Signs of the Times (Part 3)- The Great Falling Away (Part 2)

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Well, good day, everybody. I hope you're doing well on this wonderful, wonderful Tuesday evening. Dimensions is back here in the house, and I'm starting another part of my series, Signs of the Times. This is part number three, but it's going to be part two of the great falling away. You know, we are in the day and hour where people are falling away from the faith. Yes, they are. They are falling away. And I believe today you're going to be blessed by this because I'm going to talk to you a little bit more about what that falling away is going to look like and how it's going to, and we're going to have to navigate that in the name of Jesus. So get ready because this great falling away, part two of signs of the times, because you know that is one of the signs of the times that people are going to fall away from the faith, and we're seeing it each and every day. I'm going to show you in the Bible how it's still happening today. So stay tuned, lock and low, ready your weapons, because dimension starts now. I'm back here again, and I'm so glad to be coming live to you right now. Yes, yes, yes, indeed. Dimensions coming at you at least five days a week, Monday through Friday, every single evening at 8 p.m. Yes. And if you have not downloaded the Dimensions Podcast, take a minute right now, go to wherever podcasts are being held and download the Dimensions Podcast. It's definitely going to be a blessing to you. And as soon as we finish our live portion, you will be able to have it sent right to whatever device that you have dimensions on. And you'll never miss an episode. You can listen to it in the morning. You can listen to it in the noonday. You can listen to it before you go to bed at night. You can listen to it all the time. And even when you're working out or wherever you are, you can get the word of God in you. And that's why dimensions exist to help bring oil, give oil in your lamps, to keep love in your heart and sin and leaven out of your life, to prepare the body of Christ, the bride of Christ for the return of Jesus Christ. Even as we're getting ready to talk about the great falling away, yes, people are falling away each and every day from the faith. It's happening all the time. And we've got to make sure that we are ready. So that's what's so great about this podcast. You know, I'm convinced, ladies and gentlemen, that a lot of people are talking a lot of nonsense online. Most people, some people's ministries, I've seen it. Some people's ministry online, their podcasts or their show on YouTube or whatever they're doing, exists primarily just to attack other people. And the thing that's negative about that, if that's all that you're doing, you know what's going to happen? You're not going to get the word out. It just turns into a bickering match. And there's a lot of people just bickering back and forth, bickering back and forth, calling out this person. I know one person, their whole podcast is simply to annihilate one person in ministry. That's all they do. Every one of their podcast episodes is to annihilate this person in ministry. You know, and I want to say something real quickly. There's a danger in that. You know, I believe that true love speaks truth to power. I believe that true love has to stand up for what is right. I do not believe that because somebody is anointed and they're called of God, that somebody can't speak against something they're doing that can bring deception. I don't believe that's what the Bible meant when it says, touch not my anointed and do my prophets no harm. I don't believe that. I don't believe that at all. I believe you have to be very careful on how you say, how you address. I think you have to be very, very cautious. And I think you have to be careful of messing with people in an office. But the difference between slandering and then somebody sharing something that's contrary to the word or someone doing something that is against the word and trying to call it the word and leading people down a path of deception, they shouldn't be. That there is a whole nother story, y'all. It's a whole nother story. So I don't believe in that. But then I believe there's a time to speak to those things. And when people get off into error, the church in this day and hour must be addressed. They must be addressed because so many people are falling into a lot of craziness. I mean, whether it's people being abused in church, whether it's church, whether it's church abuse, whether it's uh we've seen a lot of people in trouble for sexual molestation and misconduct. We see uh men and women of God doing a lot of sexually explicit things and then mentioning how the word of God backs it and all these things. This is all part of the great falling away. Now, that doesn't mean just because you can get likes and subscribes and follows and shares that you should go through and just start ridiculing every person's ministry whenever you find something wrong. But there is something to be said about if somebody is in error and people will start following that, or people are walking in deceptions or in bondage due to the fact of somebody else. There's nothing wrong with somebody addressing it from a biblical perspective, not attacking the person, but rather the message and saying that person is out of order. The Bible does not say anything about that. Touching God's anointing does not mean they are infallible and they can't be touched, and you can't never say anything. It's all about your heart and how you address it. And I believe every time you address somebody, it should be redemptive in nature. And today, I'm not going into a bunch of things that people did wrong. I want to show you in the word where the great falling away happens. But I've seen it where some people get online, that's all they do is just bicker at other people. And it robs people of the opportunity to know the word, to simply know the word. What does the word of God say? And I believe, and it is a true fact, that this is one of the most biblically illiterate generations we have ever seen and known. It's the most biblically illiterate generation we've ever seen or know. People don't know their Bibles. Listen to most sermons. Very rarely do they get into the word. Very rarely they get into the word, which leads me to a point. If you are interested in knowing the word, I have started another level Bible Institute. March 21st is the first class we're going to be having. You can take it online or you can take it in your homes or at our church. Either way, it's totally up to you. So you can be virtual or you can be brick and mortar. It's a hybrid type class. You can learn about the overview of the Bible. You can learn about comparative religions in regards to Christianity. So you can be able to evangelize and witness and really know the different things that people leave. You know, we take a look at what's going on in Iran and the Muslim faith and Islamic people and uh how many of them uh are turning to want to destroy Israel and all that. Well, we're gonna get into all of that, and you're gonna learn a lot about those things. And that's what we've lost in the body of Christ. People have to know the scriptures, people have to know what the word of God says. If you don't know what the word of God says, the Bible says that the word is an anchor to our souls. So you've got to know what the word of the Lord says for your own life. Very, very important that you understand. And that's why I do what I do here on Dimensions. If I address a pastor or a ministry uh like I did with uh Dr. Jamal Bryant with his wife, it wasn't there to slander him or to dog him or her. But when you start using scripture to validate um sexual misconduct or things along that line, or using scripture to uh justify dressing in a sexual fashion that can create uh lust and things along that line, you you have to say something. Somebody has to say something. You can't just not say anything. You know, you're not just attacking them because you don't agree with them in regards to uh whether they took their offering up at the beginning or at the end, or because they said they heard God or different. You're talking about things that are completely biblically in error, and people are going along with those, and we we have to be willing to stand up and to address those types of things. And so that's what I want to talk to you about is this great falling away that is happening. If you're interested in going to the school, go to another level.church. Uh, you can text Bible Institute to 412-586-7159, sign up. Time is running short. We're about a week and a half away before we start our first semester, and I would love to have you come and to be a part of what it is that we're doing. So then you can know the word inside and out, and you will not be deceived. So I need you to go up me, if you would, to 2 Thessalonians chapter number two. 2 Thessalonians chapter number two. We're talking about the signs of the times, and this is a part three of actually it's part three of signs at a time, but we're doing a part two of uh the great falling away. So yesterday we talked about it, and today we're gonna talk a little bit more about that great falling away and why it's happening. Let's take a look here, 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, and I'm gonna start here in verse number three. Let no one deceive you lest by any means, for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition. Okay, so that's important, the falling away. Go to first that's uh first Timothy chapter four. I just wanted to revisit that for a minute. Let's look at verse one and verse two. Now I want to show you something here. This is the reason why I believe there are times that ministers that are in error, the error must be addressed. Look at this. Now the spirit expressly says that in the latter times some will what depart from the faith. Look at this, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy. Now, why look at look at this speaking lies in hypocrisy, so being hypocrites and sharing lies, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron. Wow. Now look at that. So watch this. People will give heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons. Ladies and gentlemen, that's here right now. That's the reason why a lot of people see. Now, let me show you something. The devil wants, the devil is very, very slick on how he's going about this. I believe in spiritual authority. I believe in honor. I believe you honor men and women of God. I believe with all of my heart that David was a man that honored God and would not even raise his mouth against Saul. But this is the thing, though. He wasn't coming against Saul. Uh, he was just trying to kill Saul because Saul was trying to kill him and he wasn't willing to do it. But, you know, Saul was not necessarily preaching error. And people were asking David if they agreed with it. It wasn't that. There's a difference between just not agreeing with a man of God and then also saying, well, I'm not saying we should strike men of God down. But if a man or woman of God is speaking something in error, it is okay to mention to other believers, you can be respectful and say, that is not the Bible. That is not correct, and we cannot allow that. There is nothing wrong. Just because you're God's anointed doesn't mean you can just do all sorts of craziness and nobody can say anything about it. If that was the case, if you're a man of God, if a police officer was to go and put a police officer, put a man of God in jail for some type of crime, he would be touching God's anointed. There's a dip between touching the anointed when they're not doing anything just because uh that's biblically in error, and another thing when they're doing things biblically in error and they are leading people astray. This is what it's saying. Look at this. People will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits. And look at that. There's doctrines of devils, doctrines of demons. Think about that for a minute. There are that's the reason why you need to be a part of a part of another level Bible institute. Then you're not led astray. People, oh, I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel this. How do you even know if you ain't got the word? Just because somebody makes you have goosebumps or something like that, don't mean necessarily that that's the anointing. It doesn't mean that it's not, but the key is what are they saying and isn't line up with the scriptures? But it's saying in the end, people will depart because they will give heed to deceiving spirits led by the doctrines of demons. Wow. So you have spirits that deceived and demons that have doctrines. My goodness. Speaking lies in hypocrisy, so they're hypocrites, but they're speaking lies about the truth. Why, though? Here you go. This is what happens. Their conscience has been seared with a hot iron. What does that mean? That means that at one point the Holy Spirit would have been able to convict them and move on their hearts, but their conscience has been so seared that no longer does the pricking of the Holy Spirit, the conviction of the Holy Spirit, have any impact upon their lives. They are no longer moved by the Holy Ghost. You know, when the Holy Spirit tells you said, hey, that's not right, and you're like, ah, you know what? I know it's not right. And you begin to weep and you repent and you say, Lord, forgive me, cleanse me. I'm sorry, God, I know I did wrong, da-da-da-da-da. And the Holy Spirit wakes you up in the middle of the night and shows you something you did wrong and convicts you and tells you to make an adjustment, these people no longer have that. Now, watch. When you when your conscience is seared by a hot iron, by a see, now watch this. In order to be a false prophet, in order to be a prophet that says it's in the church and was maybe once in the church and is no longer, you have to have come to a point where you have sinned so much, where your conscience gets seared with a hot iron. And when your conscience gets seared, it opens the door to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. Everybody can't be a candidate for this. It is only those that have their conscience seared. Now stay with me. This is all part of the apostate church that is coming up right now. That's the reason why, if you find yourself a pastor, a prophet, evangelist, pastor, or teacher, anybody that is preaching the truth, just because they preach a hard word, keep them close to you. Because you need to be thankful because there's a lot of people out there giving heed to seducing spirits and to the doctrines of devils. Why? Their conscience has been seared with a hot iron. They are no longer impacted. They are now a people. If you go to Isaiah 5.20, they call good evil and evil good. They've gotten to a point now, and I've seen it already in the earth. I've seen people that do this, that call good evil, and evil good. And the reality is you've got to warn them. Paul warned of different men and women of God that were giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines. He even talked about people that he gave them over to spiritual uh uh chastisement because of that spiritual discipline. He gave them over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved, the soul might be saved. So the reality is, ladies and gentlemen, you have to keep a lookout and you've got to know the word for yourself. And what happens, there are people that are operating in pulpits today, whether they realize it or not, they have given heed to seducing spirit and doctrines of devils. They have given themselves over. Probably tomorrow, I'm gonna talk about the reprobate mind in Romans chapter one. You're not gonna want to miss that. With the now, watch this. With the rise of transgenderism, now watch, stay with me. With the rise of homosexuality, with the rise of sexual perversion, with the rise of sexual promiscuity and all sorts of things. Now you have to understand this the worse sexual sin becomes in a nation, a country, a world, a place, the greater rise, watch this, this is very important, of deceiving spirits and doctrines of devils. It is a sign that the reprobate mind has crept in, that people are no longer impacted by the convicting power of the Holy Spirit. How do I know that? People do not honor church anymore. People shoot up churches, don't even care. People don't honor the things of God anymore. They don't care. It's like, I don't care about God. I will cuss God out. At one point, even if you wasn't a believer, you would come in, you'd take your hat off, and you came into a church. You know, if they cussed around a pastor, they had respect. I can't begin to tell you. I'll tell people that I'm a pastor and they will still be disrespectful and use uh profanity. I remember one point, even if the pastor wasn't talking to you and he overheard you, if somebody was cussing and they overheard uh and they knew the pastor overheard them, they'd say, I'm sorry, pastor, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please forgive me. There was an honor. Now, but see that this is why. Now, watch, watch. In order to open a door to this, it is pastors and ministers that have their conscience seared. And when you have pulpits that have doctrines of demons, and watch this, seducing spirits, when you have that that bring deception into people's lives, when you have that in the pulpit, it shuts down the light and it decreases the salt. And as a result, darkness can begin to infiltrate. And so now, watch this. We are in the day and hour where preachers are a rare breed. It is very difficult to find a real preacher nowadays. One that doesn't manipulate, one that does not use the word to their own advantage, one that is not out sleeping around using, there are pastors and bishops that are snorting lines of cocaine and then going and preaching the gospel. It happens all the time. There are pastors and ministers that when they go preach at other people's churches, when they go there, they go there and then they have women or even men waiting for them at the hotel that are not their spouse. This is all part of what's going on. And when that happens, it opens the door to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, spirits that will deceive, deceiving spirits, seducing devils that will draw people away. And you say, What do we need to do? You have to know the word of God. You've got to know the word of God for yourself. And that's why I'm hoping that you're taking a moment right now to share this. A lot of preachers ain't even talking about the end. How do, how in the world can we see everything that's going on in Iran? How is it that we can see all the things that happened in the earth? And, you know, people will talk about it from the point of supporting Israel. Nothing wrong with that. That's wonderful. I'm all about that as well. But ladies and gentlemen, the Bible is full in the New Testament about the end and what the end will look like. I'm showing you right here that the Spirit expressly says, in the latter times, some will depart from the faith. Why? They're going to give heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of devils. They're going to speak lies and hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a high iron. That means the Holy Spirit tried to get a hold of them, but then that's why I'm going to go into the reprobate mind tomorrow. You're not going to want to miss that because now their conscience has been seared. They're no longer impacted. And that's why, watch this. Many people, many pastors and preachers have turned to manipulation. Many use abuse their spiritual authority. They feel they can talk to people any old type of way. They can just uh downplay people and treat them like garbage and treat them like trash and uh you know, just belittle them and all those things. And that is not Bible. That is not Bible. That is not what God meant when it comes to spiritual authority. And I personally believe that the greatest pastors will have no more authority in their lives truly than their willingness to lay down their lives for the sheep. Jesus said, No greater love hath a man than he laid down his life for his friends. Jesus said, You can tell a true shepherd because they'll lay their life down for the sheep. If you see a shepherd that loves the pulpit but never serves people, that's a problem. That is a problem, ladies and gentlemen. If you see pastors, the Bible talks about how how the Pharisees and it said they love the great seats in the synagogue and they love being called by the big names, and they love having there's no now here. I've said this before. That doesn't mean you can't have titles, but titles shouldn't have you. That doesn't mean you can't have large churches, but large churches shouldn't have you. That doesn't mean you can have titles and have these things and have influence and have uh uh the power of God operating in your life and people honoring you. The problem is that stuff shouldn't have you to where now it becomes your motivation. It becomes now I expect it. And if you don't give that to me, how dare you! I've heard people talk all sorts of crazy. Some people say, certain pastors, you can't even look them in the eye. If you look them in the eye, you know, you're kind of disrespecting them. You can't say hello to them. And I'm sitting there thinking in my mind, that is the most phariseical uh thought that I could possibly imagine, where somebody can't say hi to me. I mean, Jesus, matter of fact, he rebuked people because the kids wanted to come say hi to him. And they said, get away from him, get away from him. And Jesus would not allow that. See, this is the thing. We've called, we've fallen away from the faith, and this is the reason why. Now, watch this. This is what I want you to see. It says, deceiving, or another word, is seducing spirits. The reason why so many people can be sexually abused, even in the church, is because we don't know the word anymore. If we knew the word, we'd understand that what preachers and pastors are asked. Do you know how many times I've heard it or seen it in the news where a preacher uh had taken advantage of some guys or girls or whatever it might be, and they said they were doing God a favor and they're ministering to them and all these types of things. I'm like, that's because you didn't know the word. And so if you didn't know the word, you don't know what the word says, you'll feel like, okay, that's what the pastor said, so that's all good. Wait a minute, where's the doctrine at? And so as a result, deceiving, seducing spirits happen. Why do we think we see so much sexual sin in the church? Deceiving spirits, seducing spirits, not just from the world, but sexual deception, uh, sexual seduction. It's all in the pulpit nowadays. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. And the reason why is because people have had their conscience seared. It no longer bothers them to be in sin. Now you got to hear what I'm saying. It doesn't bother them. They can sin and they'll go right to sleep at night. Why? Their conscience has been seared. The Holy Spirit has no impact on their lives. The Holy Spirit has no conviction in their lives. They can go and sin and completely be fine, and they don't even realize they've been given over to that reprobate. They don't have any impact anymore. They don't have any, it doesn't bother them. And then that now they start doing all sorts of lasciviousness and falling into sexual debauchery and into all sorts of perversion. Ladies and gentlemen, this is day and hour that we're living in. And that's the reason why you've got to know the word for yourself. You've got to know what the word of the Lord says. So then therefore you recognize when deception comes. You recognize when you're being manipulated. I, you know, I feel bad for people that have been overtaken by certain things in the church. But then on the other hand, I also look at you have a responsibility to know the word for yourself. What does the word say? What does the word say? And therefore live it. Pastors are not pharaohs. Pastors are not meant to be those that lord your life. Pastors don't tell you what to do, how to do, when to do. Pastors, their job is to shepherd you, to find the Messiah, to break down the word, to teach you the word, to correct you, not to get you to uh uh feed their appetites or their egos, or that's not what it was about. But see, this is the thing. What the devil done, because we done, we, we, we have not learned and understood spiritual authority in the scriptures, he has taken the word honor and perverted it. And now, when you're honoring a man or woman of God, I've I've heard people say things like, they'll say, Hey, listen, if your man of God says something and and you don't agree with it, then you better just be quiet and bless God, just do what he tells you to do or else. And I'm sitting there thinking, now, I get that. Now, to some degree, when it comes to church government, well, just how you would on your job. If your boss says this is what we're doing, this is what we're doing, where we're going, as long as it's not illegal, unethical, or moral, you follow it. But now we've got it where they're honoring, and so pastors are telling people to do all sorts of perversion and live any old type of way. And the people say, Well, I can't say anything, I can't do anything. Or we have pastors nowadays that are so watered down that they're living such watered down lives that people feel comfortable right at home because they know their pastor is one of the chief sinners. And I don't mean chief used to be sinners, currently chief sinners. And they're glorifying it. They have no conviction, no remorse, no repentance. Because the Holy Spirit, whether they realize or not, ladies and gentlemen, if your conscience has been searched like a hot iron, you have been disowned. You have been disowned by the Holy Spirit. He has no impact upon your life. And what's happened, he's tried and tried and tried. Think about it. How do you think you develop a callus? At first, it hurts. And what do you do? If you keep doing that, usually if you get, you're like, ah, that's sort of even if you're playing a guitar, you get calluses on your fingertips. When you first start playing, it hurts. And so what do you do? When something hurts, you usually stop. Well, when you grief the Holy Spirit, you stop. But over time, if you keep doing it over and over and over again, eventually calluses develop. And what happens? You're no longer impact. What used to hurt you now feels great, and you just keep on playing. Other people are like, ah, man, that's sensitive. My fingers are sore. But they've done it so often that it hardens the heart. And therefore, now that conviction just becomes another note to them. It doesn't even make an impact in life. God, that He would grant us the grace never to have our hearts hardened like that. And there's a lot of people out there that are falling into that, ladies and gentlemen. And that's the reason why I'm telling you this today. And I don't want you to be deceived. And I believe that men and women of God need to be honored. But honor and worship, there's a fine line between the two. And that's the thing. They're not your God. Pastors are not gods, prophets are not gods. Jesus said, I didn't come to be served, but to serve and to give my life a rants for many. One of the greatest ways you can tell a pastor from a hireling is how they interact with the sheep. If a pastor does not want to be around the sheep, if a pastor does not want to interact with people, if the pastor does not enjoy ministering to people, if the pastor doesn't want to smell like sheep, they are a hirel and not a shepherd. If they're not willing to sacrifice for the house of God, and that doesn't, and that doesn't mean they have to go and if they have a mega church, they got to meander with all the people for all eight, nine hours of a day. That's not what I mean. And anybody here's the heart of what I'm saying knows exactly what I'm talking about. There's a difference between, you know, people abusing you, but listen, this is the thing. And the reason why, now watch this. The reason why so many people, I gotta talk to the pastor, I gotta talk to the pastor, is because we have fallen into idolatry. We now worship men and women of God. And that's why if you're worshiping men and women of God, that's the reason why they can get you deceived. Because you feel like you're following God when you follow their every command, because they are your God. And that's why so many people, they said, Well, I tried church and I tried this, and the man of God took advantage of me and this and so I quit on church and I quit on that. And I get it, and that stuff should never happen. And I'm not downplaying that. But what I'm saying, you don't come to church to serve a man. You don't come to church to serve a woman. You come to church to serve God. And if that man or woman becomes your idol, how they rise and fall determines your relationship with Jesus Christ. I can tell you right now, it don't matter who leaves, it doesn't matter who comes and who goes. My heart is fixed on the Lord. I've seen it all, ladies and gentlemen. And the reality is you stick around the kingdom of God long enough, you're gonna see a whole lot of craziness, especially as the day of Christ gets closer. Because people are giving heed to seducing spirits and the doctrines of devils, because their conscience has been seared. They're no longer moved by the convicting power of the Holy Ghost. Now I believe there are people out there that are truly, truly deceived and fall into traps. But this is why, please hear me, because they have lost the study of the word. Study to show yourself approved. A workman that need a workman, a man that works, a woman that works, a workman, a workwoman, rightly dividing the word of truth, a workman, a workwoman that needeth not to be ashamed. Why? They rightly divide the word of truth. And when you know the word, the truth will set you free. And people can go here and people can go there, and you can hear this and hear that. That's why so many people think about it. The reason why people want prophecy so bad is because they don't hear from God for themselves. We've got to have a prophet on every corner. I believe in the prophetic. I believe the prophetic is one of the greatest gifts that God gave. Even Paul said, I wish that you all would prophesy. But he said, I'd rather have you all walking in love. Come on. It's okay to want prophecy. It's a problem when prophecy has you. And we get out of, uh we get out of balance looking for a prophecy because we don't recognize God wants to speak to us for ourselves. So now we've turned prophecy into fortune telling. That's good preaching right there. We've turned prophecy into Suyang. I show up, sit on the front robe, sew a big offering. Hopefully they'll give me a promise and my wish will come true. Hopefully, God will share something great about me. And listen, people that perverted prophecy, realizing, not realizing that prophecy is meant to be confirmation and not just information. People shift their whole lives over bootleg prophetic words that didn't, that should never happen. I call it flowing in the pathetic, not the prophetic, flowing in the pathetic. And many people do. They flow in that. And I want you to learn the word and know what the word of God says for yourself. And that's why I'm taking the time to talk about this great falling away, the sexual perversion. It doesn't even bother people anymore. People get divorced left and right. Some pastors have been divorced three and four times. Some pastors have children by multiple women while they're still in the pulpit. They don't sit down, they don't do anything. They take maybe a week or two off and they're right back preaching because what that conscience didn't even hit anymore. There's nothing that touches their heart. Says, man, this is not good. This is not good. I can't do this. This is not right. You know, and the Holy Spirit gets on them and says, you need to change and do something different. We all can fall short. It's not condemning. It's when the Bible says, not only do they sin, but they take pleasure in it. They're not just sinning, they take pleasure and rejoicing it. That's just why you got to be careful. Giving heed to seducing spirits, deceiving spirits, and doctrines of devils. I might even do a part three of this because I believe it's so important to understand there are doctrines going out from the pulpit. And pastors and preachers must speak against the lies. People say, That God's, what that's God's anointed. You can't do that. Yes, you can if they're not preaching the truth. Yes, you can. There's nothing in the scripture that says, hey, if they're preaching to God's people a bunch of lies that you can't share anything. No, God doesn't want his people deceived. God doesn't want his people talked to. And it's one thing how they live. See, Saul was living a backslidden life. David said, I'm not going to touch him to try to take him out because he's in sin. But I'm sure if Saul started preaching all of this heresy and David's men heard it, David would have addressed those men and said, We can't go down that path. That's an error. We're going to pray for him, we're going to love him, we're going to honor him, but don't listen to that. That's not God. That is a doctrine. See, and we're so busy following men and women. We've fallen into idolatry. And now, because people don't recognize the Bible, pastors have become taskmasters. Pastors have become slave owners, particularly even in the African American church as well as the white church. I don't care what color it is. We just, many African-American churches have transitioned from having a master in the fields, in the cotton fields, to a master in the pulpit. And it goes for whites and blacks. It doesn't matter because, and some people are deceived because their heart is really to serve the Lord, but they just haven't learned the right way. And if you do, if you can't have an opinion and you can't ask questions, and I don't mean an opinion over how the church is ran because I don't agree with the bylaws and something like that, but it's not illegal and ethical or moral. I'm not talking about that. Or someone's Christian liberty. I'm talking about, I'm talking about speaking against lies, deception. God never called us to be silent over those things. He wants the truth to be made known. And there's nothing wrong with respectably, respectively saying, hey, I'm going to address that and I'm going to speak against that. I love them. I'm praying for them. Keep them in your prayers. We believe in them. We believe God's going to turn them around, but do not take heed. Don't follow that doctrine because it's a why would God, no matter if you're anointed or not, why would He not allow us to speak to the doctrines of demons? Well, they're anointed. And see, the devil built that up in the previous 20, 30 years. So then now those lies can come forward from the pulpit and people are afraid. They're terrified. I can't say anything. No, well, not this pastor. I don't believe in being disrespectful. I don't believe in being dishonorable. I don't believe in being any of those things. But I do believe that you can speak the truth and love, even if it's in an office. If it's going to cause people to go to hell, it's going to cause people to be deceived. Preachers must respectfully, lovingly bring correction to something that has gone viral. And see, back in the day you had your pulpit, you could go to the pastor, pull them alongside, and say, Pastor, you know, we got, but now things are viral. Well, you make it public. Now I've got to address that because I don't want others believing that. Listen, if you don't speak to it, if pastor don't speak to it, who's gonna? Who's gonna speak to it? Who's going to address that? If a pastor says, oh, it's okay to do X, Y, Z, even if uh maybe his wife comes out and she's dressed all scantly clad in this and oh, this is the Bible, and y'all need to understand. No, no, no, no, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's not what the Bible says. Hold up. We I want people to understand that's not what the Bible says. You don't need to be disrespectful, you don't need to be rude. But ladies and gentlemen, there's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade and saying, no, no, no, we've got to uphold the word of God lovingly and respectfully. So I hope this has been a blessing to you today. Because I really want you to know the word. That's why this exists is to help people. So then this great falling away that's happening, people giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines, doctrines of devils. It's happening right from the pulpit because people's conscience in the pulpit have been seared and leading people into deception that have a true heart for God. Now, there's some that just want to live in sin, but then there's others that truly can be deceived, and you don't have to be, as long as you know the word. That's why you need to come to another level Bible Institute, because we're going to equip you to know the word of God. So I've got to go. My time is up, but I thank you for your time. Don't forget to like, subscribe, follow, and share. Download the Dimensions podcast. And listen, tomorrow night, 8 p.m., I'll be back. I might go into a part three of this. Part three of part three, Signs of the Times, part four, actually be part four, but part three of uh the great falling away. And I might talk a little bit more about the doctrines of demons. And if not, I'm gonna get into the reprobate mind or a little bit of both. So you're not gonna want to miss that. And I'll look forward to seeing you tomorrow night right here on Dimensions at 8 p.m.