The Behavior and the Character of the Last Day Society - Sunday Service

amen all is well all is well praise the lord [Music] wow i um you know last week i told y'all to if i i didn't really know whether i was going to be finishing this series on the size of the time until i got in prayer and i think god added about three or four more weeks on it because i saw something i've not seen before that i think is so important to talk about i don't know when the last time i spent so much time studying and preparing for a series especially the last three days it just feel like i've been in a barrel literally um every time i thought about getting tired i thought about you and i thought about just stuff that you were going through and i thought about this epidemic this new it's not a new epidemic but it's an epidemic of uh adult children dishonoring and disrespecting their parents and i thought about the epidemic of self-centeredness i thought about the epidemic of everybody doing everything they possibly do to get money even if it meant stepping on the head of a friend or betraying someone these are some things that i want you to pay attention to today i'm about to take you into a place where [Music] i pray that it causes you to think and to really look at some things because the things i'm about to share with you are signs of the return of jesus christ we've been talking about hurricanes and earthquakes and the weather and we've been talking about all those things but the lord spoke to me he said remember i'm i said uh i mentioned the signs of the time concerning the behavior and character of people and so i want to continue this series and i want to focus today on the behavior and character of the last day society the behavior and the character of the last day society now in my text this morning i'm using four areas for scriptures and i just want to read those four scriptures and then we'll begin now i'm not gonna rush through this because it's it's vital anytime something is being taught and i don't know and i'm not aware that it's been really spelled out clearly to the body of christ as a teacher in the body of christ i must take my time to be very thorough in laying this out because you're the ones that's gonna be responsible for helping me spread it wherever it goes from this point on i am not concerned about the letters that i'm gonna get i'm not i don't read them anyway i am not concerned about who likes me and don't like me that's already been happening for 40 years i've had 40 years of persecution i'm not bothered by that anymore you kidding me so i'm going to say some things that you're not used to hearing some things that you're like oh my god i can't believe you said that the bible hasn't changed people have the bible hasn't changed people have and so father we thank you for this another opportunity to minister to these your precious sheep thank you lord that revelation knowledge will flow freely uninterrupted and unhindered by a satanical demonic force speak through my vocal cords think through my mind none of me and all of you it's in jesus name we pray and everybody said amen could you set the clock back at 60 that i wasn't preaching then i was just talking i need all my time this morning okay if you have your bibles go with me to the book of second timothy chapter three in the nlt i'm going to read all these in the uh most of them in nlt first three at least second timothy chapter three and verses one through nine second timothy chapter three and verses 1 through 9. now the disciples asked jesus a question when is going to be the time of your coming and what are going to be the signs of your coming we need to know what to be looking for when you come and jesus gave them different signs but now look at this second timothy 3 1-9 i'm going to read it out of nlt he says you should know this timothy that in the last days there will be very difficult times one translation says perilous times or dangerous times in the last days i guess you have to say well when is that i would i would submit to you that that's where we are right now in the last days there are going to be some difficult times for people will love only themselves and their money they will be boastful and proud scoffing at god disobedient to their parents and ungrateful they will consider nothing sacred they will be unloving and unforgiving they will slander others and have no self-control they will be cruel and hate what is good they will betray their friends be reckless be puffed up with pride and they will love pleasure rather than god they will act religious but they will reject the power that could make them godly stay away from people like that they are the kind who work their way into people's homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires such women are forever following new teachings but they are never able to understand the truth these teachers oppose the truth just as james and jamborus oppose moses they have depraved minds and our counterfeit faith but they won't get away with this for long someday everyone will recognize what fools they are wow so here you see a clear warning to pay attention to the behavior and character of people in the last days now look at first timothy chapter four verses one through three first timothy chapter four verses one through three he says now the holy spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from the true faith they will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons that's already here i've never heard such such crazy stuff there are religions now that are trying to convince people forget about jesus he is not the basics of of this gospel these people are hypocrites and liars and their conscious are dead they will say it is wrong to be married and they will say it's wrong to eat certain foods i hear that right now we live in a generation right now but generations think well you don't need to be married it's just peace people uh it's wrong to eat certain food i respect all your diets i expect the the the vegetarians and stuff but the bible say eat meat in other words what he is saying is is that there's coming to time where they're going to say it's wrong to be married it's wrong to eat certain foods but god created those foods to be eaten with thanks by faithful people who know the truth says that's a that's a last time sign a signal look at matthew 24. see you have to understand something in these last days people don't care about the scripture you show them because they don't believe the bible anyway but i do it's my evidence you're gonna have to see one day i don't want to wait to see i don't want to know i'm going down the wrong road and there's a cliff at the end and say uh oh my bad oh i shoulda i would i ain't doing that there's one thing i will not risk and that's my eternity with jesus christ i'm not going to do it matthew 24 verse 9 through 14. he said then you will be arrested and persecuted and killed you'll be hated all over the world because you are my followers and many will turn away from me and betray and hate each other many will turn away from me i see that many will turn away from me a great falling away and betray and hate each other and many false prophets will appear and will deceive many i see that i'm amazed at how people can believe some of these things these false prophets say by giving you facebook prophecies go to facebook look up somebody you know at the church and then they know somebody else in church find out what their dress is what their name is how many children they got i've seen this i've seen this with my own eyes you stand up and say there's somebody in here with the initials or whatever you saw on facebook you live at 41 25 and then and then you shout and fall out like it was anointed don't that's many false prophets will appear and will deceive many people sin will be rampant everywhere and the love of many will grow cold but the ones who endure to the end will be saved and the good news about the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world so that all nations will hear it and then the end will come so there is not coming until this gospel has been preached right that's one thing i know that's why you know while i want to see jesus while i want to see my relatives while i can't while i'm excited about going to heaven i want to be a part of making sure this gospel gets preached throughout all the world and then the end gonna come i'm coming on every available voice every available voice if i got a rock in order to get a word through tick tock i'll rock get saved today or you gonna die and go to hell whatever every available voice cold love that's the lord what is cold love he said that's rebellion against submitting to god as humanity falls further away from the teachings of christ it will become less loving as they fall away from the teachings of christ it will become less loving they will no longer submit to god they'll no longer submit to the promises of god we don't care what the word has to say we don't care what the bible has to say all y'all preachers all y'all want is money anyway we don't care all those four excuses to not care and not hear let me remind you every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that jesus is lord one more and we'll get started let's look at this side of the king james and then verse 12 i didn't amplify ii peter chapter 2 verses 1 uh let's read it out of the amplified second peter chapter 2 verses 1 through 12. this is uh this is pretty interesting here second peter chapter two verses one through one through twelve he says but also in those days there there are arose false prophets among the people just as there will be false teachers among yourselves who will subtly and stealthfully introduce uh heresies and doctrines and destructive heresies even denying and disowning denying and disowning the master who brought them bringing upon themselves bringing upon themselves bringing god didn't bring him god god's not going to be responsible for the destruction when you choose to go these ways you bring the destruction upon yourself god is like i didn't i didn't make that happen you did i tried to get you to turn every day of your life but you wouldn't verse two and many will follow their immoral ways and lasciviousness lasciviousness means without restraint it's like you get involved in some addictive behavior and you don't know where the brakes are to stop it one more time it comes one more time it comes one more time become one more time i really mean it this time but it needs one more time that's lasciviousness many will follow their immoral ways i see that lasciviousness doings because because of them the true way will be malignant and defamed and if and in their covetousness in their now here covetousness is greed in their greed and lust they will exploit you with false cunning arguments wow these false teachers in their greed and their luck lust they will exploit you from of old the sentence of condemnation for them has not been idle their destruction eternal misery has not been asleep for god will not even spare angels that sinned so when those angels got on satan's side and sinned against god he cast those angels into hell he said but he cast them in hell so god did not even spare them ain't those angels that sin but cast them in hell delivering them to be kept there in pits of gloom till the judgment and their doom so that gives you a little description of hell see hell was created for the devil and his angels but if you're gonna follow them you're gonna end up in hell with in a place with that wasn't even created for you and so god says they didn't get away with it there was a consequence for what they did and they're being held in captivity in hell until that day of gloom and doom and he spared not the ancient world he preserved noah a preacher of righteousness with seven other persons when he brought a flood upon the world of ungodly people and he condemned to ruin and extinction the cities of sodom and gomorrah reducing them to ashes and thus set them forth as an example to those who would be ungodly and he rescued righteous lot greatly warned out and distressed so a lot was distressed and worn out by the wanton ways of ungodly and lawlessness so he says in this day and time it it'll wear you out some of you kind of worn out you can't look at news anymore because it's just too much it's like why look at the news only thing i do when i look at the news i want to get informed but instead of getting informed i'm i'm heavy somebody shot somebody somebody raped somebody somebody stole something somebody did that somebody did that somebody did that and oh by the way everybody dying for that just man living there among them tortured his righteous soul every day with what he saw and heard of their unlawful and wicked deeds now if all these things are true then be sure the lord knows how to rescue the godly out of temptation and trials you know what god said he said when all hell broke loose with noah he saved noah and those who were with him he said when all hell broke loose in solomon gomorrah and it was so bad the perversion was so bad in sodom and gomorrah even even the angels were being hit on in sodom and gomorrah it was that bad but god says you know what i did he says i save lot in his family and then he says all right so prepare yourselves for similar things and i i have to assure you like i saved noah and like i saved lot in them he said i know how to rescue the godly out of temptation and trial so so regardless of how heavy it seems put this in your mind god knows how to take care of me and how to keep the ungodly under chastisement until the day of judgment in doom now look at verse 12. this is interesting i want to i want you to see this but these people like unreasoning beasts mere creatures of instinct born only to be captured and destroyed railing at things of which they are ignorant ignorance is the biggest enemy you'll see you'll see this society operating like it operates because they're ignorant they claim to have knowledge but they don't have it at all what you get in your university cannot compare to the wisdom that god gives for life and if you neglect this word over what you get in universities you ain't you you just i get i don't even want to finish the sentence okay let's just born only to be captured and destroyed railing at times of which they are ignorant they shall utterly look at this perish in their own corruption in their destroying they shall surely be destroyed so god says i'm not the one that's going i'm not the one that's causing anything that's going to happen to you he says every choice they make there's a consequence and they through their own corruption their own corruption it's hard-headed people who who through their own corruption somehow you're not in the word you have you don't study the word there's no commitment to the word and somehow you've been deceived into thinking i know better you can't even figure your own life out and yet you know better and you don't listen to nobody and you don't want to hear what nobody got to say because you heard what such and so said on facebook and you heard what such and so said on instagram and you heard what such and so said and such and so such and so said this and and and most people believe that and and and and america believes this and that people believe that no no no you're deceived and thinking you have knowledge and you're about to be destroyed because of what you don't know and you're not listening to the wisdom that could save you we all are going to die one day can you really afford to be wrong when it comes to heaven or hell i ain't playing that game i am not going to be tutored by a fool [Music] [Applause] so here you see the behavior and the character of the last day society now from our text scriptures there were approximately 22 or more characteristics and behaviors that are becoming intense and becoming more frequent in these last days in this last day society look at mark 13 and 8 in the amplified i want to remind you of something mark 13 and 8 it's not well you've always seen that kind of stuff happen he says pay attention to the frequency and the intensity he says you know i'm coming based on how intense something gets yeah that thing has always happened but not to this disagree of intensity he says for nations will rise against nations kingdoms against kingdoms there will be earthquakes in various places there will be famine and calamities this is but the beginning of intolerable anguish and suffering only the first of the birth pangs so jesus took the birth pangs of a woman having a baby and he answered the question when will that time be when you will come again and he says it's going to be just like a woman who is who's preparing to give birth pay attention to the contractions pay attention attention to the intensity and the frequency and like a baby who's about to come and a mother that's about to give birth when it gets really intense and when the frequency is is is really intense get ready the baby's about to be born we've never seen the type of intensity we've seen here now china had a flood that they hadn't seen in a thousand years we've never seen the intensity that we are seeing right now i think for a moment that god's allowing these in these these these contractions to go this way for for people who are not born again to at least say well maybe i need to pay attention because jesus said this 2000 years ago and here it is happening right now with intensity and frequency now i'm not talking yeah they've had earthquakes you know 100 years ago but not like this yeah they had fires a long time ago but not like this where 18 states now are being affected by fires and floods and weather and hurricanes and everything the bible talks about with intensity and now the people over a thousand fights on airplanes yeah we used to have disagreements on airplanes but ain't nobody punching nobody i mean most people do it your mama ain't nobody punching nobody they're punching people they're killing folks you do something on the expressway or or driving the most we would do is pick a finger now what pow-pow murders every day mass murders suicide rate intense more intense like you would not believe the number of people who have killed themselves from last sunday to the day crime at a all-time high all over the world look at what's happened in south africa intensity stuff that you hear people say we've never seen it like this the behavior of people off the hook what houston who used to be your best friend betrays you intensity pay attention jesus is coming back the only peace i can have in the middle of all this stuff i'm not gonna let this stuff drive me crazy i'm gonna spend my time focusing more on the word than on this and i pray that he come quickly don't pray it come quickly pastor i ain't ready you better get rid of it right now rit quick as a rap you better get ready rat r-a-t rat now so i'm going to talk about just 18 of them here's what we found we found self-centered love lovers of self we found lovers and greedy and obsessed with money boastful and proud scoffing at god disobedient and disrespectful to parents ungrateful ungodly addicted to hateful and malicious slander the slander is crazy now somebody says why is islam so bad because they pay you if you get a good somebody to slander on youtube or facebook or something like that you might get a chat the bible says they'll they'll be addicted to slander they will consider nothing sacred slaves to their desires haters of what is good and right they will betray their friends they'll be reckless they'll be puffed up with pride lovers of pleasure more than god love is a pleasure more than god you know in other words you prefer going to the club having sex with anybody getting high getting drunk and god ain't even god's not even on your radar anymore you were raised in the church and god's not even on your radar anymore you act religious he said that's a characteristic act religious but reject the power that could make you godly bigot it and concede it those are the 18 i want to discuss and i want to discuss it in a way to really break it down so you know exactly what it is so if you find yourself in either one of these you can ask god to help you i'm not i'm not trying to preach condemnation i'm not trying to tell you what you got to do i'm telling you you're going to need god to help you so if you find some of this stuff in your character the first step you do is god i need you to help me and god will say i will be your supply and he'll take away the old desire you have for that thing and give you a new desire that's what's going to happen but if you walk away here talking about i got to get rid of that i got to work real hard to stop that you're going to do it the more you need god's help i say i say you need god's help okay so the first one we're going to deal with self-centeredness self-centeredness this is an immoderate concern with one's own interests and well-being egotism uh the bible talks how you know thinking higher of yourself than you ought to think in fact you'll see some advice given to us in philippians two three through four we live in a self-centered society everybody is about themselves uh you everybody stands in their own circle you're not supposed to be standing in your own circle somebody else is supposed to be standing in that circle but we have put ourselves in that circle which means we are the center of attention that everything is what about me what about me what about me what about me okay and notice what he says here he says let look at this in the nlt real quick just for the sake of time uh this is the advice he gives against self-centeredness he said don't be selfish don't try to impress others be humble thinking of others as better than yourself seriously you don't see that much you don't see people thinking of other people better than themselves it's me it's me it's me he said don't look out only for your own interests but take an interest in others too you know where the society is right now everybody's looking out for their own interests they're not looking out for somebody else's interest it's a weird thing for you to see somebody put somebody ahead of them that's not a common that's not a common occurrence in this day in time you think well you must be a christian because you did that not even christian people christian people have even become a little bit self-centered they're concerned about what's going on with them they're not concerned about what's going on with somebody else when was the last time you did anything for somebody but yourself as christians we've been called to be servants and we serve nobody but ourselves right don't look out only for your own interests but take an interest in others too so what are the consequences you know jesus is making it clear this is what happens this is what you're going to see in the last days how do how does a person get there i don't want this to be seen in my life in the last days as i studied each one of these it caused me to examine every area every area that i studied in my own life and i'm like oh god help me not to be self-centered yes it's all right for me to love myself but not to the point where i never put other people ahead of me that's i don't want to be like that god help me so what are the consequences and so remember the people who end up with these character issues in the last days they end up because they wouldn't pay attention to what god was trying to say in the very beginning he was saying there's a there's a cliff stop there's a cliff stop you say no no no i'd have been down this road before i've been around this real handling and he's like you don't understand they started construction on a bridge there's a cliff stop and you didn't pay attention so what are the consequences and by scripture let me show you romans chapter 2 verse 8 and the nlt romans 2 8 and the nlt let's examine what happens he says but he will pour out his anger and wrath on those who live for themselves he will pour out his anger and wrath for those who live for themselves who refuse to obey the truth and instead they live lives of wickedness james 3 16 and nlt james 3 16. he says for wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition selfish ambition there you will find disorder and evil of every kind no not god's not doing this god is saying this is where this path takes you this path takes you to disorder and evil of every kind it's going to happen now you may think well no my selfish ways have really been a blessing to me you better enjoy it because as you stay on that path it is going to lead to disorder and evil of every kind wow we're always going through stuff and asking how come this happened i don't know why i'm going through this i don't know what's happening to me and complaining and you know listen anytime you complain about something you remain in that same place when you complain you remain selfish it takes you to disorder it takes you to evil of every kind i found this in luke chapter 7 luke 17 33 in the nlt this is so amazing here putting oneself leads to a destruction of oneself putting oneself first excuse me putting oneself first leads to a destruction of oneself look at this he says if you cling to your life you will lose it and if you let your life go you'll save it out in the world it's all about cleaning to my life putting yourself first is a sure way a sure way to the destruction of yourself there's no such thing as being self-centered and not not seeing the destruction that comes from being there show up in your life not by god's hand by your decisions number two lovers of money jesus said you're going to see a time where everybody is about the money oh i'll do anything to get the money we have we've been we've been messed up with this oh but god wants you to prosper he doesn't want you to be a lover of money well what are you talking about well look at first timothy chapter 6 and 10 a lover of money what is a lover of money a lover of money is trusting in money more than god a lover of money and that's what happens usually when people figure out how to get money god's gone when you are a lover of money god is not priority anymore when you place more value in money than god that's a that's idolatry idolatry is based on the value you give a thing that's idolatry and god used to get the number one spot in your life in your pursuit of money your trusting money has replaced god out of first place and now money's first place and the problem is not money the problem is trust the problem money is not the issue where you talk about the love of money trust is the issue where you're talking about will of money you trust money more than anything and i know people who have done stuff and didn't have a dime but they trusted god and the money showed up but there's some people today you know there used to be a time where there there were certain there were some things you wouldn't do for money i think that's gone i think people have agreed to do all kinds of things for money if the price is right and i ain't talking about the show if the price is right they do stupid stuff for money because if you're giving the right money they can get psychological help to try to get over whatever they decided to do and you you trust money more you trust god now look at this scripture this is this this this also helped because the church didn't even know how to teach this right here for a long time they thought the love of money was having money when you're blessed you're gonna be blessed in every arena of life okay but you know where your blessings came from you know where your business came from you know where your job came from you know where your wealth came from it came from hallelujah and he always you always giving him praise but i guarantee you meet a guy who has a love of money he's also selfish he'll tell you in an arrogant way it was me and if you talk about god too much he'll get jealous god didn't do nothing i remember when my uh nephew uh when he was small ryan said to my daddy he said look at what god gave me god got my bicycle my dad said um god didn't give you that i gave you that i said dad no he didn't understand he praised god he got it all later but you know he didn't understand don't be giving god the credit i did that love of money folks notice this for the love of money is the watch this the root of all kinds of evil what's the love of money trusting money more than you trust god that's the love of money having money is not evil i tell you what's evil being broke is evil [Applause] you better get that right not being able to to to pay your uh heating bill when it's cold outside that's an evil thing not being able to buy food for your wife and your children and they're hungry that's an evil evil thing not being able to give your girl something to fix their hair and it gets napping now that's evil that's evil and church folks didn't know how to talk about this and see you sending a double message the money is if money was evil then all of us in here right now are evil for getting up every morning to go to a job to try to get something no the evil thing is your your trust trust is the issue it's a trust issue for the love of money or wrong relationship with money trusting money is the root of all kinds of evil and some people craving money having wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows the sorrows comes as a as a result of this you know the lord said something to me that blew my mind one day he said the root to all sin i thought man this is going to be good the root to all sin you ready for this not trusting god wow the root to all sin not trusting god forget about your works you do at the church the root to all sin is not trusting god when you don't trust god to provide guess what'll happen you will steal when you don't trust god to fix your marriage guess what will happen you will commit adultery when you don't trust god with your sexual identity you will change it the root to all sin is not trusting god amen this love of money is an issue of trust and he says in these last days you're going to see people that will join the first church of mammon let me show you what this is luke 16 13. luke 16 13. somebody shout not me i mean think about it you think it's really worth it to do something illegal for some money and you got to spend 22 years in a little box for real somebody said why are you in jail oh cause i i did a little ponzi thing with money for real ain't no ain't enough money in the world for me to do something that's gotta spend time in jail trying to get some some some paper why please but there are people in these last days who say it's worth it there are all kinds of schemes coming up all kinds of stuff people are doing anytime something new somebody on the other side is working on an illegal way to get it how can i get your identity how can i get you a car you know they got devices today and when you go to the mall they just point it at you and it'll get your your number of your off your card now you got to carry something in your wallet to block it i had somebody to to steal my identity they're in jail now they're in jail i didn't know it i realize you got to watch out where you put your card at certain neighborhoods you can't be using no card it's the truth luke 16 13 he says no one can serve two masters you will either hate one and love the other you will be devoted to one and then you'll despise the other you cannot serve god and the king james says and mammon he says you can't serve god and be enslaved to money mammon is not money mammon is the spirit or the demon that's over money trying to convince you that you don't need god you need money you don't trust god you trust money that's what mammon is mammon is a demon spirit and what matter wants to do is convince you you don't need god no more join my church don't trust god trust money because if he can get you into mammon like he's got in this nation this nation this nation has been entangled into mammon you have to ask yourself every time something goes on in this in this nation you got to ask yourself is mammon the ultimate motivation somebody getting paid and how much is that happening and i wonder oh my goodness i know it's on the news but is that a lie is that a lie and you don't really find out if it was a lie until 50 years later or something and i'm thinking oh my goodness but the bible says let god be true i have to trust him maybe something you're dealing with mammon might be behind it maybe the girlfriend you got right now mama might be behind it she don't love you but she saw your bank account [Music] and she asked the question what love got to do got to do got to do with it people don't marry no more for no love they marry for cash can you take care of me can you buy me this and i want this brand and i want daddy i want to live this way and i want to do that way here's the deal here's what you don't understand about mammon one day the truth of it seeks in and you realize you want more than that now you want stuff that money can't buy money can buy a house but can't make it a home money can buy medicine but it can't buy healing money can buy your wife for about maybe four years but don't go broke she gonna go cause she did not marry you for love that's where we are the reality shows all the reality shows are just flaunting money we're successful while you have money money doesn't make you successful how successful do you think it is this guy has a billion dollars but he's dying of cancer that's not prosperity he's a poor man with a billion dollars it's not successful you think you're successful cause you got a big bank account seriously and i know people who are rich they don't have a billion dollars in the bank but they're rich in love and rich in family and rich in relationships no no no some of y'all i prefer the money though i don't know i don't want to be that rich in family have they i've got enough family hesitation praise the lord but you don't understand god will bless you with all the pieces all the slices of the pie if you'll put him first and if you trust him he will take care of you you will have the most successful businesses in this country you will be the greatest entrepreneurs ever and every time somebody comes and asks you why you'll say to god be the glory and god says oh i can listen because they trust me i can trust them with substance they won't replace me with what i bless them with how are you going to replace the creator with his creation and people have done that everybody trying to get paid because you love money more than you love god and what you don't know that's leading to a cliff your love of money your trust of money is leading to a cliff and it's going to be ugly thing and the sad thing about it and you will you will have a terrible time when you get at that time you'll think if i had you have so much regret if i could do it all over again i would have made different choices i would have never replaced god with money and it's amazing how church folks come to church ask god to bless them he blesses them and then they disappear i could never figure that out i've been doing this for 40 years i mean i don't look like it but i've been doing it for i've been doing this for 40 years [Applause] and i have never ever seen god forsake taffy and i or this ministry never well i wish i could say the same you will be able to say the same one but don't be a part of this society that trusts money more than you trust god does everybody understand that let's go to number three boastful and proud boastful and proud of course to boast means to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride especially about yourself i don't understand how can you boast about something you know you're not responsible for the bible talks about how we were saved by grace it was not of ourselves but it was a gift of god so that no man can boast pride is showing a high opinion of of yourself your own dignity importance and superiority thinking of yourself higher than what that what you really are so what are the consequences uh guys i'm gonna ask y'all to pull up a new version i really like this it's the erv version go to proverbs 11 2 4 in the erv version if you don't have the erv version then we'll just have to get a telephone or something i meant to bring my telephone my people don't even call it telephone you know what i'm saying telephone most of the youth looking at me like what what what do you say cell phone excuse me james james uh proverbs 11 2 through 4. uh if you don't have it it's the erv not the esv if you have an erv version erv and then i'll use the esv for the rest of them if you have an erv for just this particular scripture if not we'll just use this one let's use this one for the time sake okay when pride comes then comes disgrace but with the humble is wisdom so when that boastful thing happens he says uh disgrace happens he says in verse three the integrity of the upright guides them but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them for riches do not profit in the day of wrath but righteousness delivers from death isn't that the truth in the day of wrath when jesus is about to come back you riches ain't gonna help you and i've never seen a u-haul driving behind a hearse going to the funeral the the cemetery you can't take none of it with you it's all divvied up oh there it is they got it in there you go in the in this version it says proud and boastful people will be shamed but wisdom stays with those who are modest and humble good people are guided by their honesty but crooks who lie and cheat will ruin themselves ruin themselves money is worthless when you face god's punishment but living right will save you from death wow look at james 4 16 in the esv version james 4 16 and then james 4 6 in that in the same version yes esv he says as it is you boast in your arrogance all such boasting is evil boasting in arrogance i mean this dude this dude is just you ever met somebody arrogant it you can't help but to apply superiority with that it's like you you're so arrogant you think you're above everybody you know what he says in these last days that's what you're going to see and he says all that kind of boasting is evil and then james four and six why are you showing us these scriptures because it's better for me to show you that it's in the bible than for you to assume it's in the bible while i go and try to articulate a sermon that you'll rate me a 10 on i don't care about that i want you to get this stuff jesus is coming back and i want to take as many of you with taffy and i to heaven as we have the greatest party that has ever been given it's going to happen jesus is coming back he is coming back and you're not going to be giving him these little soft excuses well lord i thought you know how far that's going to go you remember when this guy was in hell he said sin don't send these send abraham send send somebody from the dead to my brothers and tell them that this is really true so they won't end up in this awful place like i am and you remember what he said to him he said they have abraham and the prophets they need to listen to them he says even though somebody comes from the dead they still not gonna believe it and that's the society we're living in right now if somebody were to come back from the dead with some of these people they still ain't gonna believe it they don't believe nothing you do a miracle you know the greatest enemy to grace cynicism the cynic who just can't believe that it is absolutely possible for anybody to do anything good everybody got to be low down in dirty dog but he gives more grace therefore he says god opposes the proud but he gives grace to the humble i want to humble myself i want to bow the knee and submit to what he's saying to me i'm saying it's time to be a for real christian i said it's time to be a for real christian not just play church stuff i'm gonna be a for a real christian when when certain people come around come around you with some kind of tomfoolery it ought to grieve your spirit to the point you say come here man let me talk to you don't do that around me well that didn't bother you before i'm not like what i was before okay i didn't realize how detrimental that was to my spirit i don't want i can't hang with that and like i told you it's all right to cut people off sometimes you outgrow people you need to let them say now me and you can't do that no more because i'm here and you ain't did nothing in the last 20 years i got to let you go so long some people refuse to grow well just because you refuse to grow doesn't mean i have to be impacted by your unwillingness to mature amen and everybody ain't got to be your friend either some of y'all got too many friends what some y'all some of y'all ain't got no more room for no more friends y'all got too many friends it's weighing you out every 15 minutes somebody different call you hey how are you oh i'm fine hi how are you good what you up to ahead of everybody you can't get undone your husband freaking out cause he's trying to get a little time but now amanda always called in the house taught my husband i want a man to go spend some time with her husband and leave on leave my wife alone i can't spend no i don't and then you don't like amanda then no i ain't got time and i'm my friend if i don't know you by now ain't got time nobody else i won't hit none of that [Applause] scoffing at god number four that word means to mock at to deride or to laugh at in scorn to reject to refuse or to ignore scoffing at god is i'm ignoring what you're saying i refuse to hear what you got to say i reject what you got to say about the things of god to the point i might shout and taunt and heckle i was in uh portland oregon preaching and i was sharing some scripture and a guy in the back started heckling and he don't know me i love when i get people like that because as crazy as they get i like bro from college park you can't get no more crazy than i am so i started talking back to him i had maybe i had to repent just a little bit but he got to talk about it i said no you're wrong you're wrong you're wrong right wrong because you're ignorant and you're unlearned and you're just old mad person cause you ain't got nobody to love you and you don't love yourself and you've got issues in your own life and that's why you can't understand what i'm saying so shut your mouth up him and that demon said well god dawg then [Applause] they ain't even have to carry him out he just left i was in scotland preaching in scotland and i already got a warning overseas you know do not come to our country it's like what who are you the country you know tell me what not to come and so one of my spiritual sons uh dr greg poe he called me up he says uh uh i'm i'm going to scotland i'm going to handle anything that might come up you just focus on preaching and so when when greg walked in he was like he walked in like you know a military like he's going to kill somebody i'm like well greg you're all right no i just want you to know i got it you just preached i got it i'm like dr greg paul you know so we had went to a couple of uh cities and and we were on like maybe the third stop and uh so i think it was a sunday morning and i was preaching that morning and i thought well everything's cool just a bunch of talk and dude let me tell you this guy somehow he got up in the corner there and he came out henry i said heresy grandfather dog and he's walking at me and i'm kind of like okay now i'm on live television i got these people in front of me but then the other part of me said now i know he don't think i'm just going to stand here and let him just punish me and so i'm like lord you got the help cause he getting closer and i got the anointing to teach but i think it does him off real good he got he got two more steps before he realized that i'm from cali paul [Applause] so the guy that was with me he was at the bottom and then my train at the time he leaped up on the thing and got between me and him and stiff-armed him boy he must have stepped because we ran into his arm he boom went back like that i'm like dang fred and they got him and arrested him and took him off and i thought wow this stuff is for real this guy this guy wanted a piece of me and so i'm like what's next y'all don't know some stuff we've been through the years we we did a meeting in philadelphia we had to have the fbi sitting in the congregation because they sent death threats to me and my wife would you know cutting her neck off of mine often no no jesus no we we found them we well ain't gonna put that but we we we went to their house you understand college professionals we don't do that well no we gonna find you not not now you sent this picture let me tell you don't you ever oh that was overweight yeah yeah i didn't even know what was going on we took care of it we're fine they're all over the place have you ever noticed online how prompt people are to come online just to say ugly things so now we got some online ushers say one thing out of line say something say something you know what happened the anointing the blood you removed forever ain't no need of us letting you come back in no more you weren't there for the right reason in the first place so if we catch you you out forever it's just like you know here why not help we have ushers here get crazy here we got people to handle you same thing online get crazy online we got people to handle you you ain't got to listen to me you ain't got the log on why are you on time to come and just say nasty stuff move yourself on somewhere else your little internet assassin go somewhere y'all remember the time when i was preaching on prosperity a lot and we every every sunday we would get somebody to come to church and they thought they were called to god to stand up and correct me y'all remember what happened they got one word out and bam they were gone all i did was turn i turned my head did like that they were gone that's gonna happen more and more and more and yeah it will get dangerous i was on my way to nigeria to visit a friend of mine and god spoke to me and said don't go your life's on the line i said but i promised i would go he said don't go and i knew i wasn't supposed to go so i called him and i said ah for some reason i'm not supposed to go the next morning the car that picked me up with the people who picked me up they were kidnapped and murdered god knows how to deliver his people out of temptation [Applause] ii peter chapter 3 verse 3 through 4 in the esv they're they're doing this right now look look at what he says here second peter three three through four second peter three three through four and e s v uh look at this this the scoffers here he says knowing this first of all that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing following their own sinful desires they will say watch this where is the promise of his coming they're already saying that right forever since the fathers fell asleep all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation that's what they're doing they're making fun they hear me teaching this stuff right there and they're like that ain't happening they've been saying jesus coming back for a thousand years he's not here yet why because you ain't saying this he's trying to wait long enough for you to get saved that's love and that's mercy what are the consequences when you do this what are the consequences when you make fun and you scoff at the return of the lord as if it's not going to happen proverbs 19 29 the esv proverbs 19 29 the esv condemnation is ready for scoffers and beating for the backs of fools first timothy 6 20 through 21 let's look at it in the nlt first and then the esv let's still get two versions first timothy 6 20-21 to know that these things are in the bible it's just life-changing for me i'm like my god that's in the bible timothy guard what god has entrusted to you avoid godless foolish discussions with those who oppose you with their so-called knowledge sometimes we'll have people picketing out there with their so-called knowledge some people have wondered from the faith by following such foolishness may god's grace be with you all look at this in the other version these things are happening man these things are going to kind of pass you know what you you should be sitting there thinking about uh life is i know it is coming to an end so i'm going to die or to be changed in other words when all this stuff happens what what what where where what's going to happen to me oh timothy guard the deposit it to you avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge for by professing it some have swerved from the faith and he said grace be with you you got to be careful who you listen to you got to be careful who you listen to taffy was showing me about you know some some guy on television just insulting women and and he's becoming popular because women are so desperate for the truth they're looking at the so-called knowledge and the whole bottom line is if you want to marry a millionaire then you got to do you got to be this kind of way to marry me how do you how do you sit up and listen to somebody insult you is it that bad i got to try something because i got to get a man you know you can do bad all by yourself right you don't need a man to do bad by yourself [Applause] you got to have some value about you this thing come to a close number five i got 37 seconds 30 seconds now let me just introduce this so we can spend time on it disobedient and disrespectful to parents there are serious consequences of dishonoring and disrespecting parents the question for adult children are you losing your blessings there is a serious problem in the body of christ that i don't think people are aware of a growing number of adult children are ungrateful critical disrespectful toward their christian and non-christian parents they are magnifying their parents's faults and minimizing their parent's sacrifice and love they expect grace from their parents but give very little in return and unfortunately many in the church are sympathizing with these fault-finders in direct contradiction to god's word when we become adults we take on adult responsibility towards our parents we no longer obey them but we do our part to have a meaningful relationship with them and god never excuses disrespect towards parents because disrespect towards parents show disrespect for him and his promises and even if your parents made some large mistakes you can return good for evil so next week we're going to pick up with this and i'm going to show you scriptures deuteronomy chapter 21 exodus chapter 21 where there was a civil law amongst jewish people and the civil law was when you have a son or a daughter that disobeyed and they they disrespected and disobeyed their parents the parents would take them to the gate of the city and all the people in the city would come and stone them to death because they would not respect and honor their parents there'd be some major killing if that was still a lie today but i'll travel through history and show you [Music] god's heart about it it's the only moral law where god included a blessing it's the only one where he he said if you do this where your parents are concerned you will you will live right you will you'll it'll be good with you he says and you'll live long on the earth we have an issue in our country where we disrespect the elderly and there are consequences for adult children who ignore and disrespect and dishonor their parents whether you think they deserve it or not the consequences are big there are people that used to be on the planet some of them died horrible deaths and it can be traced back to the dishonor and disrespect of their parents we're not under that law anymore but it was the only one where god said if you do this all will be well with you and you'll live long and there are adult children who have parents that those adult children don't even budge a finger to take care of those parents something's coming you got a problem with your mom and daddy because something that they didn't do or you think they could have did it better and i'll talk i'll show you scripture where in the last days the children will be deceived into thinking they know more than the parent i freaked out thinking about this i thought i gave you life you wouldn't even be alive if it weren't for me i'll talk to you about the issue i had with my daddy i hated him at one time i'm so glad i had a chance to repair that hated him pulled a gun on him you're not disrespectful and dishonorable that was i was on my way to an early grave i was also unsaved at the time when i got saved i got saved my family got saved and i didn't know at the time but i made a commitment to him the short time he lived after that and my mother thought i would honor them and now i would take care of my mother for the rest of her life that i will that all will be well with me and all that i'll live long on this earth it goes back to that you don't think so it goes back to that so if you are an adult person in here and you got a parent that you are estranged from and you're dishonoring them you know the bible says when you curse your parents it's not cussing them out but curse them when you when you when you speak negatively of them to your children and slander them in front of your children now your children got a problem with them just like you got a problem with them he said i will snuff your candle out it's an epidemic beyond proportions that i've ever seen before and they think they have a right to strut around and dishonor their parents consequences are there and jesus said in the last day that would be one of the greatest things you'll see you'll know i'm coming when you start looking at children and how they dishonor their parents next week right here at world changers church international did y'all get anything out of that today lift your hands up come on just just lift your hands up and just right now just father help me [Music] your time is near your time is near help me help me to do all that you've caught me to to do to be everything you know that i am to be don't let me allow my emotions to move me from the blueprint of my life don't don't let me allow my emotions to to move me from the architectural design for my life help me i know you're coming i look for you that is my great hope i look for you and when i see you i'll be like you for i'll be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye help me help me to first realize there's so much i don't know help me help me god i call upon your name not as someone who has been taught and trained by a fool but i call upon your name and humble myself and say lord teach me help me [Music] and my father i pray by the power of the holy spirit that you will be that very present help right now in the time of trouble that you will be that very present help right now in the time of trouble lord i stretch my hands to thee no other help i know no other help i know we give you praise and as we go through these 18 characteristics give us wisdom let us see areas where we need to make adjustments and make those adjustments amen now if you're here today and you're watching on stream right now or you're here in this building right now and you've never made jesus the lord of your life i'm gonna lead you to the lord if you'll just repeat this simple prayer with me i'm gonna i'm gonna lead you to the lord jesus christ the only thing you need to do to get to heaven is to accept jesus's forgiveness the only thing you need to do to get to heaven is to get born again that's it it doesn't require you to feed a whole nation and all these other things the only thing you got to do is to get born again and if that's you right now and you have not been born again and you say pastor dollar today i am ready to give my heart to jesus i'm not willing to gamble with my eternity well if that's you i want you to repeat this simple prayer after me ready heavenly father i realize that i'm a sinner but right now i repent i change my mind and i turn away from that life of sin today i accept the free gift of salvation i accept the forgiveness of jesus glory heavenly father be my savior be my lord sit on the throne of my heart save me so by faith i declare now that i am saved thank you lord for saving me in jesus name amen now if you prayed that prayer we congratulate you we welcome you in church congregation let's put our hands together and just celebrate those who got born again we welcome you we thank god for you we thank god for you and you know what if you are uh if you're online streaming in if you'll just text the key word i'm saved that's one word to 51555 and if you'll provide your name and email address we'll send you a free ebook as a gift to you today now those of you who are here and you just got born again or god's speaking to your heart about joining this church world changers church international today well i'm just glad that we're we got to open the the altar open again amen and that people are coming to the altar but if you if you'll make that decision to to do that if you want to join this church or if you want to come to the altar if you just got saved if you'll do that right now that'll be great but also to our e-church family if you've never had the opportunity to become an official e-church member it starts today becoming an e-member is simple use one of our ways to join you can join on the web you can go to worldchanges.org and click join at the top of the page or you can text join wcci that's all one word to five one five five five and we'll send you all the benefits we'll send you all the benefits of e-membership uh it's that simple to become a part of world change's nation as an e member and so starting today will not only be opening the altar up for people to join the church for people to get saved but also for people online to get saved and to join the church as well amen so praise the lord [Applause] come on down come on down amen amen god is not gonna catch us not ready amen [Applause] i want to pray with you and then i'm going to ask you to go to the prayer room and they're going to get some information to help us to continue to minister to you and we feel like discipleship is important it's one thing to get born again but it's another thing to be discipled and we've got a lot of things available for discipleship that we want to make sure we can stay in touch with you guys and the same thing listen whatever we do here live we'll be able to do online as well and we are not we're not going to stop for one moment um we're not going to let anything stop us from getting that gospel out to do what need to be done i think last week over a hundred and something people got born again and gave their lords to jesus their life to jesus christ that's amazing it's amazing amen so father i pray that the blessings are so upon these people as they've gotten born again as they join this church lord you know their end you knew it at your beginning and i think that nothing will stop them we give you praise in jesus name and everybody say it amen at this time if you'll turn this way and follow our guys to the uh prayer room they're gonna take in minister to you give you biblical understanding and get some information from you that's going to help us out amen praise the lord amen let's uh let's go ahead and conclude our worship today through our giving amen if uh if you're ready to worship god with your giving if you need an offering envelope you can give uh your offering envelope if you're gonna uh give with the qr code both here or as you you know as you're leaving that's so cool you'll be able to just scan the qr code and do all kinds of stuff i'm gonna make some kind of announcements to show you guys all the stuff we have available for you we're looking and tapping in on a lot of stuff but when you worship god with your with your offerings that's so awesome it's like i'm thanking god for what he's done and a lot of times the opportunity to give god thanks for what you received from the word uh what what he's done the previous week how he delivered how he saved you for his grace and for his mercy we're not giving so god can give can bless us he's already blessed us and by faith we receive that blessing and so we celebrate what he's already done through our gift-giving we're not given to god so we can get victory he's already given us victory so our giving is a celebration an appreciation a a gratitude for what he's already done and so god says you you need to consider in your heart what you're going to give he made this promise whatever you give he says i'll multiply whatever you don't give he says i can't multiply and so the bible says give sparingly your wreath barely give bountifully you'll reap bountifully but we don't give out of necessity we give out of a cheerful heart amen and so when giving becomes something that is so exciting something that you're having an opportunity to express your gratitude to god and not something that's condemning something that's full of guilt and shame i just knew the whole time this is the right way to do it it is worship it is worship give unto him glory that's due unto his name what's the glory he said bring an offering and worship him in the beauty of his holiness so that's what this is about it's our opportunity to worship him and to conclude this worship service through gift giving now if you're streaming online you want to give through text you can give you can text world changers space and the amount to 74483 you can call the 1 866 number 477-7683 get some assistance there on the phone if you'd like to mail in that's the address 2500 burdette road or if you'd like to go to the website you can go to worldchanges.org or creflo.ministries.org you can give online and you can use your paypal account if you have one online and you're listening from other places also we have a qr code for those of you at home you can also scan that on your screen and for those of you who are here if you uh i want to use your qr code just take your phone take a picture of that thing there and take it directly to the text deal and uh you can just put the amount in and hit send or you can scan that same qr code where it says giving in the lobby and do the same thing there um praise the lord so at this time uh ushers go ahead and receive the offering envelopes they're like what four or five ways again dang before the pandemic it was just get off an envelope amen but we are determined whether you are here in the dome or at home streaming in you should be able to take full advantage of everything that we're doing from communion to giving to praising and worshiping god and hopefully you're feeling pretty comfortable about coming to church how many of you are feeling more and more comfortable about about coming to church amen it's um if you hadn't checked into our on-site wellness center i tell you what the biggest way to go through things that are happening now is to be fit to fight amen the greatest thing you can have is a great immune system it's so important and so we have a an amazing amazing medical team that's going to keep us in line think of that i don't think i know a church that's got a medical wellness center right on target and we've got people who uh we have a weight loss program that is you know guaranteed you lose a pound a day how many of you have taken that so far and is it working it's good in it it's amazing it's just amazing and so we know obesity is one of the reasons that will cause a lot of sickness and disease and you know you don't want to stay there especially when they got a way to get it off of you and get it off of you in a way where it's it's sound it's good it's healthy and you'll get off a lot of pills that you're taking right now a lot of sick stuff will go away if you'll do what needs to be done there so stop by the wellness centers in the administration building on the end next to the cafeteria area and uh that'll be a blessing to you everything to bless world changers amen god bless you well if all hearts and minds are clear you can stand to your feet we'll finish this on next sunday on wednesday this week we are talking about the reality of demons and how they take over people's lives and how you can have authority over them so we'll finish that up this wednesday as well good to see you guys well it's good to be seen rather than view right [Applause] let's prepare for the final blessing now father i pray that you look into every life every situation and i pronounce your blessing over every individual at the sound of my voice i say that that blessing is working in them and through them and that blessing is working for them i thank you lord for an abundant amount of favor i thank you for your grace and your mercy i pray that they will walk in such favor that the favor of god will go ahead of them and divinely arrange things before they even arrive i pray lord that you're the god that's healing all things that you're putting all things in the right place that you're restoring all things i thank you lord that that blessing is on this congregation world changes nation is blessed protect them throughout the week cause them to be psalms 91 equipped and nothing that happens in this society will affect these blessed people and now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the almighty god be glory majesty dominion and power both now and forever and everybody said amen goodbye everybody have a good day

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