Be Separate from the World Says the Lord
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
2Co 6:17 Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
2Co 6:18 And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
As we’ve seen in our other writings, most of America’s “Christians” live by an evil system that is by its nature an offense to God. Taking advantage of the poor is called “good stewardship”. The fatherless are left to fend for them selves for the most part. Widows and mothers with children whose husbands have left them are demonized if they seek help from the government.
The wealthiest corporations are given every economic advantage and the middle-class, or what is left of it, is being mercilessly squeezed out of existence until there are only the rich and the poor. Wars are endlessly fought leading to millions of innocent deaths and massive profits for the same wealthy, based on lies. Privatization and deregulation have led to obscene profits and business practices that anyone with a conscience should be ashamed of. Worse yet, very soon these actions will lead to terrible hardship for all but the wealthiest.
The Churches have conformed to the American way of doing business and their success is now based on numbers, similar to corporate balance sheets. Still, most in the “Church” don’t grasp that they are faraway from Christ and in grave danger of being shut out of the Kingdom forever!
Most in the Church say “God bless America” as if there is some reason why He should? Most in the Church say “God bless our troops”, as if God would want them to be successful in killing innocent civilians whose only crime is living on top of land with large amounts of oil or natural gas. Most in the Church say “God bless Israel” as they continue to criminalize preaching the Gospel to its own citizens and commit the most heinous crimes against the Palestinian people.
Most in the Church will not listen to what we are saying; just dismiss us as fringe elements. They’ll go to their Churches on Sunday and get a pep-talk from their financial advisor, masquerading as their Pastor, about how God wants them to be rich.
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
We, as believers and Disciples of Christ should know that riches are a hindrance to our relationship with God, not a blessing, but spurred on by apostate leaders in the Church, who excite the lusts of the flesh within them, many “Christians” are seeking material gain and not Spiritual:
Jas 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
Jas 4:4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
Jas 4:5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
As the “Christian” gets farther and farther from the True Gospel, and closer and closer to conforming to the world, he/she hears the voice of the world and it shuts out the Word of God, unless it can be twisted into supporting the lusts of the flesh. The “Christian” starts to believe things like: We should be rich and we need to store up wealth here on earth, war is acceptable and God is on our side as we democratize and “Christianize” the world for Christ, we need to form political groups so we can get laws passed to “Christianize” America, We need bigger Churches and wealthier ministries to prove how blessed we are…
Slowly, over time, following the lusts of the flesh and not the Holy Spirit, being lovers of themselves and not the truth most “Christians” are serving Mammon and not God. They don’t want to hear that we are to forsake the lusts of the flesh and pick up our crosses and follow Jesus, no; they want to hear endless promises of prosperity and that before things get too bad here on earth they’ll be raptured away. In short, the time has come when most “Christians” will not endure sound teaching; they can no longer hear the leading of Christ. As a result when we are called to come out of this evil system and be with our Lord and Savior forever they won’t hear it:
Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Instead they’ll be the ones spoken of by Christ in the following warning:
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Praise our Heavenly Father and His only Begotten Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for it’s not too late! Repent from serving the world and not the Lord and listen to and live by His Commandments on how to live:
Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Mat 6:21 for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.
Mat 6:22 The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Mat 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness!
Mat 6:24 No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Mat 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?
Mat 6:26 Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value then they?
Mat 6:27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?
Mat 6:28 And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Mat 6:29 yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Mat 6:30 But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Mat 6:31 Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mat 6:32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Mat 6:34 Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Amen! Read the entire Sermon on the Mount, Mat chapter 5-7, read it again and again, for in it Jesus lays out how we are to live, yesterday, today and forever! And if we follow it we’ll not be conformed to this world. Think on it when so called Christian leaders are trying to twist its simple and beautiful meaning into something that serves the lusts of the flesh, and in refusing to go along with them know that you are doing the Will of God, you are storing up treasures in Heaven, The Lord Almighty will be a Father to you, and receive you as His sons and daughters!
God bless you and yours,
disciple
http://www.perverted-christianity.com
disciple@perverted-christianity.com
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
God Bless America?
The United States calls itself a democratic republic and a capitalist economy and is so proud of its “free-market” system it attempts to export it the world over by any means it has at its disposal, including military. The American ruling classes are quick to praise its “free and fair elections”, its freedom and liberty and equality for all, but, are these statements true? Have they ever been true?
Much of the ruling classes and their mouthpieces in the political, educational and religious establishments tout America as God’s great gift to mankind and the envy of the world. It was supposedly founded as a Christian nation, it promises liberty and justice to all its citizens. All of its foreign policy aims are altruistic, for other’s good, not the good of the few who make the policy. Freedom of the press and the three separate but equal branches of Government will ensure that the Constitution is defended and followed to the letter, and that the country will remain “of the people, by the people, and for the people” forever.
Or so we are supposed to believe. So its citizens are taught from birth to death – few question it.
The reality is none of these claims are true, fiction, in short: fairy tales!
From the beginning the ruling class paid lip-service to freedom and equality for all, but in reality the laws were designed to benefit the “Rich Men”. Voting rights were only given to land owners, the rest of the people were little better than slaves. Over time civil rights were demanded and given and taken back in accordance with the whims of the ruling class and the struggle for them by the working class.
Now, in theory, all have the right to vote but it’s still denied to many through various nefarious means such as limiting voting times and equipment depending on the racial make up of the district, switching voting sites, and improperly removing eligible voters based on their likely voting patterns and legal and illegal technicalities. Whole books could and have been devoted to the issue of depriving people of their right to vote, suffice it to say here that it is done often and usually with immunity and because of this to say America has free and fair elections is ludicrous!
Currently in the United States, using a combination of brain-washing from birth, public education and control of the news services by the “Rich Men” of the earth most Americans have been duped and don’t realize that it’s all a show put on to deceive them into being compliant corporate slaves/citizens.
The young are manipulated by the lies they hear from the public education system and the news media, and worst of all their own family members into volunteering to fight America’s Wars of Empire, for freedom and liberty they’re told, when in fact most of us have neither and never will. As for the targets of the “wars for Democracy, Freedom, or Liberty” their rights are always a cover story to the theft of their country’s natural wealth and sovereignty.
The truth is America has been under the control of the “Rich Men” that oppress the rest of us from its inception. (James 2:6)
There has been an ongoing battle for the wealth of the country from the beginning. At times the middle class or the largest part of the country has fared better than at other times. In these last days, the middle class are being squeezed out of existence, by design, by the “rich men” that really control the direction and the laws of this country. Aided and abetted by corrupt politicians the laws are skewed to protect their riches, enlarge them, and give them virtually everything they want at the expense of the working class, or majority of the population.
Little by little, the benefits that all should have: decent wages, housing, education and healthcare are becoming privileges that fewer and fewer have. The wealth of the nation is becoming evermore concentrated at the top. By design the decent paying jobs are shipped overseas, replaced with low paying service jobs with little or no benefits. By design the vast majority of the country is forced into debt to keep up with expenses, to maintain a decent standard of living. Credit cards or refinancing their houses (or both) to take advantage of over inflated real estate values was the only way most could come up with the money to stay afloat in the last ten years.
Now the “Rich Men” have decided that it’s time to shrink the money supply, no more easy credit, and millions are at the end of their ropes. The economy won’t grow, home values are falling, and prices are rising, the job market is still shrinking and most have no where to go but down. Many owe more for their houses than they are worth; they don’t make enough to pay their bills and they have no where to turn for help. A large portion of these people will lose their houses. By design you get people over extended and in financial trouble, force them into bad loans, then move to tighten the money supply and as they lose their jobs, get hopelessly in debt, the “Rich Men” are in perfect position to move in and buy everything up for a fraction of what it’s worth.
Again, this is all accomplished with the cooperation of corrupt politicians, comparable to the “Publicans” spoken of in the Bible. And it isn’t the first time it’s happened, but, since the Great Depression of the 30’s it hasn’t happened on such a large scale as the catastrophe that is right around the corner for America and the world.
How could anyone be so cruel as to do this to millions of people on purpose? Don’t they realize the pain they are going to cause? Don’t they realize this will destroy hundreds of thousands of families and lead to death from hunger, diseases untreated, rising crime and suicides from the incredible despair they are causing … By Design?! In the past it was called rigging the scales to cheat people, nowadays it’s a lot more complex, but the outcome is the same, the rich steal from the poor and because they have the “law” bought and paid for it’s legal and they will get away with it … in this world! No wonder the Lord and His Prophets are so harsh toward the rich:
Mat 19:23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Luk 1:53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Luk 6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
Jas 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Let’s close by summarizing the lies:
Much of the ruling classes and their mouthpieces in the political, educational and religious establishments tout America as God’s great gift to mankind and the envy of the world.
Of course false, and a case of the blind leading the blind (Mat 15:14): Few people outside of America are fooled by the “Rich Men” and their media/propaganda outlets. Ask the Native Americans, Mexicans, Philippines, Cubans, Iranians, Iraqis, Vietnamese, or any of the other victims of America’s belligerence if they think America is God’s gift to them – keep in mind that all of these wars were wars of aggression, of choice, resulting in the deaths of MILLIONS of innocent people and they were all started by lying to the American people!
It was founded as a Christian nation…
What is Christian about slaughtering the original inhabitants of the country to establish a “Christian Nation”? That is an insult to the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the nth degree!
Freedom of the press and the three separate but equal branches of Government will ensure that the Constitution is defended and followed to the letter, and that the country will remain “of the people, by the people, and for the people” forever.
As we’ve said already the press may be free, but if it’s owned by the “Rich Men” who oppress us - it’s not likely to go against its masters and it doesn’t. This is a vital piece to the brainwashing of America’s citizens and it was accomplished by the politicians being bribed by the “Rich” to allow them to buy up the free press to the extent that it’s just corporate propaganda now and no longer a safeguard of freedom. The three separate but equal branches of government have also failed to check each other. If congress or the press had done their jobs in the past regarding the Vietnam War, or the recent past regarding Iraq, millions of people that are dead as a result would be alive now. The press, the three branches of government and a military-industrial-congressional complex without a conscious – just a lust for more and more money have turned America into the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world” as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1967, and it’s just as true today. All this to make it sadly true the following parody of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address finale: a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.
As Christians we are to expect this kind of behavior from the world:
1Jn 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.
That’s why we are to be separate from this world: It’s evil, its rulers are evil and they all serve the evil one - that is Satan! America’s socio-economic system, masquerading as a capitalist-democratic society is an evil Babylonian system – an offense to God!
2Co 6:14 Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
2Co 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?
2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2Co 6:17 Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
2Co 6:18 And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Luk 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
No, unless we allow the Word of God to be taken from us by following after the Babylonian System. If we act like the Apostates do, the Pagans, the unbelievers and chase after the things of this world then:
Mat 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Our Lord and Savior gives us all the answers we need:
Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Mat 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Mat 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Mat 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Mat 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Mat 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Mat 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Mat 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mat 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Mat 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Yes, there will be trials and tribulations in this world and when you refuse to be a part of the compromise with the world you’ll suffer and be persecuted. Again Jesus' Words are the way through it:
Joh 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
And in Christ we shall overcome it too.
Mat 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
God bless you and yours,
disciple
http://www.perverted-christianity.com
disciple@perverted-christianity.com
Much of the ruling classes and their mouthpieces in the political, educational and religious establishments tout America as God’s great gift to mankind and the envy of the world. It was supposedly founded as a Christian nation, it promises liberty and justice to all its citizens. All of its foreign policy aims are altruistic, for other’s good, not the good of the few who make the policy. Freedom of the press and the three separate but equal branches of Government will ensure that the Constitution is defended and followed to the letter, and that the country will remain “of the people, by the people, and for the people” forever.
Or so we are supposed to believe. So its citizens are taught from birth to death – few question it.
The reality is none of these claims are true, fiction, in short: fairy tales!
From the beginning the ruling class paid lip-service to freedom and equality for all, but in reality the laws were designed to benefit the “Rich Men”. Voting rights were only given to land owners, the rest of the people were little better than slaves. Over time civil rights were demanded and given and taken back in accordance with the whims of the ruling class and the struggle for them by the working class.
Now, in theory, all have the right to vote but it’s still denied to many through various nefarious means such as limiting voting times and equipment depending on the racial make up of the district, switching voting sites, and improperly removing eligible voters based on their likely voting patterns and legal and illegal technicalities. Whole books could and have been devoted to the issue of depriving people of their right to vote, suffice it to say here that it is done often and usually with immunity and because of this to say America has free and fair elections is ludicrous!
Currently in the United States, using a combination of brain-washing from birth, public education and control of the news services by the “Rich Men” of the earth most Americans have been duped and don’t realize that it’s all a show put on to deceive them into being compliant corporate slaves/citizens.
The young are manipulated by the lies they hear from the public education system and the news media, and worst of all their own family members into volunteering to fight America’s Wars of Empire, for freedom and liberty they’re told, when in fact most of us have neither and never will. As for the targets of the “wars for Democracy, Freedom, or Liberty” their rights are always a cover story to the theft of their country’s natural wealth and sovereignty.
The truth is America has been under the control of the “Rich Men” that oppress the rest of us from its inception. (James 2:6)
There has been an ongoing battle for the wealth of the country from the beginning. At times the middle class or the largest part of the country has fared better than at other times. In these last days, the middle class are being squeezed out of existence, by design, by the “rich men” that really control the direction and the laws of this country. Aided and abetted by corrupt politicians the laws are skewed to protect their riches, enlarge them, and give them virtually everything they want at the expense of the working class, or majority of the population.
Little by little, the benefits that all should have: decent wages, housing, education and healthcare are becoming privileges that fewer and fewer have. The wealth of the nation is becoming evermore concentrated at the top. By design the decent paying jobs are shipped overseas, replaced with low paying service jobs with little or no benefits. By design the vast majority of the country is forced into debt to keep up with expenses, to maintain a decent standard of living. Credit cards or refinancing their houses (or both) to take advantage of over inflated real estate values was the only way most could come up with the money to stay afloat in the last ten years.
Now the “Rich Men” have decided that it’s time to shrink the money supply, no more easy credit, and millions are at the end of their ropes. The economy won’t grow, home values are falling, and prices are rising, the job market is still shrinking and most have no where to go but down. Many owe more for their houses than they are worth; they don’t make enough to pay their bills and they have no where to turn for help. A large portion of these people will lose their houses. By design you get people over extended and in financial trouble, force them into bad loans, then move to tighten the money supply and as they lose their jobs, get hopelessly in debt, the “Rich Men” are in perfect position to move in and buy everything up for a fraction of what it’s worth.
Again, this is all accomplished with the cooperation of corrupt politicians, comparable to the “Publicans” spoken of in the Bible. And it isn’t the first time it’s happened, but, since the Great Depression of the 30’s it hasn’t happened on such a large scale as the catastrophe that is right around the corner for America and the world.
How could anyone be so cruel as to do this to millions of people on purpose? Don’t they realize the pain they are going to cause? Don’t they realize this will destroy hundreds of thousands of families and lead to death from hunger, diseases untreated, rising crime and suicides from the incredible despair they are causing … By Design?! In the past it was called rigging the scales to cheat people, nowadays it’s a lot more complex, but the outcome is the same, the rich steal from the poor and because they have the “law” bought and paid for it’s legal and they will get away with it … in this world! No wonder the Lord and His Prophets are so harsh toward the rich:
Mat 19:23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Luk 1:53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Luk 6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
Jas 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Let’s close by summarizing the lies:
Much of the ruling classes and their mouthpieces in the political, educational and religious establishments tout America as God’s great gift to mankind and the envy of the world.
Of course false, and a case of the blind leading the blind (Mat 15:14): Few people outside of America are fooled by the “Rich Men” and their media/propaganda outlets. Ask the Native Americans, Mexicans, Philippines, Cubans, Iranians, Iraqis, Vietnamese, or any of the other victims of America’s belligerence if they think America is God’s gift to them – keep in mind that all of these wars were wars of aggression, of choice, resulting in the deaths of MILLIONS of innocent people and they were all started by lying to the American people!
It was founded as a Christian nation…
What is Christian about slaughtering the original inhabitants of the country to establish a “Christian Nation”? That is an insult to the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the nth degree!
Freedom of the press and the three separate but equal branches of Government will ensure that the Constitution is defended and followed to the letter, and that the country will remain “of the people, by the people, and for the people” forever.
As we’ve said already the press may be free, but if it’s owned by the “Rich Men” who oppress us - it’s not likely to go against its masters and it doesn’t. This is a vital piece to the brainwashing of America’s citizens and it was accomplished by the politicians being bribed by the “Rich” to allow them to buy up the free press to the extent that it’s just corporate propaganda now and no longer a safeguard of freedom. The three separate but equal branches of government have also failed to check each other. If congress or the press had done their jobs in the past regarding the Vietnam War, or the recent past regarding Iraq, millions of people that are dead as a result would be alive now. The press, the three branches of government and a military-industrial-congressional complex without a conscious – just a lust for more and more money have turned America into the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world” as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1967, and it’s just as true today. All this to make it sadly true the following parody of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address finale: a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.
As Christians we are to expect this kind of behavior from the world:
1Jn 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.
That’s why we are to be separate from this world: It’s evil, its rulers are evil and they all serve the evil one - that is Satan! America’s socio-economic system, masquerading as a capitalist-democratic society is an evil Babylonian system – an offense to God!
2Co 6:14 Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
2Co 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?
2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2Co 6:17 Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
2Co 6:18 And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Luk 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
No, unless we allow the Word of God to be taken from us by following after the Babylonian System. If we act like the Apostates do, the Pagans, the unbelievers and chase after the things of this world then:
Mat 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Our Lord and Savior gives us all the answers we need:
Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Mat 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Mat 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Mat 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Mat 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Mat 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Mat 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Mat 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mat 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Mat 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Yes, there will be trials and tribulations in this world and when you refuse to be a part of the compromise with the world you’ll suffer and be persecuted. Again Jesus' Words are the way through it:
Joh 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
And in Christ we shall overcome it too.
Mat 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
God bless you and yours,
disciple
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Monday, August 4, 2008
Capitalism and Christianity - A Match Made in Hell!
The “Church” has defiled itself. It has committed idolatry; it has prostituted itself in the search for larger congregations and bigger buildings and personal wealth for its leaders. It has turned from serving God to serving Mammon. We have hundreds and hundreds of wealthy “Church” leaders preaching an apostate message of wealth as a blessing from God. Spiritual fornicators!
Despite our blessed Lord and Savior’s numerous warnings to the contrary, there is a never-ending string of sermons that teach the gullible to pray for wealth, give money to get back money, ten, thirty, a hundred times or more! These teachers of apostasy are wolves in sheep’s clothing and there is ample warning in the New Testament about them:
1Ti 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;* but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
1Ti 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Tit 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Tit 1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
1Pe 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
* John Wesley defines Lucre as “All that is gained (above food and raiment) by ministering in holy things is filthy gain indeed; far more filthy than what is honestly gained by raking kennels, or emptying common sewers.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown say: not making the Gospel a means of gain.
John Gill says: not covetous of getting money, of amassing wealth and riches together; or desirous of popular applause and glory from men.
Matthew Henry: One who is not greedy of filthy lucre, who does not make his ministry to truckle to any secular design or interest, who uses no mean, base, sordid ways of getting money, who is dead to the wealth of this world, lives above it, and makes it appear he is so.
Seems pretty clear to me, but, when you start down the path to riches you tend to stop thinking clearly. You justify the excesses by saying things like “we’ll be able to reach more people with the “Gospel”, “it takes a lot of money to preach the Gospel”, “if I don’t charge $99.95 for my new book I won’t be able to reach more people”, etc., etc. In reality though you start buying more expensive suits, cars, housing, you start hiring on more people, usually family, and giving them larger salaries and of course the “leader” deserves a bigger salary. The largest ministries and their leaders today have assets in the millions, salaries of over a million dollars a year! They have their own planes! How far away from the apostle Paul is that? But that’s where chasing after riches will lead you, far from God and in the lap of Mammon.
Mar 10:23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
Mar 10:24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
1Ti 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
What has happened over the past 2,000 years is that the Words of Jesus Christ have been twisted to justify the lusts of the flesh. That’s how the “Church” has gone from being content with food and clothing to seeking wealth as a “sign” of God’s blessing. The “Church” has corrupted itself and is using the principles of capitalism to run its operations. The “leaders” lie and extort “tithes” out of their congregants as if we are still under the law.
2Co 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
The pastors hand out cards and ask their flocks to write down their salaries and then give that to the bankers to get them to approve a loan based on 10% of the salaries for a bigger, better “Church” building. They attend seminars on how to get bigger audiences, bigger buildings, more finances. They draw up business plans and instead of being concerned with feeding the flock they are more concerned with their bank accounts! They are not churches any more but businesses! Next they’ll be selling shares of stock!
If you’re in a “Church” like this, try and turn them back to God and away from Mammon, if you can’t, then leave. I can tell you from personal experience that riches corrupt the most sincere believers, and you are not likely to have any success in turning them away; the lure is very powerful, a very strong delusion, but you and I must continue to try.
God bless you and yours in Jesus Name,
disciple
Despite our blessed Lord and Savior’s numerous warnings to the contrary, there is a never-ending string of sermons that teach the gullible to pray for wealth, give money to get back money, ten, thirty, a hundred times or more! These teachers of apostasy are wolves in sheep’s clothing and there is ample warning in the New Testament about them:
1Ti 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;* but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
1Ti 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Tit 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Tit 1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
1Pe 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
* John Wesley defines Lucre as “All that is gained (above food and raiment) by ministering in holy things is filthy gain indeed; far more filthy than what is honestly gained by raking kennels, or emptying common sewers.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown say: not making the Gospel a means of gain.
John Gill says: not covetous of getting money, of amassing wealth and riches together; or desirous of popular applause and glory from men.
Matthew Henry: One who is not greedy of filthy lucre, who does not make his ministry to truckle to any secular design or interest, who uses no mean, base, sordid ways of getting money, who is dead to the wealth of this world, lives above it, and makes it appear he is so.
Seems pretty clear to me, but, when you start down the path to riches you tend to stop thinking clearly. You justify the excesses by saying things like “we’ll be able to reach more people with the “Gospel”, “it takes a lot of money to preach the Gospel”, “if I don’t charge $99.95 for my new book I won’t be able to reach more people”, etc., etc. In reality though you start buying more expensive suits, cars, housing, you start hiring on more people, usually family, and giving them larger salaries and of course the “leader” deserves a bigger salary. The largest ministries and their leaders today have assets in the millions, salaries of over a million dollars a year! They have their own planes! How far away from the apostle Paul is that? But that’s where chasing after riches will lead you, far from God and in the lap of Mammon.
Mar 10:23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
Mar 10:24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
1Ti 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
What has happened over the past 2,000 years is that the Words of Jesus Christ have been twisted to justify the lusts of the flesh. That’s how the “Church” has gone from being content with food and clothing to seeking wealth as a “sign” of God’s blessing. The “Church” has corrupted itself and is using the principles of capitalism to run its operations. The “leaders” lie and extort “tithes” out of their congregants as if we are still under the law.
2Co 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
The pastors hand out cards and ask their flocks to write down their salaries and then give that to the bankers to get them to approve a loan based on 10% of the salaries for a bigger, better “Church” building. They attend seminars on how to get bigger audiences, bigger buildings, more finances. They draw up business plans and instead of being concerned with feeding the flock they are more concerned with their bank accounts! They are not churches any more but businesses! Next they’ll be selling shares of stock!
If you’re in a “Church” like this, try and turn them back to God and away from Mammon, if you can’t, then leave. I can tell you from personal experience that riches corrupt the most sincere believers, and you are not likely to have any success in turning them away; the lure is very powerful, a very strong delusion, but you and I must continue to try.
God bless you and yours in Jesus Name,
disciple
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