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June 10, 2016 - Jim Bakker Show
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What Creates A Liberal Christian - Zach Drew & Andrew Bellers
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Hell's Judgment Upon America 00:15:07
I believe that at one point in time that lukewarm Christianity will be a thing of the past.
The Word of God tells us what we can expect in different generations.
And so they're trying to shut out the church.
They're trying to conform the church to the way of the world.
When our enemy says they're coming for us, they mean it.
It's judgment.
It's judgment.
It's God's judgment upon America.
People aren't waking up to that there's a judgment coming.
Hello, everybody, and welcome to today's episode of Revelation in the News.
I'm Zach Drew.
I'm Sasha Vols.
And I'm Andrew Bellers.
Today we're going to be talking about some heresy that has infiltrated itself into the church.
There's many different points to this heretical movement that's happening right now, but we're going to be dealing with four main topics today and bringing in the revelation that's in the news to support these things.
You see, my question is, how can you have these enormous groups of Christians, these enormous churches that believe things like there are multiple ways to heaven or that there is no such thing as hell?
Or maybe your view is hell is a temporary place or that marriage wasn't created for just a man and just a woman, that homosexuality is okay.
What breeds this?
Where does it come from?
What breeds a liberal Christian today?
Now, what I mean by liberal Christian is I mean a Christian who doesn't base his governing authorities on the Bible.
Where does this come from?
And I think that it actually originally started in my mind.
I started thinking about it more in the last couple of weeks whenever it was really between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton when it comes to who is going to get the nomination for their party.
And I had someone ask me, how in the world can you have all of these young Christians support someone like Bernie Sanders?
And I thought to myself, okay, not young people, but young Christians was the question.
I didn't understand.
I couldn't understand why until I just started thinking about it.
And I realized that these Christians are not governed by the Word of God.
These liberal Christians have these heresies of multiple ways to heaven.
No, hell, hell is temporary.
Homosexuality is okay.
They're governed by not the word, but they're governed by their experiences.
Yeah.
Their experiences in life is what they're governed by.
And a lot of these, specifically the things that you mentioned, like there are multiple ways to heaven, I think for me is the most startling one.
But hell is just temporary or it doesn't even exist or homosexuality is just fine.
You know, that's okay.
I've heard Christians before make arguments for these things.
And my thought initially was, how do you get that?
You know, you're Christian, right?
You're a Christian.
We believe in the word.
We believe in the Bible.
So where in the world are you basing your theology?
Where in the Bible is that?
And then I realized it's not in the Bible at all.
That's it.
And it's not that they think it's in the Bible or necessarily even that they don't know the word, which I think was always my initial thought was, oh, they just don't know their Bible.
A lot of them do.
They just don't care.
You know, we should create a little point.
You know, you're a Christian liberal if you're making a case and the person that you're talking to makes a clear scriptural case, but yet you just keep on arguing.
It's kind of like, hey, flagship.
It's like, hey, a liberal Christian.
But here's the thing.
How can this happen?
It's actually pretty simple how this can happen.
All you have to do is take one particular scripture from the Bible and not apply it to your life.
It's as simple as that.
And that one particular scripture is found in Matthew 22, 36 through 40.
And we're talking about because if you don't combine this verse, what this verse says to do, if you don't combine this verse with what it says, there's two elements of this verse.
If you don't do both of these things, you're going to become a crazy legalistic Pharisee.
You're going to become a Pharisee, a legalist.
Or if you do the other one and just by itself, you're going to become a hardcore liberal.
Matthew 26, 22, verse 36.
Teacher, referring to Jesus here, which is the greatest commandment in the law?
And Jesus replied this, love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all of your mind.
He's saying, listen, the number one most important commandment is love God with every single fiber of your being.
Worship him.
You see, worship him with everything you have.
Every single Christian, I'm going to make a little, every single Christian, every single person that's ever existed, we were created for something and we were created to worship.
Every single person you've ever laid your eyes on, the common denominator between us all is we were created to worship.
Everybody worships.
The only difference between Christians and non-Christians is we simply direct our worship differently.
But a natural byproduct, you can't even help it even if you wanted to.
Whatever you worship in life, you naturally become more like.
You can't even help it.
And out of whatever you worship goes into your heart.
Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
I can talk with somebody for 20 minutes and tell you what they worship, whether they worship sex or money or cars or whatever it may be, clothing, I don't care.
Whatever you worship goes into your heart.
Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
And we all worship something.
And whatever we worship, we can't even help it.
We naturally become more like.
So this verse is saying, love the Lord God with everything you have.
Worship me and me alone.
And then he says this.
And the second like it, love your neighbor as yourself.
All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.
So Jesus literally saying, holding up, you know, I imagine him holding up the Old Testament.
Saying basically this whole book is summed up in two commandments.
Love God with everything you have.
Love the word.
Love his word.
Because John 1, 1 says that the word is God and God is the word.
Jesus is the word.
So saying, love the word, love God, and love people.
And that basically sums up the whole Old Testament.
Now, if you just love God and his word, and you don't love people, it breeds legalism.
But if you don't really love the word, if your governing authority is not the word of God and it's based simply on experience, if you don't really love the things of God and God and his word, but you really, really just love people so much, it's going to breed liberalism, where nothing bad can happen to you, that you can live however you want to live because it's not based in the word.
There's no such thing as hell or hell is temporary because it's not based in the word.
That there's multiple ways to heaven because it's not based in the world because you just love people so much.
Yeah.
But you don't really love God.
And because of that, it breeds liberalism.
Love God, no people, legalism.
Love people, not God, liberalism.
Right.
And what that boils down to a lot of the time isn't necessarily, because I can understand how someone could love someone so much or love people so much that I think God would never do anything to hurt them.
But really what it does boil down to a lot is you love yourself too much.
You actually love yourself more than you love God.
You love the things that you do and that give you pleasure.
And you don't care what the statutes of God are.
You don't care what his word says because at the end of the day, you want to make yourself happy.
So, and sometimes it is because you love people.
You can't understand how God would allow certain things to happen to certain people.
But sometimes even that argument is just a justification for you to do the things that you want to do.
Yeah, and I mean, you see it so much.
And especially when you do love people, because that's part of being a Christian, you love others.
But of course, you love God first.
But when you get so wrapped up in loving others, you want the best for them.
You want to see them happy.
You want to see them doing well in life.
And whether it's, and sometimes that's really where you see a compromise.
And you see it in the church a lot where so many people are coming to church.
They have, they're bringing, of course, like you come to church to bring your sins and you can be cleansed and everything.
But when you're in the pulpit or you're at church and people are talking about their problems, they're talking about their issues.
They're talking about, but not even maybe bringing it up in a bad way, saying, oh, well, we live together and we're just together.
Or, oh, well, this is my life.
This is how I live.
And this is what I believe in.
And nobody stands to correct it or even bring a correction to it or even negotiate and say, hey, this is what the Bible says.
And even though, like, I'm so glad you're here, but hey, you're obviously here for a reason.
You're here to hear God's word.
So let me tell you about God's word.
Bringing that to the table, that's where you can stand strong.
But that's where.
A lot of times you can see certain people that you're like, my goodness, they love people so much.
And they have these certain doctrines that are heretical.
And it's because of their love for people, but they're not loving God.
And there's some people that are like, man, those people are just so mean.
I don't even like to be around them.
They don't even, they don't ever smile.
They don't ever tell jokes.
They just are no fun to be around.
But man, they know the word of God.
They're just doing the first commandment, if you will.
And even churches that are just like, you know, they're just all about people.
You don't have naked cowboys dancing on stage.
I mean, just you're loving people and not God.
But it's in that order.
Love God and then love people.
And you have to do it together.
Yes, it's a partnership of this.
And the reality is that you can't love people unless you love God.
Because you do want the best for people.
If you love someone, you want the best for them.
The best for them are the statutes of God, is the word of God.
God knows the best for you.
So when you compromise the word of God for the sake of people, you are actually compromising not only their physical, earthly well-being, but also their eternal well-being.
And that isn't love at all.
It's as simple as this.
If you believe that there's multiple ways to heaven, then the Bible is not your governing authority.
And if you want to argue with me beyond that, there's no argument.
Here's your sign.
If the Bible is not your governing authority, then you can believe that there's multiple ways to heaven.
But the scripture is very clear in John 14, 6.
Jesus answered, I am the way.
I am the truth.
And I am the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
There's no roundabout, and there is one mediator between God and man.
And that man is Jesus Christ.
See, listen, here we are on earth.
God's up here.
And Jesus is kind of in the middle.
The only way to God the Father, the mediator between God and man, is through Jesus.
There's no roundabout way to get to heaven.
It's just through Jesus.
But there's so much confusion.
I mean, even talking about how there is no hell, it's easy to believe that when you hear people like, here's an article.
Pope Francis assures atheists, the Pope, the head of the Catholic Church, that's supposed to be representing God to go to heaven.
I mean, can you say that?
That would prove right there that the Bible is clearly not the Pope's governing authority.
Pope Francis has written a long open letter stating that non-believers would be forgiven by God if they simply followed their own conscience.
Follow your own conscience.
Live how you will.
You don't need an atonement for your sin.
Where it does not matter.
You do not get to go to heaven because you're a good person.
You've done good works.
You know, good.
Good people are actually going to be in hell.
And there are people that are in heaven that you probably won't think should be there.
The mediator between God and man is Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ alone.
Well, the reality is that we're not good people.
And I think we have this kind of misconstrued idea because none of us is holy.
None of us is good.
So we have this idea that that's a good person.
Bad things shouldn't happen to them.
And I'm not saying that bad things should happen to people.
I'm just saying that according to the standards of God who is holy and whom there is nothing wrong or imperfect, we're not good.
We all deserve hell.
And that is a foundation of our faith.
You know, another one, if you believe that marriage is not just between a man and a woman, the Bible is not your governing authority.
Homosexual overwhelming amount of scriptures.
I mean, you just go through the word of God.
I mean, every single time it ever talks about marriage, it's he, you know, it's like he who finds a good wife finds a good thing.
He who finds her, her who finds him.
It's always a he and a she and a she and a him.
You know, husbands respect your wives.
Wives, you know, love your husbands.
It's always, it's always a man and a woman.
The governing authority of the Bible, it's incredibly clear that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Another one is hell is a temporary place.
You know, some people believe it doesn't exist at all.
Some people believe that it's a temporary place.
And you ultimately get out of it through the length of eternity.
Everybody's going to end up choosing Jesus.
But the Bible says otherwise.
The one foundational principle that Jesus taught in the lesson of the rich man and Lazarus was that Lazarus, that hell had no exit door.
And I put here Abraham, he told that suffering man in hell why his condition couldn't be fixed.
And he said this in Luke 16, 26, between us and you is a great chasm.
And it has been fixed.
That chasm, it's been fixed.
It's been cemented.
There's no undoing of this.
There's that great chasm that's been fixed in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able to.
And none may cross from here to us, saying, listen, once you're in heaven, you're there forever.
And once you're in hell, you're there forever.
And that is the governing authority of the word.
And if I make, I'm honestly, I'm not trying to make people mad.
I'm just simply, I'm a fundamentalist.
I believe the word of God is the inherent word of God from the very beginning to the very end.
Believe the Word 00:07:56
And to the day I die, I'm simply, I'm not trying to make enemies.
I'm not trying to make people mad.
I'm simply just saying, I'm going to believe the word, and I'm going to look at the world through a biblical worldview and not my experience worldview.
I have a spiritual worldview.
I have a biblical worldview.
I'm always going to lay the foundation of my life on the word of God.
Yeah.
If you get mad when people tell you scripture, that's not a good sign.
And I think there are exceptions to that.
Someone tells you scripture and you're like, well, that was clearly out of context because I know the word.
Or you clearly twisted that.
But I think the word always takes precedent in your life above anything.
Yeah.
And there's, I mean, really, when it comes down to it, you have to look at it and say, even with all of these beliefs going on and you're hearing it everywhere, you're hearing your back into the word and just find out what Jesus said himself or find out what the Bible says for itself because that's really the only thing we can stand on.
You can listen to somebody all day talk about their theology.
You can listen to all these shows talking about what you should believe in.
But at the end of the day, where do you stand with God?
Because when it comes to Judgment Day, they're not going to be standing there with you saying, oh, well, I taught them this.
And so that's why they believe this.
Or, oh, well, at this point in their life, this experience happened.
And so that's why they started believing this way.
And so they do love you, but their experience kind of trumps like what your law says.
So basically, like they're still a good person, so you should let them into heaven.
No, none of that is going to happen on Judgment Day.
And so that's where you have to kind of look at it right now and say, This is my chance to really get myself right with God.
What do I mean?
It's saying, if there's something that's off with my belief system, that maybe I am believing a worldview.
Maybe I'm starting to take interest in something like that people are just talking about.
And now I have to make a stance on it.
So where do I make that stance?
Start to go through your ideas and say, How can I line these up with the Word of God?
And even if there's something inside of you that says, Well, on the side of people, I want to believe this because they're good people, or I want to believe that they're great.
Like, no matter what, look at that and start to say, Okay, but now how do I align that with God?
What?
And just even talk to God about that.
Start bringing that to His attention, and you'll bring it to you and say what you really need to believe.
And He'll allow Himself to really manifest in you.
It just all goes back to the Word of God.
And to be honest with somebody is to tell them the truth is one of the most loving things you can do.
You know, John Bevere this morning, he was reading from the book of Malachi, which deals it speaks of the last days.
And I believe that this whole show is, it just shows you that we are in the last days, especially if you read this verse in Malachi.
In Malachi chapter 2, verse 17, I'm going to read you what John Bevere said about it after I read this scripture.
It says, You have wearied the Lord with your words.
How have we wearied him?
You have wearied the Lord by doing this.
All who do evil, even saying these things, all who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased with them.
So, what wearies the Lord whenever you tell people all who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased with them, it wearies the Lord.
And it was a scripture that dealt with the end days.
So, this is what John Bevere says: Let's be honest: do we have people who attend our churches who live in sexual immorality, greed, possess idols, things they give their strength, who do not submit to authority, who refuse to forgive, etc., that fall under this category?
Do we know these people?
Do we have these people in our churches?
The truth is, we should all have these people attending our churches, but for the purpose of leading them to repentance, turning, a turning away, preaching, proclaiming that we have to turn from these evil things.
It says the purpose of leading them into repentance of these dead works and giving their lives to the Lordship of Jesus.
However, if we say to them, All is well, Jesus loves you, you are covered by his grace, because they prayed some magic formula, the sinner's prayer, void of true repentance.
Are we not saying to those who do evil that they are good in the Lord's sight?
If we say of those in our society who live contrary to the ways of God that they are good in God's sight, are we not wearying the Lord?
If we say to those in our society who approve those who live this way, they are good in God's sight, are we not wearying the Lord?
Let's remember Jesus came to bring grace and truth.
Let's not throw out truth for an unscriptural grace.
If we do, we distance ourselves from his presence and his power.
Yeah, that's absolutely true.
And I think what is concerning for me mostly about this liberalistic approach to wholeheartedly believe that it eventually leads to unbelief.
But I want to read this scripture.
In Romans 1:24 to 27, it says, Therefore, God gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their hearts to dishonor their own bodies among themselves.
It says they turned the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever.
Amen.
It says, For this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable passions.
Their women exchanged the natural function for what is against nature.
Likewise, the men leaving the natural function of the woman burned in lust towards one another, men with men doing that which is shameful and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.
What this is saying, and they're talking about idols, pagan idols.
What we do have, though, is this worship of humanism, where people are so important that the scripture takes a back seat.
And it's not just loving people too much.
It's that we've literally shifted our worship from a worship towards God to worship towards people.
And the reality is that however you live and whatever your ideology is, at some point they have to match up.
If you're living one way and your ideology says something else, then at some point, either your life changes because you realize what you're doing is wrong, or your ideology changes because you want to keep doing what you're doing.
And the way that is manifesting in the church today is either we're creating a God who is the God that we want him to be, which is a God who loves his people so much that he doesn't care about what is right or wrong anymore.
Or we are just completely renouncing God jump that because God is mean and evil, therefore he doesn't exist.
That's powerful.
That's powerful.
So I would really say that be founded on the word of God.
And I want to encourage you today to get back in the word.
Just get back in the word.
If you don't know where to start, just start in the gospels.
Get the words of Jesus inside of you.
The New Testament, Jesus' life, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Get those gospels.
Get Jesus' words inside of you.
And whenever you're done with those, maybe start back over again and read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to get the words of Jesus inside of you.
And then maybe go through the rest of the New Testament.
No Constitutional Right To Carry Concealed 00:02:25
But get back into the word that's taking place.
Times are changing.
And so are the laws.
There is an article right now, Andrew, I want you to talk about.
It says appeals court rules no constitutional right to carry concealed guns.
You no longer have a constitutional right to carry a concealed firearm.
It's so angry.
Here's the article from Fox News.
It says, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Thursday that people do not have a Second Amendment right to carry concealed weapons in public and a sweeping decision likely to be challenged by gun rights advocates.
I would hope so.
It says the judges further definitely dismiss the argument that a right to carry a concealed weapon was contained in the Second Amendment.
It says, we hold that the Second Amendment does not preserve or protect a right of a member of the general public to carry concealed firearms in public.
And what their reason for carrying a gun beyond self-defense, or else you won't be issued one, which is so it's discouraging because I feel like we have drifted so far from what this confounding was because they were in a tyrannical government and they didn't like how things were going.
So they wanted the people in our country, we the people, to have ultimate power.
So they're basically saying, our forefathers are saying, listen, you guys can have guns just in case the government gets too powerful.
Yeah.
So you can put the government back in check.
It's not self-defense.
It's honestly almost a fear factor for the government so that they will be afraid of the people.
So that at any point they'll be held accountable to the people.
So the people can say, we don't like what you're doing in government.
Remember that all of us have guns.
It's trying to create a civil war and to divide the country, not realizing that the right we have all the guns.
But you know, it's interesting as well: record gun sales.
So they're saying appeals court rules no constitutional right to carry concealed guns.
And I think kind of a temperature gauge of how we can judge what Americans are feeling in their spirits of what's on the horizon for America is by the gun sales.
FBI Background Checks Surge 00:00:35
And record gun sales continue through May.
The month of May is to see an all-time high.
The FBI completed a record 1,870,000 checks through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System this May, according to the agency's report.
That's almost 300,000 more checks than the previous May of last year, which was also a record-setting month.
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