Jeff Chamblee Welcome to Real Truth for Today with Pastor Jeff Schrieve, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church in Texarkana, Texas. Now, here's Pastor Jeff.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Well, good Friday morning and welcome to Real Truth for today. Pastor Jeff here. Hope you are having a good day so far.
Jesus Teaches That Persecuted Believers Are Salt And Light
I, wanted to read to you from Matthew chapter five. Matthew chapter five. You know, Jesus is giving his sermon on the mount. Matthew 5, 6 and 7. And, this is what is recorded for us. He gives the Beatitudes. Blessed are the people who are this way and this way and this way. And then he sums up the Beatitudes this way. And he said, blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you. You feel blessed when people insult you. Well, Jesus said you're blessed when people insult you and persecute you. That means they pursue you. They come after you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great great. For in the same way they persecuted and they went after the prophets who were before you. Then he goes into this, this little section. You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are, the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Last Days Selfishness And The Bible's Warning About Godlessness
I want to talk to you today about facing persecution. You know, as we live in these last days and as the apostle Paul said in 2 Timothy chapter 3. But realize this. In the last days, difficult times will come, for men will be lovers of self, lovers of money. It's kind of interesting. Lovers of self, love. You know, the greatest commandment. Jesus made it very clear. The greatest commandment is to love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. But in the last days, what do we see? Men don't love God. They love themselves. It's all about self. And it goes back, you know, the Bible fits together like a hand in a glove. It all goes back to the original sin, the original temptation. Eve, if you eat of this fruit, you will not die. You will not surely die. For God knows in the day you eat of it, you will be like God, knowing good and evil. You can be your own God. And what do we see in the last days? Men will be lovers of self because they're worshiping themselves. And a lover of self is followed by a lover of money. Lovers of self. Lovers of money. Boastful, arrogant, revilers, Disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips without self control. Brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God holding to a form of godliness. James Talarico is a good example of that. Although they have denied its power, avoid such men as these.
Christians Must Speak Truth Despite Opposition And Hostility
Listen, we, are going to face persecution if we're going to be salt and light in this world, if we're going to speak the truth in love, people are not going to like it. because truth is hate to those who hate the truth. And, you know, people. It's amazing to me how you have so many people who don't read the Bible, don't follow the Lord, yet they're wanting to tell Christians how they are supposed to live and the place they're supposed to have in this world and what they're supposed to do and what they're not supposed to do and how they're, they know the verse from Matthew 7. Do not judge, lest you be judged. Oh, they, they know that one. And, and we're not like Jesus, and we're not loving like Jesus and blah, blah, blah. It's like you've created a Jesus out of your own imagination and you step back and see why in the World, did they nail Jesus to a tree? This Jesus that you create in your own mind that's just so sweet and so, conciliatory and just so kind and just loves on everybody and accepts everybody and has no standards. He's just a big ball of mush. That's a Jesus you've created out of your own mind. That's another Jesus whom we have not preached. That's not the Jesus of the Bible. The Jesus of the Bible confronted sin. The Jesus of the Bible, told his brothers, the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its deeds are evil. He called out sin, and the world hated him for it. And Jesus said, this is the judgment that the light has come into the world. And men love the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the light so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought and in God. Hey, if you stand up for Jesus, if you are going to be salt and light like he has called us to be, like he's created us and saved us to be, and he says, don't get polluted. How does salt lose its savor? It gets polluted. And don't hide your light under a bushel basket, but let it shine. And it shines. First it fills the house. You have to shine at home. Your home is your greatest testimony. Your marriage and family are your greatest testimony. And then it goes out from there, there. And, when you are salt and light, the world will not like it. Now there are people in the world that the Lord is going to save. They will come to the light. Think about your own salvation. You came to the light. I came to the light. I was convicted of my sin and I responded to that conviction and I asked Jesus to save me. I repented and put my faith and trust in Jesus. I came to the light, but the world in general. First Jon, chapter five. The whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And so we see what's going on in the world.
A Christian's Allegiance Must Follow God's Word Above Politics
That's why I have such a frustration when I was talking about the pastor in Dallas that, was saying, you know, black evangelical churches are rejoicing with the way the vote went last Tuesday. And white evangelical churches are, not rejoicing. They're, you know, upset about that. And they're, they're bemoaning that and lamenting that, well, I I asked Bishop, E.W. jackson. I sent that to him, and I said, what would you say about this? And he says, well, I know the guy, who wrote that. And, he said, you know that guy. Sadly, in his estimation, he has been whipped into submission. And, he said, I've seen it before. And, he goes on to say this. He said, when you make, race part of your church and racial identity, he said, I have faced considerable discrimination. Bishop E.W. jackson is black. He said, I have faced considerable discrimination for being conservative, but virtually no discrimination from my skin color. My wife, agreed that race has not stopped us from achieving any goal we have set for ourselves. That's not a popular thing to say in liberal precincts and the black community, but it's the truth. he said, do you think I would have been elected to political office if I were a liberal? He said, there's no doubt in my mind, of course. I mean, E.W. jackson, he could have sold out and been the darling of the left as a very, accomplished, articulate, black, man. But E.W. jackson loves the Lord. E.W. jackson is going to stand up and, call evil. Evil. He's going to speak the truth in love. And what does the left do? They hate him for it. When you invite, E.W. jackson to come to your church and speak, he has to bring a bodyguard because he knows that, there are those who would want to hurt him. And so Jesus said, we're blessed when people insult us and persecute us. See where it's coming from? Now, if the people who love the Lord and walk with the Lord, the people who are salt and light are calling you out, you who claim to be, evangelical, Christian, you got to take note of that. if you're getting rebuked by those who are, on the Lord's side, you need to wake up and smell the coffee. As I've said this repeatedly, but it's such an important point. You look to see who is on your team. Just as you know, we have said, the Lord is not, Republican. He's not a Democrat. He's the Lord. He's king. But the question is, who is on the Lord's side and who is trying to follow, the word and will and ways of God, and who is going in the opposite direction from the word and will and ways of God? if you're on the team that's going in the opposite directions on a bullet train, to the other side from the Lord's side. You gotta get off the train. You can't keep going there and keep supporting that. It makes no sense at all.
Pastors Must Warn Society And Remain Faithful Under Persecution
Now I ran, across a clip from, a black pastor in, I think it's in North Carolina. But this is what he had to say to his congregation.
Speaker D Can't go with a party that wants to cut little girls breasts off to make them boys. I can't go with a party that says you can be a boy today and a girl tonight tomorrow. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't support a party that wants to remove God from its party platform. You in trouble when the nation forgets God. I can't follow a party that wants to sexualize our children in school, put drag queens in front of them, reading them little children stories. I can't do it. I can't support a party that wants to take the rights of parents away. In California right now, parents are being arrested because they won't go alone with the sexualization of their children. But there are many parents that are compromising. Y' all got to make a decision. Is either God or the devil.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Well said. It's either God or the devil, huh? You know, as the old Bob Dillon song said, you, you're gonna have to serve somebody. It may be the devil or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody. And as Paul said, I am a fool for Christ. When I was in college, somebody made up a shirt that said, I am a fool for Christ. Whose fool are you? We have lots of people who are fools for the devil and for the devil's agenda. We, want to be, the Lord's bond servants, the Lord's doulosses, the Lord's slave. If we're laughed at, if we're insulted, so be it. I posted on Facebook the other day I had some people upset with me because truth is hate to those who hate the truth. And they, they want to be able to comment on my Facebook page. Well, you have to be a friend of mine to comment on my Facebook page because I don't just open it up to anybody. That can be their dumping ground. And so I just said, listen, my, my, I'm not going to go back and forth with you and debate you on. You're you're trying to support, you know, gender identity politics or, you know, all this DEI stuff, or boys playing in girls sports, all that. I'm just not going to debate with you. God hasn't called me to Be a debater. He's called me to warn you that judgment is coming if you don't. I'm a watchman on the wall. Ezekiel 33. Christians are watchmen, Watchmen on the wall. A watchman. And, God's called us to warn people that judgment is coming, just like Noah warned people. If people don't heed the warning, that's on them. But if we don't warn them, then that's on us. And we have to be faithful to speak the truth in love. Well, you're listening to Real Truth for today. Pastor Jeff Schrieve here on American Family Radio. And I'm on every weeknight at 6pm Central Time with from his heart Ministries. And so you can listen to hopefully good preaching there. We'll be right back after the break.
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Church Announcements Promote Witnessing Shoeboxes And Holy Land Travel
Pastor Jeff Schreve Welcome back to the program. Pastor Jeff here wanted to remind you we have Christmas buttons for 2026. You can get those at, resources.aca.net or you can call 8779-274947-77927-4917. And you, know you wear one of these Christmas buttons and it opens the door to witness for the Lord Jesus. And people will ask you about it. You don't even have to say anything and people will ask you about it. Hey, where did you get that button? you know, other Christians would love to perhaps put on a button. as we had, the pastor on just, just this week and he talked about, he's given out lots and lots of buttons because people See him wearing it and they want to wear it. And he's a button guy for sure. I think he wears a button all the time as a witnessing tool. So encourage you to check that out and then also oper Operation Christmas Child National Collection Week is next week, November 16th through the 23rd. We have shoeboxes all around the church, for people to pick up and get, the resources that they need in that shoebox and bring them back on. our big shoebox Sunday is the 22nd of November. And we're going to have Shoebox Sunday. We're going to have the Lord's Supper Sunday. It's going to be a special, special Sunday as we get ready for Thanksgiving and we give thanks for the, to the Lord, for the cross and the empty tomb. And so we make that ah, a big Sunday in our church. you can learn how to pack a shoebox by going to samaritanspurse.org OCC OCC stands for Operation Christmas Child Samaritans purse.org OCC and I will say this as somebody who is there with the kids in the Dominican Republic just, earlier this, this year when they got their shoeboxes, they're like any other kid. Ah, kids are kids. I don't care where they're from around the world. They love toys. And while OCC says that you need to put in some school supplies and hygiene items, those things are good. Toothbrush and things like that, maybe hand sanitizer. The thing they love more than anything getting is some kind of toy, whether it's a ball or a car or a doll or something that they can play with. Because you know, you have to think back when I was 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, what, what did I want? I didn't, I wasn't thinking to myself, I hope my parents get me colored pencils. I was thinking of toys. So, opportunity to do that. And then one last thing. We're going to Israel in April, April 2nd through the 11th. I'm leading a trip. We have, I, think 60, five or so signed up for the trip. And we'd love to have you come with us. I know Tim and Allison Wildmon are in Israel, right? The big group. They had 130 go with them to Israel. So you obviously missed that one. But if you've been wanting to go to Israel, love for you to come with me and Dr. Krish Schroeder, we're going to lead that trip. So you can go to from his heart.org from his heart.org and, just click on Holy Land 2027. You can get all the particulars, you can sign up online. And if you have any questions, you feel free to email us or call us. We'd love to, answer those for you. And we'd love, to welcome you with us on this trip, of a lifetime to the holy land in 2027.
Shreve Criticizes Political Leaders And Explains Christian Freedom From Sin
Okay, so Jon Fetterman, Senator Jon Fetterman from Pennsylvania. He has turned out, to be a great senator. A, senator who still has sanity. You know, I contend that there are so many in our country, and they're in that have lost their minds. they're the Romans. One crowd. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason, God gave them over to degrading passions. And then it says, and as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind to do those things which are not proper. We have people today making decisions that affect the whole country, and they have a depraved mind. They have a reprobate mind. That's a mind that no longer functions morally. that's an Isaiah 5:20 situation where you have people who call evil good and good evil. Hakeem Jeffries, he was asked about, you know, them having power now come, January, and he was saying that, yeah, they're wanting to consider bringing back the people that Trump has deported and paying them, because that's what the American people want. Listen to his clip.
Speaker G Dozens of DACA recipients are among those already deported under this administration's immigration crackdown. Would you support efforts to bring them back into the US
Don Wildmon Certainly anyone, whether they are a citizen, whether they were here lawfully, whether they're a DACA recipient who's been treated unfairly and unjustly by the administration. We need to provide remedial assistance to them and undo the damage that's been done to the country, to law abiding immigrant families, and to the American people over this last 20 months or so.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Okay. A, law abiding immigrant family, as, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on the View. And you go into the View, hats off to Sarah for doing that. Because you talk about going into the lion's den. Those people, all of them have reprobate minds, in my opinion. but she was calling him illegal aliens. And they're Sunny Hosten or one of those ladies on there was like, no, One's illegal. No person is illegal. She goes, well, if you're in the country and you broke the law, you are illegally in the country, you are an illegal alien. that's the definition of the word. you're not trying to diminish the person as a person and their worth before God. But, you know, if you commit a crime, guess what you're rightly called? A criminal. Ah, criminal. criminals commit crimes. You know, we're all sinners because we have sinned. Now, the difference between a Christian and a non Christian, A, Christian is a sinner saved by grace, and a non Christian is a sinner who continues on in sin. And so, you know, when we stand before God, we stand, Jude says, blameless, with great joy. We're not sinless. We're blameless because there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and of death. We have placed our faith where God put our sins on the Lord Jesus Christ. And so we are set free. We're delivered, out of death into life.
Political Discernment Requires Churches To Confront Cultural Issues
Okay, so Jon Federman, he's talking about the Democrat Party, and, he was on with Shawn Hannity last week, and he had some great things to say. he calls, people in the Democrat Party the dirtbag left. Listen to this.
Don Wildmon To
Jon Fetterman me, this represents nothing of the old Democratic Party that we once knew.
Don Wildmon Yeah, no, I mean, the kind of people that are trying to run out of. I mean, they're just good, traditional kinds of Democrats you would have expect in NewSong York City now. And now this has just become really. It's just been the dancing days of the dirt bag left, you know, with some of these candidates are outrageous. You know, you have candidates, they abolish ice, abolish the police, abolish the border. And she even said f. Kamala Harris and more of these outrageous kinds of things. And now and then you have, like, Mamdani, he was grieving, Hamas sniper was killed by Israel, just the other day, and he was grieving that. I mean, these are an emerging. The full pro Hamas wing. You know, a lot of these candidates that very likely are going to win tonight just declaring a war on just regular Democrats.
Pastor Jeff Schreve All right, well, you know, if you. If you vote for a person who is pro Hamas and grieves Hamas when they. When one of their snipers or assassins gets killed, as I said, who is on the Lord's side, that's not the Lord's side, you're on the wrong. If you're on the team with those people, you're on the wrong team. you know, in Germany, if you were on Team Hitler, guess what? Look, hindsight is 20 20. You were on Team Hitler, you were on the wrong team. You were on the team of a guy who, was personally responsible through his decisions, through his rhetoric, through his leadership of the murder of 6 million Jews, plus anywhere from 11 to 17 million, from World War II, you're supporting that guy, you're on the wrong team. And if you didn't oppose that guy, as we said yesterday and we've repeated on this program, Rick Metaxas said There were roughly 18,000 Protestant pastors in Germany, during the time of Hitler, and only 3,000 spoke against him. 3,000 were openly for him, 3,000 spoke against him, and 12,000 buried their heads in the sand and didn't do anything. Now I was talking to Krish Schroeder, our associate pastor and frequent guest on Real Truth for today, and I said, you know, I did a three part series before the election called Religion and Politics and I noticed our attendance dropped. I don't know if that coincided with, with hunting season or what, but the attendance dropped. And Krish said, some people just can't handle it. They as, as Jack, Nicholas or Nicholson said in, in A Few Good Men, you can't handle the truth. And they just can't handle it, or they don't want to hear it, or they have a different. I don't, I don't think like you do, Pastor Jeff, and I'm for the poor. And James Talarico is such a wonderful, wholesome, godly guy. They have zero discernment. Absolutely zero discernment. James Talarico is of his father, the devil. He is a liar, he is a deceiver. He twists scripture. listen, you can have a non Christian candidate who still has a functioning, brain as far as morality goes, who still can tell the difference between good and evil. And you can have a candidate like James Talarico who doesn't. And, he calls good evil and evil good. And he twists the scripture. That guy is doing the work of the devil. And you are not able to discern that he is poison. You don't vote for poison, but they just can't handle it. So they are like, I don't want to think about that. I don't want to go to church and have to be confronted like that with truth. That really steps on my toes. That challenges me in what I believe and in how I'm living and in what I'm pursuing and what I'm voting for. so they don't come. They'd rather just be like. And one guy posted, on Facebook. I guess people don't see. Think I see this stuff, but it's like, you know, my pastor's talking about political, things, and so, should I go to another church? Well, if your pastor is not talking about the issues facing America and facing the world and the culture, the rotting culture in which we are living, if they don't go there because they. I don't want to rock the boat. I don't want to, you know, that's just not my place. Well, something's seriously wrong. We as pastors have to speak into that. And as I listened, to. I think it was Al Mohler, and he said, you know, what is the problem in America? The problem is the churches have been silent on these issues. and the churches need to speak about these issues, and we need to educate people. And it is alarming how many people we have in the electorate who are so ignorant of issues they think socialism is a cool thing. I saw a stat this morning that said 43% of, particular group of voters, maybe as Democrats, I can't remember what the percentage. It was. A large percentage of people think that Sharia law, it would be a good thing for America. And it's like, my soul, how in the world can you think that? Well, you're not. Listen, you can vote in socialism, you can vote in communism, you can vote in Islam and Sharia law, but you're not going to be able to vote it out. And it is going to, take over. And then you'll see how oppressive it is. Then you'll see how devastating it is when you're standing in bread lines and everyone's poor and things have deteriorated around you, and then what, you know, sad reality is you won't look in the mirror and say, I voted for this. You'll blame somebody else, because surely it can't be your fault. it's just sickening. And it takes the whole. We're all on the same ship. You know, as Americans, we're on. We're on the same ocean liner, the ship, America. And you have some people that are drilling holes in the ship, and we're trying to fill the holes and say, don't sink the ship. And you're thinking, well, I'm doing a good thing because I'm helping the poor. It's not helping the poor. It's not helping anybody. If the ship sinks, we all go down.
Fetterman's Support For Israel Precedes Listener Call Invitation
So, Fetterman also talked about Israel because that's a big point of contention for the left. They hate Israel. This is what Jon Fetterman said about that.
Jon Fetterman Why? Why the deep hatred for Israel? Why?
Don Wildmon Yeah, because, because, I mean, if you have such contempt for Israel, I mean, of course you're also anti American and you're anti Western civilian civilization and you're, you know, seem anti capitalism and the American way of life. I mean now, you know, they're all socialists, of course. And now there's communists, and now Marxists. And now they're proud of this. And now of course we have P Hustle in Maine. You know, that's another one. He's a self avowed, in a communist too. That's not even looked down out. And a significant part of the Democratic Party right now.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Jon Fetterman says he'll never, disavow his support for Israel even though he sees the Democrats bailing out on Israel. Well, you're listening to Real Truth for today. Pastor Jeff Schrieve here when we come back from the break. We'll be taking your calls. 888-589-8840. That's triple 858-988. If you have a question, you have a comment, I'd love to hear from you. So pick up the phone and let's talk here on American Family Radio.
Callers Discuss Israel's Biblical Significance And Christian Watchfulness
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Jeff Chamblee If you'd like to contact Pastor Jeff, email Pastor Jeff at From his heart. Now back to Real Truth for today with Pastor Jeff Schrieve.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Welcome back to the program. Pastor Jeff Schrieve here, the pastor of First Baptist Church in Texarkana, Texas and the founder of From His Heart Ministries. Hey, if you live anywhere in the Texarkana area and you don't have a church home, we would love for you to visit us at, First Baptist Texarkana. This Sunday is going to be a special Sunday. We have a speaker coming in who received a shoebox when he was, when he was a boy. he was somewhere, they haven't told us exactly where, but somewhere in Asia when he got his shoebox. And the Lord used that to bring him to faith in Christ. He's going to be sharing his testimony as we talk about, the impact of shoeboxes. Then I'm going to be preaching a message from Second Thessalonians, Chapter 2. I've entitled it when the Bow breaks most of us are familiar with that little nursery rhyme song. Rock a bye baby on the treetop when the wind blows the cradle will rock when the bough breaks, when that tree branch breaks, the cradle will fall and down will come baby, cradle and all. Listen, we're living at a time where eventually that that tree branch is going to break and the Lord is going to take us home. The day of grace and the day of the church will be over. And then we will enter in on planet earth into the day of the Lord. The Antichrist will come to power. The seven years of tribulation will begin. It's a seven year peace treaty that the Antichrist breaks. At the midpoint of the tribulation. He declares himself as God. He will, require everyone to worship him and to get his mark on your right hand or on your forehead, the 666, the number of man. And it is going to be hell on earth. God is unleashing his wrath. And listen, we don't want anybody to go through that and you don't have to go through that because the Lord is coming to rescue us from the wrath to come. But if you reject the Lord and you put that off and you reject and neglect him, then that's what's awaiting you. Because we're living at a time, in these last of the last days. As Jon said, children, it is the last hour. It's not just the last days, it's the last hour. And who knows if the things that happened a week ago Tuesday, that is, I think God can use it either way. He's using it as a wake up call to believers. And if we don't do what Nineveh did and respond to the warning yet, 40 days in, Nineveh will be overthrown. They respond to the warning. God relented concerning the calamity he said he would bring upon them and he did not do it. If, we respond like that, we can see God do great and mighty things. We can see a revival take place in America. But if we don't respond, if we continue to put our heads in the sand, if we continue to just say, well, we're just going to go on like normal, nothing's really going to change, Things are going to change and they're not going to change for the better. And so we have an opportunity. And if we don't respond, hey, I think the, bow is getting ready to break and these things are getting ready to take place. So as Paul said, for me to live as Christ, to die is gain. Heads, I win. Tails I win. As Adrian Rogers, had a sermon title one time with that if I live, I win. If I die, I win. I am the Lord's, and I win with him. And so, we don't need to fear. Well, we're going to the phone lines 888-58-9-8840. And we have Melba, on the line from Arkansas. Melba, welcome to Real Truth for today.
Caroline Hi, good morning. Thank
Pastor Jeff Schreve you.
Caroline I was telling the young lady that
Don Wildmon answered
Caroline the phone, I just have a comment, and it's concerning, Jon Fetterman. When the reporter asked him, why do people hate Israel? Mr. Fetterman went on to list the people that hated Israel. But he didn't give the why.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Right?
Caroline Many people don't give the why. And it is because, in my view, to give the why, it's, you have to be convicted because the God of the universe that, you know, inspired the greatest book ever, chose them. He chose the man made a race of people. He chose them just because he chose them. And they, you would have to be convicted because that's the genesis of the Jewish people is in the Bible. That's where the if. That's where would came from. And it, I think that's the reason is because you would have to admit that there's a. There's a God and he chose these people. And you know, something else ever, where they have ever been dispersed to that country has done well, has it not? Because of. Because of these people now, they eventually, you know, persecuted them, but, yeah, they're still around. And I may not have the same view of eschatology and end times as a lot of people, but I do know that there's a reason that these people have continue to prosper. And, But that Confederman, he. He just. He didn't give the why. He didn't answer the question, but
Pastor Jeff Schreve I think
Caroline that's why. It's because they are, they are of the Bible. And you would have to say, I believe. I believe.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Well, it's very obvious. You're exactly right. He didn't answer the question. it's very obvious to me the devil hates Israel. I've said this many times. so why is there such worldwide hatred for Israel? And why is that growing? You know, President Trump gets it that the world doesn't like Israel, and, why is that growing? Well, the devil hates Israel because God has made promises to Israel. And if the devil can destroy Israel. And in the Bible you, you had. The book of Esther is all about wiping out the Jews. God intervened to make sure that didn't happen. Because God is going to bring his son back, to sit on the throne of David, to rule and reign from Jerusalem. God is not done with Israel. Israel is one day going to be the head and not the tail. But the devil wants to destroy that. Because if the devil can destroy Israel, then the devil turns God into a promise breaker. And a promise breaker is not someone who tells the truth. And so he would get God to break his promise. I made all these promises to Israel, now I can't fulfill them. So I'm a promise breaker. So I don't tell the truth. So I can no longer be God because I'm a sinner. And so that is the disdain, the hatred for Israel. And the devil gets the whole world worked up to hate Israel. It's just a, it's a visual reminder, of 1 Jon 5:19. The whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And he is pushing everything under God's allowing this because God saw. But the devil is pushing everything toward the culmination of the Antichrist coming, taking power. And what does he want to do? He wants to wipe out Israel and he wants to wipe out the people of God. So I appreciate the call.
Caller Praises Truthful Preaching And Shares Texas Petition Information
We have Rebecca, from Arkansas. Rebecca, welcome to Real Truth for today.
Caroline Thank you Pastor Jeff. And I think you're wonderful for trying to teach your congregation the truth, pleasing God and not man. And it's so sad when people reject the truth and they think takes an easy way out, to not want truth. our congregation, the preacher was great about wanting me to have sample ballots out, you know, telling people as I listened to candidates and researched them, here's how you can vote in all these areas around Rogers. And it was just wonderful. And of course we were sad, at the lesson the Lord is teaching us through these election results. And I, sent you a, an email, but I got the email address just a little wrong. So I'll resend it today.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Okay.
Caroline Jenna, Ellis in the morning had State, ah, your Texas state Senator Brian Harrison on, on the fifth, November 5th after the election.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Yeah,
Caroline he was talking about that petition to save Texas. So I'll send you more info on that. But it's a wonderful petition to Greg Abbott to call a special session and fix up this emergency powers, law or clause whatever in your Texas laws so that the new Democrat Governor doesn't have these awful powers that
Pastor Jeff Schreve Greg Abbott has. Yeah. To destroy the state, that's for sure. Well, I appreciate it, Rebecca. Thank you for that. And, yeah, Pastor Jeff at From His Heart dot Org. So, go ahead and send that to me.
Ezekiel's Watchman Passage Reinforces Pastors' Duty To Warn
Well, we have Roy on the line from Mississippi. Roy, welcome to Real Truth for today.
Caroline Thank you, Brother Jeff. I appreciate it. appreciate what you do. I'm glad somebody's speaking out about this stuff, but
Pastor Jeff Schreve thank you.
Caroline I'm trying to find it, but I can't find it. But there's a scripture in the Bible where it says that the Lord was explaining that there's watchers on the wall to sound the alarm.
Pastor Jeff Schreve And,
Caroline if they refuse to sound that alarm, then the blood of the people
Speaker D is on their hands.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Right.
Caroline but if, what we got to realize is that the enemy's not at our gate. They're in our house. Mm m. And if we don't do something, we don't stand up and say, we're not gonna have this. They're gonna take over, and their blood's gone. The blood of this nation is gonna be on our hands.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Yeah.
Caroline I appreciate what you do, brother Jeff. I love you, man.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Thank you, Roy. I appreciate it, brother. Yeah, That's Ezekiel, chapter 33, verses 1 through 9, where the Lord says, yeah, I've placed you, as a watchman on the wall. And if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity. But his blood I will require from the watchman's hand. And so, God says, now as for you, son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel, so you will hear a message from my mouth and give them warning from me when I say to the wicked, o wicked man, you will surely die. And you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way. That wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require from your hand. But if you on your part, warn a wicked man to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity. But you have delivered your life, so we need to be faithful. Especially as pastors, we need to be faithful to warn people. The Lord is coming to judge. The day of the Lord will come, as Peter said. And what is the day of the Lord? The day of the Lord is, a terror. It is horrible. It Is God pouring out his wrath? Isaiah says this in Isaiah 13:9. Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel with fury and burning wrath, to make the land a desolation, and he will exterminate its sinners from it.
Shreve Condemns Abortion And Urges Believers To Stand Firm
Now, let me tell you, it's amazing how things, are going in our world. and we have, people that will. I was trying to find this on my phone. But we have people that celebrate, people that, under the banner of being a pastor. Now, these women pastors are not really pastors, because women are not allowed in scripture to be pastors. But this is a lady reverend, Dr. Becky T. Peters. And she's wearing, her clerical garb, with a sash on it that's from Planned Parenthood. And she has this quote. Abortion is a moral good. Abortion is an act of love. Abortion is an act of grace. Abortion is a blessing. Now, that's a lady who calls evil good and good evil. Abortion is the brutal murder of the innocent unborn by ripping them to shreds. It is murder in the worst degree. It is so far beyond the pale, and she thinks it is a blessing. It's an act of love. that's how twisted and perverted these people are. And that is the crown jewel of the left is the right to kill a baby in the womb. It is demonic. It is satanic. It is just like it was in the Old Testament. They sacrificed their sons and daughters, in the fire to the false God Molech or Chemosh. They had, f. The false gods of the Canaanites. And, child sacrifice was part of the deal, and God brought judgment on those people for doing that. And so we, need to wake up. We need to stand up. We need to speak up. Stand up. Stand up for Jesus, as the song says, ye soldiers of the cross. And, it's okay if you're persecuted and insulted and people say things against you that's not a lot of fun if you've ever been on the receiving end of that. Josh Howerton is getting hammered for that. And, you know, they're just picking through his life trying to find things that they can hammer him about because he stood up. He dared to stand up. We have to be willing to stand up regardless. Regardless of, the consequences.
Closing Prayer Request And Encouragement To Witness For Christ
Hey, let me just say, as we close out, I want you to be praying for a little boy. Jackson Barton is one of our pastors on staff. His little son Brooks, is, almost three years old. He'll be three in December. They're life flighting him to Little Rock and, to, Children's Hospital in Little Rock. He's got a seizure or something taking place. He was unresponsive that morning. So pray for little Brooks and pray for the, Barton family as they deal with this. Brooks had some trouble when he was first born, so we want to pray and ask the Lord to just intervene in that little guy's life. Beautiful little boy and wonderful family. So pray for the Barton family and pray for little Brooks Barton that God would put his healing hand on him. Hey, make it a great weekend. Shine for Christ. Share what great things the Lord has done for you. And know this. God will use you as his witness. God bless you.
Jeff Chamblee M. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
Jeff Chamblee Welcome to Real Truth for Today with Pastor Jeff Schrieve, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church in Texarkana, Texas. Now, here's Pastor Jeff.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Well, good Friday morning and welcome to Real Truth for today. Pastor Jeff here. Hope you are having a good day so far.
Jesus Teaches That Persecuted Believers Are Salt And Light
I, wanted to read to you from Matthew chapter five. Matthew chapter five. You know, Jesus is giving his sermon on the mount. Matthew 5, 6 and 7. And, this is what is recorded for us. He gives the Beatitudes. Blessed are the people who are this way and this way and this way. And then he sums up the Beatitudes this way. And he said, blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you. You feel blessed when people insult you. Well, Jesus said you're blessed when people insult you and persecute you. That means they pursue you. They come after you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great great. For in the same way they persecuted and they went after the prophets who were before you. Then he goes into this, this little section. You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are, the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Last Days Selfishness And The Bible's Warning About Godlessness
I want to talk to you today about facing persecution. You know, as we live in these last days and as the apostle Paul said in 2 Timothy chapter 3. But realize this. In the last days, difficult times will come, for men will be lovers of self, lovers of money. It's kind of interesting. Lovers of self, love. You know, the greatest commandment. Jesus made it very clear. The greatest commandment is to love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. But in the last days, what do we see? Men don't love God. They love themselves. It's all about self. And it goes back, you know, the Bible fits together like a hand in a glove. It all goes back to the original sin, the original temptation. Eve, if you eat of this fruit, you will not die. You will not surely die. For God knows in the day you eat of it, you will be like God, knowing good and evil. You can be your own God. And what do we see in the last days? Men will be lovers of self because they're worshiping themselves. And a lover of self is followed by a lover of money. Lovers of self. Lovers of money. Boastful, arrogant, revilers, Disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips without self control. Brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God holding to a form of godliness. James Talarico is a good example of that. Although they have denied its power, avoid such men as these.
Christians Must Speak Truth Despite Opposition And Hostility
Listen, we, are going to face persecution if we're going to be salt and light in this world, if we're going to speak the truth in love, people are not going to like it. because truth is hate to those who hate the truth. And, you know, people. It's amazing to me how you have so many people who don't read the Bible, don't follow the Lord, yet they're wanting to tell Christians how they are supposed to live and the place they're supposed to have in this world and what they're supposed to do and what they're not supposed to do and how they're, they know the verse from Matthew 7. Do not judge, lest you be judged. Oh, they, they know that one. And, and we're not like Jesus, and we're not loving like Jesus and blah, blah, blah. It's like you've created a Jesus out of your own imagination and you step back and see why in the World, did they nail Jesus to a tree? This Jesus that you create in your own mind that's just so sweet and so, conciliatory and just so kind and just loves on everybody and accepts everybody and has no standards. He's just a big ball of mush. That's a Jesus you've created out of your own mind. That's another Jesus whom we have not preached. That's not the Jesus of the Bible. The Jesus of the Bible confronted sin. The Jesus of the Bible, told his brothers, the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its deeds are evil. He called out sin, and the world hated him for it. And Jesus said, this is the judgment that the light has come into the world. And men love the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the light so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought and in God. Hey, if you stand up for Jesus, if you are going to be salt and light like he has called us to be, like he's created us and saved us to be, and he says, don't get polluted. How does salt lose its savor? It gets polluted. And don't hide your light under a bushel basket, but let it shine. And it shines. First it fills the house. You have to shine at home. Your home is your greatest testimony. Your marriage and family are your greatest testimony. And then it goes out from there, there. And, when you are salt and light, the world will not like it. Now there are people in the world that the Lord is going to save. They will come to the light. Think about your own salvation. You came to the light. I came to the light. I was convicted of my sin and I responded to that conviction and I asked Jesus to save me. I repented and put my faith and trust in Jesus. I came to the light, but the world in general. First Jon, chapter five. The whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And so we see what's going on in the world.
A Christian's Allegiance Must Follow God's Word Above Politics
That's why I have such a frustration when I was talking about the pastor in Dallas that, was saying, you know, black evangelical churches are rejoicing with the way the vote went last Tuesday. And white evangelical churches are, not rejoicing. They're, you know, upset about that. And they're, they're bemoaning that and lamenting that, well, I I asked Bishop, E.W. jackson. I sent that to him, and I said, what would you say about this? And he says, well, I know the guy, who wrote that. And, he said, you know that guy. Sadly, in his estimation, he has been whipped into submission. And, he said, I've seen it before. And, he goes on to say this. He said, when you make, race part of your church and racial identity, he said, I have faced considerable discrimination. Bishop E.W. jackson is black. He said, I have faced considerable discrimination for being conservative, but virtually no discrimination from my skin color. My wife, agreed that race has not stopped us from achieving any goal we have set for ourselves. That's not a popular thing to say in liberal precincts and the black community, but it's the truth. he said, do you think I would have been elected to political office if I were a liberal? He said, there's no doubt in my mind, of course. I mean, E.W. jackson, he could have sold out and been the darling of the left as a very, accomplished, articulate, black, man. But E.W. jackson loves the Lord. E.W. jackson is going to stand up and, call evil. Evil. He's going to speak the truth in love. And what does the left do? They hate him for it. When you invite, E.W. jackson to come to your church and speak, he has to bring a bodyguard because he knows that, there are those who would want to hurt him. And so Jesus said, we're blessed when people insult us and persecute us. See where it's coming from? Now, if the people who love the Lord and walk with the Lord, the people who are salt and light are calling you out, you who claim to be, evangelical, Christian, you got to take note of that. if you're getting rebuked by those who are, on the Lord's side, you need to wake up and smell the coffee. As I've said this repeatedly, but it's such an important point. You look to see who is on your team. Just as you know, we have said, the Lord is not, Republican. He's not a Democrat. He's the Lord. He's king. But the question is, who is on the Lord's side and who is trying to follow, the word and will and ways of God, and who is going in the opposite direction from the word and will and ways of God? if you're on the team that's going in the opposite directions on a bullet train, to the other side from the Lord's side. You gotta get off the train. You can't keep going there and keep supporting that. It makes no sense at all.
Pastors Must Warn Society And Remain Faithful Under Persecution
Now I ran, across a clip from, a black pastor in, I think it's in North Carolina. But this is what he had to say to his congregation.
Speaker D Can't go with a party that wants to cut little girls breasts off to make them boys. I can't go with a party that says you can be a boy today and a girl tonight tomorrow. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't support a party that wants to remove God from its party platform. You in trouble when the nation forgets God. I can't follow a party that wants to sexualize our children in school, put drag queens in front of them, reading them little children stories. I can't do it. I can't support a party that wants to take the rights of parents away. In California right now, parents are being arrested because they won't go alone with the sexualization of their children. But there are many parents that are compromising. Y' all got to make a decision. Is either God or the devil.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Well said. It's either God or the devil, huh? You know, as the old Bob Dillon song said, you, you're gonna have to serve somebody. It may be the devil or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody. And as Paul said, I am a fool for Christ. When I was in college, somebody made up a shirt that said, I am a fool for Christ. Whose fool are you? We have lots of people who are fools for the devil and for the devil's agenda. We, want to be, the Lord's bond servants, the Lord's doulosses, the Lord's slave. If we're laughed at, if we're insulted, so be it. I posted on Facebook the other day I had some people upset with me because truth is hate to those who hate the truth. And they, they want to be able to comment on my Facebook page. Well, you have to be a friend of mine to comment on my Facebook page because I don't just open it up to anybody. That can be their dumping ground. And so I just said, listen, my, my, I'm not going to go back and forth with you and debate you on. You're you're trying to support, you know, gender identity politics or, you know, all this DEI stuff, or boys playing in girls sports, all that. I'm just not going to debate with you. God hasn't called me to Be a debater. He's called me to warn you that judgment is coming if you don't. I'm a watchman on the wall. Ezekiel 33. Christians are watchmen, Watchmen on the wall. A watchman. And, God's called us to warn people that judgment is coming, just like Noah warned people. If people don't heed the warning, that's on them. But if we don't warn them, then that's on us. And we have to be faithful to speak the truth in love. Well, you're listening to Real Truth for today. Pastor Jeff Schrieve here on American Family Radio. And I'm on every weeknight at 6pm Central Time with from his heart Ministries. And so you can listen to hopefully good preaching there. We'll be right back after the break.
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Church Announcements Promote Witnessing Shoeboxes And Holy Land Travel
Pastor Jeff Schreve Welcome back to the program. Pastor Jeff here wanted to remind you we have Christmas buttons for 2026. You can get those at, resources.aca.net or you can call 8779-274947-77927-4917. And you, know you wear one of these Christmas buttons and it opens the door to witness for the Lord Jesus. And people will ask you about it. You don't even have to say anything and people will ask you about it. Hey, where did you get that button? you know, other Christians would love to perhaps put on a button. as we had, the pastor on just, just this week and he talked about, he's given out lots and lots of buttons because people See him wearing it and they want to wear it. And he's a button guy for sure. I think he wears a button all the time as a witnessing tool. So encourage you to check that out and then also oper Operation Christmas Child National Collection Week is next week, November 16th through the 23rd. We have shoeboxes all around the church, for people to pick up and get, the resources that they need in that shoebox and bring them back on. our big shoebox Sunday is the 22nd of November. And we're going to have Shoebox Sunday. We're going to have the Lord's Supper Sunday. It's going to be a special, special Sunday as we get ready for Thanksgiving and we give thanks for the, to the Lord, for the cross and the empty tomb. And so we make that ah, a big Sunday in our church. you can learn how to pack a shoebox by going to samaritanspurse.org OCC OCC stands for Operation Christmas Child Samaritans purse.org OCC and I will say this as somebody who is there with the kids in the Dominican Republic just, earlier this, this year when they got their shoeboxes, they're like any other kid. Ah, kids are kids. I don't care where they're from around the world. They love toys. And while OCC says that you need to put in some school supplies and hygiene items, those things are good. Toothbrush and things like that, maybe hand sanitizer. The thing they love more than anything getting is some kind of toy, whether it's a ball or a car or a doll or something that they can play with. Because you know, you have to think back when I was 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, what, what did I want? I didn't, I wasn't thinking to myself, I hope my parents get me colored pencils. I was thinking of toys. So, opportunity to do that. And then one last thing. We're going to Israel in April, April 2nd through the 11th. I'm leading a trip. We have, I, think 60, five or so signed up for the trip. And we'd love to have you come with us. I know Tim and Allison Wildmon are in Israel, right? The big group. They had 130 go with them to Israel. So you obviously missed that one. But if you've been wanting to go to Israel, love for you to come with me and Dr. Krish Schroeder, we're going to lead that trip. So you can go to from his heart.org from his heart.org and, just click on Holy Land 2027. You can get all the particulars, you can sign up online. And if you have any questions, you feel free to email us or call us. We'd love to, answer those for you. And we'd love, to welcome you with us on this trip, of a lifetime to the holy land in 2027.
Shreve Criticizes Political Leaders And Explains Christian Freedom From Sin
Okay, so Jon Fetterman, Senator Jon Fetterman from Pennsylvania. He has turned out, to be a great senator. A, senator who still has sanity. You know, I contend that there are so many in our country, and they're in that have lost their minds. they're the Romans. One crowd. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason, God gave them over to degrading passions. And then it says, and as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind to do those things which are not proper. We have people today making decisions that affect the whole country, and they have a depraved mind. They have a reprobate mind. That's a mind that no longer functions morally. that's an Isaiah 5:20 situation where you have people who call evil good and good evil. Hakeem Jeffries, he was asked about, you know, them having power now come, January, and he was saying that, yeah, they're wanting to consider bringing back the people that Trump has deported and paying them, because that's what the American people want. Listen to his clip.
Speaker G Dozens of DACA recipients are among those already deported under this administration's immigration crackdown. Would you support efforts to bring them back into the US
Don Wildmon Certainly anyone, whether they are a citizen, whether they were here lawfully, whether they're a DACA recipient who's been treated unfairly and unjustly by the administration. We need to provide remedial assistance to them and undo the damage that's been done to the country, to law abiding immigrant families, and to the American people over this last 20 months or so.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Okay. A, law abiding immigrant family, as, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on the View. And you go into the View, hats off to Sarah for doing that. Because you talk about going into the lion's den. Those people, all of them have reprobate minds, in my opinion. but she was calling him illegal aliens. And they're Sunny Hosten or one of those ladies on there was like, no, One's illegal. No person is illegal. She goes, well, if you're in the country and you broke the law, you are illegally in the country, you are an illegal alien. that's the definition of the word. you're not trying to diminish the person as a person and their worth before God. But, you know, if you commit a crime, guess what you're rightly called? A criminal. Ah, criminal. criminals commit crimes. You know, we're all sinners because we have sinned. Now, the difference between a Christian and a non Christian, A, Christian is a sinner saved by grace, and a non Christian is a sinner who continues on in sin. And so, you know, when we stand before God, we stand, Jude says, blameless, with great joy. We're not sinless. We're blameless because there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and of death. We have placed our faith where God put our sins on the Lord Jesus Christ. And so we are set free. We're delivered, out of death into life.
Political Discernment Requires Churches To Confront Cultural Issues
Okay, so Jon Federman, he's talking about the Democrat Party, and, he was on with Shawn Hannity last week, and he had some great things to say. he calls, people in the Democrat Party the dirtbag left. Listen to this.
Don Wildmon To
Jon Fetterman me, this represents nothing of the old Democratic Party that we once knew.
Don Wildmon Yeah, no, I mean, the kind of people that are trying to run out of. I mean, they're just good, traditional kinds of Democrats you would have expect in NewSong York City now. And now this has just become really. It's just been the dancing days of the dirt bag left, you know, with some of these candidates are outrageous. You know, you have candidates, they abolish ice, abolish the police, abolish the border. And she even said f. Kamala Harris and more of these outrageous kinds of things. And now and then you have, like, Mamdani, he was grieving, Hamas sniper was killed by Israel, just the other day, and he was grieving that. I mean, these are an emerging. The full pro Hamas wing. You know, a lot of these candidates that very likely are going to win tonight just declaring a war on just regular Democrats.
Pastor Jeff Schreve All right, well, you know, if you. If you vote for a person who is pro Hamas and grieves Hamas when they. When one of their snipers or assassins gets killed, as I said, who is on the Lord's side, that's not the Lord's side, you're on the wrong. If you're on the team with those people, you're on the wrong team. you know, in Germany, if you were on Team Hitler, guess what? Look, hindsight is 20 20. You were on Team Hitler, you were on the wrong team. You were on the team of a guy who, was personally responsible through his decisions, through his rhetoric, through his leadership of the murder of 6 million Jews, plus anywhere from 11 to 17 million, from World War II, you're supporting that guy, you're on the wrong team. And if you didn't oppose that guy, as we said yesterday and we've repeated on this program, Rick Metaxas said There were roughly 18,000 Protestant pastors in Germany, during the time of Hitler, and only 3,000 spoke against him. 3,000 were openly for him, 3,000 spoke against him, and 12,000 buried their heads in the sand and didn't do anything. Now I was talking to Krish Schroeder, our associate pastor and frequent guest on Real Truth for today, and I said, you know, I did a three part series before the election called Religion and Politics and I noticed our attendance dropped. I don't know if that coincided with, with hunting season or what, but the attendance dropped. And Krish said, some people just can't handle it. They as, as Jack, Nicholas or Nicholson said in, in A Few Good Men, you can't handle the truth. And they just can't handle it, or they don't want to hear it, or they have a different. I don't, I don't think like you do, Pastor Jeff, and I'm for the poor. And James Talarico is such a wonderful, wholesome, godly guy. They have zero discernment. Absolutely zero discernment. James Talarico is of his father, the devil. He is a liar, he is a deceiver. He twists scripture. listen, you can have a non Christian candidate who still has a functioning, brain as far as morality goes, who still can tell the difference between good and evil. And you can have a candidate like James Talarico who doesn't. And, he calls good evil and evil good. And he twists the scripture. That guy is doing the work of the devil. And you are not able to discern that he is poison. You don't vote for poison, but they just can't handle it. So they are like, I don't want to think about that. I don't want to go to church and have to be confronted like that with truth. That really steps on my toes. That challenges me in what I believe and in how I'm living and in what I'm pursuing and what I'm voting for. so they don't come. They'd rather just be like. And one guy posted, on Facebook. I guess people don't see. Think I see this stuff, but it's like, you know, my pastor's talking about political, things, and so, should I go to another church? Well, if your pastor is not talking about the issues facing America and facing the world and the culture, the rotting culture in which we are living, if they don't go there because they. I don't want to rock the boat. I don't want to, you know, that's just not my place. Well, something's seriously wrong. We as pastors have to speak into that. And as I listened, to. I think it was Al Mohler, and he said, you know, what is the problem in America? The problem is the churches have been silent on these issues. and the churches need to speak about these issues, and we need to educate people. And it is alarming how many people we have in the electorate who are so ignorant of issues they think socialism is a cool thing. I saw a stat this morning that said 43% of, particular group of voters, maybe as Democrats, I can't remember what the percentage. It was. A large percentage of people think that Sharia law, it would be a good thing for America. And it's like, my soul, how in the world can you think that? Well, you're not. Listen, you can vote in socialism, you can vote in communism, you can vote in Islam and Sharia law, but you're not going to be able to vote it out. And it is going to, take over. And then you'll see how oppressive it is. Then you'll see how devastating it is when you're standing in bread lines and everyone's poor and things have deteriorated around you, and then what, you know, sad reality is you won't look in the mirror and say, I voted for this. You'll blame somebody else, because surely it can't be your fault. it's just sickening. And it takes the whole. We're all on the same ship. You know, as Americans, we're on. We're on the same ocean liner, the ship, America. And you have some people that are drilling holes in the ship, and we're trying to fill the holes and say, don't sink the ship. And you're thinking, well, I'm doing a good thing because I'm helping the poor. It's not helping the poor. It's not helping anybody. If the ship sinks, we all go down.
Fetterman's Support For Israel Precedes Listener Call Invitation
So, Fetterman also talked about Israel because that's a big point of contention for the left. They hate Israel. This is what Jon Fetterman said about that.
Jon Fetterman Why? Why the deep hatred for Israel? Why?
Don Wildmon Yeah, because, because, I mean, if you have such contempt for Israel, I mean, of course you're also anti American and you're anti Western civilian civilization and you're, you know, seem anti capitalism and the American way of life. I mean now, you know, they're all socialists, of course. And now there's communists, and now Marxists. And now they're proud of this. And now of course we have P Hustle in Maine. You know, that's another one. He's a self avowed, in a communist too. That's not even looked down out. And a significant part of the Democratic Party right now.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Jon Fetterman says he'll never, disavow his support for Israel even though he sees the Democrats bailing out on Israel. Well, you're listening to Real Truth for today. Pastor Jeff Schrieve here when we come back from the break. We'll be taking your calls. 888-589-8840. That's triple 858-988. If you have a question, you have a comment, I'd love to hear from you. So pick up the phone and let's talk here on American Family Radio.
Callers Discuss Israel's Biblical Significance And Christian Watchfulness
We'll be right back.
Jeff Chamblee If you'd like to contact Pastor Jeff, email Pastor Jeff at From his heart. Now back to Real Truth for today with Pastor Jeff Schrieve.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Welcome back to the program. Pastor Jeff Schrieve here, the pastor of First Baptist Church in Texarkana, Texas and the founder of From His Heart Ministries. Hey, if you live anywhere in the Texarkana area and you don't have a church home, we would love for you to visit us at, First Baptist Texarkana. This Sunday is going to be a special Sunday. We have a speaker coming in who received a shoebox when he was, when he was a boy. he was somewhere, they haven't told us exactly where, but somewhere in Asia when he got his shoebox. And the Lord used that to bring him to faith in Christ. He's going to be sharing his testimony as we talk about, the impact of shoeboxes. Then I'm going to be preaching a message from Second Thessalonians, Chapter 2. I've entitled it when the Bow breaks most of us are familiar with that little nursery rhyme song. Rock a bye baby on the treetop when the wind blows the cradle will rock when the bough breaks, when that tree branch breaks, the cradle will fall and down will come baby, cradle and all. Listen, we're living at a time where eventually that that tree branch is going to break and the Lord is going to take us home. The day of grace and the day of the church will be over. And then we will enter in on planet earth into the day of the Lord. The Antichrist will come to power. The seven years of tribulation will begin. It's a seven year peace treaty that the Antichrist breaks. At the midpoint of the tribulation. He declares himself as God. He will, require everyone to worship him and to get his mark on your right hand or on your forehead, the 666, the number of man. And it is going to be hell on earth. God is unleashing his wrath. And listen, we don't want anybody to go through that and you don't have to go through that because the Lord is coming to rescue us from the wrath to come. But if you reject the Lord and you put that off and you reject and neglect him, then that's what's awaiting you. Because we're living at a time, in these last of the last days. As Jon said, children, it is the last hour. It's not just the last days, it's the last hour. And who knows if the things that happened a week ago Tuesday, that is, I think God can use it either way. He's using it as a wake up call to believers. And if we don't do what Nineveh did and respond to the warning yet, 40 days in, Nineveh will be overthrown. They respond to the warning. God relented concerning the calamity he said he would bring upon them and he did not do it. If, we respond like that, we can see God do great and mighty things. We can see a revival take place in America. But if we don't respond, if we continue to put our heads in the sand, if we continue to just say, well, we're just going to go on like normal, nothing's really going to change, Things are going to change and they're not going to change for the better. And so we have an opportunity. And if we don't respond, hey, I think the, bow is getting ready to break and these things are getting ready to take place. So as Paul said, for me to live as Christ, to die is gain. Heads, I win. Tails I win. As Adrian Rogers, had a sermon title one time with that if I live, I win. If I die, I win. I am the Lord's, and I win with him. And so, we don't need to fear. Well, we're going to the phone lines 888-58-9-8840. And we have Melba, on the line from Arkansas. Melba, welcome to Real Truth for today.
Caroline Hi, good morning. Thank
Pastor Jeff Schreve you.
Caroline I was telling the young lady that
Don Wildmon answered
Caroline the phone, I just have a comment, and it's concerning, Jon Fetterman. When the reporter asked him, why do people hate Israel? Mr. Fetterman went on to list the people that hated Israel. But he didn't give the why.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Right?
Caroline Many people don't give the why. And it is because, in my view, to give the why, it's, you have to be convicted because the God of the universe that, you know, inspired the greatest book ever, chose them. He chose the man made a race of people. He chose them just because he chose them. And they, you would have to be convicted because that's the genesis of the Jewish people is in the Bible. That's where the if. That's where would came from. And it, I think that's the reason is because you would have to admit that there's a. There's a God and he chose these people. And you know, something else ever, where they have ever been dispersed to that country has done well, has it not? Because of. Because of these people now, they eventually, you know, persecuted them, but, yeah, they're still around. And I may not have the same view of eschatology and end times as a lot of people, but I do know that there's a reason that these people have continue to prosper. And, But that Confederman, he. He just. He didn't give the why. He didn't answer the question, but
Pastor Jeff Schreve I think
Caroline that's why. It's because they are, they are of the Bible. And you would have to say, I believe. I believe.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Well, it's very obvious. You're exactly right. He didn't answer the question. it's very obvious to me the devil hates Israel. I've said this many times. so why is there such worldwide hatred for Israel? And why is that growing? You know, President Trump gets it that the world doesn't like Israel, and, why is that growing? Well, the devil hates Israel because God has made promises to Israel. And if the devil can destroy Israel. And in the Bible you, you had. The book of Esther is all about wiping out the Jews. God intervened to make sure that didn't happen. Because God is going to bring his son back, to sit on the throne of David, to rule and reign from Jerusalem. God is not done with Israel. Israel is one day going to be the head and not the tail. But the devil wants to destroy that. Because if the devil can destroy Israel, then the devil turns God into a promise breaker. And a promise breaker is not someone who tells the truth. And so he would get God to break his promise. I made all these promises to Israel, now I can't fulfill them. So I'm a promise breaker. So I don't tell the truth. So I can no longer be God because I'm a sinner. And so that is the disdain, the hatred for Israel. And the devil gets the whole world worked up to hate Israel. It's just a, it's a visual reminder, of 1 Jon 5:19. The whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And he is pushing everything under God's allowing this because God saw. But the devil is pushing everything toward the culmination of the Antichrist coming, taking power. And what does he want to do? He wants to wipe out Israel and he wants to wipe out the people of God. So I appreciate the call.
Caller Praises Truthful Preaching And Shares Texas Petition Information
We have Rebecca, from Arkansas. Rebecca, welcome to Real Truth for today.
Caroline Thank you Pastor Jeff. And I think you're wonderful for trying to teach your congregation the truth, pleasing God and not man. And it's so sad when people reject the truth and they think takes an easy way out, to not want truth. our congregation, the preacher was great about wanting me to have sample ballots out, you know, telling people as I listened to candidates and researched them, here's how you can vote in all these areas around Rogers. And it was just wonderful. And of course we were sad, at the lesson the Lord is teaching us through these election results. And I, sent you a, an email, but I got the email address just a little wrong. So I'll resend it today.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Okay.
Caroline Jenna, Ellis in the morning had State, ah, your Texas state Senator Brian Harrison on, on the fifth, November 5th after the election.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Yeah,
Caroline he was talking about that petition to save Texas. So I'll send you more info on that. But it's a wonderful petition to Greg Abbott to call a special session and fix up this emergency powers, law or clause whatever in your Texas laws so that the new Democrat Governor doesn't have these awful powers that
Pastor Jeff Schreve Greg Abbott has. Yeah. To destroy the state, that's for sure. Well, I appreciate it, Rebecca. Thank you for that. And, yeah, Pastor Jeff at From His Heart dot Org. So, go ahead and send that to me.
Ezekiel's Watchman Passage Reinforces Pastors' Duty To Warn
Well, we have Roy on the line from Mississippi. Roy, welcome to Real Truth for today.
Caroline Thank you, Brother Jeff. I appreciate it. appreciate what you do. I'm glad somebody's speaking out about this stuff, but
Pastor Jeff Schreve thank you.
Caroline I'm trying to find it, but I can't find it. But there's a scripture in the Bible where it says that the Lord was explaining that there's watchers on the wall to sound the alarm.
Pastor Jeff Schreve And,
Caroline if they refuse to sound that alarm, then the blood of the people
Speaker D is on their hands.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Right.
Caroline but if, what we got to realize is that the enemy's not at our gate. They're in our house. Mm m. And if we don't do something, we don't stand up and say, we're not gonna have this. They're gonna take over, and their blood's gone. The blood of this nation is gonna be on our hands.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Yeah.
Caroline I appreciate what you do, brother Jeff. I love you, man.
Pastor Jeff Schreve Thank you, Roy. I appreciate it, brother. Yeah, That's Ezekiel, chapter 33, verses 1 through 9, where the Lord says, yeah, I've placed you, as a watchman on the wall. And if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity. But his blood I will require from the watchman's hand. And so, God says, now as for you, son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel, so you will hear a message from my mouth and give them warning from me when I say to the wicked, o wicked man, you will surely die. And you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way. That wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require from your hand. But if you on your part, warn a wicked man to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity. But you have delivered your life, so we need to be faithful. Especially as pastors, we need to be faithful to warn people. The Lord is coming to judge. The day of the Lord will come, as Peter said. And what is the day of the Lord? The day of the Lord is, a terror. It is horrible. It Is God pouring out his wrath? Isaiah says this in Isaiah 13:9. Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel with fury and burning wrath, to make the land a desolation, and he will exterminate its sinners from it.
Shreve Condemns Abortion And Urges Believers To Stand Firm
Now, let me tell you, it's amazing how things, are going in our world. and we have, people that will. I was trying to find this on my phone. But we have people that celebrate, people that, under the banner of being a pastor. Now, these women pastors are not really pastors, because women are not allowed in scripture to be pastors. But this is a lady reverend, Dr. Becky T. Peters. And she's wearing, her clerical garb, with a sash on it that's from Planned Parenthood. And she has this quote. Abortion is a moral good. Abortion is an act of love. Abortion is an act of grace. Abortion is a blessing. Now, that's a lady who calls evil good and good evil. Abortion is the brutal murder of the innocent unborn by ripping them to shreds. It is murder in the worst degree. It is so far beyond the pale, and she thinks it is a blessing. It's an act of love. that's how twisted and perverted these people are. And that is the crown jewel of the left is the right to kill a baby in the womb. It is demonic. It is satanic. It is just like it was in the Old Testament. They sacrificed their sons and daughters, in the fire to the false God Molech or Chemosh. They had, f. The false gods of the Canaanites. And, child sacrifice was part of the deal, and God brought judgment on those people for doing that. And so we, need to wake up. We need to stand up. We need to speak up. Stand up. Stand up for Jesus, as the song says, ye soldiers of the cross. And, it's okay if you're persecuted and insulted and people say things against you that's not a lot of fun if you've ever been on the receiving end of that. Josh Howerton is getting hammered for that. And, you know, they're just picking through his life trying to find things that they can hammer him about because he stood up. He dared to stand up. We have to be willing to stand up regardless. Regardless of, the consequences.
Closing Prayer Request And Encouragement To Witness For Christ
Hey, let me just say, as we close out, I want you to be praying for a little boy. Jackson Barton is one of our pastors on staff. His little son Brooks, is, almost three years old. He'll be three in December. They're life flighting him to Little Rock and, to, Children's Hospital in Little Rock. He's got a seizure or something taking place. He was unresponsive that morning. So pray for little Brooks and pray for the, Barton family as they deal with this. Brooks had some trouble when he was first born, so we want to pray and ask the Lord to just intervene in that little guy's life. Beautiful little boy and wonderful family. So pray for the Barton family and pray for little Brooks Barton that God would put his healing hand on him. Hey, make it a great weekend. Shine for Christ. Share what great things the Lord has done for you. And know this. God will use you as his witness. God bless you.
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