Jude 1:4 Beware of the Subtle Outside Forces - Jude Series #7

I want to spend a few minutes talking a little bit about what I referenced yesterday regarding those people that Jude says crept in unawares I called him creeps but this can't be emphasized enough I think sometimes isolating a passage and if we're just isolating something it's a wonderful study but then when you start to look at other places where other instances are saying the same thing you really realize that the danger not only in the early church but as I said the church today the danger hasn't gone away anybody who studies church history will find that not only has the danger taken on different shades and colors through the ages but it's the same spirit at work so I we studied yesterday those that Jude is referencing certain men crept in unawares and what is interesting and equally tragic is if you read what the Apostle Paul said in acts 20 he's warning the Ephesian elders of something if you want to turn there I want to just kind of pick this apart a little bit they're all things you've read before but it seems kind of terrible when you see this is what was going on early on acts 20 Paul tells them how he was serving the Lord with all humility of mind many tears temptations which befell me by the lion weight of the Jews how I kept nothing back that was profitable unto you but I've showed you and have taught you publicly from house to house testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ if you keep reading because I have verse 27 I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God take heed therefore unto yourselves and and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the Church of God which he purchased with his own blood for I know this that after my departing shall Grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn everyone night and day with tears and so you get the idea he's warning them he says when I leave this is going to happen and there's no question that it happened and there's no question that seemingly compare this with what I referenced out of Galatians it just seems to me that we can be in getting to the mindset that this is historically past even though we know what's around us and we can observe but we don't really think that the danger is as real and present perhaps as it was in their day no it's worse in Paul's saying when I this is gonna happen to the Galatians Galatians 2 and verse 4 he says and that because of false brethren unawares brought in who came in privily to spy out our Liberty which we have in Christ Jesus that they might bring us into bondage and if you keep looking you'll find references over and over there are references to these and perhaps a more vague way in Corinthians and you've got a different type of mention there's what's interesting if you know if you're really wanting to look and you see that there was no place where people could out of Timothy is writing Paul writing to Timothy specifically to him to a church and he says again he's telling Paul is telling Timothy of these things put them in remembrance charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit but to the subverting of the hearers and he says but shun profane and vain babblings for they will increase unto more ungodliness and if you keep reading he talks about how he says but foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do gender Strife's all of his instruction then he says now in the last days perilous times shall come men shall be lovers of themselves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy keep going the most important thing he says here is verse 5 having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof so from every angle do you want to look moreover keep going you find that Peter will write something will stay somewhat similar they all start to sound the same second Peter 2 could actually have started a little bit early but I'll start here there are false prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you past tense present tense who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves Swift destruction and many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of you just it's somewhat interesting because this section actually in 2nd Peter has a parallel to Jude that's why I Sydney you can almost do a side-by-side and there's been a lot of debate as to if Jude was privy to see or hear what was in 2nd Peter or not I don't want to get into that tonight but you can see that they're all saying the same thing they're all lamenting and that's just the New Testament we could go into the Old Testament and look at the words when we study I don't know if you remember out of Jeremiah Jeremiah is saying you know they come Nate they're speaking peace peace but there is no peace Ezekiel confronted the same thing it's an age old problem but you would think with the establishment of the church in this very early early stage we're looking at I'm gonna say no more than 30 maybe 40 years at best in the span of the earthly Ministry of Christ to the close if John's writing will just say if we put it at the late date of 98 or some put it 99 bit of c98 we're talking at best a span of perhaps 60 years and even John was writing about these things in first John so you've got every single writing in the New Testament is confronting the same problem and I think my attraction to this little epistle of Jude is that there there there isn't any other message going on here you know if you read Paul he may address the issue of people who crept in but then it stand fast in the Liberty wherewith you've been called and maybe some other things that might be addressed extreme doctrinal pigs out of Paul's writing here it's simply a warning to the faithful to keep the faith and to not be persuaded I love what as I referenced out of Acts 20 what Paul said about how when these individuals come in they will also speak evil and say malicious things as to draw disciples away from you that still goes on today that's age-old in the call for us it can't be said enough I may sound like you know some voice crying in the wilderness but can't be sounded enough to be vigilant how easy it is for people who do not have a deep-rooted understanding or they're not deep into the Bible it's just a surface it's a casual reader one of their friends says oh hey you got to listen to this teacher now that meat that may be a wonderful Bible teacher but most of the time those hey you got to listen to this is the quintessential feel-good massage yourself save yourself do for yourself be for yourself no Bible and I hate to sound repetitive but we know without faith it's impossible to please God and faith only comes by hearing the Word of God when people say well I have faith I don't want to sound like James when I say this but I don't want to say show me your works I want to say tell me how much Bible you know though I've had people say well you know I don't I don't need to study the Word of God to have faith well that's that's a different type of thing we're talking about saving faith and you can only say you know about that through the word you can't know it just through osmosis or through some mystical you get what I'm saying so the point is one of the reasons why I'm I have this new excitement for this small little epistle is it is a call and it should be a modern-day clarion call to those who understand what they've received how they received it and when I say how they've received it if it's really of God it doesn't come easy you know the the learning and the frustration that comes with having to walk by faith and not by sight and even when you've learned the lessons how many times do you get knocked down and you have to get back up again in the that will call it the need to keep getting back up which is lifelong it doesn't come easy the salvation itself which is free we receive it freely we do nothing to merit it but it's a struggle this is why I love the Greek word Paul writing agonized the good agony fight the good fight of faith because it is not just a if you want to call it a hand-to-hand combat mano a mano it is it's agonizing daily the things were confronted with that could very easily it's very easy to start leaning on the flesh it's very easy and extremely subtle the things that we are given in exchange for simply trusting God and taking him at his word that he will do what he said because he has in the past he will in the present and he will in the future so this is definitely for me this is a wonderful place to talk about this how not just in a diversity of places that I've highlighted the scriptures that I've referenced one of the places where it says you know don't give heed to cunning fables and genealogies I'm listening I'm all for the study of things that will build up your faith in my faith if they are a complement to the Bible I have no problem with that but I've yet to see I've yet to see this in all the things and the people I've been exposed to who go down these what I'd call secondary roads that get sucked into them like a vortex and then suddenly their excitement is for these other things not for the Bible and it's a danger when Paul talks about the we're not ignorant of Satan's devices well even the most learned people can become blindsided by Satan's devices it's so much easier especially in our day and age go look on the internet if you're a little bit lazy I got to do is put in a keyword and up comes you know there'll be several different experts who are all going to tell you some different thing about the thing you're looking for I have a friend of mine to give you an idea and I digress from this for a second just to give you an idea of how I see the confusion of the internet a great blessing and also great curse I have a friend of mine who was diagnosed with stage 3 kidney disease not too long ago and of course you start the journey to try and find what an individual with this type of diagnosis can eat or not eat not we're not talking about sodium and potassium we're talking about foods that are labeled as bad and taxing the body and I did my own little research it was very brief I searched maybe 12 or 15 different sites printed out a ton of stuff and I was there was conflicting information one says yes you can eat this and the other says no you can't eat that and one says you can do this and they one says no you can't do that now come back to the spiritual because it is exactly like that and people are looking up things on the internet by and large there's so much contradiction there are a lot of people everybody sounds like an expert and the tragedy is for the people who are really looking what do you think happens usually it's the thing that requires the least amount of work that sounds the most plausible that's the most comfortable Avenue that's taken tell me that's not so that's the way it works so you're trying to find your way if you're someone who feels like they're searching you're trying to find your way and somebody says look the first thing you need to do is you need to find love that's the sorry that's the common theme I'm not suggesting that that's bad but that's the common theme when people are beginning to search and they're trying to figure out how do I put the puzzle pieces together from my life so all of these spiritual experts love love love of course one of the most commonly quoted things God is love unfortunately that's not what you need first yo you're getting love by God if God guides you to a right place and usually the thing you'll get first is some tough love to be confronted with the ugliness of yourself not to be told you're good in your grade and you can be coddled and stroked and petted the tough love of have someone saying here I'm not gonna hold up the mirror for you you pick up the mirror for yourself in this book and find how ugly you are and I'm talking about spiritually deprived you're not a good person this is all the preachments out there you're a good person and good good things happen to good people well I'd like to know how that was applicable to the followers of Christ when they all died except for John terrible death Syme was that a good thing that happened this is why you can tick slivers of this and make a modern day application of the heretical and it is heretical doctrines the prosperity people out there and they're still out there you know I can now say it and I don't think there's any harm but with the likes of rufus glitter teeth and others who have been taken off the planet here you think well you know there's less of those oh no no no that those were tamed now in comparison to the next generation it's like the snakes that pop Scott talked about in his vision you know hitting this the hitting them now they pop up somewhere else except these are multiplied infinitely worse because they have the appearance of spiritual because they speak in such a way smooth and flattering this is exactly what the Bible says and you try and explain this to me because I I still haven't found an explanation except [Music] probably the best one is PT Barnum's but putting that aside sucker born every minute how is it possible mass multitudes of people are deceived masse multitudes you know every single I would say every year every second third year there's some new healing evangelists that's out there healing and people say oh you have to go to so-and-so his meetings people are getting healed the one guy that came out you know he was the popular guy for a while and people lined up I'm not talking about the white suited one either I'm talking about this was a newer this guy was I've told you the story before full of tats and he was very accepted in the Christian community I think because he came out and he was covered in tattoos and he looked like you know just average Joe out on the street and so people related to him of course he had these great I'm talking about swelling twenty and thirty thousand people show up for healing services which unfortunately like all of these turn out to be it may start and a good thing it may start with a small group of people that he's preaching to that get the faith but then it it snowballs into something that it isn't and people are being made merchandise being sold you've got to buy the book and you've got to buy the tape and you need this now and you got to come into the healing convention conference whatever wherever it's being held it's a $50 admission to get in and they'll still take up an offering and then they'll still be more merchandising I you know t-shirts I got heel that I personally prefer the you know my friends went to such and such a place and all they got me was this stupid t-shirt that'd be way better be way better but when you think about it though what is it that draws people out to those type of events now we've said this I've said this before desperation possibly but I'm gonna say the root cause of why mass multitudes go has to be a lack of being in this book because I I do believe that there have been people who have had a gift of healing ministry but they've been very few and very far in between and I'm I'm somewhat of a skeptic on all of these things I'm not my faith is rock-solid I believe in the Great Physician I believe when he said I am the Lord who healeth thee and IV heals all diseases I believe that I Amen that there's there's absolutely no question in my mind that there isn't anything that he cannot do heal the liver break from bondage there's no question in my mind I just don't know when people come out and they start having these events and they become somewhat of a spectacle so I have to say it's the same thing again where people are not rooted in something they'll go now I've said quoted the beer brewery in that study the word see what the word says is it possible for someone to have the gift of healing absolutely Paul talks about this and I believe it I'm not saying it was just then in his day I believe it you know like it's like the the guy who his claim to fame I've told you this before - his claim to fame is that he in his service I always have trouble keeping a straight face like the smiles already coming he raised somebody from the dead and a my thinking is that probably his sermon was pretty boring it's just highly possible that the guy just collapsed then in there and I don't know problem is this one individual who that's their claim to fame wait for it the person that was dead was never certifiably dead in other words there was no death certificate issue there was no there's a there's a lot of strange stories that surround that individuals supposed death now if somebody died in front of me and you know there's certain ways to tell if somebody's really dead pulse might help right let's just say they're dead and somebody who knows CPR or somebody was a doctor that they're dead and I don't know a couple of days from that moment not a couple hours a couple of days I see that person again I'm gonna be like wow and what's going on and how'd you do that but what I'm saying this sensationalizing just spectacular rising and if that's the claim to fame here's my question because I've heard this over and over again this Minister so-and-so raised this individual from the dead not God raised up this individual it's always like that I'm God can function and does through human conduits but this is this is why I said all these things bring me back to you I'm not saying God prove it I I'm good because I believe God can give very unique gifts to people but don't be colorful like somebody saying I have the call of God on my life I'm picking these down the line here tonight because I figure this is just a good opportunity to go through these and check some boxes off I feel the call of God in my life and the disturbing thing is when somebody says that and they haven't had what I've called a unique call of God all they've had is a rebellious spirit and a refusal to serve under somebody else so they want to go out and be their own what they think is a cowboy for Jesus stiff neck unbreakable I'm one but but the Lord called me and I've said to you it's always going to be like this the God will when God calls somebody will usually be in a very unique way and that person will have their own burden and as I analyze even thinking about dr. Scott in the very early days before he came here as pastor to faith center he had some very unique I want to say they were unique for him comparatively that he ended up settling down and spending 30 years thereafter but as a missionary and traveling the world which I'm not gonna say was uncommon in his day because missions were very popular I don't they're not as popular today because it seems like unless you're in a very large larger denomination that's still supporting missions it's not like it was in his day but that coupled with the fact that in his day think about this because I don't think I've even put this in proper perspective it was assumed that if you felt that you were called by the Lord you went into the ministry which basically was you couldn't do anything else so you went to serve God that was the mindset of dr. Scott's era so what a novel thing that he would go and get a higher education in his generation I mean there were doctors but in his generation that was kind of not really the big thing because anybody could be essentially if you were in the family of the pastor if you were related to somebody if you had connections and I'm not talking about the god ones you could be serving the Lord very easily because you couldn't get work doing anything else so he did have a special burden placed on his life and then when he came here it was seemed like the burden was to be a financial consultant and solved the problems here that's another unique and special burden to him and thereafter it was fighting for the church's rights which was a special burden to him if you think about it I'm not talking about Bible teaching per se because that's a given that's the heart and soul of any minister that is called but each will have its own his or her own unique burden which is why I kind of still look back at the days when I said I was going into the prisons and I remember the people who were there very outspoken in Soma dr. Scott never did that and now we don't like that in there we're not going to be subject to that right well he didn't subjected you and he didn't ask you to support me I said I'm going didn't ask for your permission the Lord placed that burden believe me I don't think I would have come up with that idea oh I think I'm gonna go to prison don't think so and in the strangest connections that were made that then just it's snow balled out of controlled where I was traveling I was on the road more often then I was here working in the institutions and absolutely loved it and still love that work I'm just at the point in my life where I can't I can't do everything and more importantly right now or there are things right here that need my attention where I cannot be gone as often and I understand that's my priority is here but just you know as I pick these off you might say absolutely the the way these obstacles come into the church can be very subtle since why use the word translating the word for crept in unawares that work for crept in I actually did a little bit more looking and at least three references say coming in by a side door which is very interesting not a back door that would mean that the people were absolutely unaware but they came in a side door you can see but you just didn't know okay brothers coming in the church and I'm no big deal Paul's warning as I said of those who would come in and try to take disciples away which still happens people still do that they leave and where they're disgruntled and they want to take other people with them so that they can start their own little ministry of misery instead of it being one of servitude and serving the Lord and preaching the word it has to be well we're just gonna get even we're mad we're gonna get even where we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it right because god forbid you should actually read what Paul says in Ephesians 4:32 putting aside all malice forgiving another one or one another for Christ's sake god forbid we should actually live by these things or let them live in our hearts and meditate on them and this is why by the way the church for the most part is not taken seriously by the world although the world is controlled by a different force but they look at the church and said joke remember many years ago the senator Grassley's investigation and one of the one of the ministers on the list with the I don't know if it was a twenty or thirty thousand dollar commode which some people said it might be a potty and other people said it might be a place to put clothes who knows what that meant when used the word commode the world's looking on saying see a bunch of thieves crooks and these are people by the way I'm I'm right in the middle I say moderation don't be putting the minister in the position to have to be walking around with with the handout trying to figure out how to make ends meet nor don't be so over the top that you're out you're working on like this one guy is working on his second or his third plane that he's acquired for his ministry because when he travels he said he's like the president he has to be in one plane and the rest of the people in his entourage have to go in another I think those type of people need healing mental healing from the Lord I wouldn't say why this waste I'd say why the stupidity but everything in moderation I can I can completely understand somebody said to me what do you feel about people who ministries and people who have planes and travel in private jets I don't I don't feel anything if you're if you're on the road that frequently and your ministry supports that then do it because at some point it becomes almost impossible I'm a victim of this and most of you have probably been victims of the same thing you're on a deadline to get somewhere you've got to be somewhere you've given yourself more than Froome and the flight that you're on has been canceled not once not twice maybe even three times maybe come back tomorrow because there are no planes flying in the direction you need to go today that's happened to me and I've lamented and said yeah if only Newman had a plane he'd let me borrow it just saying I can understand but moderation but I can understand the world looking on and saying what is this we're the wackiness as I've told you if you ever watched some of these programs on TV it's absolute wackiness like I have to sit and say what did they just say it's not that they were speaking in tongues because that's equally offensive to me not to speaking in tongues but they're doing it on TV what did they just say because it's just like for anybody who's actually got half a brain nothing intelligent was said and then it cuts to a like a mini infomercial of hobby I'll buy this right now send away rush years special love gift right now how could you be that ignorant as to fall for that now I'm I'm just going on old pet peeves but the list continues and I didn't start it I'm very grateful that's right in front of me and I'm just trying to say this gives me the license to kind of once again make this call whoever will listen to this whoever will hear it there's gonna come a day and you know we can deceive ourselves and we can say we live in the now or that's then I'll deal with it then but there will come a day where we're all gonna have to stand and give a count and I'm gonna be the first person to say Lord I blundered big time but if there was one thing I think I've been wise about doing is trying to sound the call to people don't fall for the antics don't fall for the easy way don't fall for all this it's like a pill it's like a diet pill it it it's so seductive in its appeal and allure because it's so easy that you succumb to it the Christian Way is its it really is a strange paradox it really is something that I'm not even sure I myself can articulate properly when Jesus said to those men on the shore follow me I'll make you fishers of men and I taught the message follow me I'll make you something you're not but while they were with him many times over we read that they didn't understand what he was saying and they didn't necessarily understand what not only what he was saying but what was about to happen and it wasn't until the day of Pentecost when we'll call it the gift of clarity understanding wisdom that was poured out onto the church equipment for service and even then that wasn't a guarantee that there wouldn't be errors made along the way of the same people who were blessed by God to be the first recipients the first fruit of the outpouring on the day of Pentecost and so I think to myself I want to be able to say if there's at least one thing I was diligent at doing is sounding the call to people and the people who have the capacity to listen are not going to judge my appearance because I'm wearing a hat or because I'm wearing dark clothes or because I wear makeup or because I'm a woman or because I talk faster slower in between they're gonna be listening to what I'm saying going back into the book and saying this is scriptural this is biblical this is an age-old problem and just as Paul warned the Galatians who hath bewitched you remember I taught on that as well they turncoats who did this to you you know in our case for people who as Hebrew says a once been enlightened and have partaken of the heavenly gift there's only one place you can look at if we were to be asked with the which to you could certainly seen the devil has been on the attack ever since why wouldn't he turn people away from this ministry and use every tactic every single tactic and still and today the list goes on of tactics used have I ever said to you two challengers I know the answer have I ever said to you I've never made a mistake in the pastor it here in fact I have stood in front of you and said I've blundered and sometimes quite it's been a little bit humiliating that's how you grow you have to be able to look back and there were times that I I recognized I was growing in front of you there were things that I was wrestling and working out right in front of your eyes because I didn't have the years of preparation and I thank God and I give glory to God that he let me work it out in front of you if you if you cannot in front of the family of God with spiritual eyes look on somebody who is genuinely striving like Paul's instructing Timothy to keep striving and pressing forward and you can't look on that and say the tenacity of the faith of that individual to keep pressing on in spite of the circumstances in spite of the opposition in spite of every possible obstacle but yet in my case she persists before God that's gonna count for something I don't know what but it'll count for something because anybody else with just a little bit of pride or ego which would say well this is too embarrassing for me trusted God implicitly God was gonna make away.i I told you I spent many nights on my knees with my Bible open literally filling the pages with my tears I mean the paper would get crumpled after it dried of just begging the Lord I told you at first I begged the Lord to take me away to blot me out because I I didn't want to cause embarrassment or hurt the ministry or be fumbling around so badly and then it was Lord enable me if you're gonna keep me here and you're gonna leave me here without dr. Scott then excuse me for God's sake enable me because I can't do it on my own and that began a journey but I never said to you I'm perfect and I've never made a mistake and I've never looked at any of you when you have made a mistake and said homo see the correction comes and then I'm I'm of the mind that if somebody has the right attitude what are we talking about why are we wasting time discussing the issue come on we've got matters of faith to go and tackle that's been the way I've operated so it's very easy for any of this to creep in and it's very easy for some say well it's not my responsibility I don't have to warn people I'll just stand here and smile and tell you good things that you want to hear pleasurable things things that make you happy but these are things that should actually make you happy in a strange way because when you know the truth and when you've received the truth the truth makes you not only free and at liberty but it also sets you free from fear that is triggered from Satan and fear that comes from the enemy planting those seeds let me go back to what I was just talking about me some time ago well what what if what if she can't what if what if this can happen what if that happens what if she what if but why is your focus on that why isn't your focus I'm talking about 10 plus years ago God because at the end of the day it's not going to be about me God either is in control or he's not God is either called an individual or he hasn't and that is always settled real quickly somebody said well why don't why isn't God just removed certain ministries if they're not called he does eventually and sometimes he leaves people to linger a long time it's called what I would say heaping up his own version of special calls reserved for that individual that's not for me to judge that's his work that's his doing mine is just to put the call out and say just as jesus warned they'll be wolf scum in sheep's clothing an age-old problem eat it's good food eat of it pratik you won't die it's an age-old problem now we know we have the antidote we know who the enemy is but I'm really trying to help those people who constantly sit and vacillate back and forth over who are desperately searching this little book here this little epistle comes in like a breath of fresh air because just after talking about the children of Israel it will pass on to even dealing with the Angels the fallen ones and speaking of the punishment that awaits it's almost like Jude is giving a complete composition on this is what it looks like and some were dealt with immediately and some will be dealt with later tell me why is it that archaeologists are still trying to find and haven't with certainty identified although there are two particular places people believe would be Sodom and Gomorrah the area the territory why is it difficult for them why do you think any idea because God when he basically wiped these people off the map he did it in such a way that there was nothing left there's an archaeological interesting sidebar there I'm dying to go to you but I don't want to get sidetracked I'm sorry focus focus so I love that this is like a highlight one by one and it's counterbalanced with him saying to the kept to the ones who've been called who've been kept and he'll continue that theme regarding the faith contending for the faith keeping yourselves what does he say building up yourselves on your most holy faith praying and the Holy Ghost keeps you keep yourselves in the love of God bookends to what's in the middle this is it's really I have to say this is what it just it reminds me it's like a giant billboard it's like a billboard be on the lookout watch for this keep fading that's that's what this is like a big billboard in a very small way 25 verses and it's it is definitely something that as I said nobody in the church really I think wants to do because who wants to say or who is fit to say now listen I don't typically I don't stand in point fingers I say if you want to follow that be it the blind leading the blind and if you're not well versed enough in the scriptures to say well as that person's doctrine right and I suggest you start studying and looking it up and don't take one passage and make that the whole thing to hang your hat on because I found one verse and therefore that's going to be my doctrine and I think it's sound when he says crept in unawares the side door the side door is still being used today folks don't think it's just something dated but the Lord's people they know who they are they can make mistakes they can be temporarily sheep led away and led astray that does happen and that's why I said the term here is vigilance to keep in the faith and to keep phasing everything else almost becomes crystal clear when somebody says no you don't need to do that oh that's difficult this is a much easier way you know what I admire about dr. Scott he used to say hard way easy way that used to be the theme for almost every lesson where especially where he was usually dealing with staff hard way or easy way because it's easy to take the easy way again one of these things that I've come to know God's wanting to know that we're willing to take the hard way with our heart we're willing to take the hard way and as we go it's not that it will be easy it'll become easier because we know that's the way God has lined up our footsteps so it's just a big warning but to those who know why we're here and what we're doing it's clear the danger is still there and I'll keep lifting the banner and warning people about it and somebody says well trust me I've been put on a list of people you know somebody's don't listen to women pastors and they put me in a list with six other women pastors and of those other sorry it was six women pastors I'm part of the six I one of them I don't even think as a woman although I don't want to know I don't even want to think about knowing to are dead and the other one I'm just not sure that's made up of spare parts so you know I haven't have I led you in a Women's Conference lately have I told you about women's issues or women's rights have I troubled you about thoughts concerning anything that would be deemed quote unquote a woman's ministry I've only come to you preaching the Bible my sole interest is what's in God's book and if it touches on things that happen to be there then good that I cannot say the same for the rest of the folks on that list who I know have all kinds of things that they do outside of what is supposedly a calling of God but that's not my business that's that's God will take care of that wine is just to make sure that I'm putting out the call to people to pay attention and if something doesn't sound right you can always do one thing find enough scriptures and when I say enough the scripture confirms itself you find enough scriptures as I quoted tonight at referenced out of Galatians and out of Timothy and there's out of Corinthians and the list goes on 2nd Peter they're all saying the same thing out of the mouth of Jesus it was said and in the Old Testament as I said Ezekiel Jeremiah certainly other minor prophets that spoke with the same thing josè even makes mention of it himself so I'm not saying anything new what I am saying though is it's important for me to have people around me who understand what the battle is the battle isn't always going to be to tell people you know and this is the battle right now but the the overall battle for all time will always be keeping these things out of the church well don't you want to get with the times don't you want all of the giving to be on some II device you know that that's that make your life easier a pastor Scott then people don't have to bring checks or wallets and they don't have to handle cash now listen it's very practical and very pragmatic but it's also as I said very Antichrist you know you don't have to think about it it's easier what's the first thing that's going to happen when and it will happen when can a computer or computers cease to work and they will eventually one day even if it's in the event of a power failure like an outage we had I told you at a hotel we traveling with the crew on the way to Anguilla and having to touch down in Florida and there's no power and you can't get a room because the keys don't work and the clerk at the desk can't even there's no lights and there's you can't get anything I couldn't even get a hotel I wanted to use another word to an adjective to describe a hotel room couldn't even get a hotel room because the computers were down so that's the power and you know no I'm sorry I'm not interested in being with the times I can there's a lot of things I can be in the times about but not not this because I recognize the peril not just of being crippled for a moment but the danger of data and data breaches so like I said it's very easy somebody's very subtle suggestion oh but you know that this would somebody said would increase giving exponentially really tell me how how would it make somebody give more money if it was more convenient no I actually I want to make it harder for you do it the old way and if you got to put a stamp on it put a stamp on it and put it in the mail well it's pretty archaic well then I guess I'm archaic I was talking about hard way easy way this is the same mindset except it comes in as a subtle thing so don't expect any new changes to come from my side I'm gonna keep making the same calls and telling you about the same things and the call to be vigilant and keep the faith and keep fading right now I need you to keep getting busy by getting on the telephone [Music] [Music]

Channel: Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D.

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Length: 55min 36sec (3336 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 06 2018