IF ONE IS NOT IN “THE CHURCH” ONE IS NOT A CHRISTIAN: Fear is one of Satan’s most powerful weapons by which he keeps the church under his control. I show people in their own Bibles where God says that most of what they believe is either partially or totally a lie straight from the mind of Satan. Needless to say, I am not popular within “the church” community. The so-called “churches” within professing Christianity have many different versions of “the truth.” However, they all have one “truth” in common–REJECTION OF GOD’S WORD. Satan’s deception is kept alive by ONE powerful factor found among all church people. That factor is FEAR. I have had people, including a local pastor, agree that I am right. However, fear of rejection (plus a pay check) keeps them from obeying God and leading others to follow them. Jesus made it clear that if a believer chooses family members, etc. over Him, they cannot be His people (Mat. 10:34-39). He set the perfect example by rejecting His own mother, brothers and sisters who “did not believe in Him” (Jn. 7:5). Read Who Are My Brethren? key word–Brethren.

In Revelation 21;8 Jesus places the fearful in the same category as murderers, whoremongers and idolaters, each of whom, He warns, will burn in the Lake of Fire. Super religious people punished the prophets, some of whom they killed. Religious giants had Jesus and His apostles martyred. All died for the same reason–SPEAKING GOD’S WORD. Though civil law limits the extent to which the modern-day church can unleash her wrath on those who have the spiritual spine to proclaim God’s Truth, those minutely few who do so must “count the cost” of doing so: “We must, through much tribulation enter the Kingdom of God” (not heaven). “All who will live righteously in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution” for “the Word’s sake” (Acts 14:22/2 Tim. 3:12/Mk. 4:17).

As was the case anciently, persecution “for the Lord’s sake” comes from the most religious among us. God’s Truth/Gospel is “hidden from those whose minds Satan has blinded so that they believe not the glorious Gospel of Christ” (2 Cor. 4:3,4). God stated that He “looks to the man who trembles at My Word” (Isa. 66:1). Rather than tremble at God’s Word, the church rejects it and is embarrassed by it. Paul calls these people out, saying: “I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God UNTO (which leads to) salvation … for therein is revealed the righteousness of God. For the wrath of God is against all who hold (possess) the Truth (Gospel) in unrighteousness (disobedience)” (Rom. 1:15-19). We are warned that he who does not believe God’s Word “does not have His Word abiding in him” (Jn.5:38), has “cast the Truth to the ground” (Dan. 8:9-12 and “has neither God nor Christ” (2 Jn. 9-11). Notice that believing and obeying CHURCH DOCTRINE saves no one and angers the Lord. Through His apostles, the Almighty says that anyone who possess His Word and rejects any part of it has “erred from the Truth” (Jam. 5:19) and is like “a dog that returns to its vomit and a sow that returns to her mire” (2 Pet. 2:20-22) after being healed/cleansed. Read Hebrews 10:26,27. Notice that one who has received God’s Truth then rejected it has become Gods ADVERSARY (ENEMY).

One of Satan’s greatest achievements was to convince salvation-seeking man that when God did away with (nailed to the cross) His sacrificial law He also did away with the Ten Commandments. The Truth of the matter is that initially the Ten Commandments stood alone as God’s requirement for Israel to be His people and for Him to be their God (Exo. 19:3-8). It is written in Deuteronomy 5:22 that when He finished speaking the Ten Commandments to Israel He “added no more” to it. The Ten Commandment Law was complete; nothing else was needed IF ISRAEL OBEYED IT. Which they refused to do. Therefore He punished them by forcing them obey 00“THE LAW THAT WAS ADDED TO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE OF THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS” (Gal. 3:19)–sins–the breaking of His Law (1 Jn. 3:4). The added law was hand-written by Moses and was not placed inside the Ark of the Testimony which contained the stone tablets on which God had written His Ten Commandments. The added law was inflicted on the Israelites so as to keep their minds on Him until He would come to earth as Jesus of Nazareth. The sacrificial law was “against them” (Col. 2:14), was a “yoke of bondage” (Gal. 5:1) and was “a curse” upon them (Gal. 3:13). Read The God of the Old Testament and Jesus of Nazareth: God, Man or God-man? key words, Old and God-man respectively. There you will learn that the God of the Old Testament and the God who spoke and wrote the Ten Commandments were one and the same. We must understand the difference between the two laws, otherwise, by rejecting the Ten Commandments we will be guilty of iniquity (lawlessness).

By rejecting God’s Law man has embraced INIQUITY which God condemns (Mat. 7:23;23:28). The Law was “magnified and honored” by the man Jesus (Isa. 42:21). The Apostle Paul called it “good, just and holy” (Rom. 7:12). The Ten Commandment Law will exist as long as heaven and earth exist (Mat. 5:17,18) because it is written on the hearts of His true saints (Jer. 31:31/Heb. 8:8-12). In that sin is the breaking of the Law, and righteousness is the opposite of sin, then obeying the Law makes one righteous. We know this because “righteousness is found in the Law” (Rom. 2:13); “The Law is righteousness” (Ps. 119:172) and “only the righteous will be saved (1 Pet. 4:18). God said that man remains justified (free of sin) by obeying the Law, that man is sanctified and begotten by the TRUTH which is found in the LAW (Rom. 2:13/Jn. 17:19/Jam. 1:18/Rom. 2:20).

WORKS ARE LEGALISTIC AND CONDEMNED BY GOD: The Apostle Paul tells us that we must live by faith, which is believing the Word of God (Rom. 10:17). The consensus among churchites is that faith alone saves the soul as soon as faith is manifested. However, God, through the Apostle James, tells us that faith alone cannot save the soul (Jam. 2:14). Faith without obedience to God’s Law is dead faith. In that we live by our faith, dead faith=a (spiritually) dead believer. Such are “hearers of the WORD but not DOERS of it who deceive themselves (Jam. 1:22). In the spiritual realm, faith and works are mutually dependent–without one, the other is dead. Read James 2:10,14,16,17,18,20,24,26. We prove our faith by our works (obedience to God’s Word)–Jam. 1:22-25;2:17-20. Contrary to church-wide opinion, God did not lie about His Law. L.J.

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