No Clergy, No Laity, Only Priests

There is no such thing as clergy and laity in the Bible. No one is above another; all have Christ who are born again and all are priests.

1 Peter 2:9 "“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”"

We are Watchng the Effects of 2 Timothy 3 in our Culture Today

The selfish mentality, with the desire to be special and better than others, is here, and God told us it would happen in 2 Timothy 3:1-5
"3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."

Many people, even Christians, are judging others unjustly because of their need to be superior. These people are calling good what God calls bad and they are calling bad what God calls good, while at the same time claiming to be Christians.

Many people who attend the institutional churches are not born again but think they are on their way to heaven. They believe simply by claiming Christianity it means they are saved. Sadly, many will hear these frightening words if they do not repent, admit their sinful nature, and trust in Christ alone.

Matthew 7:21-23 "21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one 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 miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’"

From "Raising Up a Generation of Believers

Angela Heidebrecht shared this on her Facebook page.

Found this on X and I was led to share it, it is a very good read.
Satan is not opposed to good morals.

He’s opposed to Jesus Christ.

Read that again because most Christians miss this completely.

Satan doesn’t care if you’re a “good person.” He doesn’t care if you volunteer at the food bank, recycle your trash, and help old ladies cross the street. He doesn’t care if you’re kind, generous, and well-liked by everyone in your community.
He cares that you don’t bow the knee to Jesus.

Here’s the deception that’s damning millions:
Satan has convinced people that morality equals spirituality. That being a “good person” is the same as being a Christian. That if you just live right, treat people well, and avoid the “big sins,” you’re acceptable to God.

This is a lie straight from the pit of hell.

The Pharisees had impeccable morals. They followed the law meticulously. They were respected, disciplined, and religiously devoted.
Jesus called them children of the devil.

Why? Not because their morals were bad. Because their morals replaced Christ.
Satan’s greatest trick isn’t making bad people worse. It’s making good people think they don’t need a Savior.

Think about it:
The atheist who feeds the homeless thinks he’s good enough without God.
The Buddhist who meditates and practices compassion thinks she’s enlightened without Christ.

The Muslim who prays five times daily thinks he’s righteous without Jesus.
The moral Christian who goes to church, pays his tithe, and avoids scandal thinks he’s saved without surrender.

All of them are headed to the same place: eternal separation from God.
Because morality doesn’t save. Jesus saves.

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9

Satan loves moral people who reject Jesus. They’re his best advertisement for the lie that you can earn your way to heaven.
They’re living proof that you can:
•Be kind without Christ
•Be generous without God
•Be disciplined without the Holy Spirit
•Be respected without redemption
And still be lost.

The most dangerous people in hell won’t be the murderers and rapists. They’ll be the moral, upstanding citizens who thought their goodness was good enough.
Their morals became their idol. Their goodness became their god.
And Satan smiled because he’d accomplished his goal: Keep them from Jesus.
Here’s what most Christians don’t understand:

Satan doesn’t need to make you do bad things. He just needs to keep you from doing the ONE thing that matters: surrendering to Christ.
If he can get you to:

•Trust your morals instead of Christ’s sacrifice
•Rely on your goodness instead of God’s grace
•Believe in your works instead of Jesus’ finished work
He’s won.

You can live a moral life and still die lost. You can be a good person and still face judgment. You can avoid all the “big sins” and still end up separated from God forever.

Because the only sin that damns you eternally is rejecting Jesus Christ.
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” John 3:36

Not the murderer who repents and believes in Christ is damned.
Not the thief who turns to Jesus on the cross is damned.

Not the prostitute who washes Jesus’ feet with her tears is damned.
The moral, religious person who rejects Christ is damned.

That’s why Satan loves morality without Jesus. It sends people to hell with a smile on their face, convinced they were good enough.

Stop trusting your morals. Start trusting Jesus.

Your goodness won’t save you. Your works won’t redeem you. Your morality won’t justify you.
Only the blood of Jesus Christ can wash away your sin and make you acceptable to a holy God.
Everything else is just Satan’s distraction from the one thing that actually matters.

Sobering Things About the Last Days

Are We The Final Generation

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WHEN THE WORLD NORMALIZES WHAT GOD CONDEMNS, BELIEVERS MUST STAND FIRMLY ON THE WORD OF GOD!

We are witnessing a troubling pattern that Scripture warned would characterize the last days. What God calls evil is increasingly defended as acceptable, while biblical convictions are dismissed as outdated or intolerant. But truth does not change with culture, and God's standards do not change with public opinion.

Isaiah 5:20 KJV warns:

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness.”

Look at Paul's warning in 2 Timothy 3:1–5. He described a generation marked by self-love, pride, disobedience, and pleasure-loving attitudes, having a form of godliness but denying its power.

This is why believers must remain watchful, exercise discernment, and refuse to exchange sound doctrine for popular opinion. We are not called to follow the world's standards but to remain faithful to God's Word.

2 Timothy 4:3–4 KJV also warns that many will turn away their ears from the truth.

The Church's blessed hope remains the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13). We are looking for Christ, not waiting for the world's approval!

A MESSAGE TO THE LOST: The Gospel is that Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again the third day (1 Corinthians 15:1–4). Salvation is by grace through faith in Him, not by our works (Ephesians 2:8–9).

The world may change its definition of right and wrong, but the Word of God will never change.

Gwendolyn Wehage

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Amen, and families are dividing, dismissing, and rejecting those who follow the Bible, even in Christian families. There are more unbelievers who call themselves Christians than there are authentic believers who have been transformed by Christ.

Ask the Important Question to Rude Believers

Perhaps something to say to a Christian who is rude to you might be something like this: "Was that a good representation of Christ?"

It is good to challenge a believer about their attitudes so that if they are saved, they can learn that their attitude reveals their heart and shows a need for more spiritual cleansing and growth.

However, this growth cannot happen until they confess it to be cleansed by God.

1 John 1:9 "9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

For non-believers, we can just ignore the insult and allow their own consequences to teach them. Until they repent and trust in Christ, they will not understand right from wrong. They will justify their words and actions based on their feelings, even when nothing wrong was done to them to warrant a hostile reaction.

Darwinism is in the heart of every Christian even without realizing it!

Every child was taught Darwinism since the 1860's in schools all over America.

Darwinism teaches that man is nothing more than another species of animal; therefore, mankind operates from instinct and not reason. He taught that man is basically good and only does bad things because of some bad feelings that dwell inside of him. In other words people who do evil things are just reacting to difficult things in their life.

This is where psychology came into being, from the belief that no one is bad and anyone who does bad things is hurting in some way. This is where the saying, "Hurt people hurt people," comes from.

This teaching has ruined generations of people who treat wicked people like victims and the victims as insignificant. If the victim protests at the ill treatment toward them, then they are judged as harmful and dangerous people.

Satan was very clever when he lied to Eve and accused God of being the bad one for making rules for Adam and Eve. He is using the same tactics today, accusing those who hold a righteous standard for the perpetrator and who defend the victim.

Why did the past few generations choose the way of Satan over God, might be the question? The people believed human beings who wanted to dismiss and reject God because in their heart they loved their sin and wanted to be treated special no matter what they did to others.

Much wrong teaching has entered the traditional church system because of the teaching of Darwinism; here are a few:

1. "People are basically good" (God says man is basically evil)
2. "Hurt people hurt people" (God says wicked people harm others)
3. "Forgive so that you will be forgiven" (God told us to repent and forgive for the sake of the relationship)
4. "Women must obey their husbands even when they tell them to sin because God has a purpose" ( God says obey Him alone always)
5. "Those who do not forgive the unrepentant are bitter." (God said one must repent before being forgiven.)
6. "If someone does not go to a building called a church with a paid pastor, they must not be Christians." (God never told us to go to a building or pay salaries to one man)
7. "One must obey their pastor and adhere to their teaching, or if you don't, you are in rebellion." (God says to obey God rather than man.)
8. "One can divorce their spouse for adultery" (God said if you divorce and remarry you are committing adultery, since God is the One Who makes two people one in marriage, the melding of spirits.)
9. "You are not loving if you correct others with Scripture." (God said we are to admonish, rebuke and correct daily one another.)
10. "You must not be a Christian if you don't celebrate Christmas and Easter." (God told us not to follow pagan holidays, even if the name of Christ is added to them to make them more accepting.)
11. "Babies must be baptized in case they die before growing up" (God told us that adults become baptized when they trust in Christ.)
12. "Children at the age of 12 must be confirmed to be saved." (God never gave any command for formal confirmation.) Man does not confirm someone's salvation, God transforms them when they trust in Christ.
13. "A preacher must have an alter call at eveyr service. (God says believers are to come together to edify one another in the word. Unbelievers do not belong at these gatherings. God said to go into the world and preach the gospel, only bring new people in who have trusted in Christ. Our gatherings are not for evangelism, they are for equipping the saints and encouraging one another.)
14. "We must get people to say the words we tell them to make sure they have been saved." (God says we can trust the Holy Spirit to bring in the people, a need to make sure someone says words is lack of faith, it brings in many false Christian who think the mantra gets them saved.)
15. "We don't discipline Christians in the church; we just love them." (Sadly lack of discipline is not love; it is the opposite. God says if we love our brethren, we will discipline them to bring them back to obedience or if they refuse then it reveals a heart of rebellion.)

There are many more things that go on in the institutional churches that do not honor God at all, they are places full of self-will and disrespect for Christ.

When the Bible is negated it is the same as negating Christ. Christ is the Word, His Word is the essence of Who He is, to ignore His word is to ignore Him.

It is astounding how many people live according to Darwinism and think they don't, who claim to be Christians.

Signs of a Civilization that is about to collapse, it begins with Apostacy in the Church

Wise, godly people see the signs of a civilization about to collapse.

Most people see the signs and ignore them, and others embrace the mentalities and practices of the culture that are off, but don't discern the consequences. They think nothing bad will happen to them.

Our culture is so far off from Biblical Christianity that it no longer resembles the first-century gatherings or practices, and yet most will defend today's cultural religious Christianity as though they think it is as it should be, even becoming angry when someone points out the flaws.

Most people who attend churches have no clue what God spoke of in His Word about the gathering of born-again believers.

Most people who say they are Christians could not tell you what it means to be born again. They do not know that being born again means we trusted Christ and He transformed us into a new creation. Most church attendees changed themselves to fit a religious culture, thinking they were earning their own way to heaven by becoming better people.

This is the reason we see so many who do not remain following Christ, because they were trying in their own effort without the transformation that only Christ can do within us.

Those who think they are saving themselves or keeping themselves through their own effort are often very arrogant, proud of their own goodness.

This is a frightening realization that many people who are attending Christian churches today have never been born again and are practicing their own brand of Christianity that has nothing to do with Christ.

Matthew 7:21-23 "I Never Knew You
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’
23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"

One of the clues we see in discerning false Christianity is the attitude of resistance and hostility when they are corrected with Scripture.

Authentic born-again believers love learning and correction; they love the Scriptures to know God's heart. The false Christian only wants to know enough Scripture out of context to fit their desired beliefs and to impress others who lack wisdom and knowledge of the Bible.

2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 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. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.…"

1 Timothy 4:1 "Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,"

Matthew 24:11 "and many false prophets will arise and deceive many."

Acts 20:29 "I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. I glean that the people will no longer listen even in the churches but God's direction is to continue to speak the truth anyway. Some may listen but most will not."

When our experience with those around us and in the community is hostility toward the truth, we know we have reached that time in prophecy when there will be little faith on the earth. Lies abound more than truth, and we will be at odds with everyone.

So, our marching orders are to continue to tell the truth, avoid those who have heard it and refuse to listen while being content to be alone a lot.

Titus 1:9 "He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it."

1 Timothy 6:3-5 "If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching, he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and disputes about words, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions, 5 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain."

The takeaway is: Arguing with a fool makes us also like the fool. Do not waste your time with foolish contentious people. Move on to those who may listen and are genuinely interested in finding truth according to God's Word.