The Word of Truth Ministries
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How Long Will
Christians Put Christ To An Open Shame? |
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The scriptures are clear on most things, although wicked men inspired by Satan have learned to confuse them in the eyes of many unlearned and not desirous of learning Christians. Hence, these wicked men have surmised that the word of God is not clear on anything and to anyone. Surely, however, this one word is clear to most, even the unlearned: "Stand in the ways and see and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, we will not walk in it." [Jer. 6:16] The prophet Jeremiah, using the eyes of God, looks through time to now and the religious and political confusion of now, and says that the wise of God must take a look at the conditions that exist now and know that there are many ways that we must examine to see what is the good way. And once we find that good way of God, we should walk in it. But that prophet also saw that this time would be so convoluted, so Satan-driven with the things of this world that once that good way is found, the people who say they are of God will not walk in that good way of God! Instead they put Christ to an open shame by twisting, tearing, contorting, distorting, and warping God's word all out of proportion, as they stretch it to fit their sinful, damnable and distorted form of Christianity. My dear friends reading this word of God, we are in dangerous times of deception, times of Satan-driven confusion, hypocrisy, and utter disgrace! And we think nothing of that disgrace and our shame. Most of those who once knew God, although still linger in the churches pretending to that they still know God and still walk in his word, have turned away from the right way of God and have perverted God's word to fit their own fancy. They will not do the word nor will they allow the truth of God entry into their lives or into the hearing of those whose lives they have manipulated and have set on the road to perdition for their own financial, sexual, and ego-psychological benefits. We are now at that stage in the latter days when the scriptures say, "...Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." [Rev. 12:12] The devil has come down among the people, inhabiting them, influencing them, recruiting them, and blinding them so that they do not see that the behavior which they are exhibiting is the direct actions of Satan. The Bible says that the devil knows that his time is short--Christ is soon to come and overthrow his influence on men, but now Satan is trying to recruit, pollute, and make all of God's people as corrupt as he is, and he is doing a good job on many, especially ministers. Satan knows that his time is short, but most of those whom he has lulled to sleep and into sin and the reverie of this life do not know that time is short and Christ is soon to come and rescue us (those saints still in light and allowing God's word to govern their lives) away from this cauldron of tears we call this life. Satan has hidden that knowledge from them and, instead, he has taught them new things and kinds of sin--much like Eve in the garden; he hide certain truths from her as he said, "You will not surely die." I would venture to say that most Christians in this nation have lost all hope of their calling. [Eph. 1:18] The hope of our calling is that Christ is to return and take us away from this life unto another life. But in this nation that very calling is a thing that Christians now snicker at. Most Christians of America think that heaven has come down to them, and they are willing to luxuriate in the carnal things of this world for their few years down here and die and go to a devil's hell. (Oh yes, the idea of a devil's hell is also another one of those things now snickered at. But as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be, Jesus said, in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. [Mat. 24:37] Noah said, it's going to rain, but they were so carried away with their lives of the flesh until they laughed at him.) Most Christians are laughing today at the word of God, as they put Christ to an open shame and care not, nor understand the gravity of their actions. So carried away are they with living and getting the things of now that the things of the future with Christ have slipped out of their grasp. But they don't care. This is complete hedonism and absolute blindness by the glitter of this life's gold; for they see not that the things they are now selling their souls for and disgracing Christ who died for them are mere things they could have walked on in glory. They have failed to see that the things of this life and this very life itself are not worthy to even be compared to that life to come. [Rom. 8:18] Look at it: The life to come is eternal; this life is 70-100 years by reason of strength--that life is without these frail and mortal (dying and decaying) bodies that pain and give us all types of trouble as we get older; in that new world, our bodies will be changed like unto his glorious body is made to last throughout all eternity without operational problems or pain. This life has limited riches and is filled with much uncertainty, misery and much deceit attempting to attain those riches--in that life to come we will walk on the things we now die for; those things will be of such supply and so meaningless that we will see them as mere trinkets that are placed on walls, etc.; they won't be of much importance because there will be far greater riches and things that capture our interests. Now we gaze in wonder of the worlds above us and gaze into the sky in amazement; those worlds that a few men have risked and even given their lives to get closer to will then be at our ready to understand and, no doubt, to explore at our will and whim. The knowledge that is now hidden from us will them be revealed to us. These are just some of the comparisons that we see that allow us to know that the things of this life are not worthy to be compared with the life that should follow, yet Satan has blinded the minds of believers and caused those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gifts and the Holy Spirit to now walk away from them out into the world after fools' gold and bring our Christ, who died for us that we might have a right to live with him, to taste of the eternal things of God with him in eternity, to an open shame! [Heb. 6:4-6] What fools we mortal be! Today, we have sinners who were once saints still in the church, still in positions of leadership and honor, although they are dishonorable men. They do those things that most sinners would not do. But Paul prophesied of these things in Acts 20: 29-30, that these false and wicked men would arise from within the church as well as many will come from outside the church. I would venture to say that most of those ministers who were once saved 10-20 so years ago have turned away from God today! Although most remain in the ministry, they are sinners who do not the things of God but have perverted the word of God to their liking. Just last week, Ted Haggard, a big Evangelical minister with a 14,000 member church and who headed a 30 million member organization of Evangelicals was outted by his gay lover as having been engaging in homosexual activities for three years while saying he was against all that homosexuals stood for. Yes, he had a family with children, but he was still homosexual. Not only that but he is a drug user! This is how low Christians have gone in shaming Christ. This preacher had been educated at Oral Roberts University. That is supposedly a Holy Ghost believing university, therefore, unlike most Evangelicals who loudly proclaim Christ, he supposedly had the baptism of the Spirit. He had tasted the Holy Spirit of God and then put Christ who died for him to an open shame! How long will this wallowing in sin by Christian hypocrites continue? This type of sin is in all levels of Christianity. This sin is rift throughout Holiness Churches, Apostolic Faith Churches, and all levels of churches--churches that once taught the truth of God's word by ministers who were once saved. Now they still preach and maintain their high positions in churches but their sins have driven them far away from God, [Isa. 59:1-4] but not those sinful congregations they have minted not in the things of God but in a cult of personality around them. I walk among these ministers and get in great disputes with these sinner-ministers who pretend to be Christians and act as if they know God's word. They are dumb dogs that can only bark an uncertain sound. [Isa. 56:10-11]But God's people must be aware of these dogs and know that these are evil workers! [Phil. 3:2] The major cause for this unbridled carnality that is happening in the church today is what Paul said:
This is a major problem with ALL American churches. The USA is a nation centered around money, loving it, having it, or even killing for it. It is a capitalist society and touts itself on being so. Consequently, by and large, Americans will do anything for money! And that includes, sadly, "Christians" as well. And since anything can be rationalized in the eyes of some, wicked men tend to think that their rationalizing to a person's accepting a certain position rationalized means that a wrong thing can be made into a right through rationalization. It cannot be: Right is right and wrong is still wrong! Rationalizations are only systems of reasoning that seduce people into accepting certain ideas--whether those ideas are sound or unsound; those rationalizations do not alter truth, they merely alter a person's acceptance or perception of truth or other ideas. As an adjunct Professor of English and Critical Thinking, I keep this truth about rationalization and logic in mind! Yet many have no idea of systems of logic, still Satan has blinded their weaken minds into thinking that the foolish reasoning they use to sway other weaken minds is not an offense against God's word. They are wrong! When there is a love for money, and such a love is loose and wild in America and in American churches, Paul said that every other form of evil is also present, because that love for money spirit is the very root of all other forms of evil. And as that love for money root is allowed to exist it will be cultivated by wicked men who always teach the flawed and unscriptural teaching of tithe-paying for New Testament saints. Those tithes usually go totally or partially to them, those preachers who have a love of money spirit. And as that teaching is allowed to go unchallenged as a correct teaching of New Testament doctrine they err off into other transgressions of God's word. This is the very reason God says study to show yourself approved of God. [2Tim. 2:15] This tithe teaching for New Testament saints is not at all a difficult doctrine for any serious student to understand. There is nothing controversial about it. And if a minister is teaching it, that minister is unlearned in scripture or is deliberately teaching an error! It takes no great scriptural exegesis to see that tithing was NEVER intended for New Testament saint and that God's way is a way of faith that Paul plainly laid out in the New Testament. The present deviance and hideous abominations of homosexuality, drug use, illegal marriages, liars who defraud and make merchandise of God's people, and just plain sinners have brought Christ and his church to an open shame that is running throughout most of the once Holy Ghost filled churches and men, whether these sins are openly practiced or secretly engaged in, they are the result of unbridled greed of wicked ministers who are not ministers of God but ministers of their own greed. The foolishness of wicked men is conveyed to the people of God because most Christians have not done what Paul admonished us to do (prove all things and hold fast to that which is good; [1Thes. 5:21]examine ourselves and see if we are in the faith. [1 Cor. 11:28; 2 Cor. 13:5]) so wicked men who arise from among us and who come into us have been allowed to practice their deceit as blind members have built up cults of personalities around them and not Christ! [Acts 20:30] Gross and abominable sin is in our camps and it started with the love of money. From that seed all other sins have proceeded. In reputed Apostolic "Faith" Churches men who once knew God are now liars, homosexuals, adulters, thieves, deceitful workers, men who have lost the hope of their calling and know not the way of God any longer, but they stay in positions of honor, but they are dishonorable men who do not have the small honor that plan backsliders used to have when they backslide--they would leave the church and go back into the world of sin. Today's form of backslidden sinner is one that stays right in the church and continues to hold the same position he held when he was in fact saved! Jesus said that you will know them by their fruit. I caution you few who may still be willing to allow God's word and not religious personalities to govern your lives; this is a clue: Is that minister preaching money? Usually that can be seen if that person is using Malachi 3 to preach tithe-paying to New Testament saints, and he receives all or most of the tithes that are paid as if he it some Levite. If this is the case, look for all other forms of evil to accompany him. Such a person will do whatever is necessary to keep those tithes coming because he has no faith in God's New Testament method of saint giving and saint support of the ministry. And do not deceive yourself or allow him to deceive you: God clearly delineates the way of saint giving. The tithe was NEVER one of those ways! And if he says it is, either he is a liar or a minister who does not know God's word and in either case he is unworthy of the ministry! I know for many of you who are steeped in your tradition and the cult of personality around your pastor that is is a difficult statement. But at some point you must stand for God/the truth and resist all others. Jesus similarly situated many one day when he said, "...except you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you." His disciples said that what he said was a hard saying, and many walked with him no more, but others realized the hard truth, that Jesus and him alone had the words to eternal life and there was no other place to go. Many of you seek shelter and comfort in a minister, especially a minister who is not teaching the correct word of God but says he is. [John 6:51-68] We have allowed liars and deceivers cloaked in sheep's clothing to exist too long among us, making merchandise of God's people. Let them get jobs elsewhere or be supported God's way for competent work in the vineyard of God! Furthermore, such a person needs to be proved by the saints and not go unexamined! Only a fool would allow one who teaches thing eternal to go unproved; now God has not called us unto foolishness but wisdom! We have shamed Christ as these sick minister-men (not ministers of God) have attempted to bring their sickness, their homosexuality, their lies, their thievery, their ignorance into God's house and substantiate it as some alternative form of truth. It is not. It is sin; and we need to know this truth because only the truth will make us free! [John 8:32] Without the truth we are bound. Many unsaved Christian ministers and those who follow them in their pernicious ways have brought Christ to an open shame and crucified him afresh! That needs to be changed. We cannot continue to openly shame Christ without some recompense! The Prophet Isaiah writes that the end of all this carnality and reveling in darkness that many are masquerading as if they are in light will come to a flaming conclusion! He wrote,
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