Listening for God's Voice: Beware False Prophets

``Many say, God loves you just the way you are. If you sow your seed, God will bless you. You can speak your own reality. God wants you to be healthy, wealthy, prosperous. All these false teachings, friends, and those things are listen, you can think as positively as you want. You can speak blessing over your life as much as you want, friends, but if you don't turn from your sin and to the Lord Jesus Christ, you are not right with God and you're gonna end up in hell. [00:43:44] (32 seconds)  #RepentanceNotProsperity

And so friends, when it is a pastor's opinion or something that he's come up with in his own mind of what he thinks, listen, I'm not I know some of you will take this and say, well, okay. So and you know me. I am majority, preaching through a book of the Bible. Every message I preach will be from God's word, but some past so we don't need to just come up with some idea and then find scriptures to proof text what we what we're what we're doing. That's not preaching God's word. That's that's trying to use God's word to say what I wanted to say. [00:47:04] (39 seconds)  #PreachFromTheText

And so what we need to make sure is that when we are studying the word of God, it is in context and listen, the Bible says what it says. Okay? Everybody says, well, it depends on what you make out of it. You know, you can and there's so many different interpretations of the Bible. You can make it say whatever you want it to say. No, you can't. People can misuse scripture to do that. [00:47:56] (21 seconds)  #ReadScriptureInContext

You know, it it there could be nothing wrong with that. It may be a good practice. It may be helpful. It may be good advice to live by. But understand when it is somebody's opinion, that's what it is. It's their opinion and it's not the word of God. Amen? And that's the best case scenario. The best case scenario is that it's just their opinion is not the word of God even though it may not be something bad, but the worst case scenario is it may be outright heresy which can lead us astray. Amen? [00:49:14] (33 seconds)  #OpinionIsNotScripture

Now, you don't care whether the preacher or pastor or whatever is preaching to you. If you don't care if it's right or wrong or if you just want a motivational speaker, if you just want someone to to to make you feel good or to encourage you in life or to give you some good tips on how to handle stress and you don't care about somebody that's gonna help you get right with God, then any old preacher will do if that's what you're looking for. Friends, but if you want to hear from God, then find somebody who is called by God. You wanna get right with him, find somebody who preaches the whole council of God, friends, who actually digs into God's word and delivers a message from the Lord. [00:49:47] (43 seconds)  #FindCalledTeachers

So friends, leaving out repentance now does that mean every sermon needs to be a sermon about repentance? No. But when we're talking about salvation, we're talking about coming to know Christ. One thing you'll find here at Southside, okay, and I've gotten I've I've gotten criticized, believe it or not, over the years about this, is that that, you will hear the gospel in some way, shape, or form when you are here. Because friends, if we are a church of the Lord Jesus Christ and we do not share the wonderful news of salvation through Jesus Christ, then what are we doing? [00:52:09] (45 seconds)  #PreachTheGospelAlways

anything that I say that is not backed up by God's word is worthless. God's word is what we need to know. Amen? This is the truth. This is has the power to save. This has the power to convict, has the power to change our lives and our eternities through the Lord Jesus Christ. God's word is where we get real hope, friends. Not from some person's opinion, nor from what they think about how to live life only from the word of God. [01:18:50] (39 seconds)  #ScriptureIsAuthority

Friends, if all you listen to is what man says, what mankind says, people's opinions about how you should live your life, friends, then that's what you're gonna get. If all you listen to is what mankind says about that, then the best you're gonna get is what mankind can do. If you want a life and an eternity that honors and pleases God, then make sure that the preachers and the teachers and the things you listen to are based on the word of God. [01:21:39] (29 seconds)  #ListenToGodsWord