The Process

The violence which assails good men to test them, to cleanse and purify them, effects in the wicked their condemnation, ruin, and annihilation. Augustine

Exposing Lies

There is a movement in the traditional church away from believing in miracles and evil. The people who are headed in that direction, have begun to preach another gospel.

Evil is being taught as an "old lie", and people are being taught that all they need to do is to submit to Psychological Counseling to give them the help they need in life.

Their counseling of course does not include the God of the bible. They teach all that is needed is a positive mental attitude. These people are full of lies. They have spread their ilk throughout most of the institutions of this world.

Miracles are a particular problem to those who hold to the gospel of Psychology. They are not very comfortable with anything that they cannot control.

God's Word will stand forever. Psychological theories are not Truth. They will fall. Only Truth is everlasting. True things change, and lies will be exposed.

Giving

There was a false teaching being propagated a few years back on giving. The teaching was that when you give to God you put a "demand" on Him to answer. The teaching also said one should tell God what He should give to you, for your giving.

This teaching is errant.

Our giving is not done, to give us right to demand anything from God. Giving is worship. Giving that is not worship is not biblical.

The whole philosophy behind this "demand on God doctrine", is the spirit of entitlement. The prosperity movement has done the church a great disservice in causing them to feel that they are entitled to special favors from God. God is good, and more, He is holy. He will not be manipulated by our demands of Him. Now, I do agree that He responds to faith. Faith is not a demanding thing. It is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. The Word teaches, He loves cheerful giving. Manipulative giving is witchcraft.

A better way to look at giving and its reward, is that our giving puts a call upon His Goodness. Selah

A balance to the "demand on God teaching", would be a teaching on both the goodness and the severity of God. He is Lord.

Great Error

Many Christian counselors see no problem spouting psychological theories that deny the truth of the bible.

This is great error.

As a biblical Christian I believe, any discipline, doctrine, or study must be able to rest on the truth of the bible, or it is a false doctrine. True studies will rest on the truth of the bible. I hold the Word of God as the rule of life and living.

This nation has elevated Psychology and other disciplines based on theories, above the Truth of the bible. This nation is collapsing upon itself do to the embracing of Psychological, Philosophical, and religious lies.

I believe any counseling should be done by sharing God’s truth, and not by sharing humanistic theory.

I could go on and teach on this, but that would only be on demand.

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What Gospel? What God?

Many men on the Internet teach and preach their particular slant to the Gospel. Some are oneness Pentecostals and they believe that there is one God/Jesus and men must be baptized in that name.

Of course the original name of Jesus, was really Jesuha, and in the Greek it was Iousua. Yet these men are convinced that any one baptized in the Name of “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”, are not baptized correctly. Some of them say all those who are so baptized, are going to hell.

Then there is the Name controversy. By some in the messianic Jew movement, there is a belief that all who are “saved” by any other name then “Yeshua Hamashea”, are not “saved”. For them Jesus won’t do.

This is all pretty short sighted. No doubt they who hold to these doctrines are sincere. Yet to me they seem to strain at the gnat, and swallow the camel.

I do believe Jesuha and Jesus are the same person/son of God/Father. I do believe there is a Father, a Son and a Holy Spirit, and that they make up the Godhead. I do believe they are “One God’. One in character, purpose, and will.

Beyond that I believe much of what is being said on the internet by these preachers are missing the real point which is the manifest kingdom of God, and its ruler, king Jesus. I do not believe that the Father is standing in heaven with a desire to send off to hell, all those that are baptized wrong.

It is my opinion that men are prone to be religious judges of others, and although they sincerely believe their doctrines are the saving truth, probably they are misjudging the intent of the word, and are not getting what Jah, Jesus, Yeshua, Father, Son and Spirit are saying to us.

“The Way” may be “narrow”, but He is not religious. Our works do not save. Good doctrine is beneficial, but even it is worthless, without the blood of Jesus and the Word of our testimony.

Truth will set you free. Grace must be the key element in all our teaching. The Kingdom Gospel, the one Jesus and John preached are the only one I am interested in.

Father we pray for they who have been captivated by foolish doctrines. We ask they be set free.

Mar 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.
Hbr 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

And once again:

"So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority." Colossians 2:6-10