That’s your interpretation!
I’m not that bad!
Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion!
Don’t be judgmental! (or, intolerant!)
And finally:
DON’T impose YOUR God on others!
Nothing new, is it? The world is not open to the one true Gospel of Christ found only through God’s Word. If anything, it loves and wants to hear the ‘God of love’ only teachings of Joel Osteen or similar televangelists and false prophets who are leading the masses astray, NOT a God of love and of justice who will one day return to judge the world for sin. Instead, they choose to hear something smooth, or one which does for ME ! A God of ‘signs & wonders’ who will physically take away their arthritis, cancers, diseases, cure their bad eyesight, cataracts & blindness, strengthen their weakened and crippled legs, one who can take away bad hearing & deafness, and cast out demons! Give me money and make me rich?! YES, YES. . . I’ll plant a seed!!!
What is wrong with these pictures? What has happened to the true gospel? How has it become so perverted? Or. . . has it always been so? In your love and mission to proclaim God’s Word in a dark and unbelieving world, some of the above is most often what you will see and hear. The greatest miracle that Jesus performs today is the same as was in His ministry on earth . . . the healing of sin in the human heart.
But since the beginning of time, when God made known his plan of salvation, there has been the lie and those who would distort God’s truth, just as there are followers of these men… ones who pick and choose from among the many hundreds of false teachings out there. The sad truth is that most of those sitting in today’s churches have not made a simple ‘read through’ of the entire Bible, let alone made a vigorous daily study in His Word, and thus are easily led astray.
“Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
( II Timothy 2:15)
It is only through God’s gift of His Holy Spirit that we know and follow the One true God.
“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come." (John 16:13-14)
"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." (John 14:26)
But yet, the lukewarm churches are adamant in their views and chirp back to you either what they want to believe or what they are taught in their denomination of choice. God’s truth and His Way of salvation will never alter because of what man may want to believe. We understand God’s truth as revealed in scripture through the leading of His Holy Spirit. We must be as the Bereans, examining everything (see Acts 17:10-11), comparing all things to Holy Scripture. Not simply look to the vast variety of preachers out there, all with their own particular teachings, many of whom Christ warns us against. Needless to say, these followers (of men) are content to just sit in their churches, or in front of the T.V. set and listen to whomever tickles their ears. Most do not seem to care or dispute what is taught them by taking the time to open God’s Word, to study scripture and verse in the proper context that it is written in.
Christ says,
“Enter ye in at the straight gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Because straight is the gate & narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." (Matthew 7:13-14)
If you find yourselves listening to one STANDING before you in the church with a Gospel perverted by man (the abomination), could you recognize poison (‘death in the pot’)? (2 Kings 4:38-41)
God’s Word says, you are to ‘flee to the mountains’. He alone, is our ‘Mountain’. He is the revealer of truth.
‘But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand),then let them that be in Judaea, flee to the mountains." (Mark 13: 14)
"And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem." (Isaiah 2:3)
Potipher’s wife said to Joseph, ‘Lie with me.’ Joseph fled.’ (Gen. 39:12) We are to flee from the adulteress. She is in the apostate churches today, built by man. Have you spiritual ears? Has He taken away your DEAFNESS? Has He healed your BLINDNESS so you can see His truth, are you no longer CRIPPLED but walk in His Light? Has Christ's Truth (found in his word) CAST OUT ALL DEMONS so Satan can no longer harm you? Has He healed you from all sickness and disease (SIN), so that you stand before Him in newness of life?
“God is Spirit. Those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and in truth’.
John 4:24
