(The Church in the Last Days) 14 - Destruction of the Babylon — Milton Green

Revelation Conflicts With Tradition

When anyone receives revelation in the Word of God, it sometimes conflicts with what he has previously been taught. This causes you to have to deal with old traditions or wrong teaching. These tapes may contain some new light from God's Word, and it may be opposed to some traditions you have previously learned.

Therefore, follow through these messages in your Bible, in sequence, in order that you may be able to make a choice for the Word of God rather than the traditions of men. This is tape number 14 in a series.

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The Army of the Lord and the Day of the Lord

They're going to verse 9, 2 and 9, they're going to rush on the city, they're going to run on this white horse wall, they're going to climb into these houses of these people who are the blind leading the blind, they're going to enter through the windows and they're going to come in like what?

They are a thief that come to kill, steal, and destroy, that's what they are. Before them the earth quakes, what do you mean it quakes? They come to take the foundations and everything that can be shaken will be shaken and only those things that cannot be shaken are the only things that's going to remain.

Hebrews 12, that's what they come against the foundations. If you're not standing on the whole counsel of God, you get shook down. So before them the earth quakes, the heavens tremble, the sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.

That means that's just spiritual darkness covers it, everything. And the Lord utters His voice, Behold, for whose army, whose army? His army, His troops, the same ones you saw over in Job 18. It's His army that He's called.

That's the ones we sing about. Surely His camp is very great, for strong is He who cares out His word. Who cares out the word of God? These troops, and strong are they who care out when the Lord shoots His, what?

Speaks His arrows, and they enter, dear, what? Inward parts. And they're strong, they're stronger than any of the human race. And the only way you'll stand against them is stand away from them, whether you have the covenant partner Jesus and you'll not stand against them.

If you don't stand against them His way, you better be sure you got the right Jesus. For strong is He who cares out His word. The day of the Lord is indeed great and very awesome. Who can endure it? And yet even now declares the Lord, return to me with what?

You better come to me with all your heart, with all your heart. You better get rid of these idols. You better turn to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. You better render your heart and not your garments.

Now return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious. He is compassionate. He is slow to anger. He's abounding in love and kindness. He's relenting of evil. Verse 15, blow a trumpet in Zion. And this is a song I like to hear sang.

Consecrate a fast. Proclaim a solemn ascending. Gather the people in what? Look at me. How do you sanctify the congregation? Listen to me, folks. This is how you get the wall of Jesus. You sanctify the congregation because then you let the discipline of the Lord come in.

And I say, brother, I heard that anger coming out right there. And I know you come to the Lord with all your heart, doc. And you know I love you and I need your help to show me the things that's wrong in my life.

We've got the glory of Jesus around this place. We've got peace in here. He wants us to deal with everything on the band. Anger can't be here. Hate can't be here, brother. We've got to deal with that.

You've got to deal with it. And then he won't deal with it. I bring somebody else. Hey, brother, we love the Lord more than we do anything. He says we've got to deal with it. And then he won't deal with it.

We take him before the church. He's put outside. And he's given up to Satan, the destruction of his flesh. He can repent and come back. But if the Lord has all his heart, he will turn with the whole heart.

That's how you get the wall of Jesus. That's how you get the glory of Jesus. That's the grace and power that God's going to pour out on the people that purify their hearts. Because nobody's getting glory except Jesus.

Because Jesus is standing in the midst of that congregation. Because this church is built around Jesus' holiness and mercy. Amen? So gather the people and sanctify the congregation. Sanctify means purify their hearts.

Assemble the elders. Gather the children and the nursing inmates. That's Jesus. And the bride of every chamber. Now, are you noticing a very interesting thing, folks? Don't you see what we just read? Do you remember over and over, we see it about babbling right there, that all joy and gladness is gone?

Shake your head at me again tonight. Joy and gladness is gone. Amen? All right, then. And the bridegroom. No voice of the bridegroom and no voice of the bride. Isn't that an interesting thing right there?

That in verse 16, a boast. Look back in chapter 1. Has not food, the word, that's a famine, been cut off before our eyes, ever learning, never able to come, the knowledge of truth, gladness and joy from the house of the Lord?

There's gladness and joy. Then when you fast and everything, what's going to happen over in verse 16 in chapter 2? It's 16, then Jesus is going to come out of His room and the bride of every bridal chamber.

Amen? They're going to get together. When you repent and sanctify the congregation and purify your hearts and when you start walking in a direction and overcoming, enduring like Jesus tells us to do with a pure heart, glory be to God forevermore.

Amen? We need Jesus. And we need to do what God says in His Word. Don't analyze it. Do it. Let the priest, the Lord's ministers, weep between a porch and an altar. Let him say, spare thy people, O Lord, from these locusts.

And do not make thine inheritance a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they among the people say, where is their God? Now go over to verse 23. So rejoice, O sons of Zion. Be glad in the Lord your God, for he's given you the early rain for your vindication.

He's poured down for you the rain. Now this is the Spirit of God. The early and the latter rain as before and the threshing floors are going to be full of grain. This is what's coming up for people that purify their hearts and I'm going to tell you something, folks.

Security in Jesus Christ Alone

Listen to me. You just find you some nice place that you just settle in there and you just find security among people. Your security had better be the Lord Jesus Christ. Let me come over here and tell you this.

I'm going to tell you in Jesus' name, your security had better be comparing yourself among yourself and measuring yourself by yourself. Your security better not be nothing except the Lord Jesus Christ.

Nothing. Not in the works, not in the gifts, not casting out demons, not healing the sick, not in anything but just Jesus with all your heart because everything, gifts and everything that these are, it's just Jesus.

And he's the one, folks, understand this. We have been deceived by getting a vision of some man with a part that he's got power. There's something special about him. There's nothing special about any man except the grace of Jesus.

What makes a man important is Jesus gets in his life, amen? And see, there's no distinguishing between any kind of folks, yellow, black, purple, polka dots. It does not matter if they're in Jesus. You've got a problem in your heart.

And if you see anything, rich, poor, old, young, if it's in Jesus, amen? Because there's nothing but love in a pure heart, a sanctified heart. Glory, hallelujah. Praise the Lord. We're talking about love, folks.

Love shouldn't upset. Dear God, we need some of it. Verse 25. When you do all this, your vats are going to be full. And then he said, verse 25, I'm going to make up for you all those years that these swarming locusts, these powers of darkness, even the creeping locusts, the stripping locusts, the gnawing of my great army which I made among you, when you sanctify and purify your hearts and everything, I'm going to make up for all they've been tearing down on you.

I'm going to restore you something coming out of heaven all over you. It's called a latter rain, an early and a latter rain, amen? Well, you're going to be something, but you're not going to be something.

See, folks, I'm going to tell you something. I've only got a part, but if you don't get this part, you're going to miss the rest of it. Can you hear what I'm saying? Don't run off. These are just signs.

I'm going to let your heart go. I can't thank some people in 2 Thessalonians 2. If you don't get this part, you're going to miss it all. Can I tell you plainly? If you miss this, you've missed it all.

Are you hearing me? If you miss this foundation, you've missed it all. I'm telling you, the trumpet's blowing. When you miss this, you've missed it all. All of it. And then when he said, I'm going to make up for what this great army did to you, then verse 27, but you know the wicked are going to be slain in this because they won't repent or sanctify their hearts or purify their hearts, and so they're going to be destroyed from among the righteous.

You know why? They're not in the heart, and the flood gets them. But you're going to know, verse 27, that I am in the midst of Israel, that I am the Lord your God. There is no other. My people will never be put to shame, and it's going to come about after this that I'm going to pour my Spirit.

I'm going to pour my Spirit. Instead of pouring out the flood, he said, I'm going to pour my Spirit out on all mankind, and your sons and daughters are going to prophesy. Your old men are going to be dreaming dreams.

Your young men are going to see vision. Even on the male and the female surface, I'm going to pour out my Spirit. In those days, he's not pouring it out on people's hearts who are defiled and in agreement with the devil.

He's going to pour it out on people who have a pure heart. You don't get revival your way. You get it God's way, the purified, sanctified, reconciled heart into the image and likeness of God. Amen? God means what he says.

The judgment is coming. You just preach blessings when you want to build on reputations and something, but when you build on the Word of God, you speak the whole Word, blessings and curses and judgment, all of it.

And then you'll know the fear of God. And when you know the fear of God, it's the beginning of knowledge, the beginning of evil. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because they don't know the fear of God because they learn peace and safety.

You surely shall not die. You surely shall die, says God. You surely shall not enter in the kingdom of God if you practice sins. Galatians 5, 19 through 21. Ephesians 5, verse 8. You can know with certainty that the impure heart, immorality, idolatry, those shall not enter into the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of God.

And if you've taken notes, put down there 1 Corinthians 6, 9 through 11 with me. Now, well, he said, I'm going to pour out my spirit there. That's a good time to just leave that right there. Now, turn me to Revelation, Revelation 3.

Revelation 3. Revelation 3. Revelation 3, verse 1. And to the angel of the church of Sardis write, He who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says, This, I know your deeds, that you have a name, that you're alive.

Yes, you have a name, and you're in a flesh, but you're dead. You're dead! You're sleeping virgins. Wake up! And strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die, for I have not found your deeds completed.

You're not purified, your heart, and they're not completed in the sight of God. What's the sight of God? Right in God's eyes, which is righteousness. Now, in verse 3. Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard this word of God and keep it.

Don't analyze it. Keep it. Do it. And repent! If, therefore, you shall not wake up, I'm going to come. What? Jesus said, if you're not going to wake up, I'm going to come. Like a what? A thief, you're not going to know it.

Whatever, I'm going to come. What? Upon you. Listen, folks, does that look like you're being snatched up or snatched down? He said, I'm going to come like a... I'm going to show you this plainly and directly.

You're snatched in the wrong direction. Because you won't repent, you're destroyed. And that's how the wicked are destroyed among the righteous, because you're on the wrong foundation. They won't repent.

Now, in verse 5. You don't know what hour I'm going to come in. In verse 5, He overcomes, He overcomes, He overcomes, He overcomes, He overcomes. What does it mean, overcome what? Overcome sin. Overcome flesh.

Overcome the world. Overcome the devil. Overcome rebellion is what it's talking about in walking love. Amen? He who overcomes shall thus be clothed in white garments. And then this one, it overcomes. I am not going to erase His name from the book of life.

And then I'm going to confess His name before my Father and before His angels. Now, that is the one it overcomes. Is that correct? Now, verse 7. And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, He who is holy, who is true.

He has the key of David. He opens and no one's going to shut. Who shuts and no one opens says this. Now, there you're talking about holy, the key of David. I know your deeds. Behold, I've put before you an open door, which no one can shut.

Because why? They're walking in love. Because you have a little power and have kept my word. I've not denied my name. Behold, I'm going to cause those to the synagogue of Satan, those... Do you think any synagogues of Satan around, folks?

They look like a lamb and speak like a dragon. Behold, I'm going to cause those to the synagogue of Satan who say that they're Jews. They say those are those Jews in Romans 2, the real Jews, Christians.

And are not, but they lie. Behold, I'm going to make them come and bow down at your feet and to know that I've loved you. That's exactly what the foolish are going to come to do. They're going to come before the wise and prudent because I'm telling you judgment is poured out now and it's slowly just getting worse.

It's pretty fast. It's getting worse and worse and worse and worse right now. And then it's going to be seven to try to get a hold of one Jew, one Christian, and they're going to come looking for all.

They're going to come looking for the word, the Doresh. Because you have kept the word of my perseverance, I'm also going to keep you from the hour of what? Testing. What is the hour of testing? The hour of testing right there is the tribulation, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world to test those who dwell upon the earth.

I'm coming quickly. Hold fast what you have in order that no one may take your crown. Is that right? Now, he who overcomes, he who overcomes, he overcomes. He's the one and I'm going to make a pillar in the temple of my God.

He'll not go out from it anymore. I'll write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem. Now, what does he say? You remember what we saw in Genesis 14, verse 4? It had the mark of God.

Those who had not been defiled were the women. They had the name written upon them, God. Amen? In other words, they had the mind of Christ. Because if you don't have a defiled heart, if you have a defiled heart, who are you the image of?

You're the image of the beast. You're the image of Satan. Is that right? Okay. Now, let's look in Genesis 6. Genesis 6, real quickly. Genesis 6. Folks, do you know? Let me just tell you where we're going to.

Do you know where we're going to stop at here directly? We're going to stop here in a few minutes and I'm going to show you the army around Jerusalem. Now, Genesis. It's going to get good in a minute.

Noah, the Flood, and the Ark as a Type of Christ

Genesis 6. Now, look, is that what we're talking about today? That this heart and his thoughts are all evil because that's where his heart is on evilness. Wicked thoughts. That's why they lodge within him.

Amen? And that's why he doesn't let them be washed away of the word of God because he loves them. He loves evil. Amen? So he says there, verse 9. These are the records of the generation of Noah. Noah was a righteous man.

He was what? He was righteous and he was what? Why was he righteous and blameless in his time? Because Noah walked with God. Is that what you're told to do? You're told to walk with God. Now, verse 11.

Now, the earth was what? It's corrupt in the sight of God. It wasn't righteous in the sight of God. We know the divine nature in 2 Peter 1, verse 4. You escape the corruption of the world by having a divine nature.

But see right here. They are corrupt. They're corrupt in the sight of God. His ungodliness and unrighteousness in the earth was filled. There it is, that word, violence. And God looked on the earth and behold, it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted their way up on the earth.

Then God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before me for the earth is filled with violence because of them and behold, I'm about to destroy them with the earth. Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood.

Now, who is this a type of? It's a type of Jesus. You shall make the ark with rooms and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. Verse 17. Behold, I even am going to bring a what? Uh-oh, I'm going to bring what?

I'm going to bring a flood. Well, it seems like we've run into that word before. I'm going to bring a flood of water upon the earth and it's going to what? It's going to destroy all flesh which has a breath of life from under heaven.

Everything that is on the earth shall what? It's going to perish, but I'm going to establish my covenant with what? You and you shall enter the ark, you and your family. Amen? And now the righteous go in the ark.

Is that right? And then the flood came. Say, all right. Now look in chapter 7, verse 1. Then the Lord said to Noah, Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone have I seen to be righteous before me.

Few there be that go up there. Narrow and small is the way to righteousness and blameless before God. Amen? All right, now. Then we see in verse 7,. Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons entered the ark because of the what?

The water of the flood. Then verse 16,. And those that entered, male and female, all flesh entered. And God had commanded them. And here it comes. Once again, we run into that door. It was what? What happened?

The door was closed. Amen? Was the door closed? Did we read the door is closed over in the New Testament? In the ark? Jesus? Okay. Now, verse 19, And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.

Verse 23, Then he blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things, to birds of the sky. And they were blotted out from the earth. And only Noah was left together with those that were with him.

Where? In the ark. He destroyed everything else. Can I tell you that's what's happening, folks? That's exactly what's happening. Chapter 9. I'm going to show it to you in a minute. Verse 1, And God blessed Moleh and his son.

He said to him, Here we run into it again. Be fruitful and multiply. In verse 11, And I established my covenant with you and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, by the water of the flood.

He said it wasn't going to be cut off by the water of the flood anymore, right? But he's already destroyed everything in water. Neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth. Now, isn't that interesting?

Now, look at me, folks. Did God at one time put the righteous in the ark and destroyed all the wicked? If we start out this service tonight by saying that Matthew 13, all stumbling blocks and all terrors are going to be the righteous from among the wicked.

Amen? Do you think God... Do you think Jesus always came the way religion thought he was going to come? Do you think Jesus always comes the opposite way he thinks he's going to come? And when you're going to see him, you're going to be like him.

You know why? Because you're going to be a pure heart and you'll know him as he is because your heart will be pure and his heart will be pure and you can see him clearly and plainly. Amen? Because you're sanctified and glorified and separated and reconciled.

All right, now, verse 15. Now, watch very closely. He said, I'm going to remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh and never again will the what? Will the water become a what?

Flood to destroy all flesh. But he didn't say it might not be another kind of flood, did he? He said the water wouldn't be a flood to destroy all flesh, did he? Huh? What about that? Well, praise the Lord.

The Coming of the Son of Man in the Days of Noah

Well, turn with me to John 3. Let's look at Matthew 24 while we tie this together. Turn to Matthew 24. Now, don't nobody walk out at this time. If anything is telling you to go now, you've said, I've decided to wait a while and just stand on the Word.

Now, 24, verse 3. And he was sitting, verse 3, on the Mount of Olives and the disciples came to him, what? This is a private conversation. Tell us, when will these things be and what will be the sign of your coming at the end of the age?

And Jesus answered them and said, See to it that no one what? Mislead you like we read about those people in Ezekiel 13, right? All right, now. I believe you're going to need to sit down to stand the rest of this.

Sit down. You might stand back up again in a minute and shout. But, Lloyd, how are you? Folks, I want to tell you what you sit in ballgames with eyes coming off your ears. I've got six hours to travel here tonight where I'm going.

I'm telling you I'd stay here all night. What's coming up, don't leave. It's better than an overtime ballgame. It's better than the Cowboys or the Indians. Now, praise God! Praise the name of Jesus! Verse 37.

We're going to talk about the coming of Jesus now. Verse 37, For the coming of the Son of Man, the coming of the Son of Man, the coming of Jesus is going to be just like the days of Noah we just read about.

I mean, He's coming for destruction first. For in those days which were before the flood, they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered the what? Ark.

It's going to be the same way in the last days. And they did not understand. They did not understand. Ever learning, never able to come to the knowledge of truth. They did not have understanding because when you have another doctrine that does not conform you to godliness, you're in 1 Timothy 6, 3 through 5, you're without understanding, you're deprived of the truth, and the morbid interest in controversial questions.

And now we see right there, it's just like the days of Noah, Noah and the Ark, and they did not understand. They didn't understand until what came? The flood came and what? What did the flood do? Took them away.

May I ask you something? What takes them away? The flood. That's not rapture. That way is that way. It's the wrong way. It's the flood that takes them. Jesus doesn't take them. The flood takes them. Amen.

So the flood came and took them away. So shall the coming of the Son of Man come. He's coming for destruction first. He's destroying and removing from this earth everything's hearts that's in rebellion to Him that won't come to the light.

Then there will be two men in the field. One will be what? Taken which way? Down. Down. And one will be left. Two women will be grounded to make their own bed to store their lives for themselves. And one will be what?

Taken which way? Down. And one will be left. Therefore be on the alert. You better be on the alert. You better be on the alert. You don't know which day your Lord is coming, but be sure of this, if the head of the house, the head of the house, the head of the house had known that what time of the what?

Night is a time of spiritual darkness. If it had known what time of spiritual darkness, who was coming? The thief! That's who comes. Jesus comes as a thief because He lowers the heads and turns the thief loose for destruction.

That's what Revelation is about. And if a thief was coming, he would have been what? Alert. Alert means you're not asleep. That's exactly what you're warned to be in 1 Peter 5, 8 through 10. Look at me.

Look at me. In 5, 8 through 10, you're warned, the brethren are warned. Brethren, you better be on the alert. You better be serious and sober. Because the adversary prowls around seeking someone to devour.

Brethren, it's talking about brethren. It's talking about brethren, brethren, brethren, brethren. Why is it talking about brethren? It says you better pull up the faith. Let's just read it. I want you to see that right there.

It's talking to brethren. 1 Peter 5, 8 through 10. Because when you're not doing it, see, that's the reason you can't have a divine nature because you don't resist the devil. Now, verse 8. Be of sober spirit.

1 Peter 5, verse 8. Be of sober spirit. That means be serious. Be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion. Now, who is he talking to down there in verse 16? The last part of verse 9, rather.

Who's he talking to? Brethren. So brethren, he's seeking someone to devour. Now, let me ask you something. Is he saying, brethren, he can devour you? Why is that in there? Brethren, to resist the devil.

He's seeking someone. He's seeking to devour you, brethren. So brethren, what does he tell brethren to do? But brethren, didn't say ignore him. They said resist him. What? With a shield of faith like Jesus showed us to do and look for.

Amen? He showed us to resist the lust of flesh, the lust of the eyes, the boastful pride of life. And we're told in Ephesians 6, the shield of armor. Above all, above all you put up a shield of faith.

Only the brethren have faith. Isn't that right? Amen. Amen. So brethren, put up the shield of faith. You put up the shield of faith, knowing that the same experiences of what? Suffer when the powers of darkness come along to try to make your flesh rise up in the lust of flesh, the lust of the eyes.

The flesh wants to agree. You have to suffer in the flesh and cease from sin, and the power from Jesus comes to put it to death. Amen? Now. Oh, if the head of the house... Are you back over there now?

43. Be sure of this. If the head of the house had known at what time of the night, that's the time of spiritual darkness, this thief was coming, he would have been where? He'd been on the alert like 1 Peter 5, 8 and 9 said, and then he wouldn't have allowed his what?

Look at me. He wouldn't have allowed this house broken into. Did we see him, Joel? He's going to come and run on the wall and climb into houses. Huh? And the head of the house is looking in the wrong direction.

Amen? I want to go a little further. You'd be ready, too, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour when you don't think he will, too. He's coming also, but he's sending the thief. Destruction. He's coming and he's sending destruction upon the earth.

Faithful Servants and the Danger of Worldliness

Now, I want you to see there in verse 445. Who then is faithful? Are we supposed to be faithful? That is, obey the Word of God. We're going to be a sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household, and they're going to give him what?

The Word of God at the proper time. Are you getting the Word at the proper time? Now, that's what the head of the house is supposed to be. That's what the master he put in charge. If you get the food at the proper time, you'd better act on it, folks.

You'd better learn something about it. You'd better not go out and ho-hum God, I've got me another message. I'm excited about my revelation. And gather you around for the Word and try to start you another denomination.

Blessed is the slave. This one is blessed. Others are cursed. Is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes? Truly I say to you that he shall be put in charge of all his possessions. Now, we see, but if that evil slave says where?

In his heart, my master has not come for a long time. I can still eat and drink and be merry. I can just live with this world and the things of earth. And he began to beat his fellow slaves. That's words, and beat them with words, beat them down, dominate them, eat and drink with the who?

Who's the drunkards? Look at me, folks. They're just going to eat the false teaching. Just go eat and drink with drunkards that stumble and stagger in spiritual darkness. Go and eat and drink with them.

They don't even know what's going on. Are you hearing me? The drunkards are the ones who are stumbling and staggering in spiritual darkness. Are you hearing me? Now, I want you to look at me in John 3 quickly.

John 3. Now, quickly. Verse 16. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. If you believe in the Son, does it say you have eternal life?

There's some more Bibles there, though, aren't there? That's not the only verse in this Bible. You can't stop there and build around that, can you? Let's look at verse 36. He who believes in the Son has eternal life.

Verse 36 is saying the same thing. But what else does it say? But he who what? Doesn't obey the Son. Can I tell you another thing? That doesn't do the will of God. Do you know what the will of God is?

That you suffer in the flesh and see some sin. Do you hear me? Is that right? The will of God is the whole Word of God. You don't take part of the Word of God and gather around it and call it it. Amen?

Okay. Let's see what happens here. But he who doesn't obey the Son shall not see life. We saw it in Colossians 3, 5 -8 that those who practice the flesh rebellion that the wrath of God is coming for these things and it remains on them.

Of course, we saw this in Ephesians 2, 3, 5. Ephesians 5 -8, 5 -8, same thing. Well, of course, why? If you're not obeying the Son of God, you're still practicing sin. And if you're still practicing sin, you never have repentance.

And if you never have repentance, the wrath of God remains on you. It never did come off of you. That's the same one in Matthew 7. Over there, he cast out demons. He did miracles. He prophesied all of them.

That's because you never did stop practicing lawlessness. Amen? So where do you think this fellow led people with demons and casting out demons and miracles and things like that? He led them the same way.

He said, if you've got a false teacher, he'll use the Word of God and he'll mix the things of the devil with it. But if a man's got spiritual pride, what are you going to get if you're following him? If a man's going to obey and depart of the Word of God, what's going to happen to you if he's your father?

Why? Who are you responsible to? Me or Jesus? Jesus. Jesus is only one teacher. And you can follow me and you can follow him because you're not supposed to be like me. You're supposed to be like Jesus.

Is that right? He's your Master. Amen? So we don't follow men. We're not a subject of men. We're a subject of Jesus and the man. Amen? The Lord Jesus Christ. Amen? Praise God. So now, something had to happen in between verse 316 and 336.

There it is in verse 19. We see this wrath as a judgment. Verse 18, He who believes in Jesus is not judged, but he who does not believe has been judged already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.