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Welcome to From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons.

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Each week we bring you a different message

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from some of history's greatest speakers in the

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Christian faith, and powerful sermons from modern preachers,

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This week, we have E.

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Johnston with his message, The Cappuccino Church.

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We are living in a critical time in

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which spirituality in the churches is near an

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all-time low, and immorality in society is

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near an all-time high.

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The pulpits of the land have lost their

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influence upon society because they have let the

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world into the church, and have cheapened the

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gospel message in an attempt to grow their

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church campus.

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Many church members profess to know Christ, but

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few display the evidence of true conversion.

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When George Whitefield, the great British evangelist, came

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to America in 1740, during the Great Awakening,

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he was asked by a Boston minister, Mr.

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Whitefield, how many converts have you had since

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you've been among us?

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To which the great Whitefield replied, I don't

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know, sir, but I shall return to these

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parts in a year or two and look

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for the evidence of their salvation.

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Few church members today demonstrate credible evidence of

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their salvation.

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Listen, friends, when the church fails to carry

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out the mandate of the Great Commission and

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proactively storm the gates of hell, then a

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vacuum is created.

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The vacuum begins within the church until the

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church compromises the gospel message, places man and

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his needs as the center and focus of

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the church, and everything rotates around the happiness

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of man.

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My message tonight is on the apostate church

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in America.

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It is entitled the Cappuccino Church because it

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is all froth and no substance.

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I am not insinuating that the entire institutional

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church in America is apostate.

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Please don't misunderstand me.

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There are many sound Christian churches throughout our

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land with solid shepherds leading them, but I

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have seen a drastic change in a majority

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of churches that have cheapened the gospel message

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with the express purpose of growing their church.

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They've made it a lot easier to become

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a Christian than what Jesus stated.

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Jesus stated that the way is narrow and

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the passage difficult.

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He said, unless you repent, ye shall all

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likewise perish.

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I have been around for a long time

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and have witnessed the tragic spiritual declension of

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the church in America.

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It breaks my heart to bring this message

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tonight, but I must unburden my heart on

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what the Lord has given me regarding the

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church in America and the West today.

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When I was a little boy in the

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1950s and you went to church, you knew

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you were safe there.

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You knew that in all probability you would

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hear the true gospel and be surrounded by

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real Christians and receive spiritual good.

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But today in America, the church looks the

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same on the outside, but instead of being

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a place of blessing, it is now a

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church that harms you spiritually.

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It harms the soul with its diluted gospel

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and man-centered theology.

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Sinners are fed a false gospel and given

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a false security.

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So many popes have preached death instead of

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life and damned their hearers instead of blessing

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them.

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I'm even afraid to take my teenage daughter

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to church these days because it seems to

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be more hurtful to her rather than helpful.

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You think you're doing good by putting your

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child in a youth group at church these

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days, but often it's a more corrupting influence

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than spiritually helpful.

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That's how bad things have gotten in the

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church in America in our day.

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When I go around and visit churches today,

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I can barely make it through the service

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without being offended or embarrassed by the minister

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and the pulpit.

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The pulpit today in America has not only

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lost its authority, it has lost its dignity

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to many of the immature men who occupy

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it.

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The church in America has become a cappuccino

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church, all froth and no substance.

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And instead of being a place of spiritual

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good, it often has a damning influence.

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Many churches in America today are indistinguishable from

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the local country club.

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They offer all the comforts of a country

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club, including yoga classes and Zumba dancing and

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coffee bars, whose focus is on making man

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happy and gratifying his flesh.

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The gospel of the apostate church speaks of

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a comfortable Christianity, which has no restrictions, and

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it speaks of a Jesus who has no

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requirements.

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But the Jesus of the Bible did not

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speak of a comfortable Christianity.

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Rather, he said, foxes have holes and birds

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of the air have nests, but the Son

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of Man has nowhere to lay his head.

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The members of the apostate church are quite

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happy there and content.

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They are entertained weekly and feel like they

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belong to a special social club, and they're

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part of that club and they meet on

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a regular basis.

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They even pay their monthly dues to this

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country club church by tithing, and this helps

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ease their conscience.

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But the sad fact is that this apostate

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church is a church that damns.

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The Cappuccino Church is a worldly church with

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a worldly program for its worldly members.

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It is of the world and of the

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devil.

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The Cappuccino Church has a pastor who is

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more like Jay Leno than a true shepherd.

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This comedian pastor tells jokes to make his

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people laugh.

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The jokes may even be off-color to

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embarrass them to laugh.

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He tells funny stories to arouse their emotions,

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and his ministry is based on his professionalism

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and personality rather than the power of God

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through a surrendered life under the discipline of

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the Holy Spirit.

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Can you imagine Jonathan Edwards telling jokes to

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the congregation in Enfield, Connecticut to warm up

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his crowd with laughter before he preached sinners

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in the hands of an angry God?

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We have more jokesters in the pulpits today

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who want to make you laugh rather than

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prophets who cry with authority, thus saith the

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Lord.

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Sadly, few want to have an encounter with

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God in the church today.

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They just want to be entertained.

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The church was never intended to be a

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place of laughter and entertainment, a house of

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prayer and worship.

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The church in America today has become a

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party church with fun and laughter rather than

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a weeping church broken over the sins of

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the land and burdened for the lost and

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perishing around them.

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The church has become self-focused, self-sufficient,

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and self-absorbed.

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God is a million miles away from the

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Cappuccino Church in America today.

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The Cappuccino Church is a feel-good church.

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Like the coffee drink, it makes you feel

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good.

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I remember being in church as a boy,

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and there was a sense of God's presence

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there and a certain solemnity that attended it.

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And you worship God because of his presence.

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But today, in churches, they have a party

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and they laugh and sing because of his

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absence.

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The church in America back then was the

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place where true believers gathered to pray and

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lay hold of God and weep over the

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lost.

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And you heard a message about the blood

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and the cross and the need for repentance

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because you were a sinner who needed to

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be reconciled back to an offended God.

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You heard about a terrible place called hell,

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and you were warned not to go there.

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But today, in the churches in the land,

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you will hear funny stories and feel-good

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messages to make you feel better about yourself

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before it's time for you to go leave

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and enjoy your lunch.

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Listen, friends, the apostate church fails to warn

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the sinner to flee from the wrath to

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come, and it's run on manpower and methodologies

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rather than God and holy ghost power.

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The Capuchino church presents a God that has

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no claims or rights upon a person's life.

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It omits the need of repentance, the plan

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of redemption, the blood of Christ, and the

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bloody cross on which he died.

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Rather, it preaches a feel-good message which

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doesn't upset anybody or confront them with their

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sins.

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The underground church in China suffers persecution as

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they follow a crucified Savior.

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The above-ground church in China is the

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three-self church, and it is a tool

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for the communist government.

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The apostate church in America will be the

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vehicle used by Antichrist when he appears.

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You will be able to distinguish a true

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Christian then.

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They will be the ones being persecuted for

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their faith and testimony in Christ Jesus.

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Martin Luther cried out against a corrupt church

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in his day, and he was persecuted for

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it.

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The apostate church will persecute true believers as

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the Antichrist appears.

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Well, that's my introduction for my message tonight

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on the Capuchino church.

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My text is found in the book of

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Ezekiel in chapter 11 and verse 12.

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Allow me to read it to you, for

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it accurately describes the church in the West

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today.

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Listen to how God describes his rebellious people.

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And ye shall know that I am the

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Lord, for ye have not walked in my

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statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done

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after the manners of the heathen that are

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round about you.

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Notice several outstanding remarks from this passage from

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the word of God.

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Number one, God says something to his people

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which is quite extraordinary.

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He declares, and ye shall know that I

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am the Lord.

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Many that claim to know him did not

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know him.

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They had a perverted view of God, and

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their God was not the God of the

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Bible.

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Today in the land, after your many church

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members have a perverted view of God, they

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have fashioned a God of their own making,

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and they worship that idol rather than know

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the true and living God of the Bible.

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God is telling his rebellious people that through

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coming judgments, they will know the true God

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and know that I am the Lord.

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This will be true when judgment falls upon

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America from the hand of God.

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Times will become so desperate, people so despondent,

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they will turn to the government for help,

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and the government will be bankrupt and entirely

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helpless themselves.

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The situation will be so drastic and so

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bad that people will realize that God is

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the author of their calamity, and God will

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be able to say, and ye shall know

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that I am the Lord.

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Number two, notice the next indictment God has

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against his straying people.

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He says, For ye have not walked in

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my statutes.

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Today's apostate church has members who live in

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sin and have no remorse for it.

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They feel that because they are once saved,

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always saved, they can sin all they want

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to without any repercussions, since they have won

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their ticket to heaven through a false, easy

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believism.

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God reprimands his people for their disobedience to

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his commands.

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Today's church that damns preaches an easy-to

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-believe gospel that allows you to take Christ

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as Savior and remain in your sins, whereas

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the Bible declares that Jesus came to save

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his people from their sins.

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Jesus never preached a sin in religion, but

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a self-crucified one.

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He said, If any man will come after

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me, let him deny himself, and take up

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his cross, and follow me.

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For whosoever will save his life shall lose

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it, and whosoever will lose his life for

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my sake shall find it.

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But the church that damns declares that you

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can have Jesus in the world, too.

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You can have Jesus and hold on to

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your rotten sins, and it's okay with him.

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But God says no.

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God says, Be ye holy, for I am

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holy.

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And in Hebrews it declares, Without holiness no

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one will see the Lord.

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Number three.

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Now notice the next urgent matter that God

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brings before his rebellious people.

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He says to them, Neither executed my judgments.

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The people of God were careless stewards of

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the things of God.

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Rather than declare to the heathen the purposes

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of God, they kept all their knowledge to

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themselves selfishly.

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Today's church that damns has no real gospel

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witness to the world.

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There is no message of God's true gospel,

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which speaks of ruin, redemption, repentance, and regeneration.

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You've not heard of the blood, nor the

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cross, nor sin, nor hell, nor a future

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judgment for all mankind.

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It's a selfish gospel which creates selfish followers

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who think only of themselves and their own

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amusements.

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Their number one aim in life is to

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gratify their flesh.

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They know nothing of the cross in the

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life of the believer, nor have they ever

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surrendered to the Lordship of Christ with all

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his claims and demands upon their lives.

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The church that damns speaks nothing about the

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strict and severe law of God which every

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man will be judged against, and all will

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fail that test.

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I am a sinner, and I need a

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sin substitute in the person of Jesus Christ.

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The rebellious Jews did not execute God's judgments

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and defend a holy God and fear him.

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Rather, they put their own needs and desires

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first in their lives to the neglect of

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the things of God.

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The Jews put themselves first, and God second

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in their lives, and God said no.

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Finally, notice the last thing in this verse

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from Ezekiel.

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Notice the last indictment from God to his

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straying people.

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He tells them, But have done after the

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manners of the heathen that are round about

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you.

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In other words, they worshiped God like the

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heathen.

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They brought false fire into the house of

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God.

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They let the world in and pushed God

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out.

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I fear many churches in America today have

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walked God to the back of the church

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and pushed him out the back door, and

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then they opened up their front door and

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let the world in.

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The Capuchino church looks just like the world.

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There is no telling them apart.

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I have a hard time finding anybody today

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preaching up the blood and the cross and

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calling sin black and hell hot and warning

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sinners to flee from the wrath to come.

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No, they just make you laugh and want

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to entertain you.

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They don't want to upset anybody by mentioning

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sin or the need for repentance.

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They are afraid to offend man, so they

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offend God.

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God help us.

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When Jesus preached, he always upset his hearers.

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They wanted to take him to the top

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of a hill after he preached and throw

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him off of it.

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After one preaching session, the people picked up

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stones to stone Jesus, but he escaped them

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by walking through their midst.

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And one other time after he preached a

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hard message, the crowd left him, and many

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said, Who can understand it?

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And Jesus turned to his men and asked,

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Will you leave me too?

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When Christ preached, he divided the crowd into

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sheep and goats, and many of the pygmies

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that stand in our pulpits today want to

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be accepted by their hearers because of their

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pride, so they speak peace, peace, when there

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is no peace.

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The true gospel declares we are enemies of

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God because of sin, and we need to

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be reconciled to him through the blood of

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Jesus Christ.

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We need to repent of our rotten sins

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and fall upon our faces and turn back

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to God in true contrition and brokenness over

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our sins.

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We need to humble ourselves before an offended

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creator and beg him for mercy.

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Listen, friends.

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Judgment is not coming to America because of

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the White House.

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Judgment is not coming to America because of

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the courthouse.

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Judgment is coming to America because of the

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church house.

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God has sent judgments upon America because the

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professed church of God does not walk in

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his statutes nor execute his judgments, but have

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done after the manners of the heathen that

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are round about them.

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The only hope for America and Canada is

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revival.

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But there is good news.

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God is calling out his remnant to stand

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strong for him.

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God called out a remnant in the days

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of Ezekiel.

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Listen to verses 19 and 20 from chapter

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11.

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Listen to his mercy.

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And I will give them one heart and

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I will put a new spirit within you

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and I will take the stony heart out

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of their flesh and will give them a

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heart of flesh that they may walk in

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my statutes and keep my ordinances and do

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them and they shall be my people and

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I will be their God.

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I believe that God is calling his remnant

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today in the land to go to their

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knees and humble themselves before his face.

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I believe that will be God's remnant who

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emerged in the coming days of the appearing

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of Antichrist.

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The remnant will be the sufferers for Christ.

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The remnant will be the ones in prison

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for him.

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The remnant will be the ones martyred for

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him in his glory.

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This is a call to the people of

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God to go to our knees and ask

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the Holy Spirit to show us anything in

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our lives that is grievous to him.

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Listen friends, I got rid of television in

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my home.

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I was hooked on too many news programs

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and cooking programs and golf programs.

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I got rid of the damning influence of

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television in my home.

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People might call me odd, but I don't

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care.

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I spend the time I used to spend

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watching TV now in my Bible and in

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prayer.

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Christ is calling his own to separate themselves

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from the world.

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Are we willing to do it?

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The Campuchino Church is a feel-good church

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with a feel-good message and it allows

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you to profess Christ and remain in your

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sins.

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Jesus said, if you die in your sins,

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you will go to hell.

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The Campuchino Church is damning its members to

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hell rather than warning them not to go

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there.

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In the coming days of these end times,

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the apostate church will grow in influence and

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popularity and it will spread over the land

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like the great plague that it is.

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For it is an indictment against the people

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of God who have not walked in his

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statutes nor executed his judgments but have done

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after the manners of the heathen that were

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round about them.

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God have mercy on us.

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You've been listening to the From the Pulpit

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in Classic Sermon series.

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This week you heard E.A. Johnston with

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his message, The Campuchino Church.

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Tune in next week to hear Leonard Ravenhill

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with a Q&A session revival forum on

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the From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons.