[SPEAKER_00]: Let us all please stand.
[SPEAKER_00]: The honor to read God.
[SPEAKER_00]: You always sit down.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is an extremely long verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: X is chapter 20.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse 3.
[SPEAKER_00]: X is chapter 20.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse 3 says, You shall have no other gods before me.
[SPEAKER_00]: God, please bless and honor the ring of his word.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may be seated.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that was a long honor.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm very sorry about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: In 1982, a new Mattel toy line.
[SPEAKER_00]: with many comics came out that made all American boys feel that they have the power.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was called the Masters of the Universe.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was so, so very excited.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was in 1983 that a cartoon came out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I also happened to, I loved it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even more, it became very, very popular because of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I received that Christmas, a Christmas present.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe the very best Christmas probably was of it, a Christmas present, which I still have.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a play set with several action figures.
[SPEAKER_00]: They came from a garage sale, but I didn't care.
[SPEAKER_00]: I loved it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And still have that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it was wonderful, and once upon a time, people believed this long time ago, people believed that masters of the universe that there were many masters of the universe's, believe or not, one universe, many, many masters.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because believe it or not, there are many, many gods and people's beliefs.
[SPEAKER_00]: They lived in a place where they had a belief system that was called
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I want to explain to you that when I say God's, we're talking about lower case G. That doesn't mean more than one mighty God, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Lower case G is polytheistic, they all believe that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we are a monotheistic, monotheistic means one God.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we are a one God system.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there is another that we'll get in that little bit later.
[SPEAKER_00]: But one God, and I want you to understand that God is the one and only master of the universe.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to understand that, which you already know.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is the title today's sermon, Master of the Universe, because he is.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is the one and only.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I've been working
[SPEAKER_00]: with this sermon for about two, three, four, five weeks, read books and everything else and studying and wait more than I ever wanted to be honest.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ender on pictures.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I had to give up on something which if is saying, I'm going to finish drawing certain types of false gods, which I'm going to call him from this point on false.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our fake gods, just so you know that I'm not believing that what you already know.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm going to ask my brother here to hand these out to you, start with the side.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can start on the other side if you want, but I wouldn't start with the side.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says Bales, what's going to get into what that means here in some moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bales, you've heard a Bale, a certain guy that he can help you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bale was a God of false.
[SPEAKER_00]: God will get in that in minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then there's Bales, we'll get into that too.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's start here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me just tell you a fact.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is one God, Father God, the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know that we know that there's God, the Father, the Son, we know in His Jesus, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the Holy Spirit, that's one God.
[SPEAKER_00]: three separate parts of that one God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like you, you have a mind, a body, a soul, you're one person with those three different parts.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's God.
[SPEAKER_00]: God, the father, the son, the Holy Spirit, still one God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he has several names in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hold up, I'm going to go through a couple right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's addon i addon i comes from two different words.
[SPEAKER_00]: First of all addon i mean means my lord my master that's what it means.
[SPEAKER_00]: My lord my master addon is the word that means my lord and i which by the way spell a i not that kind of a i okay, but i means master or majesty so that's what it means but then the other name is yaw way
[SPEAKER_00]: Yahweh, we find, which we're gonna read here in just a moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yahweh means I am, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what Yahweh means, Yahweh means I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're gonna get into that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's now turn to where we first see the word Yahweh, the name, Yahweh spoken.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's now turn to Exodus, if you can, Exodus, chapter three, Exodus, chapter three, verses 12 through 14.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now we could go through a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, I was at the other respawn it was so hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: I highlighted everything, went through every little thing you could think of to, oh boy, and I read it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, a big book and a lot of others studying all these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: It, my brain is going crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: But...
[SPEAKER_00]: We're only gonna do as much as we can because we don't have a whole lot of time, but let's go through what we can.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's go through X's chapter three, 12 through 14.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it says this.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says, and he said, certainly, I will be with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this will be assigned to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, once you understand it, that Moses saw a burning bush, and that burning bush was pre incarnate Christ, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: free incarnate Christ, and it says so without Sampring Carter Christ, but it says so because it says the, this was in verse two, it says, the angel of the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's free incarnate Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, it goes out of San verse 12.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he says, certainly I will be with you, and this will be assigned to you that I have sent you.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, all of you shall serve God on this mountain, what mountain is that, Mountside Night?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's where the team commander's gonna come and we're gonna talk about that a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is what it says on verse 13,
[SPEAKER_00]: Moses said to God, I am going to the children of Israel, and I am going to the children of Israel, and we'll say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you when they say to me, what is his name?
[SPEAKER_00]: What shall I say to them?
[SPEAKER_00]: And God said to Moses, I am who I am, and he said, you will say this to the children of Israel.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am has sent me to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's where we'll stop with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, don't worry, you know, we'll talk about here a little bit that that gets repeated later on with other people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there's also a lot of fake gods and we hear about them in the Bible, we don't have time to go through them all, but there are a lot of fake gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: throughout the Bible times, throughout the lands.
[SPEAKER_00]: And throughout the promise land, there are a lot of fake gods, a whole lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see that there's a whole lot of fake gods in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: So how do we know that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's go back to the Exodus chapter 20 for just a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in our excuse, now let's go to Exodus chapter 20, but we talked about it earlier.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, Exodus chapter 21, we read verse 3, but now we're gonna read verse 1, 3, 6.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exist chapter 20 verse 1 through six is now God spoke all these were saying now let me stop for a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're at Mount Sinai now just like God had told we see that God spoke to Moses and told him bringing to Mount Sinai now they're there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is important.
[SPEAKER_00]: God spoke to all the children.
[SPEAKER_00]: He did eventually get Moses up to the top of the mountain by himself because the people were scared to death when they saw the Lord God coming down.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one saw him in person, okay, but they saw a great big cloud coming down, halfway down the mountain.
[SPEAKER_00]: And God spoke to all of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why is this important?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because to this day, if people say, oh, what heard it, it was just Moses speaking this.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you read this entire thing and actually chapter 19 speaks about it,
[SPEAKER_00]: got spoke to all of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They all heard it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was scared of the death.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, Moses told them don't you do it that mountain now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it sounds don't you cook that mountain.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you go up that mountain, it's going to kill you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so they didn't go up there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what did happen was what happened was when they heard it, they was so scared of death.
[SPEAKER_00]: As you look up their Moses, we can't handle the scaring us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they did too.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's want to sense here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse 20, now God spoke all these words saying, I and the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, you shall have no other God's before me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse 2, you shall not make for yourself any grave and idle or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above.
[SPEAKER_00]: or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water below the earth, you should not bow down to them or serve them for I, the Lord, your God, and my jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers of the, excuse me, of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them who hate me.
[SPEAKER_00]: and showing loving kindness to thousands of them who love me and keep my commandments.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now this simply means that these people who had been supposed to follow God didn't follow God and God wants them to follow Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because there was a promise land and in this land of the promise land, which is now known as Canaan,
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the problem saying that God wanted them to have.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, it was promised unto Joseph, that our excuse me, Jacob, and also his son Isaac, and also his son Jacob.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now, now, all those people have had false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, now it's time to start talking about some false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is a lot to talk about.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to talk about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So first of all,
[SPEAKER_00]: We have the first part of the false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have the false gods and the fake gods and goddesses in the Promised Land.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you've heard of the land Cainan, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: In the land Cainan,
[SPEAKER_00]: uh, and by the way, in the Lankanin, you probably heard of Canaanites.
[SPEAKER_00]: You ever heard of Canaanites?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm assuming you have.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the Canaanites are in Canaanites, and you have the Canaanites.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not only the Canaanites, you have a tribe called the Hit Tites, and the Amorites, and the Parasites, and the Hivites, and the Jibisites, a whole lot ofites, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, all these people worship false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: But guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: There are others around that land and they also worship false guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: People like Eram, his people of Syria, you have some of the trans-Jordian kingdoms.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have Moab, you know, the Moabites, the Midianites, the Aminites, the Eidemites, Eidem came from the people of Issaul.
[SPEAKER_00]: You also have the Amalachites.
[SPEAKER_00]: All these people worshiped false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's get into some of these false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do we have to?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we have to.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so first of all, before I do that, I'm gonna go back to Egypt for just a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about the Egyptian false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you look on your page, you'll see some of these Egyptian false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Egyptian false gods, they were nine main false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, here's the part that's gonna break your heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: about a little more than 1,500 false gods and goddesses of Egypt, 1,500.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's an awful lot, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_00]: But there are about nine main gods, they're called the Great Aneed, the Great Aneed, and the first one, the main one, there's two of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They would sometimes interchange them, there was a tomb, and a tomb was represented the rising and setting sun.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then there was raw, you've heard a raw, raw, meant the daytime sun.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so eventually, we kind of combined them together and they had a tumor all out tumor all.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's what they call them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So therefore, that's why I gave you a tumor all in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you had shoe, shoe was supposed to be his son, God of air.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is stupid, all of it is really, but what they said was that out tumor all breathed and abroad out, uh, shoe.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then Teflonet, he spit up, uh, uh, Teflonet.
[SPEAKER_00]: that's why she's the goddess of moisture.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then there's all the rest of him came from his tear drops supposedly.
[SPEAKER_00]: So then you give a gab, which is the god of the earth, met.
[SPEAKER_00]: appropriate name.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not goddess of the sky, she's supposed to be bending over and she's all the stars in all that junk.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see, Osiris was the god of afterlife, ISIS, goddess of magic, set, also known as Seth, no offense, my brother.
[SPEAKER_00]: Set, god of chaos, neffthius, goddess of the night, and sometimes, Horace, which is the not Horace, Horace,
[SPEAKER_00]: which is a God of protection and other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Moses had to deal with all these false gods all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had to deal with all this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks keep in mind, Moses was raised in his Egyptian.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was raised in this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when Moses had to go and free his people from that land, he had to free them from all these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now this may not sound like much to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I sound like much at all, but I want you to remember something when he had a free it from free the people from there and God showed his signs.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to remember now, they were sign shown by the false gods too.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what am I telling you that these false gods are real?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm telling you that the demons put on masks so to speak, they put on disguises as these gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: the devil, which is, you know, the demons are devils too.
[SPEAKER_00]: The devil, the demons, they appear as his gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: They show power, but God's power is more because there's one God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Only one capital G, only one God, one God alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: But pastor, why in the world are you talking about little gods?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, folks, I'm telling you because if there wasn't any power if there was no danger there, God would have told you have no other gods before me.
[SPEAKER_00]: He wouldn't have said not to make idols.
[SPEAKER_00]: These people worship the others.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, even Rachel herself, even Jacob's wife cousin, Rachel herself had a false god hit underneath her.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then Linus said she was going through her period.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why she couldn't stand up.
[SPEAKER_00]: It really she was hiding a false god over daddy's.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what was going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of false god situations that went through.
[SPEAKER_00]: We saw Israel fall again and again and again to false gods, which we'll get to.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we see that happening.
[SPEAKER_00]: We also see in Exodus 20, 136, well, we just read that.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see that God told them not to, so now let's go to Cainan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cainan, it had a lot of false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cainan was the land, the promised land, but now as they try to get through that land, they had all these people in their worshiping false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: So who were their false gods?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you've heard this false god.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've heard of him, bail.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bale, was he a guy, yes, and no.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bale, the name itself means Lord, owner, master.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so what about Baleum?
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that a false God?
[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of, Baleum is plural for Baleum, which means Lord's owners, masters.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when he says, Baleum, you'll see it on there.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says, Baleum, it says, masters, it means Bales, is another word for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then you'll see sometimes they'll put Bale's name in front of an heaven name, for instance, if you had a false God, hey, Dad, you have Bale Hadad, or you have Bale Herman, or Bale Tamar, or Bale Peore, or Bale Siffon, and all that stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, you're going to see that later on, there would be people who have Bale Zeus and Bale, all this other stuff because they are combining it, calling it Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is how they would do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was another God who was a goddess.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, her name was Ash Toreth.
[SPEAKER_00]: She was a goddess, a goddess of fertility, sexuality, war,
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, a lot of the stuff that they went through, we're going through today here in this country because of these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about that later.
[SPEAKER_00]: She was known as BIOS consort.
[SPEAKER_00]: She also dealt with bi-setsuality and other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: We also had, she had other names and other lands.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Phoenicia, she was known as Estarty.
[SPEAKER_00]: and mess of a Tammy and she's known as Ishtar.
[SPEAKER_00]: We heard a lot about Ishtar.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Arabia, she's known as Ashtar.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Greek, in the Greek, she's known as Aphrodite.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Romans, and the Roman area, she's known as Venus.
[SPEAKER_00]: You remember your old song, Venus, if you will.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're talking about the Ashtorith, but it just looked a little different, and sounded a little different, but it was there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then,
[SPEAKER_00]: we go to other areas and we hear of malloc or malloc depending on who is talking about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The immunized definitions came to nice and even other areas talked about them and this part is going to make you sick.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the kind of guy that people want to make sacrifices to living sacrifices.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be different humans and different sorts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Many of times women
[SPEAKER_00]: Kill their babies.
[SPEAKER_00]: People are still doing this day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Call the abortion.
[SPEAKER_00]: They may not realize who to sacrifice them to.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's demon, it's demonic.
[SPEAKER_00]: To this very day, people are worshiping false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't know it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't realize they're still there.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm not saying that they're getting front of these things, but they're still killing babies.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're sacrificing for themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't know it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the same stuff, killing babies, innocent children.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's take a look.
[SPEAKER_00]: I second Samuel 7, 22.
[SPEAKER_00]: Second Samuel 7, 22.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen what David said.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, you are great Lord God.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is none like you.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is no God except you.
[SPEAKER_00]: According to everything that we have heard with our ears.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then in first Kings, this is a chapter eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Solomon makes this great speech about everyone needs to stay true to God and worship Noah the God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then that's heartbreaking.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Solomon started marrying all these women to build up Israel, to build up Jerusalem.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what happens?
[SPEAKER_00]: He marries all these women from these other lands.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have other gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: and it destroyed Israel.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is why God separated Israel and had them go into captivity by Babylon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the head false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: So even though this was Solomon said, listen what it says,
[SPEAKER_00]: in first kings, eight, sixty, I've mentioned it while it says, so this is what Solomon said.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that all people on the earth may know that God, that, excuse me, that the Lord is God, and that there is no one else.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what he said.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yet we see that Solomon gave in and bail became the substitute God, bail became the substitute God.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the horrible, and so God allowed them to have their way, because they wanted to worship false gods, Christians.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray and hope that we're not that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray and hope this fall that we don't give into our false gods of entertainment, which we oftentimes do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, my very well, be sports, whatever kind you want, no matter people do it, football, basketball, Olympians and the Olympics.
[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, we're gonna get in that minute, Olympians.
[SPEAKER_00]: People do it all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: They give in to sex and other things as a God, relationships as a God.
[SPEAKER_00]: people that they love families as gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I don't worship them well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes people won't put God first because it might hurt my family's feelings.
[SPEAKER_00]: They think I love God more than them.
[SPEAKER_00]: You should, you don't have to answer it to your brothers, to your sisters.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm not coming out living simply, and then your brother says, you're asking about, I'm not talking about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about, in the end, if serving God makes your family not want to talk to you anymore, this might be a price.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray and hope it's not.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that is not what it's about.
[SPEAKER_00]: When it is about a serving God because He is God, not because other people won't agree or understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: that might have a price to do with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are many false guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, in Babylon, there's so many, so many.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to go through them all.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Mesopotamia, Syria, Persia, the people that took them, that took the Israelites which God allowed to have them for over 70 years, and then they went back home.
[SPEAKER_00]: And one of them was Murduk.
[SPEAKER_00]: Murduk, stupid name in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Murduk.
[SPEAKER_00]: that he's in that picture.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, that is exactly, that is exactly who the people are bound down to when Shadra at me check at a bed and go with throwing it to the fire furnace.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even though he may have had the face at Nebuchadnezzar, we don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we do know that Murdoch was the one that they're bound down to.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a lot of things going on and guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: One was named Bell, Bell, B-E-L, which means B-L.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of them was Naboo, which was using the Star Wars movie actually.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of them was Ishtar, which means a store, a store, a storeeth.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's many of them that get used again and again and again and again.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, it's amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's all against the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's Satan's way, but will God still love me?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it Satan's way of trying to get your eye off God.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it is to be a distraction, to be a distraction and keep your eye off the road and where you need to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've been driving down the highway and suddenly there's a sign that's like, look at me, look at me, don't look where you're supposed to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a wreck, why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you weren't looking where you're going, boom, there's supposed to pay attention to the Lord who's trying to direct you, not to all the sign sign signs and that is what the devil wants to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keep you looking at something else, that's what it is, that's exactly what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, there's a lot of false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, in fact, there are many other false gods too, many, many others.
[SPEAKER_00]: Devils, they sometimes call it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're just Devils in disguise.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yes, they are.
[SPEAKER_00]: Many of them are the same fake gods, the same and different names, different languages and lands.
[SPEAKER_00]: A fact, Greece, and the 400 years between the Old and the Testament, Greece was the land.
[SPEAKER_00]: Greece was the land.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they had all sorts of big false fake gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then all of a sudden, Rome took over.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we see that by a time of New Testament comes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Just like Babylon, Rome decided they were going to take on these guys that are the people had.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what's very interesting though?
[SPEAKER_00]: And all the studies I found out, and I didn't know this.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot, not only did the Romans take on the names of the Greek gods, but,
[SPEAKER_00]: The law of the Roman names, and a lot of the Greece names, when you look into it, or the same names as the Egyptian God's just in different languages.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what that means?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where the people want to admit it or not,
[SPEAKER_00]: These are demons, the devil.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not saying that they're literally gods, and I'm not saying they're literally creatures, these characters, I mean, these characters may be interesting if you like to look at mythology.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you like to look at the characters, and that's fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you like to watch movies about this, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here, watch that, whatever it might be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Class of the Titans, or whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was just watching a few days ago, but that's all good and fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you look at it as just mythology and by that,
[SPEAKER_00]: stories, whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what I am talking about is the fact that the devil goes to people and he fools him to believe in this real so that he will not only distract him, but that he will get involved with him and maybe even possess him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not that a Christian can be possessed, but oh, pressed, to get destroyed there lies because they open up the gates to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'm telling you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Corinthians, eight four.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're gonna go through these verses, first Corinthians, eight four, eight five and eight six, but not just yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's go through eight four.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Corinthians, eight four.
[SPEAKER_00]: So concerning the eating of foods that are offered in the sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: and that there is no other God but one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to know that, there is no other God.
[SPEAKER_00]: No other God.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they believed it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in Greece and in Rome, and I've been to Rome, and they have statues of these gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have whole ways.
[SPEAKER_00]: that are given in the name of these guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, in Greece, I'm gonna go through this list, the best I can, now I'm gonna go through the main 12.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I didn't get to draw all of those 12.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I will someday, but I didn't get to get to draw those 12.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I will give you these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've heard of them, I know you have.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of our months during named after some of these, some of our planets or named after some of these, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, the first one, the Supreme God of Light and Sky and all that junk with lightning and Zeus, also named in Rome, Jupiter.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hera, Queen of Olympia, I don't know how to give all that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hera also known as Juno.
[SPEAKER_00]: Poseidon and Greece is Neptune, and that's the Lord of the Sea supposedly.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is Neptune and Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Demeter is the goddess of agriculture, harvest season, whatever, that they give you a whole slew of stuff there in charge of stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: One thing, one covered at things work.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, Demeter is also series.
[SPEAKER_00]: Apollo, God of Sun, light, healing all this stuff, is, oh, Apollo in Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Artemitis, so goddess of hunt, the moon, all this stuff, is Diana, who, by the way, one of them was named after.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aries dot a war is known as Mars.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's where you get to plan this name, of course.
[SPEAKER_00]: Athena, dot us a wisdom strategy, arts, crap, all that stuff, is Manerva.
[SPEAKER_00]: The
[SPEAKER_00]: He faced this, I don't know how to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: He faced this was the God of four, fire, he's always making stuff, he's not in Vulkan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, eventually they would give that to Star Trek character.
[SPEAKER_00]: If then we have Aphrodite, got us a love and lost on that junk, as known as Venus.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then we have, we are told you, who, where that all started with, and we have Hermes,
[SPEAKER_00]: got a messenger, it's known as Mercury, and then there's others, I don't know how to get him Paul.
[SPEAKER_00]: One was known as Hades, which is the underworld of death, no, that's not the same as hell.
[SPEAKER_00]: Believe it or not, it's not, and it's also the name Prudo, anyway, I'm not going to go any other song that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me just tell you this, there's other places that they have false dots, believe it or not, the Norse gods, Thor.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thor, and I'm going to give you one place.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's only got him going to talk to you about, because there's many, many of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they had, in fact, how many did they have?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well,
[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, I didn't tell you, there's over more than 3,000 gods and Greece, and they cut it down to about between 1,500 to 2,000 and Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: They said not to combine them together.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then, in the north, which is the Scandinavian, they said that they had a whole lot, a whole lot, but they decided to put them all together.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so at least 12 main ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the same ones in Greece and Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, Thor is also known as Bell Shame in which means Zeus or Jupiter.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there's a lot of other ones that have false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thousands of pump thousands of pump thousands.
[SPEAKER_00]: So how many?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we know over 4,000 false gods in this world.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's it, demons?
[SPEAKER_00]: They're demons in this world.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the Asian countries, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, and many others have false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: In Hinduism, they have fake gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many, 33 million, 33 million.
[SPEAKER_00]: But 33 main.
[SPEAKER_00]: and then in Buddhism there's many false gods and there's only one I put on there because he's probably my favorite one and that is the fat laughing Buddha that you see his name on there the tire or whatever it is and then there's Hawaiian dots how many 40,000 on four major ones I'm not going to mention them all and then there's only one in Islam who people really believe is the same as our god but he's not
[SPEAKER_00]: In Muslim Islam is the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to tell you this because it's important.
[SPEAKER_00]: Many, many people believe it's the same God.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not the same God.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing to say about it at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah is not the same as Yahweh.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah is not the same at all as Yahweh or Adonai.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not the same at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: and don't fall for the trap or the lies that people are trying to give you.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is one God, the creator of all things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know it's an awful lot to take it, but leave it or not as nothing compared to what I have on here, nothing at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: But know this, in Isaiah 46, verse 9,
[SPEAKER_00]: remember the former things of old for I am God and there is no other.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am God and there is no one like me.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's only one God one master of the universe.
[SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 43, 11, I even I and the Lord, and besides me, listen to this now, besides me, there is no save your Isaiah 45, verse 5 and 6.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am the Lord God and there is no other.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is no God besides me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I strengthen you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Though you have not known me so that they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is no one besides me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am the Lord and there is no other.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said in John 858,
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said to them, truly, truly, I say to you, let's this now, before Abraham was born, I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see, you see what Jesus said?
[SPEAKER_00]: Then what did Jesus say in John 1030, and you know this, your pastors repeated it, many, many, many, many, many times.
[SPEAKER_00]: In John 1030, my father and I are one, amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And first Corinthians eight, six, what does this say in first Corinthians eight, six, I'm glad to ask, but as I'm gonna tell you, in first Corinthians eight, six, it says, but for us there is, but one God, the father, from whom all things and for whom we exist.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there is one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things and through who we exist.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians 4, 4, 3, 6.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is one body and one spirit, even as you were called in one hope for your calling.
[SPEAKER_00]: One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in you all.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Timothy chapter 2, 536, there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, this was a testimony given at the proper time.
[SPEAKER_00]: James 219, James 219, you believe that there is one God.
[SPEAKER_00]: You do well.
[SPEAKER_00]: The demons also believe, and tremble.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the demons have come across this world.
[SPEAKER_00]: They've tried to say that they're gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: They've tried to confuse the poor, confused the loss, and they have millions upon billions of people are burning in hell right now, because they've been lied to.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's too many cowards out there who will not tell their truth because they don't care enough to tell their truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I say, be courageous, take up the Word of God because God is giving you the power through the Lord Jesus Christ, hold up the Word of God, let them know that Jesus is the only woman with the power.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is the only one, the only way.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is the one.
[SPEAKER_00]: You need to let them know, don't be a coward, tell the truth right now, before those people go to hell.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't know Jesus and you don't know for sure that you're going to have it come up today before it's too late.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who is the master of the universe?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who has the power?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who is the power?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord God Jesus, the Messiah, the Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I close today, in first John 44, one of my all-time favorite verses, and I'm gonna say it in the New American Standard Bible, you are from God, little children, and have overcome them,
[SPEAKER_00]: because Grader is He who is in you that He who is in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let us bound prayer, dear Lord God, thank you so much for letting us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for Jesus for coming, living a dying.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for being the power, for dying on the cross.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going into the grave.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for rising up again, thank you, Lord, for all the promises given to us in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and so many other prophecies, Lord, that came true in our still true to this day.
[SPEAKER_00]: And other prophecies that will come to be, for all my brothers and sisters in Christ's Lord, who are here for those who could not be here, even.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for those who are in other churches, Lord, for across the world, I pray for protection upon them
[SPEAKER_00]: And I pray, Lord God, that you will speak to us through us and around us, Lord, to everyone to come to know you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I pray that people will have the ability, courage, and strength to become your children.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Lord, I pray if there be anyone within our lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who you want to speak to, that you will speak through us, and that we'll be willing to do this speaking, not that we will speak, but that you will speak through us.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray this in your name, and I pray it all God, for anyone here today who needs to hear this, that they will take it, not just hear it, but listen and be obedient to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray this in your name, amen and amen.