In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the importance of repentance and turning away from the nature of Satan. He highlights the need to receive Jesus Christ as our new master and to be led by His Spirit. The preacher also emphasizes the need to put to death the deeds and character of the flesh and Satan in order to be perfected in love and fulfill God's law. He warns against resisting the word of God and hardening our hearts, as it can lead to being unable to be purified and sanctified. The sermon also touches on the dangers of worldly-mindedness and the importance of staying true to the holy commandments.

First thing to first, and that is, is that in your Bible? Boo, folks, top dance around this. Boy, they wish that wasn't in there. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known it, to turn away. Turn away means to fall away. To fall away from the holy commandment of the Word of God delivered in him. Now let me tell you exactly what that means. A person comes, he's practicing the nature and character of Satan. Put it up there, brother. He's practicing the nature and character of Satan. This is under the judgment of God's law. And there's no hedge and protection for the people who are walking after the character and nature of Satan, for the deeds of the flesh. So this is what we come to repent of. That's the way the world walks and talks. This is the way we walk and talk. We used to compare ourself among ourself and measure ourself by ourself, but we didn't have understanding until we come to hear the gospel. And we hear the gospel. Then we come and we repent from the nature of Satan and we receive a new master. His name is the Lord Jesus Christ who leads us by his spirit. And he leads us to put to death the deeds and character, deeds of the flesh and the character of Satan, which we've already seen yesterday. What's today, Monday? Yes, we saw it yesterday. And then we're putting this to death because we put to death the fleshly nature, the nature and character of Satan. So we'll be perfected in love, the God kind of love, divine nature, which fulfills God's law. We endure to the end. We overcome. Do you ever notice to all seven churches in Revelation, they were told, he who overcomes, he who overcomes, he who overcomes. And that's not coming to church in the rain. A lot of people think that's spiritual warfare. Why now, look here, folks. So when we repent and come to the Lord with a whole heart, and then we start following, let a man be our source, and said the spirit of God and the word of God. And we follow him and let him lead us in some destructive heresy. We're not going to stand before God someday and say, well, I just didn't know. He told me, no, you're going to keep your mouth shut while you're just judged because you are responsible for you because you let man be your source. And said the Lord and what this false teacher did, he got you a doctrine. He gave you a doctrine that did not conform you to godliness. You had your ears tickled so you wouldn't endure sound doctrine. You turn your ears away from the truth and you obey in the commandments of men. And he led you from your first love back to walking and talking now just like the world out there. The world out there, you just walk and talk just like the old neighbor next door. Ain't no difference. You don't do one thing different from him. You just kind of have to put on the front once in a while because you sit in a church building. And so what he does, I mean, you sit there and you come and hear the word of God, hear the word. So once in a while you hear a few scriptures, you can hear the word of God. And we're told them to hear the word of God and walk right out that door and shake it off like a duck or shake off water. And the word of God has no place in you. Because the only thing you're interested in is fleshly achievement. How many we'd have in Sunday school and how many we did this and nickels, noses, and numbers, but nobody's life came because the Lord doesn't have their heart. And you've been led after fleshly achievements. You're fulfilling men's visions and dreams while they're all wanting to look good at some headquarters or something like that. Then they get into a bigger position. Politics, the blind lead the blind to the pit. And then you first had the word of God and then you turn from it. It'd been better off if you'd never had the word of God to begin with. To turn back and turn and walk and talk about the world because what has happened. You sit there and that word of God, you harden, you resist the word, you resist the word, you resist the word because the doctrine has your heart, your carnal doctrine. You resist the word till no longer, the word can no longer work in your heart. Your heart has become so hardened and so when the word can no longer work in your heart, you cannot be purified. You cannot be perfected in love. You cannot be sanctified and you have committed the sin unto death. That's on those tapes there. How the church has failed to fulfill the law of Christ and explained a lot more detail than I'm having here. Then I'll have time this week. Now this is what, see, when you repent and turn from the nature of Satan and the flesh, this false teacher leads you back in the deeds and works of the flesh. Look what it says. Verse 21, it'd been better for you not to have known the way of righteousness than having known it to turn from the holy commandment. Were we talking about the holy commandment? Delivered them. It's helped of them is a true, according to the true proverb, a dog, when you turn from sin and then turn back to it, if this sin to the flesh, it's like a dog returning to its own vomit. It's like a pig or a sow after washing. Are we supposed to be washed with the word of God? Sure and clean, then run and jump right back in the pig pen again. The world, and it weighs the world. When you build your treasures here, Jesus doesn't have your heart. Men in selfish ambitions who lead congregations and adoptions that do not conform to godliness are building their treasures right here. They're worldly minded and they're devoid of the truth. They can tell you every historical revelation there is in this Bible. They can quote it, they can come, you get some truth, but they hold a dead book in their hands right there. It's historical revelation. It's a dead book. You can be really impressed by their historical knowledge, historical revelation. Now we're back in 2 Timothy. 2 Timothy 3, verse 13, "...but evil men and imposters are going to proceed from bad to worse. They're deceiving and being deceived." You know what a deceived person is going to do? He's going to deceive you. Amen? Now watch what a deceived person, where he's walking and what he leads you into, verse 5, back up to verse 5. They're holding to a what? You know, a form of godliness. You know what a form of godliness is? A form of godliness is a broad road to hell. It's a narrow way and the gate is small that leads to eternal life. And few are those who are going to find it. Many are going to go the broad road to destruction and hell. And that's what a form of godliness is. A form of godliness misses a mark. A form of godliness is another Jesus and another gospel. Holding to a form of godliness, although they've denied its power, and that's not talking about signs and wonders. That's talking about power, the word to change your life. And it says right here, when you find folks like this, go be a lighthouse. No, it says avoid such men as these. Amen? All right, now what is these imposters and have the form of godliness, what kind of fruit are they going to bear? You reckon they'll bear this kind of fruit right up here, the fruit of Satan, the fruit of the character and nature of Satan? The false church absolutely will. That's what she produces. Now look up there in verse 2. For men will be lovers of self. You know what lovers of self is? Look at me, folks. That's what you're supposed to repent from, self-love, self-selfishness and self-centeredness and self-worship when you come to Jesus. But there's still a form of godliness that lets you still walk there. You still walk after selfishness and you still walk after self-centeredness. And this, you'll be lovers of self, which means you're a lover, lover of flesh, you're a lover of the nature and character of Satan. You hadn't truly repented. What else are you going to be? Lovers of money. There is greed. The heart loves greed. They're boastful. There is a pride. And then arrogant, revilers. In other words, when someone come against you, come against them. A few of them there is unholy, going to be unloving, going to be gossips. Do not have self-control. That's what a form of godliness produces. Oh, I didn't want the people that walk in a form of godliness. That does not conform you to God, say, without understanding. And there you see it, verse 7. They're always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of truth. Let me explain to you why. Look at me here. Folks, now look right here. If anyone has a carnal doctrine that does not conform you to God, if they capture you by the rules of men, do, do, do this, and you're safe. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And then when this doctrine captures your heart, then you're led, not led, but the Spirit of God to put to death the deeds of the flesh, which we've been seeing in the Word. So you're not being perfected in love. So then you're sitting there being religious, and you're still producing the same fruits you always produced, which you're supposed to repent it from. Greed, pride, selfishness, self-centeredness, and self-love. And you're finding your security right here. When you find your security right here in a doctrine that does not conform you to God, you cannot be led to the other parts of the Word, which will lead you out of spiritual darkness and lead you into truth. So you stay right there blinded in a veil right in front of your face, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. That's the broad road to hell.