False teachers are God's judgments
on people who don't want God, but in the name of religion plan
on getting everything their carnal heart desires. That's why a Joel
Osteen is raised up. Those people who sit under him
are not victims of him. He is the judgment of God upon
them because they want exactly what he wants and it's not God's. And you can line them all up
along with him. That's where it is for ourselves,
teachers in accordance to their own desires. So you get a Benny
Hannon there who all he wants to do is tell you you're going
to have a Mercedes Benz. Those people aren't victims.
He is God's judgment upon them. They want what he wants, and
so they accumulate him to themselves, along with all those other teachers,
because they teach exactly what they want. You see that? You boast in the fact that God
has children running around all over this country, full of carnality,
steeped in sin, doing whatever they want. And God does nothing
according to your preaching. But they're saved, bless God.
When you preach their funeral, you'll preach them straight into
heaven. I've seen it a thousand times. Remember just a while
back, a man in my own town in Illinois who was a known drug
addict, drug dealer, fornicator, absolutely everything. And he
is there. He passes away. And the pastor
of one of the largest Baptist churches in the area is standing
there at a funeral. That place is loaded with every
person that's hardly ever been in church. Drug addicts and everything
you can imagine are all there in church to honor their dead
friend. And that pastor gets up and he says, I praise God.
I know this young man. He's sowed a lot of wild oats,
but when he was nine years old, I was there when he prayed to
receive Jesus Christ as his Savior. And he's in heaven today. And
all those lost sinners went straight out into the streets. justified
in their sin because of conservative evangelical Baptist preaching.
That's typical in almost every church in this country. It's true. It's true and it's pathetic.
It's pathetic. You say, oh, that's mean spirited.
Let me ask you a question. My mother passed away last year. But I remember three years ago,
and I went to the doctor's office with her because she thought
something's not right. And that doctor, very gentle,
very noble, he looked at my mother and he says, Miss Washer, because
you've got cancer. And he goes, it's radical. It's bad. And we've got to move
right now if we're going to have any chance to save your life.
I want you to know that man made my mother cry. He hurt my mom. He ruined her day. We were going
to go out to get something to eat. He ruined her week. He tore my
mother to pieces. But he tried to save my mother's
life. And if he hadn't done that, if he hadn't been so truthful,
she'd have had no hope of salvation whatsoever. We'd have had no
recourse at all. And he could have been kicked
out of his own practice for being immoral. They ought to kick most
pastors out of their practice. Because out of cowardice or self-preservation,
they will not preach the gospel. That's all there is to it. This
job's not for cowards. It may be for wild men and fools,
but it's not for cowards. I'm telling you, there's too
much at stake, too much at stake to allow this to happen any longer.
And it'd be different if it was happening in churches that denied
the deity of Christ. or substitutionary atonement.
But this stuff goes on every day in men's churches who hold
to these truths. But when they get to the gospel,
they just seem to lose their minds. This country is not gospel
hard and this country is gospel ignorant because most of the
preachers are gospel ignorant. It's just the truth. That salvation is not merely
the change of practice. It doesn't even begin. It's not
turning over a new leaf. It's not New Year's resolutions. It's not this strong conviction
to want to be a different person. None of that salvation is a supernatural
work of God, whereby someone really does become a new creature. Really, that's not poetry. It's
not poetry. It's not poetry!