Wolves Don't Advertise — Shane Idleman

Here's a message that will make false teachers wiggle in their seats and those of us who are not false converts will be excited about this type of message. But it's been something I've wanted to talk about for some time.

Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

And where we're at in Matthew, we find ourselves in that actual passage where Jesus is talking about wolves don't advertise, is the title of this message. And you realize that, right? Wolves do not advertise.

A wolf is not going to come and say, hey, look at who I'm a wolf. He appears to be a sheep. That's the whole point of the text where we're at. So if you have your Bibles, turn to Matthew chapter seven, Matthew chapter seven.

If you weren't here last week, go online, get last week's message. We're hearing from a lot of people, mainly in the United States, of that message really changing and transforming them. And it was on the narrow way is the only way.

Why is the narrow way the only way it's the narrow way is the only way because it gets in the way. So look at next week's message, it's online already, it's been uploaded. Matthew seven, verse 15. Now, remember, last week we're in we ended verse 14.

Jesus said the road is narrow. Be very careful. The road is narrow that leads to eternal life and broad is the way to destruction. OK, that's the setting. The narrow road to life is very narrow. When you say that Jesus is the only way, the only truth, the only life, that's very narrow.

Yep. Unapologetically narrow. I'm not going to apologize about it. Jesus said it and God's truth confirms it. So that's the narrow way. And then what does he do? He goes right into this next verse because of that.

Jesus’ Warning About False Prophets

Beware of false prophets. Why, Jesus? Because they'll either lead you down. False prophets will lead you down the broad road that leads to destruction. True proclaimers of God's truth will point you towards the narrow truth.

So Jesus saying beware. Anytime Jesus tells us to beware, guess what? Beware. Be very, very aware. If Jesus Christ can say, listen, guys, beware. It's time to sit up, turn off our cell phones and look at it.

Look at the word of God. Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing. But inwardly they are ravenous, ravenous. Either way, I pronounce that, I'm not sure just on me, I might have pronounced it wrong at the first service.

Let's just say they are wolves inside. I'm just a vessel. You all know I barely graduate high school, so. You will know them by their fruits. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles?

Of course not. Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree. I knew it's going to be tough after first service. Let's just pick up verse 19.

Every tree, this is what Jesus is getting to. I don't know why I just didn't say this in verse 19. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore, by their fruits, you will know them.

See, they're not going to come, a wolf or a false teacher is not going to be wearing red, holding a pitchfork. He's going to come in, she's going to come in subtly and bring destructive heresy, bring destructive teaching to draw people away from the narrow way.

That's the whole point of a false teacher. So the first thing we can glean from this is point one, beware, be on alert, be discerning. Jesus says, beware, Christians should be the most discerning people on the planet.

Discerning the Times Through Scripture

Doesn't mean we walk around and put everything under this microscope, every single thing, and we become a judgmental Pharisee. But it does mean that we become very discerning of the culture, very discerning of the church, very discerning of what we view, who we associate with, what we read, what we should be discerning, discerning the times because the times are evil.

We live in some very evil times right now, and I was pulling off some sermon illustrations from the news, and I swore I'd never do that again. There's so much depressing things going on. There's another school shooting.

Mom kills her two daughters and takes her own life. Oh, we are living in some very, very difficult times. We're called to be discerning people. So begs the question, how do we discern? Do you realize if you're not in the word, the word will not be in you?

How do you know? How do you know what I'm saying tonight is true? You can take my word for it. No, don't take my word for it. We're going to be revisiting scripture. We're going to be looking to scripture.

Not just scriptures. I mean, you can say you can make you can say that have the Bible say anything you want if you just pull out certain scriptures. But how do you know that's that's the Christians more than anybody else should be devouring the word of God, looking to the word of God.

That's the anchor. That's what holds everything together. That's how you can tell a false teacher from a genuine teacher. You look at what they're saying. So he's saying, don't look at how they're dressed because he's going to look just like me.

You've got to see what the words that are coming out of his mouth. What is the fruit that is being produced? That's the only way you can tell is to line it up. Wolves don't advertise the name of the sermon and their seven traits of false teachers.

Now, I need to let you know up front the seven traits of false false teachers that I'm going to get to at the end. I borrowed that from the Gospel Coalition on their Web site. They've got this article titled Seven Traits of False Teachers.

I came across it and I said, this is this is perfect. This is exactly what we're trying to say tonight. So they get all the credit. They wrote it. But that's not till towards the end of the sermon. So I want to make that point clear.

I think the link is in your bulletin in the actual article that they wrote where you can look at it a little bit more. So the context, as we as we know, the context is Matthew. Jesus is saying narrow enter by the narrow gate because broad is the weight of destruction.

So you better be careful who you're listening to, who is guiding you, who's influencing you. Do you realize that all of us are guided or directed by somebody? Do you think I live in a bubble and don't read or listen to anything all week and then you show up here?

Who's influencing me, Hollywood or the Holy Spirit, Desperate Housewives or my wife, who's influencing me, American Idol or God's word or says, submit to yourself, humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and do time.

He will exalt you. Do not exalt yourself. Who's influencing you? You know who I listen to a lot of you guys listen, same people, James McDonald, John MacArthur, Alistair Begg, Philip DeCourcy, David Jeremiah down in San Diego.

These are the people investing into my life. If I want to get real hardcore, I put Paul Washer on. You probably won't know who that is. You can Google him. And I always tell people, you think I'm hardcore?

Go Google Paul Washer. And that's but he's calling the church back to the purity of the gospel. So be very careful because you are being influenced one way or the other. So am I. What we open ourselves up to, what do we allow into our minds?

That's why when I talk to young adults a lot, I go back to this point. What you're reading Facebook, Twitter, all your friends, what you're reading, what you're absorbing, your media input is not just input.

It's influence. We're being we wish we think we I can hold my own. I can just hold this guy. No, you can't. I can't either. We were designed to whatever we open ourselves up to. We allow that to influence us.

That's why a lot of modern day entertainment, what people are enjoying isn't just enjoyment. It's influence. It's influencing the culture. It's reflecting the culture, but it's also influencing the culture.

So we have to be careful in this area of who is leading us. So, number one, beware beyond beyond alert. Discern, how do you discern? You discern them by the truth. You discern them by what is being said.

False Teachers Who Look Like Sheep

So the next thing we can pull out of this is they look like sheep, but they act like wolves. They look like sheep. So how are we going to these guys on TV or in the radio or me or anybody else? How are you going to know?

Think about that is now a little disheartening. Well, the good news is it doesn't have to be. You just line everything up with truth. So, Shane, I don't know what the truth is. Exactly. That's the thrust of my message.

You better live in the word of God. In order to be able to discern, because if not, you're going to be tossed to and fro. The Bible says you're tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men.

Why? Because I'm not anchored in the truth. See, when truth is my anchor, I can drift off course a little bit. But what's blowing me back? The anchor, everything's anchored to the truth. It's pulling me back.

If there's no anchor, people are being tossed to and fro. That's why it's Jesus Christ one day and this person the next. That's why I'll try this. But now I switch to this and now I'm over here. Why? There's no anchor.

There's no grounding. And false teachers love that they jump on that. Here's what they do. They subtly challenge the inerrancy and the authority of Scripture. They subtly come in and challenge it. They're not going to come out and say, hey, guys, I'm challenging this.

They're going to come in and subtly challenge it. And they add to salvation. It's not in Christ alone. It's well, well, we won't come out and say it, but unless you belong to our society. Yeah, it's Jesus plus it's Jesus plus our society.

Ask a Mormon if you can be saved outside the Mormon church. Yeah, I'm going to step on toes tonight. No apologies. You want to know why? What does this say? Restoring centrality to Jesus's words, not to Joseph Smith, not to bring him young, not to the Jehovah witness, not to the false teachers.

The whole point of the pulpit is to restore centrality to the words of Christ. That is the only name that says that's the only name that heals. It's OK to step on toes because they're presenting false doctrine.

And I'm tired of wimpy pastors who don't want to say anything because they want their name recognition. They want the big church. They don't want to call sin sin. They don't want to call false teachers, false teachers.

Now, we don't come into this looking forward to it. I actually don't want to give this message. I'm not looking forward to it. But the text finds us in Matthew seven, chapter seven, verse 15. And if you look at the totality of scripture and you go through expositionally, you've got to confront it.

And you have to remember, when these teachers come out and they remove the deity of Christ, I have a biblical, a biblical obligation to bring the deity of Christ back into it. You try preaching like this an hour ago and doing it again.

That's why, Lord, fill me with your spirit. I cannot do this. It's all about you. And the hard part is after this, we have to pick what service we're going to put on the website. Lord, you know, it's it's just this topic is burning in my in my in my stomach because I see so many people.

Being led astray by false doctrine, they're walking up and down my street holding their little kids hands and those kids are on their way to hell. You realize that it's OK to get a little passionate about that.

When they come to your door and they say a Jehovah's Witness, you say, no, I'm Jehovah's Witness. You're a false witness. And here's why. Because I love you enough to say something. Don't worry, I'll get to other cults, too, in the point a minute.

Heresy and the Duty to Confront False Doctrine

We see it called heresy. Listen, those words are just words that the church uses to identify false doctrine, heresy, look it up, heretical, a self-willed opinion that opposes the truth, heresy. That fits the definition.

So when we come out against people like I've warned before, do not read Rob Bell, do not let him influence you. Why? Because he says there's no hell that we're all going to end up in heaven. Gay marriage is OK.

We should embrace it. And you guys are just rigid, narrow minded. Well, listen, you come out and you say that stuff. I got to come out and counteract it. So see, people get upset at me for saying something.

Why don't you get upset at him for bringing out false doctrine? He's the one you should be upset at. He comes out here as if God isn't going to care. God's going to wink. He's not going to talk about sin.

He's not going to talk about judgment or the righteousness to come. Well, then what was Paul's problem in front of Felix? Felix told Paul, get out of here. Why? Because I'm convicted. You're talking about sin and righteousness and the holiness of God.

And when they come against those things and we bring them back now, I'm the bad guy. He's just a mean spirit. No, I want Christian unity. But remember, biblical unity, Christian unity is unity with the spirit, unity with the son and unity with the father, not unity with men.

So I will be divided with men as long as I'm united with the father. You realize that? Opposing false teachers gets people upset. I'm not going to go through the list because some people on TV, I don't really know.

I don't know. And I'm not in a position to. Yeah, they are, unless I talk to them like Rob Bell and Brian McLaren, Doug Paget, Tony Jones, all these guys that were part of the emergent church movement.

And I've read their biographies, I've read their words. I say that's not a good direction to be going. These guys are pulling young adults away from Christ. That's not good. The book I wrote before this one answers for a confused church deals with this whole movement because of that, listen, if they're saying something, they'll find a big publisher, put out hundreds of thousands of copies.

But we can't come out and counteract it. Oh, the day that the silent church is over. Absolutely. Because God's spirit is helping, willing that none should perish, that all should come to salvation. But the false teachers are leading them astray.

It's time for the voice of truth to come on the scene and say, here is truth. Come back to truth. Truth will save. Truth will transform. Truth will heal. Truth will deliver you. That's how powerful truth is.

And that's why they want to neglect there. That's why they want to fight it. That's why they want to cover it up. And somebody actually came up after the first service and said, it's such and such a false teacher.

And of course, you all know, if I say his name, you know, honestly, I don't know. I don't know because I'd have to talk to them. I have I'm not in a position to say. But what I do realize is I wouldn't want to be on that fringe where people are questioning it.

He might not be a false teacher, but why is he giving people the impression that he is? Well, let's find out why Jesus says why. They bring in subtly, they challenge the scripture, said that they bring in subtle changes and challenging.

And here's what I've noticed just in my time of ministry is, you know, speaking a lot before this church for about a decade. I've traveled and I spoke and then we planted this church. So maybe in 13 years talking to a lot of different backgrounds, a lot of different people, lukewarm, not safe, you know, everything.

A lot of it boils down to me. What I noticed in false teachers, they usually don't want to preach. They want to have a conversation. You'll hear that a lot in a lot of the terminology with the young and upcoming church and younger adults is let's just be missional.

Let's not preach. Let's just sit down, have a conversation so we can discuss things. So you can't come out and say, thus sayeth the Lord by the authority of scripture. You have to sit down and have a discussion.

Kumbaya, let's all get along. What do you think? And what do you think? What do you think? And what do you think? Well, that's yeah. What do you think? Preaching is not asking for the opinions of men, it's proclaiming the counsel of God.

So they always want to have a conversation. Let's just talk. And the conversations are good, right? Absolutely. But they want to have a conversation. Here's the next point. And then they'll start to ask, have you ever considered?

Have you have you ever considered? Like in Rob Bell, one of his books, he talks, I think, Velvet Elvis, that Christianity is like a trampoline. And could theoretically, could we move the spring of the virgin birth and keep springing?

Yeah, I guess we could. That's a good point, Rob. Never considered that. See, folks, you can't. The gospel is not a trampoline. Remove the virgin birth and you remove the deity of Christ. He was not begot of man or woman.

He was he was the Holy Spirit went into Mary and formed Christ, not the bloodline of man, not the bloodline of woman, but but the Holy Spirit. Yeah, the virgin birth is pretty important. I don't care if you can pull out spring and keep jumping on the trampoline.

That is irrelevant. But see how they bring that. How we consider how we consider he's not going to come out and say, I've got a book, you know, this that now we'll take out the deity of Christ. We'll take away this.

And he's not going to do that. They're bringing subtle hints and subtleties. And that's how it works. Or, of course, this one. Most false teachers are exceptions. They will avoid difficult truths. You won't hear them talking about sin and repentance and judgment and holiness.

The Marks of False Teachers

Why? Because they're drawing men to themselves. See, I could fill this room if I told everybody what they wanted to hear, not what they needed to hear. I would lose most of you. I know. Understand. But we could open three services and just advertise the church is just going to tell you what you want to hear.

And people come and they think they're going to church. So they avoid difficult truths. Oh, I'm not going to talk about the difficult truths. Why? Christ did. Christ died for the very thing you're not going to mention died on the cross for sin, took the wrath and indignation of God at that point in history.

I'm not going to mention that, though. Might upset some people. Yeah, absolutely. The gospel is offensive. Get over it. Jesus Christ himself said the message of redemption will be offensive. The world will hate you.

So if the world loves some of these guys, what's the disconnection here? Be careful. Be very careful. But also another thing a false teacher will do is they'll pound this down your throat. And they'll control and they'll manipulate with the word of God.

I'm your spiritual authority. You come to me, you know, all these things you have to sit and they become your you're almost your God, your guru, all these things. They they scram it down your throat and you just have to submit to it or else you're not a Christian.

So they just use this. They beat you up with it so you can look at there's polar opposites there. Of course, one of the things is money. It's going to be a mark of their ministry for sure. They're in it for greedy gain.

It's going to be about book sales, probably it's going to be about I mean, do you realize that the bigger your audience, the more your offering is, you know, that. Right, that's surprising, buddy. So be careful, because money is their end.

That's their focus. One last focus is it's follow me. Not follow him. Follow me, so no follow him. John the Baptist said, I must decrease, but he must increase. So false prophets will say. Jesus must decrease and I must increase in the order and the reason I must increase is so now I can promote Jesus.

See, it's all about me, but Jesus is coming to it's all about me, but Jesus is coming to can he come to my God to keep him here? Because if I don't keep him here, I'm not going to laurel thousands and millions of Christians asleep.

I have to keep him here. I got to keep Jesus here as my backup plan as my kind of, oh, see, I have Jesus here. But it's all about them and the money and building and building their ministry. Now, of course, you've got to be careful because false teachers, not everybody's a false teacher.

People become prideful and they get the lust of money and power and things take over and they get sidetracked. And sometimes God brings them back. So but that's one of the characteristics with them. So with that said, let's talk about this point.

Wolves don't advertise. Wolves don't advertise. And if you need the complete sermon notes, we have them online now and in our website under complete sermon notes. I was going to catch you, but it works.

Complete sermon notes, you can see everything I'm looking at. I told the first service it's ironic. I used to not have any sermon notes because I would memorize my outline and then I put clothes on it like a skeleton put clothes as I'm speaking.

But now I don't have six days to prepare. Back then I would have a month or two. So it's much different. I've got to have to help keep everything the train of thought going in the right direction. So those are available online.

Examining the Fruit of Teachers

But with that said, let's let's go to this point I've been wanting to get to. Jesus says you must be fruit inspectors. You must be fruit inspectors. See, and this is interesting because a lot of times we want to be fruit inspectors.

People say, oh, you're just being judgmental. Oh, I want to be a fruit inspector. No, you can't come out against that guy. What's wrong with you? You're quenching green in the spirit of God. No, I'm called to be a fruit inspector.

No, you're not. You can't say anything. And then they'll get upset at you if you start to call things in question. Hey, that I'm not sure if we should be doing that. I'm not sure. And we're called to be fruit inspectors.

Now, however, though, the other side of that is somebody thinks they've been given the God gifting gift of God, given gift of criticism. And they're a fruit inspector for everybody. And they have an apologetics ministry and they like to tell off everybody, pick apart every type of ministry.

That's not good either. Jesus just saying, listen, be, you know, little grapes aren't going to grow on a weed and weeds aren't going to be found on a great bush there. You're going to find the fruit of what that person is about will come to pass.

So with that said, I'm pulling again from the Gospel Coalition article. What he did is he compared the authentic Christian with the counterfeit or he compared the the authentic teacher with the counterfeit teacher based on first Peter.

The First Trait: Different Sources

It ties in perfectly. The first point is this. There is a different source. There's a different source. Where does their message come from? Where does their message come from? You have two people up here, false teacher, real teacher.

Where does their message come from? Peter says we did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And then he says the false teachers exploit you with stories that they made up.

So the true teacher sources everything, what he what he gets from the Bible, the false teacher relies on his own creativity and he makes up his own message. A lot of times it's not necessarily from the Bible, maybe a little verse here and there, but it's a message he brings up.

And right when I was writing this, I said, hello, Book of Mormon, Book of Mormon right there. I'm not trying to offend. I'm not trying to upset. But this is a bunch of fables that you can't find the cities.

You can't find the kingdoms. You can't find any spears or any shovels or anything from that. You can't find anything. You can't find the gold tablets, that special glasses to view them. You can't find any of that.

Nothing, nothing in there is lines up with scripture. So you're left with this dilemma. You can get mad at me if you want, but you either believe Jesus Christ or you believe Joseph Smith. They cannot both be right.

So when they come out and they say, here's a false gospel, I have to come and say, no, here's a true gospel and I have to show you the difference. Remember, I told you a while back this summer, I caught four Mormon missionaries up on the aqueduct for Bible study.

They didn't know what they're in for. I started talking to them and they're tongue tied. They didn't know. And they kept going, no, but look, here's the Book of Mormon. I don't want to see the Book of Mormon.

I want to see the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ and the living word of God. Oh, that's supplementary. This is primary. You can't read this and read that and see what the Bible, Jesus is the son of God.

Book of Mormon. He's a brother of Lucifer. Well, what's the Bible say? God is holy and lifted up the angels cry, holy, holy is our God. The whole temple shook in his presence, the angels cried, holy, holy is our God.

What does this book say? God was once like us and we will be like God. Blasphemy, blasphemy. I told those kids that. See, you're blaspheming God. See, they can't both be right. What do you do with Jesus?

Jesus, whose wife will she be? Oh, there's no marriage in heaven. Have you not read the scriptures? Book of Mormon. You'll be married in heaven, you'll have celestial sex and raise spirit children. Well, that might sound better, I think, to some of you.

But yeah, I walked myself into that one, didn't I? But you see, these aren't just little errors. I went to our paper and I said, here's my article. I'm writing about the little bulletin thing you have in your bulletin.

And. I have a full article sent to the papers and we're not going to print that, Shane, you're attacking other Christians, other Christians. Last time I checked, Christians were Christ followers, followers of Christ, the way El Paseo in Spanish.

The way the followers of the way and when groups I don't like it, I would I would just love to get along with these groups. But when they're leading millions of people astray, their little kids are walking with them up and down.

Can I tell you about a false doctrine? Can I tell you about a false doctrine? And we have none of us going to doors and say, can I tell you about a true doctrine? We should be ashamed of ourselves. One of the reasons why I got this postcard printed up, my wife will tell you, I'm going to mail them to every house I see them going to.

That's a true gospel and going down the line, Jehovah Witness. John, in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God, Jehovah Witness, but Watchtower, well, let's define that for you.

In the beginning was the word and the word was a God and they'll remove the deity of Christ. They remove the D. You follow on this, this is important, they will remove the deity of Christ, the very foundation of Christianity is being removed.

Charles Taz Russell started this religion, had the Bible re-edited, redone by people who don't even know Greek or Hebrew or Aramaic. They just put a Bible together that would fit their theology. Dangerous.

So what do we do? Be silent? Shane, you're being mean spirited. No, I'm not. It's the love of Christ that compels me to share the truth. Two of those guys up on the aqueduct left, they're really thinking, asking some hard questions after about an hour.

Of drilling them, you're going to be like God, God was once like us, how do you worship a God like that? So salvation is only in the Mormon Church. What do you do with the Bible says repent and believe.

Whoever confesses Christ will be saved. What do you do with all the scriptures? Well, just well, you got the Book of Mormon. No, no, no, no, no. You don't understand. I don't want to see that book. I want to see the book.

And there's always all the times I get emails sometimes from Roman Catholics when I talk about the history of Rome and the papacy and the buying of that papacy, the buying of the authority, the bringing of indulgence.

Of going to priests as a mediator and Mary worship is co-redeemer. The last time I checked, Mary did not die on the cross. I don't go to priests. I go to Christ. Hebrews says, I have a high priest who's been tempted and tested in all points like me, but he was without sin.

He's my high priest. The papacy is not over scripture. Scripture is over the papacy. So the church was fine. First, second century, third century. Now, now they begin to buy power. It was just the Catholic church.

They just they bought power. They bought. Here's a million dollars. Let me have this spiritual authority. And then they married the church with the state, hence the word Roman Catholic church. It became a position of power and authority.

Now they come out with these different dictates that go against scripture and they bring in all this stuff, consubstantiation, transubstantiation, that the communion actually becomes a literal body and blood of Christ.

They get well, let's just let's stay to this. Let's just stay to this. Can we? No, we can't. False teachers take you directly this way. Shane, are you saying that some popes might not have even been saved?

Absolutely. They burned Christians. If I would have said what I'm saying now, 600 years ago, here to take him out, let the flames raise that guy up in the sky, pour gasoline all over him and have gasoline back then.

But, you know, oil. Listen, this is truth and it hurts. Have you heard named John Whitecliffe, Huss, William Tyndale? Have you heard them? They wrote the Bible. Two of those men were killed by the church for proclaiming the truth.

They told Martin Luther, recant all your works or you'll face possible execution. He told the council, here I stand. I can do no other. I stand on the word of God alone. And spark the flames of the Reformation, we don't worship these guys, they have their faults.

I can pick them apart. They can pick me apart. But when are we going to wake up church and say, hey, these OK, listen, they kill Christians, they burn them at the stake. Because they were challenging the papacy, they were challenging the pope's authority.

They're saying, listen, you don't, you know, put it, put a coin in the car for spring and somebody from purgatory will, you know, all these things that they have, you give, give money, you can spring your relatives out of purgatory.

That's a false system of works. And you're mad at me. I want people to read their Bible. So everything is in the Latin, the Latin Vulgate, they're going to read Latin, so you don't know the Bible. You have to go.

No, you read your Bible, which actually I said, would you please read your Bible? How often do I promote? Read your Bible. Because this isn't about Shane Idleman, this is about Jesus Christ. We glorify him.

We magnify him. That's the only reason I can preach like this is because he radically changed my life. And it's the spirit of God crying out of a father preaching the truth. Go to 30 Mormon tabernacles tomorrow, and I doubt they'll even get this loud.

Just turn to this. Why? Because there's no spiritual authority in them. There's not. There's no fruit. There's nothing. I'm not saying it means spirit. I'm not saying with arrogance. I'm saying, guys, wake up.

Genuine, true, historical, biblical Christianity must line up with scripture. Christ is the only way, the only truth, the only life. There's no other way. You don't have to belong to a church. You don't have to belong to a society.

You don't have to get baptized. You don't have to do this. You don't have you just have to repent and believe in the only name that saves. So back to the question. What are they doing? The first point, different sources.

The Second Trait: A Different Message

John, I'm going to let you choose what video to put on them since you're both services. Number two, different message. They promote a different message. What is the substance of the message? What is the substance of the message?

False teacher, real teacher. What is the substance? The true teacher for the true teacher. Jesus Christ is central. We have everything we need for life and godliness in him. But the false teacher, Jesus, is at the margins.

Remember, I told you earlier, Jesus is back here. We got him. He's good. We got Jesus. We have to have Jesus. We'll be thrown out of the church. If we don't have Jesus, TBN will not air my shows, right?

I mean, you can't just come out and blatantly say it. Am I seeing everybody on there wrong? Of course not. I don't have time to watch. I don't know. I've seen some good stuff on there back in the past.