I'll be preaching all over the Bible, many places today, but we're going to have a special sermon today. My text that I'm starting with today is Hebrews chapter 12. The title of my message is, A Tribute to the Memory of Dave Hunt, Exposing the Devilish Roots of Psychology. Dave Hunt has passed away 1926 to 2003. 13, the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 12, wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Dear Father, we do pray you bless us as we preach today, expose the unfruitful works of darkness, And we do pray You'll be with us in the house of God, that You'll bless our hearing, bless the preaching. We thank You, Father, for Your goodness in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. So we have these witnesses that have done some great things for God by faith, taken some stands, willing to endure persecution, name-calling, all kinds of things. And we have these witnesses in the Bible, pages of our Bible, And we have them throughout history. Some of these witnesses had sins, weaknesses, in certain areas. But they're remembered in the Bible for the faith and victories that they did possess and experience. This doesn't excuse sin. I think of David. Look at Hebrews 11. What shall I more say? For the time would fail me to tell a Gideon. and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah, and of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets." I mean, some of these, everybody's a sinner to some degree, but some of these men had some serious failings, did they not? Think of David. He paid dearly for, praise God, he repented. Praise God, he repented. Think of Samson. Two sides to Samson. Samson's remembered for his faith. But he also had some serious issues, did he not? I want to preach to you today about a great author and speaker who has passed away, named Dave Hunt. He passed away just the other day. He was not a Baptist, though he shared some Baptist principles. He did not appear to understand the importance and authority of the local church. A lot of people set up ministries and there's no local church connection. We call them parachurches, 501c3 organizations and things like that. He was more of an evangelical than a fundamentalist in some areas. But in other areas, he was more of a fundamentalist than many of the so-called fundamentalists. Now, he's going to have to stand before God and give an answer. for not taking a more public stand on the King James Bible issue. He sometimes used new versions in some of his books. Yet I heard him speak in one church many years ago here in Dallas, and he discussed in front of that church to the shock of the pastor that new versions are corrupt, and that you ought to stick with the King James Bible. The pastor didn't expect him to give that sermon, and the pastor had to get up and try to apologize and say, now we're going to look into this issue, and he gives us a lot to think about, wow. And I've heard him on the radio say that new versions are corrupt, but this was a long time ago. Then something happened. We were looking forward to the time when Revelation chapter 20 says that there's coming a time to this earth when people are going to be willing to die for the Bible, the Word of God. They know where it is. They believe it. They understand it. And they're willing to die for it. And there came a time, finally, when we looked out at a sister named Gail Ripplinger, if you'll remember. And somewhere, somebody has the book. Anyway, oh, there it is. Thank you, dear brother. Brother Scott. She wrote this book, New Age Bible Versions, and I thought that Dave Hunt was going to take a stand on it, you know. but maybe it's something to do with the, I don't want to be an evil surmiser, but something to do with a publishing company or something, Harvest House, I don't know. But he pretty much threw her under the bus, and I was very sad about that. And you got to watch when you get a voice and you get a platform, because sometimes God's going to show you truths that might put you in a hard situation, see. But I tell you, the Lord God is going to judge all that, right? He's going to expose whether or not it was just a lack of understanding or whether or not there was motives behind it. He's going to figure that out. And I was saddened that after speaking with Dave Hunt personally and writing him, that in his last days he wrote me a long letter refusing to see the light about the judgment seat of Christ. of the accountability that Christians have at the judgment seat of Christ. I would often hear him close radio programs with words such as, I hope the Lord says unto me, well done, thou good and faithful servant. And I would be sitting here scratching my head thinking, what do you mean? What's he going to say if he doesn't say that? There's only two options. You either go into outer darkness, or he says, well done, thou good and faithful servant. So you know that it would be wrong to presume that he's going to say, well done, thou good and faithful servant. These are questions that I would have with him. He was a great defender of eternal security, but yet he knew, perhaps without thinking, that he should not presume to say he was a good and faithful servant. And that's the very point that I'm trying to make. There's a middle ground between losing your salvation and actually being found unprofitable at the judgment seat of Christ. And we need to get back to preaching accountability. And I was praying that before he died, his eyes would be open to this. One of Hunt's greatest errors was embracing the Billy Graham view of hell. That hell did not have any physical properties to it. But Jesus said that not only your soul could be destroyed there, but your body as well. He could destroy both soul and body in hell. And I want you to understand that the fires of hell are not less than physical fire. They are physical fire and greater and beyond it. We need to understand that. I have a letter from him back in 1992. where I sent him in-depth teachings and trying to show that we have assurance in Christ apart from our word. You might not have assurance that you're a good and faithful servant. You might not have assurance that all is going to go well with you at the judgment seat of Christ, but you ought to have assurance based upon simply the blood of Christ and His righteousness that you're saved in eternity. Nothing can take away that assurance. If it has anything to do with your works, there's no way you could ever have assurance. But he wrote me back then in 1992, and he says, if today I'm living in sin after 50 years since my conversion and have no intention to repent and obey Him as Lord, how can I be sure that I ever receive Christ? A memory won't do. I think you're on dangerous ground. May the Lord bless and guide and use you to His glory. 10 years, but in 2002, I'm sure other people were writing him about the same subject. He published a book called What Love Is This?, and he switched gears totally, and praise God for that. You've got to be patient with some people. You understand that? You've got to let the Lord show people what He needs to show them. And everybody's got their own time for that seed to just mature and get watered. So don't get discouraged. Believe me, I'm going to do everything that I think is right according to God, because I've got to stand before God. But you might have something that you see, but it might not be overnight that I see it. You understand that. And it's like that with any man of God. Some of you don't understand things that I preach immediately, but after a while, then you start understanding it, and the light goes off. And so that's how truth is. I wish it was instantaneous. Amen? I'll tell you what, it sure would help us a lot if we just receive it immediately. Amen? But anyway, ten years later, in What Love Is This?, Dave Hunt says, Biblical assurance of salvation does not depend upon one's performance, but upon the Gospel's declaration that Christ died for the sins of the world, and upon His promise that whosoever believes in Him receives the gifts of eternal life. When our assurance of salvation is based at all in our works, we can never have absolute assurance. And I shout amen to that. Amen to that! Now, the Lord knows how much light Each man has been given. He knows the true motives for every compromise. I'd like to read from Dave Hunt's newsletter, The Berean Call. Here's just a little bio they had, a little tribute to him, just to give you some idea about this author. Born in 1926, David Charles Haddon Hunt enjoyed the advantages of a godly upbringing and placed his trust in Jesus Christ as his personal Savior and Lord in his early teens. As a young man, he served in the military toward the end of World War II. Afterwards, he attended UCLA and received a degree in mathematics. It was during that time that he met the love of his life, Ruth Klassen. In 1950, they were married. Dave's own career path led him into a position as a CPA management consultant and later as the manager of several corporations. Dave also, during that time, would bring Bibles and other materials into the Soviet Union during a time when it was very difficult to do so. He began to write in 1933, warning believers about the incursion into Western culture and into the churches itself of Eastern religion, psychological and selfish philosophies, ecumenism, and other unbiblical teachings. Ecumenism is bringing all religions together, all denominations into one big united international church. The ministry of the Berean Call was founded by Dave in 1992. It grew out of a previous organization, CIB Bulletin, of which Dave was also a founding member since 1986. With T.A. McMahon working alongside him at the Berean Call, Dave was able to share his love for and defense of Christ in subsequent newsletters, books, videos, speaking engagements resulted from this ministry. Dave and T.A. wrote three books together, including The Best Known, The seduction of Christianity. Here it is right here. Seduction of Christianity, which was groundbreaking in its boldness, exposing false teachings in the church and daring to identify the names of the ones behind the deception. He was showing how people were getting into sorcery and bringing it into the churches. Paul Yonggi Cho and all these big so-called faith-healing pastors. And they're all talking about your mind is an energy that can create reality. And if the seed of faith, if you will just believe it, it will create into reality because you are a little God. And you can use the same tools that God did to create reality. And it came right out of witchcraft. Positive thinking was the first step to bring it into the churches. It was the middle ground. It's pure witchcraft. That's what sorcery was. Sorcery is just trying to use your mind to create reality. And what they did with the positive thinking movement, began to remove every reference to sorcery and witches. So, how to win friends and influence people, the power of positive thinking, all of these Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale, all of these types of men, it's pure witchcraft, but they removed every reference to witches, so then the Americans will buy it. And Americans embraced it like you would not believe. So the next step, now that Americans, and a lot of these folks were masons and occultists, And they claim that spirit guides came and appeared to them, and that's where they got these keys. And it's the same stuff in the secret today. Have you ever heard of the secret? It's all the same stuff repackaged for another generation. Well, this stuff was coming into the church, but they called it a faith. They called it faith, but it was just witchcraft is all it was. And he began to expose these things, seduction of Christianity, and I'll tell you what, it was like a bomb going off. And it created great controversy because people were awake. They realized they were being deceived, a lot of people. Alright, exposing false teachings in the church, daring to identify the names of the ones behind the deception. At least 4 million copies of his books have been sold, many of them translated into more than 50 languages. They include The Cult Explosion, The Godmakers about the Mormons, Seduction of Christianity with T.A. McMahon. global peace and the rise of the Antichrist, peace, prosperity, and the coming of Holocaust, the new spirituality, a cult invasion, a woman rides the beast about the Catholic Church, a cup of trembling, and then what love is this? And there was also the beyond seduction that he wrote right after the seduction of Christianity. So let us begin in the 1980s. I had finally read the whole Bible. Praise God. You ought to do that, whether you're saved or not. You understand that? You ought to start, and you ought to read through the whole Bible. And I did it the hard way. I began in Genesis, and no matter how hard I worked my way through Isaiah, and sometimes coming home late at night, but I turned the light on. I said, I'm going to read a little more, and I tried to get through the whole Bible. And something happened. By the time I finished, I was a Christian. I was a changed person. Praise God for that. Amen? I tell you, you ought to read the Bible. You've got a high school education, some of you. You've got middle school education. You ought to read the Bible. Amen? Amen. You know the alphabet? Who knows the alphabet? All right, so we've got a pretty educated bunch. So you ought to be able to read the Bible, amen? It's supposed to be from God. I believe it's from God. I know it's from God. And so, I tell you what, you ought to read it, amen? Most people that say they read the Bible never read it. I'd almost say most Christians never read the Bible. That's a pretty sad situation, isn't it? Well, anyway, I'd read the whole Bible and just become a Christian. I had long hair. I was a babe in Christ, didn't understand a lot of things. But I tell you what, I had zeal and I wanted to get right and I wanted to learn and I wanted to know and I was hungry. Amen? I'd been brought up in Sunday school as a child. I'd been around a lot of Christians at the YMCA and things like that in South Carolina. I had recently, just before this, walked into a Christian bookstore for the first time in my life in New Orleans. And I walked over there, I was a little embarrassed. I walked in, I looked around. I felt that everybody was looking at me. I walked over and I saw a little book called Basic Christianity by John Stott. And I grabbed that book and brought it up. And I was kind of embarrassed when I got to the counter. I said, I'd kind of like to buy this book. And I felt everybody was looking at me. And I went ahead and bought it. And I brought it home. I'd read the whole Bible. I said, now I want to hear what the preachers say, you know? And praise God, John Stott, he's not exactly the greatest fundamentalist at all. But nevertheless, you know, he had some basic Christianity principles in there that helped me. And well, And coming back to Texas, I was ready for more reading material. So I walked over there on Copeland Road. I walked into Joshua's Christian Bookstore. Remember Joshua's Christian Bookstore? And again, I thought everybody was staring at me. It's like the whole store just stopped. And they probably did. They probably were staring. So the whole store just stopped. And it's just like everybody was sitting there staring at me. And everybody was just way too nice, you know. And so they walked in and said, can I help you? I said, no, no. I'm just looking around. So I began to look, and I began to look, and I was getting sick of plastic. You understand? I'm not talking about literal plastic. I'm talking about plastic Christianity. I was getting sick of plastic Christianity, the stuff I see on TV, because there's something wrong with it. I didn't know what was wrong, but something's wrong with this stuff that I see on TV. So I started walking in, around that store, and I looked all around, and all these books looked plastic, they looked fake, it seemed like something was wrong with them. And all of a sudden I looked, and there was this book. And it said the seduction of Christianity. And I tell you what, they had that thing all around the cross, and it said spiritual discernment in the last days. And there was another book right beside it, Beyond Seduction. And that book, it was the same thing, but on the back it had a picture of Dave Hunt. And there was something about him that looked sober and grave. You know, he had a beard. I mean, there was just something about him that didn't look fake and plastic and effeminate, you know. And I said, well, he kind of looks like a real person. And the book kind of looks like a real book. And so I took that book, I brought it home and I began to read, and I read that beyond seduction, and I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing. It's just like all of this televangelism stuff, all of these things you see on TV that look fake. He had an answer for it all. He was showing me that it is magic coming into the church. It is sorcery, and things are not supposed to be this way. And he began to expose that all this positive thinking stuff and Robert Shuler stuff and his sorcery and scientism and all of this stuff. And I tell you what, it all made a lot of sense to me. Amen? I'd read the Bible. I'd read Jeremiah. I'd read Isaiah. And I tell you what, when you get the Bible in you, whether or not you understand it or not, God can then build upon it and water those seeds. And there's a lot of things in that Bible that you don't understand that you'll just read it, you will understand it later. Amen? Let God get it in you. Try to understand it. Pray for understanding. But just get it in you so you can understand it later. Amen. Well, as I began to read, beyond seduction and seduction of Christianity, in all of these books, I began to read anything that the man had ever written. Every book he put out, I tried to read. I began to digest them. I signed up for his newsletter. I got a big old giant box, this big, filled with newsletters that he put out every week. I began studying occultism into the churches, psychology, and I began to just read everything I could for and against psychology. And then I realized there was all this material, people that weren't even saved, like Thomas S. Zaz, the myth of mental illness. And how here was a psychologist, here was this man who's actually an MD that was telling us this whole mental illness thing is designed to make money for a bunch of people, for drug makers. And it's a whole game here. And that your mind is mental and it's not material. And so the whole idea of a mental illness, it's just insanity in itself. And he began to expose the whole concept way back then in those days. And he wasn't saying that you can't have a physical problem with your brain and things. He was just saying that this whole mental illness thing is a game and it's trying to sell or make money for doctors. I'd read Paul S. Witt's Psychology as Religion, The Cult of Self-Worship, how all this stuff was entering into the churches. Here's the Biblical View of Self-Esteem, Self-Love and Self-Image by J. Adams. That was a good book. And then you've got Robert Shuler's Self-Love that he sent to all the pastors in America, basically telling you, Eric Fromm says we should love ourselves, so you ought to do so. And then I began reading Eric Fromm, The Art of Loving. He also wrote a book called, Ye Shall Be as Gods. He hated Christ. He hated God. And he was telling you, took the words right out of the serpent's mouth and said, I want you to be a God. We're going to get control of public schools. And we're basically going to bring a new America where psychology is the new church. And I started looking at that stuff, saying, what in the world are these Christians doing bringing this trash into their churches? God forbid! God forbid! You got the Danger of Self-Love by Paul Brownback, re-examining a popular myth. He talks about how when you're always looking at yourself. I was a very shy person, but I tell you what, when I stood up one day and looked at all of these things, I stood up in front of people and said, somebody's got to say it. Nobody's saying it. And even though there are people preaching it, they need a little bit of help. So I decided to stand up and wherever I could just begin to expose it. I wasn't shy anymore. You understand that? You get your eyes off yourself, you won't be shy. Amen? Everybody's not called to be a pastor, but I am telling you that you are called to get your eyes off yourself and start looking at others and start doing what you can for us. It's not about you, amen? It's not about you. And this is what this psychobabble does. It comes in and makes it about you, about you, and you begin to talk about you, and you're special, you're this, you're that, and it's your problems, and you get all self-centered and absorbed, and you're like the devil in Isaiah 14 when he began to talk. He had five eyes. I'll do this. I'll do this. I'll do this. I'll do this. I will. I will. I will. It's that crawlyism. It's all about you. It's a poison. I'm telling you. It's like the Greeks when they make that serpent bite in his tail as a picture of narcissism. It's going to destroy you. When you get consumed with yourself, you're not made that way. Your eyes point outward, folks. You need to examine yourself, make sure you're in the faith. But I'm telling you, you need to get your eyes on Jesus and your eyes on other people in the right way, how you can help them and be a blessing to them. Amen? The Bobgins had been writing books, and praise God for them and so much of what they write. A foreword by Dave Hunt, Psycho-Heresy, The Psychological Seduction of Christianity. And they would quote these Christian psychologists that said, there is no such thing as Christian psychology. We're just bringing straight, unadulterated psychology right into the churches. And I said, I can't believe it. Look at this stuff. They're just admitting that this stuff is right out of the mouth of the serpent. And they began to deal with James Dobson, prophets of psycho-heresy, critiquing James Dobson. And praise God for that. Here it is, James Dobson's gospel of self-esteem and psychology, how churches are being deceived by all this mess. I was very thankful for their 12 Steps to Destruction, how they showed the 12-step programs came from a man who had automatic writing, who said something grabbed his hand and he started just writing. And before you know it, he had the 12 steps. And you ought to believe it. The 12 steps say, just worship God as you understand Him. And that your alcoholism is a disease. God forbid! Amen? The Bible calls it drunkenness. Who's right? That devil that wrote these things? Or the Bible? Which one's right? Alright. So let's quit all this disease mess. Amen? Start calling sin, sin. And then I met this dear couple, Lisa and Ryan Basler in Psychology Debunked. They got a good website and doing everything they can to expose the dangers of psych, drugs, psychotropic drugs. Praise the Lord for all that. We got a lot out of Jay Adams, Christian Counselor Manual. I don't necessarily suggest or agree all this counseling stuff the way they do it, but this was nevertheless. definitely an eye-opening situation to start holding people responsible and accountable and quit all this self-esteem type of mess, you know. So that was very influential back in those days. All right, so that gives you an idea of what I was reading and what I was exposing myself to. And I was very zealous about the fact that these churches were being taken over by sorcery and all of this psychobabble. I attended a Dave Hunt talk in Dallas, and I heard right there in that talk, I remember it to this day, he was saying, if you don't get these people, if you go into that psychologist, he's going to give you drugs, and those drugs are going to cause you to kill somebody or commit suicide, and you better stay away from them. And he was telling this way back then. I'm talking in the late 80s. He was talking about these things. I walked up to him right after the lecture, and I said, we'd like to hear you speak again. Are you going to be anywhere else? He said, as a matter of fact, I will be in a church tomorrow in Irving, and we invite you to come to the church and come hear me speak at the church. And we attended, and I had already learned about the dangers of psychology, self-help, occultism, Roman Catholicism, but I had trouble finding churches that were awake to these dangers. I would walk into church, especially back then, I'm sure it's the same now, I would walk into the church, they'd hand out the bulletin, it'd be a James Dobson giving his little devotional at the top. And they'd talk about, you need self-esteem, the problem is self-esteem. And I'm like, well, there goes another church, you know. So I'd try to talk to the preacher, do whatever I could, but it was getting hard to find a church. So, I was excited to know that there was a church that would actually have Dave Hunt speak in their church. And so it was, I believe at the time, Irving Bible Church, something like that. And it was at a YMCA that they were meeting at. And the pastor was Robert Dean. He had a newsletter with Thomas Ice at the time. And they were writing a book together for Harvest House. It was a small church. Tommy Ice now runs the Pre-Trib Research Center. But I walked in and there was a screen. and Robert Dean was doing a expose exposing Roman Catholicism and I said, well where is that going to be done in America today? I was like, wow, this is amazing, praise God. And then Dave Hunt got up to speak and he preached against psychology and I was like, finally, finally. You know, there's some people with their eyes opened and praise God for that. And I began attending this church, continued to read everything I could get my hands on. One day I was in the pastor's library discussing hyper-Calvinism with him and he arranged a personal meeting with me and Dave Hunt and this is important because it kind of gives you some understanding of why I'm giving this tribute today. He basically arranged for me to pick him up at a hotel after his lecture. So I went and I heard his lecture. And then I said, I'm your ride to the hotel. And he said, well, you're the young man I heard about that had some questions for me. So let's begin. So we got in my car and we began to talk and we got to the airport. I was happy that there was such a delay for his flight, because we got to just sit there at the airport, and he said, just go ahead, shoot, ask me everything you want to ask me. And oh, I had a big list ready, you know. And so, I was just asking him about dreams, about rock music. Oh, I asked him about everything. Everything I could think of to ask him, I asked him. He had spoken about the dangers of rock music one time on the radio, and so I began writing him some questions about it, because he's starting to get up my alley, see what I mean? But you know, you've got to respond to truth wherever it is, even if it makes your situation and what you want to do uncomfortable, you understand? So in the CIB bulletin, they wrote me back in 1990, just to show you a time factor here. He says, we received your letter to Dave Hunt. I knew that you were going to be meeting Dave in Dallas, so I put off responding to your letter. A ministry that will be putting out a newsletter on music is fighting a good fight. So I was prepared to discuss Calvinism with him, discuss my questions about music and what he thought about it. I went out of that meeting excited, energized. But not long after our private meeting, the church in Irving changed pastors. And I walked into Sunday school, and I'm not kidding. The new pastor that they were calling stood in front of the whole church and drew up here on a big board, Maslow's Pyramid of Needs. And I said, you've got to be kidding. I said, well, he's about to rebuke this, right? No, no, no, he wasn't rebuking it. He was coming in and indoctrinating those people with psychology. And I looked at all the, they're supposed to be leaders of the church and they're all just smiling. And I said, now, how can this happen? How can a pastor labor all these years and have sermon after sermon exposing something? And then the church sit there and smile the very next Sunday. And somebody teaches the opposite. Hey, people can be sickle. You understand that? Some people can. Some people can. Some people can be pliable and impressionable, and that's just wrong, isn't it? You need to be open for folks to teach you, but this idea of just, if I die, somebody coming in next week and telling you that the King James Bible is not the Word of God, you can dress however you want and God will still be happy, and just tell you all of these things that are wrong, and you're just going to sit there and nod your head. I don't believe that will happen. Amen? I don't believe that will happen. But it happened there. It happened there. So I began to speak with the pastor, and I said, now I'm a little confused about this, and is this going to continue happening? He said, I'm not repenting of this, you know. So it was basically, listen, I'm the pastor now, and this is how it's going to be, and there is the door, you know. And that was fine, because I knew where the door was. I knew where the door was, and that was an issue that I could not handle. There are some things you could overlook and try to get along with, but that was something that was just, I mean, that was my whole, you know, that was my agenda, buddy. I mean, I did not want this psychology entering into the churches and destroying people's lives, and I didn't have my eyes open to a lot of things, but I had it open to that. Praise God for that, and I was not going to put up with that, amen? So what I did was I went home, and I began to sit there with a phone book and a notebook, and I began to call every church in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex that I could. I began to say, can I have a meeting with the pastor? Can I meet with him publicly? If not, can I have a private phone conversation with him? And I went through, and I had questions such as, should we mix psychology with the Bible? What would you do with a depressed person? And over and over and over, well, I'll send him to the psychologist and put him on psych drugs. And I would try to debate with them and hear their answers. And it was a very enlightening experience for me. And it was an education. People say, where did you go to Bible school? Sitting down with the pastors of Dallas-Fort Worth. Oh, I did go to Dallas Seminary, and I went to Southwestern. And people say, where did you get an education? I said, Dallas Seminary. They say, wow. Where else? I said, not just Dallas Seminary, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for years. They said, oh, wow, that's amazing. Of course, I never got a degree. I just stood in their libraries every day. I'd get up in the morning, go to their libraries, And SMU too, you can throw that in there. I went to every library I could, and I lived in them libraries. I got an education in the best seminaries of America, amen? And not only that, I had personal training with pastors all across DFW. So praise God. Well, I had a big ol' list of about 80 or so with a big ol' X all the way over. And I'm not discounting everything they were doing, but on this issue of psychology, their eyes were not open and they were not willing to see. And it was sad. So I kept reading and I kept studying. And at least one church back then that I had a semi-debate with, they later repented, praise God. And that was a blessing. I realized that this issue was overwhelming the churches and I wanted to do my part to help in the fight and before long I found myself as an assistant pastor. The first sermon I ever preached back around 1991 was, guess what? What was it again? Well there you go, how did you know? So I stood up in front of that little church and We began, a lot of young folks, you know, and I began to expose how psychology was entering the churches. My text was right here in 2 Timothy. Let's look at it, all right? I tried to find the sermon for you. We're going to put it up there on the screen and let you hear it a little bit, but you might have been shocked. So, 2 Timothy 3. There's Cynthia. There's Abby. Wow. All right. No, I don't know if they're there at the first one, but pretty close. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse. You see that? Deceiving in what? Being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been what? Assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them. That's pretty important, isn't it? So I took that text and I said, now do you know where this self-esteem stuff is coming from? I mean, you had a music leader that just got through saying, you know, self-image and self-esteem. And this is how things were at the time. And everyone was saturated with it. And I said, we need to know where this stuff's coming from. Do you really know where these things are coming from? And I've done my own studies and began to find the roots of these things. And notice, he said in verse 15, that from a child that was known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make me wise unto salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. What should be our ultimate absolute standard? The Holy Scriptures, amen? Did he say psychology was inspired? Did he say the writings of Fromm and Maslow and Freud were inspired? No, but he said that Scripture was inspired, amen? Alright. Now look at 1 Timothy 4. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from what? The faith, giving heed to what? Seducing spirits and doctrines written by... doctrines of what? Devils! Uh-oh. The Bible said in the last days Doctrines would enter the church, but who originated the doctrines? Devils! So I stood up in that little congregation and I held up the writings of Nietzsche. Let's just start right here. Nietzsche. Philosopher, psychologist, antichrist. Nietzsche. Nietzsche was an influence on Hitler. Was he a nice fellow? He supposedly, Nietzsche went mad at the end of his life. But that was only a way of explaining his devil possession. In this sermon around 1991, I began to read from Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I guess that's one of Nietzsche's devils. It's certainly a devil possessed writing. Do you know Hitler? took thus saith Zarathustra and handed it to every soldier in the German army? What did it say? Why would an Antichrist like Hitler want every soldier in the German army to have writings of this devil-possessed man? Let's hear what Nietzsche spoke. And this is what I exposed to that church in my first sermon that I ever preached. Do love your neighbors as yourselves, but first be such as love themselves. Did Jesus say that? Did Jesus say that? You cannot stand yourselves and do not love yourselves enough. Did Jesus say that? No, I think the Bible said no man ever hated his own flesh, and in the last days men shall be lovers of their own selves. And if you love yourself so much, the whole goal is for you to take some of that love in the same way you love yourself already, automatically, and begin loving others, right? I've been quoted, modern Christians, and how this same psychological self-love teaching had entered into Christianity. Let me give you an example. Bruce Naramore wrote a book called You're Someone Special. Isn't that amazing? 1978. Under the influence of humanistic psychologists like Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow, many of us Christians have begun to see our need for self-love and self-esteem. Hey, listen to me. Listen to me. The Bible said in the last days, don't set it apart from the faith, giving heed to what? seducing spirits and doctrines of what? Devils. Now, what has Bruce Naramore said? He said, we're learning. We're learning about self-love and self-esteem and self-image. We learned that from where? Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, and other humanistic psychologists like Eric Fromm, who wrote, You Shall Be as Gods. Now, let me ask you a question, Bruce Naramore. Let me ask you a question, Bruce Naramore. Did he get that from the Bible? Did he get self-love, self-esteem from the Bible? Did he even admit that he got it? Did he even try to tell you that he got it from the Bible? He told you plainly that we all got it from humanistic psychology. What did the Bible say? Oh, listen to this now, 2 Timothy 3. This know also that in the last days, those same days when he already said they'll follow what? Doctrines of devils, perilous times shall come for men shall not have enough self-esteem. Is that what it said? Oh, wait a second now. For men shall be what? Lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud. Colossians 2, beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, not after Christ. No, where did Bruce Naramore get it? He got it from humanistic psychologists. But wait a second. Where did the humanistic psychologists get it? from the same devils, from the same devils that gave it to Nietzsche. In fact, they studied Nietzsche. Do you hear what I just said? They studied Nietzsche. They got it from Nietzsche. And Nietzsche declared himself Antichrist. Nietzsche has chapters on repudiating Christ, repudiating Christianity. So now, is this nice stuff? It was the devil inside of Nietzsche that gave it to the humanistic psychologist, who gave it to Bruce Naramore and the Christian psychologist, and they fed it to you. Do you see it? So I went to the root of the tree. Oh, John the Baptist said we ought to take the axe and put it to... God's going to put the axe at the root of the trees, right? And sometimes the preacher has to do that, amen? We got to get to the root of these things. He tells us in the last days during this time of deception, know where this stuff's coming from. Know where you're getting it from and make sure it's from the what? From the Word of God. You know who gave it to Nietzsche? Now you found out who gave it to the humanistic psychologist. Nietzsche did. Who gave it to Nietzsche? The devil. Look at Genesis 3, the serpent said unto the woman, listen to what he said, you shall not surely die. Remember that, okay? For God doth know in the day you eat thereof that your eyes shall be opened and you shall what? be as God's, knowing good and evil." Well, I'm going to tell you something, folk. When you put yourself in the place of God to decide what's right and wrong for yourself, apart from the Bible, you're standing up and saying, you're not God, I am. I'll decide what's right and wrong. But what the devil didn't say was every assumed God is going to be thrown in fire. You understand that? He forgot to tell them that part. So it's the devil that came, come on now, it's the devil that came and said, you shall be as gods. It's the devil that come with this self-love, self-esteem, I, I, I stuff. All right, now let's read Zarathustra. Inspired, devil-inspired writings. Nietzsche, thus spoke Zarathustra. Answered Zarathustra, there is nothing of all that whereof thou speakest. There is no devil and no hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body. Fear therefore nothing anymore." Anytime you see devils, this is what they teach. No hell, no devil, nothing to fear. What do we see the serpent, who is more subtle than any beast in the field, saying? What do we see the serpent saying? Thou shalt not surely die. Don't be afraid. You shall be as gods. Oh, I tell you, it's the same serpent today, amen? It's the same serpent today. These psychologists that Nirmal quoted were influenced by Nietzsche and therefore his same devils. One writer here, tells us in public.wsu.edu, says Alfred Alder developed an individual psychology which argues that each individual strives for what he calls superiority, but is more commonly referred to today as self-realization or self-actualization, and which was profoundly influenced by who? Nietzsche's notions of striving and self-creation. The entire human potential movement and humanistic psychology of Maslow and Rogers and May owes a great deal to this line of thought. Even pop psychologists of self-esteem preach a gospel little different from that of who? Zarathustra. So, Quote after quote after quote basically would tell you that pop psychology and self-esteem and that whole mess came, that whole James Dobson mess, came from Nietzsche. And was Nietzsche a nice fellow? No. He declared himself anti-Christ. Now, after I exposed Nietzsche, I then went after Carl Jung. another founder of modern psychology. It was Jung who walked with a spirit guide, which we know to be a what? A devil. And Dave Hunt, his name was Philemon, and Dave Hunt called him Philemon the demon. And that's what he was. Now listen here. It's not surprising that Carl Jung was greatly influenced by who? Nietzsche. Jung said that thus spoke Zarathustra made a Tremendous impression upon him. Well, Carl Jung is the founder of modern psychology. Listen to what Jung says. When I read Zarathustra for the first time as a student of 23, of course, I did not understand it all, but I got a tremendous impression. Some of the chapters impressed me, but particularly the strange thought got a hold of me. So Jung says that something grabbed a hold of him and it just began to just grab him and influence him and impress him. You know what that thought was? A spirit. A devil. And it wasn't long after that that Jung was talking to his spirit guide as he walks in the garden. And he was teaching bisexuality and hypnosis and sorcery and doing drugs and all kinds of things such as that. And that Jungism, this whole Carl Jung Nietzsche has entered into churches today, but they have to paint it Christian. You see, they have to put a Christian dressing on it. Oh, I began to expose it. I began to expose it. I began to expose it. I went to TCJC where somebody sent me to speak for their Christian class, and I stood up. I said, what do you want me to speak on? And he said, I want you to speak on that same stuff you brought to the church. And I said, you want me to go into your TCJC Christian group and do all of that? He said, yeah, please. I said, you don't want me to do that. He goes, yeah, yeah, I do, come on. So I went into that little classroom with their little group, and they're all smiling, and I stood up and began to show them Nietzsche and Jung, and one fella began to scream out. He grabbed his head and began to scream out, make him stop! Make him stop! I can't take it anymore! And he grabbed his head, and everybody went over and rushed to him, and I just stood there, and they all said, yeah, you better get out of here. You better leave, you know, and they went over and comforted him, and I walked out. I left, got in my car and went home. And so, I told you, you better not let me do that. I'm telling the honest truth. Telling the honest truth. Now, listen to what Jung says. Nietzsche was exceedingly sensitive to the spirit of the time. He felt very clearly that we are living now in a time when new values should be discovered. Oh, I tell you. The devil behind Zarathustra, which possessed Nietzsche, according to Jung, was Wotan. Listen to what Jung says. It is Wotan who gets him. Talking about Nietzsche. The old wind god breaking forth. The god of inspiration, of madness, of intoxication and wildness. The god of the berserkers. Those wild people who run amok. Jung said the spirit that possessed Nietzsche was Wotan, the god of madness. And Jung was happy about it. And what Jung said was, we need to bring this spirit into our culture because we have too much of that Christian spirit with the Christian values. We need some debauchery. We need some madness. So let me tell you something, folks, and I hope you listen clearly, and I hope you tell everybody you know, I hope you listen clearly to this. When you embrace psychology, when you sit before a counselor using the techniques of psychology, when you sit down and listen to preachers advocating psychology, You are listening to the spirit of devils that bring madness, that bring debauchery. And this is why anybody that sits under that stuff ends up in fornication, adultery, divorce, suicide, murder. Do you understand that? You say, well, I've been doing it. I haven't done that yet. I tell you what, it's only a matter of time. You better get out from under that mess. Whoever drinks from the cesspool of psychology will go insane, just as Nietzsche did. They'll go berserk. Because Jung said, it's the spirit of the berserkers. So when I say, you know, you psychologists, you're just berserk, man. You're mad. You're insane. And they say, well, I'm offended. I'm not telling you anything other than Carl Jung has said. He said the spirit you're drinking of is a mad spirit. I remember way back in the 80's when Hunt was warning against the suicide produced by the drugs that these psychiatrists prescribe you. And I likewise began warning about them from the very start. It wasn't long after that that I knew a person who took those psych drugs and committed suicide. Hunt was mocked by everybody back then. People wrote books like Witch Hunt. Look at it right there. What do James Dotson, Charles Swindle, and Campus Crusade have in common? They are just three of the victims of today's witch hunt. And the whole book was against Dave Hunt. Christians are attacking Christians, charging one another with heresy. But are the accusations fair? Is the reasoning valid? So Bob and Gretchen Pasatino with a foreword by Walter Martin. Now, I will say this, Walter Martin later got on TBN and began to basically advocate what Hunt had said and say that he was actually right. When I did this foreword, I didn't know really what I was talking about. And he got on and began to do it. And so, reportedly, Tammy, not Tammy Faye, whatever her name is, Jan Crouch, was sending Thanks to the The announcer producer and stop him stop him get Walter Martin off of there get him off But Walter Martin just got no TV in and he just let him have it He goes, oh, it's all true. Whatever Dave Hunt wrote was true. That's the last time he was ever on TVN, you know But anyway, Bob and Gretchen Pasatino witch hunt this type of stuff that Dave Hunt had to deal with, you know You're a witch hunter. You're a witch hunter. Look what you're doing. You're stirring up trouble and sometimes people do stir up trouble and But Dave Hunt was just trying to tell you, you ought to get all this devil stuff out of our churches. Oral Park, one of the founders of one of the first mega-churches in America, responded to Dave Hunt with, that the world may know. Who is Oral Park? Well, he says in Satan and Mass, listen now, Adam and Eve were placed in the world as the seed and expression of God. Just as dogs have puppies and cats have kittens, so God has little gods. We have trouble comprehending this truth. Until we comprehend that we are little gods, we cannot manifest the kingdom of God. So you know why Earl Polk hated Dave Hunt's book? Because he was caught with his hands in the cookie jar. You get it? So, when Dave Hunt began exposing all of this, Oral Polk was one of the chief ones that was guilty of everything he was talking about. Well, there were other moral issues that it appears Polk had because it became one of the most nationally publicized incidents that there had been a long list of adultery and pedophilia, child molestation, and finally it all ended with the his nephew, who was the pastor of the megachurch at the time, finally getting a DNA test and finding out that, I'm not your nephew, I'm your son. You committed adultery. And that's Earl Paul. So, Earl Paul did everything he can to stop Hunt, but he was doctrinally guilty, and now we found out that he was also morally guilty. See, a lot of times men have agendas for losing their minds. You see that? There's a lot of times. Many in the Christian community largely rejected this rebuke against the dangers of psychology. It was sad to see. They just turned the light off. They said they got stubborn. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to rock the boat of my church. We're happy with all of this self-esteem and psychobabble, and we're not going to hear. We're not going to hear. We're not going to hear about it. Well, where are we at today, folks? Where are we at today? Here's LA Times, April 5th, 2013. About a month before the Aurora movie theater rampage left 12 dead and at least 70 injured in July, James E. Hall told a what? Told a preacher? Told a what? A psychiatrist. So now what is a psychiatrist again? Somebody that mixes the writings of Nietzsche and Juul? Somebody that grabs a hold of this debauchery spirit of madness? So you're going to go talk to one of these fellows? They might be nice people, but they're berserk. He told a psychiatrist he was having homicidal thoughts, along with chemicals used for explosives. Police sees movie posters. That'll help you go berserk too, right? Video games. That's not going to help you. I'll tell you what, keep your little children away from visual. impressions. That's not just a fundamental preacher telling you that. That's countries around the world. That's doctors telling you that. That's one time these doctors and physicians and psychiatrists agree with the preachers, you know. Yeah, these little children, you might want to mess them up when they're seven, but when they're little and you put them in front of a TV screen, they're not going to be able to talk. They're going to be delayed in their learning. They're not going to be able to control themselves. Get them away from that visual mess. This is a new thing to come to the world, I promise you. I promise you. You want to get your people, your children away from video screens. Well, listen, video games, they found prescription medication. a generic version of Zoloft, used to treat depression, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Clonazepam, usually described to treat anxiety and panic attacks. So, what was this fella on? Psych drugs. Psych drugs. How many stories do we have? It's endless, is it not? It's endless. It's endless. It's endless. My grandmother, she went because she just had a hurt back or something and the doctor put her on psych drugs before she passed away and she called us up and said she was having suicidal thoughts and we told her to get off that mess and she was mad at the doctor. Why did you give me that stuff? Now you go into the regular doctor and they'll put you on psych drugs. I mean, it's insane. Rick Warren was one of the chief supporters of psychology and the drug companies and quotes all these humanistic psychologists in his books and basically endorses this whole movement of big pharma. And it's one of the most horrible things that could ever happen. But I'm just trying to show you where we're at in America today. Just last night, April 6, 2013, Saddleback Church says Rick Warren's son has committed suicide. The statement said Matthew suffered from what? Mental illness. That resulted in deep depression and suicidal thoughts despite the best what? Health care available. Folks, despite the best health care available, you know what that means? That they had this boy sit under psychiatrist and psychologist and they had him on anxiety drugs, that they haven't the slightest. Well, there's chemical imbalance. You don't, you're speaking, you're talking like a fool. You don't know what you're talking about. Chemical imbalance. You don't know what you're, there's, what do you mean a chemical imbalance? You can get out of here and get mad at somebody. You can eat the wrong thing. They don't know what they're dealing with, with your brain. They're selling dope. They're selling dope. They haven't done psychological or any type of medical testing. They don't know what they're talking about. Well, yeah, I got a chemical. You don't have... That is the stupidest thing. Get in church. Amen? Get in church and repent of your sins. Start eating right. I'll tell you what. Get off the dope. But now once you get on the dope, you have to be careful. And let me rephrase that. If I was you, I'd get off the dope. And I'd go see somebody who knows what they're doing and say, help me get off this mess. Help me get off it. God forbid, despite the best health care available. This was an illness that was never fully controlled. The pastor is also known for offering the purpose-driven life, which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Dear Lord, I do pray right now in the name of Jesus that you help Rick Warren at this time. I do pray that you comfort him in this horrible moment of his life. And I do pray, Lord, that before anybody else dies, God, that he will become one of the chief advocates against these drugs and against psychology. Lord, I do pray in the name of Jesus. Amen. This is tragic, but I'm going to tell you what it is. It's the rotten fruit of these evil philosophies. And just because it's Rick Warren, it makes headlines. But what about the thousands and thousands all around the country that have been sitting in churches that the pastor sent them to a counselor who put them on psych drugs and all these suicides and murders around the country that never make the headlines really, you know. It's tragic, is it not? Drug companies are using these preachers to sell their psychotropic drugs. They have a good market, because now they're mixing Christianity with the so-called mental health field, and it expanded their market like never before. I want to end by saying that the Bible is not only inspired, it's preserved. See, God who wrote the Bible can keep it from error, can't He? You say, well, man messed up the Bible. I know God fixes it. Amen? God can put back out His original Bible again. Just read Jeremiah, where that king took a penknife, messed up the writings of Jeremiah, the inspired word of God, threw them inside the fire and burned them. And said, now what are you going to do? Well, God just put it right back out. God put it right back out. I tell you what, Moses, he dropped those commandments when he saw what the people were doing. And what happened? God just gave them right back out again. It's not a new inspiration. It doesn't need to be a new inspiration. God's just preserving what He originally did. And that's what you have today in the King James Bible, amen? You can be sure that that Bible is the Word of God. And if you want Carl Jung and Nietzsche and the other madmen, I tell you what, you've got to make your choice. But for me and my house, I tell you what, Christians have lived by being thrown to lions, being tied to stakes, being beaten. They've watched their children murdered. They've had to live out in the streets. They've had to live out in the woods. They've been persecuted down through the ages and they kept their mind about them because the Bible said, He whose mind is stayed upon thee, I tell you, He'll keep them in perfect peace. That will keep him in perfect peace. His mind is stayed upon thee. I tell you what, but people today barely even going through anything. There's a lot of folks going through some hard things, but there's a lot of people in America that haven't really gone through anything yet. You understand that? And they're losing it. They're losing it. And the more you get into yourself and follow the writings and philosophies of psychology, the more you're going to lose it. Alright? I believe the Bible is preserved. Do you believe that? I believe that it's not only inspired and preserved, it's sufficient. And what I mean by that is you don't need psychology. It's sufficient. My Bible is good enough. My Bible is good enough. My Bible will help you. And they hate it. They hate it. Well, you don't need some. They hate me. You don't need some preacher giving you a psalm or a proverb. And it's just all going to be better. You've got a mental health problem. You need a professional to deal with you. Well, if you want to let some bisexual kook take care of you, go ahead and do it. And if he's not bisexual, he's embraced the philosophy of Jungianism, which is nothing. It's going to destroy your manhood. It's going to destroy you as a person. Because God brings life, but the devil brings what? Brings death. Psychology is a cult poison designed to make you live like a monkey. 2nd Timothy 3 says yea all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution But evil man a seducer shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived but continue down the things which thou has learned and been assured of Knowing of whom thou has learned them and that from a child that was known the holy scriptures Which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus all scriptures given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof or correction for instruction and righteousness, but but it can't deal with your emotional problems. Isn't that what the Bible says? Isn't that stupidity? That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. But of course you need the psychologist too. Isn't that what it says? No, you need the Bible. You might need somebody in one sense to help you understand the Bible, but you've got to test them with the Bible. The Bible is your only absolute authority. God says He gives pastors and teachers to help you, but He never says in there that He gives psychologists. In fact, He tells us to beware of vain philosophy from the world. He told Timothy, Pastor Timothy, in 1 Timothy 6, Oh, Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust. You know what I'm doing today? Even though it's 20-something years or more since I preached that first sermon, I'm still keeping it, amen? I'm keeping it, and I'm still fighting it. Avoid profane and vain babblings. You know what all this trash is? You know what this Nietzsche stuff is? You know what all of this Eric Fromm stuff is? You know what all this Robert Shuler mess is? You know what it is? It's vain babblings. Amen? And oppositions of science, falsely so-called, which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Faith, grace be with thee. Amen. You know how they come in? Because there's Christians that believe if it's science, then I have to receive it. And you don't know that science is a bunch of fables and nursery rhymes. Do you understand that? Well, this fella, he has a degree in biology. Well, come here, fella. Let me talk to you a second. You believe we came from monkeys? You believe in evolution? Yep. Okay. Well, then you know what? That pretty much dismisses and you might know some equations and facts about something But I have to now test anything you ever say because you're kooky The Bible says you will turn people will turn to fables But what they say that word science a lot of Christians just bow the knee they bow the knee to the golden cap of science and And it works so good with the monkey science, with that Darwinianism. It works so good. They said, let's do the same thing. And so psychology came in. And Freud said, we'll find the laws of human nature. He believed in determinism, that everything you think is based upon a law. And he says, once I find the laws, once I find the laws, we'll be able to predict human behavior. They were never able to find the laws. They were never able to find the law. So in the 1920s, they said, where are the laws? They said, we're working on it. 1930s, where are the laws? We're working on it. 1940s, where are the laws? We're working on it. 1950s, 1960s, now they don't even try to find the laws. They just tell you, psychology is a science. We understand the laws of the human mind. Psychology is a science. No, it's a science what? It's a science what? It's a science falsely so-called. And the Bible says, avoid oppositions of science falsely so-called. There's a lot of oppositions of science, falsely so-called, in the allopathic medicine as well as psychology. People say, well, what about the doctor? Well, most of what he does is messed up too. Now people are going to say, okay, I dismiss this preacher because he's just loony. Hey, maybe you might be loony, amen? I might not be the one that's berserk. I'm not mad, O noble Festus, but maybe you are, amen? I mean, the Bible says when you put two men together, they're from opposite sides. They're abomination to one another. They don't understand each other. But before you declare me the madman, you might be mad. Maybe I'm sane. Well, I'll close with excerpts from Dave Hunt's article, Unity and Truth. Dave Hunt says, it should be quite clear. to any observer of news and trends. It should be clear that we are heading, as the Bible foretells, for a world government and a world religion, and that the two will be united. Gone will be any separation between church and state. It should be equally clear that a basic requirement of the world religion will be that it must be inoffensive and universally accepted. Political-religious correctness is essential to the false unity desired by this world. Spirituality without truth will be the rule. The world will have returned to Babel, where the city, the secular government, and the tower, the religion, were reunited. Those who persist in the claim that some teachings are wrong will be silenced for the good of society. I tell you, these Humanistic psychologists started out by saying, we just want public schools. We just want to be in control of public schools. If you just give us the public school, it'll be all right. We won't teach them anything about religion. Then they came out and started writing. We want to teach them morals, too, but we want it to be our psychological morals. See, so they want it to be a church. They want it to be a humanistic church, but just not of God, not of God. Those who persist in the claim that some teachings are wrong will be silenced for the good of society. That trend is already reflected by TBN's Paul Crouch, whose prayer demands immunity from correction. We proclaim death to anything or anyone that would lift a hand against this ministry. And now in rebellion against God's judgment at Babel, man is determined to unite the world as it was then. Lockheed Corporation has boasted in a Scientific American ad that through its computers it was undoing the Babel effect. It will bring the reign of Antichrist and the wrath of God poured out upon this earth. You know, I'm thankful for over the years. Here's one from 1993. Dave Hunt says, weep for your children. For the first time in its history, the United States now has a president and vice president who openly encourage homosexuality, the murder of the unborn and the pagan worship of Mother Earth. He said, you better weep for your children for what's coming to America. He was right, wasn't he? I tell you what, he was right. He was right. I praise God. Here's God as you conceive him or her or it against the 12-step programs, that's back in 1997. Here's a city on seven hills talking about Rome and what's coming as they get control of all of this. And this is some depressing stuff, folks. It's depressing. But you ought to be happy that you've got a Bible, amen? You ought to be happy that you have a Bible and that you do have a light that shines in a dark place. And let me give you one last verse as we close. Ms. Deborah comes and sings for us. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. I want you to have peace in Jesus Christ. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world." Hey, this is your time to stand for Jesus. That's what it is. The Lord said, I've already defeated it. I could wipe it all out right now. But He's just keeping it all going so you can be victorious and participate and walk as He has walked. Amen? Follow Jesus. Wax valiant for Jesus. Stand up and do exploits for your God. Amen? Let's take a stand and thank the Lord for the opportunity to bring glory to Him. Amen? Be encouraged, Church of God. If you want to come pray and dedicate yourself to the Lord or pray for somebody, we're going to call you up. Maybe you're not a Christian. You'd like to get saved today. Just believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe on the Lord. Know you're a sinner and know that Jesus has paid the price for your sins. And just receive that free gift by simply trusting Jesus and not your own words. God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Believe on the Lord, you'll have everlasting life. And if you are a Christian, maybe you haven't been living right. Maybe you don't realize that this world is about to be wrapped up. Jesus is about to come. You better decide what side's your own. You better get out of the middle, amen? And you better get away from sin so we please our Lord Jesus, amen? Let's repent of some sin. So let's, whatever God's dealing with you about, let's take care of it as the sister sings. Troubled soul Come to the Savior, troubled soul. Come to the Lord. Help us, Lord. He is willing and able to save you. Come on, make a change. O dear one, come to the Lord. What side are you on? You've rushed about seeking your pleasures. You've walked a path that led you to pain. Troubled soul, come to the Savior. He is calling you today. Mercy waits for all who will seek him. Oh God's mercy waits. For how long? Mercy waits for all who will come. Don't harden yourself. Let God's offering is drawing. Oh, dear one. Come to the Lord. He is. Please don't spend him. He is calling. away he will leave if you reject him oh dear one come to the Lord you brought You walked a path that led you to pain. Troubled soul, come to the Savior. He is calling you today. Prepare to dismiss our service today. Any of our men have a quick word that you'd like to share? Please do so at this time.