Is Satan Doing THIS In The Church?

Embarking on this spiritual voyage, I invite you into the inner workings of building a church that stands firm on the bedrock of Christ's teachings. As we navigate the complexities of my life's roles and the expansion of our Faith and Failures community, we delve into stories that resonate with the power of healing and forgiveness. In today’s episode, we encounter a young woman’s remarkable journey to overcoming relationship trauma, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and our church's commitment to aiding those in the pursuit of freedom. Moreover, we recount the astounding story of an Australian bishop's brush with violence, his subsequent forgiveness, and how these experiences intertwine with the political landscape as we edge closer to an election year.

In a world where leadership and accountability seem to wane, we confront the hard-hitting challenges of nurturing genuine faith within the church, juxtaposing the growth of Christianity against other beliefs. I share insights from my own preaching and the trenchant need for self-denial and carrying one's cross to foster a deep relationship with Christ, which surpasses the superficiality of mere religious acts. As we discuss the unsettling cultural shifts and the insidious spread of spiritual deception, I underscore the importance of vigilance in our quest for absolute truth. We analyze the closure of churches, the rise of 'my truth' over universal truth, and question the normalization of controversial societal issues, all the while reinforcing that true wisdom welcomes scrutiny and lies flee from the light of inquiry. Join me as we seek to fortify our spiritual armor in these transformative times.

Chapters

• 0:00 Building a Church on Christ
• 14:05 Church Leadership, Accountability, and Relationship
• 25:56 Churches, Truth, and Spiritual Deception

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

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Speaker 1: 0:41

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Speaker 1: 1:29

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Speaker 1: 2:18

Next Monday I did a live stream, an interview of a young lady in her early 20s. She told her story. She went through a period of time in her life where and this is kind of going to lead up to the conversation we're going to have first about Satan engulfing the church. So we have church people. Okay, especially here in East Texas, everybody goes to church almost that live in bondage, and so those were. I split them up in two separate episodes but it's from one live stream. So the next two Mondays, make sure you subscribe, come back to the channel In the morning time they will go live. And these two episodes she talks about a finding freedom class that we have at our church. She talks about a finding freedom class that we have at our church and she talks about relationship drama, trauma and issues and a little bit of manipulation and emotional abuse. So make sure you subscribe so you can see when those episodes come out in the next couple of weeks. If you are here, live with me right now, please make sure to just give a thumbs up and feel free to share this video. Even the thumbs up helps the algorithm push this to more people.

Speaker 1: 3:30

So we are going to dive into another podcast and this podcast is from. There's two separate YouTube channels that coincide with each other. The Valuetainment is the shorter clips, shorter conversations. We're going to dive into one of those, but the PBD podcast. That is actually full episodes, so you have a couple hours of episodes and then they'll chop them up, put them on. This channel Got over almost 4.5 million subscribers and the topic of if you were a part, if saw the the last few I call almost called them emergency episodes, but it was like kind of live news stuff a bishop in his name is mari, a bishop in australia, got stabbed by a professing muslim, and so an update on that the guy is fine.

Speaker 1: 4:21

He actually said, or they actually said, that the blade and this is how cool god is the blade didn't come out all the way, so he kind of he barely got stabbed, which is awesome. So hospital recovery, quick recovery, because it was not a full-on stabbing but enough that it, you know, went to the hospital and had to be taken care of, and so when he went down, eyewitnesses say that the the bishop like laid his hand on the guy that stabbed him and began to pray for his soul. That's pretty cool. Okay, that is a Jesus mentality, and so I think probably next week I'm going to dive into an episode that a PBD on Valuetainment actually his podcast YouTube channel. He literally has over an hour with him and George Janko and another guy, vinny, that's on his show regularly. They do more news stuff.

Speaker 1: 5:15

It's a political year. If you're watching live in 2024 right now, politics are all the rage and they, frankly, annoy me to no end. But that's just the season. It is every four years. People get stupid.

Speaker 1: 5:30

That being said, in the conversation right here and this is before this bishop got stabbed we're going to look at a video with this bishop on here and it is a. This is the guy. This is patrick. Right here, patrick bet david is name Bet-David. I don't know why it's that way. Maybe he got married and hyphenated his name for his wife, I don't know. Anyways, so they call him PBD. So we're coming into this conversation with him in the middle of this podcast. I think it's a little over an hour.

Speaker 1: 6:04

Mari Emanuel, he's the one that just got stabbed. We did go check that video out on the YouTube channel. We talked about that and covered it live from the Australian news and, that being said, this guy like you'll see him in a minute when he's talking he's got a cross in his hand at all times. The dude I don't know if it's Protestant or what his profession is, I'm not really sure but he believes Christ crucified, and so PUD is going to ask him a question about the modern church today, and I want you to think about this, because this is a plague in the modern church for all of us.

Speaker 1: 6:40

That we have to be careful of is to not build a church on the shoulders of a man. How many times have you seen, in whatever size church you may be a part of, whatever size church you attend, or if you don't attend a church, maybe you attend on their live stream. Maybe you don't go to church at all, maybe you've been church or whatever the situation is, you've heard church stories. So how many times when a minister or a pastor leaves, the church just seems to fall apart. And why is that? Because the church was built on a person and not Christ Jesus bottom line. So we are kind of our church is a fracture of a much larger church. It was about a thousand people years ago, then it broke and then it grew again. It broke, and so now we're a remnant of this massive church. We've got about a hundred steady people that come every week. It's a much smaller church.

Speaker 1: 7:39

The setup that me and my wife have that're designing because it was in 2019, it was. It was looked at as a church plant because they built a building. They rebranded, renamed and just kind of started over from ground zero, and so this was handed to us and there's, there's a few things that we do to maintain the focus of Christ in the church. I mention almost every single Sunday that a church should not be built on a man. I mention almost every single Sunday and this is actually my vision and mission for the church is spiritual maturity, so you don't need your hand being held to live a Christian life, like you should be able to do it on your own. If everyone else was wiped away and it was just nothing but you and God, you should be able to sustain and remain in Christ because you have a personal relationship with him, not built on a person, not built on a location, not built on a ministry, but built on Christ as solid rock location. Not built on a ministry, but built on Christ as solid rock. And this is why we have so many churches fall apart, fracture into a million pieces.

Speaker 1: 8:51

When a person leaves the church is because the church has become so centered on a person that is not Christ. Now, what does that do to the church? That brings and allows Satan to do whatever he wants to do in the body of believers, because pride ends up happening. You have pride, ego. Then you have the people that are not prideful but look up to a man and a woman or whatever, that are not prideful but look up to a man and a woman or whatever, and all they do is put that person on a pedestal that they can do no wrong, so that if there's ever anything done wrong, well then that just blows up their relationship with god. And so you have this self-defeating prophecy that is a echo chamber of building men up in places on thrones that men was not designed to sit on. The throne is meant for Christ Jesus, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

Speaker 1: 9:56

And so you may see churches booming and banging and they got the right worship, they got the right speakers, they got the right network, the right worship, they got the right speakers, they got the right network, they got all these things. And then you see, over and over and over, you hear whispers of of immoral sexual immorality happening on the stage, a sexual immorality happening in, in the, in the, the, the ranks of the ministry there, and and misused, of misuse of funds and and and all these things. You got pastors that will not listen to somebody because they don't pay tithes or they don't pay the right amount of tithes, and you got these constant things that should really have no place in the infrastructure of the church as an organization, but yet it is, over and over and over again, built on these types of systems that work for a while and they look good and they're appealing and they pull people in. But here's the.

Speaker 1: 11:01

Here's the setup that me and my wife have at our church. My wife, just this last, maybe last four, four, five, six months we had a new baby and so she's able to stay home full time, and so she has been diving in deep to the word of God. She's been diving in deep into systems to set up for the church, and I've been diving in and she's been doing a lot of the work, because I'm'm working multiple jobs and so she's just like, let me do it, let me figure it out. So she's she's figuring out systems to where? Because right now I leave worship and I do the word, so when we have a, get a worship leader. By the way, if you know, if you leave worship and you live local and you love jesus and you know what pentecost is holla at me. We need a worship leader. Putting that out there right now If you know somebody who believes in the way of the Pentecostals, believe it's our denomination, so you can't come and serve here if you don't believe like we do. That wouldn't make sense. But just saying putting that out there, what was I saying? Oh, yeah, so, so.

Speaker 1: 12:02

And she put she assembled a group of women, kind of like a women's council, to do women things, to help, to set up to, to brainstorm, to keep a healthy. And here's the thing, when we talked about designing this and putting it together, we're trying to do things in such a way that if all of a sudden a bomb blows up in our house and all of us die, the church can still go on. That's hard to do. You feel like you're replacing yourself. But a healthy organization, a healthy leadership, should be trying to replace themselves. Why? Because we need breaks, if something were to happen and we had to take a sabbatical.

Speaker 1: 12:42

There's all kinds of examples that we're being selfish. If we don't allow other people to help and fill those gaps, then the system we've set up in church is to build the church on a person or on a family or multiple families that if they were gone, the church couldn't function anymore, and that is what we call unhealthy. That gives room for Satan. So we're going to watch this video and this. I like the way this guy talks, like. So Patrick, here the main guy and the other guy that's about to talk they're both Assyrian, but they both have different accents. I don't know how that works, but let's watch this.

Speaker 2: 13:25

What do you think about that part where the leaders of many of these churches are caving to being too tolerant and accepting of everything and let anybody and I mean the Pope just had a group of transgenders over at the. What do you call it? A luncheon like a luncheon, and then he's saying, hey, we need to be asking theologians to demasculize the Catholic Church. He urges religions to unite against environmental devastation, a lot of these weird things that he is saying, which is a let's be more tolerant, let's be more tolerant, let's be more tolerant. So do you think that could be one of the reasons why the church hasn't grown the way that it used to be?

Speaker 3: 14:03

Absolutely the.

Speaker 1: 14:04

Lord Jesus. So to give you some context, right before, I watched the full the podcast, when I travel back and forth for work a lot and the so the context of the conversation is PBD is a stats guy, so he likes numbers, he likes working, saying here's what the stats say and then he'll break it down. He loves doing stuff like that, and so what they just talked about was the growth of muslims, the growth of christians, of evangelicals, of protestants, of catholics, and so that was a question, or that was the the topic of discussion right before this question. And so he he's asking why is it that Muslims are outgrowing Christianity? Why is it that it seems to be slowing down as much as it is?

Speaker 3: 14:54

If we were, to compare him to any other religious figure. I just want to come back to this point where you said Islam is growing and Christianity is not Say it. If we were to compare, even though there is no comparison, but let us compare them for a moment with other religious figures, with all love and respect. Let's say Islamism, buddhism, hinduism, shintoism, all the religions of the world and all the leaders of those religions. Let's say the ultimate they could have achieved in their life in relation to humanity. They would have probably achieved the ultimate by changing a bad person into a good person. This is what he says by bringing in some values, morals and whatever they brought with. So they would have changed a bad person into a good person.

Speaker 3: 15:37

Jesus Christ of Nazareth, all glory to his holy name. He did not come to change a bad person into a good person. He came to change a dead person into a good person. He came to change a dead person into a living one. In this there is no comparison. Yeah, jesus christ stands supreme, alone and high up there, beyond any other religious figure. The problem, dear patrick, the problem of the church leaders is one thing the beginning, the very beginning with christ, a relationship with christ, it begins with death. He needs. He said carry my cross and follow me. And this is what I said. I meant to say when he said my house is the house of prayer and you've turned it into a den of thieves. What's associates associated with christ is glory, and what is christ glory and what is Christ's glory? The cross what is cross? Death, what is death? Self-denial? This is the human dilemma. We cannot deny ourselves. Why? Because I need to give up on the things.

Speaker 1: 16:37

I love and this is the issue with the modern church is people want to come and be a part of a church. They want to come and feel like they've done what they're supposed to do, to check the box off. But there's not anyone picking up their cross. And I say anyone. That's a blanket statement. But I understand what I'm saying and I say this to my people all the time when I'm preaching. I say this on a podcast a lot when you come to Christ, it should cost you something. When you come to Jesus, when you come to christ, it should cost you something. When you come to jesus, when you, when you choose him, when you, when you choose and here's, here's kind of what, how I look at it, they did not take jesus life. He freely gave it. And in the same way that jesus gave his life, we can only inherit the kingdom of god, part of heaven, when we ourselves freely give our lives. He's not going to come and take it from you, he's not going to force you to live a Christian life, a Christ-like life, and this is why the Bible says and I believe this is a part of the greatest, of the greatest con and the most damage that is being done to people that go to church and think they are okay, when it's actually a deceit from the enemy to make us feel like we're doing something and we're not being authentic in our walk with Christ. And I said this last week on a live stream that our mouths don't change our attitudes, don't change the way we speak, the way we respond, the way we interact with the Father, the way we believe in jesus, the way we receive from the spirit to be guided by the spirit. We only include god when we're in some sort of need or trouble. But that's not a relationship. Everything in the bible that you can take and you can extract and you can use for your life is relationship based, and this is why it even says that we prophesied in your name, we cast out demons in your name and he said depart from me, I never knew you. Now, how in the world can somebody do things, biblical things, holy things, seemingly righteous things? That demonstrates the power of the Holy Spirit and the power of God and the validity of Jesus. How can they do this and not enter into heaven? It's because they do not know God and you cannot know God without that relationship element. And here's what I think and I think he might be about to say this in just a second. We'll get to it. Just chill out. We're in a live stream.

Speaker 1: 19:36

The church has become complacent. There's no challenge to the people anymore from God's word. There's only the. And I say only listen, I'm not.

Speaker 1: 19:48

I'm saying things as blanket statements, as if they are all true, and I know there's churches that don't do this. My church does not do this, but that's me. I control what the church does as far as what's preached, because I'm the one preaching it. So here's what I don't do. I don't run from confronting sin in my church. I don't run from confronting old personality traits to buff them out. Now do I go and blast them and preach a sermon about their sinful nature from the pulpit? No, but I do use my sinful nature as examples, because if God can save me, a wretch that deserves nothing that he has blessed me with, that deserves to be the rest of my life in jail somewhere or dead. That is what I deserve. But yet for some reason he has lifted me to a place to preach. The honor of preaching his word and demonstrating by who I am, through who he is, his ultimate grace and mercy and love. I'm that vessel for him.

Speaker 1: 20:56

But the damaging part of Christians today is that there is no actual accountability, that you'll come and hear a 35 to 45 minute sermon, make you feel good or maybe even expound on something in the word and you feel like you've learned something, but there's never correction, there's never challenge.

Speaker 1: 21:21

There's and if you study jesus, just the life of jesus, nobody else, just jesus. He did not let sin slide, he forgave it, he did not condone it, he did not affirm it, and I think that's why the muslim religion is growing, because people, really people, need structure, just like children need structure, and the christian church, in america at least, is allowing anybody to do anything, and so we've made it the religion of man and that's it. We're making people feel like they're going to get into heaven, they're doing right by god and there's going to be some blood on some pastor's hands. There's going to be a great awakening one day where people who think they're living godly lives because their pastor tells them they are, or their Sunday school teacher says they are. The Bible needs to tell you what's going on, not a person. Let's go on.

Speaker 3: 22:17

I want to do, I choose to do For me, to give up on them, I cannot. It's a struggle, but the Lord says unless I live in you and no longer is you, you cannot make it. When the church leader puts himself on the throne and make himself seen to the congregation and to the faithfuls, he's lost himself. He's lost the flock with him. He needs to reflect christ to the congregation, not himself. A leader that makes followers love him, not christ, is a failure, but the leader that makes the followers love christ through him, that is a successful leader. Today, leaders are sitting on those thrones and, by the way, that throne is christ's, it's not mine.

Speaker 3: 23:05

All of us were. We were in the pig's field. Who brought me out of that pig's field? Who brought me out of the filth of the world and the temptation of the world? The blood of the lamb of god, who was shed on calvary. Now, when I look at the crossth of the world and the temptation of the world, the blood of the lamb of god who was shed on calvary. Now, when I look at the cross, that is the power of god. This is the ultimate, ultimate love. When I give my life for the one I love, when I give my life for the one I love. And we see this love illustrated in a, in a very sort of small level, at parenthood level. Parents, if I ask a father or a mother, why are you working so hard? What are you trying to do? I want, I'm running, I'm doing this, I'm working 24-7, non-stop because I want to provide a good future for my children. I want them to be healthy, I want them to be prosperous, successful. I am devoting my time and sacrificing that time, which is life, for my children, for their well-being. Why are you doing this? Is this weakness? No, this is the heart of strength and power when you give your life for the one you love.

Speaker 3: 24:11

The problem with the church? The moment the leader is seen, not Christ. There is no power in that leader. There is no power in that church. The current of the world will wash it away, and this is what we're seeing.

Speaker 3: 24:26

You know when, when pandemic hit, I always say this. I always say this I'm not judging. If anything, I'm judging myself. I'm not judging. God is the judge, but it hurts me so deeply and so profoundly.

Speaker 3: 24:40

The Lord Jesus has been crying out from Calvary on the cross for over 1600 years for the church to be united in him. For the church to be united in him. You see all these different factions catholics, orthodoxy, or eastern and oriental. You see a protestant branches, thousands of branches. In there the lord is saying unite, unite, unite. Till this very moment we haven't put a smile on the lord's face by uniting in his name. But when the vaccine came, when the pandemic came, all church leaders spoke the same language. Amazing, we did not unite for christ, but we unite. We united for satan.

Speaker 3: 25:18

Now, to me, christ is missing. Christ is missing. Yeah, you know, certain people came out and spoke about what was happening in the world. I know their backgrounds. It doesn't take a genius to figure out who these people are and where their backgrounds are. How come like someone in this influential position, who these people are and where their backgrounds are? How come like someone in this influential position who is well educated and well informed and embedded in scriptures and other and other fields? You do not know where this is coming from. You do not know. But for you to be silent and not only solid, I wish they were silent, but they were supportive and encouraging and standing on that pulpit and encouraging the flock to follow suit. For me, this is total denial of Jesus Christ in the making, and that's why Satan has engulfed the churches and took it away to hell.

Speaker 2: 26:05

So if you like this clip and you want to watch.

Speaker 1: 26:08

So what do you think? I mean, have we, have we allowed? I tell people all the time and I believe it, and I think it's funny because he said plandemic, it's like prophelying, but like the end times is coming, like that is a fact. If you don't believe the Bible, then you don't have to believe this. That's fine. But we are told that things are going to happen a certain way, and more and more and more. I remember my dad as a preacher when I was a kid. He would always say, oh yes, the Lord is coming, he's coming soon, and I believe that more today than I ever have before. And I really believe that the shutting down of the churches in 2020 and all the things that happened, the manipulation, everything turning the truth into my truth, which makes it not truth, because truth belongs to the lord does not belong to us. That kind of stuff right there, uh, you have.

Speaker 1: 27:04

I found a crazy video. We're gonna we might watch it next week. This guy saying that he for 40 years he has had an alien, a champ. He's channels an alien and it takes over his body and answers questions to people. I'm like what, bro? That's demonic. But here's the thing. That guy's message is talking about how you shouldn't be scared, and it's just fear that makes you think that. So people are things, spiritual things are trying to manifest and make themselves unthreatening, non-threatening, so that it's more of the culture. And then the truth is now whatever you want it to be, so it's more based on culture. Then you have churches that are more based on culture instead of the word, and all of a sudden, soon the culture will define what is right and wrong, like the whole pedophile thing.

Speaker 1: 28:02

They have their own flag. I can't remember what state it's in. I didn't look it up before, it just came to my mind. That's why I don't I'm not prepared on it, but they have a flag and they call it minor. What is it called? Minor attraction maps? Minor attracted people and they're saying it shouldn't be a crime because it's just their sexual preference. That is trying to be passed as law. Welcome to 2024. So I don't know if you're, if you've been paying attention, but you don't have to look too hard and too long to realize that I think Satan has infiltrated this church a lot longer than we think he has. I want you to ask yourself when you go to church it's okay to question your church, and if your church tells you to not question what you believe or question what they teach, then they're probably not teaching the truth. Because why in the world would anybody be scared of somebody asking questions about truth? You wouldn't. You don't hide truth. Truth doesn't need to be hidden, but lies do. Just a thought.