Alright, welcome once again to the Windows of
Heaven radio broadcast.
This is Evangelist Greg Locke.
Today I'll take my very controversial reading from
2 Peter chapter number 2, verse number 1.
The Bible says, But there were false prophets
also among the people, even as there shall
be false teachers among you, who privately shall
bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord
that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift
destruction.
And many, you hear that?
And many shall follow their pernicious or their
wicked ways, by reason of whom the way
of truth shall be evil spoken up.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned or
masked words make merchandise of you, whose judgment
now of a long time lingereth not, and
their damnation slumbereth not.
I want to talk to you this morning,
this afternoon on this broadcast, a little message
entitled, Tattletailing on the Truth Twister.
I think it would do Bible believers good,
and I think it would do real good
for some good old hot fundamental pulpits every
now and then just to get out the
old whistle of the Bible and blow the
cover off of these wolves in sheep clothing.
Now, I realize this is the third broadcast
for the windows of heaven, but I just
want to go ahead and break bones with
the world.
I just want to go ahead and let
you know that I stand on God's side,
not man's side.
And I'm going to say a couple of
things today that perhaps may rub you the
wrong way, but I believe God's people need
to know the truth.
If there's ever a day when we need
the Bible, it's today.
If there's ever a day when we need
truth, it is today.
If there's ever a day when we need
old-fashioned hellfire brimstone spitting preaching, it is
the day and age in which we live.
It may not be very popular, ladies and
gentlemen, but what is popular is not always
right, and what is right is hardly ever,
if ever, popular.
In 2 Peter 1, as we back up,
the Bible begins to talk about in verse
19, we have also a more sure word
of prophecy.
We're talking about the Word of God here,
the sure Word of God.
Whereunto you do well that you take heed,
it does you well to take heed to
the Word of God, as unto a light
that shineth in a dark place, until the
day dawn and the day star rise in
your hearts.
Verse 20, knowing this first, that no prophecy
of the Scripture is of any private interpretation,
for the prophecy, talking about the Bible, the
prophecy of the Word of God, for the
prophecy came not in old time by the
will of man, but holy men of God
spake as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost.
So here in 2 Peter 1, verses 19
-21, we're talking about the prophecy of the
Word of God.
And we know that holy men of God,
not some liberals, not some modernists, not some
atheists or agnostics or a bunch of university
students that don't even believe the Bible or
the blood of Jesus Christ.
He said holy men of God.
So we're dealing with true prophets.
We're dealing with preachers.
We're dealing with people who were messengers of
the truth.
Now, in context of that, or in light
of that, he then moves right on in
chapter 2 and verse number 1 and says,
but in contrast to these true God-fearing,
Bible-believing prophets, in contrast to that, he
said, but there were false prophets also among
the people even as there shall be false
teachers among you.
And ladies and gentlemen, we are living in
a day that is full of false teaching.
We are living in a day when radio
preachers and television preachers, evangelists, and I'm an
evangelist and they give me a bad name.
But we're living in a day when people
do not know what the truth is.
And ladies and gentlemen, I want you to
know that the Word of God is the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth, so help me God.
So today, let's just for a moment study
the Bible about these false preachers or these
false prophets.
What does the Bible say?
Well, there's other portions of Scripture that we
could look at, but let me give you
number one, what I call the definition of
a false prophet.
The definition of a false prophet or a
false preacher.
You ready for this?
It's real simple.
They're false.
They're phony baloney.
They're hypocrites.
They do not mean what they teach.
The Bible says with feigned words, masked words,
they preach or they speak, they pray and
they bless, if you will, out of both
sides of their mouth.
They can curse God.
They can praise God.
They can curse man.
They can praise man.
They say they're looking for money.
Then they say that God's taking care of
all their financial bills.
Ladies and gentlemen, you hear me.
False prophets, the reason they are so hard
to detect is because they always, always, always
court the truth.
For some amount of time, they tell the
truth.
For some amount of time, they preach the
Bible.
For some amount of time, it seems like
they're telling the truth and it seems like
everything's going well and it seems like they've
got God on their side and it seems
like they're holding hands with the Bible, but
then they begin to deviate.
Then they begin to delineate from the narrow
paths of the Scripture, from the narrow paths
of the prophetic Word of God.
And they begin to talk about money.
Then they begin to talk about dreams and
visions and tongues and signs and wonders.
And then they talk about extra-biblical revelation.
You know, let's take for a moment way
back years ago Mr. Jim Jones.
Jim Jones had all of those hundreds and
hundreds of people, 800 and some odd people
I believe, perhaps 900, all laid face down.
They all drank the Kool-Aid.
The black, the white, the yellow, the red.
All the tall, the short, the fat, the
skinny, the bald-headed, the hairy-headed.
The men, the women, the boys and girls,
every one of them, they drank the Kool
-Aid and they lay down on their face.
Why?
Because here was a slick-willed preacher who
was a man that got up and wore
sunglasses and made blood come out of his
hands sometime and said he was the Son
of God.
Here was a man that began by courting
the truth.
He got the people hooked because people want
truth no matter what the world tells them.
And they began to hear a little truth
mixed with a lot of lie and then
it began to get perverted and perverted and
they were sucked in by a false prophet.
What about David Koresh?
He taught all those 12 and 13 and
14 and 15, 16 year old girls that
he was Almighty God.
He laid with those girls and those girls
were impregnated by him and had his children.
He had all of those wives and all
those people in Waco, or Wacko, Texas as
they call it.
They're in that big confine of that place
and the FBI came in began to bomb
them and blow them out.
It doesn't matter if we agree with how
they did it or not.
The point is, here's a man that had
some truth.
He mixed it with a whole lot of
error and those people began to follow.
And the television and the radio are full
of these false preachers.
They have the truth for a little while.
They begin to deviate.
They begin to delineate.
And the Bible says that there shall be
without a shadow of a doubt, without a
blink of an eye, dogmatically, unapologetically, there shall
be, he said, false preachers, false teachers, false
prophets among the people.
And the Bible says, who privately, privately or
privily or very sneakily, they don't do it
out in the open.
They don't say, oh, I am a false
prophet.
No, they come under the cloak of righteousness.
They come under the cloak of righteousness on
television and they tend to do this, that,
and the other.
And little old ladies and little old men
that don't know any better, they send their
tithes and they send their offerings and they
send their money to these people because they
think they're telling the truth, but they're swallowing
a big fat bass hook of a lie,
hook, line, and sinker.
And the Bible says that they shall bring
in privately these damnable heresies.
So we see the definition of a false
prophet is that they simply court the truth.
They begin with the truth here.
That's how you have courts.
They have a little truth and a lot
of lie.
And the lie always negates and nullifies the
truth.
And so that's their definition.
They talk about the truth, but they twist
it.
They pervert it.
They turn it around and make it to
their own gain.
And God said, that's wicked and they will
be judged for that.
I'll show you that in just a moment.
But I don't want to dwell on the
definition.
I want to dwell on what I call
also the doctrines of false preachers.
He says that they shall privately or sneakily
shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the
Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves
swift destruction.
And many...
Did you get that?
It didn't say 15 people or 1,500
people, not even 15,000.
It said many shall follow their pernicious, their
crooked, their lascivious ways by reason of whom...
We're talking about these false prophets.
By reason of whom the way of truth
shall be evil spoken of.
You hear so many people, they say, well,
all them preachers on TV are crooked.
Well, not all of them are, but a
lot of them are.
All those preachers on the radio are crooked.
Well, not all of them are, but a
lot of them are.
And they say, well, all they're ever after
is money.
All they're ever after is fame and fortune
and family and pat on the back.
And they want to be featured here and
featured there.
And they want their paper face in the
newspaper.
And they want to fill up football stadiums
and preach to people.
And I tell you, sometimes because of these
false prophets and because of these people that
have fallen and have made on national television
like Jimmy Swaggard and like the rest of
this crowd, they get up there, the PTL
Club and the TVN and we get all
of this publicity.
And then the way of truth is evil
spoken of because these false lying prophets have
caused people to look at the Bible and
say, you know, it's nothing but a book
of fairy tales and those people cannot even
keep their noses straight.
And God forbid if I should ever fall,
I could fall just like anybody else at
any moment, but I'm telling you folks, we
need to hang tenaciously and boldly, dogmatically to
the truths of the Word of God.
Because these false preachers, these false prophets, and
these false teachers cause the way of salvation
and the way of righteousness and fundamental Bible
-believing Christianity, it causes that to be evil
spoken of.
And their doctrines are always perverted.
Their doctrines are always crooked.
They claim to have extra-biblical revelation.
You mark her down and mark her down
well.
Anything extra-biblical, bless God, is not biblical
at all.
God said He would speak to us in
one place and that's through the pages of
His Word.
He never said He'd speak to us through
visions or dreams or signs or wonders in
the heavens or tongues.
The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 13 that
prophecies fail, that tongues shall cease, that knowledge
shall vanish away until that which whole shall
do away with that which is in part.
What's He talking about?
These people in the New Testament time only
had some of the Word of God, so
God spoke through visions.
They only had some of the Word of
God, so God spoke through dreams.
They only had some of the Word of
God, so God spoke through these audible tongues,
these languages.
Not a bunch of gibberish, but now we
have the completed canon.
We have Genesis 1-1 to Revelation 22
-21.
The perfect, infallible, preserved Word of Almighty God.
And we no longer need visions.
We no longer need dreams.
We no longer need signs and wonders in
the earth, the universe, or the heavens above.
Because God speaks through one place and that's
through the pages of the Word of God.
That is why Jesus said to His disciples,
the Spirit of God shall lead you into
all the truth.
And so they talk about these extra-biblical
doctrines.
I don't want to make anybody mad, but
just say for a moment, let's talk about
Mr. Oral Roberts.
Back in the 80's, Mr. Oral Roberts was
going to start that university and start that
hospital.
And by the way, it's kind of funny
to me, a man that's supposed to be
able to heal everybody in the world has
a hospital, okay?
Hospitals full of sick people, not healed people,
but you put two and two together and
it won't take you long to figure out
he's a phony baloney if I've ever seen
one.
But anyhow, Mr. Oral Roberts got on national
television and he said last night, a 90
-foot Jesus appeared to me in my bedroom.
I'd like to know how a 90-foot
Jesus appeared in a bedroom that probably wasn't
any higher than 8 1⁄2 to 10 feet
tall, but anyhow, nonetheless.
He said a 90-foot Jesus appeared in
my bedroom and told me, Oral Roberts, you
must go out and raise $1,000,000
and if you do not, I'm going to
kill you.
You know what?
Naive Christians, naive people around the world and
all throughout America send him that money and
he did raise the $1,000,000, but
you know what?
If I'd have been God, I'd have killed
him for lying.
You know good and jolly well a 90
-foot Jesus did not appear to Oral Roberts
and say, come and bring me $1,000
,000.
God's message is not $1,000,000.
He owns a cattle and a thousand hills.
God's message is the death, the burial, the
resurrection of Jesus Christ.
God's message is preach the Word, be instant
in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke of
all longsuffering and doctrine for the time will
come.
2 Timothy 4.3 For the time will
come when they will not endure sound doctrine,
but heap to themselves teachers having itching ears
and shall turn their hearts away from the
truth and shall be turned into what?
Into fables.
And seeing a 90-foot Jesus in your
bedroom was nothing more than a fictitious fable
that was fabricated from the lips of a
false prophet.
Ladies and gentlemen, they always have some type
of extra-biblical revelation.
Mr. Rodney Howard Brown, he's the fellow that
started this laughing revival and it's something to
laugh at, that's for sure, but I promise
you God and His holy throne is not
laughing.
They shimmy up tent poles and run around,
kick up sawdust, swing from the chandeliers.
He tells a bunch of ballroom slutty jokes
and gets up and everybody laughs and everybody
falls around and they say that's revival.
That's not revival.
They say, brother Lot, don't be so hard
on that because they're slain in the Spirit.
They may be slain in the Spirit, but
it's not the Spirit of Almighty God and
somebody better say amen.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're living in a day
of falsehood.
We're living in a day of phony baloneyism.
We're living in a day of false preachers
and false teachers and false prophets and people
that are hypocrites.
And this Rodney Howard Brown, you know what
he said?
He said one night he had a dream.
And as he had that dream, Mr. Billy
Graham, Dr. Billy Graham, met him and told
him to go to New York City and
to rent out that great big Madison Square
Garden.
I'm going to tell you something, ladies and
gentlemen.
Billy Graham did not meet him in his
dream and tell him to rent out the
Madison Square Garden.
I don't care what he or anybody else
says because the Apostle Paul said if an
angel from God, if an angel from Heaven,
if you will, come and preach another gospel,
let him be anathema.
Let him be accursed.
He literally said if they come and preach
another gospel, they're not even from God.
They've never been saved by the grace of
God.
And these false prophets have all of these
doctrines.
There's another man by the name of John
Arnett.
Perhaps you've read his name in the newspapers.
A very famous man.
He's the pastor of the Toronto Airport Church
in Toronto, Canada where all this laughing mess
and all this laughing business began to take
place.
And I realize, ladies and gentlemen, I'm being
a little dogmatic today, but I'm not trying
to be facetious and I'm not trying to
be funny.
I want you to know there's false prophets.
God knows my heart and we don't need
any of them and I do not want
to be one.
God knows my heart and I do not.
I want to stand on the pages of
the Word of God.
But John Arnett, Greg Locke didn't make this
up.
John Arnett said himself when he got in
his pulpit, the Spirit of God would come
upon his congregation and the fillings in the
teeth of his members.
You know the things you go to the
doctor, put Novocain in your mouth, whatever it
is, numb you up real good, you're all
gassed up for a while.
Woo!
That kind of a deal.
Well, he said that the fillings in his
members' teeth while he was preaching the Bible
as the Spirit of God moved upon those
people and began to brood in that service
that not only did oil drip from the
ceiling sounding to me like he had a
leaky roof and needed to fix it, he
said, but not only did oil drip from
the ceiling, he said that the teeth, the
fillings in his people's teeth turned to 14
carat gold.
Now, ladies and gentlemen over the radio waves,
can I be tacky for just about two
and a half seconds?
If you expect me to believe that, you're
dumb as a box of rocks.
Now, friend, I was born at night, but
bless God, it wasn't last night.
I didn't fall off the Mater truck yesterday.
No teeth turned to gold.
Fillings did not turn to gold for God
does not work that way.
That's ridiculous.
That's silly.
And these guys get up on TV and
millions and millions of people fly to them.
Millions of dollars and billions of dollars fly
to them while they drive their Mercedes Benzes
and while they drive their Lexuses and while
they move around in these $15 million homes
and while they make up these big things
like they're poor and they have no money
whatsoever.
They're making merchandise, the Bible says.
And that's all that they're after.
And they're quoting the truth, but yet they
have falsehood in their lips and God said,
you better be weary of these people.
I think of Mr. Benny Hinn.
Benny Hinn is probably one of the most
well-known charismatic Pentecostal evangelists of the day,
but Benny Hinn is crooked if I've ever
seen one.
I remember I was in Terre Haute, Indiana
in a revival meeting at the Trinity Independent
Church just across town.
I say across town, probably 70 or 75
miles away in Indianapolis.
Mr. Benny Hinn's crusade came to town and
my meeting was going through Wednesday night and
I wanted to go to a Benny Hinn
crusade on Thursday night just to prove that
he was crooked.
My wife wouldn't let me go.
She said, Greg, you'll wind up in jail
for sure.
I'd just stand up and like to preach
the Bible.
But anyhow, he came there and there was
a family in that church who had a
daughter that had cerebral palsy and by the
way, she still does.
They got mad and left the church because
the preacher preached a message against all of
this contemporary stuff about healing and this, that,
and the other.
By the way, I believe in divine healing.
I believe God can heal from cancer.
I believe God can raise up from the
deathbed of affliction.
I believe in divine healing, but I do
not believe in divine healers.
I don't think there's somebody that's got a
monopoly on God.
God's not going to reveal anything to me
that He won't reveal to you.
And God's not going to reveal anything to
you that He won't reveal to me.
That's why we have the pages of the
Word of God.
Well, they got mad and they left this
good Bible-preaching church.
They called down there.
He at least said, would you call?
They called down to the crusade headquarters that
was going to be out of Indianapolis.
They said, can our daughter who has cerebral
palsy I'll call her name Jessica.
That was not.
But can our daughter Jessica have prayer from
Benny Hinn and be healed by the grace
of God?
You know what they said?
Gospel truth.
Don't believe me?
Call them yourself and you'll find out how
phony baloney they are.
They called down there and they said, she
can be healed by Benny Hinn, be hit
in the head, spit on, have a little
hanky-danky, whatever it is, but just to
get in line.
Did you hear me?
Not even to take the steps up the
platform.
Not even to get on the platform.
Not even to be healed.
Just to stand in line would cost 155
some odd dollars and it had to be
paid by your major credit card over the
telephone line.
And I say, ladies and gentlemen, that man
is crooked because you don't buy the Gospel.
You don't buy healing.
You don't buy health.
You throw yourself in the mercy and grace
of God and God will heal you.
God will help you.
God will take care of your every need
and God is the one that does the
saving.
Not Benny Hinn.
Not T.D. Jakes.
Not Rod Parsley.
Not Sun Yung Moon.
Not Oral Roberts.
Not Peter Popov.
Not David Koresh.
Jim Jones.
Not the TVN crowd.
None of those.
It is God that does the saving and
these people have doctrines that are false.
They have doctrines that are not in the
Word of God.
They have doctrines that are corrupt and they
have doctrines that are crooked and that brings
me to what I call the dollar signs
of false preachers.
What is their main motivation?
Well, the Bible tells us in verse 3,
and through covetousness, wanting more, the Bible says
the love of money is the root of
all evil, which while some coveted after, they
have erred from the faith and pierced themselves
through with many sorrows.
Verse 3, and through covetousness, they shall with
feigned words make merchandise of you.
You know what that means?
That means you are their money supply.
That means I am their money supply.
To them, we are not souls.
To them, we are not people.
To them, we are a source of more
income.
And ladies and gentlemen, if these people were
really right, if these people were really holy,
if they were really godly, and God knows
my heart, it breaks my heart to see
these people on TV lead millions of people
astray and lead them to hell.
It breaks my heart.
But you know what?
If these people were true, they'd preach the
Bible.
They wouldn't get up there and beg and
plead for your money.
Oh yes, we do need offerings.
Yes, it does take tithes and offerings to
run a local church.
Yes, we do need support.
Yes, the radio is expensive.
And yes, television is even more expensive.
And yes, we need money to run the
work of God.
But preachers don't always have to get up
and beg and hound for money because I'm
telling you, God can supply our needs.
And these fellows get up on TV and
they have dollar signs in their eyes.
They have sugar plums dancing in their head
as we teach the kids around Christmas.
And they're thinking about green.
And they're thinking about money.
And they're thinking about dough.
And they're thinking about more.
And they could give a flying flip for
the souls of men that let the whole
world rot and die and go to hell
as long as they can have themselves a
cattle ranch.
As long as they can have themselves a
Rolex watch.
As long as they can have more money
and more pride and more pomp and more
people.
And I'm telling you, some of those people
live crooked lives.
I watched a thing not long ago on
the television.
They had some of these guys who were
getting all these prayer requests.
You know what they did?
All they did was pull out the money.
They went right to the back.
They took the cameras there.
I believe it was 20, 20 or 60
minutes.
They took the cameras right to the back.
They showed the garbage can.
None of those letters had even been written.
Tears had not been prayed over those people.
They had been lying about all the things
that they had said.
And I'm telling you, all they did was
pull out the money and throw the rest
away.
They're not interested in you.
They're interested in me.
And let me say, they're not interested in
God.
They're interested in money.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think it's time somebody
gets the whistle.
Blow the whistle on these wolves in sheep
clothing.
Blow the whistle on these people that get
up on national television and beg and beg
and plead for money.
The Bible says they make merchandise of you.
All they want is your money.
They're not concerned about your prayers because they're
not going to pray for you.
They want your money.
And Jesus preached against these people, these scribes
and Pharisees, these hypocrites.
He told these people that you're just sepulchres,
sepulchres full of dead men's bones.
He's preaching to religious people, but yet they
were money hungry.
They were money grabbers and He began to
preach to them.
I will not too long go a letter
to a fellow by the name of Peter
Popoff.
He's an evangelist.
Some of you have heard about him.
He comes on late at night.
I was one night sitting in a hotel
room.
Didn't have anything better to do.
Couldn't fall asleep.
Prayed for a little while.
Read my Bible.
Got ready to go to sleep.
Said I'll turn the TV on.
There was Peter Popoff.
He's a heretic if I've ever heard one.
He'd speak one thing out of one side
of his mouth, another thing out of the
other side of his mouth, and he was
giving away miracle spring water.
So they said, one 800 number, you can
call.
I wish I never would have called.
They send me more junk than my secretary
can handle.
But anyhow, I pulled up there and I
talked to one of the secretaries and I
said, ma'am, this is no representation of
you.
And I said, I mean to be kind,
but why don't you tell me in the
Bible where it talks about miracle spring water?
I said, why don't you tell me in
the Bible where it talks about me writing
to Peter Popoff's ministry and if I send
him so much money, he'll send me a
hanky-danky prayer call and I can put
it on my infirmities and it will be
healed.
I said, why don't you tell me in
the Bible where it talks about getting a
little bit of miracle oil sprinkled on my
head and I'll be a rich man?
I said, it's not in the Bible.
And she said, well, I don't actually work
for the ministry.
I'm just a staffing agency, just a representation
of the ministry, but we can send you
some stuff and I wish I never would
have ordered it because they send me stuff
all of the time.
And ladies and gentlemen, I listened to that
man and I thought, you know what?
I'll try to be as nice as I
can when I say this, but I figured
out why his mama named him Peter Popoff
because every time he gets on the television,
all he does is pop off at the
lip and pop off at the mouth and
lies about this and lies about that.
And there's all of these false prophets and
false teachers on TV.
They make legs grow longer and they raise
the dead and they cause fingers to grow
back and they heal people of cancer and
AIDS and leprosy and everybody gets all up
and up in the motion and they fall
to the ground and bark like dogs and
shimmy and shake and they laugh and they
go home and their life is not changed.
The disease is still in their body and
many of them are still as loft as
a ball in high weeds and I'm telling
you, all they're interested in is dollar signs.
They make merchandise of you.
Now, I don't want you to know some
of what you're thinking today.
Boy, Brother Locke sure is being awfully mean
and cantankerous.
Sounds like he's bitter and rude against these
people on the Windows of Heaven broadcast, but
if you think that's bad, I want to
tell you what God thinks about them in
verse number 3.
It says, They'll make merchandise of you whose
judgment...
Did you hear that?
We're talking about false preachers.
...whose judgment now of a long time lingereth
not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
We've seen the definition.
We've seen their doctrines.
We've seen their names But now I give
you what I call in closing, the damnation
of false preachers, prophets, or teachers.
God said right now it looks like they're
getting away with it.
God said right now it looks like everything
as my little brother says, hunky-dory in
the kingdom.
Looks like everything's fine.
Looks like they've got a lot of money.
Looks like they've got a lot of following
and they've got TV and radio programs and
then they've got T-shirts and ball caps
and they're filling up stadiums and it looks
like everything is fine, but God said their
damnation slumbereth not.
There will come a reckoning day when they
stand before God and these people look God
in the face and He said, You lied
about me.
You were crooked.
You told these people lies.
You were false.
You were a false prophet.
And God said their damnation slumbereth not.
Then He says in verse 4, If God
spared not the angels that sinned, but cast
them down to hell and delivered them into
the chains of darkness to be reserved unto
judgment and spared not the old world, but
saved Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of
righteousness, bringing the flood upon the world of
the ungodly and turning the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an
overthrow, making them an example unto those that
after should live ungodly.
You know what He just did?
He referred to these false prophets in the
same context as He did Sodomites, as He
did demons, and as He did the wicked,
depraved world before it was destroyed in Genesis
6, verses 10, 11, and 12.
And He said these people's damnation slumbereth not.
And I say, ladies and gentlemen, as compassionate
as I can, God, give us the truth.
God, give us preachers on TV who will
tell the truth.
God, give us preachers on the radio who
will tell the truth.
But more than that, if the TVs are
turned off and if all the radio antennas
are busted around the world, God, give us
some preachers in the pulpit who will tell
the truth far and wide, far and near,
on every corner of the face of God's
great earth.
They'll get in the pulpit and they'll preach
the Bible gun-barrel straight.
And ladies and gentlemen, I think it's time
that somebody stands up and tattle tales on
the truth, listeners.
I remember as a little kid in school,
I'd do something and one of them little
kids would turn up there and they'd start
telling, and my teacher would say, now don't
be a tattle-taler.
Don't be a tattle-taler.
And tattle-talers all the time are getting
that rap that they're just kind of looking
for trouble and they're kind of nuisances.
Well, I think every now and then, friend,
we need to look for trouble.
We need to look for the old trouble
of the devil.
We need to hit it head on straight
by the glory of God and say we're
not going to put up with falsehood.
We're not going to put up with lies.
We're not going to put up with deception.
And every now and then, God needs some
tattle-talers.
So people who will get in the pulpit,
so people who will open their Bible, open
their hearts, open their mouth and say thus
saith the Lord, because if there's anything America
needs, it is thus saith the Lord.
It is not thus saith the Baptist.
It is not thus saith southern gospel music.
It is not thus saith sacred music.
It is not thus saith the Catholics.
Not thus saith this preacher.
Not thus saith the priest.
It is thus saith the Lord.
And we need the truths of the Word
of God to be propounded and to be
preached on and to be heralded out.
And if there's everything that we need today,
we need not false preachers, but true preachers.
We don't need unrighteous preachers.
We need righteous preachers.
And God pity the man who lives a
shallow life, but preaches a deep gospel.
I'm telling you, if you preach it straight,
you better live it straight.
If you preach holiness, you better live holiness.
And ladies and gentlemen, what we need to
do is stand up and let people know
that there's false prophets everywhere and God's people
aren't going to stand for it because what
we want is the truth of the Word
of God.
And I hope today you've been enlightened to
the fact that all around us, there's money
-hungry, money-grabbing, non-compassionate-in-their-heart
preachers who are interested in one thing and
that's their own gain.
They're not interested in the gain of God.
They're not interested in the gospel message or
else they would preach it.
They're not interested in your soul.
They're interested in getting more people so they
can have more money.
But God, give us people who love the
truth.
Lord, bless this broadcast wherever it may go.
Lord, I know we've been hard today, but
I prayed to Your Father that we would
desire the truth.
You would put a passion in our bosom
to want to have the Word of God
open to our hearts that we might truly
know what is the truth of Thy Word.
And we'll thank You for what You'll do
and say in Jesus' name, Amen.