Thursday, October 31, 2019
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Monday, October 28, 2019
Sunday, October 27, 2019
The Age of Adam
The Age of
Adam: The Bible says Adam reached the age of 930 years. But does this include his time in Eden? How long was he in Eden? The answer holds the answer to the age of the earth.
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Friday, October 25, 2019
Lovung God
DO YOU HAVE TO LOVE GOD TO GO TO HEAVEN?
(a warning to every believer)
The Heavenly Father is trying to build confidence in you, in HIM. He is boldly saying you can trust ME. Now, God is patient. God is kind. God is pure. God is holy. God is so long suffering. God is good. God is creative. God has a limitless imagination. The Scripture says Eyes have not seen and ears have not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man those things which God has prepared for them that LOVE HIM!
In the last number of years behind, many pulpits have come up with a new doctrine. This doctrine says it doesn't matter what you do, God Loves You No Matter What. People may not realize this but the way that it is being preached is demonic.
I was with two Pentecostal preachers and assembly God and a full gospel preacher back in about 2003. I was sitting in the backseat of the car . We were going out to eat together. God had really been speaking to me about what true salvation is. Who it is that will spend eternity with the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, and the angelic host.
I'm sitting in the back seat and I am wondering if these two men which I had known for many years knew this truth. So I leaned forward between the two bucket seats and I said to them, hey guys, let me just ask you something. You know it's not sophisticated.
I said, Do You Have To Love God To Go To Heaven?
It got so quiet in that car you could hear a pin drop. Instantly they both looked at me like I had lost my mind. Then they looked at each other like, yup, Mike has gone over the deep end. All the rumors we heard about him are true.
I was waiting for an answer, but they never answered me. So I sat back in my seat. Do You Know Why They Never Answered Me? Because they did not believe in order to be received into heaven after your born again you Must Love God.
I am not saying that it will be a perfect and mature love but at least it will be like the love of a little child has for his or her mom and dad. Granted if they have good parents. We have the most wonderful and amazing Father!
In the middle of the night when a child is going through a bad dream, or if they fall down and get hurt, or if they want to be held they call out for mom or dad. We must at least have this type of love for our heavenly father.
Paul the apostle made an amazing and frightening statement in the book of First Corinthians.
1 Corinthians 16:22If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
*Another translation says: If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be ·separated from God—lost forever [L anathema]! ·Come, O Lord [L Maranatha; C Aramaic phrase meaning either “Our Lord, Come!” or “Our Lord has come”]!
Why did not these Pentecostal preachers believe you have to love God to go to heaven? Remember we can only take people where we live. How tragic that men who stand in the pulpit do not even know this most basic elemental truth!
Matthew 22:37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
It is just common sense that a godly man will not be willing to marry a wife, a woman who not love him. You'd have to be insane to marry a woman like that. Unless you're desperate. God's not desperate.
You better find out if the minister who is feeding you your spiritual food believes: You Must Love God to Go to Heaven! If your minister does not believe this I strongly suggest you run for your life. How can he take you where he does not live himself. If you confront him with this truth after you ask him the question, and he responds: wow, you know that's true, help me, Jesus, then you have found someone that there is still great hope for.
Can I tell you something that's really shocking? Can you listen to me? God is a good God. He wants to share His Wonderful Life and creation with everybody, but God does not need you. I don't care what anybody says. God does not need you and he doesn't need me. But he has given us an amazing invitation and paid the ultimate price for us to be partakers of HIS divine nature. To live with him forever. Pastor but that’s not what I’ve been taught or believe. Let me give you a Biblical example.
In the book of Esther, Mordechai tells his niece you need to go before the king and plead the cause of your people.
Esther 4:14For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed : and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
If you do not stand up for the truth, when it jeopardizes your life, God will just raise somebody else up. If you do not don't want to walk with God, he'll find somebody. If you do not want to love God even as he has loved you, he will find somebody who will. Paul said that many will count themselves unworthy to receive this great plan of salvation because they have refused to love God.
Acts 13:46Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
But Pastor it so difficult to love God in his day and age. Tell me about it. I know this is true because of so many distractions, yet if we cry out to God he will empower us to love him. We always quote the Scripture: I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Let us by God’s grace and spirit apprehend this truth.
We Must Love God and by God’s Grace, We Will Love Him in Order to Be Fit for Heaven!
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Sunday, October 20, 2019
The Insanity of Calvinism
The Insanity of Calvinism
(back-and-forth with a Calvinist who believes the theology of Calvinism)
Godly Believer: God wants everyone to repent so he can forgive everyone. The Bible says God is calling all men everywhere to repent because God calls everyone to repent.
The Calvinist: that does not mean that God wants everyone to repent. God has pre-determined that most people will go to hell. God delights in the death of the wicked. It is for his glory. Only those few elected were created to repent and go to heaven.
Godly Believer: That makes little sense. Why would God call everyone to repent if he doesn't want everyone to repent?
The Calvinist: God's ways are not our ways. Who are you to reply against God?
Godly believer: you are not using those verses in their true context. Besides the Bible says that he died not only for our sins but for the sins of the entire world.
The Calvinist: That doesn't mean he died for everyone. The Whole World only means very few people. The elect.
Godly believer: That is not what the Bible says. Where did you hear that?
The Calvinist: oh many godly men teach this theology like James Widened or John Piper. They interpret the Bible for me. I also like, RC Sproul, Paul Washer, John Mack, or Wayne Grudem. The few men who know God, and they teach these realities. You have to understand Systematic theology is inspired by God .
Godly Believer: You deny what the Bible plainly says. You are adding to the Bible by saying that the whole world only means a few people. The Bible says God wants everyone to be saved and that Jesus died for everyone, but they need to repent and believe to be pardoned . They need to turn from their wicked ways. They need to take up their cross, deny themselves, and follow Jesus Christ. The Bible also declares that once you are born again, your name can be blotted out of the book of life.
The Calvinist: oh you are so wrong, if you add or take away from the Bible, you cannot lose your salvation. My name can't be blotted out of the book of life. Salvation doesn't depend upon any of my works, but upon the finished work of Christ, I am once saved, always saved. By the way, I can twist the Bible to fit my precious theology and pet doctrines.
Godly Believer: What are you talking about? It is a sin to add or take away from the Bible. You need to choose to repent of your sins.
The Calvinist: You are preaching works-based salvation. I know this to be true because many modern-day preachers preach it this way. I don't know how else to respond to your arguments, so I am just going to declare you a heretic. You are preaching work-based salvation for saying that I need to repent of sinning. That is not orthodoxy. I am saved by God's grace. I don't have to make the choice to turn away from sin. You are a total heretic.
Godly Believer: Jesus and the prophets and the apostles all preach repentance in the Bible, are they heretics? Also, Jesus said, be perfect and go and sin no more. That is what truly glorifies God.
Jesus also said that if we do not forgive others, then the Heavenly Father will not forgive us. If a man who claims to be a Christian does not forgive from his heart, then all of the sins of his past our place back upon him. So your theology of once saved always saved is a lie.
You promise people eternal life to whom God has not promised eternal life. That's the devil once again repeating the same lie that he did to the woman, to those who confess to know Jesus. You can eat of the forbidden fruit, and not die. You Need to Repent of Your Damnable Doctrines That Are Sending Multitudes to Hell!
The Calvinist Puts His Fingers in His Ears, Turns and Walks Away!
OSAS
STOP LISTENING TO PREACHERS WHO PROPAGATE
OSAS = Once Saved Always Saved
Calvinist and antinomianism would have us to believe that after a person is born again, that is as long as they prayed a prayer of salvation, believed on Christ, made a true commitment that they will go to heaven no matter what they do, or how they live. Even if after they were born again they murdered, raped, stole, and were habitual liars. etc.. They would still go to heaven without repentance.
Let us use King David as an example. Let's say if King David was under the New Covenant. He looked upon Bathsheba, took her, and raped her, got her pregnant. Then tried to hide his sin. But when this deception did not work, he had her husband murdered. The Calvinism and Antinomianism would have us to believe that if David had died before Nathan confronted him and repented, he would have still made it to heaven. They teach and preach this with a straight face.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Friday, October 18, 2019
Charles Spurgeon
Run from the Preachers That Tell You That You Should Live with No Regrets
(part of the sermon from Charles Spurgeon full of amazing truth)
But, to help you still further, brethren, that man is destitute of true holiness who can look back upon his own past sin without sorrow. Oh, To Think Of Our Past Lives! There were some of us who knew the Lord at fifteen years of age, but those fifteen years of unregeneracy,- we can never forget them! Others may say, "We did not know him till we were fifty or sixty."
Ah, my dear brethren! you have much to weep over, but so have those of us who knew the Lord in early life. I can look back upon God's mercy with delight, but I hope I shall never be able to look back upon my sins with complacency. Whenever a man looks to any of his past faults and shortcomings, it ought to be through his tears. Some men recall their past lives, and talk of their old sins, and seem to roll them under their tongues as a sweet morsel. They live their sins over again. As it was said of Alexander,-
And twice he slew the slain."
There are those who revel in the memory of their iniquities. They live their life in imagination over again. They recollect some deed of lewdness or some act of infamy; and, as they think it over, they dare not repeat it, for their profession would be spoiled; but they love the thought, and cultivate it with a vicious zest. Thou are no friend to true holiness, but an utter stranger to it unless the past causes thee profound sorrow, and sends thee to thy knees to weep and hope that God, for Christ's sake, has blotted it out.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
John Calvin was not the first Calvinist.
Who was the first Calvinist? Why it was the devil. It was the devil that taught John Calvin the doctrine of Calvinism. He's the one who told Adam and Eve that they could do whatever they wanted and still be saved . That they could eat off of the forbidden tree and still walk with God. The devil's Calvinistic doctrine deceived the woman. But Jesus came to crush the head of that lie. God said to Adam and his wife that the seed of the woman will crush the head of the snake, and the seed of the snake will bruise his heel. That's talking about the sufferings, the agonies and the pains of Christ. Christ came to crush the head of the doctrine that says, You Can Live Any Way You Want And You're Good To Go.
Paul the apostle was extremely concerned that this same Calvinistic doctrine would do destroy the church of Christ. Listen to what he says: 2 Corinthians 11:3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. You see the devil is still telling the same lie to gullible, ignorant, shallow people.
They love to scream and proclaim that you are preaching works-based salvation when you begin to declare that once they believe in Christ; they need to continue to use that faith to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. No matter how many Scriptures you give these deceived people, they just brush them off and they do like the radical left-liberals, they go after the speaker of these truths!
I wish I could say that I have successfully been able to help people under this delusion, but up to this point, I have not had any success. People want to embrace a lie that guarantees they're going to heaven no matter how they live. What is the purpose of this book? It is to warn those who will hear this doctrine over the pulpits from their pastors, TV preachers, and radio ministers.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Monday, October 14, 2019
Sunday, October 13, 2019
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Sodom and Gomorrah
For most of us, we think of Sodom and Gomorrah as places full of wild sex parties of all sorts, but that wasn’t what the “outcry” was really all about. If you read carefully the passages dealing with Sodom, you will see that the wild carrying-on included mass rapes involving children and whole families; this place was no pleasure den; it was a house of horrors. Yet there was an outcry so not everyone was willing to indulge, and hence, the Lord wanted to investigate before acting.
Friday, October 11, 2019
The Myth Of Mother Teresa - Tim Challies
The Myth Of Mother Teresa - Tim Challies She would not prescribe pain killers in her clinics, choosing instead to allow her patients to experience the suffering that she believed would bring them closer to Christ. Despite the tens of millions of dollars donated to her charity each year, her missions were rudimentary and offered no real health care. Her missions mainly catered to the critically ill and simply afforded them a place to go to die. It is interesting to note that when Mother Teresa became ill, she would travel to the finest health care facilities to receive treatment.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Monday, October 7, 2019
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Friday, October 4, 2019
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
How do I know if I'm praying in line with the will of God?
How do I know if I'm praying in line with the will of God?: How do I know if I'm praying in line with the will of God? How can I make sure I'm praying according to God's will?
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