MASK - Moment of Truth Bible Baptist Church 10/19/2025

[SPEAKER_00]: First Peter chapter five verse eight says, if you please stand on reading God's word, it doesn't say that by the way, I'm saying that, but it says in first Peter chapter five verse eight, be sober and washful because you're adversary the devil.

[SPEAKER_00]: Walks around as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

[SPEAKER_00]: God bless and honor the reading of his word and you may be seated.

[SPEAKER_00]: Aggie kick kick.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't worry.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's still me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just wearing a mask.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know it fooled you for just a second and you thought it was a sailor man.

[SPEAKER_00]: One who eats a lot of spins and I do each spin it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it's still me.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're loving pastor.

[SPEAKER_00]: But this was a mask.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just a mask.

[SPEAKER_00]: I actually have a pop-by man and old pop-by match for my childhood, but I didn't have a hat my cousin did and this is not it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was very shocked at the day to see they brought this out.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's kids come out through this year, I was really excited about that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got it in the course, very excited about that, but no, this is not me.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is pop-by the sailor man, but it's a mask.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the title today, Sermon.

[SPEAKER_00]: This time here, one thing that sells a lot besides candy and spooky decorations, horror movies, that's horror movies, pumpkins, there's a lot of pumpkins.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's masked.

[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, you just saw my pop-up, I'm asked, that's one new one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Another thing that sells a lot of costumes, you've heard the Halloween story they call it, spirit, you know, it's not that kind of spirit, okay?

[SPEAKER_00]: But there's costumes, makeup, disguises,

[SPEAKER_00]: a lot of masks, you know.

[SPEAKER_00]: You remember those old glasses, they sell big black plastic glasses, they had the fake nose and the mustache that's supposed to look like grout to a marks, really.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's supposed to look like a lot of kids don't know that this thing is funny, funny glasses, but it's grout to a marks.

[SPEAKER_00]: uh... and i want to know you know this is supposed to be but people would wear those things this time of year uh... and uh... devil wears lots of mask too he's the preconders the deceiver father of lies he wears lots of mask and that's the title states are masks

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, as we're about to get into this, I'm going to have my dear brother here, pass out, not pass out.

[SPEAKER_00]: The pass out some pictures here that I didn't get done until it was time for a sentence school to start, took me a while, but got it done partially because I was also working on stuff for next week, which we'll have to have prepared for you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Mall is working on something, which is good.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the devil knows where mask, as you will see,

[SPEAKER_00]: What are the masks that he wears as a mask of innocence?

[SPEAKER_00]: Now this one could be a little confusing, but he wears a mask of innocence.

[SPEAKER_00]: And what does that mean, mask of innocence?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, quite honestly, there are some innocent things about this time here.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not going to disrespect all of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want you to think I'm saying it's wrong for any of you to go on out trick or treating as a child.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to say it's wrong for you to have a pumpkin.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that at all.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to treat and I did all those things.

[SPEAKER_00]: I still did this day, watch some of the innocent, Halloween cartoons, for instance, charter brown.

[SPEAKER_00]: My goodness, I now have a charter brown watch on where, and I still watch a great pumpkin.

[SPEAKER_00]: I still watch, I even watch the fat average special from back in the day.

[SPEAKER_00]: I still watch who basically is me with what the tan.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I still watch, I still watch some of the innocent things.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's about creating such innocent things.

[SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of fun games that people have this time of year.

[SPEAKER_00]: Are they innocent?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they are.

[SPEAKER_00]: They are innocent.

[SPEAKER_00]: But even in the innocent things, even in the innocent things, unless it is important, even in the innocent things, the devil may

[SPEAKER_00]: And let's say what I'm saying now, the devil may try to use the innocent things, try to sneak in, looking innocent and be a disguise.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, what does that mean that you should have fun in life?

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what I'm saying.

[SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about that a minute.

[SPEAKER_00]: But he does try to sneak in, so I'm going to turn to Matthew chapter 7, Matthew chapter 7, verse 15 through 20.

Matthew 7 · chapter mention Matthew 7:15–20

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what the devil does.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's all about this guy.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not honest.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was a trickery from the beginning, whenever he switched from being an angel to a fallen angel.

[SPEAKER_00]: But this one says in Matthew chapter 7, verse 15 through 20, it says, beware the false prophets who come to you and sheep's clothing.

Matthew 7:15–20

[SPEAKER_00]: You will know them by their fruit.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do men gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even so, every good tree bears good fruit.

[SPEAKER_00]: But a corrupt tree bears evil fruit.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll have another picture that's another time with a bad tree.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, a good tree cannot bear evil fruit.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nor can a corrupt tree bear good fruit.

[SPEAKER_00]: Every tree that does not bear good fruit,

[SPEAKER_00]: is cut down and thrown into the fire.

[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, by their feet, you will know them.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, they may appear to be innocent, but God doesn't look on that word, does he?

[SPEAKER_00]: He looks on the inward.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus knows this from our inward, the inward, and by that time I inward appearances.

[SPEAKER_00]: He knows this from our inward appearances.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, should we stop all fun things for children and for families?

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even to my family, my mother and father, when he became a pastor, there were a lot people who said, they got very legalistic, very legalistic where they start almost becoming all about works and things to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they had to think about him being a pastor.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have people who say, your kids shouldn't go out to a treat, your kids shouldn't have any of the fun stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: You shouldn't at Christmas time have any fun with it.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, certain holiday characters, Santons, and I won't get too deep into you, and they're choosing the back, I don't want kids to hear things like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I won't go and know that, but I will say this.

[SPEAKER_00]: They thought upon this, they pondered upon it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And my father remembered the fun things he got to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: My mother did not get to do a lot of those fun things.

[SPEAKER_00]: And my, because of the family she was in, and that she wasn't brought up in a wealthy family, or it really just an poor family.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so my father thought about this, and he thought, you know what?

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want my family growing up in a place where there is no fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus doesn't want us to be so legalistic that we have no fun at the same time.

[SPEAKER_00]: We gotta be careful.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't want it to be so fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's just say, ah, you don't wanna worry about Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: You gotta be careful.

[SPEAKER_00]: What am I trying to say?

[SPEAKER_00]: Should we have fun?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, you should have fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: But.

[SPEAKER_00]: On the other hand, on the other hand, you need to discriminate.

[SPEAKER_00]: You need to discriminate when you're letting your kids have fun and wash those things.

[SPEAKER_00]: Discriminate.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be careful.

[SPEAKER_00]: Use guidance.

[SPEAKER_00]: Guide your children.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember whenever we were growing up when we heard all the rumors about razor blades being put in apples?

[SPEAKER_00]: You remember when we were growing up, we heard about poison being put in the corn and all the shows that maybe not heard it, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you heard all these things.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so when you're parents, you when you got home, they made sure the candy was safe before you went crazy with eating all that Snickers first, that's me.

[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing, you're like, oh no, Paul, I got left as this grow stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: God makes sure your family and your mom and dad discriminated.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're very careful.

[SPEAKER_00]: Make sure everything was safe before you ate it up.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's how you supposed to do with the people.

[SPEAKER_00]: Make sure that this stuff you bring in is innocent.

[SPEAKER_00]: Make sure you don't eat up everything.

[SPEAKER_00]: Make sure you don't put poison in your system.

[SPEAKER_00]: Make sure it's truly innocent.

[SPEAKER_00]: Recognize innocent from not innocent.

[SPEAKER_00]: So be careful.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't want to be too legalistic, but you don't want to be so ridiculous and blinded that you let anything and everything in.

[SPEAKER_00]: So what do you need?

[SPEAKER_00]: You need balance.

[SPEAKER_00]: You need balance.

[SPEAKER_00]: Balance.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's hard.

[SPEAKER_00]: How do you get balanced?

[SPEAKER_00]: Holy Spirit?

[SPEAKER_00]: Holy Spirit balances you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's made that mistake, by the way.

[SPEAKER_00]: One of the hardest things I mentioned this before, one of the hardest things I had when I got in the kindergarten.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really realized how bad off I was.

[SPEAKER_00]: My mom didn't tell me to tell I was.

[SPEAKER_00]: about 40 years old.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I guess I wouldn't walk him down the line.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have supposed to walk balanced on the line?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I guess I wasn't very bad folks.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't huge like I am now.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I would walk him down the line apparently I was cooking a heart of stand-up street when I was walking down this line.

[SPEAKER_00]: So they had to keep me walking till I got it right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, folks, I have a heart pound balancing.

[SPEAKER_00]: I guess that or did the problem is when we as Christians don't walk balanced, God tries to

[SPEAKER_00]: You have to be balanced with what you take in and what you don't.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have to be careful and all of us to get off balance sometimes.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then, guys, it's a son, daughter, I love you.

[SPEAKER_00]: You need to quit watching this.

[SPEAKER_00]: You need to quit or be balanced.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be careful how much you partake of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Is it wrong that you can't eat?

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: Is it wrong that you all can't eat all the time and not have anything balanced?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have a problem with that.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's why it has to be balanced.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's difficult.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's difficult.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have to be very careful what you take it.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says in Job, that's Job speaking by way, Job 24, 14 through 15.

[SPEAKER_00]: Job 24, 14 through 15, the murderer rising with the like, kills the poor and needy.

[SPEAKER_00]: And in the night he is like a thief, also the eye of the adulterer, waits for the twilight saying, no, I will see me and he disguises his face.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like he's putting on a mask.

[SPEAKER_00]: He comes in pretending that he's innocent.

[SPEAKER_00]: No one's going to see me as a wrestler.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know John Cena, in fact, he says all the times you can't see me and don't know, you know what I'm talking about.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jeremy loves you.

[SPEAKER_00]: So then,

[SPEAKER_00]: So, what happens is he thinks he can't see, but you know what, God sees all things.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: What's the next mask?

[SPEAKER_00]: This will talk for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: This one's hard for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I gotta be honest about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: The mask of the entertainment.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, who?

[SPEAKER_00]: This is hard for me, folks.

[SPEAKER_00]: To talk about, I like entertainment.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really do.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's a problem, the emask of entertainment.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I like those old classic cartoons I've just mentioned.

[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of them are harmless and innocent.

[SPEAKER_00]: I even like somebody old, and I don't watch them often.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be honest with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're only usually in October.

[SPEAKER_00]: I watch one or two, hardly any of them, but the classic terror movies.

[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, I count classic terror, they want to separate them from the horror films that we're going to talk about in a moment.

[SPEAKER_00]: The classic terror, and I'm talking about Frankenstein.

[SPEAKER_00]: from 1931, Dracula, 1931.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't talk about what's his name of, Legosi, you know, I like Legosi, and Boris Carloff, you know, these people, they were, they were fun, they were, you really got cracked me up, I was watching some of those of you at the day, and it's amazing that they put horrible rating on because they were some smoking on there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now,

[SPEAKER_00]: not so much on the newer ones or just not that bet what there's a field of all sorts of bad things but that's not so bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: The one that has smoking on old ass horrible bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now don't get wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I'm going to have, but I just thought that's interesting how that's sort of a horrible bad because someone smokes in the background.

[SPEAKER_00]: But yet the new ones, oh that's good for all of the rage is why.

[SPEAKER_00]: because that's what they want.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, the point is that those classic terror ones are not really as scary, but they're kind of fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you got the wearable of the mummies, they're even the sea creature.

[SPEAKER_00]: You remember the sea creature, what, the creature, the back of the moon?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, fun stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, but then you have some of the horror films that call in the 1950s, the 60s, mostly corny.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I had alien things coming in.

[SPEAKER_00]: But then something happened in the 70s.

[SPEAKER_00]: You start having other types of horror films coming in.

[SPEAKER_00]: The 1970s you

[SPEAKER_00]: You all know what I'm talking about.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now am I saying that if you're raw set you're a demon I'm not saying that but Satan used that did you know in 1973?

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was 73 I maybe wrong about the years actually, but when that movie came out It might have been same for us anyway Whenever it came out did you know there's a lot of demon possession coming on people start looking into it now

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll explain something to you if you're saved by the apologies.

[SPEAKER_00]: You cannot be possessed by a demon.

[SPEAKER_00]: You cannot be, but you can't be oppressed.

[SPEAKER_00]: Meaning the demon can mess with you, but it cannot take over you.

[SPEAKER_00]: But there's a lot of demon possession because people started looking into it and demons took over.

[SPEAKER_00]: So entertainment can be a bad thing if you bring too much of those evil things in and Satan tries to look innocent.

[SPEAKER_00]: because how to start?

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes what look innocent isn't so innocent.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so it's just a movie.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, folks, you got him careful.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Jesus says, Lord says, and be careful what you put in your mind.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be careful what you bring into your heart and your home.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't enter all that in.

[SPEAKER_00]: Look, I know, because when I was 13, 14, I was so sick around certain people in my life.

[SPEAKER_00]: I won't say who, because I don't want to get in trouble with my mom in it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that they would, you know what I'm saying?

[SPEAKER_00]: When I was young, I was snicked some of that stuff, and then Satan uses that fear deadening.

[SPEAKER_00]: He uses it.

[SPEAKER_00]: He masked himself as innocence, and you can see little popcorn picks you there.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's hiding behind innocence, you know?

[SPEAKER_00]: We hide the entertainment, and coming in, trying to say, oh, it's just a movie, but you know what?

[SPEAKER_00]: The devil uses that, doesn't he?

[SPEAKER_00]: And so you gotta be careful what you watch.

[SPEAKER_00]: You got to be very careful with what you want.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then not only that the OS had the slasher films coming out mostly late 978 yet Halloween was the first of those big slasher films and you had others.

[SPEAKER_00]: I will go in them all You know nightmare on Elm Street was fun But there's a lot a lot of others that came with them and Yes, since then you had tons of murder movies and even demon films in the early 2000s late 90s started coming in demon films going along with all that and

[SPEAKER_00]: compared to all of them and what I mean by demon films well in the movies demons will take over people and people start looking at all that and there's been a tons of demon movies and people with all they're not real they're just movies or just see what I mean how Satan makes it look like it's not real there's nothing really behind it it's just entertainment

[SPEAKER_00]: What is that?

[SPEAKER_00]: That's blinding people.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's making them think it's nothing to be scared of.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is real.

[SPEAKER_00]: Demons are real.

[SPEAKER_00]: There is real as you sitting there in that pew.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's real.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we need to be aware of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a mess that Satan tries to use to fool people.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't be scared.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing to be scared of.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can't see me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing to be afraid of.

[SPEAKER_00]: Folks.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's as real as real coming.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now you as a Christian don't need to be afraid because greater is E who is in you and you know that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that's not the point.

[SPEAKER_00]: The point is it's real and I'm not telling you what to watch or what you should do.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you to be careful.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even, listen now, we look at Mac do O most of them, is they're tame in comparison.

[SPEAKER_00]: But.

[SPEAKER_00]: even say, tannic rituals were done in films, true witchcraft was done in films.

[SPEAKER_00]: And some good, good, probably some of the stuff people watched could and has led many people away from God.

[SPEAKER_00]: I knew people who love the Lord, they start watching that stuff, they got away from God saying, oh, you know what?

[SPEAKER_00]: They got away from it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not saying everybody they've watched it did.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying, some of that stuff could get in your mind, brainwashed you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_00]: and get you away from following the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Why does that matter?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because that's exactly what Satan wants to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: He wants to distract you, get a mask covering over you.

[SPEAKER_00]: So you don't pay attention to the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what he's always done.

[SPEAKER_00]: He distracted Adam and Eve.

[SPEAKER_00]: He misguided them.

[SPEAKER_00]: He misquoted the Word of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's done it all the way since the beginning.

[SPEAKER_00]: He did the same thing with a third of the angels.

[SPEAKER_00]: But what's he's always been about?

[SPEAKER_00]: He entertained with a lie, with this stretch.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's even led some to the occult.

[SPEAKER_00]: Or half and half, they both.

[SPEAKER_00]: He just sensitizes people.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then he, he just sensitizes about murder, violence.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's done some of the video games.

[SPEAKER_00]: And not just those kinds of movies, other movies too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Some with action and no cause like action movies.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's a problem with all those action movies.

[SPEAKER_00]: You get these sensitized to the violence.

[SPEAKER_00]: Or the language, my heavens, I was watching a movie day of the day of TV show, man, every other syllable with four letters, every of the syllable for pity, sake, come on now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Come on, all sorts of types of music, good grief, this stuff they do.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it says the second Corinthians four, four.

[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, I'm not trying to give you anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just telling you to beware of the devil.

[SPEAKER_00]: Beware of the devil in disguise.

[SPEAKER_00]: Second Corinthians 4-4, this time I sat in here, the God of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, it's time I've lost.

[SPEAKER_00]: Blinded the minds of those who do not believe, less the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't want them to see.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't look that way, no, don't look that way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, look at me, look at me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't you dare look that way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, look at the man, it's just entertainment.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just entertainment.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's entertainment.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's why he wants to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't you look that way.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, don't go away.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, hey, got a new man, the sequel, the sequel.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't want to miss it, you miss it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Someone's going to read it for you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I look folks, if anyone could tell you, who could be overtaken by entertainmentist me?

[SPEAKER_00]: Unintentionally, it became a God to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't mean it to be.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you go back to the 90s and it became a God to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm not saying I love it more and God.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying unintentionally I did.

[SPEAKER_00]: I still love movies, but I don't love movies like I love God.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I never will again.

[SPEAKER_00]: Never again.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians 427.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Ephesians 427.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's be careful.

[SPEAKER_00]: No matter what it is, you put in my, just be careful what you partake of.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be careful what you put into you.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you eat, you have to be careful if you're allergic to it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be careful what you put into you emotionally and visually, whatever it is.

[SPEAKER_00]: So this one says in Ephesians 427, Ephesians 427 says, do not give place to the devil or talk more about this next week,

[SPEAKER_00]: Do not give place to the devil.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't give place to them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be aware.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be careful.

[SPEAKER_00]: be aware, be aware, Ephesians 5-11, Ephesians 5-11, and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness instead expose them.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's why I'm doing right now to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm expecting, you know how embarrassed it is for me to tell you that at one time I put not intentionally, but I put works of automatic entertainment above God.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's embarrassing for me to tell you that.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you saw where I live, you say, oh, he likes movies, he likes cartoons, he likes, I have collections of things, they're a love it, but you know what?

[SPEAKER_00]: Before all that, you know how to do the everyday, read the word, I pray when I wake up, I pray when I go to bed, I pray, pray, pray, pray, pray all day long, God is first in my life, God is first in my heart.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if you came down and you saw all those things, you may assume, I put those things for the Lord, I don't, I don't.

[SPEAKER_00]: But we got to be careful because if you just barely turn your attention away, Satan can try to distract.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't look!

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't look at Jesus!

[SPEAKER_00]: Look at the entertainment!

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't look at this!

[SPEAKER_00]: Look at that!

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he doesn't, he doesn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's damn fair, everybody.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness instead, expose them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Show what they are, show them, be aware there's danger.

[SPEAKER_00]: Earlier in Sunday's school, I mentioned how, one time I was on the way down a road and God got my teaching to be careful.

[SPEAKER_00]: Stop, and I stopped, and I saw a gravy, ooh, drop right there in the street.

[SPEAKER_00]: Had I kept, what in my car, by the way?

[SPEAKER_00]: If my brother, if he would've killed me,

[SPEAKER_00]: But praise the Lord God, I was listening to that voice.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't see it was dark, it was love a clock at night.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't have seen it, I didn't see the drop, but God showed me that drop right in the street.

[SPEAKER_00]: Whew, praise the Lord, I was listening to that voice.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's still small voice.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we need to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was exposing, Philippians 4-8, Philippians 4-8, finally brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise,

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what our mind needs to be on.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what a heart needs to be on.

[SPEAKER_00]: These things, amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then there's another mask.

[SPEAKER_00]: Mask of honesty.

[SPEAKER_00]: The mask of honesty.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let me just tell you about Satan.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's the father of lies.

[SPEAKER_00]: But he claims we're sharing the truth about life,

[SPEAKER_00]: He's the father of lies, he tries to show you to live and how to decide, to live, and how you should decide, how you should decide what's true, how you should decide what your truth is, how you should decide what is right, what is wrong, and no one else should tell you what it is.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, if you're not listening to God, and you're telling God what's right, and you're telling God what's wrong, then you're a liar, and you're telling the Creator, that He's wrong!

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, why would Satan care what you do?

[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: He cares, in fact, that you're being a seed and you can't lead other people to the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what's going on.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's one truth in his Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, let's now go to Proverbs 26.

[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 26.

[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 26 verse 24 through 28.

Proverbs 26:24–28

[SPEAKER_00]: Because it says this, it says, he who hates disassembles with his lips

[SPEAKER_00]: deceit within him.

[SPEAKER_00]: When he speaks kindly, do not believe him.

[SPEAKER_00]: For there are seven abominations in his heart, though his hatred is covered by deceit.

[SPEAKER_00]: His wickedness will be shown before the whole congregation, whoever digs a pit will fall into it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he who rolls a stone, it will return upon him.

[SPEAKER_00]: A lying tongue haste those who are afflicted by it and a flattering mouth works real.

[SPEAKER_00]: Satan is gonna lie, that's what he does.

[SPEAKER_00]: He tries to pretend he's innocent and he's not.

[SPEAKER_00]: So often times, he'll tell people, there is no God, it's all the lie.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's all the lie.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've seen a minister calling himself a minister and he has a church in California.

[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, he's a homosexual and he believes in all that to be of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even though God says it's not,

[SPEAKER_00]: So the right away, there's a lie in there.

[SPEAKER_00]: He also believes that there is no hell, a laxalai, in other words, God's lying, talks about hell, more and talks about heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he's saying that God's a liar.

[SPEAKER_00]: In two cases, he says you can do anything you want.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't listen to these parts of the Bible.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he's taken by our part, that's a lie.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can't take away the Bible, say all these things are lies, and God is real, God saying it's not real, but what you're saying is real.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right away, you're being used of the devil, and this is what this minister does.

[SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, we got to be careful what we take in, what we put in, and this is what it says of Proverbs 23, 637, Proverbs chapter 23, 637, says, do not eat the bread of him who

Proverbs 23 · chapter mention

[SPEAKER_00]: Neither desire his delicacies.

[SPEAKER_00]: For as he thinks in his heart, I love this part.

[SPEAKER_00]: As he thinks in his heart, so is he.

[SPEAKER_00]: Eat and drink he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've lost a lot of shows recently, Twilight Zones, Alfred Hitchcock presents things like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And one thing that I don't like about those shows is you start seeing wicked people, crying to poison people and do things like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, if you got a person who's a liar and a seat, now, how can you trust when you're trying to feed you?

[SPEAKER_00]: The feeding your lies and the seat says they're honest, but they're often not, be careful, know who you're with.

[SPEAKER_00]: Satan says he's honest.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not honest.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's wearing a mask of honesty.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not honest.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's all eyes.

[SPEAKER_00]: What does it say in 1st John 41?

[SPEAKER_00]: It says this in 1st John 41, but love a do not believe every spirit but test the spirits to see whether they are from God because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

[SPEAKER_00]: Their lie is wearing masks.

[SPEAKER_00]: Their wearing masks, false masks.

[SPEAKER_00]: And one last part here, one last part.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says this.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says this.

[SPEAKER_00]: the mass of knowledge.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, how many times has Satan made sure people have so much knowledge?

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, but I know this and I know that they're the mass of knowledge.

[SPEAKER_00]: Education, education and what?

[SPEAKER_00]: Education and science.

[SPEAKER_00]: So call, education of history, so called, education of wisdom, so call, education knowledge, so called, all this knowledge of what?

[SPEAKER_00]: Are what these people say, but folks, and I'm not saying that they'll have knowledge, but folks who there's knowledge and there's wisdom and all this goes against what God says, it's wrong, it's a lie, it's deceit.

[SPEAKER_00]: misguiding is a mask, the hide the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's what the devil wants to do to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: He wants to die to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the beginning of this we talk about be sober, be washable because you're adversary, you're enemy.

[SPEAKER_00]: The devil walks around as first Peter five eight walks around as a roaring lion's sicken who made whom he made about.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's wearing a mask like a lion.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see it on your picture.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's wearing a mask like a lion.

[SPEAKER_00]: But remember, the true lion is Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's the lion, he's the teen, and he lives in your heart, make sure that when he comes around trying to pretend to be a lion, that the lion, Jesus in you says, you're lying, you fake the lion, and I'm not putting up with it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Greater is he who is in me, and he who's of the world for a soft for for.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not putting up with it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Take your mask down because I see right through you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the biggest problem that fake education, fake history, is that he's trying to deteriorate the faith and knowledge of God in his word.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's why he put it in the schools all those years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's why they're trying to do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're trying to hire the gospel behind the veil.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what they're trying to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to remember something.

[SPEAKER_00]: When Jesus died on the cross,

[SPEAKER_00]: over 2,000 years ago when he died on the cross, and he took you as last breath, and the earth got to quake him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that great, big veil ripped right down the middle from the bottom of the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what happened?

[SPEAKER_00]: All of a sudden that Ark of the Covenant, the separation between God and man was separated no more.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, God and you can no longer be separated because now, Jesus can be with you always.

[SPEAKER_00]: No longer let the dots will be separated by a veil.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't let it be hidden from you, make sure it's with you continuously.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't let a mask keep you away from the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't let Satan try to hide, see him for what he is.

[SPEAKER_00]: Colossians 2-8 says this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Colossians 2-8.

[SPEAKER_00]: I always repeat it because of one of us sister back there, sister Raquel, told me to make sure I repeat it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So you know where to look at her, to write it down.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll start making sure you know the gospel.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll start making sure you know the verses.

[SPEAKER_00]: So you know not to quote me.

[SPEAKER_00]: because what I say doesn't matter, but the word of God is what matters.

[SPEAKER_00]: Colossians 2a says, beware, let's anyone captivate you through philosophy and vain deceit, in tradition, and excuse me, in the tradition of men and the elementary principles of the world and not after Christ, amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: or first John chapter 3 verse 8.

1 John 3:8

[SPEAKER_00]: Now you'll see some of these are written down on that page.

[SPEAKER_00]: I gave you some of them.

[SPEAKER_00]: That all.

[SPEAKER_00]: First John chapter 3 verse 8.

1 John 3:8

[SPEAKER_00]: Whoever practices sin is of the devil.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, by the way, it doesn't mean if you've made mess up that you're of the devil again, and that you might be following him and being distracted, I'm doesn't mean you're lost again.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I want to make that clear.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it's what it says, whoever practices sin is of the devil for the devil has been sinning from the beginning.

[SPEAKER_00]: For this purpose, the Son of God, Jesus, the Son of God was revealed that he might destroy the works of the devil.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I love Luke 12, too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Luke 12, too.

[SPEAKER_00]: For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed are hidden that will not be known.

[SPEAKER_00]: Every mask will be removed in the end.

[SPEAKER_00]: Every mask that's Satan tries to wear.

[SPEAKER_00]: Every mask will be revealed.

[SPEAKER_00]: You ever seen in Hollywood, all those plastic surgeries?

[SPEAKER_00]: I was not trying to mock anybody, I guess it says like I am.

[SPEAKER_00]: But all those places, by the way, I'm not making funny anybody, especially if they've had an accident.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's different.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's completely different.

[SPEAKER_00]: But how about those, and not just ladies, by the way, men too, how about those people who have those, uh,

[SPEAKER_00]: singers who all look like Buzz Lightyear, I'm talking about my objection.

[SPEAKER_00]: They want to change their nose and their chin and say, I want to have a play for it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have one naturally.

[SPEAKER_00]: Believe me, I was made fun of for a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to say what they made.

[SPEAKER_00]: They should have a chin look like.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I'll tell you some other things.

[SPEAKER_00]: People will do all sorts of things to look different than what God made them to be.

[SPEAKER_00]: Age was some dignity.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't change it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But those are masks.

[SPEAKER_00]: Those are masks.

[SPEAKER_00]: And in the end, and I'm, you know, whatever, but those are masks.

[SPEAKER_00]: People's masks will come off in the end.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not talking about plastic structures that come up.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about God sees through whatever you're covering up.

[SPEAKER_00]: God sees whatever you're covering up.

[SPEAKER_00]: The truth will be revealed.

[SPEAKER_00]: It will be revealed.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing is covered that will not be revealed and hidden that will not be known.

[SPEAKER_00]: Second Corinthians 4-3.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this is probably my favorite, but I don't know about that on the mall.

[SPEAKER_00]: Second period of four three says, but if the dusts bull is hidden, it is hidden to those who are lost.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I pray for the praise of it all the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: People speak to him about the knowledge of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray and hope he's saved.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really do, I love everyone.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I wanna know how all the presence who is spoken to about the Lord,

[SPEAKER_00]: But not just them, so many people, how you could say this person in particular in my life or I speak to about the Lord just did the other day, speak to them bluntly and kindly and lovingly and how they just can't seem to understand this because that feel is put for their eyes at mask.

[SPEAKER_00]: They can't see that scales are in their eye.

[SPEAKER_00]: They can't see it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, what it says, second Corinthians 4-3, but if our gospel is hidden, it is hidden to those who are lost.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to remember to continue to pray every single day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even if you don't like them, love them, pray for them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Once upon a time, you couldn't see it either.

[SPEAKER_00]: You couldn't see it either.

[SPEAKER_00]: Someone kept praying for you and God kept loving you.

[SPEAKER_00]: And one day, the veil and the skin was clipped in.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pray that there's will too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Second Corinthians 11, 12 through 15.

[SPEAKER_00]: Second Corinthians 11, 12 through 15.

[SPEAKER_00]: says, and I will continue doing what I am doing, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire and opportunity to be found equal to us in what they boast about.

[SPEAKER_00]: For such our false apostles,

[SPEAKER_00]: and the seatful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ, and they're everywhere folks.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see it all the time, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ, they're wearing masks too.

[SPEAKER_00]: And listen to this, and no wonder we're 14, and no wonder we're even Satan disguised themselves as an angelide,

[SPEAKER_00]: And you can see why I picked you doing that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even Satan disguises himself as an angel light, for 15, therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also disguised themselves as ministers and righteousness, whose end will be according to their words.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I've mentioned many names.

[SPEAKER_00]: So many of them don't go into them right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: So many names and ministers who falsely frees the gospel, falsely say how they're going to get to heaven, falsely say how you can get to heaven by your works, falsely say these things, why they're wearing masks?

[SPEAKER_00]: Satan does the same, but folks, masks are meant to be taken on and they will come on.

[SPEAKER_00]: I remember, while I go, I showed you this puff by mask, this new one.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this is built different than the old ones.

[SPEAKER_00]: The old ones had these little baby slicks for your mouth to breathe out.

[SPEAKER_00]: You remember?

[SPEAKER_00]: And they had a different thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: This has like a little cloth or whatever.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's made with velcro at all.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's nice.

[SPEAKER_00]: The old ones had this little, maybe rubber band type things, and they would start breaking them I did by the old ones old.

[SPEAKER_00]: They were broken all that and you try to retry it and tell like, it's so tight on your head, you could barely get it off.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the plastic was such a weird one.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to start cutting you.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the little breathing thing, I start getting closer to your lips and you just barely get it out of that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then go folks, those masks are not meant to stay on permanently, but in the night you take off that mask at the end, it's on your treasures and candies and you be sweating, full of sweat and you see indentations of that mask and you see little eye holes right here because it got tighter you you look like some kind of mutant.

[SPEAKER_00]: The massacre meant to come off, but oftentimes the masks come off too late when people have been fooled by the masks of the devil and they couldn't tell they'd be in lie to the whole time.

[SPEAKER_00]: They thought they were listening to an angel of light, and it was a devil.

[SPEAKER_00]: They were scared of that lion when it was a devil.

[SPEAKER_00]: They thought there was pain of tension all that time to a lamb when it was the wolf and sheep's clothing.

[SPEAKER_00]: They thought that they were watching good entertainment when it reality that entertainment was a trick.

[SPEAKER_00]: They thought that they was doing something innocent what's led to the tricks.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't mention earlier when I saw my innocent things.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had problems when I was teaching the children about.

[SPEAKER_00]: things, I hate people asking about Harry Potter, which was innocent in itself, but it could also lead to things and problems and not because it's a problem itself, but because of the wizardry at all, there are certain innocent things in it could lead people to confusion and God's not the author of confusion and we've got to be careful.

[SPEAKER_00]: Eventually, the mass come off, but oftentimes it's too late, and what is masked?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let me tell you what's masked.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sin can be masked.

[SPEAKER_00]: Evil can be masked.

[SPEAKER_00]: the devil and death may mask.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes people can't see what's looking at them.

[SPEAKER_00]: The thing that should never be masked is the honesty, righteousness, and wonderfulness of the Lord God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Never be ashamed to show the gospel to the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: And as you pray about that this week and all the weeks to come throughout your life, I will close today with second Corinthians, chapter three, verse 18.

[SPEAKER_00]: For it says in 2 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 18, but we all sing the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces as in a mirror are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory by the spirit of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 3:18

[SPEAKER_00]: We're not to be covered, we're to be unveiled, changing more and more to the image of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: more of Jesus, less of me, amen, amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go out for it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lord Jesus Christ, we pray right now that the mask come off.

[SPEAKER_00]: We pray Lord God, you will show us the mask that the devil is trying to wear to take us astray.

[SPEAKER_00]: The things we need to change our lives Lord and I know we all have them.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray that we not be ashamed of what we have done.

[SPEAKER_00]: Melor God, you will lead us and guide us to make better steps, better choices.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray, Lord God, that we can recognize when the enemy is in front of us, that we be able to see him and notice the traps that he's trying to set in front of us.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray, Lord God, that we will remove those masks and remove the mask we wear.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray, Lord Jesus Christ, we wear masks no more, but you're honest to be seen.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray for all this and you're holding a precious name Lord Jesus, amen and amen.