How Close Are You to the Kingdom of God?

Well, praise Jesus this afternoon everyone. I had a few thoughts that I thought I would mention on the go here about our Christian walk with Jesus. And that thought was how Jesus would tell people when they were close to the kingdom of God. He would mention that to them. He would say, "You aren't far from the kingdom of God." Now, there were other people that would potentially believe themselves to be close, but Jesus would show them just how far they were from the kingdom of God. And oftentimes we don't even know how far away we are from the kingdom of God. For example, remember the rich young ruler? The rich young ruler thought he was close to the kingdom of God because he had kept the Ten Commandments.

And I know there's likely a lot of you that think you're close to God because you keep the Ten Commandments, or bring that to modern day: you go to church, you read the Bible, you're not having sex out of marriage, you're not going to rave parties or kickbacks, you're overall just a good moral person. Now, I know a lot of good moral people that are extremely far away from the kingdom of God. There's a lot of good people in society, you know, that would literally lay down their life for you. I've had a few managers in the world who were not Christians whatsoever. They were the kinds of guys that would drop the F-bomb, they would curse God, but they were good people. They bent over backwards for me. They gave me money when I needed money. They're the sorts of people that would let you live at their house if you needed it. They take care of the poor. But these same people, they mock God and they hate God. They're just good people in the culture.

So when people would encounter Jesus for the first time … they stood in the kingdom of God because they thought themselves to be a good person according to their own goodness, their own morality. So maybe, like the rich young ruler, you have kept the commandments and you think you're a good person. Or maybe you, I don't know, you do good things and you feel good about yourself. And I'm not saying that everyone is just bad people. There are really good people out there, but as far as the kingdom of God, they are not good. They're not good in the eyes of Jesus. In other words, they're good in the culture, but they're not making it into heaven.

And this is the category that most Christians fall into and most people in general. The majority of people are not of God. Now, I don't know what percent of people are good. People say likely we're in the mountain communities. I would say 80–90% of people are pretty responsible, and you have a few people that are not responsible—you just wouldn't want your kids to be around them—but for the most part, in the mountain communities where I live, people are decently moral. They're taking care of people. They go to church, or they're religious to some extent. But I come across a lot of these people, and I can tell they're very, very far from the kingdom of God. And so my warning to you is not just to think that you're a good person because the standard of morality in our culture is based upon how good you are in your community. But that is not what the basis of salvation is.

The basis of salvation is how you're doing with Jesus. And because most people have thrown Jesus out the door, they're not going to heaven. And that's a scary thing. I know these people that help me—like managers, co-workers, mentors—that have helped me in life, and a lot of them are very good people. They bend over backwards for me or for you, but at the same time, they're far from the kingdom of God. Why is that? Well, you can't be cursing God and making it into the kingdom of heaven. You can't have a perverted tongue, speaking things that are sexual jokes, the F-bomb, mocking God, and making it into His kingdom. It doesn't matter how many good things you do in your community; you're not going to be able to buy your way into heaven. And that is really sad to me—that there are really good people that will help me, they will help you. But at the same time, they missed the Jesus of the great commandment, which is to love your neighbor as yourself, but they didn't love the Lord their God with all of their heart. Or they never met Jesus to the extent that they knew what it meant to love Him.

Because I believe some people, they think that they're serving God. That rich young ruler, he really believed that he was serving God by keeping the big ten. But at the end of the day, he couldn't follow Jesus, and he went away from Jesus sad because he knew that what Jesus required, he could not keep. He couldn't sell his possessions, give it to the poor, and follow after the Lord. And how many of us are in the same boat as the people in the culture that are good in the eyes of men, but they're not good in the eyes of God? How many of us are good businessmen, or we're the sorts of people that do unto others, we're looked up to, but also at the same time, we're not cutting it?

Jesus would not say to us, "You're close to the kingdom of God." Now, it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of an angry God because the moment we die, it's not going to matter if our mom or our dad thought we were good. It's not going to matter if our community—even the community of believers—thought we were a good person.

If your life is not clean, the devil's going to take you to hell. And Jesus is going to say, like He says to so many people, "Away from me, you who commit iniquity. I don't know you." And Jesus won’t just be saying that to people who are atheists. You know, atheists aren't casting out demons. Atheists aren't running churches.

But the ones that Jesus says, "Away from me, you who commit iniquity," are the people that were casting out demons and prophesying in the name of Jesus and singing Christian hymns and giving sermons. That’s what Jesus said—not with those exact words, of course—but He said that they were the people that were trying to cast out demons and trying to prophesy.

So this means us, guys. Jesus isn't talking about people far out in the world, but He's talking to your face. He's talking to me. So how can we be the sorts of people that when we stand before Jesus, He doesn't say, "Away from me, you who commit sin," but He can say, "You're close to the kingdom of God." And that when we're to the very end of our life, He can say, "Enter into my presence because you got to know me and you did my will. You are my son, or you're my daughter." That's what we want to hear.

Now, one thing that I find crazy, guys, is the fact that so many Christians have a perverted tongue. They think they're making it into heaven. They listen to perverted music that mocks God, and they think that they're getting into heaven. Music is a really funny thing, guys, because music keeps you in the past. If you remember when you were in high school, you probably remember all of the songs that you used to listen to. I remember the songs I used to listen to. Maybe it was Eminem if you grew up in the '90s. I listened to all this music just like you did. And if that music plays on the radio, I have to quickly get out of there because it reminds me of the past.

And I see a lot of Christians who are listening to music from their past, and they're not maturing in their faith because the old habits are holding on. It's killing them because instead of going forward with Jesus and singing the song of the redeemed, they're still singing old songs from Blink 182 and Eminem and just wicked music.

So if we want to grow, to sing the song of the redeemed and be pleasing to Jesus, then we have to get that old junk, that old trash, that old dung out of our life. And too many Christians are holding on to old music that's not letting them move forward in their faith. They have a perverted tongue. They're going to ungodly movies. They're listening to ungodly music. And for some reason, they have the audacity to think that when they die, they're going to hear those words, "Well done, my faithful servant." It's not going to happen.

Jesus would quickly tell people when they were far away from the kingdom of God. Remember Peter, His own disciple, He said, "Get behind me, Satan." He called him Satan. So you're not going to be any better than Peter if you're cursing God or doubting or hating God's children. You have to have faith with the works of righteousness, and you have to have a pure tongue, a pure mind, childlike faith. And you have to be developing with Jesus. And if you're not, you're going to be cut off.

I don't know how many Christians think themselves to be godly, but they're watching TV, they're always looking at pornography, they're living like total hypocrites. God's going to cast out those people that are not serious and not holy and pure. And sadly, too many of them are good men and good women. And it makes me sad that a lot of my mentors and a lot of these people that are good people are well on their way to hell because they are far from the kingdom of God.

How do you know if a pastor or how do you know if a preacher or a Christian is close to God? Well, this is the way you know, guys. If you hear someone speak that has truly been at the feet of Jesus, by the time you leave that person, you want to do nothing less than to fall on your face and repent of your sins and get to know Jesus for real. That’s how you know. But you know you're listening to the wrong preacher if you get done listening to that sermon and all you want to do is go and read your Bible. All you want to do is go listen to more Hillsong music. All you want to do is listen to another sermon.

Following Jesus has nothing to do with listening to sermons, listening to a bunch of preachers. You have to bear good fruit. And if you want to know if you or someone else is truly a child of God, ask yourself: after you're done speaking with them, are you falling on your face before Jesus because you're just so amped up to repent of your sin? You're so encouraged to fall on your face before the Lord because you want to get a better relationship with Jesus? You're just so motivated to get sin out of your life and to meet Jesus that you fall straight on your face.

That is what I want to do as a Christian. I want to encourage people—not to be going to church, not to be going to another video on YouTube or some other place—I want to cause people, by the fire of my devotion to Jesus, to go fall on their face before the Lord and repent of their sins and then start walking in genuine faith.

Following Jesus isn’t about getting into church or just hearing another motivational speech. It’s about really dedicating your entire life to the Lord. And if we become those sorts of people, then we bear much fruit—not like the three soils that didn’t produce, but like the fourth soil that produced. Some will produce tenfold, some twenty, thirty, fifty, a hundredfold. We want to produce for the Lord so we don’t get cut off. And because we love Him, we want to produce.

And so this is what's been on my heart, guys. If we want to grow in the kingdom of God with Jesus, we have to clean up our tongue. We need to get filthy music, filthy movies, filthy people out of our lives. We need to get serious about bearing good fruit and teaching our children, teaching our neighbor—whoever's around us. We need to be inspiring them to do the same. It's not about religion. It's not about going to church. It's not about Bible study. It's about holiness. It's about complete devotion to the Lord.

Are you a child of God? Are you devoted to the Lord Jesus—not with just your tongue, but with your actions? Because there's a big difference there. There's a lot of Christians that can preach Jesus with their tongue, but they're not preaching Him with their life.

We need to be the sorts of people that our heart, our tongue, our mind, our body—all of that—is aligned with the Holy Spirit, proving that we are the disciples of Jesus by our love.

So I want to pray for those of you that want to be filled with the Holy Spirit, that want to overcome sin and truly follow Jesus with all of your heart.

“Lord Jesus, I pray for those who are my brothers and sisters that are, that are just bearing the burdens of sin, that want to throw sin off. I pray for them, Lord, that they can be added to your flock — your small flock, your little flock.

I pray that they could become a peculiar people, set apart for, um, for the journey with you — set apart for you, Lord. And I pray that you would take them with your staff and pull them out of the mire and save them as your sheep, and dust them off and clean them — purify them, purge them — and put them on the straight and narrow path, that they may endure with you and make it to the very end, that they may have eternal life.

I pray that more people will be added to your flock, to your people. I pray this in your name, Lord Jesus. Amen.”

It's Easier to Explain the Kingdom of Church

It would be much easier for me to explain to you how to become part of the Kingdom of Church, or how to become a US citizen, or something that has physical roots on this earth. But the Kingdom of God tends to be very elusive to people. They just can't understand it.

The closest people understand on this earth to the Kingdom of God is the church. But the problem is, most churches have nothing to do with the Kingdom of God. They have the name “church,” or the name “Bible,” or “Jesus” or “God” in it, but they have very little—if nothing—to do with the Kingdom of God.

And that is a huge problem, because it's a huge tool that Satan is using—that is, the church—to draw people away from the Kingdom of God and not to enter.

Remember, the Pharisees were also doing this. Jesus said to them that they would travel land and sea to try to make one proselyte or one disciple. And then, when they would get that person into their school of thought or into their synagogue, they would make that person twice as much a son of hell as themselves.

Well, the churches today and the Christians—the pastors that are in those churches—are exactly like the times of Jesus. Like these Pharisees that get people into their organization and make them twice as much a son of their dead, wicked religion—as Jesus said, a “son of hell”—as they are.

So how do we get people into the Kingdom of God? It's actually impossible. But what is impossible with men is possible with God.

I often feel like I have this task that God has given me, which is joyous. It brings joy to my heart to tell people about Jesus. But it can also be very discouraging because so few people have ears to hear. People have ears to hear sermons. They have ears to listen to music. But most people just like their ears scratched—they want to hear the things that they want to hear. But they don't want to hear the hard-hitting truth of Jesus Christ.

And that is also a problem. Because if we're not eating Jesus’s flesh and drinking His blood, then we're not going to have life.

Remember that Jesus said that the Holy Spirit is as the wind. You're not sure where the wind is coming from or where it's going, but you see how it moves the trees and the grass. And that is also how we have to be as His disciples. We're not following after men or after the church.

You can tell where the churches are going—they’re following their leadership to hell. But if we want life, we need to enter and push our way into the Kingdom of God. As Jesus said, “The Kingdom of God suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” So we need to be pushing our way into the Kingdom of God.

It's impossible for you to see unless Jesus opens your eyes and opens your ears to the truth.

So I want to encourage you to go straight to the source. Jesus is alive. And if you pray and ask Him, “Open my ears, open my eyes to see you,” He's going to give you spiritual eyes to see and spiritual ears to hear Him.

And then, when you know you're hearing from Him and seeing Him work in your life, never ever take your eyes off Him. Never stop listening to Him. Don't set anyone else up in your life to be your spiritual guide. You have to hold fast to Jesus—to His words, to His truth. Let Him lead you into everlasting life.

Dream: Toxic Factory Meltdown

 Sometimes Jesus warns us in a dream or in a vision of the things that are going to happen, or He even gives us a dream or a vision as a parable of the Kingdom of God.

Well, last night I had a dream that was quite terrifying, and it woke me up at about 3:45.

In this dream, I saw a giant factory. The factory was like a small city, probably 30 stories tall, and it had thousands of men that worked there. It seemed to be some kind of chemical plant or nuclear plant—maybe both. But it also had scientists, it had teachers, there was a school there.

First in this dream, I saw it as a vision where I was not participating. I just saw on the roof there was some kind of a lake, and on this lake there were men that were keeping these reactors cool. When one of the reactors broke and fell into this lake and caused a reaction, and it exploded, and it sent all sorts of chemicals into the air that then landed on people and immediately killed like a thousand people.

So at that point, I was only watching this as a vision. But then, as the dream went on, I found myself as an active participant in this dream, and I was actively going through this concrete building, and I was trying to get myself out of the building. But in passing, I would warn people—like the teachers that were in that building, the scientists—and most of the people just looked at me and they wanted a longer explanation. I couldn't wait around to give them a longer explanation because I knew that I only had minutes to get myself out. Otherwise, we would all be consumed in this nuclear meltdown.

I was able to get my entire family out of the building, and we were saved. But within the midst of all of this happening, a few people I noticed did follow me. One of them seemed to be a teacher or a principal of one of the schools that was there. But I noticed later in the dream, the only reason he followed me wasn't because he thought there was any immediate danger. He thought that I was a danger and a disruption potentially to his class and those scientists that were working there. But little did he know that he was going to be dead, and all of those around him, in about 3 minutes.

So this is a parable, guys, that in the Kingdom of God we are pushing into the Kingdom of God. We are calling people to repentance, and we don't have time to wait around for people to repent. Otherwise, we ourselves are not going to make it into God's Kingdom. The door is closing for salvation, and too many people are just making fun of the prophets. They are making fun of those who are preaching Jesus. They don't take repentance seriously.

But in the end, the joke is on you. The devil is laughing in your face because he knows you're on your way to hell. I am here to warn you to truly repent. Get right with Jesus because you don't know when your last minute—your last second—is going to be. Are you really right with Jesus Christ, or are you playing games? That will never in all eternity allow you to make the choice of repentance again. Are you making bad choices now? Are you choosing to live for the flesh—the desires of the flesh? Are you living a sinful life? And in the end, are you going to regret that? Because for eternity, you will be in torment.

Make sure you really repent because hell is real. Jesus Christ is real. His salvation is real. But if you don't get right with Him now, you'll have eternity to wish that you did.

Why Millennials Left Church Permanently and Why I did

 Let's just talk shortly about a certain topic that is important to people, and that is why people are leaving church. Now, in the culture, people talk about specifically millennials who have left church over the last 20 years. Millennials are people that are around our age. So, between the ages of about 30 to 40, 45 years old, something like that. And a lot of people around my age have left the church. And I've spoken to many people that have given their opinions why they have left church. And I have realized there's a fundamental reason why a lot of these people have left church. Usually, it's because they have seen hypocrisy in the church, and usually that sort of hypocrisy falls into one or two categories. It's either the category of of, it's actually sin, like maybe their pastor was a hypocrite, and he was committing adultery but pretending to be a good shepherd on Sunday. So, it's actual real sin, or it's something that these millennials see as something hypocritical that's actually just due to their tainted view of reality. I'll give an example of that. I had a client some years back who talked to me, and I got to speaking to them about church and how I had left, and they said, "That's great." And I knew that even though they thought we were on the same page about leaving church, I just knew that they were on a completely different page. And as they spoke, I realized what they thought to be hypocrisy in the church was totally completely different to what Jesus's view of hypocrisy and sin is. And so, what this person thought hypocrisy was is her pastor was up there, you know, preaching against sin and things, but he was including sinners to be people that are transgender and homosexual. And her view of hypocrisy is, how can you say that you are loving and follow a God of love and be hating a whole race of people? You know, these sorts of people consider homosexuals a race, even though it's a sin. And so, they think that pastors in the churches are being racist, and they are being hypocrites because even though they say God is loving, they're hating homosexuals, and they're hating, you know, these people that have decided they're a man in a woman's body or whatever problem they have. So, a lot of millennials have this idea that churches should accept everything, and if they don't, they're hypocrites.

So, the two views that millennials kind of have of hypocrisy, one is that the pastors and the people there really are sinful. Therefore, they left church because they don't want to be around, you know, a pedophile pastor like many of these priests are. And they don't want to be around a hypocritical pastor who is, you know, fornicating with the women in his church while pretending to be a good leader on Sunday. And then there's the people that really are so twisted. They think that churches are hypocritical because they're condemning things that are really sinful. Now, I know how the people in church think. They think of church as a hospital for the sick. And so, they're going to tell you you should be in church. Sick people should be in church, and you should be in church as well because all of us are sinners. And so, they basically justify the sin and the hypocrisy and the wickedness in church as if it's okay. And God just sees us all as equal, and you should just go to church anyway and forget about it; turn a blind eye because we're all trying to go up the mountain of faith anyway. And so, these sorts of Christians, even though they see the blatant hypocrisy, they see the sinfulness, they just say, "Whatever, that's fine. I'm going to go to church anyway because it's better than if I were at the bar or something else on Wednesday night."

Guys, the reason why I left the church as a millennial, because I myself am 39 years old, so I'm a millennial, is far different than the reason why most millennials left the church. Most millennials left the church because they had some kind of spiritual revelation that the church is bad, and so they left. They think that they're holier than thou, so they started other groups. They want to justify their own sin at the end of the day. I didn't leave the church for any of these reasons. I left the church out of a direct revelation from Jesus. And it was scripture that Jesus showed me of why I should leave. He showed me the scripture that talks about how if we touch nothing unclean and separate ourselves, how he will become a father to us, and then we will become as his children. But we can't be yoked with the world. And so, when I read these verses myself being in church, I was convicted, and I knew that I had to sever myself from my religion and people that were in my church, even close members of my family, if I wanted to really hold Jesus's hand and walk with him in the truth. It wasn't that I thought I was holier than thou. It wasn't that I wanted to justify some sin in my life. It wasn't that I was upset that the pastor was pointing his finger at me for sin. I knew that I was in sin. And I knew that the church was a way that I could kind of live my sinful life and justify it because all the people around me were saying it's okay to be a sinner. It's okay we're saved by grace. And the women that were coming to church were all promiscuous. People would of course go to the movies and out to the lake and do all these things with other people in the church that were fun at the time, but also it caused a lot of people to fall into sexual sin and all sorts of other sin as well, drinking and all of those sorts of things.

So, I knew that if I wanted to walk forward in faith with Jesus, I had to leave church because if I didn't, I would still be in a dead religion; I would still be part of the Babylon church system that was leading my soul to hell. It wasn't that I just had some personal revelation that didn't align with the Bible. It wasn't that I just wanted to justify my own sins and not have people point fingers at me. But it was Jesus showing me truthfully that I had to leave the church system. Not just my church at First Baptist, but I needed to leave these organizations that called themselves the body of Christ, sever myself from it, disconnect myself and my family from it, that I could cleave and hold on to Jesus with all of my might and let him become my new teacher, my complete leader, and that he could mold me and shape me to his image.

This is not the reason that most millennials are leaving church, guys. They're leaving church because they're upset that the church is speaking against homosexuality, and they have a brother, they have a brother or a sister that is gay or transgender, they're queer, they're something, and they're very upset at the pastor or their church's laws for speaking against those things. And at the end of the day, they don't want to go to church because they don't want anyone pointing a finger at them that they're a sinner. And so, they can say, "Everyone else is a hypocrite." But they're just trying to get the fingers pointing away from them. But that's not the reason I left. And that is not the reason you should leave church either.

The reason that you should leave church is if you are genuinely choosing to be led by Jesus. If you don't want to be led by Jesus, then by all means, go to church, sign yourself up for their classes to be led by their shepherds and their teachers and their leaders. And by default, if you join a church, you go where your leadership is going. You follow your church where your church is going. But by default also, if you put yourself in the care of Jesus, then you will be going where Jesus is going. So, you have to ask yourself a very fundamental question, and that is, where do you want to go? Do you want to go where Jesus is going, or do you want to go where your church is going? Because you can't choose both. Either you will be a lover of people, and you will follow people and their leadership and their direction and their prophets and their pastors and their Bible studies, or you will follow Jesus and his teachings, and you will be guided by his Holy Spirit.

The church has replaced the guidance of the Holy Spirit for their Holy Bible. So, they kind of have this trinity that is God the father, God the son, and God the Holy Bible, and they have completely eliminated the spirit of life, they've eliminated the holy ghost. But if you want to receive the one true God, Jehovah God, that is the Father, the Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, his spirit that he gives to those that will receive him, the better gift, then you need to sever yourself from dead religion,  server yourself from hypocrisy and the thinking of other millennials and the deception that's in the church. Server yourself from all of that. Get rid of it. Kick those spirits out of your life, and then choose to hold Jesus's hand and walk forward with him by faith, even though the road is lonely, even though no one else may go with you. Likely, other people will scorn you, they will look down on you,they will say you think you're holier than us, you're a hypocrite, they will try to speak every evil of you under and over the sun, just like they did to Jesus. Remember, they called Jesus all these names. They said that he was casting out demons by the prince of demons, that he must be filled with bible, and that Jesus was just this evil hypocritical guy that thought highly of himself. So, if they treated the son of God like that, we are not greater than the master. They will also treat us like that. If they loved Jesus, then they will love us. If they hated Jesus and despised him, they will also despise us.

And I have found in my years of walking with Jesus apart from dead religion, the people who despise genuine faith most are the dead religious Christian crowd. Those that are always going to church, they always think that they know best, they're always combative, they always want to throw scriptures at you thinking that they're more biblical than you, they're always fighting against the Spirit of God. They're never reverent before Jesus, but they always want to give you a verse and prove to you how you're out of alignment because the Lord speaks to you, and they say, "Well, God doesn't speak anymore through dreams or visions or interpretations. He only speaks through my pastor's Bible on Sunday from 8:00 to noon. And if you're not there, you're not hearing God." That is true hypocrisy because the same God who spoke to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has not changed. God is the same forever. He was, he is, and he is to come. And the same way that he spoke to all the holy prophets is the same way he still speaks and communicates with people today because God does not change. He is alive. He wants to lead and guide us, not just from a dead book. It's not about just getting into church and getting into a Bible study. God is alive. If it were true that the Bible is the only way you hear from God, then when you would get to heaven, you wouldn't meet Jesus. You wouldn't meet your father in heaven. You would be standing before the Bible sitting on a throne, and you would have to hold an account before the Bible. And that is not true. It is the Lord Jesus who will judge you according to his words, and he will test you and see if you lived for his words or if you lived according to your flesh.

So, why do you go to church or not go to church? Is it for the same reason as the millennials? Have you stopped going because secretly you have sin in your life, and you just don't want to be condemned for sin? Or are you the sort of person that says, "Well, I don't go to church because there's hypocrisy there, but you also have hypocrisy in your life." Or genuinely, can you say that you are not part of a church because you want holiness and righteousness, and you want to be able to live for Jesus with all of your might? Are you lying to yourself about these things, or are you really working at being separate, not because you think you're holier than thou or better than other people, but genuinely because you have the love of Jesus in you, and you want to keep yourself unstained from the world? So, I hope this encourages someone. I hope this brings someone some light, that they can see the truth of Jesus and put their faith in him and have their eyes open to the kingdom of God. And so, “Lord Jesus, I pray for those, whether they are millennials or whatever age they are, whoever is listening to this message today, I pray that they may repent of their sins for real, that they would put their faith in you, and that they would sever themselves from everything and everyone who is ungodly; that they would not be like the ungodly, but that they would choose to do good before you and receive your Holy Spirit, receive the words of life and be purged from dead religion, be purged from sin and wickedness, that they would have their new white robes on, ready for the wedding supper of the lamb. We pray to eat your flesh and drink your blood and take communion with you all the time, Lord Jesus, because we know that only you have the words of life, and only you can lead us into everlasting life. I pray in your name, Lord Jesus. Amen.”

Is the Gospel of Jesus really preached in church?

 Well, praise Jesus today, everyone. I wanted to talk about a situation that happened in my life that was quite profound, and I share this with you because I want people to be able to distinguish between the true gospel and the false gospel that is so rampant across America and in the Christian churches. See, there are a lot of Christians who are still deceived by church. They say "there are good people in church", "I have a good biblical teacher," and they're very deceived by the doctrines in church. So I want to give you a story of something that happened in my life. It's a bit of a testimony, but some of it is someone else's testimony, but I want to share that with you.

See, I was a pastor at a Baptist church. It was in Tulare, so in the central valley, in the San Joaquin Valley, for about seven years. And during that time, nearing the end of my time there, Jesus started giving me dreams and visions about how the church was as a whorehouse because as a man goes to a prostitute for love, that is not genuine; it is lust, so a lot of people are going to the Christian church out of lust and not out of true love. They're going to her as a prostitute, but not because they want genuine repentance.

So I had this message from the Lord. I left the church where I was leading junior high students primarily, and you know, that was my main job. I left that church, and I believe it was back in 2011 somewhere, during the middle of the year. And after I left that church, I started sharing my testimony on Facebook with other people in the church, on YouTube, and I started making Jesus’ shirts. Well, I made this one Jesus shirt that I was wearing, and I would go out to Denny's. And this one shirt that I was wearing said, "Jesus forever changed me," and it was a white shirt with big black letters. And I walked into Denny's with my wife, and I'm sitting down at Denny's halfway through my meal, and this guy comes up to me. He introduced himself as Brother Richard. And Richard, if you're watching this, praise Jesus! I hope that you're still following the Lord today. But Richard just wanted to encourage me. He came up to me at Denny's, and he said, "You must be a true brother in the Lord," because no one else would be wearing a shirt like that unless they really were unashamed of Jesus. And it was so encouraging to me, and we were able to fellowship, and we talked later on the phone. And he didn't really know my full testimony or where I was at church at that time, or where I had come out of, what, you know, what church I'd come out of.

And Richard started talking to me about, well, let me back up. He asked me what church I was a part of, and I said I was part of the First Baptist Church in town. And he said, "Wait, back up. Was it the one on..." and he mentioned right where it was, and I said, "Yeah, that was the church." And Richard told me that sometime prior to that, there was another person in the Lord that he had got to witness to. And he got to speaking to this person about true repentance and the gospel of Jesus and what it means to give your life to the Lord and be set free from addictions. And you know, Brother Richard had a prison ministry where he'd go and he'd speak to these men in prison about true repentance and being set free from drugs and alcohol. And he really was bringing the light of Jesus to people. And this one person, he shared the gospel with, and the person said, "I've never heard that before in my life." And so Richard asked him, "Well, brother, what church did you go to that you've never heard the gospel?" And the person answered, "I was going to First Baptist Church of Tulare."

And I don't say this to slander anybody. I don't say this to slander any individual church, but this is a genuine and real story that happened. This person said that they had been going to Tulare First Baptist Church for over a decade, and they had never heard the gospel. And when they heard the gospel preached to them from this brother, Brother Richard, and praise the Lord if you are watching this and hearing this, and I hope that you're still preaching the truth, but they were, he was shocked, and I was shocked. Well, I wasn't too shocked because I had been there seven years and never heard the gospel. And so it was astonishing to me though how people could be in church for a decade or two decades and then never hear the gospel until someone that has genuinely met Jesus shares the gospel with them.

Why I'm sharing this with you today is to hopefully get you to get your eyes on Jesus and off of dead religion. A lot of people can't even distinguish the false grace gospel that is being taught in the Baptist churches or a lot of these churches, whatever denomination they are, compared to what Jesus actually taught throughout the scriptures. We have generations of people who have been raised just listening to their pastor, listening to the grace gospel lies that say, "You're saved by grace, you don't have to take up your cross, you don't have to repent, you don't have to stop sinning, that would be a work." And when someone just brings up the obvious, like how Brother Richard did in this situation, people are floored, they're shocked. And this person had been going to the same church I was a pastor at for over a decade, and they had never, ever once heard the gospel. This is very incredible. It's mind-blowing.

And the church that I was a pastor at, guys, is not some terrible church in the world. You can go look it up for yourself. It's probably not different than any church you have been to. It's a pretty standard church. They believe all the things that other Christians believe. They believe in the scripture, you know, the validity of the Bible. They believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Jesus, his death and his resurrection. They believe in the sanctity of marriage and all these things that Christians believe. The core values First Baptist Church believed, yet the true gospel hadn't been taught in that church for over a decade. Think about that.

Now, I want to read to you something Jesus said, and remember that the things that Jesus speaks are spiritual. I want to read to you what he said in Matthew chapter 25. I'm going to start in verse 31. This is speaking about when the Son of Man will judge the nations. When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. So there are truly good people and bad people. There's his sheep and there's his goats, and God makes a distinction, and he doesn't just say everyone's going to heaven because of grace, but some people are on his right, and some are on his left. So let's listen to what Jesus taught. Verse 33: "And he will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right hand, 'Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundations of the world, or from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me.' Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? Or when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?' And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, in as much as you did it to one of the least of my brethren, you did it to me.'"  

This is interesting because it seems like they didn't know when they had done this for Jesus. Now remember what Jesus is speaking is spiritual. There are a lot of people that are good people in the world or governments that are trying to do good, and they do this very thing. They give to the poor, they visit people that are in prison, they do all these things, but they do it in the name of their government or their organization. Do you think that those people God is going to say, "Enter into my kingdom because you gave out of the charity of your government?" So what is Jesus speaking about here? Let's read on to see.

Then he will also say to those on his left hand, "Depart from me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take me in; naked and you did not clothe me; sick and in prison and you did not visit me." Then they will also answer him, saying, "Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to you?" In other words, they might as well be saying, "We did do all those things, Jesus, didn't we prophesy in your name? Didn't we cast out demons in our church? Didn't we go to the prisons? Didn't we have all these ministries, Lord?"  

Then he will answer them, saying, "Assuredly, I say to you, in as much as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me. And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."  

I'm speaking here, and Jesus is speaking here about spiritual food. We can do good as a government, and we can feed the homeless or the impoverished. We can preach a social justice gospel and equality for all, and the government tries to make all these kinds of programs to help people who are minority groups, and they push for social justice. Even if there is 100% social justice, that doesn't mean that God is going to say you're holy or let you into his kingdom. But the spiritual food here is people who are spiritually malnourished that haven't heard the true gospel. And the prison is the prison people are in because of sin. Now, obviously, if we have a brother in the Lord who is in prison, we can visit them, and Brother Richard has done this. There's been people that I have written to that are physically in prison, and we can help a brother out or a sister out who needs food or who needs money or something like that. But spiritually, what Jesus is speaking about is the bondage to sin. And these people are not helping out Jesus with his mission, calling people to repentance or giving them the food of everlasting life that comes from him when we are eating his flesh and drinking his blood.

There's a lot of Christians that think that they are doing good. The First Baptist Church that I belonged to, they visited people in prison, they helped orphans and widows, they put on Bible studies, they did all these things. So they think that they can check off the box and say, "Yep, I've done everything in Matthew 25 that Jesus said," as you know, the people on his right hand. "But what about me? I was under their care, and I never heard the gospel. What about this other brother that was in their church for over a decade? He never heard the gospel." These churches have blood on their hands because they are not spiritually setting people free from sin. They're not preaching the gospel, yet they think God is going to spare them in the judgment even though they haven't called sinners to repentance. So that is what we're talking about today. We're talking about spiritual food and being set free from the bondage or the prison of sin.

It is very sad that the Christian church, whether it's Catholic or Baptist, some form of Pentecostal, the churches across America have forgotten the first love for Jesus that calls sinners to repentance. I want to read to you what Jesus said in regards to true repentance and being set free from that prison, that bondage, and this is found in John chapter 8. This is part of the true gospel that the church is not teaching because they are not feeding those that are hungry, they're not visiting those that are in prison, they're not helping those who are sick. They're just going on acting like everything is okay. But for those of you that have an ear to hear and can hear what Jesus is saying spiritually to his true church, pay attention and listen.

John 8, I'm starting in verse 31: "Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him, 'If you abide in my word, you are my disciples indeed.'" To abide means to obey. So what Jesus is saying is, you're my disciples if you obey me, not if you go to church on Sunday, not if you keep up your church attendance, not if you can wear a nice suit to church and look good on the outside, but if you obey, then you are Jesus's disciples indeed. And then he says, "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." See, you're not free just because you live in the United States. You're not free just because you're not in financial debt. You are a slave to sin even if you say you're a Christian if you are still sinning. This is where many pastors and Christians will disagree, and they're not disagreeing with me, they're disagreeing with the gospel, they're disagreeing with Jesus himself. So listen to what Jesus taught.

They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say you will be made free?" Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin." So if you're a Baptist sinner, you're a slave and you're in bondage, you're in prison. If you're a Catholic sinner, then you are in bondage and you're in prison, no matter what denomination or sect of Christianity you are, you are a slave and you're in prison if you are in sin. And this is central to the gospel. And a slave does not abide in the house forever. What house is that? That would be God's kingdom. You're not going to abide in God's kingdom forever and be in his house if you are continuing to sin. You'll be, you'll be thrown out of his house. But he says, "But a son abides forever. Therefore if the son makes you free, you shall be free indeed." Free from what? Is that free from cursing? What have you been set free from? A lot of Christians say, "Well, we're never set free, we continue to sin, and we just believe the grace gospel, which we don't ever have to really change because we're in the flesh and we don't have to change anyway." That is the grace gospel, and that is what many Christians teach, but that is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. What Jesus said is, if the son makes you free, which means free from sin, you shall be free indeed. So the question is, if you think that you're under grace and you're still sinning, what have you been freed from? Have you been freed from looking at pornography? Have you been freed from adultery or fornication or bad language, from drinking, from drugs, alcohol? What have you been freed from if you have really come into Jesus? Because what Jesus says is, if the son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. And if you're not free, then you're not a son, but you're a slave.  

This is the gospel that is not being preached in First Baptist Church. This is the gospel that is not being taught from the pulpit. So Jesus goes on to say, "I know that you are Abraham's descendants, but you seek to kill me because my word has no place in you. I speak what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have seen with your father."  

They answered and said to him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. You do the deeds of your father."  

Then they said to him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God." Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of myself, but he sent me. Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are not able to listen to my word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? He who is of God hears God's words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God."  

Most Christians are not of God. They fall into the category of the Pharisees who mocked Jesus. They said that Jesus was demon-possessed. They said Jesus was casting out demons by the prince of demons, Beelzebub, and they blasphemed the Holy Spirit that Jesus was working with. The Christian church is sadly doing the same thing. They're not feeding the flock. They withhold the true gospel because they don't want to offend anyone, and they want that money coming in. They say, "Pay your tithe, brother. You don't want to break the Old Testament law and not give tithe. Make sure you keep up your attendance." So, out of one side of their mouth, they're saying they're saved by grace, not by works of the law, but then out of their other side of their mouth, they're preaching the law by preaching tithe and you need to keep up the work of going to church and reading your church and reading your Bible and doing these religious prayers in church. So which is it? Obviously, it's pure and plain hypocrisy.

If we want to know the truth, we need to get back to Jesus and his words, and that is why I am here just preaching on YouTube. I'm not here to try to get popular or for people to like me. I'm not here to try to start a church. I'm just here to preach Jesus free of charge because when Jesus called me out of the church, that's what he called me to do, is to testify, to give testimony of the things that I have seen and heard, to bear witness to the truth and to preach, but not for money like they do in church, not as the money preachers, not as those who are trying to get famous, but just out of the love in my heart for the Lord Jesus. The reason why the apostles spoke was because they loved Jesus. It wasn't to try to start a big, famous church and to become a corporation. They taught people, and they encouraged people out of the love of their heart for the Lord Jesus, and this should be the same reason that drives us.

So are we really in the love of the Lord? Are we participating in the gospel? Are we actively living the gospel, or are we like those in First Baptist Church who have heard a form of the gospel for years but have never heard the true gospel preached in decades, maybe multiple decades? Have you heard the true gospel? Have you received it in your heart? And are you encouraging others in the truth? Are you telling the other, are you telling other people about the gospel of Jesus Christ in true repentance? That's what we want to encourage people to do.

So let me pray for those of you that want to receive the true gospel, that want to truly repent of your sin and put Jesus Christ where he should be in your heart as Lord and Master and King. So Lord Jesus, I pray that someone listening today may receive your Holy Spirit, that they would cast out the devil and that they would receive the baptism of your Holy Spirit, that they would speak in their new tongue, and that they would truly receive that indwelling that comes only from you, that they would be a changed man or a changed woman, and that they would receive your true gospel and they that they would reject what is unrighteous and unholy and not true. I pray that we would daily eat your flesh and drink your blood and teach others to do the same. I pray that we would not fall away because of mammon or the deceitfulness of riches or the lusts of the flesh, but that we could be steadfast to the truth and be just bowing our heads only before the one and true living God. I pray that you lead us and guide us and that you would continue to add to those who want to be part of the household of faith that have ears to hear and that want to have eyes to see. So I pray for those who are listening today. Maybe someone is listening today that's never heard the gospel before, but they've been in church all their life. I pray for them. I pray that you would touch the ears of those that need to hear and the hearts of those that need to repent and that someone would truly give their life to you and come into the newness of life. I pray this in your name, Lord Jesus, amen."

We are All Imperfect People

 "We are all imperfect people." This is a statement I hear from the church culture all the time. While it is true that all of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and are not perfect, Jesus DOES call us to REPENT of our imperfections and to CHANGE. The problem with the church culture is they cherish their imperfections and even justify themselves in their imperfections and sinful lifestyles. They make themselves believe that they do not have to really repent and do GOOD for the Lord Jesus. Remember that the condemnation it's not that we are not perfect but that people loved Darkness rather than the light of the Truth because their DEEDS were EVIL. (John 3:19-21) Sadly most Christians are on their way to HELL because they love Darkness rather than the light of the truth

Sharing a Dream I had of a Civil Rights Activist That is in Hell

We'll praise Jesus today everyone. I feel very blessed to be able to share this message with you today without the fear that I will be fired from being a pastor or fired from my workplace or fired from an organization. I don't work for the church anymore. I don't work for an organization. I don't belong to anyone like that. Therefore, I can bring the gospel free of charge because I'm not paid to receive anyone's money to preach the gospel, and that is truly a blessing. 

See, when you are part of an organization that stands for some religious cause and they're the ones that pay you, then you have to stand behind their organization, and you can only speak about what they allow you to speak for. When you are separate from them, when you belong to Jesus Christ and you're owned by the Lord Jesus Christ, then you're his property, and you can speak, speak about whatever he calls you to speak about. 

The devil doesn't want me to speak this message today, and I have no doubt that I would be fired if I preached this message in church or at any other pulpit, but I bring to you this message because it is the truth, and this message was given to me by divine revelation from God, and I want to share it with you. 

So, in a dream during the night or close to the morning, probably around 4:00 a.m. or so in the morning, I had this vision or this dream. I was completely asleep, but I had this vision while I was in my sleep, and I saw a certain person. I saw this person through a period of time from when she was young to when she was old and to the point where she died, and then she had a museum made after her. Actually, the museum was her own house that I believe that was restored, and all her items of her house or many of the items that she had done throughout her life were in this house, and people to this day still praise and they worship this lady. 

Now, I have no idea who this person is. In my dream, I did not know who this person is or everything she stood for, but let me explain who she is because she can most likely fit identically someone that is in real life, although I don't know the name of this person in real life. In my dream, this person's name was Anna. That was the name that she was born with in my dream, but she somehow along the way, I believe, changed her name or at least she had a different name that was popularized so that people that read her literature would recognize her by that name. 

When this lady was young, she had many different personalities, things that she believed about herself, attributes about herself that she believed that were not true. They were lies, they were fantasies she would make up. She often believed that she was a boy when she was actually a girl, and as she grew older, she would openly speak about this sort of thing, and there were people that didn't approve, but other people that did. In my dream, this girl, I couldn't quite tell if she was a boy or a girl. I knew she was most likely a girl, but often when I would see her as she was growing, she looked an awful lot like a boy, and she liked that aspect about herself. 

This person, as far as I could tell in my dream, looked like she was black or at least she was half black, and by the time she died, she looked like she was maybe, I don't know, I'm guessing maybe 75, 80 years old. She had kind of short, curly hair, but she appeared to me to be a black lady or at least half black, and she became a very popular activist, not just for black people, but for people that were homosexual or transgender, people that were completely against God. 

And in my dream, this lady was an artist. She would write all sorts of literature that then other people would publish, and people would look at, and people would basically worship who were part of that sort of culture, and as this lady grew more and more popular promoting her worldview, she eventually died, and I saw that she had her face engraved into what looked like it was iron or steel or maybe something volcanic, something like that, and I saw it far up on like a mountain, and in my dream, I believed it was something that she created like a self-image to herself, and I could see that in that image, you know, she looked like an older lady, you know, 60, 70 years old, and that basically encapsulated what she looked like to other people, you know, an African-American woman, I perceive. I believe that she was African-American, but anyways, people basically worshiped this lady because she was black and because she was homosexual and the things that she stood for. 

So, after she died, and again, this is all in my dream, I saw that they brought back her house, and her house that was brought back, the inside of it, they refurnished to have many of the things she had as she was a girl. So, I saw things that maybe were like dolls, and these different dolls symbolized different ways she visualized herself. 

One of those dolls that she had looked to me like it was a lizard, and it was like a demon. I knew that all of these things portrayed who she was spiritually, and as I walked through her house, and I saw the different things she wrote, and I heard the different people speaking about her and praising her and basically worshiping her for her false ideas, I could hear the spirit of God speaking that she was in hell, and I remember thinking in my dream, I can't tell this to anyone because I am in her house, and if I say it, these people will, they'll slaughter me, they'll kill me if I am in her house, and all of them are worshiping her, and if I bring this out, I'm going to be in big trouble. I'll be fired from my job, I'll be let go from wherever I'm here.

 And so in my dream, I kept quiet, and as I left her house, I knew that this person was in hell, and the whole life she lived was a lie. All the different personalities she brought up, all the different aspects she brought up about life, all was a huge, huge lie, yet people to the present time worship this lady for what she believed and what she did as if she was valiant, as if she was courageous, and they praised her for being a civil rights activist, for being a feminist, for standing up for what they believe to be women's rights, but this lady never became the person of God that the Lord Jesus Christ wanted her to be. She never was that person, even though she was made in the image of God. She never became the person God wanted her to be. 

She became the image of the devil because she worshiped the devil, and then the devil upheld her image so that other people could worship her image and fall down before that image, that the false image that she was molded into would also mold other people and bring them to hell. 

This dream that I had represents a large number of people that follow after false idols in the world, people that worship the devil, and there are many people that uphold homosexuals, transgenders, women's rights activists, feminists, people that are upholding all of these things, things that seem so wonderful and praiseworthy to the world, but these people are in hell. If they don't repent and put their faith in Jesus and start preaching holiness and righteousness and living for that, they will be damned for their damnable beliefs. 

I am here to warn you and to warn others that hell is real, and these people are ending up in hell because they are not righteous. The world will of course say that they are saints, that they are beautiful people, and they were beautiful people, they were created in the image of God, but unless we repent of our sins and throw off hypocrisy, throw off worshiping self and making these false images and engraved images of ourselves, then the devil's going to take us to hell, and the devil is taking many people to hell, including Christians, many good people the devil is taking to hell because these people never worship God, they never live for Jesus Christ his way, they live for themselves, they worship themselves, and they are molded into the image of the Antichrist. They worship the beast, they bow down to the beast, and they let Satan, the serpent, take them to hell, the same snake that deceived Eve. Even though Eve and Adam were created in the image of God, they listened to the serpent, and they listened to that, and it took them to hell. 

In the same way, many people today are listening to the snake. They can't hear Jesus. The closest they get to hearing Jesus is maybe they crack open their Bible, and they read a little bit of that, and then they get deceived right after that because they go and listen to people.

But if you want the truth, you need to get to know the truth. The truth is Jesus Christ himself. Jesus said that he is the truth, he is the way, and he is life. So, are you in the truth today, or are you deceived by all of the fantasies of this world, all of the art that is put out by this world, all the musicians that are lying to people, all of the pastors, all of the church organizations, all of the false prophets? Are you deceived by that? 

How about all of the false truths that are put out on the internet about all sorts of different things? Are you deceived by that, or have you really put your faith in Jesus? Do you cling to him? Do you live by his words? Do you practice what Jesus taught? Do you know the Beatitudes, for example? Do you know what Jesus taught in the Book of John, Matthew, Luke? Do you know what happened in the Book of Acts? Have you read these things, and have you put the words of Jesus into practice, or have you been deceived by men who lie, that make pedestals of themselves, their organizations, but who lead people away from God? 

Don't be led by sinful men. Don't be led by so-called prophets or leaders of the church. Don't join yourself into an organization or to a church that when you hear from God, then you back away from his words so that you will please people. Rather, disconnect, disconnect from the false churches, disconnect from homosexuality, disconnect from all the theologians who say they know God but who are hypocrites. 

Disconnect from men and connect yourself to Jesus. Make him your teacher, make him your leader, make him your guide so that then he can put in you his Holy Spirit, that he can teach you his ways and clean you out of your old self that believed lies and followed after the devil that was deceived by this world. I want to encourage those of you that have been deceived to put your faith in the Lord, and I want to pray with you. 

“Lord Jesus, I pray for those that want to receive your gospel, that want to be set free from the bondage of sin and of darkness and of this satanic culture that we live in. I know so many students today, so many kids today, so many adults are in the bondage of sin because they have listened to the Antichrist, they've listened to the beast, they listened to the snake, and the devil is taking them to hell. I pray that those who have an ear to hear today may hear, that they may repent, and that they would put on righteousness, and that you would clothe them, that you would cloak them in your purity and in your righteousness, and that you would cleanse them from all unrighteousness. 

Give them a new heart, a new mind, and let them receive the gospel of the truth. Let them receive your Holy Spirit, let them be filled with your Holy Spirit and not the false lies of the Christian church that has received homosexuality in every sort of perversion under the sun. I pray that we can be separate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and that we would just receive the Tree of Life, your life, Lord. So, I pray for the listener that is listening today that may have an ear, that you would open his or her ear, that they would hear your truth, not my voice, but that they would hear your voice, Lord, and come into your kingdom and be saved and receive your New Covenant. In your name, I pray, Lord Jesus, amen.”