Whom Shall You Serve?

Welcome back to Ignite. I want to talk to you about taking personal responsibility before God. What is God expect from you? Does he expect allegiance to your church or to your country or to your pastor or to your friends? I mean, lo and he's a great, but not at the cost of your soul. It used to be easy. I mean, now only 10% of church still preach salvation. So this is a different world, isn't it? I mean, you should go to church and you just presume that everything being preached to you was scriptural and it usually was. And when you went out to eat and socialized with Christian friends, you heard spiritual. We knew right and wrong. And now we only have 10% of our churches preaching salvation and only 10% of Christians going to church. I mean, the numbers roll around my head. It's just like, it only 1% share their faith. I mean, if you want to hang out with Christians, okay, if only 1% of Christians are sharing their faith and that's what God's called us to do, there's a disconnect between what we say and how we live. Friendships and loathees are no longer the guide that we should use. We can't do that. We have to take personal responsibility. You have to take personal responsibility for your soul and do everything you can to protect your soul. You have a responsibility now. It's a gift. You need to pray for discernment. You need to discern evil. I mean, always and it's so subtle. It's so subtle in the age of unity and consensus and let's bring this together. Let's stop the chaos and we all love each other and all this stuff. It all sounds so wonderful. But it's not. There's never been a more important time to be in the Word. So that when somebody says something that's not according to the Word, you know it. And if you're not in the Word, you don't know it. You need to know the truth and the truth will set you free from the apostasy and all that garbage. Apostles are big term now. I don't understand it. It says people would turn from the truth like they knew the truth and then they turned from it. You probably know people like I do, but there are people out here now that I had high regard for that I won't listen to anymore. They're now the very things they were fighting against so passionately. They're now promoting. How's that possible? I don't know. The themes of the day. I mean, all of a sudden a new thing comes in and rolls through America. It's from our pulpits. Our pulpits promote them. They're satanic. And Christians are talking about the many embraces them of walking in their frades and shouting banners and doing everything they can for things that are satanic. They're clearly satanic. It's the blind leading the blind. It really is. It's just really amazing. And this thirst, this desire to stop the chaos, so find consensus, find unity. I hear this from strong Christians. Jesus didn't come to bring consensus and unity. He didn't come for that purpose. He came to say, thus say, the Lord God Almighty, that's what he did. Yeah. Now, if you veer from the truth, it's that's that's on you. It's not anybody else. You can't say, well, but my pastor, that's what he said. I don't care. My godly friend, the sir of the laurels, life, that was his counsel. That's why he said, I don't care. This is your responsibility. You have to take personal responsibility for your soul. You have to. Before God, you have accountability. Listen to me on this. It's not a time when you can just skate through anywhere. You can't do that. It's not a time to just listen and hear something that tickles your ears. And yeah, I like that. You know, Barton just came and said, we have like 300 million biblical worldviews. That is really means 300 million views of what the Bible says. We're so good at picking and choosing. I like that one. I don't like that one. That's pretty good. I don't know about that one. It's got a smorgasbord of what God said. You pick out the one that you like the past. That's wrong. The scriptures are God's word. And he's telling us clearly what he went and it's so easy. And it's so clear. Love me with your whole heart. And I will direct your steps. Live for my purpose. Tell people about me. And I will direct your steps. I will answer your prayers. I will. I will give you joy. It's so simple. The whole Bible points to that. We're just going along and say, well, I don't know. When you're going your own way, I often say this many times in these podcasts when you're going your own way. It's like he says, I just let you flap in the wind until your arms get tired. And you will get tired. My point is, folks, you have no excuse. There are no excuses. All of us are going to die. And all of us are going to stand before God. You're going to die. We're not supposed to getting out of here alive. All of us are going to die and all of us are going to stand before God. And then the judgment. Not for what your pastor told you. Not for what your friends told you. But for the choices you made based on the word of God, you have the Bible for your guide. Use it. Read it with a simple call to live your life for God. For his purpose. And when you do that, he'll make everything in your life work together for God. It's amazing. Serving God cannot be easier. It can't be easier. He's made it so clear. You have no excuse. You will go before standing for God with no excuse. You can't point to him. Well, it's you. I told you the way. It's your choice. Joshua 25 says this so clearly. Choose you this day who you will serve. I don't care about anyone else. I don't care about me. Don't pay attention to me. Don't base anything on what I'm saying. I'm just a guy. I'll remember through here. The last chapter of my book Ignite Your Life ends with the defining scriptures describing hell and heaven. Both are equally real and graphically described. If you only read that one chapter, I promise you you would do everything possible to avoid going to hell. I promise you that. And you know what? That will ignite your life. See you next time.