Practicing an Error from Childhood, Only Christ can Undo it!

When someone has been practicing something their entire lives, from childhood, it is nearly impossible to convince them of the truth. The holidays, the false hierarchy system of the modern church, the acceptance of divorce and remarriage, the adherence to man's rules that God never commanded, and much more permeate the church system of the last days, and yet most people in these systems believe they are the only way.

 
There have been times Christians have exposed the rituals of the modern church system, only to be mocked and demeaned for exposing the truth about these practices.

Galatians 4:16-17 "16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? 17Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.…"

How many times have we quoted God's Word to someone to show them their error and were met with anger, isolation and ultimately complete rejection? I suggest many if you have been loyal to God's Word.

 
Amos 5:10
"There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity."

1 Thessalonians 2:4
"Instead, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, not in order to please men but God, who examines our hearts."

2 Timothy 4:3-4
"For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths."

The time has come that we live in an age of nearly total apostasy, dependent on the doctrines and practices of men rather than on the leading of Jesus Christ through His Holy Spirit.

 
Most "Christians" today give us a look of perplexity and even disapproval when we suggest they seek the Holy Spirit for their answers. They are not familiar with what it feels like to hear from the Holy Spirit. After all, most do not know their Bible,s why would they seek the Holy Spirit?

 
The very people who claim to be Bible believers negate and disobey more of it than they obey because they are dependent on the writings of men and a false church system instead of the Bible.

 
The life of the true follower of Christ and His Word will be a life of isolation and exclusion.

 
Matthew 5:11
"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me."

1 John 3:13
"So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you."

Psalm 38:20
"Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good."

It is better to be acceptable to Christ and rejected by men than to be loved by men.
John 14:42-44 "42 Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue. 43 For they loved praise from men more than praise from God. 44 Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in Me does not believe in Me alone, but in the One who sent Me.…"

Those who are modern-day Pharisees are no different in our day than they were in the days when Christ walked the earth.

 
Matthew 23 describes the mentality of the Pharisees!