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We live in a day of moral chaos

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in society and spiritual apostasy within the church.

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As a nation, we have legislated God out

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of our country by legalizing sin.

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As a church, we have lived in spiritual

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declension for so long that we cannot discern

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good from evil.

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When the churches in America replaced the God

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-centered gospel of the Bible with another gospel

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that is man-centered, we created a breeding

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ground for spurious conversions.

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The churches gradually watered down the gospel to

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make it more palatable to sinful man.

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All the rights and claims of the Lord

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Jesus Christ of the gospel were removed and

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replaced with an anemic Jesus who had no

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rights or claims on anyone.

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In a bad dash to grow our churches,

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we handed out an impotent Jesus who stands

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helplessly at the door of the sinner's heart,

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hoping you will let him in.

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But that's not the Jesus found in the

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Bible, who sits in authority at the right

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hand of God and has all power in

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his hands.

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As denominations made a grab for power, they

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sold out the God of the Bible and

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began to traffic in the souls of men

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in an attempt to grow their church campuses

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through brick and mortar, but with the blood

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of souls on their hands.

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We stopped preaching against sin and stopped preaching

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on hell and stopped preaching man's duty of

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repentance and his utter necessity of regeneration.

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And subsequently, we mirrored the methodology of a

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famous evangelist who broadened the way of salvation

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in ways Jesus never did.

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Jesus said it was a narrow way and

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a straight gate and one had to strive

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to enter in.

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Jesus said there was a cross in the

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daily life of all followers of his.

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Jesus said if one did not forsake mother,

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father, children, or even one's own life, he

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could not be a follower of his.

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The cost of discipleship involves a life of

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self-denial as one follows the Lord Jesus

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along a narrow way.

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As a church, we have lied to people

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by telling them all they had to do

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to go to heaven was to accept Jesus

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as their personal savior, even if that's not

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even found in our bibles.

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We handed folks a easy-believe gospel and

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herded them like cattle into our churches to

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financially support our denominational programs and pay the

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bills on our lavish church campuses.

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We have baptized pagans and told them they

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were now Christians.

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Through all of this, the church lost her

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voice of authority in the land and her

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witness to the world.

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We have ordained men to ministry whom Jesus

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does not know.

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We have hired pastors who are either entertainers

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or babysitters for the grown babies in our

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congregations.

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The sad consequence of all of this is

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that very few are saved today, or young

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people leave the churches in droves as soon

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as they become adults because they themselves are

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sick of the hypocrisy and the missing reality

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of God in the so-called people of

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God.

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When you feed a man a false gospel,

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then baptize that man and make him a

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member of the church, you have simply made

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a unconverted man, an unconverted church member who

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will never know the reality of God in

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his life and will never have power over

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the sin in his life because he is

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yet dead in his sins.

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The self still sits on the throne of

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the heart and rules there even if he

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is the chairman of the deacons.

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When a sinner is saved, self is dethroned

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and another enthroned there, the Lord Jesus Christ

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who has all rights and claims on all

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followers of his.

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Either Jesus Christ is Lord of your daily

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living or he is a stranger to you

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and you are a stranger to him.

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The Lordship of Christ is the missing doctrine

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in our preaching today and by its omission

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we have damned the souls of men.

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Jesus is either your Lord in every aspect

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of your life or he is merely your

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servant and if he's not your Lord friend

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then you are none of his.

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Where the rubber meets the road it's either

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Lordship or hell.

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He is either your glad sovereign or he

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was never your savior.

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We need to quit lying to folks and

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stop feeding them a false gospel just so

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we can have a big church and a

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six-figure income.

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We need to be honest with folks and

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be true to the souls of men by

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warning them of their danger of dying in

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their sins and informing them of their duty

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of repentance, their utter necessity of regeneration as

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they surrender all they are to all Christ

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is.

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He is Lord.

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He is a living Lord.

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He must be your complete master if you

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want to be saved from the fires of

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a burning hell.

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It's either his Lordship or hell.