Okay, here's how we're going to do this.
I'm going to share with you an Eastern Fable, but just to make
things a little bit more interesting and when I turn it
into a riddle, so, let's see which of you out there can guess
the correct answer to the riddle.
And once you've got it, of course, leave it in the comment
box below. One day six.
Blind men were told to put their hands on something and describe
just what it was. They could feel the first blind,
man. Said this I feel something.
Large like a big oversized fan. The next blind.
And said this, as I put my hands on it, it feels rock-hard a bit
like a brick wall. Another blind, man.
At the back said. I feel as though I can feel a
strong sort of cord like a rope. The two at the front.
One of them said this? No.
No, it's not a rope. What I feel is a sort of spear,
it's sharp, and it's smooth. And the man next to him said,
really, because I feel something quite rugged, like a large sort
of snake ready to bite. And then the very, very last.
Blind man, said, all of you are wrong.
Do you know what? I can feel a large tree trunk?
My dear friends. Have you guessed what it was?
The blind men were touching. They had found a big large
elephant. Now, why do I tell you that
story? There's actually one reason and
one reason alone. I believe the culture that you
and I live in right now has become just like those six blind
man. All around the world.
We have men and women. Laying their hands on guard and
trying to describe what it is. They feel they come up with
their own assumptions, their own judgments and they try to bring
God down into their own culture. For instance.
We get one man and he says, yeah, I think God just wants us
to be happy. It doesn't matter who I'm in a
relationship with doesn't matter who I, marry as long as I'm
happy God's happy, another man might stand up.
And say, yeah. When I read the Bible, I just, I
just don't think that hell is meant to be taken, literally.
I don't think God would ever send.
To help another person a lady. Perhaps says, I don't really
think that God would ever want us to take the resurrection.
Seriously. No, it's more of a metaphor.
It's more of a picture that we need to.
Just look after one another and care for one another because
good always triumphs over evil. And they interpret the Bible.
They change it, they mess it up and they're laying their hands
boldly on things that they have. No.
Right. To touch whatsoever.
Perhaps you thinking, Joe. It can't get much worse.
Now. Can it surely?
Well, the answer is Is I'm afraid?
Yes, it can get a lot worse. So not only now we got lecturers
professors, Skeptics atheist. The people all around us trying
to bend and shape and challenge the Bible.
But right now, we have the church itself.
Jumping onto this same bandwagon and they too.
Are questioning the Bible. They too are trying to bend it
and Slot it in to this very ungodly culture that we live in
and what do they call themselves?
They call themselves progressives?
Sieve Christians. If you leave with just one
thought ringing in your ears. I want it to be this one.
Culture is not King. Jesus is King and I don't know
who you follow on Instagram. I don't know who you watch on
Tick-Tock who you listen to on YouTube, but I do know.
One thing doesn't matter how beautiful they are.
It doesn't matter how talented, how much of a great singer.
They are. If this person does not believe
that the word of God is true from Genesis to revelation.
Revelation that person isn't worth listening to at all.
Jesus Christ, himself said this woe to you when everyone speaks.
Well of you for that is how their ancestors.
Treated the false prophets. You see in the Old Testament.
We read about these false prophets who had big big crowds
around them. The people love what they had to
say because they deceive the people, they told the people
everything they wanted to hear with their dreams and they'd say
thus, saith the Lord, but God himself said they ran those.
False prophets, they ran, but I did not send them but then the
man, the prophet that God did send what happened.
Then the crowds turned on him and said, shut up.
We don't want to hear you. Will someone get this guy to be
quiet and sometimes they would even have Stones thrown at them.
If you start preaching the truth just like John the Baptist, you
might lose your head and as Leonard Ravenhill said, oh, how
we could do with some men who are willing to lose their heads
for Jesus. So in 2021, how do we apply
this? Well, if you want a big
following So if you want many supporters, if you want to be
rich, just tell the people what they want to hear.
That's what Progressive Christianity does.
It tells the people what they want to hear it?
Basically rips out pages of the Bible ignores the important bits
and doesn't like the bits that hold up the mirror to our sin
and show us just how ugly we are.
Just how vile we are. And that's why we need a savior
Jesus Christ to redeem us because we have no hope in
ourselves. There is nothing good from the
head to the toe. There is Sound that dwells
within a flash, but what does the progressive Christian want
to do? He wants to do as many good
works. She wants to do as many good
works because that's what this world, like social justice,
environmentalism all these things, which are good in and of
themselves, but that will not save you.
It is only the god of the Bible. Jesus Christ, who can save you.
The Bible says, the God of this world has blinded the minds of
the unbelievers. So what do they want to do to
us? What do they want to do?
Two Christians, they want us to be quiet.
So you'll find this in your workplace, in your school, in
your neighborhood. Everyone will be putting
pressure on you to be silent. But you know what, I believe the
greatest tragedy of all is we obey and very often Christians
are so quiet when we should be. Speaking up, jumping is
interesting that when June comes literally pretty much every town
and every city around the world will be filled with thousands
and thousands of people marching up and down the streets
celebrating. Seeing pride month Johnny.
It's interesting that the Muslims when they are offended
and when something goes wrong to do with their faith, they go out
on the streets and they campaign for Sharia law and they really
do put their feet down. Jumping is interesting that the
environmentalist they'll climb up Builders or get arrested will
tell the whole world that we want to bring rights for
animals. And then what about you?
And I you and I have a message of Hope the only hope that gives
a man or woman a hope beyond the grave.
The truth eternal life through Jesus Christ.
And what do we do? We keep it silent and that's
what the world likes us to do. As long as we're just harmless,
like the Ned Flanders of the world, people are happy, but we
mustn't be silent. And that's really what this
video is about today. Now, is not the time to be
silent. Now, is the time to obey Jesus
Christ. Command to preach the gospel to
Every Creature. Now, if it's okay with you, I
just like to have a private conversation.
With anyone who's watching this video now, who is a preacher,
whether you've got small platform or a large platform.
I'd really like to chat to you right now.
A little while ago. I sat down with my pastor and we
talked about all kinds of things for about four hours.
And one of the questions I asked him, was this, if there was one
thing, you regret in the many years you've had in Ministry.
What's the one thing you would change?
And he said, Joe, if I could change one thing, I wish when I
was a younger, man. I preached more of Jesus.
Christ. You see you and I we could
criticize, liberal Christians till the cows.
Come home. We can pull holes at their
Theology. And boy also need to look at our
own Hearts. The Apostle Paul said this for I
decided to know nothing among you but Jesus Christ and him
crucified here is this man, the Apostle Paul with this huge
intellect and yet he decided to know one thing, the simple
Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. My fear really is this.
I'm scared that you and I have also let the culture dictates
what we make our message is about.
Okay. Well not like the progressive
Christian in that. We sort of twist it and bend it
and make it more suitable to the world.
But we've let social media and clicks inform.
What we make our message is about.
Let me give you an example right now.
There is a big trending that is just rushing through all of our
Recommendations on whatever platform you're on and it's
exposing preachers. People are obsessed with
exposing other false teachers, and I'm not saying there's
anything wrong with that, that the Bible says to Mark and
expose. But is it really our emphasis
right now that there's an emphasis also on the weird and
the wonderful, the most controversial things.
We see in the Bible. Lots of messages have been
pumped out about that and it's just a question.
I'm asking, I'm asking it to my cell to have.
We lost our way. Have we lost our emphasis by
keeping the main thing, the main thing and that's Jesus Christ
and him crucified, whether there's a man or woman, who's
never heard the name Jesus, before, or there's someone who's
been a Believer for 80 years, every single one of us needs to
soak up the gospel every single day because let's be honest.
That's what heaven is going to be about.
Not going to be about false teachers.
It's not going to be about lectures and apologetics is
going to be about this wonderful fact that Jesus Christ.
Christ died for me and that's what we need to hear.
So just a suggestion for myself. And for perhaps you also, make
sure that your messages are consumed with Christ.
Make sure you focus set aside videos every now and then
they're just completely all about the Lord, Jesus Christ and
him alone. And who knows what the holy
spirit will. Do when the gospel gets out to
all these people around the world.
I find that very exciting and I'm sure you do too.
Sure, do love, They will receive love he's wait one minute.
So this man, I'm sorry. D to the P, to the Deadpool here
to the pizza that too. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yes, you're saying, just just
preach the love of Jesus. Okay.
Yeah, okay, but don't tell her about the symbol y.
Well. Where is it that we see that God
demonstrates his love for us. How do we see that?
We see it through spreading. His word of love, not his word
of anger. Why is it once?
Once you talk about since it just gets the money to the
people about anger. When you talk about not going to
talk about heaven to them, there's one love working with a
much more endearing about hell. Hell, is he able?
Heaven is beautiful. I'm talking about health won't
let people get towards heaven. Not really.
Why is it that about heaven? People won't give unconsciously
want towards heaven. I agree.
I want to preach haven't, I want to preach the love of God.
More than the church. When there is a help.
There is a very real Helen. All of us are going Yeah, but
can I just say this to you the what, what concerns me more than
anything is when you said don't mention sing.
Now, the only way that we know that God loved us is because
Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins because can ask.
If you question. What was your name?
Again? They need to be the D to the D
to the backward. Okay D.
Can I ask you a few questions? Yes, I am.
Do it again. If you don't want to want to
want me to party once, okay, you'll be forgive it.
You don't think twice. You will prove by yourself.
Not for anybody else. Yeah.
So once I do something wrong, I try to never do it again.
And how I tried to be a nice person is I try not to do the
things that I don't like to be done to myself.
It can ask you. Have you ever stolen anything?
When I was a kid? What you call somebody steals?
Yeah, and I've stolen things to yeah.
Have you ever used God's name is a swear word.
Some say as to say You music he say OMG, you've said that
before. OMG if I see anything other than
Jesus our God is just going to come out wrong.
Yeah, so it's intentionally from childhood.
We all grew up saying. We grew up intentionally here.
We have them all the time. So hearing that, some people who
don't need it. They still have the expression.
So it's at the moment in this generation is more funny
expression done. Yet.
I'm teaching at least deeply. That's a very and a lot of
people do says, quote plastinated, god of the
universe, who put breath in your lungs.
And we associate named with disgust, and here's the one that
pins. Everyone's the world.
Jesus wants said this, he said of all, do not commit adultery.
I know why this can be difficult in the ha little nap on that.
You've never watched pornography was younger.
Yeah. Okay.
Well I have and I've done these things.
Okay. Now I'm not your Geneva made
some III of me. She said you're a lyin thievin
blasphemic, a bunch of tissue behind those Ten Commandments
along. We've Unison, old only Guilty by
the god, that does not have a bright eyes to see the good
size. Sorry.
I'm only looks and This
provokes. Holy on the bad side is that God
is Not Gonna See my good size and something.
He's not a good guy. Let me tell you, this is not
like scales. It's not about you've done so
many good works and you've done that.
God's standard is perfection and you and I, we can never meet
that. But this is the good news.
And this is why I think you're smiling behind that mustardy
key. Here is the good.
Here's the good news. Jesus Christ on the cross bled
and died for Sinners, for all of your lies.
All of my lives all over the place.
Me all the wrong things. We've looked at Jesus Christ.
Was crucified on that cross, the worst of you was laid on Jesus
Christ. And if you receive and DP the
best of him can be given to you as a kid, so you can be clothed
in the righteousness of God. And if, the good news is the one
size that fits all of, you know, a big sinner a little thinner,
Jesus, righteousness, can clothe you, and make you seem perfect
in God's eyes. So, God's the CDP in the wrong
things. He's done.
He sees the righteousness of God, and if you receive him, he
promises to forgive you. And anyone who hears this and
what she likes and snow and I'll tell you why Jesus is the only
Only you can forgive us because he's the only one to raise
himself back from the dead. But the only one who can save us
is Jesus Christ. Because he rose from the dead,
he died. He was laid in a tomb on the
third day. He rose from the dead.
And that's why I'm pleading with Eddie wants to consider this
God, man, Jesus who loves Sinners and wants all to come to
him DP. It's been amazing chapter T, to
love them as they love you. Yeah, and I'm here because I
love people. Okay, the way I look at it.
There's a sinking Titanic. Jesus says, I don't want
everyone to climb inside life, but I'd find a good news that
God, he loves to and Diana. Cross DP is been great.
Come here. Give me a hug, man.
Yeah, great to chat. Take care and I'll See You
Again. People first think things.
Love yourself and give a plus yourselves.
Come on, don't be so, don't be so down.
Come on. Love yourself, man.
Yeah. Yeah, love yourself.
And if you got a spare bed change, give it to DP for his
dancing here. I'll be over there and I'll give
you one pennies. That shit.
Don't you? Wait until kidding.
I'll see you soon. Take care DP now.
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