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What's Behind the Church Walls? Luke 11:33, “No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.”
Where is Your Light Oh Christian? One of the biggest problems with Christians
today is that they are hiding their light within the church walls (in a
“secret place” as mentioned in Luke 11:33). “Secret place” simply means “hidden place.” Why would a person light a candle and then
cover it? Or in today's thinking, why would you turn on a lamp and
then cover it with a box? It is just as ridiculous for a child of
God to hide their light from the world. Most believers know the
Biblical teaching of the candle being hid under the bushel, but the true
meaning just doesn't register. There are churches all across America
that meet a couple times a week behind closed doors and the local
community has NO IDEA what the church believes. Their candle (light)
is well hid. Most Churches Operate Like the Occult Do you know what the definition of “occult” is?
I hate to say it, but it needs to be said: Most churches operate more like occult organizations than they do local New Testament churches. Church members all across America think they only go to church to “worship” God. Show me that in the Bible! We are supposed to worship God at all times. Americas churches have fallen into the lie of the Devil that we shouldn't FORCE our beliefs upon other people. This is simply not rational. Folks, people are going to Hell to burn forever. Did you know that on average every day 313,000 people die! Do the math. Divide 8 billion (earth's population) people by 365 (days in a year) times 70 (average lifespan). The answer is 313,111 people will die per day on average. What if you were breathing your last breath on earth? Would you want someone to feel like they ought not force their beliefs on you? I'll bet David Bowie wishes someone would have forced their Christian beliefs on him, making him listen. Mr. Bowie is in Hell. Christians are supposed to stand up against the evil doers...
I am NOT saying that the church is the
occult. I am saying that most churches operate like the occult.
Most communities across America know as much about their local church as
they do about Skull and Bones or the Freemasons. I believe
that every community in America should know clearly what their local New
Testament church stands for and believes. Will this make some people
angry? Of course, but that should not be a factor because God has
commanded us to stand up against evil and iniquity. The Early Church was Persecuted for Their Faithfulness to Christ The believers in the early church were making things happen. God gave us the Book of Acts so we would have an example to follow. They were getting people saved (Acts 2:41 tells us that 3,000 souls were saved). The Devil doesn't care what you believe, just so long as you keep it to yourself. The early believers were worrying Satan and giving him cause for concern. By Acts 4:4, the Bible tells us that 5,000 men were saved (not including women and children). By now the Devil was going ballistic. It is not surprising that Herod killed James in Acts 12:2 with the sword. Acts 12:3 says that the Jews were pleased with James' execution, which prompted Herod to also put Peter on death row. It's no different today... the wicked love to see Christians get their heads chopped off. I heard a deadbeat pastor say that he wasn't trying to grow his church. Huh? He said that he only wants to pass to the next generation the doctrines which have been entrusted to him. The guys an idiot, pardon the expression. Who's he going to pass the doctrines to? His biggest Sunday attendance since he became pastor is about 30 people. He spent 4-years in an Independent Fundamental Baptist Bible college. He needs to go back to school because he missed something. He leads his congregation every Wednesday night to “pray about the abortion issue” while the local community never hears a word from his church about the sin of abortion. The abortion clinic down the street never sees a protester from his church. This is what's wrong with America! Churches today are mainly concerned about
making money and going through the religious motions, but their candle
is well hidden. When God says in 2nd Timothy 3:12, “Yea, and all that
will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.” If you are not
experiencing persecution in this apostate world, then you are not living
godly in Christ Jesus. A Christ-honoring Church Stirs Things Up with the Truth The early church in the Book of Acts was rocking the boat. They were making people angry by preaching the truth. Some people were martyred, willing to die for the cause of Christ. In acts 19:19 many who had been involved with the occult brought their "curious arts" and burned them in a bonfire. The worth of the books and items were 50,000 pieces of silver (about $48,000 in today's value, and millions in Bible times). A piece of silver was a day's wage in the New Testament. The local idol makers were so enraged at Paul, that the other believers had to keep him from the angry mob waiting to tear him to pieces (Acts 19:30). This is what the truth does friend, it puts the beer companies out of business. It puts the pornographic perverts out of business. It shuts down the taverns and whore houses. The truth cleans up the community. It cause women to keep their babies instead of murdering them. It puts the Rosary makers out of business. It puts the palm readers, Tarot card readers, and psychics out of business. It puts the Godless video game makers out of business. It puts Godless Hollywood and Devilish Walt Disney out of business. It puts the gambling casinos out of business. The truth puts the strip joints and nightclubs out of business. Praise God, when Jesus returns at the Second Coming, He will put all these evil people out of business!!! Please notice that the early believers didn't just preach a salvation message. The Apostle Paul preached about all the things concerning the kingdom of God (Acts 19:8). I actually had a preacher tell me, that when I came to his church, he only wanted me to preach a “salvation message.” He didn't like me teaching that all modern Bibles are corrupt. He didn't like when I preached against liquor. He didn't like when I preached against bars and nightclubs. He didn't like when I exposed the lies of Roman Catholicism. And he hated when I preached with zeal and fervor. He actually accused me of shouting at the people from the pulpit. I was shouting at anybody, I was zealously proclaiming the truth with excitement. I don't know about you, but I get exciting knowing that I have found the truth in Christ Jesus. Eventually he threw me out the door. Until Christ returns, we are responsible to
stand against the evils of our day (Psalm 94:16). The truth will
make people angry. The truth will cause others to come to God in
repentance. The truth is emotional. The truth demands an
answer. The truth cannot be ignored forever. The truth is the
truth! 2nd Thessalonians 2:10 tells us that we should receive the
love of the truth. Do you love the truth? Now, I don't like to
know of bad things, but I need to know the truth. I must know the
truth! It is Our Constitutional Right to Proclaim the Truth When a man of God proclaims the truth and tries to reach people for Christ, he is simply exercising his Constitutional Bill of Rights, as well as his God-given call. Furthermore, EVERY believer is commanded to speak out against the wickednesses of our day! It's not just the preacher's job to witness to the lost and speak out against wrong doing. This is another lie of the Devil which many Christians have fallen for. It is ALL of our jobs. So why aren't America's men and women of God doing it? Wake up!!! To accuse a zealous Christian of “forcing his
or her beliefs” unto other people is simply the Devil's lie. We have
every right to speak out with contempt against contemptible things. I do NOT endorse deliberately being unkind to anyone, but unrepentant
sinners will nonetheless be offended when we preach out against wickednesses. We should attack the sin, never the sinner. Though the wicked will claim the two are inseparable, there is indeed a
great difference. God HATES sin, but not people. No one hates
sin any more than God, yet no one loves sinners as much as God. We
must follow Christ's example by trying to do the same. The Devils' Crowd Parades Their Wickedness Do you think the Devil plays by his own rules? I mean... America's homosexuals proudly march up and down our streets promoting their wickednesses. When a few Christians protest the parade, the Christians end up being arrested and put into jail -Facing 47 years in prison! I just have a few webpages exposing the evils of homosexuality and the homosexuals go bizzerk, calling my everything imaginable. One homosexual told me that I'd better run when he sees me in Hell. Why can they have a parade, but I can't have a few webpages? Talk about hypocrites! I recently received an e-mail from a young
man who said his teacher hated God and would sing “One nation under
evolution” instead of “One nation under God” when he said the pledge. He
asked me why a teacher would do that. I replied that “people need
God.” I sent him Ephesians 2:2b which explains that Satan's
spirit works in the hearts of the unsaved, “the spirit that now worketh
in the children of disobedience.” The bottom line is that the righteous
and the wicked will NEVER co-exist in harmony. Proverbs 29:27, “An
unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the
way is abomination to the wicked.” We can't stand each
other. This is the plain truth. A God-fearing Christian can't stand
unrepentant abortionists, homosexuals and pornographers, even though we
unconditionally love them with God's love. America's Churches Need to Speak the Truth Publicly As Christians, it is our responsibility to get the truth out. Every church in America should have a big sign out front that speaks to the drivers passing by: “Homosexuality is sin!,” and “Harry Potter is wicked,” and "It's Jesus or Hell!” Every week you could change the message. I greatly admire Dr. Roy Thompson (former pastor of the Cleveland Baptist Church in Ohio). Many years ago while driving by his church I saw a great big sign which read: “Abortion is cold-blooded murder!” Amen! I wanted to jump out of my seat and shout “Amen!” I was so encouraged to see a man of God with some GUTS! America's pulpits are filled with sissy's and wimps who are afraid to shell the corn. America needs a generation of Billy Sunday and John the Baptist type preachers to set the fields on fire...
What does the Bible mean by “the Light”? The
“Light” is simply the truth. Hence, it is our responsibility as Christians to get the truth out, the
truth about everything! I am so disgusted with the attitude of
wishy-washy believers who say that nothing else matters except the Gospel. Certainly, the Gospel is the most important truth in the world, but the Bible
contains much more truth than just the Gospel. If nothing else
mattered except the Gospel, then God would have only written us a Gospel
tract, not an entire Holy Book. Tragically, most churches these days
cannot
even get the Gospel correct. Some Believers are Preaching Lies So many Christians have their own concepts of what the Bible teaches. Obviously, some are correct and others are very wrong. Truth is intolerant! 2 + 2 = 4. You can sincerely believe that 2 + 2 = 5, but you are dead wrong. There is no compromise, there is no diversity. The modern-day Neo-evangelical church preaches a corrupted Gospel, but little else. There is no preaching against sin. This is the crowd that says it really doesn't matter which Bible you use. They don't fuss over MAJOR doctrinal differences such as the blood of Jesus, et cetera. Basically, they are a liability to the name of Jesus Christ. “Yea,
and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.”
Most churches just don't care! God work ought
to be done honestly, diligently and caringly. Too many people exploit the
ministry for personal gain. Most Christians Don't Care About the Truth The problem with many Christians is that we either don't care about the truth (like the sinister minister above) or we don't preach the truth outside of the church walls. It's critical that America's churches get riled up about the truth and proclaim it uncompromisingly and without apology. The problem with most Christians is that they're at ease on Zion, complacent in their salvation... “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation...” —Hebrews 2:3 Hebrews 2:3 was written to Christians. This verse is not talking about being saved. This verse is simply saying that we should not neglect our salvation. Perhaps you may want to read the excellent book, Salvation is More Than Being Saved. Look back to verse one... “Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.” —Hebrews 2:1
God saved us to do more than fill up 18 inches of pew. The problem with
most Christians today is that they're “sitting on the premises” instead of
“standing on the promises.” The world needs to hear the truth. We're not going to reach the
world by opening our church doors for a few hours a week and dishing our
sermonettes. Lazy Pastor Says He's Not Trying to Grow His Church I know of a pastor in Chicago who has about 15 to 20 people present on Sunday morning. I am mentioning him again because he is the epitome of what is wrong with America's churches. I actually heard him say from the pulpit that he WASN'T trying to grow his church. He said his job was to pass on to the next generation what had been handed to him. What generation? You don't have any members! Kindly said, the guys an idiot! Every pastor should want to grow his church. Look folks, God's not interested in empty pews, He wants His house full (Luke 14:23). It wasn't a surprise when the same pastor declined to go soul winning with me. I looked through his weekly bulletin that's
passed out every Sunday in church. He had a list of things that the
church was going to pray about on Wednesday. I noticed “the abortion
issue.” Week after week his church prays about the “abortion issue,”
but NEVER lifts a finger to do anything about the murdering of
little children. There's an abortion clinic right down the street,
but the church is nowhere to be found. The local community never
hears a word of protest from that little church. The light of the
truth is hidden within the walls of the “church.” Like I said, most
churches operate more like an occult organization than they do a New
Testament church. It's a disgrace. Why Are the Churches Silent? In the 1970’s Anita Bryant took a stand for decency and morality standing up and speaking out against the homosexual agenda. For her efforts, she was rewarded with being abandoned by the Christian churches across the Nation and ultimately suffered a divorce when the homosexuals began to make phone calls to the churches she was speaking at threatening to blow them up. The churches decided to give in to this terrorist tactic and abandon Anita. Then in the 1980’s Pastor Jerry Falwell took a stand against the homosexual agenda and many leading pastors and churches also ostracized him across the country as being a little too political and getting off focus of preaching the gospel. As a result the churches joined in with the liberal media in labeling Falwell as a hatemonger. Well today, churches are getting to reap what they have sown...
Here's what Anita Bryant's husband said...
Shame! Shame on America's Christians. We out to all be ashamed of ourselves for being so complacent and careless with our freedom.
Thomas Jefferson, an unsaved man, had more sense than the average Christian does. Jefferson knew the road which leads to tyranny...silent citizens. If America's Christians don't speak out, then who will? Sadly, many of the heathen are speaking out while Christians play the religious game.
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I can write an article like this because I am
a Christian Myself. I am not writing this article to attack any
Christians. On the contrary, I am writing this article to wake you up if
you're sleeping in this dark hour. Jesus asked His disciples to
pray, but they went to sleep instead. MOST believers have gone to
sleep spiritually worldwide, especially in America. I want you to
awake to righteousness. 1st Corinthians 15:34, “Awake to righteousness,
and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your
shame.” I want to help you in the spirit of
meekness (Galatians 6:1). 