▶You see, all our people know in the church now is
they've had their sins are forgiven.
And they've been submitting to inward sin for years.
I don't believe there's a man on the whole TV that preaches salvation.
They preach forgiveness.
Forgiveness is not salvation!
They point out there's a man in the bed with some other man's wife in a motel.
He says, "you know the Lord loves you just as you are."
Well then, why get changed?
Commit adultery as long as you like it.
He still loves you.
Be a cheat, be a liar, be a thief, be a failure...
He still loves you.
▶But God says in the Bible, Psalm 7:11
'God is angry with the wicked every day.'
God hates you for committing the sin.
Is God going to take your sins and judge them at the judgement
and leave you alone?
While some say there's no trouble for us at the judgement...
1Cor.3:15, If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss:
but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
You know 5 minutes inside of heaven we'll all be embarrassed.
We'll wish to God we'd been more faithful.
We'll wish to God we'd been more obedient.
Are you saved from lust?
Are you saved from fear?
Are you saved from doubt?
Are you saved from anger?
Are you saved from envy?
Are you saved from pride?
He came to save us now from sinning!
Christianity is "not" a sinning religion!
It's a victorious religion!
The great curse in modern preaching is this, our people never see God!
I believe very low % of the Christians in America or the world know God...
They know theology,
They know about God,
They know references in the scripture...
But who really knows God!
▶I've said before, I'll say it many times again...
I think every preacher should read Acts26 on his knees every week.
Acts26:18, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light,
and from the power of Satan unto God,
that they may receive forgiveness of sins,
and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
And then when you have digested that go to the 40th chapter of Isaiah
and get the concept of God that this amazing man has.
You'll never get depressed.
The salvation of America does not depend on the white house,
it depends on God's house!
And before God does anything, he'll clean up the church!
I think the most awesome task in the world tonight is
not to be the president of the united states or the king of an empire,
but to be a man who stands between the living God and the dying people.
I'd like to send a notice to all the deacons of every church in America.
If your preacher doesn't weep over the congregation, weep over your preacher.
The reason you're a dwarf spiritually is we won't eat the word of God,
you won't wait on Him, you won't hear His voice and you won't obey Him!
The secret of revival is obedience!
But you can't obey what you don't know.
Excerpts from <A burning Heart>
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