The Doctrine of Christ and False Teachers

The doctrine of Christ never allows for false teachers. Does your's?

If you sit in judgment upon the Word of the King of kings and Lord of lords  and divide it into what you deem important and non-important; essential and non-essential, then by definition, you allow for false teachers and  false doctrine.

2Co 11:4  For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.

1Co 5:6  Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
1Co 5:7  Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Gal 5:7  You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 

Gal 5:8  This persuasion is not from him who calls you. 

Gal 5:9  A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 

Mat 16:6  Jesus said to them, "Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Mat 16:11  How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Mar 8:15  And he cautioned them, saying, "Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

Eph 4:17  Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 

Eph 4:18  They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 

Eph 4:19  They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 

Eph 4:20  But that is not the way you learned Christ!—

Gal 5:7  You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 

Gal 5:8  This persuasion is not from him who calls you. 

Gal 5:9  A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 

Hypocrisy: no call for removing homosexual flag

In a manifesto faxed to ABC News,  Flanagan, an Obama-supporter, claimed that his motive involved a “race war.” Flanagan was black and gay and apparently angered by the fact that he had been a victim of racism and homophobia at the hands of “black men and white women.”

Both of Flanagan’s intended victims were straight.

The gay pride rainbow flag reportedly found in Flanagan’s apartment is seen by many as a symbol of anti-Christian hate.

After a white racist terrorist in South Carolina murdered nine innocent black churchgoers, photos of the racist with the Confederate Flag resulted in a media frenzy to ban the flag.

Like the Confederate flag, the provocative gay pride flag, a symbol of religious oppression, has flown on government property.

~Breitbart

Mild-Manner Apologists

We have too many mild-mannered apologists lecturing in pulpits today. The need of this hour is for red-hot proclaimers of God and His saving grace, not for mere philosophical explainers.

~Steve Lawson in his book on George Whitefield

Who Are Your Friends?

"I am a companion of all that fear Thee, and of them that keep Thy precepts" (Psalm 119:63).

"A person is not only known by the company he or she keeps, but is molded thereby: "He that walketh with wise men, shall be wise; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed" (Proverbs 13:20). Seek as your friends, dear reader, those who are most Christ-like in their character and conversation....A godly companion is an invaluable aid to the preserving of spirituality."

~ Arthur Pink, "The Life of David - Chapter 42"

Jas 4:4  You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 

1Co 15:33  Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals." 

2Co 6:14  Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 

2Co 6:15  What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 

Jer 15:17  I did not sit in the company of revelers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because your hand was upon me, for you had filled me with indignation. 

Psa 26:4  I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites. 5  I hate the assembly

of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.

Piper Prays For A Better, More Righteous Planned Parenthood

Piper showed up in protest outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Minnesota, it was reported.

He seems to have lost his mind. He's not interested in praying for the destruction of PP at all it seems, only that it be a nicer, gentler, less bloody organization. Nevermind that it is demonic, murderous, and feminist as well as immoral (and it's found was a racist too). But then he prayed for a more righteous pope too, instead of against the RCC and the blasphemous pope.

"We want to pray for Planned Parenthood that they might live to righteousness," prayed Piper, who served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for 33 years.

"We wanna ask that according to their title that is on their wall, Planned Parenthood, that they would bring about nurturing parents rather than helping parents stop being parents by killing their children," Piper said before a crowd of about 6,000 people, according to the desiringGod ministry.

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~The "Christian" Post

Pastors

If some men were sentenced to hear their own sermons it would be a righteous judgement upon them.

- Spurgeon

Encouragement

Doubt not his grace, because of thy tribulation, but believe that he loveth thee as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness. 

~Spurgeon

Evolution Is A Religion: just read what Darwin himself said

While browsing through the stacks at the local library, I came across Science Matters, a book by two evolutionary naturalists.1

Chapter 17 is entitled, "Evolution" and the following is found on page 243: 
If you are a Creationist, the Bible — not nature — dictates what you believe. Creationists subordinate observational evidence to doctrine based on their interpretation of sacred texts. The tenets of biblical Creationism are not testable, nor are they subject to dramatic change based on new data. In other words, Creationism is a form of religion.

Let's rearrange a few words that would make this paragraph much closer to the truth:

If you are an evolutionist, Darwin — not nature — dictates what you believe. Evolutionists subordinate observational evidence to doctrine based on their interpretation of On the Origin of Species. The tenets of evolutionary naturalism are not testable, nor are they subject to dramatic change based on new data. In other words, Evolutionism is a form of religion.

To those who would protest (too much!) the above restructuring, I would defer them to an introduction a British biologist wrote for Darwin's infamous book.....

~ ICR
Go here for the rest of the article and the direct quote from Darwin himself.

Intolerance of Error

"Staunch intolerance of error is built into the very fabric of Scripture." 

~ John MacArthur

The Blasphemy of Old-Age, Death-Before-The-Fall Doctrine

So why are so many "educated" and "sola Scriptura" "Christians NOT passionate about the character and unique authority as Creator? Indeed, to deny the Genesis account of Creation in any way, no matter how "small" it seems, is to blaspheme God. As Henry Morris III says:

“And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” (Mark 12:33)

"God has a rather “passionate” view about His character and His unique authority in the universe: “I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. . . . For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else” (Isaiah 45:5-6, 18).

It is nothing short of blasphemy to profess that the omniscient and omnipotent God of love and grace would have effected His creation through the horrific, purposeless, waste-filled, and age-long death of billions of living things prior to the rebellion of Adam (Romans 5:12). The naturalistic and evolutionary scheme of atheistic man is contradictory to God’s Word and His revealed character. We are to be committed to what God has said—whether the majority is passionately against it or not. "

~ by Henry M. Morris III, D.Min., Days of Praise, Aug. 17, 2015

Don't Sip From Babylon's Golden Goblet: compromise is sinful

"The woman wore purple and scarlet clothing and beautiful jewelry made of gold and precious gems and pearls. She held in her hand a golden goblet full of obscenities and the impurities of her immorality." Revelation 17:4

Beware of the whore of Babylon's golden goblet, and her sweet wine! Be like the virgin spouse of Christ--who follows Him wherever He goes.

Beware of false teachers! The devil has his ministers--as well as Christ! "Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves!" Matthew 7:15. Yes, they are ferocious wolves--they never have enough! "They are dogs with mighty appetites; they never have enough. They are shepherds who turn to their own way, each seeks his own gain!" Isaiah 56:11

Oh! false teachers do not feed the flock--but fleece the flock!

They do not convert--but pervert!
They do not purify--but poison!
They do not edify for salvation--but destroy for damnation!
Instead of curing souls--they kill souls! 

Just so long as they pilfer the people's money--they care not, though the devil has their souls!

They are dogs and wolves combining together to massacre the flock of Christ! Oh! therefore keep yourselves fromBabylon's merchants, who make merchandise of the souls of men, Revelation 18:13.

Oh! the sins of teachers--are the teachers of sins!

Now, beloved, let . . .
  your hearts be upright,
  your judgments sound,
  and your lives holy! 

Love the truth, and 
obey the truth, and 
hold fast the truth! 

Keep yourselves . . .
  from false teachers,
  from false doctrines,
  from false worship,
  from false opinions!

If you will be tasting and sipping of Babylon's golden goblet--you must resolve to receive Babylon's plagues!

(William Dyer, "The Strait Way to Heaven")

The Fascism of Academia

George Orwell said, "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them." If one wants to discover the truth of Orwell's statement, he need only step upon most college campuses.

Faculty leaders of the University of California consider certain statements racism and feel they should not be used in class. They call it micro-aggression. To them, micro-aggressive racist statements are: "America is the land of opportunity....."

From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and confiscation. Free speech is a basic tool for indoctrination, propagandizing, proselytization. Once the leftists gain control, as they have at many universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed. This is increasingly the case on university campuses....

Oberlin College proposed that its teachers be aware of politically controversial topics such as "racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, ableism, capitalism and other issues of privilege and oppression." The presumption that students must be protected rather than challenged in a classroom is at once infantilizing and anti-intellectual....

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~Dr. Walter Williams, "Academic Fascism"

Dr. Walter Williams gives examples from UCLA, to Azusa Pacific, to Harvard. Well worth reading.

SBC Embraces A Gospel-less, Christless, Repentantless Experience and Call It Salvation

As Jeff Maples of Psalm 21 Outreach reports:

David Uth, megachurch pastor of First Baptist Church, Orlando, interviewed Rifqa Bary, author of Hiding in the Light, during his speech at the Southern Baptist Convention earlier today. Bary is an ex-muslim who claims she came to Christ through an experiential event of a “presence” she had as a child in a garden, who she later found out to be Jesus when she felt the same “presence” in a church later in life....

The earliest memory I have of Jesus, and I didn’t realize it was Jesus meeting me, was when I was about 12 years old–2 years old, and I was playing in the garden, and I felt this strong presence, and I would keep turning back, as a little girl, and that memory was imprinted into my spirit. I remember feeling so safe and loved and cherished, and I kept looking back, but I just knew that someone was there, and it was so big, and that day that I went into the church building, I knew without a doubt that it was the same presence I had felt in the garden as a child and things were okay.

All during this interview, David Uth is praising her, and affirming her experiential events that led her to Christ, devoid of Scripture and the Gospel. 

End quote.

He hawked her book which was for sale and signing after the service. It is published by SBC's Lifeway publisher.

This is similar to other "conversion" stories by "ex-Muslims" although usually it's via a dream. Still, their "Jesus" does not identify Himself to them, nor does he tell them of their sinful state and that He alone, the Jesus of Scripture, God the Son who took on flesh and was born to a virgin Jewish woman and rose again on the third day according to Scripture, is the only One who can save by His finished work on the Cross. No, they walk away from such a visitor feeling good about themselves, not bad, not convicted of sin, not with a true godly sorrow. They don't even know who visited them; sometimes some of them assume it's Jesus, but I know other times this man never identifies himself. Their "Jesus" is one that everyone can hug and celebrate and not die for. Plus, Jesus does have a presence with Christ-haters that makes them feel warm and fuzzy and valuable and loved. In fact, Scripture states that all the ungodly, all the unbelievers remain under HIS wrath unless they get saved. This was an UNHOLY spirit that has visited this woman. This is not of God at all.

Genesis and the Gospel

There is a direct link between Genesis and the Gospel.

At the first stop, we learn that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”1 But what is sin? It means breaking God’s holy law. God gave the first law to Adam and Eve in the Garden, saying, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat.”2

The second stop on the Romans Road says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”3 Death refers to separation, including body from soul or a person from God. Of course, Genesis 3 records the origin of death. When the real Adam and Eve disobeyed God, His justice demanded the death penalty. According to evolutionary history, man did not descend from Adam and Eve but evolved from animal ancestors that had been living and dying for billions of years. Those who believe this man-made version of history see no Adam in their past, so they struggle to understand the last Adam, Jesus.

Now for some good news....

~Brian Thomas, ICR "Does Genesis Matter to the Gospel?" Read the whole article at the link.

Gen. 1-11 is essential doctrine to all of Scripture. Heb. 11:1-3 also reiterate this. As Creator God creates a new heart/new man. As Creator He is also Judge, Owner, Savior, and Sustainer.

Jimmy Carter Trifles With The Living God

“I believe he would. I believe Jesus would. I don’t have any verse in scripture…” Carter responded when asked by HuffPo Live host Mark Lamont Hill whether Christ would embrace same-sex nuptials. “I believe that Jesus would approve of gay marriage, but I’m not – that’s just my own personal belief.”

The one-term Democratic president also said that he believes Jesus “would encourage … any love affair that was honest and sincere.”

~Jimmy Carter as reported in The Blaze , July 7, 2015

He also has blamed Christians and Catholics for abuse of women:  

Appearing on Monday's Morning Joe, the former president said: "with the writing of St. Paul, you can selectively take verses out of the Bible and you can justify women not being able to be priests and so forth, so the Catholic church and the Southern Baptist Convention and others quite often say well women are not qualified to have an equal role in the service of God as men. And of course men all over the world take this as kind of a proof that they can abuse their wives or pay less pay, you know?" 

~News Busters

Huffington Reported:

Jimmy Carter offered an open letter explaining why he is divorcing himself from the Southern Baptist Convention after six decades as a deacon and Sunday School teacher. Basically, the SBC continues to legislate gender inequity from the top-down, cherry picking select verses to serve a desired patriarchal end, to which Carter responds:

"It was, however, an unavoidable decision when the convention's leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be "subservient" to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains in the military service."

~Huffington Post

He now has cancer which has spread through to other parts of his body.

This is God's judgment upon such a blasphemer.

God has spoken on the issue of women's roles:

1Pe 3:5 For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands...

Col 3:18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Eph 5:22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

1Tim. 2: 11 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 1Tim2: 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15 But women  will be saved  through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

1Cor. 14: 33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace. As in all the congregations of the saints, 34 women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. 35 If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church. 36 Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached? 37 If anybody thinks he is a prophet or spiritually gifted, let him acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord’s command. 38 If he ignores this, he himself will be ignored.

Carter's continued attack on Scripture and the Author of Scripture, especially as a long-standing deacon in the SBC earns him God's punishment. You do NOT trifle with the Living God. You do not mock Him or His Word, nor do you teach people to do the same.

Heb 10:29  How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? 30  For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people." 31  It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 

Do You Meditate Upon The Wrath of God?

"Our readiness or our reluctance to meditate upon the wrath of God becomes a sure test of how our hearts really are affected toward Him. If we do not truly rejoice in God, for what He is in Himself, and that because of all the perfections which are eternally resident in Him, then how dwelleth the love of God in us?

Each of us needs to be most prayerfully on guard against devising an image of God in our thoughts which is patterned after our own evil inclinations. Of old, the Lord complained, "Thou thoughtest that I was altogether . . . as thyself" (Ps. 50:21), If we rejoice not "at the remembrance of his holiness" (Ps. 97:12), if we rejoice not to know that in a soon coming day God will make a glorious display of His wrath, by taking vengeance on all who now oppose Him, it is proof positive that our hearts are not in subjection to Him; that we are yet in our sins."

~ Arthur Pink, "The Wrath of God"

Identification

The believer identifies with God's judgment upon the wicked and insolent. He also whole-heartedly loves and seeks to obey God's rules, commandments, precepts, and law. Moreover he identifies with those who obey the Word. 

Today, "Christians" have it the complete opposite: they identify with the wicked--those who disobey the Word, by claiming "love" and "grace" by way of the appeal to "who's perfect?". They excuse such sin or in false humility, they identify with sin too, even parade it around as if they are being humble.This is wholesale rebellion against God. If we are a new creation, a new man in Christ, as Scripture states for true Christians, then our thinking and identity is Christ Jesus the Master and King, His Word, and His people.

Psa 119:53 Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law.

Psa 119:21 You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments.

Psa 119:113 Samekh. I hate the double-minded, but I love your law.

Psa 119:115 Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

Psa 119:118  You spurn all who go astray from your statutes, for their cunning is in vain. 

Psa 119:119  All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross, therefore I love your testimonies. 

Psa 119:120  My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments. 

Psa 139:19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!
Psa 139:20 They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain.
Psa 139:21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
Psa 139:22 I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.

Psa 119:63 I am a companion of all who fear you, of those who keep your precepts.

Psa 26:4 I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites.
Psa 26:5 I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked. 
Psa 26:6 I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O LORD,

2Co 5:16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 
2Co 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Gal 6:14 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 
Gal 6:15 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. 
Gal 6:16 And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

Sermons

Christ must be in every sermon and He must be top and bottom, too, of all the theology that is preached.

- Spurgeon

Ministers

A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.

 - Spurgeon

I would say the reverse is also true: the unholy, illegitimate minister is a weapon of Satan in the pulpit.

Revival

"If the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.

- Spurgeon

Rom 1:15 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Rom 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith." Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.