't give you more till you obey him right now. And see, you can't pick and choose the scriptures you like.

Jesus said, "If you abide in me and my word abide abides in you," it's got to live in you. He that believes me and my words. Boy, I'll never forget the day the Lord showed me that.

He that BELIEVES ON ME AND my words because lots of people I know I'm yelling. Lots of people believe in Jesus. They say Jesus.

Oh Jesus. Jesus. And you say, "I BELIEVE IN JESUS." BIG DEAL.

Satan believes in Jesus. >> And he's more fearful of him than we are. It's not about just believing in Jesus.

It's believing in all his words, everything Jesus said. And Jesus didn't just say, "I love everybody. I'm going to take you to heaven anyway.

I I know you're struggling with your flesh and I know you love to sin and I KNOW ALL THAT, BUT I PAID FOR IT AND I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU TO heaven anyway. No. Jesus said you are to be repentant, come out from the world and serve him in my words.

What? What? What words?

Jesus believed in marriage between a man and a woman. Period. >> Jesus believed in heaven, but he also talked about hell.

>> It's hot. It's forever. It's eternal destruction.

And you go there if you don't believe on the Lord Jesus. Jesus Christ. Jesus taught about an antichrist.

This is not some far-fetched prophetical error or heresy that a bunch of Pentecostals got together and decided to believe. Oh no, there's coming an antichrist. He's somewhere in the world today.

He's going to deceive the whole world. He's going to have miracle working power. He's going to have an assistant called the false prophet and they're going to call fire down from heaven.

And people who are apt to be deceived will be deceived by it and they will take the mark of the beast. Jesus taught that. Jesus taught that Israel is still in his heart and Israel still has a land.

And Israel is still in God's plan. And men may minimize Israel. And men MAY CRY OUT AWAY WITH ISRAEL, BUT GOD MAKE MADE A CHOICE.

AND GOD MADE A COVENANT. AND GOD DOES NOT CHANGE HIS MIND. AND GOD WILL NOT BREAK HIS COVENANT.

Don't make me y'all yell all the time. Jesus believed in a rapture of the church. Jesus never taught that his church that would prevail would ever be uh forced to go through the wrath to come.

He said, "AND LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED. YOU BELIEVE IN GOD, believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansions, rooms, places, whatever.

And if I go and prepare a listen to me, >> he's preparing your place right now. That's why he hasn't come back yet. He hasn't finished preparing your place.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also. Jesus taught you ought to love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, strength, your body, and love your neighbor as yourself. But Jesus didn't overemphasize love.

just love. He said, "Serve." If you love God, you'll serve God. But when you serve God, he wants you to love God.

He doesn't want you to be a a a religious puppet, burdened down with religious obligations, and I go to church so I won't GO TO HELL. I'VE ALWAYS BEEN CATHOLIC. I'VE ALWAYS BEEN THIS, THAT, and the other.

No, he wants you to be free. free from everything but him. I just blessed myself right there.

Wow. Let me just throw something in here. I was in a big way last week.

Sometimes I preach on fumes. Sometimes I preach on diesel. Sometimes it's high test.

Last week it was jet fuel. And in that I was saying I might fail but I fail as a Christian. Remember all that >> I might fall but I fall AS A CHRISTIAN.

I MIGHT EVEN sin but I sin as a Christian. Don't you dare for a moment think that I inferred that you can live in sin and still please God. >> No.

I want to make sure cuz this stuff goes out on the internet and it gets posted and all those other terms I don't understand. It goes viral when I say things. So, I want to say this and I want a virus to break out on this right here.

WHEN YOU GET SAVED, YOU GET SAVED FROM SIN. WHEN YOU GET SAVED, YOU HATE SIN. WHEN YOU GET REGENERATED, YOU ARE NEW IN CHRIST JESUS.

WHEN YOU GET BORN AGAIN, YOU ARE GOD'S OWN SON AND DAUGHTER, AND YOU HATE THE THING THAT NAILED HIM TO A CROSS. YOU DON'T LIVE THE WAY YOU USED TO LIVE. HALLELUJAH TO GOD.

YOU HATE THE THINGS YOU USED TO LOVE AND YOU LOVE THE THINGS YOU USED TO HATE. THAT'S WHAT THE BLOOD OF JESUS DOES. IT CLEANSES YOU FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.

IT GIVES YOU A NEW person inside, A NEW POWER TO GUIDE YOU. NO SIR, YOU MAY FAIL AND FALL AS a Christian, BUT YOU WON'T STAY DOWN. HALLELUJAH TO GOD.

The righteous man may fall seven times, but he getth up again. I just want to make that perfectly clear because lots of teaching going around today is that God's more tolerant than we've been told. God is not that offended by your sins.

He let Jesus suffer those sins so he wouldn't be offended by it anymore. Boy, let me just say this. Be careful.

Be very careful who you follow, to whom you listen, what books you read. You ought to be discerning, sensitive, mercilessly conscientious about everything you take into your ears and into your heart. Measure it.

Did you hear that? Measure it against the word of God. Don't let anybody deceive you because they're everywhere.

In fact, I'm turning over to Galatians. They're going to put it on the screens. Going to read it out loud.

I want you to hear it. Paul to the Galatians, I marvel that you are turning away so soon from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel. Please, a different gospel turned away so soon.

Paul risked his life to teach the Galatians that is not by the works of the law, but by grace you have been saved. It's not by the blood of animals, but by the blood of Jesus. He suffered in their presence.

He risked his life in their presence. He brought them to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ only to have some Judaizers, false brethren, false teachers sneak in and say, "Well, he's right. He's he's right.

He's halfway right. You still got to keep the law. Men got to be circumcised.

You still have to keep the Sabbath." And on and on. So, they weren't denying it. They were distorting it.

In fact, that's what he said here. which is not another verse 7. But there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.

Do you get it? False prophets will deny it, but false brethren and false teachers and false apostles will pervert it, change it, add to it, take away from it. So that there's just enough left for a person who's kind of carnal now kind not praying like you should not going to church not serving the Lord not reading your Bible you get you get confused and the gospel becomes per perverted to you.

But watch this. But if we are you still with me church >> or an angel FROM HEAVEN ALL THE WAY BACK TO FIRST KINGS a man of God was deceived because a lying prophet said an angel told me to tell you if we preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you let him be accursed as we have said before. So now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be cursed.

Did you ever stop and think the person I listen to may have a curse on him? If he preaches some of the word of God, he's got a curse on him. Did you ever think that that woman you think hung the moon and she's written everything and books by the millions and did you ever think she might have a curse on her?

Is it not preposterous to think that anybody could follow someone with a curse on them? And yet that's ex exactly what's happening in the church world today. People who will not call out sin.

People who will stress that God wants your best. He wants your best. Well, that's He's got a curse on him.

She's got a curse on her. If I were you, I'd look at everybody I give money to, including here. I would examine the doctrine of everybody I listen to.

I would scrutinize until my eyes swell up what they actually believe. You might, you just might be surprised whom you've been listening to and supporting. Because if there's anything that should frighten a believer, it's that we are following a cursed person who is preaching another gospel who has perverted the true gospel.

Can I give you an illustration? I found some of this early this morning. You see, a lot of preachers won't take a stance on the sin of homosexuality, especially the ones on TV and especially the ones in megaurches.

And you know the reason you might lose some income, some members. So, they kind of skirt the issue. And it's like Joel Ostein says, "I stay in my lane.

I don't get into all that judgment. I don't get into all that hell and fire and brimstone. I stay in my lane.

And God has called me to build people up. All right. Let me give you some examples of perverted gospel." And again, I read it this morning.

Leviticus chapter 20 says, "If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination, they shall be stoned." That's plain to me. >> I'm not looking for any other definition. If a man lies with a man as with a woman, does does IT TAKE A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO know what he's talking about there.

>> They have both committed an abomination and they shall be stoned. >> That's right. >> Listen to this.

I read today that there's a new word study out that man with a man the two original Hebrew word Hebrew words are different which man which means as they interpret it if a straight man lies with a gay man as with a woman. That is an abomination. So there's your perversion of the gospel.

>> There's your twisting of the truth RIGHT THERE. BUT IT DOESN'T STOP THERE. Another expositor said, "No, no, no.

That word, that second word man means boy. If a man lies with a boy as with a woman, he has committed an abomination. And it refers only to child pedophilia.

Well, there's your explanation. And people jump all over that and say, "Praise God for the original Hebrew root word." And churches all over the place jump on that. You know, the old explanation for the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah is that those people were inhospitable.

And that's why God rained fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah because they were rude. I don't think so. Oh, they were rude.

All right. They were also crude. All over this country today and all around this world today are gay churches and they are in there by the hundreds and they are swaying and they've locked arms around shoulders and they're singing about love.

Love in any language. We're all the children of God. And then the the the preacher, the uh recctor or the the priest or whatever false prophet, false teacher, lying prophet comes out and gives some meaningless, hollow, foolish, ridiculous explanation of a scripture and they just cry and worship.

Now hear this preacher. The God of heaven is not there. >> The God of this world is dead in the middle of it.

>> That's sin. That's in fact anytime in in a church when people gather and they make more out of a man than they do the Lord. >> He's not there.

>> If they give more praise to a man than they give to the Lord, the Lord's not there. The father turns his face. It makes him sick.

You want to get God's attention? Make a big deal out of Jesus. Amen.

>> Do what they did today and sing Jesus. >> See, what I'm talking about is what they call progressive Christianity. We're finally learning things and we're delivering people from their bondage.

Well, let me read one more thing and then I'm going to ask you to stand up so I can slip out of here. Are you scared, preacher? I ain't I ain't scared of nothing.

I just don't want to deal with it. I hope I hope that you're understand. I'm not scared.

How about this? What you going to do with this scripture right here? If Leviticus 20 was all wrong and Sodom and Gomorrah was all wrong, what about this one right here?

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man and burst birds and for-footed animals and creeping things. Therefore, God also gave them up to uncleanness in the lust of their hearts to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever. For this reason God gave them up to vile passions.

For even their women exchange the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust for one another. Men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty in themselves.

They're already suffering because of this sin. The penalty is already acting in them. They are miserable.

THE SUICIDE RATE IS SOARING. THEY ARE BEING JUDGED FOR THEIR ACTIONS EVEN NOW. The penalty of their error which was due.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, GOD GAVE THEM UP over to a debased mind to do those things which are not fitting. Stand with me, please. What do we do now, pastor?

Well, I just remind you, we're the body of Christ. We're the church of the living God. God dwells among us, but there are foes and enemies that want to infiltrate our ranks.

Not just our ranks, but our minds. And the only preventive measure is the truth. Can I get an amen?

>> The truth. Do you know the truth? Have you taught your children the truth?

The children that are in here today, you have heard the truth. Young man, you've heard the truth. I got it out of here.

Young lady, you've heard the truth. It came out of this. I did not make it up.

I did not mix it up. I gave you the truth. And now if you receive it and walk in it, you know what true liberty really is.

>> Amen. >> Father, as I as we leave this building now, I'm asking that you will, let Holy Angels protect us on the outside. Let the Holy Spirit protect us on the inside.