Let God be true, every man a liar
Key Passage: Romans 3:3-4
Date: June 7, 2024
Turn your Bibles, if you would, to Romans chapter number three. Romans chapter number three in God’s word this morning, Romans three. We’re going to really just get a phrase out of God’s word, and we’re going to use that a lot.
Now, I want to tell you up front that we’re going to pull this phrase out of the Bible and use it. We’re not going to twist it. We’re going to apply that phrase, that truth, in many different areas. Preaching often does that. We’ll take a verse or a phrase out and preach on it. Here’s the key: It must fit in back with the rest of the Bible.
And I believe in Foundations class or studying, knowing this first: no prophecy of the scriptures is of any private interpretation. It’s got to fit in with the rest of the Bible. But occasionally preaching, we’ll just take a phrase out and just focus on that phrase. And we’ll do so this morning. And I want you to know that. And I’m praying the Lord will just encourage you to stand in our day and time.
The old world has a way of trying to conform you and I to its image. And maybe the Lord will just use this this morning to… The Bible verse 9 talks about fatty, making your bones fat. And I think it’s talking about just having a thick, big old backbone. And I hope the Lord will use this today to give you a fatter just backbone, all right, nothing else.
But Romans chapter number three in God’s word. If you’re there this moment, would you say amen? Good deal. We’re going to start in verse number three, Romans three and verse number three.
Would you please stand if you’re able to, just out of respect to God, as we read it together, Romans three and verse number three of God’s word. And God says there, for what? If some did not believe, shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
Specifically here, he’s speaking of Jewish people that did not believe. We’ll meet people all over the place. Well, I just don’t believe. Some nowadays will say, well, I don’t believe the Bible. I don’t believe there’s heaven. I don’t believe there’s a hell. And I believe there’s a God, so on and so on.
And he’s saying, now look, just because they don’t believe it, does it make it of less effect? No, the reality is one day when they die, when the Lord comes back, they’re either going to go to heaven or hell. And if they don’t change, and they don’t put their faith in Jesus, they’re going to go to hell. It doesn’t make it of less effect.
I’ve heard some people say, look, if I have a gun, I got it pointing at your head, and it’s loaded and ready to go. And you say, “I don’t believe that’s going to hurt me.” If they pull the trigger, whether you believe it or not, it’s going to hurt your friend. And that’s what God’s saying. It doesn’t make it of any less effect.
Now, notice the next verse, and here are the phrases in this next verse, verse number four. God forbid. He said, no, it’s not going to make it of any less effect. God forbid.
Yea, here it is: Let God be true, but every man a liar. As it is written, now he’s quoting from Psalm 51, verse 4. Remember Psalm 51 is when David had committed what we call the great sin, most call it, when he had committed adultery and murdered Uri and so on. And this is the repentant Psalms. And he’s quoting from that: “It is written that thou mayest be justified in thy saying, and overcome when thou art judged.”
He’s saying, look, I don’t want anybody misjudging God. God had a right to speak me, if you will. God had a right to rebuke me for my adultery and murder and so on. And I want to get right with God so nobody can point the finger at God. He’s kind of quoting that and saying, no, no, nobody’s going to be able to blame God in the end.
But that little phrase, I want to focus on it right there. Let God be true, but every man a liar. Would you say that phrase out loud with me from God’s word? Here we go: Let God be true, but every man a liar. One more time, please: Let God be true, but every man. I want that to stick in our hearts and our minds. You’ll need that in our day and time.
And we’re going to talk about that just for a little bit this morning. I pray the Lord will use this to encourage us to stand.
Thank you so much for standing. You may be seated. Today is what we have titled Creation Sunday. We had it last week on the calendar. We moved it back a week.
And it’s interesting, if you look out back here, there’s some animals back underneath the carport. I was driving one of the buses this morning. At the very first stop, Brother Greg was moving on the bus. We stopped, and Miss Lori came out the door. And where’s Miss Lori? Is she—Miss Lori in here? Yeah, she walked out and she had this little container, and inside of it had a lizard. And then her cousin—is it? Friend, I don’t know. Raise it. Briana. Brianna comes in. She’s got two cats in her hand. I said, “Brianna, we’ve got to take one of those cats home, man. We’ve got people with allergies and whatnot, you know.” And so she just brought one, and she got a box to put it in and all that. But it’s Creation Sunday. There’s goats back there. Anybody want some goat cheese out there, you know? Anybody want to milk a goat? You can go back after service. You can take care of that.
I’m joking with you, but all kind of different animals and dogs, I’m sure, and all those different things. We didn’t get a snake this year, Hallelujah, that’s a good thing. You know, a couple years ago we had one of those, but we couldn’t get one this year. And it’s funny, every time I meet a snake, it seems like they get lead poisoning. I don’t know how that happens, but it just happens, you know. But it’s Creation Sunday, and so I just felt like the Lord wanted us to focus a little bit on…
Maybe beginning with a creation versus evolution type thing. And I’d ask if you’d listen up, especially our young people, because you are getting bombarded more, I think, than us older people did. None of you are old out there, are you? I see a couple of gray hairs in a couple places that have no hair. But anyway.
I think young people are getting bombarded even more than we were when we were young. But here’s the thing with this thing of evolution: From the time they are toddlers, they are being ingrained with the idea that we evolved. Young people, how many young people have been taught in your school this thing of evolution? How many of you have been taught evolution in school? Would you raise your hand? How many of our young people have you been taught evolution in school? You’ve been taught evolution or not? Brother Greger, the guy beside you, I don’t know what was it? You’ve been taught evolution? I don’t know. You’ve been taught evolution in school? No? No, you haven’t? Not all. Okay. Do you go to school? Home school? Okay, okay, I just—I didn’t know. They’re being bombarded. Even cartoons nowadays teach evolution. If you go to museums, I remember going to the caves. I think of my daughter, my son and my daughter, both on a sixth-grade field trip when I was there to the cave. Now, their school didn’t teach it. I wasn’t sent there. But the caves, they would say how many billions of years it took to evolve these caves. So they’ve been taught evolution from the time they are toddlers, on cartoons nowadays, and then they go to school, they’re taught it, and their kindergarten or preschool they’re taught it. Back in our day, you didn’t even have to go to kindergarten. How many adults did not even go to kindergarten? How many didn’t go to kindergarten? I didn’t either. Look at that. Can you believe that? Yeah, praise the Lord, I was in the disposition of no kindergarten, amen. It was kind of in between when I was there. But you didn’t have to do it. But from that age on, they’re just indoctrinated with evolution: Kindergarten, elementary, middle school, high school, universities. Wow, they’re really indoctrinated with evolution.
Now here’s the thing about these things that our society and the devil is really pumping into us. Hitler used to say this: You say something long enough and loud enough—notice Hitler used to say it—you say something long enough and loud enough, and people believe it. And that’s exactly where we’re at in our day and time. People just believe that we evolved from a one-cell amoeba, and then it began to grow. Eventually, it grew some gills and it could swim around in water, and then it decided one day to jump up on land and grow some legs and a tail, and eventually it was a monkey. And then it got tired of the tail and dropped the monkey and it became a human being. That’s what they’re teaching nowadays. Friend, I don’t know about you, but my ancestors aren’t a monkey. And something inside of us needs to have this little backbone that says, “Hey, let God be true and let every man be a liar.” God says, at the beginning of the book, “In the beginning, God created the heaven and earth.” And I’ll just go with what the Bible says.
By the way, God says more in four words than they say in all their speeches and pushing their philosophy, because they never tell us where it all began at. They’ll say a dot in the universe that blew up. By the way, that’s a whole lot that comes from one little bit of a lot that blew up, you know. Well, where did the dot come from? They don’t know, friend. And God says more in four words: “In the beginning, God.” That’s where it all started from right there.
By the way, while we’re on the subject, it wasn’t 6,000 years that God created this world. No, it was six literal days. The evening and the morning were the first day. The evening and the morning were the second day. It is six literal days that God created this world.
And you’ve got to get a little bit in your head in our day and time, especially our young people. The world’s going to say so much, but you’ve just got to have this philosophy a little bit in you: Let God be true and let every man be a liar. You’ve got to have that inside you. I’m praying the Lord will just strengthen that in us a little bit. Hey, listen, if the whole world says something, but God says something different, I’m going to go with God. By the way, God, and you make a majority, amen?
They’ll say that it took a little over four billion years for this world to evolve. A billion. Brother Adam Miller, he has—I think he’s close to a billionaire. He’s a millionaire, but not quite, he’s almost a billionaire. His wife says, “I wish that was true,” amen. His pastor says, “I wish that was true, too.” Billion years old.
Now, friend, let me just talk to you for a little bit. By the way, science. If we talk about true science, let me read for you Merriam-Webster’s definition of science: knowledge about, or the study of the natural world based on facts, learned through experiments and observation. By the way, we never have observed evolution. You haven’t observed it, nobody has. That’s not true science. But let’s just talk about the observations of our world, true science, a little bit.
Billions of years old. Did you know this is a scientific fact, but did you know they can observe it? Did you know the Earth’s rotation is actually slowly slowing down? Every several years, they actually have to add a second to the official clock. Now, Brother Patterson’s got the official clock. They have to call him again. I’m teasing with him. He’s a detailed man. I’m teasing with him, sure. He’s detailed why I say that. But then, now here’s the thing: If you go back several thousand years, six, ten thousand years, which would line up with God’s word, which is always right. But if you go back 16,000 years, all right, it’s a little bit—it’s a little bit faster. No problem, though.
But if you take the rate it is slowing down now, and it is, science has observed that. If you take that same rate and you go back millions and billions of years, this is really going to date you. How many back in your day and time, the average playground had a merry-go-round on it? Yeah. How many got your little brother?
We went to one playground and it had this swing and it had a bar that went across in the chain. And we got my little brother in one of those swings. And we got the other swing and, you know, we got him spinning around. And we could get—hold on to the pole while we’re just as fast as we can turning that thing, you know. But he’s, you know, he’s like the chain here, and pretty soon he’s out full. He’s flying. He’s like Superman, you know. And we’re like—I don’t know how old—16, 18 years old—going as fast as we can. He was probably, I don’t know, maybe G-force four or something, you know, about 100 miles an hour, you know. I’m surprised he lived through it all, it’s the thing. It’s amazing. I went with him; we went and did something together Monday, and I tell you, there was brain damage. I know why now, all right? Hopefully David’s not watching today. But all of a sudden, man, I got too much for him. He’s just a little fellow, you know. And he’s nine years younger than me. And, man, he could not hold on. And all of a sudden he went flying to this—you know, Superman literally flies, you know. It was all right. The flight was good, but the landing was a little rough, you know. I’ll tell you for sure.
Now look, I’m saying observation science—true science—if you go back billions of years ago, friend, we’ve got problems. Everything on this world flew off a long time ago as it was going so fast. I’m not talking about science. True science can prove this whole world is not as old as those liars are saying.
You take the sun. I’m talking about observable facts. You take the sun. The sun is slowly burning up. It’s a big, huge ball of fire. I mean, you can tell—Brother Steve Page has been down in Florida. He’s got a little bit of a tan on certain places. I’m not going to say any places. Now look, if you go back 6,000 years ago, like the Bible, which agrees with the Bible, we’re all right. The sun is a touch bigger. It’s slowly burning up, getting smaller now, though. But, friend, if you go back millions and billions of years ago, you’ve got a super sun and everything on this ball, earth, explodes. Friend, there’s no way. I’m saying by observable science, I’m talking about facts that we can observe—we know it’s not true, friend.
And yet they’re going to push it, they’re going to push it, they’re going to push it. And what do you do? You say, “Hey, let God be true, but every man a liar.” You’ve got to have that in you. All the time, it must be thick in you, or else the world is going to do its best to conform you to their thoughts and their mind and what they want you to think and believe. They’re busy about it. So the Bible tells us in Romans 12: Don’t be conformed to the image of the world.
Let’s just get one more thing. We’ve got a lot of subjects we were going to cover today. I don’t know if we’ll get them all covered. But remember when we landed on the moon, and who was that? Neil Armstrong? Y’all with me out there? Remember he landed on—what did he say? What did he say? What did he say? Help me out. Come on, all you storytellers. Y’all can fight about that later on; you discuss the exact wording of it. Now, here’s the thing: you remember those landing vehicles, how they had the long arms? You know why they had all those long arms? Because slowly, as the moon travels, it collects dust. And they thought, since they had been taught this world is millions and millions and billions of years old, there would be feet in feet, feet, foots, a whole lot of inches of dust on the moon. But there wasn’t. In fact, the next words out of his mouth after he said whatever they were saying that he said—I’m going to get caught up with that fight there. They don’t record this part or play it very often, I should say. The next words he said is, “It’s solid.” Why? Because the world, this old world is not billions and billions of years old. It’s about 6 to 10,000 years old, just like the Bible shows us. And when you get taught that and pumped that, wherever you go to national parks and everywhere, you hear them say, “Paul, billions of years ago,” go, and when we evolved from this and that. There’s got to be something in your backbone that says, “No, uh-uh-uh. Let God be true, but every man be a liar.” You must have that. You’ve got to have that to stand in our day and time. This is another thing they’ll pump down your throat, by the way. They’ll accuse us of that, but they’re so strong at it. This is one of the—y’all, here’s one of the things I told—we’re just going to take this phrase this morning.
They’ll say that child that is in a mother’s womb is what they call a fetus. They’ll say it’s just fetal tissue that is being developed, and it’s not really a person. It’s not a child yet. It’s just fetal material. Now, friend, you remember in the Bible where John the Baptist—says, Mama Elizabeth came and she was visiting Mary, Mary the mother of Jesus, and she was visiting, and remember when she heard the salutation, what happened? The Bible says, “The babe.” The babe in her womb leaped. The Bible didn’t say it was a fetus or embryonic tissue. The Bible says it was a babe. Amen. 26 times the Bible, 26 times the King James Bible says this phrase “with child.” 26 times it doesn’t say “with some fetal material.” The Bible, God says, “That lady is with child.” That is a child. And they’ll say, “Well, does it matter? You’re not killing a child or a baby. It’s just fetal material.” So you stick that needle in there and you shoot in there that saline solution in the back of their head and just kill them. Or you put that vacuum tube in there if you want to just suck those body parts. It’s not really a baby. But the Bible says, “The babe leaped.” The Bible says, “with child.” Something inside of you has got to say, “Let God be true and let every man be a liar.”
By the way, now that we have more advanced ultrasounds—my children were born back in 1835. Neither one of ours were they sure if it was a boy or girl. That’s how, you know, people nowadays are like, “Whoa, that’s the way it was back in the day.” But nowadays, man, this 3D—I think the clearest I saw was Matthew and Jessica. You could literally see the images of that baby inside Jessica’s womb; I could see Matthew’s features in that baby’s face. That’s how advanced it is nowadays. Now, here’s the thing.
The pro-life people, praise the Lord for them, by the way. Those that say, “Let God be true, but every man a liar.” Those people that are trying to save those babies’ lives, they try to set up little stations outside these abortion clinics, and they’re not pushing these ladies. What they’ll try to do, they’ll try to get them in this little portable trailer, and they’ll say, “Would you just let us do an ultrasound on you?” And if that mom will see the ultrasound and see those pictures of that baby inside that lady’s stomach, her womb, and she sees, man, that’s not just a fetus. That’s a person. 80% of that—now, they were coming there to get an abortion; that was their intent. Usually, so often they have people pushing them to do that—the media and others, unfortunately, friends, sometimes, and relatives and boyfriends—but they’re going there to get an abortion. If they see, if they see pictures through the ultrasound of that baby in the womb, 80% of the time they’ll change their mind and say, “I’m not having an abortion now,” because I saw the truth of it: that is a child in my stomach.
And you must, you must have this inside of you: “Let God be true, but every man a liar.” You must have that in our day and time. You must. When they say there’s no absolute truth. And it’s Common Core. Literally, sometimes they’ll say, “Well, two plus two, it doesn’t necessarily mean four.” If you can explain it good enough and where it sounds like it’s pretty good, it doesn’t necessarily have to be four. Now, friend, I mean, I didn’t go to kindergarten, but can I borrow that songbook right there? If I take two songbooks right here, I’ve got two of them. Can I borrow that songbook there? You’ve got another one underneath there somewhere. Brother Dumpur, you got a songbook over there. Look, we’re a bunch of hillbillies. Everybody agree with that right there? All right, we got some other intelligent people here too. I am a hillbilly, so I can say those things, amen? Okay, or a hillbilly, however it goes, all right. But if I take two of those songbooks right there, and I take another two and I put them together, help me out, how many I got? Four. Now, they can say whatever they want. Who is that little one? She knows the truth back there. She got it going back there. I’m saying they’re trying to take absolute truth out of our dictionary. And this is ultimately what they’re after. They don’t want you and I to believe that right there is absolute truth.
Friend, they can say what they want, they can believe what they want, they can go by the polls and get everybody to say what they want them to say, but I’ll just stick to what God says right there. John 17:70 says, “Thy word is truth.” We have something that’s absolute. I mean, if the whole—every person in this world says the opposite, you go with that book every single time. By the way, those people, they’ll one day stand before God and they’ll be judged. According to the book of John, they’ll be judged according to that book right there. Yeah, there is absolute truth. Right is still right, and wrong is still wrong. And they’re going to try to make everything muddy where we really don’t know. And they’re going to say, “Well, the popular opinion says so-and-so,” but something inside is going to say, “I don’t care what popular opinion says. Let God be true, but every man a liar.” You’ll get weak on me out there. Let’s try that again. Come on now. I need help this morning. Let God be true, but every man a liar. Yeah, got to have it.
By the way, that’s why communist China and Russia and other places—that’s why they want to take the Bible away from them. Because they can put all the propaganda, which we’re getting in America a lot—it’s called censorship. They can pump all that propaganda out, but old born-again Christians that say, “Hey, I got the truth right there,” they can’t change you, and they don’t like that. And you must, you must have something inside you that says, “Hey, I’m just going to stick with the old book.” You’ll be happy one day in eternity you did, by the way. They’re going to pass off the scene. Friend, that book’s going to stand forever. Every jot and every tittle, every time, just like that, when a T gets crossed or I guess not—every part of it’s true, it’s going to stand forever. It’s not going to disappear. Yeah, let God—let God be true, whatever man will lie about.
“Well, it’s just an alternative lifestyle. You don’t know what we’re talking about.” They’ll call it homosexuality. The Bible calls it sodomy. “Well, they were born that way.” Friend, they had a choice in that matter. And I said, “Well, it just feels natural.” Friend, sin always feels natural. It doesn’t make it right.
The Bible, in the Old Testament, the Bible in Leviticus chapter 20, he says, “Hey, that is an abomination.” Romans—notice Romans, by the way, we’re not talking about the Old Testament—Romans in the New Testament. Romans chapter number one, I believe it was verse number 26. God says He gave them up to vile affections. That means, from God’s viewpoint, that’s sin, not the person, but that sin is vile, it’s dirty, it’s wicked, it’s wrong. God says that’s an abomination. You said, “Preacher, do you hate? Do you hate those people that have fallen into that sin?” No, I love them. They need Jesus Christ and then victory over their sin. But I hate that sin. God does too. “Preacher, what are you going to do if they call that a hate crime and put you in jail?” I’ll preach you in jail. That’s vile and wicked, amen. Let God be true, but every man a liar. You must have that in you if we’re going to stand in 2021.
That’s why I don’t like us many times because you’re kind of like the stump. We’ve got a neighbor that’s got a stump in his yard and he’s been burning on that stump, seems like for 60 years. I don’t know how long. And that stump’s still there today. And that’s why you are to the world and its philosophies. Let God be true, but every man a liar.
They’ll say, “Well, Jesus, you know, I mean, He wasn’t perfect. He had an affair with Mary Magdalene.” Have you heard that? Oh, sure. You’ll hear all kinds of missing books of the Bible. You hear all kind of propaganda. But somewhere along the line, you guys say, “Hey, listen, God said in His word, He knew no sin. Was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin.” And somewhere along the line, in your heart and your mind, even before you get all the facts together—the facts that point towards the truth—but even before you do all that, you just got to say, “You know what? I’m just going to let God be true, but every man a liar.” You must have that in you.
They’re going to push. They’re going to try to conform you to their image. Here’s another philosophy that they’re pushing in America: “Well, if they’re going to pay for it, just let them pay for it.” I mean, let’s just let big brother take care of us. Let’s just eat, drink, and be merry. They’ll pay our bills; let them pay our bills. There was a Patrick Henry that said, “Give me liberty, give me death.” The next generation said, “Give me liberty.” The next generation just said, “Give me.” And friend, I’m saying the Bible—the Bible—I’m not making this up, but since the 2nd, this one in 310, the Bible says, “Hey, if a man doesn’t work, he ought not to eat.” Now, they’ve got health issues. They can’t work. I understand. There are those situations, and there are special situations like that. But, friend, if they ain’t worked, you ought to get out there busy working. That’s Bible. “You’re cruel, you’re mean. Man, you’re old-fashioned.” And somewhere along the line, you’ve got to say, “Hey, let God be true, but every man a liar.” Got to have it. Got to have it. The world doesn’t like that. They’re trying their best to take those beliefs away from you. That’s why they’re trying to cast down the Word of God every way they can.
Let’s get a couple more in. We’ve got tons of them. We won’t get them all, but let’s get a couple more in here. What about this? “Oh, don’t you spank your children. You may warp their personality.” Man, I got warped big time, I’ll tell you for sure. I don’t want to describe all the warping I got to, guys. Flashbacks, you know. Mom’s here, so I’ve got to be careful. There’s never a mom—was always dad, right? They’re going to push that. Ever since I remember, they’ve been pushing it. But you’re going to have to go back to the book where the book says, “The rod and reproof give it to him wisdom.” My dad had two words. Typically, he would call it medicine. “Got some medicine for you, boy.” “Dad, I forgot.” “I got some medicine to help you not forget next time, boy.” “Dad, I didn’t do it.” Well, listen, for one time you did it and you did get by it. You didn’t get called on it. “Got some medicine for you.” Sometimes he said, “I’m going to give you some wisdom,” you know. I didn’t like the wisdom he gave. Well, it’s Bible. “Foolishness is bound in the heart of the child, but the rod of correction will drive it far from him.” That’s Bible. And look, the world is going to try to influence you, especially grandparents, you know. You’re amazing. You have chastised that kid, and your grandchild just gets barely tapped, and you start crying for the grandchild. What’s up with me? I, of course, am not like that at all as a grandfather. You’re not at all. Of course not. Praise the Lord, they take him separately than grandma and grandpa, you know. But the world’s always pushing, trying to conform you. You’ve got to have that philosophy, and you let God be true, but every man a liar.
They’ll say, “Well, it’s okay to look as long as you don’t touch.” How many times have I heard that out and out of the workforce years ago? But Jesus said, if a man looks at a woman to lust, he has committed adultery already with her in his heart. The Bible says, I’m a limitation three for doing it. He said, “Hey, look,” he said, “mine affecteth mine heart.” And husband, you cannot love your wife like you ought to when you’re looking at the wrong thing. But they’re all in seven, that’s all right. That’s why they have all kind of immodesty on billboards and movies and all the different videos out, so much immodesty. “Well, that really doesn’t matter.” Friend, it does matter. Then we wonder why we have so much rape going on, divorce, weakening of men. I think we have an underlying just weakening of men because of the immodesty and men falling for that. I’m not trying to take men off the hook; it’s there. They chose to go that way. But friend, it’s sin in God’s word. You’ve got to have this inside you. They’re going to make you feel like an oddball. “I’m not going to look there, and I’m not going to go there, and I’m not going to watch that. I’m not going to dress like that.” And they’re going to try to make you feel like an oddball, and somewhere inside of you, you got to say, “Hey, let God be true, but every man a liar.” You must have that inside you.
And by the way, I think of those three Hebrew boys that… They were all right when everybody was standing, but that music started playing. I believe that rock and roll music, and everybody started bowing down to that statue. And the more everybody else bowed down, the more old Shadrach and Abednego, Han and Azariah, and whatever those names—the Hebrew names, friend—the more they started sticking out like a sore thumb. And the more the world bows down, the more you’re going to stick out at work. And they’re going to do their best to make you feel like an oddball and weirdo, and you’ve got middle issues and you’re all fuddy-duddy and all the rest of it. And something inside of you has got to say, “Hey, you might think all that all you want to, but let God be true, but every man a liar.” You must. You must have that in you.
You must keep that in you. They’ll say, “Follow your heart.” I was amazed; I preached on that subject several years back, and I looked up on the web, the internet, and I was shocked how many websites there were about following your heart. I wonder how many good girls married a sorry, lazy, good-for-nothing guy because she followed her heart. The Bible says, “The fool trusts in his heart.” You know that? The Bible says, “Guide thine heart in the way.” You don’t let your heart—you let God and His Word guide you. This whole world, they’ll call you weird. The world is the one that’s cattywampus. You look that up in the Hillbilly Dictionary; you’ll figure out what it means, have you? They’ll say, “Well, don’t talk about religion or politics.” Don’t do that. And they’ll try to get you to be quiet. But the Bible says, “Go ye therefore into all the world, preach the gospel to every creature.” What God says. Now, I’m not for trying to force it down to my throat. That’s not going to work. But you, in love, go and tell them. I was at the fair month or so ago, the Wilson County Fair, trying to give a gospel tract to a man, and he wasn’t happy with me. And he looked at me and he said, “Don’t bring that religion into the fair.” Someone over there hit him. If I’d had somebody big with me, I would have done it. But I didn’t know—no, I’m joking. I didn’t do that. But honestly, I just let him go. But you know what? Just a little while—I believe it was a little while later—a young man came by and he wanted to know. He was just waiting for someone to tell him about Jesus Christ and God loves him, and he wants him to go to heaven. He went back at the booth. Man, we sat down with the Bible, and that young man just wanted to hear about Jesus and His love and salvation. He was so happy to get saved. Hey, don’t let that world shut you up. The darker the night, the brighter the light shines. Keep shining. Satan’s going to do his best just to get you to dull down and dim down. But you’re going to have to say, “Hey, you know what? Let God be true, but every man a liar.” You must have that in you.
The world says this. The world says, “Well, there’s many ways to heaven.” Just like the post office, you can go in through Spring Street or you can go leave Victory. There’s a lot of different ways to the post office. Only problem with that, friend, we’re not talking about the post office. We’re talking about heaven. Well, there’s a lot of different religions out there. They’re probably all good religions. They’ve got all good motives. I met a man yesterday trying to win souls, and he said, “Well, if we’re all working towards the same place…” Pray, Lord, I don’t have to work for it. Jesus worked for it. Amen.
But the Bible says—but the Bible says Jesus is the way. The Bible says, Acts 4:12, “Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.” Just the name of Jesus for it.
You know, in Rome, the early church, it was not a place where you could not have religion. They had many religions, polytheistic, they call it. I think just pretty much everything was accepted. Well, why were we so persecuted? Here’s the big reason why: because we say, “Hey, there’s only one way to heaven—just Jesus.” I’m sorry, Oprah. Not a lot of ways to heaven, just one, Jesus. Sorry, Obama. Not a lot of different ways. And just because they’re a Muslim doesn’t mean they’re just going to have it. Only one way to heaven, just Jesus.
My friend, that’s what the world and the God of this world’s sake is trying to get us to hush up about. Because He doesn’t want the name of Jesus to be promoted, because He’s the only way. All but the honest truth is Jesus says, “Hey, I want you to go to heaven. I love you so much. I’ll come down from heaven and I’ll pay your very own sin, and I’ll shed my own blood for you on old rugged cross, and I’ll pay it all.” That’s why He said, “It is finished,” and it’s a gift. You’d have to be perfect to earn it. None of us are perfect. God says, “I’m going to give it to you.” It’s a gift forever, only one way, Jesus.
Original File: Let God be True, but Every Man a Liar - Pastor Paul Chisgar Sunday AM 10321