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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
1st peter 2:2
What ever happened to the pure word of God?
I see so many new born baby Christians being attacked with pamphlets and vouchers on how to "grow" in your faith, ten step programs, etc.
What has happened to the word of God?
Why are we neglecting the needed substance? A baby can't grow unless it has protein.
booklets don't give protein, they are supplements.
I'm not saying don't read them, I'm not even saying to not read any books other then the bible. but when it's all said and done none of these truly help us grow more then the word of God!
What has happened? We have neglected it!
We are called to desire it! that desire is lost, in America, and in the church! we have a lost a desire for the word.
New born Christians are falling away cause they are reading everything but the bible,
it's all a fad, it's all a fake. How long will this go on?
I see so many new born baby Christians being attacked with pamphlets and vouchers on how to "grow" in your faith, ten step programs, etc.
What has happened to the word of God?
Why are we neglecting the needed substance? A baby can't grow unless it has protein.
booklets don't give protein, they are supplements.
I'm not saying don't read them, I'm not even saying to not read any books other then the bible. but when it's all said and done none of these truly help us grow more then the word of God!
What has happened? We have neglected it!
We are called to desire it! that desire is lost, in America, and in the church! we have a lost a desire for the word.
New born Christians are falling away cause they are reading everything but the bible,
it's all a fad, it's all a fake. How long will this go on?
Friday, November 19, 2010
Q
1st peter 1
1. Our faith is so much more valuable then Gold that perishes!(vs7) Gold is a worldly item that will pass away and corrode. (James 5:3) But our faith is the salvation of our Souls! We are saved and we are sanctified by Faith and not of our selves. (1 peter 1:18-19)
Even though it is tested by Fire, even though the worst of circumstances happen to us, it happens so it may be found pleasing and glorified at the end and at the coming of Jesus! (Vs 8)
We all need to be spiritually refined; I need to be spiritually refined. (Job 23:10) This is the result of it!
Made pure! A pure faith, a faith that won’t doubt! A faith that won’t fail, a faith that has been tested and proven true! The lord loves to chasten us because it refines us(Prov 3:11-12)
I get stuck on this passage in 1st peter speaking of spiritual refining,
I get so stuck on it! I can’t even move on to the rest of the chapter. It hurts, it’s never easy.
But just as the clay needs to be tried we need to be tried!
We are told to count it all joy when we fall into testing of our faith!(James 1:2)
Joy! That means rejoicing in the fact we are being tested knowing that our testing produces PURE faith.
For those of you who don’t know, the past few weeks, the past days expressly I have been dealing with Discouragement like never before. I have felt Emotional pain, and spiritual attacks and trials like never before. I have felt Loneliness, I have felt rejection, I have felt total loss. I feel like and have felt like that life
Is too hard for me, I am battling something like never before; I see the attacks for what they are.
I have felt like quitting ministry, thoughts of just quitting and sitting on the sidelines have been active.
In every area of my life, something seems to be under attack. But I know my God is greater then these.
I feel as though no matter how hard I try to overcome these I can’t except by the blood of the lamb! But how much easier it is to say that then believe it.
I know none of the lies Satan tells me are true! I know I have victory in Christ, I know he has overcome the world. But this passage in 1st peter could not have come at a better time. My faith has been tried and tested like never before. I need prayer like never before. But even as I am battling this state of discouragement I know that my God, my Jesus has overcome the world (John 16:33) but the trials are still there.
I have to hold unto Salvation.
But if there is one thing I’ve seen in this is the fact that this trial, this testing of my faith is revealing to me how Real God is, that even in my desert of despair he is there.
That even though I don’t see him I can still rejoice, I can still love him!(vs 8)
I want to finish with my plea for prayer, please pray for me.
I don't mean to even sound like a pity party, but this is what is going on!
I know my redeemer lives!(Job 19:25) He lives! he alone is my hope, he is my victory! he conquered death, he also has felt everything and more then what I'm feeling! he was rejected to the point of death!
He alone is faithful. He alone will see us through.
The body of Christ is under fire, I see it around the body. God is moving! The youth group here is growing, the lord is doing a work but the attacks are coming.
A saying as we close is “Faith not tested can’t be trusted” if I truly had not been tested or am being tested my faith would not be pure!
1. Our faith is so much more valuable then Gold that perishes!(vs7) Gold is a worldly item that will pass away and corrode. (James 5:3) But our faith is the salvation of our Souls! We are saved and we are sanctified by Faith and not of our selves. (1 peter 1:18-19)
Even though it is tested by Fire, even though the worst of circumstances happen to us, it happens so it may be found pleasing and glorified at the end and at the coming of Jesus! (Vs 8)
We all need to be spiritually refined; I need to be spiritually refined. (Job 23:10) This is the result of it!
Made pure! A pure faith, a faith that won’t doubt! A faith that won’t fail, a faith that has been tested and proven true! The lord loves to chasten us because it refines us(Prov 3:11-12)
I get stuck on this passage in 1st peter speaking of spiritual refining,
I get so stuck on it! I can’t even move on to the rest of the chapter. It hurts, it’s never easy.
But just as the clay needs to be tried we need to be tried!
We are told to count it all joy when we fall into testing of our faith!(James 1:2)
Joy! That means rejoicing in the fact we are being tested knowing that our testing produces PURE faith.
For those of you who don’t know, the past few weeks, the past days expressly I have been dealing with Discouragement like never before. I have felt Emotional pain, and spiritual attacks and trials like never before. I have felt Loneliness, I have felt rejection, I have felt total loss. I feel like and have felt like that life
Is too hard for me, I am battling something like never before; I see the attacks for what they are.
I have felt like quitting ministry, thoughts of just quitting and sitting on the sidelines have been active.
In every area of my life, something seems to be under attack. But I know my God is greater then these.
I feel as though no matter how hard I try to overcome these I can’t except by the blood of the lamb! But how much easier it is to say that then believe it.
I know none of the lies Satan tells me are true! I know I have victory in Christ, I know he has overcome the world. But this passage in 1st peter could not have come at a better time. My faith has been tried and tested like never before. I need prayer like never before. But even as I am battling this state of discouragement I know that my God, my Jesus has overcome the world (John 16:33) but the trials are still there.
I have to hold unto Salvation.
But if there is one thing I’ve seen in this is the fact that this trial, this testing of my faith is revealing to me how Real God is, that even in my desert of despair he is there.
That even though I don’t see him I can still rejoice, I can still love him!(vs 8)
I want to finish with my plea for prayer, please pray for me.
I don't mean to even sound like a pity party, but this is what is going on!
I know my redeemer lives!(Job 19:25) He lives! he alone is my hope, he is my victory! he conquered death, he also has felt everything and more then what I'm feeling! he was rejected to the point of death!
He alone is faithful. He alone will see us through.
The body of Christ is under fire, I see it around the body. God is moving! The youth group here is growing, the lord is doing a work but the attacks are coming.
A saying as we close is “Faith not tested can’t be trusted” if I truly had not been tested or am being tested my faith would not be pure!
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
The Danger of the Modern Gospel
“Another Gospel”
The Gospel, it triggers much thoughts and controversy. It has been used to describe multiple things the gospel of Muhammad, the Gospel of Cars, the gospel…. And so on. But the one that makes people mad is “The Gospel of Jesus Christ” This is what really triggers someone. When this is brought up it gets intense.
In today’ society god may be acknowledge but Jesus is hated. What has caused so much hatred towards the Christ? I believe a very fine answer is given in John 7:7-
Jhn 7:7 "The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil”
It’s simple; Jesus said the works of the world are evil! Men are evil and love darkness and evil.
When someone is confronted with the truth they hate it! So instead of preaching the truth as the early church did, the Church as a majority has taken the gospel and changed it, we have changed the way we present it for fear of reproach! We have made a man centered Gospel! Forgive me if I’m reparative and passionate about this, o dear, oh how I wish the bride of Christ would wake up and see the danger and the filth she is in!
It reminds me of someone who is sending another person towards the cliff on a recliner! They says “oh but the person is comfortable” while the person falls into his death!
This is the Danger of “Another Gospel” or the modern Gospel!
When I say “Another Gospel” I mean the “Another Gospel” as is mentioned in the Bible:
Gal 1:8 “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.”
The word Accursed here literally means “Doomed” what Paul is basically saying is “he who preaches another Gospel, a gospel unlike the true Gospel let him be doomed” man, that’s harsh but it shows us the importance of
The gospel it shows us that the gospel is not something we can change so easily.
This is why I say that it’s dangerous for preaching “Another Gospel” because it’s eternal!
The Gospel is an eternal matter, but this fact is not thought of in the church today. We treat as it’s a fun, loving, joy gospel and it is but it’s not just that! It’s a gospel of being saved from sin!
I also believe the danger of “Another Gospel” is the fact, that many people are deceived and therefore a false convert! Many come forward thinking, “Oh I’ll accept Jesus and everything will be cool”
Only a few years later they fall away because of trials, they still live in sin, etc. All because they fell for a lie “Jesus is such a loving vending machine” but when trials and temptations come, they fall away!
This is another danger, whole churches are deceived! Whole “Believers” live in sin, because they don’t understand the true Gospel! Forgive me for being harsh, but this is the truth! How long will we preach a gospel to all mankind that only sends people to hell? How long will this go on?
So many deceived! But yet this is exactly what was mentioned would happen in the last days it said, “there would come a time”
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;
My friends and readers, I believe we are living in this time! This time is upon us! The Church is heaping up for themselves teachers! Man teachers! Only teaching what the crowds want to hear! It’s like telling a patient they are going to live a long and happy life when in reality they are going to die from Cancer!
Oh Church, how long will we heap up man-centered teachers? What a man sows, so that he shall reap! I don’t want to reap a false Gospel! We all will stand before judgment!
This is a sign we are living in the last days, the times are upon us! And yet Jesus is going to come back and find his church unfaithful to the Gospel?
But what has motivated man to heap up teachers and to preach a watered-down gospel? I believe my very first point answers it. Men’s deeds are Evil, man hates being called Evil. Because of pride, we love sin! Because of the fall men have only got wickeder and wickeder. We have only grown more accustomed to sin we have treated sin more and more lightly, we have done all that is mentioned would happen in the last days.
We have become lovers of ourselves! oh how my heart aches for the church, it’s not a matter of being biased or even trying to cause a revival, it’s simply my heart is the fact that the majority of the church is on it’s way to Hell! It’s a eternal matter! How long will we be deceived?
How long will we allow this lie that Jesus is just a vendor God and someone who is all come to you and me will be rich? How long will we refuse to preach Hell?
Jesus told us to preach “THE GOSPEL” to all nations! Not a gospel that is perverted!
Even pastors are living in sin! This is a how crazy and extreme these last days are! Oh how much more so we need to be living as a light in this Dark Age!
Oh I know the majority of “Christians” will hate us because we preach the truth, but what better love then to show them the true need for a savior?
Many “Fables” in the last days will come.
2Ti 4:4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
Perhaps this means fables or legends of Supernatural appearing other then truth of the gospel and truth of Jesus,
Perhaps it’s the new age movement, or perhaps it’s something more disguised then that perhaps it’s the gospel of being saved by works, perhaps it’s a fable that money earns your way to heaven.
My point is, is that we are living in the last days! Many churches ate turning their ears away from the truth!
The truth of the fact there is Hell but there is ALSO a God who sent his son to die for our sins!
Or the other fable is the teaching of no Hell. There are people who say you can be saved and believe in a non-existent hell,
But if there is no Hell there is no need for repentance and by this alone, you have undermined the gospel,
You have undermined the basics of the Christian faith.
Do you see the danger of this? It’s extreme!
Many Fables, many childish beliefs of a Vending God is slipping into the church! When will we wake up to this fact? We’ve lost thousands to this movement.
Let him whom preaches another gospel be accursed! There is no other Gospel that can save us! Only Jesus can!
The Gospel of Health and wealth, is also a threat like never before. People are falsely converted because they are taught once saved Jesus will make them rich! I’m not saying that you won’t be blessed or you will be poor,
I’m saying that, the bible says many trials would come! We are living in a sinful world! But it’s a matter of being rich in Faith! Trusting the Lord, it’s not a all joy ride with the Lord, it’s gots it’s ups and down.
How many are converted because they like the fluff? Many! This is a serious issue!
Forgive me for venting, but this is what is happening! Millions are going to Hell!
In Conclusion, The church is asleep to this fact! I pray my post has woke you up. let us preach the Gospel! In season and out of season!
The Gospel, it triggers much thoughts and controversy. It has been used to describe multiple things the gospel of Muhammad, the Gospel of Cars, the gospel…. And so on. But the one that makes people mad is “The Gospel of Jesus Christ” This is what really triggers someone. When this is brought up it gets intense.
In today’ society god may be acknowledge but Jesus is hated. What has caused so much hatred towards the Christ? I believe a very fine answer is given in John 7:7-
Jhn 7:7 "The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil”
It’s simple; Jesus said the works of the world are evil! Men are evil and love darkness and evil.
When someone is confronted with the truth they hate it! So instead of preaching the truth as the early church did, the Church as a majority has taken the gospel and changed it, we have changed the way we present it for fear of reproach! We have made a man centered Gospel! Forgive me if I’m reparative and passionate about this, o dear, oh how I wish the bride of Christ would wake up and see the danger and the filth she is in!
It reminds me of someone who is sending another person towards the cliff on a recliner! They says “oh but the person is comfortable” while the person falls into his death!
This is the Danger of “Another Gospel” or the modern Gospel!
When I say “Another Gospel” I mean the “Another Gospel” as is mentioned in the Bible:
Gal 1:8 “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.”
The word Accursed here literally means “Doomed” what Paul is basically saying is “he who preaches another Gospel, a gospel unlike the true Gospel let him be doomed” man, that’s harsh but it shows us the importance of
The gospel it shows us that the gospel is not something we can change so easily.
This is why I say that it’s dangerous for preaching “Another Gospel” because it’s eternal!
The Gospel is an eternal matter, but this fact is not thought of in the church today. We treat as it’s a fun, loving, joy gospel and it is but it’s not just that! It’s a gospel of being saved from sin!
I also believe the danger of “Another Gospel” is the fact, that many people are deceived and therefore a false convert! Many come forward thinking, “Oh I’ll accept Jesus and everything will be cool”
Only a few years later they fall away because of trials, they still live in sin, etc. All because they fell for a lie “Jesus is such a loving vending machine” but when trials and temptations come, they fall away!
This is another danger, whole churches are deceived! Whole “Believers” live in sin, because they don’t understand the true Gospel! Forgive me for being harsh, but this is the truth! How long will we preach a gospel to all mankind that only sends people to hell? How long will this go on?
So many deceived! But yet this is exactly what was mentioned would happen in the last days it said, “there would come a time”
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;
My friends and readers, I believe we are living in this time! This time is upon us! The Church is heaping up for themselves teachers! Man teachers! Only teaching what the crowds want to hear! It’s like telling a patient they are going to live a long and happy life when in reality they are going to die from Cancer!
Oh Church, how long will we heap up man-centered teachers? What a man sows, so that he shall reap! I don’t want to reap a false Gospel! We all will stand before judgment!
This is a sign we are living in the last days, the times are upon us! And yet Jesus is going to come back and find his church unfaithful to the Gospel?
But what has motivated man to heap up teachers and to preach a watered-down gospel? I believe my very first point answers it. Men’s deeds are Evil, man hates being called Evil. Because of pride, we love sin! Because of the fall men have only got wickeder and wickeder. We have only grown more accustomed to sin we have treated sin more and more lightly, we have done all that is mentioned would happen in the last days.
We have become lovers of ourselves! oh how my heart aches for the church, it’s not a matter of being biased or even trying to cause a revival, it’s simply my heart is the fact that the majority of the church is on it’s way to Hell! It’s a eternal matter! How long will we be deceived?
How long will we allow this lie that Jesus is just a vendor God and someone who is all come to you and me will be rich? How long will we refuse to preach Hell?
Jesus told us to preach “THE GOSPEL” to all nations! Not a gospel that is perverted!
Even pastors are living in sin! This is a how crazy and extreme these last days are! Oh how much more so we need to be living as a light in this Dark Age!
Oh I know the majority of “Christians” will hate us because we preach the truth, but what better love then to show them the true need for a savior?
Many “Fables” in the last days will come.
2Ti 4:4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
Perhaps this means fables or legends of Supernatural appearing other then truth of the gospel and truth of Jesus,
Perhaps it’s the new age movement, or perhaps it’s something more disguised then that perhaps it’s the gospel of being saved by works, perhaps it’s a fable that money earns your way to heaven.
My point is, is that we are living in the last days! Many churches ate turning their ears away from the truth!
The truth of the fact there is Hell but there is ALSO a God who sent his son to die for our sins!
Or the other fable is the teaching of no Hell. There are people who say you can be saved and believe in a non-existent hell,
But if there is no Hell there is no need for repentance and by this alone, you have undermined the gospel,
You have undermined the basics of the Christian faith.
Do you see the danger of this? It’s extreme!
Many Fables, many childish beliefs of a Vending God is slipping into the church! When will we wake up to this fact? We’ve lost thousands to this movement.
Let him whom preaches another gospel be accursed! There is no other Gospel that can save us! Only Jesus can!
The Gospel of Health and wealth, is also a threat like never before. People are falsely converted because they are taught once saved Jesus will make them rich! I’m not saying that you won’t be blessed or you will be poor,
I’m saying that, the bible says many trials would come! We are living in a sinful world! But it’s a matter of being rich in Faith! Trusting the Lord, it’s not a all joy ride with the Lord, it’s gots it’s ups and down.
How many are converted because they like the fluff? Many! This is a serious issue!
Forgive me for venting, but this is what is happening! Millions are going to Hell!
In Conclusion, The church is asleep to this fact! I pray my post has woke you up. let us preach the Gospel! In season and out of season!
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