Listen friends, we live in a dangerous world
today where society is spinning out of control
and no one is at the wheel.
Our land has become a land of sudden
death as God has turned his back on
America because we have turned our back on
God.
You can be gunned down by a madman
just going about your daily business as Satan
has free reign in a nation that has
rejected God.
Like Lot and Sodom, we are surrounded on
every side by moral depravity and like Lot
and Sodom, the church has lost her influence
and testimony by compromise and conformity.
If we were to tell someone, up, get
you out of this place, for the Lord
will destroy the city, we would be mocked
and laughed at as well.
The church has lost her testimony to a
sinking world that is almost sunk.
The apostle Peter warned against false teachers in
his day and the day to come, but
there were false prophets also among the people,
even as there shall be false teachers among
you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,
even denying the Lord.
That's where we are today, friends, in our
churches across this land.
Yes, there are some God-caught pastors out
there, I know some of them, but I
fear that in a majority of our churches
stands a devil in the pulpit addressing pagans
in the pew, and that's the title of
my message today, friends, devil in the pulpit,
pagan in the pew.
The apostle Peter warns of damnable heresies.
The Greek word used for damnable is Apollia,
and it means ruin or loss, spiritual ruin
and eternal loss, to be damned in perdition.
Do you understand, friends, what's going on in
this land today?
We're living in the last days, and already
there is a spirit of Antichrist abroad in
the land.
The apostle Paul warns in 2nd Corinthians how
Satan can transform himself into an angel of
light, and no marvel, for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light.
Satan does his best work inside of a
church, and he has flooded this country with
his ministers who stand in pulpits all over
this land and teach damnable heresies in many
cities from coast to coast.
There is a devil in the pulpit addressing
pagans in the pew.
I was up in New England in a
historic church where God had moved in revival
during the second Great Awakening, and in the
pulpit stood a lesbian pastor who addressed her
well-dressed pagan congregation as she spoke about
Mother Earth and New Age philosophy.
These well-heeled, well-educated churchgoers smiled and
thoroughly enjoyed her discourse as they sat above
a trap door to hell.
I visited a church in Florida where the
lesbian minister had a service to bless animals.
You brought your dog or cat, and she
said a few words over it and blessed
your animal while she damned your soul to
hell.
But these devils in the pulpit are easy
to spot.
It is the other devils in the pulpit
who look like sheep but are ravening wolves.
They are seminary-trained men with a winsome
personality.
They have a big church behind them and
the influence of their denomination.
I've personally known some devils in the pulpit,
and for a time they even fooled me.
But if you hang around them long enough,
you can see right through them as they
are merely butchers of souls.
They will say just enough truth to deceive
you into thinking they are true to the
Bible, but it is what they don't say
that damns you.
They omit the hard truths of the gospel,
and they broaden the way of salvation.
They're popular with their congregations, and they are
fair-haired boys within their denominations.
And they talk a good talk as they
deceive you, make merchandise of your soul as
they traffic in the souls of men.
They spoon-feed their congregations with just enough
of the Bible to fool them as they
teach heresy to them, for they have weakened
the terms of the gospel by watering down
its truths.
And they refer to Jesus as a Savior,
but they fail to present him as Lord.
They will lead you into some kind of
profession of faith and call that salvation, and
tell you that you are now a Christian.
And they grin all the time because they
have done the devil's work of flooding you
with deception, keeping you captive in the kingdom
of darkness, and damning your soul.
There are multitudes in our churches today who
believe church membership is salvation.
They believe making a decision is salvation.
They believe walking an aisle and repeating a
prayer is salvation.
But they don't know Christ, and Christ doesn't
know them.
Unless these baptized pagans get under the sound
of the true gospel, they will die in
their sins to be arraigned before the judge
of all the earth, who will declare unto
them, I never knew you.
Depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Sinners need to be told that coming to
Christ means an absolute surrender to him as
Lord.
That to be saved, God demands repentance.
And you must throw up the white flag
of surrender to a dread sovereign who sits
at the right hand of the Father on
a heavenly throne.
And he earned that right by way of
a bloody cross.
The gospel has rights and claims on a
follower of Christ, Jesus.
Jesus is a living Lord, and if you
want him, you must throw down your shotgun
of rebellion and own him as your Lord,
to let him have all rights to your
life, to do with you as he wants
to.
That's salvation, friend.
You better forget about Jesus' meek and mild
and impotent standing at the door of your
heart, helplessly knocking, hoping you'll let him in.
He is Lord.
In Thessalonians, Paul describes him, the Lord Jesus
should be revealed from heaven with his mighty
angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them
that know not God and that obey not
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
presence of the Lord and from the glory
of his power.
Listen, friends, this once saved, always saved sin
and religion we have today is the product
of hell, and the devil in the pulpit
who sits there will sin like the devil
himself.
If you are saved and eventual, you will
not have a sin and religion.
You will pursue a life of holiness for
the glory of God.
If a minister fails to warn you of
a future judgment for all mankind, where God
will judge every man according to his works.
If a minister fails to warn you about
the torments of a burning hell for all
who die outside of Christ's blood.
If a minister fails to warn you of
your duty of repentance and your utter necessity
of regeneration, which is a work of grace
upon the heart through the new birth.
And if a minister fails to teach the
hard sayings of discipleship of the Lord Jesus,
where you are to take up your cross
and deny yourself.
And if he omits preaching Jesus as Lord,
then get up out of your chair and
run for the door while you still can
and go find you a man of God
who will be true to your soul.
Get on to a God-called preacher who
can point you savingly to the Lord Christ
so you can get an interest in Christ
for the glory of God and for your
eternal bliss.
I've given you today, friends, like we say
in the South, the oil straight from the
can.
I have not diluted the claims of Christ,
of the gospel, in any way in my
hands or clean of your blood.
You must repent or just go on to
hell.