Well, praise Jesus today, everyone. I just wanted to make a short message here while I'm driving to my next job. And what I wanted to address is the fact that being a good Christian churchgoer, or being a moral person, or being a good Republican that wants to see our country turn around, will not help anyone enter into the kingdom of God. See, Donald Trump does stand for a lot of things that are true. And all of us know that he has character flaws, and he's not a godly man. He does stand for things that are traditionally good for Christians. He's against abortion. He's even against alcohol and tattoos and things that are not traditional for Christians. And that is wonderful. But it is not good that Christians are not really putting their faith and their hope in Jesus.
If
you're putting your faith and your hope in a country or in a person or in a
kingdom of this world, you can know that your empire or your president or your
earthly king is going to let you down. And secondly, even if we do achieve a
Republican presidency, where there are primarily Republicans in office, and the
churches can have freedom, and all of those things that we want as Christians,
you know, even if we can uphold the sanctity of life and be against abortion,
even if we can achieve all of that, guys, that doesn't mean that we have entry
into heaven. It will likely help the economy, and less babies will be aborted,
and hopefully they will make some laws to keep homosexual agenda, LGBTQ, out of
the curriculum of the United States, and all that kind of stuff. But even if
that is achieved in America, and we hope it is, that does not mean that people
are now saved and entering into the kingdom of God.
I hope
this message makes sense to someone, because this is a really critical thing to
understand. It seems that a lot of Christians suppose that because they're good
moral people, and because they prayed a prayer in the past of salvation, and
because they go to church or read the Bible, they suppose that they're going to
be given access into heaven. That's not how it works. If we want to be accepted
by Jesus Christ, we have to daily deny ourselves, pick up our cross, and follow
Jesus every single day to the very end of our life. And very few Christians are
doing that. Most Christians want to have religion. They want to listen to their
pastor, they want to go to Greg Laurie's church, or they want to listen to
whoever the latest, most popular pastor is. They like all of these Hollywood
sort of preachers, and people that sound good.
But who
is standing up for Jesus? …that follows men, that follows the traditions of
man, that follows all these ideas of the churches that are not true…Sadly, the
American church at their core is following men. They're following their
traditions, and they're following God their way, and they're not following God
the way of the Holy Spirit, they're not following God Jesus' way. Very few
Christians hear from Jesus. They do hear the preacher on Sunday. They hear the
prophets, they listen to the 700 Club, they read the books that are coming out
in the Christian culture, and they watch the movies that are being put out by
the Christian pastors, but they're not really hearing from Jesus, and because
of that they are spiritually lost. The men can't really be men, the women can't
really be women. Families are broken, and that is because people are putting
their faith in church, they're putting their faith in the Bible, they're
putting their faith in Christian pastor, Christian doctrine, and all these
Christians that are in this deception think that as long as they get Donald
Trump back in, then their churches will be empowered to have more powerful
worship sets where more powerful people are playing guitar up there, and they
think it's all about their church ceremony, they're very deluded.
Following
Jesus is not about going to church, it's not about doing worship in church,
it's not about reading the Bible, following Jesus is about knowing Jesus,
hearing His voice, and then going everywhere that He leads you to go. That's
why Jesus said, my sheep hear my voice and they do not listen to strangers. Today
we have a whole generation of Christians, a whole nation, a whole church of
Christians that don't hear the voice of the Good Shepherd. And that is very sad
because these Christians, even though they may get Donald Trump re-elected,
even though they may get a powerful speaker at their church, although they may
sing powerful worship hymns in church, they're still headed to hell because
they're not following the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. They're
following God their way. They're worshiping God their way. And because of that
they can't follow Jesus, they can't truly be washed clean, and sadly they will
not enter into the Kingdom of God. They are the five foolish virgins that have
a lamp but it has no oil. Not only do we need a lamp, but we need oil in our
lamp. It's like having a flashlight without batteries.
And these Christians proclaim Jesus, they
proclaim the Bible, they say they believe in the Scriptures, and they believe
that Jesus died on the cross, resurrected from the dead. It's as if they have
that lamp and they want to shine but they have no oil. So the question that I
have for you today is, is there oil in your lamp? Do you really know Jesus
Christ? Or are you like the nation of Christians that are just trying to get
Donald Trump elected so they can just get back in church and just do worship
and do Bible study as they always did in their churches?
Are you
deceived by religion like most of this nation? Or do you really know Jesus
Christ? Are you His lamb that is following the lamb wherever He leads? Do you
follow the Good Shepherd? So that's my question for you guys.
If you
call yourself a Christian, do you really hear Jesus Christ? You know,
Christians all pray, but not many Christians are hearing Jesus back clearly. They
hear their imagination, they hear the pastor, they hear the celebrity
preachers, they hear the movie actors, and they hear the devil. All the time
Christians are reporting that they hear Satan. They hear evil spirits in their
minds. But they don't hear Jesus. That is a big problem. I want to encourage
you to have a prayer life, to learn to hear Jesus Christ, to learn to obey Him,
to dedicate your life to Him. And that way you can be saved. You can put your
faith in Jesus Christ and obey Him and walk with Him to the very end of your
life.
So I
want to pray for you, if you are someone who is out there that does want to put
your faith in Jesus, maybe you know that you're not hearing from the Lord. Maybe
you know that you're just playing religion and that you're lost in church.
Maybe you've been going to church for, you know, 3, 4, 5 decades and you know
that you're not right with the Lord. I want to pray for you that you might come
into a real relationship with the Lord, that you might be baptized in water and
baptized in the Holy Spirit. And in these times that we live that you might
really walk with Jesus. “So Lord Jesus, I pray for your true church, the true
body of Christ. I pray that people can come out of darkness and out of the
deception of dead religion that leaves people void and empty even though they
continue to read their Bibles and continue to go to church and continue to listen
to sermons. We know that you Lord Jesus are the only one that has the power to
save, not these pastors that are writing books and making movies and trying to
build mega churches and kingdoms on this earth. We want to worship the King of
Kings and Lord of Lords. And I pray Lord Jesus that you bring your flock into
you that they may hear your voice and worship you alone and be led by you
alone. So I pray for the true body of Christ. I pray for my fellow brothers and
sisters in the Lord that they may come out of dead religion, that they may come
out of sin and be unshackled from anything that binds them to worldliness and
deceptions of dead religion. I pray this in your name Lord Jesus. Amen.”
