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Warning of Fakes, Flakes, and Snakes 0:00 Wanna talk to you tonight out of the book of Jude on how to deal with fakes, flakes, and snakes. The book of Jude tonight,0:12 verse number 8 down through verse number 10. Jude 8 verse 8, 9, and 10.0:24 Likewise, also, these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.0:35 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses. Durst not bring against him a railing accusation,0:47 but said, the Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those things which they know not. But what they know naturally0:59 is brute beast, and those things they corrupt themselves. What an odd passage of scripture. Jude gives us here in1:11 verse number 8 down through verse number 10. He's gonna talk to the people of God. He says, okay, here's what we've done. We've gone into what it's gonna be like in the last days. And so, I wanna make1:23 you aware of what you're really gonna have to deal with in the last days. He said over and over and over, you're gonna deal with these false teachers that are1:35 gonna be spewing forth false doctrines. Now, brothers and sisters, don't let that phrase false teachers spewing false doctrines bother you. Let me put it to1:46 you in redneck English. Fake preachers are gonna give out flaky doctrines that are gonna let snakes into the house of God. He1:58 said, if you don't know how to identify fakes and flakes and snakes, you're gonna get eat up in the ways of the doctrines of these devils.2:10 He said, let me tell you about a story that happened back at the death of Moses. This story is not recorded in the book of Deuteronomy, but Jude evidently2:22 tells a story that was readily accepted among the Jews, recorded down in Holy scripture, so it has to be true. He said, what happened at the death of Moses? We are told that2:34 no man knew where Moses's body was buried. We're told that in the book of Deuteronomy, but we're not told why. It is generally believed that the reason2:46 God himself buried the body of Moses was so that his body was not dug up and made into an idol. And so evidently, what happened2:58 is God himself chose the spot and the angels dug the plot, and God sealed the grave himself. Evidently, something happened.3:10 And Satan comes out of heaven and begins to make an accusation that God really didn't dig the grave of Moses. And him and Michael, the archangel,3:22 get into a knockdown drag out, baby. I mean, they get to fussing and they get to fight, and we're told about that in Jude verse number 9. And finally, Michael the archangel3:35 looks at Satan and says, Satan, I'm done talking to you. The Lord rebuke thee. There is a movie called the American3:46 president. There's a story that happens in that movie with the president and his advisers. They're coming down to the end and there's an election coming up, and the president is being3:58 silent on some of the things that an opponent is telling the media. 1 of the advisors gets so angry with the president for being silent. He said, mister president, he said,4:10 people are so desperate to hear the truth that they will run into a burning desert. Look at what they think in the distance is a body4:21 of water, and they will be so thirsty that they will crawl through the hot burning desert. And when they get to that mirage, they'll be so upset, but yet so desperate that they'll4:33 literally drink the sand as if it was water. The president responds back and says, sir. He said, they do not drink the sand4:45 because they think it's water. They drink the sand because they don't know the difference. In the last days, there'll be so many fake flake snakes.4:58 People will begin to eat their poison and let their churches be overruled by these fakey, flaky snakes, not because they're desperate, but because they don't5:09 know the difference. Let me give you by way of a little brief introduction because I can tell that the blessings are gonna flow from this 1 tonight. Let me give you 4 identifyingFour Marks of False Teachers 5:22 factors of what these fake flake snakes look like. He tells us in verse number 8. He says, the first thing you'll know about these fake flake snakes is that5:33 they are always aloof. Aloof. They're up in the clouds. What does he say in verse number 8? He says, likewise, these5:46 filthy what's the next word? Dreamers. Circle that word dreamers. It's a Greek word. Draw you a line off to the side. That Greek word dreamers right there. It means to constantly5:58 give sensual images. We would think about it like this. They're always throwing sugar sticks out there. What's a sugar stick? It's cotton6:10 candy. Now, you beloved people that have made your way down to the Tennessee state fair, we're praying for you. My wife and my children6:21 eat that thing up. There are so many diseases. That place ought to be a petri dish at the National Health Institute. I would absolutely6:33 rather lick 1 of you boys' boots after you've been out in a cow pasture all day, then go eat a deep fried Twinkie from a trailer that ain't seen a health inspector in 14 years.6:48 Nevertheless, I have no idea how I got down that road. I don't know how I got down that road. I don't remember. But oh, cotton candy. I remember. Thank you, Jesus. You know, cotton candy,7:01 All it is, is sugar spun real fast. And, what happens is you got just a few little grains of sugar that they spin at high velocity and what happens? They7:13 start putting this paper cone down there And they keep spinning that thing, and they're constantly spinning that sugar so fast. That thing just gets bigger and bigger and bigger.7:25 And they're gonna charge you 19 dollars and 32 cent, and you go have something that big. And you know what you're gonna say? Boy, I got a great deal. It was all going so well for some of7:37 y'all till last night. When you done bought that 19 dollar and 32 cent stick of sugar, it was great until the rain came. And what7:49 happens when the rain starts to flow around that sugar? It looks big, but when the rubber meets a road, it just shrinks.8:02 He said these filthy dreamers are just like that sugar stick. They're constantly spinning stuff so fast. They're constantly giving you everything you think is sweet and sugary.8:14 But when life comes crashing against you, it don't even hold up at all. It looks a little bit like this. They're always aloof. You can do better. You've got a greater this. Things are8:26 gonna get better for you, and then life falls apart for you Sunday, and you come back the next Sunday, and they stand up again. And they say life's gonna get better. Things are gonna turn out okay. It's all gonna be8:37 better. And then life falls apart that week, and you come back the next Sunday, and they tell you again, life's gonna get better. It's up there always aloof, always giving you dreams, always giving you things that are up8:48 in the air. You don't need that. Every night again, we do need to be puffed up. We do need to be encouraged. We do need to be built, but life cannot be built off a candy cane and sugar pop. You got to have9:00 meat, and you gotta have bones, and you gotta have real stuff. You gotta have the truth of the Bible. And he says those filthy dreamers, buddy, they're always just telling you how sweet everything is.9:12 Mommas and daddies, what happens to your children's mouth if you give them all the sweet stuff all the time? It'll rot out of their head. That's what a9:24 last day's preacher will do. If you ain't careful, he'll get your head puffed up so big, and life comes crashing down and you can't figure out why you can't hold the mustard. He said, you better9:36 watch out for those boys. He said, them fake flakes, snakes, they're always aloof. He says, number 2, he says, likewise, these filthy dreamers, they defile the flesh. What's the second way that you'll pick these9:48 people out? They are inherently immoral. They will cause you eventually to defile the flesh.10:00 Now brothers and sisters, we're in mixed company. I wouldn't dare be vile in the house of God. Brother Jude there is dealing with sexual immorality. What you're gonna10:12 deal with in this last days. How many of you grew up in what I call old fashioned Holy Ghost, snotslinging, baptistal, man of God, wore a tie even in10:24 the shower kinda church. Amen. Son, I grew up. My pastor walked so straight and right. I was afraid to burp in his presence. I tell this story all the10:36 time. My wife will confess. She this is the truth. My pastor, he his lie he said from the day I got saved, he said, I never went to the movie theaters. He said it had been 43 years since he stepped foot10:47 in the movie theater. And I said, well, preacher Lemons, you watch, you watch c I CSI on TV and you buy the DVDs at Walmart. What's the difference? He said, there's a big difference. I said, what is it? He said, I can't10:59 tell you, but there's a difference. He was a good man. There was something about his presence when I was around him.11:11 I didn't wanna hear dirty jokes. No. He didn't make my mouth wanna be filled with putrid language. I wanted to love my11:23 wife more after being in his presence. I wanted to be more faithful to the things of God after I'd been around him. There was something holy about him. There was11:35 something righteous about him. There was something, I mean, you knew. You couldn't put your finger on it, but there was a holy aura about his life. There was something that emanated from the inside. Do you know what that11:46 is? That's the spirit of the living God that breathes from a holy vessel. And we wonder today why preachers are not filled with the holy ghost. Write this down. Never forget this. God will11:58 never put holy oil in unholy vessels. It does not and here's what happens. You've got these preachers today, and all of a sudden, you may not know it about them verbatim. You may12:10 not be able to pick it, but when you're in their presence, you just feel dirty. You leave their services, and there's something that makes your mind be filled with lust. Ladies and gentlemen, you've gotta understand, we12:22 are not physical beings in a spiritual world. We are spiritual beings in a physical world. And whenever the Holy Ghost is pumping your heart saying something ain't right, you12:34 better mark it down something ain't right. You see them last days preachers, there'll be no defining mark between the people and the priesthood.12:46 Dave, me and you came out of a line of churches. I'm gonna tell you something. I'd get around my preacher. I'd get nervous. It was some of them old time holy ghost filled preachers, they made me nervous12:58 being around them. I was afraid that I'd mess up. I was afraid. We got preachers today, they just you golfing, buddy.13:10 Preachers today, they drink beer with the rest of them. Preachers today, they got just as much wine just as many wine bottles in their house as anybody else has got. And then don't look down. You know I'm telling it13:21 right. They're inherently immoral. And give it enough time, the rot on the inside will permeate to the outside.13:35 Brothers, if God calls us to preach and He is willing to put His Holy Word in our hands and He's willing to put His Holy Spirit in our heart and He's willing to pour His Holy anointing13:47 on our lives, God is not asking us to be perfect, but He is wanting us to walk in a way where we are being perfect. It. And I believe in the last days, the defining mark between the holy men of God13:59 and the preachers that are fake flake snakes will be the fact that men on this side are wanting to be holy and wanting to be right. Church, you look at me and you hear me. I14:11 want you to hear me. If I go to heaven tonight and you vote somebody else in, I want you to know something. Anybody that makes you have less of a burden for sinners,14:22 less of a desire to pray, less of a desire to love your spouse is not the man you need to follow. Whenever you get done listening to a man, especially in the14:34 last days, you ought to love Jesus more. You ought to love your spouse more. You ought to wanna be more faithful. You ought to wanna be more righteous. You ought to wanna get on that altar and say, God, there is an area14:45 of my heart that is not right. I knew it because that man had been in the presence of the Holy God. Don't get around those fake flake snakes. Get around a man that's got the dove of the14:57 Holy Ghost fluttering from his life. They're inherently immoral. Number 3, He says, they're filthy dreamers.15:09 He said, they defile the flesh, but then, number 3, they despise dominion. Tyler, what's that third characteristic of those fake snakes? Number 3, they abhor authority.15:23 They abhor authority. Let me put it to you like this. They hate the system. They hate the structure. They will cause you to15:35 wanna rebel against everything and the way it's been set in place. Remember this and never forget it. God is a God of order and God is a God of authority.15:47 That's the way the Triune God operates. Everything is decent and in order. Everything has a structure and a system about it. Our bodies operate off of15:59 structures and systems. Our life operates off of structures and systems. And our life and our church and our bodies and our people, they operate in the authority set up.16:11 Can I tell you something? Your finger don't tell your brain what to do. God has put authority even in our makeup. God put authority in16:23 the world. He said the government is to be over the people and keep them safe. That's the authority set up. But what do you see today? There is an abhorrence16:36 of authority. Brothers and sisters, the devil never changes his tactics. He just changes his wrapping paper. And you'll get these guys in church. Now16:47 look, I'm old fashioned. Son, I mean, I'm so old fashioned. I think I got dust on my socks. I mean, I'm old fashioned down to the core. A church operates in an orderly,16:59 authoritative system. You better watch somebody that comes in and wants to change the structure that has worked for millennia. Watch these old boys that have17:11 got these big, old, long degrees behind their Some of y'all look like y'all have dealt with this. You better watch them ones that have that long degree pattern behind their name and come in and say, no, we're changing17:22 the way we operate this whole system. We're changing the way that we structure this system. The Bible needs to have itself updated to match our modern way. You need to understand, we serve17:34 the God that is above time. And so when he put the church in place and said the pastor is to feed and the deacons are to serve, and that's pretty much how we're gonna operate. Yet, you don't17:46 have to have no. No. No. No. No. No. No. You coming in and we gotta get into no. God that put it in place back in the upper room at the birth of the church, he knew what it would look like in 20 24, but you better watch17:57 them old doctors and them degrees that come in and say, let's change the structure. Because in the last days, they will despise dominions. The fourth thing you18:09 watch about them fake flake snakes is they will scorn the sacred. Watch what He says. He says, They speak evil of18:22 dignities. What does that mean? Here's what that means. Anything holy, they try to degrade it. Can I just18:34 be a little old fashioned on Sunday night? Can I just be old fashioned? Can I be old fashioned? Y'all let me be old fashioned? Church used to be holy. Church used to be18:45 holy. Church, church, there used to be a different feel about the house of God. This was the altar. This was the pulpit. That was the choir loft.18:57 This was the congregation. That was the, the foyer. That was our Sunday school. That was a deacon. That was a pastor. And now we come into an age where no19:09 longer do we have the sacred things. We don't need the altar. We don't have to have a pulpit. We don't need to have and what happens is, I'm fine. You want to change? I don't care what you change,19:21 but don't speak evil of dignity. Don't scorn the sacred. It bothers me. It grieves my19:33 soul to see a man operate in the holy things of God as if it's just another day at the office.19:44 We deal with holy things. We deal with righteous things. And I'm telling you, we have lost the dignity of the sacred in our day. We have lost the dignity of the my little19:56 boy, he comes sometimes, and he'll say, daddy, can I do this? And I'll say, buddy, I don't mind if you do that, but we don't do that at church. My little girl say, daddy, I wanna do that. Not baby, I don't mind if it but20:08 we don't do that at church. Well, daddy, why not? Because, baby, this is the place where the holy people of God gather together. There's nothing wrong with that, but this is so sacred.20:21 We don't wanna confuse the holy with the unholy because when you cloud the line between the holy and the unholy, don't be shocked when your kids don't know the difference.20:35 Beloved, the reason most of us struggle with that is we grew up in that legalistic mindset. We grew up in that mindset where you had a holier than thou mentality. You had holy20:47 rollers doing all this stuff. I understand that, but that's 1 ditch. Don't get mad at this ditch. And instead of getting in the middle of the road, you jump into the other ditch. Which is worst? The20:59 left ditch or the right ditch? They're both ditches. Walk in the holy things of God. They'll scorn the sacred. Boy, until I21:10 blessed y'all how to spot them fake flakes, snakes. How do you deal with them, though? And this is where churches get all shook up. You know why? Because aDealing with Fakes Like Michael Did 21:22 preacher gets up, a teacher gets up, and he's got this mean spirited, legalistic mind set where he pulls out his holy, sacred rod, and instead of pointing the21:34 way, he beats you on the head. Jude's gonna give us how to deal with those kind of people with the interaction between Michael and the devil himself.21:46 Tyler, what do I do with this generation of fake flake snakes? Number 1, you deal with them by contending,21:58 not conversing. Contend with them. Don't converse with them. What? Well, let me show you something. Verse 9. Michael the22:10 Archangel is dealing with Satan. Watch what it says about him. When Michael the Archangel, when contending with Satan.22:23 That word contending, it means to cut through the fog and to get to the root of the matter. Let me put it to you like this.22:35 Satan and Michael are on top of wherever they're at, and son, they're going at it. And I mean, he's a spouting off 1 side, he's a spouting off the other side. And22:47 watch what Jude says. He doesn't say they were conversing about it. He said he was contending with him. What's the difference between contending and22:59 conversing? When you contend with something, you're trying to show what you believe. When you converse about something, you're trying to find a middle ground23:11 of where you can both exist. Can I tell you where churches, Christians, believers get all messed up with this new fandangled idea of these fake flaky snakes? I'm gonna tell you what.23:23 We try to have a conversation with them. We try to discuss things with them. We wanna find a middle ground. You can't find a middle ground with somebody that does not believe that there's only 1 way to heaven.23:35 We have nothing in comp. You can't you cannot find a middle ground with somebody that says you don't have to be faithful to your spot. We got nothing to we got nothing that we can meet23:46 about, and what we've got to do at the end of the day is stop conversing and start contending. Why does nobody want to contend anymore?23:59 Private Salvatore Picanha was a member of the Spanish military. He had been given a post to watch the main gate in the 16 hundreds24:11 in the Spanish Empire. He was given the night shift to watch all night. The night came. He abandons his post.24:24 The next morning, they found the private, and they said, Why did you abandon your post? Why didn't you stand? He said, 2 reasons. I don't like the24:36 dark, and I don't like being by myself. You know why most people don't like standing in the last days? We don't like the dark and we don't like24:48 being by ourselves. Too many times, we feel like, If I take a stand, then I'm going to be by myself. If I take a stand, I'm not gonna have anybody with me. At the end of the day, you may25:00 not have anybody on this earth with you, but guess who you do have? You got the big 3 with you. God the father's with you. God the son's with you. God the holy ghost is with you. And as long as you stand on that book,25:11 then you stand on the holy word of the living God. You stand upon the rock rib promises of the Bible. Don't be afraid of the dark, and don't be afraid of standing by yourself. Don't try to find25:23 middle ground with people. President Lincoln, Troy was having a conversation with a man that wanted to debate about everything. I mean, never ever, ever could find consensus about anything.25:35 President Lincoln finally looked at him and he said, well, let's see if we can't figure something out. He said, let's do you wanna debate? He said, look at that cow. How many legs are on that25:47 cow? The man said, well, 4. He said, okay. Well, let's suppose that we count the tail as a leg. How many legs does the cow have25:59 now? The man said, well, 5. Lincoln said, no. He still got 4. He said, it does not matter what you wanna find a26:11 consensus on, and it does not matter what you believe. Your reality may change, but the truth never does. At the end of the day, it doesn't26:22 matter what people say. It only matters what God says and what God believes. Don't converse. Just contend and stand your ground. He says when Michael did26:34 it, he just contended. Number 2, how do you deal with fakes, flakes, and snakes? Number 2, by constancy, not by compromise.26:47 Watch what he says. He says, Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, watch this next word, disputed.26:59 Do you know what that word dispute means? It means to be a prosecuting attorney. Standing in the courtroom against a defense attorney.27:11 When that attorney stands up and he looks that man in the eye, he is not looking to lose the case. Now, I ain't never been to court. My wife has.27:26 Did you know that you cannot go 25 miles an hour over in a school zone? They frown on that in all 50 of these United States.27:38 My wife called me, and she said, Honey, she said, I may have just made a boo boo. I said, Okay, that sounds good. What'd you do? She told27:50 me. I said, how much money do you want me to keep in your commissary account at the prison when they finally put you in there? For those of you that have never done jail visitation, commissary accounts, what you buy your28:02 shaving cream and your Coca Cola and your Snicker bars. Okay? Alright. Y'all act don't y'all act so sanctimonious on a Sunday night. Man, I'm gonna tell you. What was I talking about? Oh,28:14 yeah. So I said, I said, okay. Well, what she said, what do we do? I said, I'll tell you what we do. We find the meanest, rudest, straightest28:26 lawyer we can find and pray he goes up against a dumber 1. That's our only shot. She said, maybe the judge will28:38 be merciful. I said, baby love, do you remember about 10 years ago, North Carolina passed a no tolerance for speeding in school zone laws. Do you know what that means,28:50 baby love? That means, baby love, judges don't get to have sympathy and mercy. She said, what we gonna do? She said, I can't go to prison.29:02 I said, I done told you. We better find the meanest, rudest, harshest, doesn't give a rip about anything29:14 lawyer and pray he don't back down. Guess what we found? The meanest, rudest. Somebody said, did you get a Christian,29:25 honey? I didn't want a Christian. I wanted the meanest junkyard dog I could find. I ain't going to nonprofit court, baby doll. I'm fighting Judge Judy. Say amen right there.29:39 I'm gonna tell you something big boys. That old boy came into the courtroom that day. He stood up like a laser.29:52 He got to railing. He got to talk I don't even know what he was talking about. I mean, he got I mean, just wham, wham, wham. The the the the the the30:04 district attorney stands up, and he starts laying out all these facts. Do you know what my attorney did not do?30:16 Tell you what he did not do. He did not hear the facts on the other side and say, you know what? You got a good point. Had my attorney that I was paying30:28 none of your business dollars for, dollars an hour, had stood up and said, You know, you got a good point. After I went and found the meanest mobster I could find30:40 to take care of that mean junkyard attorney, I'd have got me a new attorney. Jude says when Michael and the devil were going at it, Michael said,30:53 I really don't care what you've got to say, Satan. Michael stood his ground and did not compromise at all. He31:04 knew the truth. You say, Tyler, I'm gonna talk to Erica about her speeding ticket. I would highly recommend that you not do that tonight on a Sunday night. We don't want your week being started off in a way that31:16 would not be holy, righteous, nor sanctified. Here's what I'm telling you though. Where is the backbone in our day when it comes to the things of God? Jude said Michael stood right there31:28 against the angel of death, against the angel of darkness, and Satan is throwing out all of this stuff. Micah says, I really don't care what you've got to say. I know what happened, and31:40 I'm a stand in my ground. I'm looking for some people of God in 2024 that know what's right, know what's wrong, know what's true, know what's false, and say, I really don't care what they have to say.31:52 I really don't care what they've got to say. I really don't care what you've got to say. I know what's right. I'm not bending. I'm not buckling. I'm not bowing. I'm standing my ground. He disputed.32:04 Do not compromise on what's right. Can I give you number 3? And this is gonna shock Baptist people. I'm gonna shock you. You ready to be shocked? I'm gonna shock you.32:17 The third way you deal with these fakes and these flakes and these snakes, number 3, is by committing, not condemning. Can I show you something in verse number32:28 9 that's gonna blow your mind? Michael knows the truth. He knows what's right. Satan's not bowing. You know what, Michael?32:40 What I would have done if I had been Michael? I said, let me tell you something, devil. You're going to the lake of fire, and you're gonna burn for all eternity. But watch what Michael did in verse number 9.32:53 He disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, the Lord rebuke33:05 thee. You know what he did? He said, there's only 1 person that can condemn, and I'm giving it to him. I'm gonna tell you where believers miss it.33:17 We are not the final authority. You and I may think something. You and I may have it. You and I, it may be written down in stone. At the end of the day, there are33:29 things, situations, and people when we cannot change them, when we cannot convince them, when we cannot turn the tide. It is not our job to look at them and say, well, I'll take no. No. No. He says,33:41 you look them in the eyes and say, you know what? The Lord, you he can rebuke you. The Lord, he can take care of you know what Michael had to do? He had to give it to God. There are times in your journey when33:53 you can't change their mind, when you can't alter their mindset, you can't get them to turn, you can't get them to see the truth. And instead of becoming condemnatory against them, somebody's just gotta give it to34:05 God. Can I show you something? Didn't occur to me till the other day. Watch what Michael did not do. It says, let's put verse 9 back up there. He34:17 durst not bring against Satan, watch this phrase, a railing accusation. Circle that word railing in your Bible. It's the Greek word34:28 blasphemy. Draw the word accusing, accusation, draw you a line. It means condemnation.34:41 Put that together. Michael would not bring against the devil a blasphemous condemnation. You know what had occurred to me the other day? Do you know the34:53 only person in the bible that brings blasphemous condemnations? Satan. When we bring condemnation instead35:04 of standing in truth, we're actually never more like the devil. When we get to the end of our rope and just wipe our hands off35:16 of people, at that point, you know what we've just done? We've just acted more like the devil than we ever thought. There are times in35:28 this generation, some of you have got children that are gonna go by the wayside, you got family that's gonna run aside, and there's gonna be preachers in35:40 this day that are gonna tell you to stand your ground, don't bend, don't bow, and write them off. You know what God says do? Stand your ground,35:52 don't bend, don't bow, but give them to God. Hand them off. There are gonna be times in your life you can't change it, you can't rearrange it,36:04 you can't undo it, you can't break it, You can't shift it. But instead of wiping your hands against it, you look them in the eye and say, you know what? The Lord's just gonna have to take care of you. The Lord's just36:15 gonna have to take care of that situation. Sometimes you gotta give it to God because if you don't, you will get in a place where you're never more like the devil. I don't know if any of you read history or Middle36:25 Tennessee history, and I don't really know how I got on Middle Tennessee history the other day, but I got on Middle Tennessee history. I cannot remember what I ate for breakfast, but I can tell you about Middle Tennessee36:36 history. Years ago during the Civil War, the Confederate soldiers were making their way from Athens, Alabama up36:47 to Nashville. They're making their way up and there is a conglomerate of union soldiers waiting to block their path.36:59 Well, in order for the union soldiers not to fight them, the confederate soldiers had to let the Union soldiers believe that they had a far bigger army than the37:11 Union soldiers, but they didn't. So you know what they would do? Whenever they would hear that a Union scout was coming, they would put all their soldiers together. And then in37:23 their spy camps, when they would find out where the union scout would go next, they would move all those soldiers from that place, and they would move them to another place. They did that about 10 different times, and37:35 here's what happened. The Union soldiers actually believed that the Confederate camp was bigger than it was, and because they didn't know the battle37:47 tactic, they did not even fight the battle. When you and I stand in the place of God and condemn people in situations and37:59 things instead of giving it to God, All we do is fall right into the battle tactics of the devil, and we can't figure out why we're not winning the battle. You know38:10 why? Because the devil just lured us in to being on the other side of the fakes and the flakes and the snakes. You know, God38:22 never called us to kill fakes and flakes and snakes. You know what he did call us to do? To be the flock of God.38:34 Brothers and sisters, at the end of the day, sometimes you just gotta give it to God. Sometimes your family member, you can't get to turn, you just gotta give them to38:46 God. Sometimes, when you can't get that situation to turn, no, you don't give up, you don't throw in the towel, you don't acquiesce, and you don't bow, but you just say, I it's yours,38:58 god. It's yours. And so in this day, as you go out of here tomorrow and as you go this week, as you deal with fakes39:10 and flakes and snakes, just know, do what Michael did and give it to God.In this video 0:00 Warning of Fakes, Flakes, and Snakes5:19 Four Marks of False Teachers21:14 Dealing with Fakes Like Michael Did
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