Well, it's good to see each of
you tonight. If you would open your Bibles
to Hebrews, not Hebrews, Genesis chapter 10. I was sitting there
thinking of a verse from Hebrews, and sometimes what I'm thinking
about, it comes out. Hebrews is not my subject, but
the book of Genesis chapter 10 Genesis chapter number 10 and
I'm actually going to begin reading at verse 6 and here's the genealogy
of Noah's three sons and Moses is led of the Spirit of God to
record these generations of Shem and Ham and Japheth And I'm particularly
interested now in the genealogy of Ham and that of one of his
sons, Cush. And so we'll read from Genesis
chapter 10, verse 6, and the sons of Ham, Cush, Mizraim, and
Foot, and Canaan. and the sons of Cush, Seba, and
Havilah, and Saptah, and Rahamah, and Sapticha, and the sons of
Rahamah, Sheba, and Dedan, and Cush begat Nemrod. He began to be a mighty one in
the earth. He was a mighty hunter before
the Lord, wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter
before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom
was Babel, and Eric, and Achid, and Calni, in the land of Shinar,
which later will become Babylon. And we'll stop our reading there
in verse number 10. Let's ask God's blessings upon
the word this evening. Father, we gather in the name
of our blessed Savior, and we seek to get an understanding
of this portion of scripture that we have read, and of this
very unusual man named Nimrod. And Lord, we ask that you give
us a good understanding of the gospel of grace, of the kingdom
of God, And then, Lord, show us that there is a counterfeit
gospel. And it is really no gospel at
all, it is the message of salvation by works. And there is a counterfeit, there
are counterfeit preachers, and we ask that you would make us
alert and may we have discernment so that we may be able to tell
the difference between that which is the kingdom of God and that
which is the kingdom of unrighteousness. May we be able to tell the difference
between that which is the gospel of the grace of God to sinners
through the Lord Jesus Christ and that message which is one
of works and free willism. May we be taught of the Spirit
and Lord may we be warned and we ask that you would keep us
from error, keep us from the beguilement of Babylon, a false
religion, bring us into the group known as the New Jerusalem, the
people of God. Oh, how we long to know that
one whom to know is life everlasting. May we know Him in the very power
of His resurrection, this One who laid down His life and then
took it up again, and who is seated, Father, at Your right
hand, and He makes intercession for all of Your people. It is
with thanksgiving that we open the book of God tonight. and
we ask that you would teach us. As our brother has already requested,
Father, bless those of our congregation who are hurting, who are grieving,
those who are weak bodily, and we ask that you administer to
all of our needs according to your good and sovereign will
and purpose. How thankful we are that you
govern all things, and you're the king. You're the governor
of the nations, and we bow before you, Father, in adoration and
in thanksgiving and in worship tonight. And we ask these things
in the name of the Savior the Lord Jesus and for his sake. Amen. Well, I want to speak to you
tonight about this man Nimrod and his hybrid religion. He had a hybrid religion. You say, well, what is a hybrid?
It's an offspring of two different elements, a mixture, if you will. And this hybrid religion was
a mixture of grace and works. which is no gospel at all, because
the scripture says that if salvation is by works, then grace got nothing
to do with it. And if it's of grace, then works
don't have anything to do with it. So this is our subject, and
I want to introduce you this evening to a very powerful man,
and I want to show you, as the Spirit of God gives us grace,
that this man was an enemy against God. And he founded a kingdom,
a very powerful kingdom, that was then and still continues
today, though he's been dead for hundreds and hundreds of
years. That kingdom which he began,
which he started, is still going very strong today. And it stands in opposition to
another kingdom, that is an everlasting kingdom. Now understand this,
the kingdom of Nimrod is going to come to an end. Joe read to
us a little bit about the mystery of Babylon and how God is going
to ruin it. And I'll read toward the end
of this message from a little later in the book of Revelation. God's gonna bring it all to an
end. but it is a very powerful kingdom, very active in this
world. There are two kingdoms, you see.
There's the kingdom of God, there's the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom
of grace, the kingdom of salvation, the kingdom of our Lord Jesus
Christ. And of that kingdom, there is
but one king, and that is the one who is the king of all kings
and the Lord of all lords. But there's this other kingdom
that is a counterfeit kingdom. It has a counterfeit message.
It has counterfeit preachers. And the end of that kingdom,
if you're in that kingdom and you remain in that kingdom, the
end is death. The end of the other kingdom,
the kingdom of God, the end of that is life. Life everlasting. That's the kingdom I want to
be in. That's the kingdom I want you in. But there is that kingdom
of darkness. And here's what God does by his
mighty grace. He takes us out of the kingdom
of darkness, and he translates us into the kingdom of God's
dear son, who is the king of this kingdom of grace. His is
an everlasting kingdom, and he is the king who rules over all. Now, as we think about false
religion, or as I said, a hybrid religion, which is a mixture
of two things, and in this case of truth and error, which means
that error takes over. When we think about the kingdom
of error, when we think about the hybrid religion, we know
that the first man who believed a false religion, his name was
Cain. We all know that because we've
studied about him. He's a man who believed in salvation
by works, whereas Abel believed in salvation by grace by substitute. Abel understood the way that
God can be just and justify is through the death of an innocent
one. And that lamb that he offered,
that Abel offered, it stood as a picture of the Lord Jesus,
God's lamb. And then God's lamb, hundreds
of years later, he came into the world and he gave his life. He actually died. He died for
the just, for the unjust to bring us to God. Abel had the true
religion, the religion of God, the religion of grace, but Cain,
he believed salvation by works. However, he did not establish
a religion. The very first man who orchestrated
and organized rebellion against God in his religion was this
man, Nimrod. Cain was more or less on his
own, whereas Nimrod was a very great man, very powerful man. Evidently he was kind of a giant
of a man, not only physically but mentally, and he was rebellious
against God. And he fought off, evidently,
lots of the wild beasts that still roamed in that part of
the world, the beasts that multiplied after Noah brought the animals
off the ark, and people were fearful of the beasts, and so
this man Nimrod, he was a mighty hunter, and he won the hearts
of the people. And he began to rule over them
and he established his own kingdom. And it's noteworthy, this is
the very first time in the Bible the word kingdom is used. It's right here in Genesis chapter
10 and verse 10. In fact, the word king isn't
even used yet in the Bible. So this is the first usage of
any form of the word king. And it says, in the beginning
of his kingdom, he had a kingdom. He established this kingdom,
it was a hybrid religion. Next Wednesday night, the Lord
willing, we'll go into chapter 11 and we'll see this hybrid
religion, we'll see how it worked. We'll see what it sought to produce. But this is his doings. This
man who is a rebel against God. Understand this, ever since the
fall of man, Satan has always been a deceiver. And he's always
been a master counterfeiter. We're not ignorant of his devices
is what the Apostle Paul says. We don't know all of his devices. We don't know all of his schemes.
We don't know all of his evil purposes, but we do know his
design. It's really a twofold design. Number one, he has sought all
along to ruin the glory of God, to ruin God's creation. He sought
to bring great dishonor to the name of God, but he can't ruin
the glory of God. The glory of God, my friends,
is untouchable. Nothing can mar his honor. He's God over all, blessed forever. When our Lord Jesus came into
this world, he sought to go after the Savior. Right after the Lord
Jesus was born, it entered into the heart of Herod, I'm going
to kill this baby. And the angel of the Lord said
to Joseph, take Mary and the babe and go into Egypt. Satan
was after him, but Satan couldn't get him. And all through his
earthly ministry, Satan was there, working through the Pharisees,
and the scribes, and the elders, and the chief priests, always
going after the Savior. And of course, when our Lord
began His ministry, it was Satan who tried to deal with Him in
a very subtle way to tempt Him. And the Savior couldn't be tempted. He couldn't fall. He's the perfect
Savior. He's the Son of God. And then
throughout His life, Satan did things to make life difficult
for the Savior. Even when our Lord Jesus told
his disciples that he must give his life a ransom for many, he
must go into Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the
chief priests and die and then be raised again the third day.
That's when Simon Peter said, be it far from thee, Lord. No,
we can't have this. And the Savior said, get thee
behind me. Satan, that's what he said. Satan was active there. But our
Lord Jesus, when He met that fiend of hell at the cross of
Calvary, He dealt a fatal blow to him. Revelation talks about
that. Revelation chapter 20. A mighty
angel come down from heaven and He bound this old serpent. He
bound the devil, Satan. The evil one. He bound him. And that's what he did at the
cross of Calvary. John chapter 12, our Lord said,
now is the prince of this world cast out. That's when he crushed
his head in fulfillment of Genesis chapter three and verse 15. Now he's a wounded, a mortally
wounded enemy. And he's still on the prowl. And he still sends forth his
false gospel. He still leads people into a
hybrid religion. It isn't that he doesn't want
you to be religious. He just doesn't want you to know
Christ. He doesn't want you to know about
the grace of God. Oh, he is absolutely delighted
if he can get you in on this hybrid religion, which uses a
lot of the same terminology as the true gospel, but is in fact
another gospel, a false gospel, because it mixes in with it man's
works and man's worth and man's will. And so Satan has a two-fold
goal he's had from the beginning, to ruin God's glory and to lead
us, lead the human race, as many as he can, off into hell. That's what he wants. It's always
been his goal. And he uses, all along the way,
very clever counterfeits. And of course, the Savior speaking there in
the Garden of Eden to our fallen parents. He talked about how
that he would bruise the head of the serpent, how he would
deal with him. And he's been dealing with him
all along. He's dealing with him tonight.
He's still ruling over him. Satan doesn't have a free hand. He's not free to do anything
He wants to do. Oh, He is a roaring lion who
goes about to destroy and kill and to see who He can devour,
but He is held by an omnipotent hand that has a chain around
His neck, and that's our Savior. He's got a good hold on Him. but he's active. Even the Savior
said this in Matthew chapter 24 and verse 24, for there shall
arise false Christs and false prophets and shall manifest or
show great signs and wonders in so much that if it were possible,
they shall deceive the very elect. So he's still, Satan is still
active today. And he was active, he was active
right here in Genesis chapter 10. And he uses this unusual
man who evidently had a lot of charisma, had a lot of charming
ability to get people to follow him, but also at the very same
time, he was a very ruthless man. And he was a man who dared
to defy God. It is interesting to note that
this all happened about 300 years after the flood. You might make
a mental note of that, about 300 years after the flood. Well,
Noah lived, he lived 350 years after the flood, which means
that Noah's life also went on over into a portion of the life
of Nimrod, who was his great-grandson. I wonder how much Did Noah speak
to Nimrod about the things of God? I would say he spoke to
him quite often. And he told him about the flood. And he told him about the ark.
He shared with him, I'm sure Noah shared with not only his
sons, who are older men now of course, but also his grandsons
and his great-grandsons. Now Nimrod, come over here, let
me talk to you a little bit about the things of God. Let me tell
you what I've learned during my life. I'm an old man, Nimrod,
but I've seen a lot. And I know God's a God of justice,
and God's a God of wrath. And I'll tell you, 300 years
ago, or better than 300 years ago, he sent a flood and he washed
everybody away except for our immediate family. We were safe
in the ark. And that picture is the Son of
God, Nimrod, who's going to come into this world. I'm sure he
talked to him like that. told him about the ark of salvation,
there's safety in the Son of God who's coming. The ark was
a picture of that One who rescues sinners, the One in whom sinners
can hide from the wrath of God. And Noah preached unto him and
said, now listen, listen, all you grandsons and great grandsons,
you gotta be righteous before God because we read that he was
a preacher of righteousness. Now you gotta be righteous, he
said to them boys. And Nimrod's right there with
him and he's listening. But he didn't believe. God wasn't
pleased to take the word of God to his heart. And this man grew up then to
be a rebel against God. Let me give you several things
about this man as we look at him. Number one, he was a mighty
man. What do we know about him? He's
a mighty man. His name means Nimrod, means valiant and rebellious. a tyrannical rebel. Like I said, his great-grandfather
was Noah, the man who found grace in the eyes of the Lord, back
in Genesis chapter six, that's recorded. But remember what God
said about Ham and his son Canaan. God put a curse on them. And
that curse also included their posterity, which included Nimrod. He's under the curse of God. Here's what part of the curse
was, you'll be the servant of others. And Nimrod's attitude
was, I'm not going to serve anybody. In fact, I'll make sure people
serve me. And they did. He became a great
man. He became a ruler. He became
a king in the kingdom that he established. He was a mighty
man, a powerful man. Here's the second thing I know
about this man. He was a mighty man who took
a stand against God. Look at verse nine again here
in Genesis chapter 10. He was a mighty hunter. before the Lord. He was a mighty
hunter before the Lord. That is, he was a mighty hunter
against the Lord. He brazenly took a stand against
God. He just defied God. He heard
what his great-grandfather had to say. about the flood, about
the ark, and how God's a righteous God, and God demands righteousness,
and he said, I don't believe that, and I'm not gonna believe
it. I have no use for that. He distinguished
himself as being fearless, and as a man who dared to take
a stand against God Almighty. He dared to rebel against the
Lord. The Lord who brought a worldwide
flood to destroy all of mankind. Isn't it amazing how people have
such short memories? And that includes us too. I've
been preaching through so far about almost half of the book
of Exodus and what we've learned, what little we've learned so
far about the children of Israel is that they had short term memories
regarding the mercies of God. They murmured against what God
was doing and forgot about the mercies that God had sent. But
I'll tell you, people have short-term memories not only about mercies,
but about judgments. Judgments. It's been a little over 300 years. Here's this man defying God. What about what God sent to the
world? 300 years ago, Nimrod. You forgot about that? Men and women and young people
have short memories, both of mercies and of judgments. I see that in our own country.
I see how quickly people forget catastrophes. The twin towers,
things of that nature. People just forget about those
things. Forget about the past. Oh, that God would open up our
minds and our hearts and show us God has been merciful. He's been merciful to each one
of us. His mercies are over all of his
creation. Mercies so often in the Bible
used in a very general way. He shows his grace to his elect. He shows mercies to everybody
and everything. Let us remember his mercies,
but let us also remember his judgments. And if anybody doubts
the justice of God and the judgment of God against sin, look at the
cross of Calvary again. That just needs to be refreshed
into our memories. You see that one hanging on the
cross, naked, bleeding, dying, suffering? Why does he suffer
so? Why does he die? Because of the
sins of others. Because that's what justice demands. Death for sin. It's one of the reasons Satan
has his Preachers virtually ignore the substitutionary
sacrifice of the Lord Jesus. They don't much mention that.
They talk about Him being a good example, good teacher, taught
morals. He taught us how to live. Oh,
He's a great teacher. He taught us how to love. taught
us how to love one another. They'll say all these things
about the Lord Jesus Christ and little, if anything, about His
blood redemption. And nothing about satisfying
the justice of God through His death. Because they don't know
why He died. They don't know the necessity
of His death. But if you want to know what
God thinks about sin, if you wonder, will God punish sin? Look at the cross. It removes
all doubt. This was a mighty man who stood
against God. The Jewish encyclopedia, as well
as Josephus, the Jewish historian, says that this man led all the
people in rebellion against God. That's daring. He led all the
people in rebellion against God. He hated God and he wanted everybody
else to hate God. His attitude toward God was in
your face. I absolutely defy you. He was defiant man. You hear
something else now. He founded a kingdom in opposition
to the Lord. As I said, this is the first
time in the Bible the word kingdom is used. And Nimrod was the king. Verse 10 says that. He was a
counterfeit to the Lord Jesus, who is the King of kings and
the Lord of lords. You see, Satan had, there's the
kingdom of God, Satan's got another kingdom. Here's the kingdom of
light, Satan's got kingdom of darkness. The Lord has his preachers
like Noah, and Satan had his preacher like Nimrod. And the
Lord had his message, the message of grace. Nimrod, Satan's ambassador,
had his false gospel, the gospel of works, as we shall see next
week, built in the Tower of Babel. Well, here's a man who's founded
a kingdom in opposition to the Lord. This is a rebel. He's a rebel. And here's something
about these two kingdoms. Even though, and I'll talk about
the death of Nimrod in just a couple of minutes. Even though Nimrod
died, his kingdom didn't die. Now you see, our Lord Jesus,
he's the king in his kingdom and Nimrod was the king in his
kingdom. But Nimrod died. Well, our Lord
Jesus, He died also. But He arose. And He ever lives
to make intercession for us. And He maintains His kingdom. For His kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom. Well, how do you get into the
kingdom of God? You're born into the kingdom
of God. It's a spiritual birth. You can't
even see the kingdom of God apart from the regenerating work of
the spirit of God. And these two kingdoms continue
to exist today, and they will exist as long as time shall last. And there will be a constant
warring between these two kingdoms until at last the kingdom of
darkness is destroyed and the kingdom of light shall go on
forever. So here's a man who is bold and
daring in his error. And here's one more thing I want
to show you. In the course of time, he died. The Bible doesn't
record his death, but history tells us that he died. And of
course, nature just tells us the man had to die. We don't
know how old he was when he died, but he had to die. And it's interesting
that his body was cut in pieces and you can read some Jewish
history about this or Josephus about this. His body was cut
in pieces and sent to various locations in his kingdom, which
even Israel did that sort of thing according to Judges chapter
19 and verse 29. that a body would be a body that
some people reverenced or respected so much, or a great leader, somebody
like that. And in the case of this man Nimrod,
his body was cut up into pieces and sent to the furthest parts
of his kingdom. So he died, but his kingdom,
it continues to flourish. spiritual Babylon, this hybrid
kingdom, this hybrid religion founded by Nimrod has always
exerted itself in opposition to the kingdom of God. Now to
be sure, the kingdom of our Lord Jesus will last forever and this
kingdom will end. But believe me, and you know,
all of you in here tonight know, and I hope the ones who are watching
on the internet know this, that the kingdom of, that Nimrod founded,
the kingdom of darkness, the kingdom of error, this false
religion, it continues and it's very strong. It's very powerful. You see, the gospel, that we
preach. Let me present it this way. The
gospel we preach, there is the sweetness of the wine of the
gospel. And it makes our hearts merry
when we hear of what God in Christ has done for us. And we drink
of the wine of that. The wine is sweet. The wine is
good. But make no mistake about it,
there's another wine the wine of this false religion. And people
are drunk upon this wine of her fornication, Babylon's fornication. This is a poisonous elixir. And I suspect you've talked to
people in your family, and you've tried to talk to them about the
gospel of grace, and that the Lord's got to do something. You
talk to them about the redemptive work of Christ upon the cross
of Calvary, how He put away the sins of all of His people, and
salvation is by grace alone, in Christ alone, received by
God-given faith alone. And they don't get it. It's like
they're in a stupor. They are. They drink the wine of her fornication
and they're drunk on it. They're drunk on it. I talked
to my neighbor a little bit, drunk on the wine of Babylon's
false religion. This man died, Nimrod, the founder
of organized works religion. He died. Of course, he wasn't
resurrected. His body will be resurrected
one day at the last. But his widow continued his religion. Her name was Semiramis. You've probably heard of that.
Look her up on internet. You can read about her. She was
his queen, queen of Babylon. And after Nimrod died, she said
her dead husband still existed as a god, and that god is the
sun. That's what she said, S-U-N. And she called his name Baal,
or Baal. And it's interesting that one
of the names, and you can read about this, I can give you some
materials to read if you're interested, but one of the names by which
his wife was called was Ashtoreth, from which we get the name Easter. And if you care to study this,
You'll find that much of what goes on in so-called Christianity
today has had its origin in the religion of Nimrod and Semiramis. After his death, she said she
had a vision, and she saw a full-grown evergreen tree springing out
from the roots of a dead tree. And that, she said, that symbolized
the springing forth of new life for Nimrod, a resurrection of
sorts. And on the anniversary of his
birth, on his birthday, his wife said she would visit that tree
every year at the winter solstice, at the end of December. And guess
what the Son God left? Gifts under that evergreen tree. Thus the idea of Christmas was
born, not when Christ was born, but hundreds and hundreds of
years before his birth. You see, again I say, so much
of today's so-called Christianity is of Pagan origin. Now later, Semiramis became pregnant
and she said it was Baal who impregnated her. And she called
her newborn son the Son of God. And she and her son became known
as Madonna and her child. And she proclaimed that her son
was the reincarnation of the sun god Nimrod. And she said,
this is the Messiah. This is the seed of the woman
going back to Genesis 3.15. Well, it's interesting that her
son was named, and I'm not going to give you too much more of
this. It makes for interesting study, but it isn't vital to
know this, but her son's name was Tammuz. And one of his primary
symbols that is attached to his name throughout the years is
the cross. His symbols were also fires,
as in candles, rosary beads, halos, the symbol of the fish,
and all kinds of beasts. Did you know, I recognize the
fact that most people, and not you folks because you've been
taught correctly through the years, but most people think
that the symbol of Christianity is the cross. It isn't the symbol
of Christianity. Because 900 years before our
Lord Jesus was born, when the Spaniards went into Mexico and
they entered into a temple of the Incas, guess what they found? A cross. That was very big in
their religion. This was 900 years before the
Lord Jesus. This woman and child have been
worshipped in nations and cultures down through the years. Fortuna in Jupiter in Rome, Aphrodite
and Adonis in Greece, Asteroth and Moloch in Canaan. Just ungodly stuff. You see, Nimrod was Antichrist. You know, we love to speak about
pictures of our Lord Jesus Christ. I love to preach about the pictures
of Christ, be it men who typified Him or things which pointed to
Him or typified Him. But Nimrod, he's a type also. He's a type of Antichrist. who rebelled against the very
truth of God. And his religion of works and
will worship is anti-Christ as well. And I wouldn't want to be cruel.
I don't think I'm being cruel. I'm just being accurate and honest. Most of the people around here
are wrapped up in Nimrod's religion. It's very sad. And they're just
drinking the elixir. They're drinking the wine. As
we used to say, those who remember Jim Jones, they're drinking the
Kool-Aid. And I think this is wonderful.
Religion's fun. It's full of happiness and joy. And it's going to end up in the
destruction of their soul. Let me give you a reference here
real quick. Go to Revelation again. Go to the book of Revelation. I had Joe read those few verses
for you. Let's go to, well, for the sake
of time, look at chapter 17 and verses 13 and 14. Here are the
enemies of God. Here's the hybrid religionists. Revelation chapter 17 verse 13. They have one mind and shall
give their power and strength unto the beast, to Satan, who
gives his power. See, the woman rides on the beast. He carries her. False religion
is demonic. It's devilish. Don't forget that. I know the preachers wrapped
up in false religion, they can come across as very nice people,
but they're wolves. They're wolves dressed in sheep's
clothing. Don't cut them any slack. They
pray for them. Maybe God will save them. But
you can't partake of their evil ways and their evil lies. What concord can light have with
darkness? Folks say, well, how come your
church doesn't get along with all the rest of the churches?
Because light can't get along with darkness. That's why. Truth
can't get along with error. If truth joins in with error,
you've got a hybrid religion. See, that's what I'm talking
about. It's a hybrid religion. Look at verse 14. These shall
make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them. For
he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and they that are with
him are called, and chosen, and faithful. Look over at chapter
18. Look at verse one. After these
things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great
power, and the earth was lightened with his glory. He cried mightily
with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen,
is fallen, and has become the habitation of devils and the
hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful
bird. For all nations have drunk of
the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of
the earth have committed fornication with her. And the merchants of
the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from
heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers
of her sins, and that you receive not her plagues. I heard the
call, Come out of her, my people. The Lord called me out. He called
us all ultimately out of false religion because every man by
nature is a religious creature and it's false religion that
we gravitate toward. So the Lord called us out of
it. Now let me just read at the end of the chapter. Look at verse
20. Rejoice over her thou heaven,
chapter 18, verse 20, and ye holy apostles and prophets, for
God hath avenged you on her over this hybrid religion. And a mighty
angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the
sea saying, thus with violence shall that great city Babylon
be thrown down. and shall be found no more, shall
be cast into hell. And the voice of the harpers
and the musicians and of pipers and trumpeters shall be heard
no more at all in thee. And no craftsman or whatsoever
craft he be, shall be found any more in thee. And the sound of
a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee. and the
light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee, and the
voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more
at all, no more joy, no more happiness, for thy merchants
were the great men of the earth, for by thy sorceries were all
nations deceived. And in her, in this hybrid religion,
was found the blood of the prophets and of saints, and of all that
was slain upon the earth. That's a prophecy of what's in
store for this hybrid religion. Oh, make God haste the day when
this comes to pass. You say, when's it going to happen,
Jim? When the last of God's elect
are brought into the fold of salvation. I believe that's when
it's gonna happen. Our Lord said, behold, I come
quickly. And John, as a spokesman for
all the church, says, even so come, Lord Jesus. Put down all error, and this
hybrid religion, sinker into the depths of the deepest sea,
the bottom of hell, sinker forever. that she be heard from no more. Let's pray. Lord, bless the word
that's gone forth tonight. What a deceived world this is
we live in. Where this hybrid religion, people
just swallow it all. It doesn't matter what the name
of it is. There's all kind of names for
religions and denominations and churches. But they're really
all the same hybrid religion. Salvation by man. Salvation dependent
upon the creature. Salvation by works, by worth,
and by man's will. Oh God, we want to thank you.
for translating us out of the kingdom of darkness into the
kingdom of your dear Son, of showing us the blessedness of
our Lord Jesus and this salvation that is all of grace and all
according to your sovereign will and purpose. We bless you. We thank you. We praise you for
teaching us the truth. And we ask that this gospel you've
taught us, that you'll teach so many of our family members
and friends who are strangers to these truths. May it be so
for your glory, if you will. For Jesus' sake I pray, amen.