John 4:24, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
Kindly, I once saw an Independent Baptist Church that had a sign out front
which read, “HELPING PEOPLE DEVELOP A HEART FOR GOD.” I pondered their sign's
message. That church had a
fantastic music program. They had a lovable pastor. They had a lot of money.
They had a splendid building. They had a big religious school. They supported
numerous missionaries. Yet, they lacked a desire to pursue and uphold THE
TRUTH.
Few people understand the dangers of apostasy in today's churches. A church may feel like a church in every way, yet be the house of Satan. A congregation may have a big building, with plush carpeting, stained glass windows, padded pews, nice air-conditioning, plenty of money and a choir that sings like the angels in Heaven; yet, if your pastor(s) are wrong on repentance and the plan of salvation, nothing else matters. The road to Hell is paved with religion!!! Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born-again!!! Please read, I NEVER KNEW YOU: THE COMING GREAT WHITE THRONE OF JUDGMENT AND HOW YOU CAN AVOID IT!
Notice in our text passage of Scripture that Jesus told the Samaritan woman God can only be worshipped in “SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.” If I were the Devil, I would relentlessly try to get people to worship God in error. I would offer them a new Bible with nice features to make it look attractive, but I'd change key passages concerning Jesus Christ to confuse them. I'd try to get them to substitute spirituality for theology. I'd confuse them by getting them to use dozens of different Bible versions. I'd deceive them to think that people couldn't be saved unless they cease from sinful activities, conning them into living the Christian life without ever being born-again.
If I were the Devil, I'd try to get church pastors and staff to promote the music program as a higher priority than the preaching from the pulpit. If I were the Devil, I'd lure the church staff and school teachers to use Walt Disney themes for their youth, encouraging them to embrace the Godless Walt Disney corporation. Disney's new CEO is a flaming homosexual. Disney's previous CEO said that he believes at least 40% of Disney's 163,000 employees are homosexuals. As our American culture accepts homosexuality, our churches are following in pursuit, promoting sex-perverted Walt Disney to children. I heard Pastor Joel Osteen mention taking his daughter to see Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus) in concert. Hardly anybody who names the name of Jesus cares anymore. Hannah Montana is of the Devil. Miley Cyrus is a slutty bimbo and a sickening disgrace to her bad parents and apostate America. No Christian ought to support Walt Disney. Disney is an Illuminati company, promoting the agendas of the New World Order. For example: Villains In Walt Disney's New Captain America Comic Are Opponents Of Illegal Immigration. America's sovereignty is long gone! Walt Disney is anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-family and straight from the pits of Hell beneath.
My friend, if you want to develop a heart for God, then you must develop a heart for THE TRUTH. I have been listening to a local Seventh-Day Adventist radio station (to expose them), and truthfully, you cannot tell the difference between their music and the local independent Baptist church's radio station. So what's the difference? The only difference is THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, heresy is creeping into our Baptist churches by the hour!!! The heresy of Lordship Salvation is sending Baptists to Hell!!! All the new Satanic Bible versions teach Lordship Salvation!!! My point here is that if the Baptist church is wrong on the plan of salvation, THEN THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE!!! They're no better or different than the Seventh-Day Adventist religious cult.
Did you know that SDA prophetess Ellen G. White taught Lordship Salvation? It's true!!! The plan of salvation is critically important! God didn't make two plans of salvation. You either have to cease from a lifestyle of deliberate sin to be saved or you do not. It cannot be both! One is manmade religion, the other is the gift of eternal life. Romans 11:6 teaches that salvation is either by GRACE or by WORKS, but not both! Biblically, we are saved by God's GRACE, by faith alone in the Gospel, and not works in any way, fashion or form (Galatians 3:26; Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 4:5-6; Philippians 3:9; Titus 3:5; Romans 10:3-4).
2nd Thessalonians 2:10, “And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”
If your church uses the King James Bible, but allows and quotes from other Bible versions, SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG!!! God didn't write 300 versions of His inspired Word!!! Only the AUTHORIZED KING JAMES BIBLE hasn't been tampered with by occultists!!! The Devil has intentionally corrupted all of the modern Bible versions to diminish the deity, Godhead and preeminence of Jesus Christ, and to sneak spiritualism into the churches as a substitute for theology. This is THE TRUTH!!!
Kindly, you've been woefully deceived by the Devil if you think your church is helping people develop a heart for God, while using demonic Bible versions that attack Christ's deity, remove the Godhead and diminish the preeminence of the Lord Jesus Christ!!!
Your church has been woefully deceived by Satan if you teach that people must cease from sinful living as a prerequisite to be saved. If your idea of repentance is ceasing from sinful activities (or being willing to “turn away from sin”) to be saved, then you are theologically dumbed-down, ignorant and deceived. Biblical repentance is a simple change of mind that compels a person to acknowledge the truth of one's guilt of sin and believe the Gospel to be saved. Eternal life and forgiveness of sins is a free gift. A “gift” cannot have any stipulations nor obligations to remain a genuine gift. Telling someone that they must be willing to turn from their sins to be saved is an unbiblical, added, stipulation that perverts the Gospel. Reformation is not a requirement for salvation.
All ungodly sinners who simply BELIEVE the Gospel are saved! Jesus Christ is our only sin payment. Salvation is obtained by receiving Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full-payment for your sins, believing that He was buried and raised up 72 hours later (1st Corinthians 15:1-4 — Note: All Scriptures are quoted only from the trustworthy King James Bible). Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. God will not save anyone who is trying to be saved, He will only save those who are trusting to be saved. We are saved solely by God imputed righteousness, and not partially by our own departure from sins. Christ bore the total weight of our sins upon the cross, so that we wouldn't have to in the Lake of Fire forever.
If you want to go to Heaven, then you must let God do the saving (all of it). Philippians 3:9, “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.” That is the only righteousness that saves—the righteousness which is of God BY FAITH! So stop spreading Satan's lies of cartoonist Jack Chick and others, who say that you must turn away from your sins (or be willing to turn away from your sins) to be saved! That is another Gospel, not the simplicity that is in Christ (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4).
If you want to help people develop a heart for God, then you absolutely must also develop a heart in them for THE TRUTH. END
