This video is a sermon by Pastor Charles Lawson discussing end-times prophecies, the nature of deception, and the importance of having a genuine relationship with God through Jesus Christ. He references biblical texts, particularly from 2 Thessalonians, to explain concepts like the man of sin, the mystery of iniquity, and the rapture. Pastor Lawson also touches on current events and cultural trends, warning against various forms of deception, including those related to artificial intelligence and distorted spiritual beliefs, emphasizing the need for discernment and a firm foundation in Christian faith.
Kirk, the widow of uh the man was shot to death out there in Utah, say that in her testimony, God is good. Amen. That meant something. Because she had skin in the game. Unless you've got skin in the game, it's just so many empty words. Amen. If you have your Bible, turn book of Second Thessalonians, chapter number two. 2 Thessalonians chapter number two and verse number one. 2 Thessalonians chapter number two and verse number one. Written by the Apostle Paul, Saul of Tarsus, a killer and God saved him, wrote his name in the Lamb's Book of Life. 2 Thessalonians 2 and verse number one. We beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him. Now, we locate this. This can only be this mystery that was revealed to the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15, when he talked about verse number 51. A mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we should be changed. That you be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. The day of Christ is not the day of the Lord. They're entirely two different things. Though for a period of time, they are concurrent. They are running together on this earth. Verse number three, let no man deceive you. Make note of that in your mind. By any means, for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. Make note, he can be revealed without necessarily making a public announcement of the thing. With spiritual discernment, you should be able to see there are many antichrists out there right now that qualify. So the Bible said in verse number four, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God. There is no temple of God at this moment. But what you're looking at here is this is going to happen. It doesn't say that it has to be there before you're called out of this world. That's important. That's important. Someone would say to you, "Well, the temple has to be built before the rapture can take place." No, sir. That's not what the book says. Verse four, so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. This is only for a very, very unlearned people when it comes to spiritual matters to let anything that walks on this earth look at you and say it is God. There's just one being. Verse number five, remember ye not that when I was yet with you, I told you these things. Now you know what withholdeth, that he might be revealed in his time. Now he's opening up something for us this morning and you've already seen it happen because of your political views in this country. If someone disagrees with your political views, they'll blow your brains out. That's the reality of today. Now you have a right to your opinion. You may not agree with me on everything, that's all right. The fact of the matter is I want you to think for yourself. The things that I believe, a lot of the stuff that I believe, I came to that belief after decades of study and prayer. Now the Bible says in verse number six, and now you know what withholdeth, that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity. This is set in contradistinction to the mystery of godliness. What is the mystery of godliness? God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself. In other words, God manifest in the flesh. Who is that preacher? That's the Lord Jesus Christ. When he walked on this earth, he was the very mystery of godliness walking among men. So the mystery of the mystery of iniquity is a counterpart to it. It's a fabrication. It's made by something satanic. The mystery of iniquity doth already work. Only he who now letteth will let till he be taken out of the way. Notice carefully, he's already at work. When that wicked man is revealed, the antichrist. Note carefully, put the two together. He's been working. He's working now. There's someone out there right now, and we don't know who it is. I don't necessarily have to know who it is, but the indication from scripture is you've seen him. That there's somebody alive right now that can fully qualify as the antichrist. That's what the text is saying. The mystery of iniquity doth already work. Only he who now letteth will let be taken out of the way. Notice the letting again. The letting, the keeping back, the holding back, the restraining power of what is about to happen. In verse number seven, the mystery of iniquity doth already work. Verse eight, and then shall that wicked be revealed. Notice carefully, is your W capitalized? The wicked one, the wicked one, the evil one. We're not talking about simply a sinner. I'm in a house full of sinners. We're talking about wickedness and evil. That's what we're talking about. And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders. Now, note carefully the context and the theme that's developing. And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved. Look at verse 11. And meditate on this. And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Verse 11. Where does it come from? What does the Bible say? For this cause, God shall send them strong delusion. Father, bless your holy word. Now give me the unction to preach it. Lord, speak this morning. I know you're here. I feel your presence. Lord, bless your holy word and use this messenger. In your name, I pray. Amen. You can be seated. I titled the message this morning. Make sure you put this title on it. September the 24th. All right. September the 24th. September the 23rd. I did last Thursday night or last Wednesday night. Right now, folks, has over 175,000 views. We've never seen anything in my ministry like that at all. And it continues to build. There is an enormous interest right now about the rapture and the second coming of Christ. I didn't mean anything about me. I just happen to be the one that had the message titled the 23rd of September. And you all should know that the 23rd of September has been set aside by many as a date of the rapture of the church of the living God. So we'll title the message this morning, the 24th of September. We look at the book of Revelation. It's a wonderful book, the apocalypsis. It unfolds the future for us. There are many themes that are developed throughout the Bible that have their consummation in the book of Revelation. But sometimes when you have that consummation, it opens up more things for us. And that's a, I don't have time. We'd be here all day for that. But it's quite an intriguing thought as to how a theme develops throughout scripture and then when it gets to the book of Revelation and it's not exhausted, it opens up another theme and another door is opened. And that's quite a thought. The Bible is a very, very wonderful book, folks. If you're bored with the Bible, it's because you're boring. Amen. Don't be mean with you. But the word of God is alive. It's quick. It's powerful. It is sharper than any two-edged sword. Themes that unfold in the book of Revelation. For example, Satan from the anointed cherub that covereth. He's the covering one that we read about in Ezekiel chapter number 28, to the great red dragon that winds up in a lake of fire and brimstone. From his counterfeit of Christ, and he is a counterfeit to Christ, to the immolation. What's that mean? That means that the antichrist will burst into flames and literally be burned to pieces in front of his votaries, those that love him, those that follow him, those that worship him. The time is coming when the antichrist is going to explode in flames and literally be consumed in front of all of his disciples. There's the kingdoms of this world. It develops into the book of Revelation. Satan offered the kingdoms of this world to the Lord Jesus Christ. Said, "It's been given to me to give. I can give it to whomsoever I will." The Lord Jesus Christ rejected it. Why? Because he will come and take it in his due time. But what we find in the book of Revelation, the great capital of the kingdoms of the world, Babylon, where it bought and sold. And there they watched Babylon burn. They watched God consume before their very eyes all that man has accomplished and all that is coming. And my dear friend Blake, make no mistake about it, we're headed for a catastrophe. We're headed for something. The kingdoms open the heavens. And when that heaven opens, the king comes. And when a king comes, he comes for a kingdom. And the Bible says in Revelation, the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ. Revelation chapter number 11. I'm not a kingdom builder. I'm a preacher of the word of God. If you're a kingdom builder, your kingdom's going to come. He doesn't need you to build a kingdom. Amen. Come off your high horse. The Lord Jesus Christ said, "Upon this rock I'll build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Amen. How do you do that, preacher? I preach the word, and he by the power of the Holy Ghost of God speaks to the hearts of men and places every single one of us into that wall where he wants us. Then covers us with wood and then puts gold on top of it. And there we become the habitation of God by the spirit. And he can walk into our midst like he did this morning. And the power of God can be manifest. Amen. So from the calling of the church, our Lord Jesus Christ is to from the building of he said, "Upon this rock I build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Folks, we're about to see the gates of hell open. And you're already seeing the precursors to it. The gates of hell are about to open. Uh, the Bible says two times in the book of Revelation, "Come up hither." Two times you hear that in Revelation, "Come up hither." Revelation chapter number four and verse number one, the apostle John hears, "Come up hither." Now John becomes a type of the church of God. The Lord Jesus is going to come back and he's going to say, "Come up hither." And we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together within the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. As it was with Enoch, they're going to say, "Where? Where is he? What happened to him?" And what happened to him is he was simply transfigured. He was changed, and up he was caught into the presence of God. That's what's going to happen to us. Amen. And he's coming soon to do that. The second time that "come up hither" is mentioned in the book of Revelation chapter number 11 and verse number 12. It says, "Come up hither." And the people involved in this are Moses and Elijah, the two witnesses of God. What have you got here? You've got a mid-tribulation rapture where he catches the saints of God up in the midst of the tribulation out to meet him. And this is why so much confusion is involved in the rapture. You've got people out there, they're good people. They love the Lord. And they're preaching that the church is going to go until the middle of the tribulation and then be raptured. Some of them say the church is going to the end of the tribulation and it's going to be raptured. You can say whatever you please, my dear friend. I'm with John looking down on this earth through those seven years of tribulation. Come up hither. That's the next thing in God's calendar. Come up hither. From the longsuffering of God and holding back the hordes of hell to the opening of the very pit in Revelation chapter number nine. Something is about to be unfolded on this earth that it has never seen before. Yet when you go back into history, go back into history, you can see in history how there are things that just defy explanation. For example, a kamaya or chimera. What is that? In the old ancient Greek culture, it was a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. Now, I want to tell you something to kind of get your mind going with me this morning. Animals in the Bible are not made in the image of God. No, they're not. Only man. The angels are not made in the image of God. Have you noticed that a cherubim is a composite creature? A cherubim is a, what's a composite creature, preacher? It is a creature that may have the head of a bull, the body of a lion, the feet of a bear, the tail of a scorpion. In other words, it's a mixture of different animals put together. Note carefully, men are never like that. When you find a chimera in the Old Testament or in the old ancient Hebrew, or I mean in ancient history, what you're getting into is a demonic misrepresentation of what a true man is. And that's what's coming up out of the pit in Revelation chapter number nine. You were made in the image of God. You're going to be in the image of God. You're going to stay in the image of God. And nothing's going to change that. And when the Lord Jesus Christ came to this world and died on the cross, he restored that image that Adam lost. You're made in the image of God. Don't ever let somebody in some university tell you that you're nothing more in the world than a glorified monkey or an ape. Amen. I'm sorry about your family. That's too bad. But that's not what I am. Amen. So it begins to open. The American Indian, the Navajo, for example, they had the skinwalker. What is a skinwalker? It is a hideous beast that is able to change from one form to another. Where did all this come from? The Navajo had absolutely no contact with Europeans. So, what are they doing talking about some kind of a creature that can change its form? For example, the European culture had its werewolves, shapeshifting monsters that changed from a man into a wolf. Remember what I just told you? Men don't change into animals. He may put Nebuchadnezzar in the field for seven years on his, walking around on his all fours, but he's still Nebuchadnezzar. And when he brings him out of there, he's still a man. You following me this morning? Something's coming out of this pit that defies explanation. And so what do you believe in werewolves, preacher? I believe in demons. And I believe in demonic ability. And I believe that it's beyond, I believe that what you're watching and what we have ever experienced in our culture and in this world is a limited ability of demons to do and be what they really are. Amen. You saw a demon crawl up on top of a building just a few weeks, a few days ago and take a 306 and blow a man's neck. Do you hunt grizzly bears with 306s? That's a heavy duty round. That's what an M1 is. In the military, a 306 is a strong round. And he shot him in the neck and it went in a little hole. No doubt probably tore the side of his neck out. He meant to kill him. He was a demon. Look into his life. Look into how he was living and who he was living with. Now you're beginning to understand the culture. You're beginning to understand what's opening up in America. You're beginning to understand the future. And I don't like the future that's coming. Do you? Oh no, no, no, no, no. The witches that are to be found all over the world, including the witch of Endor that we read about in the Bible, witches communicate with the dead. Necromancy, they call it. Necros, the Greek word for dead. My friend, they're not talking to the dead. They're talking to impersonating spirits or familiar spirits. Demons, once again, witches like to cast curses. Witches call forth evil spirits along with the many other things they do. Somebody said, "Preacher, I go to a, our church is more educated than you are. We don't believe in witches." Okay? We're the ones turned loose on you. Fact of the matter is, it probably brainwashed you where you are now. If you don't believe this Bible, that tells me that you've already been deeply deceived. Saul went to the witch of Endor. Yes. And she tried to conjure up an impersonating demon, a familiar spirit, and God brought Samuel back, the real Samuel. And it scared her to death because she knew she had lost control. And there was somebody much bigger than her in control of what was happening. That's a ghost. You ever seen a ghost? I've told you what happened with my aunt when she passed away in Chicago and my grandfather went to the door at 12 or 1:00 in the morning and said, "Why? My daughter's out there." He called her Grace. That's his daughter. She's in the middle of Bulmont Avenue. The next day he told us, "I saw her." And we got word right after that she had just died in Chicago. How'd he know that? How many of you have had things like that happen in your families? Sure you have. Sure you have. It happens. The spirit world is real, folks. It's real. Spiritual phenomena, battlefields. How many of you ever been to Gettysburg? You know what goes on at Gettysburg? That's one of the most haunted places on earth. All those thousands of men that died at Gettysburg in battle and they say the ghosts are everywhere in Gettysburg. What are they? My dear friend, we are dealing with spirit beings. I do not believe that the dead come back. I believe that there's a reason behind every single manifestation of a ghost, a spirit, or something of that nature. You got to watch it. You got to be careful because we're living in the day when the doors are opening up. Amen. One time I went to St. Mary's Hospital. I walked up to the bedside, took the hand of this dear saint that I've been praying with. She said, "Preacher, I'm about to go now. I won't be here much longer, but let me tell you what I just saw." And she took me by the hand and I bent over there and she said, "Now, listen to me." She said, "I saw that city. I saw it just as plainly as I'm talking to you right now. It's beautiful, preacher. Oh, how beautiful it is. And there was my husband that passed on. He's gone before me and he's waiting for me." And she said, "Preacher, I'm going. I'm going to see him. I'm gone." Next day she left this world. God gave her a preview of what was waiting for her. The spirit world is real. Amen. Now, here's a picture of Baphomet. Baphomet, 8.5, 8 and 1/2 ft tall. This monstrosity is Baphomet. It's the head of a goat. He's got the five-pointed star and he's got a, a scapular on his, on the center here and some other stuff we don't want to get into. But here's the thing about Baphomet. Two little children are standing here looking up at this monster. All right. What are they doing, preacher? They are introducing them to the worship of Satan. Here we are in Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, December the 14th, 2023, an after-school Satan club plans to begin offering activities to children at a Tennessee elementary school following Christmas break. The Satanic Temple plans to host the club at Chimney Rock Elementary School in Cordova. News outlets reported it will begin meeting on January the 10th in the school's library and run through the spring semester, according to an announcement Tuesday posted on social media. This is from the Associated Press CBS. Now, I'll leave this up here for you if you want to read it. Here it is when I get done this morning. Composite creatures. Baphomet is a composite creature. It's something that is put together. It is something that is not normal. Something that is, that is hideous in its appearance. In the book of Revelation chapter number 13 and verse number two, the Bible said, "The beast that I saw was like a leopard. His feet were the feet of a bear. His mouth the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave him his power, seat, and great authority." What is this? This is the antichrist rising up out of the Mediterranean Sea in Revelation 13. Revelation chapter number nine. When the pit is opened, the pit of hell, the very pit of hell itself, locusts come up. They have hair as women, face of the face of a man. And they have the teeth of lions and tails of scorpions. A composite creature. Ezekiel chapter number one, verse number five. We are looking at these cherubim that show up. They had the likeness of a man. They had four wings. They had straight feet. They had hands of a man under their wings. They had the face of a man, the face of a lion, the face of an ox, and the face of an eagle. It makes you think now, why did God make them to begin with? Because they show up again in Revelation chapter number four and five. These four beasts, these four living beings. Maybe God's got more he's about to do than he's told us about. One of these cherubim fell, folks. Satan is not a fallen angel. He's not an angel. He's never was an angel. He's a cherubim. And being a cherubim, that puts him in a totally different classification than what we're accustomed to. Re Daniel chapter number seven, the Bible said, "Four great beasts upon the earth came up from the sea, diverse one from another." The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings. The second like a bear. Then there was one like a leopard, and then the fourth one was a beast of dreadful and terrible countenance. These represented Gentile kingdoms winding up with Rome, who was in power when Christ showed up 2,000 years ago. Isn't that something? Isn't it something how God will take a composite being like that, a composite animal, something put together to represent Gentile kingdoms? You won't find that representing the kingdom of Christ. No, you won't find that. It doesn't, it doesn't fit. So, let's ask you a question. Will the true Christ please step forward? Did you know that people that are looking for the rapture the 23rd day of September are telling you that if you do not believe in the rapture coming in September the 23rd, that you are going to hell? They're not all saying that. I do not want to misrepresent anyone, but many of them are. They're saying you are not a Christian if you don't follow our prophet, the one who has prophesied the 23rd of September. Satan is an opportunist. Please don't misunderstand me. I am not saying they all believe that. There's no doubt in my mind that probably a lot of good Christian people have allowed themselves possibly be pulled deeper into this than they should have been. And that's what this message is about this morning. As a pastor, the scripture tells me that I watch for your souls. That I must give an account. I'm a bishop in the church of God. What does that mean? That means that anywhere on this earth I go, I am a preacher of the word of God and I can minister to anybody, anywhere, at any time. That's what that means. That's exactly what it means. He's called me to watch for your souls. I pray that if you listen carefully now to the rest of this message this morning, remember they accused our Lord Jesus Christ of being an impostor 2,000 years ago. Remember that. Well, let me tell you how you can know this morning that you know the one true and living God. You start with God himself. There's just one. Amen. Amen. If this religious group, people of faith, they made a big deal about that in America, people of faith, people of faith, people of faith. Well, that, my dear friend, that's that's about as ambiguous as anything you can get into, right? What do you mean people of faith? You can have faith in a lot of things. And I'm not saying that there aren't good people as part of it, but I'm telling you that I believed in my Lord Jesus Christ long before anybody ever used the term people of faith. There's one God, and he's not Buddha. He's not Confucius. He's not Muhammad. He's not any of the rest of them. He's nothing. He has nothing to do with Baphomet. He has nothing to do with any of them or the millions of the Hindu gods. There is one God, Lord God Jehovah, this invisible, absolute, eternal being that is seated in the heavens and can only be approached through his son. There's one God. The Bible said there is one God and then one mediator between God and men. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the only name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved. There's only one name that can save you. If your preacher gets up and tells you, "As long as you're sincere in your belief, that we're all headed up to the same place, and we may get there by different routes, but we're all going to the same place," is because he knows nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's screaming it to high heaven. Folks, I would never tell you that. I would tell you that there's one name under heaven whereby we must be saved, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. And why am I doing this, preacher? I'm doing this because you're living in 2025. And I have never seen a more confused, disoriented, misled culture in my life than the one you are part of. The Lord Jesus Christ, folks, if he's not the absolute only way, that is not your brother or your sister. They may quote you scripture. They may go to a so-called Christian church, but if they don't believe the Lord Jesus is the son of God, the only one, my friend, they're counterfeit. There's one Holy Spirit. How do I know I have the Holy Spirit? I've got a spirit. I've met a bunch of people with spirits. I've met them in church. They say that Satan has infiltrated churches, that he's planted people into the churches. I don't doubt that. That he's put into your midst people who talk the talk, they quote scripture, they come across as Christians, they appear to be your brother or sister. But the acid test is this. If all they can talk about is the law, and all they can talk about is themselves, and all they can talk about is their church, and all they can talk about is their preacher, and all they can talk about is their history, and all they can talk about is this and that, they do not have the Holy Spirit. How do you know? Because the Holy Spirit will not speak of himself. He will speak of Christ. The Holy Spirit will tell you that Lord Jesus Christ is the way, the only way there is. And if that's burning in your soul, if the Lord Jesus Christ is your love, the love of your life, he is your savior, you're not trusting anything. I don't care what it is, but the son of God. That's a good indication that you know what I'm talking about. And then you become a new creature. You live in a culture where you can be saved, quote unquote, and continue to live the same way you always have. Let me tell you something, young people. And let me tell you something, older people. If you truly get saved by the grace of God, the Holy Ghost will not let you shack up. That's right. He won't put up with it. If you're truly born of the spirit of God, you'll have no fellowship with him. You may be saved, you may have gotten yourself messed up in some relationship somewhere. That can happen. Sure, it can. But he won't tolerate it. He won't bless it. He won't put up with it. Amen. Amen. So, if that man that you're with right now, you're saved. And that man you're with right now, you figure, well, if I'll, if I'll stay with him, I can get him saved. No, that's not going to work that way. What you've got to do is to look at him in the eye and say, "God will not let me stay like this." Or the man to the woman, whatever the case is. I cannot continue in a relationship like this. I have got to separate myself from this. And separate yourself from it. Because folks, sexual sins have to do with your identity. That's right, brother. When the man killed that young man out there in Utah, when he killed Charlie Kirk, he had an identity problem. Yes, he did. And where does identity have to do with? It has to do with the image of God. Yeah. And the great and the most deceptive thing that Satan can possibly do in this generation or any generation is to destroy the image of God in man. That's it, folks. That's it. So, why is that important? Because if he has destroyed the image of God in man, you've got nothing left but a body, a shell. That's all you got left. What makes us so different is that we have the capacity to have a relationship with God that no angel, no cherubim, no seraphim, no animal, nothing can have but a man. And of course, mankind, female, in the uh, relationship with the image of God. The deceptive nature of artificial intelligence, we're going to have to deal with it. We're going to have to deal with it. And we are dealing with it. More is coming out all the time. And I think more has happened and they're not letting it out. I think those in the know right now, I think some of them are maybe panicking and they're not sure exactly what to do, what position to take. You know, what am I going to do about this? Because we got a problem now. We've got a real problem. If someone shows you a photograph of your wife with another man, don't believe it. If they show you a video of your husband where he shouldn't be, don't believe it. You say, "Well, what if it's genuine?" It may be genuine, but don't accept it right off the bat because artificial intelligence is able to do what you never thought it could ever do. We are at that point. Somebody calls you and it sounds just like your husband or your wife or one of your children or your grandchildren, and they're asking for help, and you're convinced completely that that's who it is, and it may not be. Artificial intelligence has the ability to deceive the very elect. It says we are in an information overload. News and social media. Did you know that in Australia, they have outlawed social media for anyone 16 years old and under? Period. It's against the law. Stay off of it. Our kids, our young people are committing suicide and they're being, they're being encouraged to kill themselves by social media. I've got a big advantage being 79 years old almost. Why? Because whatever they say about me on social media, let me spell it for you. Spell that however you want to. What do you mean? It doesn't mean squat to me. I don't get upset one way or another. Oh, I've been around way too long for, how many of you people around here my age haven't you had? You know what I'm talking about. Forget it. Oh, you mean preacher Lawson doesn't get up? No, forget it. God's been good to me. Yes, he has. Now, where would you be September the 24th? All right. Where would you be? Would you be disillusioned, confused, angry? Would you quit church? Would you turn your back on the Lord? Would you say that God failed you? Well, he was supposed to come back the 23rd. No, he wasn't. Now, he may come the 23rd, but he may come the 22nd. He may come today. He may come tomorrow. I've been looking for his appearing before the guy that said this was ever born. I've been looking for the coming of the Lord Jesus for decades. So, you know, the 23rd's the 23rd. So, how will you be on the 24th, preacher? Praise God. Hallelujah. Where's my coffee? Well, on the back porch. Stars are still up there. Time to pray. I'm still looking for the coming of the Lord. That's how upset I'll be. But I hope he does come. Please, if you wake up the 24th of September and you're all upset and you don't, you know, just can't handle it, you have been deceived. You have bought in. You've bought into it, hook, line, and sinker. Don't let it happen. Don't let it happen to you. That's why I titled this, September the 24th. It's because there will be those who are telling me and other people that we're going to hell if we don't, if we don't log on to the, to this, that, you know, that we're not Christians. The 24th of September. What are you going to do if he doesn't come? Like I say a thousand times, say it again. I don't know when he's coming. He may come the 23rd of September, but he may not come the 23rd of September. I want to finish this message this morning with giving you three statements of the New Testament that are some of the most wonderful scriptures in all the Bible. Mark chapter number one, verse number 24. Say, "Let us alone. What have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God." Now you know who said that. You know where that came from. Luke 4:34. "Let us alone. What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou son of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God." And then finally, in Matthew chapter number 8 and verse number 29. "And behold, they cried out saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou son of God? Art thou come hither to torment us before the time?" Folks, I'd stand right before you this morning and I'd say, "Amen. Amen. Amen" to all three of these scriptures. Those demons got it right. He is the Holy One of God. And he is the son of God. Yes, he is. Yes, he is. You know why they said that? Because they live in that spirit world and they know that one. They know him. Father, bless your word. I hope somewhere in all this that I've come across somehow or another to help someone to not put all their faith and trust in what someone says and all the hype and everybody gets all worked up and fired up over this 23rd of September. I hope you come. I do with all my heart. I hope you come the 23rd of September. That'd be wonderful. But you may not. So what are they going to tell people the 2
4th of September? They're going to reset the date. Is their pride going to force them to, you know, reassess everything, look at it in a different way, or will they admit that they've been wrong? Well, only time will tell. We'll see. If the 24th of September shows up and nothing has happened, we'll see. Father, I pray for those in the house this morning, somehow or another, they begin to understand the world they live in has changed and it's accelerating. And the change is happening now so quickly. And this change is going to bring on something new. And I don't know what it's going to be, but I know artificial intelligence is going to be right in the midst of it. I pray, Father, you'd use the words this morning to awaken people. Wake them up. Wake them up. Wake them up. That gunshot down there in Utah killed that young man, that ought to wake a lot of people up. That ought to wake them up. In Jesus name I pray. Heads bowed, nobody looking. Say, "Preacher Lawson, I don't know if I'm ready to go." Well, you can be. You can be. The Lord Jesus Christ is our savior, folks. He died for you. He died for me. He paid for every dirty, rotten, low-down, stinking sin you ever committed. He paid for it at the cross. God made him to be sin for us who knew no sin. If you'd be willing to accept him as your savior, as your sacrifice for your sins, as your representative to God, as the one who brings you into the presence of the Lord. In other words, your savior. He saves you. You're trusting him. If you'd be willing to do that, why don't you get up and walk down to the front here this morning and somebody will be glad to pray with you. We're running out of time, folks. We are. We are. We're getting too close. Now, it may be a year from now, two years, who knows? I don't know. But it may be a week. It may be tomorrow. It may be today. I don't know. Are you ready? Are you ready? Would you come down here and let's get down the altar and let's talk to the Lord. Ask him to save you. Say, "Lord Jesus, I believe that, preacher. I believe the stuff's coming. I believe hell's going to be opened up on this earth. And I believe of the Lord Jesus when he said, 'Except those days should be shortened, no flesh should be left alive.'" My goodness, what a warning. Anybody raise your hand and say, "I want you to pray for me." Preacher Lawson, pray for me. I want to be sure. I want to know that I know that I know that I'm going to be with the Lord when he comes. Anybody? All right. God bless you. Got hands over there? Anybody else raise your hand this morning? We're not going to God bless you back there. Got hands. Got hands going up. Father, I pray for these dear folk now. They raised their hand. I pray for them. I pray as an intercessor, Lord. But I cannot come between them and you. But I can pray for them. I pray the Holy Ghost now do his work in their heart. Lord, he didn't, he'd turn the light on. He'd turn the light on. Bring them to Christ. In Jesus sweet name I pray. Amen. All right, brother.
