F4F | Perry Noble Says Furtick is the One The Prophets Longed to See

Perry Noble’s Setup for the Code Orange Revival Message

Welcome to another installment of fighting for the faith. My name is Chris Roseboro. I am your servant in Jesus Christ. This is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God now.

If you've ever heard it been said about your pastor or your vision casting leader. Well, I'm not sure what that is. The Bible doesn't have such a category or you know. You've heard regarding Stephen Furtick that Matthew chapter 13 where Jesus says blest are your eyes and blest are your ears.

That that text is actually referring to Stephen Furtick and that Stephen Furtick or your pastor or vision casting leader Is the one whom the prophets long to see. I wish I was making that up. Yeah, go ahead and hit the subscribe button down below.

Don't forget to like the video and And ring the bell so that you can be notified when we update the channel now, we're gonna go back in time today. We're heading back to January of 2012. We are going to be going to the code orange revival.

It's night seven of the code orange revival and I want to remind everybody What was preached by Perry Noble at night seven of the initial code orange? Revival in 2012 and the best way I can put it is that Perry Noble ascended the stage at this revival and.

And the message that he had to preach was he opened up from Matthew chapter 13 claim that God himself Told him to preach this message and he read out the words of Jesus where he said blest are your eyes and blest are your ears.

That see and hear the things that you are seeing and hearing and he made that whole thing that entire text about Stephen Furtick, I mean talk about the the most egregious mishandling of the Bible ever and We're gonna take a look at that text.

We're gonna apply our three rules for sound biblical exegesis, and we're gonna remind everybody What is really going on there at Elevation Church and the complete inability to rightly handle Biblical text by somebody like Perry Noble who is back restored himself to ministry and all this kind of stuff and.

And just demonstrate that if you're seeing this kind of stuff happening at your church. You need to run. Because the scriptures are about Jesus. They're not about you. They're not about me. Unless of course you want to talk about how we're the problem and we're the sinners that Christ bled and died for you can talk about us in that sense, but this is this is just absolutely stunning and a case of pastoral malpractice of the highest degree.

So let's head on over to Elevation Church. It is January 17th 2012. Perry Noble is been introduced and brought on stage and let's listen as he Wow, I don't even have words for what it is that we're about to hear.

Here we go.

Perry Noble’s Claim That God Led Him to Matthew 13

Hey, listen, if you brought a Bible with you tonight go to the book of Matthew. Matthew chapter 13 is where we're gonna hang out. If you didn't bring a Bible with you tonight I'm sure they'll put some scripture on the screen or something like that because they're all high-tech here.

Elevation Church and while you're turning there, um, I gotta be honest with you pastor Stephen called me. I don't even know when it was but he called me and he said hey I got this idea for corn code orange revival and he kind of walked me through it and he said what do you think?

And I said, hey, man, if you don't do it We're gonna do it. In fact, I'm still I'm still not sure that we're not gonna do it. I mean, it's it's great, but our color is kind of green. So if we did like code green revival all the green people would show up and so get some granola and it'd be great but anyway, I Had no Preconceived notions that he would ask me to speak.

He was like I'm gonna bring him, you know.

Bishop Jake's and I'm gonna bring in Jensen Frank. TD Jake's by the way is a modalist and Modalism is a heresy. We'll be talking about that in an upcoming installment of fighting for the faith in greater detail, but it's a denial of the doctrine of the Trinity and When you deny the doctrine of the Trinity you believe in a different God than the God who is revealed who has revealed himself in Scripture the one true God who is three persons Father Son and Holy Spirit.

And so TD Jake's he's not a Christian brother. He's a modalistic.

Heretic that enough said but we continue Franklin and I'm gonna bring in Craig Rochelle and I was like man, that sounds great. He's like way and we're gonna have you up there one night and I was like, oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah I mean I was blown away and and so he called me and he issued the official invite and I'm gonna tell you something about speakers that speakers won't tell you about speakers, but I don't care what speakers think about me.

So I'm just gonna tell you the truth about us. All of us have what we call a candy stick message. And it's it's a good one. Like it's like it like I know how I know where you gonna cry.

I know I know where you gonna laugh. I sounds like emotional manipulation to me.

I know where you gonna get saved. There's somebody in the church to get saved every week and I know what that person's gonna get. So I know I know everything that's gonna happen in the candy stick message.

I got a few of those and so I pulled out one of my candy stick messages and God spoke to my heart said you're Not preaching that one. I Was like, all right. All right. I mean you're God.

I'm not so. He has a Conversational direct revelation from God himself.

So I pulled out the second one and I was gone. I was going over it and God was going you're not preaching that one. That's all right. I Pulled out the third one. He's like, you're not preaching that one.

I was like.

Really that's how you talk to God.

Okay, come on. God that was good. Right there that is good stuff. He was like no now.

No. The the whole purpose of this point that he's making is to say that this comes all the way from the highest Authority the very throne of God himself. So this message this is exactly what God wanted them to hear.

No, it's not. Let me back that up. Just a smidge.

That was good right there. That is good stuff. He was like, no, it's not and so I was like God What do you want me to preach. And I'm not even making this up. God took me to a passage of Scripture that I've never preached on.

I said God I've never preached on that before. As I'm to my knowledge I've never preached a sermon on this particular text and.

God laid a message on my heart specific. Yeah, if you were following a lectionary you'd be preaching on it and its counterparts.

Every Year quickly for Elevation Church. Now a couple things if you're watching now.

I'm gonna back this up so you can hear that again 10 seconds to my knowledge.

I've never preached a sermon on this particular text and God laid a message on my heart.

Specifically for Elevation Church. Now a couple. So this God laid us on his heart.

Specifically for Elevation things if you're watching online, man, I'm so glad you're watching online and I honestly believe When the Word of God is preached that it goes out and it produces a harvest.

And so if you're not a part of Elevation Church, I do believe you're gonna get something out of this message.

It's not really for you, but you'll get something anyway.

Uh-huh. Believe that God is gonna speak your heart and minister to you. I.

Believe if you're a pastor you'll be encouraged by you know, if you actually preached Jesus. Then it wouldn't matter where anybody was it would apply to them.

This message, but I believe that if you're a part of Elevation Church you're what is known as a Elevator, I believe. God sent me here tonight to encourage you. To challenge you just a little and uh, and and we're gonna have a lot of fun.

So I want to I want to read this. The title of my message is very simple. You are blessed.

Matthew 12 as the Context for the Parable of the Sower

Okay. Now before he gets to it, let's apply the three rules for sound biblical exegesis, which are context context and context and In order to rightly understand this portion of the gospel of Matthew We need to understand a little bit of what happened in the gospel of Matthew chapter 12, you know.

It creates the foundation for why Jesus ends up preaching in parables. So in Matthew chapter 12, I'm gonna scroll down Down to The near the end near the end. Actually, I'm gonna grab a little bit of the context from 15.

So about midway through Matthew chapter 12, here's what it says. Jesus aware of this withdrew from there and many followed him. He healed them all and he ordered them not to make him known. This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah behold my servant whom I have chosen my beloved with whom I my soul Is well pleased.

I will put my spirit upon him. He will proclaim justice to the Gentiles. He will not quarrel or cry aloud nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets a bruised reed. He will not break a smoldering wick.

He will not quench until he brings justice to victory and in his name the Gentiles will hope. So again note that If you haven't been listening to the series that we've been doing on a pirate Christians guide to understanding the Old Testament it's a pretty good idea if you haven't already done so to go and listen to every installment that we've done on that because you're gonna see the scriptures are about Christ and I would say doubly so.

When it comes to the Gospels Matthew wrote his gospel. So that you would believe in Jesus and here in Matthew 12, you can see that the prophet Isaiah prophesied regarding Jesus and it is quoted by Matthew and Jesus is in his life and his ministry in the miracles.

He's performing in the gospel that he is preaching and the kindness that he is Showing to those who believe in him, although they are sinners. We all are that that Christ is the fulfillment of these prophecies from the Old Testament.

They were all pointing to him. So then in verse 22 It says then a demon possessed man who was blind and mute was brought to Jesus and he healed him so that the man Spoke and he saw and all the people were amazed and they said can this be the son of David?

Which is basically saying is he really is this guy the Messiah? Can it really be and the Pharisees are Johnny on the spot to try to put this down? We they don't want people believing that Jesus is the promised Messiah.

So the Pharisees heard it and they said well, it's only by Beelzebul that the the prince of the demons that this man casts out demons. So knowing their thoughts he said to them every kingdom that is divided against itself is laid waste.

Divided against itself will stand. So if Satan cast out Satan and he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand if I cast out demons by Beelzebul? By whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons then the kingdom of God has come upon you or how can someone enter a strongman's house and Plunder his goods unless he first binds the strongmen then indeed he may plunder his house.

Whoever is not with me is against me. Whoever does not gather with me scatters. Therefore I tell you every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people. But the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven and whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven.

But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven either in this age or the age to come. And so, you know that Jesus then invokes what will come to be known as the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and you'll note that he's invoking this against the Pharisees who were claiming that Jesus performed the miracles in the exorcisms that he performed by the power of the devil by the power of the demonic and Jesus is basically saying listen, you can't deny that I'm performing these miracles.

But the sin that you've committed is a sin against the Spirit himself. And so you'll note that as you read the Gospel of Matthew that what happens is is that we are from the time of Christ's. You know preaching of the Sermon on the Mount until this time.

Persecution is ramping up and it really is exemplified and comes to a head then at least a mini head. With the Pharisees, you know saying he's not the son of David. He's not the promised Messiah he performs all this stuff by the power of the devil and from that point forward then Jesus is going to Change it up, but let's take a look at how the persecution and the in the drama and the trauma and.

And the conflict continues in Matthew 12, so either make the tree good and its fruit. And it's fruit good or make the tree and it's bad and it's fruit bad you. For the tree is known by its fruit. So you brood of vipers?

How can you speak good when you are evil for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks? The good person out of the good treasure Brings forth good. The evil person out of the evil treasure brings forth evil.

I tell you on the Day of Judgment people will give an account for every careless word that they speak. For by your words, you will be justified and by your words, you'll be condemned. So then some of the scribes and the Pharisees answered him teacher We wish to see a sign for you.

But he said an evil adulterous generation seeks for a sign. But no sign will be given to it except for the sign of the Prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish So will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth?

So then the men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and they will condemn it for they Repented at the preaching of Jonah and behold something greater than Jonah is here the Queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with his with this generation and Condemn it for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon behold someone something greater than Solomon is here and When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person it passes through waterless places Seeking rest but finds none and then it says I will return to my house and come.

And and when it comes it finds the house empty swept and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself and they enter and they dwell there and the last day. The person is worse than the first so also it will be with this evil generation.

So while he still was speaking behold his mother and his brother stood outside asking to speak to him and he replied to the man who told him who is my mother who are my brothers and Stretching out his hand towards his disciples He said here are my mother and my brothers for whoever does the will of my father in heaven is my brother and sister And mother.

All right, so you can kind of see what's going on here the conflict the controversy regarding Jesus is Really really ramping up to the point where the Pharisees are given their official verdict. This man is demonized.

He performs miracles Through the power of the demonic and we know from you know From the Talmud's that that they claim that Jesus performed miracles through witchcraft. And so all of this was to keep people from believing in him and now Jesus is going to change things up rather than preaching openly preaching clearly Jesus is now going to change it up in the midst of this persecution and He is going to preach now in parables and and he's gonna explain the reason why and you'll note then that Matthew 12 clearly focusing in on Jesus and who he is and that he is the fulfillment of the prophecies regarding the Messiah.

Jesus Explains Why He Speaks in Parables

So Matthew 13 so that same day Jesus went out of the house sat beside the sea great crowds gathered about him. So that he got into a boat and he sat down and the whole crowd stood on the beach and he told them many things in parables saying a sower went out to sow and as he sowed.

Some seeds fell along the path the birds came and devoured them other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. And immediately they sprang up since they had no depth of soil. But when the Sun arose they were scorched and since they had no root They withered away and other seeds fell among the thorns and the thorns grew up and choked them.

Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grains some a hundredfold some 60 some 30. And then he said he who has ears Let him hear. Now there are there are those who make the claim that all the reason why Jesus preached in parables was because he was the greatest Storyteller ever and he was trying to make his messages more relevant to the people.

He was preaching to. That is not true at all. Consider what follows next it says so Jesus tells his parable and the disciples came and they said to him. Why why do you speak to them in parables? And he answered them to you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven.

But to them it has not been given. For to the one who has more will be given and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not even what he has will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables because seeing they do not see and hearing they do not hear nor do they understand.

Indeed in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says you will indeed hear. But you will never understand. You will indeed see but never perceive for this people's heart has grown dull and with their ears.

They can barely hear and their eyes they have closed lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn and I would heal them. And he says this but blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears.

For they hear and you'll note that Jesus is saying to his disciples that they are blessed that although they hear they do Understand. Although they see they do perceive unlike those who are hearing his words and are not seeing are not Understanding are not comprehending.

And so Jesus said for truly I say to you many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see and did not see it and to hear what you hear and Deared not hear it. So you'll note that the prophets of The Old Testament they longed to see what Jesus's disciples saw this is the thing that they were looking to and The disciples themselves the eyewitnesses of Christ's Miracles those who heard his preaching and his teaching and those whom the secrets of the kingdom of heaven were given.

They were the ones who were blessed and the focus is all on Christ, right. So then Jesus goes on to explain the parable. He says here then the parable of the sower when anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it.

The evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path as for what was sown on the rocky ground. This is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy yet He has no root in himself.

But endures for a while and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word immediately He falls away as for what was sown among the thorns. This is the one who hears the word. But the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word and it proves Unfruitful as for the one as for what was sown on the good soil.

This is the one who hears the word understands that he indeed bears fruits and yields in one case a hundredfold in another 60 and another 30 so you can see the idea. This is all about Christ and here in Matthew 13 Where it says blessed are your eyes and for they they see in your ears where they hear it's all pointing to Jesus not Anyone else but let's take a look at what Perry Noble is gonna do with this text.

Because remember he said that God told him to preach this message.

Perry Noble’s Application of Matthew 13 to Stephen Furtick

You are blessed in fact. Turn to the person next to you and tell him you are blessed. Yeah, turn to the other person that you didn't like as much and tell them you're blessed, too. Yeah, I just I didn't say have a conversation I just said tell them they're blessed.

Good Lord. Here we go. Matthew chapter 13. Verses 16 and 17. These were the verses that the Lord Specifically I'm telling you specifically led me to all right.

So he's reiterating this goes all the way to the top to God himself for this church.

Here we go. Matthew chapter 13 verses 16 and 17 says But blessed are your eyes.

Because they see and your ears because they hear. Now note we're getting this totally out of context. Which means by having it be out of context? Perry Noble can make this text about anything. He wants to make it because.

There is no proper referent.

For I tell you many prophets and righteous men. Longed to see what you see but did not see it and to hear what you hear.

But did not hear it. So whom did the prophets long to see in here? That's the question. Is It Stephen Furtick and Elevation Church, or was it Jesus? Elevation Church. You're blessed. Yeah, so apparently Stephen Furtick was the one whom the prophets longed to see.

You are blessed Matthew's campus. You are blessed. Elevators watch it online. You are blessed. You are blessed. Elevation Church, and I want to listen. Listen, there's there's enough Baptists in to me to pull out three points in this message.

Okay, I Want to share three reasons and there's more but I want to share three Reasons why I believe you're blessed and at the conclusion of tonight I've got a special thing that I want to say to your pastor in front of everybody.

So it's gonna be fun. Don't sweat. It's gonna be all good. I Believe you're blessed for three reasons. If you're a note-taker, you can write these down. If you're not a note-taker, you should probably be a note-taker because pastor Furtick throws out some bombs.

You should be writing that stuff down. Here we go. I believe you're blessed number one because of what you have seen. The text said Jesus said you are blessed. Blessed of your eyes because of the things that they've seen.

Elevation who?

Seen the disciples what they have seen and Heard and understand and perceived. Talking about Jesus and the things he did church.

I believe you're blessed because of the some of the things that you've been privileged to see. One of the things I know about a church like this and one of the things I know about you whether you what no matter what campus you attend is if you've been attending Elevation for a month or a Year or three years or five years.

You've gotten a little flack. Maybe from some good friends or some family members over. Oh you go to that church I mean you you oh you go you go to to that church. Well, I've heard some things about that church that I've seen I don't know and and they don't understand why you're so excited about your church.

Your family reunion turned into a family rebellion. I Mean, I mean you showed up at Christmas and you got aunts and uncles talking about dance recitals and football games, you know stuff that's gonna matter in a hundred years and and you got a smile on your face look like you've been smoking crack and.

Everybody wants to know why you so excited and you're like my god 3 ,000 people got saved at our church in our Christmas services.

Wow, so everyone on their feet, let's all praise to Stephen Furtick in the elevators. Blaster your eyes cuz they've seen in years cuz they've heard all the stuff that Stephen Furtick is said and done.

Even Furtick's on his feet. There's there's Furtick prowling the stage. Now that was before steroids and weightlifting. I May sit down. They're not blessed because of Jesus. They're blessed because of Stephen Furtick.

Let me tell you why they think you're crazy. Cuz they can't see what you see. Yeah, I'm blessed because they see in her Jesus. I Preach Jesus. I don't preach Stephen Furtick. I.

Went to um, I went to Outback one night. Cuz I like Outback I Bikes gonna be in heaven. I Got people in my church from other restaurants. They say why don't you talk about our restaurant? I like cuz I don't like your restaurant.

Like Outback. Something man those cheese fries man when they bring those things out. And I was there with some friends in fact Jason Wilson him him and his family. He's our executive pastor at New Spring and his family was there and he has a little boy about my daughter's age name named Branson.

And and Jason was sitting on the other side. We were sitting in a booth and Jason was sitting here and his wife Kelly was sitting here. Branson was sitting in the middle and he's got the funniest laugh in the world.

I.

Pretty convinced that Perry Noble, you know, he studies stand-up comics not sound exegetes. Mm-hmm. He emulates You know stand-up comedians. It's just one of those cute little laughs.

If you're an adult you'll do. You'll do stupids. Your IQ lowers 50 points. Just to make a kid laugh. And so I'm looking at Branson and he's looking at me and I just went. He thought that was funny. So literally about every five to ten minutes.

I would look at Branson and I would go. And He laughed so hard all night long. He just laughed and thought it was the funniest thing in the world. We're all cracking up. We got up from the booth. We're getting out and this lady at the other booth was staring at me and she saw Branson get out of the booth and walk away.

She went. Oh, thank God. I.

Said excuse me. I don't know what this has to do with Matthew 13 But then again Stephen verdict and Elevation Church have nothing to do with Matthew 13. She said I thought you were crazy.

I was like, why'd you think I was crazy? She said because I couldn't see him. And I thought every five minutes you were looking at me going We'll think you're crazy When they can't see what you see.

Not talking about Jesus talking about Stephen Furtick and the elevators.

But when you see what you've had the privilege to see over the past six years. You got to be just a little crazy about your church.

What they're not crazy about Jesus. Crazy about Furtick.

Elevation in the world. Is it okay to be crazy over a basketball team? Why in the world is it crazy to be? It's okay to be a crazy about a football team. Why in the world is it crazy? Okay to be crazy over a 21 year old girl that shows up with an acoustic guitar named Taylor Swift that plays in arenas all Over America, but we can't be crazy about something that's actually gonna matter in 1 ,000 years.

Notice we're not crazy about Jesus. We're crazy about Stephen and Ella because blessed are their eyes man. Blessed are their ears. We're not as blessed as they are apparently.

Hey, I started. I started listening. I sent Chunks an email he emailed me back.

He always. Now I'm gonna fast-forward a little bit. And you know cuz I mean doesn't this all sound like. They're worshiping Stephen Furtick there, too. I mean, it sounds like that's who they're. I mean the Messiah himself is there and the Messiah isn't Jesus.

It's Furtick. Yeah, so let's fast-forward a little bit. See what goes on next here. Still misquoting Matthew 13. You may be seated. Maybe they're gonna make Stephen the Messiah by force or something.

I I don't know. Some people might be wondering is this pastor worship. Yes, it is. Yeah, yeah, because Matthew 13 is about Jesus. It's not about Stephen Furtick. It's blasphemous To say that Stephen Furtick is the one whom the prophets long to see and hear.

No. No, no, it's it's Honoring the man of God that brings forth the Word of God.

No, he twists the Word of God and makes it about himself and about you. Just like you're wrestling Matthew 13 and making it about Stephen Furtick rather than Jesus Christ in this church.

Your ears are blessed because you have a pastor that loves you and is more concerned about you growing in your Relationship with Jesus than you liking him at being his friend.

Yeah, then he would actually preach Christ to him crucified for our sins. All right, let me fast-forward a little bit more, you know, we're just getting some samples here.

I started thinking about this, you know when Jesus showed up in chapter 13 of Matthew. Yeah, and he said blessed are your eyes because of what they have seen in your ears because of what they have heard.

Matthew has the book of Matthew has 28 chapters in it. Yeah, Jesus wasn't even halfway through the book of Matthew and he's starting to tell his disciples how blessed they were.

Note here This is apparently some kind of pattern that we should see expect to see repeated now with vision casting leaders like.

Furtick. I mean they hadn't even seen him walk on water yet.

That happened in chapter 14 and remember Jesus is the Son of God the one whom the prophets long to see. Stephen Furtick isn't.

They hadn't even seen him do the thing with fish and chips where they stole the little boys lunch. You know, I'm talking about That was in chapter 14. They hadn't they hadn't even got to see that whole crucifixion resurrection.

Miracle ascension I'm coming back thing. That's a cool party trick. I don't know anybody else has pulled that one off. They hadn't even got to see the greatest miracles yet. And Jesus was telling them how blessed they were.

You know what Elevation Church? I think you're in chapter 13.

Should we expect Stephen Furtick to rise from the dead three days after he dies? Are We expecting Furtick to be walking on water anytime soon. Raising the dead and stuff. I mean, this is so egregious.

What noble did I mean this is I mean on the day of judgment? This would almost be considered a war crime a war crime committed against the body of Christ.