Left off the table at T-giving

“If you put truth on the table, it doesn’t matter how much error is there,” says Jordan. “If truth can get an opportunity to have a fair hearing, it will take care of itself. The problem is error knows this so it doesn’t want truth to get to the table, or if it does, it wants it to be on the table in a distorted manner.

“. . . Today there’s a great sense people have of being alienated, separated, being ‘out here by myself’ in the world. It’s one of the reasons people join gangs, cults, movements . . .

“One of things that motivates people is a desire to belong. To be a part of something special. Ephesians 1:4 says, ‘According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.’

“I said many times that when you learn some things about 'right division' and the grace of God it will change some things in your life. It will probably change where you go to church.

"That’s a hard pill, though, and people just don’t like to hear that. But there’s a religious system out there, folks, that the Bible equates with ‘harlotry’ and ‘adultery,’ and being a part of it is considered being spiritually unfaithful to God, just like it would be if you stepped out on your marriage partner. That’s how serious a thing it is.

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“Years ago, when I preached on the street, I discovered a fascinating thing. When people debate, if somebody says something and you answer them back, whether what you say is true, false, makes sense or doesn’t make sense, people in the crowd will think, ‘Okay, he answered it; now what do you say?’

“And if you say something back, then they’ll look back at the other guy and say, ‘Okay, what do you say?’

“The crowd says, ‘Okay, he answered it,’ but you say, ‘Wait a minute! That didn’t answer anything!’ But they don’t get that and that’s what Satan’s doing. He understands that, ‘If I just throw it out there, it doesn’t have to make sense; it doesn’t have to be true to what the text says because nobody’s really going to examine and study the text anyway, because if they did they’d find out the truth and I wouldn’t have my lie.’ ”