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Speaker 1: The following presentation is Del Marvis Studio's production.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Fact Hunter Radio Network.

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Speaker 1: Here is your host, Stege Hobbs.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back truth seekers from around the world. It's time

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for another edition of our classic audio series, and today

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we are revisiting David Wilkerson, author of the book The

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Cross and the Switchblade, and his sermon entitled Last Days,

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and it's one of his more popular sermons on YouTube.

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I think it has well over three million views. And

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it's really a sober warning that's drawn from scripture. You

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know that the final period before Christ's return will be

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marked not only by outward turmoil, but you know, he

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mentions deep spiritual decline, deception, and lukewarm faith within the

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church itself. It's really a powerful sermon. He speaks with

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a lot of fire. He calls on Christians to remain

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spiritually awake, grounded in God's word, committed to Christ, and

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he stresses that the faithful remnant will endure right, And

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I think you'll really enjoy it. And it's interesting. You know, again,

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this was thirty years ago and it's just as important

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today as it was thirty years ago. So I hope

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you enjoyed this thirty minute clip. Looking forward to the

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next podcast, we have a lot to talk about and

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we have hopefully a very exciting interview for you here

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in the next few weeks. God bless you. I have

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a great day. Without any further ado, here is David Wilkerson.

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Speaker 1: But whether they want to hear it or not, the

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Lord always sends forth watchman to warn. He always does.

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He never does anything till he warns. The Gospel of accommodation. Now,

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to accommodate means to adapt. It means to make suitable

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or acceptable. It also means to adjust, to make something

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very convenient. It means to yield to the desires of others,

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to placate them. Now you put that together, and I'm

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talking about a gospel that's been invented in Hell and

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now being propagated all of the United States. It's a suitable, acceptable, convenient,

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a gospel that has yielded to the desires and the

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weakness of sinful men. I call it the Gospel of

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accommodation because it's adapting and adjusting the Gospel to appease

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and attract sinners. This gospel accommodation is primarily an American

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cultural invention to ease our lifestyle. It appeals primarily to

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white America, rich and prosperous. It was invented out of itself.

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This new gospel is sweeping the America and the nation

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is influencing ministers of every denomination. It's giving birth to megachurches.

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Some of the largest churches in the United States are

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involved in this gospel. It's a non confronting, convenient gospel adapted.

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It is spoon fed to the congregation by skits, humorous

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skits and drama, short, non abrasive, twenty minute messages, and

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it's all called seeker friendly, the seeker friendly churches. In

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one of these days, there may be somebody move into

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the city and try to bring one of these churches

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right into New York City. They are springing up now

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overnight and suddenly thousands of tens. This new gospel is

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being propagated by bright, young, intelligent, talented ministers. They came

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upon a formula by which you can go into the

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city in any town and almost overnight build and make

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a church. And as I understand this formula, you begin

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by going into the community with your workers and you

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pull the community to find out what the center found

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offensive about attending church? Well, why don't you tend church?

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And what was offensive about it? And what would it

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or what would we have to do to bring you

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back into the church, What would make you comfortable? What

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would you like to see? You don't like choirs, will

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do away with choirs, you don't like suits in church?

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You come the way you choose, Just tell us what

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you want, and they survey the community and then sit

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in there with their computers and in their conference rooms,

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and they design a program that will make it comfortable

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for the center and make it friendly for if they

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rather call it center friendly, they would call it seecret friendly,

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and try to attract them to come into the House

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of God. It's becoming the most prosperous, most flourishing of

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all really religious movements in the history of America. The

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churches are run like corporations. The pastors the CEO, chief

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executive officer, and it's big business. And this formula has

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now been cleverly packaged and it is now being pushed

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in seminars all over the United States. It sounds good.

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What they say sounds very good. It sounds spiritual in

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its goals. It sounds like Jesus is a central theme.

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And folks, I'm not gonna name any names because I'm

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not talking about the character of these men. I'm talking

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about the gospel that they preach. I am here to

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remind you that Paul the Apostle warned of the coming

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of another gospel which we have not preached. He said,

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there is coming another gospel. There's going to preach another Jesus.

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You'll hear his name. It'll sound sweet, but it's not

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the Jesus that I preached. Paul's said, it's not the

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true Jesus. Paul goes on or Paul was amazed. He

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said that you were so removed from him that called

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you into the grace of Christ to another gospel. Folks,

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listen to me. There is in the land right now,

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with thousands of people sitting under another gospel, another Jesus

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being preached by ministers who have lost the touch of

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God and had been transformed into angels of light, to

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common the decease, if possible, even the elect of God.

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Paul goes to warn the church, it's really not another gospel,

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but it's a perversion of the Gospel of Christ, which

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is really not another Paul said, but there'd be some

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that trouble you and pervert or change the Gospel of Christ.

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He said, they're gonna change it. They're gonna accommodate the sinner.

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They're gonna commodate their praisures, they're gonna accommodate all of

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their needs, and they're gonna design a gospel with their

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own Christ for their own doctrine. Then this awful warning

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from Paul, But though we are an angel from heaven,

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preach any other gospel unto you but that which we

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preached unto you, let him be a cursed. Let him

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be a cursed, folks. I didn't say that the apostle.

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Paul said it. If anybody preach another gospel what you've heard,

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If anyone preached anything but the crucified Christ, if anyone

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preach anything that appeases man in his sin, that's not

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the gospel heard from me, Paul said. And anyone preaches another,

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let him be a cursed. When he said, it's going

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to be dangerous because it's going to come from seemingly

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pious sincere ministers. That's what made the doctrine called Antinomianism

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so dangerous because it was in the hands. There's some

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very fine, good living men, like doctor Christ, who was

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one of the founders of that anti law movement back

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during the Puritan Age. Anti law. They cast aside the

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burden of the law, and the reason it was so

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accepted because the men who preached it seemed to be

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so pious. And I tremble when I hear Paul warn

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us that Satan's gonna come right into the church disguised

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as an angel of light. He's gonna infiltrate into the

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church with his own ministers. They'll come angel like he said,

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preaching a false gospel of righteousness. For such are false prophets,

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false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ,

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and no marvel. For Satan himself is transformed into an

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angel of light. Therefore it's no great thing if his

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ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness, whose

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then would be according to their works. Paul said, They're

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gonna come, and they're gonna glory in the flesh. They're

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gonna glory in their might, their money. They're gonna glory

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in their bigness, their numbers, and they're going to glory

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in the fact that they're so contemporary. They're gonna glory

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in their acceptance by the world. Jesus warned, beware of

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false prophets, come to you in sheets clothing. They're to

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come like gentle sheet, sincere, intelligent, bright, but said inward,

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they're ravening wolves and folks. Jesus gave it in the

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context of his message. He said, because straight is the gate,

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narrow is the way which leadeth to life, and few

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that be that find it. And the very next verse

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he says, beware of false prophets. You are to common

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seats clothing, but they're ravening wolves. It's Christ himself warning

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us false prophets, false pastors, false evangelists posing as submissive

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sheet going to come saying the way he's not that narrow,

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the way is not that straight, and they're going to accommodate.

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They're going to change the gospel to suit the needs

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of the people. Jesus puts his finger on the mold.

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Is behind him, ambition there at ravening here ravening wolves,

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and the Greek mains star for recognition, at recognition and gratification.

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Men are going to rise, starved, to make it. You

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see it in the business world. You see it on

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your job. People trying to claim the ladder and get

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recognition quickly and focuss now in the ministry. Full blow,

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young man so ambitious to be one of the big boys,

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to have the biggest church, the biggest numbers, the biggest crowds.

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He said, they're ravening wolves. Jesus left no doubt about

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what he meant, and this is simply what he meant.

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They're going to be struggling pastors in the land, and

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they're going to look out and see all of the

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striving and competition for numbers and recognition, and there's going

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to be a growing, growing pressure to expand and be successful.

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They see the measuring and success now by how big

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the buildings are and how many people attend the church

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on Sunday morning. And this struggling pastor, who has been

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faithful up to now, she's struggling young He sees bright

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young man come down the street nearby, and suddenly, overnight

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he's pastoring thousands of people in a seeker friendly church.

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A young man, less experienced, a young man who has

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not paid his Jews. As far as this man is concerned,

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he's still preaching an old fashioned, faithful gospel of the

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Cross and his claims, and he's struggling because not many

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people want to hear the cross. Jesus said, few they're

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gonna be that find it. Why is the road leading destruction?

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Narrow is the way, Jesus said, straight and narrow. And

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Jesus is warning. He's saying to the pastor's brother, man

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of God, watch out the moment you look out on

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the competition, the moment that seat gets in your heart,

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the devil's gonna pick one of these wolves, and she's

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clothing right at your path. He's going to seduce you

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into nongod, the ambition to compete and to be one

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of these big boys. And he's going to tempt you

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for church growth at any cost. Then he'll cost the

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soul of the pastor.

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Speaker 2: I read Paul's.

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Speaker 1: Warning in tewod Corinthians eleventh chapter. But ministers being transformed

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to dangels of light who believe they're preaching righteousness, but

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they've been changed somehow into a tool of Satan. And

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I say, God, can that be possible? Lord? Is that

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really reasonable that a man who starts right can change

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and become a tool of the devil in a puppet.

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Am I to conclude that a man of God can

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start right, be a true shepherd for season, preach a

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true gospel, but something of Hall lays hold of his

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heart and his spirits, something demonic, and he changes and

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he becomes a minister of Satan. Folks, it's happening every day,

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bring right here in New York City. When men become

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dissatisfied with preaching a simple gospel and they get bored

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and not praying, and they're not seeking God, and they

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get their eyes on people and numbers, and they want

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to be judged like everybody else. I want to be

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a success. And so it comes out, and I hear

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it everywhere I go. I hear a pastors say, I

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saw it on television at watching in the apartment we

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were renting on a vacation and it was a Sunday morning.

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And you listen to these pastors. We have twenty five

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hundred this year. My goal next year is forty five hundred,

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and any cost, anyway to reach that goal. It's not

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wrong to pray for growth, but if it's only to

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feed human ambition, it'll change the man into a devil. Listen.

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If you find the right formula, it said, you can

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give success in any field of endeavor possible. This is

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exactly what I'm talking about. Some young men have come

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up with the formula how to build a church, a formula.

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This formula based accommodating Gospel is contrary to everything in

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the scripture. I read in Act thirteen of a gathering

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of God, the Men and Antioch. They were not going

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to send out some young ministers to establish churches and

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priest the gospel to a darkened world. How does God

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go about building churches? How does the Holy Ghost work?

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Scripture said they gathered that they ministered to.

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Speaker 2: The Lord and fasted.

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Speaker 1: This was their planning session, worship, fasting, wading on the

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Lord for direction till the Holy Ghost comes and tells

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them exactly what to do. Number two, They prayed, no strategizing, working.

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No one made a step until the Holy Ghost said

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this is the way, walk in it. And then when

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the Holy Ghost spoke, they laid hands on them and

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sent them out. The Bible says, under the power and

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the anointing of the Holy Ghost. You see, Paul had

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lived his whole religious life under religious formulas. He'd lived

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with these man made schemes. He had seen teachings that

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commendated the weaknesses and the sinfulness of Baxliden Jews. He'd

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had his stomach full of it. He said, I have

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nothing to do with that. It attracts the multitudes. Yes,

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but he said, one day Jesus came and revealed himself

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in me. Paul put all of the formulas aside, his

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dung as garbage. Paul, by his own confession, said, I'm

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determined go for it. The fool he preached the Gospel

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of Christ and power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost.

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And unless the Gospel is priest and power and demonstration

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the Holy Ghost, it's not the gospel. It's not the gospel.

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And sadly, the multitudes in America don't even know what

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the gospel is because they haven't heard it. Paul boasted, unashamedly,

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we preached Christ crucified unto the Jews. Stumbleay, blocking under

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the Greek's foolishness, Paul said, now, brother, and the Jews

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and the Greeks, they're trying to make us accommodate our message.

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Now the Jews want us to give them signs, and

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the Greeks want wisdom. They want miracles over here and

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over here. They just want ten steps on how to come.

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They want wisdom. But Paul said, there will be no accommodating.

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Let them call our preaching foolishness. Let them say it's

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out of date, that it's not contemporary. He said, I'm

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determined to preach nothing among you except Jesus Christ and

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him crucified. This other gospel accommodates the sinner in many ways.

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But there are three areas of commendation that the Holy

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Ghost grieves over. In this I felt the grief of

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God on these three areas of commendation where people where

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ministers are changing the gospel to suit the crowd. Number

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one the accommodation of man's love for pleasure. Know this

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also that in the last days, perilous time shall come,

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men shall be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.

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And the Greek word for pleasure here is sensuality, lust, voluptuousness,

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in other words, exciting, gratifying, sensual pleasures. And all folks.

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Speaker 2: Hears the danger.

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Speaker 1: Those who are established these seekert friendly churches. They're prepared

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to accommodate the crowd. The Bible says, they're going to have.

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Speaker 1: It's very very clear they cannot preach against sensuality because

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the Apostle says, they're going to be lovers of pleasure

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more than lovers of God. They're going to love their sports,

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they're going to love their X rated movies. They're gonna

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love their videos. They're gonna love their their computer sex.

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They're gonna love these sensuous things. The Bible says they're

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gonna love these things. They're gonna come into the House

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of God, and if you're going to accommodate them, you're

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not going to touch one of their lust. The inter

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course say one word about it. They're gonna have to

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be They're gonna have to be prepared to stand in their.

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Speaker 1: Paul said, of these men, these resist the truth men

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are corrupt minds, counterfeit regarding the faith, counterfeits. You know,

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I watched in disbelief in the televised main service of

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one of these secrephendy churches, one of the large sinner

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or secrephony churches, and the pastor starts and start saying,

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we're here to have fun tonight because tonight is David

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Letterman night and the pastor said brazenly after service, we're

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here not to offend, but to make it comfortable. How

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long do you think that crowd was stay in that church?

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And the pastor was shaken by the Holy Ghost, convicted

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of entertaining people into hell. And he stood up one

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Sunday night and he said, be sure your sins and

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finds you out. Let me tell you what happened that church.

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Those thousands who sit there, those who are hungry for

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God and didn't know any better, they would weep and

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break before God in a moment, and everyone else would

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head for the doors and never come back. Well, they're

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going to be pastors on Judgment Day. Here these awful words,

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son of Man, I made the watchman. You were to

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hear the word at my mouth and give them warnings

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from me.

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Speaker 2: You were to tell the wicked.

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Speaker 1: Dow will surely die. He gave them no warning, nor

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spake to warn the wicked from the wicked ways to

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save their lives. These same wicked men will die. It

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these same wicked men did die in their sins. But

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now their blood I require from your hands. Accommodation Number two.

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The accommodation of modern man's aversion to self denial. Number three,

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the accommodating of men's offense of the cross. Behold, I

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lay in Zion the stumbling stone, at a rock of offense.

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Paul spoke of the offense of the cross. And we're

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coming now to the heart of why God hates this

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new doctrine, this new movement in America. This is why

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God hates it, rejects it out right, and why he's

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cursed it, and why God will put anathema on any

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preacher who embraces it. God demands more than coming to

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the cross. He demands going through the cross. And that's

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the offense that it takes everything a man has and

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owns and trust in. You see, the defense of the

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sinner is most willing to come to the cross and

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kneel before it. He's willing to take the claims by

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a single confession of faith and just say yes, Lord,

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I believe. He wants all of the benefits of the cross.

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He wants to believe that Christ the sacrificed yes and

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covered all his sins. Now, folks, that's being preached the cross.

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Though all the phraseology is there, it's sweetly talked about

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the cross. Come to the cross of Jesus and be forgiven.

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There's not one word about saying going on with Christ

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into the tomb and to die. There's not a word

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about going down into the grave and coming out resurrected

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and newness of life. It's coming to the cross, Neil,

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say a prayer and go back to your sins.

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Speaker 1: You take it by faith. You are now the rights

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of Christ, dying to sin, not being resurrected, newness of life.

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Now that's the defense of the cross. Did you go

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all the way? When you come? He demands full obedience.

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He demands everything we have. And I'm afraid a majority

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of people who claim to be Christians and saved in

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these last days have been to the cost, but they've

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never been through the cross. They've never been buried with Christ.

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Paul said, I died with Christ, I was raised with Christ.

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I was crucified with Christ. I not only came to

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his cross, I picked up my cross. I went through

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with him. We have another gospel now that tells men

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what the cross did for him, but not what it

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wants to take him to the gospel, folks is not

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just forgiveness. It's not simply believe in get heaven someday.

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It's not only the saving of the source of the

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saving of the body, this flesh. God says, I want

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your flesh. I want your body as a living sacrifice.

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And that's the preaching of the cross. Folks, I don't

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care if they if somebody could gather a crowd of

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one hundred thousand people in that stadium and they could

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turn to me and say, Pastor Dave, you're wrong. Look

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one hundred thousand people that have come through my secret

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friendly church, and here they are. They're all believers now.

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And folks, I wanted to know something. If those hundred

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thousand people have not been given the full gospel of

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Jesus Christ, has not been priest fully, if the claims

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of the Cross have not been laid there, and if

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they've been coddled and comforted their sins, that one hundred

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thousand have been made twice a child of hell, then

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ever before, they're and worse safe, because the Bible says

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they can come now and hear the words of the

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curse even and bless himself and his heart, saying I

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shall have peace though I walk in the imagination of

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my heart, and add drunkenness to thirst, because a false

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peace has been given to them, that they can live

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in their sins, never be rebuked, never be reproved, never

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see the claims of the Cross. Did he know that

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he died to deliver man from from the heart oft

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sin and the idea of sin, but the dominion of

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sin in his own life. If the preaching of grace

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doesn't have as its goal righteousness, it's another gospel for

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the grace of God that bringeth salvation has appeared to

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all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly LUs,

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we shall live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world.

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I saw a televised interview of people that had joined

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one America's most renowned secret on the churches, and this

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man testified words, I'm as close, I believe as the

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way I heard it. He said, I come here because

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I've never made to feel uncomfortable about my life. I

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can bring my Jewish friends, my business associates that never

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be embarrassed. I don't have to be a fanatic. And

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the preaching and the skits are really enjoyable and uplifting

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and best of all church only last one hour. Contrast

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that with Paul's preaching for godly sorrow works, repentance to salvation,

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not to be repented off for your whole this self,

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same thing that you sorrowed after godly sort. What carefulness

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it wrought in you? Yea? What clearing of yourself?

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Speaker 2: Indignation, fear?

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Speaker 1: YEA? What vehement desire and zeal? What revenge? And all

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things you approved yourself to be clear in this matter.

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And Paul warns, if there's not that kind of preaching,

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many will walk of whom I told you often, and

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I'll tell you even weeping. They are enemies of the

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costs of Christ, who's under destruction, whose God is their belly,

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and whose glory is in their shame. Whom mind Dirkley things.

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I came to New York City when age was plaguing Broadway.

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People were dying left and right, Black Muslims in Times

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Square spewing out hate, young blacks and young Puerto Ricans

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feeling the world is left and behind, and angry intellectuals

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cursing Christ liberal minds who say there's no hope, And

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you tell me, I'm going to come in with the

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fifteen minutes, skep, and I'm going to have a cute

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little worship team giving little diddy pot songs to a

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dying world. God help our blindness, folks. We started down

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on crack Alley on forty first Street, in that rag

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tag theater, and from the first time I stood in

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the pulpit, I preached repentance. I preached the Cross. I said,

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we are not here to comfort you and your sins.

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We're here to confront you in your sins and to

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believe that there's a savior will deliver you. And the

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experts tell us that won't work. People don't want that.

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Speaker 2: I talked to a man the other day.

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Speaker 1: He was visiting one of these churches and they decided

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they're going to break their church up in little groups

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with prayer meetings. And he went to one of the

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prayer meetings. And this is a secret friendly type church,

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you know what. The permitting consisted of hot chocolate and donuts.

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And then they brought all the games out, the board games,

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and played games the rest of the evening. And they

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are those people that are dying in their sins and

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they're playing weedsy boards in all of his garbage. Do

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you think for one moment we would ever stand for

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the Carter, myself or any of our men. Where teachers

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would stand in this pulpit where drug crazed people come

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to visit, people half did, people crying and yearning for

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just one word of hope. Do you think for one

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minute I'm going to give a twenty minute sermonette to

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ease their mind. No, I am so glad hold in

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my heart one day, I'm so glad he revealed his

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heart to me. And I can say, with Paul the Apostle,

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he revealed his sale. He Christ revealed himself in me,

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not to me, but in me, Hall Louis. And as

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long I know, as long as this man is in

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this church, as long as I'm in this pulpit, there

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will never ever be in this pope an accommodating gospel, ever,

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an accommodating gospel.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Fact Hunter Radio Network.

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Speaker 1: Just the facts, mam