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This sermon emphasizes the importance of running from false teachings and practices that do not align with the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. It urges believers to flee from churches and preachers who prioritize personal gain, self-improvement, and lack a focus on repentance, the blood of Jesus, and genuine worship. The message calls for a return to true passion for Christ, born out of anguish and a deep burden for the state of the Church and the lost, just like Nehemiah's burden for the restoration of Jerusalem.
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You talk about being full of the Holy Ghost? You talk about miracles? Give us Emmanuel Righteous. Give us Emmanuel Holy. That's what the world is wanting. Run from gospels that focus only on success and prosperity. Run! Run from those who use the name of Christ only for personal gain. Run from those that are picking your pocket in the name of Jesus. Run! Run from gospels that only focus on self-improvement. How can I three steps to a better personality? Three steps to this and four. Run! Run from churches where men and not Christ are glorified. Run! Run! Body of Christ. Run! Get out! Don't touch the unclean things. Run from churches in America and Canada where there is no Bible. There's no cross in the theology. There's no soul-searching word. There's no repentance from sin. There's no mention of the blood of Jesus. Run! It's unclean. Run! Run from churches where the worship leaves you cold. There is no sense of God because they don't know God. Run! Run from churches where you're comfortable in your sins. That's a table of devils. If you come into the house of God and you've got sin in your life and you're not convicted of it, you're at a table of devils. Run from pulpits that are filled with political men who are using the pulpit of God for a personal political agenda. Run! Run from those who preach division between races and cultures. Run! Run! Get out! Turn it off! Get away from it! They know nothing of God. Run from ungodly spasmodic movements and endless empty prophesying. Beloved church, run for your life. Run from preachers that stand and tell stories and jokes. Run like you've never run before. Put your so-called faith and love into action. Lay in dust your pride. Forget it. Who cares whether you wear designer clothes or not? Who cares whether you have the best ring or anything, the best car? I want to be among those that are not running away from the conflict, but running into the conflict. And say, run for your life! All true passion is born out of anguish. All true passion for Christ comes out of a baptism of anguish. You search the scripture, and you'll find that when God determined to recover a ruined situation, He would seek out a praying man, and He'd take him down into the waters of anguish. He would share His own anguish for what God saw happening to His church and to His people, and He would find a praying man, and He would take that man and literally baptize him in anguish. See, you have to make a decision. You're going to come, and He says, now, if you're going to bear my burden, if you're going to be an instrument of restoration, if you are expecting somebody else to be an instrument to win your family or to do this work, you're mistaken. I've burned your heart. I've given you my heart, and I've opened up my anguish to you, and I'm letting you feel it and share it, so that it will bring you to your knees, because it is there that I'll speak to you the word of direction, and that's what happened in Nehemiah. He came eventually out of the waters of anguish with a clear word that nobody could reject. We ask you a question. Has there been a burning in your heart lately? Has there been a fire burning in your heart? You can't explain it, but there's a churning. There's a burning. There's a crying. You're saying, God, I want my family saved. God promised Israel, I'm going to take you out, your husband, your wife, your children, all your animals, your cattle. You leave nothing behind. You're all going out, everything that belongs to you.