Remember Lot's Wife

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   Hallelujah, he's the only freedom. He's the only peace. I don't even know how people make it in this world without Jesus in their lives. It's tough enough when you have him. You may be seated this morning. Praise you, Lord. Well, will everybody turn to Isaiah 65. Isaiah 65, my heart's a little heavy this morning. And I'm not talking about my own issues that I'm having. But I'm seeing a trend, it seems, in the world right now, even in the church, even among people that would call themselves Christians, it's troubling beyond words considering the time in which we live. There's a lot of talk about Jesus, there's a lot of going to church, there's a lot of uh There's a lot of talk about spiritual things, a lot of talk about grace, a lot of talk about heaven, a lot of talk about a lot of things, but there's just few people that want to live it. And then there are Christians, and this is what's disturbing, there are Christians that I know and and that you've come to Bible studies that we've done, has come to church, um that if you ask them to their face, do they do they believe in the Bible? Do they love Jesus? Are they saved? Are they Christians? They would tell you yes. And then I see stuff on Facebook where basically, it's obvious that they're sleeping around. They're committing sexual sin, living in sexual sin, and I and these people same people will come up to my face and act so righteous and so Christian, and I'm just blown away by it. And there seems to be in the world right now among people who call themselves Christians or even go to church or whatever, a stubbornness. A stubbornness and a rebellion to what to just God's standard of morality. And let's just get it real clear here. I'm going to quote this verse. This is Hebrews chapter 12, verse 14. You can turn there if you want, but but Paul I believe wrote wrote Hebrews. But this is what he said under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. He said, "Without holiness, no man will see the Lord." Do you hear that? Without holiness, or the word can be

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   sanctification. The word means to be set apart and different. It means you're clean in God's eyes because you're doing what you can do to obey God. Amen. Now I know that we have to have the blood of Jesus to cleanse us. And there is a holiness that comes from faith in the blood of Jesus. There's a cleansing that comes from faith in the blood of Jesus, but there's also personal what the old-timers used to call personal holiness, meaning what you are responsible for, what God will not do. Let me just say this. There's a old saying and it's true. God will do for you what you cannot do, but he will not do what you're supposed to do. Amen. I don't understand why Calvinism ever came into being because number one, he basically takes all responsibility from man to respond to God, to obey God, and do what God wants him to do. You and I have a choice. Why do you think the scriptures would say, "Choose you this day whom you will serve. Choose life or choose death." Here's what's so funny. Some of you that sit under my preaching are choosing death. You're choosing eternal death and damnation because of your stubborn rebellion, and you will not submit to God's moral commands, and you're going to be damned with the wicked. And you will you will have the the writing in the book of God's judgment that you sat under a preacher of righteousness who told you the truth. But you will be damned for all eternity in hell, in the flames forever because of your stubborn rebellion. And it's sad. And you know, I think about Jeremiah the prophet. See, you guys don't get the opportunity, and of course you chose it, but you don't get the opportunity to sit under a a very sweet um nice easygoing pastor. You sit under a prophet who was called by God through the book of Jeremiah. Just read Jeremiah. Just read Lamentations that he wrote. I was reading some Lamentations this morning. And see, I I I just the scripture came to my mind from Lamentations where he said, "My eyes run down with tears, with like rivers of water for the destruction of my people." Listen, I see it coming. See, the thing about a a prophet or a prophetic person is they see what's coming before it comes. And let me just tell you, I see what's coming for some of you before it comes. And so that's why I'm so serious. And some of you, you know, there's been times I've warned some of you and thank God you've listened. You didn't take it as just the voice of a man, you took it as God speaking through me to speak to

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   you. And pray praise God. You know, I'm not saying you're you're to be led by a man, but you need to recognize when a man or woman is of God and when God is speaking through them to you, especially if they're giving you scriptural principles and truth and warning you of where your life is headed if you do certain things. And God says this, let's read Isaiah 65. Let's go to verse 1 and 2. We may read a little more. But God says this, he says, "I am sought of them that ask not for me. I am found of them that sought me not. I said, 'Behold me, behold me unto a nation that was called by my name.'" So God is saying, you know, there are people out there, they're unsaved people who are starting to seek after God. He said, "But the people who are called by by my name, I've said what? Come, seek me. Come after me. You're called by my name. You call yourself a Jesus person, a Christian. A believer. And I call to you, come to me. Behold me. Spend time with me." And he says this, "Behold I say, 'Behold me, behold me unto a nation that was not called by my name. I've spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people which walked in a way that was not good after their own thoughts.'" There's a people, there's a Christian people whom God is calling but they are rebellious, they are stiff-necked, They don't walk after his ways. They walk after their own thoughts. Now, here's what's sad to me because I was going to preach a message. This is a This is a phrase from Jeremiah 7. And Jeremiah says this. He speaks about you And you got to remember who Jeremiah was. Jeremiah was a prophet for Israel in a time when Israel was about to fall as a nation. It was about to fall. It was about to be taken over by the Babylonians. There was going to be death and famine and the sword and destruction and few would be spared. Only the righteous, only those who humbled themselves and and cried out for mercy and turned from their sin. And I'm just going to say this real plainly. Destruction is coming to America and the Lord just showed me yesterday, it is not long. But who will be spared? Who will be protected? Who will be delivered in that hour? God knows how to deliver the righteous, the Bible says in Thessalonians. He knows how to deliver the righteous in the midst of that time and he knows how to turn over the wicked to their destruction. And what we're going to be surprised is that a lot of people who sit in church on Sunday mornings are wicked, evil people. And the wicked are going to be severed

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   out from among the just. You know, Psalm 91 says this for the righteous. Psalm 91 says, I have What? The Lord is my refuge and my fortress. My God in whom I trust. For those people say, surely he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler. For the noisome pestilence. Say, "A thousand may fall at your side and 10,000 at your right hand, but it will not come near you." We are about to see things change forever. America is done. It's done, y'all. The economy will soon collapse. We will soon be taken over by foreign troops. And few will survive this. Because many, even who live through what's coming, are going to just give in to the Antichrist system, to the mark of the beast, to whatever. They'll They'll even turn in their own parents, or their own friends, or their own neighbors turn them in for being Christians. That's what the Bible says. Then we're coming in into a time where we'll think that somebody's our family member, or our friend, or a neighbor, and they're going to turn against us and turn us in to the the new authorities that are coming. And y'all act like, you know, this is doom and gloom preaching. This is the reality for the Chinese church, and has been since 1949. We take for granted that we've had peace, and prosperity, and freedom of worship, and freedom of speech, and and we don't have foreign troops threatening us with guns if we worship Jesus. It's all about the change, folks. It changed in China overnight. It was a communist revolution. It changed in Russia in 1917. And yet Americans and the American church thinks, "Oh, no. It can't happen here." What you don't know is the coup d'état, the the takeover of the American government has already happened. The communists, the Muslims, the globalists, the satanic Illuminati elite, they run the government and the military of the United States. And they're scared to death of you know who? The American people who still want freedom and and they're not afraid to carry a weapon. That's what they're afraid of. They know that's the only thing that can stop them. What people armed with the truth and the power of God and the power of living a righteous life is the only thing that can combat this satanic evil that's overtaking the world. The only thing that won't be shaken Listen, God said in Hebrews and we're approaching that time, he said there's a

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