False Fear

 Many Christians only follow God for a short time out of a false sort of fear. It is the fear that He will return imminently. These Christians hustle to get their life in order thinking that He will return in a matter of months. When they see no sign of Jesus's imminent return, they immediately go back to the world, supposing they have more time. How sad it is for these people who have founded their entire religion upon a false fear of God and not the truth. The end of these Christians will be complete ruin and destruction. 

Christianese Pagan Game

 There is a sect of Christians ( if they can even call themselves Christians, due to their strange convictions and supposed knowledge) that I have come across in life, that love to go around calling everything pagan. They love to make baby Christians feel ignorant and naive for celebrating a birthday or for Thanksgiving. They love to go into great detail about how Christmas is pagan and how Easter is pagan. These sorts of people often condemned the innocent, as they themselves are on their way to hell, all the while rambling their proud mouth. The extraordinary thing is, as these people go around blindly calling everything pagan, it is the PAGANS who are repenting and finding Jesus. It is the PAGAN and NOT this sect of Christian who will in the end find life.

Christian, you know the world is in darkness

 

Christian, You Know the World is in Darkness

Christians know that this world we live in is in darkness. Everyone can see it. We know that the world is both spiritually blind and deaf.  They will say that Jesus is a fairy tale, demons don't really exist, heaven and hell, who knows what happens. They disregard the Bible, the words of Jesus that are found in the book, but at the same time they chase after these demons in video games and with drugs and alcohol, experimenting with all kinds of strange sex, and they find these demons to be real through their experience. And the world, even though it is spiritually blind and deaf, is also very convincing that these experiences are good.  Not in a sense that they're godly, but they are good for you to experience, that you may have more knowledge, more information, maybe it's a way to seek after the truth, you can find joy in this way. And they make sin look so sensational that even Christians fall into sin, and Christians are blind. A hundred percent of the world is blind and deaf, but probably now almost 100% of Christians, more than 97% of Christians are blind and deaf, and also on their way to hell.  If you ask most Christians in their church if they sin, they will openly confess with their lips that they are still sinners. They don't talk about a transformation from sin. They talk about an experience like the world experienced, but their experience with Jesus somehow has not led them to really repent of their sin, it hasn't led them to change.  If Jesus changed you, you would be a new man and a new woman, you would be cleansed from the inside out. But because the world gives this sensational kind of belief, the feeling that you don't have to change, you can just believe whatever you want, and they're so convincing at it that even Christians have become blind and deaf. But I want to remind us what Jesus said about our sin problem, the sin problem that is taking the world to hell and now most Christians to hell because they have followed after the world and not after the words of Jesus Christ.  So this is what Jesus said to his disciples in John chapter eight. Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him, "if you abide in my word, you are my disciples indeed, and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." They answered him, "we are Abraham's descendants and have never been in bondage to anyone.  How can you say you will be made free?" Jesus answered them, "most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin." So let's stop right there for a second. Not just the world is in darkness, not just the world is a slave, but also Christians are slaves because they are in sin.  You say, oh no brother, I've put my faith in Jesus Christ in the blood of the lamb. I've put my faith in the cross. It's not by work, so no one can boast.  No, Jesus says that whoever sins is a slave of sin. Look at this, "and a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore, if the son makes you free, you shall be free indeed."  A slave is someone who is a slave of sin. The house represents the kingdom of God or the kingdom of this world. The devil is the prince of this world, and if you're in the world, you're living in the devil's house.  And if you come out of the devil's house, and if you bind that strong man, and the Lord leads you into his kingdom, into his house, then you have a house that is on the solid rock that won't fall down. But if you're still sinning, of course you're still a bond person. You are a slave to sin, even if you say you're a Christian, even if you go to church, even if you read the Bible.  And this is exactly what Jesus said. So we have to get away from these lies that the Christian church is teaching, that we're just saved by the blood of Jesus, and we don't have to actually repent. Because whatever kind of sinner you are, whether you're a worldly sinner or a Christian sinner, you're still under the condemnation of death if you haven't repented and obeyed the words of Jesus.  So he says, "therefore, if the son", meaning himself, if Jesus makes you free, you shall be free indeed. So does that mean you're not actually free, but you're just forgiven? Does that mean you continue to look at porn and cheat on your wife, and you continue to go back to drugs and drunkenness and parties and associating with people who mock and hate God, Is that what it means? Because that's what most Christians think it means. They think putting their faith in Jesus means getting an escape from hell card, that then they can go look at pornography the rest of their life, and God will have to let them into heaven because of the blood he shed on the cross.  What a lie from Satan. He says, "I know that you are Abraham's descendants, but you seek to kill me because my word has no place in you. I speak what I have seen with my father, and you do what you have seen with your father."  They answered and said to him, "Abraham is our father". Jesus said to them, "if you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God.  Abraham did not do this. You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, we were not born of fornication.  We have one father, God. Jesus said to them, if God were your father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and came from God, nor have I come of myself, but he sent me. Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are not able to listen to my word.  You are of your father, the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.  But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me. Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? He who is of God hears God's words. Therefore, you do not hear, because you are not of God. This sums up most of the Christian church, as well as the world. They are of their father, the devil, even though they know the scripture, they know the Bible, they say Jesus, Jesus, they say the blood of Jesus, the cross, he is risen, he is risen indeed, we're going to celebrate Christmas and Easter. Even though they profess with their lips that Jesus is Lord, they continue to serve their father, the devil.  They mock the true prophets, they mock you, they mock me, if we are preaching the words of Jesus, because they hate Jesus Christ. They can't hate us, but they hate the Jesus Christ that is in us and working through us. We have to be changed by the blood of Jesus, not those that are just talkers. The Christian church today is filled with men and women who are talkative. They love to talk about their theology. They of course love to talk about end times and prophecies and revelation and the prophets of old.  They love those really sensational stories about Elijah and David and Goliath, Samson, Moses, the Ark, the Ark of the Covenant. They love to talk about these stories and pull out really obscure texts from the Old Testament to enamor their congregation. But because they haven't truly repented, they're still slaves. They're blind, they're deaf, they're miserable, they're naked, and they refuse to come from just talking to actually repenting. See, if the Son truly sets you free, you are free indeed from sin. You can repent because we have a God who is mighty to do anything.  He is powerful enough to set you free from the bondage of sin if you desire true repentance. Jesus didn't come to just make you free from your conscience, but not from sin. He didn't come to just set you free from the consequence of sin, like a lot of Christians preach in the hyper-grace gospel. He didn't come to just let you get into heaven by this ticket of His blood, but that you could continue to go on sinning, but just escape hell. Jesus came to set His people free from sin, to let His captives, to bring His captives out of hell, that they would follow Him into the newness of life and be changed. So, are we Christians who have fallen into this sensationalism of the world that is blind and deaf and doesn't know the truth? Are we chasing after people in the world, teachers in the world, athletes in the world, or are we really fixing our on Jesus and allowing the Son of God to set us free? Because that's what His promise was. His promise wasn't just to cleanse us of outward things, looking bad on the outside. He didn't come to just make us look good enough to wear nice clothes and go to church and pay tithe. He didn't come just to give us fancy clothes and fancy things in this world, but He came to purify our hearts, to purge us from sin, and to give us a new life, to purify us on the inside, so that then we could be clothed in righteousness and enter into the presence of a holy God. This world, of course, is on its way to hell because they've rejected their only salvation in Jesus Christ. But you, as a Christian, are also on your way to hell unless you are truly washed clean by the blood of Jesus. It's not about just believing that Jesus died on the cross, but it's about putting your faith in what Jesus said by obedience.  And what Jesus said is true. If the Son of God sets you free, if He sets you free from sin, you are free indeed. You'll be free from drunkenness.  You'll be free from addiction. You'll be free from lust, from pornography. You'll be free from bad behavior, from cursing.  I hear so many Christians that proclaim faith, but then they drop the f-bomb. They can't stop cussing. They can't stop taking Jesus' name in vain. They don't really love Him. If you really have been changed by God, if you really love Him, if you really want to walk with Him, you will hate the old man. You will hate the old way of life that was you.  You will put the old man to death so that you can walk in the newness of life with the Holy Spirit. You will allow Him to purge you and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness and to transform your mind that you can be a true child of God. "So, Lord Jesus, I pray for those who are stuck in the grips of sin.  I pray that whether those listening today are in the world or whether they are Christians who have backslidden, that they may come to know You as the true living God, the Messiah of the world who came to save us from our sins, even when we were in sin. We thank You for loving us. We thank You for dying on the cross and resurrecting, but we pray that we are purged and purified by Your blood and that You would come into our lives and cleanse us from all unrighteousness and take addiction from us, take worldliness out of us, take the false gospel out of us, and place in us a new heart that beats for righteousness.  I pray for my fellow brothers and sisters that they would truly repent and no longer be deceived by the darkness of the devil, that You would set them free in Your name and that they would be free indeed. In Your name I pray, Lord Jesus. Amen."

Church Lies: Faith Alone, Filthy Rags, Imputed Righteousness

 We'll praise Jesus today, brothers and sisters in the Lord. I wanted to speak about this subject of in faith alone, positional righteousness, the grace gospel, because these are things that have affected the Christian Church for many, many years. Ever since the fathers of the faith during the time of the early Catholic Church, promoting their version of Christianity, some of these false doctrines got into the church. Martin Luther taught some of these false doctrines, John Calvin taught some of these false doctrines, and many churches follow after the teachings of John Calvin and Martin Luther, instead of following after the teachings of Jesus Christ and listening to his words. But I want to just speak about this again, because it is such a big topic in the Christian Church. It's such a big deception, rather, and it's led many people off of the straight and narrow path, because they get confused about the filthy rags.  They think that their works for Jesus don't count or matter, because God sees them as filthy, and the church tells you the only thing that matters, you know, is that Jesus died on the cross for our sins, and so God sees you as positionally righteous through his Son, Jesus Christ. They say you don't have to do anything for God to love you more. He'll never love you any less than he does right now in your sin. It's a work that is just filthy if you try to repent and reconcile with God, and so it introduces a great amount of confusion into the Christian faith, because as a Christian you start thinking, especially as a baby Christian, well, Jesus paid it all on the cross, so I believe that. I trust that Jesus died and resurrected, but I want to live for him, but I know if I start living for him, Christians will say I'm trying to work out my salvation by just works, and that is sinful, and God sees that as filthy rags, so I don't really want to be filthy, and if God sees me as filthy, then I just shouldn't do those works anyway. So this promotes a sort of Christianity that is very dualistic, because one side of their mouth they preach you have to have you have to have works, you know, you have to go to church, read your Bible, pay tithe, but then on the other side of their mouth they say all of our works are as filthy rags, and so you get really confused as a Christian trying to go two directions at once.

So I want to break a bit of this down. The confusion of the filthy rags, a certain brother in the Lord about a year ago sent me a really good message that he had made for a church to rebuke them. He sent me that that PowerPoint, and I have posted it on my WarningThePeople channel.  So if you go to warningthepeople.com and you want more information on this, you can go to warningthepeople.com and open up one of the tabs there that takes you to I believe it's just called Filthy Rags, and so if you look at that, it gives, it really breaks down and gives a good description of what the filthy rags in context looks like in Isaiah, and how the prophet Isaiah was describing all of their deeds as filthy because they weren't honoring God.

We know though as Christians that Jesus died on the cross, he resurrected, and we know that we have to believe in him in order to be saved. We know that it isn't by our own works.  So I think the couple things we need to break down here is, what is a work of righteousness compared to what is a filthy rag or a dead work, a work that's not really true, because the Bible speaks about both of these. On one side you hear about works that are leading to death, works that are filthy, and so we need to make a clear-cut distinction between what a false work is and what a true work is. So let's break that down first.

So a false work we can know is something that doesn't bring God glory. It's in vain. So an easy example of this for a Christian who is in the truth already would be to look at some of the false faiths that are on this earth.  One would be the Muslim faith that is based on works. Their faith, they have five pillars of their faith which are religious works that they have to carry out, and none of these works bring about the righteousness God requires. They don't believe in Jesus Christ.  They don't believe in him as the one true God, but they think that you have to make a journey to Mecca. They think that that work makes you holy. They think you have to give alms to the poor. You have to pray facing the east, and there's all these things you have to do, memorizing the Quran, upholding the prophets, fasting from sunup to sundown during the months of Ramadan, and there's all of these religious things that you have to do. Those are all works that God sees as filthy rags, and not just to pick on the Muslim faith, because a lot of Christians have a faith that is totally in vain as well, and all of their works are also as filthy rags. For example, the Catholic Church thinks it's very holy to go to Mass, have the Eucharist, pray to Mary, and pray to all these other idols that they call saints, and all of their so-called righteousness, and all of their prayer, and all of their alms-giving is all as filthy to God, because their works are totally dead.  They're not done in the spirit of truth with the Holy Spirit. There are many other faiths that are very vain. They go door-to-door, trying to witness to people about their watchtower, or about their Joseph Smith prophet.  They go far and wide into all of the earth, trying to preach about their works. Yet, God sees all of their deeds as filthy. So guys, these are all of the works that are as filthy rags to God. All the things that men try to achieve, and men try to do a lot to appease their conscience. We try to give a lot of money to the poor. We try to fast.  We try to read the Bible. We try to do good things to people, to erase bad deeds. And all of these sort of deeds that we can do, at the end of the day, God sees as filthy rags when we don't belong to Jesus, and our works were not works that were being fulfilled of the Holy Spirit, but works, rather, to try to appease a guilty conscience. So again, these are all the sorts of works that are on the side of filthy rags, true filthy rags.

But what is on the other side? The other side is the righteousness God requires. And obviously, Jesus does not look down and call true works filthy rags, whether you want to call that positional righteous, or whether you want to call that practical righteousness. But if you look at Matthew chapter 16 verse 27, you see Jesus rewarding people according to their works, and those are good works or bad works. So if you have works of iniquity, works of sin, or false works of religion, you're going to be rewarded with damnation. But if you have works of righteousness, because you were living in step with the Holy Spirit, then your reward will be everlasting life and peace with the Son of God in eternity. And we know that Jesus said these things in Matthew 16 verse 27. We know that if we stand with the Lord, He will stand with us, and if we deny Him and reject Him, He will also reject us before His holy angels. I want to give one example, because when I was young in my faith, even though I didn't know it, I really promoted John Calvin. I promoted John MacArthur and his doctrines, and also a lot of the thoughts of Martin Luther. And when I first started working at a Baptist church when I was about 18 years old, it was sometime early on, I was like 18 or 19 years old, and I remember at that time my Baptist church was going to do this new sermon series for a month, and they had made banners. So the secretaries had put these banners up in the worship area, and the banners said, “draw close to God by making right choices”. And as a 19 year old, I saw these banners that were so pretty and that were being promoted by my church, and I saw them, and I went up to my youth pastor, and I said, isn't this an exact example of the false gospel? Because we can't draw close to God with good works. The only way you can draw close to God is with true imputed righteousness. That's believing in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. And I truly was under the deception of this imputed positional righteousness that Jesus has done everything on the cross, that you can't do anything for him, because anything you do is filthy rags. And I went into the youth pastor saying this, and the youth pastor looked at me and he said, “well, that saying that we made those banners for in our church actually came from James, the book of James, where James says”, he says, I'm going to probably not get the quote exactly right, but, oh sinners draw close to God and he will draw close to you. Resist the devil and the devil will flee. And after the youth pastor spoke this to me, I knew he was speaking the truth, because this is also a verse in the bible. And in James, it does say draw close to God and he will draw close to you. Resist the devil and the devil will flee. So in what way do we resist the devil? We resist the devil by doing good works and not doing bad works. We draw close to God by making good choices and not by making bad choices. But if you were to think to yourself, I'm going to draw close to God by lusting, looking at pornography, by smoking pot, by getting drunk, you know, by hating my neighbor, by having just a hateful spirit. And if you thought to yourself, I'm going to draw close to God by that, because God is so loving and he's imputed righteousness to me, I'm positionally righteousness, so it doesn't matter how evil I am, then you are the definition of a deceived hypocrite.

And sadly, many Christians were like how I was. They're sitting in church.  They think that they're positionally righteous. They believe these lies of John MacArthur, John Calvin, Martin Luther. And they think that they're so smart because they've read these doctrines of men of old and they've believed in these doctrines of men that have seminaries and teach bible college. They're very literate. But at the same time, they're completely idiotic because the very basic principles of the faith that even a child could understand, they don't understand and they and they reject and they deny. We need to get back to the very basic understanding that if we do right, God accepts us.  And if we do evil, God condemns us. It's been this way from the beginning. Remember all the way back to Adam and Eve and their sons. Cain killed Abel. And before Cain killed Abel, God came to Cain and he said to Cain, Sin lies at your door. And he told Cain if you do what is right, will you not be justified? And if you do wrong, you will be condemned. If you'll be if you do wrong, I believe he said sin lies at your door. Sin's knocking at your door. But it was very basic.  If you overcome the temptation to hate someone, the temptation to murder, the temptation to lust, then you will overcome in the name of the living God. But if you don't, sin lies at your door and its desire is to devour you and to take you to hell. As we know, Cain chose to murder his brother Abel. And God put a marking on Cain. Cain became a vagabond. I believe he was roaming the earth.  He had no home. He was scared people were going to murder him because he was a murderer. If we start thinking like Cain that we don't have to overcome, that God will just forgive us, or if we start thinking like John MacArthur or Calvin or Martin Luther, if we get too smart for ourselves, then God is also against us. So we in our Christian faith need to make sure that we are not deceived by intellectual Christians, that we're not deceived by church doctrines, and that we're not deceived by this filthy rags doctrine or this positional righteousness doctrine. You are by no means positionally righteous before Jesus, before God of all heaven and all earth, by just believing in him with no works of righteousness. Read again the book of James and you will know for a fact that the scripture says that faith without works is dead. If you say that you have faith, but don't have works that prove your faith, then your deeds, your works, your deeds are completely worthless.

So what are deeds? What are works that are worthy before God? Let's talk about that. Works or deeds, as the Bible calls them, that are worthy before God are those that the Holy Spirit puts in you to do. So when you come to Jesus knowing that you are a sinner and that you need to repent, that you need to go and be baptized, and that you need to confess your sins, when you start acting on those convictions, all of those works before God are justified as righteous. Even Rahab the prostitute was considered righteous, in her works righteous, when she lied to conceal the identity of the spies. When she pointed the government in the opposite direction saying they went that way, when they went this way, she was considered righteous. If you read about what all of those men of old did that are in the faith chapter, they laid down their lives and they had works of righteousness and they were justified by their faith and by their deeds for choosing to go the right way by honoring the Spirit of God. So what are some of those things that you can do? Well, true repentance, a water baptism, not for religion, but for true faith in God, forgiveness, long-suffering, having love in your heart, joy, all the things that the apostle Paul speaks of as the fruits of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. We know what attributes are good in the eyes of God and we know which ones are evil. So if we practice good works, the things God requires, the things that we have on our conscience from God to do that are righteous, God will never condemn you saying that you are filthy. He will never condemn you as being filthy for praying, for casting out evil thoughts from your mind. When is the last time you think that Jesus ever said that you were filthy for resisting thinking an evil thought? When is the last time God ever looked at one of his servants and said, because you resisted temptation, you are filthy. Just know that I have done it all on the cross and you don't need to resist temptation. You don't need to resist evil people. Just follow after your lusts. Obviously, that is the devil's voice that says that, that says that you can stumble into all sorts of lusts of the flesh and that you're just positionally righteous. Every time that you choose to cast an evil thought out of your mind, that is a work of righteousness. Every time that you overcome a temptation, that is a work of righteousness. Every time you resist pride, every time that you are overcoming in the name of Jesus, those are works of righteousness. And as his disciples, those are the works that we need to have accompanying our faith. And if we don't, then our faith is totally in vain.  It is totally fake.

Go back and read the book of James. A lot of Christians don't like the book of James.  They avoid it because they uphold John MacArthur or they uphold Calvin or Martin Luther. And a lot of these men are upholding their false doctrines, but they're not upholding the truth of Jesus Christ. We need to get back to the basics of true love by working out our salvation with fear and trembling and having love of the truth and hatred of evil. If we hate what God hates and if we love what he loves, we will be going in the right direction. But it's impossible to go the right direction by going left and right at the same time. If you're saying all the things God loves are filthy rags, but we need to have those filthy rags, you're going to be so confused as a Christian.  You're not going to know what to do. So I encourage you to go back and read James. Go back and read the gospels.  Read what Jesus said about about faith and about works. And then make sure that you as a Christian have works of righteousness, not the false works, not dead religious works, but make sure that you have genuine works of faith like all the apostles had, like all the men of old had, like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had. Faith that proved or works that proved their faith.

Anyways, I want to pray for those of you that do want to have works of righteousness with your faith and those of you that want to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. “So Lord Jesus, I pray for your church. I pray that we will not be deceived by false prophets, by false doctrines, even those of old that even came about 2,000 years ago. We pray that we can overcome in your name and truly have the works of righteousness in us. We pray that we are your children, that we're not just chasing after doctrines of the church, that we're not just thinking that we're righteous because we've believed in the easy grace gospel or believed in positional righteousness or imputed righteousness. But we pray Lord that we really lay down our lives for you and that as you took up your cross, we also take up our cross, deny ourselves daily, and follow you, which we know is a work. We know it takes work to stay on the straight and narrow path, but it doesn't take work and it doesn't take diligence or self-control to deviate off the path. It only takes one lazy move to get off of the straight and narrow path, but it takes diligence, persistence, focus. It takes all of our self-control to stay on the straight and narrow path. So we want to work for you, Lord Jesus, with diligence, with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. We love you, Lord, and we pray for many more to lay down their life for you and come into the true faith. In your name we pray, amen.”

Why Almost ALL Christians Today Are On Sinking Sand

This is what Jesus said in Luke chapter 6. "Whosoever cometh to me and heareth my sayings and does them, I will show you to whom he is like. He is like a man which built a house, diggeth deep, laid the foundation on a rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat the Hemetly upon that house and could not shake it for it was founded upon the rock. But he that heareth and does not is like a man without a foundation built a house upon the earth against which the stream did beat Behemoth and immediately it fell and the ruin of that house was great." 

The key here is listening to Jesus's words and then obeying them, which most Christians are not doing today. The men of old, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they heard things from the living God and then they acted in faith, leaving their towns, taking persecution, overcoming trials, leaving family members who did not believe. They were very straightforward about their faith, the God that they serve. They were unashamed. They didn't bend to the culture and when they made mistakes, they repented and they continued to go down the path of the straight and narrow that leads to life.  Today though, most Christians are not like the fathers of faith. They're not like the early apostles. Christians today don't think that they will suffer persecution. They don't think that they'll have to go through the end times tribulations. They don't think that they have to pray continually.  They don't think they have to truly repent of sin and overcome. And so their entire foundation is on the earth. It's on the sand. They believe in the Bible. They believe in the prophets.  They can quote you things that Jesus said from the scripture. But because their entire foundation is upon the sand, even though they built on it with the scripture, when the rains come down and when the stream beats vehemently upon their house, the whole operation will come tumbling down. And we see that happening today with many Christians' lives, many church organizations. We see the whole thing falling apart because Christians are no longer basing their life on obedience and true repentance. They're basing it upon their knowledge and understanding of the scripture, their church doctrines.  We need to make sure that we truly are repenting, that our faces are on the ground before God, that we become humble, and that the Lord fills us with His righteousness. That we're not thinking we're righteous because we know the Bible and because we're educated men and women, but that we are righteous because the Holy Spirit of the living God is in us and he has purged us from all uncleanliness, from all things that are evil. We need to make sure that we're separate from the world doing the will of God, then we can have the very basic foundation that Jesus wants us to have. The foundation that is on him. Is your foundation on Jesus Christ?  Are you on the solid rock? Or have you built your life on the knowledge of the Bible without true repentance, without true obedience, without righteousness, without the holiness God requires? Are you really obeying and living out your faith for the Lord Jesus Christ?

Victory for Donald Trump: what it means for Christians

 

Victory For Donald Trump WHAT it Means for Christians

 We'll praise Jesus today, brothers and sisters in the Lord. Many of us have been watching and we see the news of that victory of Donald Trump, which is truly a blessing for Christians. It is a goal.  It is a step in the right direction for Christians. But that does not mean, and I don't think anyone thinks it means, it will be smooth sailing for the United States or for the world or more specifically for Christians who want to continue to walk forward on the straight and narrow path.

We know from what Jesus taught, from the things about the end times, such as Matthew chapter 24, that in the end times things go from bad to worse.  Christians are persecuted. There is pestilences and disasters, famines, earthquakes, and all of these things will happen. Countries will be at war with other countries.  We can expect all these things to happen, but what Jesus says is the end is not yet. The end is still to come. There are a lot of people who think that when they see all these things, the end will happen immediately.  But Jesus already told us that the end is not yet. It will not come immediately. So we have to prepare in our hearts to endure with Jesus to the very end. 

Now I want to speak about something here that many people will be upset about, but it is the truth. And this is the main thing I want to talk about because there is a physical aspect and a spiritual aspect for Christians. Praise Jesus today everyone. What I want to speak about is the wall and the eviction of the people who are ungodly. Because Donald Trump speaks about this, Jesus speaks about this, people are going to be kicked out of Jesus' kingdom and the walls, the city gates of the kingdom of heaven are so tall that no evil will get in it. Yet you have Christians letting all sorts of evil into the boundaries of their church.  They don't build a wall into their own hearts. They don't know how to evict demons. They don't know how to cast out demons.  So you have a president of the United States who speaks so much about building a wall and deporting illegal immigrants back to all of their countries, and then you suddenly have all of these people. And it's such a shame that even Christians would be offended at this because Christians should know more than anyone that you have to build walls. That's why there's a wall around the kingdom of God. 

And in our own hearts we have to build walls. We protect our own borders, you know, to our children, to our wives, and we keep things that are evil out. And if you allow things that are illegal, so to speak, into your own heart, into your own mind, through the TV, through the media, through video games, through perverted music, through friendships, through people that you consider to be your brother, your sister, even if they say that they are a Christian, it doesn't matter if you're allowing them into their life and they are leading you away from the true God.  You need to kick those people out of your life. You need to deport them out of your life. Donald Trump knows this.  It doesn't matter if you think that he is a good Christian or not. It doesn't matter what you think about him because what he's displaying in the physical realm is something we as Christians need to do in the spiritual realm. And so many Christians, so many Christians, guys, are refusing to sever themselves from the ungodly, the lawless, the sinner, because they say, we love these people.  They're people that are helping me. They're people that are, you know, my own brother and sister, my own family member, so I can't leave this ungodly church that's causing me all sorts of problems. I can't leave there. I can't secure my borders because these are people that make up my own life, my own existence. And because Christians are unwilling to divide themselves, to sever themselves from ungodly people, they're going to be numbered with the tares. Remember that in the end times, God separates the wheat from the tares, the sheep from the goat.  He separates the good seed from the bad seed. And so many Christians think that God doesn't see. They think, well, all of us are sinners. Praise the Lord. All of us are sinners, but all of us are going to be in heaven because of the Lord's blood. That is not what Jesus said.  Of course, Jesus shed his blood on Calvary. He died on the cross and resurrected. But there will be many Christians in hell because they never repented and cast out their demons.  They never overcame. Those who overcome, overcome by the blood of the Lamb, but also the word of their testimony. And they endure with Jesus Christ and they suffer persecution even to the end of the world.  And the gates of hell will not be able to destroy them and come against them. That is because Jesus is on their side and they never back down from doing what is right. They don't allow Satan into their hearts.  They don't continue to walk with mockers and those who hate God and those who blaspheme and those who commit idolatry and every sort of sin that God hates.

Christians can be pro-Trump, and there are a lot of Christians that are pro-Trump, but they're not pro-righteousness. They say, Jesus, Jesus, Holy Spirit, but they never truly repent of their own sins.  They agree that Donald Trump should put up bigger and stronger walls. They agree that he should deport all of the illegal immigrants who have gotten here illegally, not legally, but they reject that they need to repent of their own sins. So this is a huge analogy that God is giving to the Christian church today all across America that the entire world can see.  You don't need to get all fixed on thinking, well, is Trump the Antichrist? Is Trump the false prophet? No, God has allowed Trump to give you and me and all of us time to get right with God, time to pray, time to have religious liberty and freedom to preach the truth, to get our houses in order, and if you are rejecting that, you are rejecting the blessing that God has given you in this time. He is giving another opportunity, another chance for you to get right with God, a chance that we do not deserve as a nation, but because God is merciful, because He is loving, His love and His righteousness and His blessing comes on the evil, the wicked, even people that don't deserve it at all. And these people that don't deserve it, I sure hope that some of them will see the grace of God instead of spitting in His face and rejecting the words of Jesus.  I hope they cry out to the living God for salvation because all of us should know that obviously Trump is not the Savior. Jesus Christ is the Savior and He is willing to save you from your sins and give you time. He doesn't want to just call down fire from heaven to destroy men's lives.  That is what a lot of Christians hoped for, just like the apostles hoped that fire would be called down from heaven and just kill all of Jesus's opponents, to kill all those Pharisees and all those Sadducees. Jesus did not agree with that. He did not hold Peter's hand in that and agree with him, but He said, I have not come to destroy men's lives but to save them.

And the same is happening today. A lot of people wish that God would just kill America. She is fat and ugly.  She is giving herself to prostitution, you know, gay marriage, homosexuality, murder of babies. That doesn't deserve God's love, but God has even brought the rain on the good and the wicked. So don't spit in God's face.  Don't flip off God. You have this one more chance to repent of your sins, to deport evil, to cast out demons out of your own life, to get drugs and alcohol out of your life, to get pornography out. It is really a wonderful blessing that someone like Donald Trump can exhibit this example of not giving up, even though people want to sue him, even though people want to shoot him in the head, even though they want to lie about him constantly. What does he do? Even being a man in the world, he continues to push forward and not give up. And that is a wonderful example for Christians, the true Christian church, not to give up. If Christians would serve Jesus half as hard or one-tenth as hard as Donald Trump is serving the United States, Christians would be able to repent.  They'd be able to overcome sin. We need to overcome our sin problem. We need to cast out demons in Jesus' name.  We need to put on the full armor of God. We need to cast out what is evil from among us. No unrighteous thing is going to enter into the kingdom of God.  Nothing's going to pass that veil and be in the kingdom of the everlasting King without true righteousness, without true repentance, without reconciling with Jesus Christ.

We need to remember the new covenant that was Jesus who shed his blood for us, that we could put our faith in him, that he would wash over our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. It's not something that just happens in the spiritual realm or something that just happens in the future when we're in heaven.  I hear so many Christians say, you know, “all of us are sinners, but God's blood covers over us, brother, and we'll all be in heaven in bliss. And at that time he will have taken away our sins.” That's not the truth. Jesus came to sanctify us and purge us here on this earth to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. That is what all those white robes are speaking of when Jesus gives all those parables about the end times. That's what he's speaking of, the sanctification of his true church.  And those churches and those Christians that are going homosexual, that are agreeing with all this vileness of the world, that are receiving all these demons into their heart, they're refusing to put on their white robes. They're not going to make it into the wedding supper of the lamb. They're not going to be able to sit down at Jesus's table.  They're going to be kicked out. They're going to be ejected. They're going to be cast into hell. 

Remember that parable that Jesus taught that all the people come into his kingdom and then they see one guy there who doesn't have on the wedding clothes. He has on his old rags, his filthy garments. And they say to him, how did you get in here? And the man is left speechless because he thought he should be there with his dirty rags.  He thought he should be there with his pornography and his addictions and without true repentance. He thought he deserved to be in God's kingdom, that no one would kick him out. After all, huge countries for so much time have allowed all sorts of evil in and they haven't put to death crime and evil.  So shouldn't God allow evil to come into his kingdom? So in this parable that Jesus tells, this man gets in with his dirty old wicked robes, his filthy garments. And God doesn't say to him, “welcome into my kingdom with your filthy garments”, but he says, “bind him hand and foot and cast him into outer darkness”. And so the angels come and they grab this man and they cast him into the pit of hell.  And that is going to happen to many Christians who wrongly supposed they could get into heaven without true repentance, without righteousness, without evicting demons, without casting out demons. We should all let this be an analogy for us, for the Christian church, a parable for us, for the Christian church, and an encouragement for us to overcome. Because if Donald Trump in the world can set up a wall, if he can kick out the illegal immigrants who have come here illegally, then we as Christians should really stand up for our rights, stand up for our rights in the kingdom of God and take back from Satan what is ours. We should take back the purity of our heart. We should evict every sort of evil from our life, every sort of parasite that is inside us, and we should set up walls around our spiritual being, that being the wall of the Holy Spirit with the full armor of God, so that no longer will sin get into us. We need the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, the sword of the Spirit, the belt of truth, and the feet with the boots ready to bring the gospel of peace. 

But if Christians are ashamed to disassociate with sinners, if they are ashamed to touch nothing unclean, to come out from the harlot church system, if they're ashamed, God will certainly be ashamed of them. Jesus will be ashamed of you, and his angels will be ashamed of you, if you don't truly repent and start living holy and utterly for Jesus Christ. Are we a nation of people, a spiritual nation, a nation of people that belong to the kingdom of God? I'm talking spiritually.  Or are we Christians that are just excited because Donald Trump won, and because he physically has overcome these things in the world? Things aren't going to get better just because Trump won. It is a victory for Christians. It is a blessing.  It's a wonderful victory that Donald Trump won. But that doesn't mean things will be easy for you. In fact, things will get many times harder.  Jesus tells us this. We know this from Matthew chapter 24, and we know that we have to endure to the very end of our life. Will we continue to pursue Jesus? Will we overcome in our own personal life, with our wife, with our children, with our parents, in our schools, in our workplace? Will we be the light of the world, and will we be people who are rooted on the rock of Jesus Christ? Is your salvation in Jesus today? Are you living holy? Or are you like the Christians today, who are just excited that Trump won, and they think that that in itself will bring, you know, holiness? Do you think that that in itself will bring Christians to repentance? Of course it won't. You need to choose to put your faith in Jesus to overcome, to cast out demons, to cast out evil from you, and you need to choose to live holy.

I want to pray for those of you that have an ear to hear, and for those of you that want to continue the struggle for righteousness, for those of you that want to pray for the United States, for true repentance from the top all the way down, that people would give their life to Jesus Christ, that they would repent of pride, and truly be humble before the King of kings and Lord of lords. “So Lord Jesus, I pray for your true church.  I pray for my fellow brother and sister, my fellow countrymen, people that are all across the United States and across the world. I pray that we can truly put our faith in you, Jesus, and that we would watch your signs and your wonders and your miracles and the power that is in heaven. I pray that we fully put our trust in you and not in the arm of the flesh. I pray that you continue to purge us, to purify us, and to make us completely clean and in our wedding garments, that we may overcome Satan, that we may cast out demons, and that we may inherit the life that is to come, because you are in us and you are working through us. I pray that all of us separate from ungodliness, that we separate from the sinner, from the idolater, from the sorcerer, from all of those that practice evil, and that we would put on righteousness, and that we would associate no longer with dead religion, with the apostate Babylon church, that we would associate no longer with ungodliness, but that we would keep ourselves unstained from the world and partake in your new covenant where we eat your flesh daily and we drink your blood. I pray for the eyes of the blind to be open.  I know so many Christians today are spiritually blind, but I pray that the eyes of the blind would be open, and that the ears of the deaf would be opened, and that more people would come to true repentance, and this victory of Donald Trump would lead Christians to true repentance, and that they would come to life and make it into your everlasting kingdom. In your name I pray, Lord Jesus. Amen.”

Trump Victory Doesn't Equate Christian Revival BUT...

 Well, praise Jesus today, brothers and sisters. I want to talk about this subject just for a little bit here because I think it's very important to understand. A Trump victory or a Republican victory does not equate Christian revival in the church. There have been some circulating videos on YouTube and around the Internet that a lot of people have been seeing that have this similar topic has been, spread around, and a lot of Christians, I think, believe that they shouldn't vote, or they shouldn't be involved in politics, or they shouldn't stand for things that are right in our country because of this fact. Now the simple fact is, in countries and in nations that have had little or no persecution, that doesn't mean that the church just grows. In fact, the Church of Jesus grows often most in countries and in areas that suffer Christian persecution. So if you want the Christian Church to grow, give it persecution, jail pastors, kill people, and then the Christian church grows. And so there are, these videos that make it sound as though Christians shouldn't really fight for righteousness or want someone in office who stands for Christian rights because the Christian church grows, when we suffer persecution. In other words, they would say just let Kamala, you know, let Kamala Harris be the next president. Don't bother. Even though she's gonna abort babies, even though she hates Christians, and that's quite obvious, just let her be the next president because that will allow God's judgment to come and judge false Christians and judge people because that is what America deserves anyway, and it will just make the Christian church grow. You know, years ago I thought like this myself, but it's actually very ungodly and God doesn't stand for that. When I was first coming out of the church that I was a part of, I'm ashamed to admit that I did think like this. I thought kind of like the apostles who said: well, should we just call down fire out of heaven and kill them all? Remember when the apostle said that to Jesus， they were very upset that the Pharisees, were against Jesus, and they wanted to call down heaven. They wanted to call down fire from heaven. And Jesus didn't say, "yeah, go ahead. Call down fire from heaven and kill them all". But in fact, Jesus showed mercy even to his opponents, even to people that hated him. And Jesus rebuked them saying that he didn't come to destroy men's lives but to save them. And that is because God's love even comes on the hateful, the unmerciful. The rain comes both on the good and the bad. And God loves all of us even when we were still in iniquity. Jesus didn't die for us because we were good, but he died for us because he wanted to save us from our sins even when we hated him, even when we were God's enemy. This is very profound, guys. When I was first coming out of the church and the church was evil, I wanted to see God's wrath come upon the church. At that time, one of the people, one of the main leaders in the church had cancer. Praise Jesus everyone. One of the people that had cancer, they were a leader of the church. And I remember thinking, well, this is God's judgment because these leaders of the church are wicked. And the church leaders were wicked. But I, in my lack of wisdom, started saying, well, this person is going to die, of cancer. And I started talking to people in the church about how this person was gonna die of cancer. It was God's judgment. God hates iniquity. And all of, you know, all of that was my misjudgment thinking that, God was gonna give all these people cancer. He was gonna kill them all. And in reality, that did not happen even though I believed God was gonna kill this person for their wickedness due to cancer. In fact, that person, continued to live and got better. They recovered. And I, at the time, was upset because I was just convinced that God was gonna he was gonna rain hail and brimstone and just kill these people because they were supporting things that were so wicked in the church. But God gave them time to repent. It's been now, like, 10, 15 years later, and a lot of these people are still alive. They still have their choice to make on this earth for good or for evil. And it would be evil of me or ignorant of us just to say that God is gonna kill them right away before the judgment for their evil, that he is not gonna show them any mercy because they're evil and I am good. I know now that that is not the God I serve. I know now that I was in the wrong for thinking that. So bring that back to today. I'm not going to go along with these Christians that say, well, America deserves Kamala Harris, America deserves persecution. America deserves, a government that will hate its own people and put Christians to death, and it will just, you know, make the Christian church grow due to persecution. While it is true that trials and tribulations and persecutions grow the church, I don't need to hope for evil upon people so that God's people will grow. If God wants to allow persecution to come, then he can bring it by his own hand. If God wants to discipline you by cancer, or by death, or by famine, whatever the case is that's God's business. But I don't need to be praying for destruction to come on my adversary, like how the apostles were praying for, you know, lightning to come out of heaven and to destroy the Pharisees. Jesus was not for that, and he is not for people just to suffer and to die. He is for us, that our souls would be saved. We need to just start praying that, that people would be saved. And if persecution does come, if God does allow a democratic win in our country, then we need to just say praise the lord, but we will overcome no matter what trials or tribulations come our way. But we but just because that God may allow a democratic win, or just because he may allow abortion in our country or these people who are hateful, doesn't mean that we stop fighting for righteousness. And a lot of Christians just they just give up. They stop fighting for righteousness. They start praying for war. They start praying for evil. They start hoping for evil thinking as though God is on their side. And God is always on the side of the righteous, and he wants us to continue to spiritually fight and slash our swords in the way that the righteous should do it. We should continue to pray against evil. We should continue to stand up for things that are right. Stand up for the unborn. Stand against abortion. Stand against homosexuality, gay marriage, pornography. Stand against, drugs and drunkenness and wickedness, carousing. All these things should be things that we stand up against, that we vote against if we have the right and privilege to do so. And never should we just be negligent or looking the other way saying, well, our country deserves evil anyway, so I shouldn't do anything about it and take this pacifist approach and do nothing. Because Jesus wants us to be people that are always standing for the truth. So I hope that this makes sense to someone because these videos that I see that are circulating, a lot of them are just creating confusion, and a lot of Christians think that, well, if, you know, if our country is gonna have Christians grow due to persecution, then, then I will vote for whoever brings in more persecution. I'll vote for whoever kills more babies. And so then Christians themselves start praying against the will of God. It is not the will of God that anyone perish, but that all repent and come into the light of the truth. So let us as disciples of Jesus not be confused by darkness. Let us not be confused by Christians that are pointing people in the wrong direction. Let us choose to say, good is good and evil is evil and always stand on the side of the truth. So, I hope this makes sense to someone, and I hope that whether persecution comes or whether it doesn't, whatever the case is that we will continue to stand for Jesus. And whether we are in a time of peace or of war, we will, in our own hearts, continue to grow with the Lord Jesus. I hope for the sake of my own family, my own brothers and sisters, that we can live at peace with God and at peace with one another as much as it is possible. I don't hope for war in my country. I don't hope for violence, and I hope to keep things that are evil out of my country such as violent gangs, drugs, alcohol, things like Fentanyl. All these things that are wicked that are coming over the border, all these things that are destroying the economy, I pray against those things, brothers and sisters, because I love people. I have the love of Jesus in me, and I pray and hope to see my countrymen succeed and not end in hell. It goes back to what Jesus also said to his disciples, "I didn't come to end men's lives. I didn't come to destroy it, but I came to save them". A lot of Christians are totally getting Jesus wrong. They misunderstand God, all they care to see is judgment. They're like Jonah. They're pouting, they're whining, they're complaining, they're upset that that little shrub is withering up in the desert. They're ready just to curse God and go to their death because they care more about the little shrub in the desert than they care about, you know, 300,000,000 people. So are is our care and concern the same as what Jesus is care and concerned about, or is it for our own selves? Are we like the prophet Jonah who only thought about himself, who was selfish at the core? Anyways, guys, I hope this encourages someone to be on the side of the truth, to see things the way Jesus sees them, and not to be deceived by other Christians or false prophets or people that are just, getting distracted from the truth. "So, Lord Jesus, I pray for my fellow brothers and sisters that they are not distracted by the evil one, by false Christians, by pastors, by messages on the Internet. I pray that we would continue to fight for righteousness, that we could pray for the young children of America, that they would be saved and not polluted by the devil. We pray that, that people both young and old, black and white, rich and poor, wherever they are, may be saved, that they may come into your salvation, that you may offer them life, and that we may enter into your kingdom. I pray this in your name, Lord Jesus. Amen."