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Resisting Twisted Faith
00:03:41
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| Larry, you recently, you were asked by a key leader, what is the Lord speaking to you right now? | |
| Do you remember that? | |
| I do. | |
| I do. | |
| I want you to tell us what you said. | |
| What is God speaking to you right now? | |
| And I wrote it down here. | |
| He said this. | |
| There's five ways that the devil is actually trying to turn Christianity upside down. | |
| And these are things societally, but also in Christianity we need to be aware of. | |
| And these are the five things. | |
| And I want to encourage you, just be aware of this. | |
| Like, aware of it so we can resist it, fight against it. | |
| Number one is a doctrine called universalism. | |
| This is the belief that you don't need to do anything. | |
| Jesus died on the cross, which he did. | |
| His blood was shed for the sins of the world, which it was. | |
| But you don't need to actually receive or accept the Lord. | |
| By default of what he has done, you're in. | |
| So we don't need to preach to anybody. | |
| I mean, and to me, as a result, that's producing this kind of watered down, false Christianity where I'm just in. | |
| I can live however I want because Jesus already paid the price. | |
| So I see that. | |
| Number two, I'm seeing this language is called, I'm reconstructing my faith. | |
| We're seeing that, we're seeing, sadly, a lot of people my age. | |
| I mean, I'm 36. | |
| I'm seeing a lot of young leaders renouncing their faith and turning away from the faith. | |
| That's right. | |
| And it's scary. | |
| But what I'm seeing that's troubling me even more, like, there is a healthy version of reconstructing our faith when we have a lot of religion in our past and a lot of false views about God. | |
| And we need to adjust what we believe to agree with the Bible. | |
| That's good. | |
| What I'm seeing is people want to adjust the Bible to agree with how culture is doing things. | |
| They want to adjust the Bible because, well, this is acceptable now. | |
| Culture says this is okay. | |
| Politicians say this is okay. | |
| Hollywood says this is okay. | |
| So we've got to change the Bible to say that that which is sin is actually acceptable. | |
| And that's how we are reconstructing our faith. | |
| And that's dangerous. | |
| Yeah, God has been dealing with that same subject in my heart that we have just twisted the Bible. | |
| And God won't tolerate. | |
| His word is, he is the word. | |
| Did you know that? | |
| When you're twisting the word, you're twisting Jesus. | |
| You are. | |
| He is the word. | |
| And that's where we are. | |
| Our country's doing it. | |
| We're saying, oh, grace gives you abortion. | |
| You can kill your baby because it's a nice thing to do because it's so hard for a woman to have a baby and all that. | |
| You know, it's just twisting what God has said. | |
| It is. | |
| It is. | |
| And you know what? | |
| That goes to the third thing is there is a lack of holy fear. | |
| Back in the day, they would call Christians, what, God-fearing people. | |
| And I was mentioning earlier about the fear of the Lord. | |
| John Bevere wrote this amazing book, The Fear of the Lord. | |
| I'm like, God, this is something I need to go back to because we've gotten too comfortable with God. | |
| He is our Father. | |
| He is our friend. | |
| He is the lover of our soul, 100%. | |
| He's also the King of glory. | |
| He is also God that I know many people who say, yes, sir, to him. | |
| So it's one of those things where we tremble before God. | |
| And actually in Isaiah 66, there's a blessing for those who tremble at the word of God, which means when he says something, I do it out of holy fear. | |
| And then the last two things were this. | |
| A different gospel and a disunified church. | |
| A different gospel like this is what it kind of sounds like. | |
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Talking Greater Glory
00:01:46
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| Jesus died to kind of improve your life. | |
| Jesus died to give you the biggest and best version of you. | |
| Now, listen, we can talk maturely. | |
| He did come to give us abundant life. | |
| He came to bless us. | |
| He came to prosper us. | |
| He came to heal us. | |
| 100% true. | |
| But when I'm having a bad day and when the enemy comes against me and I'm struggling and fighting, at the end of the day, I need to remember, it's healthy to remember where I was before Jesus. | |
| Because then there's a weightiness to my faith. | |
| He didn't just, you know, bring me out of like, well, I was kind of living a bad life, and now it's kind of good and it's better. | |
| I was dead in my sin. | |
| The Bible says dead in my sin. | |
| I was a dead person incapable of doing anything. | |
| God reached in, turned my life around, and it says in Romans 12, 1, in view of his mercy, we offer up our lives as a living sacrifice. | |
| People try to preach, well, just give your life to God. | |
| It says, in view. of his mercy. | |
| We respond to his mercy. | |
| And then the last thing is a disunified church. | |
| We're all angry at each other. | |
| I mean, listen, we believe about 90 to 95% of the same thing. | |
| You know, all of us. | |
| I understand. | |
| We do. | |
| Presbyterian, Methodist, but sometimes it's that 5%. | |
| And there's such little things. | |
| But we don't just disagree over them. | |
| And there's healthy disagreement. | |
| There's healthy debate. | |
| We're a family. | |
| We should be able to disagree as a healthy family does. | |
| We don't. | |
| We demonize one another. | |
| And as a result, the world looks in and it's like, what's going on in the church? | |
| And what did Jesus say in John 17? | |
| We're talking about greater glory. | |
| One of the key things that will release the greater glory of God is a unified church. | |
| Even when we disagree on certain things, we agree that Jesus is Lord. | |
| We agree that he died for our sins, shed his blood for us. | |