That really is. Here in Jude,
starting at verse 14, and it says, Enoch also, the seventh
from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, now who's he talking
about, these? He's talking about these false
prophets, these men that came into the church, these men that
came in speaking turned the grace of God into lasciviousness, and
he used how the judgment was going to come on, how they despised
dominion, spoke evil of dignities. They were natural brute beasts,
and they were like Cain, and they were like Balaam, and they
were like Corrie. And what happened to those men
and the judgments on them? And so that's who he's talking
about. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints
to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are
ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have
ungodly committed, and all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners
have spoken against them. These are murmurers, complainers,
walking after their own lust, and their mouths speaketh grave,
swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because
of advantage. But, beloved, remember ye the
words which were spoken before the apostles of our Lord Jesus
Christ, how that they told you there should be markers in the
last time who should walk after their own ungodly lusts." Now,
you know, we've read about these people, these men that come in,
these folks who have no fear of God. do not care about the
grace of God, do not care about authority, do not care about
dominion, and how the judgment's going to come upon them. And
here, who's talking about the judgment and how who's going
to execute it? And Enoch here is talking about Enoch. He's
talking about the son of Seth. Now, you look with me over in
Genesis chapter 5, just a moment. And why he says the seventh from
Adam is because there's two Enochs. One Enoch is the son of Cain. He was the third from Adam. And
Cain was of that wicked one. But he says the seventh from
Adam because he was the son of Seth, who the tribe of Israel
would come through, who the Messiah would come through, who the Redeemer
would come through. And look what it says there in
verse And Jared, after he begat Enoch,
lived 800 years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days
of Jared were 960 years and died. And Enoch lived 65 years and
begat Methuselah. Now, here's why we know the seventh
from Adam. Enoch, the son of Cain, did not
live and begat Methuselah and did not begat and did not walk
with God. And Enoch walked with God after
he begat Methuselah three hundred years and begat sons and daughters.
And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five
years. And watch this, and Enoch walked not with God, and he was
not, for God took him. God spoke of Enoch. Enoch didn't
taste death the way most men taste death. God took him from
this world to the next, just like that. He was walking one
day with God, and God just took him. He just walked up home one
morning, he was out working, God took him. God just took him
right straight to glory. To show you this is typical of
what he's going to do for the saints that's left on the earth.
When he comes again, we're not going to be as if it was not,
because he's going to take us. And that's why it says, 7th of
Adam, son of Seth, to distinguish him from Cain. And he was a prophet,
because the scripture says that he walked with God, and here
it says he prophesied. So he evidently had been a prophet
too when he walked with God. Evidently he was like Lot. Evidently
he was like those who prophesied and preached in his day. And
the thing he prophesied about was the Lord comes with ten thousands
of his saints. Now there's no Old Testament
prophecy about this. There's no evidence that any
in the Old Testament or New ever done any preaching. So this is
evidently something that had been passed down, or else it
was by inspiration of the Holy Spirit that he said this. But
he says the Lord Jesus is coming. And beloved, when he talks about
Christ coming, he's not talking about his first coming. When
our Lord Jesus Christ came the first time, he came as the Savior.
He came as the Redeemer. He came as one to save his people
from their sin. And beloved, in this talking
about the next time he comes, he's coming with 10,000 of his
saints. And he uses 10,000 here, a specific
number to mention a number that's innumerable. Innumerable. And he's coming with 10,000 of
his... And I looked it up and it says
holy myriads. There's going to be myriads of
people coming with him. He's going to come with 10,000
of his saints. He's going to come with angels.
And this is when the Lord Jesus Christ said, He says, you'll
see the Son of Man coming in power and great glory and every
eye shall behold Him. He came before to save. He came
before to redeem. He came before to please God.
He came before to serve us from our sins. He came before to preach
the gospel. He came before to manifest God. He came before to do everything,
not to condemn, but to save. And all beloved, listen. And
I tell you what glory and what majesty when he comes again.
But when he comes this time, he's not coming to save, look
what it says, to execute judgment. To execute judgment. You know,
that judgment that had been executed before, you find all through
the scriptures where God executed judgment. Steve Breed back there
in the study tonight, he said that all nations that forget
God shall be turned into hell. And I mean whole nations are
going to be turning, whole nations are going to be facing judgment.
All kings are going to be facing judgment. Queens are going to
be facing judgment. People that were the most powerful
people in the world are going to be facing judgment. The only
people that ain't going to face the judgment is people that's
already been judged in the Lord Jesus Christ. Because He tells
the ones He's going to execute judgment upon. And all beloved,
and I tell you, Enoch, as he was walking with God, and he
could see the judgment afar off. This is way back six, seven generations
from Adam. One generation, two generations,
three generations, four generations, five generations, seven generations. And he saw to the end, and he
saw the Lord Jesus Christ coming in judgment to execute judgment.
And, oh, beloved, and I tell you, as he walked with God, may
we walk with God. May we walk humbly with God.
May we walk closely with God. May we walk before God, because
the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him. And, oh, I want to walk. Don't
you want to walk with God? Walk with God. And I say walking
with God is something we do by faith. And it's something we
understand that He's on His throne, and we're on the earth. It's
something that He's high and lifted up, and we're down here
on His footstool. On His footstool. And He comes
to describe the judge in His work, and He comes to execute
judgment. And oh my, you know, you see
judges sitting on the bench, and you know the person stands
before them. And they get put on trial. And
that's what it says he's going to convince them. He puts them
on trial. And he begins to say, execute judgment. And execute
judgment means not to pronounce judgment. But if you've been
condemned to hang, he executes that hanging. If you've been
condemned to the electric chair, he executes that judgment and
pulls the switch. And that's what he's talking
about here. Executing the judgment. Not just pronouncing judgment,
but actually, if you have your head on the chopping block, the
axe is going to fall. It's executing judgment. And
what's he going to do? The first thing it says, he's
going to convince all. To convince all that are ungodly
among them of their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed,
of all their harsh speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against
him. First thing he's going to do
is he's going to convince them. That word convince means he's
going to convict them. He's going to convict them. How
in the world is he going to convict them? And how is he going to
execute this judgment? I mean, is he going to bring
everybody before him one at a time? Do you know how long it would
take for that to happen? I personally believe, and I've read several
people say that God, when He convinces men, that all He has
to do is just have them stand there, and He knows them, and
He just reads their thoughts and shows. They know right immediately
in His presence of everything, convinces them immediately of
everything that they've ever said, ever thought, and ever
done. They have no excuse. They have to stand there before
Him without any excuse. And he comes to convince them,
just like the Holy Spirit convinces us, convicts us of our sin, convinces
us of our rebellion against God. Well, that's what he's going
to do. He's going to convince them of all their ungodly deeds.
Deeds that they thought, like the Pharisees, thought they were
doing God a service when they condemned Christ. Thought they
were doing God a service when they killed His holy apostles.
And he says here he's going to convince them of all their ungodly
deeds. And you know what it means to
be ungodly? It means to have not God in your thoughts when
you're doing your deeds. Doing what you do without God
being considered in the deed. And then he says here, not all
their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, it's
one thing to think about doing something, it's another thing
to do it. A dear, dear brother, he's done gone on, the Lord's
took him on, but he often said, you know, he said to me one time,
he says, I think it's just as bad to think of it, you know,
just as well to do it as thinking. I said, oh, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't do what you think. Don't
ever carry on. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no We think even sometimes about getting even with people.
Stuff like we think about vengeance. We have malice in our hearts.
We have malice in our minds. And we think of some pretty hard
things. And certainly you wouldn't want
to carry out what you sometimes think, would you? And so our
Lord Jesus Christ, He not only convinced them of their ungodly
deeds, but not only did they think, but they did them. They
committed them. And they committed them with
a high hand. And look what he says, not only that, but all
their hard speeches. What hard speeches? Hard, hard
speeches. And oh, beloved, and they spoke
hard speeches against Christ. It says against Him. Against
Christ, against God. And oh, beloved, proud. And these
hard speeches mean that they were proud, arrogant, taunting
against Him. And He's going to convict them.
And when he's convinced, he'll condemn, and when he's condemned,
he'll execute. You remember the rich man in
hell. He told Abraham, he said, Abraham, would you send Lazarus
to warn my brethren? I've got five of them. I've got
five of them. Here's a fellow that had been
executed, judgment day executed. He said, I've got five brothers.
He said, would you at least let Lazarus go warn them and tell
them so they won't come to this place? You know what Abraham
said? He said, they have Moses, they
have the prophets, and if one rose from the dead, they wouldn't
believe him either. And that's what he talks about convincing
men here. And these hard speeches, what were some of the hard speeches
that they used against the Lord Jesus Christ? What were some
that they said? Well, they said, he's got a devil.
He has a devil. How would you like the Lord Jesus
Christ to Gracious, full of compassion, fed multitudes. People could touch Him and be
healed of their infirmities. He had touched them and healed
them. Walked by and seen people in
the bed, just told them to get up and walk. People who had never seen, He
gave them sight. One dear lady, she was carrying
her only son. The only son she had, she was
walking with him to the graveyard one day. Big crowd going with
her to the funeral, walking out through there with the casket.
The Lord Jesus Christ met him on the way out. Life and death
met right there. Lord Jesus said, Stop. I laid
that man, young man in his casket, all wound up. And the Lord Jesus said, Son,
I say unto thee, arise. The young man just raised up
in his casket. You know what he done? He said, here, mother,
who's your son? And say he has a devil? Say he
has a devil? And oh, when he's on the cross,
they said he saved others, but he can't even save himself. That's
a hard thing to say about a man. He's laying there, he's hanging
up there dying, and you taught him while he's dying. Oh, save
yourself? They said, put a blindfold on
him and slapped him. He said, you say you're a prophet?
You say you're a prophet? You know what's going on? You
see things? He said, tell us who spoke to you. Give us their
name. Who just slapped you? Tell us who done that. And oh,
beloved, they called him a blasphemer. And oh, beloved, and I tell you,
that's why our Lord Jesus says, by your words, You'll be justified
by your words, you'll be condemned. And there's people that say some
awful, awful hard things against Christ. Say some horrible things. And just to use His name in vain
is bad enough. But to actually say things against
Him, to taunt Him, to ridicule Him, to blaspheme Him. Hard speeches,
they said. Hard speeches. Look over here
at James 2.12, and look what it says here about this. Hard
speeches. Look what it says. James 2.12. And this is the thing. We want,
you know, by our words, we're going to be justified. By our
words, we're going to be condemned. And all these fellows will know
whatever they say of Christ, whatever they think of Christ.
Hard speeches. It's a hard speech to accuse
Christ of something that He can't do and accuse Christ of something
that He won't do. And here in James 2.12, it says
this. So speak ye, and so do, as they
that shall be judged by the law of liberty. I mean, you know,
that law of freedom that we have in Christ, that law that sets
us free, you say what you ought to say. You're going to be judged
by this law, by this perfect law of liberty. And I certainly
don't want to face God, and I don't want to be... I said enough hard
things about Christ when I was lost, but I certainly, certainly
can't hardly bear to hear Him spoken against now. And that's
what he says, the hard speeches they have against him. And they
have not only hard speeches against him, but hard speeches against
his God, against Christ, against his preachers, against his church.
Oh, my. And then look what it says there
in verse 16 of Jude. These are murmurers, complainers,
murmurers. You know, of all the things that
God chose Israel of and dealt with Israel about, murmuring
was one of the awfulest sins they committed. Murmuring is
a horrible sin against God. And that's, he says, murmuring
is a great sin. It shows that you're discontent,
and what it means is to vent your impatience. It means to
pour out your complaints, and all my complaint murmuring It's
an awful thing to do. Look over here in Numbers with
me in chapter 14. Numbers 14. And you know, these are murmurers,
complainers. You know, they're never content.
They'll never have any peace. They'll never have any rest.
They'll never have any joy. They'll never have any contentment.
Murmuring. Discontentment. Look in verse Twenty-six, I believe it is.
Moses fourteen, twenty-six. Moses, number sixteen, twenty-six. But Moses said... And the Lord spake unto Moses
in Aaron, saying, How long shall I bear with this evil congregation? What's this? Which murder against
me. Now murmuring, Numbers 14, 26. How long shall I bear with this
evil congregation which murmur against me? Now listen to him.
I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel which
they murmur against me. Now when they murmured against
Moses, he says they murmured against him. When they murmured
against Aaron, they murmured against him. When they murmured
against his law, they murmured against him. When they murmured
against the food they had, they murmured against him. When they
murmured against the quail, they murmured against him. When they
murmured about having enough water, they murmured against
him. And these people could not have peace, they could not have
joy, they could not have rest, they could not have contentment.
And that's what these fellas was. They never had peace, they
never had rest, they never had joy, they never had contentment.
They was always murmuring and complaining. Look what else he
goes on to say. Say unto them as truly as I will,
saith the Lord, as have ye spoken in my ear, so will I do to you.
That's what's going to happen. Your carcasses shall fall in
the wilderness, and all that were numbered of you according
to your whole number, from twenty years old and upwards, which
have murmured against me." He said, you're going to die out
here in the wilderness. And all beloved, they murmured against
him back over in Athens. Now, it's one thing to murmur
and complain of God, and be discontented, and vent your impatience and
complain. But it's another thing to pour out your complaints to
God. David oftentimes poured out his
complaint to God. And he says, Lord, how long?
How long? Well, as I forgot mercy in my
wrath, will you remember mercy? How long will it be before you
come? How long? He said, O Lord, my
soul faints within me. He poured out his complaint to
God. He didn't complain of God, but he told God his condition.
He told God his fear. He told God his pain. He told
God his anxieties. He told God about the enemies
that surround him. He told God all of his troubles. He didn't complain about it.
He just told God. He didn't complain of God, but he poured out his
complaint to God. And O Beloved, I tell you what,
folks murmur. They murmur for what they want. I don't have this. I don't have
that. They murmur about that. They murmur about what they've
lost. And let me give you three main reasons that people murmur.
First reason is pride. Pride. They think they deserve
more. I deserve better than this. I've been better than that. I've
been better than that. And secondly, Self-love. You love yourself and you don't
want yourself to have any trouble. You don't want yourself to have
anything go wrong with you. You don't want nothing. You want
everything just to... You know you've heard of spoiled
brats? You know who the biggest poor brat is? Most of the time
it's us. We want our way, we want it now.
And that's what self-love. We don't want nothing to go,
ripple our little, you know, we want our water smooth. And
that's what he's talking about. People want water smooth. And
if the water ain't smooth, it's self-love. And the third reason
is his presumption of merit. You know, I'm worth something. I've got some merit. I'm a good person. And this shouldn't be happening
to me. Why would this happen to me of
all I've done? And that's the way a lot of people
feel. But let me tell you something. Everything we have is free, ain't
it? Have we paid for anything we've got? I'm talking about
from God now. Everything we got is free. We
got up this morning, He gave us another day. Still clothed
in our right mind. Still healthy to get up and get
around. And, oh, beloved, everything
was free. And if everything is free, why
would you complain? You've heard that old saying,
you know, he bit the hand that feeds him. And that's what we
don't ever want to be. God feeds us. His hand is just
free. It's full. And He just dishes
out and dishes out and dishes out. And we just reach out and
take. Why would we ever? And oh, beloved. And then look
what it says. Not only are they murmurs and
complainers, but they walk after their own lust. And lust means
anything here that's a strong, strong desire. You know, there
are people who have a strong desire. There's good lust, and
I can't think of a couple. There's one over in Luke 22 that
I can't remember what it was. But they desire God. Our Lord
Jesus Christ said, with a great desire, that's what it was, with
a great desire, I've desired to have this supper with you,
to eat this meal with you, with a strong desire. That's a good
lust. And here he's talking about any
kind of natural or a great desire. And these things here, walking
after the lust of their own heart, means the natural desires that
we have after the fall. And look at the natural desires
we had before we was converted. If you imagine the desires we
have now as converted people, imagine what they was before
we were converted. That's what he's talking about.
What we had in Adam. And lust is a strong, strong
desire. Not only did they have these
lusts, these strong desires, but whatever they desired and
whatever they lusted after, they walked for it. They went after
it. They walked after it. If their flesh wanted something,
they went for it. If their flesh desired to go
someplace, they went and they done it. If their flesh desired
to do anything, they done it. Look over here in 1 John 2.15,
just a moment. And you know, what they desired,
that's what they went after. They did not withhold themselves
from anything. Did not withhold themselves from
anything. It says here in John 2.15, Love not the world, neither the
things that are in the world. If any man loved the world, the
love of the Father is not in him. When he's talking about
the world, he's talking about the spirit, the age, the love
of the world, the things that don't care for God. Christ is
not at all in the thought. For all that's in the world is
the lust of the flesh. And the lust of the flesh is
whatever your natural man wants. That's what I want. And not only
that, but the lust of the eyes. And this lust of the eyes means
this, that you want to walk in a vain show. You want people
to see you and notice you and pay attention to you. It's not
your eyes lusting after something, it's your eyes, you know, the
lust of the eyes means that you... Maurice Montgomery wrote an excellent
Bulletin article last week, and he started out like this. He
said, a woman got up, she started putting on her makeup. And boy,
she put on her makeup, and she put on her eyes, and she put
the roots on her lips, and she put her on her cheeks and pinched
them, and she put her makeup on, and she got her hair and
got it fixed just right. She put on this beautiful dress,
and it just formed a fitting dress, and she just looked so
wonderful. I mean, boy, she was beautiful. She was gorgeous to
look at. Said she walked outside, and
she was going to go to work. What was her job? She is a whore. And he took that and put it to
religion today, how it dresses itself up. And preachers dress
the gospel up to make it enticing to men without Christ. And that's
what these people do. That's the same thing as the
lust. They dress themselves up and fix themselves where folks
say, boy, look at that. Look at them. Look at them. And you know that means walking
in a vain show. That's what he's talking about.
But then not only that, but what did he say there in John 2? Well,
I've done turned from it. I'll go right back to it. I've
been lost here. Let me get back over there again. But it says, not only lust of
the eyes, but lust of the flesh, and desires of the mind, and
all those things that said, don't walk in them, don't walk in them.
And so here's these men. walking in the lust of the flesh,
walking in the desires of the mind. And, oh, beloved, we don't
want to do that. And then, you know, when I tell
you something about God's people, we have the flesh still in us.
We have our own nature in us. We have our own nature in us.
There's no doubt about that. No doubt about that. But you
know what the Scripture says in Galatians 6.24? They that
are Christ have crucified the flesh with the desires thereof
and with the lust thereof. I mean, beloved, you know, when
we have, we've crucified Him. We do not, we don't want to vent
this, oh my, this body and the desires that's in it. God save
us from it. We have some awful desires like
other people, but we don't walk after them. We don't walk after
them. And then look what it says here
also about these men. They speak great swelling words,
having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. When it
says here they speak great swelling words, that means they're boasting.
You say, boy, that fellow's a blow. Well, that's what they're talking
about. These guys are great boasters. speaks great swelling words.
I mean, they can really dress it up. They can really make it
look good. They can really let everybody
know what's going on. And first thing they do is they
boast of their knowledge. They boast of what they know.
They boast about their attainments. And they speak swelling words
so they can get men to come to their side, get in their camp,
and believe what they want them to believe. And not only that,
but they speak swelling words against others. He said, oh,
don't listen to them. They've done that to Paul. He
said, don't listen to Paul. He said, his bodily presence
is contemptible and his speech is weak. He said, listen to us. We're apostles too. We know what
it is to preach. He said, that fellow, look at
him. Just look at him, a little old bitty man. Oh, he just looks
awful. Why anybody want to go hear that
fellow preach? And I tell you, his speech, his
bodily presence is weak and his speech is contemptible. Man,
He calls you sinners, and all He wants to do is exalt Christ,
and we're trying to tell you what good folks you are. You
don't need Jesus all that bad. And that's why He says, not only
do they speak great, swelling words, I mean, beloved, these
folks can boast and brag and make themselves look good and
make their message look good and make everything about them
look great. And oh, beloved, they have men's
persons in admiration because of advantage. That means, beloved,
they look at the people that they're around, and the one that's
got something, that has influence, that's got some power, that's
got some money, they look at the outward appearance of men,
and they say, well, if I can get an advantage by them, that's
the fellow I want to win. That's the fellow I want to win.
Or they'll brag on them, they'll admire them, And they do it to
get an advantage for themselves. Why is that Dale Carnick, of
course, How to Win Friends and Influence People? That's what I need to read. How
to Win Friends and Influence People. I don't know. But here
is what these fellows did. That's exactly their whole person.
How to influence people and win friends. To get an advantage,
to get worldly profit from them. Get worldly profit from them.
And look over in James with me real quick. James chapter 2.
James chapter 2. And this is what he's talking
about. They'll brag on people, admire people, say, oh boy. And
they think, if they can't get an advantage from you, you don't
mean nothing to them. And that's what he says here.
James says, My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons? And here's
how he shows about it. If I come a man into your assembly
with a gold ring and goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor
man with a vial of raiment, which one are you going to? These fellows
over here, are they going to say, Boy, that guy over there,
he's got gold. Man, look at that suit he's got
on. That fella has got some power. That guy's got some money. Look
at all that gold. He's got on a gold watch. Gold
rings. He's got a diamond in that ring. Oh, boy. Come up here and sit,
man. Boy, you know. Get up and tell
him, well, we're so glad to have so-and-so with us this morning.
He runs this business. He takes care of that thing.
He's got this title and all that. That poor man. They ignore him. They don't even want to shake
his hand. And that may be the very man
that God... That is the man God is dealing with. This man drove
by Lazarus every day. And Lazarus was a beggar. And
the dogs licked his sores. And here comes that rich man
driving by him every day. Where's the rich man at? He's
in hell. Where's Lazarus at? He's in glory. But everybody
wanted to sit at the rich man's table. Everybody wanted to ride
in the rich man's carriage. Everybody wanted the rich man
to come to their house. Wanted him in their congregation.
And you have respect to him that wears the gray clothing and saying
to him, sit down here in a good place and save the poor. Stand
here and sit under my footstool. Don't even give him a prominent
place at all. Put him under the footstool.
Put him where you can't see him. Oh, are you not then parcels
of yourselves and become judges of evil thoughts? And that's
why it's an evil thing. It's an evil thought. It's evil
thinking to make difference in people in that way. And then
back over here quickly, and I'll wind it up. But look what he
says. But beloved, in verse 17, remember
ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Remember now. Remember that's
what Peter said. I want to stir your minds up
by way of remembrance, your pure minds. How they told you there
should be markers in the last time. Markers. mocking God, mocking Christ,
mocking the scriptures, mocking the church, mocking everything
that's high and holy, having no sense of right and wrong,
no sense of what's true, no sense of what's
right. And that's pretty much where
we're at in this whole world. This world is upside down. People
have no sense, no respect, no regard, no respect for the country,
no respect for the old, no respect for the sick, no respect for
the infirm, no respect for themselves, no respect for God, no respect
for Christ. They're martyrs. and walk after
their own ungodly lusts. Let me show you that over here
in 1 Timothy. Look with me in 1 Timothy. You
remember our Lord Jesus Christ. He says this, In the last days,
many false Christs shall arise. In 1 Timothy. 1 Timothy chapter
4. He says, many false Christs shall
arise to say, here, say there, he's loaded here, he's loaded
there, and these false Christs, and it's a mockery, listen to
me, it's a mockery to tell men and women that Jesus Christ loves
them and died for them. That's mocking Christ. That's
counting the blood of the covenant and unholy thing and making it
common. That's mockery. To say that God is not sovereign
and has no power over you, that's mockery. And there is people that they
do that. They mock election. They mock God's sovereignty.
They mock depravity. I was up in West Virginia preaching
one time, and I preached on the man's utter inability and lostness. And after the service over to
the preacher, two or three of his deacons went out there and
said, Oh, you old wicked thing, you. You know how sorry you are. They just began to mock the message. Just begin to mock it. Make fun
of it. And that's what they say. And
that's what he means. It's a mockery to say things
about Christ that's not true. It's a mockery to say things
about God that's not true. It's a mockery to take the Scriptures
and say things that they don't say. It's a mockery to do that. To twist and pervert the Scriptures.
In 1 Timothy 4.1, look what he says. Now the Spirit speaketh
expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from
the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils,
speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with
a hot iron, forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats
which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of
them which believe and know the truth." Oh my, don't you eat
that meat! Don't you marry this person,
that person, the other person. And they get up. It's like somebody
told us, somebody said the other day, they fly around their old
jet. Let's just give you, I shouldn't say this, but you know, these
people who think they're something just because they got a little
celebrity, a little money, you know, they won't tell the rest
of us how to live. Said people need to start riding bicycles
so they save some of this gas. And while he's riding around
and got his own private jet, and got a half a dozen vehicles,
and rides around in Hummers that you know get three miles to the
gallon, he won't tell us to ride a bicycle. And that's what preachers do.
They get up and tell people what they ought to do, and they're
not doing it themselves. When he rides a bicycle, I'll
get a bicycle. When they quit being a hypocrite,
then I'll start paying attention. And that's the same thing in
the gospel, same thing with the scriptures. And look again over
here in 2 Timothy 3.1. This is what he says, that there
shall come mockers in the last time, scoffers, scoffers. This know also that in the last
days perilous times shall come. You know, it says that our Lord
Jesus Christ says that men's hearts would fail them for fear
of the things that's coming on them. Their hearts would fail
them because of the things that's coming upon the face of the earth.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, at them swelling
words, proud. And God says that He hates even
a proud look. Blasphemers. Disobedient to parents. You know, let's put that in there
with one of the worst. Unthankful. Don't give thanks
for nothing. It's owed to me. It's mine. Why should I give
thanks? Why should I give thanks for what anybody says is done?
You owe it to me. Unholy. Without natural affection. Men with men. Women with men.
Men and, oh my goodness, it's just awful. Truth breakers. You cannot take the word you
know if her mouth's moving or lying. If they came to you and
said, well, my vow is my word. No, you can't trust men's word
nowadays. False accusers. I mean, beloved,
they'll just lie on you and accuse you of things that never happened.
They're incontinent. They have no ability to keep
themselves, control themselves. Fierce. despisers of those that
are good, traitors, petty, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than
lovers of God, having a form of godliness. They ain't going
to give up their religion, though. Denying the parallel from such
turn away. And that's what our Lord said.
Beware of false prophets. They'll come to you. They'll
have a sheep's cloth about them. Oh, they'll look like sheep."
But he said, you know what they are? Inwardly, they're ravening
wolves. And, oh, beloved, I said, that's why you remember the words
of the apostles. Men in all, thank God that we
have these scriptures that warn us and tell us. Floyd, or somebody,
told me Wednesday night where he's reading, and he says, you
know, he said, it's just like reading what's going on today.
You know why? Because man's the same. And this Bible tells us,
when you know, when I read that out of secretivity, that's just,
you know, it's just like turning on the news. Rape and murder and blasphemy
and mocking and scoffering. The name of the Lord, just filthy
language in the name of the Lord, just mocked and scoffed and ridiculed. Make movies about him. It's just
absolutely blasphemous. Men are traitors. They get married
and they're traitors to their children. They're traitors to
their family. They're traitors to their country. They're traitors
to their flag. They're traitors to their mothers.
They're traitors to their dads. They're just traitors! And we
see it all over the place now. And there ain't a thing in the
world we can do about it except for ourselves remember the words
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And, O God, help us to be true
to You in these last days. Help us to honor You. Help us
not to murmur against You. And, O God, help us, please,
never to veer to the right, never to veer to the left, but to keep
our eyes fixed on You. O God, set our eyes on You. Let
us look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Let
us never take our eyes off Him. And may God, as long as He lets
me preach and live, may I always tell you that. Keep your eyes
fixed on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what I want to do in these
last days.