(The Church in the Last Days) 13 - Destruction of the Babylon — Milton Green

The Word of God Versus Human Traditions

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The Wheat, the Tares, and Judgment at the End of the Age

All right, you remember, I'm not going to spend any time here, but I'm going to briefly mention Matthew 13. We saw in Matthew 13, and 24 through 26, that the wheat would spring up, and the man sowed the good seed in a field.

We know that field is a world. And then in verse 25, we see that tares was sowed in a field. Then in verse 26, and when the wheat sprang up, it bore grain, which means it bears fruit. Then tares became evident.

We've already discussed in Galatians 5 where the deeds of the flesh are evident. And we know that when you bear fruit, this is how we're supposed to know one another by the fruit. Is that correct? Now, this is important, what I'm fixing to share to you right here.

I want you to remember in verse 41, that the Son of Man is going to send forth his angels. They're going to gather out of his kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit laws, that's the ones who practice sin.

Now, verse 49, so it will be at the end of the age, the angels shall come forth, and they're going to take out the wicked from among the righteous. In other words, they're going to get put in the fire.

Is that correct? Huh? Okay. Now, in 2 Peter 2, in 2 Peter 2, I'm going to tell you we're going to get into some interesting things directly. 2 Peter 2, verse 1, we see about the false prophets, in verse 1, and the false teachers, which are going to introduce destructive heresies.

And then when you introduce doctrines of ungodliness, you're denying the Master that bought them, and they bring swift destruction upon themselves. Now, we're going to see some of this destruction. Let's just continue.

Verse 2, many are going to follow their sensuality. Their sensuality, they'll be led after feelings in the flesh. And because of them, that's the false teachers, the way of the truth is going to be perverted.

Is that clear? It's going to be maligned. People are going to miss God. Verse 3, and in their greed, that's their flesh, a heart trained in greed, they're going to exploit you. How are they going to exploit you?

They're going to use false words, which is, be saying, peace, peace, and safety, and counsel rebellion, while they build on different things besides godliness. Their judgment, well, we're looking at the judgment on these who exploit you with false words.

Their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. For if God did not punish them when they sinned, but cast them out, now he's telling these false teachers and false prophets, he's fixing to say, what's going to happen?

If God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness reserved for judgment, and he said judgment's on these false teachers and false prophets, he did not spare the ancient world, but he preserved Noah, who was a preacher of what?

It's the righteous ones he spares, with seven others when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly. Now, do you see that flood? Did he destroy all the wicked? Where did the righteous go? The righteous were in the ark.

Is that correct? And they were spared. Is there an ark today? Well, it says there's someone who's going to come along and destroy the wicked, doesn't it? It'd be good to be in the ark then, wouldn't it?

Let's turn and look to verse 6. And if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, now that was the fire that came on Sodom and Gomorrah. Is that right? Here is a flood in verse 5, and there is a fire in verse 6, and I want you to know the fire and the flood is smoke coming today, which you see very plainly.

If he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, and they've made an example to those who are going to live what? Ungodly thereafter. And that's what he's talking about, these false teachers that entice people to ungodliness and lead them into ungodliness.

Now, in verse 9, then the Lord knows he's going to rescue you godly from what? Temptation. Now, let me just stop and explain something to you there, folks. The powers of darkness, now don't you look at me, will make you believe that bittersweet and darkness is light.

Now, I want you to understand clearly, and I want you to know you absolutely cannot stand against them alone. There's no way. Any people who think they're standing against the powers of darkness are standing along are fools.

They have a foolish heart. There's only one way you can stand against them, to have a covenant partner stronger than them, and there's only one, his name is Jesus. Now, here's what you've got to understand there.

Now, in the last verses of Hebrews 2 and in the last verses of Hebrews 4, it tells you how Jesus comes to your aid to help you in time of temptation. He was tempted in all points. Now, I want you to know this temptation.

Jesus said he rescues the godly from temptation. Now, who are you depending on when temptation and everything comes along? You have to depend on the Lord. You have to draw his strength to overcome these strongholds that's in your life.

Now, you're just not going to be able to stand against them yourself. You've got to draw strength. You've got to know that they're not going to die and you can't stand in it until you receive strength because you're going to walk along and become discouraged.

An enemy is going to put condemnation on you and tell you it's never going to work out. What you have to learn how to do is to receive grace like anger is coming up, irritation is coming up, these things have been in my life, I mean all the way from my ancestors.

And I'm going to tell you what's the truth. You'll wear yourself out trying to tear down strongholds and things like that unless you start drawing grace. And yet you choose with your will to line your way up the Word of God and then you start drawing it from the power and grace from the throne of grace.

You get it. Take it. God help me. I choose to die out of this and then you're going to suffer a little bit, but I mean that's when the comforter starts comforting you. Amen? Okay. Now, the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation and he's going to keep the unrighteous under what?

Punishment for the day of judgment. Now, how does he keep the unrighteous under punishment? Because when you sin, you've got a problem. When you judge, you're judged right then. Right then you've got a problem because I want you to know the powers of darkness are on you and you can't get them off unless Jesus gets them off of you.

Now what do you think about that? They're under punishment for the day of judgment. You see that? All right, now in verse 10, especially those who are indulging the flesh, that's the flesh desires and it's corrupt desires.

They despise authority, the Word, God. They're daring and what kind of will they have? Their self-will. They do not tremble when they revile angelic might. There's no godliness. There is no holiness.

There's no righteousness for people who walk in this manner right there, who walk after the ways of the flesh. I mean, it's ungodly. It's still rebellion. That's what you're supposed to repent from. Now turn with me to Matthew 7.

The Narrow Way and the Necessity of Bearing Good Fruit

Turn back to Matthew 7 quickly. Matthew 7. Now in Matthew 7, we're going to see again, for the gate is small to heaven. Now how many found out that that gate is a little, in the last two weeks, that that gate's a little smaller than you thought it was?

Hold up your hand. You believe what God's Word said, it's small. How many believe the way is narrower than what you thought it was? The Word of God. Okay. It's narrow and it's small. Okay. That's what your Bible says, isn't it?

For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to what? Life. And few. Circle few about eight times. Fewer of those are going to find it. Amen? Now that's not to discourage you or anything like it, but it's only to encourage you to have the fear of God.

Amen? Now if you have the fear of God, you're going to go through that small gate in a narrow way. If you don't have the fear of God, you won't. Amen? Now, verse 19, every tree that does not bear good fruit is going to be what?

Is that just what we saw? If you don't bear a good fruit, if you walk in ungodliness, He's going to put punishment on you. That's what it is. Who's going to cut you down? The tree cutters we saw in Isaiah, I think it's 14 .8, Satan is, no tree cutters, you can't do that anymore.

That's what the power of God has come to cut the trees down. That's what we are, the trees. But no, the one that does not bear fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. They are the fire. And they're there because when you're not bearing good fruit, you're in agreement with them in your heart.

Amen? You're not in agreement with the Word, you're in agreement with them. And then that's what removes the hedge on you. Now let's go on in verse, let's just continue on through. So then you're going to know people by their what?

Their personnel, their intellect, their academic or whatever? No, you're going to know them by their fruit. You're going to know the voice of Jesus. Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, is going to enter the kingdom of heaven.

That means some of them are going to be bearing the wrong fruit. And they think that if Jesus is Lord, they're going to be deceived. But he who does the will of my Father in heaven is the one that's going to heaven.

And verse 21 shows you clearly who's going to heaven. Now verse, I mean verse 21. Now verse 22, many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, cast out demons in the name of Jesus, perform miracles?

And then Jesus will say, I never did know you depart from me because you always practice sin. You always bore bad fruit. You never did turn from it and repent from it. Is that right? Okay, now let's continue.

So wonder who's, what spirit's working with this man? What the spirit of the devil, wonder where it's drawn. Now that's not to say it might cast out demons or does miracles and everything, and it's wrong.

There's some good things going on today. You know that? But I'm going to tell you what, as sure as there's a right thing, there is deception. The powers of darkness have always got the counterfeit, always, in everything that God's doing.

And God lets your heart be tested. And when you come to know all your heart, you're going to know the difference. Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine, look in 24, and he what? He acts upon them.

He doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't hear the word of God and get, you know, he acts upon them. That's where he's standing. That's where he's walking. He's come to Jesus all his heart. Now be compared to what kind of man?

Well, there's another word for that. Could you call it a prudent man? A wise man, a prudent man, he built his house upon a rock, which is the word of God. I mean, he has the right foundation, it's not the wrong foundation, is that right?

And now, and the rain descended, and we found out who the floods are. Who are the floods? The powers of darkness. They, they come with their words, the opposite words of what the word of God is, and they try to, the, the winds blew and it burst against that house, and yet it did not fall because where was he standing?

Standing on the word of God, and the words wouldn't remove him. Now we got another man right here. Now he is a wise man, is that right? All right, now a wise man acts on the word of God. Now over and over and over and over through your word, does it, whoever's wise, let him understand it.

Whoever's wise, let him understand it. Whoever's wise, let him understand it. That's someone that comes to the Lord with a whole heart. Are you hearing me? That's what a disciple is. In the parable of the word, the disciples were the only one that understood what Jesus was saying.

The disciples, what he said, he let them all, some of them all did, they come for loaves, fishes, crowds, numbers, or whatever, but I'm telling you that the disciples, he took along at side and he told them what the parable and mystery of the word was.

But he said, said to the, about the rest of them, they're going to keep on seeing, they're going to see, they're going to keep on hearing, but they're not going to hear or are they going to understand?

Because God only enlightens the word to those who come to him with all their hearts. He doesn't cooperate with, with the, some, the natural mind, in other words, understands not the things of God. Everything about the word of God is revelation and it's grace, amen?

So, we look at verse 26 and we see the other man. Now this man bears good fruit in 24 and 25. That's the example right here, the man that bears good fruit and the one that bears bad fruit. The one that acts on the word, the one that bears fruit is the one, he walks along, he's bearing the fruit of the pride, ego, rebellion, lust, hate, envy, that's the curse, satanic nature that you walk.

You repent, you receive a new master which is Jesus, you put, and you change and you break your covenant in your heart with Satan, now you have a covenant with Jesus, now you're being conformed to his image and you put to death all the deeds of rebellion and what do you do?

You only receive this word here which renews your mind, old things have passed away, all things have become new as Jesus Christ is in the world, so are you. Whoever wishes to come out of me, let him deny himself, he's going to take up his cross, suffer in the flesh and cease in sin and then he'll follow me because whoever wishes to save his life, you know, this is where his heart is, he's still living for it, he's got a form of godliness, he's going to lose it.

But whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel which is covenant is the one who's going to save it. So what are you doing? You're walking along and then you're given scripture in 2 Corinthians 10, 3 through 5 that you no longer war after the flesh.

Well, I mean, when things come against the enemy or whatever, you no longer war after the flesh. Where is your war after? Those weapons you receive in Ephesians 6, the truth and faith, above all you have up the shield of faith which means your weapons now are mighty in God but it's tearing down strongholds, pride, ego, rebellion, everything that exalts itself against the word of God and you take it.

That's not in there to analyze, that's to do. Why is it in there? Because when you have a repentant heart and you change and you come with all your whole heart that doesn't leave any room for idols. That's a wise man.

He comes with all his heart, that means you love Jesus more than any stronghold of the flesh, the world, or the things in the world because he has all your heart. And when he points to it, it goes. You suffer in the flesh and cease in sin.

Then you get into war. The war. You resist the devil. It didn't say to ignore the devil, the word says resist the devil. What's he come? The lust of flesh and lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life.

He comes to speak, he wants you to react to disappointment and rejection with anger, hate, revenge, murder, resentment, unforgiveness, bitterness. You're no longer war at the flesh. Well, what do you do?

You put up the shield of faith. You do what the word of God says here. You take every thought captive. You resist any more rebellion. He wants to talk to you up here before he's headed for to put that rebellion in your heart.

And then you have what kind of heart? You'll have a defiled heart. And that's what Mark 7 and Matthew 15 said. These people draw me in with their mouth and their heart are far from me, in vain are their worshiping me.

They're teaching doctrines that they think they can walk this way. These doctrines are the precepts and opinions of men. In vain are their worshiping me. That's what you're repenting from. All right, now, do you understand that?

You resist the devil up here. So in your field here, your God's field, and you're headed to have a blameless and a pure heart. In other words, you're headed where Hebrews 3 and 4 commanded you to go, and it's not an option.

You're commanded to enter into rest. Amen? Is this clear? Okay, now, so we see the other man right here. He doesn't get in a war. And everyone who hears these words of mine, many do that. They do not act upon them, because when you get another gospel, another Jesus, you don't act upon the Word of God.

He's going to be like what kind of man? Foolish man. And he built his house upon the sand. Now, a foolish man does not act upon the Word of God. He has a defiled heart. See, you might have another doctrine, you might have another gospel following another Jesus, led by a different spirit, and he's a form of godliness.

Form of godliness leads you to hell. Amen? Jesus is not Lord of a form of godliness. Now, but he'd be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand, and then the rain descended, and the floods came.

That's the powers of darkness who come with this Word to test you, and God, that's a fiery test that 1 Peter 4, uh, 12 tells you to expect it. Same one at James 1 is just rejoice in it, because in perseverance, because through this you're going to put everything to death that doesn't look like Jesus.

Amen? Okay. And the rain descended, floods came, and the winds, and it burst against his house. The man, it doesn't fall, uh, act on the Word of God, and it fell, and what? It fell away, didn't it? He was carried away by the flood.

Is that right? Carried away by the flood of words. Amen? Because he didn't resist it. Now, what do you, what, do you have a wise man and a foolish man here? Are you told about the good tree? Now, just back up right there.

A lot of people, which is verse 1 in here, and verse 18, a good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a kind of bad tree produces good fruit. Are we talking about two different kind of trees? You know, you can pair Luke 6 with this, too, and, and, and, and see what you're talking about.

One tree thinks he's going to heaven, and he bears bad fruit, and another tree bears good fruit, and he's one that does the will of God going to heaven. Amen? Is this, is this plain? Now, we see, we see we got a wise man and a foolish man.

We got the prudent man and the foolish. Is that right? Now, when you start reading Proverbs, you remember all these things. Now, you go up to a wise man and remember this. A wise man, and you correct him and lie the word.

This is where, where a fellowship, my fellowship with you is supposed to be and lie the word. I don't have my fellowship to please you. My fellowship is that my relationship with you is unto the Lord.

And so, I'm, in this way, I don't have to have your approval. I have God's approval because I always do everything in the sight of God, so, therefore, I'm never rejected. I don't, when I seek your approval, I can build idol in my heart because I seek God's approval in our relationship.

Amen? Are you hearing what I'm saying? That way, the powers of darkness want me to seek the approval of men or something like that. Then they can build rejection, hate, anger. I'm never disappointed that way because he'll never disappoint me.

He'll never reject me. He'll never forsake me. He'll never leave me. And he'll bless me and accomplish all over me no matter what you do to me. Amen, brother? And I love you. Amen. So, that way, that makes my total hope in Jesus and the Lord, if not in men, the world or the things in the world.

Amen? Okay. Now, so we got the wise man and the foolish man. Let's look at Matthew 25. We're going to see what's happening here. In Matthew 25, in Matthew 25, verse 1, then the kingdom of heaven will be compared to ten virgins who took their what?

Lamps. Well, what does it say about the lamps? Well, Psalm 119, 11, thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Now that's what your lamp. What is a lamp? It's the word of God. Now, Psalm 1828 says, thou dost light my lamp, and 2 Peter 119 said, the word's like a lamp shining in the dark place.

This is what the word of God. Now, listen to me, folks. Look at me. Look at me. Let me get you to understand about light and darkness. People in the world who walk, they walk in the image and likeness of Satan because what comes out of their mouth is coming from their heart, and it's pride, ego, rebellion.

Their heart is living for this first nature. This is a people. Now, people compare themselves among themselves and measure themselves by themselves, and you've got this Bible all the way, don't have no mirror to look in, and so what do I have?

There are people sitting in darkness. So the people in sitting in darkness, there came a great light that came among them. And what do you tell them? You first said to them, you people are sitting in darkness.

This is not where it is. You better be conformed back to the image of Jesus and to get this rebellion out of your heart, which the word of God does. It washes all rebellion out of your heart if you let it worship, but it can't work a false security, and it's not Jesus in the word.

You've got to love Jesus and his word more than anything there is. So the word of God can't work for you. You won't come to the word. You'll read over it. It'll be an exercise or a form. Amen. You come and look in the mirror, and you'd see to you look like the Lord.

The word shows you in darkness, and it gives you wisdom of the wisdom that the world don't know, or the rulers of the world, is the wisdom of God when you get loose in the rebellion. All right. Now in verse 2.

And five of these were what? What's that word? Five of these ten virgins were foolish, and five of them were what? Prudent. Wise. Now look at me here just a second. Somebody's not looking. Look at me.

Now, I want to ask you something. Did we just read about the wise and the foolish? We found out the foolish person does not act on the word of God. He's got another foundation. And the powers of darkness just sweep them and carry them away.

But the wise person stands right here in the whole counsel of this word of God, and can be moved. And they can't be blowed away. They can't be carried away by every wind of Dr. Kenney. Whatever. Is that right?

They can't be carried away. Just like what did 2 Corinthians 11, the warner said, I'm afraid that the serpent, which is the powers of darkness, is going to carry you away just like it did Eve to eat off the tree of the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life.

And they're going to do it through servants of Satan who disguised himself as servants of righteousness, that you can go eat off the tree of rebellion and how rebellion your heart and you surely shall not die.

Is that what you were in 2 Corinthians 11, that you could be deceived just like Eve was. Amen. How was Eve deceived that she could walk and rebel in the God in her heart? Amen. Is that right? Deceived from the purity, which is a pure heart and devotion to Christ.

That's what sanctification is to be purifying our hearts. That's what overcoming is. That's how to endure in the end. That's how your fruit remains. That's what you're chosen to do. Your fruit remains.

You don't turn back. You're enduring to the end. You're always overcoming. And what you always do in Jesus, if he has all your heart, it's no problem. Only your flesh is subversive. All right. But when the foolish, verse 3, took their lamps, they had the word of God, they had foolish, took their lamps, they had no what?

They don't have the Spirit with them. So, but the prudent took all the, the wise held the Spirit of God. Is that right? The all? Is that right? In the flask along with their lamps. Now while the bridegroom was at land, they all got drowsy and began to sleep.

But at midnight, that's a time of great spiritual darkness, there was a shout. Behold, the bridegroom come out to meet him. Is Jesus going to shout? Huh? The bridegroom is going to shout. Then all the, but I'm going to tell you something, and I tell you, a lot of folks are not going to hear that shout.

Then all those virgins rose and they trimmed their lamps and the foolish began to see something about the wise. They saw they had something that they didn't have. They probably saw torment all over themselves and they didn't see it in the midst of the last days.

But the foolish said to the prudent, give us some of your oil for our lamps are going out. We can't see what you see. We need the Spirit of God. But the prudent answered saying, no, there will not be enough for us and you too.

Go instead to the dealers and buy some for yourself. And while they were going away to make the purchase, who came? The bridegroom came, Jesus came, and those who were what? Ready. Did we read over in Revelation that those who made themselves ready, how do you make yourself ready?

You make yourself ready by being spotless and blameless. That's the bride that Jesus is coming after. Unless you follow another Jesus, I'm telling you, you're going to be spotless and blameless. And your Bible warns you about practicing sin.

When you practice sin, you make an idol out of it and you won't give it up. Jesus is not Lord of somebody's heart that won't give up practicing sin. And when you practice it and you won't give it up, that means you love this sin more than you do Jesus.

And it's an idol. Jesus will not be one of your idols. People that think Jesus want to be one of his idols, he's born a godless. Now he's coming after a bride who makes himself ready. How are you going to make yourself ready?

You're going to put on the weapons of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is going to be Lord of your heart and you're going to have all the rebellion washed out of your heart and you're going to be reconciled back to God.

You fell through Adam into the satanic lust rebellion and then through the last Adam, you're going to put it all to death and you're going to move right back in to the image and likeness of God, which Adam fell from in the first place.

That's being reconciled back to God, amen? Okay. Now, so they made their self in verse 10, they made their self ready and they went where? What's that word? In. In to what? Can I tell you what they went in to?

They went in to the ark. You know what that ark is? That ark is Jesus. They went in with him to the wedding feast and then what was shut? The door was shut. May I ask you something? Is that what happened in the days of Noah?

When the days of Noah was the ark, the righteous went in and the door was shut and the wicked were destroyed. Can I tell you that's exactly what's going to happen here in the last days? You've already been seeing a bunch, haven't you?

Okay. Now, and later these other virgins, who are the other virgins? Circle of the virgins. Which one are they? The other virgins are the foolish virgins. They do not act upon the word of God and they do not have the spirit of God.

Okay? Boy, I could take off there and confirm that. The other virgins came up saying, Lord, Lord, open up to us. Now let me ask you something, folks. If we just see over in Matthew 7, there are two different kind of trees.

The good tree, the bad tree. You know the bad tree, but it's fruit. You know the good tree, but it's fruit. Did it say in that same chapter? Many are going to say, Lord, Lord. They think Jesus is Lord.

And they're the church of the last days. It looks like a lamb, but speaks as a dragon. They have the words of Satan. They have the words, their heart, from the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

And they speak from an impure and defiled heart. Because they have doctrines that do not conform them to Godliness. They have found a false security, and I'm telling you what, it has their hearts. I'm going to tell you, the bride of Christ make their self spotless and blameless.

They overcome. They endure the end. Is that right? And they're going to bear it. Now, the only way you can bear good fruit is like that grain of wheat in John 12, unless it falls in the ground and dies, it's going to remain alone.

But if it dies, what does the grain of wheat do? The outside dies, so the inner can come from. The satanic nature has to be put to death, and then you'll bear much fruit. John 15, 16 said, I've chosen you to bear much fruit, and that your fruit should remain.

And then, whatever you ask in my name, I'm going to do it. Now, the difference in that is in James 3 and 4, where you speak blessings and curses out of your mouth. This wisdom is not which comes from above, but it's the world, flesh, and demonic.

And then in chapter 4, you see that you do not, you ask, but you don't receive because you ask with the wrong motives. The next verse said, this is what harlots and adulteresses are. Amen? OK. Now, we've covered that.

Do you recall that? Now, we see the foolish are going to come up and say, Lord, Lord, open up for us. Foolish people do not act, foolish hearts do not act upon the word of God because they've got another foundation, another doctrine, or whatever, another Jesus, whatever, amen?

Now, but he answered and said, truly, I say to you, I do not know you, so you better be on alert. Alert. It didn't say asleep. The opposite from being asleep is being on alert, for you do not know the day nor the hour.

Is that pretty plain? Now, I want you to turn with me to Luke 13, and just for the sake of your notes there and everything. Well, we're going to have it on notes anyway, but in Luke 14, it was telling about this wedding feast.

The Wedding Feast and the Cost of Discipleship

Let's just look over it just a second. It wouldn't hurt just a minute. 14, 16, he said, a certain man was given a big dinner. That's a dinner that we're talking about right here. That's a wedding feast.

And at the dinner hour, he sent his slave to say, those who have been invited, come, for everything is ready now. And so a lot of people don't want to come and eat this kind of bread, do they? Look at me.

And there are too many busy times. I've just got so much to do. I'm just too busy. I've got these things, the world and the things in the world. All that's in the world, though. Do not love the world and the things, all that's in the world.

The lust of flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life, that is rebellion. And you know, I'd sit for that long to hear, to eat that kind of bread, huh? So they all, verse 18, alike, began to make what?