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False Prophets And A False Gospel - Part 2 of 2

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• Hey, I want you to open your Bibles, if you would, to the book of Ezekiel, chapter 13. Ezekiel 13. This is the second part on the series "False Prophets and a False Gospel." And Ed and Steve and Lorraine, who were not here last week, this is a different type of message for me because I'm trying to expose some unbiblical principles that are being enunciated through some of the denominations. And so I want you to look in Ezekiel chapter 13, and let's begin reading there with verse 10. Here God is speaking about the false prophets, and He says this: "Because, even because they have seduced My people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar: Say to them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: There shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it. Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?"

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• "Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in My fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in Mine anger, and great hailstones in My fury to consume it. So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Thus will I accomplish My wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered mortar, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it; to wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord God."

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• Recently, of course, everyone knows that the Southern Baptist Convention, which is the largest Protestant denomination in the country, met in St. Louis, Missouri. They came out with several propositions as well as doing some other things. And last week I actually talked about Proposition or Resolution number 7, which was actually against the Confederate battle flag. And I tried to expose some of that. And I mentioned the fact that I did not, and I am not going to take time to re-preach several messages that I have concerning the battle flag. I have one which is entitled, "The Truth Concerning the Confederate Battle Flag." The second one is, "Why Some Hate the Confederate Battle Flag." And then the third one is, "The Confederate Battle Flag, a Symbol of Hatred?"

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• Which is in two parts. And I also have another message which I really have not preached on the symbolism of the Confederate flag, although I've used parts of it. But Russell Moore, who is the President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission in the Southern Baptist Convention, made a statement, and I want to read you the statement that he made. And of course it is indeed not only unbiblical in one sense of the word, it is certainly unhistorical. He said this, and I quote: "The Confederate flag is a symbol of horrific injustices against our African-American brothers and sisters in Christ and has been used as a threat of terrorism against them. Today, Southern Baptists affirmed that we're more committed to the gospel than we are to a flag and are more committed to the future than we are to the past."

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• So I have several observations. Number one, there is not much of a future without truth. And I'd much rather have the past with truth than the future without truth. Moreover, the flag that he's talking about, the Confederate battle flag, is a Christian flag. It carries the cross of St. Andrew. And if you study the history, it was designed to be a Christian flag and designed to represent the gospel. The battle flag did not commit any injustices at all against African-Americans. When you consider a flag that committed injustices against African-Americans, as well as white Americans, then you have to consider that it was the stars and stripes. It was the American flag. I pointed out last week that no slave ever came into this country under any Confederate flag.

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• All the slaves were brought in either under an English flag or a Dutch flag or a Spanish flag. But after the King of England got rid of the slave trade, all the slaves came into this country under the stars and stripes. And may I point out again that the Confederate battle flag only flew for four years. It was not a national flag. It was indeed a battle flag.

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• So if Russell Moore wants to talk about injustices against black Americans, black Africans, then what he needs to do is read some history and he will find out that it was the northern troops. It was the federal troops that raped and robbed and kidnapped and murdered blacks, especially those who would not betray their masters or who would not tell where the goods were hidden at their master's home. There are several very important books that reveal all this information.

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• One of them is "War Crimes Against Southern Civilians" by Walter Brian Cisco. The second one is "American Terrorists," that is, "Lincoln's Army in the South" by Michael Andrew Grissom. And the third one is "The Sack of Columbia" by William Gilmore Simms, where in Columbia, the federal troops just simply shot down black Americans, black Africans in the street. Shot them down like dogs and just left them to die.

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• So, I mean, there's so much history that can be verified, and for him to make a statement like that certainly does not show that he is a very intelligent individual. So preaching lies and serving a personal agenda and declaring what one wishes to be true when it is not true is the same as building with untempered mortar. So you can build a wall with untempered mortar and pretty soon it is just going to fall, even the least wind will blow it down.

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• Now let me just review one thing that I did cover last week that should be very surprising. And I used this in the end of the message last week when I was exposing what Russell Moore and some of the others have said and done. Al Benson, in his article on the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, which is actually the political arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, he wrote this. Listen carefully.

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• This is absolutely astounding to me. But he said, according to an article found at thewatchmanwakes.com, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is classified as an NGO, that is a non-governmental organization of the United Nations. And it has a special consulting status. This article noted a Dr. Albert Mohler and says of him that Dr. Mohler is a founding fellow of the Research Institute, that is a think tank, of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention.

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• Why is this information noteworthy? Because the ERLC is a non-governmental organization of the United Nations. What does that mean, that the ERLC partners with the United Nations as a non-governmental organization? What are the criteria for NGOs to be granted this status? Now listen carefully. The following are just a few. The NGO must support the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. The NGO must have a clear mission statement that is consistent with those principles. The NGO must promote knowledge of the principles and activities of the United Nations.

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• He then adds, now stop and think about this for a minute. What this means is that your organization as an NGO must be one that will support the principles of the United Nations. So the compromise and the liberalism and the trend toward a one-world government or a new world order should be easily understood if the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is aligned with the United Nations. The United Nations is nothing more than a front for globalism, humanism, and the denial and the destruction of state and national sovereignty, as well as individual rights. Now, there are two books that will expose the agenda of the United Nations if you would take the time to read them. The first one is "The Fearful Master," written by G.

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• Edward Griffin, and the second one is "Freedom at the Altar: The UN's Crusade Against God and the Family" by William Norman Grigg. So if all that is not bad enough, you would tend to think that some of our denominations, especially the Southern Baptists in this particular instance, have lost their mind, their conscience, and even their direction when you consider the fact that the Southern Baptist Convention supports the building of a mosque for the Muslims in New Jersey.

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• Now, I'm going to give you a lot of scripture. I'm going to ask you to look at it just momentarily. But I want to show you what brought this up. Here is an exchange that took place on the convention floor in St. Louis, Missouri just this past month, at the Southern Baptist National Convention. There was a question asked by Pastor John Wofford of the R. Morrell Baptist Church, and he was asking Russell Moore a question. Listen to this question. Here's what he said: "How in the world can someone in the Southern Baptist Convention support the defending of the rights of Muslims to construct mosques in the United States when these people threaten our very way of existence as Christians and Americans? They are murdering Christians, beheading Christians, imprisoning Christians all over the world."

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• "Do you actually believe that if Jesus Christ were here today, that He would support this and He would stand up and say, 'Let us protect the rights of those Baal worshippers to erect temples to Baal'? Do you believe that, Dr. Moore?"

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• Now I'm going to give you Dr. Moore's answer, but I want you to understand he never answered the question. Here's what he said. He responds and he says, "You know, sometimes we have to deal with questions that are really complicated. We have to spend a lot of time thinking them through and we're not sure what exactly the final result is going to be. Sometimes we have really hard decisions to make. This isn't one of those things." And the delegates applaud.

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• "What it means to be a Baptist is to support soul freedom for everybody." Delegate applause. "And brothers and sisters, when you have a government that says, 'We can decide whether or not a house of worship can be constructed based upon the beliefs of that house of worship,' then there are going to be Southern Baptist churches in San Francisco and New York and throughout this country that are not going to be able to build."

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• "The bigger issue though is not one of self-interest. The bigger issue is that we have been called to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A government that has the power to outlaw people assembling together and saying what they believe does not turn people into Christians. This turns people into pretend Christians and it sends them straight to Hell. The answer to Islam is not government power. The answer is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the new birth that comes from that." Heavy delegate applause.

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• Now certainly that last statement he made is true, but you have to work through everything that he said and then you're going to see that he really does not really understand even his last statement. Now what brought about this exchange on the convention floor was an article that was written by a man by the name of A.D.I. Shell Bush. And here is what he wrote.

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• You've got to listen to this, because this is absolutely unbelievable. Listen carefully. He says, talking about Russell Moore, "Moore reached a new low this week, however, besides ousting the Confederate battle flag from a historical Southern denomination, in defending his active support for the increased institutionalization of idolatry in the United States when he was asked about his commission's support for the erection of an Islamic mosque in Bernards Township in New Jersey. The planning board of this township back in December of 2015 voted down an application from the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge to build a 4,252-square-foot mosque on Church Street. Naturally, the Islamic Society filed a lawsuit that accused the planning board of violating their religious liberties."

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• Audie tells us, "Amicus brief." Now an amicus brief is a friend of the court brief. It means I don't necessarily have any interest in this, but I'm going to be a friend of the court and I'm going to take up for Steve if I file this in his behalf. So he goes on, "An amicus brief was filed on behalf of the Islamic Society fighting for the establishment of the mosque on the basis of religious liberty. In addition to Moore's ERLC, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the brief was also signed by the International Society of Krishna Consciousness, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey."

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• "What a woeful mix of supposed Christian orthodoxy and outright false religion. You have to wonder why some church groups are making common cause with the Krishnaists and the Unitarian Universalists. Isn't there a verse somewhere in the scriptures about Christians not being yoked together with unbelievers? Last time I checked, it was still there." The Southern Baptist Convention's policy arm has joined with the Krishnaists and the Unitarians in supporting the building of a mosque in New Jersey when the township says, "No, we don't want that mosque."

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• Now, I want you to understand that Russell Moore never really answered the question. So what I want to do is answer that question today from a biblical aspect. Now, Russell Moore talked about soul liberty. I could just casually say that Jesus Christ interfered with the soul liberty of the Jewish money changers when He made a scourge of small cords and drove them out of the temple. He interfered with the soul liberty of the Pharisees in Matthew 23 when He called them a bunch of vipers and asked them how they could escape the damnation of hell. Well, for Moore and his commission, supporting the building of a mosque, according to his own words, was not a hard choice. He said, "Sometimes we have to make really hard decisions.

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• This isn't one of those things." Now, listen to this. Dave Miller, who was the newly elected president of the SBC's Pastors Conference, said this: "At some point, we must remember that we are Baptist. We are for and not against religious liberty. If you are against religious liberty for Muslims, you are an opponent of religious liberty. If you support liberty, you support it even for those you disagree with. That's the way liberty works."

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• Now, let me explain something. I do not want to get into the origin or even the use or misuse of the phrase "soul liberty." Nor do I want to get into what is known as what I would call "liberty of conscience." It is true that one chooses to believe whatever he chooses to believe. You cannot force someone to become a Christian. You cannot force someone to believe any certain doctrinal position. I can't force you to believe in the deity of Christ. I can't force you to believe in the inspiration of the scripture. That's what we understand when we usually talk about liberty of conscience. However, you have to understand that the conquistadors who conquered Mexico and parts of the Southwest, and the Muslims, do not understand Christian liberty or soul liberty at all, because they were the individuals that believed that you could force people into conversion by the sword.

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• And so their attitude was, you either convert or we'll kill you. And so likewise the Muslims today, you either convert to Islam or they cut off your head. They behead you. In other words, that is their definition of liberty. You have the liberty to convert or you have the liberty to have your head cut off. It's just that simple. Well, you have to understand that there is no liberty, there is no freedom apart from God's law. Let me make a simple statement and I want you to think about this. Freedom is not absolute. Liberty is not absolute. When you take liberty or freedom and you try to make it an absolute, then the result is not freedom. It is rather anarchy. Freedom has to be under law in order for it to be freedom. So, when someone talks about freedom as an absolute, like Russell Moore is doing, and like Dave Miller is doing, what they mean by that is simply this. They're saying that real freedom means that man has the freedom to become his own God, to make his own law, and to do his own thing.

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• So, fallen man certainly wishes to be free. But what in the world is his wish and his desire for freedom? Fallen man wishes to be free, but he wishes to be free to sin. He wishes to be free to murder and rape and pillage and plunder and do all of that without condemnation and without punishment. That's freedom to the unconverted individual. The Marxists even talk about freedom, but what they mean when they talk about freedom is they mean that they have freedom, all right, to impose their Marxist concepts upon you. But you have absolutely no freedom to reject their Marxist concepts. So freedom is—when you think about freedom, freedom is not just against certain things, freedom is for certain things as well.

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• So, let me put it to you like this. Think about this. If you try to say that freedom is absolute, we must have absolute freedom. Well, if men then have absolute freedom, that means they're free to do whatever they wish. That means men are free to murder. If you are free to murder, then there is no freedom for godly living. There is no freedom for peace. Peace would be absolutely impossible. There would be no freedom to walk around and travel or to communicate because if people are free to murder, they just kill you wherever you are. There is no freedom to steal. If there is freedom to steal, then there is no possibility of having private property. Because freedom to steal is working against private property. It says I have the right to go in and take whatever I want to take as well. Just stop and think about this. If men are free to rape and to fornicate, then what that means simply is this. You have no freedom then for virtue, for purity, for family, or for marriage.

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• So there is no such thing as absoluteness in freedom. Now the interesting thing is when you get to James 2 and verse 12, God's law is called the law of liberty. Now I want to show you something. I want you to turn in your Bibles to John 8 and then to Romans chapter 6. John 8 and then Romans chapter 6. Watch this if you would, because our Lord is going to tell you that freedom from Himself and freedom from His law is not freedom, it's enslavement. So in John 8, in verse 34, here's what our Lord said. John 8, verse 34: "Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin." And the word "servant" is *doulos*, which means the slave of sin. Whoever commits sin is the slave of sin. So you cannot have freedom in enslavement.

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• So when people talk about freedom to do whatever they please, they're not talking about biblical freedom and real freedom. They're talking about enslavement. If you would turn right over to the book of Romans chapter 6, look what the apostle Paul says concerning these Romans who were converted. In Romans chapter 6, notice if you would, beginning there with verse 17. Romans 6 and verse 17. He says, "But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin," that is, you were the slaves of sin, "but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin," that is, free from its enslavement, "ye became the servants of righteousness." So when people talk about, "Well, I want to be free to do this and free to do that," that's not freedom, that is enslavement. Our Lord said whoever commits sin is the slave of sin. And He says you have been made free, if you're a Christian, from the servitude and the bondage to sin, that you might serve the one true and the living God. Now, freedom is under God and under God alone. Since God is the lawgiver, in Isaiah 33 and verse 22 the Bible says this: "The Lord is our Judge.

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• He is our Judge. The Lord is our Lawgiver. The Lord is our King. He will save us." So who is God? He is King. He is Lawgiver. He is Judge. When you get to James 4 and verse 12 the Bible says this: "There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy." One Lawgiver. David in Psalm 119 verse 45 said this: "I will walk at liberty: for I seek Thy precepts." I will walk at liberty for I seek Thy precepts. And interestingly the word "precepts" specifies the Mosaic case laws of the Old Testament. So what David is saying is real liberty, real freedom is seeking God's law and God's precepts.

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• Now, let me ask some questions. Before I ask these questions I want you to do just a little thinking. I want you to think for a moment about living in the land of promise. When God gave them victory over the inhabitants of the land of Canaan and all those Hebrews inhabited that land. Okay, you've got to remember now that they were surrounded by a number of their enemies. Okay, they were surrounded by different nations. So here are my questions. Number one: Were strangers, foreigners, allowed to visit in Israel? And the answer from the Bible is yes. Here's the second question: Were strangers and foreigners allowed to settle and to live in Israel, in the land of Canaan? And the answer is yes. Here's a third question: Were those strangers and foreigners forced to convert to the Hebrew faith? And the answer is no. Here's my next question: Were the strangers and the foreigners allowed to build their pagan temples, follow their own laws, and seek to overthrow the society, culture, and faith of the Hebrews?

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• And the answer is no. Now, I want to show you some scriptures. Let's go in our Bibles to the book of Exodus chapter 12. Exodus chapter 12, and notice if you would please verse 49. I want to show you that God says this at least four times. Look in Exodus chapter 12, beginning there with verse 49. Here's what God says. Exodus 12 verse 49: "One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you." What did God say? Whether you're born in the land, whether you're a naturalized Hebrew, or whether you're a stranger, there's one law. One law. Look in Leviticus chapter 24 and verse 22. Leviticus 24 verse 22. This passage, Leviticus 24 verse 22, God again says it like this: "Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God." So what has God said? There's only going to be one law. Doesn't matter who lives in the country. There's only going to be one law. Look in your Bible to Numbers chapter 15. Numbers 15:16. Numbers 15 verse 16: "One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you." This is the third time God has said you shall have one law. Look if you

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• would in verse 29 of Numbers 15, and He says: "Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them." So God demands that there only be one law. Would you like to take a guess as to whose law that is to be? It is to be God's law. It was not to be some humanistic, pagan, inclusive law that allowed for a pluralistic, multicultural society. It was to be God's law.

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• And an interesting thing is this. When you study the original documents of the founding of this country, even now, as liberal as the state of Massachusetts is, read the original documents because you will find: "The laws of this colony shall be the laws of the one true and living God as revealed in the Bible through Moses." That's what it says. Every colony in this country originally said, "We're built upon the law of God." I have the documents. I have copies of the original charters and constitutions. Over and over they say, "No one can hold any office unless they profess faith in the Old and New Testaments, in the inspiration of the Bible, and profess faith in Jesus Christ." Now you need to understand something. I'm going to show it to you from the Bible.

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• There were certain peoples that were not allowed to come into the land. And even if there were some strangers who were allowed to visit or to even live there, they were not to have any power or any authority. They could pass through. They could stay temporarily. But there were some that God says you don't have anything to do with them. Let me show you. Look in your Bibles to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 25. Deuteronomy 25, and Deuteronomy 23 which we're going to look at momentarily. God specifically denounced some nations and Israel was not to allow them to have any authority or power in their country. These people were to be marked as unwanted and unwelcomed. And so look in Deuteronomy chapter 25 verse 17. Deuteronomy 25 verse 17. God says: "Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

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• How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it." Wow. Now, what did God say? Blot out their name. Never forget what they did. They are not welcome. Do you think based upon this text that the Israelites could say to the Amalekites, "Well, come on in.

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• Build your temple over here. We'll work with you." No, God says you can't have them. Look in Deuteronomy chapter 23. What He said in Deuteronomy 25 about the Amalekites was, you never forget their cowardice. Remember they attacked the people from the rear. They also were vicious and crafty and faithless. They feared not God and they preyed upon the weak and the anemic. When you get to Deuteronomy 23, look at verse 3: "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation."

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• Let me just stop there for a moment. Is there anyone in here that could tell me the father of the Ammonites and the Moabites? Esau, wasn't it? Esau? Not Esau. Lot. Lot. Who's the nephew of Abraham? So watch what he says: "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever." Why?

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• "Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee." Now watch verse 6: "Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever." Wow. Now this passage is not a ban on faith. It does not say that none of these people can ever be converted. When he talks about they shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord, what he means by that is they shall not enter any position of leadership, or rulership, or power, or authority.

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• They can have no role in the nation whatsoever. Moreover, this passage is indeed teaching the separateness in the fact that only those men who could have power and authority were to be the true Israelites, that is they were to be of the seed of Abraham. If you will look back in your Bibles to Deuteronomy 17, it is the same truth that is enunciated in verse 15. Deuteronomy 17 verse 15. Look what God says: "Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother." Isn't that amazing?

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• Would you like to explain to me how we got into the mess that we're in in this country? And the answer is because of strangers. People who have no faith, people who hate God, and hate Christ, and hate the Bible, and have no intention of observing or even living by the law of God whatsoever. So this is what God is saying about the Moabites and Ammonites. No, they cannot have any role, they cannot have any position, they cannot have any power.

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• Now I want you to notice that the ban is not merely just upon them not having any power or authority or a role. If you would look back in Deuteronomy chapter 23 and look if you would please at verse 6, God says: "Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever." What is He saying? Their lack of compassion, their lack of concern, their hatred, their desire to see Israel exterminated. These were hostile people. They were seeking the overthrow of Israel and God said, "Do not seek their peace or their prosperity forever."

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• Let me put it to you in plain simple language. Here is what God said: Don't have anything to do with them. Don't do business with them. Don't intermarry with them. Don't socialize with them. Don't do anything to promote them or help them in any way whatsoever. So the Israelites under God's law and under God's sovereignty—and remember God was their king—they could not welcome the Moabites and the Ammonites into their nation. Because God says you're not to seek their peace nor their prosperity forever. Now, please understand this.

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• They would still owe them what you and I would call common courtesy and civil obligations in the sense that they were not to be rude and unkind and uncivil toward them. We're not to be rude and unkind and uncivil toward folks that we don't like, even those that we're forbidden to associate with. You know what God said in Exodus 22 and verse 21? He told Israel, "Thou shalt not vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." So God said you don't oppress them. But you don't have anything to do with them either. You don't help them.

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• You're not trying to necessarily put them down everywhere you turn, but you're not helping them either. So you have to ask yourself this question, and as you look at what is happening in America, is our situation basically the same? And the answer is yes. We profess to be a Christian nation. We are not. We were in the beginning, that is true. We also profess to follow God's law. When you look at Islam, Islam is a geopolitical power more than it is a religion.

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• It does not seek to conform. It seeks to dominate. It is not interested in following God's law. It is interested in establishing Sharia law. It is not interested in conforming to our society or culture. It demands that we conform to their culture. Some of you may have read this week, I think it was in Sweden or Norway, where some of these Muslim migrants have gone. They told the women of the country, "If you don't want to be raped, wear a headscarf."

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• Yeah, though it's covering your head. If you don't cover your head, you're just free for us. That's exactly what they said. In other words, we're here in your country, but you better do what we tell you or we'll destroy you. That's exactly what they're saying.

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• Now, Gerald Harris, whom I really do not know, but I found out more about him today at dinner, but he is the editor of the Georgia Christian Index News Journal. And that's a Southern Baptist paper. But I understand that he's taken on a lot of flack for some of the things that he's written. And one of them is this, and it's a good—what he's written is true, and that's why he's taken on the flack concerning it.

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• He argued that Islam may be more of a geopolitical movement than a religion, and therefore may not qualify at all for First Amendment protections granted to religions. In his editorial, Harris went on, he says, "Muslims around the world and in our own country have shouted 'Death to America' on some occasions, and that mosques often promote Sharia law and become training grounds for radicalizing Muslims." He quoted four commentators who have argued Islam has a religious component, but taken to its logical end, seeks to overcome Western civilization. That led Harris to state, "Do Southern Baptist entities need to come to the defense of a geopolitical movement that has basically set itself against Western civilization? Even if Islam is a religion, must we commit ourselves to fight for the religious freedom of a movement that aggressively militates against other religions?" Now listen to this. Harris added, "Freedom of religion in America is designated to protect the rights and dignity of different religious communities so they can practice their respective rites and ordinances without fear and interference. However, religious freedom for Muslims means allowing them the right to establish Islam as a state religion and subjugating the infidels, even murdering those who are critics of Islam and those who oppose their brutal religion."

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• "In essence, they want to use our democracy to establish their theocracy with Allah as supreme. Their goal politically is to destroy the Constitution with its embedded freedom and democracy and to replace it with Sharia law. Just as Americans kept communism in check during the Cold War," Harris wrote, "will we do the same when another political ideology endangers our future?" Wow. No wonder they don't like what he wrote. I understand that.

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• There is a man who is a pastor, a bishop, by the name of John Henry Hopkins. He was the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont. And he wrote an absolutely wonderful book on a defense of biblical slavery. I have that book in my library. He also wrote another book entitled, "The American Citizen: His Rights and Duties According to the Spirit of the Constitution of the United States." And he wrote this book in 1857.

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• And I want you to listen to one paragraph. I'm going to tell you, we have changed. And the reason we have changed is because our theology has changed. I cannot help but think of that old cigarette commercial they had years ago. Some woman's cigarette. I can't forget what kind. They said, "You've come a long way, baby." Now, whatever it was, well, you all understand when I read this paragraph, we've come a long way.

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• Here's what John Henry Hopkins of Vermont wrote in 1857. He wrote: "The religious rights of the citizens of the United States consist in the enjoyment of his own conscientious choice among all the forms of our common Christianity, which were in existence at the time when the Constitution was established. This must be taken as the full limit of fair and legal presumption, as the first two chapters in his book have sufficiently proved. Therefore, I hold it preposterous to suppose that a band of Hindus could settle in any part of our territories and claim a right under the Constitution to set up the public worship of Brahma, Vishnu, or Jagannath. Equally unconstitutional would it be for the Chinese to introduce the worship of Fo or Buddha in California. Neither could a company of Turks assert a right to establish a mosque for the religion of Mohammed. For the meaning of the Constitution can only be derived from the reasonable intention of the people of the United States. I can find no right for the public exercise of any religious faith under our great federal charter which does not acknowledge the divine authority of the Christian Bible." Wow. Did you hear what this man

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• was? The bishop in Vermont, and he said our Constitution guaranteed any form of the Christian religion and nothing else. And he said, under our Constitution, no pagan religion has a right to exist in this country. By the way, that almost sounds like no pagan religion had a right to exist in Israel since there was to be one law for he that was homeborn and the stranger as well.

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• Now, present day Americans would probably not agree with John Henry Hopkins. However, most Americans in 1857 did agree with him, because the founding of this country was on the Christian faith. There may have been various denominations, but they all believed the Bible was the Word of God, and that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. So yes, they believed in the inspiration of the Scripture, and they believed in the salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ.

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• So, here's what I'm trying to share with you today. Listen carefully. Here is where I believe that Russell Moore, the Southern Baptist Convention, some of the others, are just dead wrong. Freedom is not primary. God and His law are primary. Whenever anyone substitutes freedom as the primary object instead of the worship of and obedience to the One True and Living God, it is idolatry. It is idolatry. Freedom as the primary emphasis will inevitably become freedom from responsibility, freedom from accountability, and freedom from the Law of God.

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• It will result in anarchism. You say, "I don't believe that." Look at society. Look at where we are. I have made the statement and I would still stand by that statement. I've made the statement many times. I really genuinely, honestly believe—I'll be 72 this year if the Lord lets me live till September—I honestly genuinely believe that people of my generation were the last ones to taste the little bit of freedom that we had left in this country.

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• Those who were born after us have no idea. They're so used to government handouts and socialism and communism. We've come around full circle back to Judges 17 verse 6 where the scripture said, "There was no king in Israel in those days, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes." If you take freedom as absolute, then it always devolves into pure anarchy. And Russell Moore and the Southern Baptist Convention are planning on violating God's law by helping to establish a mosque because they have thought and they have said that freedom is primary instead of God and His laws.

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• Now let me make some applications. I want you to think these through with me please. Number one, to accept Islam is to deny Jesus Christ. To accept Sharia law is to deny biblical law. It is one thing to witness to the ungodly. It is one thing to spend money and time to try to reach the ungodly. It's quite another thing to try to help and aid the ungodly in their error and in their wickedness.

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• In fact, Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, learned that the hard way. When he went to try to help Ahab, the king of Israel, when he came back, Jehu, the son of Hanani, the seer, the prophet, in 2 Chronicles 19 verse 2, approached him and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? Therefore is wrath upon thee from the Lord." Jehoshaphat learned the hard way. You don't help the ungodly. You don't do that. If you really and truly and genuinely believe that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life, and by that I mean He's the only way, the only truth, and the only life, why in the world would you try to support the building of a mosque that's going to keep people in

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• blindness, in error, and in rebellion? How can you proclaim that there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved other than Jesus Christ, and then turn around and encourage idolatry and everything that is contrary to Jesus Christ? Now, one other question I want to answer for you. Pastor Wofford asked Russell Moore, which he did not answer, "Do you think that Jesus Christ would support the building of a temple for Baal and Baal worshippers?" And the answer to that question is absolutely no. He would not support the building of a temple for Baal, therefore He would not support the building of a mosque.

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• How do I know that? Well, let's see. First of all, you would need to read what God anointed King Jehu to do in 2 Kings 10. God anointed Jehu king so that he could wipe out Ahab and his house and wipe out Baal worship in Israel. And what did Jehu do? He said, "Ahab served Baal a little, but I'm going to serve him much." And he got all the worshippers of Baal together in the house of Baal, and he put his soldiers around and he said, "You go in and kill every one of them.

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• And if any of them escape, your life for his life." And once he killed all the Baal worshippers and the priests of Baal, he tore down the temple of Baal and made it a dunghill. Then you have to remember also what Elijah did in 1 Kings 18 where he took the sword and cut off the heads of 400 prophets of Baal. Wow. Now, how do I know then that Jesus Christ would not support the building of a mosque or the building of a temple of Baal?

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• Here's how: John 8 verse 29. In John 8 verse 29 our Lord said simply this: "He that sent Me is with Me. The Father hath not left Me alone; for I do always those things that please Him." Jesus Christ only did and He only does those things that please the Father. You know what the Father said in Isaiah 42 and verse 8? He said, "I am the Lord: that is My name.

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• My glory will I not give to another, neither My praise to graven images." Wow! Well, do you think that Jesus Christ then would allow a mosque to be built so that the praise and worship and honor of His Father would be given to Allah? Do you think that Jesus Christ would allow a temple of Baal to be built under religious freedom or religious liberty or soul liberty so that the worship and honor and glory of God the Father would be stolen? No.

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• And here's where we are today. If we want our country, if we want our society, if we want our culture, if we want our faith, we must repent of our sins and come to our senses and start believing the scripture and applying the scripture. If we don't, then we're down the tubes 100%. Now here's my last question. This may shock you. But my last question is this: Will the Southern Baptist Convention go as far as the Presbyterian Church USA? You say, "What in the world did the Presbyterian Church USA do?"

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• Well, you should ask, "What haven't they done?" But this one will shock you. I'm going to read it. Here it is. This year, the Presbyterian Church USA's 222nd General Assembly was held on June 18-25 in Portland, Oregon. Rachel Lee reports for Christian Daily that the General Assembly's opening plenary session began with a Muslim, Wajidi Saeed of the Portland Muslim Community, offering a prayer to Allah, which had been arranged by the Presbyterian Church USA's Ecumenical Interfaith Ministry staff. After reciting a chant in Arabic, Saeed said, "Allah bless us and bless our families and bless our Lord. Lead us on the straight path"—that would be to Islam. "Lead us on the straight path, the path of all the prophets, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, the last one.

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• Peace be upon all of them. Amen." Saeed then called upon Allah, "In the name of Allah the most beneficent, the most merciful, let us praise the Lord, the Creator of the universe, the most merciful, the most compassionate, and the Lord of the universe who has created us and made us into nations and tribes from males and females that we may know each other, not that we might despise each other or may despise each other. Incline towards peace and justice and trust in God, for the Lord is one who hears and knows everything. In the servants of God, the most compassionate, the most merciful, gracious are those who walk in the earth with humility, and when bigots and hateful and Islamophobes address them, they say, 'Peace, peace be upon them, and peace be upon Allah.'" Can you imagine? The Presbyterian Church had an opening prayer by a Muslim praying to Allah.

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• Plainly the Presbyterian Church USA has denied Jesus Christ, denied the Word of God, and is apostate to the core. The question is, why would the Southern Baptist Convention support the building of a mosque to deny the gospel and the person of Jesus Christ? Why would they uphold and sustain and support a group that is intent on destroying the gospel and denying Jesus Christ? I'd like to ask that question myself and get a logical as well as a biblical answer. Let me put it to you like this. Anyone that will elevate freedom above God and His law is an idolater.

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• No one has the right. No one has the liberty. No one has the freedom to sin against God and violate His law. It is true that men do so. But it is also true that they are trespassers. They are transgressors. They are iniquitous. They are sinful. They're disobedient. They're rebellious. And they'll receive the wrath and the judgment of God. But you cannot elevate freedom above God and God's law.

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• It seems to me, if I remember correctly, the very first commandment is, "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." And when you make freedom a god, you're an idolater. We only have one God who has revealed Himself in Jesus Christ. And we're called upon to worship Him and Him alone. The whole point of this message is not just to condemn people. I said that last week. But the whole point is to show you the direction of denominations in modern day organized Christianity.

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• We have collectively lost our sense. And we've denied the scripture and denied Jesus Christ. And as Hosea has said, we've sown the wind and we'll reap the whirlwind. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we bow to Thee this day. We thank You for Your word, Your truth. We pray that You'd help us to see that Thy word has the answers if we would just be humble enough to apply them. Help us understand where we are. Help us understand what we need to do. And give us grace that we may serve Thee acceptably with reverence and godly fear. In Thy name we pray. Amen.

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• so so

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