I'm not sure that this was meant to be a series when I preached that first word, that first message, but it has gone that way. And we're thankful for the word that the Lord has given us each week. Last week, we were speaking about three types of heart, three kinds of heart that are illustrated in the three characters that are central to this story. Ahab, who had a depraved heart. Obadiah, who had a divided heart. And Elijah, who very much had a devoted heart, Elijah was devoted to the will of God. He wanted to be where God wanted him to be. And we see that in chapter 17, and again here in chapter 18, where he goes where God calls him to go. It's the will of God that's paramount in his thinking. But he not only was devoted to the will of God, he was devoted in connection with that to the word of God. And again, I would just emphasize this particular phrase in chapter 17, in verse two, and the word of the Lord came unto him. Again, when you come down to verse number eight of chapter 17, and the word of the Lord came unto him. And once more, mention is made of the word of the Lord in verse 16 of the chapter. according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah." It's always about the word of the Lord. And again, we see this In the last verse of the chapter, when the woman spoke to Elijah in this way, now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth. It's all about the word of the Lord. It's not about Elijah's opinion. It's not about what Elijah thinks. It's about what the word of the Lord teaches. That's what he was all about. That's what he was devoted to. And chapter 18 verse 1 illustrates it once more. It came to pass after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah. He's all about the word of the Lord. Devoted to it. He's devoted not only to the will of the Lord and to the word of the Lord, but he is devoted to the work of the Lord. That's what he was about. The whole cause of Israel was God's cause. God's cause was the cause of Israel. Whatever Elijah did, he did at the word of the Lord. And that, again, I want to emphasize in the prayer that he made to the Lord in this chapter that we will come to when he was on Mount Carmel. He asked the Lord when he prayed, to vindicate both his ministry and his own word. You see this in verse 36. Came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice that Elijah the prophet came near and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel and that I am thy servant and that I have done all these things at thy word. He's all about the work of the Lord. The cause of God is at stake in Israel when this great contest took place. And of course, he was devoted, as we shall see, to the worship of the Lord. He was all about purity in worship. He was all about the worship of Jehovah rather than idolatry. He was all about setting forth the necessity of worshiping correctly. Elijah would not have got on too well today with the ecumenical movement, because he was not ecumenical. He believed in standing for truth. He didn't believe in giving up truth in order to have unity. He believed in standing for truth, though it might create disunity, and it did, because he was a separatist. He was outside the camp, and his worship illustrated this. And we'll see that as we come to today's message. We've seen a number of things thus far that God has done in Elijah and through Elijah. He's answered prayer in withholding the rain. He's answered prayer in feeding Elijah with bread and flesh in the morning and evening through the ravens. He's answered prayer by providing for him through the widow woman at Zarephath. He's answered prayer in bringing her young son to life through Elijah's ministry. Now we want to consider another incident that follows on from this in the ministry of this great man of God. It was in the third year of this drought that was Elijah's own doing, as it were. He prayed that there would be no rain. James chapter five tells us that. God answered that prayer. So we're now well into this drought. It was the third year. The word of the Lord came again to him. Having spent some time in hiding, He was directed now to recommence his public ministry in the land. Look at chapter 18, verse 1. It came to pass after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, that's the third year of this famine, saying, go show thyself unto Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth. I want you to stop being in seclusion, first of all at the brook Kerith, then in the widow's home. I want you now to return to your public ministry. Go to Ahab. He was ordered to do this. When he met Ahab, Elijah commanded him to gather all Israel and every priest of Baal unto Mount Carmel. It's so interesting that Ahab thought he was calling the shots, but when he met with Ahab, when he met with Elijah, he discovered that Elijah was the one who was in control. It was his bidding that was going to be done. And so when we come to verse 17 of this 18th chapter, we find this statement from Ahab when he saw Elijah, "'Art thou he that troubleth Israel?' You're the troublemaker, aren't you? And that's always how separatists are described. They're the cause of the disunity. They're the ones that are rocking the boat. They're the ones that are causing all the trouble. There would be peace in the church if it wasn't for these guys that are wanting to stand for things that don't really matter. Majoring on minors, for example. Ahab thought he was going to get his way. Elijah just said to him, look, It's not me that's causing trouble in Israel. I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house, it's you. It's you, Ahab. You're the troubler of Israel. You've brought idolatry into the land. You're the compromiser. You've forsaken the commandments of the Lord. It's you that has followed Balaam, that false pagan religion. Now I want you to send and bring your prophets and call the people of Israel together to Mount Carmel." And when that happened, the Bible shows us a great contest that took place. There was a straight challenge arranged between Baal, the sun god, and Jehovah, the God of Israel. A contest would take place, the result of which would establish which one was the true religion. The Baalites were to lay a sacrifice upon their altar, pray to their gods. Elijah would lay a sacrifice on a separate altar, not on their altar. They didn't worship at the same altar. We'll come to that. But he was to lay the sacrifice on the altar of the Lord, pray to Jehovah, and the one who answered by fire would be God. So, it's a straight contest. It's either Baal, the worship of Baal, or it's God, the worship of God. After the heathen priests cried out in frenzied emotion to their gods for several hours without success, Elijah, after mocking them, he did something really significant. You read about it in verse 30. And Elijah said unto all the people, come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him, and he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down. He repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down. That's the work That's the work that true separatists are involved in today, reestablishing the altar of the Lord in the land and in the church. This is an age of spiritual declension, of that there is no doubt. This is an age of ecumenical apostasy. It's already happened, or it's about to happen, the King of England, Charles, along with his wife, were to meet with the recently crowned Pope, That is a direct contravention of his own oath when he was crowned as the King of Great Britain. The coronation oath is very clear. As the temporal head of the Church of England, he is bound to uphold the Word of God and the 39 Articles of the Church of England established, and those 39 articles largely are very scriptural. And within that, there is this vow never to have any communion with the C, that's S-E-E, the C, or Church of Rome. It is actually unconstitutional what Charles is doing. Of course, his mother did the same thing many years ago. And even though she was the queen of the United Kingdom, she was all dressed in black with a veil. Why? Because that's what popery demands. Every monarch, every president, every prince is to be subservient to the supreme pontiff. That's the law. And so if you go to the Vatican and you have a private audience with the Pope, And many queens and kings have done this. They always are compelled to kiss his ring and be subservient to him. Because the Church of Rome teaches that the Pope is an actual fact. The occupant of the chair of St. Peter is the king of kings. That's one of the titles that he takes to himself. I can prove this. I don't need to try to do it today, but I can prove this to you. Some of the titles that he takes to himself are the most blasphemous titles that you can imagine. So Charles is gonna bow and scrape to the head of the Roman Catholic Church, even though he himself has promised never to have any communion with the unreformed Church of Rome. That's apostasy, that's what it leads to. Of course, the church that he's supposed to be the head of has just appointed, as the Archbishop of Canterbury, a woman. A woman who, by the way, believes in LGBTQ+, whatever the rest of the alphabet people call themselves. She also openly supports abortion on demand and calls herself a minister. Well, first of all, she's not a minister. in any sense, because she is in direct contravention of Scripture, which says in 1 Timothy chapter 3 that a bishop must be the husband of one wife. That is impossible for a woman to be. Of course, in 1 Timothy 2, Paul says, I suffer not. I don't allow a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. That's the Bible. That's what the Bible says. Here's a woman who claims to believe the Bible, and a church that claims to uphold the Bible. They're about as far from the Bible as it's possible to be in their practice. It's not a church, really, in any biblical sense. And she's not a minister. But nonetheless, she has that title, Archbishop of Canterbury. You know there's an archbishop in Canterbury coming up to the time of the Reformation celebration next week? It's worthy of mention. The Archbishop of Canterbury, many centuries ago, was a man called Thomas Cranmer. Thomas Cranmer was a faithful Protestant, but under some temptation, he decided that he would recant his faith in Christ in order to fit in with the law of the time, which was to be a faithful Roman Catholic. But the Lord dealt with his heart. He realized that it was wrong for him to sign that recantation. And so he withdrew his recantation. And for that, he was burned to the stake. He was burned to the stake. And when Cranmer was being burned to the stake, he held that hand that had signed the recantation into the fire first, so that that hand would be burned before the rest of his body. Now, that's a true man of God. And now the occupant of that same office is a woman. What an abomination. What an abomination. This is apostasy. There needs to be a repairing of the altar of the Lord that has been broken down. And there are some lessons in what Elijah did here on this occasion that are really relevant to the present day. And I want to mention several things here about false religion as opposed to the true. In the first place, let's think about this. If false religion is not opposed, it will eventually replace true worship. Let me say that again. If false religion is not opposed, it will eventually replace true religion. History shows us this. But we see here an interesting thing. In verse 30, Elijah repaired. It doesn't say he used or he employed the altar of the Lord. It says he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down. Now why was it broken down? Because through time those stones had just fallen. and they just lay there in a pile, in a heap. Why? Because that altar had been forsaken. They were no longer using that altar for worship. That's why it needed to be rebuilt. But actually what had happened in Israel in that day was that the followers of Baal had replaced that altar with their own altar. And you see this on Mount Carmel. In chapter 18, verse 4, The true prophets of the Lord, a hundred of them, apart from those that were helped to safety by Obadiah, this 100, that the true prophets of the Lord were slain by Jezebel. And those true prophets were replaced by the priests of Baal. You see this in verse four, it was so when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, That's always what false religion does. It kills and persecutes true faithful men of God. That's why we have the martyr role. That's why we have the stories of the martyrs at Smithfield being burned to the stake under the Bloody Mary. That's why these things happened. That's why William Tyndale, who translated the Bible from the originals into English so that every plough boy could read the Bible in his own tongue. That's why he was first strangled at the stake and then burned by the Church of Rome, because he stood for truth. And we could go on speaking of the five great bishops of the Church of England, including Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley and his companion, famous story about them at the stake, where the one brother said to the younger man, take heart, beak, take courage, Master Ridley, for there will be lit this day in England a candle which by God's grace will never be put out, the light of the gospel. You have the whole martyr role. You have the Day of the St. Bartholomew's Massacre in Paris, when Protestants were hounded. The Huguenots, or Americans call them Huguenots. That's not how you say it. It's Huguenots. They were thrown from the windows onto the streets. It's called the Massacre of the St. Bartholomew's Day. Do you know the Pope at the time struck a special medal in commemoration of that massacre? This is the true nature of the Church of Rome. There's been an airbrushing of history by people today, of all the things that happened in history. The fact of the matter is, false religion, when it is allowed to be fostered in the land, will always replace true religion, and persecution will accompany it if people do not comply freely. The same is true of Islam. There are countries where they're predominantly Muslim in our day, and many of those countries were taken over by Islam, by the power of the sword. People were converted wholesale into that religion. You take the country of Iran. Iranian people were not Muslim. In fact, they followed a religion called Zoroastrianism, which was a false religion in itself, based on a lot of human philosophy. But the Muslims came in and they took over the country of Iran. And still to this day, you have the mullahs running that place. Mullahs who, by the way, have nuclear weapons. False religion. If it's not opposed, it will replace through worship. And so here we have this in Elijah's day. God's law has been forsaken. His word has been overthrown. Baal worship has been followed instead, all at the behest of Ahab's wife, Jezebel. She brought her native religion into that country. And so rather than being just another religion that coexists along with God's true religion, rather than being just an alternate system of worship, The idolatry of Baal actually took the place of the true religion. And that pattern, friends, of the true being replaced by the false has been repeated over and over again in church history. And modern-day Baal worship is not just another denomination. It's not just an alternative system of worship. It's not a section of Christ's church. But its aim, as it always has been, is to replace Bible Christianity. Back in history, there was a pope called Pope Gregory XVI. This is a direct quote from Gregory. We cannot hold in too much horror liberty of opinion, or that every man ought to enjoy liberty of conscience. In other words, freedom is for the birds. Another publication from the Roman church is called The Rambler. In The Rambler, many, many decades ago, this statement was found. No man has a right to choose his religion. Catholicism is the most intolerant of creeds. It is intolerance itself, for it is the truth itself." So, what happens in the world today? You have church after church after church, Protestants, so-called church after church, all forsaking their doctrines, all forsaking their teachings and running to Rome. This is what has happened. This is what is still happening. The martyrs were burned for not a going amassing. Protestant ministers were actually replaced in the churches back in the days of the Puritans. And this breaking down of the true and the setting up of the false is a characteristic of what the devil always does. You read Isaiah chapter 14, you'll find this. It's in the very spirit of Satan himself. He didn't say, well, I'll just coexist with God. No, here's what he said. Isaiah chapter 14 from verse 12. The Bible says, How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning? How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations? For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. "'I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation "'in the sides of the north. "'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. "'I will be like the Most High.'" You read 2 Thessalonians 2, and you see what the features of Antichrist are. He, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. These are all true things. You know, the proud ambition of Satan was always to usurp the place of God. His desire in reality is to be God, to bring God down and to replace God. Remember what the devil said to Jesus there in Matthew chapter four in the temptations? All these things will I give thee if thou will fall down and worship, who? Me. Imagine asking the Christ of God to worship the devil. This is what Satan wants. And by the way, those today who are not following after Christ, that's what they're doing. So that's a bit strong, accusing people of worshiping the devil. Well, who else are they worshiping? I mean, if you're not following Christ, who are you following? The dictates of your own heart? Your own ideas, your own thoughts? Doing what you like? Sinning with impunity against God? What is that? That's following the ways of Satan. The devil's desire always has been to be not only like God, but to be God receiving worship. And in the person of Antichrist, the devil's purpose is to replace God again. He opposes God with the purpose of replacing God. And as our end time apostasy deepens, I believe there's gonna be an increasing opposition to the true church with an attempt to replace it with the world system of Antichrist. You can see it happening all over the place today. What did Elijah do? He rebuilt what the apostasy destroyed. You see, where false religion reigns, the altar of the Lord will be broken down. And by the way, this applies to all false religion. The cults, the Mormons, the so-called Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, all of these things are in opposition to the true worship of Christ. But not only can we say that false religion, if it's not opposed, will replace true religion, but we see from Elijah here and what happened that there's a need for separation in worship. One thing I note right away, Elijah did not use the same altar as Baal to worship God. You know, one of the biggest myths that's out there today is, well, you call your God Jehovah God, or you call him God, we call him Allah, or we call him something else, Vishnu and all these other false Hindu gods. We talk about this, that, and the other thing as our God, but at the end of the day, we all worship God. Through that, we all get along. That's just a falsehood. It's not true. It is not true. There's no such God as Allah. There is no such God. There is no such God as the Hindu gods like Vishnu and so on. There is no such God. These are man-made deities. They're not calling the true God by a different name. They have a different God altogether. And so Elijah did not use the altar of Baal to worship God. There was no cooperation with the priests of Baal at all. You'll see here that he remained entirely aloof from their pagan rituals, except for mocking them. Your God's not answering you. Maybe he's on a journey. Or maybe he's away hunting. Or maybe he's sleeping. I remember my pastor many years ago saying something I never forgot. He said, that which people laugh at, they will never worship. Because something's so preposterous, they'll never worship it. There is a need for separation in worship. And that's why Elijah worshiped himself at the altar of the Lord that had been broken down. He got those stones and he set them back up in place, thus highlighting the differences between true and false worship. You know, today, the great buzzword is reconciliation. Let's reconcile. Let's all get together. Remember after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, this is all you heard from left-wing activists. Oh, we need to have unity. But in fact, it's their rhetoric that caused that kind of thing to happen. Such hypocrites. Reconciliation. And people like myself, if you want to put it that way, who highlight the differences between biblical Protestantism and other false religion, they're branded as bigots, bigots, extremists, intolerant. You know, it's interesting, the origin of the word bigot. When martyrs were being taken to the stake in the days of the Protestant bishops that were put to death under Bloody Mary. When they were being marched to the site, Smithfield, for example, to be burned, there used to be crowds that would line the route, like a parade. The people would all be spectators of it. And there was one particular man, I forget his name, but somebody in the audience shouted out to him, Will you be able to stand the fire? Say his name was John. Will you be able to stand the fire, John? He said, by God's grace, I will. And so those martyrs became known as the bygods. That's a fact. That is a fact. The bygods, bigots. So actually the word bigot has a very good connotation initially in the beginning. So if somebody wants to call me a bigot, I'll wear it as a badge of honor. Yeah, I'm a bigot. Not in the sense that I'm going to be intolerant toward you personally for what you believe or what you do, but I am going to stand for God's truth. And if someone threatens me and says they're gonna put me to death for the faith, I trust that by God's grace, I'll stand. And then I'll be a true by God bigot. But reconciliation, that's the buzzword today. I've heard ecumenists talk about seeking points of agreement between the churches and unity, and they quote John 17, that they all may be one, and all of that, and claim that ecumenism is the fulfillment of that prayer of Christ, and yet their unity is not scriptural. It's not on the basis of the Bible at all. It's on the basis of doing away with the Bible, getting rid of the Bible. Then you'll have unity, because there's nothing to separate you from others. Listen, the scriptural principle of separation is clearly delineated throughout the Old and New Testament. Right from the start, God was a separatist. You know why? Genesis chapter 1 verse 4 records the following. And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness. That's what God did right at the start. He divided the light from the darkness, and spiritually, he's been doing that ever since. The world is divided into believers and unbelievers, light and darkness, followers of Belial, followers of Christ and his religion. You see it in 2 Corinthians 6. where there is no fellowship between light and darkness, and so on. Here we have in Elijah's statement a maintaining of the distinction of Jehovah's worship from that of Baal. There could be no unity. How do you know that? Because Elijah said it. Look at it, verse 21 of 1 Kings 18. Verse 21, Elijah came unto all the people and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? Not one, two opinions. And here it is. Here's the choice. If the Lord be God, follow him. Only two choices. Light and darkness, truth and error, The worship of the Lord or the worship of Baal, there is no in-between. There's no reconciliation. They never meet. Contradictory ideas that were incompatible. And separation in worship today is necessary to the blessing of God. One other thing. We learn from this that there is actually nothing new when it comes to true religion. There is nothing new. I've heard Pentecostal preachers and others say, well, the Lord told me this, and the Lord told me that, and what the Lord is supposed to have told them is in contravention of the scripture, and I know the Lord never told them any such thing. The Lord gets a lot of blame for things that he never said. God doesn't speak to you in that way anyhow. God speaks to us through his word, and if it's contrary to the word, it never came from God in the first place. That is a principle. And when somebody says, well, I have come up with a new doctrine, I've come up with a new teaching, I've come up with a new angle on this, you know right away that person has departed from Scripture. You think about Baal's altar. It was man-made. It was man-made. It was of recent origin. The altar of the Lord was the old original one. Years previous to this, an altar to the Lord had been erected on Mount Carmel, but it became discarded and broken down because it was never used. That's why. It was never used. That altar just fell apart because nobody was ever there to worship at that altar. So Elijah never built a new altar. Notice this. Elijah did not build a new altar. He repaired the old one. We sing oftentimes, don't we, "'Tis old yet ever new." "'Tis old, yet ever new." I know. I'm sure it is true. "'Tis old, yet ever new." The gospel is timeless. And so Elijah went to that discarded and broken-down altar, and he took those 12 original stones and set it up just like before. That's what happens when revival comes. There's a restoration of truth. and righteousness in worship. God's truth is old. That doesn't mean it's obsolete. That doesn't mean that we're dinosaurs because we hold on to it. It's old, but it's ever new. It's timeless, just like God himself. It is unchanged, and it's unchanging. And let me tell you, the devil is the author of new things in religion. Most of the false cults that are now extant in this world, originated in the late or middle to late 19th century. You can study it for yourself. The origins of the Russellites, or the so-called Jehovah's Witnesses, Watchtower Society. It's no earlier than the late 1800s. Same thing with Mormonism, with Joseph Smith and Brigham Young and all those other clowns. The same with Christadelphianism, so-called brothers of Christ. Same with Campbellites. It was an aberration. It was a departure from truth, where people began to teach that you were saved by being baptized. As soon as you hit the water, that's when the blood hits you. That's what they teach in the so-called Church of Christ. But these things are all of relatively recent origin. Men have come up through history and said, I've got new light. I have new light. I have a new revelation. Here's something that your pastors won't tell you. Where did I ever hear that before? You won't hear this from your ministers. said an old fool who at one time taught the truth, but started to go astray, seriously in his old age, Harold Camping. You'll not hear this from your ministers. Of course you won't, because it's never been taught before, but he's learned it, and now he's got an angle on something that nobody else ever heard of. What utter folly. And the poor fools that followed after it. Let me tell you, this also applies not only to new revelations, but to the issue of the translations of Scripture. It's only in relatively recent times that there's been a plethora of new translations. Look at the history of Bible translations. You find that the 20th century was replete with new Bibles. I remember every one that used to come out, Dr. Paisley would preach a new message on it. It must have had about 20 or 30 messages. The New English Bible. The New World Translation. Good News for Modern Man. The Message. And I could go on. I could go on and on and on and on. The NIV. It's going to be the Bible for Christians from now on. until somebody says wait a minute we have to keep producing new bibles because we've got companies that that print these and we sell them oh that's right we'll have to come up with another bible that's what they've done you say oh you're very cynical yes i am i'm very cynical when it comes to that issue here's a bible that's to replace all the ones that have been up this is better than the authorized version and you read it and you find it's not better than the authorized version, because it's from a different text. The foundation's rotten, so therefore the fruit that comes from it is gonna be rotten. Say what you will. There was a free Presbyterian minister in the FPCNA not that long ago who from his pulpit said that, I don't talk like this about these devilish Bibles. or Bibles where the manuscript was discovered in the Vatican wastebasket. Don't listen to people who talk like that. Well, he's talking about men like Dr. Paisley and others who exposed that issue years ago. The ESV, the English Standard Version. Well, let me tell you, there is one English Standard Version already, and it's the authorized version. That's what it is. It's not the ESV. But this idea that we've come up with new evidence of more reliable manuscripts. I can tell you it's of the devil. As one man said many years ago, God only wrote one Bible. God only wrote one Bible. Yes, we are talking about the original autographs, but surely has God not preserved his word in the English speaking world and elsewhere? Somebody stands up and tells me, now wait a minute, this verse in Mark 16, that's one of the last number of verses, wait a minute, it says at the bottom here, this verse did not appear in many of the oldest and most reliable manuscripts. Really? Oh, well then, maybe, is it the word of God? Or is it not the word of God? Who knows? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Is that the kind of Bible you want? That's not the kind of Bible I want. I don't want a Bible where I'm looking at this verse and that verse and the other verse and wondering, is it even in the Word of God at all? Did God actually say this or this is something that somebody else has made up? This is a big issue. It's a very big issue. You know what the devil did at the very beginning with Adam and Eve? He cast doubt upon the Word of God. He actually came up with a new version of what God said. It's really interesting this, you know, and I haven't time to develop it, but it's in Genesis chapter three. And God said in chapter two to Adam, verse 16 and 17, "'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, "'but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, "'thou shalt not eat of it, "'for in the day that thou eatest thereof, "'thou shalt surely die.'" The Hebrew is, in dying, thou shalt die. In other words, when Adam and Eve sinned against God, their bodies began to die. Now, it took years, but the seeds of decay were already now in their bodies. In dying, thou shalt die. This is what God said. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. That's a direct quote. Now, go forward to chapter 3, verse 1. And the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made, and he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? The woman said to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of, sorry, the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, you shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest ye die. And look at the serpent. What does he say? The serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die. Who are you gonna believe, God? Who says, in the day you eat, you'll surely die? Or the devil through the serpent who says, you'll not surely die. Who are you gonna believe? The man of God who tells you that if you're lost in your sins and you haven't got Christ as your savior, you'll go to hell. Or the minister who says, there is no hell, you don't need to worry about it. Who are you gonna believe? Whose voice are you listening to? Here's the devil, first of all, he's casting doubt on God's word. That's what the new versions have done. In many instances, is this in the Word? Is it not in the Word? Is this part of an original and faithful manuscript, or is it not? That's casting doubt on the Word of God in anyone's language. And he not only cast doubt on God's Word by saying, yea, hath God said. You can hear the laughter and the mockery of the devil in that very statement, yea, hath God said. God never said that. That's not what God meant. And then he presents a brand new version of what God said, if you read it. There's nothing new under the sun, and we have new standards, new doctrines, newfangled things being foisted on people in many churches today. God has no new doctrines to reveal. If they speak not according to this word, it is because there's no light in them. Let me say this, there's only one gospel. Galatians 1 verses 8 and 9. Though any man preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Anathema. And in case you didn't get it, he said it a second time. So say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that which he have received, let him be accursed. The word in the Greek is anathema. It means let him be damned in the lowest part of hell. You think preaching a gospel is important? You better believe it's important. It's very important when people don't preach the gospel, because that's a sin. There is only one gospel, there's only one Calvary. This man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, not a bunch of sacrifices, not a repeated sacrifice, one sacrifice for sins forever, he sat down in the right hand of God. That's the Bible, Hebrews 10, 12. There's only one way to heaven. Tell me the old, old story of Jesus and his love. Notice that the fire fell on the true altar. The fire fell on the separated altar. The fire fell on the old altar. This is the only place of blessing for us today. In Acts 26, and with this I will close, in verses 22 and 23, the apostle said something in the audience or in the hearing of King Agrippa. Acts chapter 26, in verses What is it? 22 and 23. Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great. Look at this. Saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come. There's no change of message. There's no new revelation. I'm saying the same things that they said in the Old Testament. What is it? That Christ should suffer. and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead and should show light unto the people and to the Gentiles. This is the word of God. True worship, false worship, you can only follow one. Jesus said you can't follow God and mammon. No man can serve two masters. He laid their hold to the one and reject the other. or you'll accept the one and reject the other. May the Lord help us always to stand for truth.