 Well, there's something very dangerous that has crept into the church that I wanna talk to you about. In fact, it's possible that you yourself have been caught up in this without even realizing it. I wanna read a short portion of scripture to you and then I'm gonna share what I believe the Holy Spirit is saying. Isaiah chapter eight, I'll read verses 11 and 12. The Lord has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said, don't call everything a conspiracy like they do and don't live in dread of what frightens them. You know, a few years ago, right around 2020 with those world-shaking events that occurred, there was a shifting that took place within the body of Christ that wasn't necessarily all positive. There were some great outcomes that resulted, of course, but I noticed a very dangerous trend. And what began to happen around that time, if you'll recall, is that many people for one reason or another began to drop out of church attendance. Now, I'm not here to discuss whether or not there were protocols that needed to be taken into consideration and so forth, but fast forward beyond that point and very, a very large percentage of those who stopped attending church during that season actually never returned to church. They'll watch it online, they'll watch videos like this, they'll turn into a live stream now and then, but many failed, or I should say, refused to rejoin the community at large, the body of Christ. They no longer experienced that togetherness in the community of local church attendance. I'm bringing this up for a reason because it has everything to do with what I'm talking about. Now, around this same time where many believers began to fall into this trap of isolation, you'll notice that correlating with this incident was a flurry of various different ideas that were extreme and unbiblical. People got caught up in them. They got all wrapped up in different doctrines that were warped versions of the true biblical realities. They got caught up in different conspiracy theories. They got caught up in all of these other ideologies and paradigms and mindsets. And now it's true that there is some truth to things that are spoken of online. It's true that we as the body of Christ have to be prepared. It's true that we have to be aware of the times in which we are living. All of those things are true. And taking those things into consideration, we must also balance this reality with the fact that many believers are being caught up in conspiracy theory Christianity. It's based on fear rather than on faith. Now again, I wanna make sure that you understand that we ought to be aware of certain things. Like for example, is there an elite group of people who are controlling things from the shadows? I'm sure there is some great deal of truth linked to that thought. I don't think that comes from nowhere. But should we obsess about these things and base our entire identity and confidence in salvation on this? Is this something that we should now focus on completely? Or do we remain fixed on the gospel? Do we remain fixed on Jesus? Just recently, if you're watching this years from now, then just recently for your reference, it's April of 2024. Maybe you watched this 10 years from now, I don't know. But what we recently experienced was an eclipse in certain parts of the United States. It was totality. In other words, it was a full eclipse and it was a very exciting thing that took place. It was beautiful. I watched it with my wife and my daughter. And of course, we wore our glasses as to not stare at it directly. But I noticed something concerning that began to surround this particular event. And that is, there was a lot of fear. There was this great deal of peddling fear-based doctrine and paranoia. There were all sorts of eschatological thoughts that were tied together with this particular occurrence that were various different people commenting about... I mean, it got as deep as portals opening up and dimensions being shifted. And there may be some reality to demonic influence increasing at certain intervals during certain times of the year, of course. But while we're not gonna completely dismiss these ideas, the issue I'm addressing here is where Christians become so wrapped up in these thoughts. They become so wrapped up in these ideologies that that basically becomes the basis of their faith. And then by the way, what happens if you're not careful, and I'm just telling you the truth here, I want to make sure that you're grounded on Christ, not on certain belief systems. What begins to happen is now we start to criticize fellow brothers and sisters who don't themselves obsess about these things. And we say things like, I can already kind of hear some of the possible interaction that may take place later on. Some might say, but David, we have to be aware. We have to know what's going on. We have to make sure that we're not caught unaware. And I agree. I understand that thought process. And I'm not saying again that we should completely dismiss these things. What I am saying is that they cannot become the center of our faith. They cannot become the message. I can't tell you how many inbox messages I received from people who were very well-intentioned. I'm not even saying that this is necessarily done out of malicious intent. This is just something that they did out of pure motive. I was receiving messages in my inbox. David, why aren't you talking about the events that are gonna happen with the eclipse? David, why aren't you warning the body of Christ about societal collapse? David, why aren't you telling people that the economy is going to crash in just a matter of days? Why aren't you telling people that the greatest tribulation that we've ever experienced is going to begin within the next 24 hours? And well, I acknowledge. I acknowledge. Please let me say that again. I acknowledge that we as the body of Christ will experience tribulation. We don't know God's exact timeline. And we can't panic every time something like this starts to trend online. We've got to do better as the body of Christ because here's what I said to the audience if you watched my live streams leading up to the eclipse. We trimmed these conversational portions out of the live streams, but if you were there for the live versions of those streams, then you know that I had made a prediction. I said that after the day of the eclipse, I'm gonna come back onto the stream and I'm gonna say, here we are. Most things continuing just as they were. And what I predicted was that some in an effort to make it seem as though in fact something did occur that they were predicting, they were going to retroactively change maybe the goalpost or change maybe the story or perhaps they would reach for some news article where they said, okay, this news article here kind of looks like something I was talking about or that news article over there kind of seems like something that, you know, that correlated with what I was talking about. After the fact trying to look for something that maybe validated some of the things that were being said. But look, if it's not an eclipse, I'm not just talking about the eclipse. If it's not an eclipse, it's gonna be something else. I mean, I can't tell you how many times I've seen something like this happen where every time a story trends, the body of Christ reacts. And let me just put it to you plainly. We as the body of Christ aren't going to be able to change culture if all we ever do is react to culture. We're not gonna be able to change the world if all we ever do is react to the world. And in fact, to some extent, that's what the world wants. And then we pile on things and humans by nature are pattern seeking. We look for patterns in everything. And so we experience what's called confirmation bias. And what we do is we look for the things that seem to validate these worldviews when in fact, sometimes we're a little off with these things, not completely all the time, but we have to be careful with the way we do it. So if you study these things, sure. Be aware of these things, sure. If that interests you and you wanna be informed on things like this, there's no problem with that. In fact, some of these things are even somewhat intriguing. I mean, who isn't interested when you start talking about interdimensional conflicts that result from certain signs being given in the sky? I mean, okay, yeah, there might be some interest there, but you gotta make sure to always bring it back to the scripture, always bring it back to Jesus. Because then what happens is you start to preach conspiracies or theories rather than preaching Jesus. And you become offended when no one else is repeating what you want them to repeat as if they're your puppet. And I'm not just talking about me, I'm talking about your pastor, your local church leader, other YouTube Christians that you may watch online. I mean, look, when the cell towers went down, everyone panicked, why? Because it corroborated some narrative that we were building. And here's the reality is there had been cellular disruptions almost every year prior to that moment. When the internet, or when social media went down, I think it was two of the tech giants, their social media platforms went down for maybe 10 minutes and I saw people saying, okay, here we go, this is it, get ready. And I'm thinking, did you forget about the one or two internet outages and social media platform disruptions that we experienced nearly every single year since those platforms have been out? Now, I wanna make sure I balance this because I'm not saying that there won't be signs. I'm not saying that things aren't gonna get a little strange sometimes. Look, you know me, I'm looking forward to the coming of the Lord Jesus. I believe that there are certain global events that are in motion about which we should be aware. Jesus himself talks about signs of the times. Paul, the apostle wrote of signs of the times. The scripture, the book of Revelation, just read the writings of John. There are so many things going on that just go way beyond the imagination. And we, of course, ought to be informed of those things but being prepared is not the same as being scared. People tell me, you gotta prepare them, you gotta prepare them. I'm thinking, okay, if society collapses today, like some people say it will, maybe it will, maybe it won't, I don't know, my faith is in God, whatever may come may come. But if it were to collapse today, what should I have been preaching? Because even if you're talking about food preparation and going into some bunk or somewhere, okay, that only lasts a few weeks, maybe a few months if they did it properly. And then what? You see, if you want to be prepared, I'll tell you how. You love Jesus. You live clean. You walk according to the will of God. Just walk in God's will, trust and obey. You do that and you'll be prepared for anything. Why should we fear societal collapse when we serve the king of heaven? Why should we fear economic disruption when we serve the God who owns it all? Why should we fear food shortages when we serve the God who can cause man to come from heaven? Why should we fear food shortages? Again, think also about the fact that that Jesus took the five loaves of bread, two fish and fed thousands with that. What's with the angst? What's with the fear? What's with being worked up? And again, a lot of that comes from isolation. So again, let me read the scripture to you. Isaiah eight, let me know in the comment section if this is challenging you to walk in God's peace. Isaiah chapter eight, verses 11 and 12, the Lord has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. Let the world panic over those things. We have no reason to panic. Let the world worry about those things. That doesn't mean I'm not saying that in the sense that we do nothing about it, but I'm saying what I'm communicating is don't be like that. Don't be like the world where they're fretting and they're panicking and they're filled with angst and they walk around with tension and anger and they're just so worked up. Some of you, can I just give you some real spiritual advice even though it's not gonna sound so spiritual? You ready? Here's the not so spiritual sounding advice that is absolutely spiritual. You need blacks. And as we come into this place of peace, we recognize that God is the one who's in control of it all. That God is the one who is ultimately on the throne. And so you and I have nothing to fear. So what has crept into the church? Fear, fear based on conspiracies. There may be some truth to these ideas. Again, I'm admitting that, but to be afraid, why? To get worked up, why? To jump on every trend that may present itself on social media and then tie it to our eschatological views, our views of the end times and then just, see what ends up happening is we get this, this like, this mesh of just culture's ideas and YouTube ideas and TikTok ideas and biblical eschatology and we tie it all together and we try to make it all fit and then we end up confused. So just go with the scripture. Just go with what the Bible says. And again, is there some truth to these things of course? There's some truth to it. But never is there a reason to be afraid. Never is there a reason to stop preaching the gospel as the central message. Never is there a reason to stop preaching Jesus as the central message. You and I must come to the place where we are grounded in Him and Him alone. Don't be like the world. Don't be like them who frets and who worries, instead be grounded. So Father, I pray you help your people to do it. I thank you Father that you are liberating your people now from fear. Many of you right now being set free from fear. Just receive that. If you're receiving that, I want you to type that in the comment section right now. Just type, I receive it. Lord liberate them from fear in the mighty name of Jesus. Break every stronghold. Help them to focus on your word. For your word is truth. In Jesus' name we pray. Say it because you believe it. Say, amen. 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