My message is entitled the wolf is at the door The wolf is at the door Isaiah chapter 53 prophet Isaiah says these words who has believed our report beginning at verse one and To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed For you shall grow up before him as a tender plant as a root out of dry ground He is no form or comeliness. And when we see him there is no beauty that we should desire him he's despised and rejected by men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and We hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised and we did not esteem him Surely he's borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken smitten by God and afflicted but He was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities and the chastisement of our peace was upon him and by His stripes we are healed All we like sheep have gone astray and we've turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all You know It's it's so important before we even begin to look at this passage of Scripture to understand That it was a religious system that crucified Christ You know, we understand that the Roman authorities were the instruments of his death, but it was the religious order of the day Created by God's own people that put the Son of God on a cross There were leaders in that generation and they had they had used their position over the people to garner titles for themselves They had adorned themselves in righteous robes as they saw it and they Loved to parade among the people as Jesus said and be called master teacher teacher teacher in the marketplace But Jesus himself came in a form that he did not take on this form of grandeur that men give to themselves and also too they created a system of Salvation that was much wider and much more inclusive than the one that God had given to us matter of fact it was so narrow that Jesus said I'm the way the truth and the life and no one can come to the Father except through me they were so offended when he challenged their religious system because they had that created this wide door into eternal life in eternal bliss with God that doesn't exist All kinds of people were coming into the temple Defiled and going out defiled they were living in manners in ways that the Bible clearly indicated would leave them excluded from the kingdom of God for ever and So in comes this man, he's not interested in their system he's not trying to garner one of their titles He's not doing things their way.
The Bible says there was no beauty in him that we should desire him It's not dressed in righteous robes. He's not got boxes on his forehead. He's not walking around with tassels on his arms He's not parading like some rooster before the people Talking about how close to God he actually is They despised him and rejected him because he challenged the religious system.
They had created a system of redemption that did not exist do you understand and That's the propensity of humankind the original sin in the Garden of Eden is that we can be as God is remember we can we can become judges of what's Good and what's evil and if you take that to its logical extension? We can start declaring things that are that our God forgives when he doesn't we can start declaring behaviors righteous when they're not We can start telling people they're going to heaven when they aren't that is the grave grave danger of religion when humankind in it's sin nature is allowed to take it and So twist it and so pervert it that it becomes something that God never intended it to be can you imagine sitting in a place as a professor or a supposed believer in Christ only to end up with the throne of God one day to find out you've been outside the Whole thing What a tragedy that's going to be for so many He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief There was a a heaviness in the heart of the Son of God as he looked on the people as sheep without a shepherd But we hid our faces from him he was despised and we did not esteem him and we are of course Reliving this scripture again in great measure in our day Always taught me what would Jesus do? Yeah, those Jesus would be attending that Pride Parade with with pride And Jesus is love and love is love In many many places even where God's people are gathering the Word of God is despised and We are now gravitating to fancy preachers Who've opened the door real wide to people who are not going to heaven given them false.
Peace when they're not at peace with God The Apostle Paul said in first Corinthians 5:17 If anyone is in Christ He or she is a new creation The old things are what passed away and behold all things have become new if we are in Christ If Christ is in us That means a new value system. It means a new heart. It means a new mind It means in a way of speaking thinking living.
It means that what God says is good is good And what God says is evil is evil. We don't try to change that. We accept that from the Word of God Now this message is given to shepherds To bring us Not only to the knowledge of our salvation, but to the freedom which Christ bought for us.
It was wounded for our Transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities and by his beating as it is that he took on the cross. We are healed The old things don't have power over us anymore Unless we choose to let them the old ways of living speaking thinking doing are Broken and we become new creations in Christ We are able to look back and say thank God. I'm not what I used to be I'm not everything that I hope to be but thank God I'm not what I used to be and thank God I'm gonna be one day when Christ is calling me to be so there's this constant moving forward in the life of a genuine believer Leaving an old way of thinking an old way of living an old way of speaking and moving to truth even when it's painful Book of Proverbs says a righteous person swears to their own heart and doesn't change in other words I say I'm going to do this and I do it because God's Word says I should even if it causes me pain and I don't turn from it Now Paul was this kind of a shepherd he he didn't hold back as I said earlier This is what he said in Acts chapter 20 verses 26 to 31 He said therefore I testify to you to stay.
I'm innocent of the blood of all men in Other words and this is the cry of my heart If anyone here today hearing my voice ends up in hell that it not be my fault Let it never be because I didn't declare it to you the whole counsel of God or I didn't warn you of something that had the power to drag you down into eternal darkness for I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers To Shepherd the Church of God, which he purchased with his own blood Paul says for this I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you not sparing the flock Also from among yourselves men will rise up speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after themselves Therefore watch and remember that for three years. I did not cease to warn everyone. He said day and night with tears Paul said there's going to be wolves that Are going to come and they're already theirs packs of them now it's not just a few there's many now in our generation and they're going to come to devour the sacrifice of Christ and the promise of new life Through him they're going to promise you Liberty as the scripture says in the New Testament, but they themselves are the slaves to corruption They're promising something they're not experiencing themselves, and they can't deliver it Listen to what Jude says the last book of the New Testament before the book of the revelation Verse three says behold while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith Which was once for all delivered to the Saints?
For certain men have crept in and unnoticed who long ago were marked out for this condemnation ungodly Men who turned the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ I Want to remind you though, he once knew this That the Lord having saved the people out of the land of Egypt afterward destroyed those who did not believe And the angels who did not keep their proper domain but left their own abode he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities round about them in a similar manner to these Having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh are set forth as an example suffering the Vengeance of eternal fire Here's what the wolves do They teach that you can live a lifestyle against the Word of God and still claim heaven as your eternal home That is the wolf. That's now at the door of the Christian Church Listen to what the Apostle Paul says in 1st Corinthians chapter 6 verses 9 to 11 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God V do not be deceived neither fornicators That means people who engage in sexual intercourse outside of the bonds of marriage between one man and one woman Fornicators are not going to inherit the kingdom of God settle it it's in the Word of God Don't be deceived into thinking you can live in a moral lifestyle and heaven will still be your home So hard for this generation to hear when you've got preacher standing in pulpit saying well god Understands your need and God is a God of love and God won't send anybody to hell No, that's not true. God is a God of love.
We know that but the Bible tells us that fornicators have no inheritance irritants in the kingdom of God nor idolaters people who have Other lives in that's something that is in your life that that is is your whole obsession It churches are Christ is just a little part of your life. There's something else in your life that you're pursuing nor adulterers People who engage who are married but engage and you know today we take words like adultery and we call it an extramarital affair As if it's a black-tie event adultery Settle it deal with it The sex outside of marriage will keep you outside of the kingdom of God and sex outside of the bonds of the Person that you are married to the way the man or woman you're married to will also keep you outside of the kingdom of God Unless it's repented of nor homosexuals nor sodomites In other words, that's if both men and women folks listen I Understand the dilemma in this ad said that some might face in same-sex attraction But I'm telling you you can't give into that lifestyle on any level Because the Bible clearly says it will leave you outside the kingdom of God Jesus himself says some people are eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven said in other words some people Just live their lives without any sexual activity for the kingdom of heaven's sake and he said whoever can hear this let them hear it you go to a funeral for example, and You can dress it up with flowers All around and you can there's a death certificate and the priest you can get up and say nice words But the reality is that the corpse is still dead You can't make it live doesn't matter what you do, but it's the same with homosexual marriage folks You gotta say it straight out today. I'm not going to hold back on it You can adorn it with flowers You can get a certificate from City Hall you you can find some backslidden preacher to say nice words about it But the wages of sin is still death.
You can't change that now Listen I'll be called a hater for this message today I understand that But I'm not a hater if I hated you I'd let you go to hell if I hated you I'd let you die on your sins If I walk down the street and your house is on fire and You're up in your bedroom window, and I don't warn you am I really a good neighbor. Do I really love you? Do I really care about your eternal destiny?
You can curse me out of your bedroom window all you want but I will still warn you that your house is on fire for your soul sake Nor thieves Lest we should think that we're just going to focus on one thing nor thieves. I means people to steal It's about simple people to steal people to steal them They have a contract maybe been steal a little bit more than they should nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers You know, especially in in this environment we're now living in in this country at this time Where reviling is it has become the speech of the day where it's fashionable just to curse everybody around you You know Paul said revilers don't inherit the kingdom of God. We have a different heart.
We have a different spirit We're a different kind of people Jesus himself said blessed are the peacemakers yours is the kingdom of heaven Nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God and such for some of you I love that Would be to God that I can honestly say that of everybody here today such were some of you but you are Sanctified that means you are set apart for the kingdom of God you are You you you you honestly repented. You walked away. You moved away from what God's Word says is wrong You can't make it right?
You can't change it. It doesn't matter of a million people say those. It's wonderful If God's Word says it's not it's not you are sanctified you walked away You walked away from this always of thinking these old Behaviors and all of these things and you set yourself apart for the kingdom of God you're justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God Now you and I are living in an hour where the wolf is heading to the door of the church Demanding in our generation that we bow down to this new definitions of good and evil.
This is where we're living the days of being able to say Without penalty what I'm saying today are over if they're not if they're not over. They're very close to over It's an amazing time that we're now living in Jesus said in John chapter 10. I am The Good Shepherd and the Good Shepherd gives his life for the Sheep But a hireling who is not the shepherd one who does not own the sheep Sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them the hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep This is the point there's a lot of hirelings and a lot of pulpits in america today and They're there.
They don't necessarily leave the people, but they leave biblical truth They flee the truth when the wolf is at the door when the wolf says if you don't bow down This is our golden statue. This is what this generation is gonna look like this is what you'll preach These are the truths that you will espouse they will bow down when the music plays to save themselves Because it's always been about themselves not about the people The hireling will flee And you will you are singing you will see a huge departure from biblical truth in the Christian Church in this last hour we're living in the Bible declares that there's going to be an apostasy a great falling away in the last days from Biblical truth and the hirelings will lead the people Not into the narrow way of eternal life But into that broad way of destruction they flee because it's always done about them It's been about the rules. It's been about the praises of man.
It's been about the titles. It's been about the numbers It's been about the apparent evidences of success. Then when Christ comes and challenges them they hate him His own system hated him his own people hated him They pushed him away because he declared their definitions of salvation and truth to be bankrupt He told them they were full of dead men's bones He said you go cross land and sea to get one convert and you make him twice the child of hell that you've become These are the words of Christ He warned us in the last days.
There would be a great falling away. He warned us He said you're going to be hated of all nations For my name's sake. You can't escape that that's a promise the Word of God.
We're going to be hated It's starting. Now. You're seeing it in society you you're seeing it in the workplace You can't even have an opinion on things anymore in this generation that we're now living in let me say it clearly now Abortion for the cause of birth control or So that P.
I understand there are extenuating circumstances, so please don't misquote me on this, but for the cause of just birth controller for the cause of Having sexual pleasure and not having to deal with the life that it can create is sin in the sight of a holy God It's a terrible sin in the sight of a holy God In America today the deliberate Gender confusing of our children in grade school is sin in the sight of a holy God in our high schools forbidding odd children to pray and creating this fictitious Division between the state and the church, which doesn't exist If you really study it you'll understand it never existed. It was created by the godless Forbidding our children to pray in our schools is sin in the sight of a holy God In our colleges allowing godless professors to rise up and mock God and radicalize a whole generation against even their own nation that was founded by God for the purpose of being able to worship according to the Word of God and freely by conscience is sin in the sight of a holy God and The wages of sin is death But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord Praise be to go Halleluyah halleluyah So let this society despise him let them consider him ordinary Let them rebel against his words But this day if I was just one said if it'd be hard to follow the Lord that's your choice Choose this day. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord By the grace of God, we will not bow before the wolf in this generation by the grace of God We will stand for the truth of God by the grace of God.
We will pray again. We will pray again as a church. Hey By the grace of God, we will stand up on the shame for the truth of Jesus Christ We stand on the side of victory we stand on the side.
We stand on the side of eternal life in Jesus Christ And as I David the King once did we will stand in this generation against the lion and the bear and everything that comes in to devour Our children and to devour the people of God It's time for the Church of Jesus Christ to rise up. It's time for the people of God to fight back It's time for us to begin to pray. It's time to run for public office.
It's time for teachers to speak It's time it's time for the people of God. Let's dig deep saying so The true shepherds of God in this generation are going to care more for the people than for their own safety More than our own reputation It's not going to be an easy road But I don't know about you, but I'm not giving up this generation to darkness. I'm gonna stand because the Word of God stands forever The opinions have been are like grains of sand on the seashore they'll fall into nowhere but the Word of God abides forever Now here's where I conclude if you're living in sin, I Plead with you while there's still time Turn turn from it and trust God for the strength I know there's some sitting here are listening online or they're in the Annex and they say you don't know how deep the bondages, you know, you don't know how Powerful the draw is no I don't but I know the Spirit of God is more powerful than all of that put together And I know the promise of God is that we will have a new life an eternal life The days of living in Christian ease is over in America folks.
It's over We're about to join our brothers and sisters in China and other places who are being persecuted for what they believe in Iran who are being jailed and put to death for believing in Christ.
