House Calls

False Prophets, Pt. 1

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Participants: John Lomacang (Host), John Stanton

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00:01 Hello friends, grab your Bible and a friend
00:03 and sit back as we explore God's word together
00:05 on this edition of House Calls.
00:22 Welcome to another edition of House Calls Bible program,
00:25 so glad that you've chosen to join us.
00:28 As you can see I'm not here by myself,
00:29 I have my very good friend John Stanton,
00:31 good to have you in the saddle today John.
00:33 It's great to be here. It's good to be able to
00:35 dive into the word of God together and every time
00:38 we get together like this, we always see how exciting
00:40 and how fulfilling this is to share the word of God
00:43 with those who are viewing and listening.
00:45 Yeah, it really is, and what a privilege it is to be able
00:48 to serve the Lord this way, that's right, so I'm excited.
00:50 And you know we always have prayer,
00:52 so I think it would be good if you just dove into the
00:55 prayer and invite the Lord to be here with us.
00:57 Let's do that. Gracious Father in heaven,
00:59 you are so good to us and we pray that as we open
01:02 up your word today that you'd be leading and guiding
01:05 us through its pages that we may understand
01:08 your word and that the Holy Spirit may descend
01:11 upon each one who is prepared for a message
01:14 from you. And we thank you Lord for the word that
01:17 you've given us a light that shines in this dark place,
01:20 that we may shine brighter and brighter,
01:22 until that day where we will see Jesus again,
01:24 in his name we pray, amen. Amen.
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02:11 to answer them by going to God's words,
02:13 so John what do you have for us today.
02:15 Well, I've got a question here from Natasha.
02:17 Okay. And she has a friend that she has been talking
02:21 with and he is a Latter-day Saint, she says and there
02:26 they have a prophet she says and she was wondering
02:29 with regard to prophets, is it you know why is it that
02:34 the prophets are not necessarily alive and active
02:37 constantly throughout the church dispensation,
02:40 in other words where is our live prophet,
02:44 and so she is kind of wondering okay, well we are
02:47 you know how do we resolve this because as you
02:50 know the Mormon Church teaches that they are
02:53 active prophets all the time, right, during the
02:55 function of their church and so that's the
02:57 conversation that she's had with him and she is
03:00 basically saying you know what is our teaching
03:03 basically on prophets and their activity.
03:05 I brought this one up because we're going to talk
03:08 today in our lesson study, right,
03:10 about the false prophets and so in the discussion
03:14 of prophets in general today, let's go ahead
03:17 and maybe dive into this here a little bit
03:18 and see if we can provide some answers.
03:20 You know just recently as you're getting the answer
03:22 for the audience, just recently I was in Utah,
03:25 in Salt Lake City, Utah and I had a chance to go
03:28 to see the you know the Visitors Center there
03:31 at the Mormon Temple, a lot of nice lovely people
03:33 and I had a chance to go to one of their kiosks
03:36 and truly they are telling you the truth,
03:39 they are live living prophets appointed by the Mormon
03:43 Church and you can go to kiosk and listen to some
03:45 of the messages from their live appointed
03:48 prophets. So, it is very interesting to find out
03:52 what the Bible says about prophets and whether
03:56 prophets are living today, whether prophets
03:59 are just only dead, how does that all fit in then,
04:02 as we're going to cover in our program today
04:04 how to know the difference, right because
04:07 many prophets have gone out into the world,
04:09 right, well let's start off with something very basic,
04:11 okay, and this is just common sense stuff.
04:15 Jesus talked about the law and the prophets
04:17 testifying as to him, as to who he was,
04:20 what his mission was and if you consider that
04:23 he was talking about prophets who had passed
04:26 away, who were dead, right, who were still
04:28 testifying as to what the ministry of Jesus
04:31 was during his first advent, so just because
04:35 a prophet is dead it doesn't mean that his
04:37 voice or her voice stops, right, now this is a key
04:41 aspect because God calls forth or calls his prophets
04:45 to speak a word to the people,
04:47 to give them a message specifically from him
04:50 so they can be or at least can provide direction
04:54 as to their course. The role they're taking,
04:56 how they're going, where they're headed and
04:59 maybe correcting a right or a wrong,
05:00 or excuse me correcting a wrong, he would call
05:03 his prophets then to speak a word for him to his people.
05:06 And so he don't have to necessarily have a living
05:09 prophet to have the word of the prophet active.
05:13 Right, so that's an important distinction
05:16 because if someone is telling you that if there
05:19 is no live prophet then within that church
05:22 then it can't be the true church led by God
05:24 at that time, because that's not simply not true,
05:26 because Jesus said, I said again Jesus will or
05:30 when he came the first time said that the
05:33 prophets testified of him and so the question
05:36 is then in these last days as you are studying
05:40 the word, as you are looking at the law,
05:42 the prophets, that Jesus spoke about God's word
05:46 what is the word telling you, what if past prophets,
05:50 what are they telling you to keep you on the right
05:53 track and so you know I think one of the verses
05:55 we'll bring up here in a little while is to the law
05:57 and to the testimony that they not speaking
05:59 out according to this word, there is no light in them
06:02 that means there is such a thing as a prophet
06:06 that might claim to be or have a message
06:08 from God that speaks contrary to this word
06:12 and that could end up misleading the people
06:15 even though they claim to be a live prophet it
06:17 doesn't mean necessarily that they are a prophet
06:20 so these are just some common sense
06:22 things to realize according to how God's what
06:24 his MO is, you know how he deals with things.
06:26 We read in another text God doesn't do anything
06:29 unless reveals his secretes first to his servants
06:32 the prophets, right.
06:34 So in the last days we will find that prophets,
06:37 there will be a prophets and prophecies that will
06:40 arise that will help again guide and direct the Church
06:43 through the last days, the time of the end,
06:47 the great tribulation at the end of time and
06:50 I want to read a verse about this John, okay.
06:52 It's from Joel chapter 2 verse 28, that's my verse but
06:56 go ahead. It is, well then you read it and then
06:58 I'll commentate, actually I'm going to go in the book
07:01 of Acts, but go ahead and read it simply there,
07:03 okay, it's Joel 2:28 it says it shall come to pass
07:06 afterward that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,
07:09 your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
07:12 your old men shall dream dreams, your young men
07:15 shall see visions and on my men servants and on
07:19 my maid servants I will pour out my Spirit
07:21 in those days and it talks about those days
07:25 wherein the wonders shall be shown from the
07:27 heavens, blood and fire, pillars and smoke,
07:29 sun turned into darkness, moon into blood,
07:32 during the great and awesome day of the Lord,
07:34 so at that time prophets will arise to declare
07:38 message from God, that's right, and it's interesting
07:41 here that he calls these prophets servants,
07:44 men servants and maid servants and if you look
07:47 at that. The word servants God seems to have
07:52 a common theme here throughout the calling
07:56 of his prophets, he refers to them as his servants,
07:59 his special servants, if I invite you to get on to kind
08:04 of a like a word search on the Internet or maybe
08:09 you have one at home that's a concordance
08:12 and type in there servants the prophets and see
08:15 how many times that comes up, over and over again
08:17 the prophets are called or referred to by God
08:19 as his servants and in the end in the last days
08:22 he calls them again his servants in Revelation 7,
08:25 we find 7:1 through 4 he will call forth his servants
08:29 which he numbers the 144,000 to proclaim a
08:33 message in the very last days and I think there
08:34 is a link there of course to Joel chapter 2
08:37 which we're talking, the verse we just read here,
08:40 so just some things to share with you about
08:42 prophets because they don't have to be alive
08:46 to be, to have a voice, right, and this is a
08:49 key point but it doesn't mean that in the end
08:52 there will not be live prophets that proclaim
08:55 a message for God to the people of the earth.
08:58 And John to add to that truly there is going
09:03 to come a time as just was read by John in
09:05 Joel chapter 2 and also in Acts chapter 2,
09:08 it's amazing both of those references about
09:11 pouring out God's spirit in the last days
09:13 and sons and daughters will prophesy,
09:15 dream dreams, see visions, and he says the word
09:19 prophesy or the word prophets has a dual
09:22 application or dual meaning sorry,
09:26 one it means those who speak prophecies,
09:28 things that are to come, but the other word it
09:31 means is also preach, they proclaim the word
09:35 and what that means is that they proclaim
09:37 the word of God as it already is and how
09:40 do you know, I think a part of the questions
09:42 was how do you know whether or not a living
09:45 prophet is a real prophet, if they lead you by the
09:50 word of God, if what they say is in harmony
09:52 with the word of God you can trust what they say,
09:55 I want to try not to say too much at this point because
09:57 we're gonna really break this egg open and fry it.
10:00 In the second portion of this program but
10:02 any time a person comes up because there are
10:05 many movements today and I have to give you
10:07 a peek into our topic for today to answer this
10:10 question, there are many moments today that says
10:12 hey the Lord just gave me a prophecy,
10:13 and they'll stand up in the middle of the church
10:16 and start saying things and because they profess
10:19 it by saying the Lord just gave me a prophecy
10:21 they refer to themselves as prophets and
10:24 prophetesses. And so they now a days it's becoming
10:28 so prevalent it's just like the horoscope business,
10:33 but the problem with that is you have nothing to
10:35 measure them against when they says I know
10:38 the Bible says, but here's what God told me.
10:41 So they tend to make their words supersede
10:43 what the Bible says, but if you look at the prophet's
10:47 word it never supersedes or speaks out of harmony
10:49 with what God has already said, it never does,
10:52 and so thereby whether it's a Mormon,
10:56 whether it's a Pentecostal,
10:58 Presbyterian, Adventist, whatever the case maybe,
11:01 everything that a person who says he or she
11:03 is a prophet it must be measured by the written
11:07 word of God and it cannot be given to supersede
11:11 the word of God and I want to add this since
11:13 the question was given by a Mormon young lady,
11:15 when I was there I asked a question I said
11:19 and you set the stage wonderfully for this
11:21 question to come forth. I said when the Mormon
11:24 missionaries go out and do their missionary
11:27 work they give out the King James version Bible
11:29 but then they also give out the book of Mormon
11:31 and I said well now, do you believe that the Bible
11:33 is true, I am refereeing to the 66 books of the Bible,
11:37 the Holy Writ and the young lady responded yes,
11:40 only as it is properly interpreted, and I said okay
11:44 the one that you give out when you go out to give out,
11:46 when you do missionary work is that one
11:48 properly interpreted? She says yes,
11:51 I said this so why is it that the Bible,
11:53 Genesis to Revelation, completely contradicts
11:57 what the book of Mormon teaches. Now John,
11:59 I don't know if you knew this or not,
12:00 but one of the books in the book of Mormon,
12:02 the name has been changed but it's almost been
12:05 a replica of the book of Isaiah some minor
12:09 changes but it's like it's been struck in there
12:12 to give legitimacy to the other books that have
12:14 dates and names and cities and places and coins
12:17 and references. Because there is no historically
12:20 written record to even support it.
12:22 So, if you ask yourself, the question was Joseph
12:24 Smith a true prophet, you have to come up with
12:26 a conclusion, he could not have been,
12:29 because his book completely contradicts the Bible.
12:33 And so therefore what I am saying is whatever
12:34 a person who says he or she is a prophet whenever
12:37 they speak, when it's out of harmony
12:39 with the Bible you cannot say well but in my heart,
12:43 there is a burning in my blossom that convinces
12:46 me that this is true. No, there's not a burning in your
12:49 bosom, there has to be a verification in the word
12:51 of God, you can't push off the word of God
12:53 by saying well this is what I think and if you really
12:56 study the book of Mormon you will come to the
12:58 same conclusion, it does not give that kind of leverage.
13:01 You know I had a chance when I was in Springfield
13:05 to meet with a friend a new friend of mine he came
13:09 to the church and he said he really wanted to study
13:12 the word with an Adventist pastor and in fact
13:16 the first time he came to the church I wasn't there,
13:18 so I received the message and I followed up
13:21 and I met with him, a few miles he lived in a town
13:23 that was a fairly close town near Springfield,
13:26 we got together and I found out very,
13:28 you know fairly soon that he was a Mormon.
13:31 But he really wanted to study what Adventists believe,
13:33 because he wanted to share his faith too,
13:35 so his motive really was to show me as an Adventist
13:39 pastor what the Mormon church teaches on several
13:42 subjects, but he, but the entering ledge,
13:44 but entering ledge was what do you see about
13:46 this and he said he has been kicked out of church
13:48 after, church after church. Because there just
13:51 wouldn't dialogue with him about this,
13:52 and I said well, let's not, I'm not afraid to dialogue
13:54 with stock and so he shared some things and he
13:58 said basically well what, how do you interpret
14:02 those because I see that those things are in the Bible
14:04 and I said well really it comes down to this there
14:07 are a few things that I see that the book of Mormon
14:10 has that are in direct contradiction to what the word
14:12 of God says. And in fact those two things are
14:15 foundation to the teachings of your church and he say,
14:18 wow, what are those, I said number one,
14:22 I said what happens when you die, the state of
14:25 the nature of man upon death.
14:27 What is going on, because the Mormons teach that
14:30 as you die you then immediately go to a place
14:33 if you are a Christian to preach to other souls that
14:37 perished without God about the message of Christ,
14:40 so that they may be converted and then enter
14:42 into the heavenly realm or a higher realm.
14:45 And so he said well that's in the Bible and he showed
14:48 me a couple things and I proceeded to show him
14:50 that yes in a verse that he uses within Peter about
14:54 the souls or Jesus that went to preach to the,
14:57 preaching the Spirits, Spirits in prison that if you take
15:00 that verse and interpret it the way that he interprets it,
15:04 that then it makes the rest of the scriptures on that
15:07 subject contradictory. Right, because the multitude of
15:11 scriptures in the Bible say that when the soul dies,
15:14 when a man or a woman dies they rest in the grave
15:17 until the resurrection and then Christ calls them forward
15:21 or until the last judgment if they're the wicked and he
15:23 calls them forward there, fine. And so I said there
15:26 is no preaching to people in prison after you're dead
15:29 in fact everything, even the stories of the Bible,
15:32 Noah's day in the ark and all those things
15:33 contradict that. So you can't interpret Peter and his
15:37 words as saying or endorsing what the book
15:41 of Mormon is teaching, right, so that makes
15:43 the book of Mormon right there in contradiction
15:46 to the word of God. The second thing I said the issue
15:49 of the Sabbath, it's one of the ten commandments.
15:53 You're honoring Sunday, a day that the God
15:54 has not set up and the book of Mormon say endorses
15:58 that day as a day of worship, the Bible doesn't.
16:01 Right, so there are two predominant right there
16:04 contradictions in the book of Mormon among others
16:08 that as we talked he had a tough time answering
16:13 to the point where he finally said I never talked to a
16:17 pastor who actually give me an answer for that before,
16:21 I said well, study the word my brother,
16:22 I said study the word, because this is what matters
16:27 and this is the test, the ultimate thing that you must
16:28 test, that's right, so anyway that's what
16:31 we want to encourage you to deal with,
16:33 study the word, make sure any prophet or prophecy
16:37 or any other book that claims to have some special
16:39 knowledge, make sure that it harmonizes with the word
16:42 and if it does not let me tell you, you shouldn't
16:44 just stop reading that book, toss it out. that's right.
16:48 It should not be in your library and I would say,
16:52 it would even put you in harm's way to study and to
16:54 read that because you know our minds,
16:56 our fleshy minds have a way of rationalizing things
17:00 and the faster you can put that out, the better,
17:04 yeah as a matter of fact, the real Bible,
17:06 God's word is like a dust filter, it filters out those
17:09 particles no matter how fine they maybe,
17:12 because Satan wants to get into your mind with points
17:15 that he feels have become final points that have been
17:18 narrowed down through the centuries and it sounds
17:21 legitimate to a great degree but allow the word
17:24 of God to be the filter between,
17:26 what someone says, what someone teaches,
17:29 and what the Bible actually says. And there by you
17:32 won't find yourself in a predicament trying to figure
17:35 out whether or not this is true or how is it that
17:38 it does not relate to what the Bible teaches
17:41 and then you get caught in a pickle so to speak,
17:43 we have to decide whether the person's sincere
17:46 and friends there are many people that are sincere
17:48 here but they are sincerely wrong, so don't even
17:51 make sincerity the measure of whether or not a person
17:54 is right, always make it the word of God, a matter
17:57 of fact somebody asked a question here and I could
17:59 continue on this topic of, you know,
18:01 the Mormon position but I want to be kind about
18:03 it and but truly the preexistence spirits
18:08 in heaven coming to earth and entering bodies
18:11 to go back to heaven later on, it's not scriptural,
18:13 it's nowhere found in the Bible to be supported.
18:16 But here is a question where did Lucifer get
18:19 his pride from that cause his downfall,
18:23 because he was in God's holy presence
18:27 and they was supposed to be no evil there? Well,
18:29 I am glad you say that because there is no evil
18:33 in the presence of God now, but here it is and
18:37 there is no evil that exists in God and God
18:40 does not create evil. So to answer your question,
18:43 let's go to the book of Ezekiel chapter 28,
18:47 Ezekiel chapter 28, and let's look together at verse 15,
18:52 and I'm going to cover verse 15 and verse 18
18:55 because those are the two verses that primarily give
18:58 the direct answer. Speaking about Lucifer
19:02 the Bible says in Ezekiel 28:15, you were perfect
19:07 in your ways from the day you were created,
19:11 let's stop there before I go further.
19:14 Notice when God created him he was perfect.
19:17 Now, a calculator, let's use a calculator
19:23 for this example, a calculator could be used to add
19:27 up numbers, a calculator could be used to multiply
19:31 numbers, to subtract numbers,
19:34 it has a number of functions,
19:35 but once the information is input,
19:40 the machine is perfectly designed to what it's intended
19:43 to do, to function in a particular way.
19:47 As in the sense of Lucifer, God created him with
19:51 a mind somewhat like a calculator,
19:54 which means it functions exactly the way God
19:57 intends for it to function but what happened like
20:01 a person who is a thief who wants to shave
20:05 the books, they input the numbers to reflect
20:09 only what they desire that is to bring an outcome
20:13 that is in harmony with their deep dark desires,
20:16 greatest illustration note, but here is the point God
20:19 created Lucifer with the ability to think,
20:23 the ability to make decisions, God did not give him
20:26 evil thoughts but the rest of the verse makes it
20:29 very clear where this evil came from.
20:32 Verse 15 of Ezekiel 28, you were perfect in your
20:35 ways from the day you were created till inequity
20:39 was found in you, in the same way we have families
20:45 that have children, John this is always amazing
20:48 to me lot of people say well, why is that one year
20:51 children is so obedient and the other one is just
20:54 so rebellious? And sometimes a mother
20:57 or father will say I don't know where they get that
20:59 from. Well, you know what, it may not be something
21:02 that's completely hereditary, but it could be
21:05 something that's cultivated, sometimes there are
21:08 influences, the crowds that they expose themselves
21:11 to, the materials that they put in their minds
21:13 could then bend their will to go in a particular
21:17 direction by their choice and that's what happened
21:20 if you want a direct answer Lucifer chose to question
21:24 the authority of God and it says here in verse 18.
21:28 I don't know if you are in Ezekiel 28, why don't
21:30 you read verse 18 for us. You defiled your sanctuaries
21:35 by the multitude of your inequities,
21:37 by the inequity of your trading,
21:39 therefore I brought fire from your midst,
21:41 it devoured you, and I turned you to ashes upon
21:44 the earth in the sight of all those who saw you.
21:47 And as you can tell the second part is yet to be
21:48 fulfilled, but once again the multitude of his inequities,
21:52 it was his own decision, his own choice,
21:54 his own actions that led him to be the one
21:57 who is the father of lies and the Bible says that
22:00 in the book of Matthew, you are of your father the
22:03 devil for he was a murderer from the very beginning
22:05 and the truth did not abide in him.
22:08 So it never refers to God as a father of lies,
22:10 it never refers to God as the author of confusion.
22:13 So lies, confusion, sin, inequity was something
22:16 found in Satan by his own ability to choose,
22:22 pretty simple and to the point.
22:23 You know and the freedom of choice always has,
22:26 leaves a door opened for the choice of bad or good,
22:31 so you can be perfect and still choose to do bad,
22:34 for example, Adam and Eve, right,
22:37 they were perfect, God created them as perfect
22:39 human beings yet they chose to do wrong,
22:44 they chose to distrust God and walk away from him,
22:47 they sinned and it wasn't that the sin was in them
22:50 prior to that time but when they opened that door
22:52 sin came in and now they pass on that sin
22:55 to the rest of the human race.
22:58 So yeah, the devil was perfect, he is the one that
23:01 devised inequity. Yeah, I was, I always view this
23:04 as a very far fetched example and I,
23:06 sometimes it sounds offensive to people that may be
23:08 on the other side of the coin, but I doubt when Hitler
23:12 was born that his mother looked down at this
23:15 little tender baby and say oh I am so glad
23:17 that you were born, I am looking forward to the day
23:20 when you become the leader of mutilating
23:22 and killing millions of Jews, oh what a perfect
23:26 litter murderer, but you don't look at a child
23:28 and see that, it sounds really, doesn't it sound
23:30 strange. But that child grows up and starts making
23:34 choices and makes his own decisions and his
23:38 future is then shaped by his own actions,
23:40 John 8 verse 44 I alluded to it, but here it is what
23:43 it says you are of your father the devil and the
23:48 desires of your father you want to do,
23:50 he was a murderer from the beginning and does
23:53 not stand in the truth, because there is no truth
23:56 in him, when he speaks a lie, he speaks off from
23:59 his own resources, get it, didn't come from anybody else,
24:04 it didn't come from God, God did not create it.
24:07 He speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar
24:12 and the father of it. God the Father is not the father
24:15 of lies, God the Father is the Father of love
24:18 and truth and every good and perfect gift comes
24:22 from him. Okay, what else do you have for us.
24:25 Do you have another one. Let's see here,
24:27 I'm sure I have another one, okay, a question come on.
24:33 Let's see here, here we go. As a Seventh-Day
24:37 Adventist member I'd like to know if it's wrong
24:41 to buy and sell the Sabbath, and there by the way
24:45 new Seventh-Day Adventist member.
24:46 So they honestly inquiring here as to what's appropriate
24:49 to join the Sabbath. And so you know can you
24:53 provide some instruction or direction on this.
24:55 Well let's just read the fourth commandment, okay,
24:58 and let's find that in Exodus chapter 20:verse 8,
25:03 it says remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,
25:06 six days shall labor and do all your work, but the
25:09 seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.
25:13 In it you shall do no work, you nor your son,
25:16 nor your daughter, nor your male servant,
25:18 nor your female servant, nor your cattle,
25:21 nor your stranger who was within your gates,
25:23 for in six days the Lord made heavens and the earth,
25:26 the sea and all that is in them,
25:28 and rested the seventh day, therefore the Lord blessed
25:31 the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
25:34 So, in here we find a command from God to work
25:38 to do our business, to do everything that we have
25:40 to do and then to sustain ourselves and then
25:44 on the seventh day to spend that time in rest from
25:47 that work, to give honor and glory to God,
25:50 to spend time, special time with him, to commune
25:54 with him to show or to reveal not only to him but
25:57 to others that we depend upon him for our
26:00 sustenance, he is our provider,
26:01 he is the one that gives us strength, he is
26:03 our redeemer, he is our friend, all these words
26:05 that pertain to him are in compass within that day
26:08 that he calls his Sabbath, notice, it's not our Sabbath
26:11 it's his Sabbath day so that day is set aside for a special
26:16 time with him. So the six days, let's talk about
26:19 that the six days that are given to working don't just
26:24 point to labor for wages working involves other things
26:29 that sustain who you are, in your life preparing,
26:35 okay that's why in fact Friday the Jews have long
26:39 called Friday the preparation day, and so they'll spend
26:42 of that, that is carried on to even the Seventh-Day
26:44 Adventist faith, where we use Friday especially
26:46 as a day of preparation, more like final preparation
26:49 for the next day, the Sabbath that begins
26:52 on Friday night with sundown.
26:54 And so what do we do on the day of preparation,
26:56 well we make sure that well many of us work because
26:59 we work those five days maybe Monday to Friday,
27:03 when all of a sudden done with labor for wages,
27:06 we also work in the area of getting our clothes
27:09 cleaned up and ready to go, the house cleaned up,
27:12 so we don't have to do that on the Sabbath,
27:15 we also go shopping at the store because we want
27:17 to make sure we have the food ready,
27:19 we prepare our food and get that as far as we can
27:22 ready for maybe a fellowship lunch on Sabbath,
27:26 you know all these things we do in preparation for that
27:29 wonderful day, the holy day of the Sabbath.
27:31 So we can commune with God on that,
27:32 so it doesn't come in between us or interrupt that
27:36 quality time that we can have him now.
27:39 So buying and selling, just to say for instance,
27:42 you go to the store and you buy and you sell.
27:44 Well, if I am to buy and sell or if I go and engage
27:48 in that business what am I making someone else do to
27:51 work for me, right, I am causing them to or forcing
27:55 them to actually earn labor, earn wages and to break
27:59 the Sabbath as far as the condition of don't work
28:02 labor for wages on the Sabbath,
28:05 but that work there is more to it John,
28:07 it's not just laboring for wages, it involves many
28:10 things and so you probably have another scripture
28:13 to add there too, because I know Isaiah 58 talks
28:17 about this as well and we can turn to that,
28:20 do you have one there, before I get there to Isaiah,
28:22 let me give let me give a different perspective of that,
28:24 well actually an additional perspective to that,
28:27 what happens sometimes is we are in situations
28:30 where we are confronted with helping someone
28:36 or ignoring a person who has a particular need,
28:39 let me use a couple of examples and this doesn't
28:43 necessarily require the spending of money,
28:47 but sometimes it would. I was on my way to church
28:52 and this was in New York and there was a gentleman
28:54 that broke down in the intersection right his car,
28:57 was making a turn and died in the almost bulls-eye
29:01 in the intersection. And he got out to push his car
29:05 and it's a big car, this was back in the 70s,
29:08 and it was a huge honking vehicle, if it's hard to push
29:11 a car today just imagine back then with those
29:13 engine blocks that were just made of iron.
29:16 Anyway, I went over and helped him and then
29:18 some other people joined in and pushing the car
29:20 and somebody would say as it was in the days
29:23 of the Jewish, they would say well people you know
29:25 you're perspiring and you know perspiration falls
29:28 on the ground and calls the germination of the seed
29:30 that's there by violating the Sabbath,
29:32 but the Bible points out in that context it's lawful
29:36 to do good on the Sabbath, the Lord uses some
29:40 examples where there was a lady he freed from
29:42 bondage that she had been under Satan's bond
29:45 for 18 years and he freed her on the Sabbath
29:48 day but he was accused of violating the Sabbath
29:50 and there was another situation with Lord healed
29:52 somebody and the Pharisee said you've violated
29:54 the Sabbath, he said if your sheep fell into the pit
29:57 would you take him out?
29:58 Of course, well how much more is this man whose
30:01 hand I restored, how much more valuable is he
30:04 than a sheep? Sometimes we have to be in a situation
30:07 where we have to say if we know of a neighbor,
30:10 now we are not talking about going out and
30:11 painting people's houses or mowing their lawns.
30:15 So I want to get something clear, some people just
30:17 got involved in community service and they go out
30:19 mowing lawns, painting houses, those are things that
30:22 could be done other days of the week not the Sabbath.
30:25 But say your neighbor is ill and you find out and
30:29 you go to that person's home and there is no
30:31 food in the house, their particular need that they
30:33 have or the medication of some particular sort and
30:37 they need it right then and there and you don't
30:39 have that medication in your house, to go out and
30:41 to purchase that medication is not the violation of the
30:45 Sabbath, right, that person has a particular need and
30:49 you are lifting that person's burden on the
30:51 Sabbath day. So, the principle of it is what the Lord
30:56 is talking about is the premeditated approach to
30:58 the Sabbath not bearing somebody's burden and
31:01 freeing someone from a particular need that they
31:03 have on the Sabbath day. Yeah and there's some
31:04 things necessary for doing God's work, yeah,
31:08 that even are done at camp meetings or large
31:11 gatherings of things to create and serve food so
31:14 the people gathering for the purpose of being
31:16 spiritually fit can be nourished and strengthened,
31:19 I mean even Jesus with the feeding of the 5000
31:22 and other things, you know those kinds of activities
31:25 should be, and can and should be done to make
31:29 sure that people are, their needs are met on the
31:32 Sabbath day. Like the disciples going through the
31:34 field and picking food and eating. Yeah, and eating
31:38 the grain and so forth, listen to what it says and
31:41 I am glad, that's a perfect segued, what you're sharing
31:44 there is a perfect segued with Isaiah 58, okay,
31:47 and look at verse 13, it says if you turn your foot
31:51 away from the Sabbath from doing your pleasure on
31:54 my holy day and call the Sabbath a delight,
31:57 the holy day of the Lord honorable and shall
32:00 honor him not doing your own ways nor finding
32:03 your own pleasure or speaking your own words,
32:07 notice here, self serving, right. This is the key doing
32:12 self serving activities in pleasure, in your ways,
32:16 in your words, but you shall delight, verse 14,
32:19 yourself in the Lord and I will cause you,
32:22 look at the promise here, I will cause you to ride
32:24 on the high hills of the earth and feed you with the
32:26 heritage of Jacob your father, the mouth of Lord
32:29 has spoken. So, but what the Lord wants the people
32:32 to do is not be burdened down with these rules
32:36 and regulations as to how far you walk on the
32:38 Sabbath or what you can do, you can or can't
32:40 you know can't drive a car, you can't go this
32:42 far and all this stuff, we even find some of this
32:45 coming into the Seventh-Day Adventist
32:46 church, which is very sad. But we should guard
32:50 the borders to make sure that we understand is
32:54 what I am doing self serving, am I doing things
32:57 I can do for my own other days of the week, right,
33:00 to work, to sustain, not necessarily,
33:02 it's not necessary talking about serving others and
33:05 meeting their needs on that day with regard to
33:08 necessities. That's right. Not painting the house,
33:11 mowing the lawn, all those things, those can be
33:13 done as well other days of the week. So there is a
33:17 principle here that goes beyond the rules and
33:19 the regulations that are written down that we
33:21 should follow. That's right and thank you very much
33:24 and I think on that note we are going to segued
33:25 to our topic for today, but as you know we may
33:28 have activated something in your mind or maybe
33:30 a question you have already you want to submit
33:32 to us, you can send those questions to
33:35 housecalls@3abn.org that's housecalls@3abn.org
33:40 and as mentioned early we will try our best to
33:43 get the answer and just to let you know that
33:46 we're not coming up with these things in our
33:47 head, we'd like to use the Bible the safest book
33:50 to follow. Well John we talked about this briefly
33:54 earlier but I have been, my motto I'm gonna use
33:58 this word here, my motto was ignited by something
34:04 that I saw on television and I was incensed to
34:09 the sense to the point of I think it'd be righteous
34:12 indignation here and maybe somebody will
34:15 understand what I mean by this, but truly when
34:18 the Bible talks about how important it is for
34:20 us to be guarded by the word of God, to have on
34:24 the whole armor of God because we are living
34:27 in the day in age where Satan has so diversified
34:30 his art of deception that people don't go to,
34:36 Christians never will go to a palm reader or
34:39 a fortune teller, I hope they don't or soothsayers
34:42 or people in dark rooms with candles and
34:44 crystal balls, it just sounds completely contrary
34:47 to the path a Christian would take. So Satan has
34:51 changed after the modern order of things and
34:54 he's hired dark magicians, dark prophets and
35:01 have given them a job under the cloak of religion
35:04 and now you have people nowadays that are calling
35:06 themselves master prophets, prophetesses,
35:12 male and females and they are setting up
35:14 ministries and if you follow what they do they are
35:17 nothing more than a polished soothsayer
35:24 or a fortune teller that has metamorphosized him
35:30 or herself and on the cloak of a religious person.
35:35 Look the part of an angel of light and they are
35:37 deceiving people by the millions, because people
35:41 are looking for answers and they pray on individuals
35:44 who are poor, they pray on individuals who are
35:48 uneducated in scripture and it sickens me to no end
35:52 to see the people that are calling themselves prophets
35:55 nowadays that have no harmony to the word
35:58 of God, and John when you boil it down,
36:01 they are not prophets, they're concerned with
36:06 profits, that's what they really are.
36:10 They are true profits, profits but false prophets,
36:17 and that's what Satan has done. So today
36:19 I don't want to be general, I want to be very,
36:21 very specific if anybody, if you are associating
36:25 or you run into somebody that calls himself
36:27 a master prophet, run for your natural life because
36:32 there are no master prophets on the earth
36:36 that's a terminology that's used, that's a new
36:39 age, that's a Zen terminology, that's not a scriptural
36:42 terminology, there is no such thing in the Bible
36:44 as a master prophet. The only one that was a
36:47 master and a prophet was Jesus, everybody else
36:52 was under shepherds and God assigned them two
36:54 particular gifts, but there is an entire organization
36:57 where you can get the cosmic economic e-course,
37:01 you can be thought how to become a prophet,
37:03 you can learn the arts and methods of a prophet
37:06 and I looked at some of these, it will sicken you,
37:09 I looked at some of the testimonies and the
37:11 little video clips and it goes like this,
37:14 well you know when master prophet gave me a
37:16 prophecy, he invited me to his birthday party
37:20 and I sowed a seed of thousand dollars when I
37:22 was broken, the next month just like his prophecy
37:25 said I got $12,000 and God's been giving me $400
37:28 a month ever since and another one while you
37:31 know I followed master prophet's word, and now
37:33 I am a prophetess myself, and I'm thinking of
37:36 myself would somebody get up a water hose and
37:40 wake these folk up. And the only time God is
37:43 used is, God bless you. Yeah, but not anything in
37:47 harmony with God's word and people are being
37:49 deceived and pouring money down a well and then
37:53 those who called themselves prophetesses, probably
37:56 just by their fruit you'll them. I was ashamed even
37:59 to look at the television, they were so slightly clad.
38:03 You know and some of these are actually veiled
38:05 in a garb of respect and are upheld as leaders
38:12 of Christian churches and other things too,
38:15 it doesn't have to be so blatant, you know such
38:18 as you know this guy on TV is claiming to be a
38:20 master prophet, he has this program, I mean to
38:22 me that is harder to believe, I wouldn't give you
38:26 the website because I don't want you to go there
38:28 but it's all over the Internet. No, but there are
38:29 even some that put themselves into this role
38:33 of preacher, teacher, oh yeah, that call themselves
38:37 prophets or prophesy a message from God
38:41 at least they say it is and people hold them
38:43 with high respect, we find a great number of
38:47 these also claiming to be able to heal, right,
38:52 you know false healings and other things that we're
38:55 seeing today. So this stuff is rampant and it doesn't
38:58 surprise me. No. Because we know in the last
39:01 days Jesus said, okay, false Christ will come,
39:07 right, and I believe in compass within that isn't
39:10 just those who claim to be Christ but claim to
39:12 serve Christ and the capacity of Christ and we
39:16 need to be aware that this is the condition of the
39:20 world today, and if we're just following these things
39:23 and our only evidence of whether or not they're
39:25 true is that something happens when you try it,
39:30 then we're just kind of like this pond that Satan can
39:33 trick and dupe in the thinking anything that he
39:35 wants to give us, to feed us so, a slide of hand.
39:38 So we need to dispel this notion because you
39:42 use the name of God that somehow you're using
39:44 it accurately and so can I start off with the verse,
39:47 sure go right ahead I think you just, look at this
39:49 verse in Matthew, Matthew let's go to book.
39:52 7, what chapter I should say? Matthew 7.
39:55 Okay, go with us to Matthew chapter 7,
40:02 alright, I'm there. Matthew chapter 7, verse 21 to 23.
40:13 Okay, and we'll do 24 too, 'cause it's good context.
40:15 Well, why don't you just start with 15 because
40:17 that's when, okay, that shows you how, yeah,
40:19 let's go to 15, beware of false prophets,
40:25 a good place to start, okay, who come to
40:27 you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are
40:30 ravenous wolves. Okay now what is a sheep
40:32 in the Bible, we are, Jesus is the Shepherd,
40:35 we are the sheep, so they look like Christians,
40:38 that's right, they have on our clothing,
40:42 they claim to be connected with the Shepherd
40:44 but inwardly, say that again. They come to you
40:48 in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravenous
40:50 wolves. They'll tear your soul. So they will tear
40:53 you apart. And so you know when Jesus says
40:58 beware, what do you do? You beware,
41:01 you're careful, you watch out, you want to make
41:03 sure as to whether or not this is a true sheep
41:07 or if it's a wolf, that's right, verse 16 you will
41:10 know them by their fruits, that's right, do men and
41:14 we can talk about this a lot, do men gather
41:16 grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles,
41:20 even so every good tree bears good fruit,
41:23 but a bad tree bears bad fruit, a good tree
41:26 cannot bear bad fruit nor can a bad tree bear
41:28 good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good
41:31 fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire therefore
41:34 by their fruits you shall know them.
41:37 John, one of the things that I have seen that's
41:39 consistently along the line and you're going
41:40 to read the verse 21 to 23 in just a moment here,
41:43 one of the ways you can tell a false prophet is
41:45 they charge for their prophecy. Did you hear
41:47 what I said, they charge for their prophecies,
41:51 they'll give you the first one free, as a matter of
41:53 fact there is this website, I'm not even going to
41:54 give you the website address because I don't
41:56 anybody even exposed to do it, no, but you can
42:00 click a link, get a prophecy and I clicked that
42:02 yesterday to see whether or not that's really word,
42:04 and you put your name and address and phone
42:05 number and your birth date and when you
42:07 give all this regular statistical information so
42:09 that this person go out and read the horoscope
42:10 somewhere and dump garbage in your head,
42:13 you look at the Bible and you begin to see a
42:15 particular pattern against among the prophets of God
42:18 for example, when Naaman, the leper was told that
42:21 there was a man of God that will give him freedom
42:25 from his leprosy Naaman brought all these gifts
42:28 to give to give to Elijah. He brought all these
42:32 treasures to give to Elijah and Elijah in essence
42:35 says keep your treasure, just go wash in the,
42:38 just go wash in the Jordan, he didn't even come
42:40 out to talk to him but just go wash in the
42:42 Jordan and Naaman was insulted because he
42:46 wanted to pay for the service of the prophet,
42:51 you look at the, and Elijah refused it, you look at
42:54 Daniel, Daniel was promised to place in the kingdom
42:58 of Belshazzar if he would interpret his vision,
43:01 he was promised to give a necklace and Belshazzar,
43:03 and Daniel refused it. So you look at all the
43:07 examples and then in the courts of Babylon,
43:10 all the false prophets and magicians and
43:12 soothsayers and astrologers were living off of
43:14 the wealth of Babylon, but when the Hebrews came
43:18 to give their prophecy to Nebuchadnezzar,
43:21 they asked for no money at all. And so you
43:24 find in the scripture continually that there is no
43:27 charge for a prophet, when they say things like
43:29 well sow your seed well God has given me a
43:32 word for you, the word that you need to say
43:35 to them is stop or I'm out of here, that's the
43:38 phrase you need to use, because God is not
43:40 working through them but they look like sheep but
43:43 inwardly they are ravenous wolves. But I want to
43:46 lead to you this text, John, I know you are turning
43:48 there, you want to read verse 21 to 23 and then
43:49 we go to the next text and I'll show you how
43:52 deceptive it really can get. Verse 21 and we are in
43:56 Matthew 7 now, right, now everyone who says
43:59 to me Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of
44:03 heaven but he who does the will of my Father in
44:05 heaven. Many will say to me in that day Lord,
44:09 Lord, have we not prophesied in your name,
44:12 cast out demons in your name and done many
44:14 wonders in your name and then I will declare
44:17 to them I never knew you, depart from me
44:19 you who practice what? Lawlessness,
44:22 now notice here, I want you to see an aspect
44:25 of this notice here that these false prophets,
44:32 they are casting out demons, that's right,
44:36 they are doing many wonders, they are
44:41 prophesying, they are giving every possible
44:44 sign that they are a prophet, but they are not,
44:49 so then I liked the test here, it's whoever does
44:54 what God says in his word that's a true prophet.
44:57 That's right. So you can't go by what they do
45:01 or the signs they show you, you've got to go by
45:04 what they say and do according to the word of
45:07 God and this is a key point because in these
45:10 last days there are many people who are turning
45:12 others away from the truth from the word of
45:15 God to follow signs and wonders, things that
45:18 look good, look exciting, look incredible and God is
45:22 not in that, as a matter of fact, Jesus resisted
45:26 didn't he? Showing them a sign over and over
45:28 again, they said to him show us a sign and he said
45:31 a wicked and perverse generation seeks after
45:34 a sign, that's right, they'll be no sign given you
45:36 expect that of Jonah and which was when he
45:39 was in the tomb, but there those who are looking
45:44 for signs and the things that you have to keep
45:46 in mind another text in the book of Matthew chapter
45:49 24 verse 24, it says for false Christ's and false
45:52 prophets will rise and show signs and wonders to
45:56 deceive, if possible even the elect, but we know
46:00 that the elect will not be deceived.
46:02 But they will show signs and wonders,
46:04 in other words, they say you want to see a
46:05 sign I'll give you a sign, but I want you to
46:08 go with me now to Deuteronomy chapter 13,
46:11 because a lot of people say well how can you say
46:13 that they are not true prophets, because what
46:15 they said happened, you got to read this text,
46:19 Deuteronomy chapter 13 verse one to five
46:22 and then after that John I'm gonna have you go
46:24 to Deuteronomy 18 but just stay with me
46:26 right now in Deuteronomy chapter 13 verse 1 to 5,
46:29 because a lot of people think that it's because of
46:31 what they say, well in the very same way,
46:33 if you use that measurement a magician
46:35 then could be a true prophet because
46:37 sometimes right in front of your eyes he can
46:39 make plane appear or a tiger appear in the
46:42 place of one of his, one of his stand in ladies or
46:47 whatever you call them, whatever,
46:49 what do you call them? Assistants.
46:50 Assistants right, assistant deceiver, you know
46:54 he will make a lion show up or a tiger show
46:56 up in the place of his assistant deceiver and
46:58 you'll think she is in a box when she stands behind
47:00 you and tap you on your shoulder, if you
47:01 think that what they do in the front of your
47:04 eyes is evidence that they are really magicians
47:07 then you have really just been duped.
47:10 Well now look at this, because a lot of people say
47:11 well what they told us actually happened,
47:14 but Jesus now reveals the word of God now
47:17 reveals to you what's really behind it. So, follow
47:20 me carefully those of you who are looking
47:22 for miracles and signs, Deuteronomy 13 verse
47:25 1 to 5, I will read, if there arises among you a
47:30 prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives
47:35 you a sign or a wonder and the sign or the
47:40 wonder comes to pass of which he spoke to you
47:44 afterwards saying let us go after other God's
47:47 which you have not known and let us serve them,
47:50 notice before we go any further the sign and
47:53 the wonder comes to pass. So it's not unusual,
47:55 what they said, they said it, they said it,
47:58 and it happened exactly how they said it,
47:59 they told you about a wonder and it happened
48:01 exactly as they told you it would happen,
48:03 but notice the, notice the stream, notice how
48:06 you are going get pulled in. It says in verse 3
48:09 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet
48:12 or that dreamer or dreams for the Lord your
48:16 God is testing you to know whether you love
48:20 the Lord your God with all your heart and with
48:23 all your soul, you shall walk after the Lord
48:26 your God and fear him and do what John,
48:29 keep his commandments, keep his commandments
48:32 and obey his voice you shall serve him and
48:36 hold fast to him. And notice what's happening so far
48:39 before we read verse 5, God is in essence
48:41 saying here, there is a substitute, they have
48:42 stepped between you and me, now you're
48:44 listening to their words and all these guys that
48:47 are sitting in their fat cat seats, and these
48:49 prophetesses that are soaking themselves,
48:53 lavishing themselves in jewels and gold's and
48:56 diamonds and big cars and big fabulous houses,
48:59 because they are saying God is pouring and
49:01 you're planting seeds foolishness, lies, deception,
49:06 God is saying I'm gonna see whether or not
49:07 you are willing to listen to my word or their word,
49:10 so God is not going to protect you from them
49:12 but if you listen to his word that word of God
49:14 will be the protection from these false prophets,
49:17 let's finish verse 5 and I'll turn you loose to the
49:19 next one. But that prophet or that dreamer
49:23 of dreams shall be put to death, if that will
49:26 happen in America today, we would have funerals
49:28 like every two days, because he has spoken in
49:32 order to do what to turn you away from the
49:36 Lord your God who brought you out of the land
49:39 of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of
49:41 bondage to entice you from the way in which
49:45 the Lord your God commanded you to walk,
49:48 so you shall put away the evil from your midst.
49:51 So, God is saying don't listen to them,
49:54 because Jeremiah the prophet said in Jeremiah
49:57 29 verse 9 for they prophecy falsely in my
50:00 name, I have not sent them says the Lord,
50:04 so they even use God's name in a casual way
50:07 saying well God has told me to tell you,
50:11 God has not sent them and the measurement
50:13 we'll tell you in just a moment before the
50:15 program is done, how to measure them not only
50:17 by the word of God but specifically to know whether
50:19 or not they are dealing with truth and harmony
50:22 with God's word. Now it's interesting here
50:25 because we, you mentioned earlier that
50:28 prophesying isn't just for telling something in
50:30 the future that will come true, prophesying is
50:32 also speaking of word, that's right, and this is
50:35 the most common kind by the way today,
50:37 right, of false prophet, someone who says I have
50:40 a message for you from God and it's not a
50:44 message from God, it's not in the word,
50:45 and there is a verse I like this verse from
50:47 Jeremiah 23, okay let's go there. Notice,
50:50 Jeremiah 23, by the way the Bible has a lot
50:55 to say about this subject so it's all over the place
51:00 and they are all warnings from God against
51:03 this kind of activity, that's right, what verse,
51:06 Jeremiah 23 beginning with 25, okay.
51:11 I am there, alright listen to this, Jeremiah 23:25
51:19 I have heard what the prophets have said,
51:22 who prophesy lies in my name saying I have
51:26 dreamed, I have dreamed, how long will this
51:31 be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy
51:34 lies indeed they are prophets of the deceit of
51:38 their own heart, who try to make my people
51:41 forget my name by their dreams which everyone
51:44 tells his neighbor and their fathers as their fathers
51:49 forgotten my name for Baal. The prophet who
51:53 has a dream let him let a dream and he who has
51:56 my word let him speak my word faithfully what is
52:00 the chaff of the wheat says the Lord, is not
52:03 my word like a fire says the Lord and like a hammer
52:07 that breaks the rock in pieces. So, these
52:10 people prophesy dreams and notice what
52:12 happens there, these other people they go to all
52:15 of their friends and they say can believe this
52:18 came true, this happened, right, or this is what
52:22 the prophet said and hey, just watch it's gonna
52:25 happen, this is excitement about this prophet is
52:28 valid or this person who prophesied is speaking
52:31 from the Lord and he is not true, here people are
52:34 being prostituted and I want you to read verse 30
52:36 and 31 because you know this is the very
52:38 thing from the false system of Babylon.
52:40 In Babylon there were false prophets everywhere
52:42 don't forget in the Old Testament, Jeremiah you
52:45 find in the book of Isaiah also in the book of Daniel,
52:50 it shows how they were fault prophets all through
52:53 Babylon but none of them understood nor
52:56 could reveal the word of God, they couldn't
52:59 whenever the difficulty came, the Hebrews made
53:01 God's word clear or Daniel did, when he was in
53:05 the court of Nebuchadnezzar, when he was in
53:06 the court of Belshazzar, I mean Belshazzar,
53:11 the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, he made it
53:14 very, very clear he showed what God was saying
53:17 and God spoke through the true prophets always
53:20 pointing them to the word of God and these
53:22 prophets don't do that. I went to this website
53:25 and I thought to myself Bible and there is no
53:27 Bible in here, this is like a get rich quick scheme
53:30 and they wear a white color, walk around looking
53:31 like bishops and calling each other prophet
53:34 and they say after every testimony and that's
53:38 the word of prophecy, you know and I'm thinking
53:42 to myself somebody ought to expose this
53:45 foolishness. This is the result, this is the
53:46 consequence of this higher power thinking,
53:50 oh yeah it's prevalent nowadays. It's not what
53:52 is the word of God say, it's I believe in God
53:56 there is a higher power out there and I believe
53:58 he speaks to us and so now all these people are
54:01 coming out of the wood works connecting to
54:02 this higher power, having his word from a
54:06 higher power and no one goes back to the
54:08 word, no one trusts the word anymore.
54:10 No, yet God is saying you've got to test it,
54:13 everything someone says by the word,
54:15 you want me to read 30 to 32 here,
54:17 yeah just read 30 and 32 we are going to have some
54:19 other scriptures to hit before and we'll cover
54:21 this in another program by the way, yeah we
54:23 have one more program on this, therefore behold
54:25 I am against the prophet says the Lord who steal
54:27 my word everyone from his neighbor who steal
54:31 my word, that's right, they got their own words
54:33 not God's word, behold I am against the prophets
54:36 says the Lord who use their tongues and say he
54:39 says behold I am against who prophesy false
54:44 dreams. Those who prophesy false dreams
54:46 says the Lord and tell them and cause my
54:49 people to err by their lies and by their recklessness,
54:53 yet I did not send them or command them
54:56 therefore they shall profit these people that,
54:58 they shall not profit these people at all says the
55:00 Lord. That's right, and it continues to go on
55:03 because the Lord is very upset with the prophets
55:04 that are that way but let me give me you two
55:06 particular tests and I want to go with you to
55:09 First John chapter 2, First John chapter 2 and then
55:12 we're going to go to Isaiah 8 verse 16 to 20.
55:15 First John chapter 2, this is one that's so very
55:17 important because a lot of people say well is
55:20 there any test, these people are not in harmony
55:23 with the word of God, here is First John
55:26 chapter 2 and the Bible says and I am reading
55:29 verse 3 and verse 4, First John chapter 2 verse 3
55:33 and 4, now by this we know that we know him if
55:36 we keep his commandments. Verse 4, he who says
55:41 I know him and does not keep his commandments is
55:46 a liar and the truth is not in him. People that are
55:50 coming to you saying that they are prophets yet
55:52 God's commandments are no longer in
55:54 application they don't apply, they've been
55:55 changed, God is saying that person is a liar and
55:58 the truth is not in them, if a liar is the person
56:01 standing before you then you need to go back
56:03 to the word of God and resist them based on
56:06 what God word says, you see and then Isaiah 8
56:10 verse 20, let me read that just verbatim? Yeah,
56:15 go for it. Okay, the Bible says, to the law and
56:17 to the testimony if they speak not according to
56:20 this word it is because there is no light in them,
56:24 when you go to these ministries that are look out
56:26 for this phrase too, the read my word ministries,
56:30 a word from the Lord, a word to you. Watch out,
56:33 because they're not talking about God's word
56:35 and then what we are going to do in the next
56:36 program John, we are going to unmask those who
56:38 use God's word but they use it partially,
56:42 they use it deceptively, how can you tell when
56:44 they are deceiving you even when they do use
56:48 the word of God. Yeah and this is so,
56:51 this is a time, very timely message and I think
56:55 the Lord wants us to pay a lot of attention and
56:57 be very careful not only to resist this but to
57:00 warn others to watch out for this kind of activity
57:03 because it has become so prevalent, so great
57:06 subject at this time. And a lot of times people say
57:09 well now okay, what difference would there be
57:11 in all these different denominations that are
57:12 out, there everybody claiming one thing or the
57:14 other well here at House Calls, here at 3abn
57:17 our motto is the undiluted message,
57:20 one that will counteract the counterfeit,
57:22 we are counteracting the counterfeit by the
57:24 word of God. So continue trusting God's word,
57:27 continue following what the Lord says,
57:29 so when he comes you will not be deceived.
57:32 God bless you and have a great day in Christ.


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