“The False Revival” | Revelation 17:1–8

Revelation chapter 17 the coming religious revival.

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False religion is the enemy of the faith.

But since the beginning of time, sadly, false teaching of false

religion has continued to flourish and draw people away

from God. Jesus said John chapter 3 verse

John 3:19

19. This is the condemnation that

the light has come into the world.

Jesus brought the light and men love darkness rather than the

light. So they rejected Jesus because

their deeds were evil. They want to continue to live in

sin, so they love false teaching.

They love false religion and allows them to do what they

please. AW Tozer said the whole world

has been booby trapped by the devil and the deadliest trap of

all is the religious one. In other words, well I've been

to church like I have a Bible, I don't read it, but I have one.

I go to church when I need to. The Australian vernacular or a

story of that. And you would know very well

because our relatives, our friends, our work colleagues

say, well I'm a spiritual person, I know you go to church,

but that's not for me. Organised religion is not for

me. I always say that I'm a

spiritual person, Paul McCartney said.

He's a spiritual person and then it follows along this way, which

is false religion. I worship my God, my way, Jesus

said guess what, that doesn't work with me.

Jesus says I am the way, the truth and the life, and no one

comes to the Father, to God, but by me.

Your way doesn't work. Broad is the road that leads to

destruction, narrow is the path that leads to righteousness.

The very first verse of the Bible lays a firm foundation,

Genesis 11. It says in the beginning God

created the heavens and the earth.

This opening verse in the Bible tells us that everyone and

everything was and is created by God.

It also tells us that the reason for our creation was to know

Him. You know, that's in the majority

of Paul's prayers. Every time Paul would write to a

church, in that opening letter, he says, I pray that you come to

a greater knowledge and understanding of who he is.

That's why you're here today. That's why we teach the word of

God so that you may come to a greater understanding today of

who God is and also to worship him.

This is why we're created to be in fellowship with him, to walk

with him. He said to Abraham, walk before

me, Noah, Enoch, walk before God.

Adam and Eve initially enjoyed that wonderful relationship

which you and I are going to enjoy in glory.

Genesis chapter 2 verse 7 The Lord God formed man of the dust

Genesis 2:7

of the ground. We sang about it this morning.

Breathe into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a

living being. Why?

To worship and to serve the living God.

Genesis 219 Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast

of the field, every bird of the air brought them to Adam.

Why did He bring them to Adam? Because there's this communion,

this fellowship with Adam to see what Adam, what are you, what

are you going to call this? Well, I'll call that an

elephant, call that a giraffe. I'll call that a dodo bird.

And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was it's

name. So there's this this God saying

he's bringing all the animals. Yeah, this is one of those.

That's a cool name there. And so there was this this this

fellowship, this communion. But we know what happened.

Adam and Eve disobeyed God, sin entered the world, death came

with sin and heartache. And it was not long after the

great flood that man decided again to go the whole hog and

collectively choose not to worship God.

The flood occurs with Noah and as the ark just ate souls and

then only in Chapter 11, men said, you know what, let's do

our own thing. It didn't take very long, just a

few chapters. Galatia Genesis Chapter 11,

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verse four. And they said, come, let us

build ourselves a city, a tower whose top is in the heavens.

Let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered

abroad over the face of the whole earth.

There was a fellow back in Genesis 10 by the name of Nimrod

who started all all the stories and the counterfeit of him being

gored by a a pig and hunting coming back to life.

And then he being born through a virgin again of a mother and and

mother. And the the Donner and the Child

and all the false religions that and the name Astadi and all

those Osiris all came from that one situation.

So instead of worshipping the one true God, mankind chose to

worship false gods. It was a choice.

They chose a false religious system.

They built this tower we'll go up into into the heavens.

And there they would look into astrology, your day by the

stars. So they worship the earth and

the stars, even themselves. It's funny.

Nothing must change. 2025 isn't that today your day by the

stars? People worship themselves.

People worship the earth. Climate fanaticism.

Mahatma Gandhi, who's revered as this great peacemaking man once

said, and I quote, I consider myself a Hindu, a Christian, a

Muslim, a Jew, a Buddhist, and a Confucian.

What he should have said is I consider myself a confusion.

Is that not confusing? That it is the heartbeat of all

false religions is confusion. You can always tell when people

have been reading other books besides the Bible to tell them

what the Bible says because they they they always confuse.

The Bible says God is not the author of confusion.

He brings clarity. Clarity Jesus said to the woman

at the world didn't need John chapter 424.

God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in

spirit and truth. You need the truth.

Today many people reject God as the creator.

I don't believe God created some people.

Even people teaching from pulpits today and Sundays don't

believe that the book of Genesis is just there to sort of like

have a an intro. It's not really want you to go

by. They embrace the religion of

evolution. Evolution is a very cruel

religion. I remember in high school doing

biology year 11 and we learnt this word hypothesis.

Hypothesis is what's called, many of you know, an educated

guess. An evolution is an educated

guess, yet we have it taught as fact in schools and people live

and back their life upon evolution.

Evolution is the law of the jungle, isn't it?

It's the weak and the, you know, the strong.

We keep developing it. So in evolution, euthanasia,

abortion, all those things are not a problem with it.

In evolution, it means if you see something that you want and

you're more powerful and stronger than then you should

just it's the law of the jungle. And so that's what people don't

realise, that evolution is a is a cruel, dangerous religion.

In Revelation 17 we come to the downfall, thankfully, of false

religion, which the Bible symbolises as a woman and a

harlot in character. Every man, woman and child today

and every individual living in the final days of the Great

Tribulation will identify with either the harlot of false

religion or the bride of Christ. There is only that divide in the

world. You are either following false

religion and you're following the harlot of false religion, or

you are part of the Bride of Christ and you follow Jesus

Christ. That's it.

Whilst many will indeed come to Christ, and they will, we learnt

that they'll die for their faith during the seven year period,

particularly in the 1st 3 1/2 years.

There will also be another religious revival, sadly that

will sweep the world during this time.

The Bible calls this revival Babylon the Great, a blasphemous

world religious system. Verse one.

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven balls came and

talked with me, saying to me, come, I will show you the

judgement of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with

whom the kings of the earth, that's all the political powers

and governments committed fornication.

And the inhabitants of the earth, Remember, we've seen that

all the way through the Bible. Inhabitants of the earth, earth

dwellers, those dwell upon the earth, is a reference to the

people who are going to live. Some will live, some, many will

die during the Tribulation period, but who reject Jesus

Christ. They don't want anything to do

with Jesus Christ. They are quite happy to receive

false religion and to worship the Antichrist.

And this great harlot, whom the kings of the earth committed

fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk

with the whine of a fornication. In other words, they took in all

the false teaching, and they were enamoured by it.

John calls this false, blasphemous religious system the

great Harlot. He calls it that four times in

this passage even. He calls it the mother of

harlots, verse 5. And on her forehead was written

Mystery Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots, and of the

abominations of the earth, whose sin is fornication.

Now throughout the Bible, harlotry consistently is a term

used by God to describe one thing, idolatry, that is, not

worshipping the true God, but worshipping in another God.

Whenever Israel, God's chosen people, turned her back upon God

and worship false Pagan deities, God labelled such action as

harlotry. Jeremiah chapter 3 verse 6, for

Jeremiah 3:6

example. The Lord said also to me in the

days of Josiah the king, have you seen what backsliding Israel

has done? She has gone up on every high

mountain places of worship that they built and under every green

tree around these places of worship on they always raise

them up. Then they put these these Groves

around them, and there they did shocking worship of false gods,

and there they played it, says the harlot.

The entire narrative, one of my favourite books in the Bible,

the book of Hosea, is predicated upon this metaphor of an

unfaithful wife. Israel, who plays the harlot as

Hosea shows and shows the character of God.

The prophet of God tried to reach his unfaithful wayward

wife, her name Goma. So true, God tried again and

again to draw his people back to Himself, and yet Israel was

constantly unfaithful to him. What a travesty the mother of

harlots is to the true Church of Jesus Christ.

The true church the Bible describes an Ephesians, is a

chaste virgin without spot, without blemish.

The apostate church, the church that teaches false religion and

false beliefs, is called by God a prostitute.

The true church offers the cup of salvation, the forgiveness of

God through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The apostate church holds the golden cup full of abomination.

In other words, you can go to that church and live how you

please. You can do what you want.

It doesn't matter. You can just turn up.

You know, Al Capone, one of the greatest gangsters, was in

church every Sunday, murdering people Monday through to

Saturday in church every Sunday. He was a very religious person.

It's live how you please. That's the church that people

are looking for. I want to go to church and you

know, and it does what I want. It fits how I want.

The true church is purchased by the blood of Christ.

You and I and everyone here that's received Jesus Christ as

their Lord and Saviour has been bought with a price.

What was the price for? God so loved the world that He

gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should

not perish, but have everlasting life.

He died in our place. He got the wrath of God.

Remember we studied that in our place so that we don't get the

judgement of God upon us anymore.

The apostate church is drunk with the blood of martyrs who

can remember the Spanish Inquisition.

If you haven't got it, you need to get it.

Read it. Fox's Book of Martyrs of of how

the the organised false religious church just persecuted

believers in Christ, slaughtered them, butchered them, tortured

them. The new worldwide religious

system claims to be joined to God, but like a prostitute is

unfaithful to God, whose sin is spiritual fornication, the sin

of turning from God and going and worshipping another God,

being unfaithful to him and and not honouring him in any way.

James chapter 4 wrote to the church verse 4 and he says

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adulterers and adulteresses. Do you not know?

And here's where it fits with us as a church today.

That friendship with the world that is the world follows a

false religious system, is enmity.

It's hostile with God. Whoever therefore wants to be a

friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

I don't want to be an enemy of God.

You don't want to be an enemy of God.

The way you don't make your the way you can make yourself an

enemy of God is to turn your back on him and then be sucked

into false religion. Check your lifestyle.

Check the lifestyle of your kids.

Are you more like your neighbours who don't go to

church and everyone else? Or do you stand out?

Are you salt? Are you light or are you?

No one can tell whether you're a believer or not by the way that

you live, by the way that you speak, the way that you dress,

the way you know whether you go to church or not.

Or I, I believe in God, but I just don't go to church.

I'm not into organised church. There you go again, check your

lifestyle. Read 1 John John goes through it

very clearly about how a Christian should be, what a

Christian should look like, how a Christian behaves.

Check the lifestyle of your kids.

Are your kids just the same as everybody else?

Well, dad, mum, they dress. You know we're going to go to

the beach. Summer's coming up, you know we

drink. These are the bathers we're

going to wear. This is how we're going to, you

know, dress and an attire. This is how I'm going out.

Are you? I get stuck for words and I see

people dressed inappropriately. Always say, what does your

husband think of that? What does your father think?

Did your father let you go out like that?

Where's the shame? Where's the modesty?

You see? Can you spot the Christian, I

know what I'm saying. I have to go down and wear a

Haitian bag. Probably that would be very

fashionable. Probably start a trend.

Well, you've seen the new Haitian bags yet I'm getting one

of those. God will always judge adultery.

It's such a powerful word fornication with a literal or

spiritual. It's not a subject often

preached in church these days because you don't want to hear

that shouldn't say that the 7th commandment you shall not commit

adultery. Clearly the ACT itself is

condemned. God allows no justification for

the ways that many often seek to justify extra marital sex.

It is not to be done. The Bible says when it is done,

it is sin. And it and the damage of it is

horrific. It hurts people.

We've seen it spoken to people who've been affected.

It's a crippling blood. But here's the here's the wonder

of God's grace, the power of God's blood.

God can't forgive that. Remember the woman caught in the

very act of adultery? Woman, where are thine accusers?

There's none. Neither do I condemn thee.

However, go and sin no more. How can he say that?

Because Jesus was going to take the judgement that was due upon

her upon himself. That's why he could say that.

But he did say go and sin no more.

Maybe in this room you've committed such an act, Keith.

No, no, yes, it's pretty predominant these days,

fornication. The Internet has made such a

thing at the click of a button. Now Jesus said on the Sermon on

the Mount, it's not doing the ACT, it's even thinking of the

act you've committed the sin of adultery.

Know this that the precious blood of Jesus, if you repent of

it right where you are, well wash away that sin go and sin no

more. It's not to be done.

Genesis 519 Now the works of the flesh I manifest what

unbelievers do, which are these adultery, fornication,

uncleanness, which is the opposite of purity,

lasciviousness, which is I'm ready to sin, let's go out and

sin ready to sin at any time. That's in Revelation 17 God has

a special judgement for this great harlot of religion.

Verse 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, Purple the

colour of wealth. Scarlet we know is linked to the

dragon and the blood, and also it's also again opulence and

adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her

hand a golden cup of abominations and the filthiness

of a fornication. And on her forehead a name was

written. Mystery Babylon the Great, the

mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth, John

said. I saw the woman drunk with the

blood of the Saints because she's killed them and with the

blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marvelled

with great amazement Roman prostitutes.

At the time John is riding this war, a headband and engraved on

that headband was their name. It's taken from this.

The background to this false religion goes, I said, goes back

to Genesis when they came and said, let's under the leadership

of Nimrod, let's, let's build this temple and notice the

wording. Let us build ourselves, the

city, a tower whose top is in the heavens.

Let us make a name for ourselves lest we be scattered.

Previously God had told Noah, God bless Noah and his sons had

said to them, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth at the

Tower of Babel. I said we're not going to.

Let's just, let's stay strong, let's stay together.

Let's not go out and do what God has taught.

Let's stay. We can, we can do everything.

Babylon was an open rebellion against God built upon

exaltation of themselves. Let us make a name for

ourselves. How many ministries have a name

of their own name? They were degrading God.

We don't need him, nor do we need to do what He commands us.

We'll build our own temple. We'll worship our and what we

want to do our way. The Church of Laodicea, the last

of the seven churches in the Book of Revelation, is doing

that. Remember thou, thou are having

church service. Thou are jamming.

Where was God? Outside?

Wasn't even in church. He was calling people out of

that church. They said that that we're rich,

we got it all down, everything's happening.

This is the place to be. Jesus said no, you're not.

You're poor, you're blind, you're naked and you're

shameful. It's funny how heaven has a

great view of the Church of Laodicea Bible verse 5 of

Genesis Chapter 11 says, but the Lord came down to see the city

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and the tower which the sons of men had built.

And the Lord said, indeed, the people are one.

They all have one language. And this is what they begin to

do now. Nothing that they propose to do

will be withheld from them. Come, it says, let us, that's

the Trinity. Let us go down.

And they're confused their language, that they may not

understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them

abroad from there over the face of the earth.

They ceased building the city. They couldn't communicate.

Therefore its name is called Babel or Babel, because there

the Lord hears that word confused the language of all the

earth. And from there the Lord

scattered them abroad over the face of the earth.

You see, today people want God, but they want him on their own

terms. What sort of service is it?

A quick service? Because you know, I want a

quick. What sort of songs do they sing?

They loud? They saw the hymns or what?

Oh, sorry, there's a Bay Marie at the front there.

You can go through and pick out the service.

Then you go and sit in your own little booth.

You can have your own service. How you want to just pick out

which loud music? Hymns, no drums, loud drums,

symbols, a preacher, loud preacher, sweaty preacher, small

preacher, whatever, just pick it out.

There you go. It's exactly what I want.

People want forgiveness today. Oh, everyone wants forgiveness,

but they don't want repentance because no one's to blame, are

they? So my fault, my mum's fault, my

dad's fault. It's the environment, it's the

school, it's the teacher. All the teachers, they're going.

Yeah, they want heaven. Never been to a funeral, have

you? Where everyone said ma old Billy

burning up now, ain't he? Next to eulogy?

Yeah, he's really burning. Burning with Uncle Tom and

Auntie Mary and all. They're all burning together

now. You.

You. It's horrific to even think

that. But there's no default to

heaven. Heaven is through the cross.

No one wants hell, but hell is a real place and God doesn't want

anyone to go there. Babylon was the beginning of

humanism. They were so proud of the tower

that they built. Look how good, how good this

tower is. Wow.

Mystery Babylon, the Mother of Hearts tells us she is the

source from which much evil and adultery has come.

The root of all false religion. Rebellious humanity created a

new religious system. Let us build when the Bible says

in Psalm 127 one unless the Lord builds the house, they labour in

vain who build it. This church can never be run by

men. This church has men servants,

but servants of God. Jesus Christ is the head of this

church. He is the head of this church,

we seek Him and we are guided by His word and we follow His

instructions. It's not let's vote on what

we're going to do folks. It doesn't work that way.

It's a theology, not a democracy.

It's a theocracy I should say, not a theology.

Theocracy, not a democracy. False religion.

And much of the rubbish being taught from pulpits today is

very much a do it yourself religion.

Do it yourself religion. It was this religion that a

young Daniel found himself up against in Babylon under King

Nebuchadnezzar. Back in verse one, it said that

this woman sat on many waters, referring to all the peoples of

the earth as told by John in verse 15, Revelation 1715.

Then he said to me, the waters which you saw where the harlot

sits are peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues.

So it's a worldwide religion that's going to come to part

where there's this unification under the false prophet

supported by the Antichrist initially and the governments of

the world. There's going to be this

finally, this coming together of all the faiths.

It's it's got its seeds happening now.

We're all, you know, it doesn't matter.

You know which how you what you, whether you call him Allah,

whether you call him God or whether you what we're all on

the same path. No, we're not.

Jesus is not on that path. Otherwise why did he die?

He is the way. There is only one way.

He is the way. But this religion is going to

come out during the tribulation period.

Verse 7 But the Angel said to me, why did you marvel when you

looked at this woman? I will tell you the mystery of

the woman and the beast that carries her, which was has the

seven heads and the 10 horns. The beast that you saw was and

is not and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to

perdition. The beast is the Antichrist.

Remember he's of Satanic origin. We learned in chapter 13 it is

the dragon who gave him his power.

Satan gives the Antichrist his personal power, his throne and

great authority. The beast you saw, it says was

and is not and will ascend out of the bottomless pit.

This is reference to the beast having a seemingly fatal head

wound, an assassination attempt and people go oh he's been

killed and they'll put out the story but he'll become he'll

come back as it is seemingly back from the dead.

Now my opinion is this God is the only one who can bring life.

So therefore here is the Antichrist, the lawless 1.

The new world politician will be assassinated, yes, but he won't

be killed because only God can bring life back from death, but

he will have this imitation. It's the imitation of the death

and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Anti means in place of the beast has seven heads and 10 horns.

In verse 9 it tells us that the seven heads stand for seven

mountains. Many people say, well these are

the seven hills of Rome. Now it says 7 mountains and I

believe you'll see as we go through it, these seven

mountains are 7 kings. People associate Rome with this,

but I think that's too small a target.

Daniel tells us in the last days there will be a revival of the

Roman Empire and those who dwell upon the earth will marvel whose

names are not written in the book of life from the foundation

of the world, when they see the beast that was and is not and

yet is. Here is the mind which has

wisdom. The seven heads are 7 mounds on

which the woman sits. There are also 7 kings. 5 have

fallen. One is and the other has not yet

come. You go.

Couldn't it be written a little bit simpler?

I go. I agree.

The Angel mentioned 7 kings, five of whom have fallen.

That's governments, empires, one who is, and the Last King who

has not yet come. So what does that mean from

John's perspective? John has seen 7 powers that have

exerted a major impact upon Israel, Egypt, Assyria, Babylon,

Medo, Persian, the Greeks, and at the time of John's writing

who the 6th willpower ruling was Rome.

John tells us that there is yet another empire to come.

Daniel saw this as well. Remember the image of

Nebuchadnezzar, the feet and the toes, The great image.

Rome was the only empire that was not overwhelmed by another

empire. It fell apart, remember?

Well, during the Tribulation period, it's going to be

revived, A revived Roman Empire with the Antichrist as the head

of it. And the image that Daniel saw

was a mixture of iron and clay, 10 toes, 10 kings, 10 nations,

and the Antichrist ruling over. And when he comes, he must

continue a short time. The Angel tells us tells John

that the final king, the Antichrist, must continue just a

short time. In fact the Antichrist will rule

for just 42 months or 3 1/2 years, the last half of the

tribulation period. Verse 11, the beast that was and

is not is himself also the 8th and is of the 7th and is going

to perdition after seemingly coming back from the dead, his

empire. Remember he's assassinated.

Well that's the end of him, but he seemingly comes back from the

dead. And so there's the resurgence of

the 8th empire. Verse 12, the 10 horns which you

saw are 10 kings or 10 governments, 10 nations,

European, I believe, who have received no Kingdom as yet, but

they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast.

These are of one mind and they will give their power and

authority to the beast. We have the European Union at

the moment. At the moment they meet

together. They have a parliament, they

have, you know, a passport, they have the euro dollar.

All that's happened. Hasn't it happened very quickly?

Well, what's going to happen in government?

It's very hard to get all these nations together to make

decisions. So the best way to make a

decision at this time when things need to be done, we need

to appoint someone. We need to give our authority.

This one person who goes, this is what we're going to do.

We're going to do this now. We're going to do it without

having let's all get together. We're going to vote on this.

And that's what's going to happen with the European

nations. They'll hand over their

sovereignty to the Antichrist because he'll come across as

man, this guy is a genius. It says verse 14, these will

make war with the Lamb, that's the European Union under the

heading of the Antichrist. These will make war with the

Lamb, that's Jesus Christ, and the Lamb will overcome them, for

he is Lord of Lords, King of kings, and those who are with

him are called chosen, are called sorry, are called chosen

and faithful. Chapter 19, we see actually see

that the final battle, the battle of Armageddon.

But the Antichrist of the beast will not allow the great harlot

of false religion to ride on his power forever.

So he uses the religious fervour of this religious system for a

while. That's why it says she starts

off, it says she's sitting on him, riding on the beast.

He's supporting her. The governments are supporting

this religious system. But then in verse 15, then he

said to me, the waters which you saw with the harlots, it's the

peoples and multitudes, nations and tongues and the 10 horns

which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make

her desolate, naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

In other words, it's going to come to a great end, this

worldwide religion. How's that going to happen?

On the day that the Antichrist walked into the temple, rebuilt

in Israel under his agreement with Israel, and he says, now

worship me, you were I'm God. Bow down the whole world, bow

down and worship me. That's the end of the false

religious system. As the Antichrist now says, I'm

God, the 10 kings give him the authority and their army.

So the Antichrist, as I said, will for a period befriend this

religious system, support it, use it.

Then he makes himself the object of worship.

Verse 17 for God. Now notice this.

We've studied all of this, for God has put it into their

hearts, hearts of the kings, all those who think they're running

the world, all the governments of the world.

It fits in so beautifully with Psalm 2.

Why does a nation's rage? God has put it into their hearts

to fulfil His purpose, to be of one mind and to give their

Kingdom to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled.

And the woman who you saw is that great city which reigns

over the kings of the earth. With all the confusion that

false teachers and false religion seeks to cast this

giant shadow over. It will be the Lamb of God who

ultimately overcomes and reigns over all on the second coming of

Jesus Christ. As you and I are here today,

you're probably thinking, well this is what's this got to do

with me? This is what ahead?

Well, it's got plenty to do with you.

If you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, it has

everything to do with you. If you know Christ then you'll

be taken up in the rapture. But many children today in our

nation, many Australian kids, many churches today have

extremely blurred lines on what is truth and what is false

because they've moved away from this as being the authority in

the Roman Catholic Church. This isn't the authority.

The Pope has the final say. And these blurred lines for you

and I living in the last days will become increasingly I'll

defined or what is true, what is false.

It has become fashionable, has it not, to refuse to take a

dogmatic stand. We've got to be tolerant of

everything, don't we? Absolutely.

We got to be tolerant of everything.

You can't make a dogmatic stand about anything, but especially

Jesus Christ because it's upsetting to others.

And so more and more people, particularly Australians, are

drifting from the truth, the real Jesus, the real gospel, the

real word of God. The world is fast coming to a

point of abandoning the truth. Jesus says I am the way, the

truth, and the life. Paul said that this would be a

sign of the last days. He said in Second Thessalonians

2 Thessalonians 2:9

chapter 2 verse 9 the coming of the lawless 1 The Antichrist.

According to the working of Satan, he'll come with all power

signs and lying wonders and with all unrighteous deception among

those who perish, unbelievers, because they did not receive the

love of the truth. People who I don't want to hear

the Bible. I mean, it's too strict and it's

boring and it restrict, you know, what do I have to give up?

People think about all those things because they don't know

the truth, because the truth sets you free.

Actually, it says, because they did not receive the love of the

truth, that they might be saved, because the only way of

salvation is through the Word of God.

For this reason, God will send them strong delusion, the mother

of all harlots, that they should believe the lie that always lead

to heaven, that they all may be condemned who did not believe

the truth it says again, but had pleasure in unrighteousness

because false religion says you can go and sin.

Saturday, Friday, Monday, Sunday, go there and feel I'm

good, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord because you just live

how you feel. You live how you feel.

Don't go along with the world. This is the message parents,

particularly to your kids, your kids, they'll come home and

they'll go, well, I was, you know, told off I was a Christian

and I disagreed. And this with that, Yep, that's,

that's going to be the norm. They're going to need your

support. You're going to need one

another's support at work when they say, well, you've got to be

part of this, You've got to be part of that.

No, I, I make a stand. It might cost you, you a job.

It might cost you this or that. It's going to cost you.

It cost Jesus his life. Don't go along with the crowd.

Stand up for the truth, Jude says in verse 17.

But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before

by the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ, how they told you

that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk

according to their own ungodly lusts.

You see, if I live according to my flesh, I live according to my

ungodly lusts, but now I'm to live according to the Word of

God and to the direction of the Holy Spirit at the time of the

rapture. What's going to happen?

All genuine believers worldwide will be taken from the earth in

an instant, Paul says, in the twinkling of an eye.

To ever be with the Lord. But this world, you know what's

going to happen. Initially there'll be a bit of a

bump in the road, but Jesus says you know what's going to happen,

It'll be like the days of Noah and they'll just go back to

marrying, having coffee, going for a run, going to the beach,

playing golf, just just click. And the churches that don't

teach the word of God, they'll just operate still.

Let's have our programme, let's do this, let's get together

Kumbaya. It will cost you to stand.

You're going to hear some beautiful words if you do stand.

However, when you stand eventually before God, well

done, good and faithful servant, the time of the Rapture, some

churches will just be business as usual.

Vance Havner said. Don't ever come to church

without coming as though it were the first time, as though it

could be the best time and as though it might be the last

time. This morning I asked you this.

Do you know the truth? In other words, do you know

Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour?

Well, Mum and Dad are Christians and that's why I'm here.

Or yeah, like I've been coming to church for a while.

I'm not asking that. Well, I was Christian.

I'm not asking that. I want to ask you, do you know

Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour?

Do you pray in his name? Do you read his word?

The Bible says all have sinned. The Bible says that salvation is

only found in God's only Son, Jesus Christ in the book of Acts

Acts 4:12

chapter 4, verse 12. Nor is there salvation in any

other, for there is no other name under heaven given among

men by which we must be saved. You say we all know this, and

many of us know it, but we don't do it.

I grow up in a home where I thought I was a Christian.

I went to church as a kid and I thought I was a Christian, but

it wasn't until someone showed me Romans chapter 10 verses 9

Romans 10:9

and 10 and said have you done that?

I get done. What Have you confessed with

your mouth and believed in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord?

I didn't know you had to do that.

Why hadn't someone told me? So today, today, if you are not

a believer, make the greatest decision that you can receive

Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour.

It's as simple as that. False religion, false teaching

is rampant. Many will and are sadly being

deceived today. Choose salvation, don't receive

judgement.