I'm very grateful to the dear Lord Jesus
for this privilege of being in your pulpit
and to worship him together with you.
I thank very much our dear brother John
Speed and his good friend and brother Tim
Crawford, there you are, I'm coming right, for
allowing me to come to this part of
your country and I'm very grateful for this
meeting's last evening where I was able to
preach one sermon broken up into two and
I'd long for every one of you, if
God would put it on your heart, to
try and get that video or DVD, whatever
you would name it here.
Those of you that were not here, but
God bless you and thank you good brothers
for allowing me to be here with you.
And also there's some young people that kept
us rather late last night, Ryan Ringnold, Sean
Morris, Jake Gardner, all these fellows who love
the King James Bible and we sat there
last night and I just sense your integrity
and zeal for Christ and I'm sure heaven
was standing still at some of the statements
you made last night in your love for
Christ.
And I'm very grateful for the honor of
having sat with those young people last evening
after the service.
Also I see quite a lot of folks
put their names down for the newsletter that
my wife, well different people in your continent
send it out.
If you don't want to receive a newsletter
to pray for this old man in Africa,
then just take a copy, they made photocopies
as best as they could of this program
in America.
It's the 32nd time I've toured your country
and sometimes to many great auditoriums, sometimes to
small.
It doesn't matter so long as it's God's
itinerary.
And over the last 32 tours of 10
week tours of your country, God has helped
me to have the privilege, normally in very
deeply conservative pulpits across this whole land.
And I am deeply grateful for that privilege.
Also I see my wife's book, one of
the books is in the back there.
They must have sent it ahead, I only
saw it after the meeting so thank you
for putting it out there.
I don't know how you work in your
country but on Sundays, the conservative Christians, we
don't do any trading with money at all
because you've got six days to do that.
But from what I gather it's something of
a donation of whatever you feel.
Even if you haven't got money and you're
starving, please take it for nothing.
But there's a table there with my wife
Jenny's book.
It has been used in a remarkable way
to bring many multitudes of people to know
Christ and many preachers in the world who've
sent these emails and phone calls of how
God met with them in a way they've
never ever experienced through one of the poems
that's been put in their hands.
It is broken before God and found vital
reality, some for the first time in their
lives.
So that poetry book of hers has been
honored in a lovely way.
And I see there's a few copies back
there on some table of my darling wife.
And if you'd like to see why I'm
such a very blessed and happy man, just
go and see the photograph on that poetry
book of hers and you'll know how wealthy
I am.
Well, God bless every one of you for
being here.
I am deeply grateful.
I'm putting that on to know when to
stop.
Can we bow before God?
There is a baby's room, I believe, with
every bit of equipment to make you comfortable
and not to disturb God's word to others.
To those who perhaps don't know of that,
I'm very scared not to offend, but scared
that anyone might not be able to concentrate
who came here this morning.
So, our Father, we bless Thee for the
mercy of God upon sinners.
We bless Thee for the grace and mercy
upon every one of us who deserve eternal
damnation.
Apart from our Lord Jesus Christ's great sacrifice,
there's none of us that would be able
to have hope of eternal life.
We praise Thee above everything for Christ, for
His love to all men, for He tasted
death for every man.
He faced death for every man.
How we love Thee for our Savior and
those of us who have been washed in
the blood of God, God the Son, in
whom God the Holy Spirit dwells.
For He that hath not the Spirit of
Christ is none of Him.
To every one of us who, as newborn
babes, have desired, devoured the milk of the
Word, to be renewed day by day to
enable us to walk with God and not
to bring blaspheme on God's name by daring
to say, We're saved if we're not kept
by the power of God through faith that
cometh by the Word alone, to the degree
we soak ourselves in it.
To all of us who were washed in
the blood, we come and offer Thee praise
and adoration and gratitude.
We ask Thee to visit us now.
Wash me in mercy in the blood of
Jesus Christ.
Fill me with the Holy Spirit.
Anoint my mind and my lips and every
faculty of my being.
I suppose the greatest fear I have on
earth is to be in the pulpit without
God.
There's nothing more dangerous on earth in history
than a man in the pulpit before men
with a Bible in his hand, alone, without
God.
Have mercy, please.
And because of the blood, wash me clean,
that I might be a vessel of meat
for the Master's use.
And visit us now through Thy Holy Word.
Even the hardest heart break completely forever today
through Thy Word.
Protect us from our only enemy, Satan, and
all the demons, a third of the angels
of heaven who were swept with his tail
as he was cast down.
All who rebelled against Thee who are now
desperate demons, protect us from all the powers
of darkness that follow and serve Satan.
And visit us.
Visit us now in Jesus, the Christ's, Holy
Name.
And for His glory alone.
And don't let Satan use any one of
us, even if it was a cell phone,
to break down God's work now.
For Christ's sake, Amen.
Please don't follow me in your Bibles, because
it's a few hundred verses I'm quoting.
And I don't want pages ruffling.
Trust me, I'm not taking anything out of
its context.
Psalm 73, verse 3.
I was envious at the foolish.
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.
Job 21, verse 13.
They spend their days in wealth.
And in a moment go down to the
grave.
They live their lives in luxury and wealth.
And without any prolonged sickness and suffering, 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.
Depart from us, for we desire not the
knowledge.
We desire not the knowledge of Thy ways.
What is the Almighty, that we should serve
Him?
In what profit should we have that we
should pray unto Him?
In Proverbs 30, verse 8.
A godly and wise man earnestly but 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?
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 and beware of covetousness.
Take heed and beware of covetousness.
For 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 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.
I will pull down my barns and build
greater.
I will pull down my barns and build
greater.
And there will I bestow all my fruits
and all my goods.
And I will say to my soul, So
thou hast much goods laid up for many
years.
Take thine ease.
Eat, drink, and be merry.
But God said unto him, 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 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, he shall carry nothing
away.
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 and fared sumptuously
every day.
He lived in luxury every day.
There was a certain beggar named Lazarus which
was laid at his gate full of sores
desiring to be fed with the crumbs which
fell from the rich man's table.
Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores.
And it came to pass that the beggar
died and 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, 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, have
mercy on me for I am tormented in
this flame.
Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send
Lazarus, send Lazarus, send Lazarus that he may
dip the tip of his finger in water
and cool my tongue for I am tormented,
I am tormented in this flame.
But Abraham said, Son, remember
that thou in thy lifetime receiveth thy good
things and likewise Lazarus evil things.
But now he is comforted and thou art
tormented.
And beside all this between us and you
there is a great gulf fixed so that
they which would pass from hence to you
cannot, so that they which would pass from
hence to you cannot.
Neither can they pass to us that would
come from thence.
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, Father,
I pray thee therefore, Father, that thou wouldst
send him to my father's house for I
have five brethren, I have five brothers that
he may testify unto them as they also
come into this place of torment.
Abraham saith unto him, 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, 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
will hear Christ's cry, the words recorded in
Matthew 25 verse 41.
Oh, how many on the day of judgment
will hear Christ's cry, the words recorded in
Matthew 25 verse 41.
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 meat.
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 and in prison and ye visited me
not.
Then shall they also answer him saying, Then
shall they also answer him saying, Lord, when
saw we Thee an hungred?
When saw we Thee an hungred?
Or 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 for one of the least of these,
ye did it not to me.
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.
But the righteous into life eternal.
The righteous into life eternal.
James 5 verse 1, Go to now ye
rich men.
Weep and howl for your miseries that shall
come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted.
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, when He was gone forth into
the way, there came one running, there came
one running and kneeled to Him, kneeled to
Him and asked Him, Good Master, 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, why callest
thou me good?
There is none good but one that is
God, God.
Thou knowest the commandments.
Do not commit adultery.
Do not kill.
Do not steal.
Do not bear false witness.
Defraud not.
Honor thy father and mother.
And he answered and said unto Him, Master,
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, 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, come, come, take up the cross
and follow me.
Come, take up the cross and follow me.
And he, he was sad at that saying,
he was sad at that saying and went
away grieved for he had great possessions.
And Jesus looked round about and saith unto
his disciples, How hardly shall they that have
riches enter into the kingdom of God.
How hardly shall they that have riches enter
into the kingdom of God.
And the disciples were astonished.
The disciples were astonished at his words.
But Jesus answereth again and saith, Children, 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 than for
a rich man to enter into the kingdom
of God.
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.
And they were astonished out of measure saying
among themselves, Who then can be saved?
And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men
it is impossible, but not with God.
For with God all things are possible.
All things are possible.
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 yourselves treasures in heaven.
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
Where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and
where thieves do not break through nor steal.
For where your treasure is there will your
heart be.
Also where your treasure is there will your
heart be.
Also the light of the body 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.
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 be materialistic.
Nor many preachers today say you can.
How many mega churches get their mega audiences
by preaching you can.
We call them prosperity preachers.
God warns us of such damnable heresies.
In 1 Timothy 6 verse 5 God says
He speaks to us and He warns us
of men destitute of the truth.
Destitute of the truth.
Supposing that gain is godliness.
That if you're right with God that you
will prosper if you get right with God.
You will prosper financially if you get right
with God.
Men destitute of the truth.
Supposing, that literally means teaching, preaching Supposing that
gain is godliness.
You'll prosper when you're right with God.
Come to God.
You'll prosper.
No wonder they fill their pews.
People want to get rich so they come
to God.
You can't come to God to get rich.
You come to God because He said there's
blood for you.
And no matter what you face from that
day to the day you die.
It doesn't matter.
All you do is know you're damned for
eternity for rejecting or playing the fool or
being light concerning the sacrifice He made for
you.
You come to God with no pre-conditioned
ideas.
Don't you preach such hellbound heresies.
Men destitute of the truth.
Supposing, preaching that teaching that gain is godliness.
From such withdraw thyself.
I wish I could go and nail that
across all the doorways of the megachurches of
called prosperity preaching.
From such withdraw thyself God says.
But godliness.
Godliness with contentment is great gain.
Great gain.
Godliness with contentment is great gain for we
brought nothing into this world and it is
certain we can carry nothing out.
And having food and raiment let us therewith
be content.
Having food and raiment, clothes, let us therewith
be content.
But they that will be rich they that
will be rich fall into temptation and a
snare.
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 while some coveted
after they have erred from the faith and
pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
While some coveted after they have erred from
the faith and pierced themselves through with many
sorrows.
But thou, O man of God 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 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 James
chapter 2 verse 1 My brethren have not
the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the
Lord of glory My brethren 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 and goodly apparel and there cometh 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 parceling yourselves
and become judges of evil thoughts hearken my
beloved brethren 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 seats do not they blaspheme
that worthy name by the which ye are
called if ye fulfill 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 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 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 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 and mercy rejoices against
judgment what doth it profit my brethren what
doth it profit my brethren no man say
he hath faith and hath not works can
faith save him if a brother or sister
be naked and destitute of daily food and
one of you saying to them depart in
peace be ye warm and filled notwithstanding ye
give them not those thing that are needful
to the body what doth it profit even
so faith if it hath not works is
dead worthless in God's eyes is dead be
alone 1 John 3 verse 17 but whoso
hath this world's good and seeth his brother
have need and shutteth up his bowels of
compassion from him 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 words
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
for if our heart condemn us if our
hearts condemn us right now under this God's
Word.
If our hearts condemn us, God is greater
than our hearts.
God is greater than our heart and knoweth
knoweth all things.
Proverbs 14 verse 31.
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his maker.
If you think of all these verses strewn
throughout the Bible, and I'm just touching on
the surface of them, if you just think
of all we've considered that God said, he
that oppresses the poor reproacheth his maker.
But he that honoreth him, he that honoreth
him hath mercy on the poor.
He that oppresses the poor reproacheth 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 whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry
of the poor, he also shall cry himself,
but shall not be heard.
God promises, for God lies.
But whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry
of the poor, he also shall cry himself,
but shall not be heard.
Proverbs 21 verse 13.
Proverbs 28 verse 27.
He that giveth unto the poor shall not
lack, shall not lack.
But he that hideth his eyes shall have
many a curse.
God promises.
God's Word promises.
He that giveth unto the poor shall not
lack, God promises.
But he that hideth his eyes shall have
many a curse.
Proverbs 11 verse 25.
The liberal soul shall be made fat.
The generous soul shall be made rich, God
says.
And he that watereth shall be watered also
himself, God promises.
The generous soul shall be made rich, and
he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs 19 verse 17.
He that hath pity upon the poor, lendeth
to the Lord, and that which he has
given will he pay him again.
He that hath pity upon the poor, lendeth
to the Lord, and that which he hath
given will he pay him again.
Oh 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.
Job 29 verse 12.
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, 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, and feet
was I to the lame.
I was eyes to the blind, and 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?
Did not I weep for him that was
in trouble?
Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Beloved, God demands integrity.
God demands integrity in all our dealings with
money.
God demands integrity in all our dealings with
money.
Proverbs 19 verse 1.
Better is the poor that walketh in his
integrity than he that is perverse in his
lips and is a fool.
Better is the poor that walketh in his
integrity than he that is perverse in his
lips and is a fool.
Proverbs 16 verse 8.
Better is a little with righteousness than great
revenues without right.
Better is 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 and
trouble therewith.
And go to most people on earth with
great treasures to see what God's speaking about,
especially the way they got it and the
consequences.
God demands integrity in all our dealings with
money.
Beloved, God demands integrity with government taxes.
God demands integrity with government taxes.
Matthew 22 verse 17.
Is it lawful, is it lawful to give
tribute unto Caesar or not?
The hypocrites, the hypocrites demanded of Christ.
Is it right to give taxes to those
who govern over us even though they're godless
or not?
Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar
or not?
And Jesus answered in verse 21.
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.
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 might get into trouble
with the government if you don't pay taxes,
but also for conscience sake.
For for this cause pay ye tribute also.
For conscience sake, if you're saved, if you
carry the name of Christ.
For for this cause pay ye tribute also,
taxes also.
Render therefore, give, render therefore to all their
Jews.
Tribute to tribute, tax to the tax collector.
Render therefore to all their Jews.
Tribute to tribute, custom to custom.
Verse 8.
Owe no man anything.
Are you living in total defiance of Christ
without blinking an eyelid, or going to sleep
in the night without even asking forgiveness?
Owe no man anything.
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.
Give to the tax people, the moment you're
able to.
Make sure you're able to.
Just have a few less pairs of shoes,
and how many other thousand things you could
write down right now that you don't need
to have God's testimony.
Render therefore to all their Jews.
Tribute to tribute, tax to the tax collector,
custom to custom.
Owe no man anything.
Verse 8.
Beloved, God demands, demands holiness and integrity in
all our dealings with money, if we name
the name of Christ, or stop naming the
name of Christ.
From today, sir, God demands integrity in all
our dealings with money.
God demands integrity with government taxes, if you
name the name of Christ as your Savior.
God demands integrity in stewardship, or in any
dealings with finances within the church, or God's
service.
God demands integrity in stewardship.
2 Kings 12 verse 15.
Moreover, they reckoned not with the men, they
reckoned not with the men into whose hand
they delivered the money, to be bestowed on
workmen, for they dealt faithfully.
They reckoned not, they required no accountancy, no
accounting.
They reckoned not with the men into whose
hand they delivered the money, to be bestowed
on workmen, for they dealt faithfully.
That's a testimony.
No one would even think of asking for
accountability of what you've done with it, if
they've chosen you to handle money in God's
service or God's name.
Otherwise, don't trust a man, if you think
the possibility is there.
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, avoiding this, that no man should
blame us in this abundance which is administered
by us, that no one in this world
will touch us of anything, or even suspect
us, the way we are so open-handed,
with every single cent entrusted to us, if
we are stewards.
Those who handle the finances in God's service
have brought such shame on God's name throughout
the evangelical church, as they go to prison
from their leaders, down in the front pages
of the newspaper, that I wonder how many
millions of souls have gone to hell because
of that alone.
The lack of integrity, or truth of testimony,
that no one could want that religion.
Not even someone in sin would say, that's
integrity, or that religion has anything for me.
That no man should blame us, accuse us,
as they do in church upon church, denomination
upon denomination.
What kills me is it's always the top
man.
Oh beloved, God demands integrity, holiness, integrity in
all our dealings with money, if we name
the name of Christ.
God demands integrity in government taxes, with government
taxes.
God demands integrity in stewardship, or in any
dealings with finances within the church, or God's
service.
God demands integrity, demands integrity with our tithes
and our freewill offerings.
God demands integrity with our tithes and
our freewill offerings.
Malachi 3 verse 8, will a man rob
God?
Will a man rob God?
Yet ye have robbed me.
Yet ye say, but ye say, wherein have
we robbed thee?
Wherein have we robbed thee?
In tithes, in
tithes, is God looking at you?
You who smile, and you name the name
of Christ even as a child.
This word will judge you, God says.
No man, you judge yourself when you hear
this word.
If you play the fool with God.
God demands integrity, holiness, integrity with our tithes
and freewill offerings.
Be careful here, we must never confuse God's
commandments for us to show compassion upon the
poor and needy.
We must never confuse God's for us to
show compassion upon the poor and needy with
God's commandments to give tithes and offerings.
You see Judas Isariot, any one religious, walking
in Christ's footsteps, as it were, with the
twelve, anyone who really doesn't love him, will
regard that as a great waste.
This ointment could have been sold for 300
pence and given to the poor.
Why was it given to Christ when there's
such other need?
But those totally devoted to Christ and in
love with him, what anyone would regard as
the greatest sacrifice a human could make to
that person is not a sacrifice.
It's a freewill love offering to God.
Don't confuse offerings.
You see, the maintenance of God's temple and
God's workers in that temple, separated by God
to minister, unable to go out and work,
is not to be looked upon as a
less greater good for a child of God
to have discipline and integrity to.
The maintenance of God's work within the church
itself, the established and the furtherance of the
gospel.
I do wish you could just come with
me now across Africa into the missionary's homes
to see what they're surviving with, and India,
and wherever else, before you judge me for
saying this.
And I'm not speaking about me.
I want nothing from you.
And anyone who even hears me preach knows
that, without questioning it, or there's something wrong
with you.
There has to be integrity.
You see, Abraham, before Moses, before the law,
there was something he knew as he was
a friend of God that he had to
give a tenth before the law to what
he knew was of God.
A tenth of all that a man earns,
God requires.
You give God the tenth, and watch how
he provides every need you have on earth.
Not your wants, your needs.
Multitudes of Christians are struggling to stay out
of debt because they don't give their tithing.
Full stop.
Don't look further.
Has it ever occurred to you that when
God tells you to do something, that if
you don't, there will be repercussions from this
God, who you just blind your eyes to
his commandments, as if they're not even there
in the book, the book you carry.
While you carry it in your hands, you
reject its contents in your hearts.
You won't live it.
You're hearers of the word, but not doers.
You accuse others.
You say a testimony cancels out any need
for me to live the standard, New Testament
law, New Testament.
They came on the first day of the
week, thank God, otherwise the poor Seventh-day
Adventists might have something, and they brought their
tithes, their offerings, their free will love offerings,
and they communed and ate the Lord's Supper,
remembrance of him, but right into the New
Testament.
It's not just Old Testament, this thing.
It's not just Jews.
Conscience tells us you're not
saved by works.
You're saved by 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 ye saved through faith,
not of works.
This then he meant, that both it is
the gift of God, being justified freely by
grace through faith in his blood.
Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to
the cross I cling.
But as John Calvin said, John Calvin was
a good Calvinist.
Not every Calvinist is good.
I would be excommunicated in some community saying
that.
But he did say that you are not
saved or justified by works, but if you
are saved and you are justified, it is
evidenced by works, by the pursuit with every
faculty of your being, John Calvin says, from
that moment onwards of holiness, which is the
standard of God's word, not your man-made
standards.
You're not saved by works, you're saved by
faith, but you're not saved unless your faith
works and brings your life to correspond with
the standard of this book.
So not some of it, not some of
it, or you're not saved.
You never have been.
Well, what do you think all these verses
are that Christ's cries out judgment will come
with wrath to those that didn't do these
things we have today?
He said, don't save you, but are the
evidence, and not only the evidence, but the
requirement of God upon you from the day
you name Christ as your Savior to the
day you die.
Or stop naming Christ as your Savior, you
lie, you lie, if your faith is dead
without works, without the rest of the scriptures
evident.
The evidence of salvation is your saving faith
works, otherwise it's as good as the devils,
demons that believe, and they tremble.
They so believe the word of God, you
don't even tremble knowing that your life is
one contradiction to this whole book.
And you say you believe, what is that
prophet?
Your faith is as good as Satan's.
He's not going to heaven, he believes.
Saving faith works, you live, you
live the message.
You hear from the pulpit if you're saved,
and if you're saved and you don't, I
believe in amazing, uncomprehendable grace, but by the
time you get into heaven, how many you
would have sent to hell, beginning with your
children.
Can we stand please?
So now the next word you utter, and
I know you're going to, you will give
account to Christ what you said.
I guarantee you.
So be careful what you say about this
book when you've heard it, because you're not
angry with a man, you're angry with God,
who the man dared to quote of his
requirements, and what he will judge a man
for on the day of judgment.
You're angry with God, not me, sir.
You might have expected a salvation message.
You know what's really sickening?
We've come to receive, believe, accept.
It doesn't matter about the rest of the
contents of this book, we won't even preach
it, even if Jesus said such words.
Of who he will depart from me, he
cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil
and his angels, who he specifically cries out
through the whole of his ministry.
Why?
It's not just one moment of grace, sir.
It's grace, if it's from God, it's God's
grace.
If it changes your life to stagger the
powers of hell, by bringing your life to
live this book to the best of the
grace of God's ability, you work out how
much that is, to make you holy.
Holiness without which no man shall see God.
So what have you got, a testimony?
But nothing of this book.
Well, they asked me to preach tonight.
Let's see who comes back.
I'll tell you who will come back, those
who love truth.
I'll tell you who will stay away, unless
you really have got a few hundred miles
to drive, those who hate truth.
I know I'm different, and I know I'm
unacceptable by the majority of pulpits in the
world, because I bring only God's Word, and
that is unacceptable today.
The standard costs too much of this book
to be preached as it stands, in its
context.
But I have not been called to be
successful.
I have been called to be faithful.
And quite frankly, I care for nothing else,
but that God will see that in my
life.
No matter what you do or say about
me, nothing else matters to a preacher truly
called by God.
So tonight, let's see who wants to be
back in God's house, to hear what you
preach.
Let's see who's left who wants that.
Sorry, who wants this anymore.
Am I offending you?
Forgive me.
But if you are offended, no matter who
you are, God forgive you, because the only
reason you're offended here today is because you're
guilty.
And you know it.
Tonight, six o'clock, I believe, was it
630?
Six o'clock?
Yes.
God, take this message, and as angry as
some people are, and offended by Christ's words,
not a man.
Don't let anyone ever recover from this message
till the day they die.
Shock them, Lord, that suddenly, as things come
upon them, it will be like they're sitting
in this building, listening to the whole sermon
again, even if it's years from now.
So write it across their consciences, because it's
the word of God that God promised will
not return unto him void.
It shall accomplish the purpose.
Oh God, anyone who dares to name the
name of Christ in this building, from this
day till the day they die again, don't
let them forget this sermon, because it's just
God's word.
Don't let them forget God's word.
Let there be fruit in all of our
lives, even young children who start tithing their
pocket money to God and his work.
And tonight, Lord, if there's any grace left,
or one eye out of integrity and love
for Christ in any heart, bring them back
if there's any possibility.
Not for my sake, but for the sake
of him who shed his blood for us
to set us free, and free indeed
from enslavement to sin.
For if any man be in Christ, he's
a new creature.
Old things are passed away, all things have
become new.
For the sake of him who tasted death
for every man, and him alone bring us
back, with thirsting for God, for righteousness, for
holiness, for a life that will stagger the
powers of hell, every step we take by
God's grace.
Or otherwise we're playing the fool with God
if we don't pursue that.
Prepare our hearts and mine in mercy, for
I am the basest of all men, the
weakest and the most despised, I do believe.
But because of that, have mercy on me.
Because of the most of of my heart,
in asking God to use such a base,
weak, and despised man in spite of this,
that no flesh should ever be able to
glory in my presence.
God chooses such men, but everyone knows that's
the truth of them.
But most especially he does.
Because all of us, but especially me, acknowledge
that without thee we can do nothing, nothing
to turn a man to sin, from sin
to God.
So in mercy answer this prayer, answer this
prayer through this day, creating thirst in the
hardest of hearts for truth and God, and
an uncompromising deliverance of what's in this book,
no matter what the cost.
Help us now, Lord, in what we say.
The guilty, who have no intention of turning,
are normally the first to laugh seconds after
such a sermon is delivered.
Help us, God, in Jesus the Christ's name.
Amen.