Post by Les Brewer on Apr 25, 2012 14:39:43 GMT
John Wolf
Calvary's Cross Ministries
Preaching Christ Crucified...I Cor.1:18-25
From the Pastor's desk....
Praise God from whom all blessing flow,praise Him for another beautiful day that the Lord has made,bless His Holy name!!!
A warning for the sheep and a rebuke for the goats......
We,as Christians are living in the perilous times that Paul the apostle warned us of in I Timothy 4:1-5;II Timothy 3:1-9 a...nd the apostle Peter warned us of in II Peter chapter two.
How do I know this?
Look around you,the world is in crisis after crisis,in every area imaginable of thought and subject.The Church,the body of Christ is in just as bad of shape, if not worse,because it was left in the hands of believers to propagate the gospel throughout the world,and what has happened is apostate men and women have perverted the gospel for their own gain.They no longer preach and teach faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His blood atonement.The Church is inundated with all types of self-help books,Purpose Driven lives,Forty days of this, that, and the other.Books to teach you how to be a better you and to discover the Champion within.To use an old school term,it's all "Hogwash".Any teaching,any preacher,teacher,pastor,evangelist,organization,church,assembly or anything else devised by man to put you under rules or regulations is not of God.It is of the flesh and Satan.We live in a world where apostates,those who have fallen away from the basics of true Christianity and have embraced doctrines of demons,are leading many of God's people into darkness and down the road to destruction.
We must come back to the Word of God and faith in Jesus Christ and what He did for us at the Cross.This is the reason Paul remained in so much trouble with the religious leaders and the Judaizers of his day.They had abandoned the cross and went back under the law,trying to keep rules and regulations and teachings that rejected faith alone and embraced works instead.There is something about the fallen nature of mankind that wants to be involved in the salvation and sanctification process.It will not work,it never has worked and it never will work.Man can not produce anything that God can use.It must be cast out with the bondwoman and her son Ishmael,for it will not be heirs with the children of promise (Galatians 3).To the sheep I say,come back to Christ and the Cross,and keep your faith there,and do not place it anywhere else,for to do so,will prove to be detrimental to your spiritual health.
To the Judaizers and false teachers and preachers out there,who don't want to preach Christ and Him crucified for fear that you might offend someone,shame on you! You have stopped offending man,but in return you are offending God,you are a stench in His nostrils.I say to you,repent and come back to the truth.Forsake the wrong way and return to the One who will cleanse you from your wrong doing.Hell is full of so called "men of God" who failed to tell the people of God the truth,and warn them of this terrible place called Hell.It's full of preachers who were afraid to offend someone,and in return are offending God.Repent and come back to God and ask Him to give you a backbone,trade it in for the jelly you have there now!
It's time we start feeding the sheep again and stop entertaining goats with our flowery words and platitudes.The thing about truth is,it is offensive to those who are walking contrary to the light and the truth.We shouldn't purposely set out to offend,but neither should we shrink back and fail to speak the truth in love.I pray that you all will re-access your standing in Christ and act accordingly....I love you all in Christ....God bless you.....J.W.
Calvary's Cross Ministries
Preaching Christ Crucified...I Cor.1:18-25
From the Pastor's desk....
Praise God from whom all blessing flow,praise Him for another beautiful day that the Lord has made,bless His Holy name!!!
A warning for the sheep and a rebuke for the goats......
We,as Christians are living in the perilous times that Paul the apostle warned us of in I Timothy 4:1-5;II Timothy 3:1-9 a...nd the apostle Peter warned us of in II Peter chapter two.
How do I know this?
Look around you,the world is in crisis after crisis,in every area imaginable of thought and subject.The Church,the body of Christ is in just as bad of shape, if not worse,because it was left in the hands of believers to propagate the gospel throughout the world,and what has happened is apostate men and women have perverted the gospel for their own gain.They no longer preach and teach faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His blood atonement.The Church is inundated with all types of self-help books,Purpose Driven lives,Forty days of this, that, and the other.Books to teach you how to be a better you and to discover the Champion within.To use an old school term,it's all "Hogwash".Any teaching,any preacher,teacher,pastor,evangelist,organization,church,assembly or anything else devised by man to put you under rules or regulations is not of God.It is of the flesh and Satan.We live in a world where apostates,those who have fallen away from the basics of true Christianity and have embraced doctrines of demons,are leading many of God's people into darkness and down the road to destruction.
We must come back to the Word of God and faith in Jesus Christ and what He did for us at the Cross.This is the reason Paul remained in so much trouble with the religious leaders and the Judaizers of his day.They had abandoned the cross and went back under the law,trying to keep rules and regulations and teachings that rejected faith alone and embraced works instead.There is something about the fallen nature of mankind that wants to be involved in the salvation and sanctification process.It will not work,it never has worked and it never will work.Man can not produce anything that God can use.It must be cast out with the bondwoman and her son Ishmael,for it will not be heirs with the children of promise (Galatians 3).To the sheep I say,come back to Christ and the Cross,and keep your faith there,and do not place it anywhere else,for to do so,will prove to be detrimental to your spiritual health.
To the Judaizers and false teachers and preachers out there,who don't want to preach Christ and Him crucified for fear that you might offend someone,shame on you! You have stopped offending man,but in return you are offending God,you are a stench in His nostrils.I say to you,repent and come back to the truth.Forsake the wrong way and return to the One who will cleanse you from your wrong doing.Hell is full of so called "men of God" who failed to tell the people of God the truth,and warn them of this terrible place called Hell.It's full of preachers who were afraid to offend someone,and in return are offending God.Repent and come back to God and ask Him to give you a backbone,trade it in for the jelly you have there now!
It's time we start feeding the sheep again and stop entertaining goats with our flowery words and platitudes.The thing about truth is,it is offensive to those who are walking contrary to the light and the truth.We shouldn't purposely set out to offend,but neither should we shrink back and fail to speak the truth in love.I pray that you all will re-access your standing in Christ and act accordingly....I love you all in Christ....God bless you.....J.W.
