 He approached me with a horse, and next to him was a lion, and it was covered with fire. And as I'm talking to him next to me, a horse appeared. He doesn't speak, I can hear his thoughts. And I was told to also get on the horse, and he says, follow me. I'm getting on the horse, the horse ain't going nowhere. Anywhere, but his horse went, it's like as if heaven opened, he entered into another round. And I'm like, how do I go? And I said, I believe I can go wherever he going. The horse went, and took me where he was. When you hear foolishness, and let's just be honest, let's just even be blunt. When you hear stupidity like that coming from of all places, the church, the question's got to be, who's the blame for all of this happening in the church? None of what we see today when it comes to people just saying some outrageous things and even doing some outrageous things, none of this is new. None of this, as a matter of fact, none of this is not predicted by the Bible. Jesus says these things are going to happen, that they're going to come. As a matter of fact, he says to be aware of them. Paul says to mark and avoid, and even to expose them, and even to call them out. So if we're told to do this, if we're told it's going to happen, well, then it's come as no surprise that it's happening. But the question is, why is this even preventable? Well, I will submit to you that it is preventable, but I would also submit to you that the blame for all of this is us, yes, us, the church. As a body, we are to exercise oversight and discipline, and what that really means is, when someone behaves in such a way, we should call them out, let everyone know, to avoid them, the Bible says to mark and avoid, and then to treat them as unbelievers. Because point of fact, they really are. That being said, none of this is new. This has been happening ever since the body of believers has been around. But you've seen an increase in this more so of late, specifically speaking within the last 30, 40, even 50 years. And I say this with all respect, so that it don't upset you too bad. But I say it anyway. When I read in the Bible where he says, I am, I just smile and say, yes, I am too. Where do you get that from? As a matter of fact, why don't the people in that church auditorium, why don't they get up and just en masse leave? Why doesn't the entire church body shun them? Why does the church body sit in silence? But we'll get to that in a second. But you need to understand that he didn't start off like this on his own. He was not out there by himself. Other people gave validity to him, and you'll see that he's doing the exact same thing as well as his cohorts are doing the same thing for others. Brother Copeland, would you come and stand in my place? Laurie, would you come and stand in Evelyn's place? Evelyn, would you come stand by me? Now, Brother Copeland and your dear wife, Laurie, would you look at us? Look on us. Silver and gold have we plenty. So we see almost a passing of baton from people like him, the Kenneth Hagans of the world. Now, notice what he says. The passage is, silver and gold have I not, but such as I have, I give unto you. But what does he say? Silver and gold, we have plenty of it. And that's true. Oral Roberts was, without question, a modern day prosperity gospel preacher full of bad doctrine. As a matter of fact, even having a university that he founded bearing his name, and you would think that because it's a university and someone like that, that that would give some legitimacy to him. But that's not the case at all. Clearly, he has one twist in scriptures, why, to enrich himself. We'll get back to the enrichment portion later, but you need to know that these people think highly of themselves and they want you to think highly of themselves. Again, this goes back to the garden when Satan speaks to Eve and says, one, did God really say that questioning the validity of the scriptures of God's word? Two, did God really say that? Are we understanding what his word actually says? But the thing that pushes over to the curve is one, pointing to Eve's desire. And then he makes a statement, you will not die, but instead you will be just like God, knowing good and evil. And the point is being just like God. And so one of the things that you've seen is that you see people doing one or two things. You see the people that are more secular in their approach, bringing God down to their level so they can look at God eye to eye, but look at him as though he's like them. If they're homosexual, then God's a God who is tolerant of homosexuality. If they are more social just as conscious, then God is a God who is more of a revolutionary, who is into fixing what ails us socially, be it with racism or sexism or what have you. But then you've got the more dangerous group. These are the people who not bring God down to their level, but go up to God's level and call themselves like God. This principle of everything producing after its own kind. And in verse 26 and 27, let's read it out loud, read and breathe. And God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the file of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image. Now that's interesting because if everything produces after its own kind, we now see God producing man. If God now produces man and everything produces after its own kind, if horses get together, they produce what? And if dogs get together, they produce what? But if the God hand gets together and say, let us make man, then what are they producing? They're producing God's. Now I got to hit this thing real hard in the very beginning because I ain't got time to go through all this. But I'm going to say to you right now, you are God's, little G. You are God's because you came from God and you are God's. And so we see distortion of the scriptures by someone like Creflo Dalla who's saying that we are like God's. We are God's. The fact of the matter is we are not. We don't even have the ability to do what a God could do if in fact we were. We're just regular, lowly, fallible human beings with no real power to speak of except that of the Holy Spirit in us and it's not in the sense that we are like God. But listen to more of their blasphemous statements. Let this mind be in you. Let this be the way you think. Let this mind be in you, which was also in the anointed Jesus who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God. And you do not think it robbery. It's not taking anything away from God to be equal with our father. To be equal with our Lord Jesus. He's the one that caused it to happen. And our good God said, oh yeah, they're my children. Of course they're equal to me. I gave birth to them. The point of that passage is to say that we are to be humble like Christ was who is God who humbled himself. Not to take it in twisted and say that we are God or we can be like God or we have the same as he's even said in other places, the DNA of God. And certainly not that we are equal with God. There is no other God, none like him. This is without question blasphemy and I can promise you after him repenting, he will give an account for that statement. If you've been religiously brainwashed instead of Bible taught, it disturbs some people because you and I try to act like God. I've had, you know, people say that. I'm thinking about a situation right now that is a friend of mine and they said, you know, brothers so and so's ministry is just ruined. They said, why? Well, they got to running around with Copeland. Well, I mean, what, I mean, what, what done? I already said, well, both of them just running all over the country trying to act like little Jesuses. Thank you. He noticed. That's exactly what I'm trying to do. See, Abraham, like God in God's face before him, like him. He called things that be not as though they were, just like God. Amen. Now, the reason why it's important for them to get you to believe that you are like God or have his powers is so that you can tell people that you have the ability to do what God can do. Such as he's saying, you can call those things that are not as though they were, but it's not us. It is God. But I want you to pay attention to what he says, what you can do with the scriptures and you'll see how this is all possible. Faith calls things that be not as though they were. Strong faith, like God, calls things that be not as though they were. How to twist it around and get it to say what you want to make Bible say anything you want it to. When you twist the scriptures, you can do and say anything to a crowd of people who do not care to open the scriptures. Paul was clear when he says that in the last and then that people will not endure sound doctrine. They will have these ears because they want to be something special to it. So you can tell them that you can be special and in doing so, you can say things that are clearly unbiblical. I studied to pray as I normally do. I have a habit of saying, hello Jesus. And he says, hi Jesse. It's a first name basis. I walked into that study and something was wrong, Pastor Olsden. I sensed it. Lord, something's wrong and it's not with me. Then I realized and I said, Lord, somebody hurt you today. Somebody hurt you today. You're not acting like you normally act. The Spirit of the Lord spoke to me and said, you know me, don't you? I said, listen, I'm going to cancel all of my appointments today. I'm shutting it down and I'm going to praise you and I'm going to love you and I'm going to rejoice and honor you and call your name, Hosanna. For lack of a better word, God, to say, till you feel better. And I stood in that study and I praised God and I shouted and I cried and I loved the Lord and I said, come here, come here. Let me hug you, come here. And I just loved you and honored him. And it was about an hour and a half. And I heard him go, thank you. What should have happened to him at that point, the same with some of these others is they should have at that point, should have been summarily dismissed either from their church, if they have elders or from the minds of church going believers who will say that they're not Christians. As a matter of fact, we're going to treat them if they do not repent of this. We're going to treat them like unbelievers. But for some reason, we seem to be fearful as though we don't want anyone to judge us, but rest assured, one, God is going to judge us as well. But two, there is a command for us to do so. In 1 Corinthians 5, when Paul addresses this man who is sinning in such a way that not even the pagans do so, him sleeping with his father's wife. Notice what Paul says. Paul says, you have become arrogant and have not mourned instead so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst. Paul's point is you don't have anything to be proud of. You don't have anything to hold your head up high about. You've got this clear and obvious sin. And what do you do? Nothing. He says, instead, put this person out, turn him over to the devil in hopes that he would get himself right in hopes that he would turn. We don't do that. We would ask and we would say things such as, let's just pray for them. Who are you to judge? We shouldn't judge and let God know we are responsible for the body. It is the body that judges the body. God is going to judge the world, but we are going to judge the body. That part is clear. God, the father, ladies and gentlemen, is a person and he is a triune being by himself separate from the son and the Holy Ghost. So what did you say? Hear it. Hear it. Hear it. See, God, the father is a person. God, the son is a person. God, the Holy Ghost is a person. But each one of them is a triune being by himself. If I can shock you and maybe I should, there's nine of them. So when Benny Hinn says something like that, he should have been dismissed. We're talking not five years ago, not 10 years ago. We're talking 30, 40 years ago and silence from the body. We look over it and just keep moving. We have the same Bible that we have today is what we had then. And the Bible is clear. We ought to deal with them in such a way and make sure Paul says to mark and avoid these people. Paul says, now, I urge you, brethren, to keep your eye on those who cause ascensions and hindrances, contrary to the teaching which you learn and turn away from them. Paul's point is anyone that causes division, those particular people we are to mark and avoid those people who cause a division concerning what? Concerning the doctrine, concerning the teachings of the Bible. These men have clearly done so and done so unapologetically and open conversations with each other. I've done that with the Lord. I've had the Lord say, Jesse, I've had God come tell me, say, this is what I'm going to do. I've had the Lord listen. What do you think about this? God has asked me for my opinion. They have placed themselves in a position where they are up here in terms of their spirituality, that they can do things that God didn't say we can do. They can say things that clearly aren't said in the Bible and they do so without repercussion. And we're not allowed to call them out because they have this belief that we should not touch them. Why? Because they're anointed. Never forget what I just said here. Touch not the anointed. And one of the biggest reasons why they do so is so they can also enrich themselves. The Bible says they will make merchandise of people, global people who will listen to them who aren't discerning the Bible says that these people will see that the Bible or church is a means of gain. Money coming to me. What you talking about? Last name dollar, I better have some cheese. But interestingly enough, even the secular society, even CNN would call him out on this. So if we go to Matthew 19, OK, in response to what you said about Psalms, now a man came up to Jesus and asked, teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life? And this was a young rich man. You know, the story Jesus answered. If you want to be perfect, go sell your possessions, give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come follow me when the young man heard this, he went away sad because he had such great wealth. Then Jesus said to his disciples, I tell you the truth, it's hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again, I tell you, it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle for then a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. Respond to that. Well, first of all, when when the rich young ruler showed up and he said, you know, what you need to do is take the things that you have to sell, sell it and then come and follow me. It was about loving God with your stuff. So, Creflo Dollar twist the scripture to say that he wants to have things so that we can use them to bless the kingdom. That was not the point at all that Jesus was making. Jesus was trying to make the point that you are too in love with this money. And what does he say? What does the Bible say later that it is the love of money that is a root of all kinds of evil? And so we see that we see people for the love of money, for the love of fame as well, saying all sorts of ungodly things. To them, it is a show. To them, they want you to see and to think that they are something, especially they have powers that they really don't have, even to put on a farce of a show and live. Well, I'm a man of this commanding life. Rise up. How so is this so so that even we see that this young man was not dead? His mouth is moving before this. This charade was perpetrated before the people. Even we'll see a woman saying that in the midst of everyone, that she's going to remove belly fat from them. Who feel like there's something going wrong in your stomach? It is too much distention in your stomach. You feel as if that is not normal and you want that belly to go in now. In the name of Jesus, put your right hand on your stomach right now. You're about to experience a supernatural power from God. In the name of Jesus, feel where your belly is now. Feel where your pants or your skirt is now. In Jesus Christ's name. Only believe all things are possible to them that believe. Your belly is going in now. I'm counting to three, one, two. Now, in Jesus Christ's name, all over this building, wherever you are. Under the song of my voice, I command in Jesus's name. That distention come out. Get up on your feet and ask you in the name of Jesus. Your belly shall shrink. Your belly shall go in more, more. I see it going in my mouth, more, more, more, more, more in Jesus' name. Angel of the Lord, angel of the Lord. And I can confidently confirm that anyone that came to this service, fat or with belly fat, less with belly fat. And people saw this, but no one questioned her, even her herself. No one even questioned the fact that she's got belly fat and it was not removed, but people will still continue to follow her. Why? Because she says she's someone that should be followed. And it's her turn for you to follow her. You learn the ways of God and you learn to walk in love. Then you also learn to love them that have the rule over you. You learn to respect and you learn to appreciate the prophets, the apostles, you learn to appreciate the. You don't, you don't, you don't despise your deliverer. The one who hold in the keys and I thought Jesus was holding the keys. Oh, yes, he is. But the last time I checked, he needed to use a man or a woman. Because I know you want to be that woman or not now, but you ain't reached yet. So until you reach. I got next. Now, for us, it should be evident that our goal, our job is to call this stuff out. As a matter of fact, Paul said this way, he says, and what I am doing, I will continue to do in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission, they work on the same terms as we do. He says, for such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of life. And so obviously the people that work for him, we see, will continue to see they do the exact same thing. Now in this place, you're having trans. When you have trans, you get to encounter angels. Michael, hallelujah, see Raphael, you get to, you get to have different encounters. You get to see Jesus. I don't know how many of you had that encounter with Jesus, where you get to come out and get to see heaven and go and come back. I had the capacity to go to heaven and sit with Jesus and have conversations. And I would get information and partation and the anointing and for me to be able to come back. So when I minister now, no demon, no war, like, no nothing can stand in front of me. But before I enter into this rammer where I went and downloaded things, this is the round where you get revelation now. This is the place where you get daily fresh word. Every day God gives you a fresh word. Why? Because you are now in the spiritual realm. The highest level of discernment is angelic discernment. The highest level of discernment is angelic discernment. So if you're not here and able to access the angels, demons will come to you looking like angels right now and you bow down. You have the capacity to go somewhere but your soul is too weak. Your soul is too weak. You don't have the word of God in you that gives you the ability to be able to go and have an experience, a spiritual experience where you go to heaven and experience things, where you go to hell and see what the devil is doing, where you get to understand the secret things of the spiritual realm. This young lady is Lily Java. She is the wife or prophetess Java, the wife of Prophet Passion Java. Both of these people are as fake and as phony as they can possibly be but they still have a large following. They continue to grow their following and it should come as no surprise that the people they are in leagues with, the people that they find as their colleagues in this same farce of a ministry, these very same people have been blessed by none other than some of these original false teachers or should I say the false teachers from the 1970s and 1980s, 1990s, they are leaving a legacy of heresy. And so it's clear that the church is to blame for this. It is our responsibility to make sure that others know who is out there, who is a wolf. It's not the Muslims responsibility, it's not the atheists responsibility, it's not the Hindus or the Buddhists to tell anyone that these false Christian apostles are wolves. No, it's our job. The problem is though that the world is seeing us not do our job. But now rest assured though, those that want to turn a deaf ear, especially those that want to follow them, you need to understand something that God is not going to let you off the hook. As a matter of fact, God is simply testing you. And Deuteronomy 131 says, if a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or wonder, and the sign or wonder comes true concerning which he spoke to you saying, let us go after other gods whom you have not known and let us serve them, you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord, your God is testing you to find out if you love the Lord, your God with all your heart and with all your soul. The interesting thing is that the signs that they're supposed to show, they're not even showing signs. They're saying things, they're conjuring up things, and people are just believing in these dreams that they have gone to heaven. Or in others cases, gone to hell as well. They speak with the devil. They speak with Jesus. They are visited by angels. They go back and forth from heaven regularly. And we buy that, we believe that. Why the only people that would buy that are people who do not count the word, the Bible, as serious enough for them. They don't count that as worthy enough of their attention. They would much rather be entertained by false signs. Or even when the time does happen, when actual signs show up, they're going to follow those things. And they are following right now after a different God, a God who is more interested in putting out displays, putting out blessings for them, giving them money, making sure that their status is growing. They will have an enormous following, and it will continue to grow and grow and grow. Do not let the size of someone's platform, do not let their following fool you. Remember, Satan has the largest following on earth. Islam has over a billion, getting close to two billion people. There are a lot of people that will follow after the wrong things. And guess what? The Bible says so. There's no reason for Jesus to say to beware of them. There's no reason for us to be warned of false teachers and false prophets. There's no reason for us to be told that they're going to come and to be on the lookout if they're not going to come. And if you have not identified who the false teachers are, rather what you would do is support them when someone calls them out and then claim that the people that call them out are the false teachers themselves, well, then you are going to have to give an account to God yourself. Remember, he is testing us. John says, not every spirit is of God, so test it to see. How do you do so? By the one thing that we all have in common, the word of God that was given to us by the Holy Spirit. And so, yeah, it's our fault that we have this, but we're also the solution. We can call these things out. We can let people know that here is danger, that we can warn people. And if after having been warned, they continue down that path, well, guess what? Like the washing on the wall, our hands are clean, but we should at least be guilty of telling people, warning people, so that they too don't have to suffer. Remember, at the end of every heresy is a soul. Let's be diligent about spreading the true gospel of God. Amen.