Thus Saith God's Word
by Rev. Ted Brooks
Punchers in the Church
"Bui there were falsepiophets also among the people, even as there shall he
false teachers among you. who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even
denting the I.ord that brought upon themselves swill destitution Many shall
follow their pcrmeious nays" til peter 2 1-2)
"And manv false prophets shall rise and shall deceive man tMatthew
24 11)
"Beware of false prophets which come to vou in sheep's clothing, but
inwardlv they are ravening wolves Ve shall know them by then fruits Do men
gather grapes of thorns or tigs of thistles " (Matthew " I5-H?>
The question is now asked what has gone wrong ' Where did we strav ' t >h.
ray friend. Jesus spent thirty y ears training for a three vear ministry This has not
been told often enough to oui youth of today They need to be made awaic that
"there is a divine balance of impression and expression in the life of Jesus. " foi
their sakes He tells us. "I sanetily myself"
Preachers of today have taken too many short cuts They have gone over the
fence and taken no notice of the sign boards which read "follow me and I will
make you fishers of men " In other words, we are saved to serve
l ust week we tried to emphasize what the church is like when poachers arcon
the inside We tried to tell you that a false prophet cares nothing for the
commandment of God We made ev ery effort to let you know that rebellion,
stubbornness, arrogance, and defiance are now in our midst St Paul left us
words that these things would occur "in the last davs " ill Timothy .1 1-2) For
a long time now the church has yawned and looked in another direction The
church has been like these United States which has opened its doors to all people
and none have kept their promises
If a person from another planet were to suddenly appear on earth, they w ould
be shocked as they observed our lawless life-style They would be shocked as
they watched the proceedings of a divorce court, read about the crime on our
Streets, felt the pressure and anger from homes, and listened to arguments in
school classrooms They could get the idea that defiance pays oft" It would
appear that those who break the law and detv authority get away with h You
see. my friend, when false prophets are in the church and hav e left the highway
of holiness, homes now are dangerous places to be Folks become rebellious
They permit rebellion and intimidation Homes now are where children are in
control Parents have taken the passive route, giving their kids the authority
Today children can and do sue parents for parental malpractice Because of false
prophets in the pulpit your chance of becoming a victim of crime has doubled
in the last ten years
Because of false prophets, your chance of becoming a victim of violent crime
has increased by more than five times in the same period Today because of falseprophets
you have a one in twenty chance of being a victim of any crime You
see, a false prophet is satisfied with the shallow s of life when there are the deep
still waters upon which to sail A false prophet is always concerned about up the
road Now it is down the road a short piece from where you and 1 live For years
they, the false prophets, have raved about the streets of other parts of the w orld
and forgotten about the small stream here at home,
False prophets will measure Christianity in the town of hospitals, orphan
homes and they will and have organized charities and projects in human names
We need to never forget that it was Judas who carried a bag for the poor.
My friend. Jesus was ever so mindful of his prophets' training. On such a
mission Jesus took with him Peter and John and James and went up into a
mountain to pray. And as he pray ed, the fashion of his countenance was altered
and his raiment was white and glistening. (St Luke 9:28-29)
Do you not see impressions on that transfiguration day ? It was there that
v isitors appeared from heaven. It was a glorious light, a voice of God the father
that made a great impression that could never be erased.
A true prophet of God is one who has had a day of vivid impression. A true
prophet is one who does not take short cuts A true prophet will read the
marking of Christ's word A hue prophet of God does not march into the pulpit
with man's legend A true prophet does not speak of whom he does not know,
but he will speak of his Mount of Transfiguration. A true prophet has an
impression verses expression. Do you not see, my friend, an impression
without expression is pure waste. First, it is the mountain where consecration
began "1 sanctify mvself that thev also might be sanctified through the truth."
(John 17:19)
There again we see where no impression is made to waste. Jesus said
something is to take place and it is called sanctification Any prophet or
preacher who has gone to the mountain of God and did not return as a newcreature
is pure waste He will no longer eat like the world, dress like the world,
nor will he be addicted by the things of this world. He cannot be held as a slave
to tobacco, drugs, alcohol, sex outside of marriage. Notice again when Jesus
and his disciples came down from the Mountain of Transfiguration, it was there
at the bottom of this mountain a father came to Christ with a devil-possessed
son He needed help. Jesus promptly healed his son.
Jesus did not take up time telling a story. He pulled nothing from a
commentary. He healed the boy. First the impression, then the expression. My
friend, without the expression it is pure waste. Faith without works is dead.
David said "Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me. and to him that ordereth
his conduct aright will I show the salvation of God." (Psalm 50:23) Well, my
friend, the best commentary on humanity's defiance is not found in any book
or television. The fact is it is not found in a documentary or newspaper, but it
is found in scripture- God's book of truth.
If you were to read Romans, the first chapter, such verses would peel off all
masks, scrape away all the veneer and get right down to the core of depravityportraying
mankind as "Being filled with all un-righteousness, wickedness,
greed, evil, full of erivy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,
slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil,
disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, un
merciful, and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who
practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also
give hearty approval to those who practice them. (Romans 1:29-32)
These words are taught, but they are true, painfully true These words are
more true than any article taken from any daily newspaper.
Today false prophets are in the church. Every week now vvc hear of another
false prophet who for years deceived the people That is why our culture has
been for a long time deteriorating. You have allowed the un-righteous to rule
We have been so busy raising dollars for charitable events and when the. church
came down from the mountain of transfiguration and faced the public school
system, moral values were systematically erased until they became almost
illegal to teach. The church found themselves with an impression without an
expression
In the second chapter of Second Peter, Verse One, there were false prophets
among the people, even as there were false teachers, denying the Lord These
are wells without water, clouds that are carried without tempest to whom the
mist of darkness is reserved forever. (Verse 18)
A false prophet does not care for his own If he was really a man of God, he
would be at the bottom of the mountain with his or her son, knowing that same
Jesus who was on the top praying until his raiment was white, would make his
way down to hear a father weeping saying "Master, I beseech thee, look upon
my son." (St Luke 9:38) A false prophet will go from church to church and
leave his children in bed, leaving them in abandoned houses, beer joints, but
a real prophet will fight for his sons and daughters. He is there at the altar with
a voice, "O Lord, I the preacher am here waiting at the bottom of this mountain
called a valley. I beseech thee, O Lord, look upon my son." O my friend, go
no where. Make no effort til your sons and daughters are saved. Can you not
see the many that arc dying every day all around us?
There was a time a daughter was ashamed to live in sin. Now they shack right
next door. Why? Your impression has no expression and what you do have is
pure waste. A false prophet will remain un disturbed. He will make statements
like "The Lord will get him when it is time." A true prophet will say, "Now is
the time Today is the day of Salvation Tomorrow is not promised " (Hebrews
3:7-15)
We said last week that Christians are a dying breed. We are on the
endangered species list We have heard the voice "Hast thou considered my
servant." (Job 1:8) We arc on the extinct list. Why'' God said there none like
him in the earth, a perfect and upright man We have found pleasure in the eyes
of God. We know to enter his presence one must order his conduct aright before
God We dare to live less than the hen that covereth her biddies. In this world
we are those with an impression that is not of waste We live in the moment
knowing that Jesus could appear at aijy time "That when he shall appear we
may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming " (1 John
3:28) "And this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask anv thing
according to his will he hcarcth us," (1 John 5:14)
Thank God for an impression of Jesus Christ Thank God for an expression
which can be revealed by his power.
The false prophets are here and nothing is to hinder or to stop them They
.were in St. Peter's day and in the day of St. Paul and they are here this present
hour. Paul declared. "God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed
to death We are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men We
are fools for Christ but wise in Christ We arc weak, but ye are strong Ye are
honorable but we arc despised. Even to this present hour we both hunger and
thirst and arc naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place (1
Corinthians 4:8-21)
There arc false prophets among us today dressed in sheep's clothing. Words
of idolatry, do you not see in your church defiance, stubbornness and rebellion
It is in every corner of the church You take a stand and sec if volt don't become
.i species on the extinct list
Cheek and see how mam deacon* have faithful wives Cheek and see how
mam oftheju have ehildien ihat ate stubborn and lebellious Sec if thev will
stand at the bottom ol the tnountam and sav I have a son he is a glutton and
a drunkaid 11)eutctotiotnv 21 lX-2li
I he truth is most deacons and leaeheis hav e children hv ing in eve sight of
each olhet. shaking up 01 in cohabitation I'hev re not ashamed Whv' False
piophets do not tell them tt is a sin I hev aie like the poachers who has entered
the forest He knows the law is not enforced Yout glorvmg is not good Know
ve not that a little leaven, leavenlh the lump, ve ntav be a new lump (I
Corinthians 5 (<-")
If vou as a Mom ot Had allow one child to live m whoredom, the rest will
follow Preacher if vou let one deacon in the dooi whohas unruly childien soon
thev all will become old leaven and we are warned m Clod's word not to keep
the feast of tiod with old leaven The church is lo purge herself of malice and
wickedness but lo cloth herself with the bread of sincerity and truth If niv man
that is called a brother be a fornicator or cov etous ot an idolator or a railer or
a drunkard or an extortioner, with such an one know not to eat tl Corinthians
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Honor the Lord with your substance and with the first fruits of
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I he lust thing we notice from tins terse is dial die l.ntil is
honotrd when we give Hun out substitute l li.it should also Ik'
the lust icasoii whs we give them?not to reduce our income
tax. not to make the church comfortable in cold weather; not
even to save souls or because Hod tells us to but simple Ix'c nuse
He is out Maker and is Rulci of the universe, and we recognize
Hun as such. All the otliei reasons can tome in then proper
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Next point the Lord is honored be otti giving Hun our
subitatur He is honored be tfut giving Him our hearts, of course,
and be out singing and praving and studying His Word. But
that does not exhaust out responsibility; eve are also to honor
Him with our substance?or shall we suv. with /fit substance that
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"Bring an offering." David the psalmist says, "and come into
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an act of worship, a gift is appropriate. To worship means to
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priests in the Temple service. Cornelius was as surely worshiping
God when he gave in the Lord's name to help the poor as he
would have been had lie been a priest in the Lord's house.
It is not an empty phrase, then, that we "worship the Ixird
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