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Amen part of the chapter we're gonna focus on is found in Acts chapter 20 in verse number 29 where the Bible reads here for I know this that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them entitled of my message is the same thing as this morning we're gonna it's just part two it's false prophets an overview of false prophets in the Bible now this morning we went over a couple false prophets in the Bible and we're gonna cover the last four but I'm gonna do an just a review of what we talked about this morning but I just want to reiterate the importance of knowing this concept of false prophets this doctrine of what the Bible teaches of what a false prophet is because often once you say something so much often they just kind of lose its all meaning and people just get used to hearing false prophet false prophets if you joke about it you know we jest about it it's just like false prophet false prophet but really it's a very serious issue even within the Word of God he's a very dangerous people as the Bible puts it and here the Bible says Paul obviously in his wisdom the wisdom that God had endowed unto him understood that even when he departed he wouldn't he understood that there will be coming in men who are wolves they were coming in not sparing the flock what does that mean well wolf you know feeds on flocks right physically and he's saying that spiritually these there are men out there who teach false doctrines and they're gonna come in the flock of God in the church and basically eat devour them spiritually speaking eat them up teach them false doctrine things that will cause them to get off spiritually and off doctrinally and the Bible says in verse number 30 that they will be speaking perverse things and look what it says to draw away disciples after them so we could say that these some of these people even get deceived I mean we would look at you know the Rick Warren's of this world and the Joel Steen's of this world and the John MacArthur's and the people found within their church we would say obviously they're not safe right because you can't sit a safe person can't necessarily sit under that preaching forever and ever and you know if they have the Holy Spirit of God living within them they're obviously are not gonna fall for that stuff but the Bible even says here but there will come a time when even disciples are drawn away after them now I believe that honestly if the Holy Spirit of God lives within you you'll snap out of it okay and they're just gonna be like okay obviously there's something wrong here I need to know the truth this is obviously not the truth okay but the Bible says there that even though you they'll draw disciples after them and that's what false prophets do they come in and they were there wolves in sheep's clothing coming to devour the flock of God now this morning we talked about first and foremost Cain right and what was Cain's characteristic what was he know what was his reputation preaching works he had a perverse gospel that he was giving based upon the works that he brought his brother brought the the sacrifice which was honorable that was biblical that was something that obviously God wanted him to do whereas Cain brought the fruit of the ground and of course we know that the sacrifices in the Old Testament was the picture of Jesus Christ coming sacrificing himself the Lamb of God who should take away the sins of the world whereas anything else other than that is the works based salvation and that's exactly what Cain was doing so he was the first person to illustrate a false gospel and we said that this we said this morning that false teachers and false prophets that's like their number one mark right there I mean if you want to make sure if you're looking on someone on YouTube or you're looking up someone on the internet and maybe they sound a little right on certain areas just find out what they believe about the gospel and they don't give that should be a red flag to you if it's not a one saved always saved eternal security salvation by grace through faith throw them out yeah but he makes sense when it comes to this subject throw them out because the fact that the mat remains is the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God neither can he known for their spiritually discerned so you can't learn doctrine from an unsaved person that's just the bottom line he said well you know his concepts are good his concepts are devilish and anything good that he says he's mixing with lies you got to understand that I had someone send me a clip it was a documentary and and I don't remember what it was but it was on the Jews you know it was just kind of exposing the Jews and Zionism and Christianity and how it's an unholy union and amen and it sounded good it was just like wow these people seem like they got it that's kind of weird that anybody other than us would be saying something about this but then they got into their salvation presentation and it was a repent of your sin give your life to God garbage but here's the thing you have truthers out there who want to know the truth about the Jews they want to know the truth about what this about this matter of Zionism and guess what they stumble upon his documentary you know what's gonna happen they're gonna get into the repent of your sins crowd they're gonna be perverted they're gonna be there there the gospel is gonna be perverted to them and they're gonna be let us stray now yeah they might be they might have the doctrine of Zionism down they understand that the Jews are not God's chosen people but guess what they're not even saved and so that's what Satan always does he gives you a little bit of truth but he mixes in lies lies and the very first slide that he gives you is a false gospel so this is the way you measure if it's a false prophet or not what do they believe in regards to salvation okay what did it and the first thing that you say well he's not a Baptist okay what does he believe about salvation I don't care if he's right on Zionism okay I don't care if he's right on replacement theology and by the way he might even be post trip it doesn't even matter because let me tell you something Kirk Cameron it's post trip I mean mr. pre trip himself right the one who made the movie all these things he's post trip but guess what he's a repent of your sins heretic you know people are literally like wow he's post trip though you know after the tribulation he believes like us he believes in a repent of your sins gospel and he's alone he's going with Ray Comfort and we all obviously know where he goes with that but there's a lot of people like that you know and what what did they do see Satan has to figure out what are the key doctrines that we would miss that we would emphasize and emphasize those as well and then slip in a little bit of repent of your sins and what happens well they're right on this so we tolerate the repent of your sins a lot of churches have done that and that's why the wolves have come in to devour the the flock so we talked about Cain Cain has a false gospel and we see a lot of that today I mean there's a lot of people out there I mean the good majority of churches now even if they believe in a believe only and and you know once they've always saved they tolerate the repent of your sins crowd in their church you know they have people in their church who believe in repent of your sins that they have to work there and they'll just say this yeah they're just a little off no it's not just a little off I mean this has to do with I mean their souls but the next one we talked about was Balaam right and Balaam loved the wages of unrighteousness as the Bible says okay Balaam was a man who basically because of his greed because the Bible talks about how they people have run greedily after the way of Balaam the there's obviously there's one side of the spectrum where people are just greedy or filthy lucre they want to drive their nice cars have their nice suits and spend all kinds of money and they're having all kinds of sexual relations with all the women in the church they're just making bank off the people they're making merchandise off of the flock of God that was that's like an extreme but then you also have your other extreme where there's people who are actually safe pastors and they become greedy a filthy lucre you see a pastor can become greedy yeah because one of the qualifications for a pastor is that they're not greedy a filthy lucre you know what that tells us someone can become greedy a filthy lucre and then and there's a lot of pastors out there who you know and what do they do how do they compromise on that they soften up the message they don't tell every the whole counsel of God they don't rebuke they don't reprove because they're afraid that someone's gonna be gonna get offended leave the church and not tithe anymore but that's not what the Bible teaches us we have to do they're going in the way of Balaam they love the wages of unrighteousness okay they love money and the Bible says that through covetousness they shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you I mean brother Milan was at my house today we're watching Joel steam just that for kicks watching them for kicks this guy was like Milan told me you have to pay a ticket to get into his church to get one of his services that's not including the time that you have to throw in you know and you know they repeat some the Bible is my authority crap and all this of course they have like ones NIV ones ESV so which one are they talking about but then you know you see him he's just like I mean the guy just obviously has spent like 20 hours at the at the barber shop or at the salon the beauty salon and he's just looking at the camera and he's just smooth feigned words you know and everyone's just eating it up I mean they put the camera on the people you know when we did the documentary we're putting the camera on the people they do the same thing over there and the people are just like you know you see people take what notes are you gonna take from that they're taking notes you know hope he's like a grocery list you'll get more out of the grocery list than you want that out of that sermon but they're like there but what is he doing through covetousness and with feigned words he's making a grip of money I mean he said it was like 40 bucks a ticket that's a lot of money you know that guy's banking big time but he's a false prophet okay but then you have pastors on the lower scale who maybe not necessarily are famous but they're making merchandise off of the people I mean I know Spanish churches who do this he said no not Spanish churches I've seen pastors I'm talking about fleecing the flock they get money from the congregants without the other pastors knowing about it you know they're like they send people to go they send people to go to the people and say hey pastor needs gas money you know okay can we can you put put in 10 bucks here 20 bucks here 30 bucks here I'm not lying this is real they'll do that what are they're greedy a filthy lucre they got in the way of Balaam and they love money and the fact remain and I I've seen Spanish pastors okay who will take personal offerings for themselves you know now obviously we're not into we don't do the the different ministries and Spanish ministries but I've seen it you know and the pastor doesn't know about it he's taking all kinds of money you know and by the way he has this guy on the side who collects the money so you can count it from him and he splits it he gives some to him for his gas money and then he puts the rest of it in the safe where it's supposed to go so it's accountable you know wicked it's wicked it's it's being covetous and greedy a filthy lucre and so you have both extremes but both are bad okay and both have gone the way of Balaam no you know we need to be as God's people people of integrity right we need to be people who don't love money yes we understand we need money we need to pay the bills but we don't compromise the message we don't try to make merchandise off of the flock of God to get money it's not that important and here's the thing if you're willing to compromise on the message so much that means you don't even have faith in God's Word that he can provide but seek ye first the kingdom of God in his righteousness and these things shall be added unto you and the dangerous thing is this is that sometimes as the Bible we're gonna look in just a little bit there's people who are creeping in unawares they're not saved they're not pastors but they come into the cloak of being some godly person they get put in a position of authority and what are they doing they just see this as a business to make money they teach all kinds of false doctrine that's why they got to read the commentaries because they're a natural man they don't understand squat that's why they have all kinds of commentaries and what are they doing they're all they care about is the money that's coming in you think I'm exaggerating but it's the truth people come in to make why because they want to take advantage of God's people the fact is God's people they're just trusting people you know it you know it's a good thing and it's a bad thing they're trusting people you know if someone comes in here and they're sincere they want help you know they want to get their life together I believe our people will help them you know we'll give them food we'll give them whatever and why because God's people are trusting people so what what is what are these false prophets do they understand that they want to take advantage of that you know but they've gone the way of Balaam the Bible says well unto them for they have gone in the way of Cain and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward and Paris and the gainsaying of Corey you know the god the prosperity gospel preachers are notorious for this obviously all they want to do is make money I seen videos of guys I mean people are throwing 20s on the platform the guy's like running on the you know he's going through all with 20s and stuff like that and they're just like you know just charismatic stupid churches and he's right he's running all over the 20s because he's like this is all mine you know it's sad but it's true but these are wicked false prophets and you know then you have as we talked about this morning the dumb ass come the congregant come to talk to the pastor to talk some sense to him say hey man this this guy's here he's a he's it's like a rep he's a reprobate or he's doing this and what does he do just like Balaam just smiling the ass he's like shut up you know I don't want to hear it why because he's so focused on getting the reward the wage of unrighteousness he's not willing to listen to the fact of the donkeys talking to him okay but we went over that this morning as well then we talked about Corey Corey's the one who basically speaks evil of dignity he's the one who came up against Moses him Dathan and Abiram they came and they try to usurp the authority there to try to criticize Moses and what happened God swallowed them up okay body and I'll open up the earth and they went straight to hell and the Bible says likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh despise the minion and speak evil of dignities you know this is also reminiscent of just people who and by the way Corey is an example someone who's in the congregation but there are pastors who can be like that as well or potential pastors who could be like that as well you know they'll try to make other people look bad to make themselves look good in front of the authorities okay and that's wicked as well no we need people who are honest people of integrity the Bible says likewise also these filthy dreamers the father flesh despise the minion speak evil of dignities and then it says that at the latter end of Jude 11 they perish in the gainsaying of Corey so what does it mean when it says that they perish referring to false prophets in the gainsaying of court we're to Corey perish he went straight to hell she was says about these false prophets and said they're gonna perish just like Corey did they're going to hell and in fact in God's mind they're already in hell right because they're twice dead plucked up by the roots as the Bible puts it so that was just a review where I think core was the last one we left off on now go to 1st Kings chapter 13 1st Kings chapter 13 I want to give you this thought actually before we got well you can go there to 1st Kings chapter 13 but I'm gonna read to you again from from Acts 20 verse 28 it says take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flocks over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood for I know this that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock and here's the interesting thing is is Paul he didn't just say hey look people are gonna come you know and they're just gonna not spare the flock he gave a solution he says so this is what you do and he gave you the verse before he says you need to feed the flock of God okay because there will come grievous wolves not sparing the flock so how how do you avoid that how do you keep the flock from being devoured of Satan from being devoured of these false prophets you need to feed the flock of God and look not just with candy either I like candy every once in a while you know but you can't have candy for breakfast lunch and dinner you know you need some meat you need some vegetables you need rice you need beans I can't believe I just said that because my wife knows I hate eating beans all right you need you need a balanced diet and you need to know what the Bible says but that's that falls on the responsibility of the pastor to feed the flock of God and look I think sometimes even there's pastors there are well-meaning they're sincere people right but they're not feeding the flock of God maybe just for the fact that they're just shallow in their doctrine they don't know a whole lot or whatever it may be they need to study up more but they're not feeding the flock of God so what happens there's people coming in all kinds of false prophets and they're taking people over there devouring the flock of God and I'm gonna read to you from 1st Peter chapter 5 it says feed the flock of God which is among you taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly neither as being Lords over God's heritage excuse me not a filthy lucre but of a ready mind neither as being Lords over God's heritage but being in samples to the flock now I know I had you turn to first Kings 13 but hold your place there go to Ezekiel now which is we'll just stick to first King sorry let's go to first King I was gonna go off on just feeding the flock but we obviously know that we need to feed the the flock is gonna get better here but obviously there's churches that the read because we think to ourselves how can someone get caught up in something like that well sometimes it's just not necessarily the congregation's fault they're just not being fed they're not being told they're not being taught this doctrine and someone would look at our movement and say man you guys all you guys talk about is false prophets and reprobates and all these things but for the last 10 years it hasn't been talked about that's why no one knows about it that's why they're all they've infiltrated the churches like crazy so what are we doing we're just making up for lost time you know we want to make sure that people know what the Bible says about these things I mean it's either this or just like you know that hey God loves you Chad you know God loves you brother point number one God loves you point number two God loves me point number three God loves us you know and we've we've seen kumbaya we pray we go home and that's it but that ain't gonna help you right you know the false prophets will come in there they'll devour you because of the Bible says that my people are destroyed for what for lack of knowledge okay and you will be destroyed for lack of knowledge first Kings chapter 13 so the next prophet on the list is the old prophet that's his name in the Bible okay look at the Bible says in first Kings 13 verse 11 now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel the words which he had spoken unto the king them they told also to their father and their father said unto them what way when he for sons has seen what way the man of God went which came from Judah and I find it interesting that would provoke the man of God to even you know have an interest excuse me what provoked the old prophet to have an interest in the man of God was what his works he was like man he's doing some great works and where'd he go you know let me find out who this guy is so what caught what piqued his interest with the fact that the man of God was doing some great works keep that in mind verse 12 and their father excuse me verse 13 and he said unto his son saddle me the ass so they saddled him the ass and he rode thereon and went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak and he said unto him art thou the man of God that came us from Judah and he said I am then he said unto him come home with me and eat bread and he said I may not return with thee nor go in with thee neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place for it was said to me by the word of the Lord thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there nor turn again to go by the way that thou came is so we see that God had given this guy specific instructions from the word of the Lord says look don't do this and this man of God he has some integrity he said even though even though the old prophet came and said come he said I can't God told me not to you know verse 17 for it was said to me by the word of the Lord thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest he said unto him I am a prophet also as our hey I'm a preacher just like you we're like the same guy man and an angel spake unto me Joseph Smith by the word of the Lord saying bring him back with thee into thine house that he may eat bread and drink water but he lied unto him so point number one he saw his works right that piqued his interest to go find out who he was but what was he trying to do he's trying to deceive him he was trying to hinder him okay and the Bible says explicitly that he lied to him so he went back with them verse 19 and did eat bread in his house and drink water I mean this is sad and it came to pass as they sat at the table that the word of the Lord came unto the prophet that brought him back and he cried unto the man of God that came from Judas saying thus saith the Lord for as much as thou has disobeyed the mouth of the Lord and has not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee but came his back and has eaten bread and drunk water in the place of the which the Lord did say to the eat no bread and drink no water thy carcass shall not come unto the sepulcher of thy fathers and we see later on the the man of God is torn by what by a lion okay which a lion is a picture of what Satan right why simply because first and foremost is his fault obviously for listening to that guy right he had a commandment of the Lord he should have just stuck with it but second of all because the old prophet led him astray and how he said what does that have to do with being a false prophet well because the old prophet because he told them lies the Bible the Bible talks about teaching pernicious ways what is that evil ways ways that are that are lies and wicked things that are not true and here's the thing I think there's no coincidence in the Bible that the Bible calls him a what an old prophet because he's here's the thing is often when we think of someone who's old we think of some think of someone who's experienced someone who who would have some integrity who would have some wisdom who has been walking with God far longer than we have who maybe has read the Bible more times than we have and we trust in this person and they use that as an advantage to lead people astray that's what the old prophet did to this guy to the man of God now go to 2nd Peter chapter number 2 we won't spend too much time on this but I think it's important to talk about this type of false prophet 2nd Peter chapter 2 in verse 14 2nd Peter chapter 2 verse number 14 the Bible says having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls and heart they have exercised with covetous practices cursed children so the Bible says here that they beguile unstable souls what is an unstable soul it's someone who is not firm right someone who is easily swayed someone who's can be carried about with every wind of doctrine as the Bible puts it go to Ephesians chapter number 4 Ephesians chapter number 4 and find my place here the Bible says in Ephesians chapter number 4 and verse number 11 and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the what for the perfecting of the same so when the Bible talks about perfecting what is it talking about completing okay the Bible says that we need to be complete and it says for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man that doesn't mean sinless it means complete mature unto the measure of the statue of the fullness of Christ now what is the outcome of being that look at verse 14 says that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the what slight of men and cunning craft in this whereby they lying weight to what deceive and what does the Bible say about the old prophet he lied unto him and what happened this man of God and he was a man of God because he was unstable he was beguiled he was tossed to and fro carried about with every wind of doctrine doctrine means teaching and what he suffered the consequences of that now obviously I believe God punished the old prophet right but that doesn't mean that the man of God was not punished for disobeying God and we have and when I think of this I often think of because I came out of it I often think of the Bible college student okay now we make fun of Bible College and I'm with you on that one but I know there's a lot of Bible college students within Bible College who are sincere they want to do right they want to pastor a church they want to learn the Word of God but what's the problem they have an old prophet leading them astray and they think they're doing right they think they're they're they're living for God they think they're accomplishing something but what's gonna happen they're still unstable I mean I remember when I first went to Bible College I met Bible college students who are about to graduate who didn't know squat about the Bible I mean these are people I expected to be like you know a master of Israel you know someone who knew the Word of God very well they didn't know anything you know but the fact that the matter remains is because that's not emphasized doctrine is not emphasized within Bible call and within Bible College anymore it's not now you would think a Bible College is what it's a cause that teaches the Bible right I mean Bible College you guys get that it's kind of goes together right but that's not the case anymore you know what it's you know Bible College is about it's about activities it's about fun okay I mean I've met some of the worldliest people in Bible College you ask anybody who went to a Bible College they'll tell you the same exact thing you asked brother Perry Phillips who went to house Anderson College he told me the exact same thing my father-in-law taught me my father-in-law used to say man I went to Bible College and I thought like I was gonna be like everyone's gonna be like the Apostle Paul and I'm like some carnal world the Christian he goes some of the worst people are in the Bible are in that Bible College people who don't even want to be there just just they're just paying to be there wasting their time some of the people aren't even saved I'm serious I mean my mother-in-law tells a story about you know her one of her roommates was like some drug addict heroin crackhead former whore who was still is a whore you know and she was doing drugs while she was in college how's that how you like them apples but here's the thing is the old prophet I mean the old prophet it's there they're like that because of the old prophet now obviously they had they could make their own decisions but they need an old prophet to say hey look this is not right get right with the Lord sober up don't do drugs but what happens Bible College becomes a system of money right it becomes a matter of paying the bills so what do they do they tolerate worldliness they tolerate all kinds of false doctrine because you got to think about it and I know what I'm talking about because I was a Bible college teacher okay think about this you have students from all over the country coming to this one college that is based in a local church so you have students that come from all different types of churches that believe different things so then you have the smorgasbord of doctrine being just blended into this college and what happens the people who run the colleges have to tolerate it if they're gonna pay the bills so this guy is probably repenting your sins come from a church that they teach that you got to work your way to heaven and all this garbage but what oh well they're just a little off and why do they have to say it because they got to pay the bills see it goes all back to the money you see what I'm saying you just got to follow the money trails what you have to do and it's unfortunate but you know what I believe there's Bible college students within colleges that are honest here sincere and you know what I believe in my heart that many of those Bible colleges students are just gonna join the movement soon sooner or later they're gonna just join the movement and praise God for that I mean we already have a couple in our church amen that's a good thing because look and I don't want the refuse of the Bible colleges right I don't want the reprobate silver you know that's that's there because Bruce has rejected that you know I'm not for that you know because there's people in the Bible cause they're just worldly I mean they don't they don't care about the Bible there is as lukewarm as the day is long okay you ever had lukewarm coffee it's disgusting I love coffee okay I drink it hot or ice I never drink a lukewarm it's the most disgusting thing ever and I've met so many lukewarm Christians within Bible colleges no I'm not talking about them I'll talk about the ones who actually want to do something for God but they're being deceived by who by the old prophet because you know the old prophet here's the thing is zeal can provoke a lot of people to do great works for God or but on the opposite side you want zeal does it causes other to be envious of what you do you they see your works and they're just not happy with the fact that you're doing something great for God so what do they try to do if they want to hinder you stay away from that brother Bruce you know yeah he's going down a wrong path I'm sorry I we saw four four six people safe since Thursday is that wrong I'm using the King James Bible I'm preaching out of the Word of God I'm in church on Sunday I got my wife here I got my son here I mean what's so wrong about this path nothing man in fact it's biblical and here's the thing don't let people try to misconstrue your mind and thinking that we're some sort of cult because that's what even our independent Baptist brethren try to do unfortunately they try to make us they try to portray us as like a Jim Jones type of a cult oh you guys believe different yeah we do believe difference because the Bible says these things okay this is what the Bible's now look if we're up here and say just believe me because I said so yeah you know that's a different story but it's like believe the Word of God is what you need to believe there's a pastor who got up and he um he got up in front of his congregation regarding me regarding that pastor and something about me this is crazy and he said he went to go start a church doesn't believe like the I mean he's after the service he said and I'm not talking about my old church okay he said he went to go start a church doesn't believe like us and I don't want to talk about it anymore I mean he must think he has dummies in his congregation because I would say anyone anybody with any sense in their brain would say whoa why do you not want to talk about it you know what's the big deal you have something to hide I mean what's wrong and it backfired on him because people contacted me and they even came to my house yeah they're like we can't stay away from you you're the reason why we're in church what's up you know I'm like oh God hates faggots and this is X Y Z Y well that makes sense they're like I mean I thought about people they're like wow well that makes a lot of sense actually you know this lady came over on on Friday and she's a really good friend of ours and we kind of decide my wife and I kind of disciple there we help her get in church and get faithful and just very good lady and you know she was just like what's the big deal with the whole what happened and I said look it's because of these beliefs and I laid them out for her and you know you kind of take a risk sometimes right when you when you tell someone like that because you don't know how they're gonna react but I just kind of just meekly and I said you know the Bible says this and and we don't allow pedophiles into our church or homosexuals in fact you know ask them twice to leave if they don't leave we'll physically take them out you know and this is why we do that and she kind of looked at me and I'm like oh man party's over you know and she said I am so glad that you hold to that she goes cuz that happens all the time you know and I felt like she there's something that might have happened even in her personal life that maybe you know that because her accountant has changed she said she goes I'm glad you see that Wow she goes that's really good I'm like yeah and then you know my son stays at this in the service and and she's like that's really good and you know what she thought it was the greatest thing she goes well what's the big deal then you know sounds about right I'm like I don't know what the big deal is you know he goes yeah cuz they said they said like pretty much we should stay away from you you know like I'm some sort of plague I mean look I could be annoying sometimes maybe even a jerk but I'm not that much of a jerk okay we could get along all right I'm not weird like that but they're just like you know you know don't don't go near that guy and then to say to go before your congregation and say I don't want to talk about it that sounds weird that's cultish I mean look if you want to come talk to me come talk to me what do you need to talk about let's talk what's up you know I got nothing to hide you know if you're like hey I don't want to know I want to talk about it shut up you know I said shut up you know it's just like up that's weird the best thing is like look you need to talk let's talk what's up see the person who has nothing to hide is not afraid to talk about anything person who has something to hide is the person who's like shut up I'm the boss you shut your mouth I don't want to talk about it case closed let's go back to Candyland I'm serious the old prophet leads people astray and here's the thing fortunately there's people there's a there's there's sheep within the fold who who have some sense and they're like that sounds a little weird you know maybe they are right over there or something you know and I'm serious and that's what I hope that a lot of Bible college students come you know because we are doing something big for God and things are getting done souls are being saved and the guy who went sowing with me yesterday he told me he said I said yeah we're reaching the next year I said you remember when my father-in-law used to talk about reaching the next generation he said yeah I said um we're doing that and Janelle was there with with with Rose and I said you know how old are you she said 24 I said Rose how old are you 18 right she said 18 I said they're out sowing today he's like what I said you guys how many people are so anywhere you're going seriously you know we got a couple you know and I was like well who he goes well so-and-so but no he goes visit he goes to visit well then there's songs up no he goes on a bus route he goes well there is so-and-so but he just drops off tracks he goes actually there's no one you know and I'm like man look I'm not boasting at all I'm saying look obviously something's taking place but what is the old prophet doing the old prophet is looking at the man of God who's the younger one right the younger church and and trying to hinder it obviously right so what do we have to do we have to realize that false prophets unfortunately they they're their motive sometimes is even envy right they see something's being done they want to hinder it not I hope I hope that bible college shouldn't start coming to our church I really do um you know the one I my belief is the one of the worst mistakes that any pastor can make worst mistake that you could ever make in a bible college is slam pastor anderson vocally now they think they're doing damage control when they do that they're not because here's the thing the those who are in bible college right now they're called millennials they're about that you know there's no millennials and you know what they have they're they're like they use this thing called a phone so as soon as you tell them not to do something they're like whoop youtube they're like hey this is pretty cool and I'm not exaggerating I have people bible college students saying hey what's so what's wrong with pastor anderson he sounds pretty solid you know and they got some sense right and so obviously there's people who have some sense but unfortunately there are those some of those who don't they're babes in christ and they're going to be carried about with every wind of doctrine why because of the old prophet and so go with me if you went to jeremiah 28 so we don't want to be children tossed to and fro we don't want to be the soul that is beguiled right we want to make sure that we're growing in our in our knowledge of the word of god and look if you read the bible once praise the lord read it twice read it thrice read it four times read it over and over and over again you ought to know the bible as though you yourself are going to become a pastor one day and you may not even become you may not even be like I don't want to become a pastor but you ought to know the bible as though you are okay you ought to know what you believe to be able to have a radar for false doctrine to have a radar for false prophets because here's the thing any man you know who doesn't have the gift of being single is going to get married and then guess what you'll be the pastor of your home you're guarding your children you're teaching your wife well guess what you need to know doctrine you need to know what the bible says about these things don't let your wife be teaching you doctrine you need to teach your wife doctrine okay that's how it needs to be jeremiah 28 next next false prophet i gotta i gotta hurry it's hananiah hannah who's hananiah so during the time that jeremiah was preaching there's a there's a false prophet that arose by the name of hananiah hananiah is very reminiscent i would i mean i'm joking but it's it's almost true he's like the joel osteen of jeremiah okay look at jeremiah 28 verse 1 says and it came to pass the same year in the beginning of the reign of zedekiah king of judah in the fourth year and in the fifth month that hananiah the son of azor the prophet which was of gibeon spake unto me in the house of the lord in the presence of the priests and of the all the people saying thus speak at the lord of hosts the god of israel saying i have broken the yoke of the king of babylon within two full years will i bring again into this place all the vessels of the lord's house that Nebuchadnezzar king of babylon took away from this place and carried them to babylon and i will bring again to this place jeconiah the son of jehoiakim king of judah with all the captives of judah they that went into babylon saith the lord for i will break the yoke of the king of babylon so he's coming and he's saying look because obviously they're being taken into captivity you know they had disobeyed the lord and hananiah comes and say hey don't worry about it god gave me a word everything's gonna be all right your best life now buy this book you know god's gonna come he's gonna break the yoke all the vessels of the lord's house is gonna come back everything's gonna be a-okay you know but guess what he's lying yeah now it could be that he thought that he was telling the truth and maybe because he wanted the admiration of the people he just kind of just like i believe you know the the power of positive thinking kind of thing we can do this we can we can do it you know i think i can i think i can but guess what that wasn't the reality the reality was you're staying in there for like 70 years and in fact you have god told the people god's people he said make sure you just build houses and build vineyards plant vineyards because you're gonna be here for a long time have babies have families just get comfortable because you're gonna be there for a long time and hananiah comes no it's okay it's gonna be okay hold your bible up within two full years god will deliver us out and bring the vessels of the lord's house into god's house once again he will do it again amen in jesus name i pray amen you think i'm joking but that's basically what he's doing and unfortunately there's people who believe them i mean you think of these people who are going through a tough time yeah they're like oh yes and you know when the bible says that they heal the false prophets heal the people of god slightly doesn't mean like a little by little slightly means slight like like deceitfully okay like the sleight of hand that's why in ephesians 4 it talks about by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive so they're being deceitful is what he's doing so they're like wow great it's gonna be great but it's not gonna be great okay and if they disobey the lord which they did they were gonna pay the consequences of it okay look what the bible says in verse six oh excuse me verse five then the prophet jeremiah said unto the prophet hananiah in the presence of the priest and the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the lord even the prophet jeremiah said amen he said amen all right you say so you know it's just like all right amen the lord do so the lord performed thy words which thou has prophesied to bring again the vessels of the lord's house and all that is carried away captive from babylon into this place nevertheless here down now this word that i speak in nine ears and in the ears of all the people the prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries and against great kingdoms of war and of evil and of pestilence now i find it interesting that jeremiah is saying this because i'm sure hananiah is getting some popularity because jeremiah is preaching a lot of negative messages so people are following him because he's preaching the negative messages but they're not necessarily enjoying them then you got hananiah who comes and he's like this prosperity everything's gonna be okay and they're like yeah hey see this guy he's positive man and then what does jeremiah do he's like hey just let you know i'm not the first one who's preached like this there's come guys before me who have preached against kingdoms against countries so this negative message that jeremiah has he's not the first one to do it is what he's saying and it goes and it how do we apply that today people look at us you guys are so negative have you heard of jack house amen have you heard of the preachers of old who rip face sometimes even harder than we do this isn't new this is something that's been around for a long time we're not the ones who created this way of preaching jesus did it this way ezekiel did it this way isaiah did it this way jeremiah did it this way prophets of old have done it for centuries verse 9 the prophet which prophesied the peace when the word of the prophet shall come to pass then shall the prophet be known that the lord had truly sent him then had an eye of the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet's jeremiah's neck and break it wow so i mean this guy's getting confident yeah he's saying right look if it comes to pass that means you send them to the lord he comes over grabs that breaks that thing good illustration right people are probably like whoa that's yeah that's cool you know verse 11 and henna and i spake in the presence of all the people say thus saith the lord even so will i break the yoke of neba kineser king of babylon from the neck from the neck of all the nations within the space of two full years and the prophet jeremiah went his way then the word of the lord came unto jeremiah the prophet after that henna and i the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet jeremiah saying go and tell henna and i saying thus saith the lord thou has broken the yokes of wood but thou shall make them yokes of iron you know the hispanics go like this you're in trouble you know why because he just made it worse he said you want to break the yokes of wood that's fine i'm gonna put yokes of iron on you now because this is gonna happen so why what's the what's the prophet hananiah's problem well he has what the bible calls they speak great swelling words okay their words are puffed up they they it sounds good the message sounds good but it's not good go to jude go to the book of jude book of jude i'm gonna read to you from second peter chapter two verse 18 second peter 2 18 says for one day speak great swelling words of vanity what is vanity emptiness so it sounds good but it's just empty i mean you listen to a joe osteen sermon he sounds like it sounds beautiful it's like that's gorgeous but it's vain it's just empty there's no solid doctrine found within that sermon it just sounds like you know smooth exactly and that's what the bible says it says words of vanity they allure through the lust of the flesh through much wantonness now this is why i believe that those who are truly saved will not even if they get caught up in it because christians can get caught up in this stuff but i believe they'll escape this why because the bible says through much wantonness those that were clean escaped from them who live in error so eventually they escape why because because the sheep know the voice of the shepherd and a stranger will they not follow yeah they might be deceived because if they won't if they can't get deceived the bible wouldn't command us to to to have all these principles so that we don't get deceived right we can we can be deceived but there comes a poem where it's like okay it's time to escape those who live in error okay look what jude 16 says these are murmurs complainers walking after their own lusts and your mouth speaketh great swelling words having men's persons in admiration because of advantage so people are just admiring them okay that's how you know it's a false prophet when they're just being admired by so many people know the all yay all that would live godly in christ jesus shall suffer persecution you don't persecute someone you admire okay you hurt someone you would you you persecute okay and the bible teaches us that there are false prophets such as hananiah they have great swelling words and look even within independent bathroom circles they've they've gone that route now you know what they just want to give the motivational speech on sunday morning i ain't helping nobody you know you got you got the the drunkard the fornicator the extortioner who comes sunday day in and day out and look maybe even the fornicator and the extortioner they actually want to get right with god but they come to church and they hear a motivational speech and they say well i guess i can just keep living in fornication and that can be right with god at the same time you know and what happens they just continue in that sin and they suffer the concept they suffer god's judgment on their lives because of that you know they get some sort of disease they have children out of wedlock or they have some sort of blemish that happens to them and why because the preacher wasn't willing to get up and just rip face about it to help them get right with god you know and i've had a lot of people tell me man i was involved in this i'm no longer involved praise the lord for that better to have that than to allow someone to just continue and just say hey it's okay god loves you still i love you we love you and and let's find someone else to love you you know it's just like everything's just gonna be a-okay you could just keep being involved in your sin it doesn't work that way that's right friend told me yesterday he was just like man the pastor got up and praised the the girl in our church who had another child out of wedlock what's going on had another baby out of wedlock praise the lord yeah great that's not great it's not great no obviously it's not the child's fault obviously right but that's being permitted you know and because they're so greedy and selfish to try to get the money from these people they're willing to allow these people to just destroy their lives at the expense of them getting their money that's sad okay but that's hananiah for you swelling words now we got we got to hurry go to john chapter 13 the next false prophet this one's obvious anyone want to guess who it is judas judas is scarier now here's here's the interesting thing judas would be the most obvious false prophet to know about but he's not the most obvious to find who it is yeah okay he's the one what the bible would say creeps in unaware now jesus knew it was him right obviously but the disciples didn't you know look at john 13 21 when jesus had thus said he was troubled in spirit and testified and said verily verily i say unto you that one of you shall betray me then the disciples looked one on another doubting of whom he spake neither was leaning on jesus bosom one of his disciples whom jesus loved simon peter therefore beckoned to him that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake he then lying on jesus breast saith unto him lord who is it obviously speaking about john verse 26 jesus answered he it is to whom i shall give a sop when i have dipped it and when he had dipped the sop he gave it to judas iscariot the son of simon and after the sop satan entered into him then said jesus unto him that that thou doest do quickly now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him for some of them thought because judas had the bag that jesus had said unto him by those things that we have need of against the feast or that he should give something to the poor so jesus says whoever dips the sop in there with me that's the guy and judas goes and everyone sees it and then he takes off he's like i think he's probably gonna go do something you know he's probably gonna go give to the poor or he's gonna prepare something i mean they just completely don't even know it's him that's crazy now go to second timothy chapter three so the obviously and again i want to i want to make sure i emphasize this but every false prophet fits all of this every single characteristic we gave this morning and today they fed they fed them all it just so happened that those false prophets within the scriptures the actual people they basically were predominant in one characteristic over another obviously right so one of them that that judas had obviously he was covetous we saw that but one thing that we see about him is that he crept in unaware because how many people said like man how can he just like deceive so many people for three years and i mean the disciples who were there with them how could they not know this guy was a master at deceiving people okay look at second timothy chapter three now as we read this think of judas i mean this fits in perfectly now second timothy chapter three is a very good scripture obviously to talk about reprobates because we know understand that reprobates and false prophets they're one and the same okay but right now we're highlighting the false prophet the aspect of a reprobate second timothy three one three one says this know also that in the last days perilous time shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy without natural affection truce break breakers false accusers and continent fierce despisers of those that are good look what it says traitors i mean he's the one who betrayed the lord right heady high-minded lovers of pleasure more than lovers of god look what it says having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away verse six for of this sort are they which creep in into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with the diverse lust ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth now as janice and jamborees withstood moses so do these also resist the truth men of corrupt minds reprobate concern in the faith but they shall proceed no further for their folly shall be manifest unto all men as theirs also was so what is the bible teaching us here it's teaching us that these guys they have a form of godliness so they look like christians now here's the good thing about this because at the latter end it says their their folly shall be manifest so eventually they'll come out the tyler breaker will come out you know these guys who are wicked false prophets they will eventually be declared as being a false prophet according to the word of god because they can't retain their false doctrine they need to get it out or they can't retain them now lord william that will never happen in our church where some child gets molested and just a side note here keep your children with you at all times amen keep your children with you don't let them just wander off you know if you see me in church and my son's walking i'm all i got one i look like retarded because i got one eye on the person i'm like looking at my son because i want to make sure where he's at he said well this is faithful where baptist church how do you know we don't know and i'm not going to be suspicious of everyone say man this guy's potentially a reprobate that guy looks like a faggot or something you know i'm not gonna do that but i'm not gonna be so stupid to think that nothing could happen you know this is a sinful world and yes the bible teaches us regarding people who creep in unawares they don't we don't know that it's them okay go to jude 4 jude chapter 4 or jude chapter 4 jude verse 4 the bible says for there are certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation now this is very interesting that it says before ordained unto this condemnation because the bible teaches us that these false prophets and reprobates they're twice dead right so that means that basically they're already like in hell even though they're not in hell yet amen yeah well the bible says that they're already ordained to that condemnation okay it's already there for them so there are people when it's just too late for them obviously to be saved and it says ordained to this condemnation ungodly men turning the grace of our god into lasciviousness and denying the only lord god in our lord jesus christ that's a key point right there because anytime it makes reference to the false prophet and a reprobate it always says that they deny the lord that bought them they resist the truth it says right there denying the only lord god in our lord jesus christ so it's not a matter of well can a reprobate be saved no because they've already rejected the lord and the fact that they've already they're a sodomite or they're a reprobate just goes to show that beforehand they had have already rejected the lord okay does that make sense now go to second peter chapter two we're going to go back and forth here now as i studied this i thought to myself you know what god has saved the false prophets i believe that like what i believe god saved them now you guys remember my sermon on all israel shall be saved you guys remember that what's what's the synonym for for that word saved reserve look what the bible says in second peter two verse 17 these are wells without water clouds that are carried with the tempest to whom the mist to whom the midst of darkness is what reserved forever you see they haven't been saved from hell god is just saving hell for them that just proves that reprobates and false prophets cannot be saved because god has reserved it for i mean something is reserving like hey it's waiting for you it's all yours it's all yours and the bible saying here just like it said in jude that they're ordained a vault to this condemnation that god has reserved the midst of darkness for them forever so yeah he said well they're not dead yet and they can't they can't have a chance to to repent they can have a chance to believe on christ well here it says that god has already reserved it for them okay and he's not going to cancel that reservation okay it's reserved it's there for them and yeah they're living but you know what to god you know because we think why doesn't why don't they just die now and yeah amen why don't they just die now but to be honest with you even if they live for like another 10 years that's not a lot in god's eyes to them it's just like tomorrow in the next hour you know to him in the next minute they're going to hell in his eyes right but it's reserved for them jude 12 verse 13 says these are spots in your feast of charity when they feast with you this is scary right here but it's just true when they feast with you feeding themselves without fear man i think of when i read that verse i think of Ted Bundy Ted or excuse me not Ted Bundy um uh Jeffrey Dahmer not because he was a cannibal but because you would talk i mean people would talk to Ted Bundy or uh i keep getting confused Jeffrey Dahmer when they would talk to them he was just like hey what's up you know i mean after he murdered someone after he like committed the most heinous of wicked crimes he'd just be like normal like nothing ever happened you know i mean there's a story that because what he would do is he would lure other sodomites you know into his room or whatever into his house and then he would kill them and eat them and i'll do all this grotesque disgusting things but he had drugged one of them and basically this guy woke up and i don't know if Jeffrey Dahmer was just in another room or whatever it was but the guy woke up and he walked out and it just so happened there was a police officer a police car on the corner the guy walked up to him and the police officer was like i mean this guy's like not dressed modest right you know and they're like what's up with this guy and you know Jeffrey Dahmer came out and he said i am so sorry this is a an exchange student he's just really intoxicated he needs to be put to bed i really apologize i'm going to get him inside the house right now and just took him in took him upstairs and killed him but he was just smooth as the day is long why because they have no fear when they feed themselves among other people they're just like like nothing and they're what the bible would call in Ephesians chapter 4 past feeling you know they passed that already they don't they don't have no guilt they don't feel bad about anything that's why you know when you watch the Ted bunny interview where he supposedly got saved and the guy from Calvary Chapel is interviewing him as all this wicked murderous rapist reprobate you know oh he got saved he changed his life it's a lie it's false nobody said he you know he's even exposing other ones it's a lie he's lying these guys are professional liars they know how to do he even acted remorseful they have no remorse you know he's over here like yeah i just can't talk about that i i can't what do you mean shut up you've killed over 30 people 30 people with no remorse and you're acting like you just can't talk about it he's he's playing and here's the thing a lot of Christians saw that they're like wow okay i guess reprobates can be saved i guess murderous you know wicked pedophile faggots can be saved i mean Ted Bundy right and by the way Jeffrey Dahmer said the same thing Jeffrey Dahmer said yeah i saw all this creation science dvd and it just i accepted the lord Jesus Christ as my savior like wow what a change this is cannibal now i've become a christian from cannibal to christian you know it's like it doesn't work that way and a lot of christians they see that i'm like wow you know they can be reformed they cannot be reformed it's a lie okay it says without fear clouds they are without water cared about of winds trees whose fruit withereth without fruit so on and so forth and we won't belabor that point now last one here because i'm way past my my time here acts chapter 13 this is a good one i like this one okay i don't like the false prophets obviously but i like the fact that the bible highlights this false prophet you'll see why in just a moment his name is bar jesus i mean what a terrible name you know it's like you might as well just call yourself a false prophet i mean bar jesus is like these people all who who say they're jesus now they're ones in mexico there's another one in russia it's like you know you gotta be real stupid to follow that guy you know what i mean i mean he the guy the guy in russia has like a long white robe he has the long hair you know he does the whole and people are like deceived by that you have to have the iq of a rock to fall for that so this guy bar jesus all right let's look at bar jesus here act chapter 13 verse 4 so they being sent forth by the holy ghost now we're not going to learn too much about bar jesus it's just fun to read about him right now because look all these other false prophets we see their lives and we have to compare what their actions to the new testament well bar jesus it just says everything he does right here in this chapter in this the first couple verses so they being sent forth by the holy ghost departed into salutia and from thence they sailed to cyprus and when they were at salami's they preached the word of god in the synagogues of the jews and they had also john to their minister and when they had gone through the isle of paphos they found a sworn sorcerer sorcerer a what a false prophet so this is one of the only guys that he actually calls him there's a false prophet and look what it says a what a jew go figure right whose name was bar jesus you know this reminds me of these people the yeshua crowd right the jew yeshua crowd bar jesus false prophet jew i mean you're just asking for it verse seven which was with the deputy of the country surges paulus a prudent man who called for barnabas and saw and desired to hear the word of god but elimis the sorcerer for so is his name by interpretation which is interesting isn't it i mean elimis was his name but he went by bar jesus right yeshua we'll see how the what the anti-christ calls himself withstood them these withstood also like jennison jambres withstood moses right so do these also resist the truth seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith so what was his agenda they just want they don't want him to even be saved whoa that's wicked i mean he's there to turn away the deputy because the deputy is hearing the word of god he's hearing the preaching and bar jesus a jew the sorcerer this guy's there to try to turn him away so he won't get saved then saw also who also is called paul filled with the holy ghost set his eyes on him i like this he's just like you know he's just like i'm gonna get you you know verse 10 and said oh full of all subtlety and all mischief thou child of the devil thou enemy of all righteousness wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the lord and i'll behold the hand of the lords upon thee and thou shall be blind not seeing the sun for a season and immediately there fell on him a mist in the darkness and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand so on and so forth so in verse 10 it gives us everything that the false prophet does he's subtle he's mischievous he's a child of the devil he's an enemy of all righteousness and what does he do he perverts the right ways of the lord i mean that's a that's a sermon in and of itself right there we can preach on just a sermon bar jesus right a jew who's a sorcerer he's ungodly but it goes back to the first point who's king right works of uh do perverting the gospel well the last prophet that we're highlighting of course there's the false prophet in revelation but that's very obvious as well but the last prophet that we're having today what is he doing he's trying to turn people away from the faith yeah very very common agenda of those who are false prophets they i mean we wouldn't be able to understand how someone could be so evil but there's people out there who have the agenda the people will not get saved it's very wicked very evil and we can't even comprehend something like that but it exists don't be ignorant think that it can exist it does exist bar jesus is an example right there all right that's pretty much it let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer father we thank you so much for your word thank you so much for describing these men in such detail and for placing scriptures within the new testament and also giving us the person in the old testament that we can compare them with and so we can learn so we can not be children tossed to and fro carried about with every wind of doctrine help us to be a perfect man a complete man so that we can be aware of these things we could be vigilant we could protect our families our wives our children and of course the church of god and may he bless us as we go on our way in jesus name we pray amen