THE WORD OF GOD

They'll say man. Proverbs fourteen and twelve. Proverbs, chapter fourteen

and verse twelve. This chapter, I'm only gonna read one verse,

But this chapter really talks about the wise and the foolish,

the wise and the foolish, ay man. So the verse

that I'm about to read gives you understanding of why

it's talking about the wise and the foolish, because right

here it says, in verse twelve of chapter fourteen, it says,

there is a way. There is a way which seems

right unto a man. Now this is that's the a

part of this verse. There is a way which seemeth

right unto a man. So this way continually seems right

to this individual. Amen. But then verse then a part

b says, but the end there are of are the

way of death. So there is a way which seemeth

right unto a man. That's a foolish man. But the

end thereof are the ways of death. So for a

man to believe that his ways are right and gods

are not, that's the ways of death.

Amen.

So today we're going to talk about make no mistake,

make no mistake, Make no mistake about what, Make no

mistake about the doctrines that you believe in. Amen, you

may be seated in the House of the Lord. Make

no mistake of the doctrine, because we all know there

is no mistake in what Jesus minister to us. Amen.

So are these are this is for us?

Are we really sure of our eternal salvation? It's a

very important question. Amen. It's so important because this even

aligns with what God was dealing with last week. Are

we walking after the flesh or after the spirit?

How are we walking?

Amen? Because if you walking after the flesh, you're walking

away from the salvation, And if you're walking after the Spirit,

you're walking towards salvation. So if you're walking after a flesh,

there is a mistake in your walk. But if you're

walking after the spirit, there's no mistake. Amen. So the

title of the lesson is make no mistake. So you

got to be sure of your eternal salvation? Because are

you sure of your eternal salvation? That's a very important

question to each and every one of us. Are we

sure of our eternal salvation? This is a very important question,

and this question is one that will have lasting eternal consequences. Amen.

If we were to die today, if we were to

die today, do you know for certain, for sure that

you will.

Go to heaven? See, that's what I'm saying, Make.

No mistake, Make no mistake, because if you was to

die today, are you not?

It?

Ain't you looking at me or me looking at you

said yeah, I know she going to heaven. No, it's

you that need to be assured of your salvation, not me.

So are you certain if you would have died today,

that you would go to heaven. That's a very important

question too, And it's so important. It's about which we

cannot afford to be wrong about. You cannot build, You

cannot afford to be wrong about which way you're gonna go.

You cannot afford to make the mistake of what doctrine

is really true.

And what's false.

You cannot afford to make that mistake. I said, you

cannot afford to make that mistake.

They can stand up there and.

Preach men's do David, you gotta know what it is.

You can't make the mistake of.

Believing what he's saying is God's doctrine and not man's doctrine.

That's up to you. It ain't up to him, It's

up to you.

For the Bible says, study and show your self approved.

There are many that's preaching false doctrine and men's doctrine,

And there are so many that are preaching the doctrine

of Jesus Christ. But are you sure? Make no mistake,

Make no mistake. It's not something you can afford to

be wrong about. I'll tell you why, Because eternity is

very permanent. It's very permanent, and one day each of

us will know the true answer to this question. What question,

whether we're walking after the flesh of the spirit. We

gonna know the true answer to that question. Because why

because all of us gonna stand before the judgment see

of Christ, Each and every one of us going to

stand before the judgment Seed of Christ. Amen. The Book

of Roman tells us in the Book of Romans in

chapter fourteen and verse nine, lets us know, for to

this end Christ both died and rose and revealed that

he might be Lord both of the dead and the living.

But why does thy judge thy brother, or why do

us die? Set at not thy brother?

For we shall all stand before the judgment seed of Christ. Amen.

For it is written as.

I have said, the Lord every need shall bow to

me and every tongue shall confess to God.

So then every.

One of us shall give a count of himself to God.

So make no mistake of yourself not to others. Every

one of us has two appointments. They have already been made.

These appointments already been made. You ain't got your hand

hurt them. You ain't got get on the phones. Say

but I want to make an appointment about my hand.

Now, these two.

Appointments already been made. You ain't got to worry about

making them. They've already been made for you. Amen, these appointments,

they they have already been made for us. And that

we will definitely somebody say, definitely keep them. You won't

be aidy counselor you want be ady to call and

say you can't make it. You gonna make them. You

definitely will keep them. Whether you want to or not,

You're gonna keep them. And they are as it is appointed,

as the Bible says, for men to die once, but

after this the judgment, after the death, then the judgment.

Hebrews tells us this as well. Hebrews chapter nine says

in verse twenty seven, it lets us know. I want

you to know I'm turning to these scriptures, because I

want you to know these are not my words. These

are the words and the doctrine of not of men,

but of Jesus Christ, so that you will not make

no mistake, that you know these are his words, not mine.

And in Hebrews chapter nine and verse twenty seven, it

tells us and it is appointed unto men wants to die.

But after this the judgment.

So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many,

and unto them that look for him, shall he appear

the second time without sin, without sin, unto salvation. So

when he comes back, if you have made the right

choice and ain't made no mistake, he's coming back for

salvation because he already been here for seeing. He ain't

coming for seeing no more. He ain't coming when he

come again, so you can repent. He ain't coming for

those who have already repented and have made the right choice.

These two appointments, death and the judgment cannot be counseled.

They cannot be counseled, for the Lord died once, and

man shall die once. See if Christ died twice, that

would mirror the very purpose.

Of him even coming.

So he ain't die, But once, he can that once,

and we gonna die once to see when we think

about time and with the Bible said earlier that it's

appointed for me and to I once. But after that

the judgment, and even before that the scripture lets us

know that each and every one of us are certain

for the appointment.

Amen.

So when you think about that the tragedy, think about

the tragedy of what happened in New York, think about

the tragedy that happened in Washington, d C. And the

tragedy that happened in Shakersville, Pennsylvania on.

September the eleven.

And the reason why I'm mentioning this because it shows

the uncertainty and vivarity of life.

What is rivarity? The shortness of life? Amen? So what

am I saying?

I'm saying here to let you know that those people

had no idea that that plane was gonna run into

that building and kill thousands of people.

Pensyvy didn't know what was about to happen. Washington, d C.

Didn't know what was about to happen. No man know

the day of the hours.

So you cannot make no mistake because you don't know

when it's coming. Amen, because every man has those two appointments,

and you don't know. Here's the thing about the appointments.

You don't have a date on time, but you.

Know it's coming. So make no mistake for when it does.

Come, that you don't go in the wrong direction. Amen,

because that nine to eleven shows the uncertainty of the

shortness of those folk lives. They had no idea they

was gonna die that day. They all got up and

went to work, and even those that were on the

street were headed somewhere. They got killed, not knowing this

was it for me, This was my appointment date. God

tells us in the Book of James, chapter four and fourteen.

Chapter four of starting at thirteen, he says, it's an

Unchristian conduct to go to now ye that say today

are tomorrow, we will go into such a city and

continue there a year, and bay and sell and get

game fourteen says, whereas ye know not shall be on tomorrow,

you know not shall be on tomorrow.

For what is life?

Even is even a vapor that appeared for a little

time and then vanishes away. So whereas do you not

know what will happen tomorrow? For what is your life?

It is even as a vapor that appears for a

little time and then vanishes away. No man Matthew Chapter

twenty four and thirty six says, knows the day are

the hour that the son of Man shall appear.

And what that means is.

No man know the day are the hour that the

son of Man shall appear for the judgment of this world.

Amen.

So we must not make an error concerning our salvation

in following what seems right to us. We must not

error in what seems right to us, are that we

feel in our.

Heart that we are saved.

The Bible says in Proverbs fourteen and twelve, there is

a way that seems right to a man, but it's

in in the way of death. Our feelings are not

a safe guard. Our feelings is not a safe God.

Amen.

But only the Bible is the safe guard and the

safe God.

To making no mistake.

So we think about the prior assumptions we have already

made about our salvation.

Many of us.

Are many of those assumptions that we have made and

that people have made that contradict what God says in

his words. There was a preacher that I was talking

about earlier in Sunday school who has changed his message.

When I say change his message, he has changed God's

message to his message. So in essence, it's not gonna

work if it's not God's way. But many have changed

the message of God and made the assumption that this

is what God is saying.

But truly it's.

Men's doctrine because it's only assumption, and it contradicts what

God says in his word to us. At any time,

the word that man speaks to you contradicts God's word.

That it's man's doctrine.

It is not God's word. I don't care if they

tell you trunk or treat. It still contradicts that it's

an evil association of a praise and worship and celebration.

That's man's doctrine. It's error. And all we have to do,

all you got to do.

Is to look around at all of the many different doctrines.

Just look around at all the many different doctrines.

That are being taught today. One preacher said, Jesus eighty

five percent of his life was wrong. One preacher said,

fornications not a sin. One preacher said, masturbation in the sin.

As long as you ain't thinking about a woman, I

don't know how you're gonna do it without thinking about

but you got a special mind. I don't know our man.

One preacher said, I taught y'all wrong about drinking.

It's really okay to drink.

One preacher said, it doesn't matter if it's a man

our woman, as long as y'all in love. Are y'all

hearing what I'm saying, because that doctrine contradicts the word

of God. When preacher tells you enjoy in practice those

pagan holidays, the Bible says God don't have holidays, He

has holydays. That's a contradiction. Are you hearing what I'm

saying to you? There are too many different doctrines. Our

Lord says in the Book of Mark, chapter seven, their

doctrine is in vain. It's a vain doctrine. In vain

doctrines gonna send you to hell. You better get the

truth of God's word, Amen, You better learn the truth

of God's word and quitt listening to the doctrines of men.

If we listen and we accept the doctrines of men,

because it's more comfortable, and Jesus has already explained to

us what defiles us. Amen, When we begin to look

into the book of Mark. Our Lord says in Mark,

chapter seven and verse one he's talking about he's explaining

the files. Then came together unto him, the Pharisees and

certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. And when

they saw some of his disciples eating bread with the foul,

that is to say, with unwashed hands, they found fault

for the Pharisees and all the Jews, except they washed

their hands often. In other words, there was a special

way that the Pharisees and the scribes. They wash their hands,

not holding the traditions of the elders. And when they

came from the market, except they wash, they eat not.

And they want to wonder why why these disciples are eating.

They ain't wash their hands, because we wash our hands

in a special way. And if we don't wash our hands,

we don't eat. While they eating it, they ain't wash

their hands. What they're trying to say, and many other

things there be which they have received to hold, as

the washing of cups and pots and brozenes, of vessels

and of tables. This is talking about traditions and the

doctrine of me. And in verse four of how they

held them the Pharisees. Then the Pharisees and the scribes

ask him God. They ask him, Jesus, why walk not

thy disciples according to the traditions are the customs? Are

the doctrines of us? The hold us, but eat bread

would unwashed hands. And he answered and said, unto them, Jesus, well,

he said, well, have Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites? And

it is written this people honored me with their lips,

but their heart is far from me. How about in

vain do they worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments

of men? For lying aside the commandments of God. You

practice to conditions and doctrines of men, but you lay

aside what God says. We hold the traditions of men,

as the washing of pots and cups, and many other

such like things you do.

And he said, unto them.

Full well, full well, you reject, fullwell, you reject the

commandment of God that you may keep your own doctrine

and traditions and customs. You reject God's commandments in God's way,

so that you can go your own way, and in vain.

When you keep the doctrines of men in vain, you

worship me, God says, teaching as doctrines, the commandments of men.

Our worship is vain if it comes from the doctrine

of men, it's a vain doctrine. It's a vain worship

that God don't accept. Your life style, whether you know

it or not, is a worship towards God.

And if you're.

Living your life style according to the doctrine of men,

it's vain worship because it comes from the doctrine of

men and not from God. And he says, I know truly,

not truly, I know not that this is my doctrine.

You think God don't know.

His own word. I tell you why.

First Corinthians, Chapter fourteen and thirty three. For God is

not the author of confusion. In other words, he's not

the author of disorder, but of peace. As in all Oh,

somebody say, all churches of the Saints, all not harvest time,

not Mountainsion, but all the churches of the Saints. There

is no confusion our vain doctrine of men, but of God.

That's what God says. God says, I'm not the author

of confusion. I'm not the author of confusion. Are they

from men? So the confusion don't come from God. The

confusion comes from me as doctrine. God says, where else

could they come from? Where else could the confusion come from?

He just said, I'm not the author of confusion? So

where does it come from? It's coming from men's doctrine.

If it don't come from God, who does it come from?

This is a very serious question, ay man. If it

doesn't come from God, where does it come from? You

need to know the answer to that.

The answer to it is God is not there out

their confusion.

So that helps you right there and let you know

where it comes from.

It ain't coming from God.

Our worship becomes vain and useless when we practice the

commandment of men. When we continue to walk in the

doctrine of men, then our worship becomes vain if our

doctrine comes from men when they meet and a lot

of this, a lot of this man's doctrine comes when

the Baptists have their convention. Church of God in Christ

has their little assembly, uh.

The Catholics have their little.

Assembly UH, Presbyterians, Church of Christ, all of them have

conventions and conferences, and they all decide when they have

those conferences and conventions and meetings.

They decide what you gonna believe.

They gonna decide what you're gonna believe, because that's what

they talk about.

Big conferences.

They come to your church, have meetings, you you have

these bishops. There's overall in certain districts with the Baptist churches,

with the Church of God in Christ churches, with the

Catholic churches, and they come to those areas and they

tell those people in their area, this what we live back,

not this this is our standard.

This is our doctor. Oh yeah, somebody tell me how many?

How many? How many funerals do you really have for

one person when they die?

How many do you have?

I've seen Church God in Christ have more than one

for one person. I've seen them have two funerals, one

in one church, took the body to another church and

had one there too. Man's doctor, y'all, don't hear what

I'm saying, Man's doctor.

As the Apostle Peter told the.

Jewish Council in Acts chapter five, the Jewish council, Are

you hearing what I'm saying? You know what the Jewish

council is. It's those Phariseeason seventh season. Those are the Jews.

Those are the people who God gave his laws to

and to his He gave to them to give to

his people. And they came up with more than God

gave them, because men have their own doctrine. Amen. And

the Jewish council told them, he said, he asked them

in chapter five and verse twenty six. When they were

they locked them up in the prison. He says, then

went the captain with the officers and brought them without violence,

for they feared the people least they should have been stoned.

And when they had brought them, they set them before

the counsel.

This paulm in them, I mean Peter. I'm sorry, this

is Peter.

They set them before the counsel, and the high priest

asked them. When they set them before the council, the

high Priest spoke and said, did not we straightly in

other words, strictly, we strictly commanded you that ye should

not teach in this.

Name, what name, the name of Jesus. We strictly have

permitted you. Paul, We told you and your folks do

not be speaking in the name of teaching in the

name of Jesus.

This is the counsel of the Jews talking to Peter.

Didn't we not strictly command you that ye should not

could teach in this name?

And behold, we have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and

intended to bring this man's blood upon us. You know

it was wrong with the Jews. They crucified Jesus and

they don't want to admit it. But he goes on

to say, Then Peter spoke, and the other apostles answered

and said, we ought to obey God rather than me.

We don't care nothing about what your doctors say.

Man, we gonna teach the doctrine of Jesus Christ as

we were commanded to do.

So. Your commandment don't mean nothing to us.

Lock us up, Lock us up, and in jail, we

gonna still be preaching and teaching.

The gospel of Jesus Christ.

Oh yeah, we're not gonna still, we still not gonna

teach your doctrine. Peter said with the other apostles, we

ought to obey God rather than men. Do not believe

anything that I tell you, because we are not going

to be judged by what I say. We're not gonna

be judged by what I say. You not gonna be

judged by what I say. That's what he's saying. You're

gonna be judged by what this says. You're not gonna

be judged by man's doctrine. You're gonna be judged by

the Word of God. And the Word of God is

gonna judge you for taking on the commandment of man's doctrine.

So do not believe.

Anything any other person tells you, because we are not

going to be judged by what some other person says.

In fact, we are not going to be judged by

what we personally believe personally believe on the day of judgment.

We are going to be judged by what the Lord

says in the Bible.

Are you with me?

We are gonna be judged about what the Lord says

in the Bible. We're not gonna be jews about what

somebody say or will somebody try to predict what some

doctrine of man tells us. We gonna be jews about

what the Word of God says in the Bible. That's

gonna be the only standard the Bible. Somebody say, the

Bible is gonna be the only y'all repeat that to me.

The Bible is gonna be the only standard for judgment.

The Bible is gonna be the only standard for judgment,

for our Lord says so. In John chapter twelve and

verse forty two. He says, nevertheless, among the chief rulers

also many believe on him, But because of the Pharisees,

they did not confess him. Because of the Pharisees they

did not confess Jesus Christ, they did not publicly acknowledge him.

They should be put out of the synagone. They were

afraid to announce Jesus Christ because they were more afraid

of men's doctrine than they were afraid of God's. For

they loved the praise of men. They loved the praise

of men more than the praise of God. Jesus cried

and said, he that believeth on me, believeth not on him,

but on him that sent me. And he that sent

me sith, and he that seeth me seeth him.

That sent me.

I have come alike into the world, that whosoever believeth on.

Me should not abide in darkness.

And if any man hear my words and believe not,

I judge him not, for I came not to judge

the world, but to save the world. He that rejected me,

he that rejected me. That's a continuation and receiving not

my words.

Had one that judged him. The word that.

I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the

last days. So the word that I have spoken will

judge him in the last days, he says, For I

have not spoken of myself. I have not spoken on

my own authority. I speak to you what God gave

me to say. But the Father which sent me, he

gave me the commandment. He gave me the commandment what

I should say and what I should speak. And I

know that his commandment is life everlasting, whatsoever I speak. Therefore,

even as the Father said, unto me, so I speak,

Jesus said, I didn't speak anything that didn't come from God.

My words are God's doctrine. Their words are means doctrine.

So if or any other person cannot point to it

in the word of God, the very doctrine that they're

speaking to you, if they can't point to it in

the word of God, then please do not believe it,

because there is too much at stake, that's your soul.

There's too much mistake. You must be sure, and to

be sure, you cannot make a mistake, Make no mistake

of the assurance of your.

Salvation, and I close. Our soul is worth more than

the whole world.

And everything in it. There's nothing more valuable than your soul.

Jesus said so in Matthew sixteen and twenty six.

For what profit is it to a man?

He's asking you to think, what profit is it to

a man if he gains the whole world and loses

his own soul? What will a man give? What can

you give in exchange for your soul? There's nothing worth

the soul, So it's nothing to give for it, because

there's nothing in the world more valuable. But yet they

are giving it up for things that have no worth.

They're giving the.

Souls of for vanity, for worthless What does a man

have to give an exchange for his soul? Our soul

is the part of us that is going to continue

to live forever throughout all eternity. There's two eternities. Which

eternity will your soul live in. Make no mistake, Make

no mistake. We cannot afford to lose it into eternal punishment.

We cannot.

Amen, Amen, give God a handclap of praise.

Who's gonna who is. Let me ask shall question, who's.

Gonna appear before the judgment?

See the Christ? Who's going to appear before the judgment?

See the Christ?

Everybody? Everybody?

And if you're wrong about your salvation you'ue or false?

Will you be lost?

What is a way that seems right to a man?

And what ways does that leading? I'm done?

Let us stand.

These teachings are coming to me strong, simply because the

things that I'm witnessing, Amen, I had just witnessed even

upon last week and the week before last, these turnings

of people from God. I knew a lady once that was,

Oh my God. She was well versed in the scripture.

She could quote the scripture like ninety going West. She

could break it down, flip it, flap it, and rub

it down. And now she's turned to the ways of

the devil. She believes that it's okay for her to

be a swinger. She believes is okay for a man

to have more than one woman, and she practices it

even though she knows the scripture says one wife, one husband,

one husband, one wife. The preacher he preached, y'all better

hear what I'm saying. You got to hold on this

stuff is coming. It's coming to you too. The preacher

with preaching the word of God.

Just the early part.

Of last month, the first Sunday of last month. Matter

of fact, what is this the third Sunday around the

second Sunday.

He's been preaching for decades.

Up until the first Sunday of this month, and now

the second Sunday, he's changed God's message.

He's changed his message.

Been preaching the word of God for decades, the truth

of God. But the second Sunday, he's not of the

first month of the year. All those decades preaching the

truth of God. First Sunday of the month of the year,

he preached the truth of God. Second Sunday of the

first month of the year. He changed God's word. Begin

to tell the congregation it's okay to Paun the king,

it's okay.

I taught you wrong about drinking.

And as a matter of fact, he's stepping down because

now he's having an affair with his own niece. He's

moved out of his wife's house and moved into his

niece's house. It's the pastor of the church. Yea out

hear what I'm saying. We are We're coming to an

end of it. All you see, these precious that we're

up under right now, is because God is doing the

weed in the tear.

That's what he's doing right now.

He's doing the weed in the tap because God said

he when he come, he ain't gonna because the tawe

looks like the weak.

It looks like the weak, and.

God says, don't touch it because you'll mess up and

pull up weak when you're supposed to be pulling up tab.

They look alike.

So God is allowing these precious and these tests of time.

He's allowing these things to come so that.

The real saints of God will have strength to hold

on those that have just been on the men's doctrine,

those that are just being pretending, those that have just

been doing it as a as a form of godliness,

but denying the power thereof those that are just doing

it as a custom and tradition, they're going to fall,

and they're falling in these times. And here's the thing,

I have no idea if they'll have time to turn

back before he comes. We have got to come to

know the truth of God's words, not the doctrine of men,

the doctrine of men. Is not going to get us

into the Kingdom of God. Only God's word, in God's

words only.

He just said it. You're gonna be judged by my word,

not his words. My words. This man tell you it's

okay to shock up. I'm telling you it's fornication.

This man tell you is all right to marry whoever

you want to in love whoever you want.

I'm telling you, no, I made the female for the male.

How in the world can.

Eighty five percent of Jesus christ life be wrong? And

you've been teaching for decades that he's holy and you

be ye holy?

How can it be when he said be perfect, for

I am perfect.

If He's perfect, you can't hurting eighty five percent of your.

Life wrong me? And is doctor? Nobody? Nobody challenged it

when he spoke it.

I couldn't have been there. I couldn't have been there.

And I'm talking about it was three to five thousand

people in that room, and when that man spoke those words,

I couldn't have been there.

I couldn't have been there. I couldn't have been there.

When a woman was praying for the man and she said,

in the name of Jesus, get their out of here,

and then she told all of the congregations to join in.

It's okay to say it if it's if you use

the name of Jesus. That's what she said, it's okay

if you use the name of Jesus. Come on with me,

and she's praying for somebody in the name of Jesus,

get their out of here. I couldn't have been there either.

I'd have turned all the lights back on. I'd have

ran and found the light switches. I'd have stopped the

mule out, unplugged the speakers, everything. I don't care if

they had to call the police, I wouldn't care.

I'm gonna tell the truth.