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Thank you. This is What's Right, What's Left with Pastor Ernie Sanders. Good evening and welcome to another edition of What's Right, What's Left, the voice of the Christian Resistance on this sixth day of October 2024. And tonight the title of the message is, If the Bema Seat Judgment Were Held Today, How Would You Fair? Anyhow, my co-host tonight is none other than Kenny.
Hey Kenny. Good evening Pastor. You ready to roll tonight?
Ready to rock and roll. Okay, we're going to get into this some heavy duty Bible study, the Word of God. And so now let me ask you a question. I'm going to read you a verse, right?
Okay. This is Matthew chapter 19 verse 26. But Jesus beheld them and said unto them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. And so what the Bible says is God is omnipotent.
He is a potentate, meaning he has unlimited power, unlimited power. Now in this instance here, the Lord Jesus is referring to, he's talking to the disciples. And he just had this rich young man came and wanted to know what he had to do. And Jesus said, Sell everything you get and follow him and give it to the poor.
Well, I'll read it. If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that which thou hast and give it to the poor. And thou shalt have treasure in heaven and come and follow me. But when the young man heard that, saying he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions. So Jesus said, told the disciples, it's harder for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven, or it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
And so here now, that was totally against what the culture in the east taught. They were always taught that if a man was wealthy and healthy, it was because God loved him. But if he was poor and sick, it was because God didn't love him. And so now he just told these guys something that was totally against what they've always been told. And they're asking him, when his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
If the rich guys can't be saved, we can be saved. And then Jesus told them, with men, behold them, with men, this is impossible. But with God, all things are possible. So do you ever wrap your head around what it would be like to be omnipotent, to have unlimited power, unlimited power? You could do anything you want. It would be crazy. Thankfully, man does not have that power. Well, yes and no.
It's not so much man as witch men. For example, if I had that power, you know what I would do? Right now, I would stop all the killing of the children, both pre-born and born. That's the first thing I would do, stop the killing of the children. The second thing I would do, I'd set all the traffic to people that are being held right now, I'd set them all free. Then I would go after and I would protect the persecuted church. The persecution is greater than it's ever been. But unless you listen to programs like this, you won't know that. Yeah, you'd never know.
Right. And then I would release the J-6ers and all the old law inmates, the inmates that have been in prison, way past their time, only to keep the parole board and their job. Then I'd arrest every single Democrat. I would arrest every single Democrat and make them here in prison, three times a day, the gospel being preached for one hour, three times a day, every day. You think that would work?
Well, God's Word doesn't return void. Then I would feed the world's hungry and I would end all the sickness and all the diseases. That would be just the start if I had unlimited power. A lot of good could be done, but a lot of evil as well could be done. So, I mean, it would have to be the right person to have that kind of power. A whole lot of evil is being done today.
Yes, it is. And then, think about this. God, the Bible says God is omnipotent and omnipresent.
Okay? And omniscient. Omnipresent and omniscient. And if I read over here in Hebrews chapter 4, two very interesting verses. Verse 12 and 13. For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, and of the joints, and of the marrow, and is a discermer of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in the sight, but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him of whom we have to do.
In other words, think about this. God is watching every single thing you do. And you say, well, gee, how can God watch a billion people? Well, God's power is unlimited. His ability is unlimited. All the limitations put on humanity, most of them are limited by God. They don't apply to God. Right. And so, without any limitations, not only does he see everything we do, but he knows our thoughts.
He knows what we're thinking. Now, try to wrap your brain around that one, okay? With all of these people out there today, and, you know, it's like I'm looking over here, my smart aleck phone sitting here.
Now, I know this smart aleck phone works, and often it does what it wants to do, but I've got no idea what makes it work. I have no idea. I could never put one of these things together. But I can wonder why. It's a miracle you know how to work one. Yeah.
Let alone put one together. You're right. You're right. And so, here, when something like this dumps me, and yet to think about we have an omnipotent God who has no limitations in power, all the knowledge, and if people can take and make something like this to me, which is incredible, this phone, just think about God's unlimited power, okay? We see it every day.
Yeah, we do. And so, this takes us into the message. And so, again, the title of the message was, If the Bemis seat judgment were held today, how would you fare? Well, the most important test score of your life, because we're going to get scored. We're going to have a test score. We all have taken many, many tests throughout our lives. Some important, some others not so important.
In most cases, we hope to do the will, do well with the test and pass them in most cases. But there are some exceptions. Did you ever have a test that you wanted to fail purposely? That I wanted to? Yeah. I don't think so. Not off the top of my head.
I can't really think of one. Well, I did. When I was in the military, my MOS, I had to be able to drive everything from a motorcycle to a five-ton truck in a heartbeat. And, you know, when I was needed, I had to be ready to drive any of that, all that equipment. And I had license. You have to get a license. But there was one thing I did not want to get a license for. And that was the school bus, the bus. And the reason I didn't want to get the license, in all the little countries I was in, whenever they would have their parades, the military had to take part. We were out there and we would be in the parade and somebody would have to drive, all of those in the parade would have to drive them there, wait all day long and drive them back. When everybody else was off, one of those days like the Fourth of July and other days where everybody would be off, you'd have to work. And those things seemed to come up all the time.
So I did not want that license. And so I made up my mind I was going to fail the test. And Sergeant Williams, Sergeant Williams was a guy who was very quiet. And I think he was E-7. And he was one of these very quiet guys.
You could just tell that he was a very wise man, looking at him. And he sat there and I got on my bus and oh boy, I hear it come. I kind of just run off the road a little bit up on the sidewalk and ran some stop signs, crossed the double yellow line.
Yeah. So when I was finished, I pulled up. He said, yeah, pull up and park. I said, man, Sarge, I'm sorry. Don't look, I did too well, huh? And he said, oh, no, you aced it. He said, you got 100%. And the old Sarge, I probably wasn't the first one who pulled that, right? Yeah, he'd do better. Yeah.
He probably expected that going in. But you know, for all the living Christians today, there lies ahead a final test score. They'll have been tested on their obedience to God in a way that they walked and talked and acted in their Christian life. Some will receive many crowns for their labor in the Lord's work. Others, few rewards. And some will lose the rewards for acts of disobedience. Yeah.
And that's the reality. And we're going to start tonight in Revelations, chapter four, the book of Revelation, chapter four. And here we start in verse one.
And after this, I looked. So he starts off with the word after this. Well, what he's referring to is he had just talked about in the last two chapters the seven churches there in Revelation. And here, as he explained, and he had just finished with the church of Laodicea.
And then he said, and after this, I looked up and behold, a door was opened in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was a voice of a trumpet talking with me, which said, come up hither, and I will show you these things which must be hereafter. Well, here now, John's representing the church. And if you read over in First Thessalonians, chapter four, verses 13 through 19, and First Corinthians 15, verses 51 through 58, he's talking about the rapture of the church, the rapture of the church.
And it starts the same way with the trumpet sound. And so here now, John is referring to the rapture of the church. And immediately I was in the spirit, and behold, a throne was set up in heaven, and one set on the throne. Well, that one that sat on the throne was the Lord Jesus Christ.
This is Christ's judgment seat of Christ. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper in a starting stone. And there was a rainbow around about the throne in sight, like unto an emerald. Now, here, rainbows are mentioned four times in scripture.
I know them by heart, OK? It's in Genesis 9, verse 13 by 16, Ezekiel chapter 1, verse 28, right here, Revelation 4-3, and then also, again, in Revelation chapter 10. And so here now, in every single case that the rainbow was mentioned, in fact, it's mentioned in the very first verse of chapter 10, and I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow was upon his head. Now, in every case, what do you think the rainbow represents? Um, didn't it represent the promise from God?
No, two things. It always represents first judgment, and then mercy. First God's judgment, and then God's mercy. And so, if you go back to Genesis 9, the first time it's mentioned, God's judgment was what?
It was the flood on the earth, and where eight billion people perished. But the mercy was what? Eight people didn't perish. And so, that was his mercy, that not all mankind was destroyed. And so, people asked me, you know, the first thing was asked, you know, you know, all those people, are all those people going to help?
No. A good portion of those people would have been children. And God takes into consideration those that are not at the age of discernment. Like, remember what he said to Jonah, should I also take out those that don't know the right from the left? And so here now, when we take a look at this, the judgment seat of Christ is what it's referring to. And we see that over in Romans chapter 14, verse 10, refers to it. And then, also in 2 Corinthians 5, 10. And so here now, as we look through this, we see verse 4.
And around about the throne is four and twenty seats, and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment, and they had on their heads crowns of gold. What do you think most theologians, there's two trains of thought on this. And most theologians, who do you think those twenty-four elders, they're referring to? Maybe the saints of the Old Testament? Well, and the saints of the Old Testament.
In chronological order, you would have had Adam and Seth and Canaan and Mahalia and Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, Shem, Artifacts to Salah, Eber, Pilog, Reu, Sirach, Neher, Terah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, and Phares. No Polish names there, are there? No.
I didn't hear any Irish either. No. You see now, here, that is what a lot of commentary and a lot of theologians believe. The other train of thought is that there were twelve from the Old Testament, and this is what most of your theologians believe, actually, and the twelve apostles. And that's why, you know, their names are written on the gates of the New Jerusalem, the apostles. And that the twenty-four elders make up from twelve of the Old Testament, twelve of the New. And that's what I tend to believe.
Yeah, that would make sense. And so, here now, and out of the throne were seated lightnings and thunderings and voices, and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne. There were the seven spirits they got. Now, this is the Bemisite judgment.
This is the judgment for believers, not whether they're going to heaven or hell, but this is a judgment upon the rewards, what rewards they will receive in heaven, according to what they have done in their bodies when they were on earth. And so, he goes on to say, and out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices, and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. Now, the seven spirits of God have seven very distinct names.
Now, when I'm talking about the names, I'm not talking about what they do. Like, for example, the Holy Spirit is referred to as the Comforter. Well, that's what he does, he comforts the believers, but that's not one of his names. He was referred to as the Comforter, just like he was referred to as the Intercessor. And, what's another name for a lawyer? I'm trying to think of it here, having one of my senior moments, but he was referred to that, too.
Counselor? Yeah, okay. But the seven names are, one, the Spirit of Truth. You find that in John 16, 13. The Spirit of Holiness in Romans 1, 4. The Spirit of Faith in 2 Corinthians 4, 13. The Spirit of Wisdom in Ephesians 1, 17. The Spirit of Power in 2 Timothy 1, 7. And the Spirit of Grace in Hebrews 10, 29. And the Spirit of Glory in 1 Peter 4, 14. Now, a lot of what I say when I give you these verses is right off the top of my head, because I've been doing this for 50 years.
But not in this case. In this case, I had to actually go and look them up. And so, here now, those are the seven actual names of the Holy Spirit. Now, I want to go here now over to Romans chapter 12. Romans 12, verses 1 and 2.
And, I'm on my way. There we go. Now we read verses 1 and 2. I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. So here, we use our bodies in ways that are to honor God, good, clean living. For example, all the things that's mentioned in Matthew chapter 25, feeding the hungry, visiting those in prison and hospitals, housing the homeless, so on.
Okay. Well, we did it today with the Life Chain. Now, there was Life Chain all across the America today, and we had about 70 people come out where we were for the Life Chain, and it was a very good Life Chain. Now, there were some people that went by and had guilty consciences, very guilty, and they showed us their IQ, but for the most part, you know, it was 100%, we got so many beeps and horns and thumbs up out there, and we held up signs just saying, you know, abortion is not healthcare, it's genocide, or repent, God forgive America for the killing of their children, so on and so forth. And so here, when you're, let me ask you, if a woman is using her body in a way that's acceptable unto God, how would she do that? If a woman using her body acceptable to God? Yeah. I would say monogamy with a husband.
He'd be right. Not being a whore, not going out there and just sleeping with everyone. Certainly not killing your baby if you get pregnant. Do you know what the first command God gave man was?
Which was? Be fruitful, multiply. That was the first command.
And so then, in fact, between Genesis 1 and 9, he was given three times. So then, yeah, having children. Definitely not killing them.
But yeah, having children with your husband would be probably one of the easiest ways. Well, you know what? The Apostle Paul talks about that. We're going to take a look at that in just a minute.
He explains that to you. And so, here, what about a man? What would a man do to use his body in the best way?
I would say along the same lines. Yeah. To be, first of all, to be obedient to God, a good servant to the Lord. Second, to be a good husband to the wife and a good father to the children and a good grandfather to the grandchildren, huh? Yeah.
Yeah. And so, that would be used in an honorable way. Now, here, he said, here and be not conformed to this world, okay? Now, we're to be in the world but not of the world. And there's a lot of things we refuse to conform to.
Like you mentioned abortion, that's one of the things I'm very, very upset with Millennial Trump. I listened to her today. I'm finished with her as far as the position.
Now, I know why she's doing what she's doing. We saw this. We've seen this happen time and time again. You know, I'm one of those people that have very high standards and I don't believe in compromise at all, period. No compromise.
That's been 50 years. That's been our position. No compromise.
We've never compromised. And you know what happens when you start compromising? You start losing.
Yeah. It's like telling lies. You know, you tell a whopper and then you have to tell a bigger whopper to cover that whopper. And it never ends.
Yeah, it never ends. So, you know, we believe, tell the truth. Even if it hurts, you tell the truth. Stay with the truth. And so here now, what about when it says be not conformed to the world? What about when it comes to marriage, the divine institution of marriage?
What do we do? We marry for life. All right. Do we recognize or accept what they call same-sex marriage? No.
No. Because it's not actually marriage at all. God gave us the institution and he gave us the definition. And the definition is one man, one woman and God for one lifetime. And the definition of what they call same-sex marriage, the Bible calls fornication and an abomination, which are not good things, are they?
No. Neither of these open marriages either that some of these people have, which is absurd. The open marriages have a tendency within four years to 93 percent end in divorce, 93 percent within the first four years.
And many, the other percent afterwards, you know, they're gone. You know, open marriage is not a marriage. It's not a marriage at all, no. So God calls it adultery, huh? Yep. And so it seems like God always wins those arguments, doesn't he? Yeah. Amazingly, huh?
Yeah. And so here he goes on to say, And be you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Well, we have that right here in Scripture. But if we go over, to answer your question about the women, to 1 Timothy chapter 2, and verses 9 through 15, well, actually, we really should start with verse 8. He says this, And I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting. So he's talking about men in public prayer here, men in public prayer, and men are to lead in public prayer. And then he says, In like manner also that women, okay, so when women also hear, means they are to pray, but they are to pray in silence, okay, they're not to lead in prayer, okay, and adorn themselves with modest apparel. That means with clothes that aren't really tight like these young girls wear today. Yeah, not revealing. Yeah, these short skirts and that.
A modest apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or a costly array. He's saying that a woman's beauty is to come from inside, you know, not, you know, what she does out there. And today, some of these women wear so much makeup, you know, you would think they're so greased down, they would slip out of bed, you know.
But, and that's not good. I had a woman doctor on here and she was very well known, and I'm having one of my senior moments. And she did a radio program some years ago, she did research, and she found out that the cause why breast cancer is so high in America, was coming, a lot of it was coming through the makeup that women were wearing.
Cosmetics. Yeah, it was settling in what they call the brown fat in their breasts. And this is what she was saying, and oh, I wish I could remember, everybody would know her if I could remember her name. She had written some books and passed away about two years ago.
As soon as you move on, it'll come to you. Yeah, it's the way it usually is. And he says here, uh, but in which ways becometh a woman professing godliness with good works, that all the women learn in silence with all subjection, but I suffer not a woman to teach nor to assert authority over the man, but to be in silence. So he's referring to, in the church, and in fact over in 1 Corinthians, when they're talking about tongues, the only people that are not to speak in tongues specifically are women. And you know, I preached in several Pentecostal churches, and you know what, if there's ten people speaking in tongues, eight of them will be women.
And so, but here, he goes on to say, For Adam was first formed then Eve, and Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. In other words, we know that the enemy always attacks men in the area of pride. Even when we're, even when we're little, we're competitive.
You know, we can, I can outrun you, I can, you know, my brother can beat up your brother, my dog's bigger than your dog, my bike is faster than your bike. So even from a point where we're very competitive, and often, you know, pride sets in, that's where men seem to be attacked the most. With women, it's in the area of discernment. And what's happened is, over the years, when men who were instructed to listen to God, and they, when instead, when they took the advice of their wives, well, things usually didn't end well. You remember Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit?
Yeah. You know, Adam should listen to God. He was, he was in charge, and he should have said, Look, women, get back to the kitchen. And he had the authority, he had the authority right there at that garden, you know, to take the head off the serpent. Adam was the king there. He was the boss.
That was his territory. He had the authority given to him from God, but he didn't. He listened to Eve. And Abraham, he listened to Hagar. And, boy, did that cause a mess with Ishmael.
And today, we have the Arab nations, and there's constant upheaval. And so, all through the Scripture, now, Job was a pretty smart guy, and he didn't listen to his wife. She told him to curse God and die. And Job said, You're speaking like a silly woman. Okay. And so, and there's other cases throughout, but whenever the men did not take up their responsibilities like they were supposed to, and they listened to the wives, none of it, it never ended well.
Okay. And so, now, the last verse here, and you tell me how this works, right? The last verse says, Paul is saying, not withstanding, she shall be saved in childbirth if they continue in faith and charity and holiness and sobriety. So, you mean to tell me that a woman can receive salvation by giving birth to a child?
Yeah, apparently. Well, that's not exactly what it means. When he says, not withstanding, she shall be saved in childbearing, he's referring to the ministry of a woman, the very best ministry that a woman can have. One is to be obedient, faithful, and obedient to God. Two, to be a good wife, a faithful and obedient wife to her husband, to give birth, and to raise children in the ammunition of the Lord, to nurture the children and raise them in the ammunition of the Lord.
That's the best ministry a woman can have. Yeah, not just having the child. Yeah, but raising the child, and then so being not only a good mother, but a good wife, a good mother, but a good grandmother also. And I think about my wife and that, she's just the perfect picture of a good grandmother, okay? Well, that was, when I got married, that was the key deciding factor for me was, is she going to be a good mother if we have children?
And as soon as I figure it out that, yes, this would be a good mother, I'm like, okay, I'm in. Yeah, okay. So, all righty, let's go over now to 2 Corinthians, you know, yeah, 2 Corinthians chapter 5, and 2 verses 9 and 10, 2 Corinthians 5, 9, and 10. And I passed it up again.
Okay. Wherefore we labor, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of Him, for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that in every one may receive the things done in His body, according to that He hath done, whether it be good or bad. And so, that word judgment in Greek, judgment seat, is the bima, means bima, bima seat. And this is where believers had to be judged for their works.
And sometimes people confuse that the judgment seat of Christ with the white throne judgment, two completely different things, think goodness. Anyhow, so, here, what we do in these bodies that God has given us, when it says to labor here, that word labor actually means ambitious. It says wherefore we have ambitious, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of Him.
In other words, we really want to be accepted of the Lord, okay? Whether we're in this body or not, okay? For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. And so, we won't appear there while we're in this body, because we'll be given new bodies.
This body could never be there in the third heaven, right? And so, let's go to 2 Corinthians chapter 3. In 2 Corinthians chapter 3, and I'll get there in a minute, okay?
Verses 9 through 17. For we are laborers together with God, you are God's husbandry, we are God's building. According to the grace of God, which is given unto me as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another man buildeth thereupon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
So now... This is 1 Corinthians. What did I say, 2 Corinthians? You said second, yeah, this is 1 Corinthians.
Oh, yeah, it is 1 Corinthians, yeah, you're right. And so, you've got your Bible with you tonight. Yeah, I always do. I like trying to read along if I can catch it in time when you're going from chapter to chapter. It kind of helps me remember and understand if I read along.
Jimmy told me not to go too fast because you can't read too well. Only kidding, only kidding. But that sounds like something he would say, huh? It certainly does, yes. Anyhow, so now there's only one foundation that we can stand on. There's only one sure foundation and all the other foundations someday are going to be gone, but there's just one that'll never go. And so, he goes on and we know that because the next verse says, For all other foundations can no man lay, then that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now, if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, and stubble.
Why do you think he said that? Gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, and stubble? Maybe because that's what kind of covers everything. If you take gold and silver and diamonds and you put it under fire, what happens to gold, silver, and diamonds under fire? Well, gold and silver will definitely melt at some point. I'm not sure about diamonds, though.
With diamonds? In each case, with gold, it's seven times as for it's pure. It becomes worth more as value increases. Okay.
Okay. And the same thing with the silver and diamonds. Their value increases. So, he said, For every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall be declared. Okay, no, I went back a verse. Any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, and precious stones.
So, in other words, they're going to be tried. Your works are going to be tried by fire. So, what happens if you take wood, hay, and stubble and put it under the fire? It'll burn away. It's gone. It's gone.
There is no. And so, he says, So every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall deliver it, because it shall be revealed by fire. And the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. So, now, what do you think that fire is? Actually, the fire is two things. It's got two applications. One is the standard, God's standards.
Okay. The other is under persecution. Under persecution, you tried your works in faith, are tried. And he says, If any man's work abide, which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. In other words, if it becomes worth more value, you'll receive a reward. Purified.
Yep. And the word actually there, when he's talking about, when it says abide, actually, let's say the word we use for endure, endure. If any man's work endure, which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet as by fire.
And again, that fire, he's talking about God's standards. God has said, We cannot lose our salvation. We cannot lose our salvation. And there's, in fact, in Romans, chapter 8, God takes you to the very realm of life, the very realm of death, the very realm of the past, the present, the future, the actual very realm of the universe.
And there's nothing in all of that, the past, the present, or future, can take away your salvation. And so here, now you'll lose your rewards in heaven. What do you think he's referring to, referring to crowns, is going to be your status. It's kind of like your ranking, like in the military.
You'll receive these crowns, and you'll spend eternity with that ranking, according to what you've done here on earth, huh, with your body. Yeah, sounds like it. You don't want to go in a private E1, do you?
You'd rather not. Yeah. And so here he says, �Know you not that the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?� Okay, so now, if he's talking about here, �If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy.� Which temple you are. So now he's talking to Christians here, right?
So he's talking about what happens if you defile, you know, there's some things happening. I don't know if you've noticed this, but driving home late at night or early in the morning, I guess you could say, from the radio station, people out there on the roads are crazy at nighttime. Listen, they're traveling over 100 miles an hour, and ever since they legalized marijuana here in Ohio.
I've noticed that. It really got crazy. They're weaving in and out, they're cutting people off. Some guy goes flying by and he was holding like a cup of coffee or something up with one hand on the wheel, and he's weaving in and out of traffic with just the strangest look on his face.
And there are people that are going over 100 miles an hour at night there on those freeways. It's crazy. Yeah, I mean, they could be on any number of things. I don't know. I mean, it could be anything.
Yeah, but I noticed since they legalized it, it's gotten progressively worse. And so, what about these tattoos? You know, when I worked the booth at the fair, it was just unbelievable. You know, do you remember when we were kids, you'd go to the circus and they'd have the tattooed lady, because women never got a tattoo. You would never see a tattoo on a woman. When I was a kid growing up, and this was something, this was here, something you'd go to the circus to see, the circus show a woman with tattoos, right? Well, I'm going to tell you, that ain't the case today. No, you'd also see a bearded lady.
Now you've got to go to story time for that. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're absolutely right. But both the males and the females' tattoos, it's just unbelievable the way. And some of these people are so biblically illiterate. They're so biblically illiterate, some of them actually have like Bible verses tattooed on them. And some of them, you know, they got crosses tattooed, but others, it's very, very satanic. I saw one was the case, there was a woman, and she had a tattoo right at her belly button there, and it was an arrow pointing down, and I can't tell you what it said there, but you know where it was pointing to. Yeah.
And that's what she's walking, walking around wearing that, with that tattoo on it, and you know, just unbelievable. And so, and if any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. So, what do you think that means God's going to destroy?
He's referring to Christians here. I think the answer you find would be found in Hebrews chapter 12. They do something like that that brings dishonor to God. God will take them out early.
He'll either get them, make them very, very sick, where they have to cry out in repentance, or He'll take them home early, first of all, so they don't continue to dishonor Him, and then second, so that they don't continue to lose whatever crowns they had in glory. And so, I want to go now over to 2 Timothy chapter 4. And 2 Timothy, I can't believe I made it through this, this far without wetting my whistle. Now that you've said that, your throat's going to start getting parched. Yeah, it is parched, but this is the third time I've preached this message today. So, 2 Timothy chapter 4, starting in verse 6 through 8. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
Paul knows that he's about to die. I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day.
And not me only, but all of them also that love His appearance. So the question is, Paul here, first of all, Paul's absolutely no doubt that he will soon receive his reward and glory. God always honors your commitment. God always comes through, don't He?
Yep, always keeps His word. So, so many professing believers, if they really understood what blessing that God wants them to receive, then do you think their attitude would be changed if they really understood the blessings? Maybe some. I think a lot of people are willfully ignorant though. Yeah, they are.
They are. And you know, you hear these young people, I remember one day I was preaching down the street in front of an abortion mill. This young guy tells me, when I witnessed to him, and he said, I'm going to party hardy, preach. When I get old like you, I'll get religion.
And I told him, I said, I didn't get this old by being stupid, son. I wonder if he's still around. I don't know. And so, if they really understood, you know, you hear, I can't believe it now, they talk about evangelicals for guess who? For Satan. Yeah, well actually evangelicals, you might as well say that. Yeah. For Kamalik.
Kamalik. And how in the world could you be a Christian and be for abortion? You cannot be a Christian and believe in killing babies. No. You cannot be that, okay? Anyone who says they're a Christian and is pro-life, or pro-death, brother, they, they're a liar.
They're lying to you, lying to themselves, and lying to God. Absolutely. Absolutely. And so here, this event, what about just the neo-eos? Uh, the country club. Those that kind of relate their standing and their Christian life with the mega church that they attend. I heard some bragging talking about one day, how all that their church had, and he was saying how it had a big gift store, a large gift store, it had a cafeteria in the church, and also had a movie theater, an Olympic pool there, and there's one out there some place in Canton, I believe, that's got a nine-hole golf course. And so, is that a church or a country club? Yeah, it sounds like a country club. Sounds like Disneyland, you know? Yeah.
Yeah, it does. Doesn't sound like a place of worship. Yep.
No. And so here, what you're talking about, neo-evangelicalism is symbolism over substance. Rick Warren's Saddleback, where he had, what was it, eleven different venues of worship, eleven what they call eleven different venues.
You could do the old traditional type, you could do the charismatic type. He had the, even had line dancing, religion, you know, where you can do worshiping, line dancing, even had one thing where they had scantily dressed young women called pelvic thrust. And yeah, it's just unbelievable. And this is what Rick Warren says in his book, you know, the, about the, what do you call it, church. You had, in order to get unchurched Harry into the church, you can't beat him over the head with the Bible. You've got to conform the church to the world. Well... That's not how it's supposed to work. I know that we just read that in Romans chapter twelve, didn't we? Besides that, let me ask you this.
Why would that work? I mean, Harry's already got that out there in the world. Why would he want to come into church, right?
Yeah. And so, not a very good, yeah, so now let's go over there to Revelation chapter fourteen. In Revelation chapter fourteen, we want to start verses nine through, nine through thirteen. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast in his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture, unto the cup of his indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of holy angels and in the presence of the lamb. Doesn't sound like everybody's gonna get saved, does it?
No. No, they keep putting that heresy out there. And the smoke of their torment ascended up forever and ever, and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast in his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Now, here is the patience of the saints.
Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Right blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth, yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them. In other words, their works follow them into heaven. And so, here, if we go back to verse one, I want to read this. I looked and lo, a lamb stood on the mount, and with him 144,000 having his father's name written on their foreheads. Now these are 144,000, flaming John the Baptist, and here he tells you, and they sang a new song, now they had the mark of the Lord Jesus, had their mark on their foreheads, and that means during the tribulation period, the Democrats can't harm them at all. They cannot harm these people at all. And so, they're going to be preaching the gospel out there, and a lot of theologians believe that during that period, more people on earth will be saved than have ever been saved all the way up until that.
Okay? And more people are going to be, why? For a number of reasons, they're going to look around and they're going to see that the Christians are all gone. They're going to remember, hey, I heard something about that in that Bible, that book, the King James Bible. Well, when we go to heaven, we can't even take the King James Bible with us, can we?
Well, we won't need it, but yeah, no, we can't. They'll be left behind, and these people will go looking for that Bible to find out what's really taking place. And they're going to hear the preaching of the 144,000 flaming evangelists.
So many, many are going to get saved, and many are going to get martyred for that, during that time. But those, it's going to be a little different than it is now. You see, here, they're going to have to, during that period of time, during the tribulation period, it's going to be different than it is here. Today, for us, we can't lose our salvation as kept in heaven.
It's going to be a little different. They're going to have to be able to hold tight, hold steady, right until the end, and not give in, and not repent. They're going to be told, look, look at your child over there. Your child's going to starve to death. All you've got to do is deny Christ, and you can eat. Look at over here. All you need is medical care.
You can get it if you just deny Christ. Well, we're out of time for tonight. So as we come to this time every night, what do we always say? Thanks for being here, folks. And then we say, good night, God bless, and always, always, always, ready? Keep fighting the fight! What's Left Ministries, and is responsible for its content.
