I wanted to tell you about some folks I know.
Here are the names of my friends. Have you ever heard of these guys? I know Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Tim Tebo, George Bush, and Osama Bin Ladan.
I would like to tell you about them.
My friend Michael Jordan, he is so funny. He is this 300 pound white guy from Texas and his favorite hobby is backgammon.
Tiger Woods is obsessed with ping pong. He is this 4 foot tall man who grew up in the jungles of South America, and once fought off 3 tigers with a ping pong paddle, hence his name.
Tim Tebo I knew in college. He is such a nerd, and wears these big thick black rimmed glasses and has this wild white hair and a big bushy beard. He is now the leading physics professor at my school.
George Bush and I were buddies at our college. He has this thick Italian accent and the little Italian mustache and he opened the best pizzeria in town now.
Finally, my friend Osama is this high strung black guy who never shuts up. He is always cracking jokes. He now works at Subway and just got married.
Now, I would think by now you should know I am not talking about the same people you thought I was when I mentioned their names.
That is exactly the same thing when you say Jesus.
The big question is WHAT JESUS?
The real Jesus is the Jesus revealed in the King James Bible. He is the God who created the universe, the God who was born of a virgin in a manger 2000 years ago, and the God who died on the cross for our sins and rose again the 3rd day.
The problem is most churches and most religions and most people take those facts and do one of the following ---- 1. Diminish his power and authority. 2. Place doubts over who he is 3. Deny who he is or 4. Distort his identity.
If you start changing who you are talking about soon you are talking about someone completely different all together.
A false Christ cannot save because it is a powerless Christ.
The real Jesus Christ will change your life forever. And your eternal destiny.
Today's Christianity has turned the Holy Jesus of the Bible, the Jesus Christ who loves truth and is merciful yet still is against sin and still warns on hell, into this soft teddy bear who loves humans so much that he couldn't possibly send anyone to hell. Yes God is forgiving, but God is also a just God. To ignore certain characteristics of God and emphasize what is politically correct today changes Jesus into an idol, a god made in our image. We may be more comfortable with that Jesus because we made him to suit our sins and conform to our image. We need to conform to his.
For example, the catholic church changed Jesus. In this church, Jesus' authority is wrongly put on par with their traditions and church teachings. If Jesus said one thing and the church said another, they go with church having final say. That is blasphemous. The Bible is Jesus on paper and it must be our final authority because it is God's WORD not Man's opinion.
If you go against his very WORDS and then claim you represent the real Jesus you are insulting Him and you are presuming He is ok with that. What if I took your autobiography about your life and changed events and things you did and said and then said I know you. I did it without your permission. I did it to make who you are fit in my position better. I changed things about you that I didn't agree with. Would you be happy with me? Would you think, well, at least they are sharing my life with people, I don't care if half of it never happened?
Why do we think God would be any different?
I used to be Catholic. I am not going to be loyal to something that is damning my family, damned my ancestors and are deceiving millions. Jesus Christ honestly hates anything and everything that steal his right to be worshipped. He made the sun moon and stars but people are impressed with a church because a man built an impressive place. God is a jealous God, that is again one of his attributes. That is according to the Bible. According to our current opinions that flies in the face with how we want to live, so we reject that in "our Jesus".
The Bible says we are saved by FAITH, it is by grace we are saved not of works.
Catholic church says WORKS plus grace.
The Bible teaches baptism is AFTER salvation. It is an outward fruit AFTER salvation. FRUIT is what Christians produce after they are saved. WORKS are what religion teaches TO BE SAVED. And there is a movement today of modern CHRISTIANITY that says since WORKS DO NOT SAVE, I can live however I WANT ONCE I AM SAVED. If there is no fruit after salvation, you never met the Savior. When you truly get saved you are never the same.
The Catholic church teaches baptism is critical to salvation.
The Bible says salvation is in Jesus. The catholic church says it is in the church.
Jesus saith I am the way the truth and the life; no man cometh to the father but BY ME. The bible says Jesus is the only way to be saved.
The true catholic stance is no one is saved without the catholic church. It doesn't matter if the majority of catholics do not believe that. This is official church doctrine.
Jesus always existed. Mary was the human vessel God choose and she said, "My soul doth rejoice in God my savior." She offered sacrifices in the temple as an obedient Jewish Girl. She knew she wasn't sinless. The Catholic Mary Mother of God is not the humble Mary of the Bible. The Bible said Mary had sexual relations with Joseph after having Jesus and had other children. See Matthew 1:25.
The Bible says when Jesus died on the cross IT IS FINISHED. There is no need to repeat this sacrifice and to do it again brings the Lord to an open shame. It says what Jesus did was not enough. Yet the mass teaches that the Priest has the power to pull Jesus out of heaven and re sacrifice him again and again in the mass. God is highly highly offended by this. Don't get mad at me, search this out. If you participate in the mass, you are highly disobedient to a holy God.
The Bible says we are to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Religion says it is a personal matter.
The Bible says there are only two places to spend eternity. Heaven and Hell. The Catholic church invented purgatory.
The Bible says it is the final authority and says let God be true and every man a liar. The Bible says God cannot lie. He does not change. Yet Popes contradict themselves and popes through the centuries have added extra biblical teachings contrary to scriptures. Catholics are expected to obey Pope decrees as God himself. That is blasphemous. The Bible says Call no man Father. The Bible says in 1st Timothy chapter 4 verses 1-3 about some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; ...forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats.
It doesn't matter what we believe, but it will matter if what you believe is true.
Imagine you and I were about to put our retirements in an oil company in Texas after watching many impressive seminars from their investors. They showed us impressive pictures of their building and offices. I traveled down to Texas and personally gained access within the company. I found it existed but when I went and looked around all I found were empty desks and everything was just for show . I did extensive research that is available to all and I found out that the company was completely fraudulent and there was no oil. Their claims were bogus and they were just stealing everyone's retirement money.
Now, if I knew all that, and I didn't want to talk bad about them and kept it to myself and let you send them your retirement would I be a nice guy? If I only said nice things about this company because I didn't want to make waves to those who are happy with the false security they have that their money is safe, would you respect that?
Yet, I am telling you that the catholic church is doing that with your eternal soul, and so are other religions. Mormon, Jehovah Witness, Islam, Hindu, almost All Protestant now, Episcopal, Greek Orthodox, and Lutheran.
I am a Baptist, but I find that most Baptists teach more tradition now than Bible. We have our own Popes in the sense of big name men and their interpretations are respected more than Jesus at times. For example, the Bible teaches salvation is faith and repentance but the Baptists teach that salvation is in a prayer, or calling on the Lord, or asking Jesus into your heart or going to an old fashioned altar and receiving Jesus as your personal saviour.
I am loyal to Jesus Christ. I care more about the truth than I do about staying right. I don't just give opinions or church traditions. I obey my authorities and I respect my church, but as soon as they diverge from the scriptures I no longer am listening. The Bible is my authority and I don't care what man says, how many men say it, how many "Good" men believe it, or how much what I say may offend. I don't want anyone, catholic or baptist or in between to die and go to hell.
Who are you loyal to? Christ? A Church? Or what you believe in your heart?
Spell the word SILK out loud.
What do cows drink?
No, they drink water.
We can't trust our hearts. People follow their hearts instead of trusting the Bible and will end up in Hell. The heart the bible says is deceitful above all things. The Bible says there is a way which seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Jesus says wide is the path that leadeth to destruction.
Most of this world is on their way to hell.
Most of this world is following a false religion.
Most of the "right" churches are a myriad of truth and sacred cow traditions.
Most "saved" today are still lost.
The majority is never right.
Are you willing to be one of the few that finds the TRUTH no matter what the cost?
Or do you refuse to budge because you can't handle the TRUTH?
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