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This is from, you know this has got to be true, 100% true, cnn.com. You can always count on them. Televangelists Jimmy Swaggart, whose ministry was toppled by prostitution scandals, dies at 90. Baton Rouge, you know what that means? Red stick or red baton. a televangelist, Jimmy Swaggart, whose multi-million dollar ministry and huge audience dwindled following his prostitution scandals has died. He was 90 years old. Swaggart's death was announced Tuesday on his public Facebook page. That's just weird to me. How is it that since he died, how could he announce it on his Facebook page? That's. That's just, I don't get that. A cause wasn't immediately given, except for the fact that he was 90 years old. Wasn't immediately given, though Swaggart had been in ill health, and he was 90 years old. The Louisiana native was best known for being a captivating Pentecostal preacher. Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Mickey Gilley, all three of them first cousins. I'm not making that up. They were all three from the same family, first cousins. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, yeah, but that's, and they are amazing piano players. And if you go back and look at the history of rock and roll, Before there was rock and roll music, there was gospel music. Johnny Cash, Elvis, Presley that is, Jerry Lee Lewis. Who else? Ray Charles. There was a ton of these guys that got their start singing, playing gospel music. Oh, and I forgot to mention Jimmy Swaggart. But anyway, the article Let's see here. Swaggart encapsulated his downfall in a tearful 1988 sermon in which he wept and apologized, but made no reference to his connection to a prostitute. I have sinned against you. Swaggart told parishioners nationwide, I beg you, forgive me. He announced his resignation from the Assemblies of God later that year, shortly after the church said it was defrocking him for rejecting punishment it had ordered for moral failure. What happened was that the Swagman, was told that his church was an Assemblies of God church. And when the denominational elders, when they sat down with Swaggart, they said, we are forgiving of you, but we are recommending that you not fill the pulpit for one year. Just one year. Swagger didn't like that. That was going to cost him a lot of money. A lot of income was not going to income. And so he rejected that. And so there went, you know, it's it's It's one thing to say you're sorry. But when the people who you voluntarily. You see, there is no hierarchy. Mandatory hierarchy in in. I would say in most non-Catholic denominations. whereby you want to be a preacher and all of a sudden you start preaching and people say, well, since you're preaching in our church, we own you. There's none of that. But his church being under the auspices of the Assemblies of God, that meant that I don't know how the political scheme of the assemblies work, but you place yourself under their authority, and when they tell you, we want you out for a year, then you should sit down for a year. It's not gonna kill ya. It's not the end of the world. They could say, you know what? We've heard these rumors for a long time. I heard these rumors when I was in Bible college in 1984, 85, 86. And I'm like, nah, that's just rumors. Because in Oklahoma City, charismatic, you know Pentecostal movement was huge in Oklahoma and And I thought I don't believe that I don't believe that well sure enough It was true he was going out whenever he could buying magazines and And and and I don't mean you know Time magazine, I don't mean that but anyway he started hookin' up with people you hook up with, okay? And, you know, he says he never laid a hand on him. Yeah, whatever. Let's see if there's, there was something else here. Yeah. Swagger grew up poor, the son of a preacher in a music-rich family. He excelled at piano and gospel music, playing and singing with talented cousins who took different paths, rock and roller Jerry Lee Lewis and country singer Mickey Gilley. In his hometown of Faraday, Louisiana, Swaggart said he first heard the call of God at age eight. The voice gave him goosebumps and made his hair tingle, he said. I didn't know he heard a voice. I know for a fact that he heard voices later on And I have the proof right here. Now, I was not a big fan of Jimmy Swaggart. I used to like on Sunday mornings when we were getting ready for church when I was growing up, he would be on television. And I mean, he just, as far as preachers go and his delivery of sermons, there was a lot of energy in it. There was a lot of sweat and so on. But it's all about the money. I had heard, and this may or may not be true, but the timing of it sounds right. Before his fall back in the late 80s, before that happened, an elderly woman had rewritten her will And she had quite a bit of money, something like $5 million, $10 million, something like that. Well, she rewrote her will. She had adult children. She didn't leave them anything. She left everything to Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. Well, her children found out after she died. And they're like, mom didn't leave us anything. Lawyers are like, nope, they're tight, you can't. So they wrote Swaggart a letter. And they asked him, please, will you send us the money back? We promise you, we will include you in the You know, giving out this money, we will include your ministry since it was very important to mom. But will you please send it back to us? Swaggart's return to them basically said drop dead. I don't think he used those exact words, but it was like, no way. Take a leap. It's my money. I'm not giving it back. And you can go jump off a cliff for all I care. And they sued him in court, claiming that their mother wasn't in her right mind and that Swaggart Ministries should return the money. And they lost the lawsuit. Swaggart hired the lawyers and won the lawsuit, which means he gets to keep all that money. Now, God always has a way. If I could if I could name today's broadcast, I doubt that I will but God God always Has a way don't ever don't ever count out God's ability to judge Righteously judge righteous judgment because he does Even when we think people are going to get away with something and I promise you they don't get away with anything. I mean, look at OJ Simpson. He gets cleared of murder charges, gets found not guilty, writes a book afterwards that says, if I did it. And he basically details how he did it. But they can't touch him because of double jeopardy. Then he loses the civil suit. I can't remember the guy's name, but his family, Nicole, what's her name? Yeah, Nicole Simpson. Her family sued OJ's estate or whatever and won a ton of money. Meanwhile, OJ's busy hiding money to get out of that. Then OJ ends up in prison You never get away with anything Now I Don't I don't like Jimmy Swaggart, I have it for a long time and There's a book Proves why I don't like him. I don't like his wife. I don't like his son I don't like his ministry. I don't like nothing Because of this book The book is called Holy Bible King James Version expositors study Bible Jimmy Swaggart. Now, what I'm gonna do, oh, you gotta, way do you see this? Hopefully, it will anger you. Second Thessalonians. Second Thessalonians. What happened, what they did was, Jimmy and Donnie and Huey Dewey and Louie Swaggart all the other little Swaggarts His wife Who should sit in the pew and be quiet But anyway his wife Probably was in on this too Good grief. Oh my goodness if you I'm gonna put I'm gonna put I'm gonna put it up on the screen for you And you and Somebody somebody sent me this Bible I hadn't I had mentioned it before and Somebody that had bought it heard me talk about it and they sent me their copy and so anyway It says in the front here containing the Old New Testament's Authorized King James Version 1611 Elizabethan English is updated in some cases to reflect present terminology without changing the true meaning of the word. Who decides what the true meaning is, Jimmy? But what they did was they took I don't know if you can, I need a place marker here. Well, I'll just use this. I don't know if you can see this. Let me scoot in here. But every place where the black is, that's the Bible. Every place where the red is, that is Jimmy or Donnie or one of the other scholars. That's their rewriting of it. And I'll give you an example. 2 Thessalonians 2. So I'll put that back up on the screen for you. 2 Thessalonians. Yeah, chapter two. Look at verse two. And here's the first thing that really, really got me upset was that he injected his comments not down on the bottom, not over in a margin somewhere, but right in the midst of the text. It makes it seem as if Swaggart's interpretation of what it says is on even par with what God says it says. I'll give you an example. Verse two. Well, let me read verse one. Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, here is Swaggart injecting this phrase, refers to both the rapture and the second coming, and then back to the word of God, and by our gathering together unto him, Here's Swaggart, this phrase refers strictly to the rapture. Verse 2, that you be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled, and then Swaggart says false doctrine does this, and then God says neither by spirit Swaggart says, messages in tongues and interpretation which purport to be of the Lord, but really were not. Swaggart was a tongue talker, a tied tongue talker, okay? Then he says, God says, nor by word, Swaggart says, pertaining to those who have claimed to have a word from the Lord, God says, nor by letter as from us. Swaggart says, someone had written a letter claiming certain prophetic things and evidently had signed Paul's name to it, which means it was a forgery. God then says, as that the day of Christ is at hand, here we go now. Swaggart says, should have been translated the day of the Lord. Because this is how the best manuscripts read. The day of the Lord refers to all events after the rapture. Some were claiming, even in Paul's day, that the second coming was about to take place, which, of course, was wrong. Oh, I am, I'm not happy already. He says the day of Christ, but it, it, it, uh, let's see here. The day of Christ, it should have been translated the day of the Lord. Well, let's check this out for a second. Let's just go to, um, Oh, let's see here. Uh, here we go. Blue letter Bible. Let's just do this here. So let's go to 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 2 says that the day of Christ is at hand. When we go to tools here it's going to give us the Greek words. The Greek words are, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, is fairly easy, or be troubled, neither by spirit nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of, the Greek word is Christos. I mean, that's easy, right? Well, I don't know any Greek, Pastor Mike. Well, what do you think the word Christos means? Christ. Where does Swaggart, where in the world does he get off? Oh, you know what I think he might be doing? You know what I think he did? Let's see if the modern translations, we'll use the Holman Christian Standard Bible. 2nd Thessalonians 2 Christian Standard Bible Yep, that's what he did. That's what he did if you look here. No, can you see this? Yeah The King James the Textus Receptus, which is the Greek behind the King James says that the day of Christ is at hand and The new translations say the day of the Lord has come. It's because in the new translations they use the Vaticanus, the Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, they use all the corrupt modern, they use all the corrupt Greek manuscripts that are totally wrong. And so Swaggart, all the Swaggarts, all the scholars at Swaggart University or whatever, they all went along with it. You think you've got a King James Bible, but you don't. Because you've got Swaggart changing it mid-sentence into what the new translations say. It's me oh it gets me I'll put that back up there Yeah, okay, I'll bet back to back to verse two that the day of Christ is at hand should have been translated the day of the Lord Because this is how the best manuscript what best manuscripts are those sir? Jimmy Verse three, let no man deceive you by any means. That's what God says. Swaggart says, in other words, don't listen to that which is scripturally incorrect. God says for that day shall not. Here we go now. This is where it really, really ticks me off. God says, for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first. Now, how do you, how do you understand that phrase falling away first? Do you see it as, oh, this is the beautiful plan of God. This is the rapture. The falling away is the rapture. Um. For that day should not come except there come a falling away first. The Greek word there is apostasia. Now, again, I don't know any Greek pastor, Mike. Well, if I were to say the word apostasia. Do you think you would say, wait a minute, that sounds like. Apostasy. And you would be exactly right. But Swaggart says, thus saith the Swaggart. Should have been translated. For that day shall not come except there come a departure. First. This speaks of the rapture, which in essence says, the second coming cannot take place until certain things happen. The rapture. So here you go, thus saith Jimmy. You've got a doctrine that's wrong. It's not supported by what's in the Bible. And instead of you changing your doctrine, you just go like, well, we'll just change the Bible. I mean, obviously we can't have anything happening Before the rapture that is thus saith the swaggered So Donnie how are we gonna do this? How are we gonna how are we gonna take that Greek word apostasia You want me to show it to you I will thank you for asking Yeah, we'll use the KJV Here we go verse 3 For Let no man deceive you By any means for that day shall not come except there come a There's the word apostasia Okay Turn my mic up a little bit. There we go. No, wrong one. There we go. Apostasia. You would never, ever, ever, ever in a jillion years. Let's look that word up. And Falling away, defection, apostasy is what it means. To forsake, falling away. Let's see here, where is it used? Acts 21, 21, and they are informed of thee that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses. Come on. There is no place that's only used two times. There isn't a place Where it means? We're departing now. We're getting on God's plane and we're flying up to heaven. It's time for our departure I'm not done Yeah , all this old wait a minute Let's let's go ahead and do and we already did verse 3 that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition Swaggart says this speaks of the Antichrist who must come upon the world scene before the second coming and in verse 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God and Thus says Swaggart, Swaggart says, pertains to his declaration of himself as deity, or that is worshiped. Here again Swaggart says, the Antichrist will put down all religions, at least in the area which he controls, making himself alone the object of worship. God says, so that he is God, sits in the temple of God, Thus says Swaggart refers to the Jewish temple, which will be rebuilt in Jerusalem. The Antichrist will take over the temple, making it his religious headquarters. OK, so. So. Swaggart, didn't didn't you forget that even if the Jews rebuild the temple, God's gonna look at it and go, I'm not dwelling in that. I don't dwell in temples made with hands. Showing himself that he is God. All right, now, there was another verse in here. which is Hebrews. And again, like what Swaggart did there in 2 Thessalonians, where the Greek clearly and undeniably says the day of Christ. But because the modern translations based upon the corrupted texts, say Day of the Lord, then obviously, if I were to rename this book, I would call it Why the King James Bible is wrong in almost everything it says by Jimmy Swaggart That's what I would rename this Bible to Because that's what it set out to prove It set out to prove that everything that you've been Everything that you've been hearing for the last several years Or maybe your whole life in a King James? Might as well throw it away. It's all wrong. Completely gone. So, it's just another way to get fundamentalist Christians. You know, they're really, well, I don't know about now, but I could say that in time past, there wasn't a whole lot of liberal assembly of God churches. Pentecostals just seemed to be fairly conservative, which means that they would more than likely be happy with the King James more than any other Bible. Swaggart then comes along He's a puppet on a string whoever is holding the string, I don't know But he comes out with this brand-new Bible and It looks to me like the stated purpose the one purpose of this Bible is To get you to believe that your King James is wrong. I this this Bible proves That it's wrong So here's another example of you're not only You're not only saying the Greek should be better translated. You're saying that even the Greek is wrong and It's in Hebrews chapter 2 Let's see here, is it? Yeah, Hebrews chapter 2. Oh my goodness. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, Hebrews chapter 2. Where does it start out? Okay, I'll start reading in verse 5. For unto the angels has he not put in, for unto the angels has he not put in subjection the world to come whereof we speak. That is the Lord. Here is thus saith the swagger. The Lord hasn't given the angels dominion and rulership as he has Christ. Well then, What's a principality then? What's a principality? What's a power? Anyway, verse six, but one in a certain place testified saying, what is man that you are mindful of him? Oh, here's where it's getting good. Get ready now. What is man that you are mindful of him? And is quoting Psalm 8. And then the Swaggart says, this delves into the reason God has given man so much notice. Now here's God saying, or the son of man that you visit him. Here is thus saith the Swaggart. This refers to looking upon in order to help or benefit. This clearly indicates the son of man spoken of here is the human race and not Christ. Why couldn't it be both? Anyway, verse seven, you made him a little lower than the angels. That's what the King James says, isn't it? Oh, but here's what the Holy Righteous Swaggart says. Should have been translated. That's the wrong button, isn't it? There we go. Should have been translated. Get this one. You made him a little lower than the Godhead. So, the King James says, you have made him a little lower than the angels. The Swaggart says, and all the other modern translations, you've made him a little lower than the Godhead. But Let me finish reading. He says, the Hebrew word translated angels is Elohim, which means God, and should have been translated accordingly. God says then, you crowned him with glory and honor. Swaggart says, proclaims that which was never said of angels. God said and did set him over the works of your hands. Swaggart says some of that dominion is retained despite the fall. However, as would be obvious, much has been lost. But to be sure, it has all been regained in Christ and will ultimately be realized in Christ. Now, and then it says it again in verse nine. Cheer Verse 9, but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels See it says it twice For the suffering of death now I Checked In Psalm 8 Let's go to Psalm 8 which is where Paul is quoting from. Psalm 8, there we go. What is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him? Thou has made him a little lower than the angels and has crowned him with glory and honor now The Hebrew here is Elohim However The King James translators These guys were not stupid and they weren't born yesterday. Obviously, they were born over 400 years ago. The King James translators knew that you cannot translate this verse, Psalm 8, 4, that has made him a little lower than the angels. They knew that they couldn't translate it that way. And the word was Elohim. But why, Pastor Mike, why are you saying that they knew that they couldn't translate it as the Godhead? Why did they translate Elohim as angels? Well, I'll tell you why thank you for asking very much It's because that's what God told them to translate it as Oh Pastor Mike, how would you know something like that? I mean God doesn't speak to you. Does he well he does when I read the Bible Let's go to blue letter Bible And we will go to he brews Chapter 2 All right Here it is right here that was made him a little lower than the angels thou crownest him with glory and honor and Did set him over the works of thy hands? Let's look at the Greek. Thou madest him a little lower than Angelos. Oh, Pastor Mike, I don't know Greek. Well, okay, but if I were to say the word Angelos, what would you say that meant? Angels? That's exactly right. That's exactly right. You see the King James translators knew that the only proper interpretation of Thou has made him a little lower than the Elohim the only proper interpretation would be angels is because of the way the writer of Hebrews, probably Paul, that's how he said it. When it was in Greek, God, the Holy Spirit, remember, remember, this is I think the biggest problem. with all your Bible scholars and all your manuscript criticizers and everybody else saying, oh, this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong. They seem to forget that the words that are in our Bible, well, they're not Paul's words. They're not James words. They're not Isaiah's words. They're not Moses words. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the one who, when Paul was writing this out, he said, the Holy Spirit said to Paul, write down the word Angelos, angels. So he says, okay, God, it's your Bible, Angelos. And I don't know where the Lord Swaggart or the Lord John MacArthur or any of these other lords who use these false, phony translations to get people to fall for doctrines that are not true. But that's what they do. And they do it and people just eat it up. People who wouldn't see it. Listen, people, I've said this before. We have we have the best tools in the entire world. We can look up any verse in the Bible that we want to. We can do it on our phone. We can do it on our tablets. Let's see here. Yeah, we can use our phones, our tablets, our computers. And if we're not sure about it, we can look up Greek and Hebrew and it tells you what the words are. You don't have to be able to read the Hebrew letters or the Greek letters. You see here you have Angelos and there it is written in English letters there. Angelos. I can't read the rest of it. But anyway, you get what I'm saying? You don't need, if I remember, it seems like this Bible was like, I don't know, 75 bucks, something like that. And they wanna sell you this stuff and it's full of lies. Every time the Lord swaggered here says a better translation of this is, or this should have been translated as, or the original Hebrew or the original Greek actually is incorrect, we have better manuscripts now, and those manuscripts tell us something completely different. But they get you to buy it because it says King James Version. But this right here is a wolf. It's a wolf. Dressed up in the clothing. Of a sheep. And I don't know how many thousands. Of people. have fallen for this lie. But they have. And it bothers me. It bothers me a great deal. You gotta be careful, people. In today's world, you've got to be careful. Because the liars are all around us. I had prayerfully considered doing this. If you were watching Sunday morning during our service, during Sunday school, I just was not feeling well at all and went to my office after Sunday school and I could tell it was my blood sugar and it was sky high. And then while I'm contemplating that, we just got word that a man I don't want to I don't want to give his name. And it's not for any privacy reason. I'm just going to be honest with you. I don't want to mention I don't I don't want to bring his name up. He. He moved here. Several years ago. Because apparently he had been listening online. And he married one of my daughters. And he really showed himself to be a good Christian man. And so we accepted him. My daughter has two daughters and three sons. And this man molested the two daughters, my granddaughters. his own daughter and uh... naturally uh... you know our daughter told us and and you know we said you you gotta get away from this guy uh... she got an ex parte against him. And, um, you know, they give you one like in an emergency situation, they'll give just about anybody an emergency ex parte. But if you want to make it permanent, you've got it. You've got to show up to court and show cause why this person needs to stay away from you or, you know, remember your family or whatever, one of your Children or whatever. Um, and he would not show up. Um, there are, um, I believe some audio recordings, uh, of him just about saying everything except just coming out with a full confession. of what he had done but he did tell my daughter what he had done and I could tell something was going wrong because he had dropped out of church and all of a sudden now when all this pops up now he wants to try to be this good Christian guy, and what he's trying to do is get in close with my daughter and her children again. Over a length of time, he was summoned to court. Sometimes it would have to do with the ex parte. but also divorce proceedings taking place at the same time. The last hearing where he was supposed to show up was May 27th. He didn't show up. His lawyer said, I've not been able to get in touch with him. So we're thinking, well, that kind of makes it easy then if he won't show up. It's sort of a default thing if he won't show up and defend himself. It was told at that last hearing, May 27th, that he was going to have a court-mandated psychosexual profile done of him. In other words, he was gonna have to sit and squirm in his chair and be very uncomfortable about giving answers about himself and the way he thinks and so on. And apparently he wasn't willing to do that. So from May 27th until last Sunday, two days ago, yeah, nobody had heard from him. Nobody, I mean nobody, we never heard anything, nothing. He had an ex parte against him. And so during Sunday school, Sunday, my daughter started getting phone calls from his phone. Of course, she wasn't going to answer. Because number one, he's not supposed to be calling her. Number two, if he does call her, she can't answer it. But then she got a call from a phone that had the number blocked, so she couldn't see who it was. She didn't answer it then. Finally, they left a voicemail on her phone. And apparently, he lived in an apartment here in town, and the neighbors began to smell something. And when the police went in there, they found him dead. And it was apparently he had been in there a long time, a long time, because he was mostly unrecognizable. He was surrounded by The number was in the hundreds of whiskey bottles that had surrounded him. We don't know if he got himself really, really, really drunk and then took some kind of medication, some kind of drug, or he just died of alcohol poisoning. I talked to my daughter about revealing this and she said it was fine. I'm a man of God. And I want everybody to go to heaven. And I am being honest when I say, I believe God can change someone even like that. God can change a person like that. I've seen him do it. But it was obvious that he didn't want change. He didn't want change, he wanted to continue. And so obviously there are mixed feelings in our family. And this is the first time I'm saying anything to anybody outside of our immediate family. Most of the people in our church don't know, but they will of course now. And they're part of me. I don't want anybody to go to hell. I don't want anybody to go to hell. There is another part of me that can truthfully say, I am glad that my grandchildren are safe. Now, this is going on the internet and I know, already know, that people on the internet, they can say some pretty doggone mean things. You probably will of me and whatever. I don't care. Do you wanna judge me or my family? You come be with us. for about a year. And you go through what we go through in a year's time. Some of it's not so good. So before you decide you're going to judge me for not weeping and wailing and crying and everything else, I am relieved that my grandchildren are out of danger now. Pray for his, he has a dad and a stepmom, I think, and I don't think he had any siblings. I don't think he did. Pray for them if you want, and pray for our family as we go through this. We're not going to plan any funeral. If his dad chooses to do so, that's fine, but we're not going to do that. But just to, if nothing else, this is a good way to bring up a couple of issues. Number one, be sure your sin will find you out. Be sure your sin will find you out. I mean, obviously he was like this, and I'll just tell you this. The amount of pornography that my daughter found that belonged to him was staggering. And I want to say to everybody out there listening to me. Pornography in a man's life almost always starts in childhood. Almost always. If you have children, and they have access to the Internet and you're not monitoring that access or you're not controlling or blocking that access. You've just let you've just opened the gate for the wolf to come in and steal your son or your grandson or whatever. OK. It starts in childhood. Then it gets worse. And you would think, well, he's getting married now, that should take care of that. No, it doesn't. All of you men out there that are listening to me, Okay, sin has a progression. It starts out with simple little things that as you go, they get bigger and bigger and worse and worse and worse until that man has to act out on those fantasies, on those things, those images. And he will either be chasing around other women or he will look to a young person to take this out on them. And so it happens a lot. And I wanna encourage all of the men and even some of the women, but mainly men, I wanna encourage you Call upon the Lord daily. Don't give up. God won't give up on you. Don't give up on Him. God has a remedy for you. God has a plan of action for you. Okay, and I just, I promise you, God can take away those things. You know your marriage situation better than anybody. It may be that your wife could be a real helper when it comes to that issue. But then again, it may be that if she ever found out about it or heard about it or whatever, you're gone or she's gone. You have to you have to talk to the Lord about that follow his lead Secondly Death is forever Death is forever nothing You just can't get out of it You're going to die All of us are going to die. What you don't want to do is take your own life. That's what we suspect is that he took, he could be alive right now. Obviously, more than likely, he may end up going to prison. But that's still life. But he chose a different way. And if. If someone has told you. Oh, well, you're saved. Yeah, yeah. Once saved, always saved. So you can kill yourself, you can kill yourself all you want to, and you'll still go to heaven. Let's look let's look at some people that took their own life Saul What was Saul's spiritual condition The Bible specifically says that the Holy Spirit left Saul and an evil spirit, you know what we'll just we'll just look her up here an evil spirit from the Lord and Let's see here. Yeah, here we go. Put that up on the screen. But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. God took his spirit away from him and he stopped forgiving his sins. That's what he did to Saul. Okay. And, oh, but I heard, I heard Dr. So-and-so, he said that, you know, people who kill themselves, you know, it's, it's, you know, it's a forgivable sin and, you know, God forgives all sin and on and on and on. Are you willing, are you willing to gamble your soul on what some man said? When right here you have God taking his Holy Spirit from Saul and an evil spirit. Sent to him. That's why he was always trying to kill David and it eventually led him because of his his anger and His he finally fell on his own sword To kill himself What about What about Judas? Judas Iscariot the Bible says that Satan himself entered into Judas and Once he betrayed Jesus He took the money Threw it back into the temple said that you keep your money and he went out and he hung himself and Cursed is anyone who hangs from a tree. God did that to show us Judas is not in heaven. And I have had, believe it or not. I mean, I've read people who wrote and said, oh yeah, Saul's in heaven because you can't lose your salvation. And again, are you are you willing to gamble your soul? On what some guy said when the Bible gives you two examples right here Two is all you need But both of these guys and evil spirit Was with them always And it drove them to take their own life. I hope that you listen to what God's word says. I know things can get bad. I've been through some terrible times in my life. Times where I didn't wanna live. But I'm glad that God kept me. I'm glad that God said, Mike, whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. I was already a Christian, but God reminded me, Mike, whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. The thing that there is I mean there is something that bothers me about it, and it's the idea that He didn't believe what God said I'm talking about my son-in-law He did not believe what God said He didn't believe it So I hope that this stops you in your tracks. That's what I want. I want you to just come to a screeching halt and say to yourself, you need to turn your life around. you're headed in a bad place. And listen, it goes without saying that there are those who would do harm to a young person and they would hold a position in a church. I read an article the other day, I was gonna read it on this broadcast, but I didn't do it, of a youth pastor. Listen, youth pastors, not a fan. I am not a fan of youth pastors. More than one of them has been caught harming young people. But just recently, this guy, and he wasn't going after girls, he was going after the boys. And at one time, he knew that they were investigating him, so he leaves the state. He goes to stay with his mom and dad for a while. Until finally they got him and brought him back. Well now that's a federal, that's federal crime now. Okay, you're fleeing, you're going across the state line. And so he's got some big, big charges against him. And there was multiple, multiple charges against him. But we're seeing this stuff happen. over and over and over and over again. So if you ever come visit our church and say, well, where's your youth program, Matt? Who's your youth pastor in charge of your youth program? Sorry, we don't have one. And I'm not gonna apologize for that. That's just the way I see it. So anyway, I love you all. I appreciate your prayers. But I mean, obviously, Sunday, there's just no way I could continue. Life happens. Life happens to preachers. And so keep us all in your prayers if you would. My health, I'm worried about my health. So pray for me if you would. And I appreciate all of you. keeping us in your prayers. Michael's over in Kenya right now. Undoubtedly, we're going to be doing another feeding. So help us out with that. Pray that we can have the money that we need to feed at least 3,000 families, if not more. The need is great and the work is worthy. And so it doesn't surprise me when the devil tries to outright destroy this ministry. Doesn't surprise me at all. So I love you all. I thank you for your prayers, your love for us. Keep them coming. Just always puts us in a good mood, doesn't it? Anyway, God bless you all. You're the reason why we do what we do. And y'all take care.