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hallelujah lord those songs this morning god those are our prayers lord that you will send your glory lord that you will send the power of your holy spirit lord sin revival into our midst lord into this church into this area lord into this region lord into our nation we so need a move of god to bring conviction again to bring conviction of sin revelation of of what repentance is of the lordship of jesus and what it means to take up our crosses and and and follow the lord with all of our hearts and to forsake our sins and to forsake our old lifestyle to break up with the world and give the devil back his stuff and and truly move on and be true christians father we pray for a revival of true christianity a revival and a move of the holy ghost even in this dark hour even in this hour when we are so close to the end of all things as we know it we pray for a move of the holy spirit and we pray god for grace to be intercessors to be examples to be oh lord god those who live it and preach it lord we thank you for the grace and power to do it in jesus name amen hallelujah you may be seated praise god i sense the presence of the lord here this morning i want to welcome you to fire and grace church i do have a word this morning for you but before we turn to the scriptures in first kings i want you to turn to first corinthians chapter 10 because i'm going to be preaching mainly out of the old testament this morning so i want to share this passage with you because some people have a problem with the old testament some even christians i don't know why last time i checked second timothy 3 16 said all scripture is given by inspiration of god and is profitable for doctrine for correction for instruction so you know i believe the entire bible is god's inspired infallible inerrant word that he breathed through men and women so let's uh let's read this and i'll just share with you what i'm going to be speaking to you this morning i think we'll call it the josiah generation we have a josiah in here it's not about him but the josiah generation we're going to look at king josiah in just a second but in first corinthians chapter 10 verse 1 this is what paul stated here about the old testament and
how it works for us today and he said moreover brethren i would not that you should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea and were all baptized unto moses in the cloud and in the sea and did all eat the same spiritual meat now let's just think about that for a second it says they did all eat the same spiritual meat and drink that we drink god has not changed jehovah the lord god almighty the god of abraham isaac and jacob the god and father of our lord jesus christ he is the same god of the old testament as he is of the new testament i need to make that clear because there's a lot of people out there saying that there's two different gods there's one god in the old testament one god in the new testament that comes from gnosticism and from heresies that sprung up in the late first and second centuries but regardless it's been revived now but the bottom line is jehovah as i told an israeli mossad agent one time jehovah yahweh is jesus there is one god who manifest himself in three persons the father the son and the holy spirit but jesus said if you've seen the father if you've seen me philip you've seen the father right isaiah taught it isaiah 9 6 he said you know the son will be given there will be a son that will come forth right we quote it every time at christmas time but sometimes i think we forget when he says his name will be called wonderful counselor the mighty god the everlasting father and the prince of peace so this is for everybody out there's got a problem with who jesus is jesus christ is god manifested in the flesh to say anything different is to deny jesus christ and who he is that's just the fact of life but anyway i had to say that right there that's for you know nobody in here of course but we never know who's listening so anyway he said we did all eat the same spiritual meat in verse 4 did all drink the same spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them and that rock was christ but with many of them god was not well pleased for they were overthrown in the wilderness now look at verse six now these things were our examples to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted neither be ye idolaters as were some of them as it is written the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play neither let us commit fornication and that's any fornication covers all sexual immorality he says neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed and fell in one day three and twenty thousand neither let us tempt christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of serpents neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer look at verse 11 now all these things happened unto them for examples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come
so everything written in the old testament are is for us they're examples they're things that we should learn from and then he he says it here wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he falls so i wanted you to see that because too many times i think people nowadays think that the old testament has no application or no profit for us and our spiritual lives but how many of you know that jesus said man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god so every word is important so now i want you to take your bibles and i want you to turn back and i want you to go to second kings chapter 22. now what i'm going to be speaking to you about today about king josiah and some of the things that that god did through him and the things that were going on around there i want to say this because i feel that this is a kind of a prophetic word kind of a prophetic revelation there are times that god makes things in the scriptures kind of jump out at you and you know that it's something that he's saying for this time that's why he would say many times like when he spoke to the churches of asia through when jesus spoke to the apostle john he says he that has ears let him hear what the spirit says not what the spirit said you see sometimes it's there's we we have to hear what god said but he's also saying things and that's why he makes the bible come alive to us remember we've talked about hearing from god and god can just speak make something just leap out of the bible and you know that that's for now i know that this is for now because of where we are on the threshold of god's judgment in america and the world i mean i believe and you guys know this that we are at the end of the age i believe we're about to enter uh what jesus called the great tribulation we're about to enter that time we're in the beginning of sorrows we're seeing uh the earth travail we're seeing the we're seeing every sign that jesus and his prophets and his apostles told us about everything's coming to pass and and i believe we're at that time and you know there are a lot of people right now the reason i bring this up because there's a lot of people out there even within the pentecostal charismatic realm presbyterian there's a lot of people beginning to accept this what they call kingdom now theology or dominion theology and basically what they believe their preterist in the sense what they believe is that all of the end time or what we call end time passages or end time judgments all happened in 70 a.d when titus invaded and destroyed jerusalem and tore down the temple and they they believed that was it they even believed that the second coming happened then and was spiritual some of them and that now the church has moved into this spiritual millennial reign and the church has been given the power to take dominion and take control of the government and take control of finances and take control of all of this stuff and that we're going to make the world a better place and
make it this utopia so that jesus can come back and and rule and reign one day okay i'm sorry but that's not what the bible says okay the book of daniel chapter 7 the book of revelation chapter 13 we've all seen that it doesn't end like that as a matter of fact the bible tells us paul told us in second thessalonians that before the the coming or revelation of the man of sin the antichrist the great wickedness he said there'll be a a falling away there's a great apostasy and we're seeing that happen right now in the church world i think more than ever before there's a falling away from truth a falling away from who jesus is there's a delving into all sorts of things like buddhism and hinduism and yoga and they're just trying to mix everything together and create this this this new age new world religion that mixes christianity with everything else um so we're in that season but what the what daniel 7 spells out what revelation 13 spells out is that the governments of the world will not become more and more christianized they will become more and more demon-possessed more and more antichrist more and more against righteousness against holiness and against jesus christ and his true church and of course against the jewish people and what amazes me is how these people christian people now who supposedly read the bible right can can say that the world is getting better and better there's even one guy and i'm gonna name his name i'm not afraid to do it um out of bethel uh church in redding california he's the associate pastor his name's chris volatin he actually gave a prophecy and gave a word that the world the state of the world is getting better and better this guy i hate to say is on drugs or something okay he is listening to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons because how blind do you have to be he even said china was going to turn and begin to be a giver and china read china he said that there won't be any war that all these nations that are getting ready for war they're going to stop they're just going to be god's going to stop them in their tracks there's going to be no war and i'm like have you read the bible one of the signs jesus said was there'll be wars and rumors of wars and i'm just like dude it's not hard to judge that false prophecy as you know as that prophecy is false right the world's not getting better and better i mean you have to be living in some fantasy land to think that the world's getting better and better but the governments of the world are being taken over daniel 7 and revelation 13 spells it out that the antichrist that there will be a world government and that there will be a man come up over that world government and they're going to try to stamp out christianity and stamp out the jewish state the jewish people and guess what it's happening right in front of our faces so you know it says there and this is what
a lot of people don't like to hear in revel you know daniel 7 revelation 13 it says what that the the antichrist or the beast will make war against the saints and overcome them prevail against them it's going to look like we're losing guys and jesus said if he didn't come back that no flesh would be saved that's how bad it would get so that's where we're headed now does that mean that we shouldn't pray for revival we shouldn't pray for god to move and god to save people and god to demonstrate his power no and as a matter of fact a lot of people call me a doomsday prophet because i preach about what's coming because i warn people about the judgments that are coming and the wars that are coming and all the signs that jesus foretold i get criticized by people from every different denomination i get criticized for but the bottom line is this i'm not a pessimist i'm not just looking at the bad things i do believe that as these judgments begin to fall as the as these terrible things begin to happen the more and more dramatic they become i believe more and more people who are living on the fence are going to start finally getting off the fence and repenting and making jesus lord of their lives and i believe we are going to see a revival but we're not going to see you know the whole world get saved and and everything turn out for the better that's not going to happen jesus said narrow is the way and few that be that find it but i still believe there's going to be a revival something daniel said when he said those who would understand what was happening in those last days would turn many to righteousness there will be a revival listen when the first nuclear bomb goes off in the middle east and it will mark my words it could even be here but when the first nuclear bomb goes off and destroy some city in the world you don't see a lot of people hit their knees and start turning back to god now the reason i call this message this morning the josiah generation is because i want to say that in the midst of praying for revival we have a we have a lot of people that are not they're not realist they're not how do i put it they're not scriptural christians okay because you can go to the other side we got the other side of the fence the pollyannas that think everything is just going to be wonderful and and good and and again we've got to balance it off here right um now just because i believe there's going to be a revival i believe god's going to move and save a bunch of people i do see the other side i mean it's all going to be happening at the same time remember this before we look at this matthew 13 the parable of the wheat and the tares what did he say he said the tares were the children of the wicked one right he said the the wheat with the with the children of the kingdom he said both will grow
together and reach maturity together this is this is the dichotomy of our time the paradox of our time that evil is growing to its maturity but so is the church and the final fires of persecution i believe will finish our maturing process but anyway the book of josiah i mean the book of second kings the story about josiah i want to just read some of this because it's the only way we can we can get through it here but just give you a little background real quick josiah became king when he was eight years old it's kind of hard to fathom becoming king of judah when he was eight years old but let me back up and say this he just came through 57 years now think about this 57 years of two very wicked and evil kings manasseh and then ammon or amna ammon his father now manasseh ruled for 55 years and ammon ruled for only two and there was a conspiracy and the people murdered him but think about that let's let's go back and and what is 57 years from now was this 1956 1957 okay think about that so let's say from 1957 until now we lived under obama for 57 years the most pro-abortion pro-homosexual pro-muslim idolatry think about it socialist communist think about it now 57 years one king as a matter of fact if you go back and read and you can go back and read the chapters before this you find out that manasseh it said did more evil than any other king before him he set up every idol type of idol to baal to ashtray he brought in the wizards and the groves he let the homosexuals build their houses right up against the temple of god sound familiar he didn't have a problem with molech that they sacrificed children to sounds just like our president right now he doesn't have a problem with partial birth abortion he doesn't have a problem with any abortions uh matter of fact i think he probably wouldn't have a problem if kids were born and you just go ahead and kill them then if you don't want them i mean if he told the truth folks evil has always been around evil is evil these things are not new there's always been people worship satan through many different names
there's always people been evil so i want you to understand that manasseh he that josiah comes up as a child in a very evil household can you imagine the demon forces swirling around him can you imagine what was in his home what was in the palace what was in when he tried to go to synagogue can you imagine can you imagine that as as a child coming up at eight years old that he probably heard the screams of the kids they were sacrificing to molech i don't know what got a hold of him but something got a hold of him and and even though his father and his grandfather had been wicked evil people he decided as a young person that he was going to be a righteous man that he was going to follow the lord god almighty jehovah with all of his heart there's a testimony about him we're going to read in a second it says now think about this we're talking about david and all hezekiah and all these other good kings out there and do you know that the bible says that there was no king like josiah before him or after him that's how godly how righteous how close to god he was but here's the moral of the story we'll read it in a second here that even though he came up and really brought about a revival a mini revival within jerusalem and israel the prophet spoke to him and told him you're not going to stop the judgment that's coming you're going to save your life but everything he did and it's amazing everything he did they said you're not going to stop this and god told him because of what manasseh did i'm going to judge this place i'm going to allow the babylonian armies to invade and they're going to devastate this place but you but you won't see it now i'm not going to get into all what that means but let's just read some of this second kings 22 josiah was eight years old when he began to reign and he reigned thirty and one years in jerusalem and his mother's name was jedediah or jedidah and the daughter of i'm not gonna say these names and he did that which was right in the side of the lord jehovah and walked all the way of david his father and turn not aside to the right hand or to the left and it came to pass in the 18th year of king josiah so that means he started when he was eight reigning so 18 years it means he would be 26 years old right so when he was 26 he
he um sent shaphen and these other people into the house of the lord saying go up to hilkiah the high priest that he may some the silver which is brought into the house of the lord which the keepers of the door have gathered together and let them delivered into the hand of the doers of the work that they have the oversight and to repair the breaches so he begins to send he says i want you all to start taking the money that's coming in from people's tithes and offerings and i want you to begin to fix the breaches in the house of god the house of god had been neglected i wonder why right and of course he says they did this faithfully and let's go on down we're going to skip down to some other parts here you can read all this later but anyway when they were cleaning up they found the book of the lord let's go down to verse eight and helkiah the high priest said unto shape and describe i have found the book of the law in the house of the lord in hilkiah gave the book to shephen and he read it and schaffen the scribe came to the king and brought the king word again and said thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house and have delivered into the hand of them that do the work that have the oversight of the house of the lord and sheaf and the scribe showed the king saying hilkiah the priest had delivered me a book and chaffin read it before the king and it came to pass when the king heard the words of the book of the law that he rent his clothes and the king commanded hilkiah the priest and hayek him and the son of shaphen and all these guys these scribes he said verse 13 go ye and inquire of the lord for me for the people and for all judah concerning the words of this book that is found for great is the wrath of the lord that is kindle against us because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book to do according to all which is written concerning us and so hilkiah the priest and ahakim and all these guys they went to halda the prophetess the wife of shalom and the son of tikvah and uh the keeper of the wardrobe now she dwelt in jerusalem in her college and they communed with her and she said unto them thus saith the lord god of israel tell the man that sent you to me thus saith the lord behold i will bring evil upon this place and upon the inhabitants thereof even all the words of the book which the king of judah has read because they have forsaken me and have burned incense into other gods that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place and shall not be quenched but to the king of judah which sent you to inquire of the lord thus shall you say in him thus saith the lord god of israel as touching the words which you have heard because your heart was tender and you have humbled yourself before the lord when you heard that i spake against this place and against the inhabitants thereof that they should become a desolation and a curse and you have rent your clothes and wept before me i have also heard thee sayeth the
lord behold i will gather you unto your fathers and you shall be gathered into thy grave in peace and that i shall not see all the evil which i shall bring upon this place and they brought the king word again now i want to show you i mean of course after this josiah begins to destroy all the altars of baal and i'm going to show you we have some altars of bale still but he began to destroy all the altars of baal the groves the places for ashtoreth the high places i mean he even had to go into the temple of god and clean out idols of baal that were in the temple of god that manasseh had brought in and into the court there was a great cleansing matter of fact we're going to read something else here where he also tore down the houses of the sodomites the homosexuals that had built their houses right up against the temple of god and drove them out and i want to just look at some things here because because this is what i see see this is what i see turning to god turning from sin turning back to righteousness turning back to to humility and brokenness before god turning back and humbling yourself no matter how bad things are no matter how bad things are about to be is always the best way to go even though he knew from the prophets and and this is what's beautiful is when you start to figure out if you go to the book of jeremiah chapter one you find out that jeremiah was just a few years younger than josiah the king and it says that he began his ministry of prophecy in the 12th year of the reign of josiah that means what's that in the 12th year when josiah was 20. and everybody believes that jeremiah was a teenager when he got his call to be a prophet what's interesting is is jeremiah gets his call and his message from god about judgment coming from the north and babylon coming in and the judgment of god will not be stopped because of their wickedness yet he gets this word under a good king that's trying to bring revival and trying to bring righteousness and trying to cleanse israel of their sin this is what i'm trying to get at here we should do like josiah in the sense of do everything we can to return to the lord to repent to get the idols out of our houses to get them out of our hearts to get them out of our life to get the lust for this world in the and the worship of baal which was a fertility god where they had orgies and ho and all kind of sexual sin going on and to get all this mess out of our lives and out of our homes before that great and terrible day of judgment falls upon us see we're not going to stop it there's no it doesn't matter how big the revival
is in america or across the world it doesn't matter how many prayer groups get people to pray it doesn't matter at this point how many churches repent we're not going to heal our land we're not going to save our nation we're not going to stop the judgment and the wrath of god and that's what i'm i'm telling you today about this josiah generation there are some good people out there there's some good preachers there's still a few left there's still some good christians left there's still some people that want to do it right they got a good heart they want to pray they want to pull out you know second chronicles 7 14 and hope to god they can get enough people to pray because they know they know in their spirit and they know in their heart that the judgment and wrath of god is going to fall they want to try to deny it they want to think well we're going to get enough people to pray and we'll heal our land no my friend i don't see that it's just like josiah now and i'm not ashamed to say that i'm a prophet that's my primary calling from god more than even being a pastor and i'm just telling you like the like the prophet is holder told him like jeremiah told him you are not going to stop the judgment of god from coming it is coming to america the question is which side of the fence will you be on and i'm just going to be straight up with you if you're going to keep loving the world if you're going to keep lusting and living and indulging in in pornography and adultery and fornication and you're going to keep living a lukewarm life you're going to find yourself on the wrong side of judgment well there ought to be such a such a brokenness you know here's what's amazing josiah heard both what the written word said and he heard what the prophets were saying the true prophets there were false ones there too but he heard what the word of god said and what the word of god said went along with what the true prophets were saying and you know what he said he did he said he humbled himself and he wept before god because he knew the wrath was coming let me tell you which side of the fence are you on the wrath of god is coming the judgment of god is coming on america we have sinned so grievously there are things that i can't even say in church the the multiplied millions of children that are being molested half the church and and half of ministers are still bound by pornography and go week after week after week watching pornography we are messed up screwed up living in sin we can't americans can't let go of the god of money success if it doesn't have a bunch of numbers in the church then then something must be wrong we're so locked up in success and
prosperity and everything working out the way we want it to work out we have these these guys do you know what what ashtereth means if you look up the goddess ash tourette that they worship it meant happy and prosperous that's what ashtoreth means that's what they worship the goddess of happiness and prosperity baal was the god the sun god he was the god of the weather and storms but he was also the sexual god the sexual sin boy don't we worship that one there's some altars that need to get torn down in america if we don't tear down this altar we have built to lust and success and prosperity you're going to find yourself on the wrong side of the wrath of god if you go to the book of jeremiah and you read when the judgment was coming he told jeremiah and he told ezekiel because ezekiel was at the same time and god told him he said if even if noah and daniel and job were in the land they could not save the land through their intercession he said they would save themselves by their own righteousness but they would not save anybody else here's my words to you and anyone listening right now save your self now what do i mean by that the only way you save yourself is you better run from sin and run into the arms of jesus and receive the mercy and the forgiveness that he bought and paid for on the cross and you better humbly shaken your boots and have the fear of god and the respect of god to know that he's not playing games with with this this issue of sin in this issue of his wrath and judgment that's coming and he told god told jeremiah and god told ezekiel some of them are going to die by the sword some of them are going to die by famine and some of them are going to go into captivity but he told jeremiah because you have kept my word and because this little remnant in it has listened to you and obeyed i'm going to preserve them in the land everybody else fell on the wrong side they wouldn't listen to jeremiah they wouldn't listen to god speaking through the prophets through the word they wouldn't listen they wouldn't repent they wouldn't change their ways they wanted to listen to the false prophets like hananiah in jeremiah 28 they wanted to listen to him say oh no oh no nebuchadnezzar's not coming in here i love that confrontation
jeremiah had put on god i told him to put these the the yoke like they put on yoke of oxen or horses on his and to go through and say the yoke of the king of babylon is coming upon this place but guess what the people don't want to hear about wrath and judgment so there was another prophet that stood up oh no he stood up and he went and broke those off with jeremiah he said oh no god's going to bless this place god's going to prosper this place oh no nebuchadnezzar is not coming in here and you know what jeremiah said the lord performed your words yeah he said but you know what if you're not speaking by the mouth of the lord you shall die because you've taught rebellion one too long after guess what hannah and i had dropped dead and it wasn't too long after that that nebuchadnezzar came in and took everything it didn't take long after josiah died josiah was king for 31 years and god held back his wrath and judgment for those 31 years because of josiah but when josiah died and i just i have i'm sorry i have to say it but the fool that came after him one of his sons he wasn't king very long about three months i think it says three months and ten days how do you go back to being wicked after you see your father live like that after you see the prophets around him warning you of what's coming and you're going to be wicked he didn't last long and the next king that came up zedeka he was the last one judgment king nebuchadnezzar came and let me tell you it was not a pretty sight they killed men women children they took everything out of the temple and took it back to babylon they took them slaves captives back and it was just jeremiah and one little group they got to stay in their home and pick up the pieces after this devastating judgment and that judgment jeremiah said would be 70 years and then he would release them to come back now that's not our story because we're at the end of the age i firmly believe that we're not going to stop this but you can get on the right side of the fence
and the promise of psalm 91 can be ours he said to those who who set their love upon jesus set their love upon what he say he said i will say of the lord he is my refuge and my fortress my god and whom i trust he said a thousand will fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand but it will not come nigh you but let me just say this guess what i believe that still even in the midst of that there's going to be some martyrs some godly righteous people that aren't going to make it because they're going to be examples but here's the thing i don't care which one i am i just don't want to be on the wrong side i don't want to be living a lukewarm compromise habitual sin backslidden life because here here's the thing yo you know i have a three-year-old daughter i have a 15 year old daughter i have a 19 year old or i have a wife y'all just don't know y'all don't many of you don't even have a comprehension of the evil that is lurking it is at the doors and these people don't want to just come in and kill you they want to rape and torture and pillage i've been studying things and looking at things that make my heart shudder america's almost over we're almost finished obama is just finishing us off don't get me wrong the bush family the bush family did more than obama did obama's just the final act in a very terrible tragedy here's the thing no one likes to be the messenger of gloom and doom do you know that jeremiah said i wish that i'd never been born he said that he said i hate the fact that i have to be this prophet of doom he said all i am is a man of strife and contention i feel that way sometimes let me tell you about the josiah generation to know you're a josiah and not a monaster
one of the things that i think was beautiful about josiah was his attitude toward the word of god that will tell me anything and everything i need to know about you a man or woman or a young person that loves god that respects god's word that trembles at god's word that takes it seriously that somebody's gonna make it if you start saying uh it doesn't matter i don't know if i believe it all you know some of it's good some of it's just written by men you know i like jesus i like his stuff about love but i don't i don't care for anything else that attitude tells me everything i need to know you know josiah not only did he have a right heart and a right attitude about god's word when he heard the book of the law he humbled himself he fell down to his knees he wept he repented he got up from there though and he wanted to do it right and he was he wanted to be an example to everybody and he went out there and he didn't just sit and say well now you know i believe it i got myself right no he went out and started tearing down the idols of baal he went down and started tearing down the groves you know what that speaks of to me he was bold to go out into the community bowl to go out in public go bowl to go to his family bold to go out there and say no no no no we're not worshiping baal this is a bell right here this is baal worship this right here is ashtray these are these god this is why this wrath is coming upon us get out of your fornication get out of your adultery get out of the grove get out of the get out from in front of that idol of baal remember we got it right now yesterday it was blowing my mind it blows my mind to stuff that i i keep learning but roman catholicism everything always ends up leading me back to roman catholicism but roman catholicism is baal worship it's baal worship it's sun worship it's all over it matter of fact the symbols the pope wears all over him is a symbol for baal that i found that they discovered when they uncovered a canaanite city in an archaeological dig in israel the symbol for baal and it's all over the roman catholic church all over it why do you think there's such sexual perversion within the priesthood of the roman catholic church that oblique that's in the midst of that's that's a pillar to baal read it you read the you'll read the old testament and reading this story says he he tore down the pillars of baal
maybe we'll get on that one time because i thought i had preached against roman catholicism oh no there's a whole lot more i've just barely scratched the surface with y'all in this but it's not just the of babylon it's all her daughters that's coming home she's the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth and i'm not ashamed to say it it is a false demonic idolatrous religious system that's damning millions and millions of people and preachers used to preach against it folks there's coming a union between the roman catholic church and the united nations and the european union and some other world leaders they're coming together and they're going to form a world government and they're going to form their new world religion that rejects only one christianity and when the united states collapses either economically or through the war that's coming or through a massive terrorist attack when we collapse and we are out of their way they are coming to stamp out christianity this is prophesied in your bible and it is happening and i am telling you it is at the doorstep and it blows my mind how many christians are still playing with sexual sin and alcohol and just plain out wasting their time hours upon hours in front of tv and movies they can't they can't get out of sexual sin they can't get the lust out of their minds they i i just it boggles my mind we are at the end and folks are blind as bat as it was in the days of noah jesus said they were eating drinking marrying giving in marriage until the day that noah entered into the ark they knew not what scares me worse than the ones that don't know are the ones who know and have been told and are still living carelessly in sin
this preacher believes the bible i don't believe you're once saved always save no matter how you live your life i'm sorry this scripture does not teach that there's going to be a rude awakening so many are not ready and it is our job if you're listening to me today here or through the radio or through the podcast whatever listen number one thing you have to do it's time to get your life right with god and get on fire for jesus get close to jesus put him first put the kingdom of god first and then you know what if you've got some addiction in your life some sexual addiction some lust addiction some drug or alcohol addiction guess what god can break that god can set you free but the first step is you got to want it more than anything else in the world you got to be willing to lay down your life lay down your past and take up your cross and say i'm following jesus no matter what hell i got to go through until i get free from all of this stuff because i don't want this anymore too many people say i want jesus but i still want my sin no it's not that way so that's the first thing is is you got to deal with yourself second thing is once you've dealt with yourself we have got to do everything we can do to go when somebody else to jesus to to tell them the truth the whole gospel that you must repent take up your cross believe that jesus christ is god in the flesh and the only way to heaven there is not another way that all religions do not lead to god they lead to the to to hell fires where they lead there is only one messiah there is only one savior there is only one god his name is jesus christ he died on the cross for your sins only his blood can wash your sin away and he rose from the dead to prove that one day he'll rise you up from the dead if you'll follow him with all of your heart everything he said in this book is coming to pass i i'm amazed that the people out there who who curse christianity hate christianity are against christianity and they're working so hard to fulfill the very scriptures they're working to bring about a world government they're working to bring about a luciferian new age religion they're working to do everything that the bible said they were going to do get listen to me y'all young boys listen to me this world and the lust in it is either going to take you down to hell with it or you're going to rise up and get serious about jesus and put that stuff away you hear me he's going to get you or you're gonna get and overcome it one of the two you're living you're living listen we're all living we're living in this time that it's gonna take some determination
to overcome the spirit of the world and i think the lord's allowing that to be there's gonna be no more careless carefree loosey-goosey anything goes christianity it's that's not it really it never has been but especially not now now listen i'm preaching to myself because you know what i know hey i'm still made of this stuff right here this flesh stuff and the flesh still wants to sin right the flesh still wants to carry me into lukewarm land all right i have to fight it that's what paul talked about first corinthians chapter nine he said he said what i bring my body into subjection i make it obey me lest by any means when i have preached to others i myself should become a castaway paul believed he could become a reprobate and be thrown away boy if paul believed he could he could fall i better be careful right amen now i need to quit wow i can't believe it's only 12. the josiah generation he loved the word of god he got radical about removing sin and idols out of his life verse 7 in chapter 23 he says he broke down the houses of the sodomites that were by the house of the lord he didn't tolerate homosexuality and i'm just going to say this right now listen to me close there are men out there who aren't homosexuals but for some reason they like watching lesbian porn guess what you're indulging in the sin of homosexuality even if you're not a homosexual you hear me i'm just speaking it like it is remember last week we had what nearly 400 people listening to podcasts last week so i'm not just talking to people in here i love homosexuals i want them to be saved just like i want you to be saved you know i frankly i don't look at the homosexual any different than i look at the adulterer or the abortion doctor or the teenager that can't quit
having sex with a boyfriend or girlfriend i don't look at them any different sin sexual sin is sexual sin now granted for some reason that seems to be stronger once you delve into that but there's nothing that can't be broken by the power of the blood of jesus christ i've seen homosexuals get free i tell them you know a lot of them they don't understand they said well i tried christianity it didn't work i said no you don't try christianity you either do it or you don't i said but if you do it i said one of the problems and you're right the church has failed and after they get them saved cast the demons out of them that's a different sermon but the bottom line is josiah didn't tolerate that up in next to the house of god especially you see what i'm saying i mean there's pastors tolerating they know homosexuals on their platform leading worship i mean i can't even fathom how a person can still be roman catholic after we found out how widespread the pedophile priest problem is i can't even fathom that how can you be how can you still be a roman catholic over that one issue alone so he didn't tolerate the homosexual sodomite issue either he repaired the house of the lord he sought the lord he made a covenant with the lord and he followed the lord and he tried to influence as many people as he possibly could to follow the lord so let us be like josiah amen except new testament josiah and you especially have to do that that's your namesake right there young man let's be like josiah amen let's pray father in heaven we thank you so much god we thank you for your word god and your presence that i sense here today lord i just ask you to touch and minister to people lord you know where each of us are lord i pray that lord people here today people listening lord that if they're not where they need to be if they're sin in their lives if they're practicing and living in a sin that's going to destroy them lord i pray that today they've realized they've got to get up and repent that means to confess the sin and to walk away from it and to follow jesus with all their heart that it's time to get serious and get out of lukewarm christianity and
compromise christianity and carnal worldly christianity and and a fake false christianity doesn't even believe jesus is god and it's time to get on the real thing and even even if a person's a homosexual is time it's time to turn to the lord he will forgive you and wash you and help you but you gotta go all the way