Prove Me Now - Part 7

Most of our population is destroyed by drink. People who want to argue are by drink, sir. If my eating meat causes anyone to stumble, I'll stop from eating meat.

And if you look me in the eyes and tell me that there's no one stumbling, if I, as a preacher, drink alcohol, you tell me Jesus made wine? Sir, I don't want to argue with you on Greek and everything else or Hebrew, whether it was red or fermented. I just want to say this. In this moment of your life, if you can stand before God and say, am I drinking? If others look at you and say, well, he does, I can.

If he names Christ, he preaches, he's born again, I can. And look at what percentage of the world lies drunk. They say in the Western world, the bulk, the great majority of anyone, anyone who touches alcohol just once become alcoholics.

Argue with your governments if you don't believe it. That's what they say. And you, sir, the preachers, the professing Christians, there's no harm in this, you know.

Well, these wine farmers ask me one after the other, and all the wealth, and I said, sir, it's going to cost you. Oh, it's going to cost you. But it's going to cost you a billion times more if you don't do what your conscience says, which is to be able to get right with God and have the right to carry his name, truth, and not cause multitudes to stumble and go to hell through the way you made the money.

Listen to this. They that will be rich, Timothy 5 verse 6, They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after hay have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

For thou, O man of God, flee these things. Verse 17, charge them that are rich in the world that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy, that they may do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up a store for themselves and a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life. God says, God's Word says.

Oh, I could just go on all these verses. I was hungry, you fed me not. I was naked, you clothed me not.

When did we see the hunger? Oh, sir, we're so blind to other people's needs that we can walk past a dying man and not have any compassion while we name the name of Jesus. That's possible. How dwelleth the love of God in you? If you have and you see your brother have need and you give not, how can you say God is in you? John says.

James cries out. How can you profess to know Christ when you see your brother have need? You see him naked, destitute of daily food, and you give not that which is needful. How can you say, I have the love of God, and I love God to anyone in this world? James says in chapter 5, it's not how rich you are, it's how you got that money and what you did with it if you got it in this world that God will judge you for.

Don't you want to read James 5? I wonder what percentage of the Bible, if we're really honest, we'd be left with if we took a pair of scissors and cut out every single passage or word, we don't live. No, not for me. Oh, my.

How can you carry a book as if you live it, sir? But prove God that you stagger the world the way God will honor you. Don't doubt that. The other option is compromise, and you'll be responsible for the most people in the world who know you and watch you while you profess the name of Christ.

You'll be responsible for them going to hell. Can we stand, please? I know very few people dare preach what I've preached tonight. They probably will never be invited again to your country, let alone your pulpit.

I ask every single person standing here tonight in the sight of God to walk from this day in the light of this message or stop professing to know Jesus Christ. You'll just do damage.