We are the main distributors of pornography to the rest of the world.
Divorce and remarriage is out of control in the churches and the people defend it as though it is a right when God condemns these acts.
We have crooked politicians and deceivers running this country as well as liberal school teachers trained in liberal colleges teaching the children to believe in evolution, the girls to have careers leaving their homes for the sake of money, and much more. We have these wicked politicians because the people chose them. They have stacked the deck in the school system to only allow liberal teachers to dominate the educational system.
Our sins against God's Word within the church gatherings are many! Most "Christians" think the Bible is a book of suggestions written by men, they do not know that God is the author and Jesus Christ is the very essence of His own word. And yet, when you tell them they become angry.
When the people of a country see the Bible as a book to look to in times of trouble it does not see Christ for Who He is, that is God! To this country, Christ is a symbol and idea, not a real person to be sought after and obeyed. This is why they mix so much paganism with their Christianity, just adding Jesus to the mix to make up their own idea of religion.
It is easy to test this out to see if it is true. Just use the scriptures to answer questions and problems in our culture and watch the strange looks and the rejection that emerges from those hearing. Do this in the churches and you will get the same strange looks. You will be blackballed and ignored with the hope that you will just leave.
The world has taken over the gatherings as sure as mold and moss thrive in damp environments. We now have more pretenders, that is tares in the church following whatever they like to believe while spurning any correction from God's Word.
2 Timothy 4:3 "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they shall heap to themselves teachers in accordance with their own lusts."
MATTHEW 7:19–23
“‘So then, you will know them by their fruits. 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. 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 miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’”
Matthew 13:30 "…29 ‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First, collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
We now have more weeds in the church than we have wheat. The tares are infecting the wheat with false doctrine, causing them to doubt what they know. These are the weaker wheat who are not yet grounded in the Word, even fearful of going to the scriptures for themselves for fear of offending the tares.
God will sort them all out at the end, however, when you become discerning wheat, desiring the pure truth from God's Word, you will want to remove yourselves from the gatherings of tares to find a gathering that is more wheat than tares.
Then we must pray that the tares become broken over their superficial "religion" to become born again. The warning is this; If we spend more time with tares than we do with the wheat we will become like the tares to prevent conflict, this is the danger of allowing our close friendships to be those who only pretend to love God.
When the man in the pulpit is preaching watered-down cultural Christianity infecting the tares with false doctrine there is no convincing them to listen to that one or two other pew people who correct the pulpit person. (as Larry Jones refers to the people in his articles)
Since the tares give more credence to the pulpit person than they do to Christ they will see this pulpit person as a god rather than a man to be monitored to be sure he is telling the truth.
Acts 7:11-12 "11Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true. 12As a result, many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.…"
The Bereans questioned Paul and went to the scriptures to make sure he was telling the truth.
In our culture, the pew people are those who sit in the pew week after week believing everything the pulpit person says. Laughing at all his foolish jesting and believing no one should challenge him because he is their god, they suck into their souls his teachings without questioning and without discernment because they do not know the Bible. It is easier for them to just believe the "expert" from seminary, trained by men than to trust the Holy Spirit for their guidance.
The one-man pastor system did not come from the Bible, it came from a model of the Catholic church. Luther was trained in this, even though he left the catholic church he took with him many of their practices, one of which is the one-man pastor system.
If you want to see how God intended for the gathering to operate it would be good to read a book explaining the scriptures that show us God's model for the gathering and worship.
"The Lord's Supper by Alfred Gibbs
We are living in the final days before Christ takes out His church after which He will bring upon the world His wrath. Things will not get better anywhere, if they do it is only short-lived and in appearance more than substance.
Jeremiah 6:14
"14 They have healed the wound of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace."
This is happening today, Many preachers are motivational speakers bringing only happy thoughts and deluding the people into thinking all they have to do is think good thoughts and everything will be alright. They schmooze the people with false hope of prosperity and happiness while they are on their way to hell.
My hope is that those who have known the truth about this but have been confused will become resolute and strong without doubt about what the Bible and the Holy Spirit is telling them.
James 1:6
"But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind."
James 1:4-6 "…4 Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6 But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.…"
