This sermon emphasizes the importance of allowing the Word of God to refine and separate believers from the wickedness of the world, leading to a pure heart that can possess the promises of God. It highlights the need to draw near to God with confidence to receive mercy and grace in times of need, resisting temptations and idols that hinder spiritual growth. The message urges believers to prioritize loving the Lord above all else, laying a strong foundation on which to build their faith and withstand spiritual attacks.

The billows blow fiercely, and that means the powers of darkness are turned loose, and they're blowing fiercely. They are right now. The lead is consumed by the fire, and they are the fire. In vain the refining goes on. Why? I'm going to tell you why, folks. People won't let the Word of God separate them. In vain the refining goes on. The wicked are not separated. Just hang in there, and they say, I just love these nice people. I can't leave them. Love nice folks more than they do God. And they won't let the Word of God. So they can't move them. Well, I'll just be a lighthouse. So God's people never come together. And they never get perfected in love. Because their hearts love other things. In vain the refining goes on, and people get destroyed. Hey, folks. Just stop looking at one another's faces sometime. When you get back to your corner town, look at the choir. Look at their faces. See if you see gladness and joy there. Look at their eyes. Or see if you're looking at some people being destroyed. Let me ask you something. Shouldn't we talk about that? Shouldn't we know about an enemy come to kill, steal, and destroy? We've been so broken by pride and greed, we just won't talk about blessings. You're not going to know the blessings until you understand that. Or you'll be getting your flesh blessed. Amen? You'll never know about holiness and righteousness until you know about the judgment and deal with sin and repentance. Never. Well, I'll tell you what. This so encourages me. In the flesh, none of us have an easy part. But I just want to tell you, it encourages me because I'm looking all over your faces right there. And I'm seeing a people who are hearing God right now. But what impresses me the most right now is that God is here speaking to you. I want you to be a success in Jesus. I didn't come here for any followers. I don't want you. But I sure do love you, and I mean it. I really do. I mean, love is not love until you say what God says. It's not love. It's phony as a $3 bill, just like this world and everything else. It's not love until we say, now, folks, what we're going to learn here this week is just a little part of what God wants to show us. Are you hearing what I'm saying? I want to tell you there's volumes that God wants to show us. And we start cleaning up our heart. I'm telling you what's the truth. I don't care where you come from or what you've done. I mean, he'll pour it out. You get in your Bible. You don't have to go check in with a king that's got the word chain to poke it if he is a king. I want you to know now. I've been making reference. I want to tell you there's a lot of godly shepherds. Most of them aren't. But there's a few that are. And it's a very difficult time for them because they're not going to stop and camp nowhere and start saying, well, now, we're there now because they'll get you to camp somewhere and they'll get you to look down the street now and look how much further ahead we are. And they took their eyes off of Jesus. But I tell you the most difficult thing is a shepherd. If you ever need to pray and help and get behind and love a shepherd. The most beautiful thing in this world right now is a shepherd who has a shepherd's heart. There's nothing like it on this earth. But he's not king over God's heritage. He gets up in under you and lifts you up. And when we're getting rid of this, he don't have to spend all his time visiting you in the hospital. Amen? In vain the refining goes on. Look at it. Come here and get the wicked or not separate. Let's get a little bit of light. Look at me, folks. And let's go over here. Let's take what I've shared with you here and start us another denomination and let me be a king. Oh, you don't want that? You know something? I don't either. Verse 30. And they call him rejected silver. Because the Lord has rejected them. Now, I'll just share you something real quick right here in 2 Timothy 2. And we'll look at that. 2 Timothy 3, rather. 2 Timothy 3. Hurry. Hurry. 2 Timothy 3. All the T's are together. Okay. Now, you're going to see the false teachers right here. Now, verse 12. I believe this is the last place I may go unless the Lord changes it. Now, verse 13. But evil men and imposters are going to proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. What's a deceived man going to do? Is he going to deceive you, too? Can you hear pride come out of his mouth? What do you think a man of pride is going to lead you? What do you think Matthew 7 is talking about? He's going to come in sheep's clothing, but inwardly he's a ravenous wolf. You know why he's got a wolf's heart? A wolf, this is a wolf right here. The people of the world, the world of church is wolves. They have these things in their life while they speak real quick and tears run down their eyes and they quote scripture like I did and so forth like that. They'll speak peace to you, but they're fulfilling pride and greed and things like that in their life. He's imposters. They're false teachers. Boy, could we get into that for a while. Verse 5. They're holding to a form of godliness although they've denied the power. You know what the power is? The word of God to change your life. That's not signs and wonders. And it says right there when you find folks like that, the rest of that verse says go be a lighthouse. What does it say? Oh boy, look at me folks. Look here. A form of godliness is do this, this, this, this, and this is your way to heaven. Let this capture your hearts, what the powers of darkness did to the Pharisees. And then you got a form of God. Can I tell you where a form of godliness leads you to hell? A form of godliness misses God. Now let me show you. Let's see what these fruit of these people are in verse 2. So these men are going to be lovers of what? How many can see this right up here? You know what a lover of self is? It's a lover of flesh, selfish ambition, pride. They're also going to be lovers of what? I can't hear you. What do you call that? What did 1 Timothy 6 say? The root, the love of money is the root of all kind of evil. You put greed there and you saw the tree before. That's greed. When you love money more than you do God, you have problems. That's the reason it said the moth and the rust is on it over in James 3. If you're hoarding it up to build a big nest by yourself while other people are hurting around you, it's cursed. And your children and everything else with it. They're boastful. What part of people makes people want to be boastful? The pride. They're arrogant. They're revilers. In any way they revile, you revile them, they revile back. Unholy, unloving, gossips. Without self control. Haters of good. Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. Folks, that's babbling. And folks, don't spend too much time looking down the street. Why don't you look at you? See if there's fruits in your life. Now, verse 7. I don't want you to look up here first. They're always learning, never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. They're blocked by tunnel vision. They can't see. They can't see righteousness and holiness. Can't see the power of the darkness. All they can do is cast them out. Act like they're not there. While they look at somebody in worse shape than they are. Compare yourself among yourself and measure yourself by yourself. If you don't measure right here, you're without understanding. Always learning. They're never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Let me show you something, folks. 1 Timothy 6, 3 through 5 says, If anybody advocates or teaches or preaches a doctrine or a teaching that does not agree with the sound words of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the gospel, and to the doctrine and gospel right here that conforms you to God is to an image of the Lord Jesus Christ, they're without understanding. They're deprived of the truth. They have a morbid interest in controversial questions. All they can do is just type the word. He believes that sickness is sin. He believes that Christians can have demons. What's a Christian? See, the problem is what the word calls Christians and what this calls Christians is two different things. Say, well, Jesus became a curse for a calvary. He didn't become a curse for you. That's the reason you have to dwell in a place of demons. Folks, I want to tell you something. You'd better quit fearing men. You'd better quit fearing folks. You'd better quit seeking their approval. You'd better find out what God's saying. You'd better get some people that love the Lord. And just as Jairus opposed Moses, these men also opposed the truth. They opposed the truth. They opposed the truth. They opposed it with these controversial questions. They're men of a depraved mind, and there is that rub. They're rejected silver. I'm going to tell you, they are rejected silver. They're rejected as regards to faith. Glory be to God forevermore. Stand up. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Why don't you close your eyes right now? I didn't get nowhere near where I wanted to tonight, but I know the Lord has just spoke to your heart there. Now, I want you to just on your feet right now, I want you just to close out everything except the Lord Jesus Christ now. I want you in your heart right now to repent of these things that the Lord's got on your heart right now. Just repent of these things. And you know something, when you get home, you need to keep repenting. You need to cry out to the Lord. You need to cry loudly. Cry out to the Lord. And while you're repenting to the Lord, who's just got his hand stretched out to you right now and had it all the time, why don't you just commit to him with all your heart that you're going to serve him, that you're going to possess the land, that you're going to be led by the Spirit of God? Do that now. Pray and cry out to the name of Jesus. Father, in the name of Jesus, I just know your blessed presence is here right now. You're so precious, Lord Jesus. And Lord Jesus, I just pray that the word be sealed in their hearts, that it can't be stolen and replaced with the worries of the world, the seep and the wretched desires for other things, or persecution or affliction, or the intimidation of men, or the approval of men is not going to remove the truth from their hearts. Now, Father, in Jesus' name, I pray that you just show their hearts where they are. I pray that you just let them see themselves right now. I pray that you'll show them, Lord, if they've been led by men in carnal doctrines that do not conform them to godliness. Father, show them, Lord Jesus, show them right now if they've been leaving their first love and settled in in the false security somewhere. Show them that your Bible tells them to repent and return to the first works, Lord. Lord God, I just pray that you just help us and have mercy on us, Lord. We don't have anything to demand you for, Lord. Just to stand in your grace, your awesome, in your presence that you'd even let us see and know the truth that we're seeing right here. I just want to bless you and praise you, Lord. I can see they're just a remnant, Lord. Now, Father, I pray tonight that you just release them from some of these strongholds tonight. When you go home tonight, I want you to continue repenting. But right now, let's just get released from some of this stuff, this heaviness that's been on us. I'm just trusting the sweet Lord tonight to just move all kind of stuff off you tonight, okay? He already has. He's going to remove more tonight. Now, Lord Jesus, we come to the Lord with all our heart. We choose to love our neighbor as ourself. And right now, we just... Let's just agree right now. I don't know what kind of commitment you've made to the Lord, but if you never did commit your whole heart, you hadn't made the right commitment yet. Just follow me right now. Lord Jesus, I choose with my will to love you with all my heart and my neighbor as myself. I choose to be led by the Spirit of God and the Lordship of Jesus to be conformed to the image of Jesus and have the nature of God. I renounce the nature of Satan and the love of that nature. And I stand in your word, Lord, because you disarmed the rulers, and I overcome them in Jesus' name. Now, Lord Jesus, I thank you that I'm born again. I'm kept with the power of God. I'm redeemed by the blood. I'm saved and being saved. And right now in Jesus' name, I renounce all that dread and worry, fear and anxiety, all guilt and condemnation. I renounce letting my heart go to men, carnal doctrines, religious traditions, the spirit of error, the spirit of parliary, and I renounce every cover over me that's not in the order of Christ. Jesus Christ is the head of every man. And right now in the name of Jesus, I stand in your word. You became a curse for me at Calvary. Lord Jesus, I renounce all false guilt, all religious spirits, all religious deception, and now I stand to be led by your spirit. Lord Jesus, I receive grace, forgiveness, the Word and the blood. And now in Jesus' name, the blood washes me from all these sins. Lift up your hands to Jesus right now and say, Lord Jesus, I release them right now. I release these works right now. I release them and every stronghold, every word, curse, and spell is broken over them. All your destruction and infirmity right now are broken over them. All these denominational curses are broken over them right now. All the spirit of error and the spirit of harlotry, diseases, and all the curse of divorce, all the adultery is broken over them right now in the name of Jesus. I break the curse of masonry over them right now in the name of Jesus. They're broken right now in the name of Jesus. The curse of trusting men is broken right now. The false doctrine is broken. Lord Jesus, forgive them of the false religion that's come down to their ancestors, on their household, and on their children. We break that curse over them right now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you, Lord. It's broken right now. It's released right now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah to Jesus. Praise God. Hallelujah to Jesus. Lord Jesus, I renounce all the sins of my mother and father and their words that were spoken against me before I was born and after I was born. And right now in the name of Jesus, I renounce all ancestral curses that's come on me and my household, all word curses. I bless all my enemies. I cast down every word that was spoken against anyone else. And now in the name of Jesus, folks, you're getting a fix and a be released from a bunch right now in Jesus' name. Now lift up your hands to Jesus and all those curses and words, all those ancestral curses, just say, I release them right now. I release them all. The sins of my mother and father are released. The words of my mother and father are spoken against me before I was born and after I was born are released right now in the name of Jesus. They're released from you right now. They're released from your children. They're released from your household right now in the name of Jesus. Every physical curse is broken right now. Every mental curse and all the words spoken to your mother and father. Your mother, fear and disease. Your father, fear and disease is on you. All this fear, all this destruction, leave them. The Lord sent his word to heal them. His word is life to them and health to all their whole flesh. He forgave all their iniquities, healed all their diseases. The Lord has taken every weakness, sickness, disease, infirmity, curse, and sin and by the stripes of Jesus. Every word, curse, and spell over them now is broken and released. Now lift them just out of this release. Jesus became a curse for them of God. They're not on them right now. All this religious tradition is broken over them right now. It's broken and it's released from you right now. Leave them, folks. It's coming off. Bless you, Jesus. Hallelujah to you, Lord. Bless the name of Jesus. Let's just bless him. Hallelujah to the name of Jesus. We bless you, Lord. Praise the name of Jesus, Lord. There's none that compare to you, sweet Jesus. You're so precious. You're precious, Lord. We just thank you, Lord, that you dwell in the midst of me. Praise you, Lord. We thank you that you are the deliverer, that you sent your word to heal. We renounce everything that's contrary to the word of God in our hearts and lives. In Jesus' name. Hallelujah to the name of Jesus. Just close your eyes now and close out everything but Jesus and say, Lord Jesus, I now renounce all anger, hate, and murder, disappointment, rejection, the approval of man, pride and greed, self-pity, criticism, depression, all suicide, fear of rejection, self-rejection, insecurity, impurity, loneliness, shyness, timidity, all despair, despondency, discouragement, dejection, hopelessness, failure, death, insomnia, sadness. In Jesus' name, Lord. I renounce these and all inroads. They're sealed by the blood. They're at attention. Now lift up your hands at Jesus right now and say, I don't want them. I don't want them. You don't want them. And they're released right now. They're removed with the word and the blood right now in the name of Jesus. The blood of the Lord. Oh, isn't it wonderful? Isn't it, Lord, wonderful? Praise God forevermore. Praise God. The man of the house will heal you to the name of Jesus. Praise God forevermore. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah to Jesus. Praise the name of Jesus. Hallelujah to the name of the Lord. Now let me tell you the scripture we're using to do this. Our weapons are mighty in God to turn down strongholds and fortresses and everything. We turn it down with the word of God. Is that right? And we do it through repentance and then we take in the word. This wasn't chanting. This is turning down. This is the way you do all the time. This is the way you do in your house. Now folks, how many know? Just with those few strongholds, all kind of stuff came off of you right there already. Amen? Honey, this is just second night. This is just the second night. And I tell you what, now like I say, there's going to come a time I'm going to tell you what we could say here when we get strong enough that, Lord, you can sit here all night. We can just throw a fit here all night and just, you hear what I'm saying? Praise God. Come up here, preacher, and let me hug on you. Praise God forevermore. I love you, brother. You're precious, brother. You have a divine nature of God when they tell you you can have two natures. Tell me, how can you have the nature of the devil and the nature of God? That's the gospel contrary. That's what's getting people destroyed. That's getting them all in the way. Folks, it's all right to be angry with God's anger. You know, you know, we don't have to sin and revile back, but we can speak things from God's front that we still deal with the truth. We don't let those demons of guilt and intimidation and fear and all these things keep us from discussing what's wrong. We just make sure that we still love the people that's involved and understand it's grace, it's led us out of it, and we let our light shine so they can come out too. Right? Is that right? Well, amen. Well, I want to just go one place, and then we'll go home. Romans 6 and Galatians 5. I just realized, I have to tell you, I want you to clearly understand this. I'm just going to tear down a stronghold. I'm going to tell you something, folks. How many realize, when you get truth, you understand the strongholds are coming, how many realize that peace is coming all over you? You know why? They're coming off of you. You can go to every doctor, specialist in this world, and they can't get it off of you. The only thing they can do is cut something out and tell you how to live with it. All right. Now, the body of Christ in Galatians 5.24. I hope you're there by now. Galatians 5.24. We're going to turn to Romans 6 too. Don't you lose it. My goodness. All right. Now, watch quickly. Verse 24. Now, those who belong to Christ Jesus, Galatians 5.24, this is the body of Christ, Paul says, those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Now, back up to verse 19. Now, the deeds of the flesh are evident. You can tell, hey, is it evident when greed comes out of somebody's mouth? Is it evident when hatred comes out of their mouth? Is it evident when the fruit of rejection comes out of their mouth? Is it evident when the fruit of sarcasm comes out of their mouth? Are you hearing what I'm saying? Okay. Now, the deeds of the flesh are evident. You'll know the mother fruit, which are immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, immatice. You remember the ones that teach, that build doctrines out of 1 Corinthians 3, strife and jealousy, baby Christians, so you can continue practicing sin because babes in Christ practice strife and jealousy. Remember that? See some doctrines built around that in Romans 7 that you can go ahead and practice sin. You can have two natures because part of it they use there is that babes in Christ practice strife and jealousy back in 1 Corinthians 3. So, there it says, does this say it in verse 20, idolatry, sorcery, immatice, and what's those two words? Strife and jealousy. Look in verse 21. Envying, drunkenness, grousing, and things what? Like these, strife and jealousy, which I forewarn you just as I have forewarned you that those who practice such things if you continue in it and you won't overcome it shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Is that plain? They say, well, here's a controversial question. He doesn't understand grace. He'll put you under the law. I'll tell you what's got you under the law. You're walking under a curse. This is the rules of men. They come against you obeying God and the Spirit of God. They call this legalism. And that's where you're walking in just like the Pharisees. You obey the rules of men to get into heaven. And there's where you are. You're walking under a curse. It's a doctrine that doesn't conform you to godliness. Are you following me? Huh? Now, back up to Romans 6 because if I don't get this grace thing straighten up this reading I want to take an extra minute because I felt like that. See, that's a stronghold. It always comes back. Well, he doesn't understand grace. See, that's one of the controversial questions. Chapter 6, verse 1. Well, you go over to verse 15 then. We are churches. No longer are the law. There's no more curse on us. Shall we sin because we know the law? But now we're under grace. May it never be. Now, verse 17. What have you become obedient from the heart to now? To that form of teaching which is the gospel to which you're now you're committed in your heart. See, you're committed to the gospel. And now having been freed from this sin right now you've now become slaver of righteousness which is walking in love right in God's eyes. It's no longer practicing these things sin here. Boy, you know they're blind as bats to this scripture. This is just simple like looking at carpet down there. But you can't see this when you got tunnel vision. When you got tunnel vision this captures your heart and the only thing you can see in the Bible is what fits in a doctrine that doesn't conform you to God. Isn't this plain? Now let's go ahead. Verse 19. Listen. You present your body to, look here, to anger, jealousy. You present your body to stealing. You present your body to criticism. You're members to retaliation. You present your body to memberness, bitterness. You present your body to stubbornness and approval of man. You used to present your members, this is an impure heart. That's what you present your members. Members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness because all of these things breaks God's law against loving your neighbor. But resulting, it all resulted in further lawlessness. So now it's all different. Since your heart is committed to obedience to this gospel you're now presenting your members as slaves to righteousness, walking right in God's eyes which results in sanctification. Sanctification is removing all of these. The Word of God washes it and then you have a pure heart. That's what sanctification is. That's that process. Now, verse 21. In other words, when you were walking after these things, look at me right here. When you used to be walking after these things, what kind of benefit were you deriving from that lawlessness you were walking which you're now ashamed of these things. Because the last part of 21 says for the outcome of these things is what? Why is it death? Because the law brings death on. Folks, are you seeing this now? Amen? But then the next verse. But now having been freed from sin you repented and turned from it. You're enslaved to God to the Spirit of God and the Word of God. You now derive you've got a new benefit which results in sanctification which is a pure heart. You possess the land of peace and rest and the outcome of this is what? That's the way to eternal life. Is that pretty plain? Once again, we're just getting started. Now, right now, we're all to spend about three hours and we'd take a run and fit around this place. But it's time to go. Talk slop track twelve. No, you have to work and things. I'm just kidding. But, you know, a little bit. Folks, the Word tears down strongholds. It exposes them. The Word showed you when your heart is come as Jesus saw your heart. The number one thing you want to do is decide you'll come to the Lord with all your heart and it becomes easier to do these things. If you make something complicated out of it then it's not the simplest impurity of devotion to Christ. But let me tell you something. In the body of Christ we need one another. No one person stands up with the glory and power of Jesus. You see all the glory and power of Jesus when you see it in his body because we are all members that make up a spiritual house and when you put all these members together and we put all our gifts together and all the things that God's given us then everything that Jesus is is brought together and then you see Jesus when you see the body. Are you following me? Amen? So, I don't want to be all the whole body of Christ. Don't you try to be the whole body of Christ. I just want to be my part and I don't want to swap with nobody in the world. I wouldn't swap I told my wife and I told her I wouldn't swap places with nobody in the world with what the Lord has given me because he put something in my heart to go with my part. Amen? I was going to mention something about those tapes and kind of show you what they are and the divine nature and a lot of those things out there. I hope maybe that if you might help us spread the word on those and if you might just look those others. Boy, I'm enjoying being here with you. I'm enjoying the way you're loving the Lord. I'm just really blessed and I'm going to tell you there's a lot more going on here right now than you even comprehend. Stand up and let's just sing a song here before the pastor comes up here. Come up here, pastor. Let's just sing. Close your eyes and lift up your hand to Jesus and we're going to sing now We don't do that anymore. Get your wisdom from God and quit getting it from folks. He said He'd lead you into all truth. He's no respecter of any people. Amen? Therefore, verse 8, consequently, He rejects this. It's not rejecting man, but He's rejecting God who gives His Holy Spirit to you if you reject sanctification and discipline and reproof. Is that plain? I can't hear you. Now we're back in Matthew 7. Let's stay here all night. Matthew 7. Now, are you there? Now Matthew 7 verse 13. We're talking about going to heaven. Verse 13, enter by the narrow gate. How many believe there's a narrow gate in heaven? How many believe it's got a little narrow this week? But it's got some narrow. I don't go too long without repenting. I'll guarantee you that. I don't care if it's in front of the whole house. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. Boy, I quit trying to look quick. I don't have to look good anymore except to God. Enter by the narrow gate, for the way is wide and the way, the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to what? Let me ask you something. How many believe there's a broad road to destruction? How many saw that road got a little broader this week? And many, many, many are those who are going to enter by that broad road to destruction. For the gate, it's a small gate and the way is narrow that leads to life or eternal life and few are those who are going to find it. How many have learned this week? There's a very few of them that's going to find it. There's a remnant. Don't look for crowds, nickels, noses, and numbers anymore. Better get with God. So it says there, verse 15, you better beware of false preachers, false teachers, because they're going to come to you in sheep's clothing. Now what's a sheep now? He's a Christian, right? They're going to look like a Christian. Amen? Are you hearing me? They're going to look like a Christian, but what's that word? Uh-oh! One more time. Look at me, folks. Is this inwardly right here, the inner man? I can't. Inwardly! Uh-oh! He's going to come in sheep's clothing. He's a Christian, quoting Scripture. He's maybe crying and maybe have some gifts, a lot of seniority. Okay, here we go. But inwardly, they're what? They're not a sheep, they're what? Uh-oh! They come to devour you. They use you. They're going to exploit you. Like I said, I don't have time to turn to 2 Peter 2. We've already seen it. They come, they're going to exploit you. They use you. Build a reputation and things, right? He loves pride and greed. Can you hear pride and greed coming out of his mouth? Do you think anyone who loves pride and greed is going to lead you into righteousness and holiness? It couldn't be a bigger lie, unless he repents. As long as it's in his life, he's not leading you. Unless he's overcoming it. Now, here we go. You're going to know them by their what? Uh-oh! Now, we've been watching people that learn who's right and who's wrong, but why is everybody saying so many different things today? We're going to everything except what the Bible says. Fruit! Because we've been deceived and tied to cardinal doctrines. They don't conform you to Godliness. Amen? Even so, now here we go again. Every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Now, watch very closely right here. You're going to see your tree cutters again. Every tree that does not bear the good fruit of love, what kind of fruit does it bear? Look at me! If it's not bearing love, it's bearing the fruit of the flesh, right? If it's bearing the fruit of the flesh, is it breaking the law? Sure! If it bears bad fruit, it doesn't bear love, it's breaking God's law. So then, if it does not bear good fruit, it's what? I can't hear you! The tree cutters come in. That's what I read about over in Jeremiah. By the way, how many know that Isaiah 14 is about Satan, the king of Babylon? If you look in verse 8, since you are laid low, that Satan will be laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us. He's the tree cutter. Satan and the powers of darkness come. You know how they get ground to cut you down? When you bear bad fruit, you break God's law. When you break God's law, you have no hedge, and they come down and burn you up and destroy you. Amen? Look here. They come down and cut you down and throw you where? How many of you is that playing to right now? Hey, you know what John the Baptist told some religious folks when they come in with their form of godliness? Hold your place, I want to show you what he's done. Just back up there, just a few pages, back up to Matthew 3. Watch and see what John the Baptist told them. Look there in verse. Now, first he told them, he said, verse 2, he said, And then, verse 7, there he saw the religious crowd. He saw many of these Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, and he said to them, he's trying to welcome them a little bit, he said, You brood of snakes. Who warned you to flee from a wrath of the law? Who warned you to flee with that ungodliness that you're practicing over there? You want to do the desires of your father the devil, John 8, 44. He said, who warned you to flee from a wrath to come? Therefore, he says, you better bring forth, what's that word? Fruit in accordance, in keeping with what? You snakes, you had better repent from these deeds of the flesh, and you better turn around and bear the fruit of love, which has showed that you have really repented, are you with me so far? Because he says right there, verse 10, Look at me folks, look at me, somebody not looking again, you want to read on. Please look, I order you to look in Jesus name. The axe is already laid to the tree, you're already being cut down and you're being destroyed right now. Of course, they didn't know what he was talking about, unless they really repented, they'd learn. The axe, you're already being cut down, the axe is already laid to the root of the tree, Every tree, therefore, that does not bear good fruit is what? Cut down and what? Amen. Now, we're back over in Matthew 7. It's cast down and thrown in the fire, if you don't bear the fruit of love. Now, we go right on there, verse 20. So then, you're going to know them by the what? Right now, look at me folks. In the body of Christ, in the realm that everybody's going to be dealing with sin. And so, when we hear one another, as we're learning for one another, We're going to come and love to help one another, not to condemn like, Boy, I'm already arrived, I see that specter there, and you know you have about 14 logs. You see, we're walking love, we're helping each other. See, the reason we're helping one another, Because every one of these things that's in your life and you're practicing, If you're practicing these things in your life, there's a stronghold behind it. And we want it to have ease, and you get freer and freer, And you're protected and perfected in love and free, And this is how we help one another. Are you hearing what I'm saying? It's love. And then when you're dealing with sin inside, the camp is holy, And when it's holy, you have the presence of God, And then you have a hedge around it, and that's the glory of Jesus, And then you pray for the sick, and they shall be recovered. You'll know it all, and it will be restored. Because it's a prayer of righteous people, Who love God more than everything else, That God does it because there are motives of love. Glory be to God. Is that strong? All right, now let's just continue. Now let's look at them right there, verse 21. So we're going to know each other by our fruit. Now listen, folks. Look at me, one more thing. You can't know a whole lot about fruit when you're attached to that. That's a foreign language, to look for fruit, Because nobody has a fruit of love. Amen? You bite and devour one another, right? See, it's when we're going to be infected, And come to the Lord with all our heart, we're going to recognize these things. We deal with them in our own life, And see, it's because of things I've experienced, And gone through, and been burned, I've suffered in some things. That's the reason I can share to help others, right? You can suffer in some things, And you can help me, And we're going to learn what these powers and darkness are up to, And how all the things that they operate, And everything they do to people, And we're going out and pray and have God with us, And we're going to get people free and help. Amen? Lord be to God, that's good. Now, but here in the midst of this, verse 21, Now we don't want to get over and get in the corner, And then us and them, We want to let our light shine it up, Because it was grace that got us into it, And we're going to have the same grace and love to help others. Is that right? Okay, now, Verse 21, Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, Is going to enter the kingdom of heaven. Now that's the one that bears the fruit of the flesh, They think Jesus is Lord. Now, see, I could go on to the, And I could talk, In Matthew 25, I could get up and sleep in the virgin, And I could talk all that together again. You know, maybe we just get to tomorrow, Just take off where we left off, And I just show you the sleeping virgins here, And everything, And you'll see today, It's right now, Happening. The wise and the foolish, The lamp's shining, The trumpet's blowing, The Lord's saying, Come on, go get yourself ready, Get holy and blameless, Get ready, Revelation 19, To meet the bridegroom, And the wise and the heart's going to do it. Amen? Now, Many are going to say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, Didn't we prophesy in your name, And in your name, No, wait a minute, Right up here, verse 20, Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, Is going to enter the kingdom of heaven, But the one who does the will of God, That's the one who's going to enter into heaven, My Father who is in heaven. Now look at verse 22, Now watch this very carefully, Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, Didn't we prophesy in the name of Jesus, Didn't we cast out demons in the name of Jesus, Didn't we perform miracles in the name of Jesus, And then I'm going to declare to them, I never did know you, Depart from me, You who continue to practice what? You never did turn to me with a whole heart, You practiced these things, You picked up the Bible, And you did all these things, You did miracles, So let me tell you something, Where miracles and signs and wonders and prophesy, And all these things, It goes with holiness, That's when you know it's God, Because it might be a bunch of, It might be a bunch of powers of darkness cooperating, Coming out of people, So you can build up, A man who loves pride and greed, Reputation, And then you can follow his ministry, And if you follow his ministry, You still got your eyes off of Jesus, And you figure because, See that's what second Thessalonians 2, Tells you about in the last days, That false signs and wonders, See anything that there's a real thing of, Is a counterfeit of, Satan has a counterfeit of everything, So it doesn't mean you turn around and be afraid of the real thing, Right? You're not afraid of the one real thing, right? But you can't discern the real thing, Until you start walking in holiness and righteousness, See it's fruit you go by, Because Hebrews 5, Again tells you, You pursue being a mature man, Lay these elementary things aside, That's raising up the dead, And you pursue being a mature man, Because second Thessalonians 2, Tells you about in the last days, That people's hearts, Will go after, Their hearts will go after signs and wonders, Instead of Jesus, And they're going to perish, You know what the Lord says, I'll let a deluding influence come over them, So they'll believe a lie, You know what that deluding influence is? Religious demons, False gifts and things like that, So you always see in a message, Where does it point you to? Do you understand that I can give a testimony, And draw you to myself? Do you understand I can teach the word of God, And draw you to myself? You can preach yourself, You understand that? You can take the Bible and preach yourself, If these things are in your life, And you love them, The powers of darkness, Will show you how to exploit, And use congregations, They shoot you dark, They show you clever, And you'll like it, Because you like pride and greed, They show you how to use, Control, manipulate, And everything they show you, The powers of darkness, Cooperate with you, To fulfill greed and pride, And while you're fulfilling greed and pride, They know they've got you blocked, When they were teaching holiness and righteousness, And getting the people free, From the powers of darkness, I may see that, Hold up your hand, That's how they control people, Because anyone who loves pride and greed, They will always shoot dark, You're going to lose this, You're going to lose that worry, And intimidation and fear, And things like that, And because they love this, They'll love this, Nature of Satan, Selfish ambition, They'll back off, And water down the word of God, Well, One last place, Luke 6, Luke 6, Boy I hear about four, Five hundred Bibles, Turning right there, That's good, Folks, I want you to see something with me, Verse 20, Jesus is looking at the disciples, He's talking to the disciples, And He said, Blessed, verse 22, Blessed are you disciples, Men are going to hate you, Men are going to ostracize you, Men are going to cast insults at you, And men are going to spurn your name as evil, But you're going to be blessed in it, They're going to do it all for the sake of the Son of Man, Listen, Listen folks, Look at me, When you take this Bible, And you start teaching, And saying the truth, You don't compromise your faith, People have to die, To pride, greed, reputation, The things that idolize you, And come to the Lord with the whole heart, You're going to be hated, People are going to cast insults at you, But when you're doing these things, You're seeking God's approval, That's the reason Paul said, I never did shrink back from declaring to you the whole counsel of God's word, I said it all, Amen, Because I didn't come here to please folks, I came to please flesh, Now what pride and greed does, They back off the part of the word of God that upsets flesh, And then you can build kingdoms, And you get to parts, But if you come against people's flesh, You can lose a big tither, You can lose nickels, You can lose numbers, But then when you hear the whole counsel of God's word, You want to please God more than you do flesh, So then you're going to say it, And then you're going to be hated, People are going to ostracize you, They're going to cast insults at you, But God says you're blessed, So where you'd rather have the approval of men, You get your blessings from men, If you want the approval of God, Men are going to hate you, That love the nature of Satan, Any time you say righteous and wholesome, And love the people who love the nature of Satan, They're going to hate you, Now let's continue, Be glad, verse 23, in that day, And leap for joy, for a fit, for behold, Your Lord is great in heaven, For in the same way their fathers used to treat the, That's the true prophets right now, Now let me show you what the true false teacher, False preacher, false prophet is up there, Now here's the curses on this, And that one's blasphemy, Here this one's cursed, verse 26, Woe to you, When all men Speak well of you, Look at me up here, look at me, The man that wants to be Spoke well of it, One that loves his ambition, He wants approval of everybody, right? Woe to you, you're cursed, When all men speak well of you, For in the same way, They used to treat the, What? False prophets seek the approval of men, Because he loves a selfish flesh nature, He's not trying to please God, Are you hearing what I'm saying? And he's cursed, woe to you, Now look here, God goes on, Verse 35, Love your enemies, Do good and lend, this is a God kind of love, Divine nature, hasn't got the time to go to it, Expecting nothing in return, And your reward is going to be great, And then you're going to be what? You're going to be sons of the most high, For he himself, You're going to be like God, The divine nature, because he himself is kind to the ungrateful, And evil men, So he wants you to be the same way he is, Verse 36, You're going to be merciful, that's love, Just as your father is merciful, And do not judge, And then you're not going to be judged, Do not condemn your brother, And then you're not going to be condemned, Pardon your brother, And then you're going to be pardoned by God, Whatever you do against your brother is going to come back on you, Why? Because by your standard of measure, It's going to be measured to you, Verse 38, Give, and it's going to be given to you, A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, Because it's going to pour in your lap, By your standard of measure, It's going to be measured to you, Look at me folks, If you give out love, All heaven is going to come down on you, That's a blessing, If you give out curse on your neighbor, Instead of loving him, The things of the flesh, And living selflessly, Then all hell is going to be poured out to you, You condemn, you get it, You judge, the power of the head just down, And there they come, This is the way you're chastised, And learn to walk in love, If you love the Lord with all your heart, You're going to be perfected in love, If you don't, you're going to be destroyed, And removed from this earth, You see that, Right now, Let's see that false teacher now, Verse 39, He also spoke a parable of them, A blind man, somebody that's blind, And the ones that walk out of the flesh, And selfish ambition are blind, A blind man cannot guide a blind man, Can he? Will they not both fall into a pit? Absolutely, If you lead a blind man and let a man be your source, Then into the pit you go, A pupil is not above his teacher, But everyone after he's what? I can't hear you, Fully trained you're going to be what? You're going to either be like a blind teacher, Or you're going to be like the Lord, If Jesus is your source, Then you're going to be like him, Now look here, For there, verse 43, There is no good tree which produces bad fruit, No, on the other hand, here we go again, A bad tree which produces good fruit, Each tree is known by its own fruit, Look in verse 45, The good man, Out of the good treasure of his heart, What's a good treasure? I'm holding it right here in my hand, Look here, see a good treasure? When you put this good treasure in your heart, The good man, Of the good treasure of his heart, What's he going to bring forth? Put love up there brother, Right there it is, There's love, joy, he puts the word of God in his heart, There it lets it be implanted and die to the other, Right there he's going to bear forth, Peace, love, joy, patience, kindness, goodness, Now, here is a man who still loves the flesh nature, The next part right there, Change it there brother, And the evil man, Out of what kind of treasure? An evil treasure, Looks evil treasure right here, These things right there in his heart, He loves them, that's the reason he practices them, He's going to bring forth out of his mouth, He's going to bring forth what is evil, For his mouth is going to speak, From what? That which fills his heart, So if you want to have, How to bear the fruit of love, You've got to receive the word of God implanted, Which we saw back in James 1, Amen? Is this tied together? And then one last verse there, He said, Why do you call me Lord, Lord? And do not do what I say, I just want to read right there, Here's your two trees again, Now here's one that calls him Lord, Lord, And don't do what he says, He's up there in 49, But the one who hears the word of God, And doesn't act accordingly, Because he's got a false security, Or a doctrine that doesn't conform him, Is like a man who built his house upon what? The ground, and what does he have? Look here, He has a foundation to stand, Look at me folks, The wrong foundation, He's standing on it, And he hears the word of God, And he doesn't have to act upon it, And then when the flood, And tomorrow night I'll show you, That this is the powers of darkness, And then when the torrent, Or the flood, Bursts against that, That immediate collapse, And the ruin of that house is going to be destroyed, Now we're back up there to verse 47, And we see the man that obeys the word, Everyone that comes to me, Jesus, he hears the word of God, And he acts upon him, That's the one that stands on the word, I'll show you whom he's like, He's like a man built his house, And he dug deep, And he laid the foundation on what? This is your source right here, Not some doctrine, And then when the flood rose, The torrent, that's a river of Satan, That's what it is, And I'll try to remember to tie that together tomorrow night, It burst against that house, And it couldn't shake it, Because it had been won, Glory be to God, Isn't that good, Amen, praise God, Boy I'm going to tell you something, I love you for loving the Lord, The way I'm seeing you loving it, Loving his word, Now I'm going to tell you something, Don't try to do what God's going to do, We start clean of our hearts, You're going to hear and know what to do, Until you do, you're not going to know, Now start to come to the Lord, And decide to come to the Lord with a whole heart, And then the spirit of God is going to lead you, Amen, now one last thing, Come up here pastor, I kept you a little late, But didn't we need to tie that together, Can I leave it here, See I didn't forget nothing, Thank you, And wise men, Are wise who, The wise virgins, Are going to hear the word of God, And act on it, And wise men, You judge what I say, Now wise men can judge it, And have understanding, It's not the cup of blessing, That's the covenant with the Lord, Which we bless the sharing in the blood of Christ, It's not the bread which we break, Which is covenant of sharing in the body of Christ, Now that's covenant that you'll be one with Christ, And obey it, Covenant with selfishness, You understand what I mean, You can't walk double minded, You can't walk both ways, That's adultery, You cannot partake of the table of the Lord, You can't make covenant with the Lord, And sit down and make covenant, And agreements with your heart in idolatry, With the demons in idolatry, And immorality, And craving evil things, You can't walk both ways, You know why, the Lord becomes jealous over your heart, And he'll destroy his wrath to come on you, He wants all of your heart, Is that right, Or do we provoke the Lord to what, Did they provoke the Lord to jealousy, But not possessing the land, We provoke the Lord to jealousy, But not possessing the land today, Amen, and then we do that, You just said you're not stronger than he is, He'll kill you, You'll lower the hedge, And the powers of the darkness will come upon you, Now how are we supposed to walk, Love our brothers ourselves, When we want to love our brothers ourselves, We don't have any idolatry, Or morality, or grumbling, Or craving evil things, So verse 24, Let no one seek his own selfish good, Who's good are you going to seek, You live to serve, And become a slave of others, That's love, That's where all the blessings are, You live to help and love others, Folks, that's possessing the land, Amen, Now we're back over in Hebrews 4, We're just going to, That's where I'm going to take us along now, We've learned how to persevere and endure, Hadn't we, All right now, Now we said, I want us to come back here, So you'll not forget this right here, Hebrews 3 verse 12, Take care, brethren, Lest there should be any one of you An evil, unbelieving heart, It's going to turn to idolatry, immorality, And you fall away from the living God, And that's what the powers of God is going to come to tempt you to do, So you won't possess the land, But encourage one another Day after day as long as it is called today, Lest there be any one of you Hardened by the deceitfulness of sin, You're going to practice sin, For we become partakers of Christ If we hold fast the beginning of our assurance Firm unto the end, You're not going to turn back or fall away, You're not going to be tempted and drawn away, Your heart's going to stay steadfast before God, While it is said today, If you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, It's when they provoke me, Verse 17, And with whom was he angry? His wrath come upon him for forty years. Was it not those who sinned Whose bodies fell in the wilderness? What he's warning you right there, If you fall away, your body's going to fall too. Amen. Am I saying this or is your Bible saying this? Bible says, your body's going to fall too. Are you learning the fear of God? And to whom did he swear That they should not enter The land of peace and rest, But to those who are what? If you're disobedient, you turn aside And you're not going to enter in. Is that right? And then you're not going to be able to enter Because of unbelief. Now, chapter 4, verse 1, Therefore let us what? One more time, let us what? Do we have reason to fear Now that we know what this means? We better fear, let us fear Lest the promise remains Of entering his rest And any one of you Would come short of entering that land Of peace and rest. God intends for you to enter it. Amen. You're going to enter that land of peace And rest. Now verse 2, For indeed we've had good news preached to us Just as they did also They had good news preached to them too But the word they heard didn't profit them Because it wasn't united by faith They didn't walk in faith, did they? Is that right? Now look there, for we who Believe, we're going to Possess the land, we're going to enter that rest Now look at verse 6 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it And those who formerly had good news Preached to them, they failed to enter it Because they were disobedient They got into idolatry, immorality, trying the Lord And these other craving evil things And they didn't possess the land, right? Look at verse 10 For the one who has entered his rest Has him all himself rested From all of his works of the flesh As God did from his Verse 11 Let us therefore be diligent To enter that rest Lest any one fall I mean you're going to be destroyed Through falling The same example of disobedience They fell and you'll fall too Now folks, is that plain? Is there any options? You just have to say it like the word says it Isn't that right? That's exactly right It doesn't give any options right there So you're not going to build any kingdoms With this Bible without getting killed over it, are you? Right now So then we go on once again And once again he warns you after he said these things Verse 15 he said We do not have an eye of priest who cannot sympathize With our weaknesses But he's been tempted in all things as we As we are, circle as we are, as we are As we are, yet without sin So were they tempted over there And all the temptation they got in 1 Corinthians 10 And they got destroyed over it So he said you're going to possess the land And these temptations are going to come on you too, right? Right now Verse 16 Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace That we might receive mercy And receive grace to help in time of need Now that's how mercy and grace come to help us Resist the flesh, the world And the devil so that we'll have a pure heart And possess the land, amen? Is that correct? Now, I want to show you something About that pure heart Now hold your place right there And I want you to turn with me back to Luke 8 Okay? Turn with me back to Luke 8 Luke 8 Now, if someone comes to a whole heart You can hear the word of God Because you're coming as a disciple If you come with a hardened heart where you're still in Idolatry and love of other things more than the Lord You're not going to be able to hear or see and understand the word People that don't understand the word Have got some idols in their heart They need to do some repentance Amen? Alright now, in Luke 8 Verse 9 And the disciples, his disciples Begin questioning Jesus As to what this parable might be This parable of the word again And he said to you disciples It has been granted to know the mysteries Of the kingdom of God But to the rest It's in a mystery parable In order they're going to see While seeing they're not going to be able to see While hearing they're not going to have understanding Do you see that? Okay now Now the parable is this The seed is the word of God And those beside the road It's the road of holiness Are those who hear the word of God Then the devil comes And it takes the word from their heart So that they may not believe And go in and possess the land and be saved Amen? Right, now And those on the hardened heart, rocky soul Are those they hear then receive the word With joy Oh they got a hardened heart and they just receive the word Joy, joy, joy And they have no firm root in the Lord Jesus Christ And they believe for a while They believe for a while, they believe for a while They believe for a while, circle believe for a while What are people going to tell you That you can't fall away as you just believe for a while They believe for a while They believe for a while And in time of what? The powers of darkness come to tempt them With idolatry and craving evil things And get their heart to go to something else And their heart a turn They don't go in and possess the land They fall away from the faith And they're destroyed How many believe it's a new day today folks? And the seed Which was among the thorns These are the ones Who've heard the word of God And as they go which way? Their way of the flesh They are choked with the worries And riches and pleasures of this life And they do what? They bring no fruit to maturity In other words they do Not become a mature Complete and perfect man With the nature of God They're not perfected in love I may see that up to now It's going to get good in a minute Now And the seed in the good soul That's a disciple comes the Lord with all his heart These are the ones who hear the word In an honest and a good heart That explains what good soul is Isn't it? They have an honest and a good heart And when they hear the word of God what do they do? They hold it fast And they bear fruit with what? Perseverance Listen Perseverance is when affliction The worries of the world Deceitfulness of riches And the persecution, affliction All these things come against them They persevere and stand in the fire On the word of God Amen? Now Mark 4 said you better be careful What you listen to And verse 18 right there said You better take care How you listen And Jesus said For whoever has Who has spiritual knowledge To him shall more spiritual knowledge be given But whoever does not have Spiritual knowledge Even what he thinks he has Is going to be taken away from him by the powers of darkness Are you seeing what I'm saying? Huh? So then verse 21 he answered and said Jesus said my mother and my brothers That's the family of God Are these who hear the word of God and do it And not hear the word They act on the word of God Amen? Glory be to God Uh Now Let's go back over there Where are we going to move over to? We're talking about the temptations right there In verse 15 and 16 of Hebrews 4 Now we want to move into verse 5 Okay Okay Now we're talking about Jesus right here And if you look in verse 7 In the days of his flesh Jesus Hebrews 5 verse 7 In the days of his flesh Now it's going on and talking about This whole thing is about possessing the land Amen? In the days of his flesh He offered up both prayers and supplications With loud crying and tears To the one able to save him from death And he was heard because of his piety Although he was a son He learned Jesus learned obedience from the things Which he what? He suffered in the flesh how you think you're going to learn You're going to learn obedience from the things That you suffer also And having been what? Jesus was made perfect By going through the temptations He became to all those Who what? Jesus Jesus all the ones that obey him Are the ones who are going to receive Become the source of eternal salvation Salvation is To the ones who obey him They go in and possess the land Amen? Verse 11 Now concerning him we have much to say And it's hard to explain Since you've become dull of hearing But this time you ought to be teachers Verse 13 Everyone who takes only a milk Is not accustomed to the word you write For he's a babe That's what he's trying to tell the babes About the milk in 1 Corinthians 3 You better come on and you better overcome You just babes in Christ that strife and jealousy You better come on into this word You better overtake Because here's some things I can't even talk to you about right now You've got to go possess the land You better leave those things behind Amen? Now He turns around in verse 13 And for everyone who takes only a milk Is not accustomed to the word you write For he's still just a baby He's not possessing the land But solid food Is for the who? Maturity He's bearing fruit He's possessing the land Mature man who because of practice He's overcoming Have his senses trained to discern good and evil In other words he takes every thought captive to the obedience of Jesus That's your mature man Now folks that's the goal you go for You don't have to spend your life in a deliverance ministry Or spend your life in healing Or spend your life in gifts Or spend your life in anything Signs and wonders You spend your life being like Jesus Amen? A mature complete perfect man Is that right? Now look what he said He wants to say you're going to suffer in the flesh That you be a mature man And you go possess the land Therefore he said in the next chapter There's six next verse There verse one Therefore leave these elementary teachings Along about The Christ Leaving elementary teachings About the Christ Let's leave those and what are we going to do? You're going to press on to what? To possess the land And be the mature man is that right? We're going to lay aside This foundation of repentance From dead works and faith We're going to lay And all this elementary things About the washing and laying on the hands And all these elementary things The resurrection of the dead Look at me folks Raising up the dead Is elementary to going and possessing the land If you don't go possess the land You're going to be destroyed So don't get caught up Over here in raising up dead And washings and everything You learn those things But see where you're going in to possess the land That's why it's talking about in 2 Thessalonians 2 That the powers of darkness Going to get people's hearts Going to the signs and wonders Because the Lord God didn't have their hearts So he lowers the hedge And he lets a deluding influence come on them Because they didn't have a love for the truth The hearts go to the signs and wonders In other words instead of going to Jesus It goes to the byproduct Of Jesus Don't let our hearts go to the things That Jesus does For us we let our hearts go to Jesus Amen We go possess the land Right See that's just a trick of the devil If he can't prevent something he perverts it Well I lost a page I don't know what's turning my pages All right now Now once again If you don't think you can turn back Or fall away I hope you can read these verses here And we're still in chapter 6 now Verse 4 For in the case Of those Who have once been enlightened They have tasted Of the heavenly gift They have become partakers Of the Holy Spirit Turn over to Hebrews 10 Two pages over Turn there and hold And we're going back to Hebrews 6 I just want you to be ready to read it quick I don't want nothing to talk to you Between pages I want to read it again You have to be Wise as a serpent Hebrews 6 verse 4 for in the case of those Who have once been enlightened And have tasted of the heavenly gift And they have become partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted Of the good word and the powers Of the age of the come you have the Holy Spirit and tasted the word And then have what You fall away And you don't go in and possess the land It is impossible To renew them again To repentance Since they again crucify themselves To the Son of God and put him to Open shame now let me show You how how you fall away Let me show you exactly how you Fall away and you can't be Renewed to repentance look back Over in chapter 10 now hold your place There in Hebrews 6 but turn over Chapter 10 verse 26 For if You go on sinning Willfully When you're sinning Willfully you're not really trying to please God It really doesn't have your heart You sin willfully after Receiving the knowledge of the truth There no longer remains A sacrifice for sins Are you Hearing what I'm saying Hebrews 10 26 if you sin willfully There no longer remains a sacrifice for sin You're practicing sin willfully And therefore but here's what you can Expect verse 27 but a Certain terrifying expectation Of what judgment of The law and then what's going to come The fury of fire which Going to concern the adversaries is that what we've Been saying you're going to be destroyed Now I want you to Just just just go back over there and let's Finish what we started right there Now let me show you what sinning willfully Is folks so you won't Let some powers of darkness talk to you I'm going to Share I'm going to end this thing with a sin unto Death And I'll show you about that sin Into where you can't come back okay I'm just going to let that go for right now And I'll just share it at the end right here Now let's just continue right here All right you become we're back in hebrews Six you've been you've been the takers Of the holy spirit verse four verse five You've tasted of the good word of god And then verse six you fall away And then it's impossible Renew them to repentance since they again Crucify themselves the son of god and put Him to open shame for ground now Watch this for ground where's the ground Now look here yes sir A heart right here for ground that Drinks the rain that's a spirit and The word which often Falls upon it and brings forth what Vegetation what is That vegetation that's a fruit of love Right if you bring forth the fruit of Love you put the good treasure in there it's going to bring Forth good fruit and it's going to Be useful to those whose sake is all So till they receive what Blessing now You what do you think the father's a blessing Go and tell you what gets cursed amen Okay now But If it yields what Thorns and thistles Now I want to show you what thorns and thistles Are I didn't cover that Too well when it's back I tell you What just turn back to Matthew seven And I'll show you what thorns and thistles is Matthew seven That's what false prophets lead You to share to bear Is false Is Thorns and thistles now Verse 14 Matthew 7 14 for the gate Is small in the way of narrow that leads To eternal life and fewer of those are going to find It but where are false Preachers who are going to come to you In sheep's clothing but in really in their hearts They're going to be ravenous wolves and you know what You're going to know them by their what Fruit Grapes are not gathered From what Thorn bush They burn the fruit of the flesh and are Figs from what Thorns briars and thistles are the Fruit of the flesh are you seeing what I'm saying okay now let's go Back over there Now but Verse eight Hebrews six verse eight but if it yields Thorns and thistles do you See that It is worthless you know look here If the Lord puts his word and spirit on Here and you going ahead and yielding Thorns and thistles that means you don't really love him Holy heart you love something else more than the Lord You've got idle you've fallen away right Okay all right you've turned After receiving the spirit of God you're going To and the word of God you've Turned right now and you burn the fruit Of the flesh you've turned back to The fruit of the flesh turn back But if it yields thorns And thistles it's worthless And it's close to being cursed In other words When you start Yielding these thorns and thistles You better turn back and repent You're close to being Cursed And if you don't turn back look what Happens there and it's going to end up Being what See see folks God has made a provision for us That when we sin we can come and Repent but if you keep on sinning Willfully and sinning willfully Then sinning willfully your heart Will be so hardened to the word of God Till the word of God can no longer work in your heart No more and and see then You're going to be burned up But you're now you understand and close to being Cursed we've got album back there close to being Cursed but you know It explains these things now look Here now look what it said in verse 9 But beloved We're convinced of what We're convinced of better Things concerning you And things that's going to what There's better things that's going to happen to you So it's company salvation because What this thorns and thistles is not Going to get you to salvation you Follow me now verse 11 And we desire that Each one of you should show the Same diligence so to realize The full assurance of hope Until what in you Bear fruit your fruit remains and you don't turn Back that you may not be Sluggish but be Imitators of those who through faith and Patience they inherit the promises Which we see later on over in Hebrews 11 and It's going to be pretty interesting you Read about the men of faith again Knowing these things that we've studied this week But we don't have time to get in that either but now Let's turn over to Hebrews 10 We're about finished And I'm glad Hebrews 10 verse 26 I want to tell you something folks If you're going to need somebody to pray for you Get somebody else to pray for you I'm going to leave here when I get through I'm going to go get some rest So I just want to tell you I'm not rejecting you I love you I'm going to have to go get some rest I'm going to have to be down in Houston All day Sunday now here we go Now somebody will pray for you here I'm not saying that We always think the man up here has to do it Hebrews 10 verse 26 For if we Go on sinning willfully That means you practice sin After receiving the knowledge of the truth There no longer remains a sacrifice for sins But a certain terrifying Expectation of judgment Now the hedge is down and the fear of fire Which is the powers of darkness Is going to consume the adversaries Anyone who set aside the law of Moses Dies without mercy on a testimony of two or three You know in Numbers 15 30 through 36 He went out to gather wood on the Sabbath And God said stone him to death See what he says today Verse 29 How much severe punishment Do you think he will deserve Who has trampled underfoot the Son of God And has regarded unclean The blood of the covenant For which he has sanctified And has insulted the spirit of grace For we know him Who says vengeance is mine I will repay and he does repay And we know how he repays And again the Lord will judge his people It's a terrifying thing To fall into the hands of a living God And now let's look at verse 36 For you have need of endurance So that when you've done the will of God You may receive what was promised Verse 38 But my righteous one Is going to live by faith And he's not going to If he shrinks back from the word of God My soul will have no pleasure in it But we are not those Who are going to shrink back To what? Look at me folks Any time You won't let the word Come and have a place in your heart That means there's something in your heart you love more than the Lord That's how you shrink back You become offended Become aware of God You're shrinking back to disruption When you become offended about any part of the word Are you hearing what I'm saying? Now you see what the fallen away And idolatry and everything Has caused people to be offended by the word of God And they shrink back from it You shrink back to what? You shrink back to destruction But of those who have faith To the what? We're not of those who shrink back to destruction But of those who have faith To the preserving of the soul Amen? Now I want you to turn to 2 Peter 2 And we'll end it here Praise God Folks It takes long hours To do these kind of things And some people have asked If you ever want to pray for us Just pray for strength And pray When we look at our schedule When we're going into a place All the opposition and things This has been For us to come here It's been a blessing to us It's not usually that way You hear? Okay Now 1 Peter 2 Now I want to show you how False prophets are stopped hindering people From possessing the land But verse 1 False prophets also arose among the people Just as there be false teachers among you Who will secretly introduce destructive heresies Secretly means that These destructive heresies It won't be easily discerned Are you hearing what I'm saying? And these destructive heresies Look at me right here See you do this, this, this, this Instead of becoming a mature complete man And possessing the land This is a destructive heresy It will lead you into destruction And God will let you be led there Because when He comes into the whole heart He'll let you know the way Amen? Now I want to show you What you're brought up as a child And He lets the curses on your fathers Come on you I mean that's the way God is Are you beginning to understand It's a terrifying thing to fall in the judgment Hands of God We're just now getting I don't think you know the fear of God You're just beginning to learn it You haven't really sunk in yet You ever see someone die That you love real well And it didn't take until just later on It just really came on you What exactly has happened You're getting a little bit of what the fear of God is But you haven't really understood what the fear of God is So don't think you've walked out of here The fear of God yet You've got some of the fear of God But you're going to tremble at His word And that's good Because I want to tell you something Boy when you fear God His angels encamp around you It's good to fear God Amen? All right now So But many of these false teachers Verse 2 Many are going to follow their sensuality And because of them the way of truth Is going to be perverted and maligned And in their love for greed They're going to exploit you They're going to use you With false words, their pride and greed They're going to fulfill it And their judgment from long ago is not idle And their destruction is not asleep Now folks I want to tell you something If you ever saw anything got covered In this book that I have come out The Great Falling Away I bet you we covered this false teaching And then we put in the judgment on them And explained it So I just want to share that with you And this book should be out in about Two or three weeks It's a message So I'm not trying to promote any There's no way to build any ambition With books and messages like this anyway I just want to tell you All right now Now let's just continue right there And in their greed they'll exploit you With false words, their judgment from long ago Is not idle, their destruction is not asleep In other words, hell is all over them It's not asleep The curse, they're being destroyed The mouth is eating them right then, amen Rottenness, the power of darkness For if God did not spare angels When they sinned and cast them into hell And committed them to pits of darkness Reserved for this judgment And did not spare the ancient world Now we're getting into the days of Noah For today, but preserved Noah Who was a what? He preserved the righteous With how many others? Only seven others in the whole world When he brought a flood upon the world Of the ungodly, see God just don't mind Starting all over again and he'll just start With the righteous, you see what I mean? And if he condemns See now there's your flood right now Now we're going to see the fire that we looked at last night And if he condemned the cities Of Sodom and Gomorrah to what? Destruction Are y'all beginning to see some things now? Tying in today with last night If he condemned The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction Rather reducing them to ashes Having made them an example To those who are going to live ungodly Thereafter, and that's why The flood and the fire Comes on us today in the same way He's going to live ungodly Like in 1 Corinthians 10 And if he rescued Righteous lot Oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men By what he saw And heard that righteous man While living among them This righteous man felt his righteous soul Tormented day after day by their What kind of deeds? Dullest deed, breaking God's law And that's what we should be today We should be tormented by seeing God's law broken Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly From temptation And to keep these unrighteous underpunished For the day of judgment And especially those who are indulging with the flesh And its corrupt desires They despise authority of God They're daring their self-will They walk by their own rules To help God out Look over verse 18 For speaking out arrogant words of vanity They entice people by fleshly desires Verse 19 They promise in people freedom While they themselves are slaves of corruption Verse 20 Now I want you to watch very closely what we see here Verse 20 For if after You have escaped The defilement of the world And we saw that in 1 Peter 1 And then we got to 2 Peter 1 verse 2 The divine nature, you possess the land You escape the defilement of the world Through lust Isn't that right? Okay now But if after they've escaped the defilement of the world By the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ And then you get entangled And this is where a false teacher leads you You come to the Lord with all your heart And then you get before this false teacher And he'll lead you And then you again become entangled The world, the things of the world, flesh And then you become overcome of these things You practice this sin And then the last state Has become worse than the first For it would have been better for you Never known the way of righteousness Than to have unknown it To turn away or fall away from the holy commandment Delivered to them Now look at me folks, I'll explain to you what that means If after you have received The knowledge of the truth You come to the Lord with the whole heart And now you're walking with him And you let this false teaching Or your heart turns to anything Man, whatever And you This leads you to become entangled And your heart turns right back to the world The things of the world The words of the world, deceitful to riches, desires from other things Which you repented and turned from See then you become hardened and hardened And hardened and hardened And you get in that state and you learn to resist the word Resist the word, resist the word, resist the word You resist the word, you resist the word Till the word can no longer have any place in you It would have been better for you Never to have heard the word of God And known the way of righteousness Than having known it And then Fallen away and turned back to idolatry And things of that nature again, because why? Because if you'd never known the way of righteousness There would still be hope for you To not go to hell Because you could come Still come to the Lord And learn righteousness and go Be the mature man and possess the land But now since you've known it And you've turned back And your heart has become so hardened That the word of God can no longer work in you You're hopeless You have committed the sin and the death It's impossible for you to go possess the land now Because the word Can no longer work in you That is the sin and the death Let me see it Now It was happened to them according to the true proverb A dog returns to its own vomit A dog is someone outside the covenant of God And then he comes to the word of God And you know he turns to his own vomit And he goes right back where he was A dog is someone outside the covenant of God So a dog comes in and wants the Lord A dog is going to go back out to his vomit That's when you go back to sin and the world That's what he calls it And a sow, after what? This is a pig, after what? Washing, are we supposed to be washing with the word of God? And so after washing with the word of God Returns to walling in the mire Jumps right back in the pig pen That's the balling away That's turning back From the possession of the land To become the mature man And have the divine nature Of the Lord Jesus Christ Amen Didn't this kind of nail down What we'd already looked at this week, right? And I think this is going to make you firm And that's the reason I wanted to say And that's the reason I appreciate Brother Bob Let me share this with you Because folks There's no options, there's no alternatives And if you thought you had any before I think today took care of it, didn't it? You don't have any more So The only thing you do now You let the Lord, you love the Lord with all your heart You decide you do that first Everything else second There's a lot more you're going to learn about this walk We're working on a foundation right now I knew you And unless you have this foundation On the rock, you're going to be destroyed Amen So I'm going to tell you all hell is breaking loose Right now, if you could see what is happening In this spiritual realm, it would be Sure terror Well that's A couple of things I want to ask you Before Brother Bob comes up here And If you bear witness to this message That we're sharing That I would really Wish you would Pray for us We don't have any We just need you to pray for us We also need you to support us If you just As the Lord would show you And this is the only way We have for Everything we're involved in In this message that you've been hearing this week In the hands of people so they can see it It's not any kind of thing that's going to build Anybody's reputation or name or anything And that's the only thing we're building As we go into place, we just give our Lives over to other people And this is what we're supposed to do With one another A lot of things we learn And I believe the way that we operate And do things is going to It's going to be changing and changing And changing, I think the way that We function now is sometimes going to change But now in the meantime, you know When I was in a place And I want to share this for your benefit I was sharing lies come around And I knew I saw certain things And I couldn't even communicate them to people Because of all the lies And the powers that I can spread this thing All over the place, they couldn't even hear What I was saying, people that I knew That, you know, when heart turned to the Lord Still, they'd heard these things and they were a little suspicious You know, and all these kind of things What I had, and so And the Lord just teaches me to give up on this thing Because he's the only one that makes it work And I tried and I strived I did a few things, you know, to try to get the word And it just never would work, and so I just Have little handfuls of people here and there It's the only ones that ever get to it See, I walked away at one point From the big crowds and the big numbers And so forth, because I chose to Stay with the truth and not compromise it Amen? So, uh, so now Uh, uh I, you know, I don't even I'm not even capable of writing a book I don't have the background for writing You know, or teaching either for that matter It's off the wall, if you folks just knew From where I, where The depths that, you know, that I've come from You know, and so What I'm talking about is the grace of God That can be on our lives and everything Also, the fact to even write a book You know, I used to, back in Carpetland I'd go get someone to go write a letter for me Much less write a book And that hasn't been too long ago, see what I mean? And so, see, I wasn't even Seeking to write a book, and I'll explain That story, how I was contacted, you know But see, this gave me a chance to get a message And I was leery of the thing, but Because I wondered about their motives and everything But, you know, I'm wanting to get a message out And the message is what you're hearing right now This is what drove me to want to stay here For you to get this other part I want you to be a success in Jesus And this word is what, all the words on the thing Is going to change, and I want to hear I'm just like old Paul, I understand I want to hear of what God does to you Or does with your life Now this is what's going to excite me Now that's what turns all of us on That share in the one One's a walk with, they love the Lord With all their heart, and we're all learners Together Now, another thing has opened up The fact that I never did like Television thing, I was on a Program once with a fella, and I told him I said, don't invite me back anymore, they're putting all this make up And it just seemed like a whole lot of Pretending and stuff like that on that stuff And so So I said, I just I just don't want anything much Well, there's a local Television station that invited me Tried to get me a couple of years ago To come on the station and so forth In the interview and different things like that And I wouldn't do it Well, then They did a video of one of the seminars And maybe some of you have seen it on the Channel 49 here And then The door has opened That To be on television every day now Now this is the first time that I've got on there Just to really share what I know right now Those things that's been on There's something over about Two and a half years ago, you know what I mean? There's a lot happened in the last two and a half years And so it's going to be Pretty interesting to start sharing And this is what maybe next week That we'll start filming this to put it on Our everyday On television, so we're going to be real interested Because see, God has opened that door because we Wasn't seeking that, I didn't have any ambition About being on radio Or television, if God's not Blessing something, get out of it and quit wasting your time Amen? Okay And so I wish y'all would pray about that And if the Lord sees fit Y'all to, in any way To pray for us or support us anywhere Because I'm not getting into anything And I have to go jack up and manipulate Or, you know, in order to Make it stand, if God's not blessing it Why don't you just get out But y'all just pray for us and have her You know, in those kind of areas Well, I tell you what, it's been a tremendous joy To be here with you And especially Brother Bob, you and the people here The way we've received, the way you've received the word And the way I've, the fruit I've just, Jesus has blessed us Through you, and it's just such a Blessing, and I appreciate You loving the Lord, and I want you Bob, when you get up here, I want you to just look At the size of this chapel here and see if the Lord Didn't just have this, as a matter of fact There's three or four there sitting in the hall, but I think it's just It's just perfect And I just Love you, and I bless you And once again, if you Don't have a place where you Where you Really getting blessed And walking the Lord I think you ought to sit down, Brother Bob, and just see Where he's coming from, that's what I did He sat down and saw where I was coming from God put us together, I love you Amen