Sunday, March 31, 2019

The Christian's Variability To Falling From Truth.


“Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him…Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.” James 5:19 – 20
In a believer’s life, their greatest asset in life is truth of God’s word. Everything for a believer is “by faith” and truly the bible is our earthly connection with God. We see God by faith, we believe in Jesus Christ by faith, the Holy Spirit, heaven, and etc. is all by faith. But the bible is not of faith, it is in our hands and the greatest connection we have with all things our faith stands for. Outside of the bible is the church, it our connection to God but it is also our connection to our brothers and sisters in Christ. And while the church is one of the most important things in a believer’s life, God’s word is the most valuable. Without biblical truth a church cannot be a church, and fellowship in truth does not exist. It is so important that a believer listens to, studies, learns, and in pray seeking God’s Holy Truth. Satan has always imitated God, and Satan does his greatest damage to believers by leading them out-of-truth. It must be true that our learning of God’s word has a human element to it, because if it did not, we would all believe the absolute truth without error. But we do not, therefore it is incumbent on us to work hard to learn God’s word, that is by a lot of study time, meditating, but the greatest part of all by a lot of prayer. This is why attending church is so valuable to the believer, every service missed is like a workout missed when you are exercising. You must be dedicated to learning at the church that God has put you into, and sister churches of like faith. The reason the Lord speaks about erring from the truth is because it is possible for any believer to stray from the truth. If a believer plays around with errors teachers and churches, then falling from truth is more and more possible. And if a Christian does fall into error, we as other believers are not to separate from them, we are not to get angry with them, were are not to disown them, we are to love them and attempt to “…converteth the sinner from the error…” these are not lost sinners here, these are saved sinners who need our help finding their way home. Falling away from the biblical truth is so easy, and in the environment, we live in, it is almost absolute because the truth so is demonized in this world. It takes a dedication, and much prayer to walk in biblical truth in this world today. This is why it is so important that we work together in restoring an erroring believer, church, or pastor. We must be very careful of how we treat an erroring or fallen believer, because they are still God’s dear child. I have witnessed men of God mistreating believers that have errored, even saying “they are not saved, be careful beloved”, God’s child is His to deal with, we are to love them and attempt to restore them, even if they have been excluded from the Lord’s church. “We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.” Romans 15:1 We are not judges of who are saved and who are not, we simply cannot always know a persons heart by their actions. Knowing a tree by its fruit should be and is an identifying factor, but if a tree has no fruit is could be misleading to us or unrecognizable. All of us need to make sure our own actions do not lead us astray from the truth and cause us to act contrary to God’s word.

Sunday, March 24, 2019

Warning!!!


Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:” Ephesians 2:2 

This is a warning to all Christians, DO NOT UNDERESTAMAT SATAN! Satan is a power we cannot handle on our own, we need the power of God. We cannot see him, smell him, touch him, we do know when he is here or not, God called him “…the prince of the power of the air…” that is invisible to believes and the entire world. God said “…the course of this world…” walks according to his desires, he leads them, and without question this world system is under his control. “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”  2 Corinthians 4:4 He has the minds of the unbelievers under his control and they will do his will and wishes. God calls him the lost people’s father, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” John 8:44 Lost people will follow him and never know it, they are so like him and do not know it, they walk by his power and don’t even know it. This world is his to control as he chooses, and only God can limit him. This world is his, he wants control and has much control. He is found everywhere, in schools, governments, he has his own churches, he supports abortion, homosexuality, and he is Anti-God. He controls the most schools, colleges and educators alike. He controls congress people, presidents, state and local governments alike. He never tires and gives up, he means to control this world system and God is going to allow him to in the end. Just look as our educational system, our government, and look at the mindset of the people in the world, it is all Anti-God and supports everything God is against. He was powerful enough to temp Jesus Christ, and he will temp you as a believer. God warns us in 1 Peter 5:7 - 9 “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you…Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour…Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.” The only way for believers to resist Satan is to “Casting all your care upon Jesus Christ” because Jesus can defeat him just as He did when He was tempted, you cannot. Satan is a liar and the father of liars, his churches preaches lies, his teachers in our education system are deceivers and they are all out to satisfy Satan’s brain washing and control. God warns Christians to avoid them, to avoid our world system, and to resist the temptations of Satan to walk in disobedience. Beloved, listen and heed God’s words, “And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness…And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.”  1 John 5:19 - 20

Saturday, March 9, 2019

Can A Born Again Believer Ever Be Lost?


John 3:3 “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

I hear a lot of people who call themselves Christians criticize the Baptist for believing in Eternal Security, or “once save always saved” if you do not understand the meaning of eternal security then I have some questions to ask these folks who teach that a saved person can be lost again. (1) if a believer is “born again” then how is it that one can be “unborn”, (2) what does it take for a born again soul to be lost again or how many sins does it take, I want to ask all these folks “how many times have you been lost and re-saved? See, God said if you fail the law in one jot or tittle then you are guilty of all. “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” James 2:10 See the bible is full of laws, there are not only 10 but many, in fact, 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 alone has about 22 commandments which are laws. If one sin causes people to be lost, then will not one sin cause a saved soul to fall from salvation. See, chances are that 99 out of a hundred who believe that you cannot be eternally saved do not believe that they have ever had to be saved a second time. In other words, they believe that their one salvation in life was enough. Well, here is the facts of eternal security, or “once saved always saved” as some call it. Jesus told Nicodemus he must be born again and notice that Jesus compared this second birth to the first. “Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” John 3:5 Being born of water is the natural birth as described in verse 6 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” The words “born again” means – born from above or born anew – if you are born from above then it means you have been born a second time, once naturally and the second time spiritually. Since God compares the second birth to the first birth then you cannot be “UNBORN” either naturally or spiritually. God has expressly said that salvation has nothing to do with our works neither does it have anything to with us on our part. It is clear, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of GodNot of works, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:8 - 9 These people who do not believe in once saved always saved, but that they have not ever needed to be saved again, they believe their one salvation is enough. Odd isn’t it!!!

Sunday, March 3, 2019

The Wrath Of God!!!


For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;” Romans 1:18 

I was taught as a child to fear God, but as I have grown older and times have changed, people’s fear of God has also changed. I see very little fear of God today and the main reason is, Pastors have failed to teach it. Another reason is people have stopped going to church. When the Pastors of the churches fail to do their job and preach the truth of the bible then people fail to understand the bible. If your Pastor does not teach about hell and the eternal fires of it, then you might not fear going to hell. Today if you attend a funeral, even the funeral of a lost person chances are good the Minister is going to preach them into heaven with no mention of hell. Another very large failure of today is the non-teaching about the wrath of God, it is real and people that are lost will suffer God’s wrath. Paul wrote in our text that “the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness” but the average preacher will tell you “God had nothing to do with that disaster”, how does that preacher know that? Who told him that God did not bring a disaster as punishment of mans sinfulness? God is a God of wrath, He will bring wrath, after wrath, after wrath, until we get the message. God is going to fill this earth with wrath in the Tribulation Period, and this world will suffer mightily by God as He rains down wrath from heaven. Only if you are a believer in Jesus Christ will you escape the wrath of that seven years. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us…Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” Romans 5:8 – 9 There is still time for the world to awaken from Satan’s deception and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, because once Jesus returns for the rapture then it is to late. People have lost their fear of God and it will cost them dearly in the future. Allowing homosexuality to run rapid and allowing women to kill their babies as a form of birth control is not setting well with God. I am personally looking for some more of God’s wrath on this Nation before to long. But now, now they want to allow a doctor to kill a child that has exited the womb, if the mother choses too. Paul said, “…against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men…” especially legalized murder of babies. Folks as the times continue to get worse so will the wrath of God against it. The only thing that will keep us from sinfulness is our fear of God, we do not play with electrical wires because we will get shocked, sin is only non-existent if we fear God. “Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” 2 Corinthians 7:1 Do you fear God, then walk in the light as He is in the light.