Thursday, February 20, 2014

System of the Antichrist: CHURCH WITHIN A CHURCH

I preached from the topic "Church within a Church" , I believe back in September or October 2013, can't really remember but the videos of part 1 and 2 is out there on Facebook and Youtube.  I think the reason God inspired me to preach on this is because of the experiences I've had over the years of being born again and Holy Ghost filled and traveled from different churches or should I say denominations. Most of why I been to various churches is to sing and play music. From what I have seen and heard is that there is a system in the church that talks about heaven and they even mention the name of Jesus but the overall message is to offer people a heaven down here on earth with little accountability of what God really requires for mankind to make it to heaven. This system is nothing more than the broadway that Jesus spoke about that many will follow. Broadway doesn't necessarily mean the world and sinners who don't go to church, but there is a broadway in the church for people who are attracted to religion. Their attraction of religion can include prophecies, signs and wonders, miracles of healing, financial support of false teachers and prophets, sexual immortality among so-called sisters and brothers in Christ, wine (any kind of alcoholic beverages), excess, establishment of gay churches, leaders stealing money, married Christian couples agreeing to swapping and swinging, all sorts of debauchery, orgies, and the list could go on and on. Now on the surface it wouldn't seem like anything is wrong with these behaviors coming from people who are"in the church" and saved.....hmmm. Someone may say all they gotta do is repent. Well true repentance means to turn AWAY from the the sinful deeds that you know is forbidden in scripture not constantly doing them. But there is an acceptance of a lifestyle that a person can live out their fantasies and explore and still come to church and be a part of a body or an assembly and be validated by other participants and those who condone their practices, as still being saved. It is a delusion and deception by which the spirit of antichrist is in operation. This system offers salvation to people even using the name of Jesus but does not fully obey the scriptures as they pertain to salvation, sanctification, and holiness both inwardly and outwardly. There are plenty of folks who talk about the Lord, and read the bible, and attend church, and really do strive to live right but there are certain parts of the scriptures that they find hard to accept and obey and the areas that are left dormant and unattended to, those are the weak points in which the spirit of antichrist has access to come in and deceive a person. This thing is so deep that it makes me afraid for people who reject and neglect when God is trying to show them themselves. One revelation that I received is that people will be deceived because of their attractions to the illuminations of a so called man or woman of God. We should be more attracted to Jesus and the Word, not a person who is speaking it. But many of these leaders are whores and whoremongers but can preach great attractive messages and can even prophesy and the prophecies come to pass. That is how many get lured into deception because it be some truth mixed in with a lie. The devil knows how to manipulate people by using the scriptures to get them to give money, to shout and even to fool them into sexual activity while quoting scriptures at the same time. That is why it is so important for people to rightly divide the Word of truth and to love the Lord with all our hearts so we can recognize the enemy. But sadly though, preachers and ministers who are REALLY SAVED like the bible says and strive with all their might to show people a more excellent way in order to make it to the real heaven and ultimately the New Jerusalem with Jesus are rejected, hated, called old fashioned, don't get a whole lot of invitations from the mainstream churches to preach, and Satan is ALWAYS on our trail trying to discourage us from teaching, preaching, and reaching others with the great gospel of Jesus Christ. We are indeed in the last days and the evil and deception in this world is going to get worse. I'm just a voice crying out to the world with the warning signs what should and should not be. As the Lord leads me to talk about this spirit of antichrist, I will continue to update. BE BLESSED!!!!

Saturday, February 15, 2014

The System of the Antichrist

I've talked a lot about this subject over the years because people are so naive to the fact that the Beast is a system, a system of the world in rebellion to the system of God. First of all, we  ask ourselves What is the system of God? God's system is comprised of his holiness, his righteousness, his goodness, his grace, and his Word which is the instructions on how to receive salvation and how to live in this world after receiving salvation. The first thing is most people are persuaded that if they just believe and accept Christ as their Lord and Savior then that automatically invites the Holy Spirit into their lives and guarantees their trip to heaven. That couldn't be so much farther from the truth than Satan repenting and getting a second chance with God. James 2:19 says"you believe in God, you do well. The devils also believe and they tremble". So believing alone is not an assurance that one has become saved. Many altar workers and ministers (supposedly ministers of Christ) quote ROMANS 10:9 to parishioners that believing in their heart and confessing with their mouth that God has raised Jesus from the dead on the third day automatically puts them into the family or kingdom of God. These lies sound good and refreshing to people who really want to make a change in their life but they receive half truths and go on thinking that they are saved and rapture ready. The real truth is that in order for a soul to be saved, the individual must believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit and acknowledge that Jesus is God incarnate or manifested in the flesh when he came to earth. They must believe that God created everything and everybody in the universe, not some evolution theory. And they must believe that the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, same thing, is the direct communication line between God and man. When God speaks to people, he speaks by his Spirit because Jesus is ascended up in heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. Once a person's belief in God is single, and what I mean by single is that their belief in God cancels out all other belief systems that they may have previously adopted, then they are ready for salvation (Believing only is not salvation). According to John 3:3-5, Jesus explains to Nicodemus that a person must be born again of the water and of the Spirit. The water represents baptism and the Spirit represents the Holy Ghost. In Matthew 28:19 Jesus tells the disciples to go and teach all nations baptizing them in the name (singular), of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost is JESUS !! In Matthew 16:18-19, Jesus gives Peter the authority to the Kingdom of God, and in Acts 2:38, Peter clearly sums up the plan of salvation beginning with Repentance, meaning to turn from your wicked ways of sin and turn to God in faith. Then he says, Be baptized everyone of you IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST for the remission of sins. Then he says that you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. God sent the Holy Ghost on day of Pentecost in Acts 2:1-4, and it was evidenced or witnessed that they had received the Spirit because they spoke in tongues. After this experience, God used Apostle Paul and the other apostles to instruct us in the Word on how we are to live and conduct ourselves as new creations in Christ. A lifestyle of holiness is what is required after one has received God's plan of salvation.This is where many people fall off the bandwagon and generally become a hindrance and stumbling block to other believers and sinners alike. People have been hurt and wounded by people who they know speak in tongues so they teach a doctrine that is contrary to the scriptures that speaking in tongues is not necessary for salvation. Furthermore, people teach against speaking in tongues because they don't want to lose members of their congregations who are uncomfortable with the subject or they themselves are uncomfortable with it. So you have mega churches who have hundreds even thousands of people who teach a watered down just-believe-in-Christ message as validation for salvation.And as it pertains to water baptism in Jesus name, some baptize in the titles to say they are obeying Jesus in Matthew 28:19. They are actually REPEATING what Jesus said not OBEYING what he said. Baptism in Jesus name ONLY is the correct formula. That is only a portion of the religious part of the system of the Antichrist. Another system of the Antichrist is a doctrine of"once saved always saved". That is a lie folks. If a person has received the TRUE plan of salvation and then backslides away from God and the Church and does not repent and come back to God and to the Church, if they die in that state, they will be lost, point blank. That once saved always saved teaching gives people access to live however they want to live but still proclaim to be saved and heaven-bound. Another Antichrist system is the prosperity messages at the expense of do-what-you-gotta-do-to-make-it belief system. The reason this is an Anti-God thing is because it takes people's focus off trusting in God to provide. Remember the Antichrist is going to make it hard for people to buy or sell except they receive his mark of the name or image or number of his mark. Most people of the world are going to be deceived and take the mark of the Beast because PROSPERITY is the thing to do you know, not paying tithes and offerings and relying on God to supply their needs. Another Antichrist system is homosexuality and lesbianism and abortion.  Daniel 11:37 is a prophecy about the Antichrist that he will have no desire for women, meaning he will be gay. When women are rejected, abandoned, and abused by men, they usually turn to another female for affection. According to ROMANS 1:26, the women changed the natural affection for men into unnatural affection toward each other and God calls that an abomination and worthy of hell fire. When men and women refuse to live love, marry, and procreate according to God's original purpose, they cut off the chances for the normal functions of the family and abortion is included in this Anti-God ordeal. There are so many different things that people are caught up in without realizing that they are are already sealing their mark into the Antichrist system in so many ways that if they think they can live like the devil and receive all the evil things that go against God's holiness and then stand before the Antichrist and reject taking a literal, physical mark just to get to heaven, they are sadly mistaken. Sin has a way of swindling you in to the point that when you want to get out, you can't. Just like during Noah' s day. They had all their fun then wanted to make the decision to get on the boat when the flood came but it was too late. Only the true elect people of God are going to beat the system of the Antichrist by submitting to God and ALL of his truth not just certain parts, and crucifying the flesh and the will of selfish desires and seeking after GOD wholeheartedly. There is much more to be said about the system of the Antichrist but I will pause for now.

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Popularity

Popularity is something that is distant and unfamiliar to me. I have never been popular, not even in high school, and I've always been cool with that. I guess I never wanted to be popular because of what I seen it do to so many other people. I mean popular girls were not virgins. They had a lot of male attention but also bad reputations and babies out of wedlock. Popular guys were disrespectful thinking the world revolved around them and girls actually fell for these types of dudes. Popular crowds have always been a turn off to me. I can remember as far back as kindergarten being self motivated and starting things on my own rather than following someone else's pattern. It seems that most popular people have a crowd following in behind them or supporting them but for the wrong reasons. I hang on to that scripture in Luke 6:26 that says Woe unto you when all men speak well of you. As a minister of the gospel, I have vowed to myself not to be like any of the popular ministers who get thousands even millions of supporters each year because they teach and preach compromising messages or their lifestyles don't match the message they preach. I refuse to preach on prosperity without preaching against sin. Many folks wanna hear about prosperity and getting wealth in abundance but continue to live ungodly. Not on my watch. At the same time I refuse to preach against sin without preaching about prosperity. Really we don't start prospering until we come out of sin. When God changes our minds then we will change our ways about giving and as a result we will reap things like favor with God and man, spiritual and material blessing, and health for the mind, body, and soul. So I may never become popular according to people's standards but as long as I please God in whatever I do, then that puts me in the majority and makes me to prosper above all the rest.

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Difference Between Weak Saints and Hypocrites

Lord knows if it's anything that cooks my goose, it is to know that I am among a pretender. Somebody who is one thing in the church and something totally different outside the church. One of God's scriptures that I struggle with is Matthew 13:30 when Jesus mentions let the wheat and the tare grow together and he will do the separating. Excuse me Lord, but I haven't been perfected in that area of holiness yet. When I was first saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, they taught us that you cultivate your relationship with God and maintain salvation by keeping God's commandments and living holy. As I began to nip things out of my life that I took on in the world like cussing and listening to worldly music, I began to enjoy walking with Christ and didn't want to be named among a hypocrite. Matter of fact I was living so righteously until one of my family members stopped inviting me to her house and accused me of being "too holy". Mind you, not long after that, this same individual caught a nasty sexuality transmitted disease becaus she wasn't holy enough. But anyway I just believe in doing everything that you know is right to please the Lord even if you stumble sometimes and make mistakes or fall into sin. Do I believe Christians sin? Of course we do but the key is repentance, asking God's forgiveness and for strength not to do that same thing over and over again. I regard a weak saint as somebody who has gotten caught off guard maybe because they don't have on all of their spiritual armor, but at the same time, they are seeking help to get strong and overcome the temptations that they have been falling into. On a side note, I regard a hypocrite as somebody who wilfully sins and make efforts to cover up and hide their sins from their pastor or other Christians. Hypocrites don't strive against sin, but they enjoy it while at the same time proclaiming to know Jesus and on their way to heaven anyhow. I don't think so. This thing really bothers me because I see so many people being fooled into believing folks who have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof. They deny the power of God to keep them out of a life of sin by continuing to practice sin on purpose. Yet and still they are all up in the church dancing and shouting, some are preaching or teaching the gospel, and others are just laymen who come to church regularly and know what is right but refuse to live by it. It frustrates me so much because I know that I can't do a whole lot about it without making a plumb fool out of myself in front of folks who choose to believe and support such hypocrites. Some things are OBVIOUSLY WRONG according to scripture but you have church folks who go ahead and endorse it anyway because they like the person, or because they been knowing the person for such a long time. The reason the for real saints can't do or say too much is because the bible speaks of these things happening when people will turn their ears away from the truth and be more attracted to people who tickle their ears and tell them what they want to hear. I'm all for good preaching but my most desirous concern is sound doctrine. I believe in a person living the life that they testify about in public and in private. I know that our righteousness is as filthy rags and no person can be justified or saved by good works alone but that is not a license to just live like a backyard dog after one has come into the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.I have more tolerance and patience for somebody who will be honest and admit that they have a weakness and struggling with sin in their life and want to get rid of it, than a person who will look me in the eye and tell a bold faced lie that they been walking with Jesus since day one but got all kind of hell-skeletons in the closet. One of the biggest types of deliberate hypocrisy that is so common among people who say they know the Lord, is fornication and adultery. If people get everything else in their life straightened out such as stop drinking and partying and doing drugs or robbing and stealing, or cussing folks out, it seem like they really can be saved if they just learn how to keep the flesh under subjection until they get married or be faithful to the spouse they already have. Most Christians are miserable whether married or single and they seek after gratifying the flesh through sexual pleasure that is forbidden in scripture but still want to hold on to God too. Well, with God's standards, that's not going to work because he said that fornication and adultery are sins that is committed against your own body so if we destroy our bodies which are the temple of the Holy Ghost, then how can God keep excusing that behavior and blessing it? No, anything that is not ordained and blessed of God has a curse on it and he regards fornication and adultery as a form of idolatry which is spiritual adultery when his people go whoring around after strange flesh. If you take a survey and divide it up into sections that say Christians who believe in the promises of God for healing, prosperity, and bringing you into your season.....the numbers would probably be off the charts. If another part of the survey says how many Christians believe that God wants a daily relationship with you to communicate with you in prayer and his word.....the numbers might edge off a little but they would still be high. But if the last part of the survey included how many Christians would be willing to give up habits such as smoking, drinking alcoholic beverages, chasing men or women for sexual purposes, and leading a lifestyle of holiness.......the numbers are destined to plummet to the bottom of the barrel. The reason for this is because most Christians want to use God for what they can get out of him to make their lives comfortable here on earth, but the mindset of God is to cause us to lose our comfort and friendship with the world so we can be with him in eternity. Before Christ returns, there will be a lot more exposure and judgment for sin amongst those who say they belong to Christ because he said judgment will begin at the house of GOD. I pray for all weak Christians who are struggling with sin and I also pray for hypocrites too that they would turn from their wicked ways and serve God FOR REAL. Being true to God, true to others, and true to oneself is the epitome of joy in the Christian life. Anything outside of that is a fairy tale of lies and cover ups that will eventually be uncovered either on this side or the other side of life. Lord help me to stay right with you always!!!!