12/09/2026
NOT EVERYTHING YOU HEAR IN A SERMON IS BIBLICAL TRUTH—READ THE WORD FOR YOURSELF.
Greek words are not there to make you sound deep.
Take John 14:2:
“In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”
That phrase, “in my Father’s house,” when you check the Greek, uses the word oikeia, which refers to a household or family.
So He is saying, “In my Father’s household, in my Father’s family, are many dwelling places.”
That word is monē.
When you understand it, you begin to see that He is not simply talking about physical houses and mansions. He is talking about becoming part of the household of God and becoming God's dwelling place.
So when He says, “I go to prepare a place for you,” He is not necessarily saying that somebody is constructing your personal house in heaven.
Otherwise, somebody would come and tell you that they died, went to heaven and hell, and came back with a detailed report of everything they saw.
Jesus Himself spoke about Lazarus and the rich man. He said there was a great gulf between them, such that those who wanted to cross from one side to the other could not.
So when somebody says they went to heaven and hell and came back with information that contradicts Scripture, we need to be careful about accepting it as revelation.
They are essentially claiming access to realities that Scripture does not give us permission to treat as ordinary human experience.
Then you hear things like, “I saw men of God burning in hell,” and they say, “What I saw was prophetic.”
But the Bible says prophecy is for edification, exhortation, and comfort.
If what you are calling prophecy is only terrifying people and contradicting the character and Word of God, you need to ask yourself: Where did this revelation come from?
Some people are simply dreaming, while others may be interpreting spiritual experiences through wrong theology.
I have heard people say that when you get to heaven, everybody has a house according to what they built on earth. Some people have a bungalow, some have a duplex, and some have a high-rise building.
Then they say that when you sin, angels come and remove your windows because angels are the construction workers in heaven.
Meanwhile, when God created in Genesis, He spoke words.
But in somebody's vision, angels have suddenly become construction workers.
It is because people don't read the Bible.
Then somebody says, “I just came back from heaven. Jesus was wearing sandals, and He told me, ‘Go and warn them.’”
Meanwhile, in Jesus' teaching about Lazarus and the rich man, the rich man asked Abraham to send someone to warn his brothers.
Abraham said, in essence, “They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.”
Listen to the Word.
Paul even warned the Galatians:
“Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.”
Are you hearing me?
You can be bewitched by a sermon.
Paul said, *“Who has bewitched you, O foolish Galatians?”
It's like a spell. You keep hearing something until you stop questioning it, stop checking Scripture, and eventually begin to believe it simply because a preacher said it.
That is why you must know the Word for yourself.
Don't let somebody's vision become your Bible.
Don't let somebody's experience become your doctrine.
Read the Scriptures. Test what you hear. And never surrender your discernment to a sermon.
