Why Millennials Left Church Permanently and Why I did

 Let's just talk shortly about a certain topic that is important to people, and that is why people are leaving church. Now, in the culture, people talk about specifically millennials who have left church over the last 20 years. Millennials are people that are around our age. So, between the ages of about 30 to 40, 45 years old, something like that. And a lot of people around my age have left the church. And I've spoken to many people that have given their opinions why they have left church. And I have realized there's a fundamental reason why a lot of these people have left church. Usually, it's because they have seen hypocrisy in the church, and usually that sort of hypocrisy falls into one or two categories. It's either the category of of, it's actually sin, like maybe their pastor was a hypocrite, and he was committing adultery but pretending to be a good shepherd on Sunday. So, it's actual real sin, or it's something that these millennials see as something hypocritical that's actually just due to their tainted view of reality. I'll give an example of that. I had a client some years back who talked to me, and I got to speaking to them about church and how I had left, and they said, "That's great." And I knew that even though they thought we were on the same page about leaving church, I just knew that they were on a completely different page. And as they spoke, I realized what they thought to be hypocrisy in the church was totally completely different to what Jesus's view of hypocrisy and sin is. And so, what this person thought hypocrisy was is her pastor was up there, you know, preaching against sin and things, but he was including sinners to be people that are transgender and homosexual. And her view of hypocrisy is, how can you say that you are loving and follow a God of love and be hating a whole race of people? You know, these sorts of people consider homosexuals a race, even though it's a sin. And so, they think that pastors in the churches are being racist, and they are being hypocrites because even though they say God is loving, they're hating homosexuals, and they're hating, you know, these people that have decided they're a man in a woman's body or whatever problem they have. So, a lot of millennials have this idea that churches should accept everything, and if they don't, they're hypocrites.

So, the two views that millennials kind of have of hypocrisy, one is that the pastors and the people there really are sinful. Therefore, they left church because they don't want to be around, you know, a pedophile pastor like many of these priests are. And they don't want to be around a hypocritical pastor who is, you know, fornicating with the women in his church while pretending to be a good leader on Sunday. And then there's the people that really are so twisted. They think that churches are hypocritical because they're condemning things that are really sinful. Now, I know how the people in church think. They think of church as a hospital for the sick. And so, they're going to tell you you should be in church. Sick people should be in church, and you should be in church as well because all of us are sinners. And so, they basically justify the sin and the hypocrisy and the wickedness in church as if it's okay. And God just sees us all as equal, and you should just go to church anyway and forget about it; turn a blind eye because we're all trying to go up the mountain of faith anyway. And so, these sorts of Christians, even though they see the blatant hypocrisy, they see the sinfulness, they just say, "Whatever, that's fine. I'm going to go to church anyway because it's better than if I were at the bar or something else on Wednesday night."

Guys, the reason why I left the church as a millennial, because I myself am 39 years old, so I'm a millennial, is far different than the reason why most millennials left the church. Most millennials left the church because they had some kind of spiritual revelation that the church is bad, and so they left. They think that they're holier than thou, so they started other groups. They want to justify their own sin at the end of the day. I didn't leave the church for any of these reasons. I left the church out of a direct revelation from Jesus. And it was scripture that Jesus showed me of why I should leave. He showed me the scripture that talks about how if we touch nothing unclean and separate ourselves, how he will become a father to us, and then we will become as his children. But we can't be yoked with the world. And so, when I read these verses myself being in church, I was convicted, and I knew that I had to sever myself from my religion and people that were in my church, even close members of my family, if I wanted to really hold Jesus's hand and walk with him in the truth. It wasn't that I thought I was holier than thou. It wasn't that I wanted to justify some sin in my life. It wasn't that I was upset that the pastor was pointing his finger at me for sin. I knew that I was in sin. And I knew that the church was a way that I could kind of live my sinful life and justify it because all the people around me were saying it's okay to be a sinner. It's okay we're saved by grace. And the women that were coming to church were all promiscuous. People would of course go to the movies and out to the lake and do all these things with other people in the church that were fun at the time, but also it caused a lot of people to fall into sexual sin and all sorts of other sin as well, drinking and all of those sorts of things.

So, I knew that if I wanted to walk forward in faith with Jesus, I had to leave church because if I didn't, I would still be in a dead religion; I would still be part of the Babylon church system that was leading my soul to hell. It wasn't that I just had some personal revelation that didn't align with the Bible. It wasn't that I just wanted to justify my own sins and not have people point fingers at me. But it was Jesus showing me truthfully that I had to leave the church system. Not just my church at First Baptist, but I needed to leave these organizations that called themselves the body of Christ, sever myself from it, disconnect myself and my family from it, that I could cleave and hold on to Jesus with all of my might and let him become my new teacher, my complete leader, and that he could mold me and shape me to his image.

This is not the reason that most millennials are leaving church, guys. They're leaving church because they're upset that the church is speaking against homosexuality, and they have a brother, they have a brother or a sister that is gay or transgender, they're queer, they're something, and they're very upset at the pastor or their church's laws for speaking against those things. And at the end of the day, they don't want to go to church because they don't want anyone pointing a finger at them that they're a sinner. And so, they can say, "Everyone else is a hypocrite." But they're just trying to get the fingers pointing away from them. But that's not the reason I left. And that is not the reason you should leave church either.

The reason that you should leave church is if you are genuinely choosing to be led by Jesus. If you don't want to be led by Jesus, then by all means, go to church, sign yourself up for their classes to be led by their shepherds and their teachers and their leaders. And by default, if you join a church, you go where your leadership is going. You follow your church where your church is going. But by default also, if you put yourself in the care of Jesus, then you will be going where Jesus is going. So, you have to ask yourself a very fundamental question, and that is, where do you want to go? Do you want to go where Jesus is going, or do you want to go where your church is going? Because you can't choose both. Either you will be a lover of people, and you will follow people and their leadership and their direction and their prophets and their pastors and their Bible studies, or you will follow Jesus and his teachings, and you will be guided by his Holy Spirit.

The church has replaced the guidance of the Holy Spirit for their Holy Bible. So, they kind of have this trinity that is God the father, God the son, and God the Holy Bible, and they have completely eliminated the spirit of life, they've eliminated the holy ghost. But if you want to receive the one true God, Jehovah God, that is the Father, the Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, his spirit that he gives to those that will receive him, the better gift, then you need to sever yourself from dead religion,  server yourself from hypocrisy and the thinking of other millennials and the deception that's in the church. Server yourself from all of that. Get rid of it. Kick those spirits out of your life, and then choose to hold Jesus's hand and walk forward with him by faith, even though the road is lonely, even though no one else may go with you. Likely, other people will scorn you, they will look down on you,they will say you think you're holier than us, you're a hypocrite, they will try to speak every evil of you under and over the sun, just like they did to Jesus. Remember, they called Jesus all these names. They said that he was casting out demons by the prince of demons, that he must be filled with bible, and that Jesus was just this evil hypocritical guy that thought highly of himself. So, if they treated the son of God like that, we are not greater than the master. They will also treat us like that. If they loved Jesus, then they will love us. If they hated Jesus and despised him, they will also despise us.

And I have found in my years of walking with Jesus apart from dead religion, the people who despise genuine faith most are the dead religious Christian crowd. Those that are always going to church, they always think that they know best, they're always combative, they always want to throw scriptures at you thinking that they're more biblical than you, they're always fighting against the Spirit of God. They're never reverent before Jesus, but they always want to give you a verse and prove to you how you're out of alignment because the Lord speaks to you, and they say, "Well, God doesn't speak anymore through dreams or visions or interpretations. He only speaks through my pastor's Bible on Sunday from 8:00 to noon. And if you're not there, you're not hearing God." That is true hypocrisy because the same God who spoke to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has not changed. God is the same forever. He was, he is, and he is to come. And the same way that he spoke to all the holy prophets is the same way he still speaks and communicates with people today because God does not change. He is alive. He wants to lead and guide us, not just from a dead book. It's not about just getting into church and getting into a Bible study. God is alive. If it were true that the Bible is the only way you hear from God, then when you would get to heaven, you wouldn't meet Jesus. You wouldn't meet your father in heaven. You would be standing before the Bible sitting on a throne, and you would have to hold an account before the Bible. And that is not true. It is the Lord Jesus who will judge you according to his words, and he will test you and see if you lived for his words or if you lived according to your flesh.

So, why do you go to church or not go to church? Is it for the same reason as the millennials? Have you stopped going because secretly you have sin in your life, and you just don't want to be condemned for sin? Or are you the sort of person that says, "Well, I don't go to church because there's hypocrisy there, but you also have hypocrisy in your life." Or genuinely, can you say that you are not part of a church because you want holiness and righteousness, and you want to be able to live for Jesus with all of your might? Are you lying to yourself about these things, or are you really working at being separate, not because you think you're holier than thou or better than other people, but genuinely because you have the love of Jesus in you, and you want to keep yourself unstained from the world? So, I hope this encourages someone. I hope this brings someone some light, that they can see the truth of Jesus and put their faith in him and have their eyes open to the kingdom of God. And so, “Lord Jesus, I pray for those, whether they are millennials or whatever age they are, whoever is listening to this message today, I pray that they may repent of their sins for real, that they would put their faith in you, and that they would sever themselves from everything and everyone who is ungodly; that they would not be like the ungodly, but that they would choose to do good before you and receive your Holy Spirit, receive the words of life and be purged from dead religion, be purged from sin and wickedness, that they would have their new white robes on, ready for the wedding supper of the lamb. We pray to eat your flesh and drink your blood and take communion with you all the time, Lord Jesus, because we know that only you have the words of life, and only you can lead us into everlasting life. I pray in your name, Lord Jesus. Amen.”

Is the Gospel of Jesus really preached in church?

 Well, praise Jesus today, everyone. I wanted to talk about a situation that happened in my life that was quite profound, and I share this with you because I want people to be able to distinguish between the true gospel and the false gospel that is so rampant across America and in the Christian churches. See, there are a lot of Christians who are still deceived by church. They say "there are good people in church", "I have a good biblical teacher," and they're very deceived by the doctrines in church. So I want to give you a story of something that happened in my life. It's a bit of a testimony, but some of it is someone else's testimony, but I want to share that with you.

See, I was a pastor at a Baptist church. It was in Tulare, so in the central valley, in the San Joaquin Valley, for about seven years. And during that time, nearing the end of my time there, Jesus started giving me dreams and visions about how the church was as a whorehouse because as a man goes to a prostitute for love, that is not genuine; it is lust, so a lot of people are going to the Christian church out of lust and not out of true love. They're going to her as a prostitute, but not because they want genuine repentance.

So I had this message from the Lord. I left the church where I was leading junior high students primarily, and you know, that was my main job. I left that church, and I believe it was back in 2011 somewhere, during the middle of the year. And after I left that church, I started sharing my testimony on Facebook with other people in the church, on YouTube, and I started making Jesus’ shirts. Well, I made this one Jesus shirt that I was wearing, and I would go out to Denny's. And this one shirt that I was wearing said, "Jesus forever changed me," and it was a white shirt with big black letters. And I walked into Denny's with my wife, and I'm sitting down at Denny's halfway through my meal, and this guy comes up to me. He introduced himself as Brother Richard. And Richard, if you're watching this, praise Jesus! I hope that you're still following the Lord today. But Richard just wanted to encourage me. He came up to me at Denny's, and he said, "You must be a true brother in the Lord," because no one else would be wearing a shirt like that unless they really were unashamed of Jesus. And it was so encouraging to me, and we were able to fellowship, and we talked later on the phone. And he didn't really know my full testimony or where I was at church at that time, or where I had come out of, what, you know, what church I'd come out of.

And Richard started talking to me about, well, let me back up. He asked me what church I was a part of, and I said I was part of the First Baptist Church in town. And he said, "Wait, back up. Was it the one on..." and he mentioned right where it was, and I said, "Yeah, that was the church." And Richard told me that sometime prior to that, there was another person in the Lord that he had got to witness to. And he got to speaking to this person about true repentance and the gospel of Jesus and what it means to give your life to the Lord and be set free from addictions. And you know, Brother Richard had a prison ministry where he'd go and he'd speak to these men in prison about true repentance and being set free from drugs and alcohol. And he really was bringing the light of Jesus to people. And this one person, he shared the gospel with, and the person said, "I've never heard that before in my life." And so Richard asked him, "Well, brother, what church did you go to that you've never heard the gospel?" And the person answered, "I was going to First Baptist Church of Tulare."

And I don't say this to slander anybody. I don't say this to slander any individual church, but this is a genuine and real story that happened. This person said that they had been going to Tulare First Baptist Church for over a decade, and they had never heard the gospel. And when they heard the gospel preached to them from this brother, Brother Richard, and praise the Lord if you are watching this and hearing this, and I hope that you're still preaching the truth, but they were, he was shocked, and I was shocked. Well, I wasn't too shocked because I had been there seven years and never heard the gospel. And so it was astonishing to me though how people could be in church for a decade or two decades and then never hear the gospel until someone that has genuinely met Jesus shares the gospel with them.

Why I'm sharing this with you today is to hopefully get you to get your eyes on Jesus and off of dead religion. A lot of people can't even distinguish the false grace gospel that is being taught in the Baptist churches or a lot of these churches, whatever denomination they are, compared to what Jesus actually taught throughout the scriptures. We have generations of people who have been raised just listening to their pastor, listening to the grace gospel lies that say, "You're saved by grace, you don't have to take up your cross, you don't have to repent, you don't have to stop sinning, that would be a work." And when someone just brings up the obvious, like how Brother Richard did in this situation, people are floored, they're shocked. And this person had been going to the same church I was a pastor at for over a decade, and they had never, ever once heard the gospel. This is very incredible. It's mind-blowing.

And the church that I was a pastor at, guys, is not some terrible church in the world. You can go look it up for yourself. It's probably not different than any church you have been to. It's a pretty standard church. They believe all the things that other Christians believe. They believe in the scripture, you know, the validity of the Bible. They believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Jesus, his death and his resurrection. They believe in the sanctity of marriage and all these things that Christians believe. The core values First Baptist Church believed, yet the true gospel hadn't been taught in that church for over a decade. Think about that.

Now, I want to read to you something Jesus said, and remember that the things that Jesus speaks are spiritual. I want to read to you what he said in Matthew chapter 25. I'm going to start in verse 31. This is speaking about when the Son of Man will judge the nations. When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. So there are truly good people and bad people. There's his sheep and there's his goats, and God makes a distinction, and he doesn't just say everyone's going to heaven because of grace, but some people are on his right, and some are on his left. So let's listen to what Jesus taught. Verse 33: "And he will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right hand, 'Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundations of the world, or from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me.' Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? Or when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?' And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, in as much as you did it to one of the least of my brethren, you did it to me.'"  

This is interesting because it seems like they didn't know when they had done this for Jesus. Now remember what Jesus is speaking is spiritual. There are a lot of people that are good people in the world or governments that are trying to do good, and they do this very thing. They give to the poor, they visit people that are in prison, they do all these things, but they do it in the name of their government or their organization. Do you think that those people God is going to say, "Enter into my kingdom because you gave out of the charity of your government?" So what is Jesus speaking about here? Let's read on to see.

Then he will also say to those on his left hand, "Depart from me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take me in; naked and you did not clothe me; sick and in prison and you did not visit me." Then they will also answer him, saying, "Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to you?" In other words, they might as well be saying, "We did do all those things, Jesus, didn't we prophesy in your name? Didn't we cast out demons in our church? Didn't we go to the prisons? Didn't we have all these ministries, Lord?"  

Then he will answer them, saying, "Assuredly, I say to you, in as much as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me. And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."  

I'm speaking here, and Jesus is speaking here about spiritual food. We can do good as a government, and we can feed the homeless or the impoverished. We can preach a social justice gospel and equality for all, and the government tries to make all these kinds of programs to help people who are minority groups, and they push for social justice. Even if there is 100% social justice, that doesn't mean that God is going to say you're holy or let you into his kingdom. But the spiritual food here is people who are spiritually malnourished that haven't heard the true gospel. And the prison is the prison people are in because of sin. Now, obviously, if we have a brother in the Lord who is in prison, we can visit them, and Brother Richard has done this. There's been people that I have written to that are physically in prison, and we can help a brother out or a sister out who needs food or who needs money or something like that. But spiritually, what Jesus is speaking about is the bondage to sin. And these people are not helping out Jesus with his mission, calling people to repentance or giving them the food of everlasting life that comes from him when we are eating his flesh and drinking his blood.

There's a lot of Christians that think that they are doing good. The First Baptist Church that I belonged to, they visited people in prison, they helped orphans and widows, they put on Bible studies, they did all these things. So they think that they can check off the box and say, "Yep, I've done everything in Matthew 25 that Jesus said," as you know, the people on his right hand. "But what about me? I was under their care, and I never heard the gospel. What about this other brother that was in their church for over a decade? He never heard the gospel." These churches have blood on their hands because they are not spiritually setting people free from sin. They're not preaching the gospel, yet they think God is going to spare them in the judgment even though they haven't called sinners to repentance. So that is what we're talking about today. We're talking about spiritual food and being set free from the bondage or the prison of sin.

It is very sad that the Christian church, whether it's Catholic or Baptist, some form of Pentecostal, the churches across America have forgotten the first love for Jesus that calls sinners to repentance. I want to read to you what Jesus said in regards to true repentance and being set free from that prison, that bondage, and this is found in John chapter 8. This is part of the true gospel that the church is not teaching because they are not feeding those that are hungry, they're not visiting those that are in prison, they're not helping those who are sick. They're just going on acting like everything is okay. But for those of you that have an ear to hear and can hear what Jesus is saying spiritually to his true church, pay attention and listen.

John 8, I'm starting in verse 31: "Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him, 'If you abide in my word, you are my disciples indeed.'" To abide means to obey. So what Jesus is saying is, you're my disciples if you obey me, not if you go to church on Sunday, not if you keep up your church attendance, not if you can wear a nice suit to church and look good on the outside, but if you obey, then you are Jesus's disciples indeed. And then he says, "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." See, you're not free just because you live in the United States. You're not free just because you're not in financial debt. You are a slave to sin even if you say you're a Christian if you are still sinning. This is where many pastors and Christians will disagree, and they're not disagreeing with me, they're disagreeing with the gospel, they're disagreeing with Jesus himself. So listen to what Jesus taught.

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 if you're a Baptist sinner, you're a slave and you're in bondage, you're in prison. If you're a Catholic sinner, then you are in bondage and you're in prison, no matter what denomination or sect of Christianity you are, you are a slave and you're in prison if you are in sin. And this is central to the gospel. And a slave does not abide in the house forever. What house is that? That would be God's kingdom. You're not going to abide in God's kingdom forever and be in his house if you are continuing to sin. You'll be, you'll be thrown out of his house. But he says, "But a son abides forever. Therefore if the son makes you free, you shall be free indeed." Free from what? Is that free from cursing? What have you been set free from? A lot of Christians say, "Well, we're never set free, we continue to sin, and we just believe the grace gospel, which we don't ever have to really change because we're in the flesh and we don't have to change anyway." That is the grace gospel, and that is what many Christians teach, but that is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. What Jesus said is, if the son makes you free, which means free from sin, you shall be free indeed. So the question is, if you think that you're under grace and you're still sinning, what have you been freed from? Have you been freed from looking at pornography? Have you been freed from adultery or fornication or bad language, from drinking, from drugs, alcohol? What have you been freed from if you have really come into Jesus? Because what Jesus says is, if the son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. And if you're not free, then you're not a son, but you're a slave.  

This is the gospel that is not being preached in First Baptist Church. This is the gospel that is not being taught from the pulpit. So Jesus goes on to say, "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 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."  

Most Christians are not of God. They fall into the category of the Pharisees who mocked Jesus. They said that Jesus was demon-possessed. They said Jesus was casting out demons by the prince of demons, Beelzebub, and they blasphemed the Holy Spirit that Jesus was working with. The Christian church is sadly doing the same thing. They're not feeding the flock. They withhold the true gospel because they don't want to offend anyone, and they want that money coming in. They say, "Pay your tithe, brother. You don't want to break the Old Testament law and not give tithe. Make sure you keep up your attendance." So, out of one side of their mouth, they're saying they're saved by grace, not by works of the law, but then out of their other side of their mouth, they're preaching the law by preaching tithe and you need to keep up the work of going to church and reading your church and reading your Bible and doing these religious prayers in church. So which is it? Obviously, it's pure and plain hypocrisy.

If we want to know the truth, we need to get back to Jesus and his words, and that is why I am here just preaching on YouTube. I'm not here to try to get popular or for people to like me. I'm not here to try to start a church. I'm just here to preach Jesus free of charge because when Jesus called me out of the church, that's what he called me to do, is to testify, to give testimony of the things that I have seen and heard, to bear witness to the truth and to preach, but not for money like they do in church, not as the money preachers, not as those who are trying to get famous, but just out of the love in my heart for the Lord Jesus. The reason why the apostles spoke was because they loved Jesus. It wasn't to try to start a big, famous church and to become a corporation. They taught people, and they encouraged people out of the love of their heart for the Lord Jesus, and this should be the same reason that drives us.

So are we really in the love of the Lord? Are we participating in the gospel? Are we actively living the gospel, or are we like those in First Baptist Church who have heard a form of the gospel for years but have never heard the true gospel preached in decades, maybe multiple decades? Have you heard the true gospel? Have you received it in your heart? And are you encouraging others in the truth? Are you telling the other, are you telling other people about the gospel of Jesus Christ in true repentance? That's what we want to encourage people to do.

So let me pray for those of you that want to receive the true gospel, that want to truly repent of your sin and put Jesus Christ where he should be in your heart as Lord and Master and King. So Lord Jesus, I pray that someone listening today may receive your Holy Spirit, that they would cast out the devil and that they would receive the baptism of your Holy Spirit, that they would speak in their new tongue, and that they would truly receive that indwelling that comes only from you, that they would be a changed man or a changed woman, and that they would receive your true gospel and they that they would reject what is unrighteous and unholy and not true. I pray that we would daily eat your flesh and drink your blood and teach others to do the same. I pray that we would not fall away because of mammon or the deceitfulness of riches or the lusts of the flesh, but that we could be steadfast to the truth and be just bowing our heads only before the one and true living God. I pray that you lead us and guide us and that you would continue to add to those who want to be part of the household of faith that have ears to hear and that want to have eyes to see. So I pray for those who are listening today. Maybe someone is listening today that's never heard the gospel before, but they've been in church all their life. I pray for them. I pray that you would touch the ears of those that need to hear and the hearts of those that need to repent and that someone would truly give their life to you and come into the newness of life. I pray this in your name, Lord Jesus, amen."

We are All Imperfect People

 "We are all imperfect people." This is a statement I hear from the church culture all the time. While it is true that all of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and are not perfect, Jesus DOES call us to REPENT of our imperfections and to CHANGE. The problem with the church culture is they cherish their imperfections and even justify themselves in their imperfections and sinful lifestyles. They make themselves believe that they do not have to really repent and do GOOD for the Lord Jesus. Remember that the condemnation it's not that we are not perfect but that people loved Darkness rather than the light of the Truth because their DEEDS were EVIL. (John 3:19-21) Sadly most Christians are on their way to HELL because they love Darkness rather than the light of the truth

Sharing a Dream I had of a Civil Rights Activist That is in Hell

We'll praise Jesus today everyone. I feel very blessed to be able to share this message with you today without the fear that I will be fired from being a pastor or fired from my workplace or fired from an organization. I don't work for the church anymore. I don't work for an organization. I don't belong to anyone like that. Therefore, I can bring the gospel free of charge because I'm not paid to receive anyone's money to preach the gospel, and that is truly a blessing. 

See, when you are part of an organization that stands for some religious cause and they're the ones that pay you, then you have to stand behind their organization, and you can only speak about what they allow you to speak for. When you are separate from them, when you belong to Jesus Christ and you're owned by the Lord Jesus Christ, then you're his property, and you can speak, speak about whatever he calls you to speak about. 

The devil doesn't want me to speak this message today, and I have no doubt that I would be fired if I preached this message in church or at any other pulpit, but I bring to you this message because it is the truth, and this message was given to me by divine revelation from God, and I want to share it with you. 

So, in a dream during the night or close to the morning, probably around 4:00 a.m. or so in the morning, I had this vision or this dream. I was completely asleep, but I had this vision while I was in my sleep, and I saw a certain person. I saw this person through a period of time from when she was young to when she was old and to the point where she died, and then she had a museum made after her. Actually, the museum was her own house that I believe that was restored, and all her items of her house or many of the items that she had done throughout her life were in this house, and people to this day still praise and they worship this lady. 

Now, I have no idea who this person is. In my dream, I did not know who this person is or everything she stood for, but let me explain who she is because she can most likely fit identically someone that is in real life, although I don't know the name of this person in real life. In my dream, this person's name was Anna. That was the name that she was born with in my dream, but she somehow along the way, I believe, changed her name or at least she had a different name that was popularized so that people that read her literature would recognize her by that name. 

When this lady was young, she had many different personalities, things that she believed about herself, attributes about herself that she believed that were not true. They were lies, they were fantasies she would make up. She often believed that she was a boy when she was actually a girl, and as she grew older, she would openly speak about this sort of thing, and there were people that didn't approve, but other people that did. In my dream, this girl, I couldn't quite tell if she was a boy or a girl. I knew she was most likely a girl, but often when I would see her as she was growing, she looked an awful lot like a boy, and she liked that aspect about herself. 

This person, as far as I could tell in my dream, looked like she was black or at least she was half black, and by the time she died, she looked like she was maybe, I don't know, I'm guessing maybe 75, 80 years old. She had kind of short, curly hair, but she appeared to me to be a black lady or at least half black, and she became a very popular activist, not just for black people, but for people that were homosexual or transgender, people that were completely against God. 

And in my dream, this lady was an artist. She would write all sorts of literature that then other people would publish, and people would look at, and people would basically worship who were part of that sort of culture, and as this lady grew more and more popular promoting her worldview, she eventually died, and I saw that she had her face engraved into what looked like it was iron or steel or maybe something volcanic, something like that, and I saw it far up on like a mountain, and in my dream, I believed it was something that she created like a self-image to herself, and I could see that in that image, you know, she looked like an older lady, you know, 60, 70 years old, and that basically encapsulated what she looked like to other people, you know, an African-American woman, I perceive. I believe that she was African-American, but anyways, people basically worshiped this lady because she was black and because she was homosexual and the things that she stood for. 

So, after she died, and again, this is all in my dream, I saw that they brought back her house, and her house that was brought back, the inside of it, they refurnished to have many of the things she had as she was a girl. So, I saw things that maybe were like dolls, and these different dolls symbolized different ways she visualized herself. 

One of those dolls that she had looked to me like it was a lizard, and it was like a demon. I knew that all of these things portrayed who she was spiritually, and as I walked through her house, and I saw the different things she wrote, and I heard the different people speaking about her and praising her and basically worshiping her for her false ideas, I could hear the spirit of God speaking that she was in hell, and I remember thinking in my dream, I can't tell this to anyone because I am in her house, and if I say it, these people will, they'll slaughter me, they'll kill me if I am in her house, and all of them are worshiping her, and if I bring this out, I'm going to be in big trouble. I'll be fired from my job, I'll be let go from wherever I'm here.

 And so in my dream, I kept quiet, and as I left her house, I knew that this person was in hell, and the whole life she lived was a lie. All the different personalities she brought up, all the different aspects she brought up about life, all was a huge, huge lie, yet people to the present time worship this lady for what she believed and what she did as if she was valiant, as if she was courageous, and they praised her for being a civil rights activist, for being a feminist, for standing up for what they believe to be women's rights, but this lady never became the person of God that the Lord Jesus Christ wanted her to be. She never was that person, even though she was made in the image of God. She never became the person God wanted her to be. 

She became the image of the devil because she worshiped the devil, and then the devil upheld her image so that other people could worship her image and fall down before that image, that the false image that she was molded into would also mold other people and bring them to hell. 

This dream that I had represents a large number of people that follow after false idols in the world, people that worship the devil, and there are many people that uphold homosexuals, transgenders, women's rights activists, feminists, people that are upholding all of these things, things that seem so wonderful and praiseworthy to the world, but these people are in hell. If they don't repent and put their faith in Jesus and start preaching holiness and righteousness and living for that, they will be damned for their damnable beliefs. 

I am here to warn you and to warn others that hell is real, and these people are ending up in hell because they are not righteous. The world will of course say that they are saints, that they are beautiful people, and they were beautiful people, they were created in the image of God, but unless we repent of our sins and throw off hypocrisy, throw off worshiping self and making these false images and engraved images of ourselves, then the devil's going to take us to hell, and the devil is taking many people to hell, including Christians, many good people the devil is taking to hell because these people never worship God, they never live for Jesus Christ his way, they live for themselves, they worship themselves, and they are molded into the image of the Antichrist. They worship the beast, they bow down to the beast, and they let Satan, the serpent, take them to hell, the same snake that deceived Eve. Even though Eve and Adam were created in the image of God, they listened to the serpent, and they listened to that, and it took them to hell. 

In the same way, many people today are listening to the snake. They can't hear Jesus. The closest they get to hearing Jesus is maybe they crack open their Bible, and they read a little bit of that, and then they get deceived right after that because they go and listen to people.

But if you want the truth, you need to get to know the truth. The truth is Jesus Christ himself. Jesus said that he is the truth, he is the way, and he is life. So, are you in the truth today, or are you deceived by all of the fantasies of this world, all of the art that is put out by this world, all the musicians that are lying to people, all of the pastors, all of the church organizations, all of the false prophets? Are you deceived by that? 

How about all of the false truths that are put out on the internet about all sorts of different things? Are you deceived by that, or have you really put your faith in Jesus? Do you cling to him? Do you live by his words? Do you practice what Jesus taught? Do you know the Beatitudes, for example? Do you know what Jesus taught in the Book of John, Matthew, Luke? Do you know what happened in the Book of Acts? Have you read these things, and have you put the words of Jesus into practice, or have you been deceived by men who lie, that make pedestals of themselves, their organizations, but who lead people away from God? 

Don't be led by sinful men. Don't be led by so-called prophets or leaders of the church. Don't join yourself into an organization or to a church that when you hear from God, then you back away from his words so that you will please people. Rather, disconnect, disconnect from the false churches, disconnect from homosexuality, disconnect from all the theologians who say they know God but who are hypocrites. 

Disconnect from men and connect yourself to Jesus. Make him your teacher, make him your leader, make him your guide so that then he can put in you his Holy Spirit, that he can teach you his ways and clean you out of your old self that believed lies and followed after the devil that was deceived by this world. I want to encourage those of you that have been deceived to put your faith in the Lord, and I want to pray with you. 

“Lord Jesus, I pray for those that want to receive your gospel, that want to be set free from the bondage of sin and of darkness and of this satanic culture that we live in. I know so many students today, so many kids today, so many adults are in the bondage of sin because they have listened to the Antichrist, they've listened to the beast, they listened to the snake, and the devil is taking them to hell. I pray that those who have an ear to hear today may hear, that they may repent, and that they would put on righteousness, and that you would clothe them, that you would cloak them in your purity and in your righteousness, and that you would cleanse them from all unrighteousness. 

Give them a new heart, a new mind, and let them receive the gospel of the truth. Let them receive your Holy Spirit, let them be filled with your Holy Spirit and not the false lies of the Christian church that has received homosexuality in every sort of perversion under the sun. I pray that we can be separate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and that we would just receive the Tree of Life, your life, Lord. So, I pray for the listener that is listening today that may have an ear, that you would open his or her ear, that they would hear your truth, not my voice, but that they would hear your voice, Lord, and come into your kingdom and be saved and receive your New Covenant. In your name, I pray, Lord Jesus, amen.”

Good tree good soil good fruit

Good Tree Good Soil Good Fruit

Well, praise Jesus, everyone. The words of Jesus are very convicting. Jesus often speaks to me in dreams, and He gives me words that then I contemplate. And often it's to correct me, to chastise me, to build me up in righteousness. And when I hear something from the Lord that I don't like, I have to change what I'm doing to be bearing good fruit. One of the things Jesus showed me by the way of a dream was not to have bad fellowship with people, not to have fruitless conversations. See, it's really easy for us, especially if we're nice people, to just engage in conversations that then become fruitful, not because we want to be unfruitful for God, but because we just want to be likable and to be able to get along with others. Jesus wants us to be able to get along with others, but He doesn't want us to be fruitless. And where the rubber hits the road with this a lot of the times is with family and friends, old family and old friends from our past life. Remember how Jesus said that He didn't come to bring peace but a sword. That's a really hard thing to accept, especially when your own family members choose not to follow Jesus, or they choose the way of religion, and you choose the way of Jesus. And it's even harder when they want to do nice things for you. They want to invite you over for, say, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, all of these sorts of pagan holidays. They give you gifts. They're always trying to love you in the way that the world does. And then what you return to them is basically nothing, just saying, I can't be with you. I need to separate from you. They can't understand it. You look just like you're being a punk, that you're being hateful. And that's why Jesus said that He came to bring a sword, even between family members. We don't want a division. We don't want to have war with family members. We want peace with people, especially if we're following Jesus as the Prince of Peace. But if people that have been in our life are causing us to be unfruitful for the Kingdom of God, and they are leading us away, you know, in our conversation to be fruitless and just to waste our time, then we need to sever ourselves from them. 

And too many of us, because we are just nice, we don't sever ourselves from ungodly family members, ungodly friends. We just continue to associate with them. The Lord warned me about this, that we need to make sure that we are always fruitful in our conversations. And if we're around old friends or family members that are not bearing good fruit, we need to be very careful and not waste our time there. Because a lot of Christians get hung up on just family nights, playing games with family members and friends. And the Kingdom of God always comes second, or it doesn't even come second. It's never even there. So they end up just watching TV with their family members and friends, just hanging out. And it's very dangerous because they become fruitless. And what Jesus said, if we're not a good tree, we're a bad tree. And if we're not bearing good fruit, we're going to be cut off and thrown into the fire. What does that mean? That means we're not worthy to inherit everlasting life. We'll be thrown into hell. I, for one, don't want to be thrown into hell because my family members aren't following God. And even though it makes me sad not to associate with my old family members and friends that aren't really following Jesus, but they're following religion, for the sake of my own soul and the sake of my children and the sake of the body of Christ, I sever myself from them, not because I hate them as the world hates, but because I want to obey Jesus.I've put Jesus first in my life. And of course, family members and friends are going to think, well, you're hateful. You're returning hate for good. You don't give us presence, even though we've given you presence. We want to hang out with you and give you things, and you don't give us any of your time back. You don't share your children with us. And so over the name of Jesus, there is a huge division. We need to be very careful who we associate with. Another thing that I've seen that we need to be very careful with not to become fruitless is with our worldly business. See, all of us have to have a business. Jesus hasn't called us to be lazy. He hasn't called us to be homeless or to be beggars. So we have to be doing something in the world. Either you go out and you work some kind of a job or you're an entrepreneur, you're an employee somewhere, you own your own business, whatever it is, you're doing something to bring in physical money then to buy physical food so you have food on your table to eat. We are in the world, but not of the world. 

But the danger is it's easy to start worshiping money or money to become way too important. And we don't want money to be one of the tentacles of the octopus of this false god that is pulling us away from the true provision of the living God. It is so easy to get wrapped up in just wanting to make money, just putting our security in money, putting our security in the government, and that to become a false fruit and a false god in a false lifestyle. Of course, we're supposed to be making money. We're supposed to be helping others, you know, raising our families. And that all takes money. I understand that. And so do you. But how do we make sure that we're not serving God and money, worshiping God and mammon? See, this is a very important thing for us to understand as Christians, because if we get this one thing wrong, we will be fruitless. And that leads me into what Jesus spoke about the parable of the four soils. You've probably read this parable before, but I'm going to just go over it briefly. Jesus says that with the four soils, the first soil is the wayside. The wayside is the side of the road where these seeds were scattered right on the road. And the devil quickly comes like in the form of a bird, and he eats that seed right off the road. And it never makes it into the soil at all. This represents people that are in the world. They hear the gospel message. They hear that Jesus died on the cross and he resurrected. And they say, whatever, I'm here to make money. I'm here to live the good life. So immediately, the gospel message that they hear is eaten by the devil. And they never, ever even start their journey with Jesus in faith. So that's the first soil. Jesus calls it the wayside. 

The second soil is the rocky, shallow soil. And what Jesus says about this soil is that it is shallow. These are the sorts of people that they hear the gospel and they go, that is awesome. But they never do anything about it. They never grow to maturity. And as soon as tribulation or persecution arise, or people start to speak negatively about them in the workplace, they say, forget it. It's not worth being a If it causes a divide in your family, if Jesus is the prince of peace, he can never cause division. So these sorts of people, because they are in the shallow soil, they also are devoured by the devil. They never become truly fruitful. There are a lot of people that are on this soil. They will only follow Jesus as long as it is convenient. These are the sorts of Christians that believe in church light, like beer light, and they never really grow deep in their faith. Christianity is always on the side and it always comes second after football. It always comes second after family, after alcohol and parties and making money. These sorts of people could care less about having deep and genuine relationships with others. And they certainly don't care about having a deep and passionate relationship with Jesus Christ. They don't have dreams. They don't have visions. They don't have the fire of the Holy Spirit. They certainly don't speak in new tongues. They're just shallow Christians. And similarly to those on the wayside, the devil eats up the seed that is in their heart and they don't continue to grow. When the sun beats down on them, they do not grow through trial and tribulation and persecution. But what I find most convicting is the third soil Jesus speaks about, which is the soil or the seed that lands amongst the thorns. And what Jesus says that this represents is people who hear the Word of God, so they hear about Jesus's testimony and they know about the disciples. They know what Jesus taught. But then what happens is all the worries of the world arise and the deceitfulness of riches. And so even though they know the parables of the kingdom of God, even though they know about Jesus and they know the way, because there's deceitfulness in money, deceitfulness in riches, deceitfulness in all the pleasures of the world, it's too hard for them to be fruitful. It's easier to just go out and have fun, go out and make money, focus on business and the things of the world and professionalism than it is to preach the kingdom of God and bear good fruit. Now this is very convicting, guys, because I believe most Christians who are serious fall into this category. They don't continue to produce good fruit because after a while, even though they've pushed through trials and tribulations and sicknesses and persecutions in their life, what ends up getting them is all the joys of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the pleasures of this life. And that chokes them out like thorns choke out a plant that's trying to grow in the garden. And unless these things are weeded out of our lives, we can't continue to grow. So this goes back to the importance of not serving God and money, but serving the Lord our God with all of our heart and saying, Lord, have your way with me. I know I need to make money. I know that I need to provide for my children. 

I need to be the provider of my household. But how do I do that so that I am bearing good fruit and not letting all of the worries of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke me out? Because most Christians, all they're concerned about is the things of the world. It's all about taking the kids to the soccer game, taking the kids back and forth from here to there from school, commuting to work and back. It's all about grocery shopping, getting things on Amazon. And all of these things are things that we need. But how do we make sure that we're truly putting Jesus Christ first? And what I want to tell you is, in order to do this, you need to do some soul searching and you need to start asking Jesus, am I producing good fruit or am I getting choked out? And if you can be just introspective, looking into your own heart and into your own life and able to ask these questions, then you can have this pure heart before the Lord ready to be corrected. If you have started to allow the things of the world to choke you out and to become unfruitful. If we are fruitful, we will be teaching our children to trust and obey Jesus. We'll be seeking first the kingdom of God in his righteousness, not just making money in the world, not just living for the pleasures of the flesh. And I'm not saying we can't have fun. I have a lot of fun in life. I have a lot of fun with my children, but I also have a deep conviction that comes from the Holy Spirit that I know that I need to bear good fruit and not let any of the things in this world or the fear of putting food on the table or deceitfulness of riches, all these things that Jesus talks about, how these thorns choke out the seed. I want to make sure that that is not me. I find this very, it's a challenge. It's a challenge not to be pulled down by the world in one way or another or choked out. We need to make sure that we have the conviction of the Holy Spirit in us and that we keep that conviction alive. I know I'm still alive in Jesus because I have conviction. I know the difference between right and wrong. I know that I'm in the fight with Jesus because I still feel and hear the accusations from Satan and both in the spiritual realm and physically from people who are always accusing me. So if we know that we're still being accused by people, accused by the devil, and that we're fighting against this world and the thorns that are in this world and trying to get that out of our life, we can know we're still on the right path with Jesus. But as soon as you don't care about seeking first God's kingdom and your worries are all the worries of the world, all the things of this world, all the desires of the flesh, then you're bound to be choked out just as this soil is. 

You know, this seed growing up in this soil that seems good, but then it has thorns in it and it totally chokes it out so it can't produce fruit. All three of these soils never produce good fruit. Not a hundredfold, not thirtyfold, not you know tenfold. All of them are choked out and because of that they are then cast out. Jesus' other parables talk about being cast out into the fire or thrown out where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. We certainly don't want that. So we need to make sure that we figure out our relationship with Jesus in how we can produce good fruit and be like the fourth soil which is the good soil that produces fruit. Some more than others, but whatever amount of faith that God gives us, we will produce fruit a hundredfold, fiftyfold, thirtyfold, twentyfold, tenfold, whatever the Lord gives us with our talents and our abilities. Instead of serving the world and trying to become something in the world, we are working for Jesus, working out our salvation with fear and trembling and asking Him to give us good fruit. That we may produce good fruit in our lives so that we will be acceptable to the Lord and ready to walk into those pearly gates into heaven and that also we will be able to encourage others to enter into the kingdom of God. If we ourselves are not producing good fruit and being chastised and overcoming in the name of Jesus, casting out devils, casting out evil thoughts from our minds, selfish ambitions, if we are not doing that then we have no business being able to help or coach or teach other people to do that. So if we want to be the sons and daughters of the light and let our light shine before men, we have to have our light shining and practicing what we preach. I want to practice what I preach, I want to practice what I say I live, and every day I want to bear good fruit for Jesus Christ. I find this parable of the four soils very convicting because I never want to let my worldly business, my earthly business and making money ever be in head of seeking first the kingdom of God. And where the rubber hits the road is if I have clients or if I have people that disagree with my testimony of Jesus, I never want to change what I believe in. I never want to change or bend my knee to Satan in order to keep worldly business. At the end of the day I'd rather be homeless and right with Jesus than live in a mansion and be with the devil. So if there are conflicts or persecution or all these things that arise, I want to be able to push through that and not be serving mammon.If the devil puts mammon before me and he says you need to bow down in order to receive this, I need to say I will stand for Jesus and I will never bow to the devil. Each of us always come to forks in the road in our path where we are tested. Either the Lord himself allows a test or the devil is tempting us. 

And at those forks in the road will we go left or will we go right? Will we choose good or will we choose evil? Will we choose to bow down to Satan so that we can continue to make money? Will we start to bow to money so that we can receive more money? Will we make compromises that pull us away from being fruitful to the kingdom of God? Or will we truly seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and bear good fruit? Remember, only the fourth soil bears good fruit. We want to be the fourth soil because if we're the first, the second, or the third, if we're the ones on the wayside, the shallow soil, or amongst the thorns, we don't bear good fruit and we are not worthy to enter the kingdom of God. The three soils that don't bear good fruit, they're cast out where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. I want to make sure that I am the fourth soil and I'd want to encourage you also. Is your heart right before the Lord and are you producing good soil or are you like the third soil amongst the thorns or the second amongst the shallow rocky soil or the first amongst the wayside? You don't care what Jesus thinks. I want to encourage people to come and have good fruit for the Lord. So I want to pray for those of you that want to dedicate your life to Jesus and keep your life on track with the Lord. 

“Lord Jesus, I pray that I can bear good fruit, that I can be separate from worldliness and ungodliness and pursuits that are ungodly. I pray that we can truly seek first your kingdom and your righteousness and be your sons and your daughters. I pray that you sever us from worldliness, that you prune us and keep us away from the things that make us unfruitful and the things that choke us out. May we have everything that we need. May we have physical food and spiritual food that we don't have to be in want, but that we can say thank you Lord for providing everything that we need. And may the works of our hands be blessed. May you give us just everything that we spiritually need and physically need so that we can use all of our resources, all of our talents and abilities for the kingdom of God, that we ourselves may be entering the kingdom and that we can also be encouraging others to enter your kingdom, that they would also produce good fruit and enter into your holy kingdom. So help us Lord Jesus be humble before you, help us be righteous before you, but also confident that you are leading us and guiding us, and may we have confidence in our faith in you knowing that it is through you and your power that we overcome. In your name I pray, Lord Jesus. Amen.”

 

The Christian Grace and Faith Alone Gospel is a Huge Lie

The Christian Grace Gospel, as it is taught in the American churches at the pulpits, is a huge lie from Satan. It is taking people to hell every day when they believe it.

This lie is that you are saved by grace and grace alone—that there are no works you can do that are righteous or that please God; that His salvation through His death and resurrection is all you need to believe in and that if you just believe in that, you will be saved.

These pastors say that if you add anything else to the gospel, such as works or baptism, then you are a dog,you are a liar, you are a hypocrite, and you are prideful. But what these pastors leave out is the part of the Gospel that Jesus taught about denying yourself, picking up your cross, and doing the work to follow Him.

Jesus taught this. This is not my opinion; these are not my words or my thoughts. But this is what Jesus taught. I want to read it to you.

This is what Jesus said in Matthew 16, starting in verse 24:

Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself"—which is work—"and take up his cross"—which is work—"and follow Me"—which is work.

"For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?"

What will it help you if you look like a good Christian in church, keep up your church attendance, pay your 10% tithe every week, and adhere to biblical teachings?

What will that help you if, at the end of your life, Jesus says, "Away from Me, you who commit sin; I don’t know you"?

It won’t matter if you believed your pastor’s lie at that moment what will matter is what you did with the words of Jesus.

Did you believe His words right here in Matthew 16? Or did you deny His words to receive the lying pastor’s words?

Then Jesus goes on to say this:

"For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works"—not his belief, not what just he thought Jesus did in Bible times, but according to his works.

If your works are done in righteousness, then you will receive the reward of righteous deeds.

But if you had unrighteous deeds—if you were working the works of wickedness—then you will be rewarded with hell and damnation. You will be punished.

So don’t believe the devil’s lie that is preached from the pulpits in the church—that all you have to do is believe, but you don’t have to deny yourself, you don’t have to pick up your cross, and you don’t have to leave worldliness behind. All you have to do, according to them, is go to church, pay your 10%, believe the pastor, and you’ll be saved.

Where is your faith today?

Do you really believe in the words of Jesus?

Or do you believe in the lying pastor and these gatherings that are full of hypocrisy?

 

Have You Received Your New Tongue and the Mind of Jesus?

  

We'll praise Jesus today, everyone. We know that when we come to Jesus, we renew our mind. We have a new tongue and a new mind and a new heart. Now there are a lot of Christians, Pentecostal Christians, that think the new tongue just means speaking in a tongue that no one understands, but that their English tongue doesn't change, which is ridiculous, because if you actually come into the household of the faith and you're walking in the kingdom of God, then you will have a new tongue that edifies others as well. You'll be changed, that your mind will not be thinking like the world or how you used to think like other people in the world, and your heart will certainly be different. I want to read to you what the Apostle Paul says about this in Ephesians chapter 4. This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, and the futility of their mind. 

You could say here, if you have really come to Jesus, you should not walk as the rest of your fellow Americans, or whatever country you live in. You shouldn't be just pursuing what they're pursuing in the world. Having the understanding of darkness, being alienated from the life of God, because the ignorance that is in them, because of their blindness of their heart, who being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But you have not so learned Christ, meaning you have not learned that sort of Jesus. You haven't learned Jesus with greed, with hatred, with malice. So why are we thinking like Christians in the world, if we have really received the new tongue and the mind of Jesus? If indeed you have heard from Him, and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus, that you put off concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in spirit and in mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. 

This is something many Christians have not put on, because they haven't been renewed in their mind or in their heart. They're not taking communion with Jesus. They're not eating His flesh and drinking His blood. They're eating and drinking the world, and because they're eating and drinking the world, they can't possibly have the mind of Christ. This is why they're still cursing, blasphemous thoughts are coming into their mind. They are exactly like the world. We need to put on righteousness and holiness, true righteousness. Therefore, putting away lying, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor. We need to be speaking in our new tongue with our neighbor. Whoever we come across, we need to be the light of the world. This doesn't mean that we're just speaking gibberish. This doesn't mean that we're just speaking in a prayer language. 

This means that we have the new tongue, which comes from a renewed heart and mind, and now we're speaking the mysteries of God, just as they spoke in Acts, when the Holy Spirit came on them, and they were speaking to all these different nations of people in their own tongue, and they understood, and some of those people repented, and were added to the number of the new Christians. So let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. Be angry and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil. Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need. Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. 

We always want to be praying and asking Jesus, that whatever we say is edifying to others, not tearing others down, not blasphemous of course, not gossipy, not envious words, but words that are building each other up, and helpful to the body of Christ, that it may impart grace to the hearers. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. You know a lot of Christians, they are grieving the Holy Spirit, especially with the TV, with movies, with their entertainment. They're grieving the Holy Spirit, because they say, well I don't say those words, I don't think those things, but they allow those things to play on their TV, and they're paying their money to watch these movies that are blaspheming God, speaking evil continually, and because they allow this stuff into their household, they themselves are no longer holy or pure as well. They are allowing that into their mind, that garbage, instead of allowing holiness and righteousness to shine through them. So we need to make sure that we don't grieve the Holy Spirit, by listening or acting like the devil. 

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice, and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. In some place, Jesus says that He will forgive, the same way that we forgive others. And that is a word, because if we have bitterness in our heart towards others, we can know that God will not forgive us. So we need to make sure that if we have hatred in our heart, or bitterness towards others, or seeds of unforgiveness, that we make sure that we forgive before the sun goes down, that we can have communion, and not be eating and drinking judgment on ourselves. So what tongue and what mind have you received? Have you really received the mind of Christ? Have you received the tongue that comes from Jesus when we receive the Holy Spirit? Or do you still have a tongue of envy, and bitterness, and hatred? Are you still thinking like the world? Are you thinking racist thoughts, or thoughts that put others down? Make sure that you're not thinking yourself better than others. A lot of Christians just hope that judgment comes on the world.

They want to see other people hurting. But Jesus said that He came to save people, not to destroy them. Remember when the disciples asked about the Pharisees, should we just call fire out of heaven and kill them all? And Jesus didn't say, yes Peter, send fire out of heaven. But what did Jesus say? If we remember what Jesus said, He said He came not to destroy people's lives, but He came to save them. We need to be praying that people repent, and that they come to the Lord, and are saved by His grace and His mercy. Of course God's judgment is going to come on the wicked. God's judgment is already here. But we as Christians, who want to be fruitful, are to be calling others to repent. We always want to be hopeful. Love hopes all things. It wishes for repentance. It hopes that people come into the household of the faith. We want to make sure that we're no longer conformed to the world, or acting like worldly Christians, but that we are conformed to the likeness of Jesus, and that we really receive the Holy Spirit, that baptism of the Holy Spirit, that we know happens when we have a transformed tongue, and a transformed mind. So I want to pray for those of you that want true repentance, that want to be part of the household of the faith. 

"Lord Jesus, I pray for those that are here today listening, and they know that they have sin in their life. They know that they have messed up. They know that they have had thoughts and words in them that are not pure, but they know that they want your righteousness. They want to eat your flesh, and drink your blood.  So I pray for someone who is listening today that wants to be pure, that wants to be purged and purified, that you would purify their heart and their mind, that they would be renewed, that they could have communion with you Lord Jesus, that they would eat your flesh, and drink your blood, and come part of your new covenant. I pray that we would be lights to others, that your Holy Spirit would be shining through us, that more people would be added to our number, that they would see our good works, and that they would glorify our Father in Heaven. In your name I pray, Lord Jesus. Amen."