 He is NO. I can't even eat. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm just thinking about that clip. That is an absolutely hilarious clip. I don't listen. I don't care how upset you get. I don't care where you are. That was hilarious. That was all foolish, the guy jumping the pool. I've never seen a guy, listen, I've seen the preacher take his jacket and whirl it at people, but I've never seen the people take their jacket and throw it at the preacher that just took the cake. Clearly though, that's mocking God. Clearly that's mocking the service. Clearly that's not having a reverence for the service, for what you're in. When you think about the founding of the church, when you think about how the people were when they found out, when they understood internally that there was salvation for them, one, when they found that they needed salvation, but then two, to find out that there is actually salvation and they don't have to die. They were grateful. And you see the true gospel when it's actually administered and the spirit being poured out, you see people coming in droves. Well, we don't see that now. Sometimes we might see people coming, but sometimes it's not for the right reasons. And so we wanna talk about one, why people mock God, obviously, but we're gonna get to really what that is. There are people that mock God, one because they don't know that they are. They have no clue. I'm sure that people do some of these goofy things, these silly things, and don't realize that they are mocking God. Then there are those that do mock God. They know what they're doing and they just don't care. So before we even get into those, they are those that are, as a matter of fact, as Paul says that they are deceived but also being deceived. Now we'll deal with that in that particular scripture in just a little bit before we go. I wanna deal with, excuse me, with the actual churches themselves. Before we go, I wanna look at why churches do so. I wanna look at what or who the church is or who and what the church is for. And that will kind of help us to understand why do people mock God? Now there is a question on the floor and I've heard people make statements about it. And I think for the most part, a lot of people, I wouldn't say for the most part, but there are a lot that get this answer wrong because of how they're thinking. Again, the reason for the bad thinking or the wrong thinking, I shouldn't say bad thinking, is typically because of there's some pushback. There's pushback to what we just saw in the first clip, some foolishness. And there's pushback to when we see the seeker sensitive, the seeker friendly churches, such as Elevation Church, Stephen Furti, such as Mike Tide's church, Transformation Church, some of these churches where they kind of placate the entire services, revolving around bringing in people and making them feel at home versus making them feel convicted in their sins. And that's not what you wanna do because it's hard to get people to give. It's hard to get people to come and to be a part of something when they feel bad, at least that is in their mind. But one of the better things that you can find out about a hospital is not that they're gonna tell you something bad. Remember, a lot of men avoid going to the doctor because they feel like, when I go, I'm gonna find something bad. Well, that's because in most cases, a lot of men simply wait too long and they've got another friend or other friend, another friend, cousins, brothers, family members who are also male who waited too long. And when they went to the doctor, they went and found some bad news. But you don't mind going if, even if you were to find some bad news, there'll be some good news there in it. Namely, there's a cure for whatever's by them. There's been something on my elbow. I've got a pain in my back, what have you? Rather than ignoring it, I go in and I'm hoping that there's gonna be some good news. Well, that will bring people and keep people. As a matter of fact, it will cause the people that are coming, the brand new people, to also go and tell you, you wanna create what they call raving fans. People are gonna tell other people about the goodness, how wonderful this church was and there were no flashing lights, there were no gimmicks, there were no borderline strippers, there were no pyrotechnics and anything like that. This was a place where it just felt at home and it wasn't even the people there that made me feel at home. Obviously, what people are making you feel at home when you go to a church, but you just want to be in a place where you can really let it just be you and God. So what I wanna do is, I wanna answer this question, deal with this issue, who is the church for? Do we think the church is for the unbeliever or is the church for the believer? Well, it can't be just for the unbeliever, only who would answer that question, but is it for the believer only or is it for the believer as well as the unbeliever? Who is the church for? And again, we have this issue because there are people who do goofy things in an attempt to try to lure in unbelievers. Well, you'd be surprised at the fact that the Bible does not say who it's for. Now, let me just, let's first deal with this. When we say the church, do we mean the body of believers or do we mean the building that the church believers go to and have the service? Obviously, we're not necessarily just talking specifically about the building, but when we say we have church or we're going to church, we're not talking about going and hanging out with a bunch of other Christians. We're talking about meeting up at a specific location where there is a pastor, there's music, there's a place to sit. So we're talking about a building where the believers are at. But if we say it's for the believers, then we might have an issue. If you say it's for the believers only, then are you sure that everybody that's there is a believer? And if everybody's not there, who is a believer, everybody that's there is a believer, or is not sorry, it's not a believer, then what do we do with the unbelievers there? You don't put them out. You don't change your tune. Do you keep giving the word? And so I think it'd be wrong to take that stance. And if you say that it's for the unbeliever, well then, do you dumb down the service? Do you bring the word of God down for them to understand? Well, let me just say this first of all. We think sometimes that when we dumb down the word or we bring it down, we shouldn't bring it down for the unbeliever and make them feel comfortable. Truth be told, there are a lot of believers who need you to bring it down a little bit as well. That's just what it is, because there are just as many believers who need to learn and grow in the scriptures as some of the unbelievers. As a matter of fact, sometimes we find that the unbelievers might know the scriptures better than some of the believers. What is the body for? The body, the church, the gathering, the gathering or the assembly? Put up Paul. The writer of Hebrew says, do not neglect the assembling together. This word for a church's eclesia means congregation, assembly, a gathering. And so do not neglect or forsake the gathering. Who is the gathering for? Well, the gathering is for everybody. We don't find a scripture that says it's just for the believer. We don't find a scripture that says it's for the believer and unbeliever. It is the gathering. Now, the body, the actual body, obviously that's only made up of actual Christians. You have to be an actual believer. And I don't mean the person who says they're a Christian because there are people who call themselves a Christian and aren't. There are people who call themselves believers who we take in and treat as believers but God knows better. God knows that they actually are not believers. Are you with me? And so what we're trying to do is we're trying to get as many people as possible to hear the word of God. What we don't want to do is we don't want to dumb down the word of God. As a matter of fact, when we look at the pattern of the believers in Acts, we see this in Acts 237. He says, and now when they heard this, they were pierced at the heart and Peter said to them and the rest of the apostles. So he's speaking to a lot of non-believers at this point. And he goes on and tells them the actual gospel repent each one of you and be baptized. If we drop down, I believe it's a verse 47. They were all together eating their meals together and the sincerity of heart all on one accord, praising God and having favor with all the people, having favor with not the believers but also the non-believers, regular people. And what was happening, the Lord was adding to their numbers daily those who were being saved. So it wasn't just the save people in Acts who were coming together. It was the saved as well as the unsaved. But what they did not do that we tend to do nowadays is they did not water down the word. They did not diminish the importance of one speaking about their sin and their need for a savior and then obviously too, highlighting the savior. That's important because today people do not like to highlight the savior. They would instead wanna highlight themselves. We'll talk about that just a little bit. But there also must need be the preaching that mankind in his own state is on his way to hell. That's the bad news. As a matter of fact, that's just the news. That's just how it is. But the good news comes where we say that there is a remedy for that. And we also notice that there needs to be some sort of decorum and some sort of protocol because here we have Paul speaking about, now he's not speaking about unbelievers or the church service specifically. Actually take it back, he actually is. He actually is speaking about the entire church service. But notice what he says. In chapter, chapter 14 and 1 Corinthians, you know, let's start in verse 23. He says, therefore, if the whole church, that is this body, this gathering, the assembly, if they come together and all speak in languages, now we're not talking about tongues today, but if they come in there speaking in tongues and languages and an ungifted or an unbeliever enters, meaning guess what? An unbeliever will come in. They're not shocked at this, this is just what's gonna happen. If they will come in, will they not say that you are mad? And so he gives it kind of an order of how things ought to be in terms of everybody wants to have a song. Someone has a word, someone has a revelation. So when you guys always have something special to say, why can't the word be special? So what does Paul say? Let everything be done decently and in order. All the arguing, all of this, all of that or whatever, some of you ladies, hey, be quiet. You people here who have all these different gifts to show, sit down, let everything done decently and in order. And so in an orderly church, there will be unbelievers that will show up as well. So the fact of the matter is, the church, whether you wanna say it's the building or even if it's the gathering of the believers, the gathering of the believers is also for the unbeliever to show up. How in the world are they gonna hear it? Cause let's be honest guys, in our churches, how many people in the church are gonna get up, especially collectively and go out and share the gospel. The greatest opportunity that many cases that people have to hear the gospel is when they come to hear it at the church, at the church meeting, when the gathering's together and we're bringing and breaking the word. Which is why at that moment, you need to make sure the word is being preached. It's not high wire acts and trapeze artists and fire and this and that. It's not the Grammys, it's not some well put together show. No, it can't be that. Because when they see that, they'll think to myself, well, listen, it was just a few hours ago, I just saw that where I was, either at the theater, at the club, the concert, what have you. Why did I come here? Well, I came here to feel good about myself and you guys are making me feel good about myself. You're not making me feel bad. We don't want that. We want them to come and actually hear the word. So to answer the first portion of this is the church for believers or unbelievers. It's for everybody. Anybody on the planet that wants to come in the doors, we want them in and we wanna give them. Because think about it. Who do you want at the hospital? Do well people go to the hospital or only sick people? Could you imagine if there were only sick people at the hospital? I mean, the doctors, the nurses as well. Everybody there was sick. No, well, we're not talking about the doctors and nurses. We're talking about the people that come in that need help. Only sick people there. Well, no, there are also some well people there. Some people that are there to get a checkup to make sure they're doing the right things and so forth, you have that going on as well at a hospital. And so at the church, we want the people who are growing there, the people who are not growing, that they've been brought there. And we want to show them how it is to be. We wanna go out and reach the people who are not saved. We wanna go out and reach the people who are saved, who are at a church where they should not be. That leaves us in the next part for it. Why do we have so many churches where people should not be? Because I'm one, we used to say we don't want to take people away from a church because the greatest amount of movement inside of the church is going from one church to the next church. We'd rather bring in new members. And that's true, we do want new members. But I'm also of the belief that we also want people to move from other churches to this church or another church. Why? We don't want them going from a good church to another good church unless they happen to move. We want them going from one of these weird churches, one of these churches that are just in bad doctrine and they have been indoctrinated badly. There are these men out there that believe that they have this gift that they, instead of Jesus, being the highlight there, they're not the highlight, these are the highlight, they are. They'll say it's the Holy Spirit. They'll tell everyone it's the Holy Spirit, but they want you to believe it's the Holy Spirit in them and then watch me. As a matter of fact, if you all watch me close enough and if you believe me, don't believe the word. Don't put that Bible down. As a matter of fact, we don't want you to have your Bible. I tell you what we'll do. We'll just put it on the screen. And even then we might put it in translation where maybe it's a paraphrase translation, maybe it is, and I don't have a problem with the NIV or NLT, I really don't. But maybe it's a thought for thought and so a person can't actually really get into it. And so what do we want you to do? We want you to listen to me. Listen to me, no expository preaching here. Nope, expository preaching, what is that? Rather what I want you to do instead. Instead of you looking for yourself, because guess what, guys? By the way, I don't know if you've been told this. I don't know if you've been told this or not, but if you haven't, let me go into it. I don't believe in impartation, but let me impart something to you. It is okay while you're at church to read and to check the pastor or the person up on stage. It's okay to double check what they're saying with the scriptures. It's okay, I give you permission. I just imparted that to you, which I don't have the right to do so. I don't have the right to do it in this, but I'm just letting you know, you can take your own Bible and actually read it for yourself. Isn't that a concept? You remember back in the day, you all remember back in the day when we went to church and we actually had a handheld Bible that was leather-bound or someplace that was hard back. It had literal pages on the inside. Do you remember pages? It had literal pages on the inside and you open up, it had ink on it. It had ink on it. Sometimes they had like the little gold leaflings around it and if you use it enough, the little gold or silver on the outside would kind of vanish. You had a little of these little things inside to kind of mark your spot. Do you remember that? Now what do we have? We have it. Here's my Bible. I wish to word with you today. Hold your Bible up and declare this to the Lord. That's what it is now. So I'm not against that. I'm not against you taking your, using your cell phone and using that with the scriptures because those are wonderful. But it is good though. It is good to know your way around the Bible. As a matter of fact, I highly recommend you doing so. I highly recommend you getting an actual Bible, one that you can turn pages and just be able to thumb through it, know where, if someone says, this is in 1 Corinthians, you just have an idea. Your fingers just automatically know. Just, it's there about, I don't have to look at it. I just have an idea. So when I open it, I don't open it. I'm in Genesis, trying to go to 1 Corinthians. That's to have an idea where it is. If I know, if I turn to Obadiah, Oba what? Who in the world is that? Well, no, he's a prophet in the Bible. No, you're lying to me. No, seriously, seriously. There's an Obadiah in your Bible. What about Nahum? What about these books? I think you're lying to me, Corey. No, I'm not lying to you. No, turn the book, turn to Lamentations. Lemonware? No, no, no, no, could not be. Or throw them a real curve. Throw them Song of Solomon or Song of Songs. Well, which one is it? So just get used to having your Bible because what are you gonna do if you don't have your phone? But God help us if the service goes down or I'm sorry, if our battery isn't charged up and I can't read my Bible. I'm sorry, Lord, I don't have my, I didn't charge up. Forgive me, forgive me, Father. Do something goofy to make yourself feel better. Be familiar with your Bible. You know, it used to be though, we used to have a Bible everywhere. You'd have a Bible at your house. You have a Bible in the front room. You know, the big seven pound Bible, you know, 10 by 10. You had a Bible in your car. How many of you all still have your Bible on your dashboard or in the back? Today they don't have to make cars like that to where you can put them in the back window. But that's how we used to do. You made sure there was a Bible somewhere. It's okay to have your Bible in the church. It really is. Because what it does is it keeps you from running into jokers who'll tell you that they have the power and they can, I know I'm part of this gift to you, this understanding of you, but these guys really believe they are actually imparting something to you because it's all about them. They can tell you that they can do things like blow on you or wave on you. And because you don't know your scriptures, you don't even realize they're mocking God, you'll fall for it. And when I say fall for it, I mean fall for it literally. Here. You're gonna walk over here. Lift your hands. Her belly. Okay. Lift your hands. It dropped. What do you think about those people? Not the people that are doing it. Not this fake apostle, Jonathan Ferguson. No, not about him. What about the people? We'll talk about the Jonathan Ferguson's of the world, but what about the people that are falling? They, yeah, yeah. You saw that to the extra, extra, extra tight jeans. I think it's blasphemous. I don't know what's more blasphemous than falling down or him in those spandex type jeans. I don't know what's happening there. I really don't. That's the problem. We need to fix that. There's a problem with men in America. Let me just say this now, guys. Not to depart too much off of this, but there is a problem in America with men wearing clothes that look like, if I thought a woman would have wore this 20 years ago, then it's still clothes pertaining to a woman. I don't care what you put, what name brand you put on. I don't care who's wearing it. I'm sorry. That's just me. And Vance Johnson, I thank you for what you just said. Look what he just said. Look what Vance Johnson just said. He says they are being deceived. You know why I thank you for saying that, brother? The reason why I thank you for saying this is because it's literally the script I'm going to. The Bible says in 2 Timothy 3,13, by the way, isn't that what smart Christians do? We're kind of on the same wavelength. I know the rest of you guys are thinking the same thing too. Why? Because you're smart Christians. You're smart Christians. The Bible says, Paul says, 1st, 13, he says, but evil men and imposters will proceed. He said, from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. He said they will proceed from bad to worse. So it's not going to get better. No, it's not going to get better. It's going to get worse and worse. Or as some of the kids in our public school education system say, it's going to get worser and worse. So he says it's going to go from badder to worser. Deceiving and being deceived. You, however, continuing the things that you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them. Well, in our case, we're learning from the Word of God from obviously the mouths and the writings of these apostles who it was God breathed on them. And so we don't listen. Don't, in our modern vernacular, don't trip. Don't trip. Now he's not the only one. Obviously this is all over the place where people are saying they're going to do this under the power of the Holy Spirit. But they don't have that power, do they? You're going to think I'm drunk when you see the way I worship. You're going to think, come on. Now every hand lifted across every campus right now on the count of three, I'm going to release the new wine of the Holy Spirit to intoxicate you. We are a... Well, sir, you don't have that ability to release anything. The best that you can do, the only thing that you can release is the words of the Bible. That's it. You can say that. You can open up the Bible and then whatever it says, you can say it. Now, if you have been so prepared, you can expound on it. You can give an expository teaching or preaching. You can preach the word of God in such a way that is only if you know it. Have you ever seen someone who knows something and they can tell you five, 10, 15 different ways about that same thing? They can tell you a story about that thing because they know it inside and out. That's the way a pastor should be. But instead, we've got people who are deceived. People who are deceived and are being deceived. Now, I don't know if, because there are some pastors, some preachers who say some of these things because they have been deceived. And then what do they do? Well, they in turn deceive people. Listen, even, because it's not just in church where people are deceived and deceiving others. I mean, there are some people who, let's think of, let's think of some things that people are deceived about and are deceiving others. You got people out there who steal. I don't know what's happening. I don't know what's happening in America, but people who are still putting salt on grits. There are people out there that literally do that. You've got some people, believe it or not, that put ketchup once they open it in the refrigerator. Ketchup goes in the, it stays warm. You got people, I don't know who these people are. These must be some immigrants. I don't know where they came from who are, who listen and talk on the phone on Android and not iPhones. Don't know what's happening. These people are deceived and they are deceiving others. They're leaving people astray and we'll pray for them. There is salvation for them, but these other people who are deceived and being deceived, you do realize that, listen, God does have a punishment in store for them. Let's go to the Old Testament, first of all. No, I'm sorry, let's go to Revelation. Let's go to Revelation. Yeah, some of you guys, I see some of you guys in the chat need some prayer. I see what's happening. Some of you guys, listen, you come here, hopefully you've gotten some revelation. You got somebody, see, I see someone who likes cold ketchup. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. I'll pray for you. I'll pray for you. Some of you guys just don't, just don't get it, but it's okay. You are probably younger, you probably like soy milk or oat milk or almond milk or grass milk or whatever. It's okay though, it's okay. Put your head on the screen and let me pray for you. Did you say what is grits? Wait a minute, wait a minute, wow, wow. It's not that you're not saved, it's that you're not an American. That's what it is, you're not an American, but it's okay, it's okay. Welcome to the country. Welcome to the country. I don't know what's happening here. Don't know what's happening, but listen, we're gonna help you out here. Our job is to help you out here. So you salt on grits people, you cold ketchup, enjoyed people, we'll pray for you afterwards. But this is what God says for the rest of the people. Look what he says about them in Revelation, and on verse nine, verse, where am I at? There it is, verse nine. Speaking about the end, these people are going to die. They're going to die. Because you don't get a chance to say, you know what, Lord, I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was being deceived. He'll say, wait a second, I literally gave you the word. And here's what his word is gonna be for them at the end. He says, and they came upon the broad plane of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved, this last great war, that's not gonna really be a war, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them. These are the deceived people. And the devil who deceived them, see, just because you were deceived, doesn't mean that there's no penalty. Remember, Eve, the Bible says, was deceived, but there was still a penalty for her. The devil deceived them, verse 10, and he himself was thrown into the lake of fire, of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are also, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. So it doesn't matter how you got to your heresy if you did it intentionally or unintentionally, because the one thing that you and I all have in common is the Bible. We can go back and look at, I don't care if it's King James, verse, new King James, ESV, NASV, NIV, NLT, I don't care what it is, you've got the word of God. I do care if it's a passion, toss that out. If it's the passion Bible and your couch is, you know what, even if your couch is leaning a little bit, don't even use that. No, toss it out, toss it out. But use what he gave you. We have it in the exact same measure, the exact same measure. So therefore you don't have to, listen to legit, the passion is more than garbage. It's no, garbage is a disservice, you're giving, now you are blaspheming garbage. I would rather have garbage than, at least you can recycle that. So make sure you use your word. Do not let someone else tell you what's in the word. Because how would that work? You go before the Lord and he tells you, he tells you that it was there. He said, well, he told me it said this, but it's literally there for you to look and read for yourself. And so for that reason, you need to make sure that you are beholding to the word. Now, because you've got people who are trying to tell you, trying to show you that there's something, there's this thing that's going around that where they want you to think that they're so special and people are just not being wise or discerning when they hear this. Twist it around and get it to say what you want it. You make Bible say a thing you want it to. When I read in the Bible where he says I am, I just smile and say yes, I am too. You tap into who you really are. You know what the Bible calls you? It says you are a little Elohim. You are a little God. Twist it around and get it to say what you want it. You make Bible say anything you want it to. Let's make Jesse. Make him in our image. Let's make him in our likeness. Don't you understand? That's what he's saying about us now. Like right now you're looking at a person who is not just a person. Somehow God is in me and there's a sense in which I am like God and man all at once. No, no you're not. You're not a God or a man. No, what you are is a man. But you say these things so that you can get over them with people because they're not looking at you as though you're God but they're looking at you as though you have tapped into your Godhood and you can do these different things. You can call things that are not as though they were. Well, again, we're bothered by that but do you know what God says about this? Let me just take you to Psalm 74. Let's read a couple passages. He says in verse 8, 74, 8, Psalms 74, 8 he says, they said in their heart, let us completely subdue them. They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land. We do not see our signs. There is no longer any prophet nor is there among us who knows how long. There's a problem going on and we don't have really adequate leadership. Verse 10 says, how long, oh God, will the adversary revile? How long is this gonna keep going God and the enemies burn your name forever? How long God, why do you withdraw your hand, even your right hand from with your bosom, destroy them? God kill them is what he's asking. 12, yet God is my King from of old who works deeds of deliverance in the midst of the earth. So his point is God isn't gone. He does see what's happening. He's not deaf to it. What God is really doing, essentially he's just allowing some of these things to happen. First of all, he's allowing them what's happening. God is storing up wrath for a lot of people. God is storing up wrath for a lot of people and they simply don't know it. By the way, Michael, thank you for the super chat as well as Chayun Cat. Thank you also as well for the super chat. I appreciate that. God is not oblivious to what's going on. As a matter of fact, what's the famous pastor that we do know? He says this in Galatians 6, 6, starting in verse 6. He says, the one who is taught, the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him. Let me say that again. The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him. So what do you share? Well, obviously things, but guess what you know about the word yourself. Look what he says. Do not be deceived. You, people who are hearing, do not be deceived. God is not mocked. God is not mocked. God is not mocked by anyone. But God, it looks like they're mocking you. Listen, you say God is not mocked. Lord, sure seems like it. It sure seems like these people that are putting on these theatrical plays that are abomination and blasphemy in your name and doing all these different things, scantily clad women and scantily clad men are up here and we're not hearing the scriptures. It sure seems like you're being mocked and then you got these guys running around here telling everybody that they're gods. It sure seems like it. Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the spirit will from the spirit reap eternal life. Now, let me explain this. Let me break it down a little bit. I'm thoroughly familiar with some of this. Yes, I am. How do I know so? Well, because I know what it's like to sow to the flesh. Thankfully, there is forgiveness and there's growth. You all do now. I'm not a gardener. Listen, I don't have a green thumb, can't plant much of anything. Although I do know how to, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I take it back. I am a gardener. I'm a gardener, so are you. I know how to plant, so you know how to plant. I'm telling you how I know so. First of all, let's just deal with the rules of the govern gardening and planting or sowing and reaping. Let's deal with the rules first. The rule is this. Whatever you plant or whatever you sow, the seed, let's say it's this small, when it grows, what you're gonna reap from what you plant is not gonna be this small seed. You do not plant, I don't know, pick a seed, a carrot seed, corn, are there corn seeds? I don't know, a corn seed, a tomato seed. Whatever seeds you plant, it's this small. But what are you gonna reap? That same small seed or a small, a very tiny tomato? No, what you're gonna reap is something a lot bigger. So whatever you plant, whatever you sow, if it's hail, a little bit of hail, a little bit of sand, whatever you plant, whatever you plant, you are going to reap. You are going to reap a whole lot of it. If you plant something godly, you're gonna reap a whole lot more than you planted. Now, I mean, that you plant. Now, I've gotta seed this, because it's just, again, I tell you guys that I've got these different screens in my eyes and stuff moving and stuff, beeping and this and that or whatever. And I've got an eye right there on a camera. I got one eye over that screen. I got one eye on this screen over there, just in case I got my eye on the phone in case the moderators tell me, hey, Corey, slow it down. I got my eye on the scripture and I got my eye on the chat. My good eye is the one on the chat right now because I see someone that says, hello from small town, America, Indiana. Sounds like, and he might know what I'm talking about, John Cougar Mellon can. Some of you guys don't know who that is. Yeah, John Cougar Mellon, yeah. I was born in a small town. That's above some of you city folk head, especially you young folk. Y'all don't know, good music, babe. I'm kidding. I just happen to say, hey brother, how you doing from a great state of Indiana? I'm around, how are you as well as we are? So, by the way, Jack and Dahlia, how did I know, Wendy said the same, how did I know you guys were gonna go there? Good song. Back to, you all stop getting me off topic. Focus, you too, Corey, focus. But whatever you plant, it's coming back. It's just coming back a lot bigger. And so these people, it could be just like God was taking time. Think about this for a second. Just like God was taking time to bring you something to reap your reward. Remember he said, be not weary and well-doing. Don't get weary and well-doing. As a matter of fact, he says, actually in verse nine, let's go ahead and read that. He says, let us not lose heart in doing good for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary. So we're going to reap it at some point in time. We're going to reap, it may not come when we want it, but it's going to come in the future, maybe the distant future, maybe the near future. Well, if we're gonna reap what we have sown in a good way, those who are sowing destructive doctrines, they're gonna reap that. Now, do we pray for them to hurry up and reap it? No, what we do pray is for them to actually find the truth, which is why we keep preaching the truth. And maybe they don't learn, maybe they don't succumb. There will be someone. That's why we want to keep preaching the truth. We want to keep making sure that people don't fall to some of this stuff, because somebody is, how many of us, I'm one that used to listen to these kind of people. Matter of fact, this guy right here, I thought he was so funny. I thought he was so smart. I thought he was so godly. But then at the same point in time, I was still only a year or two in the word, but he was on TV. I thought he was special. And I would hear him say stuff about how he is God himself. Now, this is one of the more blasphemous statements that he said. He said a lot of bunch of blasphemous things as well too. But when you see it, I don't have to tell you who he is. You're probably thinking who it might be because there are some guys, they're just elite. You got some elite deceivers out there. You got some elite mockers out there. I mean some people that this guy, he might not be the biggest blasphemer. He might not be the biggest mocker, but he's in the top two, top three, top five at least. And he's also on board with him and us being gods. In nine, I want to read verse six. For unto us, I say in nine verse six, for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. And the government shall be upon his shoulders and his name shall be called wonderful. Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting father, the prince of peace. Yet the book of Ephesians, chapter five verse one says, be there for imitators of God as dear children. So when I look at Isaiah nine, six, where is the government now? Now you gotta be special to do this. You have to be special to just take a, take just a regular passage and twist it to mean you. To take any passage, listen, say what you want to say. Say what you want to say, but Jesse Duplantis has a gift. The man is gifted. Now he's gifted by his father, the devil, but he's gifted. He has the ability to take a passage that no one could see what he sees and in turn, spin it to make it about him. Look how he spends his passage to be about him. It's on us. The government of the world is on mankind. And because we're made in God's image and in God's likeness, you can call us wonderful. Counselor, mighty God, Christ in us, the everlasting father, whoo, the prince of peace. That's what it means to be the gift. Yeah. So that's us. That's us. What's the point is him. I mean, this is the guy that talks about how many chandeliers he's got, his chandeliers cost more than most folks home. Most folks home, that's him. And so there's this belief that we are guys. We have the power to call those things that are not as though they were tapped into this power. And if you don't understand how to do it, if you don't know how to do it, then just simply pay me. I'll help you to do it or just tap into my power. Just follow me. Now you'll probably get broke doing so. You'll die broke without ever seeing the power, but at least you tried. And at least I got rich off of it. But he's not the only one. Because now what we're seeing guys is just this not dumbing down of the word, but this just tearing it apart to where anybody can be a God. And it doesn't really matter what type of God. As a matter of fact, you get to define God. And what's happening is, from people who don't even necessarily know or think that this person might be some sort of mocking person, some sort of scoff or some sort of deceiver, because he seems to say the right words. I played this before, but I want to play this off as possible. There's a lot of folks that still watch this guy, listen to this guy, follow this guy. This is Noel Jones. And listen to what he says about God, who determines who God is. And what God has done is, since no one of us has it all, he has fixed it so that each one of us can have an idiosyncratic concept of who he is. It is critical to understand that each one of us creates God. It is your thoughts of God who makes God your God. Each one of us creates God. It's your thoughts of God that makes God God. This is where you can say, that guy is not saved. We tend to want to wait a little bit, give us some more evidence to see for us to make the statement that, no, you're not God. I mean, that you're not saved. But the moment you hear that come out of his mouth, then you already know, you know what? You are not a Christian. Can't be, because no Christian says that. But let's finish listening to him and say some more silly stuff. And nobody can duplicate or imitate. So that's why we have to share. Every individual in here interprets their calling. Now, mother's interpretation of her calling is not within what we call the norm. Mother's interpretation of her calling is that she is the only begotten daughter. That's her interpretation of her calling. But you don't judge a tree by its branches. You judge a tree by its fruit. This was a, let me see if I can find this also. I have something in here. This was, I don't have it. Yep, I'm not, well, since I don't have it, I'm not gonna play it. But this was him speaking on behalf of this lady named Hock Jahan Moon. Hock Jahan Moon. I think that's what I'm saying. I think I'm saying her name right. She believes that she is the only begotten daughter of God. And so he's there saying, we all are kind of like God who determines who God is. And this is her way and he's validated it. Because of her gifts, she's brought us together. So she has, she is being used by God. And then you got folks that go to Bishop Noel Jones Church and the choirs on fire and they're jamming and we feel, ooh, we sweated. And ooh, child, and we have church. And meanwhile, everyone else is deceived and being deceived. And then you don't have folks who wanna be just, wanna be just like him, wanna wanna be just like him. And what will they do? They'll open the church up and do the exact same thing because it's working for him. Answer this question. And that says, when a pastor or preacher is teaching in error of God's work, at what point does a believer need to determine error from Paul's teaching approach? Okay, that's a good question. First of all, every pastor is going to preach something in error, every pastor, every preacher is going to, is going to say something wrong, except me. Obviously we're not talking about me. We're talking about them. I don't get it wrong. They get it right. I mean, they get it wrong. I get it right. That's the mindset of a preacher. And then when the preacher gets it wrong, I didn't get it wrong. You just misunderstood it. I want you, first of all, before you listen to his words, I want you to see if you can listen to it and see his heart because the pastor who could never be wrong, who could never make, you know, everybody does something wrong. Everybody does something wrong and thinks that it's right. That's just it. And sometimes, and by the way, because you do something wrong and think it's right, that doesn't necessarily mean that you are a bad person or that you may necessarily be in sin or anything like that or whatever, it just happens. I'm used, again, going back, going back. For example, if your pastor puts salt on his grits, he doesn't know better. Is he in sin? No, he just doesn't know any better. I get that. I get that. How do you determine, though, if what he's doing is just erroneous or if it's sinful or if it's black? Well, one, the intention. I would say this anytime, anytime, that you think that something is wrong, you should be able to approach your pastor. Now, it's not your fault that the church has 10,000 members. If he's not approachable, then go to another church. If you can't get some time with the person who is shepherding you, because there's no shepherd who doesn't want to see about the needs of the sheep. And so it may be that he's a good shepherd for everybody else and not for you. So leave. There's plenty of good shepherds out there. So go to the pastor and say, hey, listen, I have an issue. Maybe you don't need to go to the pastor. Maybe you can go to an elder first. And if they don't explain it adequately, well, then keep going up. You put sugar on your grits. Yes, that's what good Christian people do. What are you doing, Leela? What are you doing? All Christians put sugar. Do y'all know, by the way, I have to say this. I have to say this. Too legit says sugar is white poison. Yes, but it's good poison. Now, if you blaspheme sugar one more time, too legit, you're getting banned. I'm gonna ban you. I'm gonna send you over to Marcus right now, kid. But do you know I had a... I'll never forget I was, we were being babysit. My mother had a neighbor who used to babysit me and my brother. And first of all, these are bad people for a lot of other reasons. But the key indication that they were bad, the key indication that they were bad, when she would give us rice in the morning for breakfast, my mother would pay for her to feed us. She would give us, give her the rice and the sugar and the butter and so on. Cause you also put butter and sugar on your rice unless it's smothered with some grease and some chicken or something like that. I mean, some gravy, that's different. That's different. Then you don't have to put sugar and butter, but just regular rice for breakfast, sugar and butter. Do you know this woman would not give us sugar or butter, just make us eat the rice by itself and we had to eat it all or we get a whooping? Yes, that, yes, yes, that was horrible. That was horrible of her. She was doing some other things and so when my mother, who wasn't saved at the time, found out and beat the woman up, I mean, she beat her. She beat her. My listen, I told you guys that back in the day, my mother was a little thug. She was rough. Now, she didn't beat her for the rice, but I like to think that that's why she did giving us rice with no butter and sugar. You don't put, no, you don't, no. Nothing, that's just, I pray that she repented them. I do, I do. I pray that she repented, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord. Oh Lord, please, please Diana, don't do that. Did you just, oh Lord. Diana, all right, I'm praying for you. I'm praying for your husband. No, that's what I'm praying for. I'm praying for your husband and your kids. I'm praying for your husband and your kids, but anyway, that's what Christians do. Is it Lila or Layla? That's what Christians do. We put sugar. So God gave us sugar to put on grits. So, anyway, getting back to this though, but there are people that are gonna believe this stuff and eat it up because it sounds good because they're not reading it. And your job is to go to a pastor, hey, I disagree or I'm not sure. Now, obviously, your approach matters. Pastor, you're wrong. I can tell you what you're wrong. No, you go there with the right heart. I'm confused. My whole issue with tongues came about because I was trying to figure out, and I believed the pastor. It just wasn't making sense for me. It wasn't making any sense for me. And so I kept going and kept asking and kept asking and just what you're saying, it and lining up. Now, there are gonna be some things that you disagree with your pastor that may not be something that would cause you to leave. I would say the church loved the church and they believed in tithes. I did not. Okay, it did affect what I was giving. I didn't title it tithe. I just, because I guess what? If you put it down as offering, I'm pretty sure the church will still accept it. I'm pretty sure they will still accept it. There are some things that are worth fighting over and speaking over now if they become too legalistic and now we're adhering to all the laws. So I hope that helps. But anyway, going back to this, because we've got people who are trying to be friendly with the world, who are trying to make the rest of the world comfortable, they can kind of do things their own way. You're gonna see more and more of this kind of either us being gods or even us following different types of gods. Because God then always, you all realize it's only us Christians that are beholden to for the most part, God being a man. There are people that, yeah, we can be God or we can have different gods and one of the guys we can have or the God is a woman. Don't believe me, but a good buddy down here down the street from me actually, Freddie Haynes. We decided you may try to suppress us and hold us down, but we got too much John Lewis in us. We got too much Amelia Boynton in us. We've got too much Martin King in us. We've got Ella Baker in us and we who believe in freedom will not rest until it comes and we popped up into our mother God's hand. We said we popped up into our mother God's hand. Now he was on, he is more political than anything else. He is pro black through and through, not really a pastor. He's just a civil rights leader who happens to be in a building that they call a church. It's not a church, it's a social club, but that's a whole other story about that church. But then the same that he make is that popped up into our mother God's hands. And people buy that and eat it because he was sounding good. He was moving, he was sweating. Cameron says, what is a woman? What is a woman? We don't know here in America because now we think we do know. We think we know, but obviously, and I know your point that you're getting it, obviously, whatever we say, we're wrong. Yes, and he is angry. Well, I take it back. He's actually not that angry. He really isn't that angry. I've had the occasion to be with him on some things. And so what I say about him, I say from personal experience, go back and watch the video. What was it? Well, oh, Woke and Wicked, because he is woke and wicked. And I don't even, I don't tell half the story about his brother, just, and clearly he's not a believer, clearly. It doesn't take much, but now does he use the Bible? Does he use the Bible to say what he's trying to say? Sure. He absolutely uses the Bible to trick people. He wants to be seen as something. He wants to be something. He wants to be somebody. And that's where a lot of these people, this is why not going to, why do we have people in churches that mock God? There's an easy way to know this. Simple. It's about us. It's about me. Why do churches mock God? Because the mocking starts from the top on down. When you go to Stephen Verdeck's church, who says, I am God Almighty. When you go to Elevation Church with, you don't know what they believe from day to day. When you go to a Potter's house, when you go to, even if you go to Smile and Joel's church, it's still about me. It's about me doing things, getting things. It's about me. Want to be seen as somebody. As a matter of fact, all we have to do is go and look at the scriptures. Here's an example about someone who it's about him. In Acts eight, chapter eight verse nine, there was a man named Simon who formerly, look what it says, was practicing magic in the city and astonishing people of Samaria claiming to be someone great. This is him saying so. This is him, not them claiming him to be someone great. It's him claiming to be someone great. And then what we notice is, here comes Philip and the people hear the word of God. So we juxtapose, big word, it took me a while to figure out what this word meant, but we juxtapose Philip and Simon's actions. Simon was astonishing people. He was claiming to be something special and they were astonished. But then here comes Philip. Philip didn't come with a smoke machine. Philip didn't come with pyrotechnics. Philip didn't come with a tight leather pants on. Philip didn't come with people pretending to be on the cross. Philip didn't come with any of these spectacles. What Philip came was preaching the word. That's what Philip did. Philip goes down there and he's giving them the gospel and what does it say in verse 12? He says, as he's doing so, he says, but when they believed Philip, what was Philip preaching? Philip was preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus. They were being baptized, men and women alike. Even Simon himself believed. Now we know because of the 10th of the verb that the belief that he has is not the pistol one, high pistol one, he was not the believing. He believed and will know about how his belief was different than the believing ones in a second. But even him stopping to acknowledge that, he at least even this person who thought he was something gave mental assent to the fact that what this guy is saying is right. And oh, by the way, he sees the very same people that were being astonished by him now going to this guy, Philip, who did not come with trickery or as we say, trickeration. He didn't come with any sleight of hand. Paul said that he, I didn't come, I didn't speak to you with any sort of cunning words or anything like that. I'm just giving you the word straight and raw, baby. Give it to you like it is, plain and pure. The true raw word as it is, I don't have to put anything on top of it. I don't have to put makeup on it. I don't have to pour syrup on it. I don't have to put sugar or salt on it. Just give it to you like it is. And what were they doing? They were now listening. Why? Because that is the power of Paul says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel. Some of these people who wanna put on these shows, who wanna mock God, they are ashamed of the gospel. Paul says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel. Why? Because it is the power of God unto salvation. For the Jews and for the Gentiles and anybody else that got left out, by the way, you say Jews and Gentiles as everybody, but that's all it took. And so at that moment, it looked like Philip believed, but then if we go on, if we go on down after going to verse 17 and they began, this is when Peter and John come down and they lay hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. Verse 17, they began laying their hands on them and they were receiving the Holy Spirit. Now when Simon saw the Spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money saying, give this authority to me as well. Give me this power to me as well so that everyone whom I may lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit. Peter says, may your silver perish with you. You're about to die. You're going to hell. And may your silver go there with you because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money. You have no part or portion in this matter for your heart is not right before God. Therefore, repent of this wickedness. Now I'll leave that there, but here we've got two people with different approaches, Philip and then Simon. If you want to win people over, you don't need any gimmicks. You don't need any of that. All you need is the word because the folks that are going to actually follow you, the true followers are going to follow because of the word, but we've got too many people who want to be a part of this world loving this world. If you love this world, you cannot love God. That cannot be. That's like saying, hey, I love my wife and I love my girlfriend. No, you don't. I love my husband and I love my boyfriend. No, you don't. No, you do not. You cannot love the world and God at the same time. You simply cannot. Now, if you want to be friends with the world, the Bible tells us this, that if you are friends with the world, that means that it means hostility on your part towards God. And if you have hostility on your part towards God, I promise you, God will return the favor in kindness. As a matter of fact, not in kind, 10 fold, 100 fold. So therefore, therefore, therefore it would behoove you not to have this desire to please the world. So when people go to these churches, the reason, the biggest reason why you see God being mocked is because they are playing to the world, not to God. They'll tell you, and you hear it all the time, I don't care about the numbers. I don't care about this. I don't care about that. I just care about God. But look at how you are. Look at what you're doing. Because now you're hearing more and more people saying that it doesn't matter what the word says, everything that God wants you to know it in the word. Who says that? Somebody who doesn't care about the word. Someone who doesn't care about the word. And so he says, God is not mocked. What they sow, they will reap. But you remember what you were told. Did I read James four? I did read James four four. Carol put that in. I didn't even realize, I didn't even realize I clicked the thing. I forgot there was James four four. I'm sorry guys. James four four is what I just read. But these guys are smart. The deceivers and the deceit. The deceivers are smart because they know that, as Paul said, cause they read their Bible, Paul said that the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. And they'll have itching ears. Well, listen, if they got itching ears, then me, as a good marketing strategist, I must market myself as a person to scratch these ears or tickle these ears. That's how I'm gonna, that's how I'm gonna make mine because Paul says that they see the gospel as a means of gain. When he says for us, the gospel itself is great game. Salvation itself is great game. And so there are these people that are out there like it, but he says to us, preach the word. Preach the word. Preach the word. Teach, reprove, rebuke. I don't know why I always struggle with reprove. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all wrongs suffering. That's our job. That's our goal. Ladies and gentlemen, there are going to be more and more transformation churches. There are going to be more and more Potter's Houses. That's CDJ's church. There are gonna be more and more Lakewood churches. That's Joe Lowstein church. That's his church. There are going to be more and more Elevation Churches. That's Stephen Fertig's church. There are going to be more and more of these types of churches and they're gonna grow and grow and grow and grow. Well, what do you do? Well, one, don't have a faint heart. Understand that's how it is. One is how it's always been. Don't be under the illusion that the world was always a Christian world. It was never a Christian world. Yeah, you know what, Ben? You said that. You said, reprove is not in our lexicon today, but it's still, you're right. We are not allowed. We are not allowed to prove the facts. We know that because we can't tell someone, hey, you can't be a, listen, you have XY chromosome. It is literally impossible for you to ever need a Tampax. But we've got Dylan Mulvaney, who is now being sponsored by Tampax. How in the world is that even possible? How stupid, how utterly stupid and nasty when you think about it for that to be even happening. He's also gotta deal with Nike to market sports bras. Now, not that I'm checking Dylan out. I'm not checking his dude out, but he has absolutely no need for a sports bra. But this is where we are. And like Bill said, if we try to, yeah, Sheila, if we try to reprove, what are we? Homophobic, transphobic, everything else phobic. We are on the wrong side of history. We are all these different things, but I'm sorry. And someone asked me the other day, why in the world, Corey, would you do the video on what's happening with Bud Light? Because we need to take notice. We need to do the same thing. We, they have upset a lot of people with putting Dylan Mulvaney on this thing, just, and so they just said, all right, fine. We ain't gonna fight you. We're not gonna fight you. We just ain't gonna buy you. We're just not gonna buy you. And so that's one way to reprove them. But for us, how do you reprove the people in the church? Well, a couple of ways. One, with the word, two, with your feet. With the word, and then leave them. If they won't get right, and then rebuking. Y'all do realize rebuking is biblical. The problem is today, we don't like, we don't like that reprove is a mean word. Rebuke is a meaner word. And then we get so tired, so we don't wanna exhort them, and we don't wanna do so patiently. Meaning, keep doing it. Because how long, how long did it take for you to hear the word and then grow in it? How long? I heard the, you know what? I heard the word when I was, I didn't come out saved, but when I was two, I put my toddler things away and heeded the voice of the Lord. The Lord called me while I was just walking, could barely talk, but the Lord called me three times like the prophet, like Sam and I said, yes, Lord. Yeah, no. Took us a long time to actually succumb to the word. It took us a while to get right. That's how it is. That's how it is. And so we should do the same thing. The problem is we get what you don't wanna do is, and I'm not gonna do it, you don't give up. Right or wrong, I do not give up on people quickly. Unless you're just dangerous. Listen, if you got a knife in the gun and telling me to back up, I'm backing up. If you got a stick and you swing it, tell me to back up. My bad brother, I'm backing up. But I don't normally, I don't get, if someone is just out there, just rough, hard to handle, just blip. I don't give a point, I told you my story. Listen, if Big Arkansas, if I can talk him down and he was the bully in prison, then I'll work with you, cause God worked with me. In that jail cell in those shackles, God worked with me. And so I'd be wrong. Matter of fact, I'd be hypocritical to give up on you. I really would. I would be a horrible Christian to give up on somebody who needs someone to exhort them and to do so with all long suffering. Come on, you can do this. Don't go on, you messed up again. But I still love you. What kind of a church were I think that was from the first clip? I don't, a wacky one. You know what? I wanna say it was probably first Baptist of Chernobyl cause these folks got some serious nuclear, some exposure to some nuclear material. These people were crazy. I have no idea. I don't know. It was an older clip, but, and I had never seen it before, but I just thought that was just weird. It was, again, that was a funny clip. That was the funniest, that takes the cake. But, amen, amen. Bill, you keep sitting them. Encourage one another with these words. You mean my words though? You know what? My words and the Bible, both of them. Sheila says, show it again. Do you want me to show it? She says, okay. She says, show it again. I don't know if I should show it again, Sheila. Cause it's just, we're trying to be serious here, Sheila. And if I show the clip again, we can't be serious. We can't be, there's no way, there's no way, I'm looking at something. That's funny. That's funny. Because I saw that come across. Let me go ahead and play this so I can recover. That's hilarious. That is hilarious. That's hilarious. That is hilarious. My father left some more to buy, but the bridegroom comes and we have gone with him. I will be by your chair, but his shoulder will be by your side. His day, the night's relation will be by your side. Finish, and that's fine. That's what's up. That was loud so good. Take your own herself. I was trying to figure out which part was the craziest part, the guy jumping into the baptismal, or at the end, the guy taking his jacket and throwing it, it doesn't matter. There, wonderful. Wonderful. That wasn't Rodney Howard Brown level stuff. It really was. Yeah, I'm gonna guess Pentecostal as well They might not be though who know who knows they might listen wouldn't that be something we find out they were if they were Baptist if they were Presbyterian like okay, the spirit the spirit caught them Thank You a Renee for the Super Sticker the spirit caught a hold of them. So but what what do we do? We can laugh at it and on the other stuff The the really really agreed to stuff because first that's that sport. That's funny That sport that's funny, but what about the stuff that that is because guys here's and let me just just Be serious for a second. There is there are some There are some People out there that their goal is themselves and they're good at what they do They are smart they're clever and Their only means or their only goal is To turn you into their means for game And they'll do so with twisting the scriptures, which is why we call this stuff out The stuff that we see in black and white and they violate that we call it out You have to Why because at the end of every heresy there is a soul At the end of every heresy there is a soul and so guess what we're gonna do We are going to Fight for that particular soul Now we can't change anybody We can't make anybody get right all we can do is all we can do which is what we should do. Hey, man I ask you thank you first. I appreciate that so guys Stay diligent Don't get this hard when you see all of this stuff. You're gonna see you're gonna see more You're gonna see them take down every single piece of sound doctor that we hold to You're gonna see them come at whatever you think is a is a key doctrine for the church They'll attack it If you see a doctrine or a belief in the church growing It's not of God. He's not bringing us new doctrine He's not bringing us anything new. He's giving us What we have he doesn't need anything new what do you what we have what he has works and so because of that We should stay vigilant to the word that we actually have we should say tether to the actual word God as he says is not mocked What what is some? Let me read Good or bad They're gonna tear down the deity of Christ They're gonna tear down salvation itself the need for it. There's many ways to God They're gonna tear down an awful lot of things that we hold daily and that I even require for salvation So guys that's the reason why we have People in church Mocking God they're already mocking God outside But we've got people in church that are also mocking God and that is the reason why It's an issue because somebody's actually suffering from it. So guys I want to thank you for your time I look forward to seeing you guys again on tomorrow. God bless you and be safe