In a previous series I pointed out that God refers to His Word (Gospel/Truth) as His LIGHT that brings LIFE to mankind. Recall that Jesus and His apostles were the “light of the world.” It was God’s Words living in and manifested by them that made them God’s light. As it is written, “In Him was life, and the light was life of men” (Jn. 1:4). Nothing has changed–His apostles continue to bear His light which brings life to those who embrace it, believe it and obey it, who enter His strait (difficult) gate and walk His narrow (restricted) way (Mat. 7:13,14) until the end of their lives (Mat. 10:22). This is the way of His light, His Truth (Jn. 17:17) which His people have inside them and manifest in their thoughts, words and deeds which project through their godly “walk” through this life (1 Jn. 2:6). Jesus said that, having counted the cost, only a few would choose this “walk” (life-style).

He said that all other professing disciples have chosen to enter Satan’s wide (easy) gate and walk his broad (come as you are–stay as you are, it’s all good) way. This is a general description of the various self-proclaimed “ways” (gospels, truths, faiths, etc.) of the hundreds of self-labeled “churches” that make up professing Christendom. Their self-designed gospels are, as the Apostle Paul wrote, merely perverted versions of the true Gospel that are provided by “other Jesuses” (2 Cor. 11:4) whose false prophets proclaim their respective false lights to false believers in their respective false churches. Jesus addressed the false light of these false disciples in Matthew 6:23, stating that Satan’s popular “light” is not merely darkness, but “great darkness” because his ministers put it forth as the Biblical God’s true light. Each group (denomination, faith, church, congregation, etc.) has its own Jesus who has his own light and his own prophets who spread his light. All within those groups ignorantly worship their particular Jesus while believing that they are worshiping the Son of God (Mat. 15:9). Believing that they are walking in God’s light, they do not know that they are living in Satan’s darkness. This is why Jesus calls their false light “great darkness.”

This ministry was designed by God to show those in Satan’s “great darkness” that they are indeed walking therein, and that God’s light is shining on them and showing them the strait gate and narrow way that leads out of that darkness and into His marvelous light as the Apostle Peter so beautifully states in his second letter to the church in which he writes: “You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people who show forth the praises of Him Who brought you out of darkness and into His marvelous light” (2:9). He goes on in verse 10 to say that only those who come out of Satan’s darkness and into God’s light will receive His grace. Read about Satan’s grace deception. Key word–Grace.

Sadly, Jesus noted that true light seekers would be few in number. I have written numerous newspaper articles and have broadcasted God’s Truth on the radio. Tens of thousands have heard and read my words. However, I have personally known only five people who have believed what I have shared with them from God’s Truth. But I am in good company. After all that Jesus did for the “great multitudes” who heard Him speak and watched Him perform miracles, only about 120 souls were with Him at the end of His life.

I take heart in the fact that I hear from people almost daily who tell me that they RECOGNIZE God’s Truth being put forth by this ministry. My prayer is that they are OBEYING that Truth–DOING WORKS of faith. Faith without works is dead (Jam. 2:10,14,17,18,20,24,26). James asks if faith alone can save the soul? The answer is, no. Faith must be accompanied by works of faith, meaning obedience to that upon which one’s faith is built–God’s Holy Word (vs 14/ Rom. 10:19). Now you know why Martin Luther called the Book of James a “straw book,” meaning that it is good only for starting fires. He was of the “all faith–no Law–no works–only believe” theological persuasion. When He led the “protesters” out of the Catholic Church it was not because they rejected Catholic theology, it was because of the personal sins of the priests. The homepage of this website presents a list of many of the mother church’s “truths” the so-called “Protestants” took with them when they supposedly “left” her. Protestantism is nothing more than Catholicism with a paint job. Both are abominations in the eyes of God, if, that is, we can take Him at His Word, which they say we cannot do. Except, of course, the “headlines.” The “fine print” is to be ignored.

Satan began infusing his false gospel (religious darkness) into the church shortly after her founding in 31 A.D. By the time Saul of Tarsus became the Apostle Paul the churches had already become infected with the religious darkness the devil’s ministers had been spreading. In Galatians 1:6-9 Paul warns the churches that he had founded in Galatia about the perverted gospel they were being taught. He knew that if the religious rot was not rooted out of those churches, their parishioners would become “anathema”–cursed, separated from God. Paul knew that sin separates man from God (Isa. 59:2). Being in “the church” does not affect this truth. Separated, darkness-loving church people call themselves “sinners saved by grace.” However, one cannot be cursed by God and saved by Him at the same time. This is the deadly error Jesus warned the Laodicean (modern day) church about in Revelation 3:14-20. In that passage He perfectly describes the Institutional Catholic/Protestant Religious System known today as “the church.” Notice that He “stands at the door (of that church system) and knocks.” He will not enter it. Those inside must come out. Only then He will enter into a relationship with them.

The church’s hirelings continue to preach Satan’s perverted, user-created, user-friendly gospel, man-dictated gospel. These men are described Biblically as “evil men, imposters, deceivers who are themselves deceived and who pervert the Scriptures.” The Scriptures they pervert are those which must be obeyed in order to receive salvation (2 Tim. 3:13-17). Their “doctrines of devils” (1 Tim. 4:1) are the foundation stones upon which the counterfeit church is built. The perversions they preach are designed to please men (Gal. 1:10), who in turn judge themselves by themselves (2 Cor. 10:12), who give Christ lip service while keeping their hearts far from Him (Mat. 15:8), who are condemned by God because they teach man’s way instead of His way, thereby making themselves and those who follow them “workers of iniquity,” meaning Lawless (Mat.7:22,23). Jesus said that He would reject such people on the Day of Judgment (Mat. 7:21-23) in spite of their super religiosity.

Satan’s Catholic/Protestant prophets teach that the Bible cannot be taken at face value. The claim that it is their job to INTERPRET God’s Word in order to separate truth from error. This in spirt of the fact that GOD FORBIDS THE INTERPRETATION OF HIS WORD (2 Pet. 1:20/ 1 Pet. 1:25). God’s Word interprets Itself for those who will search out His “fine print.” Few, Jesus said, would bother to do so. Neither will the “fine print” rejecters believe those who bother to do so.

It is for that reason that God commands honest Truth seekers to separate themselves from those living in darkness. He commands them to “come out” of that “unclean thing” (counterfeit church) and remain out. They are commanded not even to “touch” it. Then, and only then will He be one’s God and one will be His child (2 Cor. 6:14-7:1). Read the series on spiritual touching using that word as the key.

God COMMANDS His true salvation seekers to have nothing to do with the Institutional Church. HE TELLS US TO COME OUT OF THE FALSE LIGHT PROVIDER AND REMAIN OUT. Like the sow that is cleansed, we must not return to the mire. To change from darkness to light, light seekers must separate from darkness totally and permanently. Those within the Catholic/Protestant darkness called “the church” must see light from a distance, recognize it as light and go to it, leaving the darkness behind. We become our surroundings, which is why we must choose our companions and live our life’s “walk” wisely. This Truth is brought out in Ephesians 5:8 where it is noted that true saints were at one time not merely IN DARKNESS, THEY WERE DARKNESS. They had become what they thought, said and did (how they “walked”). Following true conversion, saints are not merely IN GOD’S LIGHT, THEY ARE HIS LIGHT. If we are not God’s light, we are not God’s people. “God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all” (1 Jn. 1:5). God’s saints must be on earth as He is in heaven. This Truth is brought out in First Peter 1:15,16 where we are commanded to be as holy AS the One Who called us is holy, and to be holy BECAUSE He is holy.

False prophets in the darkness-producing church will tell you that personal holiness is impossible due to Adam’s sin-transferal miracle. Question: Why, then, did the Lord command us to “be YE holy.” And why did He say through Paul that the END (telos–end result) of OUR holiness and righteousness will be eternal life (Rom. 5:21; 6:22)? Why do we need Holy Spirit power if Jesus has already earned our righteousness and holiness FOR US–IN OUR STEAD? Come, let us reason together (with God). Let us believe Him and not man. Jesus did not die in order to be holy and righteous for us. He died so that we could receive Holy Spirit power to BE holy and righteous–the result of obeying God’s Word. The man Jesus of Nazareth was holy and righteous ONLY BECAUSE HE USED THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO RESIST SATAN’S TEMPTATIONS TO DISOBEY GOD. He made this clear in Revelation 3:21 where He said that only those who OVERCOME SATAN’S TEMPTATIONS TO SIN AS HE DID will sit with Him on His throne in the Kingdom of God. WE ARE COMMANDED TO OVERCOME SATAN. Few, He said, would do so. Let us be among the few, the holy, the righteous who overcome Satan’s “fiery darts” of temptation (Eph. 6:16). Let us one day sit with Him on His throne, and with Him, rule the universe. Read God’s Very Elect: Future Caretakers of the Universe. Key word–Caretakers. L.J.