Skip to content Guest Message - Tommy Geyser Feb 12 · 33 min ...more
Support this leader Liking this video? Support this ministry.
Support this leader
Liking this video? Support this ministry.
Give
Support this leader Liking this video? Support this ministry.
156K followers
Empowering multimedia ministry for bold Christian living: Weekend Messages, Deep End Podcast, Deep Dive Bible Study. Tim Hatch, Lead Pastor, Waters Church, 26 years of pastoral ministry, book author.
156K followers
Comments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
0:00 Good morning, everyone. Good morning. I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord. Amen. Amen? There's no better place than the gathering of the children of God.0:12 I only get a little amen there. That's shame. Amen. Praise God. I want to share with you this morning the true gospel, but I also want you to know that I do believe that there are0:23 many, many wonderful churches preaching the truth. There are many pastors and many preachers who are preaching the truth, and we thank God for them.0:35 We thank God for the preachers he's raising up in Waters Church, those that preach the truth, Pastor Tim, who preaches the truth, and thank God for the wonderful0:47 gift that is given to him. And so we thank God for all those churches, and we pray for them. Yet we must also understand that we are living in a time of the0:59 false gospel. In fact, many people don't really understand what spiritual warfare is about. The Bible says we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but principalities,1:11 powers, and rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in heavenly places. From the very beginning, from the Garden of Eden, the battle has been over truth. Who has the1:23 truth? God or Satan? And so the battle is about truth. The disciples asked Jesus, Lord, what will be the signs of1:35 your return? And preachers preach a lot on that, on the signs of the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. But the very first thing he tells them, he says, See1:47 that no man deceive you. He wasn't talking to a group of people that did not understand the kingdom. He was talking to those that he himself1:59 had trained and equipped for the ministry. And it's to those, he says, see that no man deceive you. The2:11 problem today in our society is we've weakened the gospel, and there are very many charismatic, nice people who are not2:22 preaching the whole counsel of God. And I believe that there's ever been a time that we should preach the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. It is today.2:34 We're living in a world that hell is breaking loose. The devil knows that his time is limited, and he's doing everything in his powers with a group of demons to2:46 destroy everything that God has laid out. And so there is a true gospel. But in the midst of it, there's also a false gospel.2:59 And many times people get swept off their feet for the false gospel because they don't line it up with the word of God. God's word is our rule.3:10 No preacher, no pastor, no evangelist has the right and the authority to change the word of God. We are not allowed to add. We're not3:22 allowed to take away. We've got to preach it as we have received it. And so I want to speak about the true gospel for just a few moments. Saul3:34 of Tarsus was a religious man. He was a good man in the eyes of the people, but he persecuted those that have committed their3:46 lives to Christ. In those days, the church was called the people of the way. The people of the way. Because Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.3:58 And they were his followers and and so Paul persecuted him. He hounded him into prison. He he saw people put to death just because they were followers of Christ. In4:10 fact, Saul himself stood by when when Stephen was stoned to death. And so he was a ruthless man. Although he was religious, he did not know God. He had4:22 no relationship with God. And and and he was going about doing this terrible harm to the men and women who had committed their lives to Christ. But 1 day on the road to4:33 Damascus, the Bible says a bright light shone around him, and he was knocked off his feet. And a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? And he said, who4:45 art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus. Now now Saul never persecuted the physical body of Jesus, but he persecuted the spiritual4:57 body of Jesus who is the followers of Christ. But he's knocked off his feet. And something dramatic happens to this man. His whole life is changed in5:09 a moment of time. His mind is renewed and he's transformed, and he becomes Paul the apostle, mightily used by God. A man of the Bible5:20 says mighty miracles were roared by the hands of Paul the apostle. He was a great teacher. He established churches, and we thank God for the anointing that rested upon that5:32 man that today we celebrate all the wonderful things because of committed and dedicated people like Paul. But Paul had a hard life.5:44 He was despised. He was cast into prison. He was beaten. He was slandered. And at the end of his ministry, he says to the Lord,5:56 everybody has deserted me, but the Lord stood by me. God has never promised us that to be a Christian or a follower of a6:08 Christ is going to be a bed of roses. There are many people today, they think the moment you surrender to Christ, everything becomes hunky dory. Everything becomes wonderful. No6:20 more problems. No more issues. No. Life becomes more difficult. The Bible says, woe unto you when all men speak well of you. Through much tribulation, you6:32 must enter into the kingdom of God. They persecuted me. They will persecute you. That's why we need to raise up a strong church. A church that believes in the6:44 truth of God's word and has not swelled to and fro by every wind of doctrine, but are rooted and grounded and established in God's eternal word. And so Paul was6:56 tremendously anointed, and God chose him to write most of the books in the New Testament. And then in the book of Galatians, he says this to the Galatian believers. He7:08 says, I marvel that you are so soon removed to another gospel than the 1 that I have preached, which is not really another gospel, but there are men who7:19 pervert the gospel of Jesus Christ. And then Paul goes on and he says to them, if I or an angel from heaven comes down or anyone7:31 else preaches another gospel, let them be cursed. That's what he says. Any other gospel will bring a curse7:43 on people. All the Galatians wanted to do, they wanted to add some of their traditions to the gospel. They wanted to say you you can be saved, but must also7:54 go through the circumcision of the flesh. And god calls that a perverted gospel. That's not the true gospel. And so here, right in8:06 the book of Galatians, Paul says that anyone that preaches another gospel will be cursed. What is the gospel? I want to read it from the scriptures because I think8:18 there are many people that don't even know what the gospel is. And here, the scriptures lay it out for us so that we can clearly understand the true gospel8:30 of the Lord Jesus Christ. In first Corinthians 15 verse 1 to 8, there is a passage of scripture where he says, moreover, my brethren,8:42 I declare to you the gospel which I preach to you, which also you receive and in which you stand, by which also you are saved.8:54 You are saved by this gospel, and you've gotta stand in this gospel. If you hold fast the word that which I preached to you, unless you believe in vain. If you don't hold fast,9:06 then you've believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that he was buried and he rose9:18 again on the third day according to the scriptures, and that he was seen by Cephas and then by the 12. After that, he was seen by 500 brethren at once, of whom the greater part9:29 remain to this present day, but some have fallen asleep. After that, he was seen by James, then by the apostles. Then last of all, he was seen by me, and also by 19:41 born of due time. That's the gospel. There it is. There's nothing to be added to it. There's nothing to be taken away from it. He's9:53 giving us the truth that Jesus Christ, God's son, came into this world to die for our sins. We try to avoid the word sins because we think people10:05 will get offended. In fact, there are some people who are preaching another gospel and say Jesus died for your self esteem. But the Bible says it is sin, and what you have to understand,10:17 all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Every single man, every single woman, we are born in sin. From my mother's womb was I conceived in sin. Not only are we born in sin,10:29 we are sinners by choice, and we are sinners by conduct, and Jesus Christ, God's son, has the remedy for that condition. He's come to seek and to save those10:41 that are lost. Now there are many gospels today, many different gospels, and they're very subtle because it's the work of the enemy. The enemy is very subtle. He is very10:52 clever. He knows how to to dress it and he knows how to make it nice and entice men and women. Do something that is false. And so that's why it's important that we understand11:04 that. There is the social gospel. There today is the the the gospel of love. Now let me correct that. First of all, we do believe that the true gospel11:16 that I've just read you is a gospel of love because God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth him should not perish but have everlasting life. No greater love of a11:28 man than this, than a man lay down his life for his friend. So the gospel that we preach is a true gospel, and it is a gospel of love. But there's a gospel of love today11:40 that brushes aside the condition of man. Don't wanna talk about sin. Don't wanna talk about hell. There's no such place as hell. God is a good God. God11:52 is a loving God, and there are many, many people that he may sucked up into this false gospel. The Bible is very clear. It says, behold the love of God, and behold the severity of God. God is a God12:04 of justice, and if he's a God of justice, there must be judgment. So that's a false gospel. There is a prosperity gospel. Now there's nothing wrong with people prospering. God12:16 wants us to prosper in every area of our lives. There's nothing wrong with being rich. Absolutely nothing. But there's another gospel. It's a gospel of prosperity that12:28 it seems to be all that God wants to do is to make you wealthy. Wealthy, to have a lot of money, more than you ever would need. I was watching a prosperity preacher just the other12:40 day, and that's what set me off a little bit. He told his congregation, and it's a big congregation, and he was telling him that the first house he bought, he paid 1000012:52 something. And and then the next house he bought, it cost him 89500 dollars. He's talking about way back. And then he then he says to his congregation, this watch that13:04 you see on my hand cost more than my my second house. So he's bragging about the fact that the watch he wears cost more than the house that he13:16 bought. And then he says about, his chandeliers in his house. His house is, 30000 square feet. Unbelievable. He's an old guy, and he's got this massive,13:27 massive mansion in which he lives. And then he says that I've got 20 can chandeliers in my house, and 1 chandelier cost 17000 dollars.13:39 And the people are cheering and they clapping and they they they saying this is wonderful. And that's what happens. People think it's wonderful because what is this man preaching to? He's not preaching to the soul and13:51 the heart of man. He's preaching to the flesh. He's preaching to carnality, and it is carnality that responds to that kind of thing. Jesus said, you'll always have the poor with you. And so there's a14:03 false gospel, not because you come and give your life to Christ that you are suddenly now going to be wealthy, that you can claim whatever you want to. That's not true. It's it's not a true gospel.14:15 I was watching, just this week also in I don't know who the gentleman is. I don't know whether he's the president of the environment people or what, but this is what he did. He had the 10 commandments written out14:27 of 2 slabs like Moses. And then he looked over, I think it was Jerusalem, and he threw them down and smashed them and said, we're done with that. And then he presented the14:38 the 10 principles of the environment. You see what's going? It's another gospel, and we've gotta be careful. We've gotta be good stewards about all these things, but we need to be14:50 careful because it's a false gospel. This is the consumer gospel. Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus. He'll meet all your needs. We know that Jesus will meet our needs, but we don't come15:02 to get our needs met. He's not a need meter. He's the savior of the world. He's the king of kings and the lord of lords. There is no 1 else like15:14 him. And so there are many, many more of these false gospels being propagated today. The emphasis and the focus and the heart of what's being preached and taught is not the true gospel of the15:26 Lord Jesus Christ. How many of you watched the football game, a soccer game? I like soccer, so I watch it. I like I like football as well. I like boxing. I like a lot of stuff, but15:37 soccer is my favorite. And and sometimes you watch these great teams play against 1 another. And suddenly the person's got the ball and he's going down towards the goal, and he scores15:49 in the box. And that great stadium of fans stand up and they shout. They bang their drums. They hold their float, blow their trumpets, high 5 1 another. It's just great joy that comes in the stadium.16:01 The football players try to slide on the ground and a whole lot pile up on top of 1 another. High 5 1. We've scored a goal, but then suddenly, there's a16:13 whistle. And everything stops dead. And the ref points to the linesman. He's standing16:25 with the flag out all sides. No goal. No goal. And you can hear the air coming out of the balloon. But16:37 I wanna tell you something today. The holy spirit is blowing the whistle. He's blowing the whistle on all the false things that have crept16:49 in. Paul says, I fear for you that your minds be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. Too many things that have crawled in of the17:01 flesh. These these false gospels that have been propagated and being preached, and they're not preached by small guys, but big guys who have big churches and have big names.17:13 We have to hear what the spirit is saying. He's blowing the wizards all sides. It's no goal. Let me just give you a few17:25 facts about the true gospel that I've just read. First of all, it is God inspired. It does not come from man. Paul says, I did not receive this from17:37 man. I wasn't taught this gospel, but Jesus gave it to me. You see, it's a God inspired gospel. The second thing I want you to notice17:49 about the gospel is that it is powerful. Paul says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation.18:00 To everyone that believes to the Jew first and also to the Greek. That word powerful means dunamis from which we get a word dynamite. And that's what the gospel of Jesus Christ is.18:12 It's dynamite. He blows the smithers, the power of sin, and sets the captor free. God's gospel is powerful. And I wanna tell you because it's powerful, we need to18:24 get back to the place where there's total reliance on the word of God, that we understand we don't have to add thrills. We don't have to add gimmicks. We don't have to add other things to18:36 make the gospel nice and to make the gospel effective. It is powerful in itself. Powerful gospel. The true gospel is a18:47 universal gospel. I never see prosperity preachers go to countries that are deep in poverty. I don't see them go to poor areas. Why not?18:59 Because it won't work there. It's a selective gospel. It only works where people are rich and unable to pull out the money and give us thousands of millions of dollars, but it doesn't work19:11 in a poor place. But I wanna tell you the gospel that I've read to you today in Corinthians works everywhere. It is universal. It works where the richest rich19:23 live, and it works where the poorest poor live. There is not a man or a woman that cannot experience the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It reaches every single man, woman, and19:35 it is is for every single person. The gospel is able to change and transform the worst of sinners. It's a universal message. And then also, I want you19:47 to know it's everlasting. It's not that we now a new generation and things must change and the gospel never changes. In fact, people, some people have an attitude about old19:59 things, but Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. You better be careful what you say about old things. Amen? Everlasting gospel20:11 never changes. And and in the book of revelation, the consummation of all things, speaking about the end time and the return of Christ. Paul said Paul says this, he he he has20:23 a revelation. He says, I saw an angel flying through the heavens, preaching the everlasting gospel. That's the last book in the Bible. There's coming a day that an angel is going to fly through20:34 the heavens and preach the same gospel that you and I hear today. It's an everlasting gospel. Jesus is building his church. He said, I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall20:46 not prevail against it. And anyone who builds apart from him and his truth is building on sand. It might look good. It might look great. People are cheering and clapping and having a good20:58 time, but it's building on sand, and that which is on sand will not stand when the storms of life come. We have to build on a solid foundation, and Jesus Christ is that foundation.21:10 We are co laborers together with him. His word is truth. And so I just wanna touch on 4 quick points to show you how powerful the gospel is and what it21:22 means. The first thing I want you to notice is you must repent. There are people now that that that preach, you don't have to repent, you only repent once. I had a21:34 of people leave the church years ago because they argued with me and say, you only repent once, you can't call people to continuous repentance. And yet when you go to the book of Revelation, it's the end time, when he21:46 speaks to all the churches, To some of them, he says, repent. You and I never stop repenting. Why? Because we keep on failing. So all the prophets in the old testament21:58 used to call the people to repent from this, turn from your wicked ways. You have violated the word of God. You are worshiping idols. Turn from those ways to the living God.22:10 And then John the Baptist came and he said, repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. He was the forerunner for Jesus. And then Jesus come, he begins his ministry. He says, repent or22:22 perish. He concludes his ministry saying, repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. And then the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured out, Peter, who was a coward, now22:33 receives boldness, and he begins to preach to those people who crucified the Lord of glory. He doesn't water it down. He doesn't weaken the gospel. He looks at me in the face, and it22:45 says, you with your wicked hands, you have crucified the Lord of glory. It is you that have taken the son of God and have nailed him to the cross, but22:57 he's come for sinners. And then he preaches and he says, repent, every 1 of you, In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for your sins, be baptized and you shall23:09 receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 3000 people respond, and they are born again of the spirit of God. There's no frills about it. It was just the truth, and it was23:21 under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. You know what the Bible says about repentance? Let me read it to you. It says, Acts 70 30, and in the times of ignorance, God23:32 overlooked. But now commanded men everywhere to repent. It's not a suggestion. It's a commandment.23:45 When the Holy Spirit comes and he convicts me of sin, righteousness, and judgment, that's what he does. That's why we need the Holy Spirit. People aren't convicted by our sad stories. People aren't convinced by23:56 our our jokes. They are convinced and convicted by the spirit of god because the Bible says it's godly sorrow that leads to repentance. And so he comes and convicts us.24:09 And then we say, we respond to god and we we we have to stand up and say, some of the things I've been doing, I must no longer do. I must turn around and go in the opposite direction. We are not calling people to24:21 repentance, and then we expect God to pour out his blessing upon us. There's some of us that have been giving our lives to Christ, and we've been on the road for years, but there's been no change in our lives.24:33 Why? Because we haven't repented. We have to repent. Sorry, that I did that. And this godly sorrow that leads to repentance is not remorse.24:45 So the very first thing about this gospel is the gospel that calls us to a place of repentance. Secondly, we need to call upon the name of the Lord. It says, whosoever shall24:57 call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That means speaking to Jesus and acknowledging the fact that we are sinners. The hardest words for any person to say is I have sinned.25:10 But we speak to him and call on his name. Say, Lord, I failed you. I've I've not changed my ways. I'm not I'm a sinner, and I'm lost and undone. I heard a prosperity preacher, and he said25:22 that you can't tell people to turn from their sin because they don't know what sin is in the unbelieving state. And then I went to the scriptures, and I see25:34 Jesus says there was 2 men that went to the temple. He says the 1 was a Pharisee, a religious man. He stands in the temple, and he beats himself on his chest. And he says, I thank God that25:46 I'm not like other men like that tax collector there. He says, I fast, I pray, and I tithe. And the other man is a tax collector standing way back in the temple with his head25:57 bowed, and he says, Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner. And Jesus says, That man went away justified. That man went away justified.26:10 Just acknowledge that you failed him. Just acknowledge that you're a sinner because the Bible says so, that there is a solution, and he is that solution, amen?26:22 Then also, we've got to surrender our lives. It's not like Jesus come in and we just keep on living like we've always lived. Surrender means I lay everything down. That's that's26:33 what that's why we raise our hands. Why do you think we raise our hands? Hands raised is a sign of surrender. Even when we worship, it's not just a gimmick that a certain group of people do, but26:45 as, Lord, I surrender to your glory. I surrender to who you are. You alone are worthy. Lord, we surrender, and we not only surrender as our savior, we thank you for saving us26:57 from our sin, but we also surrender to you to become lord of our lives. Jesus, come into my life and rule every area of my life because I cannot do it27:09 myself. I fail over and over and over again. I came from the very depths of sin. People said about me, they said there's no hope for that man. He's a dangerous person, but I tell you something, when27:21 I received the gospel of Jesus Christ, he transformed me and made me a new creature, hallelujah. Surrender your life to Jesus. Lord,27:34 it's not what will Jesus do in this situation. It's not what Jesus thinks. It's Jesus, you are in charge. You're in control. And lastly, we need to witness.27:46 We need to witness of the fact that we have surrendered to Christ, and then he rules and reigns in our lives. The Bible says, if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus Christ and believe in your heart that27:58 God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. We've got to confess him, folk. Can I say something today? And I I trust I'm not gonna offend you. But when you look at the New Testament in the early28:10 church, the multitudes of people that came to Christ did not come through a charismatic dynamic preacher. They did not come through a pastor or a reverend or a bishop or a pope or28:22 anyone like that. If you read the New Testament, the book of Acts, it says the people were scattered, and they went everywhere preaching the gospel. You see, it's not good enough for us to come to church28:34 and enjoy the word and enjoy the worship, and then the rest of the week, we are not witnesses. We must let our light shine. We must be the salt of the earth. We cannot afford to be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus28:45 Christ because it's God's power. I must be honest. I was brave in many things, and I had a big mouth with many things. But when I became a Christian, for28:57 a little while, I was a little shy to say that I've been saved, especially to my kind of friends. They would think I'm a sissy and I'm a wimp. But 1 day, I realized it's an I have to29:09 because I'm gonna be strengthening the faith the more I confess. And then I started telling everybody about the Lord Jesus Christ. And you know what? The most amazing thing I I found out, sometimes you're scared29:21 to tell someone about Jesus. They may be offended. They might be rude to you. Say you you're afraid. But most times, most times, they are waiting deep down in their hearts for someone to come and29:33 say there's a better life. There's life and that more abundantly, and it's in Christ. It's in Christ, in Jesus. Oh, frog, we have to be honest. We have to be truthful.29:46 It's sin that nailed Jesus to the cross. Nothing else but sin. But there's a remedy.29:59 What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus, God's Son. Doesn't matter where you are this morning and what you've done, it's got nothing to do with anybody,30:11 only got to do with him who came to redeem you and save you. And if you're honest today and you say to yourself, Yes, I'm not in the right place. I'm not right with30:23 God. It may be the Holy Spirit has convicted you in this meeting to make that it's the greatest decision you'll ever make in your life. I30:35 was so glad that I made that decision so many years ago. Life has not been easy. Lots of valleys, lots of storms, and a lot of giants.30:47 But I can tell you today that through every storm, through every valley, against every giant, the Lord has been with me. He'll bring you through.30:59 You'll have peace in your heart. You see, this is what God says, he'll give you peace, peace with him. That's the first thing, and it's a great thing to have peace with God, to go sleep at night and say, Oh, I don't know31:10 what's gonna happen if I die. I'm where am I gonna wake up? No, I know, I know. During my lifetime, I'm gonna wake up in his presence because I'm at peace with him. But not only does he do that, he also gives us his31:22 peace. He says, The peace of God I give to you, and it pass of all understanding. Maybe you're here today and you did some time ago commit your life31:34 to Jesus, but you've not repented. You're still doing the same things. And then you use an excuse, I'm weak. I don't know if I can do it. He'll help you. And31:46 some things he's gonna just deliver you, But we have to do something. We can't just say, God, come and do it all. We have to repent. God, I'm sorry. Godly sorrow.31:58 God, I'm sorry for our behavior. Things I've done to other people, I'm sorry. Godly sorrow reached to repentance and salvation.32:11 Let me close with this. God is long suffering, and he would know that any should perish, but that all come to repentance.32:25 If a man is in Christ, he's a new creature. All the old things pass away, and everything becomes new.
Comments
Keep it kind. Comments are public.