People who call themselves Christians die every day.
Men and women who often have given much of themselves, who laid down their lives for their version of the Gospel and who helped others with food, shelter and clothing, and cared for others in a generally empathetic way: donating their money, time and spiritual resources to the maximum.
They’ve also prayed for others and seen healing and even deliverances from demons.
And yet at their deaths they don’t inherit eternal life.
What???
The Gospel is so simple, how did they miss it?
They missed it because they would not let go of the traditions of man that have superseded God’s Word and they failed to honor God’s commandments.
In fact, it's a type of narcissistic abuse the way most "Christians" have treated God in committing spiritual adultery with demons through pagan practices for which they gaslight God and act like they've done nothing wrong, and then blame Him when things go wrong for them, but more on this later.
Indeed, many of the dead honored Christ with their lips, but their hearts were far from Him.
“How?” you ask? “How were their hearts far from Him when it seemed their lives were completely given over to service to Him?”
Jesus said the requirement plainly, “If ye love me, keep my commandments,” and there was no love for Him if this didn’t happen, even if they did many "good works" in service to others.
This is why He said to those who would come before Him and site their service to Him,
“I never knew you, ye that work iniquity.”
The iniquity was not their service, it was the lack of the honoring of His commandments and the lack of repentance or change from having not done so that led to this.
Obedience is better than sacrifice 1 Samuel tells us.
It is in this scenario when someones “works” actually turn into filthy rags, when he’s living in disobedience and yet still doing the seemingly good works.
This was king Saul’s claim when he disobeyed God but still did part of what God had asked. Saul felt like he had done enough, but he left out the most important part, the obedience. God did not want those animals sacrificed, but everything killed, and instead Saul gave into the people and did it the way they wanted and not the way God had commanded (1 Samuel 15).
And this is often the biggest problem with Christians who end up phonies. They want to “go with the flow,” or follow the majority. If Noah had done that, he wouldn’t have boarded the ark with only seven other people. He would have joined the vast majority of the rest of humanity and seen the destructive force a world wide flood.
But the people of God must not “go with the flow,” because as Jesus pointed out, the majority are simply on the broad road that leads to destruction and many there be that find it, but the narrow road of righteousness, there are few on that road.
So when it comes to the false Sunday “Sabbath,” they just go with the flow and thereby break the 4th commandment which states the seventh day twice.
When the pagan winter solstice party comes around each year called Christmas, they follow after heathen practices and call it Christian. This God warned us not to do in Jeremiah 10:2 where he said, “Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen.”
They do the same every spring equinox as they honor Astaroth, I mean Ishtar, I mean Easter, another false pagan celebration Christianized by the 4th century “Church” at Rome that became Catholicism, all in the face of entire sum of scriptures that rails on pagan practices.
What's interesting is that the Book of Revelation clearly rebukes idolatry and idolatrous feasting.
The only ones who enter into life are they "that do his commandments, that they have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates of the city. But, sadly, so many who call themselves Christians are practicing HEAVY AMOUNTS of idolatry through the pagan "traditions of men" that have overwhelmed what calls itself "the Church."
Blind, deaf and dumb. But they think if they just fulfill the call to feed the hungry (physical food, not the true Word of God which is the real Bread of Life), provide shelter and some self-defined method of serving God that never leads to obedience to His commands, then they’ve done their part.
Unfortunately, they missed the real point of the Gospel entirely. They’ve been taught a half-gospel that in its fractional approach becomes a false gospel. They don’t believe or know the real or full Truth. The phony grace/faith only gospel covers up and hides what Jesus actually came teaching, that not one jot or tittle of the law would be done away with until heaven an earth pass and all is fulfilled.
Do you see also that he says, "whosoever shall DO AND TEACH THEM, the same shall be called GREAT in the kingdom of heaven."? Jesus commands us to do and teach THE LAW!
And, He gives us the power by the Holy Spirit is to keep His Word, His commandments, to follow after Him.
The only part of the law that has been fulfilled or done away with by the shedding of His blood was any more need of the sacrifice of animals:
Or of the need for a temple and consequently the need for a levitical priesthood because we have become the temples of God.
And we are the kings and priests of these temples. We manage them and define what goes in and out. We keep out the devils from these temples and make it hospisitaple to God through OBEDIENCE to His Word.
And we have to vigorously and indeed, violently, defend these temples from the demonic realm, even as Jesus made the whip of cords to cast out the wicked out of the temple in Jerusalem.
If His word abides in us then we ABIDE in Him. His Word abiding in us means respecting the Word, honoring the Word by following after it, by obeying. It’s so simple.
We show our love through this obedience in the same way a child would his parents by obeying what they ask him to do. A defiant disobedient child is in no way loving of his parents, and such is the case with us.
And this is why so many people who call themselves Christians are blind and have never experienced the real presence of God in their lives. They were never taught to look at their lives in the bright light and mirror of God’s commandments in order to be able to see that repentance is required and that it is necessary to make things right.
They go on with this idea that Christ did it all for me and God forgives all my sins past, present and future. There is a seed of truth in this idea, but the sins that are forgiven us are the ones for which we “repent” and make it right.
I often pray, and lead others to do so as well, that God would show me any hidden sins of ignorance so I can make that right with Him, so that I might draw even closer. Even in our daily walk it is necessary to acknowledge that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, to realize that sin can still get in our lives, that we daily have to lay down this propensity, to deny the flesh and the demons sent to tempt and torment us.
All it requires is that we be honest with God about what’s going on in our minds and heart. As Jesus said, we must worship the Father, “in Spirit and in Truth.” God already knows what’s wrong and is willing to forgive us, why wouldn’t we approach Him this way?
But the problem in the Church is people are hyper fixated on sins of the flesh, such as sexually related sins, or sins related to drugs and alcohol or of theft and honesty toward each other. These are the sins covered by the last six commandments. But we absolutely ignore the first four and especially that of the first three with regard to how we treat and respect God Himself.
Have no other gods before me He says in the first. Basically, don’t cheat on me with other gods, don’t serve them. Love me first in front of everything and deny all other suitors.
The second says not to even make ANY GRAVEN IMAGE, of anything in heaven above or the earth beneath or the sea below. Does that about cover anything from the spiritual or physical world? He does not want us making any images, especially those used in our places of worship.
How on earth do we have crosses then? How do we images of angels and cherubim, of Jesus and Mary, of all the dead “Saints”? How is this possible when right there in the commandments, the second one no less, it is quite clear. DON’T EVEN MAKE ONE!!!
Why not? Because we cannot associate our invisible God with things made with man’s hands! We cannot lower him to this level. He is greater than anything from the physical world.
Look here at all the Biblical references I could find to idols and graven images where God spoke so vehemently against the practice. How can anyone not understand who has read the whole of the Bible that this is a serious issue of eternal importance?
But sadly, what calls itself the Christian Church is really a cesspool of demonic sun, genitalia and sex worship. It is LITERALLY MODERN PAGANISM and is why God cries out, “Come out of her my people and be not partaker of her sins!”
God’s judgment is coming on all of this and all mixtures of paganism in "Christianity" is being subject to this judgment. This is no joke.
No idolater has any part with God in eternal life. As stated at the onset, Revelation makes this clear twice.
So when I hear about people who die and have done a false "Christian" version of paganism their entire "Christian" lives and everyone just assuming that person is in heaven, my head shakes. How can this Bible be true when the so called follower of Christ did not even obey Him? All I can see is the person standing before God and getting railed on like Saul did for his defiance of God’s command toward him. And them crying, "Lord, Lord!" and Jesus responding, "Did I ever know you? Were you ever obedient? Why did you live a life of absolute and utter defiance? Why did you always do things your, and by default, Satan's way? Why did you cheat on me with devils?"
And sincerely, that's what it is: spiritual adultery. Literal fornication with devils. When you think of it that way you can understand why God is reticent to receive a person who practiced paganism their whole lives. If you were married and your spouse cheated in front of your face day in day out the entire marriage, would you want anything to do with him/her?
And that's why the pagan false "Christians" require a grace only, once saved always saved, gospel. Because they never stop sinning and just expect Jesus to overlook all this spiritual sex with demons.
But Jesus requires we show our love to Him by remaining loyal to His commandments. This is how we know we are right with Him, when we are sorry and repent for having done so and make a sincere effort to not do so again. If we do return to the breaking of a particular commandment, we repent AGAIN and make it right AGAIN.
This is no joke. As we've sited, there shall be many that say to Jesus, “Lord, Lord, but we have done many wonderful works in your name!” to whom He responds, “I never knew you, ye that work iniquity!”
This is a big deal. We can be sure that paganized false "Christians" weren’t without warning during their lives. People were sent who kept God’s Word who said, “Hey, this is what the Word says, don’t ignore this…” and the pagans just scoffed or blew the Word Believers off as quacks or cult members.
And as a bit of an aside, this is the MAJOR REASON why two cults, Seventh Day Adventist and Jehovah's Witnesses, have been created to abscond with these truths to in effect cause the remainder of the Church to continue these pagan practices. The pagan practitioners see that these two organizations both falsely predicted Jesus' return in the 1800's and aren't to be trusted. I believe now that the false predictions were done on purpose in order to alienate other Believers with regard to the truths about the Sabbath and paganism in the Church.
What's really at stake here is that this part of the Church that never learned true repentance, because they are unrepentant, whether they call on the name or Christ or not, they are blind. We must repent and put sin aside to have our eyes opened. The more we repent and make things right, the more clearly we see.
It’s like wearing glasses with mud all over them. Your blind at first but then as you repent, bit by bit, the mud gets wiped away. In the beginning, everything is still a little blurry but at least you can see something. As more of your sins are revealed and you repent for each one, more of that mud is wiped away more and more until, finally, the lenses are clear and you begin to see everything as it really is.
This is why when you feel led to tell someone in the paganized "Church" some truth, they often have trouble seeing it at all. Too much mud on their vision. If they can’t receive the first thing you tell them, there’s not much else you can expect to get them to see (unless God leads you).
This is why Jesus said of the Pharisees and Saducees, the false religious leaders of His day, to “let them alone, they be blind leaders of the blind, and if the blind lead the blind they shall both fall into a ditch.”
There’s only so much arguing that can be done because they refused to hear nor to seek God from the very books they hold up in their hands with great frequency.
But this also shows the evil of the epistles attributed to Paul and the false and contradictory to Jesus gospel those epistles promote. They tell you that adhering to the law is a fallacy and that it’s only by grace you are saved (Galatians). That there’s nothing you can do except to accept what Jesus did on the cross. That by faith only are ye saved “lest any man should boast.” While it’s true that we are only saved by the shedding of Jesus’ precious blood, the gospel of Jesus Christ clearly teaches that we are accountable to the commandments, to His Word, and the works of that is obedience to those commandments.
Not to men’s traditions, but to the Word of God.
Satan’s biggest trick was to teach men that once they're saved that they won’t be able to stop sinning or to make the right choices in life, that their flesh will always control them. But Jesus taught the woman caught in adultery to “Go and sin no more,” and said, “Be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
It possible for us to choose to be in agreement with God and His commandments.
Enoch did it. Noah, too. Abraham. Deborah. Samuel, Nathan, Daniel, Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Elijah, etc. and etc. They made the choice to serve God, even before the Holy Spirit began to make His abode in humanity.
David served God, made a huge mistake, and restored (not without consequences). We can do so as well.
Joshua declared, “Choose you this day who you will serve…” and it is a choice, a choice to deny sin, the pet sins, the flesh, the demonic entities who want to cause us to shame our walks, to shame God, to turn our backs on Him.
This is what we must do. And it starts with the simplicity of the Ten Commandments and the desire to love God with all our hearts, souls, minds and strength and our neighbors as ourselves. And in so doing, we will seek to line up our lives with those Ten Commandments, to start. This will take care of so many of the issues in our lives that are ancillary to the Ten.
We get rid of any other focus of worship than God. We destroy anything physical we associated with serving Him and get rid of it. We stop taking His name in vain and serve Him with reverential fear. We honor the Sabbath on the seventh day, resting and thinking on the things of God while we do. We honor and respect our parents. We don’t kill or hate or take vengeance. We don’t steal. We don’t lie. We don’t covet what’s not ours. We don’t commit adultery.
Unfortunately so many who call themselves Christians are breaking at least four of these commandments every day (or every week in regard to the Sabbath).
They don’t honor the Sabbath and if they do they honor the Sabbath for the sun they worship instead of God.
They have every kind of graven image you can imagine, but especially crosses, the instrument on which our Lord WAS MURDERED! A “memento mori” which means you must remember that death awaits. And most people don’t know the cross comes from and Egyptian ankh which represent the female genetlia being penetrated by the male. Do you see the blasphemy.
And that’s just the beginning. The little fish symbols people put on their cars is nothing more than a vesica pisces which also represents the female genetalia. And this is why the so called “Christian” Church is so feminized because it worships the “feminine divine.” It worships Astaroth or Ishtar and serves her. And it does so to retain its "spiritual" erection in fornication with the feminine demonic deity, to maintain its boner! This is why there are steeples which are nothing more than obelisks (the erect phallis of the sun god Ra) on their roofs going into crosses (the female genitalia). This represents the sex act and is literally pornography.
So my question to you is, do people who say they serve Christ in these places and with these representations of such utter blasphemy and defiance of God’s Word get into the everlasting kingdom? How? How can the Bible be true if they do??? I’m deadly serious about this question. How, how, how can the Bible be true if people who are in idolatry are saved???
The question remains: what if they’re ignorant of their idolatry? Will that get them off the hook? Not if the Book of Hosea is true. God says,
Do you see?! There is no getting off the hook for a people who have His Word in hand more so than at any other time in history and just plain ignore what it says, or gloss over it with a false gospel started by Marcion in the second century! This is such a big deal. This is life or death! Eternal life or death! This is no joke!!! We must get it right.
My question is what kind of people don’t search these matters out for themselves? Selfish and self-centered ones, narcissists, jezebels, the type of people who don’t care about anyone or anything but themselves.
And being in such a state, how can they be expected to get outside of themselves enough to wonder about God and what He wants? They could care less. Yes, they give Him lip service in a religious sense, but without obedience to Him their works are indeed as filthy rags.
I beg each and every one of us, including me, I beg of us to seek God in prayer and in the reading of His word, to pursue what ever wedges of sin may be in our lives, whatever breaking of God’s Word we may be holding onto, and to repent and let it go and to adopt obedience to Him.
We know we are His children by the longing we have to please Him that abides in us in all things. We know we do so when we keep His commandments. We even know that we love others when we keep His commandments. We must get the focus off of even helping others until we get the order right, that is we search out God’s Word and line up our lives with it through true repentance. Then and only then will our works for others turn into crowns rather than filthy rags.
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