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Karen Puff Rosenkrantz said this!

"It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

There is only one Gospel."

End Times People - A Biographical Prophecy | Dr. David Jeremiah

The Dramatic Growth of Apostsy in the Church in these Last Days

We are watching apostasy grow dramatically in the last few years.

Most people I knew who attended church regularly did not know their Bibles. Many of those who did know some of the Bible misused it according to the culture.

Creeping into the church are ideas that come out of paganism such as psychology based on Darwinism, the book of Enoch, as well as other resources written by men that were not authored by Christ.

The Bible was the only book that Christ authored. When "Christians" begin searching out other books and news sources for their training they will interpret the Bible in terms of those sources instead of evaluating those extra sources according to the Bible.

We are watching most people ready to believe many things that are against the Word of God and Christ Himself because they are placing their trust in man instead of God.

How can anyone say they trust in Christ when they are so willing to be taught by man worldly ideas while neglecting the very book Christ authored.

Deuteronomy 32:18

“You neglected the Rock who begot you,

And forgot the God who gave you birth.

Job 33:14

“Indeed God speaks once,

Or twice, yet no one notices it."

So many people are willing to listen to sources other than the Bible while acting angry when the Bible is spoken to them. Most who say they are a "Bible Believer", really are not because they do not search the Bible for themselves asking the Holy Spirit to give them wisdom.

My prayer many years ago as a new believer was that God would show me the truth even if it meant discarding everything I was taught. An amazing thing happened, my eyes were opened to many things the modern church says and does that negate the Bible while believing their interpretation is what God says, when it is merely man's desire to change God's word to fit their own and the cultures desires.

We should not be surprised when the churches are moving into "WOKE" and other apostate thinking, after all the culture has been changing the meanings in the Bible for a couple of generations to fit their desired belief systems based on Darwinism.

Most of us in the United States were raised in government schools that taught the theory of evolution as written by Darwin. Most people taught this were so influenced by it that their minds cannot wrap around the truth when it is spoken to them.

Even those who say they don't believe in evolution will believe and use many things promoted by Darwin without realizing it.

Psychology gets some things right because they are observing actions, but because the whole idea of psychology is based on Darwin's theory that man is nothing more than animals, it has wrongly assumed that people respond to stimuli the same as animals. The observations are often right but the interpretation of those observations are wrong.

Because animals and humans are very different and respond to stimuli differently the same principles that are used on animals cannot be used on humans. This is why we have such a mess in society today.

Luke 11:42

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithe of mint and rue and every kind of garden herb, and yet disregard justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others."

Proverbs 8:33

“Heed instruction and be wise,

And do not neglect it."

It would be good to take a good look at all the mantras people use today evaluating them according to the Bible. If we use our own cultural thinking to evaluate what we read then we will negate the Bible.

If we pray and seek the Word of God for truth, then much of what we thought was true will be proven to be false.

One saying that sounded kind was used for a couple of generations to silence correction and disagreement. That saying was "if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all."

It sounds good on the face of it but if someone does not bother to analyze it according to Scripture they very likely will come to the conclusion that we ought never to say anything that will make another person uncomfortable, this would eliminate all correction and instruction because prideful people will feel bad when they have been shown they need to evaluate themselves.

2 TIM 4:2 "Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction."

When we read the word we see that God instructs us to use correction regularly to keep one another on the path to wisdom. Without this correction and instruction we become the culture we are right now. Hypersensitive to correction and rebuke, ignoring and worse violently rejecting and exhortation rather than embracing it to improve ourselves.

The idea that we must forgive unrepentant persons for our own sake, is not from the Bible, it is straight out of the psychology handbook. God requires repentance for us to reconcile with Him and He requires confession of sin to reconcile human relationships true. Even just a cursory study of the Bible on this subject easily dismisses the forgiveness without repentance concept.

Many things like these two examples have infiltrated our gatherings, causing Christians to act more ungodly than godly as well as causing angst among the brethren.

Satan is very clever, he sneaks in phrases and attitudes that sound good but only leads believers away from Christ. His goal has been to get mankind to focus almost entirely on feelings, when this happens the culture can no longer think rationally. Feelings are not a measure of truth, often they are based on our personal desires and cannot be objective concerning God's truth.

2 THES 3:14 "And if anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take special note of that man and do not associate with him, so that he may be put to shame, 2:15 And yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother."

When we begin searching for truth through the Bible and Holy Spirit direction we see just how apostate our Christian churches have become.

Bottom Line: Trust Christ and His Word, not the teachers, they are all tainted by the culture now. Some may be squarely on without teaching error bu those teachers are rare. Keep focused on Christ.

The Modern Person Will Believe Anything Now

Wow, did you know that many people fell into this deception on the internet when it first came out? In fact, I met people who saw this video and were hooked that it was real, even attempting to create their own banana-kiwi at home in a pot of dirt.
When I told one woman that she should try this because she would not believe me, she said she would do it. I told her that she would find a rotten piece of kiwi and a rotten banana at the end of it because it is a scientific impossibility.
This woman was too lazy to try it but continued to believe it anyway. I think when we see this happening we are watching someone who "chooses" to believe something without caring whether or not it is actually true. Evidence and labs are not necessary when "feelings" are on the throne.
This is the irrational world of the internet we are living with now. Many people are simply believing whatever someone says on the internet without too much concern about whether or not what they hear is true as long as it feeds their particular desired opinion. Opinions now do not have to be based on anything as long as there is a desire to believe something. Watch the video!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBN5OG1LBlM

Warning About Believing Media

We need to warn believers not only about the liberal media but about the conservative too. So many do not realize how easy it is to photoshop a picture, only show 10 seconds of a video, and other tricks that lead someone to believe what they want.

Everyone is doing it all the time now. It is best to ignore all media, except some good preachers, and ask the Holy Spirit to show us as things present themselves to our personal lives. If they do not come to us we should not go looking for them.

We do not need to go looking for wicked things to expose, we will know them when they are presented to us because we know the Bible well.

Philippians 4:1-9 "7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable— if anything is excellent or praiseworthy— think on these things. 9Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me, put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.…"

Knowledge for knowledge's sake is Gnosticism and only serves to puff up the pride in those searching for it. They search to know to be able to boast of what they think they know.

However, in these last days, most if not all news sources are filled with spin and lies to convince their listeners of what they want them to believe. There is very little truth left in these days of apostasy.

I have observed that many people who search the filthy and garbage being disseminated in the world today know more about this filth than they know about the Word of God. Often even twisting the word of God to fit their knowledge.

Whenever someone comes to you with "secret" knowledge it is a good idea to dismiss it as hearsay and gossip. Since we cannot prove anything they say and even they have not seen for themselves what they believe, there is no way we can authenticate what we hear or what they say.

The internet is the superhighway of lies and deceptions, as though it is acting as a huge tabloid newspaper. Remember those newspapers at the checkout stand that claim all kinds of fantastic things, having been proven to be completely fabricated. Well, the internet has much more sophisticated ways of twisting pictures, videos, and print.

The only pure truth we can find is in the Bible through the instruction and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

John 16:13-14 " 13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"

When we enjoy too much worldly news we will be led away from Christ not toward Him. The internet information becomes addictive and believable even without proof.

The warning is to spend much more time reading God's Word and praying than we do on anything else.

Remember God said it is the Holy Spirit Who leads us into all truth, not the internet.

Failure is Part of the Process of Living

"Failure is part of the process" as someone once said. Get up and start again when you have been knocked down..... and you will be knocked down from time to time.

There are those who would love for you to stay down for the count, even gleeful when you are discouraged. The devil loves to see us fail and remain exhausted and depleted.

There is only success in life when we get back up after being knocked down. As a born-again believer, we have all the resources necessary to get up again, that is the power of the Holy Spirit.

God wants us to learn lessons in our knockdowns but not remain demoralized and depressed. If we focus on the lesson and depend on Christ we can not only get up again we can thrive moving on toward greater exploits for His glory.

It is in getting up again by the power of the Holy Spirit that glorifies God. He gets the glory for accomplishing in us what we cannot do for ourselves.

For the born-again believer, life is one long series of adventures that teach lifelong and even eternal lessons.

I am convinced that every lesson we learn here on earth will serve us in the Millennium when we rule with Christ.

2 Timothy 2:11-13 "…11 This is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him; 12 if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us; 13 if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.…"

All born-again believers endure to the end, the enduring to the end is the proof that we belonged to Him.

So when you are "feeling" discouraged and defeated, remember they are nothing more than that, "feelings", they do not define who you are or what you can do through Christ. As long as we are in the will of God He gives us what we need to carry out His will.

There are those who say we should lean into our feelings, which is exactly the opposite of what God wants from us. He wants us to ignore the fleshly feelings and focus on the Spirit Who is able to save us to the uttermost.

Romans 8:6

"For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace."

1 Thessalonians 5:18

"18 In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."

"Everything?" Yes, when we are grateful to God in all that happens to us it demonstrates our trust in Him that all things no matter how hard, are from Him and will have a purpose.

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