NIV - You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
PNT - You do not have to pretend.
NIV - You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
PNT - I will be enough.
Beloved, I wish I was making this up. This was actually preached. To tens of thousands of people. They applauded. Satan laughed. Only in the most twisted heart can God declaring that we are not have any other gods before Him be turned into "you do not have to live in constant disappointment." Only in the deceived and blackened heart of a false teacher can God explicitly saying we should not commit adultery be mangled into "you don't have to feel guilty anymore." False testimony? Oh - stop pretending silly! Murder? - Don't drive angry now! This is beyond sickening. That a man who pretends to shepherd this many people would be this cavalier about destroying the very Word of God. Forget fear of the Lord. I doubt Perry Noble knows the Lord at this point.
Not only though is the teaching and the premise false but so is his motivation. The key word for this sermon was "yes" because Noble wants you to say yes to Jesus today. Oh beloved how much is wrong with this mindset? Is God some wallflower waiting for us to ask Him to dance? Who saves who in that scenario? Does God draw us or do we "invite Him into our heart?" He made people come up to the front of the altar and pin their name on one of his "yes boards." You have got to be kidding me. He got down on his knees and begged people to come forward and claim they have said yes to Jesus. This is not how people are saved. You do not spend 45 minutes telling people how little God expects from them and then wave a magic wand, say a three sentence "prayer" and think they have been regenerated. It simply does not work that way. In the middle of the sermon Noble gave away the truth without even realizing it, when he said this:
"I am trying my best to convince you to say yes to Jesus because of these ten promises"
Yes, Perry Noble was trying his best to convince you to say yes and in order to get you to do so, he rewrote the Ten Commandments into the ten promises. He was using all the tricks and gimmicks of human wisdom he possesses. But the foundation of the sermon is rotten and incorrect. The rewrites are blasphemous and an abomination. The motivation is simply dead wrong. There is no point in trying to trick someone into saying yes. Or guilt them into it. The saddest thing is that all Perry Noble has to really do is preach the uncompromised Gospel of Jesus Christ and He will draw whom He will draw. Perry Noble himself though, was even prophesied about in the Bible:
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. - 2Timothy 4: 3-4 (NIV)
The notion that there is no Hebrew word for Commandment or Command is a myth. Do not turn aside to it today. Nothing scratches our itching ears more than to hear that we do not have to worry about sin. That God never really commanded us to do anything. No, those were just promises. How sad that the most genuine moment for Perry Noble in this sermon may have been when he let the "N" word fly. Everything else was blasphemous nonsense.
Reverend Anthony Wade - January 2, 2015
