One of the greatest distinguishing marks of false prophet is that he will always tell you what you want to hear, he will never rain on your parade; he will get you clapping, he will get you jumping, he will make you dizzy, he will keep you entertained, and he will present a Christianity to you that will make your church look like a six flags over Jesus.

Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.

This country is no more saved than; well ... it's as lost as they say in Alabama, "... as lost as a ball in tall grass."

"But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way.

Does our Gospel presentation make men excited about what God can do for them on this earth, or about whom God is?

You love to listen to the very same things that nailed your supposed Savior to the tree?

When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.