Spend 15 minutes of your time. Start with this video here:
Once you’ve finished that, watch this 10 minute sermon clip:
The reason the unbelieving ‘pastors’ and ‘teachers’ need to be exposed for what they are is because of the hypocrisy and lies that get spewed out of their mouths each week from the pulpits that then in turn make genuine Trust in Yeshua the Messiah look like foolishness. The one who partook of the fun at ‘church’ for a little while can walk away when the fountain of warm-fuzzy runs dry and say ‘Oh, I tried that, that was nice, but it really doesn’t have anything to offer me. It was fun while it lasted but I don’t think any of it’s true.’ Then these individuals who figure the picture of Christianity they got was genuine apply that to all believers.
These self-help pop-psycho-babble guru’s in the pulpits today are doing nothing for their congregations. They aren’t feeding the sheep (John 21:17), they’re instead tickling their ears (2 Timothy 4:3-4). So what will happen as the congregation faces the confusion of today when the world seems to be in utter chaos? The book that their church claims to teach has the answers to what is going on within it’s pages but because it’s never really opened those answers are never heard and so the world appears to be in utter chaos. But to those who have been taught appropriately, rightly dividing the Word of Truth (2 Timothy 2:15), who study to show themselves approved, it is not in chaos, but a well orchestrated symphony of events, foretold thousands of years in advance. The Biblical Christians aren’t confused nor afraid. But the fear and confusion of the unbelievers sitting in the seats of teachers who aren’t teaching is dreadful.
The message of the happy Jesus who wants nothing more than for you to accept him so he can give you the wonderful plan he has for your life doesn’t hold much weight as the people who believed this are now facing struggles of employment, financial distress, inflation, strange food supplies, news that doesn’t stop, wars that can’t be explained… the list could go on and on. Now that pastor up there turned out to be a liar. He said things would be great and you’ll be happy and he gave you a couple verses from the Bible along with 5 steps to a life without fear but that fear didn’t go away, did it? And the world doesn’t seem to be getting better as the guy up there on stage said it is. The ‘great things’ that god was doing all the time for the church and community, god isn’t doing anymore is he? Does that mean god doesn’t love us afterall? Maybe that god doesn’t exist. I guess those Christians didn’t have the answers they claimed to…
No the world is not getting better and it’s not going to get better until Yeshua returns as the Conquering King to Rule with His Rod of Iron as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. True, there will be peace and a perceived better world for a few years right before then, but anyone who tells you things are getting better is a liar. This is precisely why these ‘pastors’ and ‘teachers’ need to be exposed for what they are. They aren’t being ‘loving’ by telling you false information. It’s not loving to lie, nor is it loving to lead you to your death. If you have the answers, it’s not loving to hide them.
I highly suggest reading The Greatest Expert on the Scriptures Who Ever Lived And His View of the Bible, written by Chris Rosebrough. It’s a very well written piece that discusses why it’s important to take the Bible literally, rather than figuratively. The common ‘believer’ today who claims to be a Christian will prove that they are more than likely a false convert when confronted with the Truth of Scripture. When topics come up in conversations that expose how seriously one views the Bible, you will find these people not defending the Bible, but rather, struggling to bring down the character of those who take the Bible very seriously.
Those who take the Bible literally are the enemy. This is because literalists know we’re sojourners and have a mission to preach and teach the Good News. We know Yeshua the Messiah will return and when He does he won’t be the character portrayed in all the nice paintings. We are the ones who expose the deeds of the unbelieving and seek to bring them to repentance before our time here is up. We see things heating up in the middle east, head back to the Bible and note that the stage is being set just as the Scriptures said it would be and has never been before, literally. The allegorical agnostics who claim to be believers not only don’t see these things as Truth, but are vehemently opposed to those who do. Biblical Christianity is the minority in supposed ‘Christian’ nations and is the enemy in most churches today.
When Yeshua the Messiah came 2,000 years ago, he fulfilled more than 300 specifications (prophecies) laid out in advance over the previous several thousand years in the Word. He fulfilled those specifications literally. It can be understood in an illustration of making an order. When you order something, you expect to get what you ordered when the order is fulfilled. If the final product doesn’t add up to the specifications of the original order, you take it back. But if it does, then you don’t reject the order – you consider it fulfilled. As ridiculous as an example that is, it serves to make the point that the 4 Gospels, followed up by all the epistles we call the New Testament, were written to show that Yeshua was who He claimed to be. And because all of those specifications were fulfilled literally, it would stand to reason, through common sense and logic (the modern athiest loves those words) that the prophecies written and hammered at least 7 times more than the previous about the Second Coming and the Day of YHWH will also be fulfilled literally – probably moreso than you could ever imagine.
Chris Rosebrough was responding to a video interview of Marcus Borg. You can see the video posted in Chris’ explanation titled ‘What I Was Writing Against‘. For whatever reason, these guys seek the demise of the authority of Scripture and yet want to call themselves Christians.
Dr. David Jeremiah, in his book “What In the World Is Going On?” comments on how unlikely the idea of a one world ruler was just some time ago yet today seems inescapable. In light of the recent election, I found this paragraph fascinating.
It’s no wonder that people will follow this man and even fall down and worship him. We see in our own political compaigns how quickly people gravitate to charisma and power. Give us a fine-looking candidate with a golden voice, a powerful presence, and the ability to enthrall people with vague rhetoric about an undefined better future, and we follow like sheep as the media bleats the candidate’s praises. Completely overlooked is the substance of the man’s program. The presence and charisma of the [a]ntichrist will be similar, making his rise to power inevitable.
What in the World is Going On? Dr. David Jeremiah, ch. 7, pg. 157.
As has been reported now for the last week, eHarmony has been forced by the government to match homosexuals. WorldNetDaily has this article which explains what happened pretty well.
What most people don’t get is the complete slap in the face to freedom – the freedom to create and operate a business that caters to whom they wish to cater to. Unfortunately, this shows the complete lack understanding by the courts of how our economy works. This also demonstrates that the homosexual agenda is about crying the loudest to impose their views upon others, regardless of what kind of damage they cause in the process. Eric McKinley should have seen an opportunity to start his own business – instead, he had to rob another to get something which he ‘might consider’ using.
Dr. Warren has recently tried to shed the image he had of founding a service with Christian roots. It’s unfortunate that he’s found keeping a successful business alive at the expense of his own background to be a worthy endeavor. The company’s founder SHOULD have stood firm with what he supposedly believed in and when forced to go against those ideals, closed his business. Imagine what that would have done for the homosexual agenda – to have someone finally stand up and say No for a change – loudly. It would have upset all the customers who use the service and certainly shown the homosexual agenda for what it is, along with the incompetence of the ruling elite. Dr. Warren could have saved face and done just that. Certainly he was still free to do so. But he didn’t. And instead, eHarmony will bow to the agenda and their reputation will go downhill along with all the other sites that used to be as popular as eHarmony is (was). eHarmony offered quality that was unmatched in the online dating services that was geared towards long-term relationships. The homosexuals prove time and time again they don’t do well in long-term relationships, despite what the media tries so hard to portray. There were other sites McKinley could have used which have no problem catering to homosexuals. McKinley could have started his own if it was really needed… but he didn’t.
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“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35
In the modern church today, this is often talked about and taught by the teachers that your love for everyone is how people can know your relationship with God and ultimately bring their conversion. While it’s definitely true we are to love everyone as we love ourselves, which is a model of the fact that we must be humble before we can truly love anyone, especially God, but is that specifically what our Savior is saying here? Compare the quote above to Matthew 22:37-40, Matthew 7:12 or Luke 6:35. Clearly, these verses here are speaking of how our relationship to others should be, but the quote above indicates our relationship to each other as Christians. Illustrate those 3 with Mark 10:43-45 and John 13:14-15. What you see in all these verses (outside of what’s quoted above) is a servanthood to others as how we ought to live, but not a method of witness or teaching.
John 13:34-35 is talking about how others will be able to tell we are Believer’s – by our love for each other as Christians – our brothers and sisters in Christ. This is not the same as being a servant to all, they are distinct. This isn’t to downplay the fact that we should love all, by no means should that change. We must humble ourselves before we can be a devoted servant of our Lord and Savior. In that we will, by the Spirit, become servants to all for the sheer purpose of remaining blameless. But that is not and should not be our primary witness. The commission sends us out to preach and teach – to preach that they believe and teach so they obey.
We are to do good works, expecting nothing in return (Mark 10:43-45). We are to be blameless as Christ, the Great Judge of All the Earth will make right. We are to be servants – Christ is our example (John13:14-15) but none of these things will make us the peculiar people we should appear to be by the world as even the world does these things from time to time. No, in our love for our fellow brothers and sisters the world will see us as a peculiar people – the children of God.
It’s been quite a busy few weeks here in the US. The presidential election has come and gone and you could almost hear a gasp when it was announced that Barack Obama won both the popular and the electoral vote. Unless some unforeseen circumstance happens, we’ll be calling him President Obama very soon.
While the far left have been having a field day, the far right have had a hard time coming to grips with the fact that McCain lost. It’s not so much that McCain lost, but that the alternative won. Obama is the most up-front socialist this country has seen yet. He is by far the most pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage president-elect we’ve had, and that’s just the beginning. But it says a lot. Not necessarily about Obama’s views – but about the state of the US.
Supposed Christian’s let their true ambassadorship down. It shows not just the Biblical illiteracy in the country today, but also the fact that most professed Christians aren’t really believers in the first place. I’ve said for awhile now that I believe most people filling the pews on Sunday morning are athiests and it seems to be more and more true as the days go by. Athiests in the Sunday morning service aren’t a bad thing – we should be happy to see them there! The problem is in the pulpits that refuse to share the Gospel – the one thing every single person in the US needs the most! Why don’t the pastors share the Gospel? I believe most of the pastors in these churches are athiests themselves.
Most people who voted for Obama who claim to be believer’s will tell you that it wasn’t about abortion, or the homosexual agenda. Instead it was about change and getting rid of the Bush administration. I understand – Bush has been anything but a good President – at least as far as this countries constitution is concerned. He proved to be a liar from the beginning. His ‘faith’ isn’t the faith he claimed it was. But he’s operated according to the ultimate plan. And Obama, much to everyone’s dismay – though they won’t see it or admit to it, will be operating very much to the same tune.
These people are right in that the issue of abortion may not be what was on their minds when they entered the booth, but that doesn’t mean they were right to ignore it. An issue like abortion sets the stage though on who the candidate really is and what the country really represents. Letting an issue like the sanctity of every human life get pushed aside as unimportant is really just asking for the moral decay this society is facing anymore. Don’t be shocked when kids walk into schools and shoot their classmates or someone opens up fire in a mall during daylight hours while patrons are shopping. Don’t be appalled when women get brutally raped and beaten without a care in the world and the one commiting the crime goes free. When you indoctrinate children 3 generations deep into believing the lie that they’re just evolved animals and there are no absolutes, this is the result – people acting like animals.
Abortion isn’t about choice, it’s about life. Pro-abortion is actually anti-choice. Making it illegal for a doctor to choose whether or not he wants to perform an abortion isn’t leaving him a choice. Making it impossible for pro-life doctors to practice not only doesn’t leave the doctor a choice, but it doesn’t leave the patient a choice either. Being able to choose the doctor I wish to see – one who has no problem killing babies or one who values every human life would seem to be more ‘pro-choice’. But that’s not the option we’re given. Doctors are driven out of practice if they go against the pro-abortion stance – so much for a free country. The hippocratic oath is meaningless when physicians have no problem killing children. How do you expect a doctor to value life, when it’s no skin off their back to end it? Are you going to the same doctor expecting to be healed? When you take your aging parents to the hospital – don’t expect them to save them. The doctors who you’re looking to for help with your parents are the same ones who just got done murdering a 20 week year old baby because Mom didn’t want to be inconvenienced.
Really though, abortion shouldn’t even be an presidential issue – but it is because the federal government won’t operate the way it’s supposed to. Making it mandatory for states to take part in abortion and making it mandatory for taxpayers to pay for it isn’t pro-choice – it’s slavery. The nation was formed with the idea that if you didn’t like the way your state operated you could live in another state. Abortion SHOULD be a state issue. It’s not pro-choice when you don’t give people that option anymore.
There were presidential candidates running who were pro-life and they weren’t McCain. There were people earlier in the election running on truly proven records with years of service – not lip-service. Ron Paul wasn’t lying when he said he was pro-life or anything else – and his record backed it up. McCain has flopped his whole career and we don’t even know Obama enough to get a half decent picture of him. The republicans have blown it because they’ve gone centrist. They aren’t the party of free-market small government… they’re just a half step behind the left anymore. A McCain presidency would have been little different than an Obama presidency. The republicans would be wise to stop offering up politicians like McCain. Get back to the core of what the party stood for – you won’t lose your centrist republicans, and you’d likely gain all those you’ve lost to the Constitution Party and the Libertarian Party. But that won’t happen as the script has been laid out far in advance and the play has been in progress for quite some time.
This article is a worthy read though littered with your typical mainstream media bias. They hate anything that offers credibility to the Biblical text. The point is, it’s another nail in the coffin on the debate over how reliable the Bible actually is. It also proves the stupidity of the claim by most countries in the Middle East that Israel never had any history in the land.
The article Christians as Sacrificial Lambs was posted yesterday at the Persecution blog. I highly recommend it as Stacy did a great job at outlining the importance of every life. So often we just glaze over at the news, breathe a quick prayer and move on. Might I recommend a journal – when you come across these news items, jot down their name and a quick note as to what happened. Grab the journal in your prayer time and go over their names, pray for those impacted, for their salvation, witness, that those being persecuted be given strength to continue.
Sometimes it seems as though there is nothing we can do about it, but we should never forget, we have a direct line to the throne room of God through prayer. We should utilize that line constantly and never forget to make use of it – never ceasing.
Last month there was a collective sigh of grief among evangelicals when we found out that Ray Boltz had ‘come out’ stating he was a homosexual. There’s a blog update regarding what he’s up to now that Slaughter of the Sheep has posted a snippet of. You can get the idea without having to actually go to the Blade site.
