Zac Poonen - Deception in the Last Days | Must Watch

I was telling eggs talking about what is the sign of the Lord's coming now let me turn you to Matthew 24 when the disciples asked Jesus what is the sign of your coming that's a specific question what will be the sign of your coming Matthew 24 verse 3 what is the first thing jesus said not about Israel not about wars not about tsunamis not about earthquakes what is the first thing he said make sure nobody deceives you deception is going to be one of the greatest characteristics of the last days and that's the only thing he kept on repeating wars and rumors of wars he said in 1 verse verse 6 and never mentioned it again Israel if you count Israel as the fig tree he mentioned it in verse 32 once and that was it but when it comes to deception he kept on repeating it see to it that no one misleads you verse 4 verse 11 many false prophets will arise and mislead many again deception and again it's he says in those verse 23 if someone says to you that here is Christ and there's Christ don't believe them because many false Christ's false prophets will arise and even show great signs and wonders to deceive if possible even the elect behold I have told you in advance verse 25 deception is going to be the greatest characteristic of the last days now when you turn to the episodes you find the same thing it's consistent what Jesus said is repeated by the Holy Spirit in 1 Timothy chapter 4 it says the spirit explicitly says now when the everything is written by the Holy Spirit in the New Testament in the Bible what does it mean the Spirit explicitly says hasn't he said all the other things this is like when you get a letter from your father and he underlines some things or you get an email from someone and it is highlighted in bold or in red that's the meaning of this if Paul were writing an email he would put the bald and in red the spirit explicitly says that in the last days some will fall away from the faith this is talking about believers it's not Hindus and Muslims will fall away from the faith they are not in the faith at all it's people are in the faith Christians who will fall away from it how paying attention to deceitful spirits now if you believe that here in the last days and you read this highlighted bold underlined statement of the Holy Spirit that people will fall away from the faith listening to deceiving spirits boy that you'd be very alert on that Lord I don't want to be deceived I don't want to be deceived how can I protect myself from deception great apostles like Paul Peter different ones come and preach how do I know whether they are preaching what's right be like the Bereans ask them to show it to you in scripture compare what they say with Scripture I do not listen to people who just get up and hardly ever quote the Word of God if you have heard any of my sermons you'll find that almost every five minutes I quote a scripture you know why because I do not want your faith to stand in the wisdom of my cleverness but in the Word of God and most people don't know the Word of God enough to be able to tell you where the scripture is they say yeah it says this says that how do I know brother please show it to me in scripture I don't have to go to the synagogue during the week now I've got the Bible right with me tell me where it is another verse second Thessalonians chapter 2 again speaking about the last days we request you brethren with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together our rapture with him let me tell you something he says that day will not come the rapture will not take place verse 3 until the Antichrist is revealed the man of sin for so many years I believed because I was taught that that we'll be raptured before the Antichrist and the tribulation I believed it for years and I even taught it till I studied the Scriptures more carefully and I got rid of this theological mold that I had formed pouring every verse into it I threw it in the trash and I said I want to go to there like the Bereans and search the Scriptures and I discovered that the church will go through the tribulation and then Christ will come like Jesus said like the Lightning shines from one end of the sky don't believe those who say ah Christ has come here secretly there don't believe it he said 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 he goes on to say that the Antichrist will rise one who opposes and exalts himself and then he says be careful because in the last days verse 9 this one is going to come with the activity of Satan 2nd Thessalonians 2:9 with power signs and false wonders so one of the things I'm warned about in the last days is there's going to be a lot of miracles being done by people who are not really leading you to Jesus they will come in his name but they will not manifest his character I see one thing about Jesus ministry he never took any money from the people he healed I don't see a single example of that in Scripture never never never never and he did far greater miracles than anybody's ever done I never see the Apostles taking money from those who they prayed for healing but that is the main thing I see today and that proves to me these are not servants of God you can disagree with me if you like if you listen to me in the day of judgment you'll thank me for being protected from deception do not be deceived my brothers and sisters then he goes on to say these people come worst and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish and listen to this because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved I want you to think of this little expression it's very important receiving verse 10 the love of the truth so as to be saved receiving the love of the truth so as to be saved not just accepting the truth but loving the truth not just loving the truth but loving the truth so as to be saved not to be saved from the Romans not to be saved from hell not to be saved from sickness but to be saved from sin thou shalt call his name Jesus because he shall save his people from the sicknesses no he shall save his people from the Romans no he shall save his people from Hell no he shall save his people from their sins that's the meaning Matthew 1:21 the first promise in the New Testament he shall save his people from their sins that is the love of the truth supposed to be saved and now listen to what I call the scariest verse in the New Testament you think the scariest verse is going to hell no the scariest verse in the New Testament is verse 11 of second Thessalonians 2 that God Himself will deceive you now I'll tell you the devil is called a deceiver revelation 12 8 to 10 the devil is a deceiver of the whole world Ephesians 4 verse 22 I think says my lusts are deceitful the devil is deceitful he's a deceiver my lusts are deceitful Jeremiah 17 verse 9 says the heart is deceitful above all things look at the things that are out to deceive me Satan my lusts a heart my only salvation is if God protects me from deception and if God also begins to deceive me I'm doomed and it says your God will deceive some people read it have you read that verse that's why I say it's the scariest verse in the New Testament if Almighty God also joins the forces to deceive me I'm finished there's no hope for me I can think I'm very clever I'm smart I know the Bible but if God tries to deceive me I'm finished the devil can try as much as he likes if God is on my side the devil will not be able to deceive me my lust will not be able to deceive me my heart will not be able to deceive me I must have God on my side now who are the people whom God allows to be deceived who are the people it says God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they may believe what is false you mean God makes people believe what his father read your scripture God would make them believe a lie he'll make them believe they are born again when they are not born again I have met numerous people like that he will make them believe that they are filled with the spirit when they are not filled with the spirit they don't manifest the Spirit of Christ he'll make them believe that they have a certain gift of the Spirit when they don't have the gift of the Spirit take the matter of speaking in tongues I believe there's a tremendous amount of deception in this area a lot of counterfeit tongues I've heard numerous counterfeit tongues myself see unfortunately the word tongues has been translated tongues what it means is a language tongues is language they spoke in other languages on the day of Pentecost and 1 Corinthians 14 it's a gift of speaking in a language a supernatural gift a language you never learnt but it's a language and I'll tell you the deception I see in this supposing you hear somebody speaking in Chinese you can't understand a word of Chinese but when you hear and speak you know it's a language if you speak if you hear somebody speaking in Hindi Indian language you don't understand a word of it but you can make out if it's a language but if you get up if you hear a person say ah ba ba ba ba ba ba ba and you call that a language that's not a language you can make that out and that's what's happening to a lot of people and they live all their life in that deception that they see these two three syllables back and forth and say scarlet speaking in tongues my wife way back in 1969 came from the Brethren assembly she was totally against the gifts of the Spirit like all brethren assembly people are but she was in desperate need because we were poor extremely poor those days she was very active as a young person in medical college now she was married she was married to a very poor person and we had a child and we were struggling financially discouraged we didn't even have our own home to live in and in the midst of discouragement she went to pray with a godly sister now remember she's 100% against the gifts of the Holy Spirit and she was praying with his sister crying out lord please help me she had to confess bitterness wrong attitude that she had to different people and cleared out her heart before God and the Spirit of God fell upon her and she began to speak in a language it was not above about it was a language that flowed out of her she said it was so sweet that she didn't want to stop she didn't want to come back to English she just wanted to do that she spoke in English but she said no I don't want that and she continued that was a genuine gift it changed her life 44 years ago I know when I pray to the Lord in tongues it's a language it's not a empty repetition or two three syllables back and forth it's a language that you can go on and on and on and on it's a wonderful gift God doesn't give it to everybody I don't know why but it's a the Bible says he who speaks in a tongue edifies himself and I know when it's a genuine gift because it edifies me I was such a slave to discouragement and depression frequently discouraged but now since I receive the gift of tongues discouragement disappeared from my life because I'm tempted but whenever I'm tempted I just keep speaking in tongues pray and pray and pray and pray in tongues and it's gone I thank God for it I believe the scripture this he who speaks in a tongue edifies himself I say with the Apostle Paul I thank God I speak in tongues more than all of you and I wish you all spoke in tongues but God has gives it to some I'm just telling you there's a lot of deception there's a lot of counterfeit and what are the things that are counterfeited in the world nobody counterfeits toilet paper when you go to the store are you afraid this is a counterfeit toilet paper no nobody counterfeits newspapers what do they counterfeit gold diamonds hundred-dollar notes I think even $1 knots are not counterfeit it's not worth it they only counterfeit things that are expensive so if there's counterfeit things they're counterfeit tongues the original must be pretty good and valuable if there's any counterfeit that the gifts of the Spirit the original must be pretty valuable that's what I discover so I must make sure I mean how many of you would go and buy a diamond and spend thousands of dollars and not even check whether it's a genuine one I don't know head or tail about buying diamonds of gold I never bought it in my life but if I ever have to buy it in some situation I'd take some expert with me I said listen I don't know head or tail about this I'll get fooled they'll give me a piece of glass and say it's a diamond I don't want to be full and much more I don't want to be fooled in the gifts of the Holy Spirit if it says this that he who speaks in a tongue edifies himself and I don't let if I myself then probably what I got is a counterfeit maybe I just wanted to join the club everybody says I speak in tongues and I'm not I'm not speaking in tongues so I manufacture something so hey I've also joined the club dear brothers and sisters is a lot of deception and if you don't love the truth God will allow you to be fool to deceive yourself God will allow you to believe what is false now you feel that something is shaking in your life good if your foundation is solid nothing will happen if you are founded on the rock no storm no message nothing can shake you but if you find something shaking you better check up check up with the Scriptures not without I say check with the Scriptures be like the Bereans don't allow the devil to deceive you these things are so important I want to know that I'm really saved I want to know that I'm really filled with the Holy Spirit I don't want a counterfeit I don't want to just give a testimony to impress you that I'm filled with the spirit what is it what is your testimony mean for me what what human beings think of me is fit for the trash can their opinion of me is worth I mean if some really godly man like the Apostle Paul was going to give me an opinion about myself that I would listen to because a man is a godly man but most people are not so spiritual their opinion is fit for the trash can if they call me a prophet throw it in the trash can if they call me the devil throw it in the trash can the opinion is worth nothing they don't know my inner life don't be satisfied that people think you're spiritual live before God and see are you overcoming sin let me show you one verse James chapter 1 James chapter 1 and verse I'll show you one area where a lot of Christians are deceiving themselves James 1:26 James 1:26 it says if anyone thinks himself to be religious or what we would call spiritual and he cannot control his tongue his whole Christianity is worth zero if anyone thinks he's spiritual and he cannot control his tongue he loses his temper he backed bites and gossips gossips gossips gossips he cannot control his tongue his whole Christianity is worth zero whatever version of Christianity he has Baptist brethren Pentecostal whatever it is if he cannot control his tongue his religion his Christianity is worth zero I'd like to know how many Christians believe that I could not control my tongue when I got married I didn't know about victory over sin those days I was born again but I didn't know victory over sin I didn't take this verse seriously but I remember the day I took this verse seriously I saw people who would speak in tongues in other tongues in the Pentecostal church Sunday morning and in the afternoon in their mother tongue shouted their wife I said what type of language is this you mean the spirit can control your other tongues but cannot control your mother tongue that can't be the Holy Spirit I said I don't want that I said lord I don't I'm not able to control my mother tongue I don't want just other tongues I want control over my mother tongue as well that's how I knew that my other tongues was genuine if the Holy Spirit cannot control my mother tongue and I say I've got some other tongues I'd say I'm fooling myself how is it that the Holy Spirit can give you an unknown language but cannot control your mother tongue is that really the Holy Spirit or some other spirit there are Muslims who speak in tongues Buddhist who speak in tongues it's not from the Holy Spirit so let's take these scriptures seriously and if I'm honest that's all you got to do go to scripture be like the Bereans compare everything in your life with God's Word and you'll never be deceived God has given his his inspired Word to guide us protect us from deception in these last days to protect us from deceivers compare every preacher with Jesus I always before I invite people to speak in my pulpit I check certain things I say is this man a humble man is he approachable Jesus was the most approachable person of all he didn't have four bodyguards around him when he was moving around like some preachers today he didn't say my minimum fees is ten thousand dollars a night if you wanted me to come and speak you see all this deception is going on today and people think oh great man of God he's not a man of God he's just a deceiver I compare every bit one with Jesus and you'll never be deceived if you compare with Jesus is he approachable is he humble what's his attitude to money Jesus received money it says in Luke chapter 8 verse 3 that even the rich Herod's palace manager gave money to Jesus and he accepted it but he never asked anybody for money he never went around saying hey I'm doing a great ministry will you guys support me that's all today's deceivers who say all that Jesus trusted his Heavenly Father for his needs that's how the apostles lived then we won't be deceived if we compare everyone with Jesus that we see around I tell you we're living in the last days because exactly like Jesus said tremendous amount of deception there's another Jesus being preached today another Jesus who can forgive your sin but cannot save you supposing I go to a non-christian in India and I try to give him the gospel hey you and I are sinners I tell him you know we need to be forgiven Jesus is Almighty He is God he died for your sins and then that non-christian says that's great I want that but can this Jesus help me and save me from shouting at my wife and I say well he can't save you from that but you will keep shouting at your wife but you can forget you can ask him to forgive you he'll say to me I don't want this Jesus you keep it I want a God will help me to overcome my anger and if your wretched God cannot can only forgive my sin you're fooling me don't isn't he right to expect that Almighty God can at least help us to control our town what sort of gospel are we giving to others a gospel that doesn't work in our home if you have a DVD player that doesn't work in your home will you pack it up and give it as a gift to somebody I hope you don't if you have a gospel that has not worked in your home do you give that to somebody I hope you don't another Jesus who forgives us but cannot save us another spirit who gives us excitement but doesn't make us holy everybody agrees unclean spirits make people unclean evil spirits make people evil Holy Spirit cannot make us holy he just helps us to make a lot of noise I remember one man walked into our church once Sunday morning he was a Pentecostal man and he said to me you don't have the Holy Spirit here I said how do you know do you live in my home see how I talk to my wife do know do you know how I handled money do I know do you know what's going on how I live it at home have I brought up my children you don't any of those things how do you know whether I have the Holy Spirit or not he said you don't have enough noise in your meeting ah I said your Trinity is father-son a nosy spirit my Trinity is Father Son and Holy Spirit that's the difference I believe in shouting and praising the Lord but that's not the mark of the Holy Spirit a drunken man can do that another spirit and another gospel another gospel that says come to Jesus he will give you well he'll give you a better house he'll give you a better car I have been to some ex communist countries and some of them tell me when the Communists were ruling here we had some good Christians here but then communism went and the Americans came with their money and Christianity in these countries become corrupt I've heard people tell me that in Romania Poland different countries another gospel money he you can watch movies now and it doesn't matter if there are a few bad scenes there just fast-forward it people who don't have time to read the Bible dear brothers and sisters I have shared the truth with you I hope you will take seriously we are approaching the coming of Christ we should not be ashamed when he comes let's wake up that old gospel that some of your ancestors who lived 80 years ago and experienced the power of the Holy Spirit in Romania they had the truth some of us have drifted away from that they had godliness they had poverty they know they were not so wealthy as you they didn't have all the gadgets you have in your home but they had godliness let's go back to that gospel which they had a genuine power of the Holy Spirit that's what we need in our day amen you

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Length: 24min 4sec (1444 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 18 2015