Thank you for taking time for this episode of Leading the Way, where you'll hear practical biblical teaching from pastor and author of more than 50 books, Dr. Michael Youssef. We'll consume enough news programming and podcasts and social media, and you'll quickly become convinced that life as we know it should be coming to a cataclysmic end, and in the not-too-distant future too. But even if you minimize the drama, the reality of what's happening around the globe is overwhelming, and most of the time quite depressing.
Well, in just a moment, set all of that drama aside and listen in as Dr. Youssef begins a short series of messages. It's called, Our God Always Wins. This is a reminder to view life through the lens of God's Word, and it's a challenge to make Christ known to those who find themselves living in the clouds of discouragement and confusion. So listen with me and be encouraged with a reminder that God always wins. There can be absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind that we are going through a global upheaval. And in times of this global apocalypse, if you like, a pastor, even an expositor as myself, who have preached throughout the books of the Bible for half a century, expository preaching, there is a need to draw your attention to these extraordinary global events. But not like announcing news, like a news item, no, but to examine them from the light of the Word of God. Globally and nationally, we are experiencing something that we have never seen in our lifetime.
I would say in history, but I cannot be that certain, so I want to be careful. And that is why I'm doing this three-part series, which I'm calling, Our God Always Wins. Our God Always what?
Wins. You see, unless you've checked out of this world altogether, you will identify with all the things that I'll be talking about today in the next two messages, things that are bombarding us every day, every night, not just in the news, things that can easily confuse us, things that can easily frustrate us, things that can discourage us even. But instead of being discouraged, confused, or give up, I want to encourage you. I want to uplift you by the hand of God to begin to think of having an impact upon your world like you've never had before. And I'm thinking about the anti-God forces that are being unleashed with vengeance, not just in our country, all over the Western world. Instead of us fearing and cowering to these forces, I pray to God that He will renew our commitment to making Christ known wherever we go. Amen.
Amen. Give God all the glory, not me. Himurad, please, as we go along this short series, you're going to discover that these forces are impacting and deceiving even some churches, even some churches. Just like the false gods in the Old Testament, just as these false gods have done to the people of God, have done to Israel, they are doing now.
And so I want you to fasten your seat belt as we get going here. The World Economic Forum is a group of people who consider themselves to be above. They're the elitist from around the world who conceive themselves to be the possessors of all knowledge and to be the arbiters of all truth. And therefore, they feel that they must rule the world.
In addition to that fantasy, they perceive that the rest of the population of the world are poor, ignorant sheep and they must only follow their dictates. Their own writings, their own speeches, I'm not making this stuff up, I'm going to quote you, it's their own words. They make it very clear about these dictates. They want to dictate who would live and who would not live. What we should eat and what we should not eat. What we can or cannot do.
What job we must work and what jobs we must not do. Why? Because they know what is best for the world. For example, the head of the World Economic Forum, a German gentleman by the name of Klaus Schwab, has nothing to do with the Schwab financial company that you deal with. So I just want to make that very clear.
No relations between the two. He said the following and let me quote. Globalization is not the problem. The lack of global government is the problem. In other words, the need is for one world government and they are the ones who are going to govern. Because to him globalization is not enough. Globalization was the first step. Globalization is so yesterday. Today they need to get on with it and have that one world government. Listen to me.
This maniacal push for one world government did not start with the World Economic Forum. That's why a lot of people think this is new. No, it's not.
I'm going to show you. This is just the latest push in the last 75 years. They're the latest group who feel compelled or feel the call that they are the ones to implement it now. In order to understand what's happening today you have to go back all the way, all the way back to the root of this trouble that caused Israel again and again and again. And this trouble that will give rise to the antichrist.
Back where false religion systems started. And that is why we need to be vigilant. More vigilant than ever.
We need to be more alert than ever. Never accept teaching as the truth without measuring it with the word of God. Examine the scripture. Measure everything by the word of God.
Judge everything by the word of God. For it was long before John the revelator and the book of Revelation talking about, telling us about the end times and the antichrist is telling us about Babylon the great. Long time before that. The root of false religion and false religious system that seem to be invading our culture with vengeance. They go way, way back in history. They go back all the way to Genesis chapter 10 verses 8 and 9. Where there was a man by the name of Nimrod. Nimrod was a four generation removed from Noah and the flood.
In fact, his grandfather, Nimrod's grandfather was Ham who was the wicked and evil son of Noah. After the flood God told Noah and his families, all of them, to go and multiply and spread throughout the face of the earth. That was a command from God. Some of Noah's descendants, including Nimrod, they thought that they have a better idea than God. Always be careful when somebody has a better idea than the scripture. They thought they had a better idea than God. They have a better plan than God's plan. Be extremely careful when you start improvising on God's plan of salvation. Be very careful when you start tinkering with God's plan of salvation. Be very careful when you listen to, especially those who try to modify or extend or compromise God's plan of salvation. The Bible said that when they came to the plane of the land of Shinar, they said to one another, listen carefully, come let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in heaven. Let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the earth. And you wouldn't say, huh? But that's exactly what God said.
Scatter around on the face of the earth. But they thought, we have a better plan. We have a better idea. Now, I'm going to tell you more about the Tower of Babel than you really want to know in the next couple of messages. But for now, I want to show you the root of rebellious because you see, we can look at the fruit and we see it everywhere today. We're seeing the fruit of rebellion.
You're going to go back to the root of rebellion in order to understand what's going on today. But before I continue that, I want to remind you once again, our God will always what? Because our God always wins. He scattered them anyway in different languages. He confused their tongues. They wanted a one world government. They wanted a one world religion.
They wanted one world order. And they wanted to be in control of that world, which is total disobedience to the clear and the divine command of God. Question, what were they doing?
What were they doing? They're building their own religious system. They were publishing their own Bible. They were teaching their own philosophies. They were exalting themselves above God and dethroning him.
And that is the first of self-styled secular humanism. Oh, listen. They felt deep spiritual need. Don't ever miss this.
Don't ever miss this. I've spent years in my graduate studies in anthropology and they tell you even the non-believers would tell you that every human being, whether it be the animists or the worship of other gods or the atheists, everyone has deep spiritual needs. It's how you fill that need.
The world is desperate. The world had spiritual needs. They had spiritual needs.
But they chose to fill it with their own ideas, their own perception of what God is, their own plan of how to approach God, their own do-it-yourself religion. Sounds familiar? Oh, beloved, this is not just an interesting story. Listen to me. This has become the very root of Israel's failure.
I mean again and again and again. Why do I say this? Because I'm going to show you that it was from the very beginning these false gods, the cults, the ideology of worshiping of all sorts of evil gods, all sorts of so-called gods who were really these and not gods. They are storefront for Satan. The mythology tells us that before Nimrod married his wife, Semiramis, she miraculously conceived a son, that a beam from the sun made her conceive a son, and she named him Tammuz. This mythology said that Tammuz died and his mother wept over him for 40 days, and then he rose to life again. See, Satan is a counterfeiter.
He's a counterfeiter. From that time on, the mother and son were worshiped by all the pagan world, as they were known in different names and different cultures at different times. I'm going to show you, but these two, exactly the same goddess and god. Semiramis become known as the queen of heaven.
I'll talk more about her, the goddess of sexual confusion in the next message. After the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Nimrod and his descendant got scattered throughout the world, and they as they traveled, as they moved all over the world, they took the worship of this mythological mother and son with them everywhere they went. In Assyria, they were known as Asher and Asheroth. In Egypt, they were known as Isis and Osiris. Later in Greece, they were known as Ephrodite and Eris.
In Rome, they were known as Venus, the goddess of love, and her son Cupid, and the list goes on. But listen to me, the worship of these evil so-called gods ended in Rome. Ended in Rome. Do you know why?
Do you know why? Because of the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ in Rome. And these evil spirits of these so-called gods, they disappeared in the wilderness for quite a while. The preaching of the gospel. Why do you think I'm tearing myself up in this age that I'm in to take the gospel to the ends of the earth? Because it's only the preaching of the gospel would change the world.
Now, I'm telling you all this for two main reasons. First, remember that Satan is a counterfeiter. Scripture is very clear about that. And he will always produce a false religion that looks like the real thing.
Looks so like the real thing. And the second thing, most importantly, for this purpose today, these cults and false gods that have disappeared from western civilization for a long time. And now reappearing in America and in the west with viciousness and with force like we have never seen before. They are reappearing after nearly 2,000 years in the wilderness. And these so-called gods now raising their ugly heads.
I'm going to show you some of them. Why? Because in the west, we have rejected the one true God who blessed us with western civilization. Because I can tell you with absolute confidence that western civilization and development that you see everywhere in the west is because of the reformation. Whenever the one true God, the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, is rejected, these gods will raise their ugly heads. Whenever the one true God is rejected in any culture in any society, and certainly I'm talking about the western world that I know fairly well, these satanic gods will raise their ugly head.
But remember the title of this series. Our god always what? Beil, who is the chief god in the Canaanite pantheon. And the name actually Beil means owner or lord or master. And in Hebrew, always Im is a plural. And Balaem is the plural. Sometimes you see that in the Bible said the Beils with S in the plural. This is Satan's chief storefront character. He is supposed to be the god of fertility, the god of prosperity, the god who's going to give you health, wealth, and everything else that you long for.
Think about this with me. I don't know how many times, how many times when the people of God in the wilderness through Moses, and you say to the people that when you go into the promised land, do not, do not, do not, I haven't counted them, but I don't know how many times when you go into the promised land and you're tempted to go after Beil, don't do it. But sure enough as soon as I go into the land of promise, they began turning their back on the one true God Yahweh and run after Beil.
Please listen. This is the God who redeemed them from the slavery of Egypt. This is the God who provided for them that even their sandals did not worn out. This is the God who did so much miracles for them.
Book of Judges chapter 2, 11 and 12 says, then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Beils. Now beloved listen to me today in America and in the West, Beil worship is back in force. A culture that was once committed to a Judea Christian teaching, now was so preoccupied more with Beil and what he could give them than the God who provided all things.
What is Beil's task? Well, to make people forget about the Lord who blessed them. Instead they focused on the prosperity itself. They began to worship the prosperity.
How to get it? Focus on prosperity as an end in itself. What are some of the consequences of Beil worship?
Listen to me very carefully. The answer is what Beil did in Israel. He caused the nation to war against itself. He caused the nation to war against its foundation. Can you see Beil's fingerprints all over the so called the walk movement?
That is the dividing families, the dividing churches and dividing nations. Can you see Beil's fingerprints in turning this generation against the foundational principle of the nation? Can you see his fingerprints in turning us against the biblical foundation which founded Western civilization?
Can you see his fingerprints? But there's more. The spirit of Beil that had been set loose alters people perception. That was his, one of his consequences of welcoming him. He alters perception.
What do I mean by this? While there's only one true God, while there's only one absolute truth, what is only one objective truth and by that one God and one biblical absolute truth we judge all things. We measure all values.
Beil worship said not too fast. No. There are more than one truth. There's your truth and my truth, their truth, his truth.
No. There's more than one way to God. Sixty percent of Christians in America believe that there is other ways to God other than Jesus.
Can you see his fingerprints? Can you see how he's altering the perception even of those who are in churches? Beil now is in control of thinking of those who claim to believe in God. This is Beil worship in its purest form.
It's in purest form. Beil beloved is a God of confusion. That is why he's running rampant now. He's just like his master Satan. Today if your personal truth, think about this, if your personal truth contradicts reality then it's reality that has to bend into conformity. Am I telling the truth? Hear me right.
I'm getting close to the end. Beil led Israel into apostasy. Now the spirit of Beil is invading every institution in the Western world.
Every institution. Politics, economics, the media, education, and even, which makes me cry, some churches. That is why instead of viewing nature as God's gift to us to bestow it, to bestow it, we're stewards. Now nature is worshiped and obeyed. If nature says she's impacted by farmers, 3,000 farmers in Holland lost the livelihood.
Why? Because the goddess earth says there are too much methane in the air. In the coming message I'm going to deal with the big kahuna, the queen of heaven, the so called the goddess of sexuality and sexual confusion.
But now, now have been unleashed upon Western civilization. But I want you to remember, are God always what? Let me tell you, when I get into these things and I look in the study and I look at the word of God, I begin to praise God with vigor and power like I've never had before. And remember the words of the hymn which came out of the apostle Paul's message to Timothy. Because I know whom I have believed and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Praise God.
Praise God. Powerful words about the influence of Baal in the world. Well thank you for listening to this episode of Leading the Way with Dr. Michael Juszczyk.
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