JUDE | Beware of These | Philip Anthony Mitchell

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two of a series a rally cry a collection of teachings through the letter of Jude [Music] very small and hard-headed and let him prophetic preserve for us in the New Testament of the Bible and uh you know I um you know as God put this in my spirit I look across our whole country in our nation and I believe that the letter of Jude his message is needed now more so than any other time in world history and I guess my fight is in this message in this series in this collection of talks my my real battle is is to try to as awakened as many believers as possible that you were sharing my tears and prayer in this regard and that you would join us on the battlefield for war that's being fought for something we must protect and stand for what began as a cloud in the days of Jude today has grown into a massive hurricane across the world and especially in the United States and my cry from this pulpit my cry to the United States of America my cry is that we would hear the voice of Jesus speaking to us all of us who are preachers of his word that we would would hear the voice of the Holy Spirit beckoning to us that we will begin to turn away from entertainment and turn away from just the appeasing of men the fight to fill rooms and auditoriums that we would see that we are living in perilous times and dangerously deceptive times and that we would come together as those who have been entrusted with the highest calling of communicating this word now we would lay down the entertainment and lay down the antics and shenanigans and we will take up the mantle of preaching this glorious gospel for revival will not come to our churches and our cities without prayer and repentance and gospel preaching may so many of you join me and this cry from Atlanta to fight for the veneration of God the preservation of biblical Christianity and the spread of the biblical gospel join me join us in that fight in this generation in this hour we need it more now than ever before and instead of blowing me up on my diem stand up in your pulpit next week and take territory for the Lord Jesus Christ and don't worry about who leaves and don't worry about if they don't like it you preach to the audience of one I know that you and I will give an account for we will incur the greater damnation for how we handle this word my brother and my sister joined me here in the fight for the veneration of God to make him holy again in the presence of our people and for us to fight for the preservation of biblical Christianity and spread of the gospel not the spread of our revelations the spread of the message of Jesus inherent and that as the power to snatch people from the fires of hell [Music] I made those who are watching who are not preachers may the Saints be awakened I may the sinner be brought nigh to the feet of Jesus the glory of Yahweh father bless this word in Christ's name you know Frank can you yeah just softly oh yeah yeah you know my brothers and sisters I am I'm gonna be honest this series is difficult to preach because I find that in America it is very difficult to preach message that doesn't directly impact you for what you think is good so if it's not speaking about eight steps to getting something and if it's not speaking about three steps to a turnaround we like to push away from those messages but I find in America messages that call us to mission and messages that call us to corporate sacrifice are ones we push away from the table from we want nothing to do with we won't say Amen we're not gonna throw the towel at the preacher that's calling us the gospel mission in America because we are not contributors here we are mostly consumers in this nation we are not fans but we are mostly we are fans with not most disciples of Jesus the f1r back says fan but the tattoo does it say follower the heart is burning for the next thing we can get but not burning for how we can move the gospel forward this is America at its finest as relates to Kristen de and so I find difficulty in preaching through Jude because nothing about Jude is for your personal benefit but it is a corporate rally cry to Christians in this room watching me across the country around the world it is a rally cry to all of us consequently it is the most neglected book in the New Testament and I wonder what that the Holy Spirit will keep us away from the message of Jude especially in a time where we needed more now than ever before for the proliferation of TV and media and social media has given us access to a cancer that is destroying the body of Christ and it's important for us to understand history if we would understand the seriousness of what's happening right now in our nation history so let's start here in the Middle East an area of the world known to be a stronghold of one of the great three monotheism's of the world not Judaism not Christianity but Islam that when you think of the Middle East the first religion that comes to your mind is Islam and when you turn on CNN MSNBC Fox News or any political affiliate and there's any talks about the Middle East what images do we see wolf fear Isis Hamas rockets and fighting all of it surrounded Islam peaceful Muslims and radical Muslims and jihad when you think the Middle East you think Islam but very few of us who are educated enough to know that Islam was not always the stronghold religion of the Middle East for less people when they hear the word Middle East think of the fact that this was watch the former stronghold of the greatest religion the world has ever known Christianity that Islam was not always the stronghold of the Middle East but we never think of the Middle East watch as the birthplace of Christianity it was in the Middle East that Christianity was born it was in the Middle East that the Scriptures unfolded and were in it was in the Middle East a slim Galilean came walking over the Judean countryside was baptized in a river Jordan and came out of there with the Holy Spirit descending on him and it was in the Middle East that slim Judean that slim Galilee and gave birth to a religion that would change the whole world all of that happened in the Middle East it was in the Middle East that Christianity dominated the Middle East for 1,000 years where churches were planted all around the Mediterranean rim and you would be hard-pressed in the thousand years following the resurrection of Jesus to find any person practicing a faith outside of Christianity for those of us who are true followers of Jesus this should alarm you and I because the question you should be asking yourself is what happened to the faith in the Middle East if the faith is so strong if the faith is so pure if it was born by Jesus how could have been completely decimated in the Middle East how could Christianity have been all but wiped out in the Middle East in fact when we went to Jerusalem the smallest gathering of people where the Christians and Bethlehem the city ran over by Muslims and Jews what happened to Christianity in the Middle East why is this place so barren of biblical truth for the loss of biblical truth is a catastrophic loss to any nation or territory in the world what happened to the faith it was the victim of several things one fierce persecution the killing of Christians for the faith the shedding of innocent blood they burn them at stake people like Nero lit them like torches and use them for his God and they stomped out churches and put men and women and children to death they fed them to animals in the middle of Coliseum's the fierce persecution began to extinguish that fire in the Middle East you know what else apathy apathy the lack of Christians caring about the biblical spread of the gospel and the aggressive discipleship of new followers of Jesus but not only persecution and that only apathy Christianity was shift away from the middle east towards the west towards Europe and America in which Europe and America now will become the greatest strongholds of Christianity in Europe began to grow dim and now even in America facts Christianity is dying in the United States and for all of our conferences it boggles me and for all of our money and for all of our churches and for all of our books for all of our preaching Christianity is dying in United States so much so we need missionaries to come here and preach to us the gospel we have lost fact the church in China where the gospel is illegal is growing faster than in America facts the church across Africa where Islam dominated that whole continent is growing faster than the church in America facts the church on our doorstep in South America is growing faster than the church in America facts Christianity is declining in influence in America so hostile are people against biblical Christianity don't talk about the life of the unborn don't talk about not rewriting marriage don't talk about biblical Christianity in fact I saw a person writing on social media this week man all of y'all Christians make me sick y'all need to just go to another country another planet y'all making the United States an awful place that's just the beginning of the times we're going into we haven't seen persecution yet some of us somebody attacked us on social media we crumble we haven't seen persecution yet and my fear my brothers and sisters that God might allow us to have a dose of that to awaken people in this country because it's hard to get a hold of people who are apathetic accept they're here or accept you break them and I'm telling you right now there's so much false preaching happening right now that we don't even have the strength to stand up against persecution some of us can't even make it out of valleys because we saw custom eating cotton candy we don't get enough meat to have strength to get out of valleys what was the third thing that begins to cause Christianity to lose influence in the Middle East it is the very message of Jude it is the very thing that Jude was writing about jeweled opens his letter he says Jude a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James to those who have been called who are loved by God and father and kept by Jesus Christ he prays for them mercy peace and love be yours in abundance and then what Jude was saying next is that third thing that begins to cause Christianity to wane in the Middle East is the thing that's causing Christianity I think to wane in the United States listen Christianity is not waning in the United States because of fierce persecution it's waning because the apathy and is waning because of where Jude goes next and first three dear friends although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the Saints and so would you to say listen the faith is being the faces be an attack and I was gonna write to you about salvation but instead Scott I decided to sit down and write a letter to you Chelsea that we must watch come together here the law of double reference Jew talking then the Spirit of God talking to you now that we must come together those of us who are true followers of Jesus don't hear a sermon here the Spirit of God speaking to you that we must come together wherever you are in the country and we must contend for the faith that was once and four handed down to us in blood by Jesus and the Apostles why verse four for certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago secretly slipping among you they are godless men who changed the grace of God into a license for immorality and they denied the Lord Jesus Christ our Lord and he's saying watch Christianity was being threatened and lost because of false teaching and false teachers now some of us you hear this and it doesn't move you it's not eight steps to get your house yet all of us will not mean I say all of us some of us like me no the tears in the pain of seeing someone who was once on fire for God their faith now has been completely shipwrecked why because something they read on Google or some conference they went to or some book that was reading or some movie they saw and they begin to dig deeper into that thing until it led them astray I know people right now who was once on fire served with me as a youth pastor right here in Atlanta was preaching singing and making disciples angel and right now their life is full of so much demonic activity their life is so dark and dismal and why why is their life talking dismal because they gave their ears which is access to their soul to bad teachings and when we don't realize minute listen bad teaching will create bad believing and bad believing will shipwreck your faith and do you know what Christianity is dying in United States lack of biblical preaching and true preachers and when he says about these men these godless men that word men they're in Greek is a non gender word which means men and women your favorites fill in the blank he your favorite fill in the blank sheet he said they slipped in among us there in your social media their own television we invite them to our churches to preach we put them on TBN and on the word network why because they can raise money but they're full of dead men's bones on the inside I don't care if y'all never put me on the network but where dude goes next is the most graphic description of the men and women that are destroying in the faith right now and what he says about them I need no points the scripture itself will preach to you for Jews will now describe to you and I the type of men and women that were destroying the faith in his day and are destroying the faith in our day and watch his description with them first he opens up with the judgment big and receive verse 5 through 7 he says though you already know all this I want to remind you that the Lord delivered his people out of Egypt but later destroyed those who did not believe and the angels who did not keep their position of authority but abandoned their home these he kept in darkness bound but everlasting chains for judgment on the great day in a similar way Sodom and Gomorrah to cities and surrounding towns gave themselves up for sexual immorality and perversion they serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment watch of eternal fire so first Jude says of all of these false teachers here is what's coming for them judgment if they don't repent eternal fire if they don't repent why because they are messing with the thing that's most precious to God his sheep so he gives three Old Testament examples of judgment against rebellion first he talks about the nation of Israel a body of believers 2 million of them that God brought out of Egypt after 400 years of slavery watch and promised him I will lead you to a land flowing with milk and honey watch but as soon as they got out of Egypt watch we do this all the time God brings us out of the world we into a little bit of difficulty and then we start crying it would've been better for me to go back to where I came from my life before the faith was better my job before the faith was better and so we start grumbling against God and then we learned that his promises become probability when we are rebellious but nobody preaches us that because we don't want to hear sound doctrine so we got teachers who preach to you promises but don't teach you about character so they will preach to you about the promises of God but they won't teach you that your character can ruin the prophecies of God over your life so they'll get you excited with eight promises but won't tell you live right or you might abort those promises so they'll teach you about blessings but they won't teach you about righteousness they'll teach you about acquisition but they won't teach you about abstaining they will say I believe God for your boo but they won't tell you come out the bad relationship that you win they will preach to you freedom but they won't tell you stop doing that thing that keep leading you back that what had you bound so he promised these people our land watch and he killed an entire generation of people who were complaining against him and what they were supposed to have they missed because of rebellion then look he talked about angels that didn't keep their position I'm just trying to teach you because I love you who are these angels they're the people that talk to you when you go see Miss Cleo they're the people that write the horoscope that you keep following I'm not a Sagittarius I'm a Christian you're not a Gemini you're Christian you're not an Aquarius to a Christian see that offends you because you've never been taught the truth where the Bible says stay away from that because it's highly demonic and the scripture says fortune-telling is demonic I got a Zodiac tattoo on my arm that my wife told me go cover over because it's demonic I got that when I was watching in ignorance I know you Virgo but that's demonic cover it up with a flower or just get another tattoo that says BC on the read before Christ [Applause] I thought the Spirit of God enough we all get in touch this week [Applause] I'm getting new ink this Friday oh hold on hold on ma Cuevas I hear the religious people saying to me didn't God say tattoos are evil I mean let me talk to them for just a second yeah give him that camera yeah in the Old Testament it's why we need teachers who teach us in context tattoos when God said don't do them was connected to idol worship is there anybody in the New Testament with a tattoo and the book of Revelation there is a man who John said his eyes are like a blazing fire this skin was like glass his hair was like like wool and on his thigh is tattoo the word king of King [Applause] [Music] on his thigh the scripture says what it is written on his thigh [Music] don't send me no DNS read it is written on his thigh but he don't have a zodiac Sun King of Kings Lord of lords his tattoo makes watch since yes I'm getting new ink this Friday garden 212 818 when God changed my life to go with the ink on the inside of the arm that says make much of Jesus and advance the gospel until I call you home and Isaiah 6 [Applause] these angels are now demons the ones that harass and torment men and women the ones that whisper in their ears of husbands and whispering the heirs of wise and make them fight each other in the kitchen the ones that lead you astray when you see Miss Cleo the one that listened to our prayers and bring attacks from his general what the descriptors say about them they left the abode of heaven why because when Satan of rebelled against God Isaiah 14 Ezekiel 28 he was kicked out of heaven and he took a third of those angels with him who became fallen demons now and then he talks about sodom and gomorrah two cities known for perversion watch wiped off the map because of rebellion and what jude was saying these false teachers that keep being rebel rousers of god's sheep was coming for them if they don't repent because of their rebellion judgment and punishment is coming for them that shows us how much God values truth and how much he cares for his real sheep where the real sheep had in this room so much that God loves you he will punish the person that lies to you [Music] Wow so God so loves you that if they don't repent he will punish the people that has lied to you that's how much he values your faith so this is the route this is the punishment of the false teachers now Jude will show us the character of false teachers the next verses in the very same way these dreamers dreamers what are dreamers men with unbridled ambitions they watch pollute their own bodies how they are preaching but in public and privately or ima moral you got how many chicks you coming out of what place you logging on to what site you bound by what vice and we won't seek help because in our pride we enjoy that and then get up and preach the God's people yeah we got we got gifts with no anointed and charisma with no anointing an anointing caused something and when we feel that there's a sacrifice being paid for that in private you can't live foul and have an anointed [Applause] these dreamers they pull out their old bodies watch they reject Authority which is as witchcraft watch these are preachers men and women that don't want watch this they don't want to be submitted to nobody who is your pastor who are your mentors who are you under don't tell me who you're over until you tell me who younger so no one can't check you no one can't tell you about yourself no one can tell you you're crap stinks watch and you need to sit down for a season how you involved in that level of sin on and then get right back up and start going on the road preach it [Music] no one can't tell us sit down for a season no authority watch no accountability no one to say man-woman a god you are in error I thank God for my pastor dr. Darius Daniels who checked me in a heartbeat I thank God for mentors like Bishop Branagh and other men and women of God who will keep me in account I'm not just leading with no authority over me said they reject Authority and slander celestial beans come on but even the Archangel Michael when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses did not dare bring a slanderous accusation against them but said the Lord rebuke you now what Jude is doing he's quoting from an apocryphal book that is not in the New Testament and in that apocryphal book which I don't know where it is but history tells us that in that book somebody wrote down about an argument that happened between the devil and an archangel over the body of Moses now the scripture tells us Moses died and was buried and nobody knew where he was but according to that an apocryphal book Satan came according to the book we don't know if it's true and said I want the body of Moses because the flesh belongs to me since I corrupted it but Michael Camus said no this is God's man and Michael fought with the devil for the body then if you notice even the Archangel Michael had some respect for the devil because the devil is not just a demon he is one of three arc angels that God created in heaven read the scriptures that God in heaven his home had all of these angels were created three chief angels Michael who's responsible for war Gabriel who's responsible for bringing messages but there was another angel named Lucifer who according to Ezekiel chapter 28 body was made out of musical instruments and pipes he was responsible for leading worship in heaven and although he left his first house he still is in his job because he still makes music that's why some things will disrupt you when you listen to it in your air and that's why some people have committed suicide listening to certain type of music and that's why there's certain genres if you listen to the music they're all about demons and things that are demonic why because the devil didn't give up the business of leading people into making music that glorifies death music that glorifies death so the arc angle might just still Michael still gave him his respect say man I'm not even gonna slander the devil but instead I'm not even gonna deal with you saying the Lord rebuke you right and we be doing it I say in the Lord rebuke you but we don't have no respect for the devil Michael could do that cuz he was right we gotta be careful talking to the devil like that when our lives are not right because apart from the holy spirit and apart from the Word of God in us we're no match for Satan he is a powerful force and without the protection of God and without the Word of God and without the Spirit of God window met this body's no match for him you don't believe that notice I keep quoting the Bible to y'all Joe oh that dude is righteous yo he always served you faithfully man if you took away his stuff he'll curse you he only loved you for what you gave him job money house car let me get at him for just a little bit we see what he really made of cuz you don't know what's in you until you put the teabag in hot water so now watch God job alright I'm gonna take down my protection from around him you could do whatever you want just don't take his life because the devil is on a divine leash where we be fighting over the devil's attacks but I'm thankful that I know he can only go as far as God allows him think I only go as far as God allows him so if I'm in his will God's will I don't even have to fear death for no matter what the devil does to me he gets no glory for my God will pull him back in it says enough they've been through this for three weeks three months three years enough look they're still standing look they still worship me look they still lift their heads look they still shadow to God look they keep coming look [Applause] [Music] not talking to somebody shadow so do I [Applause] [Music] that's not like our poor Road persecuted [Music] perplexed crush beat down even push to the point of death but you would not take my testimony you will not have my mouth and you will not have my witness look you're still standing look at all the hell you've been through Shana you're still standing look at all they do to your charlatan you're still standing look at all you've been through Veronica and you're still standing and you're still standing Google what happened to your Nadine and you're still standing Google what happened to you angel and you're still standing look at all you've been through more Cuevas and you're still standing [Music] look at all you've been through Philip and you still standing look at all you've been through Shelley and you're still standing look at all you've been through Portia and you're still standing [Music] look at all you've been through Ryan and you're still standing look at all the hell you've been through Tiana well you still standing my feet on my testimony [Applause] Wow [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] look at all your bedroom ELISA and you still stand [Music] ah you all you've been through and you're still standing [Music] [Applause] [Music] somebody shout out still standing shout I'm still standing Shalin still standing [Music] look at all you've been through Michelle I heard your cry and you're still standing because all you've been through shanties and you're still standing look at all you've been through Ashley and still standing but all you've been through Justin and you're still standing man I gotta stop for just a second man [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all you think is still standing [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] cheese [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh snap come on mahogany we're still standing woman I got at the devil on a leash as long as you in the will of God he can only go but so far that's why my heart don't have to fear no matter what I'm going through my heart does not have to feel he will bring me out or perfect me in [Applause] [Music] he will bring me out Opel set me in [Music] that's why you gotta refuse to allow the enemy to rob you of your plays or your testimony or your face he's on a leash for some of you you don't even know you're on trial to give God glory and you must come out on the other side that our God can say to the devil you see that one you thought you had that one [Applause] you see they didn't love me for the things that they had they loved me for who I am [Applause] you see you see you took away their house and a priest they went through the divorce in a place they lost the company and they pray they got ostracized and they pray then with a victim of betrayal and they praise they lost almost everything except their mind they've been to Hell's Kitchen and back and they still hold on to my name [Music] I'm selling somebody watching right now how long is your in the will of Jesus you better remember that the adversary is on a leash no matter what hell you're going through right now the grace of God is with you in the middle of that storm to bring you out or perfect you in he's not only the god of the mountaintops it's the god of these valleys that my friend is biblical preaching can I finish this can't what can I finish just give me a few minutes no they don't want me to take my time sister I feel the Spirit of God on me right now they don't want me to take my time I feel something burning in me like fire give me verse 10 can I can I finish this I only got six more verses yet these men these false teachers and false men and women they speak abuse Lee abusively against whatever they don't understand so they don't agree they rail against it in ignorance this is their character and whatever things they do not understand by instinct like unreasoning animals so they're not let of the spirit they let of the flesh like dogs these are the very things that destroy them first 11 woe to them I don't know what woe is but I don't want no parts of it we're gonna see it when we get to Revelation a whole lot of wolves and damnation God says whoa and he don't back down from whoa and I don't know what war is but I don't want no parts of whoa I want mercy not whoa he says woe to them watch they have taken the way of Cain they've rushed into the profit of Balaam Zahra they have been destroyed in korah's rebellion three men Cain he said man false teachers are just like Cain they killed out of jealousy for what other people have because they never satisfied with their own thing they're always about somebody else's thing so they're trying to slip in and get your own thing they be mad at other people who live right so they got to tear right people down and prop themselves up Cain he said they just like Balaam prophets who loved prophet Selah know you'll miss that PR OPH et who love PR Oh fi t prophets who loved prophet they hold ministries about money the whole ministry's above gained their house they called their jet their name they're preaching as for theirselves alone prosperity to pad their own pockets how you got 200 people in your church and you drive in a Maybach with no businesses and no books are you pulling up in inner wibbels that we was at Lena River and Riverdale to a church with a hundred people and a brand-new Porsche now I'm not knocking you for the vehicle I'm just saying be wise why you gotta flaunt why is that necessary why every picture you sitting on a Jag why is that necessary what are we trying to prove by doing that man I know them emails are coming this week I know I know I know what are we trying to prove by doing that what about a picture at the altar or picture and discipleship no I'm being judgmental and close-minded said Philip I know they come in from my DM this week huh they call me judgmental no I'm just bold to tell truth I'm not judgmental I love all people let me finish because y'all don't want immortus destroyed like Cora Cora was a man who rounded 250 people to go against Moses say why you got to be in charge we know for teachers like that they come into the church and then they don't have their own platform so they start rallying people to church they go against the pastor why you gotta be in charge yeah I'm gonna put it out there why you got to be in charge and so they come against you and your group me and they come against you in emails and they rail against you in meetings why you got to be in charge that's what Cora did to Moses you know what happened to him it got him killed and it got 250 people killed and they got a thousand more other people plus killed why because rebellion is contagious and they'll get everybody damaged he said false teachers are just like them let me finish up these men or women are blemishes at your love feasts love freeze what gatherings believers had to fellowship he said their blemishes at your fellowship he says man it's a shameful thing to even invite them into your fellowship he said eating without even the slightest qualms they do evil and what they mouth watch they do evil and sleep [Music] sila shepherds who feed only their own selves they rape sheep they are clouds without rain they appear to have the Word of God but they are empty they appeared to have substance but is nothing in them clouds without rain we see that but there's nothing falling that brings life clouds don't bring light water brings life you got plenty of clouds and pulpits but no water flowing out their pulpit blown along by the wind they go ever they want their autumn trees without fruit there are people with no harvests of good what kind of people like that uprooted twice dead first 13th they are wild waves of the sea they do whatever they want and no one contained them foaming at their shame wandering stars they have no course of direction by God whom the blackest and darkness have been reserved for ever Enoch the seventh from Adam the seventh man who lived prophesied about these men and he quotes from the apocryphal Book of Enoch that is not in the Bible he quotes from that book he says see the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts and all they have done in the ungodly way and all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against who against Jesus yeah they mock him now but they won't mock him in the judgement so let me let me let me let me land a plane with this so here we see the characteristics of these false teachers verse 16 these men are grumbles and fault finders they follow their own desires they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage look at that carefully look look she's this watch everybody watch watch they boast about themselves I just want to stop right there for just a minute go to your Instagram and then watch instead of always liking watch what they say who are they propping up themselves or Jesus why is every post about you you got to look for them because you can't every post is about you watch and he said look what he says watch this and they flat out all this for their own advantage what do you call that an opportunist I want to be a friend why because I want your platform all right let me land the plane let me let me let me let me let me ask you a question everybody look at me let me ask you a question look at me look at me what is the most valuable thing you possess if you made every believer write this down in an essay I assure you we would not have agreement house car wife husband business influence so I can spread the gospel resources bank account we even save my soul and none of those would be the most valuable thing you possess but if I understand you correctly and what the Apostles was trying to hand down you notice the most important thing you possess the faith why without the faith your soul is in trouble it is the faith that gave you salvation watch it is the faith that gave you access to a holy God it is the faith that gets your prayers heard it is the faith that gives us wisdom for life practice and godliness it is the faith that gives us guidance it is the faith that gives me strength it is the face that gives me washes community small groups brothers and sisters all of this we have access to watch because of the faith and what is the greatest threat to your faith besides your own apathy you know what is the greatest threat to all of those blessings besides your own apathy let me show you what it is it's this thing right here that's what you just described and if you don't look closely you let them right into your life how pasta they write songs wolves in sheep's clothing they preach sermons every Sunday they rap and you buy their music they own podcasts they own Christian TV they had conferences they write books and you read them they put articles on Google no scripture but you read them and what we don't realize they come among us and they look like sheep they get close to you and then they shipwreck the faith of believers I see this happen all the time a believer that was formerly on fire start listening to my spiritual mother my spiritual father some prophet some apostle some bishop and then three years later their faith has been shipwrecked [Music] because everybody should not have access to your ears because your ears is access to your soul that's why some of us watch you listen to too many people some of you argue with me because you listened to so-and-so during the week and we listen to people that give us cotton candy but not enough work to sustain us in the middle of difficulty in style so how do I end this message and with the words of my Savior because Jude was not the only person that warned us about wolves but your Savior warned you about wolves before Jude two brothers let's finish with the words of our Savior John chapter 10 because some of y'all been quoting o the thief comes to kill steal and destroy but God comes down may have life and life more abundantly and we say that's I burn the leaves for materialism and we say the thief is just the devil and we preach that because we don't have teachers that teach us in context how dangerous are false teachers jesus warned us about them before Jude I tell you the truth we finished with the words of Jesus the man who does not enter the sheep and by the gate but climbs in by some other way is a what thief and a what and a robber what man is he talking about false teachers the man who enters by the gate is the Shepherd of the sheep the watchman who is God the Holy Spirit opens the gate for him and the sheep listen to his voice Jesus he calls his own sheep what by name Philip by name Kenny he calls him by name but how do we know his voice the more word I know the more I know his voice the more time I spend in prayer the more I know his voice somebody be saying man I'm trying to figure out what God is saying to me if we open his word we'll know what he's saying to us and where his word does not speak we have the Holy Spirit and wisdom watch when he has brought all of his out his own he goes ahead of them and his shop and his sheep follow him because watch they know his voice but they will never follow a stranger nah that wolf is not gonna get me I watch somebody say man that wolf is not gonna get me watch the more truth you know the easy it is to discern a lie they will run away from him you know what run away is unfollow conference reap refund book burned music tossed article ripped podcast deleted my financial support terminated I'm oz will give that's a victory because they do not recognize the strangers voice Jesus used this figure of speech but they did not understand what he was telling them so he explained that therefore jesus said again i tell you the truth i am the gate he is the way for who the Sheep jesus says o whoever whoever came before me you preaching anything other than what I taught that's harsh Oh ever came before me will watch they were thieves and robbers you teaches stuff against Jesus that's a thief and a I don't care how much they're blowing up a society but the Sheep did not listen to them I am the gate whoever enters through me will be watch saved how important is false teaching and will cause some people their souls some people will be damned because they listen to false teachers leading them to hell big churches half of them going to hell big Instagram half of those followers going to hell he will come in and go out and find pasture you know what pasture is when we follow Jesus peace and rest for the Soul here is your verse but the thief the false teacher led by the spirit and the devil comes to do what what does false teaching do it steals it kills it destroys there is context what is false preaching does what does false teaching do what does bad doctrine do it kills it steals and watch destroys but I have come that they may have what life so way in Greek and life what more to the full joy peace righteousness surance now watch our Jesus finish this is powerful I am The Good Shepherd not that wolf what even when his words hurt he is still watch for good even with his words rebuke me he is still the what even when his words confront me in my sin he still the what the I am watch the let's finish the Good Shepherd lays down his only one man did that on a cross watch this so powerful the hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep they don't belong to you preacher you think your church belongs to you they don't belong to us we are entrusted with them to Stuart for God's glory and if we love them we steward them with truth we are hired he doesn't own the Sheep now watch the false teacher so when he sees the wolf coming his own people he abandons the Sheep he runs away then the wolf attacks the flock destroys the church not here last versus the man runs away because he is a hired hand he cares nothing for the Sheep but Jesus said I am The Good Shepherd I know my sheep who knows the Good Shepherd come on who in this room knows the Good Shepherd who knows the Good Shepherd who knows him you know what is good truth is good so how do I finish contend for the faith be aware wolves in sheep's clothing it is this that is destroying Christianity in America and it's this faith that we must fight to preserve or we won't have something to hand off to the next generation may we rise up like vigilant militant followers and say for the glory of our Good Shepherd we will fight for him and we will push back against those who mock him in this matchless name we pray amen [Applause] we truly hope this message resonated with you and encouraged you in Christ if this ministry has been a blessing to you please support the spread of the gospel by visiting us online and choosing the giving option that works best for you and again thanks for tuning in and we look forward to singing that's

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Published: Mon May 13 2019