Our churches are “re-working” the bible to better meet
our worldly desire. Christians don’t
know the bible well so they go along with whatever is being preached from the
pulpits. The scary thing is that “heresy”
is being preached and the flock does not recognize it.
2 Timothy 4:3 A time will come when people will not listen
to accurate teachings. Instead, they will follow their own desires and surround
themselves with teachers who tell them what they want to hear.
In many Christian denominations we now are told to pray
to “God Father-Mother” and to see God as both feminine and masculine. While God may be male or female or both or
neither or a million things our little human minds cannot comprehend we must
not forget that God refers to himself as “Father”, as “King”. Jesus himself taught us to pray to “God the
Father”. Jesus never referred to God as “mother”
and never told us to do this. To take it
upon ourselves to pray in a way that “we” determine is correct is in reality “rebellion”. We then will be praying to a God of our own
creation, an idol. There is only one God
and he tells us this dozens of times in the bible. The bible is full of verses like the one
below….
Isaiah 46:9 "I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and
there is no one like Me" We are told that the translators of the bible are wrong about certain concepts in the bible. We are told that they were more influenced by their social norms and culture of the times then by God. If we now see the bible as full of error then we can make it anything we want. We can re-work it into better meeting what we see as politically correct and appropriate for our needs in these times.
Remember God told us that he does not change. His truth
will not change for our comfort or convenience or to be politically correct or
for our social norms or for the age we live in.
His truth always was, is now and always will remain the same. Back when I was a kid I remember a saying, “God
does not change only people do”.
Numbers 23:19 God is not a
man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind. Has
he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it
through?
We are being told that we must see God in a more “inclusive”
way. That all definitions of God, all
religions Gods are just God revealing himself to the world in different
ways. He changes himself depending on
our needs. We are told that all ways
lead to God. This sounds great by our
worldly standards but it is not biblical.
There is only one way to God and his eternal kingdom and that is through
Jesus Christ.
John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I
am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except
through me.
We are also being told that we need to have a broader
definition of God because then we can talk to people in ways that they see
God. We can then relate better to
them. We are told that we are being
judgmental if we say that “our way” is right and theirs is “error”.
The truth is not “our way” it is God’s way. We are only proclaiming what is true. Others are free to believe it or not. We only plant the seeds of truth it is God
who will grow it in them if their hearts are open to him. God gives us the freedom to believe the truth
or error. Now, we are the ones who have
to change to follow the commands of God.
He is not changing who he is so we can relate to him better. We are told in scripture that we must be
obedient and we must humble ourselves and “submit” to his will. If we love him then we will find joy and
peace in turning from what we want to what he wants.
What really is scaring me is that “Christians” are the
one’s promoting this false version of God.
They are embracing this new “prosperity gospel” worshipping a God that
gives them “their best life now”. If this
is our best life now we don’t have much to look forward to. Of course this is not biblical. But Christians don’t want to hear that they will
suffer for God. They don’t want to hear
about submitting to God. Christians don’t
want to talk about repentance or hell or the Book of Revelation. They want their feel good God that lets them define
him in a way that lets them do anything they want.
I used to cry for these lost souls but after hearing
Pastor Paul Washer talk on the subject I don’t feel sorry for them. They “want” this God and will fight you with
all their strength to keep their idol. Matthew 10:17-21 But beware! For you will be handed over to the courts and will be flogged with whips in the synagogues. 18You will stand trial before governors and kings because you are my followers. But this will be your opportunity to tell the rulers and other unbelievers about me. 19When you are arrested, don’t worry about how to respond or what to say. God will give you the right words at the right time. 20For it is not you who will be speaking—it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.21“A brother will betray his brother to death, a father will betray his own child, and children will rebel against their parents and cause them to be killed. (those who you love will become your enemies…..remember Judas betrayed Jesus! The church will fall into apostasy or renounce the true faith and those remaining faithful will be seen as the heretics/unbeliever)
When you offer them the truth they treat you as if you
are “exclusive”, “arrogant” “judgmental” and “intolerant”. God tells us that is how End Times will
be.
Isaiah 5:20 What sorrow for those who
say that evil is good and good is evil, (who call corrupt behavior moral and righteous
behavior corrupt) that dark is light and light
is dark, (prefer false doctrines to the
true word;) that bitter is sweet
and sweet is bitter (sin
becomes sweet and holiness become sin).
Be strong. Be
courageous. Remain faithful. This new worldly idol God will not save you
on judgment day. You can fool yourself
by worshipping the many counterfeit versions of God in the world today. You can fool others but you can’t fool the
one true God. And he will be the one
judging you on the Great Day of the LORD, his Second Coming.
Matthew 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord!' will enter the
kingdom of heaven, but only the person who does what my Father in heaven wants.
22Many will say to me on
that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name? Didn't we force out
demons and do many miracles by the power and authority of your name?' 23Then I will tell them
publicly, 'I've never known you. Get away from me, you evil people.'
Please, please study the bible so
that you will know the truth. Go to Christ
and repent. Submit your
will to his will and obey. Test
all spirits….test what people tell you against the word.
Satan is in the church prowling around us and looking for
souls to destroy with his twisted versions of the truth and counterfeit Christianity. Don’t lose your salvation. It is the only thing you have of value in
this temporary world and in the eternal one to come.Matthew 24: 10-13 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
I am here for you dear brothers and sisters. It’s going to be hard. It was hard for Christ and for the apostles
and for those martyred for the faith.
Endure and Live!!!
2 Timothy 2:3 Endure suffering along with me, as a good soldier of Christ
Jesus.
