There was a church that, on Super Bowl Sunday, turned it into a mockery.  They started playing all of that music that you hear at the football stadium and some secular songs associated with sports.  “We will, we will rock you,” and the pastor comes running out on the stage wearing a football jersey.  They take a Bible and make it in the shape of a football, and a guy comes and kicks this Bible, and they’re trying to somehow relate to the world so that they might introduce them to the gospel.  There’s only one way to preach to introduce people to the gospel.  It’s by preaching it in power and authority under the anointing of God.  Amen?  We don’t sneak up on people with the gospel.  The gospel is to be put on a lamp stand.  The gospel is to be shouted from the housetops, praise God, what’s been so freely given and done in our lives.  And we’re saying that to say, ladies, you have such a great responsibility in this on a daily basis, hands-on raising our children in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord.  Amen?

We’re going to see a great defection from the church.  There will be a departing from the faith, a giving heed to seducing spirits.  But it doesn’t have to happen to us, praise God!  Amen?  That’s not what God has in store for us.  But we are not immune because of where we fellowship.  We are immune because Jesus is Lord of our lives, praise God.  And because of that, then, nothing, either spiritually or physically, will harm us.  There’s a rest that we should have.  Yes, there will be defections, departures.  Yes, it is a straight and narrow path and few will find it.  Is it possible that we could get all of us in?  I believe so.  There’s nothing that says, “Though many will depart, the few find it.”  We have promises from God that our faith won’t fail, hallelujah!  Amen?  There is a great assurance that we have in the Holy Ghost of being able to stand in a day when those around us are falling.  To be able to take those promises of God that are yea and amen and stand firm on the promises of God.