In a heated conversation with the Pharisees and scribes, Jesus
defended his credentials as the begotten Son of God and he
pointedly accused them by saying that if Abraham were their
father, as they claimed, then they would have allowed
Abraham's, example, or they would have followed.
I should say, Abraham's example, and believed the word of God,
and if they were thus the children of God, they would have
been braced, the Son of God who came and demonstration of God's
power, but they refused to Except even the most obvious of
evidences, they rejected the truth of their own scriptures.
And Jesus points out that since their religion was based upon
falsehood, and upon a lie that their father was not the god of
truth. But rather the God and Father of
every lie, and all liars, Satan himself.
He's a rather scathing words. When Jesus says, you are of your
father, the devil, he was a murderer from the beginning and
Abode, not in the truth. Because there is no truth in him
for. He is a liar, and he is the
father of it, and it's also difficult to look someone in the
eye and say, I believe you're wrong about that.
Or I believe, maybe you're a little bit off base, or your
misguided, Jesus looked at these Hypocrites and he said, you're
of the devil and the devil is a liar and I know that you're the
children of the devil because you're following and you're
believing a lie, a tough pill to swallow, but the truth
nonetheless us. And the fact of the matter is
whether or not we really have the backbone of the confidence
to stand and declare it. So the fact is, when you reject
or anybody rejects the truth, there is nothing else to
believe, but a lie, if I don't believe what is right.
Then obviously, I believe what is wrong.
Because everybody believes something.
And there are only two choices where that is concerned when you
for whatever reason reject the truth of God you have given the
devil, an open invitation to deceive you through sin.
Paul said that this is what happened in second Thessalonians
2 and verse 10. When he spoke of some by saying
they received not the love of the truth that they might be
saved. And for this cause God shall
send them a strong delusion that they should believe a lie that
they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had
pleasure in unrighteousness because they did not desire to
know and obey the truth. God allowed them to believe a
lie and see the end and damning whence of their sin.
You don't really boils down to one thing tonight.
And that is that every person stands at a Crossroads and that
we only have two choices in life.
We can either open our heart and our mind to what God says about
any and every matter, or we can choose to believe the lies of
the wicked one. Now it's no surprise that most
people have chosen to reject the truth tonight concerning any
number of subjects, morality salvation, the church, the
necessity of Christian Living and on and on we might go and as
the result Geordie of people about us.
Believe the many lies that Satan has pawned off on a world that
seems eager to be deceived. Let me explain how this works.
God says, through Moses in the beginning, I created the heavens
and the Earth. That's a simple.
Declarative statement that God in the beginning of time,
created all that. Is he created the heavens and
the Earth? And tonight I have a had the
faith to accept that statement or I am an Infidel.
I either believe what the Bible says there or I reject the truth
of the ER well, the world finds that hard to accept and so some
Infidel scientists can come along with a Preposterous
theories such as that, man. Originated from A non-sex
Primitive, Life Cell, that spontaneously evolved and over
the course of millions and millions of years that sell
finally developed. And it evolved to the point that
it became a creature with legs, and with arms, and sprouted
hair, and started climbing, trees and eating bananas.
And that's your great, uncle Harry.
And People believe that and teachers can stand up in a
classroom and they can teach that and people will believe
that they accept that simply because they have said, no, and
their mind in the Bible truth that in the beginning, God
created the heavens and the earth.
Now, God had a simple principle when he created all living
things and he made them of two genders.
He made male and he made female and one need only.
Look at the course of nature to understand that this is God's
system and God's plan for the propagation of the human race.
And for that kind of companion. A ship, but the world says it is
not that way, they reject that. And so some sociologists can
come along and tell us that marriage can be between two men
or two women or that two men or two women can constitute a
functional and loving home. Just as much as any traditional
home with a traditional mother and father, and we've reached
the point today that the world upholds homosexuality, and
obviously, unnatural lifestyle as a glorified lifestyle,
instead of being, what the Bible calls it, and that is an
Abomination, against God. Jesus said I am the way, the
truth and the life and no man cometh unto the father.
But by Me, Jesus also said, if you continue in my word then are
ye my disciples indeed. But the world says that that's
too dogmatic, that's too narrow. They reject that kind of bigoted
Theology. And so you end up with so many
denominations and various religions and factions and sects
in the world that people today don't even know whether there is
such a thing as absolute truth or Truth Versus error.
It's all just a feeling it's all just An experienced it all, it's
all, just what you choose to believe, or what road, you
choose to go down in life and there really is no standard that
dictates the difference between right and wrong.
And so, again, I say that if you reject the premise of God's
word, if you reject the truth, all there is to believe is a
lie. And if you refuse to listen to
God, the only one left to listen to is the devil.
And the Bible says, he is the father of Lies, I believe.
Tonight, if there are at least seven lies that see, Attempts to
whisper into any eager and listening ear.
And he has certainly deceived our world with his moral and
religious Fabrications. And I think we can take the
deceptions of the devil and we can really boil them down,
categorize them and 27, basic falsehoods that he has passed
off on the world tonight and I want to discuss them with you
for a few minutes. I want to begin by saying that
Satan number one, wants you to believe that there are many ways
to get to God. If there is a God, there are
many ways Ways to approach him to, please him to serve him and
to finally inherit eternity with him, despite the fact that Jesus
in John 14 and 6, very dogmatically said, I am the way,
the truth and the life. And no man cometh unto the
father. But by Me, Jesus said, in words,
that could not be any plainer in John, chapter 10 and verse 9, I
am the door. And by me.
If any man shall enter in, he shall be saved.
Jesus claimed in Matthew 28 and verse 8, In all authority in
heaven and on Earth has been given unto me and Paul in
Colossians 3 and verse 17 said whatsoever ye do in word or
indeed. It must all be done in the name
of or by the authority of the Lord.
Jesus. Now it's convenient when one
finds God's way too restrictive or too narrow or unpleasing to
think that some other way will do just as well.
And as a result of that kind of rationale man is fooled around
over the course of hundreds of years.
And he has built for himself, a maze of denominations and
religious factions and told the world.
That one of them is just as good as another.
Until today, we have reached the point that you can't hard to
distinguish any of the religions in the world.
In fact, this was really driven home in my mind here, just a few
years ago. Immediately after the horrible
tragedies of 911, you may remember that there were a
number of reactions amongst our nation really around the world
after that horrible day, and one of them for a very brief amount
of time it seemed There was going to be a little bit of a
religious Awakening at a religious revival.
A Revival of spiritual thinking on the part of people, I know,
one thing that It produced was a rallying cry for Unity for
ecumenical Unity for religions to come together and to find
Common Ground. Instead of focusing upon their
differences and being alienated. And they explained that the
reason that we were living in the climate that we are in the
world is because people are religions really can't get
along. Long.
And so religion is the culprit of the problem?
Well, it our local paper down home.
One day, I was shocked when a newspaper article came out.
That said, one of the largest and mainstream denominations in
town was going to host a forum or a seminar that coming weekend
and again this is not some far left organization.
This is not some Fringe or radical group.
This is a large mainstream respected denomination, not only
in that Community but throughout the country.
And this group was going to hold a forum inviting preachers of
various religions to come together.
And not only were they going to invite the quote-unquote, pastor
of another denomination in town but they were as well going to
invite one of the local Jewish rabbis and a Muslim.
Clear it to this meeting and these men were all going to be
given an opportunity to get up and explain their beliefs and
talk about their beliefs and they would take questions and so
forth. And this preacher with this
denomination was quoted as saying that it is Is time that
we begin focusing on the areas, in which we agree, instead of
focusing upon the areas in which we disagree because he said, we
really have more in common than we have that.
What divides us. Now I'm going to tell you that's
where we are today. We live in a pluralistic
society. We live in a society today where
no one can claim that they have the truth to the exclusion of
other people and I'm going to dogmatically and unashamedly.
Say tonight that I have nothing religiously In common, I have no
basis. No grounds for any type of
fellowship or Unity. Not even the beginning point of
such with anybody who believes that.
Jesus Christ is anything, but what he claims to be.
And that is the only begotten, Son of God, God in the form of
man who came down and vicariously died for the sins of
man. And he is the only way to get to
heaven. And I unashamedly say tonight
that I don't believe they'll be a person man woman, boy, or girl
at the age of accountability, that will walk through the Gates
of Heaven, who has not placed They're obedient faith in Jesus
Christ. There is no other way to get to
heaven. Man's goodness, will not get you
there who you are, will not get you there.
The fact that you live in a certain country will not get you
there. The fact that your parents are
religious will not get you there.
Jesus said I am the way I am the truth and I am the life and I
know that that's too narrow and that's too dogmatic for people
in this world today, but I believe that Jesus is the only
way to heaven and will always be the only way to get to heaven.
But you know, we shouldn't really be Prize at, that's the
mentality of millions of people in this country and around the
world, they calls after all preachers have hammered home for
Generations. Now into people's minds here, it
doesn't matter what you believe, it's all about a good feeling.
It's all about that. You just try to get along with
other people, it's all about the warm fuzzy feeling.
You have about other people because really people are
sincere and they're willing tension and what we believe in
what we practice, why that's just mechanics, and that's
irrelevant and that's unimportant.
Why not take the next step and say that?
People that reject Jesus Christ. As the Son of God, they just
have a different understanding than we do.
They just come from a different background than we do and we
need to tolerate and we need to co-exist and we need to extend
the right hand of Fellowship to all of these religious people
around the world. Don't believe it for a minute
because tonight it is a lie of the devil that there are many
ways to get to God. Get into heaven is not like
looking at a road map of the United States and choosing the
most scenic route to get. Our, but Jesus said straight and
narrow is the way that leadeth unto life and few there.
Be that find it, Matthew 7 and 14.
The Bible declares there is one body and Paul said that Christ
is the savior of that body Ephesians 5 and 23.
And it boils down to this tonight, you're either in that
body or you're not, you're either in the church that Jesus
Built, or you're not and your salvation depends tonight upon
whether or not you are in it. One is not as good as another
one, believe it. Is not as valid, is another one
church, is not as right as another Satan and they want you
to believe that, but Jesus says, every plant that my heavenly
father hath not planted shall be rooted up, Matthew 15 and verse
13. Number two, though Satan wants
you to believe that the word of God is not absolutely true.
Now, it's alright to believe that the Bible has good points.
It's alright to believe that the Bible has an overall.
Hood moral message and in encouraging moral by which to
guide your life, but it's going a little far to say that the
word of God is just that that it is the word of God.
Inspired of God and Authority in all matters of faith and
practice. And you know that's been the
tactic of Satan since the beginning.
We know the story. When God created the original
pair and place them in the Paradisio Garden.
And it wasn't very long after God had given them one law to
keep one prohibition. God said there's a tree in the
midst of the garden that you are not to partake of you and eat of
every tree of the garden. But God said the tree of the
knowledge of Good and Evil. God said, Thou shalt not eat of
it and God said, if you do eat of it, you will die.
There was nothing convoluted. There was nothing hard to
understand about that. If you could see through a
ladder, you can see what God was saying.
There is one tree. Do not eat it.
Leave it alone or you will die. That is sin.
It is transgression. You know, my law that was God's
unction unto Adam and the some to Eve Satan's live it into the
garden. And he approached Eve with a
half insinuating, a remark. He said hath.
God said, ye shall not eat of every tree in the garden.
Satan was not seeking information.
Satan knew just as well as he did.
What God had said. He knew that that tree was
off-limits and forbidden so far as they were concerned and so he
wasn't sincerely trying to find out what God had said We Know
Better. Than that.
But rather Satan was trying to plant the seed of doubt in the
mind of eat, he was trying to get Eve devaney.
Well, what did God really say? What did God really mean by what
he said? Anyway, maybe it's not just
exactly. Like I thought it was maybe I've
overlooked something here, maybe I read too much into what God
was saying, you know, sometimes it's easier to allow a seed of
Doubt get planted in our mind. And if it stays there, it grows
and it grows into something big over time.
Maybe you have started out for church, some Sunday morning got
in the car with your wife and got just a few blocks down the
street, she begins to mumble and think to herself, you know, I'm
not sure. I turn the oven off and she had
started lunch a little early. She said, I'm not sure, I turn
that up and off and then she thinks well, maybe I did, she
gets a few more blocks down the street.
She says, no, you know, I think I left that oven on well, maybe
not. And then you get a little
closer. She says, I know, I didn't, I
just can't ride. No, I didn't turn that oven on
and by the time you pull it, by the time you pull into the
parking, lot of the It's building.
She is convinced that the house has burned to a heap of Ash and
you've got to turn around and race back to the house, all to
find out that she did turn the oven off, but she allowed that
thought to cross her mind. And because that seed of Doubt
was placed there that seed of Doubt grew until she had
convinced herself that that was the case.
Well that's really what happens to Eve here.
I think Satan says hath. God said that you shall not eat
of every tree in the garden. Did God really say that and she
starts thinking? Well what did God say?
And Then she overreacts a little bit.
She says, yes God said. We should not eat of this tree.
Neither should we touch it? Lest we die?
Well there unless something wasn't recorded in the scripture
that God said the Bible doesn't say anything about God.
Saying not to touch it. God said not to eat of it.
She's overreacting. She's questioning.
The wheels are turning in her mind.
What did God really say? She's not exactly sure of
herself and Satan sees the opening.
He sees the vulnerability and he seizes upon And he denies what
God said. He said not only will you not
die. Your eyes will be opened and
you'll be able to see like gods and he painted the tree as being
perfectly harmless. Now, you know, are is usually
mixed with truth. It was true that the tree was
not physically. Fatal, it was true that the
fruit on that tree was just as edible as the tree next to it.
It was not poisonous but it was and it was true.
The eating its fruit would do what Satan said it Would do it
would bring about the knowledge of Good and Evil.
It was wrong, though, to even suggest that eating the fruit
would not really do what God said it would do.
And that is bring about their separation from God.
And cause death claiming to believe the Bible is not in and
of itself, believing the Bible and believing some things that
are contained in. The Bible is not parallel to
accepting the word of God by faith or letting the word of
Christ dwell richly within you. Now, few people among those who
profess Religion deny, the entirety of the Bible, most
people accept some teaching or Psalm statement son, premise of
the word of God, millions of people.
And I do mean millions of people who go to church every Sunday
who profess religion, they deny or they ignore some portion of
the scripture and they justify that in a number of ways that we
may talk about later on in this meeting, they deny the
inspiration of the Bible. They say that the Bible was just
generally revealed by God, but not inspired by the Holy Spirit.
And so therefore, it's not word by word and line, by line,
literally, the word of God. They deny the relevancy of the
authority. The sufficiency the, the
application in modern times of the word of God and Satan
convinces people to believe that he'll the Bible just merely
becomes somewhat of a good book, but a book that is wracked with
error, a book that is insufficient a book that is
unable to guide, man, and help man, to steer through the
complicated course of life in our modern day.
Satan is convince people that doctor A matter of personal
preference or belief. But Jesus said, Thy word is
truth. John 17 and 17.
Satan says, there is no such thing as a moral absolute.
That truth is relative. David said, however, the word of
the Lord is Right, Psalm 33. And for Satan says, God really
didn't mean what he said. You can't take God.
Literally Paul says, let God be true.
But every man, a liar Romans 3 and verse 4, David said in Psalm
119 in 160 Thy word is true from the Canning.
And every one of the righteous judgments endureth forever.
Satan wants you to believe tonight.
The word of God is not true. I asked you if the word of God
is not true. What is number three?
Satan wants you to believe. God will make an exception in my
case and what a deception this really is.
God will make an exception in my case.
How many people subconsciously believe that?
How many people have been lulled into a sense of complacency and
false security thinking? Yes, there's a God and God is
going to judge sin. One of these days but God looks
at me a little differently than he does other people.
I've got a little bit of a different kind of relationship
with God. Then people out yonder.
Who don't profess religion? Surely God takes into account
who I am and the background. I come from, you know,
contemporary Society has made a mockery of the rule of law and
Justice. Our system today is really
broken in many respects and I know that that's the case,
because you can basically get out on a busy street corner at
High Noon and commit first-degree murder.
And if you've got enough money and you can hire an influential
enough Attorney At a smart enough, Attorney.
He can usually work that around. If you get, just the right jury
that you can get off the hook. If you don't get completely
acquitted, then you can at least get a reduced sentence.
You can get off on some lesser charge, that's just the way our
system works. There are loopholes in the law
today and people know how to seize on those loopholes and
they know how to get people in trouble out of trouble.
Rather, regardless of the trouble, they really should be
in. And because we live in a society
that does have loopholes and safeguards and we really live in
a society Doesn't accept responsibility for its actions
anymore. We've really been lulled ourself
into believing in religion, that that's that.
It's that way with God. There are loopholes in the law
of God. God looks at us differently.
It's really not going to happen to me.
I'm not going to have to stand before God and account for my
life. God looks at me differently.
Wrong God makes no exceptions for anyone in Romans 2 and verse
2 Paul said but we are sure that the Judgment of God is according
According to truth against them which commit such things.
Now, the context is the Jews were relying on the Blood of
Abraham. And they were reasoning amongst
themselves. Well, you know, we're Abraham's
children and since we are the Seed of Abraham, we have a
special connection with God and we have a special relationship
with God. And we're not like these filthy
Gentiles out here who don't know God and don't have a covenant
with God. When in truth, Paul is saying
they were guilty of the same sins of the Gentiles were and
they stood just as condemned in the eyes of God.
But they denied that because of who they were, Paul says, wrong,
the Judgment of God is according to truth against all of those
who commit sin regardless of who they are his conclusion in,
Romans chapter 3, and verse 23 is for all have said, he reasons
in Romans, chapter 1 that the Gentiles were estranged from
God. In Chapter 2, he talks about the
Jews, his conclusion in chapter 3.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God and his
premises Romans 1 and verse 16. For I am not ashamed of the
gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God and To Salvation
unto all them that believeth to the Jew first and also under the
Greek, that doesn't mean that the Jews were preferred by God.
In this particular case, it simply means that God took the
gospel to them first and then he offered it unto the Gentiles but
it was offered unto all because it was the answer for every man
said, man, could not rely on the blood coursing through his
veins. He could not rely upon who his
forefather or his forefathers. Were he could not rely upon what
religion. He had embraced up into that
point, Man, stood on equal, footing in the eyes of God and
would and will be judged by the life that they lived.
God judges sin tonight, regardless of who commits it,
you may have sat on a Pew of a church building.
All of your life, every Sunday. God will judge your sin.
Just like he judges, the man who's never darken the door.
God judges in God, judge, Sodom and Gomorrah because of its
embracing perverted Lifestyles and he buried them with
Brimstone. There's not a doubt in my mind
that this nation is rotting and Decay.
Modern man is ripe for Destruction, and God is letting
that happen because of our outright rejection of decency
and morality. And because we have embraced as
a society. As a modern age, those very same
things in Noah's day, God opened the windows of heaven and The
Fountains of the deep. And he drowned, the Human race
because the thought of man's heart was only evil continually
Genesis chapter 6 and verse 5. Don't think for one minute that
God is not aware of the filth and the vulgarity and the
profanity that have absolutely saturated.
Our society today and turned it into a moral Cesspool when God
looks upon a society that sanctions, the slaughter of a
helpless and innocent child. Every 21 seconds in an abortion
clinic, don't think for one minute that he does not very
well. And vividly, remember, the
atrocities that the people of Israel committed While
worshiping Baal Baal of the valley of hinnom by burning
their babies as a sacrifice, to the Pagan.
God, Molech and sent them into the harsh captivity of Babylon.
Heater says, in First Peter, wanted 17 the father who without
respect of persons judgeth according to Every Man's work,
God may not deal with Nations on the same level that he did with
Israel and with nations in that old age.
But I can tell you God, judges sin today, just like he always
had and there is coming a judgement day.
Day. When every man and every woman
is going to stand before God and they're going to have their
lives open before God like a book and they're going to answer
for their deeds and you will be there and I will be there.
And God will not judge based upon who you are.
He will judge upon what you were and the life you lived you will
not escape the Judgment of your sins because your father, your
mother, your grandfather, your grandmother, your husband, your
wife or your children, lived a righteous life, you will right
into the heaven into heaven on the coattails of no one.
You will only Only be saved. If you have obtained, the
Forgiveness of your sins on God's terms and there are no
exceptions to that rule. Not one.
Number 4. Satan wants you to believe.
I cannot be happy if I live a Christian Life.
And the world really has a strange definition of Happiness
to me. I really don't get it.
I have to admit to you maybe someone could explain it but I
have yet to see anyone that's given me a satisfactory
explanation of how the things that the world thinks makes them
happy will make them happy. The world says that to be happy,
you have to get drunk every Friday night.
Be married at least three three times and that to be happy.
You have to play golf or go fishing on Sunday to be happy.
You have to have a college degree and make it a hundred
thousand dollars a year that to be happy.
You have to have everything you ever wanted.
To be happy, you have to live on the right side of town to be
happy, you have to drive the right kind of car.
And you have to achieve just the right socioeconomic status,
right after all, God and the church and family and so on and
so little peace of mind. What's that all about?
You only go around one time. Time, grab the horrible, the
tail make the most of it, it's all about you and you deserve to
be happy. And then he says, look at those,
pitiful people over there. Look at those people who have to
go to church, look at those people over there, that live
their life bound up by an outdated set of Victorian
morals, and rules and regulations of that Bible.
Look at those people over there, that can't go out and do all the
things that we do and kick up our heels in the sand and have a
fun time and drink and curse and Gamble and do everything else.
Look at that, you know some people.
How do you have happiness? As I said, he's strange to me.
Getting high on drugs until you have fried your brain, like an
egg. Does not sound like happiness to
me. But millions of people have been
duped into believing that it is because they'll do anything to
get their hands on the stuff. Getting into a drunken stupor
and making a fool out of yourself and waking up the next
morning, feeling like someone has your head but no Vice.
I don't get where that's happiness, I don't get, well,
that's a good time. I understand how people fall
into the Trap of Temptation and I understand how people get
addicted to the stuff. I understand that good and well,
but I have never understood how people think that's fun.
But people do because tomorrow night by the millions, young and
old will go out and they'll hit the bars, and they'll have their
keg parties and they'll have their drug parties, and that's
fun to them. That's what it's all about.
To them. They spend their life, they live
up there week to get the Friday, so they can do all of that.
Catching some disease or raising a child on welfare because of my
irresponsibility and my lust in my selfish, desire for pleasure.
That doesn't sound like happiness to me.
And doesn't sound like a well-rounded life and doesn't
sound like a successful life because it's not Let me tell you
what happened. This is happiness, is going to
church on the Lord's Day. David said, in Psalm 122 and one
I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of
the Lord. And if you feel like going to
church is a labor, if you feel like going to the church, going
to church is a drudgery you need to get converted.
Because the fact of the matter is the person that loves the
Lord Has No Greater Joy in his life than to come together with
the people of God, and seem to God and read his word, and study
his word and pray together with those of like Precious faith.
That is a joy in the Life of any Christian.
Happiness is keeping the Commandments of God, Proverbs 29
and verse 18. He that keepeth the law.
Happy is he, happiness is trusting in God, their life's
uneven and uncertain circumstances.
As David said, in Psalm 146 and five happy.
Is he that hath. The god of Jacob for his help,
whose hope is in the Lord, his God, which made Heaven and Earth
the sea and all that they're in is and keepeth Truth forever.
In other words, happiness, it's facing whatever life throws your
way knowing that you've got a god like that on your side.
Happiness is living a life for others, Proverbs 14, and 21.
He that hath Mercy on the poor happy, is he, the world is all
about me. The world is All About Me Myself
and I what makes me happy what I can get what I can achieve.
But the life of the Christian is self abasing in devoted to
others. You say, where's the happiness
in that? Do you know psychologists have
proven that people who live at altruistic life?
People who live a life, a selfless Life, Giving of
themselves getting of their time getting of their money under
those who are in need are happier and more contented and
at peace with himself people. It's true.
And that's what the Christian life is all about.
Happiness for the believer. Here's the ultimate definition,
happiness for the believer. Is drawing our last breath on
this Earth. And one minute later having God
opened the curtain of immortality into paradise and
ultimately eventually spending an eternity in a city that is
filled with holy happy, singing, laughing people.
In Robes of pure white happiness, is going to a land
where tears never fall because God wipes them away.
Happiness is going to a place where there is no pain, no?
See, Sickness no disease, no dying, no disappointments.
Our heartaches where you have neighbors, like Abraham and
Isaac, and Jacob, and Peter, and James and John doar.
You can stumble around in life and throw your life away and
live for yourself and live for sin.
And have your supposed good time for a little while.
And then you could be cast into a lake of fire and an abyss of
darkness, where the souls of the unrighteous weep unceasingly,
and grind their teeth together in pain and endless frustration.
You can go to a lake of Eternal fire where you will never be
consumed. Just endlessly suffer.
You can go to a place where you'll have neighbors, like,
Hitler and Haman, and Charles Manson, you can go to a place
where you, perhaps, we'll never see your children, or your
mother or your father. Again, that's called hell, and I
don't call that happy. But Satan would have you to
believe. You can't be happy if you live a
Christian Life number 5. Satan would have you to believe.
My son is my business and I'm not hurting anyone but me.
My son is my responsibility and what is it to you?
If I live a life of sin? Well, and Deuteronomy 5 and
verse 9. Moses said, Thou shalt not bow
down thyself on the graven images nor serve them for I, the
Lord thy God, am a jealous God. Visiting the iniquity of the
father's upon the children, unto the third, and fourth generation
of them. That hate me.
Now, I think if there's a modern application to that passage, if
there's a moral principle there within that, passage that
extends, right on down to you and me, it is that sin has
consequences that Outlast. Us sin has consequences that far
across the generational divide, and some people do them their
families to failure and destruction and despair and
unhappiness, and a life of drudgery and slavery to sin,
because of the choices they make. that's how influential you
are, and you may not realize that But you hold the destiny of
lives in your hand. Here in the last few years, I've
experienced the joy that most of you sitting out here tonight.
Have experienced some of you many years ago.
And that's to bring a brand new life into this world.
And both times. I don't think I've ever since
two more overwhelming, feeling of responsibility than to hold a
child newborn in my arms and looked down and say they are my
responsibility and the life. I live the words, I say the
choices. I make the priorities that I
have is in large part and perhaps solely going to
determine whether they spend eternity because they will live
forever. Just like I will whether they
spend eternity in heaven or hell.
My friend is my business, it's nobody's business, but mine the
center says, the devil would have them to believe how foolish
that is in. We remember the sin of Aiken of
taking The Spoils of Jericho and how in so doing, he harmed his
nation and his family. According to Joshua, the seventh
chapter Israel lost in their battle against AI because of his
Aikens soon. His family died in retribution
for Aikens sin. I repeat your sin will destroy
the people, you claim. Claim to love.
When a man breaks the long goes to prison, his family goes to
prison with him in a manner of speaking, when the young person
throws his life away and alcohol and drugs and promiscuity, and
sinful living, he takes his parents into a period of Torment
with in their life. And they don't realize the pain
that their mother or their father experiences.
During those long and sleepless nights wondering where they're
at, who they're with, what they're doing.
I've seen young men and young ladies who follow their
unbelieving, father or mother straight down the road to hell,
because they look up to them and they want to be what they are
King, David's sins destroyed his son Absalom, when he was a boy,
Absalom, watched his father, seduce, another man's wife, he
watched his father lie, he washed his father manipulate and
conspire, he finally saw his father become a murderer as he
killed Uriah. And so, absolutely, no surprise
grew up to be just as disloyal as his father, taught him to be,
he killed. David's other.
On his brother amnon. He later tried to steal the
kingdom. He did what his daddy did he
cheated? He lied.
He manipulated and finally tried to kill his own father because
David taught him how to do it. And David, the chickens came
home to roost for David. The sword never departed from
his house. He said my sin is ever before me
and never in his life was that any more true than after that
tragic battle in the woods Absalom was killed and they bore
the news back to David and he locked himself in his chamber
and he cried and he well do Absalom Absalom.
What I have died for thee, o Absalom, his sons destroyed his
family, several years ago. Was a father who came home.
To his three children. And had to tell them that he had
gotten a note that day or found a note that day from their
mother saying that she was leaving and never coming back.
She disappeared. The two older children were able
over the course of time to somewhat adjust.
But the little ten-year-old boy simply could not.
One night, his father came home from work and the little boy
asked him said, father can we please go out tonight and look
for Mom? And let's go get her and let's
bring her home the father tenderly explain son we've been
through this before. And believe me, if I knew where
your mother was, we would go find her but I don't know where
she's at. The boy began to cry and he
said, Daddy, please, let's just go find Mother and bring her
home. I want things to be like they
used to be the father growing impatient and frustrated said,
son. I'm telling you, I don't know
where she is now, let's just drop it.
I don't hear no about it. The sun began to sob and he
said, Daddy, please. Let's just go find Mom and bring
her home and I want her to cook supper.
Like she always did And the father shouted, I don't know
where your mother is. I just hush about it.
Let's go to McDonald's and get something to eat.
And the boy said, I don't want to go to McDonald's.
I want my mother. But they went to McDonald's.
And they ate. And that little ten-year-old boy
sunk into a deep depression in his life that never broke. and
some years later, 12 years, in fact, still living under the
auspices of that. Sorry mother, he went into a
McDonald's down the road here in Los Angeles and he shot 22
people because of the rage that was inside of him.
Don't tell me, it's my life. It's not your life.
It's the life of your wife. It's the life of your husband.
It's the life of your children. It's the life of your mother.
It's the life of your father, and their life counts just as
much as yours does. Number six, Satan wants you to
believe. There is no judgement day, and
it doesn't matter whether you believe there is or not.
There is it, did it matters? Not if you choose to believe
that, there is no Harold. You can still go there.
The Earth is round whether you choose to believe it or not, and
sin is real, and hell is real and sin will Send you there,
whether you believe it or not, Peter said, in second, Peter 3,
verses 3 through 11, the last days there would be scoffers
walking after their own lusts, and they would say, where is the
promise of his coming? Because since the father's fell
asleep, all things continue as they always were from the
beginning of the creation. In other words, if there really
was going to be a second coming, if the Lord really was going to
return he'd have been here by now, will you mean all this
business about a judgement day? And Peter says, you know, this
that life continues upon this Earth the wild continues As it
is second by second and minute by minute an hour by hour
because of one thing, and that is the patience of God.
But one day like the Sands, in an hourglass, they're going to
run completely out. His patients is going to be over
and Peter says That like a thief in the night.
Suddenly. Christ is going to return.
This Earth is going to be destroyed and the world is going
to be summoned together before the Throne of Jesus Christ in
judgment. As certain as the fact, you're
sitting where you are the day of judgment, is an appointed day
acts 17 and 30. Every one of us will be there
and we will give an account of ourselves to God.
Romans, 14 and 12, every knee shall bow in that day and every
tongue confess that Jesus is Lord, Romans 14 and verse 11,
one day, I'm going to stand Before the Throne of Christ, and
I'm going to be made to account for every thought I had and
every word I said, Ed and everything I've done in life, it
is not been washed away by the blood of Christ. and you two
will answer for The Gap that lies between where you are and
where you should have been You're not going to die and then
a demise and be no more. You're going to live forever
forever forever and forever and forever somewhere either in the
presence of God or in the abyss of hell and that choice is yours
but don't believe for one second.
There is no judgement day. And lastly tonight Satan wants
you to believe. I have plenty of time and
perhaps this is Satan's, most deceptive tactic.
I have plenty of time that allows you to have all of the
Good Intentions in the world. You don't have to antagonize the
church. You don't.
After deny, the truth of God's word, you don't have to go
around and argue against the Bible and tell people there is
no God and the Bible isn't true. You don't have to do any of
that. In fact, really, being lost is
the easiest proposition in the world because it takes no effort
being lost requires one thing. And that is waiting one
heartbeat too long to meet God on his terms.
Now, life is fragile. If you could blow your life
right down to hours. We think of life in terms of
years, you can just boil your life right down the hours and
minutes and seconds. And at some point out there in
the future, That clock is going to move the last time where
you're concerned. and you may know that minute is approaching,
and you may not But that day is coming.
And Solomon tells us in Proverbs 27 of one boast not thyself of
tomorrow. For thou knowest, not what a day
may bring forth. You may not be alive at the next
rising of the sun. You do not know that tonight and
I don't say that to frighten you tonight.
I don't say that just simply to repeat preacher rhetoric
tonight. I say that tonight because it is
true. You do not know about tomorrow,
you don't know about an hour from now.
Your line of work may have brought you into contact with
Carnage and death. Mine has from time to time as a
preacher of the Gospel. I have stood at the bedside of
dying Saints, some of them there after a long-term illness, some
of them there after a sudden heart attack.
For four years, I worked in broadcast journalism, until here
just recently. And in a fairly smaller Market.
Where it's kind of all hands on deck.
And one of my jobs in the evening after most of the
reporters and photographers had gone, home was when we would
hear those codes, come over the scanner.
That there had been a horrible accident or shooting or
stabbing. I had to get a camera and go out
there and cover. And I suppose over for years, I
did a lot of that. And in the course of that time,
I saw a lot of carnage. I wasn't really kept back from
it. I was able to be right up there
where all of it was and I suppose in one respect, you get
a little bit jaded to it. You get a little bit callous to
it once you seen it enough, but I can tell you that of all of
the Fatal wrecks scenes that I have been to and all of the
corpses I've seen laying on the pavement. all of the bodies that
I've seen brought out of a house on a stretcher, I have never one
single time seen that, that I did not stop and think about how
fragile life is and was not reminded that that person One
hour ago was just as alive as I am and one hour ago had no idea,
they would be dead. And there may be a funeral home
in this town with an empty Gurney tonight and your body
could be the next to lie upon it.
And you just don't know at this moment, but Satan deceives
people into believing you have time.
It's fine to obey the gospel. You need to be worried about
that, but not now you have typed enjoy life.
Do what you want to do, you can get around to that when you're
older. And thus he whispers into the
ear of many willing hearts and causes them to stumble right
into the pits of Eternal destruction.
The poet said, the clock of life is wound but wants and no man.
Hath the power to tell just when those hands will stop it.
Late or early our live and love and toil with will be place.
No faith in tomorrow for the earned, the hands may be still
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