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June 26, 2006
The Church Is in Apostasy
Hello everyone, I do thank you for being here. Today I'm going to write something that will perhaps shock many of you. It is a very avant-garde subject. I want you to know what I am about to present to you is in total love and it is meant to make you see how confused the church as a whole is today.
Most churches in America and throughout the world have their doctrine based on the books of Matthew mark Luke and John. Those are very good books and I believe they are the inspired word of God.
However, those accounts of the lives of the apostles and the Lord Jesus Christ were for the Jews only. There are many accounts in those books that reference just that fact. I'll give you a couple examples: The Lord is speaking in these verses; Luke 18: 18 And a certain ruler asked him saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest me good, there is none good, save one, that is God. 20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother. 21 And he said, All these things have I kept from my youth up. 22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet thou lackest one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute it unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven and come, follow me.
Now before you try to spiritualize this, I want you to know that all the people at that time were to follow the Lord, they had to sell out everything they had and lay it at the apostles feet and follow the Lord to have eternal life. The rich young ruler is in hell, because he didn't do it. I believe he is the same man that faired sumptuously every day and a beggar laid at his gate. He died and lift up his eyes in hell, being in torment and asked father Abraham to send Lazarus to touch his tongue with a drop of water because I am tormented in this flame.
Did your church ask you to do these things? Does your church have a bank account? Do you have one? You think I'm splitting hairs here? Let me show you what would happen if you didn't do these things: Acts 5:1 But a certain man named Amanitas, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, 2 And kept back part of the price, his wife being privy to it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the disciples' feet. 3 But Peter said, Ananais, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 5 And Ananais hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost. The next verse tells the same thing happened to Sapphira.
Not only were you to sell out everything you owned you had to give it all at the apostles feet so they could distribute the good evenly and all men would have all things common.
I am trying to show you that if your church bases their doctrine on these books, then why don't they practice them? They only use tactics throughout these books to receive money from you. Either out of ignorance or intentionally, either way, it's wrong.
I would like you to also keep in mind the church in these epistles kept the 10 commandments and also the first 5 books of the bible which is the law. Does your church keep all these to the letter? If they didn't keep all these laws look what would happen to them.
James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
There it is, make one mistake and you were guilty of all the law. Is that a church you want to be a member in? Let's not stop here, there's more, much more.
Who were these books written to? I’m glad you asked. Matthew 28:16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
But they had an order in which to go forth;
Matthew 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: 6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. 8. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. 9. Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; 10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
When he sent out the 12, they had an unction from the Father, that no man need to teach them anything, the Holy Ghost taught them everything they needed, they could quote all the scriptures in the Bible they had at that time, and any person that was a Jew from another country, the 12 could automatically speak in the native tongue of that individual, no matter where he was from. Do you know anyone, I mean anyone that is in these churches today that can do these things? Tread on serpents, drink deadly poison?
One more thing; John 20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23 Whosoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Folks, you don't know anyone that has that power here today; the 12 were EMPOWERED by THE HOLY GHOST. (We are sealed by the Holy Spirit, big difference) This was a serious and powerful church that the Lord started. But it came to an end at the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 when Israel was finally cast off. That church is out of commission right now and it wont start up again until the tribulation period probably when Elijah and Moses show up to restore all things. But right now you cannot in any way shape or form teach this doctrine to include forgiveness of men's sins. There is another Gospel in effect today and it is the Church which is The Body of Christ. The only means by which man can be saved today is to believe that Christ died for your sins and was buried and rose again the 3rd day according to the scriptures. Once the church is taken out of here by the rapture (whether you believe it or not) then and only then will the great commission begin to be carried out. That gospel was to the Jews only, first last and always, all Israel didn't repent while the apostles were teaching it and they never got to go out into the world to spread this gospel because all Israel hadn't gotten saved, instead it was ended in A.D. 70 at the destruction of the temple and all that were martyred there. So how is it that the world at large has taken it upon themselves to pick up where the 12 left off and preach a gospel that was never to Gentiles and build churches into mega empires as they have today? It is the spirit of iniquity that doth already work, that the Apostle Paul spoke of at Galatia When the Judaizers came in to the Grace churches Paul had established and constrained the people that had been saved by grace to go back under the law or they would go to hell.
The church is in a mess folks, if you don't rightly divided the word of truth as you are commanded to do in 2 Timothy 2:15, the result is what you have in the church today. Total confusion. If you are in one on these churches and they don't preach grace and grace alone without any works for your salvation, you need to get out of there as fast as you can. I am serious.
I hope by now you are beginning to see that the gospel the 12 were sent to preach was not to Gentiles. The only way a Gentile could be part of that ministry was to fear God, work righteousness, and bless the nation Israel. They were very few.
They also had a geographical order in which to carry out this commission, they were to start in Jerusalem, then Judah, then Samaria (10 tribes) and the and only then after all Israel was saved, then they were to go to other nations. And that's a fact.
If you had been alive back then, you were looked down on and treated badly by the Jews; the scripture refers to us over and over as "dogs".
Another example:
Matthew 15:21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. 23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
First noticed the Lord answered her not. Then the disciples are trying to get rid of her. Why? She is not a Jew.
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
You see, The Lord was not come at that time to help anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But noticed what happens when she begins to call him Lord and worship him.
25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. 26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs. The bread is the Word of God and Dogs are gentiles. He called her a dog. Folks, it's in your bible; read it for yourself. I doubt you will ever hear anyone preach on these things. Israel at that time was above all politically, spiritually, and religiously. They were to be fed first.
Notice the position the woman takes, as if she is a dog in her master's house, indicating the only was she can receive a blessing is to worship the Lord and bless Israel and take her position as a dog.
27 And she said , Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters table.
You see, if you are being taught out of these books for your spiritual growth today, the only thing your preacher is giving you is crumbs, back then that's all you were entitled to. Today, through salvation by grace through faith, we have a far more exceeding salvation and we are the Glory of The Lord Jesus Christ by His faith and by His death. We received our salvation because the Jews rejected their Messiah, we have a position in Christ that is far above all heavens, as the apostle Paul said, the third heaven. What we have in Christ so supercedes anything Israel has it's hard to describe. You should give praise and glory to God for having such mercy and saving grace on us.
One more thing, I've never hear anyone preach one this, do you know what was the sign for the Lord to know His time had come to be Crucified? It involves Gentiles again. When the Gentiles begin to seek Christ, it was time for Him to Go. Read these passages with me and think on them, also there is no indication that the Lord ever did speak to them, see for yourself.
John 12:20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: 21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. 22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. 23 And Jesus answered them, saying. The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. 24 Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
I pray sincerely that all who read this will get some new perspective on the difference in Grace and works, I pray when you see the difference you will seek grace not the law. The law was given to show you are condemned and the only one to ever keep it was The Lord Jesus Christ. If you reject grace you are still going to be judged by the law. But if you are saved by grace through faith the law has been removed, it cannot condemn you any longer.
Why won't you be saved today? Today is the day of salvation, none of us are promised tomorrow.
love,
michael
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