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Dwayne Lemon

An Essential Experience

And I have learned that God is an investor.

I didn't say investigator, even though he does that too.

Anyone who knows anything about investments, you do not invest in anything without expecting a return on investment.

And so it is that as God has been faithful to us, what do you think he wants in return?

And we're living in a time where our faith is being tried more and still more.

And the furnace will get hotter before we will finally cool down and be at a nice, comfortable place.

There is a very deep, a very real experience that God wants us to have.

We are told and we are called to strive to be part of that group that will ultimately be translated and to see Jesus burst through those clouds.

And I would imagine that many of us are striving for that.

And the truth of the matter is, is that if we are striving for such a precious experience, then we have to understand what is necessary in your experience and in mine for that to be accomplished.

We're going to talk a little bit about that today, because God truly wants to prepare a people to meet him in peace.

Records are consistently being broken in the financial world, in the atmospheric calamities that we consistently see.

We've seen so many fires this year, especially conflagrations.

We've seen a lot of hurricanes and storms.

It has impacted our economy, where once again, We're spending money that we don't really have.

And we're using a lot of play money right now.

And while we see things happening in the atmospheric world, things happening in various countries, Crime is at, of course, an incredible high, especially when you look at our world.

Last year, you know, 2016, that was the largest massacre that took place in America by 1 single gunman.

That's when that shootout took place at Pulse in Florida, where those of the LGBT community came together and someone possessed by a devil came in and decided that they would play God and start to take down people's lives and choose whose probation should close.

But then here it is in Nevada this year, that record is now broken.

Right here in 2017, the largest massacre to ever take place by a single shooter in America.

We have a president that requires our prayers.

And our world, our country is going in a direction that if something drastic does not change, we will destroy ourselves.

But when we take our eyes off of the world, we begin to look at the church.

We see compromise on the left hand and on the right.

Ministers have decided to close the Bibles and to present intellectual philosophy to the masses, to give more of a message of what I think, rather than thus sayeth the Lord.

You know, I don't have any problem with a rainbow, a rainbow's in the Bible.

And I don't have a problem if somebody says, well, let's go ahead and put a rainbow in front of our church to tell people about the covenant that God has made.

But That's not why we're seeing a lot of rainbows in front of churches today.

We are seeing that people will go as far as to manipulate the Word of God to accommodate a class of people that have made a decision that our days of being persecuted are over and the days of us persecuting has arrived.

And so it is that today we see ministers, churches that are closing their Bibles with the clearest testimonies.

You know, 1 thing I always thought about is I said, you know, there's all this scientific talk, and I know people and I appreciate many individuals from the LGBT community.

Some of the sweetest people I've met are from this very community.

And I have no doubt that God has love for every single 1 of them.

There's no question in my mind about that.

But I've learned we've got to love people enough to tell them the truth of what God's word says.

And I was having a discussion with an individual, and we were talking about it and going through all the scientific back and forwards.

And I said, listen, to me this is very clear.

Kirk Cameron, are you familiar with that name, Kirk Cameron?

He was in London and he was asked a question about what do you feel about the LGBT lifestyle and what would you say if your son said he was gay, et cetera.

And Kirk Cameron would say, well, I would let him know that it's not natural.

But, you know, God has a way to work with us, et cetera.

And of course, they began to persecute him pretty hard.

And I thought to myself, why would anyone from the LGBT community be upset when somebody says this lifestyle is not natural?

If you think about it scientifically, you know, there's a lot of science right now on X chromosomes and Y chromosomes and all these other things, But I thought to myself, here's the simplicity of the science.

If God made people gay, then that means that gay people should be able to fulfill the words of Genesis chapter 1, when God says, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

And the reality is, is that if I choose to live a homosexual lifestyle, I cannot fulfill that word.

I need a heterosexual to enable me to continue my generations of whatever lifestyle I have.

They have to come together to produce the child.

And if that cannot be done by female to female or male to male, then we have every biblical right to say this is not a natural way that God has made humanity.

It's not to try to insult, but the word of God cannot be changed.

But even not just in the political realm, but in the spiritual realm.

We are finding that people are manipulating the word of God.

Oh, Jonathan loved David more than a woman.

So therefore, that means God says it's all right.

Now we have gay pastors, gay elders, not just merely in all the other churches, but we see some of these things are creeping in God's very beloved remnant in these very last moments in Earth's history.

We are fussing and fighting and creating divisions amongst ourselves over things like whether a woman should be ordained or not.

We got present truth against precious truth.

Then we got high-class present truth against low-class present truth.

And it seems like almost in every direction from the left to the right, from the front to the back, there is confusion of faces.

That's why the Bible says, looking unto Jesus.

If we could just take our eyes off of man, if we could just recognize that as long as we put our trust in men, we are under a curse.

Thus saith the Lord, cursed be the man that puts his trust in man.

Have you learned to take your eyes off of men yet?

Have you learned that you must fix your eyes on Jesus like never before?

Because there will be more confusion on the left.

There will be more confusion on the left.

There will be more confusion on the right.

There will be more confusion in the front, and there will be more confusion in the back, not just in the world, but in the church.

And we know this prophetically because you cannot read Ezekiel, the eighth chapter, and not see that.

Ezekiel makes it very clear, more and still more abominations are going to take place before this thing wraps up.

And this is why, like never before, we must cultivate our minds to look up unto the hills from whence comes our help, knowing that our help comes from the Lord.

People that I knew personally have died, not just merely members of the church, but even gospel workers.

And I admit, I did not agree with everything that these gospel workers taught and said.

But I knew how to respect the areas where they were actually doing something that was good for the betterment of their fellow men and their effort to seek to honor and glorify God.

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