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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
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
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
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
time coming that everything that can be shaken will be shaken. Guess what? That means me and you. Some of you are going to be shaken to your miserable little knocking knees before you would decide to give up your sin and repent. Some of you are locked into lukewarmness and worldliness and you're just looking for your next lust to be fulfilled. Sitting in THIS CHURCH. MY GOD, WHAT IS going on? When will you once realize that if you continue in lukewarmness and you continue pursuing sexual immorality and lust and perversion that you are wicked and you will be damned forever because you are breaking God's laws. You are a rebel and you deserve the flames and the worms that are going to eat you for all eternity. You deserve it. And some of you are doing it in spite of a preacher praying for you, in spite of Christians around you praying for you and and and longing for you to come to know Jesus, to be forgiven of your sins, to know him and to love him and to be saved and delivered from that, to to become a a person that hates sin, not a person that's looking for their next one. The days of Noah. Look at Luke. This is what some of you are. Some of you are Lot's wife. Let me Let me show you something. Go to Go to Luke 17. And I preach like this because I care about you. Sweetness doesn't shake you out of it. Hard preaching doesn't even shake you out of it. I'm a Well, I'm not even going to say. Luke 17, I want y'all to look at this. Verse 24. Are y'all with me? Now, everybody knows, even I bet some of the young ones can tell me in here, what's the shortest verse in the Bible? John what? 11:35, exactly. Jesus wept, right? That's the shortest verse in the Bible. Who can tell me the second shortest verse in the Bible? Uh well, it's in this passage. It's called It says this It's That See, Jesus wept, that's two words. This one's three words. Remember Lot's wife. So, we're going to remember Lot's wife this morning in just a second. But, let's read this. Verse 24. Speaking about the second coming of Jesus, he's speaking This is Jesus speaking here. He says, "For as the lightning that lighteth out of one part of heaven and shineth unto the other part of heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day." "But first, he must suffer many things
and be rejected of this generation." "Now, as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man." Speaking of the days of when he will come, the last days that we're living in. He says, "They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot, they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded. But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the son of man is revealed. In that day, he which is upon the house top and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away. And he that is in the field, let him not return back. Remember Lot's wife. Now let's go to Genesis chapter 19 and remember Lot's wife. Cuz this is where some of you are. Some of you are just going to be completely taken away. You won't listen. You won't repent. You're stubborn, you're full of lust, you're full of of your own desires, you're full of rebellion, you're hard-hearted, you're callous. All you want to do is live for the world and live in the crap that's in the world and you're about to get it. You're about to get your payment. The wages of sin, the Bible says, is death. The wages of sin is death. What are wages? Wages are things that you earn for working a job, right? Well, if you continue to work in the in the lust of the flesh and the lust of the world and lust of sin and that's what you stay living in, you're going to get paid for it. The works of the flesh get paid. Eternal death. Why you preaching like this, preacher? Because guess what? I don't care. We're a small church, but there are people sitting in here going to hell. Loving the world, loving lust, loving sin, lukewarm, halfway, in this church. It ought not be. Here's what's so sad. You have no excuse if that's you. No excuse. I'm removing it. Even further today. No excuse. Y'all think I'm hard. Do you want to know the sermon that sparked the first Great Awakening in American colonies? Jonathan Edwards, a man named Jonathan Edwards, stood up in a church. He was He had vision issues, too. He had to read his sermon like this. He read his sermon. You know what it was called? Sinners in the hands of an angry God. And it made people realize that God did not owe them anything. That they were like little spiders to
him dangling over the flames of hell, and at any moment, if he so chose, he could drop them in. Because they were wicked and evil. And deserve everlasting damnation in the flames of hell. And people came under the conviction of the Holy Spirit. They realized that the Holy Spirit used that message. Some people in that room thought the floor was going to open up, and they were going to go down immediately to their hell. It became so real to them. And don't forget that in the Old Testament, that has happened. The earth has opened up, and people have gone to hell instantaneously into the flames of fire for all eternity. I call it the reverse rapture. Hell is real, you guys. Listen, there has to be a hell. Let me tell you, Hitler's not going to be in heaven. A child molester is not going to be in heaven. A murderer, these people have who've done these things, they're not going to be in heaven. The Bible says no murderer has eternal life abiding in them. So, there has to be a place for people who are stiff-necked and rebellious and love their sin. But see, what the world is the world will say those things are wrong. They'll say Hitler was wrong for killing millions of people. They'll say that the pedophile, the little you know, the child predator that molests little children, they'll say he's wrong. He's a sinner. He deserves to go to hell. But God says there's a whole list that he looks at. The fornicator, the premarital sex person, the adulterer, the liar, the thief, the lukewarm Christian that will be spit out of his mouth. See, here's the thing. The world doesn't get to make the list that goes to hell. God makes the list. And some of you are on that list. You're doing stuff, you're practicing stuff, you're living in such a way that you're on the list that God said is going to hell. And And let me just tell you, he doesn't want you to go there. I don't want you to go there. Your family, your church family, your friends, people don't want you to go there. But don't believe the lie the world out there tell you what, you can be a homosexual, you can be a pervert, you can be a lust-riddled pornographic maniac that's addicted to porn, addicted to sexual immorality. But that's okay. God's okay with No, he's not okay. He's not okay with it. God Listen, so many people are going to burn in hell forever just because they will not get their sexual lust under control. They will not get their mind under control. They will not turn to Jesus. They will not hate sin. You got TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING. GOD HATES SIN.
AMEN. HE HATES IT LIKE IT'S CANCER killing you. He hates sin. It is like slapping him in the face and spitting in his face when you sin. He hates it. He's the one who said, "Don't do it." And when YOU SAY, "NO, I'M GOING to do it." you are nothing but a little stiff-necked rebel. And he's looking at you as a little ant that he's going to step on one day soon and just squash because you have spit IN HIS FACE, MOCKED THE SACRIFICE OF HIS son that God would give his son on the cross for you so that you could be forgiven and you're going to keep sinning after you hear this message of the gospel. YOU DESERVE HELL, MY FRIEND. You deserve to go to hell and to burn forever IF YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR THE message of God's love that Jesus Christ, THE SINLESS GOD IN THE FLESH, DIED ON THE CROSS FOR YOUR SINS, offers you forgiveness for all your evil. All he asked you to do is turn away FROM IT AND FOLLOW him and you can have eternity in heaven and you say, "No, thanks. I'm going to keep going after fornication. I'M GOING TO KEEP GOING AFTER and whoremongers. I'm going to keep going after lust. I'm going to keep going after evil." People say all the time, "What about those who haven't heard THE GOSPEL?" I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT THEM. I'm worried about the ones who've heard it. And still rebel. When will you finally humble yourself and admit, "I am a wicked, vile sinner. I deserve eternal damnation." And I guess what? I I want eternal damnation. You know what? God, I don't care if it's not popular to preach about hell. I don't care. Because you know what the Bible says in Jude 22 and 23, "On some have compassion, making a difference. Others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire." I'M TRYING TO SNATCH SOME OF you from the flames of hell that are already licking up around your feet. The flames of hell are already burning in some of your hearts and minds. It's forever, y'all. This little gamble with your life is forever. You lose this and you lose forever. You know what verse ought to scare you more than the obvious ones that the adulterer, the whoremonger, the lust-driven maniacs, the drunkards, the idolaters, the the sorcerers, the witchcraft participants. Well, you know what ought to scare you more than than that list?
Be hot or be cold. But if you are lukewarm, I will spew you out of my mouth. See, the American church, all they want to talk about is God's love and there is grace and there is mercy and he loves you and you're going to be okay and I'm going to be okay. And yet the words of Jesus, "Narrow is the way that leads to life and few there be that find it. Wide is the gate, broad is the way that leads to destruction and many will go in thereat. 1 Timothy 4:1, Now the spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. Jesus, Matthew 24, many false prophets will rise and deceive many. 2 Thessalonians 2, before the man of sin is revealed there will be a falling away. We We're living in it, John. See, everybody wants to American church wants to believe God is Santa Claus. And you're going to sit on his lap and he's going to give you everything you want in eternity in heaven, no matter what you do, and it's a lie. God is not Santa Claus. The Bible calls God Almighty the judge of the quick and the dead. Everything you thought, everything you've done, everything you've done in private is going to be brought into his courtroom. You're not going to fool Pastor Dean. You're not going to fool your mom or your dad. You're not going to fool your co-worker or your friend. Nope. On that day, he will not be heavenly father. He will be the judge, the terrible judge, as the Bible says. And that day is coming. That's the That's the part that that most of the Christian world and the and the and the sinners, they don't want to hear that part that they will give an account. Will give an account. You know what's scary? We won't go to and read it, but we're I I hadn't forgotten. We're going to Genesis. Just a second. But I this thought's been in my mind for
days. Y'all know the story, remember Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylon. All right, well, his son became king. Belshazzar. All right? And he became king and Daniel was still one of the chief advisers. He was still the prophet of the kingdom. And so Belshazzar decides to have a party. So they have this big shindig. He invites all his princes and all their girlfriends and they got all the belly dancers and they got all the and THEY DECIDE, "GUESS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO? WE'RE NOT JUST SATISFIED TO get drunk and have, you know, all of our sexual sin. We're not We're not just satisfied with that. Let's go get the vessels of the temple of God. Go get those and bring them in here that they used in the holy temple of God of worship. Go get those vessels and bring them in here and we'll drink wine out of that." So they go get the vessels and bring them in there. It's all in Daniel 5. It's there. Go get those vessels. So they come in and they're having a good old time. I mean, this party went on for days. And they were partying it up. They had all the money. Most powerful nation on the face of the earth. And I think about America. Because they were partying and drinking and then a hand appeared. Scared them to death. A hand, a huge hand appears and writes something on the wall. Mene mene tekel upharsin. Just writes on the wall. And of course it was the hand of God wrote on the wall. But it said the fear of God fell in the place. It was so fearful. They didn't even know what it meant. But the fear of God came in the place and said Belshazzar, I said his knees knocked together. See, this is what's coming for some of you. Some of you the terror the terror is coming. Cuz guess what? The troops are coming. The bombs are coming. The end of America is coming. It's coming. And all of your little iPhones aren't going to work anymore. You're not even going to know if you can get food the next day. And some of you But you know what? The ones trusting God will know. They'll be fine. God's able. Amen, brother. But you wicked ones, you listen to me. So the writing comes on the wall and their little knees his knees are knocking and but they don't know what it says. So guess what? They have to call Daniel in once again. And this is what it says. Daniel comes in and he looks at it and sees what they're doing. And this is why You know what You know what? They're taking of the the vessels of the temple, what that represented? That's church goers. That's folks that want to have holy things and sinful things together. And that's when God says, "Enough. I've had it." And that's why God's had it with America. Because they've mixed Christianity, they've mixed the holy things in with the worldly things, and the church has
done this, and now it's over. And you know what? God has written He wrote on that wall and he's written it on the wall of America. Your kingdom is weighed in the balances and found wanting. It's done. It's finished. I remember when Jesus spoke those words when he rode by the temple. He rode by Jerusalem and said he wept over Jerusalem, and they looked at him like, "Why are you weeping?" And he said, "I wanted TO GATHER YOU CLOSE to me like a hen does her chicks. I wanted to gather you close, BUT YOU WOULDN'T." YOU DIDN'T WANT IT. SO, HE'S WEEPING AND HE SAYS, "YOUR HOUSE IS left unto you desolate." Destruction. And I think about Belshazzar, they're partying that whole night. You know what happened? When that hand wrote on the wall, "Your kingdom is weighed in the balances and found wanting. IT'S OVER." THAT NIGHT THE MEDES and the Persian army slipped in under the Babylonian WALL AND DESTROYED THE kingdom of Babylon. They're creeping under our wall now. I wish we had a wall. We don't even have a wall. We don't even have a fence. They're just walking through. Hezbollah, y'all just have no idea what's about to happen when this war starts in the Middle East, when we get involved in this next one with Iran AND SYRIA. ALL THESE ISLAMIC fighters that have slipped across the Mexican border are just going to start WALKING INTO WALMARTS AND they're going to start walking into places and just start killing folks. It's already begun. You don't get it. The enemy has slipped in under the gates because we've been drinking and partying it up right before God's wrath falls. And that's what it's talking about the days of Noah, they ate, they drank. They were oblivious. Even though the Bible says Noah was a preacher of righteousness and God gave them 120 years of Noah building the ark and preaching righteousness trying to get the people to repent of their wickedness and their evil and their violence and they would not because they were A BUNCH OF STUBBORN REBELS. BUT GUESS WHAT? All that changed when God put Noah and his family in the ark and shut the door and it started raining and guess what? At that point it had never rained before. So it starts raining and they thought, "Well, maybe this Noah is not maybe he's uh hmm maybe he's not as crazy as we thought." And you know what? I bet they still drank and partied while the water was getting up to their ankles. I bet they were still well, the water's
not quite up to the bed level so we can still fool around. Well, it's not too bad. We can keep the water out. We'll dig some trenches. We'll keep it out. But you know what? I bet they started worrying a little bit when it got up to their necks. Some of you, what's sad is some of you aren't going to humble yourself before God until you're scared out of your life. I hate that for you. And some of you won't get that chance because you'll go instantly. You won't even know what hit you. But guess what the Bible says? Great peace have they that know the Lord. Muslim walks up and shoots me, brother, I'm ready. I'm not going to hell. A nuclear bomb hits. I'm not going to hell. I don't have to follow my religion. Try to be ready. Oops, wait a minute. You can't cuz you just got vaporized. Or like our friend Jared who went to this church for a season. All he did was get in the car on Christmas on Christmas with a relative who'd been drinking and he's dead at 25. Maybe that's what happens. So, who do you want to hang out with? Jesus died on a cross so that we wouldn't be like Lot's wife. Let me show you something here. Genesis 19 cuz Jesus said as it was in the days of Noah, he said as it was in the days of Lot. Boy, if we're not in the days of Lot. What was the problem in the days of Lot? Anybody know? The Bible series left this out on the History Channel. Homosexuality. And not just homosexuality, but militant crazy homosexuality. Let's read this. Verse 1. Genesis 19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even, and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot seeing them rose up to meet them, and he bowed his himself with his face to the ground toward the ground. And he said, "Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into the your servant's house, and tarry you all night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise up early and go on your ways." And they said, "Nay, but we will abide in the street all night." I like these angels. Nah, we'll hang out here outside.
Now, remember in chapter 18, God said that the Sodomites which is where you get the term from about homosexual act, the homosexual act, sexual act, Sodomites. This is what he said. He said these men were wicked exceedingly. It's what God said. And you know that's the story where Abraham was praying, "Well, will you destroy the righteous with the wicked?" See, this is I know this message sounds tough, but there's hope in this. Because even though they were wicked in Sodom and Gomorrah, and actually it wasn't just Sodom and Gomorrah, it was five cities of the plain that God destroyed. Five cities completely destroyed by the fire of God's wrath, his destruction. It's five cities because of their sexual immorality. It wasn't just homosexuality going on there. It was everything, you name it. But homosexuality or militant is the is the final stage in the perversion of a culture. And he goes on to say, he says, "And he pressed them." Verse three, "He pressed upon them greatly or urged them to turn in unto him and enter into his house, and he made them a feast and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat." But before they lay down, the men of Sodom, even the the men of the of Sodom compassed the house or surrounded the house. Look at that, both old and young. All the people of Sodom. I I'd missed this till I reread this this morning. Not just the old men, not just the young men, but all the people of Sodom, meaning the women, too. Maybe they wanted to watch. They were some perverts that want to watch. I know I'm getting point-blank, but here it is, folks. It says, "All the people of Sodom gathered at Lot's door." For what purpose? They wanted to drag these angels out that looked like men and rape them. Now, think about this, y'all. This is this what blows me away. Is that Lot, his wife, his children lived in this city. And yet, because they tried to be righteous and Lot tried to do the right thing, God said, "You know what? I'm about to destroy these wicked people. Their time's up. I'm done with them." And you know what? God is still the same God. He gets to a point with you where he's fed up with your excuses and your lukewarmness and your stubbornness and your rebellion and your wicked evil sin and he just finally says, "Guess what? I'm done with you." I God forbid that ever happens to you. But if it happens, it'll be your fault. Right? I know if anybody's listening by radio, I'm scaring them. They're like, "He's He's horrible."
I don't care. This is Bible. So, they want to rape these angels. And and blows me away, Lot offers them his daughters and they won't even take his daughters. I think deep down Lot knew in the spirit Lot knew that these were angels and he was like, "Oh my God, if if I let something happen to these angels, God is going to kill us all." He knew it inside of him. Now, I'm not going to go on and read the whole story. You can read the whole story. The men decided they they came and grabbed They were going to get Lot and rape Lot. They told Lot, "We're going to do worse to you than we were going to do to them." Sounds like A BUNCH OF MUSLIMS THAT WANT to get grab a man like they did and rape them and everything else. They're They're horrible people. There's such evil in this world, y'all. And they look at the grab Lot. So, the angels grab LOT. THEY PULL HIM in the house. They smite the people with blindness. These These old men, young men, women, everybody that gathered there to to have their big gang rape session. And guess what? God says, I'm going to the angel say, I'm we're we're going to drag you out of here. We're going to get you out of get your family together. We're going to get you out of here. We're going to protect you. See, this is the good news. The righteous, God knows how to deliver them in the midst of the greatest wickedness and the greatest wrath and the greatest evil, God can deliver us and protect us. BUT, YOU GOT TO BE RIGHTEOUS. YOU GOT TO BE ON HIS SIDE. MY GOD, GET ON HIS SIDE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. AND SO, LOT THE ANGELS grab a hold of Lot and his wife and his children. And And the Lord told him tell them, don't even LOOK BACK. DON'T LOOK BACK. I'M DESTROYING this place. I don't even want you to look at it anymore. So, THEY'RE FLEEING SODOM. AND GOD BEGINS to rain the fire and the brimstone and the sulfur down upon the city to destroy these evil wicked men and women. And he starts to rain the fire down. And the angels are literally dragging Lot and his wife AND HIS FAMILY DRAGGING them by force out of the city to to protect them. And Lot's wife turns and looks back. And she turns into a pillar of salt. God judges her immediately. And Jesus says in Luke 17, remember Lot's wife. Cuz see, here's what some of some of you that are called Christians, some of you that God is trying through your family to spare you. Whether it be your church family or your parents, they're trying to drag you out of Sodom. But, the problem is that even though that there are Christians trying to drag you out of Sodom before it's destroyed,
before you're destroyed with it, they're trying to drag you out, YOUR HEART IS THERE. WHY DID SHE LOOK BACK? BECAUSE HER HEART WAS STILL THERE. IT'S STILL There was something still IN THERE EVEN THOUGH SODOM WAS SO EVIL AND SO WICKED and so full of lust and perversion, but God says, "I'm going to DESTROY IT." HER HEART STILL LOVED SODOM. There's so many Christians, man. Y'all talk a good game, but you love Sodom. You love their movies. You love their bikinis. You love their pornography. You watch their lesbian and homosexual pornography. You You You You try to copy it. You try to do things you see in it. You love Sodom. It's simple. People trying to drag you out of it, but you love it. Some men got wonderful wives. Love Got wonderful wives. But they keep cheating on Keep looking and lusting after other women and even cheat and cheat and cheat and cheat. Guess what? The adulterer will be judged with the homosexual the same way. The American single person who can't get out of bed of their boyfriend or girlfriend going to the same hell the homosexuals going to. The homosexuals get all in an uproar like we're judging them. No, we're not judging you cuz you're homosexual. We judge it's sexual sin as immoral and God will judge it. When are you going to turn loose of Saul? I can name names in here. I can name names and I can tell you what your problem is. True Christianity is when you realize that you are wicked and you begin to hate the wickedness and love Jesus and love righteousness. YOU STOP LOVING the alcohol, the drugs, the pornography, THE LUST. THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU WANT ANYMORE. You want to know him. You want to feel his presence. You want to be filled WITH HIS POWER. YOU WANT TO BE RIGHTEOUS. YOU WANT TO BE READY for eternity and you love him and you love righteousness AND YOU DON'T LOVE INIQUITY ANYMORE. And if you do fall into a sin, you hate it and want to get out OF IT AS QUICK AS YOU CAN. YOU EITHER love sin or you hate sin. And let me get have let me just tell you
something. You don't hate sin unless you have Jesus inside of you. That's why you got to be saved or you got to be born again. A lot of people who go to church aren't even born again. Because they've never made up their mind I want I really do want Jesus. I know I need to be I know I need forgiveness. I know I need to be saved. They never even had that moment. But what scares me is the ones that have. And they can't turn loose. The Bible, you know, Jesus told that story of the four the four seeds or the four grounds that the seeds fall into. The seed is the word of God. He says He said the first one it it falls by the wayside and the birds come and they devour it. So, the seed gets sown. It's talking about you getting the word of God being sown in your heart, but you know, you you you plant it or you throw it to the side. It says the first ones they they hear it, the seed gets put in there, but they throw it to the side and the birds come and they eat it. And it even says those birds are like are Satan and they come and eat the word, take it away from you, and they never are saved, they never believe, they never get saved. He said, "But the second group are they that they will hear the word, they receive it, the seed comes in, and they take it." And it says with joy, and they begin to and and the the spiritual fruit begins to grow. And that means they got born again because no true spiritual fruit can grow until you're born again. That's the first step. So, they're born again and they begin to grow the seed because But it says what? But it says trials and persecution begins. Oh, their friends done start making fun of them. Tough times come. Oh God, you know, it's not as it's not as easy as I thought it was going to be. So, they fall away. It says that it gets no depth. And let me tell you something, getting depth in your Christian life is on on you. You don't spend any time in the word, you don't spend any time in prayer, you don't spend any time in worship, you don't spend any time with God, you're not going to have any depth. And the first bit of trial that comes your way or persecution, you fall quickly. And then Jesus said there was a third one though. He said this seed was taken in, the seed of the word was taken in and it began to grow again. Guess what? They were saved. They were born again. Spiritual growth began to happen. Right? But it says the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches Ah, in this one, the lust of other things. A boy, or girl. The lust of other things come in and it says it chokes the word out of their life. And they bear no fruit. See, some of you are being choked out. Like in a
MMA fight. They got you back and they got the devil's got you locked up and you ain't breathing. You're about to be choked out. But you're letting it happen to you. Lust, loving the world, is choking you. You don't pray, you don't read your Bible, you don't spend time with God, you don't care to spend time with God. Maybe you're too busy. I mean, I know, we all have busy lives and sometimes it gets busy. But there are people who are busy, but the truth be told, it's not just cuz they're busy, they just don't care. And so, let me tell you what's going to happen. You're going to get choked out. The devil will choke out the spiritual life out of you. And one out of the four, only one out of the four said receive the seed, the word, and obeyed it, did it, put it into practice. And it says they they grew and they bear fruit, some 30, some 60, some 100-fold. What's that mean? Everybody's going to bear a different amount of fruit, but you better be bearing some. You may not be required to bear the same amount that I bear, but you better be bearing some. Because fruit is proof of spiritual life. If you have no fruit, then that means you're in spiritual death. It's simple. And listen, everything in this world y'all is trying to drag us down. You got to be determined to fight. You love righteousness. Go back to Luke 17. See, a lot of people think this is talking about the rapture, but it's not. Cuz what's he talking about? Did it say anything about the rapture here? But I'm going to tell you what it's talking about, the destruction coming. Listen, let's read on here. When he says, verse 29, "But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. In that day he which is on the house upon the house top and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away. And he that is in the field, let him not likewise return back. Remember Lot's wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it. Whosoever will lose his life shall preserve it. I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed and one shall be taken and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together. One shall be taken
and the other one left. Two men shall be in the field. One shall be taken and the other one left." I was reading this again today and the Lord just dropped it in on me. This isn't the rapture. This is the destruction that's coming. Y'all, before we ever get to the rapture, Jesus said there'll be persecution. They'll deliver you up to be afflicted. They will kill you'll be hated of all nations for my name's sake. He said there'll be wars and rumors of wars. World War III is coming. And this is what the Lord just just laid on my heart. If you go to Matthew 24, the rapture's at the end. But before he ever mentions the rapture, he talks about the persecution. He talks about the destruction of war and famine and pestilence and earthquakes. He talks about these things and I really believe we're going to be walking along. There'll be We could be on the same street and a righteous person and a and a wicked person be walking along together and the wicked one be struck down. Like that. And the righteous one protected and preserved. You said, "I don't believe that, preacher." Well, guess what? It has to happen. Why is God going to preserve some of the righteous in all of this? Because he's going to have a witness. He's going to have a light on the earth until the end. We are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Say, "If you love Jesus, you are the light of the world." He's not taking all the light out of here before the end. He's going to leave some light shining. BUT THE ONES WHO HAVE their eyes single after Jesus are the ones who are full of light. The people whose eyes divided and doubled and looking at everything in the world and loving Sodom, there it says the darkness is in them. Oh. That's a preacher right there. Be the light. So, how do I be the light? Quit loving Sodom. You You can tell me I'm you're a Christian. You can say, "Pastor, I love your sermons. I listen to them all the time." You can say, "I love worship music. I put on worship music and I praise the Lord. But, you know. Whether you love Sodom and you're trying to hold on to the Lord and love Sodom, too. That little double game you're playing ain't going to work. It's got to stop. And you know, we we sit here and I Do I believe I'm just going to say Do I believe there's going to be a revival that many people are going to turn to the Lord when the when the you know what hits the fan? Oh, yeah. But, that's Sadly, we've come to such a
place of stubborn people. Hard-hearted, stubborn, rebellious, deceived by false teachers. We've got such a lukewarm Christianity and we've got such compromised, wicked, sinful believers that I believe that it's going to take the mushroom clouds, the foreign troops, the persecution, the Muslims going crazy AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE DESTRUCTION TO GET SOME OF YOU DOWN TO YOUR KNEES and trembling and finally saying, "Guess what?" WHEN GOD RIPS AWAY YOUR IPHONE AND he rips away your YouTube and he rips away your video games and he rips away your your your your your cable TV and he rips away the And when GOD STARTS RIPPING AWAY ALL OF THIS, and this is what's sad, IT'S GOING TO TAKE DRASTIC THINGS TO GET SOME of you to your knees. And I hope to God that you have time before it's over. I know it. I know this is going to sound strange, but yesterday I've never had this happen before. But, yesterday we drove out to the country to the house. We're driving back. And I was looking up into the sky and the sky was unusual. It was yesterday evening, you know, getting close to sunset. And the sky was looking kind of unusual in the clouds and I was and I was praying to myself. I was just talking to the Lord. But it was an eerie thing because there were two clouds, two big huge cloud formations up there. And they were moving so they were changing by the but there was this there was this moment that one of them looked like the face of Jesus. His eyes of on fire and the the sun was behind it and it was shining through. It looked just like beard and everything. And beside the other cloud formation was a mushroom cloud. It looked just like a huge mushroom cloud. And when I saw that flash, the presence of God hit me for just a second and he said, "It's very near." "It's very near." And I felt this presence hit me. It's so close. And what's so funny is I was praying and I said, "Lord, I really need you to I I I I I've been having a rough week. I really need you to touch me and show me something." And it was just like this vision in the sky for just a moment. I It was eerie. It was like, you know, when when John talked described Jesus in the book of Revelation, like his eyes were a flame of fire. I mean, there were two eyes and this bearded face and the eyes were on fire. I knew it was the Lord just showing me,
just manifesting in that in the sky and I saw beside him and I It's funny. I looked at that and I looked to my left and there was this huge mushroom cloud. I mean, looked just like it, y'all. Pillar went up like this. It's like it's almost here. 1/3 of mankind will be destroyed by the fire of this war. 1/3 of mankind. I believe we live in a unique place that is going to be protected. I really do believe that God has put us sovereignly in a place that will survive the war. But just because you're in a place that may survive the war, doesn't mean you will. The Russian troops are here. The UN troops are here. The German and Polish troops are here and that means they don't care about you as an American and they don't care about your constitutional rights. The world government is here. We may be weeks, we may be just months away before and see this I know this is not even can't even get it into your heads on your radar that the United States of America will cease as a nation. It will collapse. It will completely vanish as a sovereign nation. It's over with. And you go that can't happen. Well, it happened to Egypt and it happened to Babylon and it happened to Assyria and then it happened to Persia and it happened to the great Roman EMPIRE THAT WENT FOR 500 YEARS. IT HAPPENED TO THE GREAT ROMAN EMPIRE. OH, BUT IT CAN'T HAPPEN to America. No, it Y'all don't understand. It has happened. We are The United States is like a It's like a person that's been hit by a by a couple of rounds in the chest. It's just laying on the ground dying and heaving its last breath as IT BLEEDS OUT. THEY'RE VIOLATING EVERY ONE of our constitutional THE CONSTITUTION IS OVER. THE POLICE STATE IS HERE. And frankly, I don't care how well we arm ourselves. We can't fight it. The only true arms, the only true protection, the only true place of refuge is being righteous IN JESUS CHRIST. HE'S THE ONLY SHIELD, THE ONLY FORTRESS, THE ONLY one against this whole Luciferic world government and world persecution and destruction is coming. He's the only one.
So, that's what? You can humble yourself, get close to God, or you can try to go it on your own. Good luck. Good luck with that. I know I know I know You know what? I know. I feel sorry for y'all. I know this is hard for y'all. I know some of you don't even want your kids here. And I know. I know it's tough. I can't be anything but what God's called me to be. I'm sorry. I am a Jeremiah. I am a weeping prophet with a lot of heavy heavy stuff. Sorry. I know but it sounds like gloom and doom but look look y'all and I know I need to stop. But look, I do believe for some of you you know you kids I know it's tough to think about some of these bad things but listen to me. Greater is he that's in you, Jesus in you than all that evil that's in the world. And if you love Jesus I think we're going to see Jesus do great and powerful things. Like remember all those homosexual men wanted to get Lot. But what happened? The power of God came in and blinded them. Protected Lot, protected his family. We're going to see that. Jesus is our deliverer. He is our fortress, our rock, our refuge, our strength and no matter if all the armies of the world come against us. If Jesus wants you to allow you just you stay alive. See I know I've been frustrating for years. They've been trying to kill me for years. I'm still here preaching. So I told my wife she got a little concerned when I started preaching on some of these things. I'm like baby they've been trying to kill me for years. Literally shot at. I've had assassins sent to kill me y'all. I know that may sound people think well he's nuts, he's crazy, he's paranoid. Listen, at a 1500 member church in the parking lot three men with guns with masks got out to kill me and people saw it, witnesses saw it. They got out to kill me and the power of God hit and and then terror came over them and they ran back in their car. I just stood there. I didn't do anything. I didn't pull a gun. I didn't have my I got none there. You hear what I'm saying? I know what it sounds like for bullets to whiz by your head. I know exactly what that sounds like. Well, I've been doing this 27 years now.
So, see Jesus can protect you, baby. You understand that? You stay close to him. You got mom and daddy who love Jesus. You're in a good place. Amen? You also got a former Marine for a dad. And guess what? Y'all, I will say this, and I don't care who's listening, NSA, anybody else. I got a right to protect my family best I can, so good luck with that, too. What I can't do, Jesus will help me do. Amen. So, let's pray. And yeah and with our heads bowed and eyes closed, I'm going to say this. Even though I've laid it on your heart and heavy today, and that God is going to judge wickedness and the wicked, His love is still there. He wants you. He doesn't want you to go to hell. He doesn't want you to die deceived and and be in hell for That's not God's plan for you. But if you're going to be a rebel, stiff-necked, stubborn, lust-loving, sin-loving heathen, and it's That's what's coming to you. I'm sorry. There are consequences to behavior. Father in heaven, we come to you today, and Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus, that Holy Spirit, you'll take the word sown today. God, that you'll take this word. God, whether it be just in this place or through the podcast or through those listening by radio, Lord, we pray in the name of Jesus you'll take the word of truth and that Lord you'll convict people of sin and people will truly repent. I long for the days to see the days again when people really turn from their sins and really love Jesus and really fall in love with you, God, and follow you. I'm tired of the halfway in and out, up and down, inconsistent game that people play. Lord, I left when I got saved and I left all that sin and I followed you and it became real and powerful. And I pray that people will have the same conversion. Lord, I pray for some Saul of Tarsus experiences in this church and to those listening. As we either going to be we're either going to be part of the righteous and escape the destruction and the of the wicked or we're going to be Lot's wife and keep looking back. So Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will draw people out of darkness and out of sin into your marvelous light, to the forgiveness you offer into the lordship of Jesus Christ into a
relationship with you, God, before it is too late for them. Hallelujah. I pray this in Jesus' name. You know what? And I'm not giving any altar call this morning. Cuz the stubborn ones won't come anyway. But you need to think about it. Cuz you know what?