Praise the Lord, look into God's place, Porti, for Jesus' ministry. It's such an honor to be here today, my beautiful wife, and share the Word of God, and just share the goodness of God. You know, and speaking of that, I'm gonna introduce my wife, Shannon Mackwin, and she just celebrated the eight years ago yesterday, and let her share what God has done in her life. It's been eight years since my marriage with the Lord, since I've been in Christ.
And thank God for every minute of it. And he just puts us together like a marriage. When your relationship with God, that's what he talks about, it's like a marriage. And it's about fellowship with one another, and it's about relationship with one another, and it's about love in one another.
You know, it's about sacrifice, you know, for one another, which Jesus done all the sacrifice for us. But, you know, we're supposed to be a living sacrifice in the God, and give ourselves to God once we surrender. You know, since I surrender to God, and I let him take the will, God bless me, he's delivered me from hopelessness, from homelessness, from depression, from addiction, from self. He's restored the things that the enemy comes.
He only comes to kill, steal, and destroy everything. The enemy stole and destroyed in my life. God just restored it, and he continues to restore it. And, but most of all, it's known that, you know, I have a loving Father in a sense of the longing, and that's something I didn't have before.
He gives me that, and I thank God for that, because he tells us in his word, and Hebrews 13, 5, that he will never leave us, and that he will never forsake us. You know, and that's true, sometimes in our most loneliness, times in our life, or most despair, you know, that's opportunity, you know, to totally trust and rely on God, and that's, you know, that's what I finally did. And I thank God for those lonely moments, because I could be still and know that he's God, and, or find out about Jesus, you know, I had a chance and opportunity, the Bible says, that who so ever shall Conny, the Lord, shall be saved. And God saved me eight years ago, and it's been beautiful, and I give him all glory and praise, and I know, you know, I've got to continue to fight the good Father faith.
I've got to finish the course, I've got to keep the faith, you know, and we'll go through it, the Bible tells us to walk by faith, and not by sight, especially in these days. We definitely need to hold on to our faith, because really it's all we got, is hoping the Lord Jesus. Hey, man, you know, I heard you talking about, you know, hanging on, and of course I've experienced being with you, and it's been such a blessing, but, you know, when God saved you, He saved you, and you've been saved for eight years, and that's what I want to talk about today is, is I'm gonna go to the book of Tesalonians here, in the second, says the Lord in chapter two. And of course nine, it said, even Him who's coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs, lying wonders, with all deceiverliness and righteousness, in them that perish, because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved.
For this cause, God shall send a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, and they'll all be damned who believe not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness. And that's what, you know, I see today, as so many people as, you know, they live in the delusion, it's, it's, they don't realize, it's been deceived, first, preaching six, nine, said, no you not, that the unrighteous shall not inherit the King of God, he says, be not deceived, for a liar, a drunk, a thief, a whore, murder, a covenants, a user's a man, kind, a, you know, a drunkard will not inherit the King of God. The Bible speaks about first John 517, that I'll see in his unrighteous, and then there you go, I'll see in his unrighteous, and unrighteous shall not inherit the King of God. How was that four, six, in my paper, the story from my kind of knowledge?
People don't, they're destroyed, it says, because what it is, the word of God says, in the book of Corinthians, it says for a natural man cannot understand the things of the Spirit, because it's a, there are foolishness to him, because he's not spiritually discerned. And see, people don't realize, once you ask God to save you, then it's a commitment to God, that now that he is your Lord and your Savior. A lot of most people just want to save her, but God, you know, in order, you've got to have both, you can't just have a Savior, you've got to have a Lord and a Savior. The Bible says, who's ever called upon the name of the Lord?
Shall we say? But in order for him to be your Savior, he's got to be your Lord also. The Bible says, in Luke 646, he said, why they'll call us from the Lord, and not do what I say. You know, everybody wants to save her.
Somebody call up on two when your kid's sick, your finances in financial need, or whatever it might be, your light bills do, whatever. And, but God, you know, once you get saved, that means your life no longer bumps to you. It bumps to God. And now you become a servant of Christ.
The Bible says, in 1st Corinthians 723, he said, be not a servant of man, but be a servant of Christ. And so that's the problem of the world today, that the church world is people's not teaching, what being saved, not teaching the commitment. You know, so many people, you know, a church told me not long ago, well, we had 100 and something salvation. But I said, how many of those people did you explain to him about what being saved means?
It means now that you are, the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians 517, that he did this in Christ as a new creation, said, old things pass away, and behold, all things become new. The Bible said, come out amongst them, be separated, say the Lord, touch not an unclean thing, and then I will receive you, and I will be your father, and you'll be my sons and daughters, said the Lord Almighty, having these promises. Let us clean ourselves from our filthiness of the spirit and the flesh, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. So, and it's sad to see that, you know, that's what God says.
He says, the Lord, it says, for this cause, God shall send us, God shall send us strong delusion that they should believe alive. He didn't say that the devil was seeing a strong delusion, but God will. Why would God do that for it? The reason that God is doing that, because people's not completely given the whole life's to Christ, people will come to the altar and they'll make try to make deals with God.
And I know, I mean, I can preach about it cause I did that for, I don't know over and over again. I said, I said, I said, I said, I said, the other night at church, Lord, I've been saved, I'm about 46 times, they're not really God saved. And if once you're saved, the Bible said in 1 John 3, 8th sin is the other devil. The purpose of the son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3, 5, he was manifested to take away our sins. So once we get saved, we have the power, the no one to know God to overcome sin. Sin has no more dominion over us. We're supposed to, our righteousness is filthy as rags.
Amen, but it's not our righteousness, it's his righteous that lives in us. The Bible said greater than he is in you than he is in the world. But in order to do so, we've got to feed our spirit man. We gotta keep his relationship.
The point of it is, you know, people, you will not go to heaven just because you don't want to go to hell. You've got to have a, there's people all over the church world today. People in church, Billy Grandma did stay between 20 years ago, 90% of the people in church will not make it to heaven. Well, that was 20 years ago.
I mean, could you imagine, I mean, the world has gotten worse and worse and worse. And the problem of it is when people go to church, because they don't want to go to hell and they know it's a spirit of religion. They think, well, I go to church, they get just a false security that I'm okay because I'm going to church, but not realizing that once you give your life to Christ, it belongs to him. And not only does God deliver you from all, the Bible says in Second, Second, Test along is three, three.
The Lord is faithful and he shall establish you and keep you from all evil. The Bible says in the first, in the first, in the 13th, the Lord is faithful and he shall not suffer to be tempted. When you're able to buy her, he will make it away for each temptation. The Bible says you host her ever, call up on the Lord, shall be saved.
That's in your temptations, that's in your struggles, that's in your hard times. That's when the devil comes knocking at your door, that you can call up on the Lord and he will, he will fight these battles for us. And but we have to stay in relationship, just because you go to church, that's not going to get you there. You've got to get an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ each and every day of your life.
You've got to the Bible, say, my sheet, they know my voice, they follow me, they, they, they, and I know them. And you know, it's, we talked about this a few weeks ago, you know, Matthew 721, he said not everyone that says Lord, I'm here at the kingdom of God. Just those who does, that's a will of my father. But Lord, have we not cast out devils?
Have we not done many wonderful works in your name? Have we not done this? And the Lord says, the part for me, I never knew you, you workers of iniquity. So when he says, when he says, many will come saying, that means most people, most Christians, Matthew 713, straight as a gate, narrows away the Broadway leads to destruction.
The narrow way, a mini will go there at, straight as a gate, and narrows away at least life. And very few people will find it. And you know, I talk about that a lot because, you know, I got saved at 18 years old and that's why I'm here preaching this because I don't know people be deceived. I don't know people thinking that they're okay and dying going to hell.
I mean, and it's not, it's not me, that's, that feels this way. It's the Lord that lives in me. The Lord does everybody and he's long suffered. He's not willing for anybody to perish.
He wants everybody to come to repentance. And so we're all supposed to live, we're all supposed to learn to walk with God. We're supposed to build a relationship for Jesus Christ, each and every day of our lives. We hear His voice and here's our voice.
And we have that intimate relationship that we're hand in hand. You know, I love that the scripture in Genesis, chapter 6, verse 9, that Noah walked with God. And so many people, oh man, they're so deceived. And the reason they're deceived is because what happens?
If you don't give God your whole heart, you could give God 99% and hang on to one. Well, guess what? That 1% is room for the devil to move into. And what happens is in Psalms 25, 14, God will reveal His secrets to those who fear Him.
There's many mysteries in the book, amen, that you will not see. The Bible says he did 12 in the secret place to the most high, so about in the shadow of mighty. And so that's why God will send a strong delusion because people's not truly given their whole lives to Christ. They want a better life.
They realize they want to go to heaven. But the fact of it is that in order to go to heaven, the Bible says in Matthew 5, 8, he said, bless thee, there's a puree in heart, they shall see God. And so everything, I mean, Jesus suffered too much for us to give God 90%. Amen, Jesus didn't go 90%.
When He carried across our cavalry, amen. He could have quit any time. I said, well, I'm tired, I can't go no further. I went this far.
And you know, hey, it's not easy. If it was easy, everybody be doing it. It takes total submit and commit your life to Jesus Christ. It takes taking up the cross to deny yourself, following Jesus every day of your life.
It's not just one day of a week thing. It's every minute, every second that you live. It's all about Christ, realizing that we are ambassadors of God. Amen, we're servants, we're supposed to be sons and daughters.
And we're supposed to set the example to everybody in the world. I mean, it's thankful to say that, you know, even a lot of churches are not set in example. This world is so deceived. And God has seen the strong illusions out in everybody.
Satan is the same devil that told Eve, said, it's okay. You can eat of that tree or that fruit. You should surely not die. And that's what He's telling people.
But the Word of God said in Matthew 4, that you cannot live on bread alone, but by every word that preceded the out of the mouth of God. And the biggest thing that you've got to know in John 3, 3, very, very, very, very, I say unto you, that you must be born again. And once we're born again, we're hard in the creations. Everything about us, I never will forget the time I got saved.
And at 18 years old, and of course I was destroyed from my acknowledge, I didn't follow through the way, you know, God had to chastise me and put me through a lot of stuff in order to come back to Him. But, you know, I remember I had this old worldly tag that was on the front of my van. I mean, when I came outside and seen my van, I seen this old sand that was on the tag of that van. It made me sick at my stomach.
Now, before I went into church, before Christ, it was cool. But when I came out of church, it was sickening. And that's what the Holy Spirit does. When you got the Holy Spirit in, you don't want to be around things in the other world.
And see, we're not others for the Bible says, hey, love not the world nor need to things you're in the world. If we love the world, love the Father, it's not in us. Amen. God has got to be first in your life in everything that you do.
And He's got to be the sinner. Amen. Praise the Lord. I mean, I want to thank God today for revealing yourself to me.
I thank God for chastisement. I thank God that He loves me, and He wist me, and it corrects me. And because you know what? It's a, see the fact of it is, I came to Christ because I was broken and I realized that I needed my ways.
We're not working. It goes back again that people try to make deal with God and try to do things their way. The Bible says in Romans 10 to, He said, been ignorant of God's righteousness. We go about to establish our own righteousness because we've never submitted ourselves to the righteous of God.
And so I realized that I needed a Savior in order to have a Savior. I needed the Lord too. And so, you know, 15 years ago, December 14th of this year, 15 years ago, I finally realized that my ways were not working. Even though that I played the church role, I paid my ties, I was going to church.
I realized that I was still, I was on the path of destruction. And I got down, I looked at their situations over and over again, mother by my casket twice, I got down and I said, God, if I've never been saved, truly saved, saved me today, saved me from my sins, helped me not sin, helped me walk a holy life, helped me be, helped me be more like you, Lord, helped me show me the things that you see. Let me hear the things you speak. And I said, I don't have nothing to offer.
I'm in jail, I'm homeless, I didn't have a pot to pee in or a window to throw it out of. I didn't have anything. My health was bad, couldn't hardly walk. I said, God, I'll give you everything I got today if you'll accept me for who I am and what I am.
And that's all it took. He received me, I received him and he received me. And it's been a glorious 15 years. It's been amazing.
And listen, it's, like I said, it's not always easy. You know, we're still face trials, we'll face tribulations, we'll face persecution, Lord, I've been spit on, I've been hit head on in my truck. I mean, it's been cursed, swung at. I've been through, you know, the praise God, Jesus, was spit on too.
But listen, if you walk with a Lord, no matter what you go through, he said, I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you. I'll be with you even into the end of the world. And there's just nothing like having a peace of God on you, in you, around you, knowing that no matter what you go through, in Romans 828, that all things work together to the good, to those who love God and call according to his purpose. But you know, but the Bible says in Matthew 10, 22, he said those who endure to the end, shall be saved.
The devil, he's walking around seeking, who he made of our, he's looking for you to fall weak, he's looking for you to break your relationship with Jesus Christ. See all it takes, either the number one in grace can man with the whole book, it's the love God and the whole heart, your mind, your soul and your strength, that means put everything you got into it. And if he catches you slack and will you quit reading your Bible, see God, it's a commandment for us to love it. It's not just a suggestion, in order to know God and have that intimate relationship, you've got to take time to read, to pray every day, you've got to build that relationship.
God wants one-on-one time with you and him, you know, praise the Lord, me and my wife, we get up in the mornings and we go straight to the Lord, good morning honey, I love you and we go to the Lord. You know, the Lord comes first in her life, you know, every morning for I leave the house, I pray with my family that God will protect him, I pray God will bring each one of us closer to God and then to one another, amen. Anything you put before God, it will become your God. God is a jealous God and he wants to be first, he tells you if you love your son or daughter or mother father more than God, you're not worthy of him.
And now I've had people say, how in the world can you love God when your kids, just get to know him, you'll realize that he's the one that's gave you're kids, he's every good and perfect gift is a gift from God. But listen, don't be deceived, don't let God send you a strong delusion. Those people here every day that thinks that they're okay because they never truly submitted theirself to God, for God revealed hisself to them. When I truly, I've been going to church for years, but when I truly started seeking God with my whole heart, I started seeing things in the Bible that I never was taught, I never read before, mysteries, like I said, the Psalms 25, 14, he said, I will reveal my secrets to those who fear me.
He started showing me stuff about the commandments, about the Sabbath, praise the Lord, the Bible says if you love me, then keep my commandments. You know, you can ask most people in churches to tell you 10 commandments. I'm talking about the team that God wrote with his own finger and he said in stone, and most people in churches can't even tell you what the 10 commandments are. But and that's how God judges our love for him.
He says, if you say, you know me and not obey my commandments, you're a liar. And the truth's not in you. He said, if first you're on two three, he said, you know that you know that you know me, if you keep my commandments and you know that you love me. So I'm doing a whole lot of talking, you got something you want to add to that?
Well, that's part, you know, the word it cleanses us and you know, the spirit sanctifies us, you know, it's feeding our spirit. He tells us, you know, let us have the mind of Christ. We've got to have that mind of Christ and we've got to bring down, you know, imaginations and everything that comes, you know, exotic self-agnesance and knowledge of God. We've got to bring into captivity.
That's another way that we're not deceived, you know, having the mind of Christ and putting on the mind of Christ and bringing in those imaginations and casting them down. And you know, he's he tells us, you know, if the eye will have lot, the rest of the body will have lot. It's because of what we see, you know, or what we're listening to, you know, what we see it's a gateway to our heart, the same thing with our mind. You know, what we keep in our minds that we dwell on, that's a gateway to our heart as well.
It gets strong codes and it gets control, you know, in every life, you know, and you know, the spirit and the flesh are always worn against each other, you know, but the flesh, you know, the Bible says if, you know, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, but continue for that spirit to be willing inside of you. You've got to continue to get God's word in you so it can, you know, it can work through your mind and that you know how to battle in the mind. In the battle is in the mind. And you know, the strong delusion that he's talking about, you know, being deceived.
You know, there's a spirit of Anacross that's already here and Anacross is going to be revealed, but the Bible talks about that spirit of Anacross is already here. So what's going about, you know, it's trying to deceive us. It's trying to trick us and it's trying to turn scripture around and all these things because he knows that Evelyn knows that his days are getting numbered and we're living in the last days. And you know, with that Anacross spirit, it's going to contradict everything that Jesus is doing across, it's going to try to contradict it.
You know, it's going to, you know, the Bible says if any man preach any other thing, but Christ has been crucified, count that curse. So you need to really look at what you believe in and what is it, what is it, your authority in your life. And you know, we've got to prepare the people that there is deception. There's a spirit of Anacross here.
It's going to be a powerful deception because, you know, we're going to be persecuted. This, what we've seen is nothing what we're about to face. You know, the persecution of the church, he says that the very elect will be deceived. That's the very elect is the ones that actually are committed to God, the ones that are committed Christians, that are devoted Christians.
So we've got to be prepared and work with God and prepare our minds for what's coming. And that spirit of Anacross, it's going about and it's in the churches. You know, that's mainly where it's at. That spirit is in the churches.
And I want to read a few scriptures on, you know, being deceived and Isaiah 5, 20, he says, well, to them that call evil good and good evil, that put darkness for light and light for darkness and put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. That's what's going on. You know, people are starting to come in around. They're trying to, you know, go to the commandments that are founding fathers have based our nation upon and change those commandments.
They're trying to, you know, turn around on scripture and call what's evil and abomination to God. They're trying to make the, you know, this world accept it, that it's okay, that it's good. You know, and I don't want to do any, you know, judgment or any point in fingers or anything, but just really getting your word and God will show you some things. And what's, what we're faced is today, you know, and we're going to reap consequences.
Our nation, we've got to, we've got to get on fire for the Lord. We've got to seek the Lord with all of our heart because we could turn into a national ruin. Our nation will be ruined because of the things that are loud in the nation. He tells us in Isaiah 5 21 well into them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight.
We've got to keep relying on God in his will, not what we think is right, but what God thinks is right. We've got to hold strong in those commandments. He tells us in Proverbs 12, too, a good man obtained favor of the Lord, but a man of wicked devices, he will condemn. He tells us in Proverbs 333 the curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked, but he blessed the habitation of the just.
our nation, it's the house. We're the house, we're the temples of God. But the curse of the Lord, God is sinned in curses because we're rebellion against His commandments, because we're turning away from His commandments. It's just you really got to pray to see what is good and evil, but God will show you what's good and even what's darkness and lot.
And I want to read one more script from Turner-Hurry. Let's see. Isaiah 1311, he says, and I will punish the world for their evil and wicked, for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the prodigies and I will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Right there, we're going to see a wrath if we continue to accept the things that are abomination to God. Amen. And in Ephesians chapter 5 or 6 for the wrath of God will come up on the children disobedience. And so the message today is don't be deceived.
Don't let God give your whole heart to God. Don't put your faith in hearing by the Word of God. You've got to get in your Bible. You've got to get your own personal relationship with God.
Don't depend on your preacher, your Sunday school teacher, whatever it might be. I talked to a guy yesterday and he said, well my preacher said, my preacher said, and I'm like, well, you know what? The Bible said it's better to put your faith in men than trusted Lord to put your faith in the men. And the Bible also speaks about, in Second Peter said, in the last days of minifoss prophets and minifoss teachers and minifoss will follow their pernicious ways.
And the way of the truth will be he was spoken of. And literally once God changed my life and really truly saved me and started revealing his mystery to me, I started seeing that most people behind the pulpit is not even preaching true doctrine. I mean, it's amazing. The Bible says if the gospel would be here, it is here that those are lost.
And so get your own personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Well, you can hear God's voice and you might be out there today and say, well, I have a hard time reading them. I can't comprehend. Well, that was all me.
When God called me to preach, I never read a book in my life. I lived at my home for almost eight months, close to a year before I even remember my address. I mean, I'm just being real with you. If God could teach me, he could teach anybody.
The Word of God says that his whole experience would teach us all things and which is the truth. And so listen, I'd hate to, the Bible said in James 2, 10, who should ever keep the whole wall, offended at one point, is guilty of all. I mean, it would be a shame to go to church and read and try to seek God and be wrong on one thing and miss it. You know what I'm saying?
So straight as a gate and arrows away, the broad way leaders are destruction, men go there at. But straight as a gate and arrows away, at least a lot of people will find it because very few people are putting God first in their life. Totally submit and commit yourself to Jesus. Look, the prayer line, it's on the numbers on the screen.
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