Thank you Eric for speaking TRUTH!!!! Help me, Lord to be a light.

It shouldn't have to be an act of bravery to call out child abuse

After stepping away from the grace alone mindset, I decided to read the NT again. Words like OBEY, ENDURE, and BE USEFUL were everywhere. Grace alone, faith alone made Christians soft and stagnant.. and that’s what was being taught in 2000-now when I was growing up in church. I can say it made my family divorce because my parents didn’t obey and endure hardships, but became soft in a stagnant “christian” marriage. They didn’t learn to treat their marriage like how Christ loved the Church. Just Grace alone and became stagnant. No growing, no forgiving and no love

I listened to this a couple of days ago and it truly impacted me. I had never listened to Eric Metaxas before, but he said many things that I felt deep down in my core. "When you know something you live differently." Once you know better you have to choose whether or not to keep doing the same thing or to start choosing different. "Your life shows what you really believe."

Thank you for saying what i have been feeling... the apathy in the church is sickening... from South Africa

Awesome sermon. I've been feeling this sentiment for years, the rising evil drove me back to a whole new depth in coming back to faith and understanding Jesus and his work for us and ours for him. I cheered out loud listening to this.

That was a wonderful reminder to live our faith and take action now. ❤️✝️

Help us Lord . Wake up Your church, that we will all stand up and put our faith into action, a fearless kind of faith. Awaken all the Pastors, all those You have chosen to shepherd Your flocks, that they will all rise up, stand up, and lead their flocks into this fight against wickedness, against evil, against gender fluidity, against blasphemous acts against our faith, our God, our Savior. Go before us, Lord. In Jesus’ mighty name, Amen! 🙏🙏🙏

Wow. I feel like I have been closing my eyes and heart to what is going on. Thank you so much for what you said tonight.

Just listened to this for the third time in about 3 months. It is a great pep-talk for me as I and others continue to speak at our local school board meetings and engage the wicked nonsense with wisdom. Lord, increase Your supernatural work in our midst and keep our hearts and our wills in alignment with Your way. Thank you again, Mr. Metaxes!

It's a crazy spiritual battle going on and that man spoke Truth !! Do not be afraid to speak out against evil and just say the name Jesus and watch how people hisss when you do...God bless

Thank you Eric Metaxas for speaking the truth of our Lord Jesus Christ. May the Lord blessings be upon you always.🙏🏼 ❤

Yes, we need to stand up with boldness against all evil, we to speak up not let the youth be manipulated by ideas that don't align with God. We need to be united and take our Faith to everyone!❤

Yes, thanks for having a voice. That’s exactly why a few great pastors , like John MacArthur, stand for the truth of scripture follow God and not men or government. Keep speaking truth.!.

Thank GOD for people like Eric Metaxes and Thank God for pastors like Skip Heitzig for sharing the pulpit to speak of the timely issues.

Amen. Give us courage and wiisdom lord. Amen!!

Eric, You tell it just as it is. Straight from the sholder, no minsing of words, As it is, as history witnesses to the truth of facts as you tell it. God Bless You, and He will Bless you for the stand you are taking at this. crucial time in our history in this United States of America, and world wide for any person who will listen, and take to heart your message. My prayers are with you. To God be the glory. Amen

The battle is the Lord's Jesus Christ battle. He is promised to be always with us, and we are not alone. Thank you dear brother for sharing your gift of discernment with us! May the Lord bless yo abundantly in your spiritual journey!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Love this talk... I'm a Catholic and have NEVER heard a protestant talk about the importance of works in order to BRING DOWN into our midst the kingdom of heaven...🎉

Very impactful. I agree that what I hear in my church is milk and we need meat.

Authentic faith results into good works, a kind of response in obedience to God's commands, for the praise and glory of our Triune God. Faith transforms the heart to do good works.

😊bless you Eric for speaking His truth, may those of us who hear His truth, stand true in His strength & His truth. Thank you Lord for loving us, saving us & wanting to use us... bless you Calvary Chapel & Eric for your faithfulness! ❤️

God is calling us to choose who we shall serve.

Eric I wish you would come to Indianapolis Indiana. These preachers here need to be awakened. So many watered down preachers and it’s sickening!! I can’t find a brave church anyplace😩😩😩😩

Wow Wow Wow This is absolutely 💯 True Talk!

Wow, how cool us this, Mr. Eric Mextaxasin NM! Thank you Lord. In Jesus Christ name 🙏❤i pray for blessings on this ministry. Thank you God. Amen

So funny! A video of Metaxas speaking at Gino Geraci’s church came up in my feed the other day. I watched it-it was like 9 years ago! Nice to see he’s consistent in his convictions even over a decade.

Amen. Right on.

This should be shown in every church in the world.

Thank you Eric .. my thoughts exactly!

Thank you for all your pod casts. You are speaking what I have thought but haven’t known how to express. God is using you mightally. Thank you for being obedient. God bless you. Anne in Tulsa

Listening to this and reading the comments is really ministering to me. I'm so lonely in this regard where we live. Can't find a church with this mindset at all. There are some Christians who took over our local Republican party and we are trying to get good people elected, but there's almost no support from local churches.

By grace through faith you are saved. And that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, lest anyone should boast.

I can relate to Bonhoeffer and how he must have felt. I look around and wonder where the church is. I pray God wake us before it’s too late! Faith without works is dead!!

Amen. Lord Jesus comes any twinkle; either in death or living we shall rise if you've made Him Lord over your every situation! "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect."; there IS a strait and narrow path!!!

Amen brother, GOD is! 💪🏽👊🏽💪🏽

Awesome to see you at skips church

well done

Thank you, so very much.

Love your message.

THANK YOU PASTOR ERIC THIS IS WHAT THE SOVEREIGN LORD SAYS! JEREMIAH 25:30-38 IT WILL BE MORE TERIBLE THEN WORLD WAR 2 EZK 38:/ 39: TURN,TURN, TURN FROM YOUR WAY REPENT OR ALL THIS WILL COME UPON YOU EZK21:26-32 I THE LORD HAVE SPOKEN EZK 38:/39: AMEN

Thank you

Thankyou,

Very very good message. And how true it was.

Amen 🙏🏼

So well said 👏👏👏

Eric ... Nice Work !!!

Powerful

Such an important sermon for Modern day Christians

Well said Eric. We are NOT saved by faith alone. The scripture is quite clear.

I’m happy that we can put a @thumbs down” response following the apostates who oppose the gospel as Eric tells us God’s truth. Hallelujah! Thank you Jesus for your great sacrifice!

The church certainly turned a blind eye in 2020/2021.....

Would like to see more of American and western church start to abide in the commandment of 1 Timothy 4:11, pertaining especially to verses 9-10 as more are starting to again as the early church did.

For the leaders of my people- the LORD’s watchmen, his shepherds- are blind and ignorant. They are like silent watchdogs that give no warning when danger comes. They love to lie around, sleeping and dreaming. Isaiah 56:10

Just listened to Andy Woods PPOV # 287 (2-2-24) and he talks about Eric’s critical view of the rapture.

When it comes to action I think the question is, “what would Jesus do?”.

This book is HARD HITTING ….. every church needs this !

The only thing is we should look at the root of why there's child trafficking and why they have to cross them to American borders. We should look into the Americans providing the money for the cartels as well.

God will prevail With or without USA PRAYING FOR MERCY ON USA CHURCHES EVERYWHERE 🙏🏽

Peace of the Lord beloved in Christ! I'm José from Mozambique "I'm looking for a girl, it doesn't matter what age" but she's a serious person in the subject

Makes me think of Paul, beaten to death, wakes up, preaches some more, gets thrown in prison and they let him out and say don't do it again and he rushes out to preach in the courtyard again! Hahaha "God has not given you the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind"

What the modern Church needs is a New Covenant Revival (Heb. 9:10) in which members of various denominations are willing to re-examine everything they believe and see if it agrees with the Bible, instead of the traditions of men. We need to be like the Bereans. It will be a battle between our flesh and the Holy Spirit. It will not be easy. If you get mad and upset when someone challenges your man-made Bible doctrines, that is your flesh resisting the truth found in God's Word. Nobody can completely understand the Bible unless they understand the relationship between the Old Covenant given to Moses at Mount Sinai and the New Covenant fulfilled in blood at Calvary. What brings all local churches together into one Body under the blood of Christ? The answer is found below. New Covenant Whole Gospel: Let us now share the Old Testament Gospel found below with the whole world. On the road to Emmaus He said the Old Testament is about Him. He is the very Word of God in John 1:1, 14. Awaken Church to this truth. Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by husband unto them, saith the LORD: Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Is the most important genealogy in the Bible found in Matthew 1:1 (Gal. 3:16)? Is God's Son the ultimate fulfillment of Israel (John 1:49)? Why has the modern Church done a pitiful job of sharing the Gospel with modern Orthodox Jews? Why would someone tell them they are God's chosen people and then fail to share the Gospel with them? Who is the seed of the woman promised in Genesis 3:15? What did Paul say about Genesis 12:3 in Galatians 3:8? Who is the "son" in Psalm 2? Who is the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53? Who would fulfill the New Covenant promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34? Who would fulfill the timeline of Daniel chapter 9 before the second temple was destroyed? Why have we not heard this simple Old Testament Gospel preached on Christian television in the United States on a regular basis? Once a person comes to understand the New Covenant promised to Israel and Judah in Jeremiah 31:31-34, which is found fulfilled by Christ during the first century in Hebrews 8:6-13, and Hebrews 10:16-18, and specifically applied to the Church in 2 Corinthians 3:6-8, and Hebrews 12:22-24, man-made Bible doctrines fall apart. Let us now learn to preach the whole Gospel until He comes back. The King of Israel is risen from the dead! (John 1:49, Acts 2:36) We are not come to Mount Sinai in Hebrews 12:18. We are come instead to the New Covenant church of Mount Zion and the blood in Hebrews 12:22-24. 1Jn 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. 1Jn 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. 1Jn 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. Watch the KZfaq videos “The New Covenant” by David Wilkerson, or Bob George, and David H.J. Gay.

Not just in America, most western Christian based countries are the same way. 💂‍♂️🪖⛑️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦

Also there's a passage in scripture where it says welcome all strangers so all may learn. So how do we go about that?

I agree so much about what you said. BUT you should revise your views about John McArthur. He gave the finger to the gov during COVID and speaks out against wokeness calling pastor by name. He is doing the job his own ways. Thank you for the summery of your book👍

Mattthew 5:13 , Jeremiah 18:7-10

The Bible, God's revelation to HIS human creatures!!!

Why don’t you look at the tiny tent house that were torn down to help the homeless people and get them a place to feel save?

It's amazing when we reach the point when we realize all of our idols have been replaced by GOD. Then what?

שלום משפת הים בתל אביב! Did Dennis Prager give you, Eric Metaxas, my messages for you from Israel?

Holy mo ment

God! Please help us to faith and understanding Bible that you saying to christian, Wake up Your church.

The words "by faith" are misleading. The Greek often says, "ek pistis," where the "ek" means "out of" or "out from." “Ek” is the opposite of the word “eis” which means “into.” In other words, righteousness, and hence justification (setting right that which was wrong), comes out from, or out of faith, as a product of faith. This means that genuine faith produces righteousness because it is a FUNCTIONAL faith. This faith is not a neutral intellectual belief, it is operational, active, and productive, causing a change from unrighteous living to righteous living. By this a person is justified - set right from a previous state of living wrong. It is amazing to hear some Bible teachers say things like, “Theology affects the way we live” and “You mostly live according to the theology you believe”, and yet these same teachers speak of “salvation by faith” as if faith as something that happens external to you and has no required byproduct of righteous living. "By faith" is often understood as nearly a passive idea, where we are made to have faith and God does something called "justification," a legal arrangement or accounting act on His end. That is not what is intended by "ek pistis." Teachers of Reformed Theology and Penal Substitutionary Atonement have a problem with active, functional faith because they typically see this as works. To avoid this, the weaker translation is used, changing “out from faith” to “by faith.” "Ek pistis" or "ek pisteo" is in Romans 1:17, 3:30, 4:16, 5:1, 9:30,32, 10:6, Gal. 2:16,3:7,11, Heb. 10:38, James 2:24. These all show that faith is presumed to be active - affecting the mind, will, emotions, and actions of the believer. There are passages that do say “by faith,” which is “dia pisteo,” but “dia” means "through,” so faith in these cases is still an active mechanism, not a passive idea. Peter states it well in Acts 15:9, “…having cleansed their hearts by faith.” In this case the “by faith” is “te pistei”, which is simply “the faith,” making the phrase say that faith is the active thing that cleansed their hearts. Faith is not some external property like a salve or clothing that has no internal effect on the person. The single exception is found in the example of James 2:17-20 where demons have inactive faith, a dead faith that produces nothing. For more study, look for the book entitled “Atonement and Reconciliation”.

Eventually Fascism will come to every Nation on earth. It just takes longer with some than with others.

Hello my brother am PST Stephen from kenya I do like you be our spiritual father in Kenya we have ministry in Kenya please

I would recommend the book, Has American Christianity Failed?

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What is POPULAR is not always right, What is RIGHT is not always popular. If we SUFFER we shall also reign with Christ Jesus. But if we deny him to be men pleasers, Jesus also will deny us. If we say we love Jesus but our actions do not, it is obvious to all that our inactions Speak LOUDER than our love for what he did for us. He did not use inaction to save us from our seperation from God. But endured the cross, suffered being forsaken of God to die for us and in graditude for what he did for us we become like the nine lepers that got healed and went on their way…only one of the ten lepers healed of his leoprosy truly loved the Lord Jesus for healing him and returned to worship Jesus . So many took the Jabb but few which stood their ground in Christ not to save their own life to lose it. But willing to lose their life for the sake of Christ. Danial and his companions were delivered to be executed in the firey furnace for not obeying the law of the land to worship the engraven image of the king. I love what one who trusted God said to the king , we know our God shall deliver us but even if he does not deliver us, we shall not bow down and worship. And they were ordered to be cast into the furnace and their fetters burned away as they rejoiced and among these three was seen a fourth man? And these three God delivered unsinged from the furnace, having no smell of smoke or evidence of burns on their flesh. But even if God does not deliver us, we shall not bow down and worship. How many of us will take the jabb instead of take a stand against extortioners? Is our job to die for? Yhose which took the jabb and succeeded in obtaining a real I.D. Are dropping dead. Found with a long thick dark red mucus blocking an artery from their heart? Was it the jabb? How many more will die? But not from covid? We are commanded to follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which, no man shall see the Lord. But what kind of peace and holiness? One that places light under a bushel?

You say if you sleep with your girlfriend after you say you are saved.....you are not saved. How, then can anyone be saved for we all sin after we are saved. Do we lose our salvation every time we sin (You say if we were saved, we would not sin). SKIP HEITZIG, do you believe this? i have listened to you for years.

True church is missionary church. All organizations grow or decline. Paul knew church going down by 66 A. D. Once 12 apostles died, there was zero church.

I mean I'm not very far into it but I'd like to point out something. Evangelism is preaching the gospel. The gospel is Jesus, him, how he lived, what he did, his kingdom. Jesus is the good news. So to say Jesus is more important than Jesus (the gospel), and Jesus being proclaimed (the thing he tasked us with) in all the earth so that he gets what he is worthy of, just seems like a strange thing to say. At least to me. Idk.

Yes. Let's say, a woman was sold to a homosexual man, as a sex slave. In some countries, like the Philipines and Colombia were the Church (Roman) does not by Law, allow to get a divorce. So, what do you recommend, if all the eyes of the globe are looking wanting to know, what and how do you fix this?

How do we do this?

I see people complaining about the message and the message giver. This message is no different than that of Esther which he quoted. The same message of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednago. There were some letters written to some churches too, one citing the lukewarm church in particular this mirrors. Your loyalty isn't to a country or a king or a president. Your loyalty is to God almighty. If you fear to speak out, if you fear to take a stand and just want to remain silent you are lukewarm. You've been giving lipservice. If this doesn't fit your faith maybe do some reading and analyze what you believe. Maybe reread your Bible. Maybe read Return of the Gods by Jonathan Cahn and take a look at whats happening in America. Its time to stand now. Christ told us all, you will be persecuted for my sake. You're either on board or you're not. Satan is not the equal of God. Never was. Never will be.

Good works are what you a saved to. Out of faith should come good works. The context of James has nothing to do with Luther’s declaration of faith. Luther speaks of salvation but James speaks of actions after coming to faith. Jesus showed his faith by his actions. We should do no less.

Civil government is a violation of the Law of Moses and the Israelites lived four hundred years without any civil government and the day they decided to create one the prophet Samuel gave them an earful of the nasty things that would take place if they did. One hundred fifty years later the prophet Isaiah reminded them of this fact and they expressed their appreciation by sawing the prophet in half.

A true Christian believer is a citizen of heaven not of this earth and we are mandated to share the gospel of Christ that we may all dwell one day to the place that Jesus told us. Jesus time was under Roman oppression but He never say anything political against the Romans instead He said “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's” (Matthew 22:21 NASB). and “Jesus said, 'My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But, as it is, my kingdom is not from here'” (John 18:36). I am surprised Calvary let this man speak in the pulpit. I don't think Chuck Smith will let this happen in his time. He preached about this in the parable of the mustard seed Mat 13:32 "Though [a mustard seed] is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches."

Preach your dead little gospel did you just say that?

You made a comment on the Capital Report and I must correct you. You said that all religions should be respected. Did you ever read the Bible? If so, what did God say about other religions?! He said "I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD, YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME!" The problem with this country is allowing other religions to be worshipped here. God's patience has reached it's end. Marxism is of the devil and it being here now is this country's punishment.

He needs to read more Luther

Eric needs to apologize to the church for calling believers satanic for believing what the Bible says about the rapture.

The problem is, we have no GOOD presidential leader to choose from. One seems old, feeble and way too willing to do the bidding of his extreme left followers, and the other is lewd, vulgar, lies and definitely not anyone you would want your child to grow up to be....yet many in the "church" are so readily willing to follow him. I have decided to follow Jesus and His example....which is far different than what im hearing from either extreme. We need to stand strong and speak what the Bible actually says is good or bad but to be very careful of politicians or book pushers speaking from the pulpit who's agenda IA mammon. If something is from God then no man can stand against it and if it isn't, it will come to nothing. We preach what biblically is coming yet we try to write our own ending instead. Prayer is more effectual than war horses and political propaganda. Be careful of the Golden Calf. Trust and obey for there's no better way...

Annie mineio.... 🤮

Martin Luther was only as smart as far as getting Out of the UNholy Roman system. While he "preached" Sola Scriptura, he still brought the Majority of the Pagan lies in the Roman system into the Protestant system!! He DIDN'T Practice what he was "preaching"!! 1) He continued the FALSE SUN worship day "sabbath" 2) He kept the Pagan Manmade traditions that the Majority of christians believe to be GOD's HOLY Days That's the 2 major Misgivings brought into Protestantism.

Works. Rising up. Not GOD's Wisdom! False religions can be deceived into this kind of cluelessness. HOLY BIBLE Believers? Makes the difference 100%. Absolute TRUTH remains Forever. GOD's WAY works 24/7. Found in HOLY BIBLE. GOD's WORD.

Right? Right? Right? O my gosh...WAY TOO MUCH!!! Do U NEED to be RIGHT??? How about humility? R u that insecure? Cant listen anymore. Has anyone ever counted how many "right"s r in this guy's speaches?🙃🙃🙃

Yeshua did not preach the Gospel, He taught Torah. All the Disciples and Apostles taught Torah. Gospels were written years later.

What arrogance and tone-deafness. "The Epistle of Eric to the Americans."

He’s all about himself

Using new versions of the Bible is also heresy, because they leave entire verses out and change words that make yhe message totally different. Some add verses as well. I believe the KJV is the only version that God permitted for us English speakers.