Says there'll be a great ... Thessalonians, Paul said there'll be
a great falling away. A great apostasy. And so the numbers of Americans, this is
... this story came out this year, who believe, that every believer has
a responsibility to share their faith, the Gospel, not long ago it was 90%, that's what
the Bible says. But, but they took it again just a few years later.
It's dropped to 64%. How did it plummet from 90 percent to 64 in just a few years?
Why? Because believers are getting on the defensive instead of the offensive.
It's the culture that's evangelizing now, or apostasy. And so instead of affecting
the world much the church is being affected by the world. And so more and more and
it's understandable but it's not right, more and more the church and Christians
are saying, you know what, if I say this I'm gonna be accused of this. If I say
this I might lose this. But, guys this is your test. Who are you following?
God or Baal? Which is it? Which is it? And there are many churches and pastors who go
the other way on this. But you cannot. You let the chips fall where they may.
Because you are called and this is an honor to stand for God when it costs something.
That's the greatest honor. The church, apostasy meets church, oh well it doesn't
have to but it generally does. Church of Scotland takes another step to allowing
same-sex marriage. Church of Scotland. Church of Scotland General Assembly
voted in favor of that approving ministers conducting same-sex marriage
ceremonies, which it used to call sin. The Anglican Church of New Zealand voted
to support gay marriage this year. This year they found an interesting thing.
The numbers of Americans identifying as LGBT is rising. Now that shouldn't be because
they said you're born that way. But it apparently, apparently not. Who, guess where,
it's rising the most? Among the children. Why? Because they are being affected
by this more than most of you. Because most of you have had enough of a life before
all this happened. But children are, it's it's, it's, it's going to be, it's
skyrocketing. The study also found that students who engage in bisexual or
same-sex marriage ... or sexual activity, were more likely to be engaged
in drinking alcohol, smoking, using drugs. Of course the media will never tell you
that story. The Church of England is now engaged in a drive to encourage
transgender people to become vicars. It's all, but but not pastors of course. But
give it a few years and then it'll be that. It's not about the people.
It's, it's about what we live ... In Australia they just legalized this marriage as I said.
And they said new ... new ministers have to bless it. Guess what's happening?
A church denomination in Australia suddenly received a revelation, that God
had it all wrong. And now the Uniting Church in Australia
has changed their definition of marriage. That's called, you know did they get that from God?
No. It's called apostasy. See most people just go along with the majority
of their time. Doesn't matter if the majority's following Hitler. Most
of Germany will go that way. Most of the majority in Russia, they're following
the communists. The majority then goes there. Doesn't matter. And so we shouldn't
be surprised. But God forbid it happens to believers. Instead of the church leaving
the world, the church is more and more being led by it. And in Ireland after
legalizing gay marriage the state now requires the church to do marriage
counseling to homosexual couples. So guess what. Here's the story.
Irish bishops agree to offer marriage counseling to same-sex couples.
Now they didn't want to. They challenged it. But the state said it. They said okay.
I guess we lose. What happened to that Christian University in Canada?
Where they have that covenant? The state ... against them. They said we'll withdraw
your accreditation. So the, the, the Christian college challenged the state in court
and they lost, because Canada's court is that way. So here's the next story.
Just came out ... Canada's largest private Christian University, same one ...
drops its ban on same-sex relationships. They were threatened with losing, which would
mean closing their law ... law department. So they made a choice.
We'll stay open, but we'll remove the biblical stand. The problem is you compromise
with sin you'll end up having nothing left to defend.
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