Participants: Hal Steenson
Series Code: FC
Program Code: FC000397
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00:31 Hello I am Pastor Hal Steenson. I would like
00:33 to welcome you to join me today on Faith Chapel. 00:36 I have very interesting subject here today, 00:39 this is a series that I do usually only in 00:43 leadership meetings, I do not usually do them 00:46 in a church setting. And the title of it is 00:48 how to recognize false prophets. I found 00:52 it through the years it's not just leadership 00:54 and pastors and elders that need to hear 00:56 this message. Most of the time the pastors 00:59 will go back and share this same with the 01:00 congregation, but we have an opportunity 01:03 here today to share this with the world, 01:05 and there are false prophets on every corner 01:08 waiting to try to destroy the things of God. 01:11 And I want to share with you today how 01:12 to recognize those through God's word. 01:15 First before we go to the word, let's go 01:18 to God in prayer, okay. Father we thank you 01:20 for this day, we thank you for this opportunity, 01:23 the opportunity to share your word to break 01:25 the bread of life Father Lord led us feast 01:27 upon your word, I ask that just somehow, 01:30 someway God let me be a conduit, and you 01:33 flow through it Lord to get this message 01:35 across to those Lord that might be encountering 01:39 or might confront false prophets that seek 01:41 to steal, kill and destroy the church of 01:44 our living God. We thank you for in Jesus 01:47 name, amen. Through the years I've witnessed 01:52 many, many good Christians drawn away 01:54 by people who professed to be prophets, 01:57 you hear everywhere, I am the prophet, 01:58 I am this, I am there and you know what 02:00 you are not something because you call 02:01 yourself something, you are something 02:02 because of what Jesus has appointed 02:05 an anoinity to be and people will recognize 02:07 you to be, you can call yourself an elder 02:09 pastor but if people don't recognize you 02:11 as that, then you really aren't. We know 02:14 that there are prophets because we've 02:15 encountered these in our denomination, 02:18 and we thank God forum. It amazes me that 02:21 they could be so easily deceived. However 02:25 when I started looking for material describing 02:27 false prophets, I could not found anything, 02:31 so what I did was I went to the word of God, 02:33 and I said okay Lord show me how to recognize 02:36 false prophets and also the reason why we need 02:40 to recognize false prophets. And the first 02:42 reason that God showed me it's because, 02:45 you know hey how I shed my blood for 02:47 the church and I found that in Acts 20:28: 02:51 Take heed therefore un to yourselves, and to all 02:53 the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost has 02:56 made you overseers, to feed the church of God, 02:58 which he has purchased with his own blood. 03:03 Okay, God you shared your blood for the church 03:05 now what? He said now I desired for you 03:08 and all of my children to take proper care of that 03:12 which I shed my blood for, and I found that in 03:15 1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, 03:19 but try the spirits whether they are of God: 03:23 because many false prophets are gone out 03:25 into the world today. You know in the lot 03:28 of the charismatic and Pentecostal churches 03:30 if the minister would say okay anybody, 03:33 anytime someone stands up and declares that 03:36 they are prophesying what we're gonna do 03:38 is we're gonna stop the service and the 03:41 elders in the leadership of this church are going 03:43 to judge what you have said according to 03:45 the word of God. You know there wouldn't be 03:47 as much talking going on as there is in 03:50 a lot of those churches. We prove everything, 03:52 we try everything, we try every spirit, 03:55 and we do it according to the word 03:57 of God. So here it is take your notes, 04:01 get your highlighter out and highlight these 04:03 and write them down. The first way to 04:05 recognize the false prophet. The number 04:07 one way is they talk about being God's 04:09 special vessel and they exalt themselves 04:14 above others. They think they are the 04:17 select of the elect, it's amazing, 04:20 oh thank God, the God send me to your 04:23 church, that this is just great, I've got here 04:27 just in time, your church in such bad shape. 04:29 I heard one man say back years ago he 04:32 was from another country and I asked him 04:34 where he go to church, he said wherever 04:35 God leads me. I said how does God lead 04:37 you where to go. And he said well I 04:39 get on the bus and I start riding the bus 04:41 through town and the third time the bell 04:44 is rung on the bus which in this country 04:46 meant to stop let some go off. He said 04:48 this I get off and go to church and this 04:51 how God leads me. And I said bother 04:53 it sounds to me like that you are being 04:54 led by the bell instead of being led by God. 04:56 And this is the way a lot of the prophets 04:58 are. Now grant it there are true prophets 05:00 and I humble myself before God to say that 05:03 God gave the false prophets, evangelistic 05:05 pastor and teacher for the perfecting 05:06 of the saints until we all come into the 05:08 unities of faith, we're not there yet, 05:09 the ministry is still here. Jesus gave those 05:12 dump a gifts and I humble myself to realize 05:14 there are in effect but not false prophets 05:16 and false prophets come across to so many 05:19 people that are impressed by what they 05:22 see, hear, touch, test and smell rather than 05:25 by the word of God. Now once again the first 05:26 way number one way is they talk about being 05:29 God's special vessel and they exalt themselves. 05:31 2 Peter 2:1-3 says: But there were false 05:36 prophets also among the people, even 05:38 as there shall be false teachers among you, 05:41 who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, 05:44 even denying the Lord that bought them, 05:46 and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 05:49 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; 05:53 by reason of whom the way of truth shall 05:55 be evil spoken of. And through covetousness, 05:59 covetousness shall they be feigned words 06:03 make merchandise of you: whose judgment 06:06 now of a long time lingereth not, and their 06:10 damnation slumbereth not. You know in 1988 06:16 all over the world especially in America 06:19 the churches started filling up, I mean 06:22 all of a sudden here these people coming out 06:24 of the wood, people that used to be in church, 06:26 you didn't see for a couple of three years, 06:28 and all the sudden they are there, and myself 06:32 along with the some other pastor were 06:33 talking about I wonder why when I said 06:35 because it's of Whisenant's book 06:36 you know Whisenant, who is Whisenant. 06:39 He is this guy that's a prophet, claims to 06:41 be a prophet and he has written book 88 reasons 06:45 why Jesus is going to return in 1988. 06:50 You know we, we should know better even, 06:52 you know there is even some people in our 06:53 denomination can't help us that are teaching 06:55 times and dates when the Lord is returning, 06:58 in the word of God tell us not to do this. 07:00 But this man did this, and then in 1988 after 07:03 the date came and he didn't happened, 07:06 here was his statement. I can stand in front 07:10 of the Lord and say I gave it my best shot, 07:12 failed prophet Edgar Whisenant said after 07:16 September the 1st, 1989 came and went 07:20 without any evidence of the rapture and I 07:22 I might add to that after this date came 07:24 and went, the people that returned to the 07:26 church left the church because they 07:29 realized that it was not going to happen. 07:32 God is not a fire escape, God is a loving 07:35 Father preparing a place for us. He says 07:38 after running up a zero for two record 07:40 in the rapture predicting, the retired 07:42 NASA engineer who lives in a one room shack 07:45 outside Little Rock, Arkansas, says his Job 07:47 is now done his book predicting this year 07:51 rapture only sold 30,000 copies in contrast 07:54 to his book predicting the raptured of last 07:58 September was sold 4.3 million copies a dollar 08:03 a pop, 4.3 million dollar and you know after 08:06 it didn't happen he still sold 300000 books 08:09 for dollar pop predicting it for the next year. 08:14 How could many believers fall for this age 08:18 old problem of date setting that Jesus 08:20 clearly warns us about in Matthew 24? 08:23 You see at that time, I was preaching 08:26 a message on 88 reasons why the Lord wasn't 08:29 returning in 1988. Now this might sound strange 08:34 to some of you but this charismatic pastor, 08:35 I never preach the secret rapture, 08:37 it didn't work, it didn't come together, 08:40 it wouldn't fit it, and so I refused to 08:42 preach until God enlightening me on it, 08:44 when I came to the Seventh-day Adventist 08:45 Church and realized that we are sleep in 08:47 the grave, we're not all up in heaven those 08:49 who had gone on before now it fits, but 08:51 still not the secret rapture. When people 08:53 talk about the secret rapture it tickle me 08:55 because Thessalonians is an awful noisy book, 08:58 there is a shout, there is trumpet and there 09:00 is a lot of noise, it's not too secret to me. 09:03 But I was preaching 88 reasons why the Lord 09:05 was not returning in 1988 and I didn't 09:08 have time to get through it before the date 09:11 was to come. So I told the congregations 09:14 don't worry about it we'll be here next week, 09:17 and I'll finish it. You see Jesus knows 09:20 the date, Jesus knows the time, and what we 09:23 need to do is just to be prepared and ready 09:26 and recognize anyone that's out there 09:29 that's trying to tell us exacts that we do 09:31 not know that God himself is the only one he 09:33 knows, don't buy it, don't pay a dollar 09:36 for it, don't pay a penny for it. The second 09:39 way to recognize a false prophet is they always 09:42 attack the spiritual leadership of the church. 09:45 Now hear that, okay this is important, 09:48 they attack the spiritual leadership 09:50 of the church. All this, this means they attack 09:52 the pastor, and the elder, no not always, 09:54 that's not always the case, because a lot 09:56 of times the spiritual leadership in the church 09:58 is somebody that you would never see up 10:00 front, it's somebody that stays in their 10:02 prayer closet, someone that lays on their face 10:04 and cries out to God for that church, and the 10:06 people that's in that church and their family. 10:08 I will remind you a story back years ago 10:10 on evangelist came and held a Revival series 10:12 in the small town. And after that Revival 10:15 series is over, this one elderly lady, 10:17 the matriarchs entire family had come to God. 10:20 And so the last meeting, after the last meeting 10:22 she invited him over for dinner. He came 10:26 in and he was sitting there and he said 10:27 oh is this wonderful that God use his revival, 10:30 use me to bring your entire family into the 10:32 body of Christ. And she said come here 10:34 brother let me show you something, she open 10:36 the closet door in the middle of her house 10:38 and there in the floor were two holes, 10:41 one in the floor from her knees where she 10:45 had been praying for her family for over 30 years, 10:48 so that's spiritual leadership that's 10:50 in the church, they don't just attack the ones 10:52 that sits front. Anybody that's doing something 10:54 for God has a heart set for God they will 10:56 attack. In Thessalonians 1 Thessalonians 10:59 5: 2 says: And we beseech you, brethren, 11:02 to know them which labour among you, 11:04 and are over you in the Lord, and admonish 11:06 you; and to esteem them very highly, 11:10 listen as you esteem him highly for the work's 11:12 sake. You don't buy him a Cadillac you 11:15 esteem him highly. This is what you do, 11:17 you don't pat him on the back and tell him 11:19 how wonderful they are. There is nothing wrong 11:21 with giving them accolades of love, 11:22 but what you do is you esteem him very 11:24 highly for their work sake, and be at peace 11:26 among you no one Ben Burk, and I we were 11:30 talking recently about this, no one would submit 11:32 themselves and even the right man would 11:34 submit themselves to someone that's gonna 11:36 to tell them to jump of the cliff, or set 11:38 themselves on fire, they wouldn't do that. 11:40 The only person you are gonna submit yourself 11:42 to is someone that is laboring among you that 11:45 show himself approved unto God it's who you 11:48 gonna submit yourself to. But the false 11:50 prophets never be able or never able to form 11:53 a relationship with others, they are 11:55 always very elusive. And what they do 11:58 sometimes is they fleet, fleet and float from 12:01 here to there and everywhere else. I told 12:02 somebody here back several years ago, 12:04 I said you know it won't be long, you've 12:07 been to so many churches in our area, 12:08 it won't be long you have to drive 100 miles 12:10 to St. Louis to go to church because you've 12:12 already been in every church in this area. 12:13 Every time a fire starts burning, a fire 12:16 will draw not only warmth, comfort, 12:22 it will also draw the bugs and beast, 12:24 so when your church starts doing something 12:26 get ready for the false prophets to come in. 12:29 Don't submit yourself to failure, don't submit 12:32 yourself to a false prophet, and I 12:34 have seen so many people do it. Also the 12:36 word submission to a lot of people is a very 12:39 dirty word to a false prophet. You know 12:42 when we submit ourselves to God, 12:43 we don't have trouble submitting ourselves 12:45 to one and another. Wives submit yourself 12:47 to here husbands and there you like you see 12:49 the truth of the matter is what it says to 12:50 begin with. If we submit ourselves to God 12:53 then we won't have trouble submitting 12:55 ourselves unto a Godley representation of our 12:58 Father. In, in Hebrews the 13 chapter in 17th 13:02 verse, I want you to see this, read this 13:04 with me okay. He says to obey them that 13:07 have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: 13:10 why, why because they watch for your souls, 13:14 as they that must give account, that they 13:16 may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that 13:20 is unprofitable for you. They do this for the 13:25 joy, so like Jesus endureth the cross for 13:27 the joy that was set before him, 13:28 what was the joy that was set before him. 13:30 It was us, it was the church rejoicing in Him 13:34 and loving on Him, and being able to recognize 13:37 that which is true, that which isn't true 13:39 you know, if it's goofy it's not God, 13:41 if it's weird, it's not the word it's just that 13:43 simple. What we need to do is we need 13:45 to set our face to the word of God. 13:47 Whenever somebody tells us something and 13:50 share something with us, we must make sure 13:53 that it lands up with God's word. Now 13:56 let me give you an example of this, 13:57 this I like this. It's says a group of 14:00 students at Harvard once tried to fool the 14:02 famous professor of zoology, Agassiz, 14:05 they took parchment number of different 14:08 bugs and with great skill attached them together 14:11 to make a creation, they were sure would baffle 14:15 their teacher. On the chosen day they 14:18 brought it to him, and ask him to identify. 14:21 As he inspected it with great care the 14:24 students grew more and more sure that they 14:25 had tricked this genius. Finally the professor 14:30 straightened up and said I have identified 14:34 this bug scarcely able to control their amusement, 14:39 they ask it's name and the professor 14:42 replied it is the humbug, that's what it was 14:46 a person with genuine life from God will 14:49 attack the counterfeit and think to him stay 14:52 off humbug, it doesn't not take a road 14:55 scholars, it's just takes child of God to 14:57 recognize whether this person is really speaking 15:00 by the oracles of God, or they are building up 15:03 themselves. The third way to recognize a false 15:07 prophet and this is what amazes me that 15:10 people will follow after people that do this. 15:12 The third way this is key. They always have 15:16 a message of doom, death and domination, 15:21 they would dominate you, they preach death, 15:24 they preach doom and gloom. They talk about 15:27 in have word supposedly they have knowledge 15:29 that this is going to happen in a great way. 15:32 I had one that tell me, get ready just 15:34 recently get ready there is great wave that's 15:36 gonna come in and rush cross the entire 15:39 North American continent and everybody 15:42 be destroyed, and I wasn't, you know 15:44 I wasn't really encouragedby that, 15:45 and I just sometime listen to him. And most 15:48 of the time I said well that's interesting, 15:49 but I don't hook my wagon to that ungodly 15:53 star. If they can't control something 16:00 they try to do destroy it, when did you 16:02 hear that. I've witnessed this many of you 16:05 have witnessed this, its being close to a lot 16:07 of hearts. It's sad because if the false 16:10 prophets can't destroy something, 16:12 it doesn't matter even if they had been 16:14 for a while in charge of it, it does not matter 16:16 how much they have invested in it? How much 16:18 they put in it? How much they have worked? 16:19 How much they have toiled, if they cannot 16:21 destroy then what they will do, or cannot 16:24 control it, then what they will do is they will 16:26 try to destroy it. Solomon is a great 16:31 example of this. The two women, one had 16:35 the other ones child and they came to him 16:38 and we all you know I don't wanna say 16:40 it because somebody back years ago when 16:42 I was first got born again they start to tell 16:43 story, now I'm gonna tell that because everybody 16:45 knows about Abraham, I didn't knew who 16:46 Abraham was, so I am gonna share the 16:49 two women brought the child, one of them had 16:50 the child and said this is my child and the 16:53 other said no it's my child and Solomon said 16:55 well I'll settle this, let just cut the child 16:57 in half, and give each of you half of it 17:00 and the woman that it was truly her child 17:02 said no, no don't destroy that which I birth, 17:05 see a real prophet no matter what a real child 17:09 of God, real somebody really prophetic will 17:11 never allow that which they birth to be 17:14 destroyed. And the other women that it was 17:16 not her child said yes, yes, yes cut it into two. 17:18 God will never cut the baby in two. And I read 17:22 this scripture along with me if you can 17:24 1 Corinthians 14:3 he says: But he that 17:28 prophesieth speaketh unto men for edification, 17:32 let me, let me really see if you know it, 17:34 edification, exhortation and comfort. Now I have 17:40 a perfect example of this in Florida, my 17:42 pastors in Florida Pat, Wayne, and Manny, 17:44 Lakeland, Florida. Manny was pregnant with her 17:47 second child, and had real tough time with 17:50 her first child birth was concerned about her 17:52 second child birth and she was at a meeting 17:54 in Orlando, Florida and bumped into a prophet, 17:58 false prophet that had come to their church 18:01 several months before that and stood up 18:03 and try to tear the church all the pieces 18:05 and everything and proclaimed that he was 18:07 the prophet sent there by God, and he was 18:09 to take over the church and all this stuff, 18:11 and so they just show him where the door 18:13 was that he came in, you go out same way 18:15 and they did it with love. Well this guy was 18:17 very bitter about this, so there was Matty and 18:21 with one of her friends at this meeting 18:23 in Orlando, Florida and she was about at 18:25 the time probably about six or seven months 18:27 pregnant something like that, and this guy 18:29 came up to her and said because of your 18:31 husband didn't received me as a prophet of 18:34 of God. The Lord is showing me that 18:36 your child is going to be born deformed 18:40 when that baby comes forth out of the womb. 18:43 A little lady standing there next to her that 18:45 was her friend, her name was Mardy, 18:47 she was in missionary in Nicaragua. She looked 18:50 around it Maddy and said, Maddy let me ask 18:51 you a question honey were you edified, 18:54 were you exhorted, were you comforted, 18:56 Maddy had tears in her eyes, and she said 18:58 No Mardy I wasn't. Mardy spun around stuck 19:01 her finger in that so called prophet's face 19:03 and said I rebuke you in the name of Jesus 19:07 that baby was fine. He is now her worship leader, 19:11 he is 28-years old, has two beautiful children 19:14 of this own. Do not believe everything 19:17 that's somebody speak to you and says that 19:20 he comes by the oracles of God. The next 19:23 way to recognize a false prophet is they 19:25 come from some far of distant place, claiming 19:30 to be sent by God usually looking for a handout. 19:34 They tend to leach of the spiritually immature 19:37 and I say this with much love such as 19:41 young converts, single ladies, and widows. 19:45 It is so many people out there and I pray 19:48 for those that are single, and that are widows 19:50 that, that needs somebody to stand in their 19:52 life, as a man to represent them in social 19:57 circles and I know that you are hurt, 19:59 but don't let the enemy sneak in under color 20:02 and calls you to fall for a false prophet or 20:06 someone that's teaching things that are not 20:07 of God. What you need to do is go to the word 20:10 of God and see what the word of God says 20:12 you get clear direction from it. Now this is 20:14 what 2 Timothy 3rd chapter in the 2 verse 20:18 tells us. This now also, that in the last days 20:22 perilous times shall come. We are in that 20:23 right now. For men shall be lovers of their own 20:26 selves, covetous, boasters, proud, 20:28 blasphemers, disobedient to parents, 20:30 unthankful, and unholy. Well are we there? 20:33 Yes you have arrived if your children they 20:36 continue will ask you, are we there yet, 20:38 are we there yet, are we there yet. Well I want 20:40 you to know we are here, we are in the 20:42 scriptures, without natural affection, truce 20:45 breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, 20:47 despisers of those that are good. Traitors, 20:50 heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more 20:54 than lovers of God. Man we are seeing that. 20:57 Having a form of godliness, but denying 21:00 the power thereof: from such turn away. 21:05 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, 21:10 and lead captive silly women laden with sins, 21:14 not that you are laden with sins, but this 21:16 is the easiest ones, led away with divers 21:19 lusts. We got to stop this, we've got to 21:23 turn this around when we first move to 21:25 Southern Illinois, my daughter was 8 years old 21:27 Ditty was 8 was years old, and we were 21:29 listing to television before we were going to 21:31 church one morning and this supposedly 21:33 prophet was on as we were changing channels. 21:37 My daughter was getting ready in her room, 21:38 she overheard this and she said those of you 21:41 out there I am moving in my prophetic right 21:44 now I am going to healed you of sicknesses, 21:46 and diseases that you do not even know 21:49 that you have. My daughter ran and said 21:53 daddy did you hear that 8 years old, 21:54 8 years old, daddy did you heard that he said 21:57 he was gonna try to heal people of diseases 21:59 that they didn't even know they had, how 22:02 would they know if they were healed, if they 22:04 didn't know that they had them, she said 22:05 that's not God. And I said it's not right 22:07 honey, and I starting to turn off then he 22:09 said if you will send me $100 did you get this. 22:12 These are people that are sending me money 22:15 if you send me $100 dollars I will on my tour 22:18 bus, I will embroider your name on my pillow. 22:21 God help us for the people that fall for 22:24 things like that. Do you know that there are 22:27 ministers now they are on television that do 22:29 not even preach the word, all the get on do 22:31 is get on and beg for money. We see him time 22:35 and time again coming on late in night, you get 22:37 at the middle of night people they can't sleep, 22:39 they start, they get up turn these things 22:40 only fall for this, and say it's like send me 22:43 a $100 and I will send you an anointed penny. 22:45 I want to tell, I'll tell you what, you send me 22:47 a $100 and I will send you now an anointed 22:48 quarter. We should know better than this. 22:52 The next thing is that they have rebellious 22:54 unteachable spirit, and will not acknowledge 22:57 a true authority of the church. Rebellious 23:00 people are always self seeking this is in 23:03 Psalm 66:7: He ruleth by his power 23:07 for ever; his eyes behold the nations: 23:09 let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah. 23:12 Rebellion sets one up for demon activity, 23:18 if you want the demon to come in then you 23:21 open the door and they will come in. The word 23:24 of God says in Psalms in Psalms 68:6 he says 23:29 God sets the solitary in families; He brings 23:31 out those which are bound with chains; but 23:34 the rebellious dwell in a dry land. So if you 23:38 feel like that you are in dry area place, 23:40 everything within give yourself a check up from 23:42 the neck up and then check your heart to see 23:43 if maybe you have been listening to things 23:45 that you shouldn't be listening to is garbage 23:48 in and garbage out, what it is which we could 23:50 go and leaves some down don't you. The next 23:52 way is they sometimes have a lot of work 23:54 even a parent healings and prophecy that 23:56 appeared to come true however they have 23:58 no good foods, their fruits will be the 24:00 vision, confusion and heartaches. I want 24:04 you to look at the scripture with me Mathew 24:06 7:15 and 16, don't be impressed by words alone. 24:10 Beware of false prophets, which come to you 24:13 in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are 24:15 ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their 24:18 fruits; ye shall know them by their fruits, 24:19 ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men 24:22 gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 24:26 It is not by works, it is not by works, its' 24:29 about fruit. There were two men in Lakeland, 24:32 Florida they used to come in churches, go to 24:34 different churches and supposedly be prophetic, 24:36 and they tour every church almost every 24:38 church in Lakeland up, except the people that 24:41 refused to hear what they were saying. A man 24:44 in Tampa, Florida, I remember this 24:45 back years ago a man in Tampa, Florida came 24:48 in and was telling people all these things about 24:51 the sicknesses and stuff, and he was right, 24:53 and they followed him out of the church, 24:55 a whole group of people followed him out 24:56 of the church because he was right about 24:59 something. You think the enemy doesn't 25:01 know something that's going on. The enemy 25:03 would like to try to use the false gifts of the 25:06 spirit just like the false prophets will. They will 25:09 minister out of deception, this scripture 25:11 is very, very important Mark the 13th chapter 5 25:14 and 6 verse he says, Jesus answering them 25:17 began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive 25:19 you:" For many shall come in my name, saying, 25:21 I am Christ; and shall deceive many. We 25:26 understand that lot of what, this 25:27 misunderstand lot about the scripture saying 25:29 we think they come in say like the guy from 25:31 South America right now that he is Jesus ever 25:33 remained that he was the Lord return and 25:35 everything. This is not exactly what this is 25:37 saying, there is gonna be people that come 25:39 that are false prophets, he says Jesus is the 25:40 Christ this what did he say that I am Christ 25:43 not they are Christ, but Jesus is Christ and 25:46 because they seemingly, profess the Lord then 25:49 we're gonna say whether they have got to be 25:50 a true prophet. No that's not the case that is 25:55 not what's happening. Now this the last thing 25:57 that I have is they have no root repetition 26:00 or affiliation with anybody to call for 26:03 references when ask about their past, they 26:06 all of a sudden they become very elusive. 26:11 And you know the amazing thing about to this 26:12 they can come in and the first time they come in 26:14 they pay their tithes and everybody say well 26:16 they got to be good Christians. I share 26:19 some things with you let me rehearse some right 26:21 quick. Write down the seventh steps to 26:23 recognize these and watch for it. How 26:24 leadership in your house regard. Don't wait 26:27 for the pastor to do something you let that 26:29 person know that you do not feel like that 26:31 what they are doing is of God. Next teach 26:34 others who have been deceived to watch after 26:36 one and another, and also stay in regular church 26:39 attendance. Next thing stay follow the 26:42 Holy Spirit, so you are able to recognized error 26:45 by comparing it with truth. The next thing is 26:50 grow up, you just grow up. My daddy used to 26:52 tell me that Hal just grow up. Well God 26:55 tells us that too, Hal just grow up, just grow 26:57 up not only in the physical but also grow 26:59 up in the spirit too. Grow up in maturity, 27:01 so that you will be smart enough to not 27:04 be led astray and if you think for one minute 27:08 that the enemy is not out to steal, kill and 27:10 destroy and terrorize the denomination all 27:12 the piece and you are wrong because we 27:15 are the remnant church. We're gonna be there 27:17 in the laddering, we're gonna be there moving 27:19 by the power of God and there is gonna be 27:21 false prophets, they are not gonna be 27:23 sitting in the bars they not gonna be 27:24 sitting in the taverns they goanna be sitting 27:26 in the pews of our churches, pastors, 27:29 leadership, laity, we need to be aware 27:32 of who they are, how they work, and be 27:35 able to stand up and say this is not good 27:39 and it's not God, and that we're not gonna 27:41 stand for because we are not just hearers 27:44 of the word but we doers of the word, 27:47 and we will see the glory of God manifest 27:51 in this in time by the Seventh-day 27:53 Adventist denomination. |
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