1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,119 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:12,240 Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,400 County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,760 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,520 Have you ever been drunk? I hope you haven't, but if you 6 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:44,240 have, you know what that's like. You don't think about anything 7 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:50,520 or anybody but your sordid self, your own foolishness, your own 8 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,640 pride, and all you can do to take advantage of everyone else. 9 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,280 That's what a drunk does. It's all about them. 10 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,360 This is what the system of the Antichrist will be like. 11 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:05,000 It'll revel in the destruction of the godly, just like a drunk 12 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,920 rebels in their wine. We are all aware that getting 13 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,920 drunk impairs our cognitive ability. 14 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,400 That's why there are laws preventing people from drinking 15 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,320 and driving or operating heavy machinery. 16 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:21,360 Oh, some people think it's all fun and games until the morning 17 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:26,200 after, but really, it's no joke. In Pastor Clark's message today, 18 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:30,440 he points out the biblical comparison between drunkenness 19 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:35,160 and the celebration of evil. It might seem like a good time 20 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:38,200 when the godly are being destroyed, but in the end, the 21 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,800 wicked will face their ultimate destruction. 22 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:44,680 Now here's Pastor Clark in Revelation Chapter 17 with 23 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,840 today's edition of Living Waters of Grace. 24 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:53,520 False religion is a deception of the Antichrist, and we see that 25 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,840 happening today everywhere. It's amazing what people are 26 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,080 saying. You know there's all roads lead 27 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:01,720 to heaven. This is the common thing that 28 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:03,520 you hear. It doesn't matter what you 29 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,200 believe as long as you believe something. 30 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,919 Anybody that doesn't know the truth will tell you that they 31 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:12,920 just want to water it down. Second Timothy chapter 4 verse 32 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:16,440 three and four says for the time will come when they will not 33 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,760 endorse sound doctrine. Well, the time has come. 34 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,640 People will not endorse sound doctrine but according to their 35 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:25,720 own desires because they have itching ears. 36 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:29,040 Tell me, basically, tell me what I want to hear, not what I need 37 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,160 to hear. They will heap up for themselves 38 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,920 teachers and will turn their ears away from the truth and be 39 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:39,440 turned aside. The fables like Diwali, like 40 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:44,920 Babylonian New Age heresies. If you turn to 2nd Thessalonians 41 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:51,080 chapter 2, verse 9 through 12, this also speaks of the coming 42 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:52,880 of the Lawless 1, the Antichrist. 43 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:56,800 The coming in verse nine of the Lawless 1 is, according to the 44 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,480 working of Satan, with all power signs and lying wonders and with 45 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:05,760 all unrighteousness deception among those who perish because 46 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,120 they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be 47 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,840 saved. So people who are blowing off 48 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,800 the truth and ignoring it and walking away from it and want to 49 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,960 be part of the world system, they don't have any love for the 50 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,480 truth that they might be saved. And so it says in verse 11. 51 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,200 And for this reason God will send them a strong delusion that 52 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,840 they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned 53 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:33,320 who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in 54 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,520 unrighteousness. Verse one and two, it talks 55 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:41,480 about this scarlet woman who makes the inhabitants of the 56 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,520 earth are made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 57 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,000 How she does this, she gets people to compromise. 58 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,240 The world system gets people to compromise with spiritual 59 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,160 idolatry. You know, a Christian has no 60 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:59,400 business sitting in Zen prayer circles. 61 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:04,840 A Christian has no business in being involved in yoga. 62 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,920 A Christian has no business being involved in any of the 63 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,480 eastern religions because they are all Pagan. 64 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:18,000 But today it's amazing. Churches will have yoga classes 65 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,839 in the basement of their church and you can go online. 66 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,600 Churches in Greensburg yoga and Christianity see how they mix. 67 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:26,920 They don't mix. 1 is light and truth. 68 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,560 The other one is darkness and destruction. 69 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:31,920 People don't realize when they do yoga. 70 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,000 They think it's interesting, you know, just do stretching 71 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,120 exercises. Nothing wrong with stretching 72 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:37,960 exercises. But if you do stretching 73 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,360 exercise under a yoga teacher, you don't realize, and many of 74 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,040 them don't realize it, but the positions you're sitting in are 75 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:49,480 setting you up to be in line with the energies of the Pagan 76 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,600 demons. And you allow yourself as a 77 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:57,040 Christian not to be possessed, but to begin to be oppressed by 78 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,280 forces of darkness that will affect you and even your own 79 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,640 family. You shouldn't have anything in 80 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,920 your house that has anything to do with paganism. 81 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,080 You should burn it and get rid of it. 82 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:11,560 I have a bunch of books that have to do with that subject 83 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,160 that I've needed to study and become aware of. 84 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,640 And, you know, to some extent I understand. 85 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,120 So I'm just not talking from my hip, so to speak. 86 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,280 But I, I know people who are in these places. 87 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:28,440 I've had long, lengthy discussions with them why they 88 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,240 believe what they believe. And those books aren't in my 89 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,560 house. They're in the garage underneath 90 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:39,680 a plastic tub. So that stuff won't get out of 91 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,280 them into the rest of the house, so to speak. 92 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:45,760 You know, and the reason I have them there sometime I have to 93 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,600 refer to them. You know, you meet a Hindu, you 94 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,880 know, you want to love them. You want to help them understand 95 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,400 why their beliefs are false in any way. 96 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,160 You can unfortunately do that at times is know a little bit about 97 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:57,720 why they believe what they believe. 98 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:04,280 But anyway, first John chapter 4 verse 3 says, and every spirit 99 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:07,480 that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, 100 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:11,080 meaning that there is a literal incarnation of God being 101 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,240 manifest in Christ, God in Christ, God the Father, God the 102 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:19,280 Son, God the Holy Spirit, God in Christ coming to this world as 103 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:23,720 both man and God. Any spirit that does not confess 104 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,520 that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. 105 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,800 And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard 106 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,000 was coming and is now already in the world. 107 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,160 In verse 3 through 6, this is what John sees. 108 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:39,960 He carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness, and I saw a 109 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,960 woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of 110 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,600 blasphemy, having 7 hens heads and 10 horns. 111 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,600 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and adored with gold 112 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:54,720 and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup 113 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,240 full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. 114 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:02,120 And on her forehead a name was written, Mystery Babylon the 115 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,520 Great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the 116 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:07,800 earth. I saw the woman drunk with blood 117 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,480 of the Saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. 118 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,640 And when I saw her, I marvelled with great amazement. 119 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:16,680 That's all the Father. We're going to go through 6 120 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:20,880 today, but I'll finish up with the notes, this book and this 121 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,840 chapter. I'll tell you, I, I fear even 122 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,720 teaching on this stuff. I, I wish I could go back to the 123 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:29,920 Beatitudes. They're a lot easier to teach 124 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,000 on. They seem more practical. 125 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,360 They seem to me much more easy to understand. 126 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,440 This stuff in Revelation at times is wild, isn't it? 127 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,680 It's like, other than this world. 128 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,000 I mean, it really makes it clear that Jesus said his Kingdom 129 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,000 isn't of this world. When you read Revelation, you 130 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,920 realize his Kingdom is not like anything any of us have ever 131 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,280 seen or experienced in this present world. 132 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,120 But anyway, John is carried away in the Spirit into the 133 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:58,640 wilderness, and it shows us that the wilderness is always seen as 134 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:02,880 a place of desolation, a place where you see a vision of 135 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:04,600 judgement. And this is what God's taking 136 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,040 him to. He sees this harlot sitting on a 137 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,360 scarlet beast. She's riding the same beast that 138 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,360 we see written about in Revelation 13, one, and this 139 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,800 refers to the Antichrist and his dictatorship. 140 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:23,120 Her position is riding and supported by political powers of 141 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,960 the beast. She has a dominant role and is 142 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,440 outwardly controlling and directing the beast. 143 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,880 So we see as the Antichrist is being brought into power, when 144 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,919 he eventually becomes a real human being and he's walking 145 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:38,440 around the earth and he's beginning to speak what's going 146 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:42,000 to carry him and his authority. Even though he's the mindset, so 147 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,720 to speak, of the authority that is experiencing all this horror 148 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,240 on the earth and this leadership style, the world system is 149 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,960 already going to be in place for him to walk in and be accepted 150 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,920 by the world as a new international leader of the 151 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:00,840 masses and the populace. It's amazing how Europe is 152 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:05,080 trying to push together one world government. the United 153 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:10,240 Nations and the Common Market, European nations, they're all 154 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:12,920 working together and unfortunately, the United States 155 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,640 is right in the mix there. How can we have one world 156 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:18,160 currency, right? We're talking about that now any 157 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,120 of you are involved in banking, realize that's not this a good 158 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,560 idea that's going to happen one day because it's the only way 159 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:27,560 that the financial markets can eventually become stable by 160 00:09:27,560 --> 00:09:30,880 having a common currency that's the same in every country and 161 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:34,080 every culture. It makes good financial business 162 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:39,480 sense, but there's a dastardly picture and and vision behind 163 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,200 the reason for this, and it's certainly not to make you 164 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,680 wealthy. It's designed to control and one 165 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:48,840 day force you to receive the mark of the beast in order for 166 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:55,440 you to buy and sell anyway. God sees this blasphemy very 167 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,800 clearly, but to the people on the earth at this time, she'll 168 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,200 look. This world system will look 169 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,680 great. I mean, I, I have people I know 170 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,440 that are very excited about a one world government. 171 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,000 They're very bright, they're very smart and they think, man, 172 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,440 you know, this is the way to go. We're going to stabilize the 173 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:18,480 financial markets. There'll be no more poverty, 174 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,560 there'll be equality around the earth world. 175 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:23,880 There'll be no more starvation and suffering. 176 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,880 We'll be able to heal all the diseases of the world because 177 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:30,760 all our medical resources and technology and minds will be 178 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,680 brought together to work for the common good of the the nation, 179 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:38,240 the nation, the nation under Antichrist, the people on the 180 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:39,360 earth. They're going to look at this 181 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,720 religious system. It's going to look real 182 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,800 spiritual on the outside. It's going to promote a kind of 183 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:46,920 faith that everybody's going to want. 184 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,360 You know what kind of faith it is? 185 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:53,440 It's a faith of prosperity, health, wealth, and yourself as 186 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:57,520 being God that's being preached right now on the networks of 187 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:03,000 major televisions. Joel Osteen is the one of the 188 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,480 greatest teachers of the modern prosperity and health movement 189 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,600 is check his doctrine out, check what he teaches, check what he 190 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:12,920 believes. It'll appall you. 191 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:17,320 He says I'm not a preacher. He says I'm a motivational 192 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,640 speaker. So people like hearing what he 193 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,960 says because he's affirming them that they have a right to be 194 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,120 prosperous, they have a right to be healthy and that they 195 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,360 basically are the center of the universe. 196 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:29,680 People like that. Do you believe it? 197 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:34,200 That is the largest church in America today, the largest 198 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:39,000 church in America, 40,000 people attend that church on a weekend 199 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:42,720 and on the Airways even more millions around the world 200 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:47,000 because it says in the last days people will what be looking for 201 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,920 teachers that will tickle their ears. 202 00:11:49,560 --> 00:11:52,960 And that's what's happening. And some of you might be 203 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:58,480 involved in listening to that. I warn you as a pastor, run as 204 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,440 far from that stuff as you can. Run as far as you can from the 205 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:06,520 Benny Hinn teachings and the Word of Faith, prosperity 206 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:11,320 teachers such as Kenneth Copeland and all those on the 207 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:18,560 Airways that are pushing this spirituality that is completely 208 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:24,240 not found in the Scriptures. It says that these system at the 209 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:28,120 time and the the picture of what's occurring at the time. 210 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:31,720 The woman is arrayed in purple and scarlet and adored with gold 211 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,200 and precious stones. This is the emblems of luxury 212 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:41,000 Mercedes-Benz and Lexuses and the the high life, you know, 213 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:48,080 400, five, $100,000 homes and precious stones, gold and silver 214 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:52,440 and jewels and and luxurious diamonds and, and, and that that 215 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:57,920 time and the government in Rome, the color of purple, the dye 216 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:01,360 that was used to make the garments, the colors that are 217 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,920 being described here was very, very expensive. 218 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:09,120 And so we see then in the last days, the rulers of this one 219 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,320 world government, one world system, this movement of a 220 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:17,320 so-called Christian spirituality will be flaunting their luxury. 221 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,880 Do you see it all these Word of Faith preachers on the 222 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:24,400 television. Jesus came. 223 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:30,440 He had no place to lay his head. He came to his own, his own 224 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:34,320 received him not He wasn't born in the Ritz Carlton. 225 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,480 He was born in a through of a horse stable. 226 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:43,440 The apostles own nothing. They died with nothing. 227 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,480 They died martyr's death. But today, some of the leaders 228 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:51,400 in the so-called Church of America are flaunting their 229 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,080 wealth on the backside of ripping you off. 230 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,640 Their money that they receive isn't going to what they tell 231 00:13:57,640 --> 00:13:59,520 you. It goes to, It goes to their 232 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:03,160 five and six and eight mansions around the world. 233 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:07,560 It goes to their Mercedes Benzes and their fancy cars. 234 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,040 And I can't understand. But the people are blind and 235 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:12,520 they keep thinking these people are wonderful and they keep 236 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,840 writing the checks in or. Meanwhile, the modern missions 237 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:20,680 around the world have less than 2 1/2% to reach the World with 238 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,280 the gospel. They don't have the money to get 239 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:25,520 the gospel out to the ends of the the earth because the 240 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:27,920 Christians are being deceived thinking they need to send their 241 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:32,560 money to TBN and Benny Hinn and Joel Osteen and a bunch of other 242 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,680 heretics on television. It's tragic. 243 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:40,800 She offers the world system, offers idolatry, abominations 244 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:44,960 and impurity, filthiness for fornication in this prosperous 245 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,480 situation and people are going to be drawn to it. 246 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,240 The purple and scarlet is the colors of splendor and 247 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,600 magnificent, and if you read down to the course of church 248 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:59,320 history, one of the deadliest marks of church corruption is 249 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,880 the lust for power. Purple and scarlet are the 250 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,160 colors of rulers. If you go into some of these old 251 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:11,360 line historical churches, I don't know why they have to have 252 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:16,120 all the robes and the fancy headdresses and the expensive 253 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:18,640 vestments. That doesn't make sense to me. 254 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,400 They walk around like they're in control of everything and people 255 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:26,520 are to bow down and kiss their ring and and then they're told 256 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,400 to not have one offering, but we have two or three or four 257 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,200 offerings and a service. You know, we believe we're God, 258 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:34,320 Gods. He provides. 259 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:38,200 We don't need to get into your pockets and tell you we need 260 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,080 money. God will work in your heart. 261 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,320 As Steve said, as you pray, what is it that the Lord has put on 262 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,760 your heart? The purpose in your heart to set 263 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:51,160 apart for his Kingdom. We're not using your money here 264 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:56,880 to ride in Mercedes-Benz or live in $400,000 mansions. 265 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:00,720 Your money and you can check for with Anna Morris. 266 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,760 She'll be more than happy to open the books to you. 267 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:07,240 For the most part is intended to take care of the livelihood of 268 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,960 what's happening here in this ministry, but more importantly, 269 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,520 to take care of people who need help with missions around the 270 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,280 world. I got a call recently, an e-mail 271 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,760 from someone who said there's some missionaries in the 272 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,920 Philippines that need some help. They're very, very poor. 273 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,280 This person worked with them at one time and she she knows them, 274 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:32,800 knows their hearts, and they needed $350.00 a piece to be 275 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:34,560 able to go complete their mission. 276 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:38,640 Now, $350.00 might not seem like a lot to us, but to them it was 277 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:42,800 almost like $3500. Well, because of your 278 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,080 faithfulness and giving, we didn't have to take a special 279 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,560 offering today. We pulled it out of the budget 280 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:52,000 and earmarked that money to go to those missionaries in the 281 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,160 Philippines. And those people were ecstatic. 282 00:16:55,680 --> 00:17:00,360 This overwhelmed that their simple need was being met by a 283 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,520 group of people in a church in America that they know nothing 284 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:05,599 about. That's God's heart, isn't it? 285 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:11,000 God's interested in the people in the hearts of the lost and 286 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,119 the impoverished and the broken down. 287 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,240 And I'll tell you, you're not hearing that from Joel Osteen on 288 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:20,280 a Sunday morning. Lord have mercy on his soul. 289 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:25,680 On her forehead was a name written in spite of her glory, 290 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,200 in spite of the world's systems glory and power. 291 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,640 This system is nothing but a sellout to the truth of Jesus 292 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:33,680 Christ. In essence, we can call it 293 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,800 spiritual prostitution, trying to have a form of godliness, but 294 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:42,000 deny the power thereof. The mystery of Babylon the 295 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:46,360 Great, the spiritual mystery, the mother of idolatry, 296 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:52,560 spiritual adultery. The harlot is the embodiment of 297 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:56,160 Satan's ecumenical movement, as I said, the movement toward the 298 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,880 One World Church. Today, again, people are telling 299 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:02,280 you it doesn't matter what you believe. 300 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,440 Have the boldness and the courage to tell them it does 301 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:08,720 matter what you believe. Jesus is the Christ, the Son of 302 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,920 the living God. There is no salvation apart from 303 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:15,280 Christ. For Jesus said I am the way, I 304 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,800 am the truth, I am the life. No man comes to the Father, but 305 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:23,960 through me. It says this leader, this world 306 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,320 system is drunk with the blood of the Saints and with the blood 307 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:31,360 of the martyrs of Jesus. If we're not speaking up today 308 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:34,680 to the best of our ability against false religion, false 309 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:39,080 ideologies, false churches, speaking the truth and love, 310 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:43,480 we're only going to perpetuate the influence of this ungodly 311 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:47,240 movement of the One world Church in these last days. 312 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:51,960 And your silent voice and mind will only cause more having for 313 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:55,360 those who one day will be persecuted on this earth after 314 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:59,680 we're long gone. At the rapture, it says this 315 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,160 system will reveal the destruction of the godly as a 316 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,200 drunk revels in the wine. Have you ever been drunk? 317 00:19:07,120 --> 00:19:10,240 And I hope you haven't, but if you have, you know what that's 318 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,200 like. You don't think about anything 319 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:18,360 or anybody but your sordid self, your own foolishness, your own 320 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:22,400 pride, and all you can do to take advantage of everyone else. 321 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,040 That's what a drunk does. It's all about them. 322 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,040 This is what the system of the Antichrist will be like. 323 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:32,640 It'll revel in the destruction of the godly, just like a drunk 324 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:37,080 revels in their wine. John says he marvels in great 325 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,880 amazement. He marvels in great amazement at 326 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,680 the end of verse 6. Why would he marvel? 327 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:46,680 It'd be like you and me. Now, I don't know if you marvel 328 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,840 or not, but I don't watch television, so I don't even know 329 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:51,920 what these people are saying half the time anymore. 330 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,200 But there used to be a time I put it on and my wife would yell 331 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:56,280 at me. Turn that off. 332 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,320 That man. Can't you see the devil in his 333 00:19:58,320 --> 00:19:59,800 eyes? Why would you listen to that? 334 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,520 I sort of was humored by watching some of these people at 335 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:05,000 times. But it's far from humor. 336 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:10,120 It's it's heartbreaking, the persecution of the truth under 337 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:13,840 the guise of religion. The counterfeit religion is 338 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,880 being received and believed on. As we speak today to the 339 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:21,960 persecution of the faithful, you realize the more the salt loses 340 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:26,400 its Savior, the more we allow 11 to enter into the community of 341 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:31,480 the elect and the true followers of God, the worse it's going to 342 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,800 be for those who are without Christ in the days to come. 343 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,920 Some of the worst persecutions in human history, in church 344 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:43,440 history, have come from the people that call themselves 345 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,440 religious or spiritual, that they've been corrupted. 346 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,560 What happened during the Crusades and what happened 347 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:53,520 during other times where churches felt it was their duty 348 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:57,360 to persecute and destroy and martyr people again. 349 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:00,800 Lord, have mercy on the church. Next week we're going to look at 350 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,920 John's interpretation of the great harlot. 351 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,640 The subtitle in the next session in my Bible says the meaning of 352 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,640 the woman and the beast. And I'm glad the apostle doesn't 353 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,040 leave it up to us to figure out what all this stuff means. 354 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,720 He gives us good direction, good insight, good explanation and 355 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,560 declaration as to what's going to be happening as we continue 356 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,520 through the study of the Book of Revelation. 357 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,040 Now you can have one or two thoughts here today. 358 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:29,120 Zion, the sermon, you can say to yourself, I know the Lord, I'm 359 00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:31,720 glad I know Him. I'm glad I'm walking in the 360 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,680 truth and I continually want to walk in the truth. 361 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,640 Or you can be here today and say I never heard anything so 362 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,760 outlandish and crazy in my life. That guy must have been drinking 363 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,240 wine before he came to church. No, this is all in the Bible. 364 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,520 If you had your Bible open today, you would have seen this 365 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:50,040 very, very clearly. But if you are here today and 366 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:55,280 this is all new to you, the simplified is that Jesus came to 367 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:59,280 this world to die for the sins of the Sinner. 368 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:04,760 And if you today understand that you're a Sinner and that's all 369 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:09,560 of us and you've never ever asked Christ to be your Lord and 370 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,920 Savior. If you've never turned from your 371 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,560 sin and you just don't pray a prayer, easy believe ISM. 372 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,400 I believe I'm in you got to repent. 373 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,440 You got to say, Lord, my life is wrong. 374 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,000 I'm living in real sin and I know it and I can't keep living 375 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,960 this way. I need to turn from my sin and I 376 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,320 need to turn to you. And when you turn for sin, that 377 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:30,760 means forsaking it. That's not like for a little 378 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,760 while and then going back again. No, it's saying I'm done with 379 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:35,200 that. Life doesn't mean you're going 380 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,040 to be perfect. You're still going to stumble. 381 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,400 You're still going to struggle. You're still going to fall, but 382 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,880 you're not going to stay down. You're going to get up and keep 383 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,920 heading toward the Lord. There's a devil in the world, 384 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,680 and your own fallen nature keeps trying to pull you back this 385 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,720 way. You know, now you can't go that 386 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,000 way anymore. You want to follow Jesus, and 387 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,320 that's salvation, following Christ as Lord and Savior. 388 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,840 And today you can just say to the Lord, Lord, I'm here not by 389 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:03,320 circumstance or coincidence. I believe I'm here because you 390 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:07,120 brought me here today and I know all this stuff's going to one 391 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:09,920 day come on the world. I don't want to be left behind 392 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,360 with all this stuff. I want to go where you are and 393 00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:15,120 where the Christians are. Lord, I want you to forgive me 394 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:20,200 of my sins and come into my life and save me and forgive me, and 395 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:21,920 I'll follow you all the days of my life. 396 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,000 If you can pray that kind of prayer from your heart, God will 397 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,240 be merciful to you. But if you don't understand why 398 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,960 you need to be saved, you're not going to want to be saved. 399 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,240 Anyone who can show you you need to be saved is the Holy Spirit. 400 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,960 He's the one that convicts you of sin, not me, only the 401 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,760 spirits. I pray that the Holy Spirit 402 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:44,000 today is working here to convict not only the ungodly of their 403 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,200 sin, but the Christian of their sins. 404 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,160 That as we study this book, it should cause us to move toward 405 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:51,920 personal holiness. Amen. 406 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,160 That's what it should cause all of us to do. 407 00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:00,680 This has been Living Waters of Grace with Pastor Clark. 408 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:04,080 We're going through the challenging and also intriguing 409 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,120 Book of Revelation. Whether you're a fan of reading 410 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:09,920 ahead in books of fiction, there's such a benefit to 411 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,480 reading ahead in the Bible to read about how it all ends. 412 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,440 But in an interesting turn of events, the Book of Revelation 413 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,640 is not really the end, but rather the beginning. 414 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:26,080 It's the end of life as we know it here on earth, but there's so 415 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:30,080 much to look forward to for what comes after all the judgement of 416 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,240 the earth and those who reject God. 417 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,520 There's a lot to work through, and it can be heartbreaking to 418 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,120 read through the intense judgements and wrath that will 419 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:42,880 come on those who hate God with all their might. 420 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,000 The thing is, God has given chance upon chance to these 421 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,600 people. They don't want it. 422 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:53,400 So the outcome is that there are judgements and consequences for 423 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,720 those who've rejected the good news and the gift of salvation 424 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:01,160 that's offered through Jesus's death and resurrection. 425 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,400 Are you one who has heard about these things but doesn't really 426 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,480 want it because you want to live life on your terms? 427 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,840 Trust me, living for Jesus is so much better. 428 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:18,000 That doesn't mean it will be easy, but as you listen and read 429 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,160 through Revelation with us, you'll come to a stark 430 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,120 realization that you don't want to be on earth when the 431 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:28,240 apocalypse happens. So check out Calvary Chapel 432 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,880 online.com to learn how to come to a saving grace through faith 433 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,640 that will allow you to be with Jesus for eternity. 434 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,160 We'd also love to meet you in person at Calvary Chapel 435 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,960 Westmoreland. Come join us at 400 E Pittsburgh 436 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:50,240 St. Ste. 6B in Greensburg, PA 15601. 437 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,440 This has been living waters of grace.