Revelation 3:15-17,
“I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or
hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue
thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods,
and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art
wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.”
If you're a born-again Christian, who's attended a good church at any time in
your life, then you have heard preacher's teach and preach from Revelation
3:15-17 about the sin of being LUKEWARM.
And you've always heard that LUKEWARM
living and sinful compromise makes God nauseated, so that He vomits us out!
But what you've likely never heard from Verse 17 is that God also vomits us
out “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have
need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and
poor, and blind, and naked.”
This Scripture speaks of the blinded pastors,
assistant pastors and church congregations, who think they are doing
just fine, but in reality they are apostate, and in big trouble with the Lord.
This was the Laodicean church in Revelation.
Note: Some
Bible students believe that the 7-Churches of Asia Minor (the nation of Turkey
today) in Revelation are time periods, that is, there is a dual
meaning in this Scripture passage. Although I would not argue the point, I
tend to agree, believing that we are living in the Laodicean age today, when
the Lord had nothing good to say about the churches. Today's churches are
lukewarm and make God vomit in disgust. The 7-churches were literal churches,
and the 7 “stars” were angels according to Revelation 1:20, one angel (meaning
“messenger”) ministering to each church. BUT PLEASE NOTE: I do NOT believe in
Dr.
Cyrus I. Scofield's DISPENSATIONAL HERESY!!!]
I had always
associated “God vomiting” with believers who are lukewarm; but I had never
noticed that God also vomits because of those who errantly think they are
blessed of God, when in reality they are apostate and spiritually bankrupt!!!
Revelation 3:17, “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods,
and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and
miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” There are many apostate
churches today in evangelical circles, who falsely think they are successful
in Heaven's eyes merely because they draw a sizeable Sunday attendance of 700
people, or because they operate a religious school with 1,000 students
enrolled.
Folks, that's NOT serving God! The size of your Sunday crowd at church is
absolutely no indication of God's approval or disapproval. Satanic Rock bands
can easily draw 100,000 fans for a mega-concert!
Unfortunately, the religious business is booming in America! I say
“unfortunately” because religion is NOT Christianity. Jesus said to Nicodemus (a
religious leader of the Jews) that a man MUST be “BORN AGAIN” in order to
enter into God's Kingdom (John 3:3). Religion CANNOT do this! God is not a
debtor to mankind or the church, but to HIS PROMISES!!! It's tragic that the
least most popular item in churches today is the Word of God. Evidence of this
sad fact is the presence of dozens of Bible versions in the pews on Sunday
morning, and a really crappy senior pastor who is fine with that! Get right
with God! I said, GET RIGHT WITH GOD!!!
I know Independent
Baptist churches that use and tolerate dozens of different English Bible
versions. The shameful Harvest Baptist Church on Guam comes to mind. They
don't care about anything or anyone except themselves. Their shameful pastor and assistant pastors are serving mammon
instead of God, so truth takes a backseat to the popular consensus amongst
apostate evangelical circles across America. Luke 16:13, “No servant can
serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or
else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye
cannot serve God and mammon.”
When mammon (money) becomes the
highest priority in a ministry, it can only move doctrinal soundness and moral
integrity to the lower ranks, taking a backseat to church growth. This is why
we see females wearing pants, leggings and low-cut blouses in most churches
today. This is why most churches today allow dozens of versions of the Bible
to be used by members, and the pastor dare not speak a single word of
criticism against Satan's counterfeit Bible versions, lest he find himself
outside the gate with Jesus, Dr. Jack Hyles, Brother Roloff, Dr. Al lacy and
little ole me.
Outside The Gate With Jesus (MP3, Dr. Hyles, “Jesus has been
outside the camp all the time!”).
According to the
American Bible Society (ABS), there are approximately 900 different English
Bible versions. . . .
I am afraid no one can give you an exact number
for the English translations and paraphrases of the Bible printed since
Tyndale's New Testament of 1526. In part this is due to the difficulty of
determining what should be defined as a new translation as opposed to a
correction or a revision of an existing translation. There is the additional
question of how we should count translations that include not a complete Bible
or Testament, but just a group of books or even a single book. And then, of
course, there is the difficulty of sheer numbers. With all these caveats in
mind, the number of printed English
translations and paraphrases of the Bible, whether complete or not, is about
900. [emphasis added]
SOURCE:
Number Of English Translations Of The Bible;
BIBLE Q & A; December 2, 2009.
I know Independent
Baptist churches where multiple plans of salvation are permitted and taught.
It is wickedness of the highest degree!!! There are two common plans of
salvation:
-
CALVINISM
- The first plan is
Calvinism (as taught by John Calvin), or as it is often called today,
“Lordship Salvation.” In this heretical plan, it is taught that a person
cannot merely believe the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved; but
also, they must surrender all to Christ's Lordship, forsake the world, cease
from a deathstyle of sinning, and openly confess Christ before men. False
prophets who teach this heretical plan are: John MacArthur, Ray Comfort, Kirk
Cameron, John Piper, Chip Ingram, Billy Graham, , Franklin Graham, Paul
Washer, Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, Beth Moore, Charles Stanley, John Hagee,
Aiden Tozer, Unshackled radio, Moody Bible Institute, Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary, Fuller Theological Institute, et cetera.
-
GOSPEL -
In the second plan (which is God's ONLY plan), a person simply acknowledges
that they have sinned against a holy God, and they BELIEVE the Gospel of the
Lord Jesus Christ to be saved. That's it! This is referred to Scripturally as
“the simplicity that is in Christ” (2nd Corinthians 11:3).
Clearly, these two
different plans of salvation are NOT compatible. The first (incorrect) plan
teaches human effort plus partial faith in Christ; whereas, the second
(correct) plan teaches 100% faith in Christ without any human effort. Let's
see what the Holy Bible has to say in Romans 4:5-6, “But
to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the
ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God
imputeth righteousness without works.”
Wicked
Pastors In Spiritual Denial
Satan is a
skillful liar and conman, who has infiltrated many churches today, even
Baptist churches who are following Dr. John MacArthur (and are now teaching
the demonic
Lordship Salvation heresy). These deceived pastors are in denial,
having been influenced by Moody Ministries in Chicago to support Mr.
MacArthur's heresies. Since Moody Ministries has a massive impact nationwide
(and worldwide), if they promote a false prophet like John MacArthur, pastors
and churches who support Moody are forced to either accept or reject Dr.
MacArthur. Due to Ecclesiastical peer pressure, the clergy tend to
go-along-to-get-along to keep harmony in the family, and avoid being
blacklisted and abandoned outside the gate with Jesus.
So some wicked
pastors dismiss the issue as a mere matter of semantics (the subtle different
ways people speak or write their words). May I say, you are dishonest if you
dismiss the two very different plans of salvation that I just shared with you,
as merely being a matter of SEMANTICS!!! A person either has to cease from
intentional sinful behavior to be saved, or they do not. It cannot be both! A
person either has to openly confess Christ to others to be saved, or they do
not. It cannot be both! A person either has to surrender all to Christ's
Lordship to be saved, or they do not. It cannot be both! Romans 11:6, “And
if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no
more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is
no more work.” Eternal life is a “free gift” (Romans 5:15) from God, paid
for by Jesus' precious blood (1st Peter 1:18-19), which is sprinkled on the
heavenly Mercy Seat (Hebrews 9:12, 24; 12:24).
I named the above
subtitle “Wicked Pastors In Spiritual Denial.” At first I titled it “Wayward
Pastors In Spiritual Denial,” but then I realized that every apostate pastor
that I know, has been REPEATEDLY warned by faithful Christians that: the new
Bible versions are corrupted by Satan, and Lordship Salvation is of the Devil,
and Martin Luther was an unsaved reprobate who taught in 1529 (12 years after
he allegedly got saved by faith alone) that water baptism and communion are
mandatory for salvation, et cetera. Today's neo-evangelical pastors DON'T
CARE, because they feel comfortable siding with Moody Ministries (i.e., the
mother ship, or headquarters, so-to-speak). Today's neo (meaning “new”)
evangelical pastors are “wickedly” wayward.
Check and you'll
discover that it's true, that our churches today are following the Bible
conventions and institutions (like Bob Jones University, Pensacola Christian
College, Dallas Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Convention, Moody Bible
Institute, et cetera); instead of the Bible institutions, conventions and
colleges following New Testament churches. So as Moody Bible Institute and Bob
Jones University go down the spiritual slopes into apostasy, several thousand
pastors and millions of churchgoers follow!!!
Notice in our text
passage of Scripture that apostate churches KNOWEST NOT!!! That is, they're
blinded by pride to their wrenched demonic Bible versions. Revelation 3:15-17,
“I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or
hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue
thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods,
and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art
wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” Jesus said,
thou “KNOWEST NOT.” This church today is woefully ignorant that they've being
deceived by Satan, sold a false plan of salvation which requires ceasing from
sinful behavior (human effort) to have it. Many churches are spiritually
miserable, naked and blind today, but they foolishly think God is blessing
them in their worldly success. They sadly won't receive THE TRUTH, because
Satan has given them a substitute, misleading them to errantly think they have
the truth!!!
A man with two watches never
really knows what time it is;
And a man with two Bibles never really knows what the Word of God is!!!
God Is Not
The Author Of Confusion In The Churches
Is your church
spiritually bankrupt? Do you falsely think you have God's blessings upon your
ministry, but in reality God has vomited you out of His mouth? How can any
pastor justify using dozens of different Bible versions? Is our omnipotent God
incapable of preserving His very pure words as He promised in
Psalms 12:6-7? (Make
sure you only use the King James Bible, because this Scripture in
Psalms 12:6-7 has been totally corrupted in all modern PERversions). Is our
omniscient God so lacking in foresight that He left us to choose between 900
different English Bible versions? No my friend, the Bible teaches in 1st
Corinthians 14:33 “For God is not the author of confusion,
but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.” The Devil deliberately
confuses people, to hide the truth of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ, to
hinder sinners from being born-again (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4).
The following
Scripture is incredibly applicable to most churches today, where dozens of
different Bible versions are used. Acts 19:32, “Some
therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused;
and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.” Some
religious people use the NIV, ASV, GNT, RSV and HCSB Bible versions; but other
people use the ESV, CEV, NASV, MEV and TNIV versions; thus, the churches are
all CONFUSED!!! God didn't cause this! God has no part in this disastrous
mess.
Beware of all the
spiritual radio, music, courses, seminars, magazines and books which are
endlessly for sale, which are a SUBSTITUTION for the Word of God and hard
Bible-preaching! There is much disagreement amongst religious camps, and
people are utterly confused about spiritual things. You are so blessed to be
reading what I'm telling you right now. I care about you in Christ! I don't
want you to listen to what I say; but rather, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES
for yourself, as Jesus commanded in John 5:39.
The churches are
dead today because instead of abiding in the inspired Words of God in the King
James Bible, religious ministers spend their time being influenced by
Modernists (i.e., unsaved people who profess to be a Christian); such as, John
MacArthur, Billy Graham, Rick Warren and others. And what about their
outrageous salaries? The word “minister” means “a servant.” Each of the men I
just listed are multi-millionaires! They're serving mammon, not God.
“What
we need in this generation, is for about 30,000 churches in the
United
States to go out of business, and just shut the doors, and let whom
mean
business, get the power of God, and witness to this generation!”
~Pastor Danny
Castle, a quote from the awesome sermon, “How
To Have Power With God!”
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MP3
Sermon
Baptists
Who Want To Be Fundamental, While Standing With Liberals
I listened to a
beautiful sermon today by Pastor Jack Hyles titled, “In
The Day That Thou Stoodest On The Other Side” (MP3). The sermon is based
upon Obadiah 1:11, “In the day that thou stoodest on the
other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his
forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem,
even thou wast as one of them.” Too many
Baptists want to be fundamentalists, while standing with liberals.
Consequently, they end up becoming liberals. Too many Baptists want to be
considered fundamental, but they want to stand with neo-evangelicals. In
Joshua 24:15, General Joshua asked the Hebrews to CHOOSE YE THIS DAY WHOM YE
WILL SERVE?
God vomits out
these LUKEWARM pastors and churches today, who claim to be fundamental by
preferring the King James Bible; but then they stand with liberals by also
using and supporting the plethora of Satanic counterfeit Bible versions (which
change the meaning of repentance, teach ANOTHER GOSPEL, disregarded thousands
of Bible verses, attack the deity of Christ and have completely removed the
Godhead). Consequently, our nation's churches are turning liberal. The
churches are being
TRANSFORMED, just as occultist Alice Bailey foretold in her
Luciferian writings. Here's
a fabulous, life-changing, Spirit-filled, needful, MP3 sermon by Pastor Bob
Gray Sr. titled, “How
A Fundamentalist Becomes A Liberal!”
1st Kings
18:21, “And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How
long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him:
but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.” Brother, you need to pick a Bible and stick with it!!! I'm sick of these
pantywaist preachers who are sinfully compromised, who cannot make up their
mind which Bible version to use to prepare their sermons! It reminds me of
something funny I heard recently, about a pastor who was discussing how the
human brain functions—he said that there's nothing LEFT on the right-side of
his brain, and on the left-side nothing's RIGHT! Yeah, I think so. I heard one
shameful senior pastor tell his warped congregation that he wasn't texting
during the service, he was searching through different Bible versions to
prepare his Sunday morning sermon. It would be my joy and privilege if I were
the chairman of that church's deacon board, so I could boldly say... YOU'RE
FIRED!!!
We are living in
the Last Days of the End Times, evidenced by
Nebuchadnezzar's image in
Daniel chapter two. In Alice Bailey's teachings, she teaches that Luciferians would infiltrate
and transform the churches by removing Biblical theology and replacing it with
spirituality. The one thing that we hear from young people (and many adults)
today more than anything is, “I'm not religious, but I am spiritual!” No
wonder secular psychology has been substituted in church pulpits in place of
hard Bible-preaching! The great need of the hour is Bible-toting PREACHING
PREACHERS!!!
Is your church
miserable, blind and naked, but your church leadership and congregation
falsely think they're doing a good job in God's eyes? A godly church is a
church staff and congregation that doesn't think they've arrived. At best,
every church can make improvements. This is true of every Christian believer
and Christian leader. No one is a shining example to others of what a
Christian ought to be, except the precious Lord Jesus Christ. Amen! America's
churches are in bad shape. We need to all bow our heads in humility before God
and say with the prophet Isaiah, “Woe is me! for I am undone!” Isaiah 6:5,
“Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips,
and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for
mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.” Notice why
Isaiah saw his own sinfulness... FOR MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE KING, THE LORD OF
HOSTS! You'll never see God's holiness on the damned television. You'll never
see a holy God in the world's publications. May we all get right with God, and
continually pray for God to open our eyes to areas in our life and church that
need improvement. END
