A Strong Delusion — B.H. Clendennen

Imagine. Oh God bless you, you may be seated. You know, as he was singing that song, I thought several years ago I'd been in Burkina Faso, had 1100 preachers. One of the greatest Pentecostal churches I've ever worked with is there right on that northern Sahara.

Very poor, 90 unemployed. It was just a barter country, but some of the greatest people. And for two weeks I've been there, 1100 preachers. The building we were in was a metal building, just a metal top.

Temperature outside was 115, inside at least 125. I'd labored there. We'd had such a wonderful time. They honored me like the missionary there for 20 years said, I've never known them to honor a man. An old pastor died, 75 years old, and I performed that funeral.

They say they never let that happen, but when I got through, I went back to Lomé, to the Bible college there. I was going then to Benin. I had another group of preachers and on a Sunday morning I was very, very tired and just about ready to go home, but I still had a lot to do.

And I went out the little chapel and I just sat down on the front seat and I looked up and they had a plaque over the platform that said, perhaps today. I never wept so hard in my life, just thinking, perhaps today, just might go home.

It may be that time. He is coming, just any moment now. It is a wonderful time to be alive. There's things happening in this world around us. Just got news from India. We graduated 300 students this month in that world of a thousand million people.

One of our graduates had come to school anyway. His heart was bad and the Hindu doctor in the hospital told him, there's nothing we can do, absolutely nothing. You couldn't even stand a transplant if we could do it.

You're just gonna die. You have a very short time to live, but he come on to the school anyway and God healed him during the course of school. Totally just sat there in that school, God healed him. And when he got out, he went back to that Hindu doctor in that hospital and he said to him, I want you to examine my heart again.

And he said, why? I said, I just want you to do it. And when he got through with all of the examination, Josh said the words of that doctor, that Hindu doctor was, who or what did this to you? Who or what?

He said, what do you mean? He said, your heart is perfect. He said, who or what did this to you? And he told him, he said, well, I've been very intense times seeking after Jesus and what's called the school of Christ.

Right in the middle of that, Jesus healed me. That old Hindu doctor said to him, said, what a man have to do to get that school? And he said, I'm just sure we'll give you one of them. We have it in seven languages, seven of the major language, Hindu, Tamil, others.

He said, which one you wanted in? He said, the Tamil. And so it give it to him. And now from six to nine o 'clock every morning, every staff member has to go to that school. Oh, hallelujah. Praise God.

What a report. I tell you, there's things happening in this world. If you measure God by our own little bitty world, we, we don't know anything like the brother talking about there in South Africa, around the world, things are happening.

Folks, angels are looking at what's going on. I just want to tell you, I know you probably realize it, but you, you, if you don't, you need to wake up and smell the roses, how fortunate you are to be in a place like this, where Christ is, where the Holy Ghost is free to move.

You know, you travel and you learn what's really happened to this church. I mean, most part around, it's very sad that you have to say that, but to find a place where there's reality, where people preach the gospel, where deal with your heart, where you can worship God.

The Strong Delusion of Believing a Lie

It is, it is, it is a very wonderful, wonderful opportunity. I want to read from second Thessalonians chapter two, verse 11 and 12. I want to preach to you tonight. I want God to help me. I'm going to deal with some things going on and the answer, the answer right here tonight.

We got to sing in that song. I love you, Jesus. I just said, I do love you. If you'll teach me how I want to love you more, I do want to love you more. I just don't know how. That's the only reason I don't love him more.

I don't know how, but I want to. My message tonight, a strong delusion are given over to the flesh. Going to read from second Thessalonians two, verse 11 and 12. And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie that they might all be damned who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Father, thank you this wonderful worship for the faithfulness of this choir to be here, to lead us, to worship, to bring us to focus where we come now to hear the word of God. Let it have free course in this house in the name of Jesus.

The Church as the Body Expressing Christ

Now the true church, which is Christ, that wherever you find the true church, you see Christ. When Philip said, show us the father, Jesus said, he that has seen me has seen the father. And wherever you see the true church, you see Christ.

He is the head, we are the body, and we are representation of Christ everywhere. That is the true church. Now that church has one mission on this planet, that is to express the Lord Jesus Christ. There's only one reason for a body.

It's a vehicle through which a personality is to be expressed. Now we'd be in the body of Christ to express purpose for God creating the church is that his son may be expressed through it. I've said it a thousand times, probably a hundred in this church, that I can describe Pentecost in one line.

God the Father through God the Holy Ghost displaying God the Son through a vehicle called the church. For that reason Pentecost was given, that Christ may be real. Now to express Christ, who is truth, the church must become the truth that she is to express.

Not just a knowledge of something, but actually becoming the truth that God has called her to be. Every time God called a man in the Bible, and since God never changes, it always remains the same. He began immediately to make that man, that woman, that people, the message that they preached.

Not enough for us to say words, we must be what we are preaching. That is the key to it all. Now therefore from her birth to her rapture, there must be this continuing moving toward the image of Christ.

That the purpose of the church to be fulfilled, that must be ever the progress of the church. This can only be accomplished as we behold him in the spirit. The imperativeness of the Holy Spirit has been lost in our time.

This is not an optional thing, it is as imperative that born again believers be filled with the Holy Ghost as it is for unregenerate people to be born again. Impossible to fulfill the mission of Christ apart from the Holy Ghost.

It's as we behold him in the spirit that this transformation is taking place in our lives. Now this can only be accomplished, but to behold him is not only to see him, but to see the path to what he is.

We must see that. We've lost sight of the path to what he is. And we're trying to invent new ways into that image. But let me remind you of the journey of Jesus to that immortal triumph. Remember the garden where he sweat blood.

Remember Pilate's hall where they put on him a purple robe and smote him. Remember the experience with his closest disciples as they all forsook him and fled. Remember how they nailed him to a cross. Those six awful hours, the hiding of the Father's face.

Remember the darkness. Remember the surrender of his spirit in death. This was the path that Jesus took to immortal triumph and everlasting glory. And as he is in this world, so are we. It's not always going to be easy is what I'm telling you.

This pathway is not always the pathway of the least resistance. There's a devil out there and it's a foolish theology that makes you believe you can tiptoe around him. The desert's not a thousand miles off your pathway.

It's straight ahead. You just keep on walking. The sand's going to burn your feet somewhere out there. If you walk with God, you're going to have to face the devil. Any willful intrusion of the flesh will not only stop this movement toward the image of God, but will reverse the order and produce the opposite of what God is after.

Anytime we allow the natural hand to touch that which is spiritual, we'll not just stop it. We'll reverse the order and the results is too horrible to contemplate. The dark ages were the results of that church born at Pentecost, turning from the leadership of the Holy Spirit to the scheming, dark and carnal mind.

That's what brought about the dark ages. And as sure as you live, they'll repeat themselves when that church becomes other than what God intended. Now the strong delusion spoken of in our scripture was the end result of losing the love of truth.

I just wrote a few things down concerning truth that I'd like to leave with you. Truth to be understood must be lived. It's impossible for you to understand truth without living it. That Bible doctrine is wholly ineffective until digested and assimilated.

Jonathan, Edwards preached the message, sinners in our hands of an angry God 100 times before it broke that congregation and brought revival. It must be assimilated and digested. It must become what I am if it's going to affect our world.

The essence of my belief is there's a difference, a vast difference, between fact and truth. Truth in scripture is more than fact. A fact may be detached, impersonal, cold, totally disassociated from life.

Truth on the other hand is warm, living, spiritual. A theological fact may be held in the mind for a lifetime without its having any positive effect upon the moral character. But truth is creative, saving, transforming.

It always changes the one who receives it into a humbler, more, a holier man. Not facts, not scientific knowledge, but eternal truth. Truth delivers men and the eternal truth became flesh to dwell among us.

This is life eternal that they may know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. Now what are the axiomatic truths upon which all human life may rest with confidence? Fortunately there are not many, but here are the chief ones.

Only God is great. Only God is wise. Apart from God nothing matters. Only what we do in God will remain to us at last. Human sin is real. With God there's forgiveness and only what God protects is safe.

That is the truth that must grip us every moment of our lives. Christians today, they are not in many places of being brainwashed. One evidence is that increasing numbers of them are becoming ashamed to be found unequivocally on the side of truth.

We hedge. They say they believe, but their beliefs have been diluted so it's impossible to really know where they stand anymore. It's come to a place that you, like a politician, will talk all the way around the world before we ever come to what ought to be said.

Truth is a person. Jesus said, I am the truth, the way and the life, and no man cometh to the Father but by me. Truth, we have a book, but that book is a person. Jesus not only declared himself to be the truth, but he's declared that he's the only way to truth.

There's no other way to truth but by the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2 .21 opens up the only pathway to the will and the purpose of God. Christ, he said, left us an example that we should follow in his steps.

That's 1 Peter 2 .21. Now those steps that we're to follow are defined very clearly throughout the Word of God. There is no pathway. Christ came from heaven to earth to show me the way to get to heaven.

There's absolutely no other pathway, no other footpath, no other way to God that must be declared in shouting. At the time of the birth of the church, Rome had a thousand gods, and they welcomed the competition of the gods.

They would have been happy if the apostles had thrown Christ into the ring with a thousand gods. But they come out of that upper room shouting, there is no other God. All others are imitations. They're intruders.

There's one name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. These steps of Christ, listen to them, to overcome the tragedy of the fall which rendered Adam and his race unfit for the purpose of God, there had to be brought in a new race of which Jesus, the Bible said, was the firstborn.

The firstborn of a new race of which you and I are. Now for Jesus to become the firstborn of God's new race, which race we are, he had to be born of the Spirit of God. That's the first step on the pathway to what God wants.

No man that hasn't been birthed of God, no matter how good, how intellectual, how religious, the first step along this pathway is to be birthed of the Spirit of God. And the angel answered and said unto Mary, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee.

Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. That's in Luke 135. The new race was to become the vessel through which God would manifest himself to a universe.

Therefore it was imperative that the firstborn as the example of the whole should be baptized in the Holy Ghost. And the Bible said when Jesus came up out of water baptism, the Holy Ghost came on him in the form of a dove.

He that was the firstborn had to be filled with the Spirit. Why have we got so smart that we believe we can do without him in this awful hour of time? When he come up out of the water, it came on him like a dove.

A young preacher said to me, why do you think he came on him like a dove and came on us as fire? I said, there's a lot to be burned up in us, and he had nothing. Amen. So it just gently lit upon him. But the thing that I'm telling you, he had to be filled with the Holy Ghost.

But from that moment, from the moment that dove of the Spirit lit on him, he was under control of the Holy Spirit. That's the third step. Born of, filled with, led by. That's a pathway ever ascending, ever upward.

You can't skip any part of it if you expect to make it. If you're in this house tonight and you haven't been born again, there's only one will of God for you. He's not calling you to preach. He's not calling you to teach.

He just says you must be born again. And if you're here born again and haven't been filled with the Holy Spirit, God's not calling you to do anything but to be filled with the Spirit of God. Why, before they can wait on the witness in the New Testament, they have to be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Look me out, men, full of the Holy Ghost to wait upon tables. Impossible for you to function in the program of God. But you must be led of that Spirit. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

Born of, filled with, led by. That's the footprints that Jesus left that the church must follow. It was the Holy Ghost that led Him to Calvary. The Bible said the Spirit led Him into that wilderness for 40 days tempted of the devil.

He overcame. And the Bible said He left that wilderness in the power of the Spirit, went to Nazareth, climbed the pulpit steps to preach, and the first words were, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Oh, the hallelujah to God.

This is always His life continually under the control of the Holy Ghost. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost who went about doing good, healing all that were oppressed of the devil.

Hebrews 9 and 14 said it was by the eternal Spirit that He offered Himself to God. All the way to Calvary He was led by the Holy Spirit. These are the footprints of Christ left us to follow. Any other pathway leads to the idolatrous worship of the creature, to the idolatrous worship of the creature.

The Natural Man Cannot Receive the Things of God

Now since the Word of God emphatically declares that Christ is our example, it naturally follows that His mission, message, and method must be ours. I said it must be ours. It cannot be otherwise. God asked no man to draw Him a blueprint.

There is no place for the natural man. There's an embargo on flesh and blood. That man cannot, said the Apostle Paul. He said it's more, there's this phrase Paul said that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.

The carnal mind cannot understand the things of God. Now this may sound strange, but it's not strange to the New Testament. It's morally fully outlined in the first and second, or second and third chapters of 1 Corinthians.

It is man in the old creation sometimes referred to as natural or carnal. He has no place. Wherever these words natural and carnal are used, or the meaning enlarged upon, there's always the embargo that says cannot.

There is no place for the natural man in the kingdom of God. He cannot be brought into this life. It would be death to him, and to allow him to come is to give the devil rights in this house. Flesh and blood.

Now Paul says a natural man cannot. He may as well have said flesh and blood. Now the fact and force of this embargo is fully seen in the case of the Corinthian. There are a large number in that church living on that side of their nature which had not been regenerated.

They're living on that side. Their judgments, their behavior, their disposition were those of the world and its ways. They took each other to court. Amen. They got drunk at the Lord's supper. Amen. This kind of a thing was all, hence the spiritual immaturity.

Amen. Arrested growth and sins in that church that Paul said wasn't named among the heathen simply because they let the flesh function. Wherever you let it operate, you can believe its works will be there.

You allow it to come. Adultery will find its way into the ranks of that church if you willfully allow it to function because you cannot have it any more than you can allow the Holy Spirit to work and not have the fruits of that Spirit.

If you allow that flesh in, you will have the works of it manifested in that congregation of people. Amen. Hence, as far, at the far end of that, they were worshiping the creature more than the Creator.

Listen to it. I'm a Paul. I'm of Cephas. I'm an Apollos man. Paul's answer says it all. Is Christ divided? Was Christ crucified for you or were you baptized in the name of Paul? It all speaks for itself.

Once you lean to that side in any way, it's not long till the creature become more important than the Creator and we're quibbling about what preacher that we're going to follow. It isn't preachers we follow.

It's Christ or we're going to wind up in the wrong direction. At the new birth by the Holy Spirit, we believers, the Bible said, are baptized into Christ. 1 Corinthians 12, 13 says, for by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we Jew or Gentile, bond of free, have all been made to drink of one Spirit.

Now having been placed in Christ by the miracle of the Holy Ghost, you and I are commanded to abide there. Doesn't matter what men say. You can get out if you want out. Amen or the Bible never would have commanded you to abide there if it wasn't possible for you falling out of faith with God.

And so we're commanded to abide. Now 1 John 2 and 6 tells us what it is to abide. He that saith he abideth in him ought also to walk even as he walked. 1 John 2 and 6. To walk as Jesus walked is to walk in total submission to the Holy Spirit, making no provision for the flesh.

That's how he walked all of his life. I do nothing but what I see my Father do. I say nothing but what I hear my Father say. I have no will of my own. I seek no glory of my own. It was a life totally under the submission and control of the Holy Spirit.

And to walk as he walked, I must be ever moving toward that. That is a lifetime of education, but it must be my goal in life to be totally under the control of this blessed Holy Spirit. Now, for every attraction in one direction, there is a, in the nature of things, there's a counteraction in the other.

If one is the flesh, the other is the Spirit and vice versa. Amen. If I begin to move toward that flesh, if I'm full of the Holy Ghost, he'll deal with me. I can turn back if I like to. If I'm walking in the Spirit, you can be sure that flesh is going to come against me with a counteraction, so a choice is forced upon me.

And the leadership of the Holy Spirit then boils down to the choices I make in life. All along this trail, Joseph, 20 years old, young, a very strong man, very lonely man, and a beautiful woman trying to seduce him.

Amen. He's got to make a choice now. He says, how can such a man as I sin against God? He never run from the woman. He ran from Joseph, but God gave him that when he made the choice. No power never comes till you make the choice, but if you make the choice, God will enforce that choice.

You don't have to commit adultery. You don't have to go back to that world. There's always along this line, there's always that flesh is coming, but there'll be the counteraction of the Holy Spirit. You make the right choice.

My life, your life, all along this line is made up of choices. Every temptation that comes to you has one thing to get you, bring you. You have to make a choice. Am I going to stay in God or am I going to move in myself?

Now, the moment you make that choice, when those Hebrew children told Neb, all of heaven is watching. Amen. They're watching. No choir, no pastor, nobody said something good's going to happen to you. They're total silence.

They don't have but one thing, the word of the living God. They're standing there, heaven and hell witnessing, and when they said, we don't know whether we burn or not, but we will not bow. And in that moment, God said to Jesus, get in the fire with them.

Amen. It's all right. They made the right choice. Had they not made that choice, they would have burned in the fire of hell. A choice. Amen. Forced upon, and it's always the same. Am I going to walk in the spirit or am I going to walk in the flesh?

Carnal Means Cannot Produce Spiritual Results

All the blessings of God are contingent upon my abiding in the Lord Jesus Christ, making the right choices. All along this line, whenever things come up, whatever it is, making that right choice. Now, if you abide in me and my words abide in you, you can ask what you will and it shall be done.

Any willful attempt to produce spiritual results by carnal means will bring a curse. It cannot happen. Abraham was our first example. Thus saith the Lord, cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh in arm, whose heart departeth from the Lord.

Jeremiah 15 and seven, the Bible and history are replete with examples of the curse brought on God's people, willfully departing from the Lord and turning to the flesh, believing they could do in the flesh what only the Holy Ghost could do.

I was in California this last January in the annual camp. I'm out there every year in that camp meeting. And that, that night they must have been 50 people down there seeking the baptism and at least 150 behind them praying with them.

Every one of them, 150 getting refilled. There's three little girls, five, six, seven years old, dancing, speaking in tongues, worshiping God. And the roar of the camp could be heard all the way downtown Chino.

I said to the pastor, why in the name of God would we turn this off or trade it off for a program? Why would we leave this for some stupid program of religion without life? Here, men and women being transformed, filled with the Holy Ghost, a joy unspeakable, a grip in a whole congregation of people.

Amen. But yet we turn to the fleshly foolishness of the flesh. History is, is replete with Abraham attempting to help God brought the curse on us that we're still live with today. Moses tried to deliver the Israelites in his own strength.

It cost him 40 years in the desert. King Saul in his impatience took things in his own hand. It cost him his kingdom. The prodigal wasted his substance, which was the life of God with riotous living. But instead of returning to the altar, he knocked on the world's door for help.

Leaning on the arm of flesh, the young church winds up in a hawk pen. All because they tried to do spiritual things by the means of carnal means. All of it is that. The path that leads to this strong delusion is the intellectual acceptance of error and the incorporating it into the message, mission, and method of the church.

Amen. Intellectually accepting that which is not right and incorporating once these delusions are accepted intellectually, I promise you the emotions are going to confirm it. Amen. I've had to deal with it in the church.

They come down all kinds of crazy ideas. I said, you, that's not God. That's not the word of God. Oh, pastor, it feels so good. I know. I know. Yes, it does. In hell's seat it feels good. Amen. The emotions, once you accept it intellectually, the emotions will confirm it.

Now we become a feeling people instead of people of truth. Amen. Even our songs move away from theology a lot of times into a path where they become feeling words instead of believing words. We must know this.

We must understand what's happening to us. The church has now moved from the infallible word of God to the feelings and desires of the flesh. Two things that are a mark of progress. One, if it feels good and works in a way that man calls, it must be right.

Oh, it must be right. Two, the end will always justify the means. Now that is a terrible, terrible thing that's come into the church of God. These two things mark it. This use of fleshly resource in our effort to produce spiritual results will produce converts to religious enterprises but will not populate the kingdom of God.

You listen. I said they will not populate the kingdom of God since everything produces after its time. Once we move to the flesh, we no longer produce Isaac. We only produce Ishmael's and we wonder why we're having trouble.

I said we wonder why we're having trouble. We're not producing spiritual people. We're producing religious fleshly people that you got to beg to come to church. That'll kill you if you turn against them.

I learned one thing from Judas Iscariot. He's always been a dilemma. How he ever got into it, I never knew. Well, there's several things, but one thing he taught me was no matter how good you are to that flesh, if it ever is its advantage it'll turn on you like a rattlesnake.

Pastor, I paid their rent. I paid their taxes. I pulled them out of holes. Then they'll leave me day after tomorrow. Yes, sir. Just when they think it's their advantage, they'll walk off and leave you.

Amen. That's always. I've learned that ladies and gentlemen. Let me tell you. That flesh, it's not sanctified. It's only looking for its own desires, its own will. Once you turn against it, amen. The use, amen.

We produce Ishmael's and not Isaac's. Amen. Such converts are marked by the obvious. There's no connection in them between believing and behavior. None whatsoever. They'll come to church on a Sunday, but tomorrow in that office they'll live like the devil.

They're religious. They'll come sing their little songs on a Sunday, but Monday they're like everybody else. They're obvious results because that's still what they are. They just added Christ to what they are.

They haven't been born again. They use a friendly church. It's not a product of the 20th century. It's as old as civilization itself. Amen. When the church in its downward spiral reaches the point when it thinks more of numbers and of its number of its converts than the truth itself, then at that point it accommodates itself to whatever will bring the people in.

Once it's more important to have a number than it is to have a character of God, you have lost it at that point. Amen. At that point, it's over with with that house. Amen. It's going to be a flesh spot from here on in.

Amen. In the corporate world, it's called expediency, the utter felicious principle of the end justifying the means. In such an environment, the preacher disregarding his vows make the cause to which he's consecrated subservient to gain.

Amen. Everything, everything now is to gain all over. What do you think a man wearing the title of ministers of Christ who devote all their energies to everything but Christ? Amen. Everything but Christ.

A church who's involved. The spirit of expediency is entertained, utilized by worldly church in order to gain success. Most of what is false in the church is a product of expediency. You know, the world has to do a lot of things when the net begins to go down.

When the monies are not coming in, then they have to resort to a lot of things. And the church has come into the same. Now, what do you, what, you know, most of what is false is expediency. Speaking to the leaders of such thinking, they'll tell you that they take nothing away from truth but simply have adapted.

Oh, I hate that word. We're adapters. That's what we are. But have adapted new thinking as a means to an end. Now, the new thinking is to adapt Christianity to the passions and habits of a people in order that they may more readily accept what you have to say.

Right now, this moment, Jesus is at the right hand of the Father, represent you and I. He does not misrepresent you. He doesn't try to flatter the Father about you. He says this, and Clinton, and he's a long ways from being what you want him to be.

But he does love you and he loves me and I'm his Lord. And I won't. I'm recommending him to go on. Amen. He represents me exactly like I am. But I, you and us, we represent him in a planet that rejected him.

He walked this earth, what he is. He lived what he was. He spoke his message. Amen. And they rejected him. I represent him in a world that represents, that rejected him. I must not misrepresent him. I must not modify that Christ to make him acceptable to a devilish world out there that just wants to be religious.

I must preach this Christ as he is. I must say to men, there is no other pathway to God but through him. Amen. The new thinking. Amen. But the moment good men look outward to superficial triumphs, to the disregard of inward purity, that moment they accept the seductive lie of the ages that in justifies the means that's come into the church.

Historical Drift from Pentecostal Power

Now the progress of Christianity was slow for the first 200 years, except for those first years when there was such a move of revival. Amen. The first books of Acts, of chapters, you have thousands coming into the kingdom of God.

But at the end, Paul is preaching in house churches. Now I can tell you those houses wasn't big as your living room, but the church was there, life was there, and he was pushing the gospel. So the progress of the church was slow during those first 200 years, except those times when the power of Pentecost was so evident.

But how rapid it progressed when it adapted the rude barbaric mind or to the degenerate people of the empire. When that church adapted itself to the environment about it, it exploded. I said it exploded.

It has made the state church, all you have to do is come in. They took the statues and idols of Rome and made them saints. How popular and widespread are those religions which we regard most corrupt. The third voice in this nation is a man that totally polluted himself.

How difficult it was for Moses and the prophets to keep the Jews from idolatry. What caused the rapid eclipse of faith in the antediluvian world? Why couldn't Moses or Noah rather establish and perpetuate the doctrine among his own descendants?

Why was Christianity itself most eagerly embraced when its truth was obscured by fables and superstition? Why did Protestantism die in 50 years after Luther delivered the message? Why is the simple faith of the primitive Christian so obnoxious to the wise, mighty, and the noble?

Why is modern literature and thinking when fashionable and popular so anti-Christian? What makes the most insidious heresies so acceptable to the learned? It's because as men become advanced in learning and culture, they're theologically wiser than God.

They know better than God how to move a church, how to build a church. So however thing that's real in this Bible is thrown aside. Everywhere it's the frivolous, the corrupt, the false, which seem to be more prevalent and more popular.

Everywhere, just move across this land, amen, I can tell you, we've arrived at a point, I said we've arrived at a point where John said, they are of the world and the world hears them, amen. You just, you reduce it down to the passions of a society and they'll come.