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You know friends that's what we're here on this earth for, the purpose is to be the people
of God. Now many people they are not the people of God. They start off as the children of
Satan and that is including me. A good illustration of that was the time of the Israel when the
people of Israel were supposed to be the people of God who were chosen by God, but they went
after other gods and they defiled the land with sin and perdition. So God divorced Israel
and he sent them away to exile. He said that they were no longer his people he divorced
them as a people. That's what God said in the Bible. But the purpose of mankind from
the very beginning was to be people of God. That's the purpose. God called every person
to be a person of God not a sinner. God never called sinners (to be sinners). he called
people to be people of God. God doesn't have a part in sin. If you look at Israel today
they are following the same sins of *** and Gomorrah along with this society. But
then if you look into the Christian church today, that is all those who go to a place
where they profess Jesus Christ as their religion, they too are following other gods and living
in sin. And so if the church itself can't follow the Lord and live holy, what does God
do? God always brings his judgment. He brings his judgment upon the nations that reject
him. Also upon the people of God who are supposed to stand for him. In the days of Israel the
Lord said to the people he said the outsiders and the ungodly mock me because of you. And
he said that those driving the outsiders out of the land were almost worse than the people
being driven out. And we see that today the land of Israel is a perverse nation. No different
than American no different than the rest of the world. And America itself has fallen to
perversion. Now since America has fallen to perversion and America is largely a Christian
nation, that says a lot about the church. And the church itself is in sin. Now the reason
people have fallen so far away from the Lord like this and so many gross immoral ways than
this time is because they are not following Jesus Christ. They are following all kinds
of other things but they're not following Jesus Christ. He is not their world. He is
not their Lord. Dear friends we're not here to follow other things religion and churches,
we're here to follow Jesus Christ. You know when Jesus walked the earth, he went around
the Sea of Galilee and he started preaching to them. Around the Sea of Galilee is a place
called Capernaum and he did a lot of preaching in Capernaum, a fishing village is still there
to this day same as it always was, and the people there just wouldn't accept him even
though they saw so many miracles. And so Jesus said Woe to you Capernaum for if these other
nations like *** and Gomorrah would have seen all these miracles that are performed
in you they would repent yet you don't repent. And we're seeing this all over again. We're
seeing that nation of America having so many miracles and wonderful things happening in
it yet people are not repented not accepting Jesus Christ. You might find that strange
but they are not accepting Jesus Christ. They are running around in a immorality and running
around in sin. They are going to church and then going back into sin, but they're not
accepting Jesus Christ and his way. But Jesus said woe to you cities that reject me. And
that's what happened to Capernaum. But how about Jerusalem? How about Tel Aviv? Or how
about New York? How about these big cities that have had Jesus preached in them and they
won't repent. So many people in New York have been warned about Jesus Christ but they don't
repent. They are a nation of sinners who want to have sin and don't want Jesus. That's why
Jesus said woe to you cities for if *** and Gomorrah would have had these messages
and miracle performed in them they would've repented long ago. They will testify on judgment
day these things. You know friends it is time to repent I tell you. It is an age of falling
away. Go back 100 years there was a lot of godly Christianity in America. There was a
revival throughout the 1800s that many people came back to the way of truth from paganism.
And they held to biblical principles. And didn't allow gay marriage, they didn't allow
homosexuality to be rampant against the law. Sure homosexuals exist all the time even if
it is against the law but if you start making sin lawful so they can openly practice these
things and bring about more people into these sins and the moral decline of a nation then
God's judgment comes. Friends we got to repents the church has to repent of their sins. We
got a church in America and Australia, and England and Europe, and Asia, many places.
We got the church. The church is people who profess to the name of Jesus Christ that's
what the church is. Even the Catholic Church as well they profess the name of Jesus Christ.
And so if Jesus looks at the world he can see that there's 2.7 billion people making
up the largest religion of this world and the largest religion is Christianity. That's
the umbrella over all these names like Catholic Anglican Baptist Jehovah witness, all these
other groups and sects that have split off from each other. And that the Lord can see
his so-called church and he can see a whole bunch of Pharisees just like God looked over
Israel at the time of Jesus. It was the very people of God who crucified God his own people.
You know the Pharisees were the godly law abiding Torah keepers. They were the ones
upholding God in the world. And what did they do? They went and crucify God. You know how
terrible is that. His own people. And what did God do? He destroyed the place. Not one
stone upon another. He did away with the old covenant. He Broke it and he scattered the
Jews to the four corners of the earth and then he brought the Gospel to the Gentiles.
He washed his hands of the Jews. At the time of the end he said I will have mercy on them
once more but that time has not yet come, as people still choosing satan. Still choosing
lawless godless paths and they reject Jesus. Now the Christians have been given the grace
of God of having Jesus Christ for their Lord. And these aren't Jewish people. There are
Jewish people of course who follow Jesus don't get me wrong, but I am talking about as a
nation. Now as a nation America follows God and were one of the very few nations in the
world who would say that they follow God because they even have that on their money. They profess
to the name of the Almighty God of Israel, in God Jehovah in God we trust. And so they
profess to God and they built upon a wonderful platform of living in truth, of biblical principles,
upholding righteousness, but they turned their backs on God. And the Christian church has
become a church of apostasy. And so it's become a false religion. And Christianity itself
is become a false religion. Not because there is anything wrong with the gospel of Jesus
no but because they themselves are following the path of this world living in sin. Now
if Christianity has become a false religion we should not be following Christianity. We
should never follow any religion anyway. We should've be following our church. We should
not be following anyone. We should be following Jesus Christ because he is the head of Christianity.
Now Christianity actually means little Christ and who Jesus Christ is the head of the church.
So who appointed a bishop to be a head of the church? Who? Who appointed the pope to
be the head of Jesus's church. Who appointed your pastor to lead you. Who appointed them?
Jesus is the head. He is the leader and so if you want to be a part of the church then
obviously Jesus must be the leader. But why is Jesus not the leader of Christianity? Why?
Jesus is not the leader of Christianity, the Pastor is, the pope is, the bishops are. You
know the Queen, the Queen of England is the head of the church over there the Church of England. These
people are the head of the church, Jesus isn't the head of the church. So Christians then
they persecute me when I say don't follow Christianity. Christians themselves persecute
me when I tell them that Christianity is now a false religion. But then friends wake up
to yourself. It is. It allows gay marriage in the church. It allows worship of the pope.
It allows homosexuality to be okay. And you can say oh that is not my church... friends
the church is the body of those who have Jesus as their leader. That's what the church is.
Just because I call my church a church of Jesus and put Jesus on it doesn't mean that
it is actually part of the Church of Christ. People who follow the Gospel wherever the
gospel is preached, that's where the church is. If the gospel is being preached of Jesus
Christ and the people are following and obeying that Gospel, that's where the church is. Where
is the gospel being preached these days? Don't see it being preached in the Catholic Church,
why? Because the gospel convicts of sin and bring sinners to repentance now of the 1 billion
Catholics in the world, I don't see a lot of repentance. In fact there seems to be a
whole lot of acceptance of Godless values, worldly walking, and most Catholics are so
far from God, you know there are a lot of atheists in the Catholic Church they just
go there because they were born into it. But then again Jesus is not part of that. Jesus
is his own church. There is only one true church, it's Jesus's Church not man. You know
not your Church. Jesus's Church. Now are you part of that? If he is the leader of your
church, then do you follow the leader Jesus Christ? If he is the leader the would not
he speak to you and tell you what to do. I've got nothing against churches. I only warn
what Jesus Christ has to say and he is warning the churches to repent. Because these are
all the organisations in the world who stand for his name like Israel stood for God. Yet
look what God did to them because they rejected him and he rejected them. Now if the world
of Christianity which includes the Catholics and Anglicans and every single religion that
has Jesus Christ as their belief, if they are the ones doing the same thing as Israel,
will not God scatter them into the wind too and eject them if they reject Christ? God
has a long track record of doing that. Do you not fear God. Do you not fear God. God
has a long track record of putting an end to those who profess to him yet lead the nations
into sin. Look at the prophet Jeremiah, he had a lot to say about that. They hated him
and Christians hate me because I told them to repent. I go and call out because I tell
you church you got to repent. I myself have to repent. We've all been in sin, we've all
been in lukewarm ways. I am not somebody who can come along and say they know I haven't
sinned so is all you that got to repent not me. No I was a lukewarm churchgoer, I used
to sin and think it was ok. I used to do all kinds of things and also claimed the Lord
but the Lord says we can't live like that. He says that in the Bible. Don't believe me
go read the Bible. Christians don't read the Bible these days. They read some verses in
the Bible but they don't actually read the Bible. If they read the Bible they would see
where it's written that Jesus said that the church must repent and turn away from their
sins. You know it is the only way. If we do not turn away from our sins and we don't repent,
then how are we going to enter the kingdom of God? Now Jesus hasn't changed Jesus is
still the same person who walked around the lake of Galilee and he said to the people
in Galilee to repent and the kingdom of heaven is here and he talked to them parables from
the boat. All those wonderful preachings all around the Sea of Galilee, you can go there
today and actually see where Jesus walked. He preached around the mountain in Galilee
and he preached around Nazareth then preached around some of these places all around the
Sea of Galilee. He called his disciples from the Sea of Galilee. And he's the same person
as the person who was doing that back then. The Son of God. And he preached to them parables
and those are exactly the same things of what he is saying today he hasn't changed. He was
telling them that the kingdom of heaven is at hand, and he was telling them that he was
the bread of life and he was telling them hard sayings that they didn't like to hear.
And so sometimes the religious leaders who are part of the church of God came to tried
to stone him and kill him because he was saying heresies against their religion. So that is
the problem with today is the same thing. The people are trying to save all kinds of
things they think that the Bible says, yet they're not following the head which is Jesus
Christ and his teaching. Jesus is the teacher and they're making up doctrines, but they're
not following the teacher. But we're here to be Christians. We're not here to be like
the world of the church that follows the world, we are here to be Christians. And what do
Christians do? Christians deny themselves, they pick up their cross and they follow Jesus
that's what Christians do. Christians may make mistakes at times it is true we may sin
at times. We may fall to false paths and have the chastisement of God come upon but Christians
are those who do learn and they walk in the Spirit. They don't go along to places of perdition
and they don't go along to gay parades. If they do that, they're not Christians. They
don't know Jesus. They don't support homosexual marriage and they don't go along and cheer
and think it's also wonderful, you know Christians are following Jesus Christ and they're putting
themselves separate from the ways of this world, that is what Christians are doing real
Christians. Real Christians are being led by the Spirit having Spirit lead them the
spirit of Jesus Christ. That's what real Christians do. Real Christians don't argue and fight
and they don't cause trouble in with their brother. That's what Jesus warns that you
go to repent of that before he cuts you off. Real Christians don't hate their brethren.
That's what happens when we're not following Jesus, and we're following our flesh and we're
going to get cut off if we don't repent. Real Christians listen to the holy spirit convicting
them to repent and they say sorry and they turn away from their sin. They don't follow
their heart. If we are following Jesus Christ as a real Christian then we're not going to
be allowing our flesh to carry its path and to carry its way out in our life. The world
says allow the flesh to do that because it's natural and who you are and who you are born.
That's what the world says but we know that we don't want to follow the flesh we know
that's how we were born. But we don't have to follow it because we don't want to. Why?
We know that leads to destruction we know there's nothing good in the flesh. So as Christians
we know that if we follow our desires and try and say that it is who we are as an excuse
we know that we're headed to judgment and destruction. If we try and say that who we
are inside and we are going to be ourselves is the way to go in life, we already know
that those who follow the flesh will not inherit the kingdom of God. As followers of Jesus
we don't need to be told twice to deny ourselves and to turnout these desires and have nothing
to do with them, because we know that we're following Jesus Christ the same Jesus Christ
who walked around the Sea of Galilee preaching these very messages warning people to repent.
This same Jesus. And that's the Jesus that we're serving. We are serving this same Jesus
that called us to turn from sin and repent and believe upon his name. Jesus had a condition
to following him. He said if you want to follow me you must deny yourself pick up your cross
and follow me. Jesus said that you can't follow him if you have to tend to your to your house
and you have to attend to your life. He went to the high ways and byways and he called
those who were willing to come and he took them to the wedding feast and he said that
those who were invited have been rejected those who weren't invited are cleansed and
brought to the wedding feast. That's a parable today as well; we've got lots of people who
are invited to enter the kingdom, lots of Christians lots of Catholics lots of Anglicanism
lots of Orthodox bishops, we got lots of people invited it to enter God's kingdom and be a
part of the wedding feast of the Lamb, but they're all saying no. so Jesus is going out
to people who are outsiders. Regular sinners and nobody. And he's calling them and they're
all coming with joy and they're here and there throughout the whole world and they're getting
ready to enter the wedding feast of the Lamb while these church people are going to be
missing out. Going to be missing out because they are not willing to leave their land.
They are saying oh I got my land to tend to I cannot come. Ive got a new house and got
my inheritance. Ive got to bury family Ive got to do this and that. You know Ive got
too many things to do. I've got married recently so you know I'm sorry Jesus sorry I can't
come. And so they they go along to their fun, to two kids two holidays a year and two cars.
You know the old American saying, and having fun. But that's not the path that leads to
the kingdom of heaven. We live for our two kids 2 holidays a year and 2 cars, that's
not the path to heaven, I tell you it is not. We can think that it is. We can think that
we just got to just live in the world and do what we got to do like everybody else and
have fun. But hey that's not the way to the kingdom of heaven. Sure you go to church and
sure you do read the Bible and you might pray but still that's not the way to the kingdom
of God. There is only one way and that is to deny yourself and follow Jesus. That's
not easy. It means that you got to give up chasing your own way you ask him what to do
with your life and he will show you. He will look out for your needs. Jesus said don't
worry about your needs just seek me first. I will look after your needs. He will send
you the right job to do but we are no longer going to be living for ourselves. We're just
striving after this world having a good time and not interested in serving the Lord. Not
interested in putting him first. Very few people are part of the Church of Jesus Christ
because very few people are willing to deny themselves and follow him. If every Catholic
and Anglican Baptist in the world and every other Christian group actually decided to
get on their knees and follow Jesus Christ the head of the church, there would suddenly
be a disintegration of religious denominational names and everybody would become early Christians.
That is all. Become apostles and in prophets, and Christians following Jesus Christ. Each
according to the gifts that the Lord would give them. But when people don't do that then
you're not going to have that. There can never be a integration of the world of Christianity
as one under Christ while they are following other gods. To many other gods. That's why
I say at this time never mind these problems. You yourself become a follower of Jesus of
Nazareth. The same Jesus who walked around the lake of Galilee preaching these truths,
preaching these parables, saying that he was the way, the good Shepherd, the leader come
to me I am the bread of life, I'm the one to follow, if you want life you must come
through me, nobody can have live apart from me. Now people do not like to hear that. It
meant they had to follow him and they were like; well who are you, who are you, sure
you can raise people from the death but who are you. He is the son of God that is who
he is. And if you want to follow him YOU got to do it. That is the only way to life. He
hasn't changed. He is the same son of God who was walking around the lake of Galilee.
You go and prayed him you pray to the same person. Exactly the same one who called Peter
to be his follower. He didn't call a church, he called people to come to him. And he led
people to lead people to him. And so we get to the end of time right up in year 2013 and
we've got me a you here today who are doing the same thing deciding to deny ourselves
and follow Jesus of Nazareth the same Jesus who walked back then. We're not getting all
in religion following a Bishop or following the Queen or following the pope. No we're
following Jesus Christ as humble servants just like Peter the apostle was. He was just
some guy working in his boat in the Sea of Galilee and it's a humble place. There is
nothing much there. Still isn't today. It is a country place, small nothing much goes
on there. People wouldn't really know anything about the outside world apart from their little
village. And that is how Jesus works. He caused people to follow him and then he makes them
into somebody into his people of the kingdom. And he is doing the same thing today. Don't
think he he has disappeared. He has not. Jesus is here right now. He is calling us all to
repent right now. And you got to get to hear his voice. You hear Jesus voice in your spirit.
People say how can you say Jesus speaks to you? Well because you don't hear him but Jesus
said that he would speak to people. He didn't say that you would just be on your own. He
said I send you the helper and he will speak the words of God to you and that helper was
the Holy Spirit. And he said I will not leave you. I will give you the helper and he will
speak to you. And so that is how the Lord speaks to us through the spirit. But you got
to follow him otherwise how can you have the spirit how can he speak to you? You can't
be Christian while you're just following a church thinking that's the way to go. You've
got to be following Jesus Christ. That's why I say you don't follow false religions of
Christianity. Its false religion. The true religion is to follow Jesus Christ. And where
his gospel is taught where his gospel is preached and there the people are gathered in his name
putting him first, THERE is his church there is his church. People who put the Lord first.
That's where the Church of God is. You can be anybody, but if you're putting God first
and you are turning from your sins and you are dedication to Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
then you are part of his church. And that is what Jesus wants us to be part of his church.
So when we are part of the Church of Jesus Christ we are also part of his instructions
to us and part of the warnings that he gives to us. You see Jesus has warnings for us.
I want to read to those warnings. He has warnings for us that we have to heed. Now listen to
this; Jesus said: Write about these things that you have seen and send them to the churches.
(he is talking about his people send them to the churches, now I want to read to what
Jesus has to say to the church his people, talking about people who follow Jesus Christ
anybody or any group or any organisation that professes to the name of Jesus Christ. That's
what this letter is to) say Jesus says: I know your works I know your toil, I know your
patient endurance how you cannot bear those who are evil, and you have tested those who
call themselves apostles and they are not and found them false, I know you are enduring
patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, but I have this against you that you have
abandoned your first love. Remember where you have fallen and repent and do the work
that you did at first. If not I will come to you quickly and I will remove your lampstand
from its place unless you repent. Then Jesus writes again, he says; I know your tribulations
I know your poverty but you are rich and the slander of those who say that they are Jews
and are not but are a synagogue of Satan, did not fear what you are about to suffer.
The devil throws some of you in prison have you will be tested, so be faithful until death
and I will give you the crown of life. Jesus warning his people again. And he goes on to
say; I know where you live I know that you live where Satan dwells and I know that you
did not deny me even when my faithful witness was murdered among you where Satan dwells,
but I have a few things against you that you hold to the teachings of Balaam who taught
Balaak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel so that they might eat
foods sacrificed to idols and commits *** immorality. So also have some of you hold
to this teaching. Therefore repent if not I will come soon and war against them with
the sword of my mouth. He who has an ear must hear to what I say to my church to the churches.
Jesus goes on to warn he says; I know your works your love and faith and service and
patients and endurance, and your latter works succeed the first, but I have this against
you that you tolerate that Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess and teaching and seducing
my servants to practice *** immorality. I gave her time to repent but she refuses
to repent therefore I will throw her onto a sick bed and all those who commit adultery
with her I will cast them to great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds. I will strike
her children dead and all the churches will know that I'm the one who searches the mind
and the heart and I will give you according to your works. So the Lord warns again. He
is warning the church to repent. So let us heed the warnings of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I want to read further where the Lord says here; I know your works and you have a reputation
of being alive but you are dead. Wake up and strengthen what remains what is about to die
for have not found your works complete in the side of my God. Remember then what you
received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you will not wake up I will come like a thief
and you will not know the hour that I come against. You still have a few names in Sardis
who have not soiled their garments in sin, they will walk with me in white for they are
worthy. The one who conquers will be clothed in white. I will not blot out his name from
the book of life. Jesus is warning that he is coming soon. He says; I am coming soon
hold fast to what you have that nobody may take your crown. The one who conquers I'll
make him a pillar in the temple of my God. He who has an ear must listen to what the
Spirit says to the churches. Then the Lord goes on to write. I know your works but you
are neither cold nor hot because you are lukewarm neither cold nor hot I will spew you fourth
from my mouth for you say that I am rich and prosper, and I need nothing, but you realize
that you are blind and poor miserable and naked. I council you to buy from me real gold
refined by the fire, and white garments that you may be clothed. Those whom I love I reprove
and discipline so be zealous and repent. Behold I stand at the door and knock. If anybody
hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and I will dine with and him
with me. Now these are the warnings of Jesus Christ to people like you and me to leave
our lukewarm paths of sin, to leave the old ways, and repent....