In this sermon, the speaker addresses the spiritual emptiness and vacuum in the nation, where Christians are crying out for the truth. They express frustration with the current state of preaching, which focuses on material promises and inventions to keep people happy. The speaker shares a personal testimony of visiting a large church and discussing the message of Jesus Christ, emphasizing the importance of returning to God rather than expecting Him to come to us. They also reference the parable of the wheat and the tares, highlighting the presence of both good and evil in the world and the need for discernment. The sermon concludes with a warning against false servants of God who seek personal gain instead of selflessly serving the Lord and His people.

This message is brought to you by CTMI. I would like to welcome everyone. All of you are so precious just because you're a child of God. Amen. Member of the family of God. That great family. There's no better family in the world. Amen. And all those who are listening to us live. All of you who are connected to LMTV live. All of you listening to us on radio. We'd like to welcome you all with us. With all our hearts. And we love you. I suppose you all know the theme of our conference. If you visited the website of CTMI you must have seen the advertisements and the theme of our conference. Separate what is precious from what is vile. Separate what is precious from what is vile. Vile means without value. Precious means a treasure. And everything that God brings everything he teaches us is precious. And everything man brings by their own intelligence is vile. Has got no value. This is why the church of Jesus Christ is the most precious thing in this world. The treasure of God is in the church. All the treasure of God is found in the church. And I pray that you might be able to understand the same for me. The church of Jesus Christ which I believe my conviction is has been baffled. Every year we meet here in this place we hear from the Lord we receive a direction from the Lord he encourages us he challenges us he challenges us we love the Gospel because it's the power of God. This is why we love the Gospel. I love the Gospel of Jesus. I love the Gospel of the first apostles. And when we were fasting and praying with the elders some time ago the Lord revealed that verse to me I've been struggling in my heart for a long time with what's happening in the church. And all those who work with me in all the countries of the world where CTMI is represented they know that. And tonight and during this week I'm going to share on a theme it's not in a spirit of criticism nor of judgment but driven by a conviction that it's a time of God to expose the works of darkness to expose the works of the flesh to allow the Lord to restore his church to bring back his people towards the truth of the Gospel. And at the same time so that you can feel the heart of Jesus the love of Jesus for his people. If tonight all of us could feel only feel the love of Jesus and the heart of Jesus in what I want to share with you we would be encouraged. This is in that state of heart that I want to share with you. And I know I'm convinced that there will be reactions positive reactions negative ones as well positive because I believe God is going to restore the heart of his people is going to bring a healing and will show them the real, the true road of life. Negative reactions there will be criticism there will be judgments but I'm confident that Jesus builds his church that Jesus is building his church we are living in the last days there's no doubt that's why I believe that God will bring restoration, healing in the life of God's people that is suffering. I'm going to start sharing with you three testimonies. The first one you know I travel a lot in Africa I happen to speak to many pastors and servants of God and God allows me to meet many people. I'm going to share with you a testimony of three pastors who have lived during the Pentecostal movement of the years 70-75 when we visited Benin we met what they call in Africa fathers and that man is called Papa Michel Dessous he's the eldest of the pastors in Benin when we shared the gospel he was there and his testimony is as follows it's the first time for 25 years at least that I've heard the message preached by the early apostles in your conference of October 2014 we were in Cameroon some years ago and the testimony of another father Father Binam is his name one of the only old pastors still alive in Cameroon who has known a very strong church and has lived a very strong message with the apostolic message of the 75 a strong message his testimony it's been a long time that I haven't heard the true message of the gospel let me share a last testimony of Father Joshua M. Gandu one of the last eldest one of the Pentecostal movement in Lubumbashi when we were sharing the gospel in his church he was in his office upstairs and he was listening his testimony I followed your messages from my office and that reminds me of the gospel I used to hear when I got converted I met him that day a discouraged man because he could no longer fight against all these young pastors with the prosperity message he had no more strength to fight them and his heart was broken because he could remember what he himself used to preach and what he used to hear when he was converted in the year 70-75 the message the apostolic message the true message of Jesus he was sharing with me brother today we are not hearing that same message in the churches all that we hear is things that are not important this is why the church has lost a lot of its richness if you read the story of the church in the year 70-75 you would not recognize the church today it's another spirit that is animating the church of Jesus today I am convinced that there is a void in the hearts of the Christians of believers that only the Lord can fill and the result is dissatisfaction questions that do not have answers fear so many things that Christians live today in the world I don't know if you can feel it but I can feel there is a vacuum in the spirit it's like an emptiness in the church in the church in general at large something that needs to be filled and that only the Lord can do my prayer that God would remove the veil from the eyes of Christians of pastors of servants of God so they can see the shining of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ the veil needs to be removed and I pray that during this week that God will work miracles in the hearts of many Christians so that they will understand and see what is true Christian life compared to the life the Christians are living today to the gospel they are hearing you know if God says we must separate there must be a mixture do you agree? if God says separate there must be a mixture let's read in Jeremiah chapter 15 verse 19 before we go any further the Lord had told Jeremiah if you return then I will bring you back you shall stand before me if you take out the precious from the vial you shall be as my mouth but you must not return to them let them return to you if there is a separation that needs to happen there must be a mixture what's good and what's bad is mixed together and God has never loved the mixture of the good and the bad what is precious from what is vile in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 8 the Lord says it is written that we are the field of God what grows in that field what is growing in that field one day the Lord shared a parable with his disciples in the gospel of Matthew in chapter 13 maybe we could read it very interesting parable verse 24 another parable he put forth to them saying the kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field but while men slept his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way have you seen what Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is like while men slept his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way but when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop then the tares also appeared so the servants of the owner came and said to him sir didn't you sow good seed in your field how then does it have tares he said to them an enemy has done that the servants said to him do you want us then to go and gather them up no he said lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them in other words just wait let both grow together until the harvest and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers first gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them but gather the wheat in my barn separation the tares is a plant that is not profitable and the bible says that it is at the time of harvest that God allows to uproot the wheat and to burn it and to gather the wheat in the barn in other words reject all that is not good and preserve all that is good and Jesus says the kingdom of God is like this this is the kingdom of heaven this is what it's like that is the kingdom of God this is why the heart of God is never to mix the truth and the false the precious and the vile it's always light, truth without compromise without mixture this is why the bible speaks of the holy doctrine of Christ the holy, the pure the pure, sorry the pure doctrine of Christ the pure doctrine the sound doctrine of Christ and this is what the church needs unfortunately in many churches today there are all kinds of manifestations practices doctrines teachings my question is is that all true is that all good there is so much happening in the church today so much teachings that the people of God are receiving just switch your TV on and you hear all kinds of things sometimes when you switch on your TV and you watch a Christian program you've got only one idea in mind is to switch it off and run away because it's so terrible you can't see you can't expect to see anything but what is crazy is that people who watch this program they say hallelujah and they say amen this is my question is tonight is everything we're hearing from all these churches is all that good is it because it is preached in a church that it is good unfortunately my answer is no maybe it's a bit cheeky of saying that or daring but it's the truth the church has been polluted with all kinds of doctrines of teachings of manifestations that do not find their origin in the word of God should we stay quiet or should we blow the trumpet a little bit should we stay quiet and accept everything do we have the right to allow the church of Jesus Christ to go deeper and deeper to go deeper and deeper in error do we have the right of doing nothing I'm fixing my shirt can we close our eyes and ignore what our brothers and sisters Christians endure in churches let me say it again they endure do we have the right to stay quiet and say nothing are we going to stay insensitive to that migration of Christians that are going back to the world I don't know if you are aware of it but there's a great amount of Christians that are leaving the church and going back to the world because they are fed with the gospel that is not true that is false that is false that is deceiving and that has no power to change them and transform them to the image of Jesus Christ this is why they are tired they walk in defeat and they have no other solution but to leave the church and go back in the world there is a migration the church is being emptied there are more Christians today in the world than in the church why did the Lord make mistakes isn't his gospel powerful enough to win the hearts of believers I think it's time to warn the Christians I believe that we must start denouncing expose all false doctrines all the extravagance manifestations of the flesh false teachings I believe it's the time to denounce false ministries false doctrines and everything else perverse practices that destroy the people of God brothers and sisters that's the truth I love the church I love God's people and I think that Jesus he loves his people he is the good shepherd and I think he wants to bring back to bring back the sheep in the fold so that they can be again well fed I think we must start exposing what is not of the Lord you know in the early church there were also false doctrines false teachings perverse practices in the early church we find that they were not the true servants of God the true servants of God they were concerned by the church and by the people of God let's turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 11 Paul was a true man of God let's read verse 13. He's speaking of these men, these false ministries, that were there, all around the church, that penetrated the churches. He says, for such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves or disguised into apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it's not a great thing, if these ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. Verse 19, for you put up gladly with fools, these foolish ministries, you put up with them. Since you yourselves are wise, for if you put up with it, if one brings you to bondage, one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one strikes you on the face, you put up with it normally. It is incredible how Christians today are mistreated, ill-treated, abused, they are robbed, they are cursed by servants of God, because they are not doing what the servant of God is asking them to do, they speak a curse on God's people, and we call that servants of God. This is what Paul is saying, the Christians are ill-treated, they are abused. They are abused, and let me say it again, so if somebody is making a slave out of you, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, is arrogant, if he strikes you on the face, you put up with it. As if Christians are glued to their chairs in churches, and they swallow everything. They are robbed, and they still say hallelujah. They are abused, and they come back and they say hallelujah. They have been cursed the previous Sunday, they come back and they say hallelujah. They've got eyes of veiled, they don't see. They accept everything, they swallow everything, they are trampled on and they say hallelujah, amen. Everything is taken from them, they are robbed and they still say amen. Their bank account is emptied and they still say hallelujah. So what did Paul do? Paul denounced all these outlaws. Because they didn't carry the people of God in their hearts. They were serving God for their own gain. In chapter 4 of the book of Galatians, the apostle Paul speaks of servants of God who wanted the Christians to be zealous not for Christ, but for themselves. It's no more about the Lord, it's about them. Zealous for them. Everything must turn to them. Paul denounces that. He warns the Galatians. They are not true servants of God. In the gospel of John, chapter 10, Jesus says, in verse 11, Jesus says, I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. He doesn't rob or take from them, but he gives his life for them. It's exactly the contrary that we see in the church today. Servants of God, instead of giving, they only want to receive. They do everything to receive. And Jesus calls them mercenaries. Sorry to say that. Harlings. But the harling, who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep. We see that there are shepherds that forsake the sheep. They forsake the sheep, the flock. True harlings. They run away. They rob God's people without taking care of them. You know, we can ask ourselves, how many Christians really receive care in the church today? How many are really being taken care of? People are giving their lives for them and looking after them. How many? Why do you think so many Christians are leaving the church? If they truly felt the love of the Lord and the heart of Jesus for them, if they were really cared for, they could feel the heart of the Lord, the love of the Lord for them, do you think they would leave? Today, Christians do not have any reason to stay in the church. Apostle Peter says that in his second epistle, in chapter 2, that in the last days there will be a multiplication of false ministries. Multiplication. It will come out from everywhere. They just give themselves titles from everywhere. They invent titles. Titles that you can't find in the Bible, but they add it to their name. Just that it looks good. He's archbishop, you know? When we don't have any more life, we invent. We manufacture. When there's no more life of the Spirit, we depend on our title. We find our security and our value in our title. Our importance in our title. Apostle Peter warns Christians. This is why we need to expose. Everything that is not from the true gospel is a strange fire. A foreign fire. Let's open our Bibles. In the book of Leviticus. You know, today there are many things happening in churches that look like the work of the Spirit. It looks like. It resembles. The work of the Spirit. Of the Holy Spirit. We have time to speak about that. But everything that resembles can still not be true. Everything that resembles can still not be true. Because there's a habit in the church to try to manufacture the presence of God. To make Christians believe that God is there. You know, I also did that in the past. And it's very easy. That God approves what's happening. You say, but what is it if it's not the work of the Holy Spirit? Do you think it's possible that it's foreign spirits? Did you ever think about that? It can be familiar spirits. When we give an access to the devil, he gets in. When what we do is not founded on the word of God, every door is open for the enemy. We must accept it's either light or darkness, truth or false, or it's precious or it's the vile. We can't worship God and mammon at the same time. We can't walk in the light and the darkness at the same time. It's not possible. It's sad that Christianity has become such a mixture. So much compromise. A mixture of the truth and the false. And we make people believe that that is the Spirit of God. It might be true that the Spirit of God is there, there are miracles, our lives changed. But in most of churches today, not everything is of the Spirit. Chapter 9, Leviticus. We're going to read verse 22. Then Aaron lifted his hand toward the people and blessed them. And came down from offering the sin offering, the burnt offering and peace offerings. And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of meeting and came out and blessed the people. Then the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. And fire came out from before the Lord. And consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces. When fire came from God, when the fire of God came down. That was the way for the sacrifices to be consumed. This is how it happened. The fire came down from God. And consumed the burnt offering. Why? What did the fire of God mean? We need to understand that today. There's a reason why the sacrifices and the burnt offerings, when they were consumed, the fire had come from God. This is how it happened. That was an image. Of God's intervention. Of what should have been the intervention of God. When Jesus would come and die on the cross. And that he would be the author of the redemption of our sin. That demonstrated the truth of the cross of Jesus Christ. And if we read a little bit further, you can read chapter 10. Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it. And put incense of it and offered profane fire before the Lord, which God didn't command them. So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. In other words, God was irritated. When the fire came down from God. He was revealing from that time, the cross of Jesus. That it would be through the cross of Jesus that we would receive the redemption of our sin. And that the cross of Jesus Christ would be the instrument of our salvation. And of our spiritual growth. For our Christian life. This is why when the two sons came with a profane fire. God was irritated. It was like this salvation would come without the intervention of God. It was like buffering the cross of Jesus Christ. This is why God was irritated. It was like a profane fire. There was a truth that God wanted to show when the fire came down from him to consume the burnt offering. Salvation doesn't come from man, salvation comes from God. Forgiveness of our sin doesn't come from man, it comes from God. Everything that we want to happen in our life doesn't come from the hand of man, but from God. So what was hidden when it was the profane fire that would come to consume the Holocaust? It was the cross of Jesus. This is what was hidden. And this is what the devil wants to do today. Surround the cross of Jesus with darkness. Remove the power of the cross of Jesus Christ from the midst of the church. The cross to save me. And the cross to bring me to perfection. The cross to forgive me. And the cross to bring me to the image of Jesus. This is the message of Christ. And when we hide the cross of Jesus, there is nothing left. There is nothing left. If you remove the cross from Christianity, there is nothing left. The cross of Jesus was the very thing that God was wanting always to put forward. Because it was the only way for man to be saved. This is why a profane fire in the church bothers, smothers everything. It brings to a Christianity that has no strength and no power. The two sons of Aaron died on the spot, were consumed. This is why it had irritated God. And today, we have the same problem. We remove the message of the cross of Jesus Christ. And we replace it by false doctrines. We remove the true message of the cross of Jesus Christ to change my life. And Christianity dies. If the message of the cross of Jesus Christ is removed from my life, I become a carnal man. If you remove the message of the cross of Jesus Christ in your life, you will go backwards. Because you will never know what it is to die to yourself and to use your life for Christ. The message of the cross is a loss of our lives. This is why Christianity rests on the foundation of the message of the cross of Jesus Christ. And as long as we come to church to try to get something out from God, we are running the wrong race. The message of the cross expresses the loss of one's life. This is why when we remove that message and we replace it with carnal and material messages, Christianity loses all its strength. If I remove the message of the cross from my life, I will no longer know what it is to die to my desires. I will no longer know what it is to crucify my flesh with its passions and desires. What will stop me? Law? Ordinances? Principles? Techniques? No! The message of the cross of Jesus Christ is going to take my life. Show me the way of life. If we remove the message of the cross and it becomes nothing, there is nothing left. There are only messages that are dry, that are dead. This is why Paul says, the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. The letter kills. We only transmit the black which is on white. And that kills. That is dead. If we remove the message of the cross from our life, we will put our eyes on material things. We won't realize the importance of giving our life. To allow God to do the work that he needs to do in our lives. We're going to run towards things that are perishable. We're going to run after material things. Unfortunately, that is the history of the church today. A race towards materialism. Why? Because I've taken the message of the cross of Jesus Christ and put it in a drawer. It's too hard. It's demanding too much from our lives. No, the church is hallelujah, glory to God. That is the church of today. What can I get from God? What is the next promise I should get hold of? That is unfortunately Christianity today. Based on what we can get from God. Not on the life that we are giving him, but on what he can give us. But Christianity is exactly the contrary. It's a loss of one's life. The minute someone comes into the kingdom of God, that Christian must understand that his life doesn't belong to him anymore. He's dead. He's dead to his life. To that life. That is Christianity. Unfortunately, Apostle Paul speaks in Philippians chapter 3 of the enemies of the cross. He doesn't speak of Gentiles, but he's speaking about Christians that are enemies of the cross. Christians that oppose and resist the message of the cross of Jesus. Let's read it. Philippians chapter 3. What does Paul say? Many walk as enemies of the cross. I've always said it to you and I speak to you about it as I cry. They have for For many walk of whom I've told you often and I tell you even weeping that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ whose end is destructions, whose God is their belly. Enemies of the cross. Did you ever hear that somebody who preaches the message of the cross preaches false doctrine? Preaches false doctrine. We don't want to preach that message today. This is why I gave you the testimony of these three old men in Africa. This is the true message they used to hear when they got converted. This is the message that they preached. Today, stars disappeared completely from the church. Where is the message of the cross? It doesn't exist anywhere. Enemies of the cross. The message of the cross is no more found in preachings. It's a subject that no one wants to speak about. We speak about the cross when it comes to salvation. Everybody believes that, that's fine. But we don't hear about our identification to Jesus in his sufferings and in his death. So we can reach life. We don't speak, we don't hear this kind of message in the churches. And we ask ourselves, how will the Christian ever grow to maturity? It's impossible. So no wonder the church is losing ground. The minute we dilute and we change the gospel, we are bringing a profane fire in the church. The minute we compromise the gospel, we are bringing a profane fire. In Galatians chapter 1, verse 6, I marvel, Paul says, that you are turning away so soon from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel. Not that there are another gospels, but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you, than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. That's tough as a statement from Paul. If we pervert the gospel of Jesus Christ, he says let him be accursed. That's powerful. We cannot alter or pervert the truth of the gospel. As it is proclaimed by the first apostles, we won't be able to change it, alter it, pervert it, or compromise it. Chapter 3, verse 1, He says, oh foolish Galatians, I have bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified. Only I want to learn from you is did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish having begun in the Spirit are you now being made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain if indeed it was in vain? The life of the Spirit had disappeared. The Galatians had gone back to religion. The religion had replaced the life of the Spirit. Unfortunately, this is somehow the church today. It's sad. When we think of the church of Jesus Christ, when we read the Acts of the Apostles, we see what the church was like. When we read the Epistles of Paul and we see the message he was preaching, the expectation that was on the life of God's people, today we see God's people being driven to the material things of this world that have nothing to do with the message of Jesus Christ. It's so easy to twist the gospel of Jesus Christ. Let me give you a last verse, 1 Corinthians chapter 11, 2 Corinthians chapter 11 verse 2, For I am jealous of you with a godly jealousy For I have betrothed you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. Lest somehow, as a serpent deceive Eve by his craftiness, I fear that your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches you another Jesus whom we have not preached, and if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or another gospel which the one you have not accepted, once again, you may well put up with it. Finally, what happened? The Corinthians accepted another gospel, another Jesus, another spirit. This is what happened. The true gospel had disappeared. And the Corinthians once again accepted brothers and sisters, we need to dwell in the sound doctrine. Paul wanted to preserve the sound doctrine of Christ. Not only was it his life, but it was his message. And he defended that gospel. My question tonight, the Bible, the Word of God, is it our only book? Guide? Is it our only guide? Do we have to go and dig somewhere else to live the true Christianity? Do we have to add the thought of man, the wisdom of man, the experience of man to the Word of God? The Word of God should be our assurance to dwell in the pure sound doctrine of Christ. And the least we don't see and we don't find what we hear in the Word of God, we must beware of anything we hear that does not find its origin in the Word of God. Otherwise, where do we start and where do we end? My experience cannot become a doctrine. My experience cannot become a doctrine for the church. It's impossible. We must beware. We need to dwell in the Word of God. Or just invent things. Let us just invent. You know, for the last past 20, 25 years, how many things how many inventions happened in the church and it was put on the account of the Holy Spirit. My question is where do you find these things in the Word? Does the Gospel change? Does the Word of God change and evolves with time? Does the Word of God become modern? Or is the same from the time it was written to the end? Paul says to Timothy dwell in sound doctrine. Don't get away from it. Dwell in sound doctrine. What are we going to invent now? If we don't see these things clearly in the Word of God, what are we going to do with these things? So many winds of doctrine blew in the church. It came, it went. It was put as something from the Holy Spirit and then it disappeared. We saw all kinds of crazy things of manifestations that are not scriptural because this is the flow everybody goes with it. I say no. I say no. Let me say something. This church is called to grow. It's called to grow and you better believe it. But there's one thing that's sure is that us elders we're going to watch that sound doctrine dwell in this place and that we won't open the door at any kind of wind that goes through. You know a big church? In English we call that the megachurches. But I promise you I promise you that we will never ever accept the spirit that exists in megachurches in the world. We can be big. This is why all of us we must be very careful. Let's watch. We watch. We are not going to accept the influence of the world at any cost. May all of you hear it. Every department of this church all those who work with us we are not going to tolerate the spirit that exists in megachurches. Every part of the church from the music do you hear me? We will speak more about that. But we close the door from all influence that comes from the world. We want to produce Christians that are strong that are stable that walk in victory who are spiritual. Men and women who seek for the life or the spirit for whom material doesn't count have no value. Do you agree? We are going to watch. If we need to fight we are going to fight. But we want to dwell in the spirit of the gospel the heart of Jesus. You know how God used Moses to deliver his people? Do you agree that God hears the cry of his people? You know how many thousands of Christians suffer today and are waiting for something? They are tired of living a defeated Christian life. They are tired of being entertained. Tired of being entertained. They are crying to the Lord. God hears them. The Bible says God heard the cry of his people and he visited a man Moses he said go tell Pharaoh let my people go let my people go I think that God wants to restore his people wants to bring back life in the midst of God's people give a new hope to people that are suffering the same way that God's people were slaves to the Egyptians today Christians are slaves and they are not able to lift up their heads they are asking themselves one thousand questions they are tired discouraged and live in sin there is no message to take them out of the hole in which they are only promises in the material world only inventions try to keep them we get them to feel goosebumps so that they can be happy there is a vacuum in the spirit that nation there is a spiritual emptiness and vacuum in this nation Christians Christians are crying to God Lord where is truth I've had enough there is a new hope for a people that is suffering a people that has lost faith Christians have lost faith I'm going to end with a little testimony I went to visit a huge church one day in a great country one or two brothers were with me they will remember what I'm saying we entered the office of the pastor that was the first time I met him never mind how we got there I was sitting in his office with one or two brothers and I started speaking of the message of Jesus Christ of the message of the cross of Jesus he looked at me he said listen to me if I preach that message in my church they will all leave I was shocked I was shocked hearing those words from a pastor who was ready to smother the message of Jesus so as not to lose his people that is really sad not to preach the message of Jesus because you are scared that people will leave I prefer to have nobody in my church I'm not interested I'm not interested to have people who are listening who never change who are never challenged never challenged they never repent and we need to tell them you know Jesus loves you he loves you don't worry he loves you he's got 66,000 promises for you be reassured Jesus loves you what is this message that is religion there's nothing in that it's dead there's nothing in there I've always told my wife I'd rather have 100 Christians who are well in their hearts who are well happy serving Jesus ready to face persecution and hardships of life depending on the grace of God to carry on their race rather than a big church with people who are just carnal and who do not know what is Christian life who have not tasted the true experience of Christ I'd rather have this where does the church go where is the church going I'm saying are you ready to pay the price I'm ready is this the first time that I'm taking risks no often we have had to face we were isolated set aside persecuted opposed but when I look at you tonight I'm very proud I'm very proud I'm proud I'm proud of the people who is ready to take the road of the cross who is ready to allow the Lord to keep working to shape us to his image there is a price to pay but we will never change our gospel from the day Jesus has caused us to hear his voice he has healed us he has set us free he has united us like thousands of people who were united by this message we have nothing to look back and feel sorry about if we need to take another stand are you with us it's going to burn but we're going to open the book we're going to open the book and we are going to quote first false doctrine ok we're going to open the page second false doctrine and the third page some, I don't know just extravagance excess fourth page teachings false teachings that do not have their foundation on the word of God are we going to be united in that are you scared no we're not scared we're going to stand strong God needs men to blow the trumpet we're going to blow the trumpet why because there's a message that has changed our lives that has healed our marriages how many marriages have been restored here show me how many marriages have been restored here please show me the power of the message of the cross of Jesus the power of losing our lives let's stand we're going to pray you got the faith for the gospel the gospel of Jesus is beautiful do you love the gospel yes I love the gospel and you know that when the Lord shows me something and shows me something in his word for me that is what is the most important thing counts the most and when he shows me something this is why one day I started sharing with you that message that started to shake my own life today I'm a very happy man I've got a beautiful wife come on the Lord's done so many miracles for us this is why I will never I will fight to the end I will even leave this church if I need to I have no problem to do that if you are not ready to keep that sound doctrine it creeps slowly slowly slowly it creeps in this is why elders we need to open our spiritual eyes and watch I promise you I'm ending we don't want to be like these old men surrounded with young preachers that preach material things who get excited for anything but we will teach them to dwell in sound doctrine Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ crucified