 Good afternoon pastor David. Hey John welcome everybody to a random moment with pastor David unfiltered pastor last night when I got home from church I was flipping through the channels, and I came across a televangelist and he was claiming that If you send a seed money in he was gonna send you the stone of David or this cloth Bring healing but you would have to send this money in and he was asking You know you know up to up to fifteen hundred dollars, and I'm thinking for sure nobody is going to oh, no They gave and they gave all they gave and and but I was thinking about this that you know When Jesus did healings in the Bible there weren't they weren't Conferences they weren't masked. I mean there was people around but they weren't holding stadiums for healing specifically and today you see these Televangelists going out and they're proclaiming healings if you do something first and I think about that and I wanted to ask has that Desensitized Christians to the true value of healing because of these frauds. Oh, absolutely It causes people who believe in a God who heals it causes us to to take a moment because we don't want to be broad brushed into the What's the word into the reputation of being a charlatan? This is this is not new obviously there there have been people who have wanted to To have particular gifts or have pretended to use particular gifts from from almost the beginning I mean I think of the book of Acts and how that there was there was one who Who had basically said when he saw the Holy Spirit was given by the lane on of hands he said sell me this gift because I want to use it and And the Apostle Peter said your money perish with you. You tried to buy gift of the Holy Spirit Simon it was it eventually was referred to as Simon He trying to sell sell some or buy something that that is freely given by God and so we've we've had this particular mentality or type of person from all the way from the early days of the church until today And there's some well-known quote-unquote healers John that I've heard of over the last many years that I've I've been a Christian That have You know, I remember I'll give you an example as I'm thinking That I remember one who had Claimed that all you need to do is pray one time and then you'll be healed and all of that very well-known man Who? Claimed that that God gives perfect health to all those who have faith and yet he died of a disease, you know It was never never presented I mean if you look them up and I could give his name right now, but there's no need to do that But if you look them up, you'll see that he died You know, it wasn't natural causes per se it was something like either cancer or heart attack I forget it's been a few years There was another guy on TV who was always talking about how you can be healed etc And it's a guarantee and his wife died of cancer his wife had it and she came on TV John and actually on that on their program Confessed her lack of faith and that's why she had had received cancer So this is a sickening thing that we've seen from almost the beginning When Jesus is speaking concerning the events are preceding the second coming He points out that the very first thing that is an evidence that you're in the last days and the days that are Immediately preceding the return of Christ leading to the tribulation at all He says a number one thing is deception take heed that you're not deceived And so throughout the New Testament, especially there are several scriptures That relate to false teachers entering into the church making merchandise of the people and Denying the Lord of Botham things of that nature. I mean that is a very heavy concept you find in scripture Related to the last days and days Essentially that lead to the second coming the return of Jesus Christ leading to the tribulation and the events that take place During that time and so any man who stands up and lies like that is going to stand in strict condemnation He's gonna he's gonna have strict judgment from the Lord. He is basically Living for today. He is he has succumbed to the temptation for immediate wealth and He's lying to God's people Our God is a healing God You see that in the old you see it in the new Jesus Christ Performed many healings and we see these things in the New Testament scriptures The Apostle Paul was used by the Lord to perform mighty miracles and miracles of healing the Apostle Peter And and John they're at the gate called beautiful. There's a miraculous healing You see healings in scripture and I do believe in a God who heals But yeah, it causes us to to have to explain to people that we're not charging them for the free gift of God and Anybody who charges people for the grace of God and the gracious giving of God is a charlatan to be avoided and yet That's sad so many people I I've seen just the other day. There was a fellow of that I happened to turn on just because I thought he's still around He was exposed John. He was exposed years ago. His wife had Had a microphone. He had a near piece. She was reading the names of people who were requesting prayer who were attending this particular event and She was reading their names and she was she knew the description of their clothing and She knew the melody that they were dealing with and she was whispering to him in his earpiece and Saying her name is Judy. She's to your right. She's wearing a red Jacket and then this charlatan is up there saying What what Lord? There's someone off in this direction here and And you've got cancer and and he did that and and then this poor woman stands up crying It's me. It's me and they they they built them for money I wrote this guy because he's from this area and I said God is going to deal with you for what you're doing Because I had his address his home address and I wrote him I said if you aren't if you don't repent from what you're doing the Lord will expose you and He was exposed by a man named the amazing Randy who said this is what he's doing This is how he's doing it and he actually for a while was off the air He came right back on and there he is on TV again the other day still doing that This this is the kind of thing that infuriates me My mom was ill my mom died of illnesses, you know And and then if there's anybody who ever begged for and desired healing it was my mom I saw her ill from the time she was 24 until she died at the age of 83 And my mom was not healed and she asked God So often John and I prayed for her so often my dad prayed for her We all did go God touch my mom So when I see these these helpless people taking being taken advantage of You know the Lord will deal with these people the charlatans our God is a healing God but but he does not charge us for the healing and these men and Women who run around saying oh, we have the ability to heal But it's gonna cost you $1500 for me to send you a rock or a rag. Are you kidding me? I'm sorry, but any man should be any any man of God I'd have a righteous indignation over this because you're hurting God's people You're profiting from them. You're a false teacher and and and I warn our people this this Sunday I'll be sharing out of mark 13 signs of the The return of Christ and I will be mentioning some of these kinds of things this upcoming Sunday So that's a good segue of inviting you guys to come on out and join us this Sunday at 8 30 and 10 45 and it's a great opportunity of liking friends and family to come join and yes definitely the signs of the times deception and and This has caused a desensitization in the hearts of believers of does God really heal because there's all these Crazy people that are doing it. So come on out you guys come join us and we do invite you to come on out and Pastor thank you so much for your time and thank you guys for tuning in. God bless you and we'll see you on Sunday