Taking The Land - CFM Sermon Podcast
Sep 9, 2026 · 28 min · 10 segments
Crowds, influence, and religious knowledge can create a convincing image—but Jesus looks for something deeper: a genuinely changed heart. In this Wayman Wednesday message from John 9:35–41, we…
I think it was Thursday, and had an article on the presidential election as being shaped today by the Internet.
And the way it's being shaped is there's many, many people that are feeding information, not all of it correct.
And they're flooding.
They've learned how to shape people's opinions.
not by themselves themselves, but the image that they're able to portray.
Someone gave me an article about a man that's in prison in South America now.
He's doing 10 years because he was involved in the elections in South America.
In several of these, he was able to put someone into office by manipulating the imagery of behind the scenes.
So this is a generation that image is everything.
It doesn't matter what you are so much or the substance or the reality, but image.
We are living in a generation that image is constantly manipulated and constantly shaped and formed.
And recently someone showed me a little video clip of a man that I know And he says he's in South America, he's in Brazil.
He's just finished preaching to 20,000 people.
And he's presenting that as validity of what he is and of his validation.
I know the man.
He's a liar.
He's a people abuser.
He's a manipulator.
So, to begin with, I don't know about 20,000.
There certainly wasn't 20,000 in the picture we saw, nor 20,000 chairs.
But here's an image that we have, and this is what we're dealing with.
Our generation is proving their validity, supposedly, by the capacity that they have to draw people into a crowd.
You know, I'm pondering this.
You know one of the greatest preachers that ever lived was Adolf Hitler.
I think it was Thursday, and had an article on the presidential election as being shaped today by the Internet.
And the way it's being shaped is there's many, many people that are feeding information, not all of it correct.
And they're flooding.
They've learned how to shape people's opinions.
not by themselves themselves, but the image that they're able to portray.
Someone gave me an article about a man that's in prison in South America now.
He's doing 10 years because he was involved in the elections in South America.
In several of these, he was able to put someone into office by manipulating the imagery of behind the scenes.
So this is a generation that image is everything.
It doesn't matter what you are so much or the substance or the reality, but image.
We are living in a generation that image is constantly manipulated and constantly shaped and formed.
And recently someone showed me a little video clip of a man that I know And he says he's in South America, he's in Brazil.
He's just finished preaching to 20,000 people.
And he's presenting that as validity of what he is and of his validation.
I know the man.
He's a liar.
He's a people abuser.
He's a manipulator.
So, to begin with, I don't know about 20,000.
There certainly wasn't 20,000 in the picture we saw, nor 20,000 chairs.
But here's an image that we have, and this is what we're dealing with.
Our generation is proving their validity, supposedly, by the capacity that they have to draw people into a crowd.
You know, I'm pondering this.
You know one of the greatest preachers that ever lived was Adolf Hitler.
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