True & False Church, Pt 1

our theme this evening and it will be in two sessions is true and false church the most important thing for you to carry away from these sessions is the fact that there is a true church and there is a false church and if you don't understand that you are liable to be confused and deceived I will try to give you out of Scripture a portrait first of the false church and then of the true but if you can't carry away all the details I trust that you'll lay hold of this one fact that there are in a sense two churches on earth today that's a true Church and a false church and I hope that I'll be able to give you sufficient information that from now on you'll be on your God you'll not be deceived by the false church and you'll know where you are spiritually at any given time in 2nd Corinthians chapter 11 verses two three and four Paul explains to us how a false church has come into being second pin thien's 11 verses two three and four writing to the church at Corinth Paul says for I am jealous for you with godly jealousy for I've betrothed you to one husband that is the Lord Jesus that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ if you consider the kind of people that the Church of Corinth was made up from that's an amazing statement Paul gives a list of the kind of people they were prostitutes homosexuals lesbians drunkards fornicators extortioners and all the rest and yet through the power of the blood of Jesus and the sanctifying work of the Word of God Paul can envisage a congregation made up of people like that being presented to the Lord Jesus Christ as a chaste virgin and Paul who was the one who founded that church speaks about having betrothed those people to the Lord Jesus we need to understand that in the culture that day the biblical culture there were two steps first betrothal and then marriage now betrothal was not just engagement as we understand it today because many times an engagement is broken off without any catastrophic consequences but in that culture a betrothal was a very sacred solemn commitment it did not permit the marriage to be consummated but it was in a sense just as sacred a commitment as the actual marriage and for a person to be unfaithful to the vows of betrothal was treated as adulterer as the actual breaking of marriage vows so there were these two phases first a woman was betrothed to a man and in that culture it wasn't very long before the marriage ceremony would actually take place after that they were duly and legally husband and wife so commitment to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord in a sense is a betrothal and each and all of us who have made that commitment have been betrothed to Jesus but we are not yet married the book of Revelation chapter 19 verses 7 and 8 contains a beautiful picture of the actual celebration of the marriage says the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready and all heaven in fact the whole universe is excited about the marriage of the lamb I had a personal revelation a very simple one just a few months ago I was awake in the middle of the night not by plan and as I meditated I felt I just got a brief glimpse of the excitement that the Lord Jesus feels about two things first that he's going to be reconciled to his brothers the Jewish people after 2,000 years of alienation and second then he's going to take his bride home and when I what I felt was that when Jesus is excited all heaven is excited and just for a few seconds I think I felt a little of the excitement of the Lord and of the beings in heaven but at the present time we are still only betrothed the marriage supper hasn't come now this is where the true and the false church separate because the true church remains faithful to its betrothal vows the false church is unfaithful and through being unfaithful to those vowels is thereafter described as a harlot or a prostitute or an immoral woman and Paul goes on in the next two verses to explain how Christians can be corrupted from their original commitment to Jesus so he goes on in verse 3 but I fear lest somehow as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity and another version says simplicity and purity that is in Christ so the process that leads to unfaithfulness is the corrupting of the minds of believers and Paul says I want to emphasize the simplicity and the purity of the gospel the gospel in its essence is extremely simple consists of certain historical facts and paul states them in 1st Corinthians 15 that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures that he was buried that he was raised again the third day according to the scriptures that is the gospel and I'm always grieved and unhappy when people make it complicated the basic essential truths of the gospel are so simple that a child of six can easily comprehend them and very often a child of six understands them better than a grown adult of twenty or thirty or forty years old so beware beware when people start to use a lot of psychological jargon and invoke the support of psychiatrists for the truth of the gospel the gospel doesn't need the support of psychiatrists god bless psychiatrists they're doing their job so I'm better and some words but they're doing it but that the Bible stands without the endorsement of psychiatrists or philosophers or scientists or anybody it's based on certain simple historical facts it's either true or its false but that's nothing in between it differs in that respect from all other world religions because no other world religion is tied that way into human history all other religions Buddhism Shintoism Hinduism Islam are all in the sense independent of history Muhammad could have had his visions or whatever he had in any cave at any time anywhere it wouldn't have changed they want the rebel that he got likewise with Hinduism Buddhism their speculative they came into history at a certain point in time and Buddhist believed that Buddha received them his revelation under a bow tree whatever the bow tree is but it could have been any kind of tree it's not tied to human history that the Christianity is the only religion that fits in to human history and either the things that it claims happened did happen or they didn't it's either true or its false but it's quite different in its content from any other world religion and as I've said it's essentially simple and then Paul goes on to explain the process of mental corruption in verse 4 for if he who comes that is some other preacher than Paul who followed Paul and one of Paul's great problems was that after he presented the simplicity of the gospel other men came along and made it complicated and trying to get people involved in all sorts of legal restrictions and regulations which are not part of the gospel and he had this problem with in Corinth in Galatia and in other places so he says this for if he who comes preaches another jesus when we have not preached or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received or a different gospel which you have not accepted you may well put up with it notice there are three phases first of all another Jesus then a different spirit and then a different gospel so it all centers in Jesus Jesus said I am the truth when you change Jesus and cease to present the historical biblical picture of Christ you're going to get another spirit and it's going to result in another gospel and remember the the Corinthians if anybody was charismatic they were they were ultra charismatic so don't imagine that the fact that you're baptized in the spirit and speak in tongues and all that which is wonderful guarantees that you will not be deceived it doesn't I'd like to offer you just three contemporary versions of another Jesus which are in your outline but I'll put them up the first one number one is some kind of oriental guru now there's a movement today which really so interprets Jesus puts him on a level with Buddha and all sorts of other people it's called who can tell me the New Age movement that's their version of Jesus you really want the deal with this problem there's one epistle above all others who should study which is Colossians because it presents him as the Great Creator by whom the whole universe was brought into being and who upholds the whole universe by the word of his power he's not just some oriental teacher wandering around in a saffron robe with sandals he's God in person the creator and the judge of all humanity so the New Age movement having presented another Jesus it's taken over by another spirit and presents another gospel and sent once you change the character and person of Jesus you're into error the second time is a Marxist revolutionary there's one continent where this is particularly presented which is South America that's right and it is known as Liberation Theology which teaches that it's the job of Christians to resolve the problems of the poor demand social justice eliminate the wealthy and set up a new political order well Jesus never did that he had great compassion on the poor but he never sought to institute another social order by force he said my kingdom is not of this world if it were My servants would fight and so the process of trying to bring the kingdom of God in by armed force is a denial of the teaching of Jesus and what they do is substitute one kind of dictator for another one of the tactics that Satan uses to institute political revolution is to make people discontented with the present regime he's a master of getting people discontented and really if you work hard enough at it you can get discontented with almost any government in the world today and the implication is if you get rid of this government the next one will treat you fairly but never has done and actually today Marxism is largely discredited it has produced more poverty and more distress than the unjust regimes which preceded it so that's number two number three is what I call a universal father Christmas they kind of pictured Jesus walking around patting people on the head saying then they're never mind it'll all work out and don't worry that's not a true picture of Jesus the places which primarily purvey this doctrine are called liberal churches and one thing they do not speak about is the judgment of God on sin in fact they don't like to mention sin at all and in each case where Jesus is misrepresented once you have another Jesus you're going to have a different spirit which is not the Holy Spirit and you're going to have a different gospel which is not the gospel of the New Testament how many of you would agree that this land of ours is full of that that right this is not something that's going to happen in the next century it's something that's all around us and I would say increasing rapidly in most places now the scripture warns us that in the last days the close of this age we are going to be threatened with many forms of deception if you turn for a moment to first Timothy chapter 4 and verse 1 now the spirit capital s the Holy Spirit expressly says or explicitly says that in latter time so on the other clothes of this age some will depart from the faith giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons now you cannot depart from the faith if you've never been in it you can't depart from simple Augustine's Church if you've never been in it so this is not talking about people have never been believers but it's talking about people who have been believers and then are deceived by demons and led astray into false teaching now some of you might be surprised to know that years ago in the great city of London I used to preach regularly on the streets three times every week mainly at speaking at speakers corner mala Lodge which was a different place then from what it is now believe me it was a bear garden more than once I was physically assaulted by people who didn't approve of when I was preaching but we saw many people come to the Lord but I mentioned that because there was a young man who had a dramatic conversion his first name was Paul he was saved on Sunday night baptized in the spirit on Tuesday night and received the gift of prophecy on Thursday dinner well in those days that was something of a record but after a while he began to talk to me about ideas he was entertaining and the more I heard the less I liked it and he said in effect something tells me and then he would tell me these ideas and the more he spoke the more I realized that he was passing on to me the teaching of Christian Science but when I investigated he himself had never start Christenson so that was just the demon instilling that teaching in and he did not remain faithful to the Lord he was seduced into error so I know that this happens I mean I've not seen it happen just in one life but alas I've seen it happen in many lines it's a reality that we have to deal with and then again I'd like to turn to Matthew 24 some of you may not know that the prophecy that we handle the interpretation that came earlier was based on Matthew 24 verse 14 this good news of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all the nations but if you look at the preceding verses you discover it's not going to be that easy if you look in Matthew 24 beginning at verse 9 then they shall deliver you you being us up to tribulation and kill you and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake and then many will be offended and will betray one another and will hate one another now we've seen a little of that maybe in this nation but in some nations in the Soviet Union in China and elsewhere these are daily realities they are happening now on a large scale then it says then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many that alas is also happening almost every place where the New Testament speaks about the close of this age the thing that it emphasizes most is the need to be on your guard against being deceived and there is not one of us who is not in danger of being to see I've been a Christian now forty eight years I've never backslidden I have served the Lord to the best of my ability but by no means do I take it for granted that I could not be to see people who rely on their own experience or their own intelligence are prime candidates for deception there's only really one safeguard that is to be very humble with the law pride is the lever that opens the door to deception beyond your guard against it and then in the same context Jesus goes on to say because lawlessness will abound the love of many many Christians will grow cold and then he says but he who has endured to the end will be sane so that's something to endure you understand it's not idle talk this persecution there's betrayal there's opposition that's deception there's lawlessness in the midst of all that Jesus says but if you've held out to the end you will be saying that doesn't mean you're not saved now but it doesn't mean to stay saved you've gone to endure that's Jesus said by your endurance purchase your soul that's the price of your soul is enduring and then the next verse is this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world it's a witness to all the nations and then the end of the age of them what's the final mark that the age is coming to an end the proclaiming of the good news of the kingdom in all the world to all nations I say that because proclaiming the good news in all the world is not going to be an easy job the pressures the opposition the dangers are increasing but in the midst of all that God is going to raise up a breed of Christians that will set their faces like flint and go through with the task that's the way I believe it now let's consider the origin of false religion and the origin of true lineage hmm characteristically the origin of each goes back to the beginning of human history and they started both of them with the two sons of Adam Cain and Abel and there never has been any other kind of religion in human history but one or other of these two so let's look at them for a moment we'll read the description of Cain and Abel in Genesis chapter 4 beginning at verse 3 you're aware of course that Cain and Abel were the first two sons of Adam and Eve and they were both born after Adam and Eve were in rebellion and in trespass against God and I've never had any sons before he became a rebel and every descendant of Adam from that day onwards has the nature of a rebel somewhere in the Bible calls it the old man or the old Adam so let me read this passage and in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord Abel also brought of the firstlings of his flock and their fan the best and the Lord respected Abel and his offering we don't know exactly what happened but in some way the Lord bore testimony that he accepted Abel's offering and he didn't bear testimony to Cain's offering most commentators suggest that some kind of fire came and consumed Abel's offering on the old but nothing happened to Keynes nice vegetable offering well then I've sent came and came was very angry and his countenance fell he said in fact here you are God I brought you the best I can grow under the ground the very best and you're not interested so he was angry I think it was angry with God and angry with his brother so the Lord said to Cain why are you angry and why is your countenance fallen if you do well will you not be accepted and if you do not do well sin lies at the door and its desire is for you but you should rule over it now Cain talked with Abel his brother and it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain rose against Abel his brother and killed him notice the first recorded sin after the original disobedience of Adam and Eve was not some trifling little peccadillo but it was murder of one brother by another sin doesn't take a long while to mature once it's released it's there in all its ugliness right from the beginning now let's consider for a moment the difference between Abel's religion and Cain's and as I do this I want you to see that every religion humanity has ever known falls into one or other of these two categories everybody is either a follower of Abel or a follower of Cain although they don't realize it first of all Abel received divine revelation we know this because in Hebrews 11:4 it says by faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than cain and romans 10:17 says faith comes by hearing the Word of God so how he received a word from God we don't know but he received a revelation from God that God required a living sacrifice which had to be killed and placed on the old so Abel acknowledged that but came rejected it he did not accept the revelation of the kind of sacrifice that God required by his sacrifice Abel acknowledged the need for a substitutionary sacrifice for his sin and the sin of the race by his offering came denied the need for a substitutionary sacrifice and no blood was shamed Abel's offering indicated the need for a life lay down Cain's offering rejected them now in Genesis 3:17 after Adam and Eve originally disobeyed God God pronounced a curse on the earth he said cursed be the earth because of you Abel offered a propitiation for the curse on the earth Cain offered the fruit of an earth which was under God's curse and nothing had been done to revoke the curse so Cain was offering God something that God had said was under a curse the fourth difference was that as we've already seen Abel received supernatural attestation from God God bore witness that he had accepted Abel's offering came did not receive supernatural attestation he just went through a religious performance how many churchgoers are like that today a religious performance but no supernatural attestation v difference it's practical Abel's religion produced a martyr Kane's religion produced a murderer that's a very wide difference but in each case it was a result of their religion and the sixth difference was or is Abel's religion will bring forth a bride for Christ Kane's religion will produce a harlot so there you have the two types of religion I'll go through it very simply without going into detail Abel received divine revelation came rejected it Abel acknowledged the need for a substitutionary sacrifice and a life laid down came rejected that Abel offered a propitiation for the curse that God had pronounced on the earth Cain simply offered God the product of a cursed earth Abel's offering received supernatural attestation from God Cain received no supernatural attestation and that's what made him angry and we can fallible though we charismatic sand Pentecostals and others like us may be one of the main reasons people dislike us it's because we've received a supernatural attestation and they had human nature has not changed one bit then the end products Abel's religion produced a martyr a life lay down Cain's religion produced a murder and finally looking toward the future ables religion will bring forth the bride canes religion will bring forth the harlot see there is a complete line of demarcation between the two religions and I suggest to you this is far too vast a subject to go into in detail that every religion subsequently practiced by humanity falls into one of other than these two candidates there is no new kind of religion just a lot of different variations on the original religions now I'd like to begin to sketch out the picture of the harlot the product of Cain's religion and if you just pause for a moment and consider the servants of God through the Bible who gave them the most trouble religious people or non-religious people religious people what religion did they have the religion of a man through who put the prophets to death or persecuted them followers of Cain who were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus all of us have pain and it hasn't changed through 2,000 years it's gone on the same way all right now taking a glimpse of the the harlot the false church the first thing I want to say is that it exploits political power it uses political power to obtain its ends and that's why I am always somewhat reserved when I hear Christians talking about taking over politics because every time it's happened in the past it's been a disaster for the church it happened in the fourth century when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire under constant and from that moment Christianity went into decline it happened in the Middle Ages when the Pope's wielded the two swords the sword of spiritual government and the sword of political government and the church was in a state of almost total darkness and I don't believe they'll ever be a change in them we are not told to run the political system we are called to pray for our leaders and from time to time God raises up outstanding men who play a vital role in the political system men like Joseph and Daniel and Wilberforce and others but never has the church being ordained by God to take over the political system all right let's look at the picture of the church and the political system in Revelation 13 we get a picture of a political Federation which is described as a beast the revelation 13:1 John says I saw a beast rising up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns and on his horns are ten crowns and on his hand a blasphemous name that's the political system the Federation I think the last endtime political system but in revelation 17:3 and revelation 17 is the picture of the harlot it says the angel carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness and I saw a woman that's the false church sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns so there is the woman the harlot the false church sitting on the political system and writing to our on it it's not the true church now there is a very clear sort of anticipation of this in Israel's history in the time of King Ahab Ahab was king of the Northern Kingdom Israel the Northern Kingdom was already backslidden they were already involved in the worship of the golden Khan's and other evil things but they went much further into rebellion under a hab because they have married a woman called Jezebel and Jezebel was the daughter of a pagan King and was a follower and a promoter of the worship of bale and Bale in a certain sense was the ultimate evil alternative to the worship of the true God and by her marriage to the king Jezebel introduced the worship of bail into Israel and in many ways she's a very vivid picture of the false church one of the things that always been clear to me for years is that Elijah had no illusions as to what Jezebel would do to him if she could get hold it and I have to say I think it's the same with the true church the false church excuse me let's just look at a few passages in first Kings 16 verses 30 and following now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord more than all who were before him and the Bible makes it clear the reason is he was incited to it by his wife Jezebel and it came to pass as though into being a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of jeroboam the son of nebat who had introduced the worship of the golden calf that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of F Bale king of the sidonians and he went and served bail and worshiped then he set up an altar for bail in the temple of bail which he had built in Samaria and a have made a wooden image the hebrew word is a surah which was a wooden Idol of a female probably extremely sexual which was habitually worshiped by the Kaman earth so he introduced the worship of bail and the worship of Ashura they have did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him what was the root cause his wife Jezebel and then in first Kings 21 verse 8 we read how Jezebel manipulated a.m. he had wanted to get hold of the vineyard of naboth and they both wouldn't sell it to him so a.m. who was really a grownup baby just salt he turned his face to the wall he wouldn't eat and he lay there and Jezebel came in and said what's the matter and she said well they both won't sell me his vineyard she said don't worry about that I'll handle that and this is what she did verse 8 so she wrote letters in a halves name name sealed them with his seal and sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who were dwelling in the city with neighbor result of which was Namath was falsely accused of blasphemy and stoned to death but notice they have wouldn't have done it he would have stopped there but it was Jezebel who took over took his seal which was the evidence of his kingly Authority wrote a letter in his name and got the job done what would you call that I call that manipulation and let me tell you just as a matter of information God never manipulates and anytime you encounter manipulation you are not dealing with the true God so the next mark of Jezebel was her terrible attitude towards the Lord's prophets going back to first Kings 18 and verse 13 Obadiah who was a worshipper of the true God although he served in Ahab's Court said to Elisha was it not reported to my Lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord how I had 100 men of the Lord's prophets 50 in a cave and fed them with bread and water and in the same chapter verse 19 now therefore send this is Elijah speaking now therefore send and gather all Israel to me on Mount Carmel the 450 prophets of Bale and the four hundred prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel's table in other words who are maintained by Jezebel so she killed the true prophets and supported the false prophets and then in 2nd Kings chapter 9 we get another glimpse of Jezebel when jihyun to Jezreel into Samaria Jezebel knew that her number was up that he has come there to kill her so that reaction was typical she made herself up but mascara and her eyes and looked out of the window and trusted that her sex appeal would change D Huez attitude the G who was not the kind of person to you that so ji-hyun did well this is to joram king the king of Israel but he said Jorun I'm sent to G who was he wrote in to Samir is it piece G hue so he answered want peace as long as the harlot reigns of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft of so many so the two things that she was responsible for were harlotry prostitution immorality and which chrome and witchcraft is nearly always referred to as spiritual harlotry but generally speaking it produces actual physical immorality so if you get a picture of Jezebel she murdered the true prophets supported the false prophets practiced immorality and which crime and I personally believe that almost any way you find which crime sooner or later you'll find him around the spiritual adultery leads to the physical adultery and so in first Kings 17 1 and 18 verse 1 and each of these we fee we find the Lord sending Elijah into the situation to deal with it and the lesson that I want to bring out is this that Elijah was God's answer to Jezebel and this I think is very significant because of what's prophesied and Malachi the 4th chapter you see again we're dealing with the close of the age and in Malachi 4 and verse 5 the Lord says behold I will send you Elijah the Prophet before the coming of the Great and dreadful day of the Lord now when Elijah comes on the scene you know what the problem is which grow Elijah is gods so I say secret weapon against which grow and then notice the problem and this is the last verse of the Old Testament and he will turn the hearts of the father's to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers lest I come and strike the earth with a curse so not only does this indicate that the end time threat to society into God's people it's a false church these which run but it gives the basic primary problem which is the breakup of family life and there's a situation where fathers are alienated from their children and children from their parents and God says if this isn't changed it will bring a curse on the whole earth so we learn a lot from that because we learn the source of the breakup of family life which is which wherever witchcraft prevails family life is going to be destroyed family relationships are going to be broken up and in many cases the authority of the male the sada the head of the family will be superseded by female Authority and all that is just a part of the activity of judgment so there is a kind of little glimpse out of history of the activity of the false church now we're going back to the theme of the way that Jezebel comes to power you remember we said it was on a political Federation she was writing this scarlet animal scarlet beast going back now to 17th chapter of Revelation we find that Antichrist also exploited the same political Federation revelation 17 verses 12 and 13 well it's right and the gang we're talking about the animal the beast with the ten horns seven heads it says in verse twelve the ten horns which you saw are ten Kings who have received no Kingdom as yet but they receive Authority for one hour as Kings with the Beast these are of one mind and they will give their power and authority to the Beast so the Scarlet woman rides on the Beast which has the seven heads and the ten horns but the final version of the animal which is the horns are not the head give themselves into the hand of the Antichrist and are manipulated and controlled by the Antichrist that's the final version of the political scene in Scripture as far as I can see in this aim now in a certain sense just as the true church is the bride of Jesus the false church is the Bride of the Antichrist but Jesus treats his bride very differently from the way the Antichrist treats his bride here is a lesson I tell people if you let the devil have its way with you you'll treat you like a lemon he'll squeeze you until he's got all the juice out of you and then you throw you away I'm reminded of something that happened in Jerusalem many years ago before world war two there was a Satan worshipper in the old city and a certain missionary went to him and the next time he emerged he was a believer in Jesus Christ the the former Satan worshipper so the other missionary said well what did you say to him and the missionary said I just gave him a full history of Satan from beginning in you see I tell people many times listen if you're on Satan's side you're a loser because he's a loser he's not going to win he's losing he's going to be defeated you better change signs while you have time and he's not going to treat you fairly you can do everything you like for him but in the end he'll treat you like that limit when he's got all he wants out of you throw you away and that's how he deals with his bride you see if you look here in the same 17th chapter verse 16 the ten horns which you saw on the Beast these will hate the harlot make her desolate and naked eat her flesh and burn her with fire for God has put it into their hearts to fulfill his purpose to be of one mind and to give their Kingdom to the Beast until the words of God are fulfilled so the ten horns are just subject to the Beast the Antichrist and the ultimate end of the harlot is to be destroyed by the ten horns they will make her desolate eat her flesh and burn her with fire so the ultimate end in history of the false church is to be destroyed by the same political power that they manipulated to gain their place it's really it's really I don't know I'm impressed when I think that nobody ever fools God sooner or later you'll find out better if you're not on the right side to change sides quickly because the devil doesn't treat his servants right the Lord is going to lavish Islam and his blessing and his provision on his bride she's going to share the throne with him throughout eternity but the false church is going to be torn to pieces cast aside and left as a relic of history so where do you want to be where are you going to belong see this isn't just an empty question remember what is the deciding and this divisive line between what is it that marks out the true church from the full strength the true church has remained loyal to Jesus Christ the false Church has been disloyal see it's not a question of whether you speak in tongues or not although I'm all impaired speaking in tongues in the right setup the question it's not even the question of what particular mode of Baptists you receive although I have my ideas about them the question is what is your personal relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ is he truly Lord of your life are you totally committed me you see the false church dishonours Jesus in their extreme forms they deny that he was born of a virgin he was not born of a virgin he was illegitimate that's to dishonor him the issue is do we love and honor and serve the Lord Jesus Christ are we faithful to him even when others are unfaithful do we take our stand for him even when it means opposition and persecution that's the deciding issue with all of us it's not a question of denominational label it's not a question of forms of worship I believe there can be many legitimate different ways of worshiping the true God the question is are you going to be faithful or unfaithful to Jesus I hope I've made that issue clear it's not a complicated theological issues you don't have to know all the mysteries of divine election you don't even have to be able to quote 500 verses of Scripture but you do have to be totally committed to Jesus that's the decision we have to don't let a lot of secondary issues obscure that for you when you leave this place after these sessions I trust you leave committed to Jesus if you came committed I trust you'll be more committed when you leave that's the issue commitment commitment to the lordship of Jesus Christ

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Published: Wed Aug 12 2015