 I want you to go with me to 2 Timothy. I want to get some word inside of your spirit here tonight. 2 Timothy, praise God. Chapter number 4, we're going to go over to Matthew chapter 24 as well. So let's start there, shall we? Matthew chapter 24, verse number 4 and 5. Jesus is on the Mount of Olives, and he's speaking to his disciples, and they come to him and say, listen, what is going to be the end of the age and the sign, the sign of your coming? And Jesus responds in verse number 4 and says, take heed that no man deceive you. Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name saying, I am Christ, now please get this. He's saying, many shall come in my name saying, I am Christ and shall deceive many. Please remember that we're not looking at a title with Christ here, we're looking at the definition or description that identifies the anointing. You recall in another place Jesus said that they're going to say that the anointing is in the desert and the anointing is over here. And he very emphatically says, don't go there. Don't follow after that. There's a reason. I'm going to show you that here tonight. In the book of 2 Thessalonians chapter number 2, which is a chapter that deals with the coming antichrist. Okay? The coming antichrist. And I want you to look with me there at it. 2 Thessalonians chapter number 2, verse number 1 says this, Now we beseech you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him. What? That you be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you. Let no man deceive you. Let don't allow any man to deceive you by any means, any method for that day shall not come. Okay? The day of Christ, the day of his return shall not come. And here's the prerequisite. Except there come a falling away first, an apostasy. You can't fall away from something that you haven't been in. So this is talking about people that have been believers that are falling away from Christ. They are apostatizing. They're turning away from the Lord Jesus Christ. Are you with me? What's the next part of that? That man of sin be revealed the son of perdition. So there is the day of Christ, there is the falling away and then there is the man of sin or the antichrist being revealed. What does he do? He opposeth, who opposeth and exalted himself above all that is called God. Now how do we know that's the devil? You go back to the book of Isaiah and that's exactly what Lucifer did in the very beginning. He exalted himself. I will exalt myself above heaven, above God. I'll sit on the throne, et cetera, et cetera. Or that he's worshiped very important factors here so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God showing himself that he is God. The deeper study of this deals with what the Bible calls in the book of Daniel, the abomination that make of desolate. That is to say the antichrist reveals himself by exposing who he truly is in the three and a half year mark of the tribulation period. Follow me, follow this scripture right here. And he says in verse number, look down in verse seven, for the mystery of iniquity. Iniquity here is the terminology lawlessness. For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work. Only he who now leteth will let, he's talking about the church through the power of the Holy Spirit, will let until he be taken out of the way. So the church will no longer be in the way restraining, pushing back on evil, lawlessness. When the church is taken out of the way, then the absoluteness of lawlessness and evil will take over unrestrained. Are you with me? And then shall that wicked be revealed. So the antichrist is then brought on the scene after the church is taken out of the way. I want to make this, this is so important. I'm taking time here because what is happening in our world today and in our churches, first of all, there is the absence of teaching on Bible prophecy in the coming of the Lord because people have absolutely lost hope and preachers are afraid to preach it. That Jesus is coming again. So we've resulted to motivational talks to make you have a better life here. And ladies and gentlemen, the book says if in this life we only have hope, we are of all men most miserable. Are you with me? Verse eight, that wicked shall be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. Even him, now watch this, whose coming is after the working of Satan, his characteristics, his demeanor, everything about him is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. So to reverse that just a little bit is to say that there will be powerful things happen. There will be signs that will happen. There will be wonders that will be happening at the hand of the enemy, Satan and his man, the Antichrist and the false prophet. Verse 10, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, and this is the key line for you to get tonight, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved. Now a result of that found in verse 11, and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie and that they all might be damned who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. I'm reading these passages of Scripture for you here tonight to give you a background of this lesson that I want to deal with entitled Deception. It is the number one thing that Jesus said that we must be not only careful of but alert because we're living in a time of such great deception that it is beyond our imagination that people could look us in the face and willfully and purposefully lie to us to deceive us into believing that something is true when it is not. There are three words or a couple of words that I will have time to get to all of the Scriptures that deal with this, but the terminology deception and the terminology we just read about delusion, delusion and deception. These are terms that are progressive even and you'll see some of that in just a moment. I want to draw your attention here this evening to the wall behind me with a few articles. This is simply a sample of how that, not just America, but the world is being told. Now you can call it what you want to call it. If you want to be PC politically correct, you can call it what you want to call it. Mama called it a lie. Y'all all right out there? Now that might get you a punch in the face or whatever, but I want you to know the devil is still a liar. He's the father of lies and he continues to lie, deceive, distract, manipulate, intimidate today with such great accuracy that the very first negative emotion that was found in the Garden of Eden was fear and it is the number one factor of negativity in the lives of people around the world. Many people do not have a restful, peaceful life because every moment of their day, they are operating from the spirit and the mindset of fear. And God has been very clear about fear for the believer. We are not to fear, the Bible says. He tells us over and over again, fear not. He even goes to the link through the Apostle Paul to tell Timothy, God has not given you the spirit of fear. It's a spirit and it's not of me. God's not giving you believer the spirit of fear, but power, love, and a sound mind. Now why is that sound mind so important? These are the ingredients, the litmus test to determine whether or not something is a fearful thing sent from the devil or if it's a respectful fear that we're supposed to have. Power, love, and a sound mind. So with that, I want to just draw your attention quickly. I won't go through all of these like I normally do, but let me just say to you that we have now come to the place where drugs, and this is going to be very, very important as we're describing deception here tonight, drugs, both legal and illegal, are now not only the number one killer, but hundreds of thousands without exaggeration of people have died just last year from fentanyl poisoning that came across the southern border. More people are dying today because of drug addiction than COVID ever thought about killing. And New York City has now deceived the drug addicts that are in New York and legalized both not one, but two of these facilities where you can now go in, shoot up, snort up, do whatever you want to do under the legal bounds of the New York State and New York City so that you can go in there and do that without fear of being arrested or anything else. They'll provide the needles, they'll provide the drugs, lawlessness. I want you to make sure if we continue to go for this coming next Wednesday night, the Lord willing, and dealing with economics, I am going to reveal more to you, and I did in two different prophecy files, the last two prophecy files I dealt with a great reset. The World Economic Forum is having their meeting right here as we speak. The two top speakers that spoke today is the Prime Minister of China, Mr. Xi Jinping and Anthony Fauci. The great reset is a plan that I believe found in the Word of God that is leading this world directly to a one-world government, one-world economy under the Antichrist. And what I will reveal to you next week in the economics of what's going on, even in our own government, how in the world we can continue to spend, if you spent like our government spends, you would be put in jail. I'll deal with that next week. Oh, here's a beautiful one from the NBA. Now, if the hypocrites that have canceled culture on so many different people over the past year or two were active, they would have already canceled the owner of the Golden State Warriors, who said on national network news in an interview that he did not care anything about the Uyghurs who are the Muslim confined prisoners of war and in concentration camps in China right now as a human rights violation, he could care less about them. Why did I put this up as deception? Because his philanthropy program, not only owning the Golden State Warriors, but his philanthropy deals with, and the title of it is Social Justice. So he's supposed to be concerned about human rights and taking care of equality and so forth, multi-multi-millionaire. So before I left the house tonight, I thought about it. Some of you may remember this man, Don Wildman. He was the originator of American Family Association and the leaders and network television and so forth feared him because whenever he opened his mouth to the Christian constituency of consumers and said this program that you're watching on TV or this or this is not representative of Christian values, we should boycott it, it took money right out of that pocket and they did exactly what Dr. Don Wildman and the Association and the gathering of unified Christians who had the same morals at that time did. So I said to myself the best thing that could happen is that Christians would not attend any of the Golden State Warrior basketball games nor would they buy any of their material, tennis shoes, t-shirts, hats or anything else because the only thing folks like this understand is a reduction of their money. Thank you for those three amends. Inside job, what do you mean inside job? A letter calling parents domestic terrorists. Where did it originate from? It originated from one of the newly elected educational leaders in the, Mr, I've got his name right here, pardon me, don't let me miss that, Miguel Cardone, the United States Education Secretary. Whenever parents begin to complain concerning the situation in Loudoun County, Virginia about their children learning CRT and so much that one parent stood up and let them know that his daughter had been raped and they arrested that man and threw him in jail. That case is not over just yet. So what happened? This individual in the Biden administration, Secretary of Education, wrote a letter to the organization that deals with the National School Board Association, you ever heard of that before, Mr. School Board Man? That then, now the Attorney General, Merrick Garland, later confirmed was the reason he issued a threat to the American public school parents calling the parents of Loudoun County domestic terrorists. Last week, the Attorney General's office opened a brand new branch that's dealing with domestic terrorists. They're calling parents who decide to stand up and voice their opinion for their own children, domestic terrorists. You get the picture? Deception. Here's a man in the administration who writes the letter, sends it, then the letter comes back and they act upon it as if it came from the bottom up. That is lying, deception, and it's being used against the people of America. Y'all with me out there? Mr. Fauci's finances have finally been exposed. He isn't just the most highest paid federal employee now with more than $432,000. He is now that it's been revealed since he called one of our senators a moron. That same senator has put together a piece of legislation that is the acrostic of Mr. Fauci's name. And now has been revealing more importantly that Mr. Fauci and his wife are both quite lucrative in their finances and are actually benefitting financially from the COVID virus on the backs of people that are sick. Read the articles. This is all, you can back all this up, go get it, and go find out for yourself. They just said that stagflation is going to take place in 2022. How many of you have already been the recipients of the inflated prices that are going on? You know what I'm talking about. Go fill up your tank with gas, go to the store, look on the shelves, it's not there. There were promises made last year that there's no inflation whatsoever. Well, I don't know what planet they're living on. But I know what I've paid for food recently. Come on, somebody. And for fuel. All right, that's not just coming from somewhere out in the far beyond. It is a direct result of deceptive practices and then looking into the face of a camera and telling everybody, nothing to see here, everything's okay. Y'all with me? Dr. Zelinko on the right-hand side over here. You should look him up. Yes, he is. Dr. Zelinko had more than 500 cures to the COVID virus until Cuomo shut him down from using ivermectin and hydrochloroquine to be able to cure his patients. He had them as an absolute healed case. Dr. Zelinko, I don't back up on what I'm telling you. You can go there and get some of the protocols that will help you to be able to be proactive in your own health. The reason why that many people are not where they should be today is because they're waiting on Dr. Fauci, the government, or somebody else to tell them how to take care of their own body. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time you take care of your own self. Nobody else is going to do that for you. How many of you know what I'm talking about? Dr. Fauci has now been found out as he looked into the face of Senator Rand Paul and said, Senator Paul, you don't know a thing about what you're talking about. But, oh, Dr. Fauci, we now know, according to the record, you can find it out that he was most certainly funding gain of function in the Wuhan lab and that the United States military denied activity with it through the DARPA letter and said we would not be involved in this because it is too risky. Come on. And nothing has been done tonight. Dr. Fauci is speaking at the World Economic Forum because, according to Rahm Emanuel, the former governor, or mayor of Chicago, that we should never let a good crisis go to waste. So more government control has taken place and deception during the COVID crisis then took place under 9-11 with the Patriot Act. This is a serious time that we're living in. And so I want to show you because on the horizon, and thank God that the Supreme Court said that vaccines should not be mandated. If you want a vaccine, that's up to you. But nobody should be making you stand in line like a Nazi and putting something in your body that you don't want or that you do want. That's your body. Don't ever forget it. I'm amazed at how that they're able to say to those who want abortions, you can do it. They're able to say to those who want abortions, you can have a freedom of choice, but over here you're going to take this. Wrong answer. We need to pray for all of the leaders that are in the government right now for sure and that there be some righteous people that will rise to the occasion. What's next on the horizon? And what's been deceiving the nations? Roll the videotape. Watch this bean footage. The theory is now moving closer to reality. Environmental activists are claiming that we're facing a climate emergency and lockdowns are necessary to save the planet. Dale Hurd has the details. In early December, the Washington Post reported that because of climate change, snow in the Mountain West may vanish for years at a time. The headline did not age well. Only days later in the West, it started to snow. And snow. And snow. This incredible photo was taken at Donner Summit in California around Christmas. Lake Tahoe got 16 feet of snow in December, breaking a 50-year record. In early January, some Virginia motorists were stuck on I-95 for more than 24 hours after snow and ice made the road impassable. Add this headline to a long string of failed climate change predictions. This headline from the London Independent predicting no more snowfalls is more than 20 years old. Climate experts now seem to have hedged their bets, saying global warming will both increase and decrease snowfall. Weather bell meteorologist Joe Bastardi says more snow or less snow, it's called a normal winter. The weather is always going back and forth. This is way, way within the realm of what you can expect in the kind of winter we have here. But climate activists continue to insist that we face a worldwide climate emergency. And there's been more talk of the need for what are called climate lockdowns. Over the holidays, environmentalists staged what they called Occupy Biden, an eight-day protest outside Joe Biden's Delaware home, demanding that he take action on the climate. We're calling upon President Biden to issue an executive order declaring a climate emergency. I've already said it's a code rat emergency. Dozens of nations have already declared a climate emergency, including the entire European Union. And now after accusing climate skeptics of inventing a conspiracy theory about climate lockdowns, there has been increasing talk of instituting climate lockdowns. Modeled after COVID lockdowns and under a system called environmental authoritarianism, in which you're right to drive a car or fly in a plane or own a big house, could be suspended by the government in order to fight climate change. Americans have to deal with less. We're going to drive less, fly less, eat less meat. They're already talking about sustainable housing, shutting down the suburbs. This is the progressive vision of how you make people do with less in a climate emergency. A recent article in the influential magazine Foreign Policy suggested democracy may not be compatible with reaching climate goals. This, even though actual weather statistics do not show there is a serious problem with the climate. Theoretical physicist Dr. Steve Coonan, former Under Secretary of Energy during the Obama administration, says the weather record shows there is no climate emergency. Heat waves in the U.S. are now no more common than they were in 1900. No global trends in drought or in floods. No one's ice sheet isn't melting anymore rapidly now than it was 80 years ago. That there's no long-term trend in hurricanes over the last 100 years. But climate activists are advancing their agenda anyway, and new government regulations continue to punish and defund more reliable and less expensive fossil fuel sources in favor of less reliable and more expensive renewable energy. President Biden, he should have the federal agencies propose any new fossil fuel infrastructure. So basically this political movement has declared war on fossil fuels and a lot of people have concluded in the industry and also people who just are investors that this sector has no future. Rising energy prices this winter could be only the beginning. A recent study in the journal Nature found that meeting reduced carbon emission targets will cost more than $2 trillion annually. That's more than $5,000 per American per year with cost by the end of this century totaling one quadrillion dollars. Dale Hurd, CBN News. Well, you look at all of these debates about climate change, you know, the old adage. So now you're seeing on the horizon what is next after COVID. Climate lockdowns. Can't drive your car. What's this all about? Well, let me just say this to you throughout this entire series on the forecast. I'm not an expert on the climate or the economy or anything. I'm not even an expert on the Word of God. But I have read the Word of God and the Word of God is the substance and the foundation of all truth regardless of what it is. Economically, climate-wise, and every other way. So you start from absolute truth not from some hypothetical Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez $94 trillion green new deal where we're going to tear down every building in New York City and rebuild it so it's nice and green. We can't, listen, we can't even, some of our contractors here in this building know exactly what I'm talking about. They can't even get windows right now because they're so far out. The only green new deal that'll be going on will be the fact that we'll all be sitting out in the grass. So how should we conduct ourselves in light of all of this what they call misinformation? I mean, if you do just your own study, now if you just listen to the news out there and all that's going on, I don't care what source that it is. But there's a bias that takes place. Okay? So you've got to find out what that is about for yourself through multiple sources and checking and double-checking those sources today to get it. I mean, you know, I'm just old enough to remember Walter Cronkite and we had what we felt like was legitimate news. Today, I mean, we all frowned on the Star magazine and the inquirer when we were checking out groceries saying that was a made-up magazine. Now that is mainstream media that comes across with such fraud. But the problem is, if you don't have a mirror to check all of that with, you eat it hook, line, and sinker. Okay? So let's look at that here tonight because perception is a powerful thing. Get your paper and pen. We're going to go somewhere now. Perception is a powerful thing. So many of our actions are determined on how we perceive things to be. How we perceive is then based upon what we think, what we hear, what we see. But our perception of events, people can be entirely wrong. Your perception can be changed by circumstances, situations, distractions. Your perception is the worst possible evidence of reality. In fact, the terminology of perception as reality was made up by one of the political assistants to the second George Bush and so making it perceived to be one thing but in actuality it was something else. Here we go. Perception is the awareness of the elements of an environment through physical sensation. The word sensation is the key right there. Let's go just a little bit deeper and say this. Well, let me go back to perception. It is to be aware through your senses. In other words, perception. I perceive something as hot because I've gotten near it and the temperature is raised. I see something, I hear something, I smell something. So perception is reality based on your senses. Now, if you're a Bible-believing Christian, you understand that the believer does not walk by the five senses. The believer walks by faith. I don't make a step based on my perception of God. I make a step in God by faith. So what is that all about? Anytime our senses are involved, there is a potential for error. How many of you know what I'm talking about? Anytime the mind is involved or perception, there is that potential for error. Now what happens with potential? It usually leads to deception. The act that this is the definition, the act of causing someone to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid. For the example in the Word of God in Genesis 3, Eve, the Bible says, was deceived by her perception, her eyes. She looked upon the fruit that it was good. The results, watch this, turned into sin. She perceived the fruit was good even though God said no, and then she gave it to Adam. And when the woman saw that the tree was good, verse number six for food, that it was pleasant to the eye. And the tree was desired to make one wise, she took the fruit thereof, did he, gave it to her husband and he did he. They were deceived by sight. Perception led to deception. Trusting your emotions, perception is a dangerous thing. So true discernment then is what we need is always supported by the Word of God which is truth. True discernment. If you ever need to pray for anything, Lord, help me to be discerning about the situation. Now the spirit of discernment is the Holy Ghost on the inside of us. It's not another spirit, it's the same spirit of the Holy Ghost. Now quickly that deception can replace truth. In second Corinthians chapter number 11, verse three, here's what the Bible says from the living Bible. But I'm frightened, Paul is saying, fearing that in some way you will be led away from your pure and simple devotion to our Lord just as Eve was deceived by Satan in the Garden of Eden. You've seen, watch this, he says to the Corinthians, you seem so gullible. You believe what anyone tells you even if he's preaching about another Jesus than the one we preach or a different spirit than the Holy Spirit you receive or show you a different way to be saved, you swallow it all. I'm probably gonna make some enemies from this point forward but I don't care. Satan uses deception and pride to win people's worship. Perception in numbers chapter 13 verse 33 we saw children of Israel go in and God said, take the land, it's yours. When they came back, what did they say? We were in our own sight, our own perception was that we were grasshoppers and we were in their sight. So they not only imposed their own perception but they thought they knew what the giants were thinking and imposed that upon them to make it doubly fearful. Like, here we go. Like, here's COVID. Now all you had to do was read the back side of the can of Lysol and you know that COVID has been around for a long, long time. See knowledge is power and the enemy's using a lot of stuff to deceive the nations. You'll see that in a moment. So what happens? Then it turns from COVID into Delta COVID. And then into Omicron and 140 other ones that they have in mind. My wife looked it up on Wikipedia. The symptoms of COVID and the common cold are the same. Now I don't know what's been dosed up and I don't know all I know is I've seen people that have had it. I've dealt with it. I've dealt with it and people have died from it and people sitting in this building that have recovered from it. But that's not the point. The point is it starts somewhere and then the enemy starts stacking it. I told my wife if you went into the doctor the other day and the doctor said to you hey, I've examined and you've got a cold. Go home, do this, drink some fluids, stay in the bed, da, da, da, da. You say okay. The difference is he looks at you and says you've got COVID. Now listen carefully. The enemy must have you hear it in order for it to be effective. As long as I don't know that I've got COVID I'm riding the roller coaster at Disney, right? Without a mask. But the moment I hear it so Satan says to Eve, half God said and Eve comes back. Oh yeah. God said we could eat of every tree but of this tree right here which is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Science, the terminology science is defined as knowledge. And in science, I mean I didn't do real well in my science class in high school. I did dissect a frog pretty good and burned some paper up on that little Bunsen burner and had a good time with that. But I didn't learn the periodic table for nothing. But I do know this. I found something out and it didn't occur to me until after I had already graduated. Science wasn't looking for the easy route of the definition of what happened in that test tube. They wanted to know how much did you heat it up? What color did it turn? What was the substance? Did it turn into a solid or a liquid? On and on and on. And Joey Rogers didn't have time for all that. I just needed to cut the grade. I wanted somebody. And whatever that meant. So I went straight, I wanted A to Z. But science by its very definition is the continual involvement of knowledge that really never ends. That's the reason why that people cannot look and Dr. Fauci and others cannot look you on the television or the president this afternoon and say theoretically this is going to do this. This is going to do this. And this is going to do this. Because they don't know themselves what it's going to be because by its nature it is a continuum of knowledge. But they say to you follow the science. Follow the knowledge. And when I heard that the first time I heard the enemy whispering in the ear of Eve you shall not surely die. Follow the knowledge on this tree. I knew you wouldn't like me at this point. Conspiratorial, crazy guy who didn't even pass the biology test. Follow the knowledge. You won't die. God knows the moment you put your faith in this you will become like him. And ladies and gentlemen when I heard Dr. Fauci say anybody who disagrees with me disagrees with science itself. I'm not making this up. Go listen to it. Disagrees with science. You're the epitome of science? You're the end all of science? Let me take you to the real end all. The real end all. One of the titles of description I'm going to give you something right now it's been several weeks since I've get to preach to you. One of the titles of God Almighty is that he's not only omnipresent but he is omniscient. All knowledge. All knowing. Are you hearing what I'm saying? All knowledge. God is all knowledge. Not Dr. Fauci. Christians and believers you got to get your head out of this world and get your head in the omniscience of God. Otherwise you will be deceived. Thinking yourself to be God and lead could potentially lead your whole family astray. Are you with me? This is directly against what God told them to do. They took action out of him and he did based on doubt and unbelief of God's word and refused the good report. This is what the people of Israel did when they said the giants were so large and in charge. And what happened? Watch this. Think of this in light of what's going on. The majority caused them to wonder in the wilderness until the unbelieving generation died off. This is a result of human perception over God's word being deceived into action. Watch this. It's not good enough just to be deceived on the devil's part. He wants you deceived into action. And what did God do? He let them have their way. Whoa. Please God. Please God, don't let me have my way. Thy will be done. Not my will be done. Why? Because we walk by faith and not by sight, ladies and gentlemen. The last days are going to be filled. This is the forecast. The last days are going to be filled with deception, lies, false reports, innuendos. Today you're guilty by accusation, not by the law. Poor Kyle Riddenhouse was already accused and put in the electric chair before he had one time to sit in a courtroom only to find out that all that the media popped their jaws about was absolute manipulation and deception from a young man who actually was wiping down the graffiti on the walls of that city to help that city get recovered. And now to this day, I would not be shocked if he didn't have to change his name because he has been tagged so bad. Because the enemy comes to steal, kill and to destroy. Trying to live trying to live by your by your perception your physical senses is a setup for deception. Are you hearing me? Thinking it's one way but it's actually another. Relying on your feelings is a dangerous place. And there's more of that today than what we could ever imagine, right? People are affected by what they see, hear, smell, taste and feel. And if it doesn't look good, sound good, smell good, taste good, feel good, it doesn't sell very well. This is usually truly regardless of how good a product is. Isn't that amazing? It isn't going to sell very well if it doesn't appeal to the senses because people are affected by these things. So until our minds, let me get there, until our minds are renewed, let me go there, until our minds are renewed, our perception has the potential of distortion. Romans chapter 12 verse 2. Don't be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. This is where we should be right now. You better hear this preacher tonight. You may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Get this in your spirit. Perception without knowledge is the root of false rumors and wrong belief. In other words, if all I get is what somebody feels. Now ladies and gentlemen, you and I could probably be millionaires tonight because each one of us could have our own TV show because your opinion is just as good as anybody else out there right now. And that's what we get. We don't get journalism, we get their perception. This is how I feel. And depending on what party you're with and who may be paying you and whatever may be going on is what bias you're going to get. That's the reason why you cannot sit there and be gullible to receive everything that this world is taking and not be able to pick up this word and find out what does God say about this? Are you with me? So what's going to happen? What's going to happen? That should say deception will increase. Deception. Look what the Bible said. Here's the forecast. Pastor, what's it going to be in the future? The Bible is very clear. How many of you understand we're living in the last days right now? We're living in the last days. So what's going to happen? Deception, write that down, will increase. Here's what the Bible says. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived. I'm going to tell you it's bad enough to be deceived but it's another thing to be self deceived. Are you hearing what I'm saying? This is so critical for us to get a hold of. What else is forecasted for the future? That the Antichrist will use deceit to persuade the nations and people. What's the Bible saying? Revelation 18-23 and the light of a candle shall shine normal in thee and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee. For thy merchants were the great men of the earth come out Babylon and the kingdom of Antichrist. Watch this right here. This is critical for you to get a hold of. For by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. By thy sorceries all nations were deceived. So the Antichrist, Satan himself, the false prophet are going to deceive the nations of the world. Okay, stop. I know that Revelation 18 is written to come to pass at the end toward the end of the tribulation period. But wait a minute. We are seeing nations whole nations being deceived right now. What is the lynchpin? What's the key to this deception? The Holy Spirit, the Word of God, gives us the answer. For by thy sorceries were all nations were. So it's not just happening then. It has happened before then. This is what led up to the place where the nations of the world will surrender their power to the Antichrist in one hour. This will lead up to the time when people will embrace the Antichrist. Listen, democracy will elect the Antichrist. He comes up from the sea of people the Bible says. So it will be the people by that time because the church will be gone. One factor, an institution that is holding back all evil on this earth is the church through the power of the Holy Spirit. When the church in the power of the Holy Spirit is gone, the Holy Spirit's function is going to change during the time of the seven year period of tribulation. When the church, the believers have been snatched off of this earth in an event called the capture of the church according to the scripture. There will be no restrainer left to hold all out evil back. What you see right now happening in America and I'm not just talking about America. I see them talking about the homeless problem. Homeless man walks into a furniture store in LA, takes out a knife and slaughters a 19 year old grad student and walks out the door. They just found him today. Homelessness in LA and other multiple locations not only are not being prosecuted but ladies and gentlemen before we think that this is all in Chicago and LA and everywhere else take a drive up underneath the bridge in Pensacola, Florida. You're going to find out that it's happening in every part of the land. It's one ingredient that is connected listen to the word deception and the word delusion. It's found in Revelation 1823 for by thy sorceries were the nations deceived. The word sorcery there is the word pharma suke which is the word identifying drugs. There are other locations in the Scripture that deals not just with the drugs but it deals with the drug addict and pusher who will receive a greater reward in hell because they pushed the drugs. So for all of those that are in New York City that are pushing the drugs upon people that as we drive down the street and watch them you can go online and see this in Philadelphia in one particular location as they stand hunched over in a zombie state I'm not making it up. They're absolutely controlled by the drugs and the next thing they want is the next drug. Now before somebody wants to point their finger at illegal drugs you better back up because he does not say illegal here. You must be careful my dear friends in the time we're in because there are highly addictive medications that can cause people to get in such a state of mind that they don't know whether they're coming or going. Why is it that we need services filled with the Holy Spirit because what we're dealing with here is the spirit of sorcery and witchcraft. We do not have in our self the perception to understand what's taking place with a person who may be mentally unstable or whatever. It makes no difference. As I stand here tonight the federal government has said to houses of worship be very careful and diligent on what's going on because what has just taken place in a synagogue in Texas just a few days ago. So in the past 24 hours we've had to be watching on the cameras of this church as people have broken through the fence and cut the fence to get into a neighboring business and stole all the catalytic converters in their vehicles. One of our vans was over at a location for repair in Pensacola and they broke through and saw the catalytic converter out of the van and six other vehicles and then called me up and said it'll be $7,800 I said hold the phone I'll call my insurance agent they called me back and said it won't be $7,800 pastor come get your vehicle. Ladies and gentlemen what is that all about? It's all about being able to get money and drugs, money and drugs with it he deceived the nations. Are you still with me? I'm almost done, stay with me right here. Look at 2 Timothy chapter 4 this describes the deception we're seeing today. Now the potential of me making some folks mad right here is high on the Richter scale for the time will come verse 3 and I submit to you as here now when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lust shall they heaped to themselves teachers having itching ears and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned into fables listen carefully, Paul described this very unique challenge that believers would face in the last days the deception that would occur not outside but in the church. Just before Jesus returns the Bible says large numbers of people that were in the body of Christ would be let astray the word time in that verse number 3 deals with a specific season and it's also futuristic so it's happening and it will happen into the future in this end time season of which I believe we're in this right now the Holy Spirit is saying that increasing numbers of people in the Christian community will not endure sound doctrine you can show them the Word of God explain the Word of God, they've got it on their own iPad their phone and in their hands and look into the face of that truth and deny it to be true many people are moving toward teaching and preaching that is more motivational and psychological than Bible based you better listen to what I'm about to say for the remainder of this service the word they implies large numbers of people that are going to be deceived so a portion of the last day Christian community will simply no longer endure sound teaching from the Scripture the word endure there means no ability to put up with or have tolerance for so no longer do we want a preacher telling us what the Word of God has to say through doctrine we are an entity for ourselves we believe it, watch this is what I'm getting and this is what I believe we're going to be seeing in the days that are ahead people are taking their experiences and putting it here and they're taking the Word of God and saying I've had an experience with God but I don't really care if the Word doesn't match that experience I believe my experience over the Word but the second Corinthians tells us that we're to pull down every stronghold to the obedience of Christ and ladies and gentlemen the Bible says we're to take that Word right there and not allow our feelings or our perceptions or anything else to rise above the level of the Word of God but that Word is to be exalted above everything we feel, ask, smell taste or hear I don't care what kind of experience you've had what pastor I felt God wonderful you might not feel him tomorrow is he any less God tomorrow than he is right now whether you feel him or not I've got people that's been looking into my face in recent days and telling me I don't care I know what I felt the Word sound doctrine in Second Timothy 4 and 3 means something that is wholesome and healthy and that produces a healthy state of mind and being the Word doctrine refers to the long-held teaching and tenets of the Christian faith and what does the Bible say? the Bible says there's coming a time and now is when people will not only not endure preaching or tolerate it anymore they actually have a distaste for sound doctrine let me put this on the plate for you real quick Jesus has a doctrine and the Bible says there is the doctrine of devils how are you going to know which is which? if Satan used the same Scriptures from Psalm 91 to try to deceive the very author of the book in the wilderness for 40 days while he was fasting and praying what will he use on you to twist the Scripture to believe something about God that is not even true Second Timothy chapter 4 verse 3 says large numbers of people no longer will have a stomach this is the literal translation for sound doctrine instead what will they do heaped to themselves in their own lust, their own desire shall heaped to themselves teachers having itching ears in other words that word lust there means their own whims so now we have a major in Atlanta Georgia who allows Led Zeppelin to hit the platform and play the opening songs for worship check it out it's worse than what you think now I say this humbly and I stand on the shoulders of many other preachers but you better thank God that you got a church right here that's not drifting off in some kind of false doctrine or some kind of emotional whim but you've got the Word of God coming and the day you don't hear that vote me out, kick me out you better have sound doctrine if you want to have a sound mind Bible says that the teachers will speak to crowds what they want to hear they'll enjoy great popularity among the audiences and listeners the Bible says in the last day they will heaped to themselves preferred teaching in other words they will pile the teachers on because they can't get enough of their teaching but you better hear what I'm saying the Bible says that it is the foolishness of preaching you better hear me not teaching the foolishness of preaching when you get a spirit filled red hot anointed preacher who knows the Word of God things happen in the congregation that will not come without it you better hear what I'm saying that's why many preachers have dumbed down no pit and people are content to sit and sip their coffee without listening to sound doctrine get up and leave the same way ladies and gentlemen this Word affects change and if it does not change you every time you encounter it you haven't asked the book good enough you got to eat the whole book and let God be God I thank you that you're trying to clap or maybe you're trying to breathe I don't know but I came to tell you when Lord Webb began to preach the Word of God he didn't have to preach alone pastor why didn't you preach so long because you got used to me that's the reason why I bought the big black man in here so he could kick around some thing and disturb the devil and tell the devil you're not going to have your way so let the preachers arise and quit with the motivational preaching and preach the Word and let the chips fall where they may don't want to hurt nobody's feeling you want to hurt somebody's feeling or do you want to hurt Jesus feeling the results the Bible says I'm coming to a close the results say that they will turn sound doctrine into fables what are fables they'll turn sound doctrine into fables it will not result in repentance of sin or a change they mix faults with truth deception are you hearing me and they tell their stories to persuade people as if it's the Word of God and here's the problem and this hit me earlier today what happens then if you as the people of God do not read this book that means that anything that anybody says you eat it up like a Krispy Kreme donut and you don't feel the effects of it until it hits your belly are you hearing what I'm saying I am calling on this I am calling on this house right here I don't care we've got devotional books we put back there you got Bible on your phone Bible on your iPad Bible in your hand you got access to it on YouTube you got podcasts and everything else I implore you tonight church at Pace Assembly and those of you that are watching online get your face in this book even if it's one verse of scripture that Word will be a lamp to your feet and a light to your path I'm almost done here I said that three times I still have two more to keep up with Bishop Ron's prophecy of me limited perception I'm going to race into the end limited perception without the facts and truth of God's Word leads to deception limited perception and all of us have that don't we boy we think it's something I didn't play it I wanted to play it up here for you tonight there's a video you can look at on YouTube where the guy from the weather channel is standing out there boy the wind is blowing like crazy I can barely stand up and behind him there's two or three guys that are walking but everybody thinks it's torrential winds and hurricane winds because your eyes deceive you but the truth walk behind him the only remedy for deception is truth and not just truth but hear me the reason why the antichrist will take over the world is because and the reason why people will apostasize out of the church like they already have done I never thought I would see this day but this day is among us why? because the Bible says because they loved not the truth not just oh I got the truth no no no I'm talking about loving the truth if you don't love the truth the lie is waiting on you God said of Cain it's crouching at the front door a lie is crouching at the front door waiting waiting waiting for the moment to pounce here's some safeguards quickly number one I want to be able in these days to stay into truth in God's word and not be deceived first of all it takes humility please don't think you know it all and please don't think that you're looking and reading and listening to people who think they know it all humility God resisteth the proud and giveeth grace to the humble humble yourself therefore into the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due season due time secondly receive the love of the truth that means a passionate commitment to the truth of God's word in other words you got a lot of opinions and you got your own opinion but this is the question you need to ask of yourself when you're listening to news when you're listening to people talk but what does the word say if you don't love and embrace the truth then you're set up for deception here's number three come on number three a fear or a reverence of God I'm not talking about being afraid of God I'm talking about the Bible says that it is the fear of God that is the beginning of wisdom you want wisdom in the days that we're in right now you don't want to be deceived then respect God reverence God are you hearing me reverence God come you children harken unto me I will teach you the fear of the Lord what man is he that desires life and loveth many days that he may see the good keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking God apart from evil do good seek peace and pursue it number four is the focus of your attention that is the surrender to the central message that are the cross let me tell you what deceivers lying false preachers and worldly conduct worldly speakers out there people that lie and wait to deceive what is the one message they avoid it is the message of the cross you hear me because that one sets apart everything else every other religion every other God the moment you bring Jesus into the picture and the message of the cross you have suddenly separated yourself from the pack the bible tells us very clearly that we should hold fast to that and Paul said I don't want to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified that's what you should be your devotion now I've just told you enough ladies and gentlemen for you to be able to not be deceived there's so much more I could teach you here but I'm just telling you that deception is one of the major factors in the last day Jesus would have never said it if he didn't if he didn't know that the potentials were there and in order to be deceived from something you have to already know it you can't be deceived you don't know I've known the way I've known what the Word of God has to say but then the way to get you all focus is to give you something else to focus on so what does the devil do he get well I think this and I you be careful don't get yourself in some bible study somewhere where somebody's offering all their opinion about it you better hear what I'm telling you come on over to our bible bible study time out come on over to our church time out what do you believe what do you believe about the blood well we don't talk about the blood well then I ain't going nowhere near you come on somebody what do you believe about Jesus well he's a good man I ain't talking to you either are you hearing me it's life and death for you and what I've just given you here tonight will keep you in the days ahead because deception deception by its nature is deceiving you understand what I'm saying I mean just because I put on a white lab coat does not qualify me to go down there and serve people in the hospital you got to have something behind that just because just because I stand up here and have a black bible doesn't qualify me I have to have somebody in authority who has laid their hands on and sent forth not some renegade who feels like that I want to start something because I had a dream and some pizza last night and why is it that that becomes the place where we are so gullible we would never go to somebody who was a doctor or whatever or said they were a doctor without asking questions or looking at their credentials just because they got a skeleton and a stethoscope come on somebody then why do we do that with the church why do we follow like the Pied Piper after people who have not qualified themselves to pick the book up and preach and teach the Word of God I'm trying to prove this congregation and I really don't care if there's 10 among us when the rapture takes place long since Covid has cured me for numbers waiting on the crowd to get back I don't see that well pastor the prophet said last weekend people gonna come I'm not so sure that that might be online more than in the building because every time another variant comes by people are afraid to get up and do anything you better go back listen to what the man said this past weekend this is a time ladies and gentlemen where we must take the Word of Faith and devour it, read it and I'm just gonna tell you I'm gonna close right here fourth closing sometimes we feel like that we get into a situation I gotta find exactly where that is but let me tell you what the Holy Ghost does if you'll just consistently faithfully pick up the Word of God it's not how much you eat that does you good it's what you digest and if you'll just pick up the Word of God or when you're on the road going to your work turn on the Word of God instead of talk radio or whatever else and let the Word of God get in your spirit let me tell you what the Holy Ghost will do whenever you step into a situation where you need to know what is truth suddenly the Word of God that you didn't even think was relevant to the situation comes rushing back into your mind and now you've got an answer for that particular situation the Holy Ghost will lead you and guide you into all truth if you believe that say a good amen come on lift those hands right now would you pray this prayer with me dear heavenly Father I receive the love of the truth of God I believe your Word is absolute authority and truth and right now I pray Holy Spirit lead me and guide me into all truth reveal your Word to my understanding and I give you glory for keeping me all the days of my life in Jesus mighty name if you believe that say a good amen amen stand to your feet shake hands with people around you I look forward to seeing you this coming weekend don't miss it at 10 o'clock don't be a great time in the house of the Lord