Fake repentance is based on someone thinking all they need to do is "say" they want Christ without any desire to be changed by Him. They want to feel safe; they want to use God as a puppet to give them what they want, but they do not want Him.
Matthew 15:7-9 "…7You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ ”
You know you have encountered a pretender when you bring Scripture to the discussion, and it makes them angry. Those who love Jesus Christ want to hear what God has to say.
Psalm 1:1-3 "…1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers. 2 But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does."
Jeremiah 15:16 "Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts."
Psalm 119:47 "I delight in Your commandments because I love them."
Psalm 40:8 "I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
These are not commands from God to delight in His Word, these are the very essence of the believer who has been transformed by God.
There are those who love to know the Bible so they can impress others, not because they delight in Christ. Many people who are learned in the Bible and even preachers have not been born again. Their desire is to be seen as wise, but they are not committed to Christ; they are not His friends.
Psalm 119:97 "Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation."
James 1:25 "But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does."
Authentically born-again believers are doers of the Word because they love Christ above everything else. Those who only "say" things to impress others are not doers; there is no fruit of the Spirit in them.
Fruit of the Spirit: Galatians 5:22-26
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another."
Monday, November 9, 2026
Saturday, November 7, 2026
Christians need to change their focus from having power over others and place it on the gospel to lead others to Christ.
Please stop saying, "If Christians would only vote, we would win elections; we lost because the Christians did not vote."
The church is not responsible for who gets into office and who does not. If anyone really believes what they say that; "God puts in leaders in office and takes them out", then they should accept the elections outcome even if it is not what they wanted.
The truth is that nothing in the Bible mandates us to vote for our leaders, we are free to choose whether or not we want to participate and our choice should be led by the Holy Spirit.
Do you know that God allowed Hitler to be in office, and he was voted in by the will of the people. He was one of the most monstrous leaders ever in power in the history of the world, and yet he was chosen by the people.
Hitler is in hell now because of his evil, and the Jewish people now have their homeland back because of his evil. God allowed the wickedness of one monster to come to power so it would motivate the world to support re-establishing the homeland for the Jews.
Hitler is being punished in hell for what he did, and the Jews have been given back their land also because of what he did. God's purposes are not always what we want or the way we think will happen.
Isaiah 55:7-9 "…7 Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts."
I hear Christians chastise believers to vote, without Biblical backup. God never commanded it; it is a device of man.
Man decided they wanted to choose their own leaders and used God's Word to pressure others to support it. Those who encourage other believers to obey what God did command are rebuked for not supporting what the culture wants, but God forbids.
And at the same time, they violate God's word by ignoring God's commands not to divorce and not to remarry after divorce. They admonish people to do something He never commanded and chastise them for expecting believers to obey His Word.
Those who thought they would save their country through voting will be the first ones to lose their faith when God allows devestation because of the sin of the nation.
They may be divorcing and remarrying against God's will, but at least they voted!!!!!
In short, Christians in our day support what man wants and negate what God wants to satisfy their own bellies.
We do not understand all that God is doing, if we accept His word, obeying His commands then we will not be worried about who is in power.
Please stop saying; "God puts leaders in power and takes them out", if you are not willing to accept His will when a wicked man comes to power.
America deserves punishment through a harsh and foolish government for all the willful disobedience the people are participating in. I am not talking about the crimes everyone can notice that everyone would agree are bad; I am talking about the willful rebellion against God concerning marriage, divorce and remarriage, and the willful unequally yoking of believers to nonbelievers.
I have experienced more hatred and disrespect from "Christians" for speaking the truth of the Bible than I ever did from unbelievers. And the Christians should know better. Perhaps the reason this is so is that most people who attend churches do not follow the Bible.
They lie when they say they are Bible believers, as they follow only what they like that makes them feel safe and ignore and even negate that which they do not like in the Word.
Someone who is a Bible believer seeks the Word of God to learn the heart of God and to obey Him, even when it is uncomfortable and when it will lose them their family and friends.
Pentecostalism has done more to destroy faith in this country than any other group. They have more bad doctrine, accept sins a no problem because they say; "we are covered in the blood so sin doesn't matter anymore." I have heard several Pentecostals say such ridiculous things that allow them to accept and even endorse sin when it is convenient for them. The divorce rate amond Pentecostals is over 50%. Where is the preaching against this sin within its ranks?
The American Christian is divorcing and remarrying at the same rate as the world, leaving a rancid taste in the mouths of those who are not saved because they are no different from the world.
The American Christian witness is rank and full of lies, as they quote the Bible incorrectly to make their sin acceptable.
Why do I speak so much about divorce and remarriage more than any other sin, you might ask?
It is because marriage is a picture of Christ and His church. The message that is sent to the world about God is that He is not faithful to His children and that we cannot believe Him when He makes a promise.
Please, church, stop pressuring people to do what the culture wants us to do and begin applying pressure to obey God's Word. If you have faith, you will not worry about who gets in power; you will be more concerned about speaking the gospel to people so that people will become followers of Christ, so that He will transform them into a new creature.
It is possible and likely that God is going to bring hardship and trials to our country for our disobedience in rejecting Him. Often the only way people come to Christ is when they are so completely without hope they have only one way to look, and that is to Christ.
Instead of fighting with nonbelievers in political battles over things unbelievers cannot understand, begin speaking the truth of the gospel so they can see their sinfulness and desire to be changed by Him.
Ask yourself this very important question: Will you be able to continue in faith when all your freedoms are removed? If you cannot obey God when there is prosperity and freedom, then you will not be able to obey Him when it is all taken away and the hardship hits.
The church is not responsible for who gets into office and who does not. If anyone really believes what they say that; "God puts in leaders in office and takes them out", then they should accept the elections outcome even if it is not what they wanted.
The truth is that nothing in the Bible mandates us to vote for our leaders, we are free to choose whether or not we want to participate and our choice should be led by the Holy Spirit.
Do you know that God allowed Hitler to be in office, and he was voted in by the will of the people. He was one of the most monstrous leaders ever in power in the history of the world, and yet he was chosen by the people.
Hitler is in hell now because of his evil, and the Jewish people now have their homeland back because of his evil. God allowed the wickedness of one monster to come to power so it would motivate the world to support re-establishing the homeland for the Jews.
Hitler is being punished in hell for what he did, and the Jews have been given back their land also because of what he did. God's purposes are not always what we want or the way we think will happen.
Isaiah 55:7-9 "…7 Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts."
I hear Christians chastise believers to vote, without Biblical backup. God never commanded it; it is a device of man.
Man decided they wanted to choose their own leaders and used God's Word to pressure others to support it. Those who encourage other believers to obey what God did command are rebuked for not supporting what the culture wants, but God forbids.
And at the same time, they violate God's word by ignoring God's commands not to divorce and not to remarry after divorce. They admonish people to do something He never commanded and chastise them for expecting believers to obey His Word.
Those who thought they would save their country through voting will be the first ones to lose their faith when God allows devestation because of the sin of the nation.
They may be divorcing and remarrying against God's will, but at least they voted!!!!!
In short, Christians in our day support what man wants and negate what God wants to satisfy their own bellies.
We do not understand all that God is doing, if we accept His word, obeying His commands then we will not be worried about who is in power.
Please stop saying; "God puts leaders in power and takes them out", if you are not willing to accept His will when a wicked man comes to power.
America deserves punishment through a harsh and foolish government for all the willful disobedience the people are participating in. I am not talking about the crimes everyone can notice that everyone would agree are bad; I am talking about the willful rebellion against God concerning marriage, divorce and remarriage, and the willful unequally yoking of believers to nonbelievers.
I have experienced more hatred and disrespect from "Christians" for speaking the truth of the Bible than I ever did from unbelievers. And the Christians should know better. Perhaps the reason this is so is that most people who attend churches do not follow the Bible.
They lie when they say they are Bible believers, as they follow only what they like that makes them feel safe and ignore and even negate that which they do not like in the Word.
Someone who is a Bible believer seeks the Word of God to learn the heart of God and to obey Him, even when it is uncomfortable and when it will lose them their family and friends.
Pentecostalism has done more to destroy faith in this country than any other group. They have more bad doctrine, accept sins a no problem because they say; "we are covered in the blood so sin doesn't matter anymore." I have heard several Pentecostals say such ridiculous things that allow them to accept and even endorse sin when it is convenient for them. The divorce rate amond Pentecostals is over 50%. Where is the preaching against this sin within its ranks?
The American Christian is divorcing and remarrying at the same rate as the world, leaving a rancid taste in the mouths of those who are not saved because they are no different from the world.
The American Christian witness is rank and full of lies, as they quote the Bible incorrectly to make their sin acceptable.
Why do I speak so much about divorce and remarriage more than any other sin, you might ask?
It is because marriage is a picture of Christ and His church. The message that is sent to the world about God is that He is not faithful to His children and that we cannot believe Him when He makes a promise.
Please, church, stop pressuring people to do what the culture wants us to do and begin applying pressure to obey God's Word. If you have faith, you will not worry about who gets in power; you will be more concerned about speaking the gospel to people so that people will become followers of Christ, so that He will transform them into a new creature.
It is possible and likely that God is going to bring hardship and trials to our country for our disobedience in rejecting Him. Often the only way people come to Christ is when they are so completely without hope they have only one way to look, and that is to Christ.
Instead of fighting with nonbelievers in political battles over things unbelievers cannot understand, begin speaking the truth of the gospel so they can see their sinfulness and desire to be changed by Him.
Ask yourself this very important question: Will you be able to continue in faith when all your freedoms are removed? If you cannot obey God when there is prosperity and freedom, then you will not be able to obey Him when it is all taken away and the hardship hits.
Do not judge by appearances but judge righteous judgment.
God told us not to judge by appearances for a reason. Mankind tends to be influenced by first impressions more than they notice character.
This is why God told us to become discerning, so that we will look more deeply into matters and not be fooled by good-looking actions or good-sounding words that tend to manipulate our thinking.
1 John 4:1 "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world."
Hebrews 5:14 "But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil."
It has been proven that people, even without realizing it, choose a person as a leader in any system according to how they appear. How they dress, whether or not they seem calm and in control, even before they know anything about them.
People tend to choose what to believe about someone based on appearances before they know anything important about them. It is a choice to believe rather than truthful observation.
The fear of not being accepted by their group tends to cause otherwise questioning people to cower in silence when they should speak up.
This is why cliques occur in gatherings; those who do not think wisely will gravitate toward the one they perceive to be more accomplished and whose appearance pleases them. It can be and often is more smoke and mirrors than reality.
John 7:24 "24 Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
Most people do not think very deeply, and worse, they become angry when someone attempts to bring deeper understanding that would clarify or change what they want to think.
Those who walk with Christ are not under bondage to group-think; they are free to see the truth and speak it with boldness.
Hebrews 4:12 "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart."
Romans 12:2 "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."
As born-again believers, we are called to train ourselves to be discerning by reading God's Word and questioning everything we hear, making sure it comes in line with what God said. We are free to discard and disregard anything that does not align with the Bible.
Being alone with Christ and His truth is preferable to being in a group that refuses to evaluate everything.
This is why God told us to become discerning, so that we will look more deeply into matters and not be fooled by good-looking actions or good-sounding words that tend to manipulate our thinking.
1 John 4:1 "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world."
Hebrews 5:14 "But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil."
It has been proven that people, even without realizing it, choose a person as a leader in any system according to how they appear. How they dress, whether or not they seem calm and in control, even before they know anything about them.
People tend to choose what to believe about someone based on appearances before they know anything important about them. It is a choice to believe rather than truthful observation.
The fear of not being accepted by their group tends to cause otherwise questioning people to cower in silence when they should speak up.
This is why cliques occur in gatherings; those who do not think wisely will gravitate toward the one they perceive to be more accomplished and whose appearance pleases them. It can be and often is more smoke and mirrors than reality.
John 7:24 "24 Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
Most people do not think very deeply, and worse, they become angry when someone attempts to bring deeper understanding that would clarify or change what they want to think.
Those who walk with Christ are not under bondage to group-think; they are free to see the truth and speak it with boldness.
Hebrews 4:12 "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart."
Romans 12:2 "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."
As born-again believers, we are called to train ourselves to be discerning by reading God's Word and questioning everything we hear, making sure it comes in line with what God said. We are free to discard and disregard anything that does not align with the Bible.
Being alone with Christ and His truth is preferable to being in a group that refuses to evaluate everything.
Bonhoeffer Murdered for His Faith and Stand Against Hitler
This wasn't about voting, this was about an entire culture that was convinced evil was good and good was evil.
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