A Church Infiltrated....

Following up with the last article on "Jesus Calling": this example of extra-biblical communication being taught within the church is alarming enough. But if you zoom out to a 30,000 foot level to get the big-picture look, it seems beyond question that the Christian church as a whole has been infiltrated and compromised with false, anti-biblical, anti-Christ teachings, as described in 1 Timothy 4 and 2 Timothy 3. It is truly breathtaking.

Here are a couple of older videos (part 1 & part 2)  with Todd Friel and Justin Peters examining the Lakeland, Florida "revival ministry" of Todd Bentley. Please pay special attention to the phrases used to disarm and silence those who question these perverse teachings. As a new believer back in the mid 1990's, I got hit with similar responses, like "You can't put God in a box." These are meant to totally disarm your discernment, and throw open the doors to any and all kinds of madness to be dumped onto the body of Christ. You've heard these statements too, I'm sure, and it is one of the methods that have brought us to this point.

 

 If you are a born-again child of God through faith in Jesus Christ, you are commanded to prove all things (1 Thessalonians 5:21) and to try the spirits (1 John 4:1). Let me echo the words of Mark Cahill: beware of men (and women) with microphones. Keep your guard up. Especially RELIGIOUS men! Check everything - EVERYTHING - you are taught against the word of God. The Jews that Paul preached to in Berea are called "noble" (Acts 17:11) in that they "received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." Today, many who would be noble Bereans are chastised for questioning the Pastor, Preacher or Evangelist, labeled divisive or lacking in faith, kicked out of their churches, marked & avoided in an un-biblical manner.

 

Brothers, we need more than ever to heed the words of Jude 3, and earnestly contend for the faith with was once delivered unto the saints.

 



P.S. I Love You

Just a P.S. from my last post on the website.
As an FYI in this digital age, P.S. stands for Post Scriptum, Latin for "Post Script", and according to TheFreeDictionary.com, it is an additional message after the main body of text in correspondence.

I'm not posting the lyrics to the old Beatles song, but writing to briefly clarify and perhaps amplify the reason why I published the previous post,  "Neither a Roman Catholic nor a Protestant."

I wrote to clarify what I am not (obvious from the title), and also what I am (from the body of the text). It is important; its not chocolate versus vanilla ice cream. I didn't just trade one form of religion for another. I was radically brought from death to life, - BORN AGAIN - and not through a religion, but through a relationship with the risen Savior, Jesus Christ. And He alone is able to bring about this reality, in all men's lives, therefore, in your life.

Although I am a sinner, deserving only the perfect judgment and justice of a Holy God, instead He has given me the gift of eternal life. And out of appreciation and love, I want to share that with you. If you are a part of an un-biblical religious organization that does not teach sound doctrine regarding the gospel, you need to hear the truth, even if that truth is hard to hear.

We were created to live in a relationship with our Creator. Because I care about you, your eternal soul, I will speak the truth. The opposite of love is not hate; it is indifference. And I cannot call myself a disciple of Christ and be indifferent about a fellow human being. Paul wrote some hard things to the believers in Galatia, and added: 

"Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?" (Galatians 4:16)

 

 

Religion of any stripe can never save you. Only repentance toward God (the offended party) & faith in Jesus Christ (the one-and-only Savior) will deliver you from the wrath of God. And if your religion has anti-Biblical traditions, you need to get out of it. Infant baptism. Sacraments - religious acts that impart grace, etc. Idolatry in any form. "ABC repeat after me" sinner's prayer (so called). The Prosperity "gospel" where the $$$ you give (to the preacher) is your connection to God. Its a long list; you must flee these things. Read what God has said in His word, the Holy Bible, and let that be your only foundation. All other ground is, as the hymn writer said, is sinking sand.

"I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But 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. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed." (Galatians 1:6-9)

That's it. My P.S. to you readers. I love you in Jesus Christ. God commended His love toward you in that while you were yet a sinner, the Lord Jesus died for you. Because God cares, I care.