Thank you.
Psalm 73 verse 3, I was envious, I
was envious at the foolish, at the foolish,
when I saw, when I saw the prosperity
of the wicked, I was envious at the
foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the
wicked.
Verse 17, until I went
into the sanctuary, until I went into the
sanctuary of God, then understood I
their end.
Then understood I their end.
Job 21 verse 13, they spend their days
in wealth, and in a moment go down
to the grave.
They live their lives in wealth, and without
any prolonged suffering or sickness, they die.
They spend their days in wealth, and in
a moment go down to the grave.
Therefore, they say unto God, depart from us,
for we desire not the knowledge of thy
ways.
What is the almighty, that we should serve
him?
And what profit should we have, that we
pray unto him?
In Proverbs 30 verse 8, a godly and
wise man earnestly and carefully prayed, give me
neither poverty nor riches, give
me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with
food convenient for me.
Lest I be full and deny thee, and
say, who is the Lord?
Or lest I be poor and steal, and
take the name of my God in vain.
In Luke 12 verse 15, Jesus said, take
heed, take heed, for a man's life, a
man's life consisteth not in the abundance of
the things which he possesseth, a man's life
consisteth not in the abundance of the things
which he possesseth.
And he spake a parable unto them, he
spake a parable unto them, saying, the ground
of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully.
And he thought within himself, saying, what shall
I do?
Because I have no room where to bestow
my fruits.
And he said, this will I do, this
will I do, I will pull down my
bonds, I will pull down my bonds and
build greater.
And there will I bestow all my fruits
and my goods.
And I will say to my soul, soul,
thou hast much goods laid up for many
years.
Take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
But God said unto him, thou fool, thou
fool, this night thy soul shall be required
of thee.
Then whose shall those things be which thou
hast provided?
Whose shall those things be which thou hast
provided?
So is he that layeth up treasure for
himself.
So is he that layeth up treasure for
himself and is not rich toward God.
So is he that layeth up treasure for
himself and is not rich toward God.
Psalm 49, verse 16, Be not thou afraid
when one is made rich, when the glory
of his house is increased.
For when he dieth, when he dieth, he
shall carry nothing away.
His glory shall not descend after him.
When he dieth, he shall carry nothing away.
His glory shall not descend after him.
Though while he lived, he blessed his soul.
And men will praise thee when thou doest
well to thyself.
He shall go to the generation of his
fathers.
They shall never see light.
In Luke 16, verse 19, Jesus said, There
was a certain
rich man which was clothed in purple and
fine linen, which was clothed in purple and
fine linen, and fared sumptuously.
Every day he lived in luxury, every day.
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus,
which was laid at his gate, which was
laid at his gate, full of sores, full
of sores, and desiring to be fed with
the crumbs which fell from the rich man's
table, desiring to be fed with the crumbs
which fell from the rich man's table.
Moreover, the dogs came, the dogs came and
licked his sores, and it came to pass,
it came to pass that the beggar died,
the beggar died, and was carried, was carried
by the angels into Abraham's bosom.
The rich man also died, the rich man
also died, and was buried, and in hell
he lift up his eyes, being in torments,
and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus,
Lazarus in his bosom.
And he cried, and said, Father Abraham, Father
Abraham, have mercy on me, have mercy on
me, and send Lazarus, send Lazarus, that he
may dip the tip of his finger in
water, and cool my tongue, for I am
tormented in this flame, I am tormented in
this flame.
But Abraham said, Son, remember
that thou in thy lifetime receiveth thy good
thing, and likewise Lazarus evil things, but now
he is comforted, and thou art tormented, now
he is comforted, and thou art tormented, and
beside all this, beside all this, between us
and you, there is a great gulf fixed,
so that they which would pass from hence
to you cannot, they which would pass from
hence to you cannot, nay, neither, neither can
they pass to us, that would come from
hence, from thence.
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, Father,
I pray thee therefore, Father, that thou would
ascend into my father's house, for I have
five brethren, I have five brothers, that he
may testify unto them, lest they also come
into this place of torment.
Abraham saith unto him, they have Moses and
the prophets, they have Moses and the prophets,
they have Moses and the prophets, let them
hear them, and he said, nay, Father Abraham,
but if one went unto them from the
dead, if one went unto them from the
dead, they will repent, and he said unto
him, if they hear not Moses and the
prophets, if they hear not Moses and the
prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one
rose from the dead.
If they hear not Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded, though one rose
from the dead.
Oh, how many on the day of judgment,
oh, how many on the day of judgment
will hear Christ cry the words recorded in
Matthew 25 verse 41, depart from me ye
cursed, depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting
fire prepared for the devil and his angels,
for I, I was an hungred, and ye
gave me no meal, I was thirsty, and
ye gave me no drink, I was a
stranger, and ye took me not in, naked,
and ye clothed me not, sick, sick, and
in prison, and ye visited me not.
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord,
when saw we thee and hungred for a
thirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick,
or in prison, and did not minister unto
thee.
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I
say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it
not to one of the least of these,
ye did it not to me, and these
shall go away into everlasting punishment, these shall
go away into everlasting punishment, punishment, but the
righteous, the righteous into life eternal.
James 5 verse 1, go to now ye
rich men, weep and howl, howl for your
miseries that shall come upon you, your riches
are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten,
your gold and silver is cankered, and the
rust of them shall be a witness against
you, and shall eat your flesh as it
were fire, the rust of them shall be
a witness against you, and shall eat your
flesh as it were fire.
Mark 10 verse 17, and when he was
gone forth, when he was gone forth into
the way, there came one running, there came
one running, and kneeled to him, and asked
him, good master, what shall I do, what
shall I do that I may inherit eternal
life, what shall I do that I may
inherit eternal life, and Jesus said unto him,
why callest thou me good, there is none
good, but one, that is God, thou
knowest the commandments, do not commit adultery, do
not kill, do not steal, do not bear
false witness, be fraud not, honor thy father
and mother, and he answered and said unto
him, master, all these have I observed from
my youth, all these have I observed from
my youth, then Jesus beholding him loved him,
then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said
unto him, one thing thou lackest, one thing
thou lackest, go thy way, sell whatsoever thou
hast, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to
the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in
heaven, thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and
come, take up the cross, take up the
cross, and follow me, and he, he was
sad at that saying, he went away grieved,
for he had great possession, and Jesus looked
round about, and saith unto his disciples, how
hardly shall they that have riches, how hardly
shall they that have riches enter into the
kingdom of God, and the disciples were astonished
at his words, but Jesus answereth again, and
saith unto them, children, how hard is it
for them that trust in riches, how hard
is it for them that trust in riches
to enter into the kingdom of God, it
is easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle, it is easier
for a camel to go through the eye
of a needle than for a rich man
to enter into the kingdom of God, than
for a rich man to enter into the
kingdom of God, Matthew
6 verse 19, lay not up for yourselves
treasures upon earth, lay not up for yourselves
treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal,
but lay up for yourself treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and
where thieves do not break through nor steal,
for where your treasure is, where your treasure
is, there, there will your heart be also,
there will your heart be also, the light
of the body is the eye, if therefore
thine eye be single, thy whole body shall
be full of light, but if thine eye
be evil, thy whole body shall be full
of darkness, if therefore the light that is
in thee be darkness, how great is that
darkness, no man can serve two masters, no
man, no man can serve two masters, for
either he will hate the one and love
the other, or else he will hold to
the one and despise the other, ye cannot
serve God and mammon, ye cannot serve God
and mammon and be materialistic, ye cannot serve
God and materialism, and all today the megachurches
across the world tell you you can, they
say serve God and you prosper, God
warns us against these prosperity heretics and damnable
preachers, damnable preachers, listen to what God says
of them, in case you think I'm being
harsh, God warns us in 1 Timothy 6
verse 5, against such men, destitute of the
truth, totally bankrupt of any idea of what
God says concerning eternal life, men destitute of
the truth, supposing that gain is godliness, teaching
literally, preaching, teaching that you prosper if you
rightly related to God, if you get rightly
related to God, you will prosper, so come
to God and you'll prosper, liars, you don't
come to God to prosper, no wonder they
come in their masses to these megachurches and
watch how the preacher prospers more than any
of them, the hypocrites and the liars, destitute,
bankrupt of truth, he warns us against
these men, destitute of the truth, supposing that
gain is godliness, no wonder people come to
their megachurches, you don't come to God, sir,
to get right with God so that you
can prosper, oh you'll get the wrath of
God upon you, you come to God with
nothing but the blood of Jesus, with no
prerequisite ideas of what God will do for
you, financially, sir, you don't come to God
for anything but that Christ died for you
and shed his blood for you, he tasted
death for every man, God now commanded all
men everywhere to repent, and I believe that,
otherwise he wouldn't say it to all men
everywhere, you don't come to God though in
repentance to get rich, you come to God
because he shed his blood for you to
be saved from eternal damnation and hellfire, which
he deserved, and you come to God out
of love for what his love was expressed
on the cross, to love him no matter
what he does to you, sir, even if
you face martyrdom, even if like Paul you
know what it is to hunger and to
be in need, or at times to have
more than you need, but to be content,
you see godliness with contentment is great gain,
listen carefully, and such withdraw thyself, these many
warns us of in 1 Timothy 6 verse
5, men destitute of the truth, supposing that
gain is godliness, from such withdraw thyself, oh
they won't let me in their pulpits, I
wish I could go to every megachurch who
preaches prosperity and at least write that across
the doors and put a plaque, from such
withdraw thyself, men destitute of the truth, supposing,
actually teaching, speaking about heretical preachers here, that
gain is godliness, that you prosper, if you
get right in the grace of God, from
such withdraw thyself, but godliness with contentment is
great gain, godliness with contentment is great gain,
for we brought nothing into this world, we
brought nothing into this world, and it is
certain we can carry nothing out, and having
food, having food and raiment, let us therewith
be content, but they that will be rich,
they that will be rich, fall into temptation
and a snare, and into many foolish and
hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and
perdition, for the love of money is the
root of all evil, the love of money
is the root of all evil, which while
some coveted after, they have erred from the
faith, they departed from the faith in the
Greek, which while some coveted after, they have
erred from the faith and pierced themselves through,
pierced themselves through with many sorrows, but thou,
O man of God, flee these things, flee
these things, verse 17, charge them that are
rich in this world, charge them that are
rich in this world, that they be not
high-minded, that they be not high-minded,
nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the
living God, who giveth us richly all things
to enjoy, that they do good, that they
be rich in good works, ready to distribute,
ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up
in store for themselves, laying up in store
for themselves a good foundation against the time
to come, that they may lay hold on
eternal life, that they may lay hold on
eternal life.
James chapter 2 verse 1, my brethren, have
not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
have not the faith of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of
persons, for if there come unto your assembly,
if there come unto your assembly a man
with a gold ring in goodly apparel, and
there come in also a poor man in
vile raiment, and ye have respect to him
that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto
him, sit thou here in a good place,
and say to the poor, stand thou there,
or sit here under my footstool, are ye
not then partial in yourselves, and are become
judges of evil thoughts?
Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen
the poor of this world?
Hath not God chosen the poor of this
world, rich in faith, and heirs of the
kingdom which he hath promised to them that
love him?
But ye have despised the poor.
Ye have despised the poor.
Do not rich men oppress you, and draw
you before the judgment seat?
Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by
which ye are called?
If ye fulfil the royal law according to
the scripture, thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself ye do well.
But if ye have respect to persons, ye
commit sin, and are convinced of the law
as transgressors.
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and
yet offend in one point, he is guilty
of all.
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and
yet offend in one point, he is guilty
of all.
For he that said, do not commit adultery,
said also, do not kill.
Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if
thou kill, thou become a transgressor of the
law.
So speak ye, and so do.
So speak ye, and so do, as they
that shall be judged by the law of
liberty.
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that
has showed no mercy.
He shall have judgment without mercy, that has
showed no mercy.
And mercy rejoices against judgment.
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a
man say he hath faith and have not
works?
Can I repeat that?
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a
man say he hath faith and have not
works?
Can faith save him?
If a brother or sister be naked and
destitute of daily food, and one of you
say unto them, be part in peace, be
ye warm and filled notwithstanding ye give them
not those things which are needful to the
body, what doth it profit?
Even so, faith, if it hath not works,
is dead.
Do you know what the Greek says there?
Worthless.
God says, your faith is worth nothing.
Don't you believe that?
God would say that.
You see, your brother hath need.
1 John 3 verse 17.
But whoso hath this world's good, stop, whoso
hath this world's good, and seeth his brother
have need, and shutteth up his bowels of
compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of
God in him?
How can you possibly believe God is in
you?
How can you possibly say such an obnoxious
lie and contradiction to the whole Bible?
Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his
brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels
of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love
of God in him?
My little children, let us not love in
word, neither in tongue, but in deed and
in truth, and hereby we do know that
we are of the truth.
Hereby we do know that we are of
the truth.
Hereby we do know that we are of
the truth, and shall assure our hearts before
him.
For if our heart condemn us, God is
greater than our heart.
Tonight, in the light of all these scriptures,
God is greater than our heart, and knoweth
all things.
If our heart condemn us yet tonight, in
the light of all these passages, all these
scriptures from the mouth of Christ, sir, if
that matters any more to you, in Christianity,
New Testament, not the law, not legalism, not
Arminianism, hereby we do
know that we are of the truth.
You like to quote by the spirit which
he has given us.
Let me tell you something about that.
The spirit which he has given us that
confirms through the whole scriptures, he doesn't condemn
us, our lives don't condemn us, it confirms
we're saved.
You're not saved by works, you're saved by
faith, thank God, but you're not saved unless
your faith works.
John Calvin puts it a bit better, but
we won't go that direction tonight, and we'll
have all the Wesleyan Arminius leaving us.
Proverbs 14 verse 31, he that
oppresseth the poor, now you know what that
is in the light of all these scriptures,
he that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his maker.
You know that word is fearful, what God's
saying here.
You don't care about God, no matter what
you say.
He that reproaches the poor, he that oppresses
the poor reproaches his maker, but he that
honoreth him hath mercy on the poor.
I want to repeat that.
He that oppresses the poor reproaches his maker,
but he that honoreth him hath mercy on
the poor.
Proverbs 14 verse 21, he that hath mercy
on the poor, happy is he, but who
shall stoppeth his ears at the cry of
the poor?
He also shall cry himself, but shall not
be heard.
He that hath mercy on the poor, happy
is he, but who shall stoppeth his ears
at the cry of the poor?
he also shall cry himself, but shall not
be heard."
Proverbs 21, verse 13, God promises, God promises,
he also shall cry himself, but shall not
be heard.
Proverbs 28, verse 27, he that giveth unto
the poor, he that giveth unto the poor
shall not lack, God promises, he that giveth
unto the poor shall not lack, but he
that hideth his eyes shall have many a
curse, God promises, God promises, he
that giveth unto the poor shall not lack,
but he that hideth his eyes shall have
many a curse, God promises.
Or do you like selective theology, that you
wouldn't take that as real from God for
Christianity?
He that hideth his eyes shall have many
a curse, God promises.
Do we still believe this book, Christianity?
Sorry, let me rephrase it before I get
into trouble.
Do we still preach this book, or does
grace mean you can do what you want
to with the rest of the Scriptures?
And that doesn't matter, though God says, shall
have many a curse.
Proverbs 11, 25, the liberal soul shall be
made fat, the generous soul shall be made
rich, God promises, and he that watereth shall
be watered also himself, God promises.
He that watereth shall be watered also himself,
God promises.
Proverbs 19, verse 17, he that hath pity
upon the poor lenders to the Lord.
That's how important it is to God.
You're lending it to me, I'm gonna pay
you back.
He that hath pity upon the poor lenders
to the Lord, and that which he hath
given will he pay him again, God promises.
He that hath pity upon the poor lenders
to the Lord.
That's how much he cares for them, and
believe it or not, brother, sister, you and
I are his hands.
Take away the responsibility even of Christians once
they're saved.
You're an heretic in the light of the
four Scriptures.
Otherwise you just cancel every responsibility away and
say there's no responsibility the amount that of
me, that God will honor.
But all these things that come against you,
you think it's the devil, and not God's
Word that he has to be faithful to?
He cannot deny himself even that which you
and I don't want to hear.
He that hath pity upon the poor lenders
to the Lord, and that which he has
given will he pay him again.
Oh beloved, God demands integrity.
I like a better word, holiness, without which
no man shall see God.
Sorry, that's not my theology, that happens to
be in the Bible.
God demands integrity in all our dealings with
money.
If you name the name of Christ, he
demands holiness.
He demands integrity in all our dealings with
money.
Beloved, Job was referred to as the godliest
man of his generation.
Job was referred to as the godliest man
of his generation.
But listen carefully to his testimony to understand
why.
What do you think holiness is, godliness is,
in God's eyes?
I want you to listen carefully now to
his testimony to understand why he was referred
to as the godliest man of his generation.
Job 29 verse 12, I delivered the poor
that cried.
I delivered the poor that cried, and the
fatherless, and him that had none to help
him.
I delivered the poor that cried, and the
fatherless, and him that had none to help
him.
The blessing of him that was ready to
perish came upon me, and I caused the
widow's heart to sing for joy.
Verse 15, I was eyes to the blind.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet
was I, feet was I to the lame.
I was a father to the poor.
Verse 25, did not I weep for him
that was in trouble?
Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Beloved, that's just touching the tip of the
iceberg of what Job did before God said,
there's none like him on earth to Satan.
God demands integrity in all our dealings with
money.
Proverbs 19 verse 1, better, better is the
poor that walketh in his integrity than he
that is perverse in his lips and is
a fool.
That literally means that lies and swindles to
get rich.
Better is the poor that walketh in his
integrity than he that is perverse in his
lips and is a fool, God says.
Proverbs 16 verse 8, better is a little
with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Better is a little, a little with righteousness
than great revenues without right.
Proverbs 15 verse 16, better is a little,
a little with the fear of the Lord
than great treasure.
Better is a little with the fear of
the Lord than great treasure and trouble they
with, trouble they with.
And it will come, let me tell you.
If you're dealing with a holy God before
the day of judgment, sir, and if you're
saved, you're dealing with a God that will
chasten you so that you crawl in the
school of God.
Don't play the fool with God, sir, or
his name if you touch it and carry
it.
And think these things will never happen to
you concerning integrity with money that he entrusts
to you.
Holiness with money.
God demands integrity.
Holiness.
God demands integrity in all our dealings with
money, in all our dealings with money.
God demands integrity with government taxes.
God demands integrity.
Holiness.
Once it comes to Christianity or naming the
name of Christ as your Savior in this
world, God demands integrity with government taxes.
If you name the name of Christ, that
is, he's not speaking to the unsaved.
They go to hell anyway.
Government taxes.
Matthew 22 verse 17.
Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar
or not?
Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar
or not?
The hypocrites, the hypocrites demanded of Christ.
Is it right to pay taxes to those
who govern over us, even though we the
people of God and they're godless?
Is it correct, is it right that we
pay taxes?
Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar
or not?
The hypocrites, the hypocrites demanded of Christ.
And Jesus answered them in verse 21.
Render therefore unto Caesar, render, give.
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are
Caesar's, and unto God the things that are
God's.
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are
Caesar's, and unto God the things that are
God's.
Romans 13 verse 1.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher
powers.
Let every soul, every soul be subject unto
the higher powers, unto governing authorities.
God says the only time you don't obey
the government is when they tell you to
disobey God.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher
powers, unto governing authorities.
Verse 5.
Wherefore ye must, needs, be subject.
Ye must, needs, be subject.
Not only for wrath, but also for conscience
sake.
Not only because you may get into trouble
with the government, if you don't have integrity
with your taxes.
That's hypocritical, isn't it?
That's not Christian.
Wherefore ye must, needs, be subject.
Not only for wrath, but also for conscience
sake.
For this cause pay ye tribute also.
For conscience sake, as a Christian, as you
walk before God and be perfect in the
light you're given, endeavor by grace to walk
in that light.
Ye must, needs, be subject.
Not only for wrath, but also for conscience
sake.
For this cause pay ye tribute also.
Render therefore to all their Jews, tribute to
tribute, custom to custom.
Render therefore, give to all their Jews, tribute
to tribute, literally in the Greek, tax to
the tax collector.
Custom to custom.
Verse 8.
O no man anything.
Tell me, do you obey God?
This is the love of God that we
keep as commandments.
What do you think love is, to God?
I mean your definition, singing lovely hymns, attending
church.
This is the only thing that really proves
you love God.
Sir, it doesn't save you, but if you're
saved, this is it.
This is the love of God.
This is what it means to love God,
John says in 1 John 5, that we
keep his commandments.
O no man anything.
Will you ever, in your life, accept that
as a commandment from God in the New
Testament, not the old under the law, not
legalistic bondage, but God's commandment, not request, to
those who are washed in the blood of
Christ.
Proverbs 3 verse 27.
Withhold not good from them to whom it
is due, when it is in the power
of thine hand to do it.
Withhold not good from them to whom it
is due, when it is in the power
of thine hand to do it.
Render therefore to all their Jews, tribute to
tribute, tax to the taxmen.
As soon as you can, before you take
the credit card and get into so much
debt you can't, so you got to cook
the books.
I want to ask you all something, that
perhaps you'll never hear in your life again,
from a pulpit.
No, you will never hear again in your
life from a pulpit, sorry.
Do you honestly believe that even if they're
godless, these government people, many of them, sorry
in case someone's here, that loves Christ?
You don't want to go into who I
think loves Christ?
Wow, you'd all get up and walk out.
Anyway let's stop now.
Do you honestly believe that you'd be able
to get one block away from your home,
with the conveniences you have, if it wasn't
for taxes?
Do you honestly believe they could do it
without your taxes?
That you would have lights down the road
to protect you?
Stop lights to protect you from killing your
family and dying prematurely?
Water?
Do you think all that just comes by
your little payment for your house and what
you made?
No, brother, sister.
Do you honestly have such small concept or
discernment of truth in the broader picture of
what God is saying, that you think that
you don't have to, in integrity?
There's a verse here that one of these
young men, Ryan Ringnold, told me the other
day after I preached somewhere down in Dallas.
He said, the wicked borroweth and payeth not
again, Psalm 3721.
Now you say the wicked goes to the
bank and says, give, and he doesn't give
back.
No.
What do you think you're doing from the
government, in every privilege you have in life?
You think the lights were just your little
intention, and who laid everything, and the electricity,
and all the generators, who built, who maintains
it?
For you to live with one iota of
respect, for one day in life, as a
Christian, in this world, the wicked borroweth and
payeth not again.
Well, if you don't pay your taxes, sorry,
I'm not twisting if you're wicked.
Sorry.
Otherwise, please get some scissors and start cutting
all these verses out.
But don't carry a Bible that you say
you believe in, and endeavor to follow.
If you don't intend ever to take every
single word in that book, be ye doers
of the word, and not hearers only.
Deceiving your own selves.
By the way, that's religious, deeply religious.
He's speaking to.
Oh, they hear, they hear, they read, but
they never do.
Will you?
Do you?
On this aspect of over 340 verses tonight,
do you honestly think God didn't mean?
God demands integrity in all our dealings with
money, if we name the name of Christ.
From the moment you get up from your
knee saved, to the day you die.
Sorry, not a week later.
God demands integrity with government taxes.
God demands integrity in stewardship, in stewardship, or
in any dealings with finances within the church,
or in God's service anywhere in the world.
I want to repeat it.
God demands integrity in stewardship, or in any
dealings with finances within the church, or God's
service anywhere in the world.
2 Kings 12 verse 15.
Moreover, they reckoned not with the men into
whose hand they delivered the money to be
bestowed on workmen.
Moreover, they reckoned not with the men into
whose hand they delivered the money to be
bestowed on workmen, for they dealt faithfully.
What does that mean?
They reckoned not.
They required no accounting.
They so trusted them.
They were so godly.
Before we put money into anyone's hands of
God's work.
From Old Testament to this day.
Moreover, they reckoned not.
They required no accounting.
These lies were so impeccably spotless, blameless, upright,
integrity, shining forth through them, proven not just
when they required the job, but their lies
before they were given the job that proved
they were found faithful.
We don't require any accounting.
It's not possible that you could steal God's
money.
They reckoned not with the men.
They required no accounting into whose hand they
delivered the money, for they dealt faithfully.
New Testament, 1 Corinthians 4 verse 2.
Moreover, it is required in stewards that a
man be found faithful.
It is required in stewards that a man
be found faithful.
2 Corinthians 8 verse 20.
Avoiding this, that no man should blame us
in this abundance which is administered by us,
that no man should accuse us.
Well, the front pages of the newspapers since
I've been saved have on many occasions accused.
And they sit in jail.
Men who abused everything when they called for
millions.
And I don't think anybody questioned them until
the headlines of the newspapers accused them.
Nobody even thought.
These men say they brought Christ to the
people and the people to Christ in their
masses.
You know what they did?
More people will go to hell through them
in their unfaithfulness and lack of integrity with
finances who would say that's Christianity in no
ways.
I wonder how many people will be in
hell for eternity over these people alone who
are on the front pages of the newspapers
across the world since I've been saved, who
should never have been entrusted.
Never.
If they'd only been looked at carefully by
the godly.
It is required in stewards that a man
be found faithful.
Avoiding this, that no man should blame us,
no man should ever be able to accuse
us in this abundance which is administered by
us.
Here, sir, come, open my books, every receipt
for every cent and every cent spent.
Unless you can cry that out to the
world, get out of the treasury.
Mr. Treasurer, you just do you think the
devil will let you get away with it?
No ways.
He's too powerful.
You have no idea what if he has
up to now, he's just biding his time
for the moment when he can do most
damage to you.
But you're not getting away with it.
You have an enemy that won't let you,
sir.
Grace has nothing to do with compromise.
Then it's heresy.
Deliberate, consistent, unrepentant compromise.
Show me a verse in the Bible, whoso
confesseth and forsaketh the sin, the same shall
have mercy.
Give me another one in this context, sir,
that tells you what is grace.
The grace of God that bringeth us to
obey the peer to all men, teaching us
the denying ungodliness and worldly lusts.
We should live soberly and righteously and godly
in this present world.
What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in a sin that grace
may abound?
God forbid, how shall we that are dead
to submit any longer?
Know ye not that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey?
His servant ye are to whom ye obey,
whether of sin unto death or of obedience
to righteousness.
Let God be thanked that ye were the
servants of sin, that ye have obeyed from
the heart that form of doctrine which delivered
you.
Being then made free from sin, ye became
the servants of righteousness.
And I can give you about three to
four hundred, oh, over four hundred verses, that
you are not saved, sir, if grace ever
came near you that didn't bring about repentance
and a pursuit of holiness.
And by the way, that's not my wonderful
statement, that was Calvin himself, you Calvinists.
Calvin was a good Calvinist.
I'm in lots of trouble, aren't I?
That doesn't matter.
I'm not called to be successful, I'm called
to be faithful.
And any preacher that tries to reverse that,
I believe his ministry will be cursed of
God.
I've seen it, sorry.
Don't ever think successful can be tolerated by
God at the cost of not being faithful
to this book, no matter what the cost.
You're in trouble with God, sir.
That's why James says, be not many masters,
teachers of the orators of God, knowing that
we shall receive the greater condemnation.
We're getting into scriptures now that could get
me into trouble.
You know, the only protection I have in
life, in forty-two years of preaching, the
man that condemns me condemns himself because he
condemns what God says, and I want you
to show me a verse out of a
quarter that's out of its context.
They may hate me, but the only reason
I haven't been murdered a million times is
because it was only God's word.
Outside of that, I have no hope of
not being crucified by the so-called search
of Jesus Christ across the compromising world today.
God demands integrity in all our dealings with
money, holiness, without which no man shall see
God.
I like that in the broader picture, not
just certain isolated, say, let's leave that alone.
Let's get back to our biased grace.
It doesn't touch any responsibility for Christians to
be obedient to God's word.
God demands integrity in all our dealings with
money.
God demands integrity with government taxes.
God demands integrity in stewardship or in any
dealings with finances within the church or the
God's service anywhere in the world, God's work
anywhere in the world.
God demands integrity in stewardship, holiness of life
before you dare to trust a man, watch
his life for a long time, search of
Jesus Christ, or you'll be put to shame
and have to close your doors or change
your denomination's name in shame.
God demands integrity with our tithes and
our freewill offerings.
God demands integrity with our tithes, even the
children here, if you name the name of
Christ.
God demands integrity with our tithes and our
freewill offerings.
Will a man rob God?
Yet, ye have robbed me.
But you say, wherein have we robbed thee?
In tithes, in tithes, in tithes
and offerings.
Malachi 3 verse 8.
Be careful here at Church of Jesus Christ,
worldwide.
Don't ever confuse God's commandments to his people
that you must not play the fool of
these commandments or you will face horrible, horrible
events or God lies in his chastening.
I'm going to make you get right.
You must not confuse God's commandments to his
people to sow compassion upon the poor and
needy.
You must not dare confuse God's commandments that
we dare not close our eyes to.
And I just touched the tip of the
iceberg.
You want to go and get the concordance
to see what's left about what God says
concerning faithfulness and compassion to the poor.
We must never confuse God's commandments to his
people to have compassion and sow compassion to
the poor and needy with God's commandments to
be faithful with your tithes and freewill offerings.
They're two separate things.
One doesn't cancel out the other.
One doesn't replace the other.
One can't be said did the other.
You lie.
There is no greater good giving to the
poor.
Judas Iscariot.
Funny, that's the only one that had something
to say.
You think that was a mistake?
That heart is the one that would have
something to say if great sacrifice is given
to God himself and not to the poor,
which is God's will.
No.
Don't think it's a greater good than giving
to...
No.
They're two separate things, Judas.
Should not this alabaster box be sold for
300 pence and given to the poor?
This is a waste.
Well, every single person that follows Christ outwardly
but has no love to him would say
the same.
There's no love for Christ, no need for
sacrifice to God's kingdom, God himself.
But to the poor, yes.
Oh, that's what we call charity.
Most of them who follow that route go
to hell.
It doesn't help them.
It won't save them.
That's where works can't save you.
What did Jesus say?
The poor you have always with you, and
whensoever you would, you may show them good.
The poor shall never cease out of the
land.
They will always be with you, and verse
upon verse.
But then he honored this woman in the
most remarkable way, for giving everything she had
in life like that little widow who put
one mite.
And God said she gave more than those
who gave abundance because she gave everything.
Tell me, you sung, every one of you,
take my silver and my gold.
Not a mite will I withhold.
Tell me, have you ever sung it in
truth or did you lie?
You literally lied.
But it didn't matter.
It's a song.
It's beautiful harmonized, you know.
It's not blasphemy to say God's name in
hymns that I know I have nothing to
do with.
This isn't from my heart.
I'll never do this.
Oh, I'd be careful singing from now on
which advise you.
Take my silver and my gold.
Not a mite will I withhold.
Listen, that woman gave everything.
She wasn't rich.
That was her wealth, her store for everything
that lay ahead in life.
She gave without hesitation.
She gave without thinking of the word sacrifice.
When you're in love with Christ, that's the
last word you will ever use is sacrifice.
You only use the word privilege.
You only sense the privilege when you know
that this is required.
As she suddenly knew because she loved Christ,
she had in a sense, this is required.
Do you think God who sees these things,
if it really is what he requires of
you, won't honor you doubly?
Seconds later, minutes later.
I'm not asking you for anything from me.
Anyone in this world knows.
And if you don't know that, there's something
wrong with you.
I don't want anything from you.
I live for one thing, sir.
The smile of Christ.
I do not care about the smile of
man.
Whether they bless me or curse me at
the door doesn't mean a thing to me.
All that matters to me is to get
as fast as I can after I've preached
along with Jesus and to know whether he
smiles.
Whether their blood is off my hands.
Whether he said, well done.
They can bless me at the door.
They can curse.
It doesn't matter.
If it does, preacher, get out of the
pulpit till the day you die or until
you repent.
Unless you only live for Christ's smile and
well done at the end of each sermon,
you have no right to be in the
pulpit.
You're an actor playing to the gallery.
I don't want your money.
I only ask God and he only knows
what I need and I only look to
him and I've never looked to a man
in my life.
I've never asked him or hoped in him,
including tonight.
I'm not bringing you a cry for money
like most preachers who are carnal.
Destitute of the truth will cry for money
so much that until they saw you getting
the last cent, blood money, knowing it's for
them.
I don't want that.
But I do care about this.
I want God's people to know what God
says in this book.
You've got to have integrity, even what you
give.
Be careful that your left hand doesn't know
what your right hand does.
Otherwise, God may strike you dead like he
did Ananias and Sapphira, who didn't have to
say they gave all, but they wanted to
impress, you see.
There may be seen of men, may glory
get glory for men.
Nothing about thy father which seeth in secret
shall reward thee openly, and oh, he will,
he will, he will, he will, he will,
he will, I guarantee you.
Just see.
What did they do?
It wasn't out of love for God or
men that they gave to the poor.
One Corinthians tells us that though I bestow
all my goods to feed the poor, it's
possible, you know, and have not love.
God's love, by the way, it's agape love.
It's not human love.
It's the result of God expressing his love
to me.
The love of God is said abroad in
our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
That's why when you don't see because you
shut your eyes, you can't say you have
God in you.
It profiteth me nothing.
Nothing will ever come of a thank you
from God or a blessing of God.
Anything that will come will be a curse.
You can give everything you've got to impress
the crowd.
You won't let your left hand know what
your right hand will do.
You make sure you'll only do it to
impress the crowd, and you'll lie.
You'll even lie to impress the crowd about
what you're giving, won't you, Ananias and Sapphira?
In his New Testament, do you think the
same God won't be that grieved that he
could really hurt you?
Be careful, sir.
I've seen people fall down dead, a few
in one day, who stood and opposed God
when I was preaching.
Opposed when I was preaching.
Be careful what you do with God's Word,
sir.
Even how you listen to it, it will
judge you.
It will judge you, Christ said.
Just how you listened and what you did
as you realize what God is requiring of
you.
Abraham, before the law, knew somehow in his
walk with God, because he was a friend
of God, that God required a tenth of
all that he earned.
And so somehow, without any laws or guidance
or anything, just his walk with God, he
knew he had to give a tenth of
everything he had continually to Melchizedek.
That was without the Bible.
His walk, you see, he was a friend
of God.
Walked before me.
He walked with God.
No, that was Noah and Enoch.
But Abraham was the friend of God.
He was close to God.
And he gave a tenth, and it is
required of a tenth of all we earn,
beloved.
A little lady, by the way, ladies aren't
allowed to preach, but would we be in
poverty if we didn't have a good wife
to tell us what to preach?
No one is listening, if we're honest.
She said to me, I learned something, Keith.
You be sure you take care of that
tenth.
God will take care of every need you
have.
Not every want, but if you don't pay
the tenth, you can be sure you will
struggle to survive in this economy today.
Sorry, that's a woman, but she's not doing
it.
I'm just repeating it.
That's acceptable to some of you that a
woman must be silent, not only in the
church, but at home.
Most people who tell me women must be
quiet, you know, watch how they make them
quiet at home.
Heaven help the poor woman, she opens her
mouth even there.
Listen carefully to me.
You are not saved by works.
By grace are you saved through faith.
To him that worketh not, but believeth on
him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is
counted to him for righteousness.
Not having mine own righteousness which is of
the law, but that which is through the
faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of
God by faith.
For by grace are you saved through faith.
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
It is the gift of God.
The wages of sin is death, but the
gift of God is eternal life through Jesus
Christ.
You come and you accept by grace through
faith in one moment to be saved, the
shed blood of Christ.
Being justified freely by grace through faith in
his blood.
There is no moment God could ever justify
you with anything you do.
Anything you do in life.
Apart from when you come with nothing but
the blood of Jesus.
The blood of Jesus Christ, God's son cleansed
us from all sin.
You come, nothing in my hands I bring,
simply to the cross I cling.
And that is the first moment God will
ever look at you in your entire life
to be able to save you.
Nothing, nothing, nothing I do, nothing I have
done or can do.
Even if I get every sin, I can't
be saved by that.
No, it's grace through faith.
James does not argue with that.
James is not saying you are saved by
works.
You are saved by grace through faith, but
you are not saved.
Now this is John Knox's word.
Although we are not saved by works, we
cannot say we are saved without the evidence
of what God says.
The evidence of what God says are works
that follow if a man is truly saved.
Are you a Calvinist?
Reformist?
Do you believe that?
Otherwise you have got to tear up John
Knox's book if you don't.
John Calvin, sorry, Knox is another story.
He was wonderful, wasn't he?
Oh, let's not get diverted.
My wife says if you are tired you
divert.
And I deliberately, when she is not here
to give me that look, you know.
I don't divert, I try not to.
Beloved, what am I preaching this tonight for?
You are speaking about revival, aren't we?
Let me tell you something that's going to
really hurt you, even you who organize the
meetings.
Revival is trash from the garbage if it
involves great attendances.
Revival, sir, that's from God, results in getting
back to this book.
The masses getting back to this book, uncompromising
preaching from every pulpit.
Because the people would fire him if he
didn't, or leave him.
Until then, I don't care if you get
200,000.
You are joking with God if you think
that's revival, if it doesn't bring us back
to this book.
So what have I done tonight?
I have brought just one aspect of this
book's commandments.
And there are many that I have brought
over the years.
87% of every sermon I have preached
in 42 years was just memorizing and quoting
the word of God.
On all the various doctrines, the vital things
of our faith, on every aspect, facet of
the doctrines of this book, without being biased
on one view and leaving out the other
view, whether it's a Calvinist or an Almanist,
I bring both sides.
And I don't care if they are offended.
If I just don't bring the one side.
Because they are offended at God.
Verses they don't want to hear.
I don't want to be that.
And tonight I have brought just one aspect.
As I did last year, every verse in
the Bible on marriage.
Every facet on marriage, right through the scriptures.
And there was devastation wherever I preached it.
I don't even know if you are allowed
on your websites.
Have you?
Revival?
No matter what it costs the church, no
matter what it costs you as a preacher,
is when we take this book with uncompromising,
fearless preaching.
Embracing it with all our hearts and living
it.
Right down to, oh no man, anything.
God, from tonight I'm going to do everything
I can to have that written across my
life.
Oh, I'm playing the fool with God if
I go and borrow more.
Well, I'm in such debt.
I'm going to ask every single person in
this building.
I don't care who you are.
I don't care who you are, sir.
But I do care about what God knows.
I'm going to ask every single one, even
if you're a child, that knows God has
really confronted them by his word tonight, not
by some man in his baseness, because that's
who he chooses, you know, so that no
flesh can glory in his presence.
That's why you writhe at me preaching.
Oh yes, I'm base, I'm weak, I'm despised.
That's who God chooses, that no man can
flesh glory in his presence.
So I can't, you know that.
God won't allow me and you won't allow
me.
I've got nothing of a charismatic personality.
I've got nothing to give you.
Outside of God's word.
I really don't have any qualification that could
impress any of you, in the whole world.
But quite frankly, I don't want them.
I'd rather just have God's word.
As it stands, with no compromise, no matter
what they do to me.
I'm going to ask every one of you,
that tonight through this base, weak, despised man,
and we all know that, and in spite
of it, that knows they have to do
with God under this book, no matter who
you are, and you need to say, God,
forgive me.
Who not only deny, but defy, what is
strewn through this book, up to now.
Whatever facet or aspect of this message touched
your heart and confronted you.
And I need cleansing in the blood of
Jesus Christ tonight, as I ask forgiveness.
And I need to ask thee, God, from
this night till the day I die, no
matter what it costs me, for grace to
live this, to pursue it with my whole
heart, to embrace it and endeavor to live
it.
Apart from thy grace, I cannot do that.
But I'm looking to thee, for the grace
that God is obliged to give man, who
lives to fulfill his commandments.
Because he doesn't mock us by telling us
to live something we can't, so he gives
you the grace when you ask him.
But are you desperate enough to ask God
for that grace, from this night till the
day you die?
I need cleansing and forgiveness in the blood
of Christ.
And I will, God, by the grace of
God alone, and the grace of God alone
can do it.
From this night till the day I die,
pursue to live these things, this one aspect,
this one facet of God's word, and what
is required to those who love God, to
live.
Those that desperately, and I think shall desperately
need, to cry that to God tonight.
Those standing, will you come in the front,
please?
We're going to make something sacred here, not
just run away.
We're going to let God deal with it
in a very serious, definite way.
And will you please keep moving around the
front so that they can come to the
front, please?
Everyone, would you just keep moving right around
the piano here, so that we're all in
the front.
There's no altar here to kneel on, but
that doesn't matter.
It's not the outward thing.
That's normally outward things are for people.
That's why, in a way, I'm glad there's
no altar here.
It's the broken spirit, it's the bent, bowed
inner being before God that matters.
Will you keep coming, please, closer?
Just come, right up.
Not to kneel, you don't have to kneel,
just be bowed before God, as I believe
it costs you, it must be right now
with you doing this.
Thank you.
Just keep coming so we're not leaving you
way out there.
Will everyone in this building please bow before
God and pray, because if two or three
of you agree touching anything that's the will
of the Father in my name, it shall
be done.
So God has a holy obligation.
That's not sacrilege, that's not irreverent.
It would be sacrilege and irreverent to say
he doesn't.
With his promises, it would be saying he
possibly can be lying.
So he has a holy obligation that if
two or three of you agree in this
building that what these people are praying is
more than two or three, that's the will
of the Father, and you know it's the
will of the Father.
He gave it and commands and demands it
in my name.
So we're all going to agree it shall
be done for these people in front till
the day they die if they ask from
their hearts.
Will every one of you standing before me
please remember this.
God does not look at the words that
proceed out of the mouth.
He looks at the heart from whence they
come.
As best as you can, even though I'm
leading you, it's another man leading you in
prayer, you let God see that this is
your prayer.
That's all God can require of you is
as best as you can.
Don't you believe he'll turn away his face
after all his commandments and cry to you
tonight through this book now that you're seeking
him to live it.
He won't tell you that he'll turn away
his face and say no way.
I won't answer this prayer.
He will if you pray with integrity.
So from your hearts so you're saying with
your lips let God who sees the heart
that broken heart tonight but the heart of
integrity that wants righteousness not imputed but to
prove it's imputed imparted.
So we seek him for that righteousness now.
Can you pray after me?
Oh my God, I bow myself before thee
in humility and shame for defying thee denying
thee thy word though I've read it forgive
me because I put my faith in the
blood of Jesus Christ God's son that cleanseth
us from all sin we as Christians if
we confess our sins not isolated but a
continual defiance denial he
is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins to cleanse us from all unrighteousness come
cleanse us God with the blood of Jesus
Christ that cleanses from past sins before we
are saved at the moment of salvation and
any sin that comes once we're saved if
we turn to God as we are tonight
in humility and true repentance and a cry
for God to stop us from defying him
from this night forth on this particular aspect
forgive us for every failure every grief that
we have caused thee while we have named
thy name before me every compromise that was
deliberately done without any fear of God defying
the word of God to him that knoweth
to do good and doeth it not to
him it is sin and I come before
thee and ask thee for a cleansing from
every failure let me have a clean plate
tonight blot out every sin things I've overlooked
in my baseness in my weakness to confess
things I've forgotten that I did not confess
O God make me clean wash me through
and through and through and through with the
blood of Jesus Christ create in me a
clean heart O God and renew a right
spirit within me a consistent steadfast grace to
live in obedience to the light I've been
given from this book I
lay my life on the altar of God
I present my body a living sacrifice holy
acceptable unto God which is my reasonable service
that I may prove what is that good
and perfect and acceptable will of God give
me that grace fill me now with thy
holy spirit by that I mean take control
thou who does dwell in me take control
of me I don't seek gifts for gifts
without the fruit are the counterfeit of the
devil to make me miss the mark totally
I seek the fruit as the evidence that
God is in control of my life utterly
utterly surrendered and on the altar of God
that the fruit of the spirit will be
seen in my life spontaneously the evidence that
is in control of me from this night
forth I'm not asking thee for sin less
perfection but I'm asking thee for grace to
live in consistency what God commands of me
to not grieve him or shame him in
this world and
I seek from this night thy grace till
the day I die to be obedient in
this aspect of what God commands for his
people to pursue and live no matter how
corrupt the world or compromising the church generally
has become in Jesus Christ's name for his
sake and his glory in my life