Is Satan Doing THIS In The Church?

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So let's jump into today's topic , one of the topics we're going to look at three videos today . If you are a part of the community and you watch the live streams when we do this or the videos coming out , make sure you tune in . 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 .

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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 . 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 .

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 . 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 . 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 .

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 .

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 .

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 . 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 .

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 . 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 .

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 . 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 .

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 ?

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 ?

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 . 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 .

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 . 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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 . 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 . 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 .

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 . 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 . 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 .

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 . 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 . 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 .