A Challenge to Greater Convictions, Part 1

Wonder why God is not moving because of reminds Dr. Tony Evans talked about why believers need to stop making concession clear biblical principles. Once you do that God was for you no longer. This is the alternative Tony speaker, pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, Texas, president of the Trinity says love means approving of practically everything. Other people think or do. Dr. Evans reminds us that a little thing called truth still needs to be taken into consideration.

Look at Revelation 212 today as he explains about Pergamum. Pergamum was a city some 45 miles north of applesauce and smart are the two churches we've already seen a very wealthy city, but a city controlled by the devil will talk about that in a moment of our progressive city a very noted city. A city run by health. Jesus starts any speaks. The first time the last which he said about himself in Smyrna now says in verse 12, the one who has the sharp two-edged sword says this one who has the sharp two-edged sword says this the one who has the shot, two-edged sword says this Jesus Christ is talking what he describes himself as the possessor of the two-edged sword. That's not the first time we sing that phrase in chapter 1 verse 16 of Revelation in his right hand held the seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword. In chapter 19 of Revelation. Verse 15 from his mouth came a sharp sword. Verse 21 and the rest were killed with the sword which came from his mouth. It says the Lord Jesus Christ mouth comes a sharp two-edged sword, you must change your view of Jesus. I know we've got Christmas, but we got believe that manger is nice and sweet for lights on your house in the ghetto nativity scenes on your lawn and you know nice Christmas program something wrong when earlier that Jesus was, you know, if you stuck on a baby in the manger you missing him business spoken by the risen Christ aptly rose from the dead and ascended up to heaven, and now he speaks to his church, not as a baby in a manger nor as a a man walking the streets of Galilee. But now has the risen Lord, and he says how I'm writing right now is with a sharp sword with double edges coming out of my mouth so this is not baby Jesus, meek and mild. This is serious Jesus, you better pay attention. The sword has two edges both the shop vac and cut you going and coming. It's shop for blessing them and shop for judgment. It's shop for help, but it sharp a correction it's shop for your better.

What is also shop to deal with you if you need to be dealt with usefully with – with both sides.

They didn't have guns and pistols bullets back then they had swords that sword was used for protection was also used for advancing against an enemy and to possess the sword was a phrase of having the authority in Romans 713 says that though the king does not wield the sword in vain that speaks of his authority to judge. So when you read about Jesus having the sword here. Speaking about the authority Matthew 28 verses 19 and 20. Jesus says all authority belongs to me in heaven and on earth. Translation I'm in charge of criminal may have a gun that media has power but he does not have legitimate authority because of how is using a legitimate policeman also has a gun, but he also has a batch of words legitimate authority to use the weapon they football the play as a younger, stronger and faster.

The reps are older, slower and fatter. The players could knock you down. The reps can put you out because while the players have power, the reps have authority yellow flag was so big shut this thing down. Even though outnumbered, they possess authority. When Jesus says sword is coming out of my mouth. Laying claim to authority from heaven to history from eternity to time from heaven to earth.

Jesus Christ that says the risen Lord ascended on the right hand of the father speaking to his people. The church at Pergamum and he says I'm in charge here and I have a sword where where is the soul is coming out of my mouth. Hebrews 412 says that the word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword in his piercing and penetrating in its ability and power to affect change for good for judgment. Now the problem today is that we and by we I mean even many Christians have lost faith in the power of the sword that comes out of Jesus's mouth. We have lost faith in the power of the word we respected because will carry it on the punch it in on our device.

We pay homage to it while simultaneously ripping it from its authority. Jesus says, with my mouth speaks.

My word, it's shop anything shop will cut you so if your uncut by the word of God you're not using what's coming out of his mouth. Go day after day week after week, month of the month, year after year and not be cut, then what he is doing and what you're going to be the same thing because he says was, not amount. No is sharp because today Christians in particular will and certainly the society at large has lost confidence in God's word. They are going to every other word, they may sprinkle the Bible wanted to make a sound good but they going to every other word, and there wondering why the world is not working because the word that words must be the word coming out of his mouth, not the word coming out of your mouth if you were a broken person in some form or fashion. You come to me, my life is broken what I'm going to do is I'm going to seek to take this word tried to show its relevancy to your situation and explain that if you apply it. It has the capacity to cut deep enough like a Dr. scalpel to make you better than that. That's ongoing approach. If you come to me with a shattered personal life. If you come to me with a shattered family life. Mama made and I get along with my children at each other stroke. I will take the same word that I use with the individual discuss your family. Talk about what the word says about who should do what and how they should do it with the understanding that if it is hit upon his go cut some and change something because it is sharp. If you believe as leaders of the church because the church is in confusion or chaos, or divisional. Whatever. I will take the same word that I use with the individual with the family. I'm going to see what the Bible says about how the church functions and how we need to correct whatever the issues are and if apply, assume that if the word is coming out of his mouth. The leadership don't be caught under. Because we will be cut and things will get corrected because this sword is sharp. If you were the president of the Congress and you came to me. I'm not changing books, not all of a sudden the ship the book and say well, but for the individual about the family.

The book the work for the church is an irrelevant book for the country and the culture see what we have today off on changing books or dumbing down the book to please other books telling the sword from being able to cut anything. He says the sword from my mouth is sharp and if your uncut it can be coming from my mouth. If you follow the logic if you unaffected unchanged because the way you know your affected is your changing the pillow change you've not been affected.

No matter how much you enjoy the word you heard you cut you believe he says to the church at Pergamum sword that comes out of my mouth.

My word is sharp.

It cuts it has authority. Having said that, he now commends them in verse 14. I know where you dwell I know where you live.

On the way you have church. I know the community you're in. He says that the Pergamum Bible Fellowship. I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is and you hold fast my name, and did not deny my faith even in the days of Oedipus, my witness, my faithful one was killed among you, where Satan dwells. Pergamum was the Washington DC of Satanism. They said wherever throne of Satan is the throne of Satan. He said that the Pergamum so the devil's headquarters throne is when you move from so the devil's headquarters was in Pergamum and Pergamum was Pergamum Bible worship was the church there and it was sitting right in the midst of hell because Satan was holding the location. We have not yet reached that point in America but I can assure you that's the direction we are heading.

It may not be the seat yet, but is one of the colonies. Dr. Evans will hear a troubling observation when he continues her message just a moment. First though, we are working our way through Tony's current series, the Jesus challenge.

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Those of You Were Growing up, My Generation Knows What It's like to Have a Cultural That Respected Your Faith As a Christian, Even If They Didn't Agree with It. They Was Just a Respect for the Christian Faith in Jesus Christ. The Children That Are Growing up Today Are Growing up in an Environment Where There Is Not Only a Rejection. There Is a Hatred for the Name God to Be Very Vague but I Hatred for What He Called Me Because at the Name of Jesus Every Knee Should Bow, and so As God Is Kicked Out Of the Classrooms. Nativity Scenes Removed off the Lawn and up and God's Word Is Removed from the Court Room and All over and over Again As Kids Are Not Allowed to Pray in Front of Football Games.

As You Will See This Onslaught of Rejection of the Christian Faith As It Now Becomes to Be a Christian and to Hold His Word Is Now Being Called Hate Speech and so He Writes This Church Telling Them I Recognize What You're Going through and That He Was Seeking to Be Christian in a Realm of See the Worship of Zeus Motion Because They Had Temples All These False Gods As Well As the Government. Season Comes in Verse 14 He Says, but I Have A Few Things against You.

I like I like the Fact That You Still Claiming Me Claiming My Name, Claiming Christianity in a Hostile Environment, but I Have a Problem. He Says He Is My Problem, While You Still Claiming Me You Compromise, You Still Will Say I'm a Christian, but You Will Tolerate Compromise. So the Issue with This Church Is a Lack of Conviction You Will Compromise like Bailing Bailing As a Prophet. Israel Is on the March They Lack Not Be Alone. Bear Lake Was the King of Moab Is a Little Scared Because Israel's Not so Large and so Powerful Is Got to Do Something so Bail Lack Says Bella I Want You to Curse God's People, and We Will Give You Some Change to Do It Bail. Consult with God and God Tell Me Okay Because My People Are Not People They Lack the Price That Would Pay You Will If You Will Curse God's People Bailout Gets on a Donkey Bail His Riding Is Not Going to Meet with Dave All the Way the Lord Stands in All the Donkey Don't You Start Backing up Not Be Bailout Gets the Empty Is Getting Out Of Balance.

Again, the Lord, Because He Did Not Give Back Enough and Says Not to See the Lord Again and Moves over to the Side Bailout Wax. It Did Go to Get Going against the Lord Menthols Now Bailout Wax for Third Time. This Time, but Don't Get Me so According to Numbers 722 That Donkey Looks Back at Malamud Said Why You Keep Getting Me so Talking Donkey Getting the Wires Because Bailout Talks Back to the Donkey Everywhere.

I Need to Go. Then All Of A Sudden the Angel of the Lord Appears the Mail That God Was behind This Ballot to Encourage the People… Teach Black and the Cars so Bail Them Tells Bailing on Being the Person You're with Me A Lot Of Money. But God Blocking This Thing so If You Want to Get Here Is How You Got to Get Israel Make Him Compromise since Mix Them with Your Women Get Them to Marry, They Will Adopt Your God's If You Would Just Get Them to Compromise, Then God Will Curse Them for You and Curse Them Because They God's People. But God's Character Taste and Compromise. So If We Can Get Him to Compromise, Because God's Character Won't Accept Compromise Himself Will Do for You What You're Asking Me to Do. Kate Do God Will Interject Because God Won't Accept Compromise and so That's Exactly What Bailey Did.

He Got Them to Mallory Interconnected Called Row Leaks Leading to Dollar Tree, Which Brought God's Judgment on Israel so That God Was No Longer Operating for the People God's Word Sharp Two-Edged Sword, Is That the Cut Cut on Your Behalf and against That Which Is against You but God's Word Will Not Cut When It's Been Told by Compromise so You Can Worship All Day Say I Love Jesus All Day, but When You Compromise Biblical Values When You Compromise Cultural in Order to Be Popular in the Culture. You Might Get Acceptance from the Culture. But What You Won't Get Is a Two-Edged Sword for You. So Many Christians Wonder Why God Is Not Moving Because of Compromise.

Compromise Merger Value You Compromise with All the God Compromise. We Compromise the Lifestyle We Compromise in so Many Ways.

What You Need Understand Once You Do That God Was for You No Longer before You, the God of the Bible Does Not Accept Compromise on Biblical Principles. My Preferences If There's One Principle. The Bible Makes Abundantly Clear. It's This There's No Way to Have an Exit through God's Forgiveness of Our Sins Because of What Jesus Christ Did on the Cross. But What If You Need so Much Forgiveness That You Feel like You're Too Far Gone for Faith Will Here's Dr. Evans with Some Good News for You. Guess What You Are a Perfect Candidate for Salvation.

Jesus Said That He Didn't Come to Call the Righteous, but Sinners to Repentance and Salvation. Some of Your Inc. Seven. You've Got a Bigger Savior.

If You Go to Jesus Christ. Now Carry the Boat Load of Sins with You to the Cross Acknowledge Him to Be Your Savior, Acknowledge Your Sins Needing to Be Forgiven and Trust Him to the Forgiving You Desperately Desire. He Promises He Will Forgive You and Give You Eternal Life, and Offer You a Free Gift of Salvation. I Don't Care How Big Your Basket of Sins Are Carried of the Jesus Is Ready to Empty Them for You.

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