INSTANT REGRET: They Tried to Hide It, but Got CAUGHT

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I am a Christian. That is my faith. I'm not asking you to be a Christian. If you want to be one,

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I can show you how. Who am

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I really? My answer is I am God's child. I am that which is born of all that is.

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I am, as Pierre de Chardin said, a spiritual being having a human experience.

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Come trailing the breath of the ancestors yet, but trailing the breath of the angels.

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And understanding that because I am connected to the source of all that is, all that is possible is possible for me.

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That's who I am. No repentance, no gospel, sin, no wrath of God, no nothing.

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Now, your fan base is not just Christian, right? I understand you have Muslims, even atheists.

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How do you explain that? Why would an atheist be a fan? Well, I think what they like, Larry, is when the principles that we teach are from the scripture, but they can help anybody to reach dreams or to forgive or to have a healthy, good self -image.

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I know I'm not a traditional pastor in terms of I'm just going down teaching scripture by scripture because a lot of what

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I would teach would just be more how to live a great life. With flashy speakers who tell us everything we want to hear so that we can have our best life now, because that is indeed what we want more than God.

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There is no power because the gospel is lost. You bring the gospel back and you'll see the power of God move upon the lives of men, women, and children.

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Now, imagine the apple is you and you're trying to get your orchard out, but there's all of the things surrounding you that are causing you not to be who you were created to be.

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The transformational potential of this apple is never in its peeling.

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It's never in the meat of the apple. It is only when you are able to get it down to the core.

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Okay? The core essence, when you touch the core and you get down to the seed, you have then gotten to the place where you can find this fullest and best potential.

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I've said it before and I'll say it again. It's not a little angel. That's a

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Viper in a diaper. You come into this world. You can barely open your eyes.

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For months, you can barely hold up your head. Grab his head now.

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You can't sit up. You can't talk. You can't crawl. You can't walk, but you can let everybody know that you're running things.

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The angry cry happens early. The demanding cry happens early. The stiffening up of the body, that happens early.

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It's so cute. Oh, that ain't cute. One of the reasons

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God makes them so small is so that they won't kill you. One of the reasons he makes them so cute is so that you won't kill them.

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We are sinners. The word receiving means receipting.

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And so he said, when you give, you get a receipt in heaven that when you have a need, you can then go with your receipt and say, you see,

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God, I have got my receipt from my sowing. And now I have a need and I'm cashing in my receipt.

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I don't hear what I'm saying. That's what the Bible meant when it said, give and it shall be given to you.

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Again, good measure. Press down, shake it together and run it over.

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There's no way you can serve me and need not serve you.

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The more you give to me, the more I give back to you.

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This deception, this pagan, pantheistic perspective that has been turned into a spiritual

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Ponzi scheme, making the people at the top of the food chain rich, preying on the desires, the material, worldly desires of the people who want all this stuff.

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Third John 2 says, beloved, I pray that you might prosper in every way and that your body might keep well, even as I know your soul prospers and keeps well.

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So we say right there that God wants us to be healthy. Can everybody say, God wants me to be healthy?

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This is not a theological statement. This is not a doctrinal statement. It's not a statement of teaching.

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It's not a didactic, not a teaching statement. It's simply a common greeting to a letter.

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Nothing more and nothing less. Don't let people tell you that God just wants to give you enough.

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His name, El Shaddai means more than enough.

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Why would a God whose name means more than enough stop at enough?

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I've heard people criticize you for having so much. Now you drive a wonderful car and you have a plane and you have all of the accoutrements of success.

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Listening to the sermon today, I understood very clearly because God doesn't just bless you and say enough.

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He allows your cup to run it over. Some of the criticisms that you're preaching prosperity,

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I was reading some of the critics and I was thinking, well, why would you, why would anybody criticize you for preaching prosperity?

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Because what kind of God wants you to be poor and miserable? That's the way I feel as well.

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Your worldview is wrong. Your philosophy is wrong. It's not just wrong. It's an affront to God.

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You ought to know better. You're in sin. But the good news is God has extended to you an opportunity to repent, to turn away from your sin, to turn away from the things that you have attempted to do in order to appease this

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God. Well, I have a different view of Christian than you do.

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Okay. And the God I serve, the

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God I serve doesn't care whether you're tall or short or whether you were born black or Asian or gay.

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But if what you believe is something other than that which was proclaimed, you have no hope of salvation.

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So first and foremost, it's important that we get the gospel right, because if we don't, there are people out there, including ourselves, who will be duped into believing that they are right with God when in fact they are at enmity with him.

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God accepts and approves you right where you are. Faults and all, mistakes, shortcomings, not when you overcome, but right now.

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He knows you're on a journey. He's changing you little by little. He accepts you.

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Now you have to accept yourself. He approves you. You have to approve yourself.

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Sir, God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. What? God loves me?

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That's great because I love me too. Oh, this is wonderful.

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And God's got a wonderful plan. I got a wonderful plan for my life too. And if I accept him into my life,

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I'll have my best life now. This is absolutely wonderful. That is not biblical evangelism.

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Let me give you something in its place. God comes to Moses and he says this.

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The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding and loving kindness and truth, who keeps loving kindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin.

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Yet he will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. The reaction of Moses.

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Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship. Evangelism begins with the nature of God.

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My doctrinal statement is no different from yours, except for the word manifest instead of persons, which you described as modalist and I described as Pauline.

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To reject how God has revealed himself to exist is going to obviously put you in the position of not being able to worship the one true

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God. If that's you today, you say,

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I want to be forgiven. I don't want to live this life anymore. I want to live my life for God. I want to learn about him and I'm ready to surrender.

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Then I'd like you to pray this prayer with me right now. You just I'm just going to pray a few words and then you pray it out loud.

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Father God, I love you. I'm looking forward to my new life with you. Amen. Well, congratulations, you have just become part of the family of God.

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You have the authority to tell men the gospel. You have authority to tell men how to be saved and you have authority to teach men biblical principles of assurance.

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But you have no authority to tell men they are saved. That is the work of the

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Holy Spirit of God. But when you take them through that little thing, did you ask

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Jesus into your heart? Yes. Do you think you were sincere? Yes. Do you think he saved you?

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I don't know. Of course he saved you because you were sincere and he promised that if you asked him to come in, he'd come in.

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So you're saved. And they walk out of the church after five minutes of counseling and the evangelist goes to Denny's to eat and the man is lost.

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The man is lost. An unbiblical invitation. If they ever doubt, if they ever doubt their salvation, again, here we go again.

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If they ever doubt their salvation, well, let's go back to a point in time. Was there ever a point in time in your life when you prayed and asked Jesus to come in?

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Yes. Were you sincere? I think so. It's the devil bothering you. And if they live without growth, even in the context of a church, without growth, in continued carnality, no fear.

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We blame it on the lack of personal discipleship. And we write it off as the doctrine of the carnal

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Christian. Would you pray with me?

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Just say, Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come into my heart.

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I make you my Lord and Savior. If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got born again.

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But he gets to the end of the message and they start to play the soft music and he looks out and he says, if there are any of you out there and you've never come to God through faith in his son

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Jesus Christ, you just need to repeat this prayer after me. And it was something very similar to this.

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I almost got whiplash. Where did that come from? Where did we get that? And here's the other thing.

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People start walking to the front and I'm going, where are they going and why? There's been no gospel preached.

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There's been nothing about Jesus, nothing about sin, nothing about repentance, nothing about. I think it's great that you all made a conscious choice to include gay marriage in here.

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Absolutely. Yeah. Why? Because one of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness.

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And trust me, I've talked to enough LGBT. They are not all the same. Oh, for sure. But how do we, first of all, has your thinking evolved on this?

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Evolved and evolving, evolved and evolving. And I can't tell you how many times

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I've said something about a contemporary issue. I mean, you name it.

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You talk about, you know, homosexuality, transgender, this or this, whatever. And you throw the thing out there and there are the people, there are the 11th commandment

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Christians who come and every problem that we have in the world is a result of Christians not being nice enough.

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We just, it just sounds so offensive the way you said that. And I'll bite, but only to prove another point.

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And here's, here's the point that I want to prove. I come back and I say, you know, I just, I think it's very interesting.

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I brought up the people who are engaging in this sin that was so heinous that God destroyed twin cities with fire and brimstone.

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And they're shaking their fists at God and flaunting their sin.

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And you're more offended by me confronting them than you are by their debauchery.

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How does that work? We're all on a different path because no two paths are alike, but God's got us all on the road to victory.

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When I started it, I wasn't even cognizant of the fact that women didn't normally do that. I mean,

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I was just so caught up in what I felt like God was telling me to do. Churches, I demand you come undone in the name of Jesus.

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And you're not taking me out with you. I'm going to stand where God has planted me.

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I'm going to be who God has called me to be. Evangelism has so perverted the culture, and the culture has so perverted the church, that the churches are increasingly rejecting the will and command of the

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Lord. This is not unclear. They have no interest in the honor of the

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Lord. Rebellious women pastors and preachers flood the church in the roles that were for men.