I believe, friends, that the spirit of Antichrist
is in the land.
I believe the Church, through compromise and conformity,
has lost her voice of authority.
And I also believe that 90% of
most congregations are not saved sheep, but unconverted
goats who have a false hope of heaven
because they rest upon an empty religious profession.
In Matthew's Gospel, in chapter 25, and in
verses 31 through 33, Jesus mentions a separation
of sheep and goats at a future judgment.
When the Son of Man shall come in
His glory, and all the holy angels with
Him, then shall He sit upon the throne
of His glory, and before Him shall be
gathered all nations, and He shall separate them
one from another, as a shepherd divideth his
sheep from the goats, and He shall set
the sheep on His right hand, but the
goats on the left.
In the Bible, Jesus is referred to as
a shepherd, as a good shepherd, and His
followers are called the sheep of His pasture.
Every church in this country has its share
of sheep and goats.
Sheep are compliant and follow their pastor, while
goats cause division in a church by butting
heads through power plays and strife.
It's the goats that end up getting the
pastor fired for standing for the truth.
Goats love a good fight.
I have a friend in Tennessee who owns
a farm, and on that farm is a
feisty goat.
One day as I visited that farm, the
goat cornered me against a fence, and the
more I pushed on his horns, the madder
he got.
I was lucky when I jumped the fence
and got away from that angry goat.
And years ago, there was a knock on
my door one day, and two Jehovah Witnesses
stood there trying to proselytize me.
Finally, I said to the one nearest to
me that Jesus talked about a future day
of judgment, where He would separate the sheep
from the goats.
And this young man got upset, and he
turned to his friend in an angry voice
and said, This guy just called me a
goat.
Well, I didn't call him a goat.
I was just telling him what Jesus called
him.
But an unsaved religionist, no matter what denomination
he belongs to, is nothing but a goat
ramming his way to hell.
And that's the title of my message today,
friends.
Church Goats Ramming Their Way to Hell.
Now look at verse 41 in our chapter
today, regarding the eternal destiny of the goats
on his left hand, and listen to the
strong language that Jesus uses here.
Then shall he say unto them on the
left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his
angels.
And that's what we have today, friends, in
the majority of our churches.
Church goats ramming their way to hell.
And be careful that you don't get in
their way, or their herd will run right
over you.
The main difference between a saved sheep and
an unconverted goat is this.
A goat has religion without a relationship with
the Savior.
He's never been awakened to his lost condition,
and brought under Holy Spirit conviction, and therefore
he's never exercised repentance and faith, and consequently
he's missed Christ entirely and missed salvation.
A sheep, on the other hand, has an
experiential knowledge of Christ Jesus, because they are
born from above and washed in the blood.
Let me ask you, friend, which herd are
you running in?
Let us pray.