Words of Jesus Podcast - Pay Attention Lest Ye Be Deceived

Starting point is 00:00:00 Think Red Ink Ministries presents The Words of Jesus Series with Don C. Harris Hello my friends, welcome to The Words of Jesus series. Don Harris your host. Think Red Ink Ministries, Pytown, New Mexico. We'll give you particulars at the end of the show if you'd like to contact us for any reason at all. We'd love to hear from you. We're reading from the 101st chapter in our book, The Words of Jesus, where Jesus is predicting the destruction of the temple

Starting point is 00:00:45 and the coming disasters. Jesus starts off what he has to say with, and we should really pay attention to this, take heed that lest any man deceive you. Now, take heed lest any man deceive you tells me that if we take heed, if we pay attention, that's what take heed means, pay attention, lest or unless or if you don't, this is what's going to happen, men are going to deceive you.

Starting point is 00:01:24 Jesus used this statement. I'm trying to run back through my head. I was going to say exclusively when he was talking about end time events. And I think I'm right about that. If I'm not, you're welcome to write to me and tell me. But when he says, take heed lest any man deceive you, take heed, take heed, take heed. When he's talking about deception, I wonder why

Starting point is 00:01:55 it always shows up around prophecy. Because when it comes to prophecy, the Christian church out there are just plum stupid excited about prophecy. I'm telling you, they spend the money and they spend the time and they study, study, study, study, study. They go here and they go there. They travel across the country. They fly to different cities to hear people talk about prophecy. Now I guarantee you I could go you know our closest large town is

Starting point is 00:02:30 Albuquerque from here I can go down there and rent a motel room say anybody want a better life and you know a 60-second decision you could make in your life you want to make some changes in your life? And I would be probably disappointed at the turnout. I don't want to change. I just want you to make me smarter. Can you do that? Can you make me smarter? Is this a Bible study?

Starting point is 00:02:57 Because I really need some more Bible study. Now, this has to do with good old-fashioned, you know, repentance, movement and conviction by the Holy Spirit. You making changes in your life and your life actually getting better. Not just you getting smarter. Well, good luck finding people that are interested in that. Well, I don't do so well in that area. I guess I need to do like a popular denomination does, is hold a prophecy conference and do what they call guerrilla evangelism. And that is, it's guerrilla, not gorilla.

Starting point is 00:03:37 Well, maybe, I don't know. But they come in under the guise of prophecy. They don't tell you their denomination. You wouldn't go if you knew their denomination. Those of you who know who I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about. But they go in there and they hold prophecy conferences and fill the house and thus promote their particular denomination. Like, see there, we're not bad guys after all.

Starting point is 00:04:12 But Jesus is saying that in this area of prophecy, you're going to find tons of people that are willing to deceive you. Now, this is from Matthew 24, as well as Mark 13 and Luke 21. But I'm wondering if he reiterates this again because if he doesn't we need to deal with it now okay let's deal with it now um he says in here that um you're going to hear wars and rumors and wars. Don't be troubled. Such thing needs be, but the end is not yet. Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom. There shall be earthquakes in divers places. Can I tell you something that's kind of funny, but really not funny? I was listening to a preacher one time

Starting point is 00:05:02 that was reading something out of Time magazine or some magazine somewhere where they were talking about underwater earthquakes and how they cause these tsunamis and stuff like that. And there's no motion anywhere except under the water and huge amounts of water are displaced and things like that. And they go on all the time. And he was preaching that that is the fulfillment of prophecy that there's going to be earthquakes in divers places. Yeah, like scuba divers. Oh well. Okay. Anyway, so when it comes to prophecy you know you're just liable to hear

Starting point is 00:05:50 anything but if you don't want to be deceived you're going to have to pay attention take heed jesus says kingdom against kingdom earthquakes in diverse places and there shall be famines and and troubles these are the beginnings of sorrows but take heed to yourselves for they shall deliver you to counsel i guess i i should read that but take heed to yourselves take heed to yourselves this is not just a matter of observation. Remember when he says the kingdom of God doesn't come with observation? Well, you know, that's pretty powerful. He's saying that take heed to yourselves. Make sure you are who you need to be to deal with all these things. Yo, you got a storm shelter in the backyard? You got canned food laid up

Starting point is 00:06:46 and you're all ready for the Antichrist and you got guns? You got bombs? I don't know what you've got, but you're all prepared for end times? Listen, that's not the preparations that are most important in your life. What you need to prepare is you.

Starting point is 00:07:04 I've got a DVD that everybody, everybody in the world will see this. This was a huge revelation, preached under a heavy anointing, and it's called Surviving the End. And wow, if you'd like to have that DVD, I would love to send it to you. Because, well, I don't want to give it away.

Starting point is 00:07:32 No, I'll give it to you. I will give it away that way, but I don't want to give away the Hindi. So if you'd like to have Surviving the End, write to info at thinkreadinc.com and ask for it. I'll get it back to you just as fast as the postman can carry it all right take heed to yourselves for they shall deliver you up into councils and to the synagogues and you'll be beaten and you and you'll be brought before

Starting point is 00:07:57 rulers and kings for my sake for a testimony against them and the gospel must first be preached among all nations and but when they lead when they lead you and deliver you up take no thought beforehand what you shall speak neither do you premeditate let me tell you something that's good advice in a lot of areas in your life if you're led of the spirit of god you really ought not overthink things if they say that i'm going to say this and if they say that i'm going to say this. And if they say that, I'm going to say, no, no, no. Let's just live by the Spirit of God. Let's just do what the right thing to do is. What if I don't know? Then shut up. You don't have to answer everything

Starting point is 00:08:37 that's said to you. You don't have to answer every question that's asked of you just be quiet um but whatsoever shall be uh given you in that hour that you shall speak for it is not you that speak but the holy ghost wouldn't that change our lives now the brother shall betray the brother unto death and the father of the son the children shall rise up against their parents and shall cause them to be put to death and ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake for he that endures to the end shall be saved now he prefaced all that if you read this in matthew 24 what you're going to what you'll come away with if you read carefully if you you take heed, if you read carefully you'll find that he says, many will come

Starting point is 00:09:31 in my name saying, I am Christ. Now in this particular book, he puts I am Christ in quotes, as if the people who come will say i am christ now we've been taught that but if you read matthew 24 you'll find that he says many are going to come saying that i am christ and then later on you got this happened and this happened and this happened and then there's going to be people that are going to say that I am Christ. And then later on you've got this happen, then this happen, then this happen. And then there's going to be people that are going to say that I am Christ. It actually says it twice.

Starting point is 00:10:12 Or some derivation of that idea. If you're thinking that there's going to be prophets on false prophets on the earth that claim to be Christ you're right. But you'd better understand the order pretty quick. The order of what? Because in one place he's telling us there are going to be prophets and preachers,

Starting point is 00:10:37 messengers, people on this earth that are going to feel no compunction, no resistance, no nothing, at telling you that I, Jesus Christ, am Jesus Christ. They're not going to deny me. They're going to claim that they are of me. There's going to be Christians that are going to preach in the name in my name and they're not going to deny that i'm christ the worst false prophet that ever was that's the worst false prophet that ever could be matter of fact you're going to have so much

Starting point is 00:11:21 trouble discerning one from the other that it is going to take an inspection of the fruit of their ministry even to understand these people have no fruit. They're not bearing any fruit whatsoever. Therefore, according to Jesus, these are false prophets. That's how difficult it's going to be to tell them apart you know just because your favorite evangelist stands up and says jesus is lord that does not mean that everything that comes out of his mouth is the word of god well he he doesn't deny the trinity oh well good for him i guess that doesn't mean everything he says is true.

Starting point is 00:12:07 He believes God's omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. Well, that's good. That's great. Doesn't mean everything he says is true. He believes the Bible is the word of God. That doesn't mean everything he says is true. Jesus is saying these are the worst kind of false prophets. They're the worst kind, the kind that feel no remorse, no resistance, nothing,

Starting point is 00:12:33 to look at you and say that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Do you know why they can say that? Because it doesn't mean anything to them. It doesn't mean anything to them it doesn't mean anything to them i could tell you that santa claus lives at the north pole you know why because it means not a wit to me means nothing whatsoever and it means nothing to them too it's just part of the rhetoric it's just part of what they have to say it's part of what they have to say to get you to give to them they don't mean it they don't live this is why it's so blasted important that people not go along with this idea of it's by faith brother it's not what you do. It's what you believe. Hogwash. You're never going

Starting point is 00:13:27 to be able to adjudicate in your mind good from evil without seeing the fruit, what is being done by that person. I don't care what they say they believe. I don't care what you believe. It doesn't matter to me. I do care about how you live and what you do. That is important. But what you believe, eh, it doesn't mean anything to me. Show me a story in here where Jesus is depicting the judgment of his people, where he says, now, what did you believe? He he never does it it doesn't mean anything to him because we're going to talk about what you did don't you know you're going to stand before one day before the white throne of judgment and give an account of the deeds done in the flesh

Starting point is 00:14:19 i know you think that just means that he's gonna you know put check marks in certain little boxes and you're gonna be beaten with certain stripes or thrown into hell or whatever else you think that's that's god's job whatever it is you think he does but he's he's telling us that you're gonna be you're gonna give an account account of things done in the flesh. Why? Because he's trying to determine what you believed. Did you believe in Christ? Did you believe in Christ? Uh-huh. Well, let's just see how much your life looks like is.

Starting point is 00:14:59 Let's see how much what you believe sounds like it would fit into his mouth. Things you say. Would they fit into his mouth things you say will they fit into his mouth and I hope so well let's just take a look at it well I believed in him well we'll determine that you just hold that thought no we have we have some foolish ideas in this area very Very foolish. And I'm afraid they're going to take us down if we're not careful. Jesus continues, You remember when he was saying this before in an earlier show? He was saying this is going to happen so fast that there's not going to be time for these kinds of things.

Starting point is 00:16:10 I see this as saying that whatever preparations you make, it's kind of like people say, I believe that American citizens ought to carry guns. Do you? Yeah. Do you have one? Yeah. You got it on you? No. What are you going to do if you need it? You going to go home and get it?

Starting point is 00:16:32 Well, Sam, this is a real concern because if you really do believe there's going to be famines, what are you doing about it? Well, I bought me a big bag of pinto beans. Are you going to run to the mountains with that bag on your back what preparations really are you making i know you get a kick out of you know

Starting point is 00:16:54 buying beans from some preacher on tv that sells them for three hundred dollars a bag oh you know you've heard about safeway windixi those kind? Yeah, you can get them there a lot cheaper. And I know you like to spend money on, you know, generators and something to charge your cell phone with so you can use it during the tribulation. And, you know, I know you enjoy spending money on these kind of things and buying all this stuff and considering yourself prepared but exactly what are you going to leave behind when it comes time to run friend your preparation for the end time is preparing the one wearing your shirt right now that's where the preparation

Starting point is 00:17:39 is supposed to take place i don't think you can prepare for this i don't think you can prepare for this. I don't think you can. As a matter of fact, what was it, Amos? A prophet in the Old Testament says, you know what the day of the Lord's going to be like? It's going to be like a man ran from a lion and a bear met him. It's going to be, I mean, you just can't understand. You don't know what's coming. You can't prepare for this.

Starting point is 00:18:09 You cannot do it. But you can prepare yourself. Huge message. All right. Surviving the End DVD. Order it. All right. When you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by daniel the prophet

Starting point is 00:18:28 standing where it ought not um he's saying that the abomination of desolation is going to be placed where it ought not it's going to be standing or it's going to present itself in a certain location where it ought not what is that abomination of desolation hmm what am i doing just am i just promoting my dvds here i talk about these things because I don't think people understand. Look, I can't tell you that I know that the Antichrist is contained within a human body, male or female. I don't know. It may be a spirit that's on the whole earth.

Starting point is 00:19:18 I don't know. I don't really claim to know. But I do know what the abomination of desolation is. And when you see it, you're going to know that the end is near. I'll give you a hint. It comes sometime around Passover. We've got to talk about some of these things. Oh my goodness. Alright. He says, about some of these things oh my goodness all right um he says let him that readeth understand then let them that be in judea flee into the mountains and it teaches us not to turn back

Starting point is 00:19:52 to take up your garment these are preparations um and woe unto them that are that are with child and to give suck in those days now this is just simply the the horrible inconvenience of that is going to be this is not some magical transportation into the sky like a rapture where you and your little baby are going to get carried off into heaven and watch all the mayhem here on the earth these are going to be true physical problems physical tribulations and i think this makes it very very clear that's going to be very difficult for women with child pregnant women and women with small children it's going to be very very difficult in these days. Now, we're going to end up talking about this again. But woe to them that are with child.

Starting point is 00:20:59 And he says, and pray that your flight be not in the winter. Who cares? If you're going to be raptured, is that a word? If you're going to be raptured, what a word? If you're going to be raptured what difference does it make if it's in the winter? I've heard people talk about this. Well, wait a minute now. I watched all the films and they do leave without their clothes.

Starting point is 00:21:22 Maybe this is a concern. All right, I'm making fun. Let's get back to seriousness. And he says, pray that your flight be not in the winter. For in those days shall be affliction. For means because. Those days shall be affliction such as was not since the creation which god created unto this time neither shall be

Starting point is 00:21:54 this is absolutely the worst thing that's ever going to happen keep that in mind because we're about to hit something here in a minute that that you need to know no flesh he says uh except those days are shortened no no flesh should be saved but for the elect's sake whom he hath chosen he has shortened the days and bible says that the the shortened the days uh because of the elect being deceived. And it uses the word impossible, but it uses it in such a way that it's misunderstood. If the days weren't shortened, that even the very elect will be deceived if it were possible,

Starting point is 00:22:40 is the way most people read that. If it were possible possible the elect shall be deceived. And actually what that is saying is that if the days aren't shortened the elect are going to be deceived if it's possible. And you know what friend? It is possible. You think because you're elect some people think because they're saved they won't be they won't be deceived well you're deceived right now all right um he says but for the elect's sake whom he hath chosen, he has shortened these days.

Starting point is 00:23:26 And then if any man say to you, Lo, here is Christ, or, Lo, he is there, believe him not. For false Christ and false prophets shall rise and show signs and wonders to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. This is if it is possible. Not if it were, but if it is. Now were is actually the proper being verb that should follow the word if in proper grammar. But unfortunately, most of us have been educated in the public education system and we don't understand that when it says if it were it's if it is possible if it's possible that's the way we would say it if it's possible even the elect will be deceived

Starting point is 00:24:21 but take ye heed behold i have foretold you all things take heed in other words pay attention because i've told you these things here it is again pay attention to what i'm telling you um and uh say wherefore if they shall say to you behold he's in the desert go not forth behold he's in the desert. Go not forth. Behold, he's in the secret chambers. Believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west, we talked about this,

Starting point is 00:24:53 so also shall the coming of the Son of Man be. There's no such thing as a secret appearing, a secret rapture, a secret coming of Jesus. No such thing. No such thing. No such thing doesn't happen he says when i come it's going to be just as obvious as the sun rising in the east and the light the lighting the lightening of the sky that goes over the sky and sets in the west that's how obvious my coming is going to be nobody's going to miss it anybody miss a whole day because they didn't see the sun you people in alaska

Starting point is 00:25:33 notwithstanding so he says so shall the coming of the son of man be for worseever the carcass is there the eagles will be gathered together this is going to happen among the people who are there to devour the christians that's where this is going to happen where is that the entire earth you don't have to wonder where this is gonna be and where that's gonna be and who's gonna be and when they're gonna be man there's gonna be birds circling overhead out here in the desert it's very common to look up and see buzzards circling and you know you can walk over there if you want to and when you get underneath them and you look down you're going to see what they're circling it's just they see it the heavenly ones see this and the ones who

Starting point is 00:26:37 live and fly and in heaven and they're looking on the earth and they they see what's going on friend here's a here's a beautiful thing about my advice to you and my admonishment to you keep the commandments of god don't disobey your conscience take time every day to hear the voice of god you know why that's so important none of these things are going to happen on the earth and us not know about it. Not many Christians are going to know about it. It is going to be a surprise. They are going to be overtaken. Jesus said so. But there's no reason for us to be overtaken. We're not in the darkness like the rest of the world. We're in the light. We're children of the light, Paul teaches us. None of these kind of things are going to overtake us. But friend, you're going to have to take heed. You're going

Starting point is 00:27:31 to have to pay attention. You're going to have to take this seriously. Time's gone. Write to me, Don, at thinkredink.com. I'd love to get your email. Until I see you again, Think Red Ink, my friend. Bye-bye. You've been listening to Don C. Harris of Think Red Ink Ministries. Email don at thinkredink.com. That's thinkredink.com. Join us again for the next episode in the Words of Jesus series. I love you.

Words of Jesus Podcast - Pay Attention Lest Ye Be Deceived

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