Orlando Gospel Truth Conference 2020: Day 2, Session 3 – Andrew Wommack
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well I appreciate you coming back I’m
glad to see this many people came back
after I was so hard last night based on
what Greg said but you know what you
just need to tell people the truth to me
I can excitons stand people rejecting
what I say but I don’t want them to
misunderstand what I said you know if
the Lord spoke to me one time and I a
guy came to me and asked me about what
the problem was in his life and he
started telling me the story and as he
was talking God spoke a word to me and I
knew it was his answer I knew it was the
truth but it was not going to be
pleasant it was kind of like saying
you’re just stupid or something but
anyway I knew he wasn’t going to like it
and I was sitting here listening to him
and debating God should I tell him this
and the Lord spoke to me really clearly
and he says if you don’t tell him the
truth that I’ve shown you then you
rejected the truth for him you didn’t
even give him the opportunity to reject
it and he says everybody ought to have
the opportunity to reject the truth for
themself not you do it and if I don’t
tell you the truth then in a sense I’ve
rejected the truth for you so I just am
trying to be blunt and trying to get my
point across and stuff and I understand
that not everybody’s going to agree
there’s a lot of people that man it
doesn’t matter what the word says this
is what they believe and they’re going
to do it but if that’s the way you are
it’s not going to be with my cooperation
amen
so last night for those of it were there
people that were not here last night
could I see your hand and quite a few
anyway last night I began to start
talking from Matthew chapter 24 verse 12
I believe it is it says that because of
Nick WA T shall abound the love of many
shall wax cold and I was talking about
that we live in a time when iniquity of
mounds I spent some time last night
talking about how that so many people
have had their heart wax cold that’s
describing a progressive thing that’s
growing but in the opposite direction
you’re growing cold instead of hot and
we talked about that and spent some time
verifying that if that’s not your
opinion if you don’t think that we are
living in an ungodly age in our society
is living ungodly then you just aren’t
paying attention your heart’s already
waxed cold and so we talked about that
and then I turned over to Roman’s to
show that Paul was talking about the
good news Romans chapter 1 verses 16 and
17 about the gospel the nearly too good
to be true news about God and that was
so contrary to the religious system of
his day that was all bad news just
legalism and rejection and you had all
of these things you had to do to please
God that it was offensive to people and
they were saying no you got to let
people know that they’re terrible
sinners so in verses 18 through 20 he
began to show that know everybody has
this intuitive knowledge on the inside
of them that they have sinned and come
short of the glory of God he’s revealed
himself from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men
who hold the truth in unrighteousness
even his eternal power and Godhead are
known so that they are without excuse
and so that’s as far as I got last night
and so he’s showing that everybody had
this intuitive knowledge of God but then
in verse 21 he begins to start showing
that although at one
and God put this like homing device on
the inside of every person to know that
there is a God and that they need God
even though that is there you can harden
yourself against it you can walk away
from it and the rest of this chapter
describes progressive steps that you
take away from God that hardens your
heart towards God and can bring you to a
place where you have no conviction of
right and wrong whatsoever
and we talked about this just a little
bit last night the last step in that I’m
not going to be able to get to that
during this conference but if you read
Romans chapter 1 the last step before a
person becomes just totally hardened and
reprobate in their thinking is
homosexuality and that’s where our
society is today we’re beginning to
start promoting that and I tell you if
we get to where that is accepted and
normal it is the last step towards being
reprobate according to what the Bible
says but I want to show you this in
verse 21 this is something that the Lord
has used with me on a personal basis but
also this applies to us as a nation as a
culture it applies to groups of people
but I was ministering in Knoxville
Tennessee I couldn’t even tell you but
it’s been 20 or 30 years ago a long time
ago and I was ministering on the love of
God and about how much God loved us and
I had a woman come up to me on Sunday I
started on Wednesday night and was going
through Sunday and on Sunday morning a
woman came up she was crying
and she says I have understood the love
of God she says I’m experiencing the
love of God greater than I have ever
experienced in my life and she was just
thanking me for sharing on that but then
she made this statement she says I know
it won’t last she says I know in a week
or two I’ll lose this but right now I’m
just experiencing the love of God
greater than I ever had and that just
grieved me to think that people thought
that they can’t mean
the love of God that they just expected
to come in waves and when I went back to
my hotel room that afternoon I spent all
afternoon thinking about this and
thinking that you know according to most
people’s experience this is true that
most people go through ways of receiving
things and they have these high
mountaintop experiences and then they go
through the valley and religion has
recognized this and actually embraced it
and taught that this is the way it’s
supposed to be and they will come up
with these little statements that you
know you have these mountaintop
experiences but down in the valley is
where all of the fruit grows and that
you have to go through hard times and so
they’ve put their stamp of approval on
it and taught people that this is the
way that it’s supposed to be and that
just grieved me and I prayed about that
all afternoon long and again I’m saying
this only to be thankful to the Lord I’m
not saying this in a bragging way but I
can say that since God touched my life
on March the 23rd 1968 he lit a fire on
the inside of me and it has never gone
out it has never gone out and I mean I
have I went through a period of time for
maybe a year or two during the time I
was in Vietnam that I was struggling
because I didn’t know much of the Word
of God but then exactly what Greg was
teaching the Lord spoke to me about I
was praying one time and saying God how
do I get from where I am to where you
want me to be because he gave me a
vision of what he wanted me to do with
my life and it seemed impossible and I
thought God how do I get from here to
there and I remember I was kneeling
around my bed and I had my Bible on my
bed and when I opened my eyes and looked
I just heard the Lord say stick your
nose in this book and it’ll teach you
everything you need to know and so my
focus became studying the word and I
back during that time that was before I
was married and I was reading the word
especially in Vietnam up to 15 hours a
day and then after I got back I would
read the word five and six hours a day
anytime that I wasn’t working and I just
stuck my nose in the word and so it took
a couple of years after this encounter I
had before I really got into the word
but since that time I can truthfully say
I have never been depressed I’ve never
been discouraged and I’ve actually had
ministers get mad at me when I say
things like that say you’re condemning
people that are depressed you’re saying
that that’s wrong and you aren’t being
compassionate I’m not condemning anybody
but I’m telling you that the Word of God
has taught me some things and I’ve
learned some things and since that time
I have not been depressed or discouraged
I don’t believe in getting depressed and
discouraged I don’t believe you have to
do so I’m not saying this to put anybody
else down but as this woman shared with
me how she just expected that within a
week or two she’d lose this experience
about the love of God it just grieved me
to think that this is where most people
live you don’t have to live that way the
love of God in my life has never
diminished it has increased I can say
that I love God a thousand times more
today than I did 52 years ago when the
Lord touched my life and it has never
waned it does not have to wane and I was
praying and saying God there’s bound to
be a reason for this I hadn’t
consciously done anything I hadn’t heard
a message on it but something in my life
has bound to have happened to keep me
from losing the joy and the peace and
the excitement over what God has done
and he pointed me to these verses right
here so this is what I want to share
with you we’re talking about how to stay
positive in a negative world we’re
talking about how you can maintain your
joy even when everything around you is
bad you know if there was no opposition
well then it seems like it it’d be easy
but we live in a fallen world and I
guarantee you when you when you make a
commitment to the Lord and when you
start serving the Lord it’s not like the
devil just runs in terror no it’s more
like you got a big old target on you he
sees
as a threat to his kingdom and I’m
guarantee is Satan is going to throw
everything he’s got at you so if you are
just thinking that if I would rejoice
and I would have joy in peace if I
didn’t you know if there weren’t any
problems in my life that is not the way
that it worked you need to have learn
how to have joy and peace and be
encouraged in the midst of your problems
because we live in a fallen world and
there’s always going to be something
going on amen
so what is this saying look at these
verses in Romans 1:21 he says because
that this is talking about that there
without excuse why are they without
excuse because that when they knew God
they glorified him not as God neither
we’re thankful but became vain in their
imaginations and their foolish heart was
darkened now that’s the first step and
then it just goes on and lists
progressive steps and there’s more to
but I want to focus on these four things
that are listed here in Romans 1:21 the
very first thing it says that when they
knew God when they had this revelation
of God or you could say when God reveals
himself to you and he gives you you have
an encounter with the Lord where you
experience his love or you experience
healing or prosperity or whatever it is
when when that happens you have to
glorify Him as God and you know when I
first saw this the other three things
that are mentioned in this verse I
immediately understood and identified
with and I could apply them right away
but this first thing it says that they
didn’t glorify Him as God I had to pray
about that and thank God what does that
mean and I looked the word glorify up in
the Strong’s Concordance
and it means to render or esteem
glorious and that didn’t help me it used
the word glory or glorious to define the
word glorify and I thought this didn’t
help me and I prayed about it and
finally I started looking up the words
to render and then Aston
and when I got to the word of Steve the
word esteem means to prise our value and
here’s what the Lord spoke to me through
this is it to to glorify him means that
you have to put value worth on what God
has done in your life and you relative
to other things you have to have what
God has done or you could say what God
has said of so much more worth in value
than anything or anybody else what they
have to say and this is where people
begin to start losing what God has done
in their life is because God touches
them they have something happened but
then immediately Satan is going to come
against it through people and through
different things and get you to try and
devalue what God has done in your life
now you may not relate exactly what I’m
saying right now but I’m gonna try and
illustrate this enough to help you but
let’s say that you come to this
conference and God speaks things to you
and you get a truth or something well
then you leave here and when you go back
home I can guarantee you Satan is going
to put somebody across your path that
knows how to push your buttons and get
you to thinking about something else and
devalue what God has spoken to you
during this conference here’s a personal
example of this that this example I
mentioned in March the 23rd 1968 I won’t
take time to go into the whole thing but
God showed up at 10 o’clock on a
Saturday night and spoke to me and
revealed himself to me and I saw the
glory of God and I was caught up into
the presence of God and I mean God just
touched me in a way that I’ve never
gotten over but did you know that the
very next day that was a Saturday night
the very next day I got up in front of
my church and I didn’t have the words I
didn’t know what had happened but I
tried to explain to them I said then God
touched me last night I’ll never be the
same
I said I was filled with the spirit and
I just I did my best to try and explain
what had happened did you know that it
would have been easier if I were to
confess that I went out and committed
adultery and if I to ask their
forgiveness they would have been
merciful to me but when I said that I
was filled with the spirit I didn’t I
didn’t say that on purpose to offend
people like what Greg’s talking about it
was a Baptist Church they were meeting
and when I said that I was filled with
the spirit man did I get criticized and
the pastor came to me who do you think
you are Paul was filled with the Holy
Spirit John the Baptist was filled with
the Holy Spirit people don’t get filled
with the Holy Spirit today and they
turned on me with a vengeance and
started saying you arrogant things
saying that you’re filled with the Holy
Spirit and you know what immediately I
had I had placed value on what God did
and how God touched my life and I might
not have used the right words or
whatever but man I valued God and here
were people coming against what God had
done in my life trying to get me to
devalue it and saying that you’re
deceived this isn’t God and they started
attacking me you know I compared it to
like a seesaw some people call it a
teeter-totter but you have this fulcrum
in the middle and you know you have
these two seats on each side and if one
side is up then the other side has to be
down you can’t have both sides up at the
same time and here I was valuing God and
when people criticize me immediately I
had a decision to make was I going to
value them and if I started valuing
their opinion then immediately I would
devalue what God had done I would start
I would not glorify him I wouldn’t put
the proper value and worth on it and
here I was just an eighteen year old kid
and here was the pastor of the church
criticized
me and my first reaction was to think
well he’s bound to know more about this
than what I do and it would have been
very easy for me to devalue what God had
done to quit glorifying him but you know
what I just was so excited that I
remember telling this pastor I said look
I may not to use the right words I don’t
know but I can guarantee you God loves
me I had an experience and I said I am
not changing I said God loves me and
he’s pleased with me
and I rejected what the pastor had to
say and then a number of things happen
and anyway they wanted to vote me out of
the church and they came and they were
going to have a vote and I remember the
youth director who was in that thing and
he was there when I had this experience
with the Lord they were criticizing me
and saying you’ve got to stop and and
they were going to vote me out of the
church and I told this second youth
director I told him I said look I’ve
been in this church my whole life these
people know me and love me more than
they love you I said if you take a vote
we’ll vote you out that might not have
been the right way to respond but you
know what I refuse to devalue what God
had said I refuse to go just by people
accepting you know mourning their
acceptance man I wanted God’s acceptance
more than anybody else and so I just
kept glorifying God and then it’s a long
story there’s multiple things that
happen but one of the very first things
that God ever spoke to me I mean
intentionally that just changed the
course of my life I was in my first year
of college and he told me to quit school
and at the time it was the height of the
Vietnam War I was getting 350 dollars a
month from the government to stay in
school I was accepted by people if I
stayed in school and if I quit
I was gonna run a very good chance of
getting drafted and so everybody
everybody told me that this is not God
you are not hearing from God but see
here I was
valuing God and everybody else was
saying no that’s not God I would have
had an opportunity if I would have taken
their word it would have devalued God
and I would have lost the benefit of
that experience I would have you know it
would have dried up in some day I would
be saying oh god what happened at one
time I had such a great relationship
with you but I just refused to let
anybody change that and so when God told
me to quit school I told everybody I was
gonna quit school my mother didn’t talk
to me for two weeks and finally I took
her out to eat and I said you are gonna
talk to him he saved something and she
started crying and she says I’m so
ashamed of you and she just couldn’t
believe that I’d quit school and stuff
and praise God she came around and my
mother became one of my biggest
supporters and worked for me but I mean
the immediate reaction was not good and
I had an opportunity to say well man if
this is what loving God and doing what
God says is going to cost me then I
could have decreased that and that would
have caused what God had done in my life
to dissipate and to go away or in
context of what we’re talking about it
would have caused my love to wax cold
because I quit glorifying God and
putting the proper value on what God had
said and then on top of all of that when
I quit school I got reclassified I got
sent to get a physical and I passed the
physical and so a recruiter came to my
house and this recruiter I remember he
came in and opened up his briefcase and
spread out all of his pamphlets on the
table and he started telling me all of
the benefits while out to volunteer
instead of be drafted and I just stopped
him and I said I can say both of us a
lot of time and he says what’s that and
I said the reason that you’re here and
the reason that I was classified 1a and
sent for my physical is because I quit
school and he said that’s right and I
said but you see God told me to quit
school I said God is the one that told
me to do it and so it’s whatever God
wants to have
I said if if God wants me drafted I’ll
be drafted and this guy he laughed at me
when I said that he actually laughed and
he says boy I can tell you you are going
to Vietnam and when he said that here I
was see glorifying God and putting value
on God and saying father whatever you
want me to do and I was loving God and I
valued God in God’s opinion here was a
representative of the United States
government that he didn’t care what God
said he thought that the United States
government was more powerful than God
and he just told me it doesn’t matter
what God tells you you are going to be
it not and when he said that man I got
mad I was an 18 I was probably 19 by
that time I was a 19 year old kid and he
was thirty something years old
representing the government and I
remember standing up and putting my
finger in his chest like this and saying
buddy if God wants me to go to Vietnam I
said I’ll go but if he doesn’t you are
the United States government or ever
demon in Hell cannot draft me and I just
you know what I just kept glorifying God
and I and in order to do that you have
to devalue other people it’s not that I
hate the United States government no
that I hated this guy but I can
guarantee you relative to God he was a
zero with the rim knocked off and the
government does not have power to do
anything if God wanted me to go a
certain direction so anyway I stood up
and resisted that and this guy just he
never said a word he just gathered up
all of his stuff put it in his briefcase
and walked out the door and the very
next morning I got my draft notice
and I never didn’t think about it then
but you know what I wished out of look
to see if it had a stamp on it I bet you
that guy went down and processed my
order or special and put it in my
mailbox but it didn’t matter to me
because I really believe that whatever
God wanted with my life would come to
pass and I just kept glorifying God and
worshiping God and because of that
that’s the first step to keep iniquity
from cause in your heart to wax cold
your love waxing coal is that you have
to put a value on God and you have to
stand against every other voice
everything else that comes against it
and tries to devalue God the Word of God
says that he loves us God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten Son
this whole world will come against you
and tell you no that’s not true and
they’ll try and tell you that like for
instance you get a sickness or something
and you don’t immediately see results
and you’ll have thoughts come against
you and people come against you that God
put this on you and what that’ll do it
is trying to devalue god Ashley Tara des
who I mentioned last night and and Greg
mentioned him Ashley is here and his
daughter was miraculously raised up off
of her deathbed and Ashley and his wife
Carly they loved God with all of their
hearts but they were being told that it
was God’s will for their little girl to
die that he was gonna that God was gonna
take her and that that would glorify him
man that D values what the Word of God
says and you’ve got to get to a place to
where I’m not just intentionally mean
despite what Greg says
but I tell you what if somebody comes
against what the Word of God teaches me
about Jesus and about what he’s done I
am NOT gonna let you speak those things
over me I talked to I talked to a couple
of people back here who were struggling
over healing and it reminded me of an
instance where we had a man come to
Jamie and me at church one time and he
said that he had been in the hospital
two or three times he just couldn’t keep
food down and somehow or another it
he couldn’t heat he was emaciated and he
would have to go into the hospital about
every six months and get intravenous
nutrition and stuff because he just
couldn’t keep food down and while he was
in the hospital the Lord spoke to him
and told him that if he would call me
that I’d tell him what the problem was
so he saw us at church and invited us
over to his house and we went over to
his house and when we got there he told
me this story and he says so God says
you’ll know what the problem is and I
didn’t have a clue I said I don’t know
anything so I said let’s pray so we just
joined hands with him and his wife and I
mean within 10 seconds the Lord spoke to
me and he says it is mother-in-law
and so I stopped and I said
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and drag would have said I perceive
there’s some problem somewhere but don’t
feel bad it’s I just said your
mother-in-law’s the problem and I said
what’s the situation with your
mother-in-law in any way he said heat
when I said that man they just dropped
their hands and they said oh man this is
a real problem and it’s a long story but
they had been in a cult in the children
of God at one time and they had gotten
way off base and the mother-in-law
thought that now that they were in a
spirit-filled Church and speaking in
tongues that this was just another cult
and so she was was attacking them every
minute of every day telling them that
you were totally deceived this is
demonic and all of this stuff and when
he began to relate the story to me I
said this is the problem right there I
said if I was to come into your house
and and start telling you that you are
gonna have these problems this is God
doing it to you that everything you’re
believing about healing is wrong I said
you’d shut me down in a second but
because it’s a relative it’s the
mother-in-law you allow these words of
unbelief and stuff to be spoken against
you and it’s it’s just like Satan has
this in road India it’s like he has a
pipe or a tube or something on an
umbilical cord that just allows him to
feed this unbelief into you and you
won’t counter it because it’s a relative
and man when I splain these things to
him he says man that is exactly it so I
said you’re gonna have to cut the
umbilical cord the parents should have
done it but you have to do it and you
have to stand and just in a sense I
would have used these words but I said
you have to value God you have to
glorify God more than what your
mother-in-law says and you got to
counter this and I said first of all you
got to do this in your own heart
you’ve got to cash these things down but
I said I can guarantee you there will
come a time you’re gonna have to
do it face-to-face with your
mother-in-law it’s not going to be
enough just to do it in your heart
you’re gonna have to stand against this
and so anyway he did do it and it came
to a place where she tried to push her
unbelief on them and he had to stand up
and tell her you aren’t welcome and I
will not receive this unbelief in the
moment he did that his problem was over
and he was able to even things are able
to work and so that’s kind of an extreme
example but you know it’s the exact same
thing it’s the same principle that
here’s what God word says but a relative
or somebody that you love comes along
and if you start valuing their opinion
and you don’t want to offend them
because after all they’re your family
member and if you exalt that opinion
then I guarantee you the value that you
have placed on what God has said comes
down this is the very first step to you
losing the things that then the benefit
that God has done in your life is that
you you start exalting somebody else
valuing their opinion and you can do
this on a national level too you can
talk about how that is a nation here’s
what God’s Word says about morality
about how we should live and what we
should do and here’s what God’s Word
says but our society is coming out and
saying no that the Bible isn’t relevant
and it doesn’t apply it to us today
I remember when Bill Clinton was you
know going through his impeachment thing
over the Monica Lewinsky scandal and a
reporter one time criticized him because
he claimed to be a Christian
he claimed even to be a born-again
Christian and this reporter asked him
and says you know you claim to be a
born-again Christian how can you embrace
and like do the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and
allow homosexuality and things like this
how can you do these things and claim to
be a born-again Christian and his answer
was really revealing he says I believe
that the Bible was true for the day it
as written but societies change and you
have to interpret it relative to where
we are today and he says those standards
don’t apply to us today
you know this mayor Budaj is just
basically said the same thing this week
when he was there was a woman that
challenged him on abortion and was
saying that this is murder and even when
the child is born and outside of the
womb and the end they are passing laws
that you can sit there and choose to let
your child die infanticide and they were
questioning him on that and he just told
this woman he says look if that’s your
opinion you don’t need to be a Democrat
you need to go with the Republicans in
other words the Democrats have it in
their plank if you read the Democratic
platform it is for abortion up to birth
and even after birth that is a part of
the Democratic plan if you vote Democrat
you are voting for infanticide
and then they challenged him on
homosexuality he’s got a he’s got a male
partner a husband that he’s married to
it’s hard to believe that I even have to
say these things you would think that
people would know this but but they
challenged him on that and he says oh
the Bible teaches tolerance and love and
love is love it doesn’t matter if it’s
two men or two women or whatever see
here’s what the Word of God says here’s
what people judge says which one are you
going to honor if you go to honor in
that and if you think that well you know
everything is relative to the today it
was written in you have just devalued
you have taken worth away from what God
has said and I’m telling you there are
multitudes of Christians today that are
listening to this world you forth all of
this ungodliness and stuff and then they
wonder why it is that the love of God
isn’t fresh in their life why aren’t
they enjoying a better relationship with
God because you haven’t glorified him as
God the things that the Word of God
teaches about the Lord you aren’t
standing on that you are listening to
the doubt in the unbelief the iniquity
of this world is causing the love of
many Christians to grow cold let me show
you another verse on this out of Romans
chapter 13 in Romans chapter 13
and inverse or excuse me it’s Romans
chapter 11 in verse 13 the Apostle Paul
was speaking and he says for I speak to
you Gentiles in as much as I am the
apostle of the Gentiles I magnify my
office did you know that the word that
was translated magnifying Romans 1113 is
the exact same word that was translated
glorify in Romans 1:21 so by putting
these together you could say it this way
that to glorify God means that you
magnify God you magnify what God says
more than what any person says more than
what any Society says you have to put a
value on God you have to magnify God now
God is who he is regardless what you and
I think about him or not but as far as
your life goes you can make God bigger
that’s what the word magnify means if
you begin to meditate on the word as
Greg was talking about and start
studying this it will magnify God you’ll
recognize it man throughout history
there’s been people that have come out
against God and have discredited him and
tried to do away with it I think of Ahab
and Jezebel and they killed all of the
prophets of God but man God wound up
winning that battle and on and on you
can go and he wins every battle
volaterrae
and I think it was when the fifteen or
1600s he was the famous French atheist
and he he caused what they call the age
of enlightenment where people started
using reason instead of believing what
the Word of God had to say and they just
reasoned everything out and anyway he
came out against Christianity and
exposed it as being just foolish and he
made a prediction he says in one hundred
years the Bible will cease to exist he
says Christianity will cease to exist
and the Bible will cease to exist on his
100th birthday he was dead by that time
but on the 100th
the day when he was born in his house
they turned it into a printing shop and
started printing Gutenberg Bibles and
today the Bible is still the
best-selling book that the world has
ever seen and he was wrong and see when
you go back through history and see
these things you will magnify God and
you’ll realize that all of man I’m
trying to be nice I’m trying to be
Methodist
but I’m telling you these idiots today
that are sitting here and they’re
sitting here saying that homosexuality
is okay and teaching kids fourth grade
enough transgender and that it’s your
decision whether you’re a male or a
female and you just go by how you feel
all of these people that are promoting
this perversion
it is perversion and they’re promoting
these things someday they’re gonna stand
before God and I guarantee you all of
this junk is gonna be revealed
ungodliness you can look in the Word of
God now and you can begin to magnify God
now and if you hold on to God’s
standards and refuse to accept these
other things and again sometimes you
don’t have to sit there and say well the
Bible is totally wrong but just get to
where you accept as normal all of the
things that are contrary to the Word of
God and it does the same thing if you
get to where you can just tolerate you
know tolerate is a word that the
Liberals use a lot about you’re
intolerant you’re supposed to be
tolerant I was over in Plymouth mass
plena ‘the england holding a meeting a
few years back and we rented an
auditorium there was a public auditorium
and the gay and homosexual community
tried to get the city to not allow me to
come in because this was a city facility
and i didn’t believe in homosexuality
and didn’t promote homosexuality so they
tried to get it to stop the city went
ahead and allowed me to come but when i
got there all of the homosexuals were
protesting and they were there were
signs and the BBC showed up and stuck a
camera right in my face and said you’re
a bigot you hate homosexual I said I do
not hate homosexuals yeah you
you’re supposed to be taller doesn’t the
Bible teach tolerance and I said no
and when I said that they already had it
figured out what they were gonna say and
what they were going to do and I said no
it doesn’t teach talk they were just
like what and I said it didn’t teach
tolerance I said Sodom and Gomorrah
isn’t tolerance I said man I can show
you lots of things where Jesus made
whips and drove people out of the
moneychangers he said you scribes and
Pharisees you hypocrites you’re like why
did Seppala curse you’re painted on the
outside but inside you’re full of dead
men’s bones and I just started saying
these things and man hit totally shut
them up they were gonna air all of this
and expose me and they never did air any
of it but you know the Bible doesn’t
teach tolerance the Bible teaches love
but it’s love to tell a person the truth
it’s not love not to tell a person the
truth I’m not going to reject the truth
for you you’ve got a choice and God
loves you and I love you and I’m not
against people I know that I’ve got
friends that have been sucked into
homosexuality and stuff and I still love
them and I haven’t rejected them I’ve
had employees that have had trouble with
that and I’ve not fired them over that
I’m not against anybody but I’m gonna
tell you the truth and it’s it’s love to
tell a person the truth you know I got a
few minutes here let me share with you
out of Matthew chapter 22 in Matthew
chapter 22 Jesus was asked by the
scribes and the Pharisees which was the
greatest commandment and he said in
verse 37 he says thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart and with
all thy soul and with all thy mind this
is the first and Great Commandment and
the second is like unto it thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself so jesus
said that loving your neighbor as
yourself is the
second greatest command in all of the
Old Testament he was quoting from
Leviticus chapter 19 and let me read
that to you in Leviticus chapter 19
verse 18 he says thou shalt not avenge
nor bear any grudge against the children
of thy people but thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself I am the Lord that’s
the vert vert verse that he was quoting
and so people have taken this and say
but you’ve got to love your neighbor and
they interpret love as don’t say
anything that would make a person
uncomfortable if they want to go by he
instead of she and you call them she
because they were born a woman well then
you’re insensitive and you aren’t
operating in love you don’t love your
neighbor man that is perverse look at
this in context read the context of what
he said let’s go back to the Leviticus
chapter 19 verse 17 the verse right in
front of this it says thou shalt not
hate thy brother in thy heart thou shalt
in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not
suffer sin upon him and then the next
verse says you shall love your neighbor
as yourself if you take it in context if
you don’t tell a person the truth you
see that they’re headed for sin and you
do not rebuke them in any wise that
means under any circumstances then you
don’t love them it’s the opposite of
what people are saying if you love
people then you would never say anything
that would make somebody feel
uncomfortable they see it cross the
Brandenberg cross and that makes me feel
uncomfortable so they file a lawsuit
because I don’t like the way that this
makes me feel pull your thumb out of
your mouth and grow up and recognize it
doesn’t matter
that way that wouldn’t be love know it’s
love to tell a person the truth and if
you don’t tell a person the truth
because you’re afraid that they might
roll their eyes or call you a fanatic or
a homophobe or a bigot or something like
that then you can whitewash this any way
you want to but the truth is you do not
love that person you love yourself and
you don’t want to suffer the criticism
and the rejection that might come your
way thank you for that fun Duras silence
if you truly love a person you’re going
to tell a person the truth now you can
do it in love Ephesians chapter 4 verse
15 Greg was reading those verses earlier
it says we have to speak the truth in
love and grow up in him on to all things
you can’t grow up you can’t grow the way
that Greg’s talking about if you don’t
speak the truth in love it’s not love
without truth and it’s not truth without
love you’ve got to speak the truth in
love but nonetheless it’s the truth
that’s going to set you free love
doesn’t set people free truth spoken in
love is what sets people free and
somehow or another the devil has
perverted these things and there’s
multitudes of Christians and even
ministers that will not stand up and say
anything because they’re afraid that
they’re going to offend somebody I’m
telling you that’s not love if you love
a person you will in any wise rebuke
them and not suffer sin upon them and if
you don’t do that well then you don’t
love your neighbor as yourself I
guarantee you if you were headed for a
cliff
and if somebody knew that you were
headed for a cliff but they didn’t want
to say anything because it might offend
you you wouldn’t like that you would
want that person to tell you the truth
you’d want them to warn you what’s
coming and if you love your neighbor as
yourself then you
go ahead and warn people and speak the
truth you know I’ve used this example
before some of you probably heard it but
I remember driving home one night in
Colorado on a mountain road and it was
dark and it was foggy and you couldn’t
see as far as from here to the back of
this room maybe half that far it was
real bad visibility totally dark and a
guy past me going fifty or sixty miles
an hour and when he got around the
corner I saw his lights come on and his
card jerked to the side so I slammed on
my brakes and I came to rest on the side
of the road he was in the right lane and
there was a horse in the left lane he
had hit a horse and it had caved in his
windshield and he was laying there
bleeding and had and this horse and
unloaded everything he had any more hot
on this guy and he was laying there and
I was trying to help him and as I helped
him this horse its rear end was hurting
it couldn’t get up but it was still
alive and its legs were pointed out the
direction that the cars were coming and
a suburban came around the corner and
hit that horse and those legs kind of
launched it and it went up in the air
about five or ten feet and then it went
twenty or thirty feet in the air and
this lady that was driving this suburban
was able to regain control and stopped
her car but when I ran up there to check
on her she had made a bubble in the roof
of her car where her head had hit it and
she was laying there in her car and she
was hurt and then I heard other cars
coming up the road so what I did was run
down the road around the corner on a
dark foggy night and I started jumping
out in front of cars that were going 15
60 miles an hour and flagging them down
and they couldn’t see well and so I mean
they were nearly hitting me I would have
to jump off the road and roll off the
road at the last minute and people were
slamming on their brakes and man there
were people cussing me and honking the
horn and waving at me with one finger
and all of these things and you know
what I didn’t want people to dislike me
and to hate me I bet you that there were
some women that were by themselves in a
car see a man out on the street trying
to flag them down on a dark Mountain
Road and I bet you some of them felt
uncomfortable with me doing that but if
I loved them there’s no way that I could
just let them come around the corner and
hit this thing
it was probably twenty or thirty minutes
before the police got there and I bet
you there must have been 20 or 30 cars
that I flagged down and stopped them
from having a wreck and if if I say that
I loved people more than I loved myself
how in the world would I not do that
even though it might have made some of
them feel uncomfortable for a little
while even though it might have caught
their heart to race when they nearly hit
some guy out on a road and it’s the same
thing our world people are being
destroyed you know I just read a report
yesterday I think it was about a girl a
17 year old girl that had a complete she
had her breasts removed and she had a
complete hysterectomy done without her
parents knowledge that the government
supported this and the way the mother
found out about it she saw something on
Facebook a picture of her daughter a
bandaged where her breasts used to be
and this girl was completely changed and
altered and then after it happened she
felt bad about it and she wanted to go
back to being a girl and she couldn’t
and she’ll never be able to give birth
she’ll never be able to nurse a baby and
do things like this and they were
talking about how bad this was and our
society is promoting that kind of
stuff and I’m telling you people are not
saying anything that’s child abuse the
church ought to be standing up if we
truly love people we can’t sit there and
say that you can choose your gender did
you know that every cell in your body is
either has a X Y chromosome which is a
man or it has two X chromosomes which is
a female every cell in your body I saw a
thing on the news about they uncovered
these bones from back during the time of
Jesus they were gladiator bones and all
they had were the skulls they had had
their head cut off and yet they could
tell that they were men because every
cell if those bones had in them male
chromosomes it doesn’t matter what you
do to your body a thousand years from
now if they dig you up you are gonna be
male or female whatever God made you and
it doesn’t matter how you feel it
doesn’t matter what you feel like you
are what God made you to be and if you
don’t tell people the truth then there’s
going to be these kids that are
mutilating their body I mean a teenager
doesn’t know what to choose for the rest
of their life this is child abuse to
encourage this and to give hormone
blockers and to stop them from going
through puberty because they chose to be
a different sex how crazy can you get
let me ask you this if that isn’t
perversion what is perversion when are
we going to say something is too much
when you get into bestiality there’s
people that are already advocating that
there’s people that are already
advocating and having multiple wives and
stuff when is it going to be enough if
what’s happening now isn’t enough why
does it take
I’m telling you Christians need to stand
up and exalt the Word of God to glorify
and I am not against any individual in
particular but I am against evil
proverbs chapter 8 verse 13 says that
the fear of the Lord is the beginning of
wisdom art excuse me that’s a great
scripture I think that’s proverbs
chapter 6 but 8:13 says that what is
8:13 say the fear of the Lord is to hate
evil pride and arrogancy and the evil
way and the froward mouth do I hate the
fear of the Lord is to hate evil
if you don’t hate people that are
destroying young people’s lives and
doing things then I guarantee you you
don’t fear of God we need to get to
where we value God we exalt him and even
though I’m not against individuals
relative to God everybody else’s opinion
has to be down here and if you’d say but
oh I would never do that I would never
say that these people that are wrong
within what you’re doing is valuing
their opinion and I guarantee you you
can’t have God and them right here next
to each other if you are going to value
the ungodly principles of this world you
are gonna devalue God and that’s the
reason that your love has wax cold
that’s the reason that when God touches
you it doesn’t last it’s because you
allow other things to come in you
haven’t valued God properly that’s a
very first step in Romans 1:21 towards
being a reprobate is you don’t glorify
God for who he truly is you listen to
the opinion of other people you take
other people’s opinions I know that what
I’m saying isn’t popular it may be
popular you know on a Friday morning at
a gospel truth conference where we got
nothing but fanatics in here
but out in the workplace you talk like
this it’s going to cost you people are
going to call you names and stuff and
most people would rather have the praise
of man they would value the acceptance
of people more than they value while God
says and if that’s so you may get
touched you could have a wonderful time
this weekend but then you go back to
work and you wouldn’t dare say anything
because after all some of the friends at
work might say something they might fire
you they might kick you out of your job
and so you will button your lip and
again I’m not talking about being mean
but just speak the truth in love and if
you won’t do that and if you would
rather have the praises of men then I
promise you what God does and how he
touches you this weekend won’t last by
Tuesday or Wednesday it’ll be gone
because you didn’t glorify God a man or
old me
we can’t say Amen say old me but I’m
telling you I’m I may sound like I’m a
Baptist instead of a Methodist but I’m
telling you this in love because this is
how Satan steals things from you it’s
not God that cuts off the spigot it’s
not God who loves you during one of
these conferences and you’re just having
such a great time and then on Monday
Tuesday and Wednesday it seems like
where did God go what happened God’s not
the one that cuts off the spigot you cut
it off by allowing all of these other
values to come in and you need to make a
decision that praise God if they tell
you that you’re gonna be drafted you say
look buddy I don’t care I’m gonna do
what God told me to do in you and the
United States government never demon in
hell can’t trap me if God doesn’t want
me to that’s the attitude that you have
to have and it may cause some people to
call you names and do stuff that I
guarantee I can truthfully say that Here
I am 52 years later still basking in
what God did in my life 52 years ago I
have never lost it I’m more excited
about God today than I’ve ever been and
one of the reasons is because I have
refused to allow something to become
more important to me than what God said
to me and what God is said in his word
and if you will do that you will pop and
then
a man