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Who's On The Lord's Side?

A generation… It’s always been an "I" generation, but I don’t believe it has ever been as packaged, and sold, and accepted as readily as it is in this hour by all ages. It’s not chronologically limited to any segment of society. In Matthew 16:24, the Lord said to His disciples, "If any man will come after me…" You all know the next words, but I want you to find it. Look at it with me. He said to His disciples, "If any man will come after me…" Say the next four words with me, "Let him deny himself." Those are foreign words to this hour in which we live. Let him exalt himself. Let him indulge himself. Frankly, we’re living in one of the most selfish periods of time that’s ever been experienced in all of the history of mankind. Man has always been as selfish as he is today, but he never had the opportunity as we do, in this nation and in this generation, to indulge ourselves. We’re called to a cross, and we’re called to deny ourselves. As we get into the topic, one of the things I want to ask tonight is this: if you had to analyze your life today, would you say that you are denying yourself more or less? Would you say that there is a concerted effort, and not only a concerted effort but a biblical process in order—and we’re going to talk about that aspect. You have this set in order. I’m not talking about asceticism; I’m talking about self-denial. I’m talking about crucifying the flesh. I’m talking about renewing the mind. I’m talking about walking in the spirit so that we don’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. What are you doing to enable yourself to walk more in the spirit? What are you doing to walk in the power of God that allows you to overcome what’s in every one of us: the sin that’s in our members, the pride that is in ourselves? What are you doing to embrace the humility of Jesus and the cross, and to become the greatest among us which is the [say it] servant of all?

Father’s calling us into this type of a relationship, and yet, what really concerns me is this—turn over to Luke 21 for just a moment. We doctrinally know the hour. I could ask the questions. We could give a little quiz, and everybody here would probably pass it. But my concern is that many of us have become like Samson from a couple of different perspectives. We can look at the indulgence and the overconfidence in self that Samson had. Very frankly, a number of us here think, "Yeah, I’m not where I should be. I know what the doctrine says." I’m not talking about Calvary Temple. I’m talking about the gospel of Jesus Christ. "I know the hour that we’re in. But all I need to do—because I’ve done it before—is just shake myself, and the Spirit will come upon me. Everything will be okay again." The Spirit of God and the Lord Jesus say in red ink, Luke 21:34, that the first responsibility is that we’re going to encourage ourselves. As we go on in this study, we are to lift up hands that are hanging down, comfort the feeble minded, admonish one another, and provoke one another to love and to good works. But first we need to follow this admonition. Look at what Jesus says. Say it with me, "And take heed to yourselves [Where does this thing start? Take heed to yourself. There is no one, no thing, no demon, and no doctrine that can seduce you or pluck you from the Lord’s hand, but we can casually stroll away. There’s no force on Earth that can take you from the Father’s hand, but you can just casually stroll away. We talked about the Lord’s statement and how sad it is in Gethsemane: just sleep on, sleep on. He says to take heed to yourselves.], lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares" (Luke 21:34).

What did the Lord teach in His parable of the sower who was sowing the Word? He said, "I want you to be concerned. You’re a people who say you believe in the Word of God. You embrace the Word of God as alive, powerful, and sharper than a two-edged sword. But I want to tell you something. This Word is of no effect without the right soil. It’s the same seed that produces nothing that remains on anything but good ground!" It needs good ground. Break-up the fallow ground; it’s time to seek the Lord. He will come and rain righteousness upon us. I want to tell you something beloved: we need to break up the fallow ground. We’ve been plowed through here by the Holy Ghost. The Word of God has come, and refreshed us, and anointed us, and delivered us, and healed us, and redeemed us. Beloved, we’ve been crusted over in many areas of our fellowship. It is time to break up the fallow ground. It is time to look around. Find the crusted-over soil and say, "It is not remaining that way as long as I have a plow in my hand!"

Do you know what that plow is? Sometimes it’s the javelin of a Phinehas [Numbers 25:7]. Sometimes it’s the reproof or the smiting of a friend. Sometimes it’s just a word spoken in season. It depends upon the condition of the heart. We’re living in a time right now, I believe, as I’m looking around—I’ve spoken before about a spirit in our midst that has to be dealt with. It is being dealt with. It will be dealt with, and it will be destroyed. It is of this doctrine of self: self-indulgence, self-exaltation, thinking of self more highly than self ought to be thought of. It’s natural to man. Some have embraced it. Tragically, we’ve had parents that have been those who have fed and indoctrinated into many of our young people that they’re special, that they’re great, and that they’re something exceptional. You are depraved and nothing but the grace of God can deliver you! There is no special dispensation for any individual. It is to all of us, whosoever will, and whosoever that would come. Take up a cross daily; follow Him, and deny self. It is with that spirit that we want to talk a little bit about it. The concern and the problem is that, as that spirit moves in our midst, it’s a very difficult thing because it’s not heinous sins like drunkenness, reveling, and drugs.

Tragically, we’ve just had some young people that have left the fellowship here. These are some young men that had come back. They were young people who had been raised here, left, and came back. We rejoiced in their deliverance when they came home. Many of them have returned to their vomit in recent days. They are back on drugs. Parent’s hearts are broken. And we can say, "Well, yeah. That’s a choice that was made." It is. It’s an individual choice, and there are no excuses. But I want to ask you something. How many of those people came back, and, instead of being prompted on to zeal for God and denial of self, they came and partied with some of you and were destroyed in the process? The hour is coming where we’re going to stand before God and ask whether there’s any blood on our hands. "Well, I didn’t make them go take any drugs." What did you live before them? What did we contribute? When did we get ourselves in strife, and gossip, and criticism, and doubting of authority, and undermining? When did we get ourselves to sneaking around without our parents’ knowledge, and they were knowledgeable of that and embraced it? You’re still alive, and they’re dead! I’m talking to that part of this community. What have we done to make ourselves ready for the coming of the Lord Jesus, so that no one would be lost? What have we done to assure ourselves that we’re going to hear well done good and faithful servant? This Word is preached in our midst. It’s preached in your homes. It’s studied in devotions in the mornings. You have your kids quote it to you. I want to tell you something: if there is no good ground, it avails nothing. The cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of things—what things? We know the whole duty of man is to... Say it, "Fear God, and keep his commandments…" (Ecclesiastes 12:13). The lusts of things, education, success, ambitions, goals, and things I want to attain… I want to reach a particular place in my financial status. I want to achieve a goal in life and be fulfilled in my existence here on earth. Your life is a vapor. It’s going to be here today and gone tomorrow. They may have statues made of you, but I want to tell you something. All of this is going to be judged in fire, and only what we do for the kingdom is going to remain. What are we pouring our lives into? What are we promoting in our children’s lives? What are we assisting them, parents, to do? Is it secular, or is it eternal? What is the emphasis on the eternal versus the secular? Are we, or are we not, earth dwellers? Are we citizens of a kingdom? Are we pilgrims coming through this land? This is not our home! These are not our treasures!

I’m not talking about the proper use of these things. We’re not talking about that. That’s a whole other doctrine, a whole other subject. Right now, we are talking about whether or not—listen; we need to become honest with ourselves. We are talking about whether or not the Word of God is being choked out of our lives. Do you want me to tell you how it’s being choked out? It is being choked out if you are still giving mental ascent to it. You can quote it. You believe in it. Do you believe? You say, "I believe the Bible." But you have no power over your flesh. The things you want to do, you can’t do. The things you don’t want to do, you find yourself doing. You are under the power of your flesh. There is a law of spiritual living in Christ Jesus, in Romans 8, that makes us free from the law of sin and death. If you’re not walking in the spirit, if you’re not doing what you say—"Well, I want to..." You tell mom and dad, "I want to. It’s my heart." And mom and dad say, "Okay, sweet thing." You’re in the flesh, and you’re at enmity with God. Many of us, as parents and as young people, are lying to ourselves. We are fooled, and we say, "Yes, this is what I believe." You are whatever fruit you are producing. That’s what you are. You are not what you think you are. You are not what you proclaim to be, not what you hope to be, and not what you used to be. It is, "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them" (Matthew 7:20).

I was talking with some of the pastors; I was talking with Jeff. He met with many of you parents today. He sat down with you parents and told some of you that, right now, there are kids who are not going to graduate this year. They have no pursuit of God. There is no evidence that they are regenerated. I want to tell you something: we do not graduate unregenerate people. You say, "Well, it seems like there have been a lot of them in the past." I told Jeff that I think on alumni night we’re going to have everybody who’s an alumni bring back their diplomas. Then, we will see if you leave with them Friday night. Very frankly, we want some of those back. We want some of your letterman jackets back, because you’re not of us. You’re not what this ministry is producing. Friday night, alumni night, I want every person that has graduated from here to bring their diploma. Bring it with you. We’re going to have to make some decisions as to who is of us and who isn’t. It’s done by fruit. There was strife starting in our young people over what the theme of the formal was going to be. Well, we solved that problem. There isn’t going to be a formal. We’re not going to have strife. "For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work" (James 3:16). This isn’t a game. People are going to hell because we have no power that comes close to the power we should be experiencing if Jesus is Lord in this place. If we are a people full of the Spirit of God, praying the prayer of faith, then where are the answers to prayer? Where is the destruction of the evil one in our midst? I can only attribute it to one thing. I’ve waited on the Lord for months, and I’ve said, "Father, what is going on here?" Do you want to know what it is? It’s the strife. It’s the commonness of the presence of God and the gifts that He’s placed here. It is people that have been raised here—and some of you are here for one reason. You are not here for the Spirit of God. You are not here for the doctrine. You are here because your friends are here. Many of you are here because mom and dad are wiping your nose and paying your bills. Some of you are here because you have friends that you don’t want to loose. All of those reasons are going to have to be done away with. We want to know who is here, or, as it took place on Sinai, who is on the Lord’s side?

What was going on when Moses came down from receiving the Ten Commandments? There were two things that were going on. Joshua said, "Listen, I hear this noise that sounds like a battle’s going on. The enemy’s come, and our people are having to stand for God and defend themselves." Moses said, "This isn’t the sound of a battle. It’s the sound of [what?] a party!" And my ears have been hearing this sound. It is the sound of Luke 21. He is speaking, and He says, "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares" (Luke 21:34). Listen; that surfeiting, that party spirit, this culture that we’re living in, and this America we live in, they are one big party. That’s all it is. We see it in the secular, and we kind of laugh. I can’t believe it! People are looking for reasons to party. Dear God! Adults are dressing up for St. Patrick’s Day and drinking green beer. You go into businesses on Halloween, and people are dressed in costumes. Give me a break! That’s for children. It’s a spirit. "Yea, but we’re not affected that much by it." It’s a spirit! It’s vexing. Do you want me to answer whether you’re affected by it or not? It’s not your opinion, "Yeah, I think that’s stupid." That’s not whether you’re vexed or not. You are vexed if you don’t have on the armor of God. There is no quenching of fiery darts if you don’t have a shield of faith. Can I ask you something? What have you done to protect yourself against every accusation hurled by demonic powers against the lordship of Jesus? They are the accusations that say you have rights, and you deserve a break today. It is a spirit that speaks to a generation that has been told by everybody, "You’re the greatest generation that has ever lived. You’re the smartest generation." I want to tell you something: information does not make you intelligent. Do you want to talk about a great generation? If you are going to talk about the secular, I want to tell you who it was. It was my parents. They were the great generation. They were what made this country what it is today that we all partake of. There are not very many of them alive any more, and this nation is going to destruction because of it.

We talked about the second law of thermodynamics and how everything goes to disorder. Things do not naturally go to order. They go to disorder. I can give you a secular illustration. We were talking about something the other day. It was the theme that one of the high school students wanted for their formal. One of them wanted to do an Aladdin theme. We were talking about some of those things, and I just thought for a moment about Disney. Within the first couple of years after it opened, I went to Disneyland in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it was in the 1950’s. I am kind of glad that I am going to die soon. I’m tired of this. I’m tired of this. This is not the America that I know or that I grew up in. I want to tell you something: it is not the church that I was saved in. I mentioned this to you at the last session. The youth group that I was saved in… I will give the example that I talked about last week and some of the things that went on with some of our young adults. There is no way in the world that this could have happened. There is no way somebody could have come and thrown the world in our faces: the sin, the blasphemy, the cursing, the profanity, and the vileness of sexual immorality that we were saved out of. And you’re going to bring it back to us? No way! I’ll tell you what; I’m going to be the first one to rise up and kill you. How dare you bring that to me! And we have a generation just smiles and laughs it off. It’s not funny. That’s what we were redeemed from!

As saints, it’s not to once be named among us. I want to tell you how dangerous this thing is that we’re in, and I’ll go back to Disney for just a moment. Like Snow White, they had this new movie out just recently that was a spoof on the princesses. I can’t remember what it was called; parts of it were hilarious. Disney had all those things. I know they had Snow White and the evil witch. But things have progressed because Disney Corporation has bought other studios, and there are other movies being made. Do you want to know what? Walt Disney would not have approved of any of those movies. Annette Funicello—yes, all the old people… Do you remember when Annette grew up and met Frankie Avalon on the beach? Did you all notice that Annette was the only one that wasn’t showing her naval in those beach movies? She did that because Walt Disney asked her to show respect, honor him, and not do that. She honored the vision of this man and the morality of this man when times, in the 1960’s, were "a-changing." Haight-Ashbury, free love… They were right in middle of the transition. They still had the weird, "poofy" hair and all that stuff. Where are Disney productions today? Why? It is because Walt’s dead. I just wonder where we are going to be in the next few years, when some of us are dead. I’m wondering who’s going to take this thing up? I’m looking for a people that’ll say, "Here am I; send me."

We’re not talking about just a little incident that happened. That’s just a symptom. It’s not the problem. Do you want to know what the problem is? There is a sub-church in here. There is a group of young people that protect each other, have a different doctrine, and believe they know more than the rest of us put together. It is going to be destroyed. It will not be allowed to remain here in the spirit that it’s been operating in—period. You know who you are, and many of your contemporaries know who you are. Some of you parents are going to get your noses out of joint. But frankly, many of you are the contributors to this. I don’t know where this thing is going. Half of you can get up and leave, but I want to tell you something. There’s a question being asked. Who is on the Lord’s side? Who’s on the Lord’s side? Who is it that’s going to say, "You know what? We need to be getting purer. We need to be getting more committed, more zealous, and more separate from the world." I’m not talking about feigned holiness. I’m talking about genuine holiness, about letting our lives bring glory to God in everything we do in word, in deed, and all manner of our living. Look at what He goes on to say. He talks about our hearts being overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness. Don’t be ignorant of Satan’s devises. "For as a snare [a trap, guile] shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth [earth-dwellers who embrace the spirit of this age and worship the idols of our generation]" (Luke 21:35).

I’m talking about the idols—I am absolutely sick of the idolatry of today’s sports. I could share with some of you. We have younger ones right now, and they know every statistic, person, team, and name. You say, "Well, yeah. But they know the twelve disciples, and they know the Ten Commandments. They can quote all their memory verses." I know that they can. But the real question is, "What are they talking about on the playground?" It’s not Paul, and it’s not Peter. It’s not Moses. Those are not the names that they know. It’s the world. We need to change our heroes. We need to change our conversations. We need to change our treasures, if we’re going to have another generation that will stand. But there is a mingled seed. We talked about it in a message not long ago. Some of you will remember it; we said that their children spoke another language. As we read in Malachi, and we understand those different aspects, what do we believe? What do we think we’ll stand for? When Tony stood up here and talked the other night, don’t you think for a moment that this thing can’t change as quickly as it did in Africa. I’ve shared with you already; the fundamentalists are the evil people in this nation in the eyes of the majority. Don’t you think it can’t happen overnight? What we believe and the way we worship can become crimes! What are you going to do? What are you going to do when it’s our time for the fiery furnace or the lion’s den?

"We’ll, bless God! I’ll shake myself." If you can’t even say no to a CD, to a seduction of playtime instead of prayer time… We had strife the other day among a group of young men that play on the football team. Jeff told me, "We got together, and they got it all worked out. They finally went on." I said, "Yes. But where was the guy that would have stood up, and said, ‘You know what? With all of this strife, we don’t have any business going down to play any stupid football game. We should go down and pray.’" Some say, "Well, we got the strife resolved!" That was the symptom. I wish to God that one person would have had the spiritual aptitude to stand up, and say, "This is no time to play. This is time to pray. This isn’t party time. This is sackcloth and ashes time. It’s a time to mourn, not a time to rejoice!" Didn’t we just hear what happened with some of our young people on the trip up to Erie? Didn’t we just hear that one of our brothers left, he’s on drugs now, and he is out dying and taking another young person with him? Do you think it’s time to play?

Who is on the Lord’s side? Do any of you even know where your javelin is? "Well, Pastor, you’ve just been talking about longsuffering, and love, and gentleness." Amen. This is the mercy of God that I’m talking about. This is the love of God that I’m talking about. This is the Spirit of Jesus that I’m talking about, because my Father’s house is to be a house of prayer. It is time that somebody turns some tables over, somebody gets beaten with a whip, somebody gets a hundred stripes on their back, and their foolishness is driven out of them. Or, we can all sit back, wait for a generation, and let everybody die while we hear, "Sleep on…" We’re looking at the biblical principles for the hour that we’re in. We are preparing ourselves and putting on the whole armor of God; we are not ignorant of Satan’s devises. Scripture makes it very clear about the Word not being used for our own personal gain. We’ll talk about that. We hear the Word of God, and we want to make excuses and justify. People have their noses all out of joint, because someone didn’t correct them the way they wanted to be corrected. Then, we’re angry or whatever. Somebody needs to get angry! We are looking at these passages of Scripture, perverting them, and justifying our own sin. He said, "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man" (Luke 21:36).

What a statement that is: "worthy to escape." It’s not personal righteousness. What a beautiful thing it is to be worthy to escape because of the love of God. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:2). What do you think? If the trumpet sounded right now, would you hear it? You see; the trumpet is not going to be something that’s heard by others. The trumpet of God is the voice of God, and do you know what it’s going to say? "Come up hither!" Amen? When God spoke, people thought it thundered. What was that? There was confusion. Did it thunder? It was the voice of God. Can you hear the voice of God? Do you think you’d hear it if He spoke right now, "Come up hither"? I wonder how many would be left sitting in here if that trumpet sounded right now. Some of us say, "Whew! I tell you what, I’d get serious." Thessalonians says God will bring you to strong delusion, and you will never be able to believe. You’ll have all of the head knowledge, everything you ever learned, and your heart will not turn. Pray without ceasing. Watch and pray. Pray always that you enter not into temptation. Jesus is coming back. There is a trumpet that’s going to sound. This isn’t a game. "But Lord, didn’t we…?" "And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity" (Matthew 7:23). "What do You mean, You never knew me? I went to Calvary Temple. You knew everybody at Calvary Temple. Don’t You remember when we went on the missions trip? Don’t You remember when we were handing out tracts? Don’t You remember? I am the guy that was crying over here the night that we had a special visitation, when the Holy Spirit came. I was the one that was crying over here, and I was the one that was zealous for a week after that. You don’t remember me?"

Who’s on the Lord’s side? There is surfeiting, drunkenness, and the cares of this life. It didn’t say you would lose your memory. It says it chokes the life out of you. It doesn’t say you forget the Scripture verses you memorized. It doesn’t say that you don’t still know right from wrong. It says you are incapable of doing it. You have no power over your flesh. You are in Romans 7, crying and saying, "Oh, the things that I want to do, I can’t do." We go on in the Scriptures, and it makes it very clear. Sin shall not have dominion over you. It’s he that doeth righteousness that’s righteous, beloved. We talked about that last week. Where is the fruit, the evidence of our regeneration, of our abiding in Christ? Some of the greatest evidence of that fruit is daily embracing that cross and boasting in it. It doesn’t mean boasting on how spiritual you are. It means boasting in the work that God finished, the work that set us free from the power of sin and the lust of the flesh. He has called us into a time, beloved.

Let’s end with Romans 8. I know what some of you are thinking. Pastor, are you serious about us bringing our diplomas? Yes, I’m serious. Some of you are in college. You don’t need that diploma. To most of you, it means nothing to you anyway. I want to tell you something. It means something to me. Many of you just spit upon it and trod upon it. It’s valuable to me, and it’s valuable to some other people in here. That diploma is stained with our tears and with our blood. If it means nothing to you, I want it back. The Spirit of God is speaking to us and admonishing us in Romans 8:13, "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die [This is what we hope to pick up in our next session.]: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." You heard the utterance tonight. You can’t walk in the spirit by the flesh. You can’t just make up your mind, and say, "I’m going to try harder." You know what the teaching and the message is. I was going to share some of it tonight. I’ll get into the renewing of the mind in the next session. It is not the wanting of it. It is the paying a price for it. It’s abstaining. It’s putting off that you might put on. We know these principles, but walking in the spirit costs you everything.

So many of you want to play, and be excellent in business, and be excellent in your craft, and be excellent in the games that you’re playing, and all this kind of stuff. I want to tell you something. The Scripture makes it very clear. You can’t be a master in both the world and in the kingdom. Do what needs to be done to get by in the secular and in the temporal. Pour out your life, and become masters in the eternal. Do you want to know where your heart is, and where your treasure is, and what you’re master at? It’s what you’re abstaining from that you might do this. I know we live in this world. I know we’re of the world. I know that you men can’t pray the same amount of time that you have to put in at work, and the Lord knows that. But I’ll tell you what: the fact that work is eight hours a day doesn’t mean you can justify praying two minutes. It doesn’t mean that there are not days set aside for prayer and fasting. It doesn’t mean that we’re not called to take some of our vacation time and seek God instead of a tan. How real is our desire for mastery in the Spirit realm? This thing doesn’t come cheap. If you’re going to become a master, you have to abstain from other things. If you’re going to be a world-class athlete, or if you’re going to be successful in business, you have to abstain from other things. If you are going to become like Jesus, it’s going to cost you. It doesn’t come easy. You know those people, and you know that I said we know who is of us and who isn’t. And the ones that are… "Yeah, look. They are just so lucky." They’re not lucky. They’re the ones who get up early. They’re the ones that sacrifice sleep. They’re the ones that get up, and come, and pray, and serve when they’re sick and hurting. They’re the ones that take this world’s goods. But I’ll tell you what; I stand and am just so thankful and amazed for men of quality. I won’t speak any names tonight, because I’d leave some out. I want to tell you something; some of you may not know this. We have people in our midst that have turned down multiple tens of thousands of dollars, raises, positions, and titles to stay here and serve in this community, so they might be faithful to the church. Praise God! And some of you are looking for ways to get a few dollars. You would gladly leave the rest of us for fifty thousand or ten thousand more a year. But we have men in this place that have turned that away, to be here for you and for your kids, praise God! They are the ones I want to fellowship with. They’re the ones I call friend and brother. Very frankly, I don’t know that other spirit. I don’t want to. To some of you this may sound harsh, and to some of you this may sound extreme. If it is extreme, then I’ve missed God. But I sense that we are at a very crucial point in the lives of many right now, and only one thing is going to set some of you free. That is death to self, that is abstinence, and that is repentance. It is making a turn once and for all, right now, and choosing the Lord’s side, or you can stay in the party. But, I want to tell you something. If you stay in the party—you can read the verse—the rest of us are obligated to seek you out and kill you. That’s what it says. Read it. You don’t believe it?

Turn over to Exodus 32:25 for just a moment, and we’ll end with this. "And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies) [partying, bringing shame] Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord’s side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour" (Exodus 32:25-27). I only have one suggestion. You know who you are. If I were you, I would go, because we’re after you. We’re going to get you, and there will be no reproach in the Lord’s house. Choose you this day whom ye will serve [Joshua 24:15]. And, for that whole group that’s kind of "in between" and wanting to cover, and hide, and be on both sides, it’s over. I’m not talking about carnality. We’re all battling. We all sin. I’m not talking about carnality. I’m talking about those that are justifying, those that are constantly propagating sub-standards and bringing another doctrine. Very frankly, some don’t even know it. You’ll be told. You’ll be told very clearly that that’s how you’re seen. Somebody will be getting to you very soon. You’re who we’re talking about. It is not that there are ones doing all kinds of horrible things. It’s a spirit of mingled seed and of leaven that is absolutely killing people around them. And it’s over. How is it going to happen? I wish I could tell you. Where is it going to go from here? I don’t know. Who’s going to stay? I don’t know. I think my wife’s going to stay with me. No, I know she is. There are some others, and when I say "me," I’m talking about this gospel, this standard, and this vision. As I said before, I’m talking about some of you that have come in and adopted us, and we’ve adopted you. Some of you have been raised here. This is not what God called us to do. This is not—when God spoke to me, and said, "I’ve set before you a fork in the road; choose the old paths." If I was going to compromise this standard, it would have been for the multiple millions of dollars and the fame that I could have had back then. Do you think I’m going to turn down all that money and all that fame, and let you cause me to deviate? That is not going to happen!

Turn to somebody next to you, say, "I think he’s serious." Amen. Go in peace. God’s love go with you.

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