False gospels and Watching Virgins — David Servant

False Gospels and Watching Virgins

We get going. I was wondering why Greg assigned me this slot. I want to believe he believed it was going to be so anointed that everybody would be fine after lunch. So let's trust his judgment in that.

Before I get into the word, and why don't you turn in your Bible as well, we just do some preliminary stuff here, into Matthew chapter 24 as well as Mark chapter 13. Okay, so Matthew 24 and Mark 13. And I want to just say how thankful I am to have a chance to be here.

I've been to a lot of conferences in my Christian life. I'm 55 years old and I've been conferenced, conferenced, to the point where, like Dennis, I rarely go to conferences because I've heard it all and I just need to be out doing the Lord's business, you know.

No other new nuance that I'm really looking for in my understanding of the Word of God, although I'm always happy to learn more. But this conference was one I was excited to just attend because I knew the quality of the speakers.

Greg Gordon has really got his pulse on a lot of good people in the body of Christ because of his deal with the Sermon Index. And I've actually never met Greg face-to-face. He was supposed to be here for this conference, but he moved to Canada and couldn't get a visa to get back into the country.

I don't understand all the reasons behind it, but Greg is watching. Hello, Greg, from his place, secret place in Canada there. And I talked to them several times on the phone and he's just, you know, a good brother in Christ and I'm very thankful for the ministry of Sermon Index.

He and I were discussing, you know, I was asking, when's your next conference going to be? And he said, I keep promising the Lord I'm not going to do any more conferences. I guess he's had some disappointments.

And I said, I've been thinking about trying to do a conference, although I'm not sure anybody would come. You know, I've done a couple little small conferences and I don't ever hardly at all get invited to speak in churches.

And I'm not sure why that is and I'd appreciate it if any of you have insight as to why that is, if there's some hidden flaw that I'm not seeing. Listen to my sermon today and tell me if you see some hidden flaw that somehow I'm arrogant or I'm unscriptural or something and that would really be a blessing to me to see what I don't see.

But I was talking to Brother Keith Daniel. Well, Keith, are you here, brother, in the sanctuary? I saw him over at Chick-fil-A and maybe one of those sleepy demons got him. Okay, Keith was telling me he comes to the United States every year for 90 days and preaches, you know, in churches usually three or four times per church.

And I was just, I wanted to ask him, but I didn't think, where are those churches? Because if they're letting you in, they might let me in. I'm gonna ask him, try to find out, you know. That's great. I'm happy that anyone would receive a message like the one that we got last night from Brother Keith Daniel.

Could you have, can I say, could you say amen? You know. So anyways, I just want to start off by saying I appreciate Brother Keith Daniel. I never heard him before till last night. I think I did hear him one time in a sermon where he just quoted verbatim the Sermon on the Mount and he made reference to that last night and his message was just, you know, just the way he handled himself, so powerful and dignified and he just, just seemed like a revivalist from the past, you know.

And, you know, at the beginning when he was pointing his finger and he was quoting the Ten Commandments, I wanted to like hide underneath the pew. It was just like, you know, the Holy Spirit. Did you feel that way?

Like, it was scary at first, really scary. And, oh my, you know, and the way the guy quoted scripture, oh my goodness. But I suppose there are some people who were here last night who probably didn't like his style, if you want to call it a style.

And I, I was that way at one time. I was really, you know, I was on the narrow way with a narrow mind. There was a difference. And I decided to open myself up a little bit more to everybody in the Body of Christ because God has somebody for everybody and he can reach old people, young people, and so forth.

I don't know how old Keith is, but he's obviously an elderly guy. He looks a lot younger in the picture for this conference than he did in real life. But that was, that was, that was, it was just inspired just watching him.

Even if he hadn't have, if I hadn't have agreed with his sermon, just watching him. I just, just man, I can tell he's walking with God. And then Brother Jose, this morning I met last night, now is Brother Jose present.

I think I saw him out in the lobby and maybe a sleepy demon got him too. Okay. Oh, there you are, Brother Jose. Hold up your hand so we have testimony that you are here. Okay. I said to him, you still look like a drug dealer.

And, and that could turn off a lot of people. But that, he's not trying to reach those kinds of people. He's out on the street reaching street people. And so wearing those sunglasses all the time probably is really a, you know, appropriate.

Is that why you wear those sunglasses? No. Oh, medical issue. Okay. Very interesting. Took too many drugs. Ruined your eyes. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. I'm sorry. In heaven you get a new body, Brother.

But anyways, wasn't that a great message this morning, you know, that he gave us? Now you could have been turned off by those sunglasses. You could have judged him like I am. So he's just trying to be cool.

And now I've just found out in front of a, you know, worldwide audience that I was wrong about my judgment there, Brother. And, and now maybe other people are kind of repenting right now like I am saying, wow, I made a wrong judgment about this guy.

But I liked your heart and I like your sunglasses. I, you know, I'm a young guy too. I'm fairly cool. I'm not wearing a tie and so forth, you know. So, so, but that was a good message, a good stirring message.

And then Brother Edgar, another guy, a senior guy in the Lord, we had lunch together and got to know him a little bit. His mother was carrying him when he was three years old to escape the Dresden bombings in Germany in World War II.

You know, he's got quite a story and how the Lord has worked in his life. But it's a straight-shooting message. I love the Word of God and I, so there were some things you said that just resonated within me and, and great job.

And so what you might not appeal to the teen crowd because, you know, you're, you know, you're you. But God uses you, you know, the way he uses you. And he's on the road now for how many days? 71 days, coming from Germany, traveling out.

From Canada, that's right, you're German, but you live in Toronto, okay. And you're preaching in churches and so forth? Sometimes they invite you, okay. Okay, that's great. And I was encouraged, the Thomases, is it the Thomases right here?

Yeah, they said, we're here because our pastor recommended your daily seven-minute devotional. And I said, who's your pastor? I'd like to know who that is. He must be a good guy. He's a good guy, okay.

So tell him hello and thanks for me. And then Brother Dennis, who I've known for a number of years, and, and he comes from the Latter Rain School from way back. He's a classic Pentecostal and so forth.

And, and what you saw was a classic Dennis Balcombe message here this, this, this morning. And, and, you know, he's great. You will go really fast. You have a lot of information to try to cover. And he's used to preaching three hours.

He had to fit it all into one hour. So he had to go really fast. But wasn't that inspiring? It's like, here's a guy living in the Book of Acts, you know, seeing these miracles and understanding the importance of the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

And I, I don't understand. People sometimes get mad about that kind of stuff. But as a guy who is a classic Pentecostal myself, I was, you know, baptized in the Spirit, spoke in tongues, you know, back when I was in my teen years.

And, and I, like you, I've had, I've spoken in Japanese on occasion when people have understood what I was saying in Japanese. So when you tell me to cease with the Apostles, you've got to be too late.

I know it's still, still happening today, you know. And, but I don't know who wouldn't want to have more of the Holy Spirit. Who wouldn't want to have more of the Holy Spirit? You know, I could start crying right now if I start thinking about this enough, because I, I need so desperately more of the Holy Spirit.

So many of the charismatic and Pentecostals, you know, there's no gifts of the Holy Spirit in operation. A lot of the classic Pentecostals have totally turned their backs on even just speaking in tongues at all, or any kind of prophecy, because they've turned seeker-sensitive, or, you know, and relevant, and all that kind of stuff.

And, you know, here's a guy that's just stayed true to the message, you know, for decades. God bless you, Brother Dennis Baucom. May you live to be a hundred, and may you keep on preaching about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, no matter what, you know.

And I know, and you said this, you know, some of the flakiest people today in the, in Christendom, I only want to say the body of Christ, are the people that speak in tongues. Isn't that true? The flakiest people.

And that turns people off. I understand why. I, I never say I'm charismatic anymore. I never, hardly have I been. I was even Pentecostal, you know, because people have these preconceived ideas. Pentecostals swing from the chandeliers and jump over pews, you know, when the Holy Ghost comes on them, you know.

And charismatics, they're the, some of the flakiest things that you've ever imagined have come out of the charismatic movement. I don't, I think, I think they take the prize in the history of Christianity for heresy and nutty ideas.

It's just bizarre what they come up with. You wonder what is wrong with these people. But they, I think, illustrate something I'm going to talk about this afternoon quite well. I'm, you know, I can tell you my background, I don't want to bore you or waste time, but, but, you know, you can start off right and end up wrong.

Let me say that again. You can start off right and end up wrong. And Jesus warned about that himself many times. People starting off right and going wrong. And so, you know, some of these guys might have been legitimate at the beginning, but they've gone the wrong way.

But I'm not going to toss out the Bible. Amen. I've had people to me when I was a pastor criticize me for some doctrine because they'd say, well, you were, you know, you were saying nice things about Mary.

Well, the Catholics, you know, they would say, the Catholics, the Catholics are all about Mary. But Mary's in the Bible. You know, can I have an amen out there? Mary's in the Bible. So I can talk about Mary.

And I might give a doctrine that might resemble something that they, you know, they tied in with some, some, some bad group. And they say, but the so-and-sos believe that. And I say, the so-and-sos brush their teeth, too.

Should I not brush my teeth because they brush their teeth? You're just trying to make guilt. Let's just stick for crying out loud with the Bible. Thank you, brother. All right. So, so anyways, thank you, brother Dennis and sister Kathy.

She's a dynamo in herself. You got to see her sometime. Okay. So that's, that, that's it. And so of all the speakers, I'm sure I'm the least qualified and worthy to be standing before you today. I'm sure there are people who are attending this conference who are watching by some broadcast who are more worthy than me to be able to speak to this fine crowd.

And so I just want to confess that. Thank you for the chance and may the Lord help me. Okay. My wife's here with me. I'm so happy for that. We've been married 34 years, just as a couple of weeks ago. Becky, there you are, humble lady.

She's a dear saint. I'm hoping she doesn't forget me in heaven. That's not because she's forgetting about me now, but I want all the husbands to remember that in heaven, you will not be married. Can I have an amen?

This is biblical. You will not be married to your spouse in heaven. And secondly, everyone will receive their own reward according to their own labor. Is that correct also? And so that means your wife could be way ahead of you in the awards category one day.

And that's my wife. So honey, I'm just going to ask you one more time. Please remember me when you get to heaven. We have agreed to be best friends and I'm just hoping she'll stick with that agreement.

My daughter, my youngest daughter, Elizabeth is here with her husband, Jody. They're working on our little book table. And Elizabeth and Jody, are you present here? Oh, there you are right in front. Okay.

So they're wearing ethnic Burmese clothes because they minister a lot in Burma. And we're so happy for them. They are the real deal. Okay. I also want to recognize a few other people who are my friends.

Hugh Sincock has come all the way from Fairbanks, Alaska, just to be here this weekend. Hugh, where are you? There you are. Okay. Thank you, Hugh, for coming. Dan Robbins, a dear old friend of mine, a friend of Heaven's Family, and a nephew, Christian, are here from Fort Myers, Florida, just to be in this conference.

Where are you, Dan? I know I saw you a minute ago. Okay. There's Dan. There's Christian. All right. And Kelly Miller and his wife and a few other friends from Knoxville, Tennessee, came all the way here.

They're leaving, you know, sometime today to take a vacation. But here they are. Kelly and Clan, raise your hands. Okay. And oh, I was also surprised to see Els and Jim Shubat. Here they are, all the way from Ottawa, Canada, just to be here.

Hold up your hand. These guys are from Ottawa, Canada. They speak English. Thank you, everybody else. Okay. Thank you for all those people that are joining us by simulcast. And those of you who are joining us by simulcast, we're giving out, freely, to everybody who attends the conference here, this little book that I wrote as a giveaway book called Forever Rich.

Now, you could be offended by that title, thinking, ooh, this sounds like one of those books. It's not one of those books. It's Forever Rich. Lay up your treasure in heaven, where thieves and moths do not, you know, break in and steal.

Okay. So, this is a free book. Make sure you go back to the table and get that. There's other books for sale, and I always laugh when I see our books for sale, because we sell so few books. We should really be paying people to please take them away, because we sell so few.

But please, I beg you, get a free one. That's less for us to haul home. Please buy some of those other books. And if you can't afford them, you know, negotiate. I put all my cards on the table. We'll pay you to take them.

So, you could actually walk out of here with a book and money. And please read them. They are good. They'll be bestsellers during the tribulation period. I assure you that. Everyone will want to know what I had to say then.

But if you're by the simulcast, when the simulcast people, you can just email us, go to our website. There's probably something on our website, right, about this, close by, Heaven's Family. The word heaven, the letter S, the word family, dot O-R-G, and you click on something and order your free book and so forth.

And it's a convicting book. It's a stewardship book. It's a biblical book, packed with scripture. And, you know, it has touched some lives since we put it out there. Okay. All right. Have you found Matthew chapter 24 yet?

The Olivet Discourse and the Need for Context

Great. This is the Sleeping Virgins and the Soon Coming of Christ Conference. That was Greg's inspired title for the conference. And he kind of assigned me a topic, although he gave me the liberty to change it in any way I wanted to.

But the topic he gave me was false gospels and watching virgins. And, of course, it's a reference to the parable of the ten virgins. And my daughter reminded me, Elizabeth reminded me that we probably should have said watchful virgins, not watching virgins, because nobody should be watching virgins, generally speaking.

But we all want to be watchful virgins, don't we? What do the virgins represent? They represent purity. Right? Okay. Purity. I'll go that far with that parable. And they're watching. What are they waiting for?

They're looking for the coming of the bridegroom. Right? Pretty obvious. And so we know that some of them stayed awake, some slept, and they missed the party and so forth. But I think, in my humble opinion, that it's probably never intended by Jesus for anyone to be preaching on or discussing the parable, his parable of the ten virgins, without considering the greater context of when Jesus spoke it, which we know as the Olivet Discourse.

Everybody with me still? Olivet Discourse, Matthew 24, Matthew 25, the whole deal, whole two chapters, and it's all in just about all in red letters in your Bible, if you've got a red letter Bible. It's the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, and he talks, first of all, about the end times, what's going to happen before the destruction of Jerusalem, what's going to happen for his coming, and those cataclysmic signs and so forth.

And there's debate on all of that. You know, we're not here to have a debate on that, but I want to look at this parable of the ten virgins in light of the context. I think that context is so, so, so important in understanding Scripture, and I think that the majority of mistakes that are made in Bible interpretation are errors of missing context.

You're just, you know, something comes up with a doctrine, and they say, here's my proof, here's my proof, I got a Scripture, and I'm always tempted to say, and sometimes I have the boldness to say, that's great, now all you have to do is harmonize your interpretation of that one verse with the 31 ,000 other verses in the Bible, because there are 31 ,000, and yours better interpret, better harmonize.

Well, then we've got professional Scripture twisters who string lots of Scriptures together that bolster, bolster, bolster, bolster their pet doctrine, and they can string together 40 or 50 verses, and that sounds real persuasive, because wow, you've got a lot of evidence there to support your doctrine, but hey, guess what?

You've got to harmonize those 40 or 50 strung together Scriptures with the 31 ,000 other Scriptures that are in the Bible, and I happen to know 200 offhand, right off the bat, that don't harmonize with your understanding, so you've got a problem.

But these are professionals, and they outwit the average Joe Christian and the average Jane Christian, because, you know, they're just not that professional. They can't string together so many Scriptures, okay?

So beware, beware of people who give you their list of Scriptures, pluck, pluck, pluck, pluck, pluck, cherry-picking Scriptures and presenting their doctrines. I love people, I love pastors who teach verse by verse through entire books, through entire covenants, through the entire Bible, and give us all the counsel of God.

Can I have an amen out there, please? That way you cannot ignore those Scriptures that contradict your doctrines, and you're going to have to at least read them in front of your congregation. Amen. So I can't read the whole Bible to you today, but I'm not going to make the error of reading the parable of the ten virgins without considering the context of, you know, the time when Christ was speaking, who he was speaking to, and in so doing, I'm going to look, I can't look at all the false Gospels that are out there, but I will point out at least one that is quite evident right from this Olivet Discourse, and maybe two if we get the time, okay?

False Gospels and Eternal Consequences

And these are, in my opinion, the two biggest false Gospels out there today, and within a hundred mile radius of this church, I would be willing to bet that hundreds of thousands of people believe one or two or both of these two false Gospels that I'm going to be looking at that are extracted right from the lips of Jesus Christ.

Hundreds of thousands, okay? And what's wrong with the false Gospels? False Gospels don't save. That's the problem. They don't save. They're demonic, because they're designed to trick you into believing that you've got something that you really don't have, and you don't know it until the end when you stand before Jesus, and surprise, surprise, you know, instead of, well done, good and faithful servant, it's depart from me.

I never knew you. Somebody already quoted that scripture. I think it was Edgar, you know, Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy? Oh, you know, this is a perfect scripture. Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy your name?

Didn't we work miracles? Didn't we cast out demons? These are charismatic Pentecostal people who are going to be shocked when they stand before Jesus, because they will be cast into hell. I never knew you.

You had church services. You did the Pentecostal. You did the charismatic things. You did your miracles. You pushed people over. You blew on them. You took off offerings, you know, and all the other stuff those guys do, but depart from me into the eternal fire.

I never knew you. You think they'll be surprised? What? They believed a false gospel. Jesus said you'll know them by their fruits. What fruit? Not the fruit of miracles or alleged miracles or, you know, phony miracles or blowing over miracles or pushing over miracles.

You'll know them by their fruits. Do they obey the commandments of Christ? That's how you know them, and we are commanded by Christ to judge every spiritual leader with that criteria. Amen. So the Bible says judge not.

There you go. You're reading one verse out of its context, and you're mixed up. Why don't you read the rest of the verses? Do a study about judgment, what we're supposed to judge. Okay. All right. So here we go.

Matthew 24, verse 1. Jesus came out from the temple, was going away. I'm reading from the New American Standard. When it says, disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to him, and he said to them, do you not see all these things?

Truly I say to you, no stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down. That would have been a shocking statement to those guys, by the way. This was a monumental architectural edifice.

If you go there today to see like what remains of the support wall of the temple area, these are massive, massive, massive, massive stones that built the temple, you know, and so they knew if all this is going to be torn down, one stone, not one stone left, it's going to be cataclysmic.

It's going to be calculated. So he's naturally, they're naturally, you know, these piqued their interest immensely, and so in verse number 3 of Matthew 24, the beginning of the Olivet Discourse, as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, that's why it's called the Olivet Discourse, the disciples came to him, and the next word in my Bible is the word privately, and that is so important.

Jesus was speaking privately. This was a close, intimate, you know, informational discussion between Christ and his disciples, and I had you turn to Mark because Mark hones it down, and in Mark 13, verse number 3, this is the Olivet Discourse, as Mark recorded, as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew were questioning him privately, tell us when all these things will be, what will be the sign of all these things are going to be fulfilled?

So Mark actually names four of the apostles. Now, I don't, I'm not saying, well, Mark is right, and Matthew is wrong. They're both right. I mean, Matthew said the disciples, Mark lists four of them. It could mean that Mark was just listing four out of the twelve.

It could be that Matthew wasn't being as specific as Mark, and Mark hones it down to four. I don't know, but it wasn't thousands. It wasn't the multitudes. It wasn't, you know, you know, those people that Jesus had, you know, when he preached at, like, the Sermon on the Mount for all those.

No, this is a quiet, intimate meeting. Are you with me still? That's so important. That's part of the context, because you know who he's speaking to. If I came to you here today and I said, good afternoon, this is gonna be a very quick sermon, because Jesus said, whatever you do, do quickly, and so I'm gonna do this very quickly, because that's what Jesus said, and we should all do everything we do quickly, because Christ said, whatever you do, do quickly, and so this is gonna be a very quick sermon.

You'd probably say to me, whoa, David, no, Jesus did say that, but you're taking it out of its context, because he said that to Judas, right? Right, so it's important. Who is he speaking to? Now, some people just take the exact reverse of that.

They'll take the story of the rich young ruler. Here's a lie that's believed by millions and millions of people. If you ask them anything about the story of the rich young ruler, they'll say, oh, I have that figured out.

Jesus only ever said that to one man, because that guy had a special problem, and Jesus admitted a special antidote to his problem, because just one thing, he said, only to one man. It only has relevance to that one guy.

Well, Jesus didn't say, as the rich young ruler walked away very sadly, how hard it will be for that singular, unique, rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven. He said, how hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Please, amen. The apostles who overheard the conversation all believed that what Jesus said to that man related to them. It was relevant to them, because they were concerned. What is there for us? Who then can be saved in light of what you've just said, Lord Jesus?

And if we want to go in the wider context of scripture, Jesus told all of his disciples not to lay up treasures on this earth, but to lay them up in heaven, and to sell their possessions, and give to charity, and make for themselves purses which do not wear out.

Luke chapter 12, read it for yourself. In the book of Acts, we can find all the Christians dispossessing and selling things, and laying them at the apostles' feet. So we've got a contextual support for the fact that there's no way that anyone can rightly say that what Jesus said to the rich young ruler only applies to him.

But we become like the guy who came up to his pastor after he heard a great sermon on the parable of a good Samaritan, and he said, Pastor, that was a great sermon. Man, that really hit me. And I want to tell you, Pastor, if I'm ever over there in Jerusalem, and I happen to be walking the road to Jericho, and if I see a guy lying there who's been beaten up, well, you can be sure I won't be neglecting him.

Did that guy get the message? Did that guy understand it was relevant to more than just, you know, walking down the road? You know what I'm saying? So here, Jesus, this is relevant. Please agree with me now.

What Jesus is about to say is relevant to the people to whom he spoke it. Thank you. And so he starts. And we don't have time to read all of 24, but you all know it. You know the gist of it, okay? What's the very first thing Christ says to them in verse 4?

See to it that no one misleads you. Then he talks about the false prophets, the false Christ misleading you. What's the danger of being misled? Stop and think. What could be the danger if you get misled?

What could happen to you, Peter, James, John, and Andrew? What is the negative consequence I'm trying to save you from? What do you think it is? Deception, okay? But what could that deception possibly lead to?

What could be the ultimate consequence? You're afraid to probably say it, so I guess I'm going to say it. You may not inherit eternal life. I can just almost hear people clicking off their computers right now all over the world.

But stay with me. Don't touch that barrel. We're going to read here, and the message is crystal clear over and over and over and over again what Jesus is afraid of what might happen to them. He talks about how times are going to get really tough.

The false Christ, of course, wars, rumors of wars, kingdom against kingdom, famines, earthquakes. But this is just the beginning of the birth pangs, he says in verse number eight. And here it gets personal now, verse nine.

They'll deliver you to tribulation and will kill you. You'll be hated by all nations because of my name. Would you say that's a prediction of tough times? Father Edgar touched on this. What happens, you know, when times get tough, when persecution arises because of the word?

Well, Jesus told us in the very next verse, verse 10, and that time many will fall away. Fall away. Many. I think one of the speakers this week, was it you, Brother Edgar, said many actually means most?

Who was that? Someone was saying that. That was Daniel. Yeah, I haven't checked it out, but I trust him. It's a lot, whatever it means. It's many who fall away. Well, they weren't really Christians because true Christians can't fall away.

Then why is Jesus here, and continually throughout this, going to be warning his closest disciples, his most devoted followers of what might happen? Why would he be warning them of that? And he's using these pronouns.

I mean, you know, you, you will be hated. They're going to kill you, and they're going to deliver you over to tribulation. You know, do you think those guys were thinking, oh, this doesn't apply to us?

Were they just thinking, well, this is good sermon material, 20 centuries from now? If you had asked those guys after this sermon, what's going to happen to you, what would they have said? We're all going to die.

It's going to get horrible. Many are going to fall away. Because it's going to get so tough, people are going to quit. And this is why, can I just follow a quick rabbit trail? Will you let me follow a quick rabbit trail?

It's a good rabbit trail. I used to be a pre-trib guy. You know, we all get out of here before things get bad. Even as a pastor, when I would teach on the pre-tribulational rapture, I would be honest, and I would say, the reason I believe in this is not because I have scriptural support, but because I don't want to go through the tribulation.

At least I was honest. Then right near the end of my pastoring years, I switched. But let's not go into scripture. I just want to ask you this question. If you believe that the church goes up prior to when these things happen, this really bad stuff, we haven't even read it yet, okay?

And it all happens. Let's say you're wrong. Let's say there's a 50 -50 chance. Forget what is right or wrong. What would it be better to believe? That you're going to get out of here before it gets bad, or that you might die?

What would be better to believe? I think it would be better to believe the latter of those two, because that way, psychologically and spiritually, you can prepare and evaluate, am I ready to die for Christ?

Because I could die for Christ. But if you believe there's no way that God who loves you would ever let you go through any tribulation, even though he said there's been millions of people martyred for their faith since the time of Christ, but not you, of course, because you live in America.

Even if you believe that, it'd be better not to believe it. Even if you're right, it'd be better to adopt the wrong viewpoint in your mind. Then you have to think about it. Am I willing to die for Jesus?

It's so easy to say I'm willing to die. Look at your life. Are you willing to live for Jesus right now? Okay, verse 10 again. At that time, many will fall away. They'll betray one another and hate one another.

Well, he's talking about the people who are the ones who can fall away. Well, you can't fall away from something unless you're in that something initially. And to betray one another, that means those people who were within that group with you and hate one another.

So there's going to be like, you know what's going to happen? I'll paint a scenario for you. The way people are misled today by the most silly things, the phony revivals where the biggest miracle is somebody falling down.

And oh, God has visited us with all these people falling down. I'm telling you, when the Antichrist comes with signs and wonders, mind-blowing stuff, those people will be flocking to him saying, this has got to be the Christ.

Because the whole world follows after him. He's the Antichrist. Everyone thinks he's the Christ, the Messiah, the 12th Imam, whatever religion you happen to be in. This is your man. He must be God in the flesh.

No one can do these miracles, otherwise they'll be running to him. And those people who refuse to give their allegiance to him and don't take that mark, they're going to be marked and tagged for death.

And they'll be getting the church membership roles and going to those people who say, yes, we serve you, Mr. Christ. We know you're the Christ. Show us who's not on our side here. Circle their names. Oh, yes, I'm her so-and-so.

Oh, that lady, she was that lady who always danced in church. She's one of those weirdos. Oh, those people that went out witnessing and made us all feel guilty, weirdos. And they'll be coming after you.