Genesis 19:1-11
"Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
2 And he said, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” They said however, “No, but we shall spend the night in the square.”
3 Yet he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
4 Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;
5 and they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them.”
6 But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him,
7 and said, “Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.
8 Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.”
9 But they said, “Stand aside.” Furthermore, they said,
“THIS ONE CAME IN AS AN ALIEN, AND ALREADY IS ACTING LIKE A JUDGE; now we will treat you worse than them.”
So they pressed hard against Lot and came near to break the door.
10 But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
11 They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway."
The wicked men of the city were so rebellious they continued to clamor for the door to get the visitors even after they were struck blind by God. This ought to tell us just how wicked and stubborn these men of Sodom were.
The wicked men of Sodom accused Lot of "judging them" for standing against evil. The same thing happens to Christians today. Those who judge are those who are standing against righteous judgment. They judge the righteous man of doing something wrong when they are only doing what God is calling them to do.
Whenever you stand against evil in our day and all down through history, you can see and expect the rebellious people to accuse you of judging while they are judging that you should not judge anything. They are hypocrites only attempting to intimidate those who love righteousness. Do not listen to the wicked when they come after you to stop discerning right from wrong. Ignore them they are to be disregarded for what they are, that is rebellious.
Think about it!!!!
Sunday, July 26, 2020
America's Demise
I am convinced we will be seeing a dictator soon. But that's just me, I could be wrong. I don't care anymore who rules us, it will be who God chooses and maybe not what we want. People are stubborn and refuse to see their need for Christ, all they care about is the comfort of their country while they are on earth. They don't know our life here is very short, our real life is in eternity, forever! Its either heaven or hell, this life is just a time to make that choice.
I rejoice at testimonials of people coming to Christ, however most of them I hear about are in other countries. America has such a false view of what being born again is they are comfortable thinking they are safe. The people of the United States are proud and self-willed, resistant to the Word of the Bible even while quoting them they do not obey them. In fact, there is far more scripture being twisted to fit their life than they use to correct themselves or others.
Matthew 7:21-23 "21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many [a]miracles?’
23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’"
James 4:14
"Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes."
Psalm 90:10-14
"The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away. Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you? So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants! Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days."
Ephesians 5:15-17
"Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is."
My hope is that America will repent, but unless it happens soon we are going to be severely punished for rejecting Christ in all our institutions and venues.
If you feel you are not able to worship and pray at home then you have a wrong view of Christianity. Noah had no gathering to attend except his own family. Lot had the same problem. We are living in the days just like Noah and Lot in which there are few others who love and obey the Lord.
Matthew 24:27-39 "37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
Noah preached 120 years and no one would listen, there was not one repentant convert in all those years.
Genesis 6 describes the days of Lot, read it to have a glimpse of what is happening now.
If you have been living a ritualistic, superficial Christianity based on rules and appearances, now is a good time to repent asking God to show you His heart and then begin reading His Word.
I rejoice at testimonials of people coming to Christ, however most of them I hear about are in other countries. America has such a false view of what being born again is they are comfortable thinking they are safe. The people of the United States are proud and self-willed, resistant to the Word of the Bible even while quoting them they do not obey them. In fact, there is far more scripture being twisted to fit their life than they use to correct themselves or others.
Matthew 7:21-23 "21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many [a]miracles?’
23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’"
James 4:14
"Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes."
Psalm 90:10-14
"The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away. Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you? So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants! Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days."
Ephesians 5:15-17
"Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is."
My hope is that America will repent, but unless it happens soon we are going to be severely punished for rejecting Christ in all our institutions and venues.
If you feel you are not able to worship and pray at home then you have a wrong view of Christianity. Noah had no gathering to attend except his own family. Lot had the same problem. We are living in the days just like Noah and Lot in which there are few others who love and obey the Lord.
Matthew 24:27-39 "37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
Noah preached 120 years and no one would listen, there was not one repentant convert in all those years.
Genesis 6 describes the days of Lot, read it to have a glimpse of what is happening now.
If you have been living a ritualistic, superficial Christianity based on rules and appearances, now is a good time to repent asking God to show you His heart and then begin reading His Word.
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Hirelings in the Churches
Church attendees need to forget about having a pastor and allow all the men in the group to teach and preach. That way the "pastor" does not become the idol of those who will not read their Bibles. If every believer read their own Bible and sought the Holy Spirit they would all have something to share in the gathering.
There is no model in the Bible of a man from a distant city "candidating" for a position in the local church. All those who are elders are taken from within the local gathering, everyone will know their life. There will be a proven testimony of godliness for the ones who are chosen as elders and those who choose them will be led by the Holy Spirit, they are not chosen on the basis of their "education."
1 Corinthians 14:28-30 "29Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. 30And if a revelation comes to someone who is seated, the first speaker should hold his peace.…"
1 Corinthians 14:26 "26 What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the church. "
Romans 12:6-8 "6 Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith; 7 if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching; 8 or he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness."
The one-man pastor system was not given by God. According to the scriptures, there should be several men who are called elders who preach and teach in the church gathering. The one-man pastor system came out of Catholicism and has led to pew sitters who do and say nothing during the gathering. The pew people do not participate and believe without question their paid pastor. God calls them hirelings!
John 10:12-13
"He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep."
Most pastors today rely on their seminary training to carry them without depending on the Holy Spirit. Most seminaries today have serious errors in their teachings, even some have unsaved profs teaching the students.
The hirelings are more interested in keeping their job and being popular than they are in bringing truth to the people. Even if the hireling is not thinking consciously these things they are motivated by them.
Most hirelings set themselves up as "experts" as though no one has the right to question or rebuke them. They resist correction and even drive out those who are godly who attempt to bring everything back to scripture.
There is no model in the Bible of a man from a distant city "candidating" for a position in the local church. All those who are elders are taken from within the local gathering, everyone will know their life. There will be a proven testimony of godliness for the ones who are chosen as elders and those who choose them will be led by the Holy Spirit, they are not chosen on the basis of their "education."
1 Corinthians 14:28-30 "29Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. 30And if a revelation comes to someone who is seated, the first speaker should hold his peace.…"
1 Corinthians 14:26 "26 What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the church. "
Romans 12:6-8 "6 Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith; 7 if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching; 8 or he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness."
The one-man pastor system was not given by God. According to the scriptures, there should be several men who are called elders who preach and teach in the church gathering. The one-man pastor system came out of Catholicism and has led to pew sitters who do and say nothing during the gathering. The pew people do not participate and believe without question their paid pastor. God calls them hirelings!
John 10:12-13
"He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep."
Most pastors today rely on their seminary training to carry them without depending on the Holy Spirit. Most seminaries today have serious errors in their teachings, even some have unsaved profs teaching the students.
The hirelings are more interested in keeping their job and being popular than they are in bringing truth to the people. Even if the hireling is not thinking consciously these things they are motivated by them.
Most hirelings set themselves up as "experts" as though no one has the right to question or rebuke them. They resist correction and even drive out those who are godly who attempt to bring everything back to scripture.
Remarriage After Divorce is not a Marriage
Remarriage after Divorce is not a marriage, it is adultery and remains adultery until the couple stops living together.
In the matter of a pastor who divorced his wife to marry a secretary! If this pastor remained pastor of the church after doing this that will tell us the apostasy of the people who still attend there.
That second marriage on the part of the pastor is not a marriage it is adultery. When God makes two people one in marriage it cannot be severed by anyone, not even a judge. The marriage of the second person is not marriage and remains adultery until the man leaves the second woman.
My guess is that many people remained in that church even after he began committing adultery in a new marriage? In our day church members even attend the wedding of this adulterous affair.
1 Corinthians 7:10-11 "10 But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband 11 (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not [b]divorce his wife."
The reason the divorced person must remain single is that in God's eyes she/he is still married to the first husband.
In the matter of a pastor who divorced his wife to marry a secretary! If this pastor remained pastor of the church after doing this that will tell us the apostasy of the people who still attend there.
That second marriage on the part of the pastor is not a marriage it is adultery. When God makes two people one in marriage it cannot be severed by anyone, not even a judge. The marriage of the second person is not marriage and remains adultery until the man leaves the second woman.
My guess is that many people remained in that church even after he began committing adultery in a new marriage? In our day church members even attend the wedding of this adulterous affair.
1 Corinthians 7:10-11 "10 But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband 11 (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not [b]divorce his wife."
The reason the divorced person must remain single is that in God's eyes she/he is still married to the first husband.
Chaotic and Unbiblical Tongues
Tongues were for bringing the gospel to unbelievers who did not speak the language of the speaker.
Tongues were never for a believer to speak to other believers.
1 Corinthians 14:21-23 "…21It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.” 22Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers. 23So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who are uninstructed or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?…"
Tongues were not chaotic in the church speaking to unbelievers and never all at once with everyone babbling at the same time.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Earnestly pursue love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.
1 Corinthians 14:27
If anyone speaks in a tongue, two, or at most three, should speak in turn, and someone must interpret.
1 Corinthians 14:29
Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said.
Tongues are not needed now because we have the Scriptures! New revelation is forbidden by God, anything new that is not in the Bible is adding to scripture and condemned by God.
Heb 1:1-2
"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;"
John 16:13-15
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.
Matthew 6:5-7 "5 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.…"
The chaotic "tongues" in churches today comes from the model of pagan worship. It is a violation of God's Word and glorifies the person doing it rather than Christ.
Think about it!
Tongues were never for a believer to speak to other believers.
1 Corinthians 14:21-23 "…21It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.” 22Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers. 23So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who are uninstructed or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?…"
Tongues were not chaotic in the church speaking to unbelievers and never all at once with everyone babbling at the same time.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Earnestly pursue love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.
1 Corinthians 14:27
If anyone speaks in a tongue, two, or at most three, should speak in turn, and someone must interpret.
1 Corinthians 14:29
Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said.
Tongues are not needed now because we have the Scriptures! New revelation is forbidden by God, anything new that is not in the Bible is adding to scripture and condemned by God.
Heb 1:1-2
"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;"
John 16:13-15
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.
Matthew 6:5-7 "5 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.…"
The chaotic "tongues" in churches today comes from the model of pagan worship. It is a violation of God's Word and glorifies the person doing it rather than Christ.
Think about it!
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