(The Church in the Last Days) 08 - the Harlot — Milton Green

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Satan, Spiritual Warfare, and the Cutting Down of Fruitless Branches

Okay, let's continue. Now, let me turn to me just a minute look at me just a minute. Do you remember? Many of you I didn't get to cover this with that. And Isaiah 14 it talks about Talking about Satan and Isaiah 14 since you laid low no tree cutter comes up against it Satan and the powers that I can say the tree cutter because we are the trees you understand that and they come to cut us.

Down right now and in John 15 and in Matthew 7 when it's talking about if you don't bear the right if you don't bear fruit for God what's going to happen? The branch is going to be quite Cut down. Because if your hearts are obeying the devil you gonna bear his fruit.

They get permission to come in and damage everything within the sanctuary and destroy you. You understand see this is learning the fear of God folks. This is a fear of God. If you don't walk in love, you're destroyed.

That's plain and So they are the tree cutters and this is what you're reading here. Let's come in and move within the sanctuary. They have taken over the meeting houses with their doctrines right there.

They set up their own standards and signs instead of this standard right here. Now, let's see what else it looks like right there in verse 5 it seems if one is lifted up his axe. There they are in a forest of trees.

Now you see these trees over in Jeremiah, I mean James 3 remember right and Now all it's carved work. They just smash with hatchet and hammer. That's what the powers of darkness do. They have burned our sanctuaries to the ground.

They have defiled the dwelling place of thy name. Are y 'all seeing that look at me folks. The Holy Ghost is a fire the spirit of the devil is a fire and They're a fire and they burn in and they come in with sickness and disease that kills see on destroy and when the hedges down.

They move they judge sin and they can move on sinning just ride right in on it. And you're not trusting God and they move right in and they defile this temple. Why now they defile a temple you take the powers of darkness of pride ego hate rebellion and these things in here.

They talk to you up here and they get your heart and agreement ways. They come in here. Mr Hey, I love hate more than I do love come in unforgiveness. I love unforgiveness more than I do forgiveness see because my heart gets an agreement with it and they they talk to you and then They move in on you and then they begin defiling the dwelling place that name they start moving sickness and diseases in there.

And it's like rottenness like we've been reading. It's like a moth eating away and they just slow Deterioration and you don't find out about it until you're destroyed and just slowly just weakened and weakened and weakened and weakened and weakened.

And we can until you burn to the ground. You hear me. Now that's fear of God you fit. You see it. Hold up your hand. Okay. Let's just continue. They burn their sanctuary at the ground they verse 7 they defile the dwelling place of thy name and they've said in their heart.

This is what this is just completely subdued them. They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land. That's a great falling away. And that's why we're learning what this is saying here right now.

They've burned them all and verse 9 We do not see your signs. In other words, we don't see the Word of God. We can't understand a poet clearly understand because there's no longer any profit. Now there's any among us who knows how long a lot of people saying a lot of things.

They're just confusion. First ten how long though God will adversary revile an enemy spurn that I just now withdraw their hand even our right hand from. With that bosom. Won't you just destroy them now?

Look here yet. God is her king as King Jesus. From a bowl who works deeds of deliverance in the midst of the earth. He can when he go in there and get their hearts agree with him. But he don't he don't work these deliverance in River Bay of people verse 18.

Remember this O Lord that the enemy is reviled and a what kind of people it's not a wise people. It's a foolish people has spurned their name. Do not deliver the soul of that turtledove to these who? While beast the powers of darkness do not forget the life of an afflicted forever.

Remember this covenant right here Lord because the dark places that's where there's darkness and people stumbling and staggering in these meeting houses. Are full of the habitation of violence, which is perversion.

The Cup of the Lord and the Cup of Demons

Well. Now I want you to turn me to first Corinthians 10, please first Corinthians 10. This kind of help you want to repent? I Tell you what folks. You better not go to God just wanting to have an experience everything that you do before God.

It's walking with Jesus and obedience. Maybe. Now first Corinthians 10. I want you to read verse 21. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of Lordness.

Now, let me ask you something in Babylon was there a dwelling place of demons. Obviously. They're not their cup that they had to serve people now. Look at me. Did they have a cup? What was in this cup abomination and rebellion to God wasn't it?

Now it said you can't take the cup of the Lord than the cup of the demons. By what kind of whose cup are you taking when you take the cup of Babylon? You're taking a cup of demons because his doctrines of demons ungodliness its doctrines.

It does not conform you to godliness. So you take that cup of demons and you're drinking these abominations of doctrines of demons. And then you come and take the cup of the Lord. You're going to you're going to say I'm making covenant with you God.

While your heart is in rebellion and defiled and drawing near to what do you think's happening to you? See, there's no fear of God before the rise. Huh? What did say how can you take the table? What is the table of demons?

The table is the place of covenant and You take the table of Demons where your heart is in agreement their doctrines of ungodliness and unrighteous which Romans 1 1 talks about you defend and you suppress the truth and ungodliness and.

Then you want to come and you you you're taking a table of the Lord. Are you hear what I'm saying? See, it's all the condition with your heart. You either believe in the righteousness or with your heart you believe in unrighteous or within your heart.

You believe in both ways, which makes you a harlot a whore speaking blessings and curses. If you're going to go both ways you got a devout heart. That's not good. He said you're worshiping me in vain because the reason you're doing is because you've got some doctrines which is the opinions of men.

That's why you and you found a false security and then you turn away your heart gets your conditions. Could you the tradition gets your heart and you turn away from the Word of God? Then you walk in ungodliness and unrighteousness with a false security that's called the security of the unbeliever.

To find a security anywhere and in it often or anything other than in Jesus. It's are you learning the fear of God? See if any of us ever heard me say this before. I hope it's helping you again. I hope something out there sitting there and it's not helping you again.

Because I don't I think this is this is what's had it. Well, we see there in the next verse 22 are do you put revoke the Lord to what? Yes, you look at me folks. What did Paul say in? 2nd Corinthians 11 verse 2.

I'm jealous for your heart like a godly jealousy. What kind of a jealousy is God's heart? He jealous for all your heart. He doesn't want demons men world or things in the world or nothing to have your heart except him.

He wants it. He made you he created you for his pleasure and fellowship. Amen. So what do you how do you provoke the Lord to jealousy when you're going to come to God and you say well Let me run over here.

I want to get Satan, too. I'm gonna give Satan and the demons part of my heart to that's how you provoke him jealousy. Are you here? And that's exactly what 2nd Corinthians 11 said That I'm afraid that yet justice the powers of darkness Satan to be The serpent deceive Eve that your hearts are going to be drawn away from the simplicity and a pure heart devotion to Christ through the another gospel and Another Jesus you'd be led by a different spirit.

Which is the powers of darkness to another table and drink out of another cup. Are you here? Complaining when you start looking at it through God's eyes, but you can't see these things looking through some doctrine that tunnel vision.

Look at through the gospel design. You don't take for the Word of God and call it to God's will if you don't take all the Word of God you haven't got the gospel now. Next verse. Look at verse 14. Therefore my beloved you better flee from what?

I'd voluntary now. I want you to see something here. Just just hold your place and turn to Colossians 3 with me. Just hold your place now, I want to show you the abominations that Doctrines the demons beat you.

Mortifying Immorality and Resisting the Powers of Darkness

I'm gonna tell you what you drink and receive. Everybody keeping their mind on the word now, aren't they? Don't let your mind drift off in some demon talking to you I say take your thoughts captive right here.

You're listening to life right here. If you miss this you that thing talk you into hell or something. This is how serious it is now Colossians 3 Verse 5 Body, you're dead to what you're dead to immorality.

You're dead to an impure heart the opposite of that's how having a whole heart that he is you put to death all impurity. You're dead to passion. You're dead to evil desire and you're dead to greed. All of these things amount to what I Don't know.

Well, did your Bible right there say that you better flee from what? I'd all be about now. Who is it? Now? Let me ask you something. Don't you look at me who is it that talks to your mind up here to bring impurity?

Who is it that talks to your mind to bring immorality? Who is it that talks to your mind to bring passion and evil desire? Who is it that talks to your mind up here to build greed into your heart? Who is it?

The powers that aren't so if you're not resisting these things what's happening to your heart. It's becoming a foul and you have items in your heart. You're practicing saying it when you practice it won't give it up.

You have uncleanliness and you're eating drinking abomination. How do you drink eat the Word of God you take it to heart when you drink these things? That's as that Satan says you're drink out of this cup.

You're taking abominations in your heart. Are you seeing what I'm saying? They hear me as they did say you better flee from these things. See you you've got it that says you can practice sin and rebelling to God you skip over Scripture like This right here that go let's go at this continue right there in verse 6.

It's on account of these very things that the wrath of God is going to come. Amen. Well, what if you got a doctrine that tells you it's a practice you can practice these things. You know what? You've got you got a lie in your hand.

You're holding a lie. If you don't believe it's a lie something talk to you up here when you read this. What are you going to do with the Bible? What do you do with this? This says it's a lie. Because a doctrines and a people who do not expose Nor opposed or either understand how the powers of darkness work against them.

If you're not resisting the powers of darkness, you're not resisting rebellion. Because that's what they bring. If you're not resisting the powers of darkness. They're putting rebellion in your heart while they're making you think you're something and give you a false security just like it did Eve.

It's all right for you to come and eat off the tree of the lust the flesh of lust the eyes of the most Propeller come and eat this fruit and take it to me. You surely shall not die now that's a direct contradiction of what God's Word said you surely shall die and So people look around and they see something the Word of God and they go and look and they go look and they go right.

To sleep as they look around at thousands of people nice folks. Nice folks and they look at them. They get their eyes off the Word of God and they go look at nice folks and they said well God Wouldn't send them to hell.

What do you think it did the Pharisees? They went straight to hell except a few of them that got saved except your righteous seed died the Pharisees. You're going to hell, too. Folks, we're talking about love or hell.

Do you understand? We're talking about your heart either green with Satan or your hearts gonna be in agreement with God. Now folks, it's that serious unless you if you don't like that kind of thing. What you're saying is I don't like the fear of God if you love the fear of God.

You're going to do away with all rebellion because you want all your heart to go the Lord. Are you understand what I'm saying? That is the fear of God. The fear of God is understand the judgment of God.

To understand that everything God has is yours that that's have what what covenant is when you to become one. Now the wrath of God is coming because these things know what your Bible says. Now Let's just continue.

Let's don't act like it's not in there and In them verse 7 you watch walk, which means you don't walk there anymore when you were were were were were you were living in? Which means you're not living there and rebellion anymore in your heart.

You don't have inside dollars. You're putting it to death. Amen. And it furthermore it warned you over what you better do about idol. You better flee from these things in your heart. You better flee from anything that you love more than you does the Lord Lord.

Amen. But now verse 8 you better put them all aside put aside anger wrath malice slander abuse his speech. Put all these things work from where? Your math now if you lay aside the old man with his evil practices there the old curse nature turn back to Ephesians 5.

I want you to see something right now. Ephesians 5 verse 5. For you can know with certain. I mean God said it's certain that no immoral or no impure person. Covetous man, who is it as a what? Adulterer has an inheritance of the kingdom of Christ and God now.

I'll tell you what you do. Look at me. If something like that if your carton your flesh don't like that I'll tell you what you do. You just cast this word behind you and go but find you some people that believe different from that and get your ears tickled and say Yes, I'd you're just going to not receive this part of the word.

You don't like that part of the Bible. Flesh is hostile to that part of the Bible folks whose heart lives at the flesh. Don't like that part of the Word of God. There go find them some folks who walk and rebelling to God and say and look up at them.

Maybe it's somebody with intellect or academic find someone and go bow to that instead of to God. Just go back to it and look around and say well, this is alright at least I'll have somebody in hell with me.

I'll tell you it's serious folks. As a matter of fact, I'll be honest with you. I don't know of anything more serious than what this is. I don't want to be honest with you something else. Don't try to look somewhere.

To find out where all this is going on. Because we haven't been this way before. We're just now learning some things once you settle down and gather around something and call it it and say now I'm going to be the pattern.

I've got it all you honey. You done went back in darkness again. I'm tell you a disciple is a learner and that's what we all are. We're learners know no end of the life. You keep coming to the life. There's no end to it and the only one that knows everything is Jesus and he's one it stands in the center of his church.

Amen, Lord beat our God forevermore. Now, I'm gonna tell you something folks. We couldn't comprehend the mercy and grace of God. It's been on us just last night and what he did if we could really see ourselves.

In a way that God has really seen us in this whole right see we compare ourself among herself and measure yourself by ourselves. With the world in a church and all these things. Yeah, you see. You don't understand why God Doesn't even just kill us.

I mean, that's what he wanted to do. He created man and he saw all of their their deeds were evil their thoughts of their heart. The intent of their heart was evil. He wanted to kill him and you know what he did.

He did that all except the family who were righteous called Noah. And strong with a flood of water. And I want you to know there's another flood coming today and I want you to know it's destroying and removing from this worth.

Everybody that will not walk in righteousness and walk in holiness before God and I'm gonna tell you something no, man or No Reputations or no organization or nothing this world is is is zero of the realm off of it.

I mean when God says it that's just the way it is. It's not gonna change it. It's not gonna change nothing. So now you find something you don't like in the Bible just go and find somebody. That's where you can be comfortable in your little flesh and just start bowing your little heart to it and everything.

Just start drifting just start drifting just start hanging in there and and let somebody say they just went on to heaven. Yes, he just went on to be of the Lord. Rebellion and hell all over him. No. Let me tell you where he went to he went to hell.

He just found somebody to lie over him while he's dead. Matter of fact, he's already in hell. The fear of that folks. Do you know the fear of God is beautiful more? Why why why would we want to have to be like Satan?

Now why does somebody as good as God is that anything good and everything good? Why wouldn't we but all our why would we want to be in rebellion to someone it made you what what part of you? Would want to be in rebellion to someone that created you.

Let's just ask yourself man. Why? Why try to defend rebellion to God? Huh, he knew whatever he wants to when you get to be God and He put it all right here. And it's not for private interpretation. He's no respecter of any people.

He'll lead you in all truth. When he's got your heart now, please in five, let's read again. You can know with certain that people have this Idolatry in their hearts you can know with certainty that no immoral or impure person or a covetous man.

Who is an idolatry as an inheritance of the kingdom of Christ and God is not doesn't have it. Amen and Let verse 6 now don't let babbling come along and deceive you with what? Empty words they're going to come up for because of these things now.

Don't you think you're going to practice this and babbling come along kind of feed you these abominations? But because of these things that the wrath of God's going to come on the sons of disobedience.

And we know the son of disobedience are the ones who walk of this rebellion and their heart and these things are in your life. It's coming out your mouth. It's in your heart and you're walking in rebellion to God and you're a son of disobedient front row back row.

If you're not overcoming and dealing with it with all your heart, you understand what I mean? I'm not talking about save loss save loss save loss. I'm telling you overcomer. It's the overcomers that don't get in the lake of fire.

Is that what we read a while ago? Huh? When Jesus got over your heart you will overcome you'll possess the land. Amen. Therefore verse 7 it says do not be partakers with them what it's saying. It won't come the Lord with all their heart.

That we're going to justify and practice these things. Are you hear what I'm saying? Now let's turn back. You know what idolatry is now. Turn back to first Corinthians 10 now. Let me ask you something.

Who's a wise man a wise man if somebody comes the Lord with all their heart, is that right? Now a foolish man is a foolish virgin who has a divided devout heart. Is that correct? Now it says now verse 14 therefore My beloved you had better what?

You better hey, you know what flea is you better set sail folks. You better head just as hard as you can you better get away from all idolatry. Amen. Well, does that sound like after what we've already said and seen that that's pretty good idea to do that.

Do you see why you better flee from idolatry? Amen now I speak as to what kind of men a Foolish man cannot see this and understand it because foolish He's asleep a spirit of sleep is on him. He's got a sealed book and the idols are a stumbling block right before his face.

He can't even see it. Can't even fit so God is speaking to wise men and you you're gonna what you're gonna judge what I say. Is that what he says? Huh? Don't you remember something we read over in Hosea 14 lies not verse 9 whoever is wise let him understand these things whoever's discerning let him know him for the ways of the Lord are right and The righteous will walk in them, but transgressors are going to stumble in them.

Do you remember reading that now first Corinthians 10 verse 1? Let's get back up there to verse 1. Where I do not want you all on the cloud and all pass through the sea now we were reading about some of these things while ago one way and all were Baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea and all ate the same spiritual food and all drink the same spiritual drink.

Is that what we're doing today? For they all were drinking from the spiritual rock which followed them and this rock was Christ. Amen. Now if we've been talking about the rock over there and right this same rock.

Are we in a new covenant right now in a New Testament? Right. Okay. Now verse 5 Nevertheless with most of them God was not well, please. You know why he wasn't well, please because the rebellion in their heart and They were what what those two words laid low in the world now, of course.

Look at me. Traditions like say, you know, everybody goes to heaven. See you do a way of judgment that way powers and I'm saying get you eyes off the judgment. Then you'll never have the fear of God. And you just come to God any way you want to.

You can shake your fist at him. God has to have you you don't have to have God. See because you come lies, you know not God just come down and cooperate with us. Now. We're gonna help you out. Are you hear what I'm saying?

But they were laid low and then God said well, you know, just everybody just goes to heaven. All you have to do well hold your place right now and show you something what happened to them right there.

Just hold your place in Psalm 78 just man. I'll show you something. Psalm 78. Psalm 78. Everybody probably beat me. I've got patience with my new Bible and now in verse. You see this this comes from over there and.

Well, I'm if I'm gonna read here money. I'm not going to turn to it. I mean, I don't want you to turn to it, but I want to read to you something. I'm Jeremiah 7 back there before and Jeremiah 7 if you want to write it out from the psalm 78 60.

Here's what I say said. Thus said the Lord turn to Jeremiah 7, please. You've got some more fingers, haven't you? Holy place and turn to Jeremiah 7. Jeremiah 7 and we're going to read in Jeremiah 7 verse verse 2.

Stand in the gate of the Lord's house and proclaim there this word and say here the word of the Lord all you of Judah. Who enter to these gates to worship the Lord? That said the Lord of hosts of God of Israel men your ways and your deeds and then I'm gonna let you dwell in this place.

Don't you trust in these deceptive words saying this is the temple of Lord the temple of Lord the temple of Lord. Look at verse 8. Behold, you're trusting in what kind of words? Deceptive words to no avail.

Now look at what these deceptive words call us to be in your mouth and in your heart. Will you will you have stealing in your heart and mouth? Will you have this murder? We have commit adultery. Will you swear falsely and offer a sacrifice the bells the powers of darkness and walk after these demons?

These other God that you've known and then come and stand before me in this house. Which is called by my name and say we're delivered. We're free that you may do all these ones. What's that word? Is that what Babylon is going to be feeding people the cup of abomination?

They're gonna make it sound all right, huh? As this house which is called by my name become a dinner robbers now look in verse 14. Therefore I'm going to do to this house, which is called by my name and what what those four words say.

In which you trust you're trusting in the house instead of in me. Is that right? Huh? I can't hear you. In which you trust in the place which I give you your father's as I did to what? Shallow. I'm gonna do the same thing.

I did to shallow because here's what you're doing in verse 23. This is what I commanded them saying obey my voice and then I'll be your God and you be my people you're walking all the Way, which I command you that it may be well with you if they didn't obey my word incline their ear, but they walked where?

They walk in their own councils and in what kind of heart a stubborn and evil heart and he kept going backwards instead of forwards. They didn't come to life. You follow me now. Let's look at him in Psalm 78.

Let's see what he did to him in shallow and is what you see and he's doing today verse 60. So that he abandoned the dwelling place at shallow abandon this well of late the tent when he picks it pitched among men is.

Presence is done and he gave up their strength to what? Captivity and his glory into the hand of the adversary. He delivered his people to the curse to the sword. He was filled with wrath. There's the anger of the Lord turned loose at his inheritance.

Fire devoured. That's the fire of the powers of darkness devoured his young men and the virgins had what? They had what? They didn't make it. Are you hearing me? They didn't have no wedding zone. Now come on up here.

Biblical Examples of Idolatry, Sexual Immorality, and Grumbling

Come on back to 1st Corinthians 10. 1st Corinthians 10 now verse 6. Now that verse 5, you know that he was not well pleased. They laid low some in the wilderness, right? Well, you just read now verse 6 now these things happen as what.

Examples for who are you in the New Testament this thing happening example for you and me. That we should not crave evil things as they also Craved in other words you were you better not crave these evil things as they did in the demon turn loose on them.

Was the demon turn loose on them? The same thing I happen to you now, let's go ahead verse 7 do not be what? Have you circled idolaters about four times? Do not be a dollar just as some of them were as it is written.

This people sat down to eat and drink and they stood up to play. Ho hum. God. They just. They're not sober to alert. They're sleep. But that was in their heart and it's a stumbling block in the front of places spirit of sleep there and it came the words of steelbook.

Our verse 8 you better not act what? Him morally as Babylon that whore harlot churches defile and hearts and tell them people they can act him morally as some of them did. And 23 ,000 fell in one day.

Is that the example for who? Example for you and me verse 9 or let us watch. You better not try the Lord as some of them did and they were destroyed by who? The serpents, you know who these serpents are type of and who is that example for who?

You and me you better not grumble. And some of them did and they were destroyed by the destroyer. That's the example for you and me now verse 11. Now these things happen to them in his example. They were written for whose instruction Our instruction of whom the whom the end of the ages have come.

Therefore you better you think he's standing he better take heed lest he fall and I want to warn you right now that you Everybody thinks they're standing they better heed this word of God. Because they're drifting away and a spirit of sleep over there may believe a line to send right into hell.

Verse 13. No temptation is overtaken you and they saw about these temptations powers and arguments to put Immorality and trying the Lord and grumbling and adultery in your heart. He said no temptation is overtaken you but such is common to man and God is faithful.

God is faithful. God's a faithful will not allow you to be what he's not going to allow you to be tempted beyond what you're able. But with that temptation is going to provide a way of escape that you may be what?

Able to what endure it who's going to be saved those who want To endure to the end and those who overcome. Unless you've got another gospel or another Jesus are some nice folks. You want to follow answer?

So therefore it says you better flee from idolatry. You and I'm speaking of wise men. It can understand this because the foolish and the people of idols in the hearts that won't give them up can't understand it and verse 21 He said you can't better not try to drink the cup of demons and a cup of the Lord.

You better not to take the cup of the Lord the table of Lord and table of demons. And I'm asked is up. Is that pretty clear. That plane. And what do you think? You're learning the fear of God, you know that.

Repentance, Endurance, and Guarding the Word

So you'd better repent. You better turn the Lord with a whole heart. You better give up everything. You better not let these things talk to you about this situation explain this way and just say oh. You dare not be like in the parable the word Where they receive the word with joy joy joy joy, and then when temptation come to come and test their heart.

They fell away. But it was a temptation of powers of brightness called persecution affliction the words of the world. Deceitfulness of riches and desires for everything the parable word clearly tells you that's what they bring to you.

And they steal the word out of your heart. Because why your heart loves the world the world where is it the world deceitful rich and desires of other things and approval of people. Rather than persecution inflict and despair and just take it away which proves the Lord didn't have your heart.

And that's what they're trying and you've got truth it's up to you to cling to the Lord and hang on to it and Purify your heart because you are going to answer for you. Don't you? When you've been in hell for 10 ,000 years, don't be looking around for the bunch.

If you had your eyes on if you find a security in what they said instead of security. We got work. I'm gonna tell you something folks. You understand what I'm saying. It's not popular notion. I Hope that you understand that this is not popular.

Well, the thing is, is it the truth? Well Rick was talking about that that I'm not Wire hub gap. I Told him I felt like I said, maybe the jaws pipe or something, but I don't know. I don't know what it what a part you are.

But I'm gonna tell you God has a lot of parts, but I'm gonna tell you something you're hearing the gospel. And I'm gonna tell you something. You better not let your eyes and your heart be caught on to the wire spoke wheels you better get all of it.