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Heat [music] up [music] here. [music] >> [music] >> Heat up here. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat [music] up here. [music] [music] Heat >> [music] >> up [music] here. [music] >> [music] [music] >> You are listening to the book chapter verse podcast. The Bible teaches us about the last days. And today I'm going to show you some stuff that's going on. And I just have to make it clear for for the saints. >> Amen. >> Just make it clear. That's my job. It ain't to just try to out nobody or nothing. I'm just taking what they said. >> That's right. >> And I'm going to show you what the Bible says. >> Amen. Because a wolf is going to lie and try like this one and try to look like a sheep. That's what he trying to look like. >> But a wolf is not a sheep. >> Amen. And the Bible says in the last days, this would become common. >> And it will become common in two places. Says some would enter in and do it like some of the undercover bootleg Hebrews that enter in here >> and try to make you leave. >> But then the worst part, it also said those that are among you, >> some of their hearts will change >> and they'll begin to befriend people just to take them out. >> Yes, sir. That's all scripture. >> That's you on tape. >> You are listening to the book chapter verse podcast. >> Praise and worship. Y'all know what praise and worship is when you really praising and worship with music. I'm talking about musical worship. Why are you in there talking about yourself and calling that worship? Well, well, well. >> Now, I understand there's a congregational singing time in church where you sing songs that testify of the battle. I made a vow to the Lord. I'm this. I'm I'm fighting. I'm a soldier in the army. That's congregational singing. But when it's time for praise and worship, >> you can't be talking about I I am a friend of God. Who cares? >> Who cares? This is worship time. That ain't no worship song. It's worship about yourself. [music] >> [music] >> Praise is what I do when I want to be. So that ain't praise and worship. [music] >> [music] >> You talking about yourself. >> Now, now don't get me wrong. They good songs, some of them. >> And there's a time for them. >> But you can't call that praise and worship. You come in the presence of God talking about yourself. Man, if the high priest had walked in there with anything out of line looking like him, >> [applause] >> God be like, "Won't you come in here looking like you? [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> That's Satan. That's Lucifer. That's what he got kicked out for. [music] >> [music] [music] >> No, no, I don't accept that ever. No. No. What? [music] [music] Yeah. my Lord. >> That's my job. It ain't to just try to out nobody or nothing. I'm just taking what they said. >> That's right. >> And I'm going to show you what the Bible says. >> That's you on tape. >> It was reported to me. My lord, it was reported to me. >> Why I believe G. Craig Lewis is a false teacher. Here's five reasons why I believe G. Craig Lewis is a false teacher. Number one, his relishing for rank. [clears throat] His relishing for rank. What does it mean to relish into something? It means to enjoy it. It means to to love it. It means to take pleasure uh in it. Verse 9, the a clause says, I wrote something to the church. This is this is John. He says, "I I wrote something to the church, but Diatrophes who loves to be first among them." Notice, he loved the preeminence. He loved to have his name mentioned in conversation. He had to be the main person. Basically, it's like this, and I've heard people say this. Um, I'm I'm I'm going to ABC because of G Craig. Not because of not because of God, but because of G Craig or I'm going to church because of so and so. See, be very careful when you have people that identify your church by one particular person. Be be very careful with that. Be very careful with that. Why? Because if you go because of that person, what happens when that person is no longer there? What happens when that person falls into sin? What happens when that person gets sick? What happens if that person is it just decides to move on? What happens? [snorts] If you're going because of the word of God and because of the reputation of that church is sound, then you're going for right reasons. But but people for the most part that I've I've you know come in contact with and and people that I've spoken with, they are members of ABC because of who G. Craig Lewis is. And G Craig Lewis will let you know this is my church. Now, if I'm lying about it, those of you who are watching this this this live right now can challenge me on it, but I know I'm not lying about it because I have witnesses who said the same thing. Can I give you another example? how I know this man loves to be first, G. Craig Lewis, who is a personification of Diotrophies. Um, because ABC at North Richland Hills just outside of Dallas, Texas, that place was built basically uh free. When I say free, I'm saying those who were members of ABC at that time like like Larnell and and and Sister Loretta and and and those who were in the in the chat, they can they can attest to this. These people who have skill in in uh electronics or skill in uh in in in technology or skills in carpentry or skills in masonry, whatever whatever skills that they had, this man took their skills, used it for his own personal agenda, built that church, gutted it, built that church, and Now, that church belongs to quote unquote G. Craig Lewis. When he had his 50th birthday, when he had his 50th birthday, they had a they had a a image of his of his, you know, head on on the stage. See, this is what Datrophies, and I ain't trying to be charismatic when I say the spirit of the atrophies or the atrophies. I'm saying the attitude, the the disposition. He's the person that people come to see and he lets you know that you are coming to see him. So though he says that he has elders and that these elders are are leading with him. No. No. Anybody who knows G. Craig Lewis and anybody understands biblical ecclesiology and biblical church leadership know and understand that G. Craig Lewis runs that church. And I'm going to show you in scripture, in this passage, and in the text that we just read that this is unmistakably clear, an irrefutable claim [clears throat] of these accusations that I'm making that G Craig Lewis is a false teacher. So verse 9, the a clause says, I wrote something to the church, but datrophies who love to be first among them. atrophies actually means uh nourished by Zeus. This man was not a Jew. He was a gentile and um this man like I said most scholars would would would say in in affirm that he has some position of authority. He was either a pastor or one of the one of the elders there but he made it his business to have his name or have himself to be first. That was his ambition. That was his goal. That was his agenda. He loved to be first. In Matthew chapter 20, I want to read this. Matthew chapter 20. Let's turn in your Bibles. Let's let's go to our Bibles, ladies and gentlemen. Matthew chapter 20. Jesus tells his disciples. disciples were asking Jesus, you know, uh about who's going to be first in the kingdom and and who's going to sit at your right hand and and all those things, right? And verse 25 said, "But Jesus called to himself called him to himself and said, you know that the rulers of the Gentiles lorded over them and their great men exercise authority over them. It is not so among you. But whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant. And whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave. Just as the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many. Turn me also to John 13:5. John 13:5. Jesus is about to go to the cross and he is he is in the uh he is uh about to have his uh last supper with the disciples uh just during the Passover, the feast of the Passover. And he is about to show them the excellent object lesson on what it means to be a servant, what it means to be first. Look at the text John 13:5. He began and he poured water into the basin and began to wash his disciples feet and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. And he came to Simon Peter and he said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?" Jesus answered and said to him, "What I do, you do not realize now, but you shall understand hereafter." Peter said to him, "Never shall you wash my feet." Jesus answered him and said, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with me." Simon Peter said to him,"Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head." Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but it's completely clean. And you are all clean, but not but you are but you are clean, but not all of you." For he knew the one who was betraying him. For this reason, he said, "Not all of you are clean." And so when he had washed it their feet and taken their taken his garments and reclined at the table again, he said to them, "Do you do you know what I have done to you? You call me teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. I if I then, the Lord and the teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master. Neither is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. Notice what Jesus said. If you want to be first, if you want to have uh quote unquote preeminence, serve others. Let your works speak for itself. Let your attitude and how you love others speak for itself. Let it stand out for itself. Quit trying to be better than somebody else and put yourself at the forefront, at the head of the line before other people. G. Craig Lewis, he's not like these disciples. G. Craig Lewis loves to be served. G. Craig Lewis loves the preeminence. [clears throat] G. Craig Lewis will tell you, "Y'all came here because of me. Oh, this ain't going on in my church. My church. My church. He loves to be the focal point of everything at ABC. See, when you have this attitude that without you, the church can't go anywhere, that's pride. And not only is that pride, but that's an attitude that God says he hates because God says that's one of the first sins that he hates is pride. And so the scripture makes it clear that the atrophies he loved to be first among them among who? among the leaders, among the church. Galatians 6:3 says, "For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself." See, [snorts] again, this is an attitude. And some people try to have this this this this pious false humility, but you can see through it. You can see through it, especially when they get exposed. Now they want to act humble. Now they want to act like though they're being attacked. Well, no, no, no. Uh the church belongs to Christ. It doesn't belong to man. We are undersheperds. We are slaves on God's plantation. And none of us should be jockeying for positions in God's church. But if God has you in church or in a church, he has you there for a reason. And that reason and reason alone is to serve. Is to serve, not to be served. And notice what the what the what the picture is. Jesus gives a picture of washing someone's feet. That's the lowest that is the lowest menial task that a person can do is bow down and wash another person's feet. that is humiliating and God manifested in the flesh. Jesus Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, he bows down and he washes the very creation that he made as an object lesson and as an example on how those of us who are in leadership ought to treat and [clears throat] are to respond to one another. Now, I'm not saying you got to have a foot washing service. No, I'm not talking about that. It's the attitude and posture and disposition that people know that you are humble. People know that you are a man that loves God's people by how you treat them. They're not walking around in fear of who you are because they know that you are a fellow collaborer in Christ although you are a leader in Christ's church among his people and over his people. But see you Craig Lewis that's not him. So the first reason, first reason, his relishing for rank. His [clears throat] relishing for rank. He loves it. Loves to be first. [snorts] Admires it when people put him first and will fight to stay first. That's the first thing. Second thing, reason number two, his rejection of authority. His rejection of authority. Look at the be clause in verse 9. The text says he does not accept what we say. I wrote something to the church but who loves to be first among them. Notice does not accept what we say. John is an apostle ladies and gentlemen. John is one of the ones who saw besides uh Peter and James, John is one of the three who saw Christ transfigured in all of his glory. This is that John. He's an apostle. He has authority given by Christ himself who is God in the flesh. And this man atrophies he rebelss. He refuses to accept the words of John as the authority that comes from Christ himself because he speaks on behalf of Christ. See this is inspired scripture that we're reading. John writes this letter. John gives instructions for the church to follow. Gaes is the recipient. Deotatrophes is the resistor. And not only is he the resistor, John says this man doesn't even accept what we say. He refuses to submit to godly authority. See, I don't know how you all see that, but that's very dangerous. When those of us who are Christians, we have the word of God in our hands. We read the word of God. We claim that we love the word of God. But when it comes time to obey the word of God, we don't obey what God's word says. And we don't obey the people from whom God's word has given us the authority to follow. So that's dangerous. That's rebellion. And not only is rebellion, it's abomination. Because the Bible says, "For rebellion is the sin of witchcraft." When you and I, it's one thing to be disobedient. It's it's one thing for us to sin and we struggle and and we and we fall into sin. We uh we disobey the word of God and and we struggle in that sin. But it's a it's another thing. It's a totally different thing when you high-handedly recalcitrantly rebel against God ordained authority. It doesn't matter if it's at home. It doesn't matter if it's in the state. It doesn't matter if it's in the church. When God has placed leaders over us, he expects for us and commands us to obey. But when we refuse to obey, when we refuse to submit under godly authority, God says that that is sin. Now, again, we're not talking about perfection here. We're not talking about how you and I can can stumble. We're not talking about that cuz James says we all stumble in many ways. We're talking about people who say, "I'm not doing this. I'm not going to do that. And unfortunately, we even have that going on right now with this whole Corona virus COVID 19 pandemic in our nation. We have born again Christians who are supposed to be ambassadors, who are supposed to be people who lead others to Christ. And what do they do? What do they do? They're leading people away from Christ by their disobedience. See, when you tell somebody that you're a Christian, you just put yourself and made yourself a target. You put yourself out there because now people are going to watch what you do. Now, they're going to watch what you do. They're going to watch what you say. Everything you do, they're going to watch you. They're going to see if it lines up to what you claim you say you are. So when you have pastors and and people who have positions of of of of influence in the world and in the church go against God ordained authority. Let me give you an example. And this is free. If your state, if your city has you on a stay-at-home order, and whatever that stay-at-home order stipulates, and that stay-at-home order does not violate the precepts and principles of God's word, and here's what I mean by that. It does not cause you to sin. It is not immoral and it is not illegal. I'm not talking about your rights. I'm talking about your relationship with Christ as his slave. If they're saying we can't gather and only so people so many people can gather, then that's what we're to do. But when you refuse to obey godly authority or God ordained authority, you are choosing to disobey, choosing to rebel against God himself. Just read Romans 13 1-5. Read first Peter chapter 2 verse 12-17 and look at what Peter through the word of God says on how we are to live in this world. So when you have a person like G Craig Lewis who wants people to follow him but he is not willing to follow the word of God it doesn't matter what he says anymore and if this is his pattern of life he is not a Christian he's a false teacher and this is what was the refused to accept what John said about those that he had called to go to the church. These brothers, these emissaries, these people that was spoken well of by John should have been received by the church, should have been received by the fees, but they wasn't. He refused to accept what John said as authority because he wanted to be his own authority. Gre Lewis is just like that. Grey Lewis follows his own authority and that's himself. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He he says that he he believes the word of God is the is the is the authority. But how you live it? How [clears throat] do how do you live it, George? How can you say that you follow the word of God, but you're not willing to follow what the word of God says about you and [clears throat] how you treat people? See, that's the question. First John chapter 4 verse 6 says this, "We are from God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not from God does not listen to us. By this, notice John is not giving you any reason to guess. He's telling you by [clears throat] this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. John says it's clear. John says it's clear how you and I know those who are of God and those who are not of God. How do they obey the word of God? How do they submit themselves under the word of God? Are they are they followers of God's word or have they fallen away from God's word? [clears throat] Which one? Because it can't be both. It's either one or the other. A person can claim that they love God, but how they treat and how they love their brethren will dictate and will reveal to you and I whether they are from God. Datroes refuse to submit to godly authority and so does G. Create Lewis. Gret Lewis runs his own church. Oh yeah, he has quote unquote elders on on the on the forefront and on paper if you will or visually he'll say that. Oh yeah, we we have elders and know. But yeah, but but are they biblical elders? Is Aon a biblical elder? Is Elder Trent a biblical elder? And the other ones are are they biblical elders? Because if they were biblical elders, G. Craig Lewis should have been sat down years ago. He should have never been ordained or never been called to be a pastor in the first place because he's not qualified to be one. According to scripture, this man is a hoe. He's a liar. He's a thief. He's a manipulator. This is what he is. The testimonies against this man are numerous and they continue to emerge. I continue to keep getting correspondence and information about this man and and I fact check it. and they're all true. How is it that this man is still in a position of authority, quote unquote, if the church that he claims teaches and believes the word of God has not removed him from that position? Answer, because he's atrophies in the flesh. [snorts] The characteristics of the atrophies is NG Craig Lewis and other false teachers like him or in particular this man. [clears throat] See, it's easy to talk about a Joel Ostein. It's easy to talk about a Kenneth Copelan. It's easy to talk about a TDJ. Those are lowhanging fruit on the false teacher tree. That's low hanging fruit. [clears throat] G. Craig Lewis hides behind. And the ironic and hyp hypocritical thing about that is that he will call these people out about their teaching and about their doctrine and about who they hang around and about what they do. But now when the tables are turned and now the rabbit got the gun, he wants to tuck tail and hide and play victim. He wants to tuck tail and hide and say that he's being attacked. He's being persecuted. No. No. No. It's reaping season now, George. What you have seown is coming back to you. All the exposees you've done, all the videos you've done, George, is now coming back around. People are tired of the hypocrisy. And people are not afraid of you. That's why those who have come out have come out. And there are others that are coming out. And they're all saying the same thing. They're all saying the same thing. This man is not a true shepherd. This man is not a true teacher of God's word. He builds his own kingdom. He builds his own authority. And those who don't submit to his way of doing things, he deals with them. Well, how does he deal with them? Same way deals with people. Fifth reason why Greek loses a false teacher. Uh he says he forbids those who desire to and puts them out of the church. He forbids those who desire to and puts them out of the church. His ruthless his ruthlessness over others. That's the fifth reason. That's the fifth reason why G. Craig Lewis is a false teacher. Because he's ruthless. I ain't talking about Easy E and Jerry Heler. No, this dude does not. He does not have any compassion. He does not have any compassion. He does not have any concern, any care for the flock. Look at the text clause of verse 10. And he forbids those who desire to do so. Not only does he not accept those into the fellowship or is not hospitable to those in the church, he tells other people who they can and can't fellowship with. And they choose to do so, he puts them out. [laughter] My my my It's G Craig. It's G Craig. It's G Craig all over. It's G Craig all over. I see G Craig all in this text. Diatrophes 2.0. Because this man puts people out of the church, but he he guises it. Listen, listen. He guises his putting people out of the church by telling these people that he's putting out of the church to take a break. Take some time off and and and I'll let you know when you can come back. Again, ladies and gentlemen, those who are in the chat, if I'm lying, tell me I'm lying. But if I'm telling you the truth, if those of you who have been members and and were members of that place, if I'm telling the truth for the sake of witness to the truth, put up a comment and affirm or deny what I just said is true. When you are put out of that church or out of that place because not a biblical church, he'll tell you to take a break. He'll put you on a sabbatical. That's what he calls it. He puts people out. How do you put out a person when they have not sinned? Answer. When you are an authoritarian, when you are a dictator, when you are a person who lords over God's flock ruthlessly, that's how Loretta said, one or 10,000, is it 10,000 or 100,000% facts? Consider the zero. 100,000% facts. He puts people out. puts people out of the church because they're not married. Puts people out of the church because uh they disagree with uh uh something regarding politics. Shondaanda Case just said it right there. He put her out of the church. Put her out of the church. And Shondaanda, if you would like, you can tell people why he put you out of the church. If you like, make put up the comment. Why did G Craig put you out of the church? Was it because you were in sin? Because if you were in sin, then that's different. But did he go through the process of church discipline? Did he go through Matthew 18:15-20? Did he go through 1 Corinthians uh 5:es 1-13? Did he go through the process of of of of church discipline and you were unrepentant and he put you out? Or did he put you out for no biblical reason or because of preference instead of principle and precept? And if he puts you out because of preference and because of things that he wanted done and and and it wasn't done the way he felt it should be done or or you didn't do something that he didn't like, then he is an abuser. He's just like Datrophies. He's a false teacher. He's an abuser. And he's no different than anyone else who he calls himself or he he calls false teachers themselves. Loretta says this and he encourages members not to talk to those that left or got put out. They basically act as if when you leave ABC, you leave the faith. Shondaie, you said he put you out because of what? Preferences. because of preferences. John the Baptist says, "Yep, I've heard him say that, too." Three witnesses. Three witnesses. So, I'm almost done. Bear with me, y'all. I just I'm just I'm giving you five biblical reasons. Five biblical reasons why G. Craig Lewis is a false teacher based on the text, based on the scriptures, based on what the word of God says. I mean, we already know he's an adulterer, an [clears throat] unrepentant adultery. He never repented. We already know he's an abuser. And you see, and the thing, and the reason I keep bringing that up is because he has not repented. He has not confessed to the people that he's done it to. He has not stepped down for what he has done. Author, you said, "What are what are some of uh Craig's false teachings?" I just gave you some of them. Uh gez. I mean well his view of baptism he says when believers are baptized they drown demons. He believes in the sperm covering doctrine. He believes that if you are a parent and your child is not a Christian or they or they fall away from the faith you are a failure. He calls men who are not married trash. He calls women who disagree with him jezebels. I mean, again, uh, yeah. Yes. Yes. Drown drowns demons. He look, you don't believe me? Go to his, go to his website and look up the sermon, and I say sermon with air quotes, water baptism. Water baptism. In fact, G. Craig Lewis did not believe in baptizing believers because he said that uh uh baptism was a Roman Catholic dogma. Not lying. He just baptized 300 people. Actually, he didn't do it. He had his elders do it. But it took him what, five, six, seven, eight years before he baptized anybody. He said he wanted to make sure that he was doing it right. how how how how difficult it is to know that when a person gets saved, the next command they ought to be outside of um just repenting and turning from their sin is to be baptized. [clears throat] I mean, but but here's here's here's a comical thing about about him. Uh Arthur, he's always saying that God told him this. God said that. God spoke to me and God came in my room and and and God did this and and and I've heard God say this to me, but God never told you that you need to baptize people who just got saved. So your communication is that is so on point that he talked to you about everything else that we can't verify, but but you you you ain't never heard him saying his word. uh going to all the word, preaching the gospel, baptizing them in the name of the father, son, and holy spirit. You you didn't you didn't hear that. Now that that's those just some of the things and and people who are who used to be members of his church, they can tell you some of the false teachings that G. Craig Lewis have said. So, aside besides from being an unrepentant adulterer, uh uh an unrepentant thief, an unrepentant liar, unrepentant slanderer, aside from those things, aside from being an unrepentant manipulator, aside from those things, I mean, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. But let me let me finish with the rest of the of the uh of the lesson here. But I I appreciate the question. I appreciate the question. But his but the fifth reason why G. Craig Lewis is a false teacher is because of his is because of his his his ruthless his ruthless or ruthlessness over other believers. He puts people out of the church for no biblical reason. That's that's see and that's the problem. You're not you're not putting people out because of sin. You're putting people out because because you can. And this is why I believe um Dotrophies is just like G Craig Lewis or G Craig Lewis excuse me is just like Datrophies because if Datroes had church in his house [snorts] then I can see how he can pull off putting people out of the church refusing to be hospitable to these people not giving them uh fellowship ship, genuine godly fellowship. And you know what? The same is true with G. Craig because Greg runs ABC. He does not have elders that he have to hold him accountable. Absolutely, Kim. It is abuse. Yes, it is abuse. Let me put that up there. Shondai, you said this. He doesn't like single divorced women and said a woman no matter what can't file for a divorce having adultery affairs, STDs, abusive, not keeping a job and abandons his family. These are the reasons that that Shawn is saying if a person committed adultery, has STDs, is abusive, not keeping a job, and abandons his family. G Craig Lewis, and I heard him say it. Pull up his exosition video. He tells people they can't get divorced. And if they do get divorced, this is what happens. He puts them out. And and the sad thing about it is again, [snorts] he doesn't even go through the process of it. He doesn't let the elders in the church decide that. He decides it and puts people out. And notice it's not because they sin. It's because he does not agree with them. And that is abuse as King Simpson said. Amen. It is abuse. Let me finish here with the with the rest of the slides here. And he forbids those who desire to do so and puts them out of the church. 1 Corinthians 1:29. Not that we lorded over your faith, but we are workers together with you for your joy. See, when a person is a true undersheperd, a follower of Christ, they don't lower their authority over over uh God's people because you know why? They understand where their authority came from. It comes from comes from Christ. It comes from Christ. 1 Thessalonians 2:8, "Having so so fond an affection for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives because you have become very dear to us." [clears throat] Second Thessalonians, I'm going to turn there. It's not in my uh down the screen. something that just came to mind here as I was uh studying this. But in 2 Thessalonians chapter uh 1, I believe um uh verse 4. No, I'll read that one later. I'm going to read that one later. I'm going read that one later. I'm going to read that one later. U but verse 7 of of 1 Thessalonians chapter 2. But we prove to be gentle among you as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children. See, G Craig can't say that. G Craig can't even say that he's tender and gentle toward anybody because people that I've I've talked to and spoken with, tender is not a a characteristic that they will say G. Craig Lewis is um cult leader, tyrant, abusive, bully, fearmonger, insensitive, unloving, judgmental. Those are just some of the things that I've I've I've gathered and and uh in my conversation with people that this man is not fit to be a pastor at all. He He's not even fit to be anything in Christ Church because of his treatment of the brethren. 1 Peter 5:1-3 says, "Therefore I exalt the elders among you as your fellow elder and the witness of the sufferings of Christ and a partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed. shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily according to the will of God, and not for sorted gain, but with eagerness, nor yet as lording it over the flock, as lording over those allotted to your charge, but proving to be examples to the flock. God says this, we're not lords over anyone. We lead people as Christ leads us in his word. That's what we are to do. And when you find people like a G Craig Lewis, when you find people who are abusive, when you find people who refuse to submit to authority, when you find people who are uh who glory and and have a reputation or a desire to be first and and and to have the rank and file of those who have to be seen as first, they refuse to submit to authority. They revile uh other people. They slander them. They refuse to fellowship with other believers. When they do that and then and they're ruthless in their leading and ruling and and caring for people, then what should we do to those kind of people? But he said this also one of the things he's done. He said, "And if your husband swings at you, you better learn how to duck." That is what G. Craig Lewis said. And for the record, Sister Loretta, can you put up where he made that comment and where you heard that comment stated? Were you present? Was that hearsay? Was that, you know, uh, somebody told me? Were you actually present there? Can you put up a comment and let us know? because I'm going to put that statement up on the screen for those who watch it can see it themselves and then they have to be forced to answer why would they follow a man who supports domestic violence and abuse of women. Um Jerry, you said what then? What kind of example is Craig setting? I I I agree. Red, you said your answer was I was there. You heard him say it. And if you heard him say it, then other people heard him say it too. Am I am I correct in that in that statement? If you heard him say it, then you know that it's likely, highly likely the other people when you were present heard him say it there as well, too. Um, yeah, you said cuz he tried to play it off like he was joking. Shondaanda Cage, you said, "Yep, I'm a witness, too." >> [clears throat] >> So, how do we respond? How do we deal with people like G. Craig Lewis? What should be the church's response to Greg Lewis? How should we as people deal with a man like this? I believe we know the answer to that, but I'm going to put it up here and show the the rest of the audience and those who watch it. We're to [clears throat] rebuke and expose him. That's what we're to do. We're to rebuke and expose him. Look at verse 10 in in third John. John says, "For this reason, for what? For what dastrophes had done. Refused to accept what I said." He wanted to be first. Refused accept what I said. He He slandered me. Tried to misrepresent me and discredit me as an elder apostle. He refuses the fellowship and the hospitality given to people. He refuses to be hospitable toward others and put people out and puts people out for those who want to fellowship and be hospitable to others. And he's ruthless and he's careless. How should I deal with him? John says, "For this reason, [clears throat] if I come or when I come," is how the word should be rendered. I will call attention to his deeds, which he does. That's what John says he's gonna do. John said, I'm not letting him slide with this. I'm not letting it go. I'm not just gonna quote unquote pray for him. As I heard people tell me regarding G. Craig Lewis, I had an older lady tell me this earlier this week. Just pray for him. Pray for the brother. Ma'am, he's not a brother of mine. And he's not a brother of any brother, sister in Christ who treats people this way as a pattern of life. We're not talking about a one-time issue here. We're talking about this man's life and his ministry, quote unquote, on how he treats God's people. That's what we're talking about. [clears throat] And if John says he's going to call attention to these people's deeds, then that's what we supposed to do. And it doesn't matter what he may have done in the past. Who cares what what he's done in the past and what he's treating people or how he's treating people in the present is wrong and it's sinful. The Bible says in Proverbs 27:5 and 6, better is open rebuke than love that is concealed. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy. Ephesians 5:11 says, "Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them." That's what we're called to do, ladies and gentlemen. We're not to sit back and let false teachers like G. Craig just go and are we just going to pray? And I I I pray that he repents. Listen, false teachers can't repent. Do you understand that? They're already condemned. They're already damned. Read second Peter 2. Judgment has already been pronounced on them. That's why they can't repent. They've been they've been warned enough times. They're false teachers. God's judgment and condemnation is already on them. And I put it to you like this. Has G. Craig repented in the past 20 years. He's been doing it for this long. If you're calling Kenneth Copeland a false teacher, TD Jake a false teacher, CFO a false teacher, he called Eddie Long a false teacher. So then what about him? Put them in the same pool. The Bible says do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness. And you know how you can become a participant of this stuff? When you don't expose it. When you know you should open your mouth and you don't say anything, that's how you become a participant of it. Oh, you don't have to do it yourself, but you know it's being done and you know people are being hurt and harmed by it. You know people's lives are being destroyed and because it ain't your toothache, you don't care about anybody else saying, "Ouch." God says we're not to participate in it, but we are to expose it publicly. We're to expose it publicly. And that's a command, ladies and gentlemen. That's not a suggestion. J, you said your silence is your agreement. A to the man. Manica, you said pattern of life. Amen. Persistent habitual unrepentant habits. Lonnell said, "This is a muchneeded biblical breakdown of a false teacher." Amen. Praise God. This is what we are supposed to do. Expose them. And we're to expose them because other lives are at stake. That's why we're to expose them. [screaming] That's my job. It ain't to just try to out nobody or nothing. I'm just taking what they said. >> That's right. >> And I'm going to show you what the Bible says. And that's the ter root checkmate. >> My lord. [music]