Wise and foolish Virgins (Video) — Keith Malcomson

And as you know very well, just down the road here in Bedford once, I had good reason to drive through. And as I swerved around those little streets, I was so glad, so happy when I turned the corner and seen that statue of John Bedford, or John Bunyan.

And you know what? He was holding forth his hand, pointing, directing, and I thought, as I drove through, I went, I don't know what the churches are like in this area. I don't know what they're like in this town, but I tell you, maybe God has just one witness.

That man of God has a statue standing there, holding forth the word of God, a silent witness. But what a witness for this hour. What a remarkable witness. Saints, you have a remarkable heritage in this area.

I love that tinker from Bedford. He's one of the great men of God that I love, and I've got all his works on my shelf. I give out his testimony still to our new converts, and what a remarkable dealing of God that in one man, God dealt with him for five years.

He didn't say a sinner's prayer. It wasn't a quick believism, and blab it and grab it. You had a man being dealt with by the Holy Spirit of God. Five years of mental torment, spiritual conviction of the Holy Spirit.

But you know what a convert. You know why I believe we'll have few John, I keep wanting to say the wrong name here, John Bunyan's. Do you know why we have so few? Because we have watered down the gospel.

We have changed the gospel, and we don't let the Holy Spirit of God deal in the fear of God with an individual. But I'm telling you, God dealt with that man, and you got a preacher, the like of which England has rarely seen or heard.

You know, it's only down the road here, there's a place, I don't know if you know it, but it's called Highbury Hall, I think I've got the name right, where the Polhill family were. One of the seven, Cambridge Seven, who went out to the mission field.

What a man, what a missionary. Meetings happened down there. The first meeting before Stud went out to the mission field. They had a gathering there. I've read about it, I've written about it. I've studied that.

The Urgency of the End Times

Remarkable thing. Saints, we are right at the end of the age. We are right at the end. If you know the science of the times, if you even know a fraction of what's happening in our world, we ought to be burning bright like no other generation.

I want to tell you, if you're asleep here, there's something terribly, terribly wrong with you. The hour we live in, if you can spiritually look at the watch and say, I know the hour, but there's no urgency in you.

You need to take a second look at your spiritual life. Well, we bring you greetings from Limerick City in Ireland. We've got a wonderful church there. They send their blessings, greetings, they're praying for you here.

And Pastor Steve, I met for the first time in a prayer meeting on a Wednesday morning I believe, and we prayed together. First time meeting them was yesterday. And do you know what? Apart from about three people this weekend, there's not one person I think I'm right in saying over this entire weekend that I met face to face until this weekend, apart from three people in there in the meeting here tonight.

All of these other wonderful friends have become friends in the midst of one of the worst crises, one of the most unbelievable crises in my lifetime. And when the world is shutting down and fear is gripping hearts, I am actually more excited about the body of Christ right now than I was a year and a half ago or two years ago.

Saints, unless you realise it, there is something unbelievable spiritually happening in this hour that you cannot imagine, and it's only beginning. This is the last call. It is the last hour. It is about to come to an end, and we better know they are.

Building a Church Among the Unlikely

Please turn with me here to Matthew 25. Matthew 25. You know, several years ago, we began building a church. We stopped travelling. I love to travel and preach. We were constantly going from place to place.

Many doors were open, but God spoke to us, and we stopped and began a church in Limerick. It's the last city in all the world I would have started a church in. It is not the place I wanted to settle in, but we stopped.

I knew it was the will of God, and we went back to raising up a brand new church out of brand new converts, saved out of drugs, immorality, out of crime, out of new ageism, out of everything. We didn't have any other material.

No one else would come near us, but we began to preach the Word of God, and God began to build a brand new church out of the worst, most impossible lies, atheists, evolutionists, criminals. One of our young men who's preaching this morning in our church while we're away, just eight years ago, he actually was one of the main DJs in our city, and where we have our pulpit now in our church building is where he sold drugs, done his DJing.

On that spot, he used to sell drugs, and that was one of the main music houses in the city. All that generation knew it. You went there to get high on drugs, to dance to the world's music, to fornicate, and to do anything that you desired, but we've got the gospel being preached there.

If you've closed the book and said, it's all over, since I know they are and how late it is, I know we're at the end, but see if you use that as an excuse to sit back and to say, oh well, no soul's getting saved, no revival, and we'll just sit here until we get caught away.

You're on very, very dangerous ground, because this last short hour of time, if you know it's the end, you're going to be held terribly responsible for what you do in this last hour. Will you turn with me to Matthew chapter 25?

My message here this afternoon, and you heard the man, I've got from now until midnight, I hope you brought your packed lunches. Maybe some of you has brought a pillow, I don't know. A brother in England, he once said to his congregation when I was coming to preach, he said, you need to bring a hard hat and a soft cushion, so make of that what you want here, but I do love Jesus Christ, saints of God.

I love him with all of my heart. I love him, and if one thing I want you to know, I love the Lord Jesus Christ, and I believe this book, and I believe it's got an answer for every single issue in this room here right now.

I believe that with all of my heart. My message, wise and foolish virgins, wise and foolish virgins, reading from Matthew 25, then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom, and five of them were wise and five were foolish.

They that were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. A very important scripture. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept, and at midnight there was a cry made, behold, the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him.

Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps, and the foolish said unto the wise, give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out, but the wise answered, saying, not so, lest there be not enough for us and you, but go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves.

And while they went out to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that were ready, they that were ready, do you see that? They that were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgin, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

But he answered and said, verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know not. Neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh. You pray with me here as we come to the word of God.

Father, we do thank you. We love you. We love the Lord Jesus Christ with all of our heart and all of our mind and with all of our body. We love you, Lord Jesus. And our hearts cry out as we see what is happening in this hour, in this crisis hour in our nation, this utterly unique, utterly unusual hour.

What is happening right across the world? Nor could we cry out. Come, Lord Jesus. We are beginning to long for you more than at any other hour. We are seeing the signs of the times. We are seeing that everything is at the door.

We are seeing that all of Bible prophecy is very quickly coming to pass. Now, Lord God, we do want to be prepared. It's no accident. Lord God, we do believe in your sovereign hand, working, guiding, leading.

And I believe you've got the right people here for this message at this time. And Lord God, you know the hearts in this room. Will you search them? Will you seek out in this room? And Father, prepare us and make us ready for this last hour.

In Jesus' name, we love you, our God. Amen. Amen. Wise and foolish virgins. It says in Matthew 22, just a few verses before. Remember, there's no chapter divides in our Bible. Man put that in. Matthew 24 must never be separated from Matthew 25.

My message is Matthew 25, but don't separate it from Matthew 24. If you do, you don't understand this. You will miss the message. It is a continuing single message by Jesus Christ. It is the second longest message Jesus ever taught.

The Sermon on the Mount was the longest. The second longest is found in Matthew 24 and 25. Not two different chapters, not two different subjects. It is one subject. And Matthew 24, you cannot understand that unless you understand Matthew 24.

It is a continuation. Now look at this in Matthew 24 and verse 44. It says, therefore, be ye also ready. Underlying the word therefore. It says, therefore, be ye also ready. What is it therefore? Therefore.

Someone once said, when you read therefore, you need to say, why is it therefore? There's a reason it's there. What goes before this word therefore in verse 44? You have all the biblical teaching of Jesus about the beginning of sorrows, the signs of the end, that Jesus is just about to come, of world events about to come down that we all know and believe.

If you believe Bible prophecy, literally. And he begins to teach this thoroughly in detail. And then in verse 44, he says, therefore, be ye also ready. For in such an hour as ye think not. You know, I've had people say, I don't like how you make your preaching personal.

That bothers me. But Jesus said, who do you think I'm talking to? For in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh. So he teaches about all of these signs of the times that you're going to recognize.

That is warnings that all of this is about to kick off. The beginning of sorrows means something initiates just before Jesus comes. And it's going to become very rapid, very intensive. And once it starts, we're never going back to normal again.

If you actually think we're going back to normal, you are either stupid, you're either deceived or you're hiding under your bed. There's one of those three things. But Jesus said, therefore, in the light of all these things.

And if he said it 2000 years ago, you in this room, I tell you what a responsibility. Therefore, be ye also ready. If you really believe this, if you believe what Christ said, if you believe the signs of the times are breaking upon us in a phenomenal way.

And I want to tell you, they are. They are breaking upon us. You know, all the richest men, the top politicians, the British government, all the top companies, the central bankers, all of them. Do you know what most of them believe?

That by 2025, they're going to take the chip out of your mobile and what it is in your mobile phone and your iPhone and they'll be in your body. It's going to hit the high street by 2025. I didn't say that.

They are saying that. The world bankers are saying that. The top money men, all the businessmen are saying that. And if you're not awake in this hour, there's something terribly wrong with you. See, Jesus said, therefore, be also ready.

The word ready means adjusted. God isn't going to adjust to you. You see, our churches in Britain and in Ireland are filled with people that say, I'm saved by grace. God's going to accommodate me. God is going to build himself around me.

I am the centre of the local church. Pastor, you ought to be running after me. I want this church to accommodate my convictions and my sin. I'm speaking from personal experience, from a child. I've been in church a long time, from three days old.

I think I've spent more time in meetings than any place on the face of the planet, I assure you. And Jesus said, you need to be adjusted. Therefore, in the light of all these things, if you believe this, if you recognise this, you need to be adjusted.

You need to bring about changes in your life. You need to be ready. You need to be prepared. You need to realise that you're to put yourself in a place. And this is what the Greek word here actually means, to be adjusted.

It means you literally put yourself at the right hand of God, saying, here I am, I'm usable. I'm not asking you to accommodate to me. I am accommodating myself to you. I'm going to listen your word. I'm going to change my lifestyle.

I'm going to repent of sins. I'm going to move away from relationships that I've got no need being in. You see, Jesus said, if you believe all this, therefore, be ye ready. And in this chapter, he's dealing with a parable.

Matthew 25 is a parable. What is a parable? A parable is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. The word parable means to throw something alongside, to place it alongside. It means to bring a natural story, a normal story from everyday life, to bring it alongside biblical doctrine.

You have the doctrine in Matthew 24. Jesus teaches very clearly about the signs of the time. It is doctrine. It is teaching. It is theology. Although I like the word, the definition of theology is the teaching on how you walk with God.

That's a good definition of theology. But here you have a natural story brought in beside doctrine teaching about the end days. What is the parable of the wise and the foolish virgins? It is a natural story, an earthly story, a story we can all identify with.

And Jesus brings it in to explain the doctrine, to compare with the doctrine, a story to illustrate the clear teaching. And it's placed alongside so you can compare the biblical teaching with a parable, a story.

And so Jesus brings in a parable of the wise and the foolish virgins to explain to you the teaching and the time of the end. This has a specific time. Jesus said, here's the doctrine of how you're going to know it's the end.

You've reached the end. You're actually there. Behold, he comes. If ever you're going to adjust yourself, it's now. If you don't adjust yourself now, when are you going to adjust yourself? Oh, I'm not going to get caught up in that system.

I'll make sure to be ready in that day. When are you going to be ready? What an hour that we are living in. It is utterly remarkable, utterly remarkable. And so this parable comes in to explain the teaching.

Why hasn't this been taught in our churches? It would make it so much easier. We begin to understand about the beginning of sorrows by this parable. And this is my message. Notice in the parable, in Matthew 25, there's two groups in the church.

Look at verse one. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Notice it is a parable. The wise and foolish virgins, he's likening the kingdom of God unto them.

And the context is last days, the last generation, the last church hour. The end when all the signs are being fulfilled. It's a parable about the kingdom of God is like wise and foolish virgins. Notice that all that are in the kingdom of heaven in that realm where Jesus should be reigning, they're not all born again.

There's wise and there's foolish virgins. Let me show you this. Throughout the Bible, the parables Jesus taught, he talked about the wheat and the tares growing together. He's not talking about sinners in the world growing together with Christians.

Not talking about that. The wheat and tares is talking about those in the kingdom of God. All the parables were about those in the kingdom of God. In other words, the wise and foolish virgins are all professing believers sitting in churches.

They all know the gospel. They all know about Jesus Christ. They all claim to believe in this. The wise and the, sorry, the wheat and the tares, when they grew together, they looked the same. A tare, which is a false weed, looks the same as a real wheat.

You can't tell them apart. I certainly couldn't in the Middle East. And as they grow, you look and you say, well, they all look the real. They all look the same. They all profess the same. They're growing together in the same field.

And yet it says it's not until harvest time, which is the end of the age, that the angels actually say, can we go and separate all this confusion? It's talking about the kingdom of God, what we see with our eye.

Remember, Jesus talks about the sheep and goats. In the Middle East, they both look the same. I couldn't tell the difference between an Israeli goat and an Israeli sheep. I couldn't do it. Thank God they look different in England.

But you know, over there in the Middle East, when you look at them, you say, is that a goat or a sheep? That's why you had to bring them in under the rod. I tell you, some pastors need to do that. Get the rod out and say this way, this way, and begin to discern what is a sheep and what is a goat.

We actually need to begin to see that. So Jesus deals with all these things. The four kinds of ground where the seed is the same, the sower is the same, four different types of ground. And only one of them is real.

Three of them that received the word of God are not real. And Jesus constantly deals with this. The man that got in in the parable, the man that got in to the wedding feast without a garment. What are you doing sitting here?

You've got no wedding garment. And they cast him out. Do you see all of this as a parable of the kingdom of God or of the kingdom of heaven, of people on the earth in this hour, and they all look the same?

And you go to Revelation 17. In Revelation 12, you have a woman who prophetically, symbolically is Israel. You need to be able to identify her. Then you go to Revelation 17, and you've got the false church.

You have an abomination, a woman who is promoting herself in the last hour. And then you go a bit further to Revelation 20 and 21, and then you've got a pure bride. The lamb's wife. And so you see all of these things that Christ himself, he taught in parables.

But here you come to the wise and the foolish virgin. Notice with me in Matthew 25, that there's a similarity between the wise and the foolish. One is gonna be ready and adjusted. The other is in a terrible condition, and they don't realize it.

And they're gonna be in terrible trouble. But look at the similarity between them. They're all called virgins. The foolish are called virgins, and the wise, they are called virgins. What does it mean, virgins?

Well, over in Revelation 14 and four, it talks about virgins prophetically and symbolically. They which follow the lamb. I believe all these virgins outwardly were those that followed the lamb. That's what defined them as being virgins.

Outwardly, they are moral. Outwardly, they go to church. Outwardly, they seem pure. They're not living like sinners. They're not evolutionists. They're not agnostics. They're sitting in church, and they say, I follow the lamb of God.

I'm a virgin. I come out of the world. I separate. I'm not getting high on drugs. I'm not getting drunk on a Saturday night in a pub. I have to be okay. After all, I'm sitting on church on a Sunday morning.

I follow the lamb. I am a virgin. I'll be okay. What else about these? They're in close association with the real. The foolish virgins are in close fellowship with the wise virgins. Who do they fellowship with?

The real. Who do they sit with? The real. They love to be with real Christians. They are members outwardly of real churches. Notice, well, they're not only virgins. They all had lamps. The foolish have lamps.

In verse one, it says, they took their lamps. It means to take a hold of or to seize or to grab with both hands. The Greek word is lampos. They took their lamp. It means to beam or to radiate or to be seen in this world.

So the foolish and the wise, they're not only virgins. They all have lamps that they carry in their hand. And in that day, what it's talking about is like a hollow. I'm sure you've seen it in pictures.

A hollow cup or saucer, like a milk jug, and the oil is poured in there and it has a wick and you burn the oil in that little lamp. All of them had a lamp and all of them had oil within that lamp. What does this speak about?

What does the lamp represent? Because the foolish who are gonna get shut out of the kingdom of God have it just like the wise virgins. You've got foolish virgins walking about with lamps, with oil in it and burning with fire.

Before Matthew 24, what is this lamp? It speaks about your outward testimony, your good works, your good words, your right message. You must be born again. I must be a Christian. I've told my friends at work, you have to get born again.

I believe this. I believe the Bible. I go to church. They call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. They may even be involved in evangelism. I believe foolish virgins in this hour are involved in evangelism.

I believe they believe in charity. I believe they're involved in good works, social activity. Multitudes in the church of our generation are caught up in the social gospel and yet they're foolish virgins.

How, how dangerous. I believe there's preachers who are standing preaching in pulpits and their message is right and everyone thinks they're right and yet they're a foolish virgin because you are looking at the lamp.

Saints, why do you think God, Christ always taught about the real and the false? See, in the church of our day, we go, don't make people feel uncomfortable. I'm preaching what the Bible teaches. This is what, this is why we've got problems in our church.

You go, as soon as you feel convicted or you feel concerned or you get stirred, you go, that's condemnation. We shouldn't be doing that. That's because we don't know the difference between condemnation and conviction.

When the conviction comes, it is the Holy Spirit. When the condemnation comes, it's the devil. With convictions, the Lord proves what is wrong and you know what he says here? This is what you do. There's a way through.

There's always hope with conviction. With condemnation, the devil says, look and you're damned and there's no hope. So you need to understand, we need real conviction again and because we don't preach this, there's no real conviction.

So they had lamps but they all went forth, the foolish virgins in this hour, the context of Matthew 24. In that hour, that last hour, they were all going forth. Foolish virgins in this hour in England.

All over England, there's foolish virgins going out saying, Jesus is coming. Oh no, they represent sinners. No, they don't. No, they don't. It's people in the church, in the kingdom of God who are with other genuine believers and so they all go forth to meet the bridegroom.

They know about the bridegroom. They believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. They believe in his death. They believe in all the right doctrines. They believe in salvation by grace. They believe in faith in Christ.

They believe in blood atonement. Look further. They're all expecting the sudden return, the coming of the bridegroom. They believe this is the end day, the last day but here's another terrible thing. It says they all slumber.

Do you see how similar they are here? They all have lamps, all going out, all expecting. They all slumber and sleep. Everyone, not just the foolish. Are we not there this hour where the real wise virgins, the real church of God is asleep in the nation?

He says they all slumbered. That's a stage before sleeping. When you sleep, you become utterly unconscious of what's going on around you. It is the stage before slumbering comes, leads you to sleep and the mark of the real and the false in the last hour in this parable and it's in the context of Matthew 24.

Keep it in context. When you get to the beginning of sorrows, even the real sleep, they begin to slumber. They begin to sleep. They begin to grow tired. You know why? Because they waited so long, so many years, had such an expectation.

Now, darkness is beginning to fall and the conditions make them sleep. That's the first thing. The two groups, their similarities. But notice as well, let me deal with the foolish virgins. The foolish virgins.

It says here there were five foolish virgins. The word foolish used here means to be dull, stupid, heedless. When I meet someone who's born again, especially mature and they don't take heed of the word of God, I get very worried.

Christ talked about virgins who are foolish, heedless. The word means to be blunt, to lose your edge, to lose your sharpness. The word also means to be thoughtless. You give no thought to these things.

Do you know what the Greek word is? It's moros, where we get moron from. It means to have a lack of grip on reality. There's a lot of Christians in this nation saying, we'll get back to normal. There's lots of preachers in this nation and they're not preaching.

We are in a crisis. What has happened in Britain? We've crossed the line. This is real. They're not even preaching it. Do you know what to be a foolish virgin means? You'd have no grip on reality. You've lost your grip on reality.

You say you believe all this, but it doesn't fit in the reality. Our world has changed. Our nation has changed. Our government, do you not see what has happened in this hour? I tell you, those that trust the medical profession in this hour and the government in this hour and believe what's going on and believes the media, you are on such dangerous ground.

A system in our nation that murders babies and you think you can trust it? I respect the government. I respect law. I abide by the regulations. The speed limit, I try my best. I've done well coming up that road.

But you know, so the word moros means you've lost a grip on reality. In Matthew chapter 5, 22, Jesus used the same word. He says, whosoever shall say, thou fool shall be in danger of hell fire. So this word fool is a terrible word.

It's like calling someone a moron. When I was a kid, you didn't call anyone a moron. I'm tired, I would have got in trouble. You know what a Bambridge lady's like. I would have been in serious trouble with my mommy if I called anyone a moron.

Jesus said, if you call someone a fool, a moron, a moros, heedless, it is so bad, you are in danger of hell fire. This is such a bad word. You know, a preacher once said, I don't like you calling people in the church goats.

I said, do you think Jesus meant it as a compliment? No way, no way it's not a compliment. You know what this word fool means? You're apostate. You've gone almost beyond redemption. You're in a condition where it's so dangerous.

You're in real, real trouble. Like the man, remember the fool, it's the same word, the man who built his house upon sand. He is building a house. It looks the same as the wise man's house. He is building.

He is putting the effort in. It looks the same, but it's the foundation is wrong. Everything is wrong with it. He was a fool. Now let's look at these foolish virgins. First of all, we see in verse three, they took lamps, but no oil.

They took lamps with oil in the lamp, but they didn't bring any oil with them. They thought the lamp was sufficient. There was no real thought about the oil. They were only thinking about now. I need oil now.

I need a lamp now. I need to go forth now. They weren't thinking of the future. They weren't thinking of consequence. They didn't expect it, LA. And what a terrible mistake they made. They took their lamps, but no oil.

Yet it was the source of fire and light. They should have been thinking about this. You can't wait that time and prepare. You need to prepare now. If you're not adjusting now, what a terrible thing. What a big mistake you're making.

The thought of the person, this person, this foolish virgin is prepared outwardly, but not inwardly. They're prepared for now, but not for the future. They're thinking of time in this life, but not of eternity.

All of it, they've only got a narrow perspective and they are the center of their world. That's what it is. They're not thinking of the reality. They have outward oil. And I'm going to explain this in a moment.

You see, I believe the wise virgins have inward oil as well as outward oil. The foolish virgins only have outward oil. You may not have heard this, and yet this is what is taught here. The outward oil used for the outward life.

Remember the lamp is the testimony that's your preaching, your evangelism, your good works, church attendance. And so that lamp can be burning with oil today. It's outward oil. It's not the inward life.

They did not take oil with them, but no inward life. How can you possibly have this? What does this look like in this generation to have outward oil, but no inward oil? You can have gifts. You can have service, but not the character or the communion with Jesus Christ or the inward holiness of mind.

Do you notice the wise and foolish got to do with your mind? To be senseless is to be foolish. To be wise, and we're going to look at it, is to have intelligence. So don't think that you're mine. Oh, spiritual, I love Jesus in my heart.

Doesn't matter the condition of my mind. Doesn't matter that I'm really prepared. Well, Jesus said it did. He really said it did. And so you have here, you have examples throughout the Bible of men, and I'm sure women, who had outward oil, but no inward oil.

You say, how can you have the oil? And remember, the oil is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. Isn't that right? So you can have a outward work of the Holy Spirit, but no inward work of the Holy Spirit. You say, prove it biblically.

I'd love to. What about King Saul in the Old Testament? God chose him. He began humble. The Spirit of God came upon him. The real Holy Spirit, the real anointing. Remember what he was doing when God found him?

He's going looking for a bunch of lost donkeys. That's the height of his vision. That's the height of his calling. He's going looking for daddy's donkeys. He's wondering, have you seen the donkeys? And then the Spirit of God comes upon him as Samuel prophesied and immediately rises up and he blows a trumpet and calls the entire nation to war against the enemy.

What was that? That was outward oil in the lamp. That was the power of the Holy Spirit. That was the anointing of God upon a king. God anointed him to be king. God set him apart and gave him the gifting and the ability and the calling to be a king.

That's outward oil. You know the story of Saul, the bitterness, the jealousy, the envy, how he grieved the Holy Spirit, how the Spirit of God would lift up off him. With inward oil, that doesn't happen.

And an evil spirit from the Lord came and tormented that man. He was a mess. 38 years he lived like that. He was anointed of the Holy Spirit. He had outward oil. He had a position, a title. He was there, the king of Israel.

40 years he was king, 38 years. He was an absolute rebel against God who then went to witches. That's a man who has the outward oil but not the inward oil. What about Balaam? You know all those beautiful prophecies that come to pass.

Balaam, the prophet, I once asked a friend, I said, listen about this prophet. Let me tell you, imagine if I explain this prophet is down in London. Would you go and hear him? He's seen a real angel from the Lord come to him.

He gets real prophecies from God. Everything he's prophesied about Israel comes to pass. The Lord visits him and withholds him from sin. And I went on explaining this and I said, would you go and hear a prophet like that?

He says, I would. And do you know what's more? He had a real genuine miracle no one else had. Donkey spoke to him, Balaam. And I said, I said, boy, he sounds powerful. I said, I've just described to you a false prophet.

Peter in the New Testament said he was a false teacher. Saints of God, you need to be very careful what's going on in the church of our day. You can see a working of the Holy Spirit but there's something wrong.

You can have outward oil. You could be dealing with foolish virgins and you go, but this is real. But there's something missing. We see it with Judas, chosen, sent out to preach, to heal the sick, to cast out demons, to do the will of God, to carry the money back.