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00:00It is a sobering reality, one that we must confront with both clarity and courage.

00:06The greatest threat to Christianity today is not coming from outside the church.

00:11It is coming from within.

00:13It is not the voice of the skeptic, the atheist, or the secularist that is doing the most harm to the gospel.

00:21It is the compromised pulpit, the shallow theology, the manse,

00:25entered message preached every Sunday in buildings that dare to call themselves churches.

00:31The modern church has been seduced by the applause of men.

00:36It has traded conviction for comfort, truth for tolerance, and doctrine for entertainment,

00:42and in doing so it has become a threat, not to culture, but to the very faith it claims to uphold.

00:49Today, I want to call us back, back to a biblical church, back to a biblical gospel, back to the word of God,

01:13because a church that no longer proclaims truth ceases to be a church, it becomes an enemy of the cross.

01:201. Compromise weakens the gospel, one of the most alarming trends in the church today,

01:27is the subtle erosion of biblical truth in the name of love, unity, and cultural relevance.

01:33The temptation to soften hard truths for the sake of broader appeal has led to a gospel message

01:40that is hardly recognizable compared to the one proclaimed by Christ and the apostles,

01:46and let us be clear, a diluted gospel is a destroyed gospel.

01:51We are not at liberty to edit the word of God.

01:55Paul declared to the elders in Ephesus,

01:57I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

02:03Acts 20.27

02:05Yet in many pulpits today, pastors skip difficult passages,

02:11sidestep controversial doctrines, and emphasize self-improvement over self, denial.

02:18The cross is minimized, sin is redefined, and repentance is rarely mentioned, if at all.

02:24The goal has shifted from glorifying God to keeping people comfortable.

02:30But make no mistake, the gospel is meant to confront.

02:35It exposes our depravity, demands our repentance, and centers solely on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

02:43When the church compromises, it ceases to challenge the sinner and instead entertains him.

02:49It lures people in with a false peace, offering them a Jesus who requires nothing and affirms everything.

02:57This is not the gospel that saves.

03:00It is a placebo, a powerless substitute that offers comfort without conviction and hope without holiness.

03:08The message of the cross will always be offensive to the flesh,

03:12but it is also the only message that can reconcile man to God.

03:18We do not serve the culture, we serve Christ, and he does not adjust his standards for the times.

03:26The gospel does not evolve.

03:28Truth does not bend.

03:30The church's task is not to be liked, but to be faithful.

03:35To compromise is to betray the very one who said,

03:38Sanctify them in the truth.

03:40Your word is truth.

03:42John 17.17

03:44The world needs true, raw, unfiltered, divine truth, and only a church that refuses to compromise can deliver it.

03:53Anything less is not ministry.

03:56It is malpractice.

03:57Two.

03:58Entertainment has replaced exposition if you walk into many churches today.

04:04You will not find men of God proclaiming the word with fear and trembling.

04:09You will find performers, motivational speakers, entertainers.

04:14The pulpit has become a stage and worship a production.

04:18The exposition of scripture, the faithful verse, by verse preaching of the whole counsel of God,

04:26has been replaced with lights, fog machines, and twenty.

04:31Minitidi talks with a Bible verse sprinkled in for good measure.

04:35This is not church.

04:38This is spiritual theater.

04:40What we are witnessing is a tragic shift from reverence to relevance.

04:46In the pursuit of growing audiences and appealing to the next generation,

04:51churches have reduced preaching to storytelling and discipleship to branding.

04:57They've redefined success in terms of how many people are in the seats

05:01rather than how many lives are being sanctified in the truth.

05:05But biblical preaching is not optional.

05:08It is foundational.

05:10Paul charged Timothy to preach the word,

05:13Be ready in season and out of season,

05:16Reprove, rebuke, and exhort.

05:19To Timothy 4.2

05:21That mandate has not changed.

05:24The church is not called to amuse the world,

05:27but to confront it with truth.

05:29Entertainment may fill buildings,

05:32but it does not fill hearts with the fear of God.

05:36It cannot convict the soul.

05:38It cannot produce repentance.

05:41And it most certainly cannot prepare people for eternity.

05:44Only the word of God,

05:47clearly taught,

05:48boldly proclaimed,

05:49and faithfully exposited,

05:51can do that.

05:52Furthermore,

05:53when churches entertain instead of edify,

05:56they train their people to be consumers rather than disciples.

06:00People attend for what they can get rather than what they can give.

06:05Worship becomes about emotional highs rather than humble hearts.

06:10Church becomes a show rather than a sanctuary.

06:12What the church needs today is not more creativity.

06:17It needs more conviction.

06:19We need men who tremble before the word of God,

06:22who open the Bible,

06:24explain what it says,

06:26apply it to life,

06:28and point people to the glory of Christ.

06:31That is how the church grows in strength,

06:34not in numbers.

06:35God does not bless spiritual gimmicks.

06:39He blesses faithfulness.

06:40And if the church hopes to be salt and light in a decaying and dark world,

06:46it must return to the faithful exposition of scripture.

06:50No fog machine can replace the fire of the Holy Spirit

06:54that comes through the power of the word.

06:57False teachers are not outside the church,

07:01but within the greatest threat to the church today is not secularism.

07:06It is not atheism.

07:08It is not even persecution.

07:11It is false teachers who stand in pulpits,

07:14hold Bibles in their hands,

07:15wear suits,

07:16and smile while distorting the truth.

07:19The danger is not just outside the church.

07:22It is within her walls.

07:23Jesus himself warned of this.

07:26Beware of false prophets

07:28who come to you in sheep's clothing,

07:30but inwardly are ravenous wolves

07:33of Matthew 7, 15.

07:35Paul said that from among the very elders of the church,

07:39men would rise up speaking twisted things

07:42to draw away disciples after them.

07:45Acts 20, 30.

07:47Yet in our day,

07:49many in the church are asleep to this danger.

07:52In the name of grace and unity,

07:55discernment has been dismissed as divisive.

07:58These false teachers often preach a gospel of self,

08:02self, love, self, worth, self-empowerment,

08:06rather than the gospel of Christ.

08:09They minimize sin, reject judgment,

08:12and distort grace into license.

08:14They preach health and wealth,

08:16but not holiness and repentance.

08:18And the tragedy is that many believers,

08:21untrained in doctrine and undiscerning in spirit,

08:25are led astray.

08:26This is not new.

08:28From the earliest days of the church,

08:30Satan has sought to infiltrate,

08:32not just oppose.

08:34He plants tares among the wheat,

08:36false teachers among the true,

08:38counterfeit gospels among the real.

08:41And they sound spiritual.

08:42They sound kind.

08:44They even quote scripture out of context,

08:46The responsibility of every pastor,

08:50every elder,

08:51and every believer

08:52is to test the spirits,

08:54to examine every teaching by the word of God.

08:57Truth matters.

08:58Doctrine matters.

08:59Theology is not optional.

09:01It is essential,

09:02because error about God

09:04is not just intellectual.

09:06It is spiritual poison.

09:08If the church does not confront false teachers,

09:11it becomes complicit in their deception.

09:13If we tolerate heresy in the name of love,

09:16we are no longer walking in truth.

09:18We are called to expose darkness,

09:20not entertain it,

09:21to refute error,

09:22not to embrace it under the guise of open-mindedness.

09:26A true church does not tolerate falsehood in the pulpit.

09:30It guards the gospel with its life,

09:32and it teaches its people to recognize wolves,

09:35not follow them.

09:364. A church without holiness is not a church the word of God says.

09:41Without holiness no one will see the Lord.

09:44Hebrews 12.14

09:45Yet how many churches today speak of holiness at all?

09:50In many pulpits,

09:51the pursuit of holiness has been replaced by the pursuit of happiness.

09:56The call to sanctification has been overshadowed by the desire for affirmation.

10:01But a church that does not reflect the holiness of God is not a church at all.

10:07God is holy.

10:08His church must be holy.

10:10That has not changed.

10:11In 1 Peter 1.16

10:13we are commanded,

10:15Be holy, for I am holy.

10:17This is not a suggestion.

10:19It is the divine standard for all who bear the name of Christ.

10:23Yet, tragically, many churches have removed that standard altogether.

10:28Today, sin is rebranded as struggle.

10:31Judgment is called legalism.

10:34Repentance is optional.

10:36And holiness is labeled outdated.

10:38Churches boast of being inclusive,

10:41while tolerating unrepentant immorality.

10:44But let us be clear,

10:45there is no love in affirming sin.

10:48Love speaks the truth.

10:49Love calls to repentance.

10:51Love seeks holiness.

10:53When churches tolerate sin to keep seats filled,

10:56they exchange purity for popularity.

10:58And they grieve the Holy Spirit in the process.

11:02Revival will never come to a church that winks at sin.

11:05Holiness is not about rules.

11:08It's about transformation.

11:10It's the fruit of a heart that has been regenerated by the Spirit of God.

11:14It is the evidence of true salvation.

11:17It is the power of the gospel at work.

11:19The church's role is not to lower the standard,

11:22but to lift it up and urge people to live worthy of their calling.

11:27God does not bless unholy churches.

11:30He judges them.

11:31Read Revelation.

11:33Christ warns churches that tolerate immorality and abandon His word.

11:37He calls them to repent or face removal.

11:41That warning is still in effect today.

11:44The true church will never be perfect,

11:46but it must be pure in its pursuit of holiness.

11:50It must preach against sin.

11:52It must call for repentance.

11:55And it must model what it means to be set apart in a dark world.

12:00A holy church is a powerful church.

12:03A worldly church is a useless one.

12:06True Christianity stands on the word alone

12:10at the center of all that is right in the church.

12:14And all that is wrong when it goes astray is this question.

12:19What is your final authority?

12:21The true church, the faithful church,

12:24the Christ-honoring church stands firmly and unapologetically

12:28on the authority of Scripture alone.

12:31Sola Scripturus, Scripture alone,

12:33is not just a reformation slogan.

12:37It is the lifeblood of authentic Christianity.

12:40In contrast, many churches today have replaced the word of God

12:44with the word of man.

12:46Psychology, pragmatism, personal experience,

12:50and cultural trends now guide sermons more than the Bible.

12:55But let me be clear.

12:57Christianity divorced from the word is not Christianity at all.

13:01Jesus said,

13:02Man shall not live by bread alone,

13:05but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

13:08Matthew 4, 4.

13:10The word is our sustenance, our authority,

13:13our light in the darkness.

13:15It is inspired, inerrant, sufficient, and unchanging.

13:19When the church forsakes the word,

13:21it forsakes its identity.

13:23It may grow in numbers, but it dies in truth.

13:27It may look alive, but it is spiritually dead.

13:30The power of the Spirit works through the word,

13:33not apart from it.

13:35And any church that does not open, read, preach,

13:39and obey the word of God is not a church.

13:42It's a club.

13:44True Christians submit to Scripture.

13:46They don't sit above it in judgment.

13:49They don't twist it to fit their preferences.

13:52They are shaped, corrected, rebuked, and encouraged by it.

13:56The world is changing fast.

13:59Culture is shifting.

14:00Morality is crumbling.

14:02But the word of God stands forever, Isaiah 40, 8.

14:06And the church must stand with it, no matter the cost.

14:10If a church is to be faithful,

14:12it must preach the word, build on the word,

14:14defend the word, and obey the word.

14:17Anything else is sand, not rock.

14:19And only the house built on the rock will withstand the coming storm.

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