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Romans 16:17,20 -False Prophets- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2023-12-31

Today we're going to look at verses 17 through 20, Romans 16, 17 through 20. Really enjoyed this book. Would you please stand with me as we read God's Holy Word together. Romans 16 beginning with verse 17. Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. For your obedience has come abroad unto all men, I'm glad therefore on your behalf, but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good and simple concerning that which is evil. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. Father, we thank you so much for your Holy Word. We'd be so lost without you, Lord, so incredibly lost trying to understand what's going on out there. But Lord, with your Word, there's such a peace. You're the God of peace, such contentment, such joy, being able to rest in you and you telling us ahead of time of what's gonna happen. It's already happening. It's falling. All the pieces to the puzzle are coming into play. We're not fighting against those pieces of the puzzle. We're not demanding more time to enjoy the world. We're letting go of the world. We're embracing you to a greater measure. And Lord, even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus. Lord, teach us this morning. Encourage us. Help us to, Lord, be a light, be a blessing to those we come in contact with this week. Fill us to overflowing. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Would you please be seated? Friends and false prophets became a pattern in the early church. So in the early church you were developing a lot of friendships, but also there were a lot of false that were emerging. The cults, whether it's a revival here, revival there, what happens if it's a genuine true revival? There's brand-new babes in Christ and the cults will engage. They'll get on airplanes and they'll fly to Guatemala and they'll try to indoctrinate these brand-new baby Christians into Jehovah's Witness or Mormonism or whatever it may be. And they'll try and lead them off course, describe themselves as Christians, and in many cases people fall in that direction and all. So Paul had the same problem during his ministry, the beginning thereof. Paul knew the vulnerability of these new congregations. His letter to the church in Galatia was to combat legalism. So this brand-new church in the area of Galatia is infiltrated with Judaizers who are trying to bring the false doctrine of legalism back into the equation. His letter to the Colossian church exposed the Gnosticism. The Thessalonian letter gave a greater understanding of eschatology. So here you have a church, the Thessalonica, that's only three weeks old and questions of last days things of what happens after a Christian dies and how soon the Lord's coming. So you see like doctrines like the rapture, which people don't want to talk about. It's too hard to understand. And that sort of thing is in chapter 4 of 1 Thessalonians. And then they don't quite get it. He comes in chapter 2, which we can see today. In chapter 2 he's talking about the apostasy in verse 3. He's talking about the Antichrist can't be revealed until we're taken out of the way and we're not appointed under wrath and on and on and on. These are great great truths. And Paul's teaching them to babes in Christ. Three weeks in the Lord. The book of Revelation is a blessing for those that study the book. But the pastors say it's too hard to study. It's too hard. No it's not. Study the Word of God and teach the people. There's a blessing associated with people that just read this book. Only 17% of the church has even studied prophecy. One-third of the Bible is prophecy. And here we are in the last of the last days. It'd be tantamount to being you know in Jerusalem during the time of Jesus and not knowing the Scriptures. It'd be the wise men last week coming from the East saying where is he born King of the Jews and you don't even know where he's to be born. You know you're not even willing to take the six mile walk to go see if he's there in the house of bread. You're totally totally out to lunch concerning the 300 prophecies that Jesus fulfilled in his first coming. You're without excuse gang. You got a Bible. You got a crazy pastor that won't stop talking about it. We're without excuse aren't we? Can't hide somewhere and act like hey let's just talk about family. Let's talk about your career and your kids and all that. How many times you got to go over that? The key to family is death to self. Period. You have a self problem if you have a problem in marriage or kids or all that. It's a self problem. It's not it's not realigning with the things of the world. When the focus is on me all the time you're dead. You're dead in the water. When Christ is the focus that's where life begins. The Ephesian church. Paul warned I know this that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you and not sparing the flock. And so Paul's gonna spend three years there in Ephesus and he's about ready to leave and he's he's meeting with the elders there and he says I know that wolves are gonna come from within and from without. And it's it's a very difficult thing when we get into the church of Corinth in chapter 18 of the book of Acts he spent a year and a half there and when he's in Ephesus now he's writing back and he's writing two letters some say three there's one that's that's missing but but letters to the church of Corinth to address a lot of the different problems they had in the exercising of the gifts and such and sanctification with the sloppy agape that they had and all and so he comes through there and he he's he's writing letters unto a church that he planted that he spent 18 months in planting and he really wasn't sure about planting that church in Corinth he was already tired of getting beaten everywhere he went and the city of Corinth was a licentious wicked evil city and in Acts 18 the Lord Jesus appeared to Paul and said Paul I have many people in this city I have many people where sin does abound grace does much more abound Paul and nobody's gonna set on thee to touch thee you know Paul you're gonna you're gonna be okay guy and I'm gonna get you through this and so Paul is writing the letters to bring correction in many cases to the to the aberrant teaching that comes in through the false prophets today I would say one of the greatest dangers you have I don't know where you go to get your information but Christiandom as a as a whole is the YouTube prophets everybody's a prophet nowadays everybody's got a prognostication and a degree and what's gonna happen up in the future and all and all you really need to do is just listen to me you know that's it you know so what are the identifying characteristics of false prophets Jesus said beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves and so I I really believe that the greatest danger are the ones that come as angels of light the so-called Trumpsters that come along as evangelicals and all of a sudden they're Christian you know and they get the evangelicals to side with them and make America great and new apostolic Reformation and their eschatology is all whacked and they're going to you know enforce a righteousness that puts all everybody you know empty the swamp and get all these guys swamp creatures out of the way and we're gonna take America back and when we get it all cleaned up and everything real nice and a nice little bow in it and Hillary's lipstick on her lips you know then Jesus is gonna come back you know that's their eschatology that's what they think you know I can't imagine that so what are the identifying characteristics of false prophets the false prophets number one they're divisive verse 17 now I beseech you brethren mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which he have learned and avoid them and so the Church of Rome is not a church the Apostle Paul planted but he wrote this letter unto them knowing that they've been students of the Word of God and so fall back on what you know fall back on what you've been taught your your your faith is known your obedience unto the Lord is known abroad and but when these guys come at you don't act like you've got to have the sloppy agape and like I just got to love all these false prophets and I can't say anything because I might offend them you know and and oh golly you know he said something about Rick Warren he said something oh I like that book the shack I like this I like that the heretical my authorities right here mark them put a jacket on them why because sheep have a tendency to not spot wolves but shepherds do so don't expect me to say hey let's all get a fire going and sit around the fire and sing kumbaya with this wolf right here you know you know hey go out and have lunch with the wolf over there you know get to know the wolf a little better maybe you could stay there and convert the wolf you're not going to convert the wolf he's a wolf get away from the wolf mark the wolf protect your family from the wolf you know there's no love the wolf he ain't gonna love the wolf shoot the wolf get trapper Mitch out there to set a trap he brings he brings animals every Sunday of what he's killed during the week you know holds them up bobcats and everything get trapper Mitch trap the wolf says mark them means to watch to take aim there you go there's my authority take aim identify you got to identify you got to hold them up the Bereans were more noble because they search the scriptures to see whether those things were so Thessalonica they weren't quite that way but those Bereans they they checked out what Paul was saying they checked out with what the Apostles were saying hey this lines up with God's Word next thing is to avoid them stay away reject them don't give an ear to them don't don't pass on to all your friends the latest little titillating thing you've heard from these YouTube prophets do like YouTube does to me block them shut them get rid of them that's what happens to me I get shunned I get kicked out they don't like me Facebook block me man oh man you know we'll do it to them block them so why do you do this because they cause division they can come into a church like this thing come in with heretical aberrant teaching that can be so small to begin with an airline pilot who's been injected with the jab he has a hard time watching his electronics and if he gets off just a tiny bit he thinks he's going to Hawaii he's you're crashing in the ocean because he got off a little bit over the course of time you can't get off even a little bit you got to stay on track you can't allow it to continue you're gonna get further off track so come back to the Word of God test everything by the Word of God prove all things hold fast to that which is good you got a test you got a test test test test it all with the Word of God take every thought captive we're in a war for ideas we're in a war for truth and a war for information the devil's greatest tool is deception you you can't give in to Joseph Goebbels propaganda you can't be sucked into the fear of a false pandemic you've got to keep your head about you you got to keep your senses you got to bring everything to the Word of God you got to narrow it down in the natural and in the spiritual you got to ask yourself questions like well how many people are really dying of this 99.9% recovery huh really it's the end of the world that less than 1% it's the end of the world so you gotta start there then you gotta ask yourself well I know people that working in the hospitals how many dead bodies are stacking up zero none normal normal deaths from pneumonia that are being categorized as COVID huh oh you caught them using mannequins yeah we caught him using mannequins they're trying to jump the numbers up find some doctors that can expose them find some whistleblowers in New Zealand coming out with legitimate numbers recently but now he's swatted you know look at Dr. Peter McCullough and people Dr. Sherry Tenpenny and others that are losing their medical license because they're blowing the whistle research more and more because you're not a doctor I'm not a doctor but research get into it try to understand what's going on and then you come to the understanding oh the morticians the insurance companies the deaths are a result of the jab the jab is the killer oh do you regret not taking the job and those of you that did I'm not mocking you you you might just be with Jesus sooner some of you some of you are beating the odds you're doing really well others of you might be getting cancers turbo cancers and things as a result new words in regard to your heart condition myocarditis pericarditis all these different problems clot shots all these different strokes and things associated with you know with the shot now it was all engineered through deception and the churches stood up so I want to attack the churches first the false prophets in the churches took the bait they took the money everything's being generated everything's being moved with money money's being used for everything I read I read an article the other day that the Second Amendment the federal government wanting to to enact greater and greater laws against us in regard to getting your weapons from you everything's been moved forward by giving money to military people to hospitals to pastors to anybody that'll take the money now they're going to give money to those who are a part of the state governments to get them to go along with confiscating weapons from Americans doesn't matter what the Constitution says don't matter what the truth is it's money generated and we're gonna mandate it through you know but it's so fascinating to me the love of money everything we've been watching is people being bought off everything is there anybody out there that's not on the take that'll stand up you know is there anybody is this mind-blowing to me but they're wolves wolves and sheep's clothing you gotta mark them they are offensive they're laying traps it says they cause division dissension sedition Galatians 520 mentions this word sedition means very seductive satanic traps for people again they're offensive they're laying these traps they're satanically influenced there's doctrines of demons they're preying upon you and what's at stake what's the number one thing the devil wants to take from you he wants to steal to kill to destroy he wants to bring into bondage the bondage of hell he wants to steal your faith he wants you to relinquish the control of your life that you give to Jesus and to instead trust the Antichrist trust the government of these of the world to trust somebody other than God it comes down to faith doesn't it we're gonna obey God rather than men we're not careful how we answer you Oh Nebuchadnezzar you know we're gonna we're gonna continue to go for it with Jesus we're gonna take our chances with him now Luke 17 one says it impossible but that offenses will come but what one to him who through these offenses come so people are going to be offended these traps these it is mind-boggling it hurts me that the wolves prey upon the children the pedophiles prey upon the young boys and girls they prey upon the children in the public schools to confuse them about whether male or female they're coming after these kids and Jesus said hey it'd be better for you to have a millstone wrapped around your neck and to be casting the seed than to suffer one of these little ones to be offended can you imagine being one of these teachers one of these so-called people preying upon you know the children in this manner and so to with the evolutionary theory stealing stealing their faith the faith that God plants within a young child's heart instead of instead of taking them camping in the Boy Scouts they can't do Boy Scouts anymore too many pedophiles can't do Girl Scouts too many lesbians you know everything's been taken over everything is started out being Christian and good and all and it was an exception to the rule when you'd have a problem now the whole thing's you know just overwhelming with with the pedophiles that are attracted to places where children are am I saying the word pedophile too much but that's the world we live in isn't it they're they're lost for children they're lost for the adrenochrome the using the blood to try and make Soros live a little bit longer you know it's just mind-boggling to me the stuff they're getting away with the churches are afraid to talk about it but Jesus said hey it'd be better for you to have a millstone wrapped around your neck and the cast of the seed then defend you know one of these little ones Proverbs 16 616 says six things does the Lord hate ye seven are abomination unto him a proud look a lying tongue hands that shed innocent blood a heart that devises wicked imaginations feet that be swift and running to mischief a false witness that speaks lies and he that so a discord among the brethren but why are so many people drawn to the false prophets that's the part that I don't understand they'd be out of business if the people that are calling themselves Christians would just be Bible believers and discover that they're false prophets how can they fill stadiums how can they fill the place up with so many people what is it about these guys what is it about Joel Osteen that he can attract 40,000 people what because he tells them you can have your best life now is that the theme is that what people want to hear do they really believe that stuff or the healthy wealthy and wise group you know the positive confessors they hey this is how you can get rich is that the root of it the love of money how do they do it the Rick Warren's the purpose-driven stuff the you know dummy and down the church good deeds instead of creeds instead of doctrine instead of teaching them it's none of your business when Jesus is coming back not teaching prophecy mind-boggling how many pastors rebranded changed their AOG churches rebranded their Baptist churches followed Rick Warren's purpose-driven life come up with themes and programs and one of the common denominators and being do-gooders is they never stop begging for money do they you've got a fund all the do-gooding in the community how is Jesus going to get anything done without their programs you know each and every one of you do a lot of good you're balanced you study doctrine and you do good as the Lord leads you you don't need me projecting a campaign of how we're gonna change Kitsap County we just need a hundred grand watch this thermometer every week is getting bigger you know baloney why do the people keep going back for that does it make them feel good I don't get it it's called apostasy Paul said to Timothy in 2nd Timothy 4 verse 3 the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine we live in the Puget Sound there's some sound doctrine in this community sound means healthy wholesome they don't want healthy wholesome doctrine you know I I'm not gonna eat bugs if they give me bugs or or cricket flour it's it's unbeknownst to me I'm gonna have to do my research there's a lot of foods that I used to eat that I took for granted but I'm gonna have to read the labels I'm gonna have to learn what appeal means on all the fruits and stuff that Bill Gates is spraying it with right I'm gonna have to learn what synthetic meat is right why are these nut jobs coming after my meat because it produces testosterone because it makes you strong makes you think better I'm starting a carnivore diet this year how about you I'm going carnivore right these teeth right here are carnivorous they're for ripping and thrashing meat yeah yeah that's what I'm just talking about medium rare today medium rare I'm gonna get it started as if I haven't been doing it for years you know I had two steaks yesterday they're a little small four eggs all right that's the way you roll that's the way you stay strong you know yeah look at people doing that I better be careful but shut up you want to go vegan go vegan but man you're gonna lack a whole lot of energy whole lot of energy and the cattle that we eat they eat the grass we get our salads from from them you know it's no big deal why would I fill my belly up with salads and make myself full when I can fill it with protein when I can fill it with more meat you know that makes sense to me so the time will come when they'll not endure sound doctrine so they're not gonna endure if they don't endure sound doctrine they don't have endurance you and I are gonna have endurance we're gonna be able to persevere in times of trouble in times of stress because we're gonna rely upon the Word of God we're in the Word of God is being sown in our heart and now the Holy Spirit's bringing the Word of God to remembrance faith comes by hearing hearing by the Word of God my faith isn't going to fail me I'm going to let go of trying to be in control I'm gonna give the Lord control and I'm gonna take him at his word even when I can't understand what's going on I'm not gonna look to men to try and figure it out for me because men can't figure it out this is a God thing that's taken place I've got to trust in the Lord so I'm not gonna go look for the practitioner that'll tell me it's my mom's fault or my dad's fault or society's fault I'm gonna look to the Lord he's sovereign he's in control he's gonna help me my faith to be strengthened my faith's gonna grow I'm gonna have endurance because I've been a student of sound doctrine but after their own loss shall they heap to themselves teachers their own loss it's their own loss within well hey I'll give some money I'll do some good but you know I don't talk about my loss you need to license my loss don't be legalistic with me don't be judging me about my behavior no we're under grace man tell me more about grace tell me about sloppy agape tell me about love love means anything Obama can take in and you know legislate same-sex marriage and cause the White House to be filled with a rainbow lights and then say love wins that's an abomination that's that's a misinterpretation of what love is that's that's rebellion against the true living God is what that is but oh man don't judge you're a bigot a homophobe you're a you're a hater man gotta love so you take the word love and these guys are using it for everything to get away with whatever they want to do and if you have the audacity to even challenge him you know he's not very loving was that the best you can do that's all you got yeah he's he he cracked a joke he wasn't very nice and you know I've got a friend that that's one of those you know and you might hurt their feelings I was getting my hair cut the other day and the gal that was cutting my hair she had a couple clients there and and they came to a topic of transgenderism these kids whatever and she goes be quiet you gotta love them you know she's afraid those people be offended and I wasn't trying to hurt anybody it's just we're talking aren't we hey but um if they're offended then problems with them not with me so they're gonna heap to themselves teachers they're gonna look for teachers that tell them what they want to hear having itching ears and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables it's story time it's story time no and we're gonna we're gonna dress up like fairies and tell stories you know I've told you many times that you want to be a rock star pastor just wear a dress wear a dress in the pulpit it's coming more and more these guys are dressing the worship leaders are dressing with dresses they want to be popular they want people to like them fairy tales fables making stuff up they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables Peter says many shall follow not few but many shall follow their pernicious ways their corrupt ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of so they condemn me for teaching the truth but they introduce corruption poison into the minds and hearts of people and that poison permeates every aspect of their life you don't want to know why their marriage has fallen apart because they're not rooted and grounded in God's Word because you sowed poison into their lives you sowed ideas into their life that oh you know well you might have got married too young oh you know well he should this she should that says who says you how about death to self how about submit to God how about love and the power of the Holy Spirit how about vertically there's something wrong in your walking relationship with the Lord it's always somebody else's fault so you turn to the meds you turn to the life coach the pastors a life coach now I've got ten things they gave me and ten priorities for the coming new year I'll bet you today they're doing that ten things you can do to have a better year in 2024 in regard to your career do this regard to your body do this in regard to your marriage do this they've got it all figured out well where's the Word of God where's the priority of the Word of God where's number one let's do Matthew 6 let's go through Matthew 6 and finish at verse 33 seek first priority wise the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these other things be added unto you what's the world worried about for 2024 what am I gonna eat what am I gonna drink what am I gonna wear Jesus said the pagans think like that you don't need to be a pagan you don't need to live like the unbelievers but in the churches they are so where are they gonna go if you're not pointing them to Jesus their own devices somebody else's programs pernicious ways corrupt ways fairy tales and stories we're not to follow them were to mark them were to avoid them and here were to identify them by name now recently I had someone come up to me pull me aside in the room give me a piece of paper and tell me pastor you're not supposed to be calling these guys out by name I said oh yeah show me that in the Bible I'm a pastor and I've got a warn people concerning the false prophets if I don't I'm not a shepherd that simple and he says well pastor I'm just warning you because previously I warned a couple pastors in this regard and they're both dead well where's the love man where's the love now so I shook his hand thank you thank you oh I'm gonna die so the next week we're in Jeremiah I think nine times the Prophet Hananiah was called out by the Holy Spirit called out God exposed Hananiah as a false prophet nine times and this guy was there at the Bible study and I was preaching it man I was preaching it I knew I had a press while I had him right so be careful what you say because it will wind up in the sermon this is a bully pulpit but it's important it's important to take that serious had I not taken that interaction serious that person's gonna go to you next time with their false doctrine and they're gonna tell you about somebody that died you know all this fairy tales and stuff if I die praise the Lord I'm with Jesus I'm not afraid of dying but Hananiah at the end of the chapter Jeremiah didn't die for telling the truth Hananiah died for lying so I went up to him afterwards and I shook his hand and I said hey do you notice that do you notice nine times the Holy Spirit identified the false prophet for the people to see in that chapter yeah yeah and you notice he died yeah yeah yeah haven't seen him again I'm not gonna call him I'm not gonna coddle him I'm not gonna comb his hair for him it's in his court he must repent now he's been confronted he's not a victim you don't need to send him money you don't need to take him out to eat you don't need to oh pastor Rick's a bully you don't need to do that you mark him you avoid him and you love on him but you don't give in to that stupidity in quote-unquote the name of love you're not you too you know the name of love you're not you're not you too you're not Bono okay you're not gonna do it you're not gonna tolerate evil in the name of love no way mark them void them identify them as false prophets the false prophets are number one divisive secondly the false prophets are deceptive verse 18 for they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple so the innocent the sincere people are deceived the sappy pappies you know so sappy you know and let's just you know let's love man they come preaching a different Jesus these false prophets they come with a different Jesus attacking the deity of Christ so when I was a new believer and a knock was at the door and the Jehovah's Witness come to the door one of the things the real real Bible answer man taught me on the radio dr. Walton or Martin is the way to test the false prophets is they will always deny the deity of Jesus Christ always so once you get to know Jesus you can spot the different Jesus they're presenting so let me give you an idea I was a brand-new believer I was in a good church and I could watch the Christian television and my heart would stir and all the stuff I was hearing like I know that's wrong but I don't know where it is in the Bible yet so that's where I was at I was simple just learning a brand-new babe in Christ but the Holy Spirit was helping me Holy Spirit was stirring my heart giving me discernment so knock at the door a woman comes there and she says hey you know blah blah blah and she began to read out of John chapter 1 in the beginning was the Word the Word was with God the Word was a God she said in the original manuscripts and the Bible that she had was the real Bible that that a was in there because my heart stirred right there I said no no that is not in the Bible I knew that much because I was told to start my reading in the Gospel of John and I knew enough in John chapter 1 that that a wasn't in there somebody inserted that a and I was right and so I was stood her I stood against it and then here's what I've always done when I'm when I'm hit with false doctrine I can't quite bring the proof text to prove it right there the best I could do with her was say that a wasn't there is I go home for that encounter and that encounter with her compelled me to spend hours in the Bible it compelled me to get into the word and understand what I believe and why I believe it because next time when that happens I'm going to be ready and every time in my Christian experience even to this point if I'm faced with something that just doesn't fit and I can't quite find the verse and the whole thing for it I dig in till I do I dig in and I begin to put the pieces together and and then once I've once I've spent that time I'm done and I know where I stand I don't need to worry about it anymore and I'm ready for the next guy so study to show yourself approved unto God not disproved but approved on the God a workman that needed not to be ashamed but rightly dividing the word of truth and so be in the word of God be able to give an answer of the hope that lies within you and the best way to do that is to understand the deity of Christ and so they come preaching a different Jesus attacking the deity of Jesus Christ Jesus asked his disciples of question he said who do men say that I am there's a general consensus today of who Jesus is who do you think Jesus is well I think he's a prophet I think he's a good guy I think he's like Buddha mama Confucius you know just just one of many the general consensus who you say whom do men say that I am some say you're John the Baptist wow you remind us of John the Baptist how could that be well you're always saying repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand you don't leave the word repent out like the church is today you don't leave the word sin out like the church is today you don't leave hell out like the church is today Jesus looking at the really religious leaders and he's saying who can save you from the damnation of hell that's not very loving it's most loving thing you can do to try and rescue them from their pious prideful self-sufficiency you brood of vipers who can talk like that who can use words like that Jesus yes it is everybody that's listening is gonna know that's a that's a wolf that's a wolf that's a serpent that's a snake you release people from the control these false prophets have over them they're set free and then you get them into the word and they're even freer some say you're John the Baptist some say you're Elijah the miracles of Elijah some say you're Jeremiah the weeping of Jesus the weeping of Jeremiah some say you're that prophet one of the prophets like like Moses of deliver and all so that's the general consensus that people had of Jesus nobody said you remind us of Jonah the greatest evangelist in the Bible 40 days and you're gonna perish hundreds of thousands of Syrians the Ninevites come to Christ with a simple message of 40 days and you're gonna perish Jeremiah spends 40 years speaking to his own people and can't get even one convert but nobody said hey Jesus you remind us of that angry Jonah that patriot Jonah that wouldn't go minister to the Gentiles you know and then Jesus brings it home and he says whom do you say that I am who do you say and every single person in here has to answer that question who is Jesus lest you be deceived the false prophets want to deceive you you need to you need to know that you know that you know that you're dealing with God the babe of Bethlehem is God you worship the true and living God and he says blessed art thou Simon Barjona for flesh and blood is not revealed this to you but my father who is in heaven Peter says thou art the Christ you're the anointed one you're the Messiah Peter that's a revelation of the Holy Spirit my father has revealed this unto you and I send you that you are Peter you're the Pope buddy you're the Pope no he didn't say that I'm just seeing if you're if you're listening I could have got away with that with some of you your Catholic background he's presented as the first Pope he said I send you that you are Peter Petra's little stone and on this rock Petra upon himself I'll build my church and the gates of hell not prevail against it Peter goes away from there so pumped yeah guys you hear what he said about me blessed are you Simon Barjona flesh and blood but the spirit reveal that unto me man and then Jesus went away from there talking about how he was going to be betrayed into the hand of the Gentiles and be crucified and Peter takes Jesus by the by the earlobe come over here no try that but he did take him aside and he says be that far from thee that's not going to happen to you and Jesus looks at Peter he just was on the mountaintop of Revelation and he says Peter you savor the things of men not the things of God he said get thee behind me Satan that's how he addressed Peter he used those words get the behind me Satan Peter that's really Satan speaking through you now Peter's not a small false prophet but he can sure blow it just like you and I get the behind me Satan you savor the things of men and not the things of God Peter oh man man what a crash landing any man thinks he stands take heed lest he he fall is Jesus God is he the second person of the Trinity is he God's only begotten Son is he God incarnate is he the Messiah is it the Christ is he the Savior of the world is he the way the truth and the life that no man comes to the Father but by him that's a an argument or a truth of exclusivity the world wants inclusiveness to include everything except Jesus to include everything except Christians in their inclusiveness Jesus no exclusive I'm the only way there is no other way now that's real good for you and I that are simple folks we don't need to worry about another way or another place he might be your way he's gonna come he's a don't let them fool you don't let them fool you that he's in a cave over here or we have him in this room or whatever I'm gonna come with the sky I'm gonna come with the clouds must your kind of glory and everyone's gonna see me coming because the false prophets are trying to see people yeah we've got him we've got him over here is he the door is he the bread of life is he living water is he the light of the world is he the Good Shepherd is he the great I am is he the Alpha Omega the first and the last who is Jesus is he God or is Jesus simply Michael the Archangel the brother of Lucifer of the Jehovah's Witnesses that's who they think Jesus is is it the offspring of Adam God and Mary in a polygamist marriage of Mary's is he a Mormon as the Mormons teach is he the divine ideal a positive teacher as Christian science claims or is he God incarnate Paul says I'm jealous of you in 2nd Corinthians 11 Church of Corinth I'm jealous over you with a godly jealousy because I've espoused you to one husband even Christ but I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve he asked the woman's fault through his subtlety so your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that's in Christ for if he that cometh preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached or if you receive another spirit which you have not received or another gospel which you have not accepted to the Church of Galatia he says if they come with a different gospel let him be anathema let him be a curse if an angel comes with a different gospel don't take it don't receive it you might well bear with him mean resist continue to resist he says down in verse 13 of 2nd Corinthians 11 for such are false apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into apostles of Christ and then it goes on to say ministers of righteousness I believe those apostles of Christ they transform themselves the devil does to ministers of righteousness are the most dangerous false prophets that you and I have to face the false prophet like Donald Trump is the most dangerous kind of false prophet we face because he postures himself as one of you but then he inaugurates the warp speed jab and yet people can't they're drooling and they can't understand which way to go well you know he's playing 4d chess QAnon said which is it is he a victim he didn't know or is he a genius did he arrest one person and yet in your belief system being deceived you're actually thinking about voting for him again that's a major deception you have to understand he's playing for the other side he's the controlled opposition as Lennon said the way the control the opposition is to join the opposition but we as Christians are so desperate for America to continue as we've enjoyed our whole life that will allow these false prophets to parade themselves during the election cycle as one of us it's happening all over the globe these false prophets and when I first started talking about that boy people got so angry at me they're still getting angry at me but it's one of the best ways to pop the bubble get you to move on get you quit putting your hope in men that are lying to you the background of this is that the Tea Party was saying the Republicans and the Democrats can't be trusted can't be trusted we can't get somebody in there that'll that'll clean things up and hold to the rule of law it's really apparent now isn't it but back then so we're gonna have the Tea Party we're gonna start a third party we're gonna try and you know run an election with our own hand chosen guy that's one of us so what do you do if you're the enemy you neutralize the Tea Party by bringing forth Donald Trump who's gonna tell them everything they want to hear and he'll do some things few little things that can be changed the very first day they steal the election the very first day that they don't pardon everybody from January 6th talk talk talk talk talk till you're blue in the face and nothing's accomplished and you have the most wicked evil time last four years three years and you know the elections been stolen but you're gonna go do it again you're not gonna hold him accountable you're not allowed to talk about it you can't find a Republican that'll tell you the truth that'll stand up against any of the evil why because they all have taken the money they all have surrendered the United States unto the globalists twice the Christians voted Barack Hussein Obama in deceiver Rick Warren brings him up on the pulpit and says this is a great guy he's a Christian we don't know nothing about him but he's a Christian we don't know what country is from there's no records in any of the colleges he says that he's attended he doesn't have a birth certificate we don't know who this guy is but man this is Barack Hussein Obama his supposed wife is a man the two children he has aren't his or hers and we're not only gonna vote him in one time we're gonna vote him in two times and he promises you he's gonna fundamentally transform America that's the truth that is what they're doing we watched the movie last night that Jim and Marlene gave us about you know an ounce of courage and it was it just brought back such memories when Obama was in there you know demonizing Christmas that's why I emphasize say it Merry Christmas say it real loud put your lights up and I'm so proud of Kitsap County all the lights that people have people say Merry Christmas all that I mean people were like deer in the headlights back then separation of church and state well that's one of the things in the movie the guy had wrong he should have said that's not the end of the Constitution there is no separation of church and state in the Constitution and now you you know you can do you can say coach Joe Kennedy proved that's not law he prayed lost his job and won opens the door in all the schools and all the communities to exercise their freedom of speech and religion and you know what Bremerton does with them they demonize them and get rid of them that's the place I've been trying to minister in for 28 years and he goes to Florida and writes a book you had a hero among you you had a guy with an ounce of courage and nobody stood up to support the guy he went back to coaching and the team ignored him the community ignored him we don't deserve people like that but he proved it and in the movie as we're watching it I'm like these guys these these Obamaites they're running around knocking down statues they're breaking glass there if they don't get their way they're gonna cause chaos but nobody's arresting them and you want me to vote for a Republican that it's happening on their watch talk about deception these are false prophets they can be political false prophets they can be religious false prophets they're false prophets they're in it for the Prophet Jesus is asking you but whom say you that I am is Jesus God now when I help you if somebody ever knocks on your door is a homework assignment for you if they come to your door and you want to prove the deity of Christ there's lots of places but here's four easy ones you take him to John 1 1 1 and you say in the beginning was the word the word was with God the word was God not a God word was God same was in the beginning with God all things were made by him without him was not anything made that was made he's creator he's got pre-incarnate Christ the word of God and verse 14 and the word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory as the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth right there you've proven the deity of Christ the God man the son of man that Jesus took on the form of the man is the baby Bethlehem end of story you might not even need to go any further than that but if you do you go to Colossians 1 verse 17 he is before all things by him all things consist he's eternal and he holds everything together that word consist means he's holding all the molecules the atoms that everything together he's before all things in that he's eternal in the beginning was the word the words with God the word was God he's before all things before creation he's eternal second person the Trinity and by him all things consist Jesus is the glue that holds all of creation together right and the third place is Hebrews Hebrews chapter 1 verse 8 he says thy throne O God is forever and ever a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom forever a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom and then Revelation chapter 1 verse 8 I am the Alpha the Omega the beginning and the end saith the Lord the Almighty four different chapter ones that you can remember John 1 Colossians 1 Hebrews 1 and there's more there in those chapters in Revelation 1 where you can say all right let's go for it you ready you want to contend you want to fight want to debate it's okay to debate it's okay to earnestly contend for the faith you don't need to be passive you don't need to wimp out it's not being unloving sharpen your sword sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God pin them back shut them up expose them why can't we have a public debate about evolution let's bring in our creation scientists they don't want it they want a monopoly on their error they want a monopoly on their aberrant teaching it'd be great in a public arena to go to Mars Hill where Paul was and to be able to speak to the all the Epicurean philosophers philosophy the lovers of wisdom but never coming to the knowledge of the truth you have the truth and you jump from there and you preach Christ the false prophets are divisive they're deceptive and thirdly they're defiling verse 19 for your obedience has come abroad unto all men so the church in Rome is obedient I am glad therefore on your behalf but I would have you wise unto that which is good and simple concerning evil how important is it to be culturally relevant the other night a couple weeks ago Greg reminded me of a word I really love I love words I don't know why I'd even forget a word like that but it's nice when you can prove something with just one word the word irrelevant in describing much of the church today the church is irrelevant because you tried to be a Christian hipster because you tried to be relevant and compromise the word of God now you are irrelevant you're powerless you can't transform and change anybody's life because you're the culturally cool hip relevant dude man is gnarly man the waves are 30 foot in Huntington right now is it worth becoming defiled filthy and moral and pure are we salt if the salt loses its savor it's good for nothing to be trodden under the foot of man if you are salt you're going to be preserving influence at least in this little group you can preserve you can keep the the poison away you can make it a safe environment for women and men and children you're not gonna allow the false prophets the pedophiles the people to prey upon one another the gossip the slanders the back biters to ruin the koinonia this the love that we're to have for one another you're not gonna tolerate it you're gonna speak the truth in love but you're gonna stop it right there the world will gladly indoctrinate the world will gladly fornicate adulterate your children's life if you allow them if you allow them to your life can become the garbage dump for the world's filth if you listen to the false prophets they call them on social media influencers they call them in entertainment Disney Corporation Disney has lost a hundred ninety five billion dollars in the last year and a half why because Disney is at war with parents there are a whole lot of parents out there that know right and wrong and they know that these movies Disney's producing with all their sexuality and their aberrant whatever visions and images and such are inappropriate not only for children but for adults too and they're refusing to watch these movies or engage in any of this the stock of Disney has dropped a hundred ninety five billion in the last year and a half now do you think Disney cares no they don't care they're supported by Black Rock and they're gonna be left standing because they are influencers so to Hollywood they're influencers any of the any of the rock stars or media or actors or whatever if they go against the grain of influencing the way Larry think of Black Rock said you're gonna be gone you're not gonna be an influencer anymore Larry Fink said of Black Rock that we're going to use their cloud as bankers and their control to influence behavior so they're gonna jam down your throat transgenderism gay lesbian lifestyles to your children and you're not gonna have rights as parents to even stop them if they're in public schools to provide these hormone hormonal changes and operations and such to do it but the parents there's a whole lot of parents that have refused Disney's influence in the lives of of their children so we asked the question are you missing anything if you're naive to what's going on in the world are you missing anything you're really missing anything do you need to know the latest perversion that's become the norm in the culture in which we're living do you need to really watch the Academy's filthy movies or themes or narrative or bullet points or the MSM do you really need to know what the relevant sex toys and sex drugs and sex tapes to become a Christian hipster in 10 years you're going to be forgotten you're going to be irrelevant you're gonna be a little uglier you're gonna still be in therapy you're gonna be having a sex change you're gonna be marrying your dog divorcing your dog and burying your dog you're gonna be Botox in your lips tattooing and piercing your body parts and still be as unhappy and as empty as you are today if you are not wise concerning that which is good and simple concerning that which is evil someone bless it oh how happy is the man who walks not you gotta make a decision who walks not in the council of the ungodly nor stands in the way of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law does he meditate day and night and he shall be like a tree that's planted by the river that bring forth its fruit in its season its leaf shall not wither and whatsoever he do it shall prosper in contrast to that guy but the ungodly are not so but are like the chaff which the wind drives away God wants your life to be fruitful you've got to say no to some things and say yes to God's Word can't have it on the fence can't have it both ways you'll be defiled the false prophets want to defile you they want to neutralize you they want you to lose your power as you grieve and quench the Holy Spirit does it mean you lost your salvation no maybe not maybe you're never saved I don't know but I know you're operating in the flesh you're not operating the power of the Holy Spirit you're compromised defeated Christian if you even are a Christian so prove all things hold fast that which is good abstain from all appearance of evil the false prophets are divisive they're deceptive they're defiling and fourthly and finally the good news is they're destroyed all the false prophets are going to be destroyed you know their eventual abode the greatest false prophet of all of time of all of the ages is the Antichrist in place of Jesus Christ and his false prophet the two of them are wiped out with the sword of the Spirit the Word of God with the brightness of Jesus coming in 2 Thessalonians 2 wipes out the Antichrist and the false prophet with the brightness of his coming and the sword of his mouth there's not even a fight they just drop dead and they're left there and they're taken by the angels into the lake of fire and then later the devil the most celebrated you know you gotta always have an adversary right it's mind-blowing to see the superheroes and all that there's always a somebody that's got to be the bad guy right well the Antichrist the false prophet are gone the devil is not the opposite of God the devil is a fallen angel the leader of one-third of the stars Revelation 12 that fell with Lucifer right and and he's their leader and what happens to him when the Lord Jesus comes he sends an angel in Revelation 21 through 3 he sends an angel to grab hold of that dragon that serpent that slippery guy and to take him and they put him into the abyss for a thousand years it's just an angel just an angel unnamed angel comes and grabs hold of him and incarcerates him chains him binds him to the abyss where he's gonna be for a thousand years at any point in time the Lord could say Satan be gone he's gone right but he's able to use Satan to show to expose as we'll see in the Millennium where Satan at the end of the thousand years is released for a season and he provides a alternative to Jesus ruling and reigning with a rod of righteousness an alternative of rebellion and a whole lot of people in the Millennium who've had a perfect environment a perfect home perfect everything choose to rebel against God and God destroys the devil and these rebels and then the boat of the devil and all the wicked dead is the lake of fire for all eternity they lose they all lose verse 20 and the God of peace he's a God of peace he offers peace Jesus is the Prince of Peace unfortunately the only way we're gonna have peace is with war the war of Armageddon where Jesus subdues all the enemies that are there to force him from returning and the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you amen this word bruised means to crush completely to shatter the serpent's head now I've used this many times the illustration that I love of this is Jim Caviezel starring in the Passion of the Christ and he's walking along and there's a serpent there on the ground and he takes his sandal and he crushes the serpent's head that's awesome that brings me right to Genesis 315 brings me right there brings me right here Jesus his heels gonna be bruised in that he's gonna be crucified the serpent's gonna bruise him but Jesus is going to crush the serpent's head gonna destroy all the works of the wicked one that of the of the devil I will put enmity between thee and the woman in between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shall bruise his heel the God of peace declares war notice three enemies the believer that control the false prophets number one verse 18 the flesh is an enemy of the believer but the flesh is what controls the false prophets they're in their flesh their bellies is representative of the flesh the next one is the world verse 19 the world is your enemy you're not to love the world you're not to love the world neither the things that are in the world for all that's in the world the lust of the flesh lust the eye the pride of life is not of the father but of the world and the world perishes and the lust thereof but he that doeth the will of God what's the do in John 6 believe this is the work believe on the Lord Jesus Christ trust in him they that do shall abide forever the third enemy as you know is the devil the Satan empowering them working through them you don't want to be demonically inspired Bill Gates is demonically inspired George Soros is demonically inspired Klaus Schwab no you of all Harari am I gonna get in trouble for naming their names gonna kill me they're demonically inspired according to Revelation 17 17 they're doing what God is put in their hearts God is putting these ideals in their hearts to set the stage in the beast system for the return of Jesus Christ the stage is being set we are going to a one world currency whether we like it or not we might be raptured before it comes or we might not I know that you and I are going to take the mark of the beast were eventually it's gonna go but this central bank digital currency that comes we might be forced into it in 2024 we're moving in direction of a one world religious system but you and I aren't going to be a part of that we're going to go underground and meet in homes aren't we we're moving in the direction of a one world government the collapse of America but you and I again we're not going to give our allegiance to a satanic governmental system that enslaves us we're gonna have to go underground like the early church did do we do what we can Philippians 318 for many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ whose end is destruction whose God is their belly whose glory is in their shame who mind earthly things be not conformed to this world conformity to the world be not conformed this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove was a good and acceptable and perfect will of God in a attitude of worship you're gonna say no to the world and yes to Jesus no matter the consequences and you're gonna be different you can be a stranger pilgrim you're gonna stand out from the world you're not gonna conform to the world it's okay if you're irrelevant in the sense that that you don't have big churches and such relevance with the Lord is simply being in as well in God's will I don't want to play church I don't want to play a social club and play the role and all that to me that's irrelevant and that you have no power so relevance for me is being faithful what God's called me to do and never compromising the truth no matter how much pressure there may be 2nd Peter 2 1 there were false prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you who privately shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction and many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of so our way of truth is what's gonna be outside the box for these folks pernicious speaks of corruption and they're gonna they're going to infiltrate with false prophets everywhere so we're living in a day and age of a strong delusion and second Thessalonians 2 because they reject the truth God's gonna give them over to a strong delusion that they would believe that lie the lie is the lie within the garden that you can be as God people more and more following know you've all Harari and Klaus Schwab and Jared Kushner that believe erroneously that someday they're not going to die that they're going to be as God too bad they couldn't get it accomplished before Henry Kissinger Zebrinsky and Rockefeller died who have been pushing this narrative for decades decades of godhood that they're they're going to be gods take heed that no man Jesus said Matthew 24 verse 4 that's a that's a good podcast be not to see for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many and many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many so don't be fooled by large followings 40,000 people in Joel Osteen's place but that doesn't mean that's a church doesn't mean he's a man of God it means he's got 40,000 people following the heretical false doctrine that he spouts off Matthew 7 verse 13 Jesus said brought us the way that leads to destruction and many there be which go in there at because straight is the gate narrows the way which leads unto life and few there be that find it few very very few Noah preached for 120 years righteousness great preacher right built a boat built an ark how successful was he by the world standards if there's a billion people upon the planet only no one seven people got in that boat besides the animals Wow hundred twenty year ministry a preacher of righteousness saying get into the boat get into Christ judgments coming and they wouldn't listen to him they're mocking him thinking he's crazy his family's crazy and that's how people are thinking of you and I until the collapse when it collapses people are going to say I should have listened to them I lived in denial but denial can't save me anymore it never did you're a coward is what you were you were a coward you're a coward to face reality Jeremiah 40 years of ministry no church no people maybe one person saved during that time Elijah thought he was the last one left so we could ask 7,000 Elijah and 7,000 haven't bowed their knee to the Prophet Bell God always has a remnant doesn't he a remnant of faithful people so don't worry about the numbers be faithful be faithful to what God's called you to do they are divisive they're deceptive they're defiling and they will be destroyed Jesus said beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they're ravening wolves mark and avoid them don't join them narrow is the way which leads unto life and few there be that find it aren't you glad that Jesus found you aren't you glad that you're no longer lost and it's going astray that you're on that narrow path now something that missed the news cycle is that this Christmas season 140 to 200 estimated Nigerians died for simply being Christian since 2009 in Nigeria there's an estimated 52,000 Christians killed since 2009 in Nigeria you're not going to be popular once the Muslims gain the upper hand that's when they start slaughtering the infidels the unbelievers the world hates Jesus the devil hates Jesus and the world hates us as Christians now the false prophets the false prophets seem to get away with it they aren't destroyed right at first they seem to get away with all their their wickedness the in Matthew 23 37 through 39 Jesus said oh Jerusalem Jerusalem you that killed the prophets and stone everyone that I sent to you how often I would have gathered you as a mother hen does gather her brood under her wings but you would not and then he looks at him and he says your cities left unto you desolate destructions coming Jesus said I came in my father's name and you received me not another shall come in his own name and him you will receive you rejected me you continue to embrace the false prophets around you you're not going to see my face again until you say blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord the martyrs are the overcomers the few the brave the Marines the martyrs revelation 2011 they overcame him the Antichrist the overcame the devil by the blood by the word of their testimony and they love not their lives unto death it may cost you to stand up against false prophets it may cost you your life people gonna hate you just as they hated Jesus they may persecute they may kill you but to be absent the bodies be present with the Lord for me to live as Christ and to die as gain don't fear him that can kill your body Jesus said but fear him who cannot only kill your body but can determine where you're going to spend all eternity basically he can cast your soul into hell Jesus determines your eternal destiny your eternal destiny is determined by whether you believe or don't believe you believe who do men say that I am who do you say he is do you believe he's the Christ do you believe he's the Messiah do you believe he's the Savior of the world you believe he's God incarnate then you're saved if you don't believe then you're lost in your sin who knows who you're following what you're following where you're going it's the blind leading the blind and they both fall in the ditch we don't need to fall in the ditch as we're looking forward to 2024 it's gonna be very exciting to see the prophecies unfold I don't have time to go over a little snippet of it but that we're going to do a podcast today and kind of look at an overview and just kind of look at the what's happening and try and piece together as best we can what's happening and what I was holding back I'll probably mention in the in the in the podcast today and it's in regard to the nation of Israel we love the nation of Israel the same way I loved America and I believe that America could do no wrong at one point in my life and I believe that the Jews are God's chosen people and that God's going to bless those that bless Israel curse those that curse Israel and up until recently I want to say in the last four or five years I've gained enough courage to question the nation of Israel it's a dangerous place to be you don't want to be labeled anti-semitic you don't want to be labeled a hater of Israel so you have to define your terms you have to define your terms and when you're talking about Israel who are we talking about the one-third remnant is going to be saved they're going to go through the time of Jacob's trouble but the two-thirds that are going to perish during the tribulation period are hated by the world why are they hated by the world I don't know exactly except the devil hates the Jews the devil hates the Christians but the devil uses the Jews the Jews the nation of Israel is at the front and center of putting together the B system 80% of Israel received the jab Netanyahu sold that information Pfizer is a part of this whole thing in Israel Israel is front and center concerning the climate changes that are taking place or the legislation and such and so they're a big player in globalism the irony to me is the greatest deception that's ever going to take place is when the Antichrist signs a peace treaty with the nation of Israel they get lulled in hook line and sinker and then later the whole world hates them as he probably divulges and exposes all the different ways that they as a nation were a part of the whole enslavement of humanity and so God uses that time of Jacob's trouble he uses the furnace the fire to purify a one-third remnant so don't think that everyone in America's Christian and don't think that everybody in Israel is righteous there's good there's bad there's evil everywhere and the objective is that Jesus is the only one suitable to lead a remnant of Jews who are going to enter into all that he's promised but notice two-thirds of them perish two-thirds of refused two-thirds of them you know rebel against God blindness in part is happening to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become in so when I'm deceived or they try to deceive me by saying they were surprised attacked that stirred my heart bothered me because I know they are selling war they're selling war to the world you have to sell war so now you have to demonize Iran and Iran has the fastest growing church in the world nobody's talking about it you got to demonize Russia and the objective is the takedown of America not Israel that's what's happening that's globalism and then later yes Ezekiel 38 and 39 Russia Iran Turkey a coalition of nations are going to come and attack God's going to destroy five out of every six the invading force Isaiah 17 is going to be destroyed to ruin his heap and I'm not so sure about Psalm 83 but Israel does come under attack God intervenes and they do survive they survived at the very end to flee to Petra and accept those days be short and no flesh will be saved but for the elect's sake that's the true Israel of God and Isaac shall they see be called is the true Israel of God not the unbelievers the truly Israel church does not take the place of Israel I'm not anti-semitic I'm just saying they're being deceived and I don't want to fall into that deception and give them a free pass on everything they do Netanyahu and all of them simply because they're Israel I want to critically think and try to understand what's being connected how's it play out but before I gave him a free pass they're Israel man they're Israel they get a free pass that's wrong thinking everyone's accountable for their actions father we come before you and Lord we just thank you for the time that we could spend in your word Lord we pray that every more you enlighten you open our hearts and minds help us to discern and discover more and more what's going on in the world in which we live that we'd be like the sons of Issachar we'd be watching we'd be ready we wouldn't be deceived the Lord we pray for the peace of Jerusalem we pray God that you would pour out your Holy Spirit that many would come to a saving knowledge of you and yet as pastor Chuck pointed out Lord blindness and partisan to Israel evangelistic efforts and and such of trying to convert them now is is going to be a hard thing the priority is the Jew and then the Gentile but Lord there's a dispensation coming where you the 144,000 where you save the one-third remnant and Lord it's going to be glorious but it's going to be hard upon Israel you said it's a time that the world's never seen nor we'll see again so Lord we do pray for the nation of Israel we pray Lord that you undergird and strengthen and that all the difficulty would turn into faith that people would come to a saving knowledge of you we pray for the Christians in Nigeria the families that have lost their loved ones over Christmas we pray the undergird and strengthen them provide for them protect them we pray for the Christians living under the radar in Iran Lord that they too knowing of what's coming that they too Lord would preserved and protected and shielded by the power of your Holy Spirit we pray the eyes would be open of those in America that call themselves Christians that no longer they would rest in denial we pray like like Dietrich Bonhoeffer had said not to speak is to speak Lord help him to speak up help him to expose help him to stand give him an ounce of courage Lord let us go out glorifying you standing firm against evil standing for righteousness do miracles here in America transform and change remove guys replace them on the natural level Lord do your perfect will we pray and in Jesus name amen