WEBVTT 00:01.680 --> 00:07.040 How Satan hijacks the Gospel through counterfeit religion. 00:08.440 --> 00:11.400 A very important message I have for you today, ladies and gentlemen. 00:11.760 --> 00:15.260 Now, if you're a Christian, you've been truly born again of the Spirit. 00:15.700 --> 00:18.300 You're one who follows the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:19.000 --> 00:26.160 Be warned, because the devil absolutely hates the preaching of God's Word and the 00:26.160 --> 00:29.360 beautiful Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:29.560 --> 00:29.900 Why? 00:30.360 --> 00:36.280 Because any person who understands that they are lost and dead in their sins 00:36.280 --> 00:40.940 without Jesus Christ has the opportunity to get saved. 00:42.250 --> 00:48.560 When a person is truly saved, they exit the devil's kingdom immediately. 00:49.540 --> 00:56.720 They are no longer on the devil's highway to hell, because they've been transformed 00:56.720 --> 00:58.740 and they're on the way to heaven. 00:58.860 --> 01:03.740 Folks, that's the crux of the Word that I have for you today. 01:04.000 --> 01:10.960 The center, the heart of the message, how Satan hijacks the Gospel through 01:10.960 --> 01:13.160 counterfeit religion. 01:13.340 --> 01:16.760 So you need to understand you have a real spiritual enemy. 01:16.960 --> 01:22.360 He's just as real as any person that you can see with your physical eyes on earth. 01:22.440 --> 01:23.720 Don't ever forget that, folks. 01:24.740 --> 01:26.680 That might be a good way to remember. 01:27.140 --> 01:29.820 These demon powers, they are real, okay? 01:30.180 --> 01:32.340 But they're invisible, so you can't see them. 01:32.660 --> 01:38.600 And sometimes we tend to forget that they are operating against us as Christians in 01:38.600 --> 01:40.620 the spiritual realm. 01:41.000 --> 01:46.600 Peter put it this way in 1st Peter 5 and 8, be sober, be vigilant, because your 01:46.600 --> 01:55.100 adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour. 01:56.060 --> 01:58.060 You know, I've spoken about this before. 01:58.140 --> 02:02.980 If you watch animal documentaries, and you'll see sometimes they'll have a 02:04.480 --> 02:10.040 say a tiger or a lion, and they're seeking their prey. 02:10.140 --> 02:14.380 They're prowling around, and you'll see how they arch their backs, and they'll be 02:14.380 --> 02:16.600 crawling along the ground. 02:16.740 --> 02:24.260 It's creepy to watch as they'll be going after, say, a baby deer or some other type 02:24.260 --> 02:25.480 of animal. 02:25.860 --> 02:28.920 And then when they make their move, it's atrocious. 02:29.020 --> 02:30.240 It's kind of scary to watch. 02:30.460 --> 02:34.580 And before you know it, that poor animal is in their mouth. 02:35.120 --> 02:41.600 And that's the description, basically, that Peter gives us. 02:41.720 --> 02:44.420 He says, this is how your enemy works, okay? 02:44.840 --> 02:47.260 Be sober, he says, be vigilant, okay? 02:47.720 --> 02:52.900 So the devil, he's like a roaring lion, he's walking about seeking whom he may 02:52.900 --> 02:53.240 devour. 02:53.340 --> 02:55.760 He's not going after an animal, he's going after you. 02:55.860 --> 02:57.140 And that's what he's talking about, the devil. 02:57.400 --> 03:02.340 So the devil, folks, he's going to try to take you off course. 03:02.460 --> 03:07.000 One of the ways he does that, he distracts the Christian. 03:07.620 --> 03:12.640 So the Scripture passage I just read to you, we see he is our adversary. 03:13.420 --> 03:17.000 And if you've ever shared the gospel of Jesus Christ, you know you're born again, 03:17.340 --> 03:21.040 and you've shared the word, and all of a sudden you see there's a thousand 03:21.040 --> 03:27.500 interruptions as you're trying to bring forth the word of God to whoever you may 03:27.500 --> 03:28.660 be witnessing. 03:29.180 --> 03:34.120 So it could be, I'm not saying it's all the time, but it very well could be the 03:34.120 --> 03:38.520 enemy of your soul, the adversary seeking to distract you. 03:38.860 --> 03:38.980 Why? 03:39.100 --> 03:40.240 Because souls are at stake. 03:40.320 --> 03:43.440 You know, folks, when I was born again, I noticed this right away. 03:43.820 --> 03:47.800 Now, you know, you got to realize, folks, when you come out of the kingdom of 03:47.800 --> 03:51.060 darkness into the kingdom of light, you know Christ. 03:51.500 --> 03:54.540 I mean, Jesus Christ, he's called the light of the world. 03:55.100 --> 03:58.140 There's something has to happen inside the heart. 03:58.440 --> 04:00.360 It's a dramatic thing, okay? 04:00.920 --> 04:05.960 And all of a sudden you start realizing things you've never realized before. 04:06.360 --> 04:06.560 Why? 04:06.680 --> 04:11.180 Because it's the power of the Holy Spirit inside you, okay? 04:11.880 --> 04:14.600 The natural man cannot receive the things of the spirit. 04:14.720 --> 04:15.760 Don't ever forget that. 04:16.300 --> 04:20.720 So the devil's going to try to take you off course, ladies and gentlemen. 04:21.220 --> 04:22.560 Something you need to remember. 04:22.880 --> 04:24.720 You know, I came to know the Lord Jesus Christ. 04:24.780 --> 04:26.680 I was a Roman Catholic for many years. 04:27.040 --> 04:33.720 I was born again in 1989, deceived for the first 36 years of my life. 04:33.760 --> 04:38.320 That's why I speak out so often on Roman Catholicism, because we're living in a 04:38.320 --> 04:38.580 day. 04:39.040 --> 04:42.780 I mean, it's getting ugly, folks, inside what you would call Protestant 04:42.780 --> 04:43.360 churches. 04:44.040 --> 04:47.020 And people are bending and bowing their knee before Rome. 04:47.100 --> 04:48.320 It is everywhere. 04:48.540 --> 04:49.520 So I'm speaking out. 04:49.840 --> 04:53.700 And it's a cry and shame, folks, that so many famous people in the 04:53.700 --> 04:58.900 Christian world, I mean, the television ministers that are bowing down before 04:58.900 --> 05:00.980 Rome, they're called anointed, folks. 05:01.220 --> 05:01.840 Hear me now. 05:01.900 --> 05:06.440 If you are dancing with Rome, if you are bowing your knee before Rome with that 05:06.440 --> 05:11.720 false and counterfeit gospel, that's not the Spirit of God that is leading you. 05:11.800 --> 05:15.900 So you can talk about the anointing, but hear me, it is not the anointing of 05:15.900 --> 05:20.920 the Holy Spirit that is directing you to join hands with a system that preaches a 05:20.920 --> 05:21.620 false gospel. 05:21.960 --> 05:26.760 The Lord Jesus Christ, the true Holy Spirit of truth, he brought me out, 05:27.200 --> 05:27.440 okay? 05:27.520 --> 05:29.280 The Lord worked in my heart. 05:29.400 --> 05:30.760 The Holy Spirit of truth... 05:31.840 --> 05:36.700 don't ever forget, the Holy Spirit of truth will testify about Jesus Christ, 05:36.880 --> 05:37.020 folks. 05:37.080 --> 05:38.040 Don't ever forget that. 05:38.240 --> 05:41.560 That's what he said, the Lord, when he walked in this world. 05:41.700 --> 05:43.980 So you have many counterfeit ministers. 05:44.600 --> 05:50.040 And the Bible talks about Satan's ministers, the devil's ministers come in 05:50.040 --> 05:54.580 disguised as ministers of righteousness and ministers of light. 05:54.660 --> 05:58.720 So we're fortunate, ladies and gentlemen, that we have the Bible, we have the Word 05:58.720 --> 06:00.200 of God in our hands today. 06:00.520 --> 06:06.860 And I thank God for those true men of God who stood against the teachings of Rome. 06:07.600 --> 06:13.320 And you know, many of them were martyred, burnt at the stake, you know, atrocious 06:13.320 --> 06:13.680 things. 06:13.860 --> 06:15.180 They stood for the Word of God. 06:15.360 --> 06:18.580 We have a Bible today because of people like that. 06:18.640 --> 06:22.700 You know, I think of so many people, William Tyndale and many others. 06:23.240 --> 06:24.280 Thank God for them. 06:24.560 --> 06:30.560 So in this modern day, when I do speak out against the counterfeit religion of Roman 06:30.560 --> 06:36.040 Catholicism, think of the doctrines of the immaculate conception and the assumption 06:36.040 --> 06:37.340 of Mary into heaven. 06:37.620 --> 06:43.820 These are two fairly recent false teachings that came along in the 1800s. 06:44.200 --> 06:47.900 Immaculate conception that Mary herself was conceived without sin. 06:47.960 --> 06:49.640 This is man made tradition. 06:50.180 --> 06:56.160 So when you see these things, these false teachings come along, and you see the 06:56.160 --> 07:01.500 leaders in so-called Christian churches saying nothing, you know we got trouble 07:01.500 --> 07:06.120 inside the building that we call the Christian church. 07:06.220 --> 07:09.340 When you think of the feast of the assumption of Mary into heaven, 07:09.360 --> 07:14.240 that came after the feast of the immaculate conception, and it's a 07:14.240 --> 07:20.680 counterfeit, it's an imitation of the ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven. 07:21.040 --> 07:25.440 The immaculate conception is a counterfeit, an imitation, the devil's 07:25.440 --> 07:29.080 work, counterfeit of the sinlessness of Jesus Christ. 07:29.180 --> 07:35.020 You see, Satan will do all that he can to get your eyes off of Jesus Christ and him 07:35.020 --> 07:35.240 alone. 07:35.320 --> 07:36.240 Don't ever forget that. 07:36.580 --> 07:39.600 Let's read Ephesians chapter 6 verses 10 to 12. 07:40.400 --> 07:45.040 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might, 07:45.300 --> 07:49.820 put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the 07:49.820 --> 07:51.300 wiles of the devil. 07:51.620 --> 07:56.180 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, 07:56.300 --> 08:02.560 against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual 08:02.560 --> 08:05.040 wickedness in high places. 08:05.220 --> 08:07.020 That's basically what I was saying before. 08:07.900 --> 08:11.320 It says, we're not wrestling against flesh and blood, ladies and gentlemen. 08:11.520 --> 08:15.640 In other words, you're not... this spiritual battle is... you can't see the 08:15.640 --> 08:20.180 demon powers, but we're wrestling against invisible powers. 08:20.300 --> 08:25.500 These are the principalities, spiritual wickedness, darkness, folks. 08:26.060 --> 08:27.340 Don't ever forget that. 08:27.400 --> 08:28.320 You have an enemy. 08:28.740 --> 08:34.660 Demon powers do all that they can to take you down, to stop you from preaching the 08:34.660 --> 08:36.300 gospel of Jesus Christ. 08:36.400 --> 08:37.480 There's only one gospel. 08:37.780 --> 08:42.900 Now that scripture that I shared with you, by the way, was spoken by the Apostle 08:42.900 --> 08:43.280 Paul. 08:43.500 --> 08:47.720 This man was a Jewish man who hated Christians. 08:47.900 --> 08:50.640 He consented unto the death of Christians. 08:50.760 --> 08:51.720 Don't ever forget that. 08:52.000 --> 08:57.120 So this man was a deceived man, okay, until he got saved. 08:57.160 --> 09:03.060 Until the Spirit of God, until Jesus Christ spoke to him out of heaven, 09:03.800 --> 09:03.940 okay. 09:04.340 --> 09:09.520 Now keep in mind, I believe in the trinity of the eternal Godhead. 09:09.920 --> 09:12.360 God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. 09:12.640 --> 09:13.360 One God. 09:13.440 --> 09:14.320 Don't ever forget that. 09:14.600 --> 09:16.200 One God, not three gods. 09:16.500 --> 09:17.760 One God, okay. 09:18.280 --> 09:23.660 And the Spirit of God will testify, will always point you to Jesus Christ. 09:23.740 --> 09:29.240 He's not going to point you to a saint or the Virgin Mary, as I was taught as a 09:29.240 --> 09:29.880 Roman Catholic. 09:30.000 --> 09:32.440 The Spirit of God is the Spirit of truth. 09:32.660 --> 09:34.280 He will point you to Jesus. 09:34.440 --> 09:38.660 So listen to what Paul says here in Galatians 1, 8 to 10. 09:38.900 --> 09:44.720 Now when you hear this verse, you're going to sense the seriousness of this man of 09:44.720 --> 09:45.120 God. 09:45.720 --> 09:49.540 And this is like the opposite of what you see in the modern day church. 09:49.660 --> 09:50.280 Listen to this. 09:50.500 --> 09:56.240 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that 09:56.240 --> 09:59.140 which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 09:59.760 --> 10:04.100 As we said before, so say I now again. 10:04.740 --> 10:09.480 If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, 10:09.600 --> 10:10.280 let him be accursed. 10:10.580 --> 10:13.820 For do I now persuade men or God? 10:13.980 --> 10:16.220 Or do I seek to please men? 10:16.220 --> 10:21.840 For if I yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ. 10:22.520 --> 10:23.520 Don't ever forget that. 10:23.660 --> 10:24.320 One gospel. 10:24.920 --> 10:26.560 Here's Paul shouting a warning. 10:26.720 --> 10:31.080 Now this is coming from the heart of a Jewish man who was on his way to hell 10:31.080 --> 10:33.880 until the Lord woke that man up on the way to Damascus. 10:34.060 --> 10:40.280 He got his, let's call them arrest warrants to go after more Christians. 10:40.760 --> 10:42.940 He was a tyrant against Christians. 10:43.340 --> 10:44.400 He arrested them. 10:44.660 --> 10:49.180 He'd bring them in and many of them were put to death and he consented unto their 10:49.180 --> 10:49.720 deaths. 10:50.120 --> 10:54.920 In fact, Stephen in Acts chapter 7, you'll see that his clothes after they 10:54.920 --> 11:00.000 murdered that man were laid at the feet of Saul of Tarsus who became the apostle 11:00.000 --> 11:00.460 Paul. 11:00.640 --> 11:02.420 So we're dealing with serious stuff. 11:02.500 --> 11:04.440 This guy came out of deception folks. 11:05.280 --> 11:06.260 And he's warning. 11:06.760 --> 11:09.300 This is what true love is by the way. 11:09.620 --> 11:12.340 He sees the lostness of the soul. 11:12.780 --> 11:15.300 And that's what you sense when he preaches the word. 11:15.520 --> 11:20.080 So I'm here to tell you folks, Satan hijacks the gospel of Jesus Christ 11:20.080 --> 11:21.900 and he brings forth a false gospel. 11:22.260 --> 11:26.480 I was delivered out of the false gospel of Roman Catholicism. 11:26.620 --> 11:29.260 Thank God to this day I can thank God. 11:30.060 --> 11:33.520 I thank him every day for what he's done. 11:33.680 --> 11:34.780 And it's amazing. 11:35.200 --> 11:36.500 It's an amazing thing to be saved. 11:36.620 --> 11:41.100 It's an amazing thing to be born again of the Spirit. 11:41.180 --> 11:45.160 So Satan is ever so clever in the way he moves. 11:45.720 --> 11:50.140 And he loves it when people use the name of Jesus but they're not truly born again. 11:50.820 --> 11:53.080 And thus in our preaching a true gospel. 11:53.280 --> 11:59.840 Another modern-day deception besides Roman Catholicism is that of Christian Zionism 11:59.840 --> 12:07.200 which puts the focus on modern-day Israel, the state of Israel and the ethnic Jewish 12:07.200 --> 12:07.680 people. 12:08.100 --> 12:13.140 Now the devil knows, ladies and gentlemen, that a person needs to be born again of 12:13.140 --> 12:13.640 the Spirit. 12:14.820 --> 12:16.060 Okay, don't ever forget that. 12:16.140 --> 12:21.400 So he knows that the Jewish people need to enter the kingdom of God the same way as 12:21.400 --> 12:22.540 anybody else. 12:22.540 --> 12:29.040 As I said before, the devil, the devil, he's able to use his own ministers of 12:29.040 --> 12:33.920 righteousness to convince most people that the Jewish people are all right because 12:33.920 --> 12:35.100 they're God's chosen people. 12:35.320 --> 12:39.700 In other words, they talk about a postponement of the gospel and that 12:39.700 --> 12:42.780 they're still God's chosen people even though they reject Jesus Christ. 12:43.080 --> 12:45.060 Hear me now folks, that's not true. 12:46.280 --> 12:49.320 One gospel for both the Jew and the Gentile today. 12:50.220 --> 12:52.800 God is an equal opportunity Savior. 12:53.220 --> 12:56.700 In other words, if you're Jewish, you turn to Christ, you will get saved the 12:56.700 --> 13:02.540 same way as a Gentile who gets, gives his heart, turns his heart over to 13:02.540 --> 13:02.940 the Lord. 13:03.200 --> 13:06.720 He believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, calls upon him to save his soul. 13:07.040 --> 13:08.980 Same for both the Jew and the Gentile. 13:09.040 --> 13:10.080 Don't ever forget that. 13:10.440 --> 13:16.120 So he's able, the devil is so crafty, he's able to take the focus off of Jesus 13:16.120 --> 13:21.180 Christ and their need for him and twist the whole thing around. 13:21.380 --> 13:24.580 And that's why you have this preaching, bless the people of Israel. 13:25.040 --> 13:33.840 Now you know folks, hear me now, the Lord is happy with people who choose 13:33.840 --> 13:34.200 him. 13:34.780 --> 13:39.360 Okay, so God's people are those who believe in him. 13:39.520 --> 13:41.200 Don't ever forget that. 13:41.260 --> 13:42.740 Listen to John 3 and 36. 13:43.080 --> 13:47.800 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth 13:47.800 --> 13:55.280 not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. 13:55.480 --> 13:56.620 Don't ever forget that. 13:57.140 --> 14:00.940 So the believer, ladies and gentlemen, they have everlasting life. 14:01.000 --> 14:02.920 That goes for Jew or Gentile. 14:03.400 --> 14:04.960 Okay, Jew or Gentile. 14:05.120 --> 14:09.000 You believe in the Lord, you believe in the Son of God Jesus Christ, you have 14:09.000 --> 14:09.940 everlasting life. 14:10.240 --> 14:14.360 But if you don't, the wrath of God is still abiding upon you. 14:14.440 --> 14:20.400 Now hear me, before I was born again of the Spirit, I had the wrath of God abiding 14:20.400 --> 14:22.180 upon me and I didn't know it. 14:22.760 --> 14:26.280 Trust me, when you're born again, folks, you know you come out from darkness 14:26.280 --> 14:26.960 into light. 14:27.720 --> 14:30.880 If something takes place in your heart and you're like, the lights go on, 14:30.940 --> 14:32.300 that's the best way I could put it. 14:32.660 --> 14:33.940 It's like a lamp on a table. 14:34.340 --> 14:42.340 If you take that plug out of the wall socket, that lamp is not going to light. 14:42.400 --> 14:45.860 You can turn that light switch as many times as you like, nothing is going to 14:45.860 --> 14:46.120 happen. 14:46.440 --> 14:51.400 But when you take that plug and insert it into the socket, you have the power 14:51.400 --> 14:55.880 flowing through the lamp and you turn the switch, the light's going to go on. 14:56.140 --> 14:59.720 That's what it's like, folks, because without the power of Almighty God, 15:00.060 --> 15:01.400 there is no life. 15:01.400 --> 15:03.940 The light of life is not inside you. 15:04.200 --> 15:05.380 It was not inside me. 15:05.520 --> 15:07.720 I had the wrath of God abiding upon me. 15:08.160 --> 15:13.260 So when you think of what this modern day talk with the Jewish people still being 15:13.260 --> 15:17.940 God's chosen people, hear me now, any person that dies without Christ, 15:18.060 --> 15:20.540 dies in their sins, they will go to hell forever. 15:20.700 --> 15:21.600 That's a fact. 15:21.780 --> 15:24.840 That is a fact you need to remember, ladies and gentlemen. 15:25.400 --> 15:31.160 So when you think of all the people over the past 20 centuries that have died in 15:31.160 --> 15:36.720 their sins without Christ, both Jew and Gentile, you don't get into God's kingdom 15:36.720 --> 15:37.820 by magic. 15:38.200 --> 15:39.300 You come in one way. 15:39.440 --> 15:41.920 Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. 15:42.040 --> 15:45.300 No man cometh unto the Father but by me. 15:45.340 --> 15:48.760 So the question is, do you have the wrath of God abiding upon you today? 15:48.840 --> 15:52.400 That's a good thing to search your own heart, listener. 15:52.680 --> 15:55.260 It's the reason you're hearing this message today. 15:55.380 --> 15:56.640 The hour is late, hear me. 15:57.180 --> 16:01.800 So let me read to you now 2 Corinthians 11 verses 13 to 14. 16:02.300 --> 16:06.160 This is also written by that Jewish apostle Paul who came out of deception, 16:06.640 --> 16:06.860 okay? 16:06.940 --> 16:09.380 He thought he had everything. 16:09.660 --> 16:10.740 He thought he had the Scriptures. 16:10.900 --> 16:11.660 He read the Scriptures. 16:12.180 --> 16:17.000 He sat under the best teaching, but he didn't know the Lord until that day 16:17.000 --> 16:18.300 in a road to Damascus. 16:19.320 --> 16:25.100 Here it is, for such a false apostle's deceitful work is transforming themselves 16:25.100 --> 16:27.360 into the apostles of Christ. 16:27.700 --> 16:35.180 And no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 16:36.020 --> 16:38.260 The devil plays for keeps, folks. 16:38.520 --> 16:40.400 He doesn't play games. 16:40.880 --> 16:42.800 We're not playing tiddlywinks here. 16:43.160 --> 16:44.220 This isn't a little game. 16:45.320 --> 16:46.360 Listener, hear me now. 16:46.600 --> 16:49.360 You're either saved or you're lost. 16:49.900 --> 16:53.280 You're either in the kingdom of God or you're not. 16:54.640 --> 16:58.760 You either have everlasting life or you don't. 16:59.580 --> 17:00.840 And that's how real it is. 17:00.960 --> 17:03.340 There's no in between here, okay? 17:03.700 --> 17:06.420 It's either heaven or hell, no purgatory. 17:06.820 --> 17:10.500 I mean, I was taught purgatory for years, folks. 17:11.420 --> 17:16.000 I mean, I am amazed that people don't speak about this and warn the people, 17:16.340 --> 17:16.600 okay? 17:16.780 --> 17:20.660 The political system within the so-called church is incredible. 17:20.980 --> 17:27.500 When you think about this teaching of purgatory, that there's this other place. 17:27.780 --> 17:28.560 It's not heaven. 17:28.680 --> 17:29.300 It's not hell. 17:30.400 --> 17:34.360 And people are there, according to the Roman Catholic teaching, they're being 17:34.360 --> 17:34.960 purified. 17:35.340 --> 17:40.480 And people have a Roman Catholic mass said for their deceased relatives and friends 17:40.480 --> 17:44.400 who they're told are in this place called purgatory. 17:44.980 --> 17:51.120 Think of the billions of dollars over the past how many centuries since this 17:51.120 --> 17:52.240 teaching came about. 17:52.820 --> 17:58.020 And people, well-meaning people, I did it myself, well-meaning people will 17:58.020 --> 18:04.020 ask a priest to say a mass for their dead relative because they think they're 18:04.020 --> 18:04.360 suffering. 18:04.560 --> 18:06.220 They want to help them out of there. 18:06.540 --> 18:07.880 Folks, there is no purgatory. 18:08.040 --> 18:08.900 That's what I'm talking about. 18:09.100 --> 18:11.800 We're talking about counterfeit religion, okay? 18:12.120 --> 18:14.620 You search the scriptures for yourself. 18:14.860 --> 18:16.820 You'll see Jesus preached heaven or hell. 18:17.100 --> 18:19.320 He preached salvation or damnation. 18:19.820 --> 18:24.880 Very clearly, he preached the same way after he rose from the dead as he did 18:24.880 --> 18:25.400 before. 18:25.520 --> 18:27.120 Don't ever forget that. 18:27.240 --> 18:32.920 So what happens now when the true gospel goes forth, hear me now, all hell will 18:32.920 --> 18:36.080 come against you folks if you're a true Christian. 18:36.200 --> 18:40.500 So remember that he'll do all that he can to keep the gospel from being preached. 18:41.080 --> 18:42.540 He will corrupt the gospel. 18:42.760 --> 18:44.180 He will pervert the gospel. 18:44.880 --> 18:48.920 And if he can't do that, he will keep people distracted. 18:49.100 --> 18:52.280 You could be sharing the word and all of a sudden all things will go crazy around 18:52.280 --> 18:52.500 you. 18:52.760 --> 18:59.560 That's Satan at work most of the time trying to keep the word of God from being 18:59.560 --> 19:00.020 heard. 19:00.240 --> 19:04.320 He steals the word out of the heart even after people hear it. 19:04.480 --> 19:05.960 And that's the truth. 19:06.060 --> 19:08.400 That's the scriptural truth. 19:08.620 --> 19:14.900 And many times he will use religious people to become rabble rousers and 19:14.900 --> 19:19.820 they'll create storms and distractions to quench the gospel message. 19:20.880 --> 19:26.880 Now here are some biblical examples of how Satan works. 19:26.960 --> 19:30.780 In other words, I'm going to quote right from the scriptures to give you some 19:30.780 --> 19:32.880 examples of how this has happened. 19:33.280 --> 19:35.560 So you'll see this is the real deal. 19:36.260 --> 19:39.400 Acts chapter 13 verses 48 to 52. 19:39.700 --> 19:44.260 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of 19:44.260 --> 19:44.620 the Lord. 19:44.680 --> 19:47.840 And as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. 19:47.980 --> 19:51.480 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region. 19:51.840 --> 19:58.280 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women and the chief men of the 19:58.280 --> 20:04.700 city and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of 20:04.700 --> 20:05.720 their coasts. 20:05.800 --> 20:11.540 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them and came into Iconium. 20:11.940 --> 20:16.440 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost. 20:16.580 --> 20:17.200 Glory to God. 20:17.620 --> 20:23.900 So here we see the Gentiles, they had a hunger for the word of God. 20:24.220 --> 20:24.420 All right. 20:24.820 --> 20:29.860 And what took place, there was animosity between the Jewish people and them. 20:30.020 --> 20:31.900 And they gathered the devout. 20:32.020 --> 20:33.660 You know, they went to the religious people. 20:33.940 --> 20:37.980 You get some of these people, very religious, but they've never been saved, 20:38.220 --> 20:39.440 never been born again. 20:39.580 --> 20:40.580 They knew where to go. 20:41.200 --> 20:45.800 And they got the honorable women, the chief men of the city, could be 20:45.800 --> 20:47.300 politics, politicians. 20:47.680 --> 20:49.880 And what they did is they raised persecution. 20:50.580 --> 20:57.140 And obviously, they infected the thinking of the people against Paul and Barnabas. 20:57.580 --> 20:59.880 Paul and Barnabas were preaching their hearts out. 20:59.960 --> 21:03.940 My Lord, they had a burden for souls. 21:04.340 --> 21:06.760 They were filled with the Holy Ghost, ladies and gentlemen. 21:07.700 --> 21:12.440 And so what happened, you know, it says here that they shook off the dust 21:12.440 --> 21:13.080 of their feet. 21:13.400 --> 21:17.720 You know, I heard sometimes people take their sandals, bang them together. 21:17.840 --> 21:21.080 In other words, you know, you heard the word, we're moving on. 21:21.880 --> 21:23.020 And that's scary. 21:23.560 --> 21:25.000 Basically, they're making a statement. 21:25.200 --> 21:26.380 The word went forth. 21:26.900 --> 21:27.500 And they banged that. 21:28.180 --> 21:33.440 Basically, they're shaking the very dust from the city that they just preached in 21:33.440 --> 21:34.540 and moving on. 21:34.800 --> 21:37.560 It's a judgment of Almighty God. 21:38.200 --> 21:40.520 So that's just the way it is. 21:40.660 --> 21:41.940 Okay, let me give you another example. 21:42.040 --> 21:43.580 Acts chapter 14, 1 to 3. 21:43.740 --> 21:48.260 And it came to pass an iconium that they went both together into the synagogue of 21:48.260 --> 21:48.980 the Jews. 21:48.980 --> 21:54.880 And so spake that a great multitude, both of the Jews and also of the Greeks, 21:55.000 --> 21:55.560 believed. 21:56.040 --> 21:56.740 Listen to this. 21:57.060 --> 22:03.300 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and made their minds evil 22:03.300 --> 22:06.160 affected against the brethren. 22:06.560 --> 22:11.720 Long time therefore a bold they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony 22:11.720 --> 22:16.880 unto the word of his grace and granted signs and wonders to be done by their 22:16.880 --> 22:17.320 hands. 22:17.480 --> 22:23.640 So once again, we see, don't miss this, folks, the unbelieving Jews, okay, 22:23.680 --> 22:25.180 didn't believe in Jesus Christ. 22:25.820 --> 22:29.820 You know, to this day, many people think that this whole idea of Jesus being the 22:29.820 --> 22:32.800 Son of God co-equal with God the Father. 22:33.060 --> 22:36.580 This whole idea of Jesus being a Messiah is a big joke. 22:36.640 --> 22:38.460 A lot of people think it's stupid. 22:38.920 --> 22:39.180 Okay. 22:40.980 --> 22:43.180 And they think they think you're out of your mind sometimes. 22:43.180 --> 22:46.060 So here they are preaching the word of God. 22:46.620 --> 22:49.160 The unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles. 22:49.300 --> 22:52.200 So they they knew they were they were stirring the pot, folks. 22:52.860 --> 22:57.040 You see, they didn't want Jesus and they wanted to make sure that nobody else got 22:57.040 --> 22:57.980 the word preached to them. 22:58.080 --> 23:04.120 You see, that's just the way Satan works, how Satan hijacks the gospel. 23:04.700 --> 23:05.080 Okay. 23:05.880 --> 23:09.580 You know what the word hijack you hear about hijack play and hijack this. 23:09.840 --> 23:10.700 They take it over. 23:10.820 --> 23:15.160 You see, they do not want this word to go forth. 23:15.280 --> 23:16.740 Let me give you another example. 23:16.960 --> 23:18.980 Acts chapter 17 verse 13. 23:19.340 --> 23:23.700 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was 23:23.700 --> 23:28.940 preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also and stirred up the people. 23:29.100 --> 23:30.020 There it goes. 23:30.160 --> 23:31.200 You've heard that term before. 23:31.380 --> 23:33.380 Man, this guy's really stirring the pot. 23:33.380 --> 23:34.560 That's what they were doing. 23:34.680 --> 23:37.140 They stirred the pot against the Christian. 23:37.320 --> 23:41.580 They stirred the pot against the true word going forth. 23:42.340 --> 23:43.400 Oh yes. 23:44.980 --> 23:45.500 Let's see. 23:45.880 --> 23:50.460 First Thessalonians chapter 2 verses 14 to 16. 23:50.960 --> 23:56.840 Keep in mind, this was spoken, written down by the Jewish apostle Paul. 23:57.020 --> 24:02.360 Keep in mind, this was written down by a man who did the exact thing that he's 24:02.360 --> 24:03.060 speaking against. 24:03.460 --> 24:05.580 So, in other words, Paul hated Christians. 24:05.720 --> 24:08.680 He persecuted Christians to no end. 24:08.760 --> 24:09.740 He loved doing it. 24:10.020 --> 24:12.940 As I said before, he consented unto the death of them. 24:13.420 --> 24:15.420 And that's a good, you know, I'll tell you, I'm blessed folks. 24:15.560 --> 24:20.620 When I see that God can save a man like the Jewish apostle Paul, think of that. 24:20.680 --> 24:21.300 That's mercy. 24:21.860 --> 24:22.640 Lord have mercy. 24:23.100 --> 24:27.720 You know, when that guy got saved, you read Acts chapter 9 and how the Lord 24:27.720 --> 24:29.660 spoke to him out of heaven. 24:30.040 --> 24:32.100 Now, I'll be honest with you. 24:32.180 --> 24:37.460 If I heard a voice speaking to me out of heaven, here I am persecuting Christians. 24:38.300 --> 24:42.720 And Paul said, Saul of Tarsus at the time, he said, who art thou Lord? 24:43.040 --> 24:44.780 He says, I'm Jesus who you're persecuting. 24:45.120 --> 24:47.780 You know, at that point in time, I would have thought I would have been 24:47.780 --> 24:49.320 fried toast. 24:50.060 --> 24:53.680 I mean, at least a couple of lightning bolts would zap me or something. 24:54.160 --> 24:56.100 You know, here's God Almighty. 24:56.620 --> 25:00.440 He says, I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. 25:01.200 --> 25:04.240 That's mercy, folks, that this guy was even allowed to live. 25:04.540 --> 25:08.080 And I believe that that man never forgot what happened to him. 25:08.140 --> 25:11.860 Obviously, here he is thinking he had the truth and he didn't. 25:11.880 --> 25:13.040 He didn't know the Lord. 25:13.320 --> 25:15.380 And now all of a sudden, God showed him mercy. 25:15.480 --> 25:19.020 And he went on to become the greatest preacher, I believe, in my opinion, 25:19.320 --> 25:21.020 outside of Jesus Christ himself. 25:21.560 --> 25:28.540 Powerful, powerful, powerful preacher of the Word of God. 25:28.620 --> 25:34.540 Listen to this, 1 Thessalonians chapter 2, verses 14 to 16. 25:34.700 --> 25:40.500 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God, which in Judea are in 25:40.500 --> 25:41.500 Christ Jesus. 25:41.740 --> 25:47.520 For ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of 25:47.520 --> 25:53.560 the Jews, who both, listen to this, who both killed the Lord Jesus and their 25:53.560 --> 26:02.040 own prophets, and have persecuted us, and they please not God, and are contrary 26:02.040 --> 26:10.660 to all men, forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, 26:11.200 --> 26:18.360 to fill up their sin always, for the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost. 26:18.820 --> 26:19.940 That's powerful, folks. 26:20.080 --> 26:22.460 I mean, I encourage you to read that on your own. 26:22.520 --> 26:26.700 1 Thessalonians chapter 2, verses 14 to 16. 26:27.780 --> 26:34.760 So, it's powerful that because this man who wrote that, he's Jewish himself. 26:35.040 --> 26:39.780 And now he's speaking and he's saying of his own people, he says that they killed 26:39.780 --> 26:42.760 the Lord Jesus and their own prophets. 26:43.320 --> 26:45.660 And you'll find the Lord Jesus Christ speaking the same way. 26:45.920 --> 26:50.880 Because you'll hear today people saying, oh no, that's not really the way it 26:50.880 --> 26:51.200 happened. 26:51.420 --> 26:52.760 That is the way it happened, folks. 26:52.800 --> 26:54.060 That's what the scriptures say. 26:54.540 --> 27:00.000 So, what I want you to see is how Paul said that they were forbidding them to 27:00.000 --> 27:03.460 speak to the Gentiles, don't miss this, that they might be saved. 27:04.400 --> 27:09.180 They were acting as an obstruction to the truth going out. 27:09.620 --> 27:11.660 That's the battle for the soul, folks. 27:11.860 --> 27:16.020 That is the extreme battle for the soul. 27:16.440 --> 27:21.220 And as I began this message, I said, if you've ever been born again of the 27:21.220 --> 27:29.140 spirit, trust me, and you're sharing the gospel with people, and you're perhaps 27:29.140 --> 27:31.840 handing out tracts and witnessing one-on-one. 27:31.940 --> 27:36.020 You know, I've had my share of ministry on the streets, on the subways. 27:36.420 --> 27:37.440 Folks, hear me. 27:37.960 --> 27:38.800 This is real. 27:39.560 --> 27:40.520 And you know it's real. 27:40.640 --> 27:44.460 If you've done it, and I'm sure sooner or later it's happened to you, whether it be 27:44.460 --> 27:49.260 on a one-on-one with a relative or a friend or a co-worker, whatever it is, 27:49.580 --> 27:54.040 you don't have to be a street preacher to enter into this battle, because it'll 27:54.040 --> 27:54.780 follow you. 27:55.080 --> 27:55.860 Trust me. 27:56.620 --> 28:00.460 Wherever the word is going forth, you can rest assured that the enemy is 28:00.460 --> 28:04.240 going to try to stop the word of God from going forth. 28:04.340 --> 28:07.740 So don't forget that Paul spoke about them forbidding. 28:07.880 --> 28:12.380 So you had the Jewish people forbidding them from preaching the gospel to the 28:12.380 --> 28:12.980 Gentiles. 28:13.520 --> 28:14.920 Listen, that they might be saved. 28:15.040 --> 28:15.940 Lord, have mercy. 28:16.740 --> 28:21.320 And it says, to fill up their sin all the way, for the wrath has come upon them to 28:21.320 --> 28:22.080 the uttermost. 28:22.200 --> 28:23.200 Lord, have mercy. 28:23.640 --> 28:27.000 So the scripture passes, ladies and gentlemen. 28:27.560 --> 28:32.360 It told us that the Jews, the unbelievers, they killed the Lord Jesus Christ. 28:32.440 --> 28:33.700 They killed their own prophets. 28:33.940 --> 28:37.620 They continued to persecute the Lord's people. 28:38.220 --> 28:40.100 So there's the obstruction. 28:40.460 --> 28:47.980 This is how Satan uses counterfeit religion, folks, to interfere, 28:48.440 --> 28:52.880 to stop the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 28:53.120 --> 28:56.180 So they were doing everything that they could. 28:56.580 --> 29:00.880 And, you know, that's why when I talk about that false gospel of Christian 29:00.880 --> 29:07.160 Zionism, when you put the focus on a land over in Israel, your eyes are taken off 29:07.160 --> 29:10.060 the main point of Jesus Christ. 29:10.940 --> 29:15.820 And, you know, when you hear this kind of chatter, it's almost as if the death, 29:15.960 --> 29:20.500 the cross, the blood of Christ, and the resurrection become meaningless. 29:21.020 --> 29:23.280 That's what you need to preach to the Jewish people. 29:23.880 --> 29:24.260 Hear me. 29:24.820 --> 29:30.380 And let me tell you, when you do that, you are going to see fireworks. 29:30.960 --> 29:34.220 In other words, you're going to see just what happened here in the book of Acts, 29:34.360 --> 29:36.380 because the Word's going forth with power. 29:36.660 --> 29:39.240 The Word's going forth with the anointing of the Holy Ghost upon it. 29:39.360 --> 29:41.120 You're not talking about a land, okay? 29:41.220 --> 29:42.940 You're talking about Jesus Christ. 29:43.400 --> 29:44.580 That's what you're talking about. 29:44.720 --> 29:47.880 You are talking about Jesus Christ. 29:49.120 --> 29:56.540 And that's what I wanted to get across to you today, folks, how Satan hijacks the 29:56.540 --> 29:59.020 gospel through counterfeit religion. 29:59.520 --> 30:04.380 You know, I began the message, I spoke about my time as a Roman Catholic. 30:04.720 --> 30:09.720 I mean, I'll be doing other messages, and I've shared this before, just the 30:09.720 --> 30:15.860 teaching of the Roman Catholic Mass, that one of those doctrines that they talk 30:15.860 --> 30:22.460 about, that the sacrifice of the Mass, this is something that can only be done by 30:22.460 --> 30:24.300 a Roman Catholic priest. 30:25.220 --> 30:31.880 And they say each time that is done, that sacrifice of the Mass satisfies the 30:31.880 --> 30:37.200 justice of God for sins committed against Him. 30:38.420 --> 30:39.700 That's heresy, folks. 30:40.400 --> 30:41.180 That's heresy. 30:41.260 --> 30:41.900 Lord have mercy. 30:42.220 --> 30:45.960 In other words, only a Roman Catholic priest could do this, and each time they 30:45.960 --> 30:50.780 do the sacrifice of the Mass and the transubstantiation, that's another term, 30:51.020 --> 30:58.700 and they say that little worship host, that consecrated wafer becomes Jesus 30:58.700 --> 30:59.080 Christ. 30:59.220 --> 31:00.240 That's what they believe, folks. 31:00.260 --> 31:01.420 I was an altar boy, I know this. 31:02.100 --> 31:06.480 So, they say each time that happens, that they are satisfying the justice of 31:06.480 --> 31:06.600 God. 31:06.660 --> 31:06.820 No. 31:07.700 --> 31:10.440 That's when the red flag goes up. 31:10.760 --> 31:15.720 That's when the sirens sound and say false gospel here, because Jesus Christ paid the 31:15.720 --> 31:18.060 price almost 2,000 years ago. 31:18.120 --> 31:19.140 He said, it is finished. 31:20.040 --> 31:21.100 It is finished. 31:21.780 --> 31:26.940 And folks, when He died, the veil in the Jewish temple tore in half from top to 31:26.940 --> 31:27.320 bottom. 31:28.320 --> 31:35.760 And you, and no matter who you are, you can be justified by the blood of Jesus 31:35.760 --> 31:36.220 Christ. 31:36.360 --> 31:38.320 He died for the ungodly, you see. 31:38.600 --> 31:40.740 This is what I came out of that deception, folks. 31:40.900 --> 31:43.220 I never heard these things before. 31:43.640 --> 31:48.320 And that's why I'm speaking with you today, that I could be saved. 31:49.580 --> 31:55.660 Folks, you know, in my testimony, you know, I share about for years, 31:55.840 --> 31:58.000 I was searching for truth. 31:58.160 --> 32:00.180 I just knew there was something wrong. 32:00.260 --> 32:01.160 There was something missing. 32:01.500 --> 32:03.400 And I'd be buying all sorts of books. 32:03.480 --> 32:08.280 I'd go out to this bookstore and this mall, a couple of bookstores, and go 32:08.280 --> 32:13.740 spending many hours searching for books, searching for the truth. 32:14.880 --> 32:17.760 And obviously, I never found it until I found the Lord. 32:17.820 --> 32:23.180 And there it was, right in the word of God, the mercy of God, that He would save 32:23.180 --> 32:23.940 a soul like me. 32:24.280 --> 32:28.980 So when I read scriptures like that, that God commended His love toward us, 32:29.020 --> 32:35.440 and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us much more than being 32:35.440 --> 32:38.240 now justified by His blood. 32:39.080 --> 32:41.040 We shall be saved from wrath through Him. 32:41.120 --> 32:46.680 Folks, I'm justified today by the blood of Jesus Christ, because of what He did for 32:46.680 --> 32:46.900 me. 32:47.080 --> 32:49.000 It's paid for, you see? 32:49.260 --> 32:57.020 So what a difference from the religious souls that go to Mass, as I did for many 32:57.020 --> 33:00.580 years, first 36 years of my life. 33:00.960 --> 33:05.420 Obviously, I wasn't running to Mass as a one-year-old myself, but I'm here to tell 33:05.420 --> 33:08.380 you folks that the price has been paid. 33:08.880 --> 33:14.720 I was sitting under a counterfeit message in a counterfeit church. 33:15.760 --> 33:17.420 And it's a serious thing. 33:17.500 --> 33:21.960 So we're living in a day when you can get people like Rick Warren, famous man, 33:22.620 --> 33:27.980 the purpose-driven life, Lord have mercy, he refers to the Pope, the Roman Catholic 33:27.980 --> 33:29.640 Pope, as our Pope. 33:31.020 --> 33:37.960 And you wonder why I record these messages, folks, because the Spirit of the 33:37.960 --> 33:44.160 living God is telling me to speak, preach the Word, warn the people, 33:44.860 --> 33:45.960 warn the people. 33:46.160 --> 33:49.020 They're not hearing it in the so-called Protestant churches. 33:49.140 --> 33:49.800 They're not hearing it. 33:50.820 --> 33:53.340 A lot of times you'll see nothing but entertainment. 33:53.340 --> 33:55.440 It's like the old Ed Sullivan show. 33:56.340 --> 33:58.180 Bring in this act, bring in that act. 33:58.560 --> 34:02.680 You're hearing the Word of God preached to you today, folks. 34:03.560 --> 34:05.980 Love burning in my heart right now for you. 34:06.400 --> 34:08.240 Love for souls, folks. 34:08.560 --> 34:10.140 I don't care who you are. 34:10.240 --> 34:12.560 I don't care if you're Jewish or you're Gentile. 34:12.580 --> 34:14.300 I'm going to tell you the same way. 34:14.520 --> 34:20.580 I have shared the Gospel with Jewish people many times, many times, 34:21.240 --> 34:25.120 the same way I would speak to a Gentile person. 34:25.400 --> 34:29.400 I'll even bring in the prophecies, try to tie that together. 34:29.540 --> 34:33.740 But I find, you know, I must be honest with you, I got saved in 1989. 34:34.440 --> 34:38.700 Basically, the reception is the same as it is for a Gentile. 34:38.820 --> 34:43.420 You know, I don't see a lot of them really knowing the Scriptures, and it's the same 34:43.420 --> 34:44.280 way with a Gentile. 34:44.440 --> 34:51.740 But I'm here to tell you that God, His mercy extends evenly to both the Jew 34:51.740 --> 34:52.920 and the Gentile. 34:53.080 --> 34:54.000 You know, that's another twist. 34:54.100 --> 34:56.340 People say, oh, you're preaching replacement theology. 34:56.520 --> 34:57.740 No, folks, hear me now. 34:58.040 --> 35:00.020 Don't buy this modern day lingo. 35:00.760 --> 35:02.520 You know, you read the Scriptures. 35:03.220 --> 35:06.320 The Gospel is the Gospel is the Gospel. 35:06.760 --> 35:11.280 When I got saved, when I was born again of the Spirit, I knew it's heaven for the 35:11.280 --> 35:13.280 believer and it's hell for the unbeliever. 35:13.360 --> 35:14.940 I knew that God was merciful. 35:15.240 --> 35:18.780 He invites everybody to come in, equal opportunity Savior. 35:19.540 --> 35:23.220 And then the devil comes along and says, oh no, this is what this says, 35:23.420 --> 35:25.940 and that's what that says, and this, you got to do this. 35:26.020 --> 35:26.680 No, no, no, no. 35:26.840 --> 35:27.300 Hear me. 35:28.080 --> 35:28.840 Preach the Word. 35:29.180 --> 35:30.040 That's what Jesus said. 35:30.300 --> 35:31.040 Preach the Word. 35:31.280 --> 35:32.920 What did Jesus say when He rose from the dead? 35:33.460 --> 35:38.000 The believer will be saved, the unbeliever, they will be damned. 35:38.880 --> 35:42.740 He said, all power has been given unto me in heaven and earth. 35:42.800 --> 35:43.900 That's a lot of power, folks. 35:44.240 --> 35:48.180 I mean, I can go off on a deity of Christ, but I don't have time right now. 35:48.220 --> 35:53.880 I want to focus on the message, how Satan hijacks the Gospel through 35:53.880 --> 35:54.900 counterfeit religion. 35:55.840 --> 36:01.260 If this message blesses you, pass it on to your friend and be blessed in Jesus 36:01.260 --> 36:02.020 Christ's name.