ask you to bless this service tonight in Jesus name 148 148 brethren we have met
to worship you know it's singing out brethren we have met the worship song
this church this time we'll go through our announcements real quick don't
have one go and raise your hand and an usher will bring you one we have our
verse of the week memory verse of the week there Proverbs 31 16 if anyone 18
years or younger can quote this to myself or an usher tonight you'll get an
ice cream after the church service and then the service times are listed there
on the left side service time Sunday morning 1030 a.m. Spanish service every
Sunday at 430 our evening service at 530 and of course tonight Wednesday evening
service at 7 we have there our churchwide soul winning times listed all
those meet here at the building at those respective times also our regional soul
winning times are listed and those meet at various locations throughout DFW so
one of those is bound to be close to you make sure to get with those leaders if
you'd like to attend we have our stats for the year they're listed also our
expecting ladies on the top right there as well as our prayer list and let's go
to the back here we have the birth of Mavi Ruby freedom she was born on 1624
at 831 a.m. weighing 6 pounds 15 ounces and measuring 21 inches long for
upcoming events we have on January 20th the beginning of our preaching class
that's gonna go for 10 weeks if you're a man and you're a soul winner you're
welcome to come to this it's gonna be a great time we're gonna be going through
pastor Jack Hiles book teaching on preaching there's gonna be some lessons
there's gonna be some opportunity to preach and get feedback on your
sermons so definitely encourage you all to make it for that that should be a
blessing on February 3rd all ladies are invited to attend a baby shower in
honor of Katherine Craker and her baby girl on Saturday February 3rd from 12
30 p.m. to 2 30 p.m. at the church nurselings only preferred make sure to
RSVP to mrs. Lauren Millstead for that and please bring a side dish or a
dessert to share real quickly before we go to our next song let's go ahead and
and pray as a church through our prayer list if there's a couple that have been
added this week the illy family's been asking for prayer for their health and
I know a lot of families are out sick right now so we'll be praying for them
and miss Laura Warner has a friend named Debbie that is undergoing cancer
treatment and I guess her pain has just gotten really terrible this week so
she's asking special prayer for her treatment and her pain this week so
let's go ahead and go to the Lord in prayer as a church at this time dear
Heavenly Father thank you so much for our church and the blessing to come
before you in prayer pray that you would continue to heal brother Hall's leg and
thank you for the healing that he has received so far Lord and pray for miss
Karen Cooley's stepdad his cancer treatment he would get the treatment he
needs and that you'd heal him pray for my brother's safety while he's on
deployment and pray that you'd bring him back home to his family soon pray for
miss Alicia's grandmother for her vision be fully restored and for her health
and especially Lord for her to soften her heart to the gospel that she'd be
saved Lord we pray for brother Jonathan Spurgeon's grandfather that he'd be
healed and miss Rebecca Noguera that she would just improve her health during
this difficult time for her Lord and I pray for all the families in our church
right now that are sick and recovering from sickness pray that you'd help us
all to feel better soon pray for the Nichols family that you would just
protect them and guide them Lord and also pray for miss Laura Warner's friend
Debbie that she would ease her pain during her cancer treatment and that
she'd ultimately be healed thank you for everything Lord and Jesus I pray amen
all right let's go ahead and go to our handout where the spirit blows we have a
couple extra handouts so if you don't have one raise your hand and Usher will
bring you one let's sing it together where the spirit blows where the spirit
blows in your handout if you don't have one raise your hand we'll give one to you
that's told me the offering plates are being passed around go ahead a book of
Jude the book of Jude once is the servant of Jesus Christ to them that
are sanctified by God the father preserved Jesus Christ and called mercy
unto you and peace and love be multiplied beloved when I gave all
diligence to write unto you of the common salvation it was needful for me
to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the
faith which was once delivered unto the Saints for there are certain men crept
in unawares who were behold before of old ordained to the combination ungodly
men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord
God and our Lord Jesus Christ I will therefore put you in remembrance
through he once knew this how the Lord having saved the people out of the land
of Egypt afterward destroyed them that believe not and the angels which kept
not their first estate but left their own habitation he hath reserved and
everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day even as
Sodom and Gomorrah in the cities about them in like manner giving themselves
over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth for an
example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire likewise also these filthy
dreamers defile the flesh despise dominion and speak evil of dignities yet
Michael the archangel when he contending with the devil he
disputed about the body of Moses durst not bring against him a railing
accusation but said the Lord rebuke thee but these speak evil of those
things which they are not know not but when they know naturally as brute beast
in those things they corrupt themselves woe unto them for they have gone in the
way of Cain and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward and perished
in the gain standing of Kor. These are spots in their feasts of charity when
they feast with you feeding themselves without fear clouds they are without
water carried about of winds trees whose fruit withereth without fruit twice dead
plucked up by the roots raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame
wandering stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever and Enoch
also the seventh from Adam prophesied of these things saying behold the Lord
cometh with ten thousands of his saints to execute judgment upon all to
convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they
have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners
have spoken against him these are murmurs complainers walking after their
own lusts and their mouths speaketh great swelling words having men's
persons in admiration because of advantage but beloved remember ye the
words which were spoken before the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ how
that they told you there should be mockers in the last time who should walk
after their own ungodly lust these be they who separate themselves sensual
having not the spirit but ye beloved building up yourselves on your most holy
faith praying in the Holy Ghost keep yourselves in the love of God looking
for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ and to eternal life and some having
compassion making a difference and other say with fear pulling them out of the
fire hating even the garment spotted by the flesh now went to him that is able
to keep you from falling into a present you faultless before the presence of his
glory with with exceeding joy to the only wise God our Savior be glory and
majesty, dominion, and power both now and forever. Amen. Let's pray. Dear Lord, we
just thank you for this chapter. We just pray that you fill brother Dillon with
their spirit as he preaches your word to us. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen. Well
first thank you Pastor Shelley for the opportunity to preach tonight and we're
here in the Epistle of Jude. I figured we'd stay with the theme of Wednesday
night Bible studies and I thought what book can I get done in one week? Jude.
One chapter, right? Just one chapter so we're here in the Epistle of Jude. Let's
start in verse number one. The Bible reads, "Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James,
to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called." So first,
I just want to go over a couple facts about this Epistle, the book of Jude. First of all, Jude was
the half-brother of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now keep your place here in Jude throughout the sermon
but go to Mark chapter number six. Mark chapter number six. Mark chapter six, and when you get
there look at verse number two. In Mark six, verse two, the Bible says, "And when the Sabbath day was
come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, 'From whence
hath this man these things? And what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty
works are wrought by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?'" And then notice this,
"The brother of James and Joses and of Judah and Simon are not his sisters here with us,
and they were offended at him." In the New Testament, Jude, he's sometimes referred to as
Judas, not Iscariot, Judah. And then here in this book, the title is Jude. I would understand why
you'd want to be called Jude after Judas. If my name was Judas, I'd be like, "I'm changing this."
So it goes by Jude because it doesn't want to be confused with Judas, the wicked one that betrayed
the Lord Jesus Christ. But Jude is the half-brother of the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's kind of cool,
carnally speaking, right? And if I were to open up a letter and I was the half-brother of Jesus
Christ, probably in our prideful flesh, you'd want to say something like, "Jude, the half-brother of
Jesus Christ." I mean, that's pretty authoritative. That's pretty cool, right? But notice in verse
one of Jude, he doesn't call himself that. He says, "Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ."
Why doesn't he call himself the brother of Jesus Christ? Well, I think one reason is because God
doesn't care about your bloodline. Your bloodline is completely meaningless. It doesn't matter
whatsoever. And in fact, you could be Jesus Christ's brother. You could be related to him
in any type of way. And if you don't believe in him, you're still going to go to hell when you die.
So being related to Jesus Christ by any means is not significant at all. You can stay there.
Actually, go ahead and go to John chapter number seven, and I'll read for you 1 Timothy
1 Ford says, "Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies which minister questions
rather than godly edifying which is in faith so do." So notice here Paul, he gives the admonishment
to the pastor not to worry about fables and endless genealogies because all it does is just
minister questions. It's not edifying. What's edifying is faith. What's edifying is believing
the word of God and so being related to Jesus Christ honestly doesn't matter at all from a
carnal perspective. Another reason why I think he calls himself the servant of Jesus Christ and not
the brother of Jesus Christ is because it kind of shows the change that Jude had in his own life.
John chapter 7 verse 1 it says, "After these things Jesus walked in Galilee for he would not
walk in Jewry because the Jews sought to kill him. Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand.
His brethren therefore said unto him," this is his physical brothers, half brothers actually,
"His brethren therefore said unto him, 'Depart hence and go unto Judea, that thy disciples also
may see the works that thou doest. For there is no man that doeth anything in secret, and he himself
seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, show thyself to the world.'" Notice verse
five, verse five is key, "For neither did his brethren believe in him." So think about it,
his own brothers who grew up in the same home as the Lord Jesus Christ, they had to have noticed
that he was sinless, they had to have noticed that he never disobeyed mom and dad, they had to have
noticed that he never told a lie, they had to have noticed these things about him, but sometimes
familiarity can cause us to not have the respect for someone that we ought to, or to give someone
the credence that they deserve, the credibility that they deserve, just because we're close to
someone, and so even the Lord's own physical brothers didn't believe in him at first. That's
pretty crazy to think about, right? But yet you want to get so offended when someone rejects you
at the door out soul winning. You know, the first time you ever give someone the gospel and they
reject it, you're ready to call them a reprobate. No, look, Jesus' own brothers didn't believe in
him at first, but we know that eventually he did get saved because he wrote the Epistle of Jude.
And what's cool is how he addresses himself as the servant of Jesus Christ. Shows that he got
saved. Shows the change in perspective that he had of his brother that, "Hey, you know, yeah,
I'm the brother of the Lord Jesus Christ, but you know what's more important than being the
brother of Jesus Christ is being the servant of Jesus Christ. That's way more important.
What's also interesting about this is that the fact that Jude is the half-brother of Jesus Christ
disproves the Catholic belief that Mary was a perpetual virgin. This belief that, you know,
that her title is The Virgin Mary. Like she's up in heaven and she still somehow has the status of
virgin. Wrong. Jesus Christ had siblings. Mary was a virgin up to the point of Jesus's birth,
but after that she came together with her husband and had more children. There's nothing special
about Mary other than the fact that obviously God chose her for a great mission, for a great task
for him. But look, Mary is not some sort of goddess that you pray to. She's not a perpetual
virgin. I mean, this completely disproves that wicked Catholic doctrine. Also, we see that Jude
is not addressed to a specific church or to a specific group of people. Often in the epistles,
you see it's to the Romans, to the Galatians, to the Ephesians. In Revelation, we see it's to the
seven churches which are in Asia. But look again really quick at verse one. It says, "To them that
are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called." So, this letter is just
to saved people. We don't know exactly. Maybe he was, you know, making trips around churches and
giving this to multiple churches or if there's some group that we're unaware of. We don't really
know, but all I know is that this was addressed to save people. All I know is that all
scripture is given by inspiration of God and it's profitable to us today and so we can take this
epistle and we can learn from it. So, look at verse two. It says, "Mercy unto you and peace and love
be multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation,
it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend
for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." So, here we see Jude, he expresses his
desire that he wanted to write to this group of Christians about salvation. He said, "I gave
all diligence," so he was really trying hard here, "to write unto you of the common salvation,
but it was needful for him to write something else." Okay, what can we learn from this? Well,
we can learn right off the bat that salvation is not the only important doctrine in the Bible.
You know, a lot of Christians, they kind of want to have this holier-than-now mentality,
where if you preach any other doctrine in the Bible, if you preach hard on sin, if you call
out people by name, they want to kind of throw this at you like, "Well, why don't you just preach
salvation? Why aren't you preaching the gospel?" But here, Jude, under the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit, he said, "Hey, I wanted to talk to you guys about the gospel, but it was more
needful for me to do something else." And so that teaches us a lesson that, hey, you know,
salvation's important, but at times, other things need to be talked about. And when we're addressing
Christians, often that's not really the subject that they need anyways, because hopefully everyone
in here, unless you're a young child, is already saved. So would it really benefit the church
tonight if I got up here and just talked to you about the common salvation? Yeah, it would have
some benefit. We could sure up our doctrine and make sure that we don't have any holes in our
doctrine, that we're not letting things slip. Sure, there's some benefit there, but you know,
sometimes we need to talk about other things. In a lot of churches, they want to just be like the
seeker-sensitive church where they build their church with the philosophy of catering to unsaved
people. That's not biblical. We need to cater our service to the saved. We need to help them grow
in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Also, we see here that sometimes God
wants us to fight. He says, "Hey, I wanted to talk to you about salvation, but look, you need to
earnestly contend for the faith." And so as Christians, we need to be ready to fight to
defend the doctrines that we believe in the Bible. You know, Christianity is not just some thing we
should take lightly. It's not some joke. You know, this is people's eternity at stake. This is heaven
and hell. This is people's lives being ruined or not. This is people's eternal rewards in heaven.
And so when false doctrine or wicked people show, we should be ready to fight the good fight of
faith. We should be ready to fight. Here's another application, you know, for myself as a preacher
and for other people to get the opportunity to preach. And I would especially think this
to be true for pastors is that you need to be flexible in what you preach. Sometimes, you know,
maybe you're writing a sermon about the common salvation and you hear someone preaching oneness
and it's more needful that you need to change that sermon and preach something else because, hey,
salvation's great, but sometimes you need to change that and preach something else. We got to be
flexible. And here's another application we can make to this is when the pastor preaches to us,
we should be ready to hear his warnings. I mean, Jude's saying, look, I'm ready to talk to you
guys about the common salvation, but it's more needful for me to tell you to contend for the
faith. He's giving a warning here. We should be willing to listen to the leadership in our life
and take heed to that warning. Look at verse four. Why? "For there are certain men crept in,
unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of
our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ." So notice,
he's saying, look, I wanted to talk to you about salvation, but something more important needs to
be spoken about. What is it? It's ungodly men that are creeping into this group. And what are they
doing? They're ungodly, first of all, they're turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness.
We'll get to what that means in a minute. They're denying the Lord. I mean, these people are false
prophets. These are false brethren that he's talking about that have crept into this congregation,
church, group of Christians. I don't know who they are exactly, but Jude finds out about it and he
wants to warn them about it. This is a common theme in the New Testament. Turn to Acts chapter
number 20. Acts chapter number 20. You know, we have to understand and realize that wicked people
will creep in to Steadfast Baptist Church. Even with the vigilance, even with our strong policies
here, it is something that is going to happen. It happens to every single New Testament church
and you need to be ready for that. And you know, over the last three, four, I don't know how many
years now, Steadfast's battles has been with the world for a while now. You know, we've been
fighting the sodomites, we've been fighting the world, but don't think that it's forever going
to be like that. Realize that we could have internal battles too. That wicked men can creep
in here unaware, we're unaware, we think they're good, we think they're normal, and then we find
out that there are these wicked false prophets. Realize that that can happen to us. In many
churches, I mean, it seems like they have nothing but internal battles. And we've kind of had a
break from that. And hey, I prefer the external battles. I prefer fighting against the sodomites
all day long. It gets ugly when it's someone that you thought was your friend. It gets ugly
when it was someone that you thought was your fellow laborer in Christ. Man, that sometimes
can sting. That sometimes can get ugly. And sometimes it reveals people's character.
But look at Acts chapter number 20 real quickly. Let me explain to you the context of this.
The Apostle Paul, he's talking to elders in Ephesus. And he says this in verse 28. He says,
"Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost
hath made you overseers to feed the church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood."
Quick commercial break real quick. I saw some bozo commenting on Pastor Shelley's sermon saying
that Pastor Shelley is like a pope because he thinks that people should be fed at church.
It's like, hold on. He's talking to pastors and he says, "Over the which the Holy Ghost
have made you overseers to feed the church of God." It almost seems like it's the pastor's
job to feed the flock of God. That's not a prideful thing. That's obeying God's word.
You know, what a stupid comment that is. But back to what we're talking about, false prophets here,
verse 29, "For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you,
not sparing the flock. Also, notice of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things
to draw away disciples after themselves." Look at verse 31, "Therefore watch and remember that by
the space of three years I cease not to warn everyone night and day with tears." Look, Paul's
trying to get it in these people's heads. He's preaching it every single day, night and day for
three years. There's going to be infiltrators. There's going to be even people among yourselves
that rise up, speaking perverse things, teaching false doctrine for the purpose of gathering
disciples under themselves. It sounds a lot like a church split, right? And this happens all the
time. This happens in good churches with good pastors. Wicked men rise up. They bring some
sort of damnable heresy. They whisper it in someone's ear. They start getting a little club
together of a bunch of morons, a bunch of bozos, and sometimes end up splitting the church. But in
Jude, the Bible gave us a description of what these people are like. Look again at verse number
four. It says that they're ungodly. It says that they turn God's grace into lasciviousness, and it
says that they deny the Lord. Now, what is lasciviousness? I just looked up the dictionary
definition, and it said this. It said unrestrained sexual behavior or a habitual inclination to such
behavior, lustfulness. We're going to get into this in a minute, but false prophets and perversion
go hand in hand. I think this was even preached recently. I mean, it is so common for someone
that teaches a false gospel, for someone that believes in damnable heresy to be some sort of
pervert, to be even a sodomite. I mean, if you just look up, like, pastor scandal, I mean, there's
just like sodomite after sodomite after sodomite pastor, it's crazy. But that's what Jude is
describing. These wicked men that creep in amongst God's people, they turn God's grace
into lasciviousness. They take something good, God's grace, and they pervert it. They twist it
into something perverted. What's a good example of this? A good example of this is Pastor Joseph
Prince. Has anyone heard of this guy? This queer-looking, weird pastor that wears like
the super-skin-tight leather clothes. He has a 31,000-member congregation church called New
Creation Church, and he has two churches that he pastors in DFW. Who knew that? I knew that he was
like Singapore or something like that. I had no idea that he came into our community. It's disgusting.
But let me give you a quote from this guy, and think about what I just said, that they turn the
grace of God into lasciviousness. This is a quote from him. He says, "The bottom line is that the
Holy Spirit never convicts you of your sins." Well, that's a convenient doctrine for a false prophet
that probably sins grievously in disgusting ways all the time. Oh, the Holy Spirit never convicts
you of your sins. He never comes to point out your faults. So this guy has this hyper grace,
hyper love gospel that he preaches that basically God's never mad at anyone for any reason. The
Holy Spirit never convicts anyone of sin. The Holy Spirit never convicts or wants to point out if
someone's wrong. That's a pretty convenient doctrine for a pervert, right? And hey, I'm
not going to falsely accuse this guy because I don't know if he's been in any scandals or not,
but all I'm saying is that this type of doctrine could be a cover for perversion.
It absolutely can be. Go to John chapter number 16, John 16. That's turning God's grace into
lasciviousness. And it's always these false prophets that want to minimize sin. They want
to minimize things and teach perversion from behind the pulpit. John 16 verse 7, Jesus said
this, "Nevertheless, I tell you the truth. It is expedient for you that I go away. For if I go not
away, the Comforter will not come unto you, but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he
is come, he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment." Joseph Prince says,
"The Holy Spirit never convicts you of sin." Jesus says that the Holy Spirit comes to reprove us of
our sin and of, notice this, judgment. Do you think that it's a coincidence that false prophets
are always attacking this idea of judgment? I mean, the Holy Spirit of God, I mean, this is,
the Holy Spirit's never wrong about anything. The Holy Spirit is the truth. The Holy Spirit comes
to reprove sin and of righteousness and judgment. Is it any coincidence that these false prophets
always hate judgment? They always hate judgment. You know, I saw a really sick example of this
just this week. I follow this page on Instagram, it's called like DFW, I forget what it's called,
but it basically shows like news in DFW, events happening in DFW, usually shows like police chases
in DFW, all the crazy stuff going on or whatever. And they posted this sick picture, I wish I didn't
even see it, they posted this disgusting picture of this man on the side of the road in Dallas
wearing a dress. Just disgusting. A cross-dressing abomination and there are a bunch of people trying
to defend it because oh he lost a bet and so that makes it okay somehow. But all I did I just posted
Deuteronomy 22.5 with no commentary and nothing else and I just get comment after comment after
comment, "Judge not! Judge not! Judge not!" You know what that is? That's turning the grace of
God into lasciviousness because just because God gives us grace doesn't mean that he condones of
men wearing dresses. It's disgusting. It's an abomination the Bible says. Absolutely sick and
I'm sick and tired of Christians condoning of sin in the name of grace. Condoning of sin acting
like God believes the same stupid idea of Joseph Prince. No, the Bible says that person's an
abomination. Oh grace, you know the loving thing to do is to tell that person, "Hey idiot, losing a
bet is not worth sinning against God." It's like, oh well you lost a bet so now it's okay to sin
against God. No, it's not okay. It's disgusting. It's sick. And you know what? It just made me
realize like, wow, there's no hope for America. When everyone in Texas is just okay with this
person cross-dressing in Dallas, Texas, and all these Christians are telling me, "judge not,
judge not, judge not," you're just begging for the destruction of America. You're just a brain-dead
moron. How in the world did I just wake up in 2024? I just, I just, here we are. Men in dresses
are being defended by Christians. Someone pinch me. Someone wake me up from this hellscape nightmare.
How did this happen? I'll tell you how. It's because people got away from judgments. People
got away from what the Holy Spirit does, convicting of sin. Rather, they've allowed these false
prophets to creep in. And hey, I would love to sit up here and preach a message about salvation,
but guess what? It's more needful to warn you about cross-dressing faggots in Dallas, Texas.
Would to God, every single pastor in this community would do the same and it probably
wouldn't exist. It's disgusting. Go back to verse five of Jude, verse five. We need to get back to
preachers calling this stuff out and then it wouldn't be acceptable anymore. Then, you know,
Christianity has the truth. The truth is powerful. It's stronger than lies. All we got to do is just
get up and tell the truth and it will have a difference. It will make a difference. It'll
have an impact in our society. Notice verse five. So remember, we're talking about false prophets
and then he says this in verse five, "I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once
knew this, how that the Lord having saved the people out of the land of Egypt afterward destroyed
them that believed not." Why is he bringing up this group of people, this group of people that
was saved out of the land of Egypt but they didn't believe? I think what he's doing is he's saying,
hey, remember this group of unsaved people? Well, this is what false prophets are like.
And we're going to see in the next couple of verses he's going to compare false prophets to
a couple of different groups. Look at verse 6, "And the angels," now bringing up a different group,
"which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting
chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." Go to Revelation 12, flip over a few
pages to Revelation 12. So he's saying, hey, look, these false prophets are unsaved just like the
people in the wilderness that didn't believe were unsaved, just like the angels that rebelled with
the devil, they're reserved unto hell. Verse 9 of Revelation 12, what am I talking about?
It says, "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan,
which deceiveth the whole world. He was cast out of the earth and his," notice, "angels were cast
out with him." I don't, you know, pretend to fully understand all that went into the devil rebelling
and angels rebelling with him, but I know that there is fallen angels, there is angels that rebelled
with Satan against the Lord, and what is Jude telling us? He's saying, like, these angels God
has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day, saying these
angels that fall, they're going to be cast into hell someday, in the same way that false prophets
are going to be cast into hell someday. Here's another group that he talks about in verse number
seven of Jude. In verse number seven, he says, "Even as," so in the same way, "even as Sodom and
Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication
and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal
fire." So notice, he's comparing, he's saying these false prophets, these false brethren,
they are just like Sodomites. They are just like the people in Sodom and Gomorrah, and what happened
to them? They suffered the vengeance of eternal fire. What is he saying? He's saying just like
everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah went to hell, that's the same thing that's going to happen to every
false prophet. They will go to hell, they will suffer the vengeance of eternal fire. And notice,
God uses an example of a group of people that is going to hell. What does this teach us? It teaches
us that Sodomites cannot be saved. This is another, this is one of many proof texts that Sodomites
cannot be saved. It's saying Sodom and Gomorrah and all the cities about them in like manner,
they all suffered the vengeance of eternal fire. God burned them all physically alive and sent them
all to hell. And notice, the Bible says that that is set forth for an example. So, we also can learn
that the same way that God felt about the people living in Sodom and Gomorrah is the exact same way
that God feels about, number one, false prophets and the people that did the things that the people
in Sodom and Gomorrah did. So, has God changed on the issue of Sodomy? Has God softened his stance
in the New Testament where somehow we're now supposed to give these people grace, somehow now
these people can get saved? No. In the New Testament, in the book of Jude, the second to
last book in the Bible, God says, "Look, just like I burned all those people in hell, that's the same
exact way that I feel about it now." God has not changed at all on the subject. Verse 8 says,
"Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignity."
Notice that word likewise. So he's saying, "Hey, in the same way that these sodomites do these
things, this is how false prophets are too." What do they do? Well, notice it calls them
filthy dreamers. Go to Romans chapter number one, Romans chapter number one.
Just that word alone, filthy, would offend probably most churches that exist in America.
Just to say, "Hey, sodomites are filthy. Faggots are disgusting. They are dirty. They're gross."
That's what the Bible's saying. They're filthy. And Steadfast Baptist Church knows all about this.
I just re-watched our documentary, LGBT Terrorists, the other day, and I'm just like,
"Man, I can't believe we went through all that. I can't believe we lived through all that. It's
just so disgusting how much of the crap we had to deal with for so long." But hey,
it just showed how true the Bible is that they're filthy, filthy dreamers.
They dream up just sick, perverted things. Look at verse 26 of Romans 1. This matches
what Romans 1 says. It says, "For this cause, God gave them up unto," notice, "vile affections,
for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature,
and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burning their lust one toward
another, men with men working that which is," notice, "unseemly, and receiving in themselves
that recompense of their error which was meat." So the Bible calls this disgusting perversion
called homosexuality "vile and unseemly," meaning it's just gross, it's disgusting, unseemly, meaning
it's not fitting, it's not appropriate to put it in the most mild possible term ever, it's disgusting,
it's vile. Verse 28, "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to notice a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient." Doesn't
that fit with filthy dreamers, a reprobate mind? I mean, a reprobate mind is a mind that's been
rejected by God, and as a result of that, something changes in their mind. Notice what it says,
"to do those things which are not convenient." Once someone's given over to a reprobate mind,
they're now able to do things that the normal person could not do. It's like the governor's
taken off their brain, they're turned over to a reprobate mind, and now notice what they're like.
It says, "being filled with all unrighteousness." This is what's so dangerous about allowing
sodomites to live in our society, and allowing psychopaths, and allowing these false prophets
to live, is it because it says that they're being filled with unrighteousness. So think about this,
when a Christian gets saved and they're a babe in Christ, if they read their Bible every day,
if they memorize scripture, if they go to church, if they get baptized, if they start soul winning,
they're going to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior. They're going to mature
as a Christian. They're going to become hopefully more selfless, more giving, more loving,
more charitable. They're going to become a better Christian, right? But the sodomite and the false
prophet, every single day that they're alive, they're being filled with more and more unrighteousness.
So however wicked the sodomite was yesterday, he's more wicked today. And however wicked he is today,
it's not as wicked as he's going to be tomorrow. This is why I believe that every single homosexual
is a pedophile, or has the capacity to be a pedophile in the future. So if someone just got
turned over to a reprobate mind yesterday, well maybe they haven't been filled with as much
unrighteousness as the pedophile that's been living on this earth for 60 years. And so maybe
that person that just rejected the Lord too many times and was given over to a reprobate mind
yesterday hasn't really had the capacity to do some of the sick things that you see like serial
killers, Jeffrey Dahmer, and all these sick, you know, sodomites. Maybe they're not at that level
yet, but here's the problem. They will get there someday if they're allowed to live. And notice
what the Bible goes on to explain what they're like. It says, "Being filled with all unrighteousness."
Well, what does that look like? Fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, back biters, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable,
unmerciful. I mean, you could not make a stronger list condemning any person than this list right
here. And here's the problem. They're getting filled with all of those things more and more
every single day. Every single day they're more unmerciful. Every single day they're
inventing more evil. Every single day they have more murder and envy and debate and
deceit in their heart. Every single day they hate their parents even more than the day they did
the day before. Every single day they get more and more wicked, which makes us wonder what should
happen to these people? What should happen to them? Well, look at verse 32, "Who knowing the judgment
of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have
pleasure in them that do them." The only reasonable conclusion a person can come to is that these
people need to die, because all they're going to do is hurt other innocent people. And the pastors
that get up and never want to preach this, pretending to be loving or actually being hateful
to all the people that are going to get murdered by sodomites this year, to all the people that
are going to get raped by sodomites this year, to all the parents that are going to be hated by
their sodomite son this year. I mean, think about, I wouldn't even want to know this, but just think
about all the sins that sodomites are going to commit in 2024. And they could be stopped by
putting a bullet in their head, by having a lawful trial, convicting them of sodomy, lining them up
against the wall, and shooting them in the back of the head. That's what we should do to them.
And guess what? The Bible and Jude is saying, hey, false prophets are the same way. They're just
like sodomites. And how sad is that? Because how many people just trust their pastor, or their
Catholic priest, or their monk, or their imam, or whatever, or their rabbi? Little did you know
that your rabbi has an underground tunnel in a synagogue doing God knows what? Did anyone hear
about that on the news? Some group of Hasidic Jews in New York had some weird sick tunnel
underneath their building. I wonder what that's being used for. Something godly, I'm sure. What a
joke. You know, people just trust people that are ministers, but oftentimes ministers are the worst
people on earth. It's like you have ministers are either like the best people on earth, or they're
like the worst people on earth, you know? And so we have to check everything with the Word of God
and realize, hey, if someone's preaching damnable heresy, if someone is preaching false doctrine,
you're dealing with a sick person. It says also in Jude that they despise dominion. You know,
of course we see that sodomites, they hate the police, they hate mom and dad, they hate the
government, and these false prophets are the same way. Speaking evil of dignities, they always want
to talk bad about real pastoral authority. Have you noticed these false prophets? They hate real
pastoral authority. They hate a real man of God getting up and saying, "Thus saith the Lord,
here's how it's going to be." No, they like having the deacon board of other faggots to run their
sin in the church with them, right? Speaking bad of authority. You know, beware of a person that
ever comes to the church that wants to secretly talk bad to you about Pastor Shelley. Beware of
that person. Don't be a simple fool. Don't think like, "Oh yeah, you know, this person's pretty
cool and they're trusting me with their secrets," whatever. No, you should have red flags and alarms
and bells and whistles going off in your mind. Anyone wants to take you aside and talk crap
about the pastor. Someone that wants to despise dominion like that. Notice verse 9. So that's how
sodomites are, that's how false prophets are. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the
devil, he's not like these people. Notice what he does. "He disputed about the body of Moses,
durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, 'The Lord rebuke thee.'"
So Michael the archangel, he's not like how these false prophets are. He doesn't speak evil of
dignities. He doesn't despise dominion. Even against the devil, who he knows is bad, obviously,
everyone knows that. Even against the devil, he's not going to bring a railing accusation,
meaning he's not going to lie about the devil. There's no reason to do that. And, you know,
us as God's people, even if we know someone's wicked, we shouldn't lie about that person,
or just make things up about that person. No, let's just condemn them with the truth.
Hey, this person preaches a false gospel. That's why we preach against him, not just coming up
with all these lies or speculations or evil surmisings. You know, I heard Greg Locke
in a sermon get up one time and he's like, "You know what?" He's like, "Joel Osteen is a
pedophile." And he said, "Kenneth..." What's that guy's name in Fort Worth? "Kenneth Copeland
is a pedophile." And he's like, "You know what? And sue me. I want you guys to sue me. Sue me,
sue me, sue me." It's like, why is he saying sue me? Because he's possibly railing against these
people. These people are wicked. They're false prophets. But do I know for sure that Joel Osteen
is a pedophile? No, I don't. Do I know for sure that Copeland is a pedophile? It wouldn't surprise
me if either of them were. False prophets are often perverts, but am I going to get up here
100% and just say Joel Osteen is a pedophile with no evidence? No, that would be railing, right? So
even against the devil, Michael the Archangel wouldn't do that. We shouldn't even do that
against wicked people. Why? Because that is the attribute of the wicked to do stuff like that.
They're the ones that speak evil of dignities. They're the ones that like to rail and speak
lies. Hey, let us not be that way. Verse 10, "But these," saying these false prophets,
these false brethren, "but these speak evil of those things which they know not, but what they
know naturally as brute beasts. In those things, they corrupt themselves." So notice, these false
prophets and these sodomites, they just speak evil of things they don't even understand, right?
They're just lying and lying and lying. In fact, I remember there was this one video when we were
at the Hearst building and this black guy pulled up to the protesters and he's like, "Hey, what's
going on in there?" And then this white sodomite is like, "Hey, yeah, they're telling people that
you can be black and go to their church, but you have to promise to be a slave in heaven."
What is that? A railing accusation. Just saying like, "Oh, yeah, steadfast over there. The only
reason they have black people is because all the black people in that church promise to be slaves
in heaven." I don't remember that deal and I don't think that we could even make that deal,
right? It's ridiculous. It's just a lie. It's just a railing accusation, but that's what they're
like. They just make up complete and utter lies. In fact, I saw a Facebook post one time saying
that a sodomite infiltrated our church and that me and brother Jason, we walked around the room and
we just locked all the doors. And we just like, you know, we're having like a cult session in here.
As soon as everyone's here, we just lock all the doors. We shut the blinds. It's like, what are
you talking about? You know what I mean? I saw another false accusation saying that when I was
at church at the Hearst building, that I was pointing an AR-15 out of the window at the
protesters. Who remembers me doing that? Oh yeah, it never happened. But all over Facebook, I just
see comment after comment. I can walk outside, "Hey Dylan, why are you pointing AR-15s at us, huh?
What are you talking about?" They're just railing liars. And false prophets are the same way. They
just make up things out of thin air. Stuff that has zero basis in reality. Never have I pointed
an AR-15 at anyone. I mean, hello, it's just ridiculous. But notice verse, let's move on to
verse 11. Oh, wait, wait, one thing I don't want to miss. It says they're brute beasts.
What does that mean? It means they're stupid animals. And I'm telling you, when you hear
these people talk, when you hear these sodomites talk, they're the dumbest people that have ever
existed. I mean, they have no reasoning whatsoever, no logic. It's hilarious sometimes just to listen
to them talk. They're just so stupid. Why? Because they've been given over to a reprobate mind.
Because they now have the heart of a stupid animal. It'd be like trying to reason with a cow.
By the way, this is why they can't get saved as well. It's because they're too stupid to even
get saved. And how stupid do you have to be to not be saved? Really stupid. Because salvation
is so easy. It's just like Jesus died for your sins. Believe that. You're saved. They can't even
believe that. They're just too stupid to be able to believe it. Look at verse 11. It says, "Woe unto
them, for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the air of Balaam for reward,
and perished in the gainsaying of Korah." So now, Jude gives us three men as examples of what false
prophets are like. And I think there's one overarching characteristic that each man
represent here regarding false prophets. So number one, Cain, I believe, is represented
by false doctrine. Go to Genesis chapter number four, Genesis chapter number four. It says, "Woe
unto them, for they've gone in the way of Cain." One of the things that you're going to be able
to notice about a false prophet is that they teach false doctrine. Genesis 4.1, "And Adam knew Eve
his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she
again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering
unto the Lord. And Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
And the Lord had respect unto Abel into his offering, but unto Cain and into his offering he
had not respect. And Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell. So notice Abel, the offering
that he gives to God is a sacrificed lamb, picturing the slain Lord Jesus Christ,
substitutionary death of Jesus Christ, the lamb taking all of our punishment, being slain,
and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ covering us and saving us. Now Cain he brings the fruit of the
ground which represents his works, the things that he's done with his own two hands. It represents
obviously work salvation and so when he says they've gone the way of Cain he's saying hey they
preach a false gospel. Now this is just super obvious to us that what makes a false prophet
is the fact that he preaches a false gospel and that he preaches false doctrine. Go back to Jude,
I'll read for you 2nd Peter 2-3. Then he brings up Balaam which I believe is typified by covetousness.
2nd Peter 2-3 says, "And through covetousness shall they with fainted words make merchandise of you,
whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not." Notice,
if you remember the story of Balaam, Balak king of Moab basically hires Balaam to try to get him to
curse the people of Israel. What is he? He's literally just like a sorcerer for hire. By the
way, the fact that he's mentioned in Jude as an example of a false prophet should tell you that
he's obviously not saved. There's no chance this guy's saved. He's literally a sorcerer for hire.
He's a picture of a false prophet. And what does he typify? He typifies covetousness. Why? Because
this is also another mark of a false prophet. Someone who is covetous. And obviously we're
all sinners. Sometimes we all might struggle with covetousness, but theirs is an extremely obvious
thing that they struggle with. Like being multi-billionaires from pastoring. That is
obviously not of God. That's obviously wicked. They didn't get that work through
a business or anything like that. If you get rich by pastoring, you're wicked. Obviously.
Then he says Korah. Go to, I think I told you to go to Jude. Obviously keep your finger there,
but let's go to Numbers chapter 16. Numbers chapter 16. Numbers 16. He brings up Korah,
which what he typifies is basically rebellion. Rebellion. Look at Numbers chapter 16 verse 1.
It says, "Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan,
and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Pilate, sons of Reuben," notice, "took men,
and they rose up before Moses," who is the leader, "with certain of the children of Israel,
two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown.
And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them,
Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them,
and the Lord is among them. Wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the
Lord." Notice Korah is a perfect example of a false brethren, false prophet. What does he do?
He takes men unto himself, just like Paul warned in Acts chapter 20. He gathers men unto himself
to do what? To rise up and to speak against the leadership, to speak against Moses, and to lead
a rebellion. That's what Korah is famous for, for leading a rebellion. But obviously this man's not
saved since God literally dropped him alive into hell. So again, this person clearly not saved,
clearly an example of a false prophet. So go back to Jude. So again, I just think it's interesting
he gives us those three men, and each of those men kind of show an example of one of the attributes
or characteristics of a false prophet. And usually false prophets have all of those attributes at the
same time. Usually they're preaching false doctrine, they're covetous, and they're rebellious.
Because guess what? If you're not preaching the truth, you're rebelling against God. And so every
false prophet is rebellious. Notice this, it says, "These are spots in your feasts of charity." Notice
"when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear, clouds they are without water,
carried about of winds, trees whose fruit withereth without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots."
Notice how it says that these false prophets, how they're going to be feasting with us, meaning
they're going to be among us, meaning we're going to think that this is a good person, they're going
to blend in, we're going to think, "Hey, this is just a normal member of church that loves God just
like I do, they're feeding themselves without fear, they're hanging out with us, they're in
our fellowship, but all this time they're a false prophet that doesn't believe in God." And man,
have I seen this in my life. I used to go soul winning every single Saturday for like six months
with a guy who I thought was good, who ended up getting ordained as an evangelist, he will remain
unnamed because he's not even worth my breath, got ordained as an evangelist and ended up completely
quitting on the pastor and then dedicated his life to attacking this church, to stealing this
church's money, to bringing this church through lawsuits. I went soul winning with that guy like
every week for six months. I thought this person was my friend. I thought this person was a good
man. No, he was a false brother crept in unawares and it's just like wow when you see this in your
life you realize how true it is that man they really are wolves in sheep's clothing. You know
what that means? It means they're going to look like us. It means they're going to talk like us.
It means they're going to act like us but it's a show. It's fake and they end up getting revealed.
They always end up getting revealed. It says that they're clouds without water. It makes me
think about the false prophet's uncanny ability to speak while saying nothing. And it's like,
how are you preaching a five-part series on Philemon again? Oh yeah, it's because you're
getting up and you're just saying nothing. That's why. You know, imagine a five-part series through
Jude. It's like, no, I could probably get it done in one week. Let's do it, right? We don't need
five weeks for that. Just speaking without saying anything. You hear a false prophet sermon and
they're just talking for 30 minutes, but you're like, what did I learn though? What is he saying
from the Bible? Has he made any clear statements at all? No. They're just clouds without water.
Carried about of winds. This makes me think they have no true beliefs. They're not sincere. They're
not grounded in anything they believe. They're just, they'll preach whatever gets them money.
They'll preach whatever allows them to blend in. They're not sincere people. They're complete
frauds. And it says "without fruit." You can stay there. I'll read for you Proverbs 11.30. It says,
"The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he that winneth souls is wise." What does this
mean? It means that these false prophets can never get anyone saved. They cannot get anyone saved.
Billy Graham never got a single person saved in his entire life. The popes never saved a single
person. That person I went soul winning with for six months never saved a single person. And some
people balk at this because they think like, well, all those people, you know, that pray that called
upon the name of the Lord with those individuals, are they not saved? Here's the thing. Jesus says
that everyone that asks will find everyone that knocks, it'll be open unto them. If anyone is
seeking the truth of Jesus Christ, God will make sure that they get presented the gospel. That's
what I believe. And so whether that's another chance by a soul winner, maybe they were maybe
they were preached the right gospel earlier in life by a spirit filled soul winner and they heard
it again and maybe just you know they're connecting the Bible verses that they're seeing from this
person connecting it with the explanation in the past and they believe that and get saved. Sure,
but all I'm telling you is that false prophets don't save anyone. False prophets have an
inability to get anyone saved and that's why it's our job to go out and get people saved because
we're the only ones that can do it. We cannot allow false prophets to do the job for us because
they can't do it. Verse 13, "Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame, wandering stars
to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever." Foaming out their own shame, it makes me
think about how these people always get exposed by what they say. Pay close attention to what
people say because it reveals their heart. And when someone preaches false doctrine, when someone
preaches damnable heresy, pay attention, that's them foaming out their own shame. When someone
starts giving you the perverted jokes, when it's like, "Hey, we're supposed to be in church here,
we're supposed to be serious, we're supposed to, you know, not be giving into filthy communication,"
and all of a sudden this false brother comes in and starts telling you the dirty jokes and being
perverted about things like that, that's a serious red flag. That's a serious red flag. Obviously,
we know that the world tells dirty jokes all the time, but you know what? God's people should not
be like that. And if someone wants to come into the house of God and make these off-color jokes,
I would mark that person. They're like, "Hey, that's a dangerous individual. This could be a
sign that this is a false brother." I'm not saying that's 100% every single time. Obviously,
people need to grow. They come from the world. I get that, but you better pay attention to stuff
like that. Go to Matthew chapter number seven while I read 2 Timothy 3, 8. It says, "Now in
Janus and Jamerys withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth. Men of corrupt minds
reprobate concerning the faith, but they shall proceed no further, for their folly shall be made
manifest unto all men." Notice, they're always manifesting who they are eventually.
They can't hide forever. Eventually, we will find you out. If you're here tonight,
we will hear the shame coming out of your mouth, we will hear the false doctrine, and eventually,
we will find you out. But what do we got to do? We got to pay attention to people's words. Matthew
7 verse 15, Jesus said, "Beware of false prophets which come unto you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits." Remember that word,
fruits. "Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? Even so, every good tree bringeth
forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil
fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth
good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them."
Let's pause real quick. What is the context? Jesus is warning us about false prophets,
and He's teaching us how to be aware if someone's a false prophet. What does He say to look for?
Their fruits. What does that mean? Notice right after He said that, "By their fruits ye shall
know them," what does He say? "Not everyone that saith unto Me." Lord, Lord. What's the first thing
He says? He says, "Hey, by their fruits ye shall know them. Not everyone that saith unto Me." What
do I think this is talking about? The primary application of this? I think it's saying to pay
attention to their words. "By their fruit ye shall know them." I think that's primarily speaking
about what they say. He says, "Hey, not everyone that saith unto Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter into
the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of My Father, which is in heaven, many will say
to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name, and in Thy name have
cast out devils, and in Thy name have done many wonderful works.'" What if you went out soul
winning and you said, "Sir, what do you believe that you have to do to get to heaven?" And they
said, "Prophecy in the name of Jesus, do many wonderful works, and cast out devils." What would
you discern about that person? That they're not saved. Was it because of their lifestyle that
you discerned that? Or was it because of what they said? What they said. So when you go to a church
and you're deciding, "Hey, is this preacher a false prophet?" And they get up and say,
"You have to turn from all your sins. You have to completely give up sin and make Jesus the Lord
of your life. I mean, you're going this way towards sin. You have to turn around, leave your sin,
and walk this way." Like we've heard preachers at West Coast Baptist College preach, "What do
you discern about that person? They're a false prophet. Why? Because of their lifestyle? Why?
Because they smoked a cigarette on their day off? Or was it because of what they said? It's because
of what they said. "By their fruits you shall know them." That's what it means. Now, of course,
like I just explained, unsaved people can't get anyone saved. So obviously, they're not going to
be able to have converts. And you can inspect someone's converts and realize, "Hey, this person
hasn't gotten anyone saved." That's another secondary test you can make. But primarily what
this is saying is it's talking about their words. Go to Matthew chapter 12. Matthew chapter number
12. I'll prove that to you further. Matthew 12 verse 32, it says, "And whosoever," notice, "speaketh
a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him. But whosoever speaketh against
the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him. Neither in this world, neither in the world to
come." And what's the first thing he brings up? "Either make the tree good and his fruit good,
or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by its fruit.
O ye generation of vipers, how can ye being evil speak good things? For out of the abundance of
the heart the mouth speaketh a good man, out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good
things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you
that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment,
for by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."
What is it? I mean it's so clear. What do we have to pay attention to when discerning if someone's a
false prophet? What they say, what they speak, the words that come out of their mouth. Yes,
there's other things that we can discern about them, but here's one thing that's an ironclad
guarantee. If someone is preaching another gospel, they are an unsaved false prophet.
Regardless of their lifestyle, regardless of how short their haircut is, regardless of how nice
their wife and kids look or anything like that, regardless of how well you think they do out
soul-winning and how good their gospel presentation is, if they preach a false gospel,
you know that they're a false prophet. Why? Because by their fruits ye shall know them.
Go back to Jude. Look at verse 14. So again, like I said, hey, pay attention, even those perverted
jokes I was talking about. What is that? That's the fruit of their lips. That's things they're
saying. Pay attention to that. You'll know them by their fruits. Verse 14, "And Enoch also the
seventh from Adam prophesied of these, saying, 'Behold, the Lord cometh with 10,000 of his saints
to execute judgment upon all.'" I love that word judgment. "And to convince all that are ungodly
among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their
hard speeches, which ungodly sinners have spoken against him." Man, Enoch sounds like a hard
preacher. I would have liked to hear this guy preach. I didn't even know you could say ungodly
so many times in a sentence and sound good. But man, Enoch's mad. And what is he mad about?
Their false accusations, the things coming out of their mouth, the hard sayings that ungodly
sinners have spoken against the Lord. Hey, doesn't it make you mad when people blaspheme God?
Doesn't it make you mad when people blaspheme His word, make fun of the Bible, twist God's word?
Doesn't that make you upset? Hey, isn't it great that someday God's coming to execute judgment
upon all? Thank God for that. Thank God that false prophets that send people to an eternal hell
will face judgment for what they did someday. There's no court on this earth that's going to
convict a false prophet, but they will burn in hell for all eternity because of God's judgment
against them. Look at verse 16. It says, "These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their
own lusts, and their mouths speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons and admiration
because of advantage." Notice the murmuring and the complaining makes me think of Korah saying,
"You take too much upon you, Moses," just murmuring and complaining. You always hear these people
murmuring and complaining, and it says that they have men's persons and admiration because of
advantage. What I think it is, is basically these people using flattery to leadership to try to
gain some sort of advantage. Inwardly, they hate the pastor. Inwardly, they hate Jesus Christ,
but they'll come up to the pastor or the leadership and say, "Oh man, your preaching is so great.
You're the greatest preacher I've ever heard. I love this church. There's no other church in the
world that's even close to anything like Steadfast Baptist Church. I mean, I've never seen such a
good-looking usher as Brother Jason. He's just the best, right?" Just messing with you. You know,
this is what I mean. They'll just use these flattery that's just uncomfortable, just weird
things that people say to you. And, you know, I've had people do this to me too. You know,
one time at Sure Foundation Baptist Church, there was this weird guy that crept in who ended up
getting exposed as a false prophet, and he had this notebook that he left one day in his pew,
and the cleaners picked it up, and it said, "Church Plan. Number one, get married. Number two,
have multiple children. Number three, get ordained. Number four, avoid Dylan Oz, so-and-so,
so-and-so, so-and-so, so-and-so, all these men." And it's just like, that's a pretty weird note.
Like, this is, you know, your folly being made manifest. And so, Pastor Thompson made this person
apologize to me, and this was his apology to me. He's like, "Hey, man, don't think about anything
about that note that I wrote. I write notes like that all the time. By the way, you are just the
best preacher I've ever heard." It's just amazing to me how good of a preacher you are. That was
his apology. What is that? Having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. Weird flattery
that's not even close to being true, that's just uncomfortable. I mean, what a weirdo. What a freak.
And guess what? He ended up being a flat earther. What a shock. It's almost like the things that
come out of people's mouth mean something. Verse 17. So, you know, we've talked a lot about false
prophets, we've talked about sodomites, and sometimes it makes you think like, well,
what should we do about this? What can be done about this? I like that it has this word right
here in verse 17, it says "but." Because if there's no but, this is a pretty depressing chapter.
Just like, hey, here's these sick false prophets and reprobates, and here's what they're like.
The end. Right? That'd be kind of sad, right? He says, "But, beloved, remember ye the words which
were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, how that they told you there should
be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate
themselves, sensual having not the spirit." He's saying, look, remember, you were already warned
about this kind of stuff. Don't let this kind of stuff get you down. Don't let this kind of stuff
keep you from serving God. You were already warned about this kind of stuff. And look, sometimes
people in church, especially if they're babes in Christ, sometimes they can weary of the battle
pretty quickly. They can just get tired of all the fighting, get tired of the drama. You know,
I wanted pastor to preach a sermon unto me about the common salvation, but now he's ripping about
false prophets and faggots again. And he's calling out this false prophet for his bad message. And
sometimes people just get tired of that. But look, the Bible already warned us this is what it's
going to be like. Again, like I started my sermon, Christianity is not something to be taken lightly.
It's a real fight we're in. And if we're actually doing work for God, don't you expect some
resistance from the devil? Look, the fact that we have enemies, the fact that the sodomites have
attacked our church, the fact that false prophets have attacked our church, encourages me that we're
doing things right. It doesn't discourage me. Bring on the battle, because where the battle is,
is where people are actually doing the work for God. That's where you're actually making a
difference, is in the battle. Notice verse 20, "But ye beloved, building up yourselves on your
most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the
mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." Notice he says, "Build up yourselves on your most
holy faith." Don't allow this to stop you from serving God. No, rather, build up yourselves
on your holy faith, keep loving God, keep looking for the mercy of Jesus Christ. Don't let a negative
message cause you to stop serving God. Just embrace the negative message. It's not a positive
message to realize that sodomites have no hope of salvation and they'll burn in hell for all of
eternity, but it's true, so just embrace it anyways. It's not really a positive message that in
our church, which right now I feel like we are so unified, it's unbelievable, it's not really a
positive message that I say to you that says, "Hey, someday that unity will not necessarily be like
that." Sometimes there's going to be people creeping in trying to destroy it, trying to speak
bad of the pastor, trying to teach false doctrine, and your friend might fall away, God forbid, but
your friend that you like in this church might get carried away with them. That's not necessarily a
positive message, but it's the truth, so just embrace it anyways. And mentally prepare yourself,
build a foundation so that when it happens, you're not shaken. Notice verse 22, and it says,
"If some have compassion, making a difference, and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire,
hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." So, you know, this brings me to question, you know,
what can we really do about the false prophets? What can we really do about the sodomites?
The answer regarding them specifically is nothing. The sodomite is completely hopeless. The false
prophet is completely hopeless. But you know what we can do is we can have compassion on people and
reach them before they become a false prophet, before they become a reprobate, before they become
a sodomite. Hey, we could reach those people and help them before they become doomed, like these
other people. And some of those people we're going to reach by compassion and by love. I mean, some
people, the only thing it needs for them to get saved is knowing the love and sacrifice of God
for them. Knowing the gospel of Jesus Christ, knowing how much that God loves those people.
Hey, we could save those people with compassion. Stay there. I'll read for you Psalm 126. It says,
"He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,
bringing his sheaves with him." A lot of people, hey, let's just go out with a tear in our eye
and compassion in our hearts. I mean, constantly in the New Testament, when you read the emotions
of Jesus Christ, and someday I'd like to preach a whole sermon on the emotions of Jesus Christ,
the most thing you see is Him being moved with compassion, moved with compassion, moved with
compassion, moved with compassion. That's how we should be too. When we go out soul winning,
hey, let's be moved with compassion for these people and love them so that they never have
to face the eternal doom and hell of the sodomite and of the false prophet. I don't want that for
anyone. It's too late for the people that are already there. We need to expose them. What to
God, our nation could just get rid of them, but that's not going to happen so we can at
least warn against them. But hey, I want to reach people before it's too late. And other people,
we have to save with fear. Go to Luke chapter number 20, we're almost done, Luke 20.
Jesus did both. Jesus was moved with compassion, but he also saved with fear. And some people,
we're going to get them saved by loving them, by giving them the gospel. Other people, we're going
to have to sternly warn them about that false prophet that they listen to. And what is that?
Saving by fear. Say, hey, you love that Kenneth Copeland guy. Guess what? He's a false prophet.
And if you believe what he believes, you're going to go to hell. What is that? Saving with fear.
Look at Luke 20 verse 46. "Beware of the scribes which desire to walk in long robes and love
greetings in the markets and the high seats in the synagogues and the chief rooms at feasts,
which devour widows' houses and for a show make long prayers. The same shall receive greater
damnation." What is Jesus saying? He's saying to people that are kind of hanging in the balance,
maybe they're not saved, they're unsaved, they're not a reprobate, they're not saved. He's saying,
"Hey, beware of the scribes and the Pharisees. They're going to have the greater damnation.
These people are going to hell." What is that? That's saving with fear. And look, sometimes we
got to scare the hell out of people out-soulening and warn them about the eternal hell that awaits
them if they don't get saved and that awaits the false prophet that they listen to if they don't
get saved. Go back to Jude. I'll read for you. Mark 9.43 says, "And if thy hand offend thee,
cut it off. It is better for thee to enter into life maimed than having two hands to go into hell
into the fire that shall never be quenched." That was Jesus' preaching. He was moved with
compassion, but he also warned people about the fire that will never be quenched. And we have to
do both when we go out-soulening. Verse 24, "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling
and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy to the only wise God
our Savior, glory, majesty, minion, and power, both now and ever. Amen." And so, you know, let us
remember that we serve a glorious Savior. We serve a Savior that's full of power and full of majesty.
And why would you allow the battles of life, why would you allow the negative message of the
Sodomites, why would you allow the negative message of the false prophets to cease you from
serving that glorious Savior? You know, what we should rather do is what verse 20 says,
is keep serving Him so that we could be presented faultless before Him, before the presence of His
glory with exceeding joy. You know, during the judgment seat of Christ, if you quit church
because you couldn't handle the battle, if you quit church, you quit serving God, you quit reading
your Bible because you didn't like the message of the Sodomite, you're not going to be presented
before Him in glory and in rewards and in triumph, you're going to be destitute of rewards.
And so, look, if you want to be presented faultless before our glorious Savior someday,
keep serving God. Don't let the negative message stop you. Let's have a word of prayer. Lord,
thank you so much for this day. Thank you for the Epistle of Jude and the lessons learned therein.
I pray that this church would always be vigilant and make sure that we're watching for the signs
of a false prophet. I thank you for the unity that this church has, and I pray that this church would
be unified for many years to come, Lord, and I pray that you bless our pastor and bring him
home safely to us. We love you and you send me prayer. Amen. In closing, let's go to song number
441. Song number 441, "Great is thy faithfulness." Song number 441. I sing it out together on the first.
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