Praying for Salvation Over and Over Again

Apostasy in the church and simulated doctrines of men

By Don Koenig

The reason for this article

Most of the major Christian denominations have deviated from biblical Christianity in one style or another. It is not the purpose of this article to point a finger at any 1 group, or to tell truthful Christians to get out of their denomination or non to fellowship. I sympathize that this article volition non win me whatsoever popularity competition but very few others are talking about the apostasy in the church building institutions identified with Christianity and the false doctrines of men within these church institutions that at present deviate from truthful biblical Christianity. The one true Church of God is a spiritual trunk and information technology is interwoven in all Christian denominations. I have noticed in my ain experiences that there is at least a small core of true believers in merely about every church in every denomination. That certainly does not mean that the doctrine of sure denominations actually leads people to Christian salvation - many teach a different gospel than what the Bible teaches. Nonetheless, some in these denominations do find that salvation comes past God's grace through faith (trust) in the risen Savior in spite of denominational heresy. I take at one time in my life been part of all the major groups listed beneath and I take kickoff manus knowledge of what they do (except the Orthodox Catholics). My purpose is to expose the darkness so that the true light of the gospel of Christ will polish . I practise non believe that truthful Christians tin can significantly alter the overwhelmingly apostate pseudo Christian agenda that is now prevails in most of our churches and intuitions'. What nosotros can do nevertheless, is non exist deceived past Satan's devices and not support what is not biblical.

Who is a Christian?

There are over 2.two billion people on the earth who identify themselves equally Christians, but in that location are significantly fewer that are really part of the trunk of Christ.

Jesus said you tin not enter the kingdom of sky unless you are built-in of the Spirit. The new birth from the Holy Spirit occurs when a person truly believes that Jesus is the son of God and trusts in the finished work of Jesus on the cantankerous to atone for their own sins and to justify them earlier God.

The scriptures say you are saved by religion, not past your own works, lest anyone should boast.

We cannot judge if a person who identifies with Christianity is really trusting in Christ or in their religion to save them. If they are trusting in their organized religion to save them they are no more part of the body of Christ than a Jew or Moslem or whatever other religion .

Christianity is a personal human relationship with Jesus because we are one with Him spiritually. This relationship does not depend on having all correct theology but correct theology volition result in more fruitful Christianity.

Organized religion is basically satanic .

All religion contains methods, rituals and practices for human to become righteous enough to ascend or evolve to God. All religion thus believes in the demand for one to get self righteous. True Christianity is the consummate contrary. True Christianity believes in God's righteousness. Because of His righteousness, Jesus the creator, died for our sins and breached the gap between God and man. Truthful Christianity believes God provides a complimentary gift of eternal life to anyone who trusts in Him (has faith) that God is graceful and sent His Son to relieve those who believe in God'south righteousness to save all that trust in His own begotten Savior.

Apostate Christianity (difference from true biblical Christianity) in its final analysis cannot exist distinguished from any other faith in the world in its quest for God. No wonder apostate Christianity will be willing to join with all the other religions of the world. These pseudo Christians recollect they are Christian merely considering it is part of their civilisation and because they believe in a higher power. Even demons believe in a higher power. Apostate Christianity has no testify of a Holy Spirit changed life considering they were never built-in of the Spirit.

Some in religious training were taught that Jesus died for their sins and that they are saved or justified, but

in their lives there is no evidence by works of the Spirit. Do they actually have Jesus or exercise they merely have knowledge about Him? Do they take Churchianity or Christianity?

Those that trust in their own good works to save themselves are self deceived and nonetheless in their sins. If in that location e'er was a religion that could permit homo to fellowship with God it was Judaism but the requirement was to continue all of God'southward law. The laws of Judaism did not achieve salvation considering in human's fallen state he could never continue the whole law. Man'south righteousness and good works can never bring about eternal life with God because homo always falls short of the required perfection necessary to dwell in the presence of a Holy God. Yet Judaism did non fail because through the tribe of Judah a Savior from God was born.

True Christianity

Jesus being built-in a man but being besides God perfectly fulfilled the law. He Himself had no sin but He obediently paid the price for the expletive on man because of sin. Sin brought into the world past Adam'southward disobedience was paid for past God'due south own Lamb sacrifice for all sin. At the cross Jesus took the curse upon Himself, for information technology is written " cursed is anyone who hangs on a tree" (Gal iii:13). Death could non hold the righteous kinsman redeemer of man and Creator of all. He died but rose to brainstorm a new cosmos and in doing and then condemned the old fallen creation to its eternal destruction. Those who trust Him are built-in again into this new new creation of believers called the "Body of Christ". Subsequently we are born into this new creation, God no longer sees usa as the sinners that we were but He sees us every bit the paid for "bride of His Son in one body with Him". ( The scripture says in marriage the 2 shall become one mankind - Paul used this every bit the instance of Christ and the Church - Eph v: 31- 32. )

"True Christianity is and so believing that God's promise to provide a Savior was fulfilled in His Son Jesus." This hope of a Savior and Messiah to restore man'due south fellowship with God is integrated throughout all scripture.

What do the large Christian denominations now confess?

Unfortunately, Virtually of the large Christian denomination leadership has become infiltrated by the aristocracy of Satan and much of the institutional church building has fallen abroad from the true faith and have followed doctrines of men. Some have a unlike Jesus then the Jesus of scripture. After the rapture of the faithful Christians the apostate church will keep without skipping a beat out into the fires of the tribulation. In the following paragraphs I give my reasons for saying there is at present apostasy in the church throughout the major institutional churches that identify with Christianity.

The Roman Catholic Church .

The membership of this church is more than half of all that are identified as Christianity (over 1 billion people) but the majority of Catholics baptized into the denomination practise not fifty-fifty regularly practice their religion. Additionally, many Catholics know lilliputian about their ain behavior or they ignore the doctrine. Many integrate it with native pagan religions.

This denomination teaches that you are saved by grace, religion and works of merit. God'due south grace is something you lot must earn by keeping the church sacraments, traditions and rituals and by doing good works. The priests of the church are successors of the apostles and accept all of Christ'due south authority on world. The priests are grace dispensers and the church is infallible . If yous accumulate plenty merit you volition get to sky. Otherwise you will have to go through the fires of purgatory or to hell. The writings of the church fathers and the traditions of the church have equal weight with the holy scriptures. The members of this church are in the process of beingness saved by their works of merit.

Problems:

Many of the church's traditions and practices are contrary to scripture proving that this church building is far from being infallible. Satan with his wolves in sheep'southward article of clothing has infiltrated this church and corrupted it. The Catholic Church building has become like the corrupted Judaism that Jesus condemned. It is largely a church of Pharisees and of bullheaded ritual -- a church building of idolatry, rote prayer, and traditions of men. To rid about of Christianity of apostasy nosotros first would have to get to the root of that betrayment and purge out about of the doctrines that have infiltrated the Catholic Church.

The seven sacraments

The seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church are rituals for grace. The church believes that the ritual itself will dispense grace from God. Information technology appears that the church puts the cart before the horse. N o spiritual grace comes from ritual , merely power from the Holy Spirit is given to those who listen to God and obey Him.

• The sacrament of the baptism of infants is not scriptural or logical. The ritual of baptism is for identifying believers with the expiry and resurrection of Jesus. Babies exercise not believe. True baptism is dying with Christ and by faith being born into a new cosmos called the "body of Christ".
• The sacrament of the Eucharist should exist a memorial and remembrance of Christ'due south broken body and shed blood for united states of america. In that location is no place in scripture that says nosotros are to offer Christ'due south body on the chantry daily or that the bread and the wine actually becomes the torso of Jesus, and past putting these elements in your stomach yous will receive Him into your body and get grace from Him.
• The Sacrament of contrition and penance is contrary to scripture. The scriptures say that Jesus is the simply intermediator between God and human. The doctrine that y'all can accept your sins forgiven by confession to a priest who so intermediates and gives absolution if you do the penance he dictates, abolishes what Jesus did for us on the cross for all sin. Who is sinless enough to intermediate for united states with God except Jesus, and which sin did Jesus non pay for?
• This church building teaches that the sacrament of confirmation is where y'all get the power of the Holy Spirit. The scriptures withal, teach that you get the Holy Spirit when y'all believe and you get power to practise His will when yous earnestly pray for information technology.
• Marriage is a matrimony between two people. At that place is no reason given in scripture for it to be a Church sacrament or for the ceremony to be performed by a priest or clergy -- non that the practice of getting married past the elder of any church building is incorrect.
• The ordination of a special priesthood is opposite to New Testament scripture. The scripture teaches that all in Christ are kings and priests .
• The sacrament of Extreme Unction indicates that the dying get some special grace by having a priest say some ritualistic prayers over them. This is a baloney of the true biblical practices of elders praying over the sick.

The cult of Mary

A large sect in this church teaches that Mary is co-Redeemer and that she was without sin. The scripture says that there is salvation in no other name than Christ Jesus. The scriptures also say that all have sinned. That includes Mary. Jesus said that John the Baptist was the greatest of all born of women. Why did He non say His mother was if she was without sin? When the natural female parent of Jesus and His brothers (yes, Jesus had brothers according to scripture) idea He went crazy and wanted to talk to Him, Jesus said His mother and brothers are those that practice the will of His Father. Mary is non the mother of God, she is the mother of the natural body that God incarnated. Mary is not the mother of the Church. She had to believe to be saved and had to receive the Holy Spirit and become a member of the "body of Christ" similar everyone else. How tin Mary be the mother of a membership that includes herself?

The idea that Mary is interceding for the Christians and actualization to many and giving statements to people that are frequently contrary to the scriptures is an insult to Mary. The bottom line of these apparitions at the very least is a message of salvation past works which will save no one. Furthermore, many Catholics are now into witchcraft and things forbidden in the Bible because they believe in these lies. Much of what is being said past apparitions attributed to Mary parallels pagan new age teachings and doctrine of demons. Those into Mariology like to reduce the God of the Universe to a child on Mary's knee but He is a consuming fire and the but intermediator between God and man.

Maxim the Rosary with its fifty " Hail Mary'south" is rote prayer to someone other than God. This is idolatry! Jesus said to pray to the Father. If He wanted people to pray to his earthly female parent He would have said and so. Furthermore, how in the world could anyone really believe that Mary would want to hear the same prayer over and over and over once again? Exercise people think that she or they get power from their chanting? This is witchcraft! Fifty-fifty common sense should tell them that no one wants to hear the same affair over and over once more. I am sure the real Mary of the Bible would tell the people who chant these prayers to please shut upward.

Many times the real reasons for the rote prayer is not even addressed in the prayer service. For example, when Catholics pray "Hail Mary's" in forepart of abortion clinics. Their ritualistic chanting leaves the body of Christ open to much ridicule by unbelievers and all of these rote "prayers" are nothing but a counterfeit substitution for existent prayer to God near the real situation that is needing Christian prayer. The scripture tells us not to say rote prayers equally the heathen do that remember they will be heard for their many words. We are told that God knows what we need before we ask. Our requests should exist like a child toward his Father. Endeavour saying the same thing fifty or more times to your earthly begetter or mother daily and note their response to you.

The "queen of heaven" was worshiped in ancient Babylon. She as well had a kid in her arms. This was not Mary and Jesus merely were demon gods. God did non have anything skillful to say about the people who worshiped her (see reference) . Evidently some Catholics accept used the blessed proper name of Mary of scripture to contain pagan Babylonian practices and behavior into the Church.

The doctrine of purgatory

The doctrine of purgatory is an insult to Jesus and the finished work that He did on the cross to pay for the sins of the whole globe. If we sin, He is faithful to forgive the states our sins if we confess them to Him. Scripture says that there is now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus. Jesus either paid for all sins past, present, and future or He paid for none of them. Scripture teaches no other doctrine.

A few of the many other heresies:

• In much of the third world Catholicism has been integrated with pagan witchcraft and no major correction is coming from Rome. Withal the Vatican rails against Christians that teach the truth about such things .
• The scapular is worn by some Catholics who believe that salvation or grace tin can exist earned from something they hang effectually their neck.
• Expecting spiritual power by using holy water, medals, holy pictures, and objects blessed by a priest is only belief in the occult. It just is witchcraft .
• Many Catholic churches allow gambling and drinking on the church premises to raise funds .
• The Pope equally the vicar of Christ is non scriptural and many Popes have been anti-Christ. Peter was not the first Pope . The first real Pope was Leo 1st well-nigh 400 years later. Peter was an apostle to the Jews. Paul was the campaigner to the gentiles from which most mail first century Christianity descended.
• The former Pope called Moslems brothers, kissed the Koran and said that Moslems are on a path to God. He had a close friendship with the top leader of Eastern Pagan religion and said they were on the same path. He told Catholics that salvation of the earth comes through Mary. Further, he warned Catholics virtually the dangers of Christian evangelicals that teach the Bible. He welcomed not believers in Christ as brothers but did not rescind the one hundred anathema'south made by the Catholic Church against all Protestant believers. (In catholic theology the abomination's mean that all Protestants will become to Hell. The abomination'southward came from a infallible papal prescript so it can never exist rescinded. Thus, the only hope of salvation for Protestants inside the Catholic theology is for Protestants to return to the Catholic Church building). This is non Christian leadership it is the type of anti-Christ leadership that Paul warned true Christians to beware of simply this church wants to declare this Pope a saint. The latest popes are apparently no wiser about salvation theology. They seems to retrieve that all people of good volition are saved and many religions similar Islam worship the aforementioned God as Christians fifty-fifty though Islam doctrine says that God has no Son. Some Catholics are now calling the latest pope an anti-pope considering some of his views conflict with the views of other infallible popes. Oh, the joy of blind Religion!
• The Catholic Church building has a wretched history and continues countless heretical teachings. Read " A Women Rides the Animate being " by Dave Hunt for detailed information on the history and practices of this church in apostasy.

The bottom line nigh Roman Catholicism

The Roman Catholic Church every bit an institution is generally apostate. But each individual Cosmic tin truly know if they are trusting in Jesus every bit He is define in the Bible for their conservancy or if they are just trusting in a faux hope of following Catholic doctrine to salve them. The doctrines of the Catholic Church are convoluted and their doctrine of salvation is reverse to the clear didactics of New Testament pedagogy. The majority that claim to exist Catholics do not even do Catholicism.

Some in this church have found the path to conservancy and have been born of the Holy Spirit but many of these are non producing the fruit that they should. The good works they think they practice in many cases are naught more than empty rituals and practices contrary to God's will. Many are building on the house of God with harbinger. After the rapture of true believers, what is left of the Roman Cosmic Church will get the head of the great harlot religious system (Revelation 17) that will bring in the Antichrist and his faux prophet. The majority of this church building (Thyatira in the book of Revelation) volition be tried past fire in the great tribulation (the real purgatory for Catholics). Commendations: + Catholic charities
+ They helped to preserve the scriptures
+ Church building subject area
+ Potent customs orientation
+ Social Programs
+ Hates ballgame
+ Teaches confronting the faithless practice of nativity control
+ They still teach some of the essential doctrines of the faith
+ Strong schoolhouse arrangement that still teaches moral absolutes
+ Believes scriptures are God inspired

The Orthodox Catholic Churches

These churches have about one hundred fifty million followers.

This church building is much the same as the Roman Catholics although some of the Roman Catholic heresies are non taught. Even so, they accept added heresies of their own. They teach that members are saved past the teachings and traditions of the church building, by the sacraments of the church, and through praying to icons. The essential doctrine of beingness saved by organized religion is not taught. This institutional church is mostly apostate and the church in full general has washed few good works on the earth. I doubt if at that place is a significant number of true Christians within the Orthodox Catholic Church.

I believe this is Jesus' message to the Roman Cosmic and Orthodox Catholic Church.

Rev 2:xviii And to the affections of the church building in Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who hath his optics like a flame of burn, and his feet are like unto burnished brass:
19 I know thy works, and thy love and faith and ministry and patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.
20 But I have this against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to consume things sacrificed to idols.
21 And I gave her time that she should apologize; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.
22 Behold, I cast her into a bed, and them that commit infidelity with her into corking tribulation, except they repent of her works.
23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto each ane of you according to your works.
24 But to yous I say, to the rest that are in Thyatira, as many as have not this instruction, who know not the deep things of Satan, as they are wont to say; I cast upon you none other burden.
25 Nevertheless that which ye accept, hold fast till I come.
26 And he that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto the cease, to him will I give authority over the nations:
27 and he shall rule them with a rod of fe, equally the vessels of the potter are broken to shivers; equally I also accept received of my Father:
28 and I will give him the morning star.
29 He that hath an ear, permit him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

for additional references check my scripture references and run into: "all the letters of Paul in the New Testament"

The Protestants

As well the Roman and Orthodox Catholics at that place are effectually 900 million other people living in the globe that say they are Christian. Nigh of these call themselves Protestants, although a minority of those that might also exist number with the Protestants are cults that deny sure essential doctrines of the Christian faith. The majority of all Protestants are in old mainline liberal and reformed denominations, or they place with Baptists, other evangelical denominations, Pentecostals, Charismatics, or independent Bible and community churches. The biggest cults of Christianity are the Mormons and the Latter Day Saints.

The overwhelming majority of the people in the liberal Protestant denominations

have never had a born again experience nor do their lives reverberate that God is indwelling them. Virtually of them exercise not regularly fellowship with other believers or nourish services. Many that do attend services are Sunday Christians. There is no fellowship with Jesus or each other exterior the formal church service.

For the nearly part their Christianity is cultural and the human relationship they accept with God is superficial. Many believe in humanism, socialism, development and the bones goodness of man rather than the worldview and truths that the scriptures teach.

Few people in the liberal denominations know the essentials of their own faith . Many believe that all religions lead to God. (Inside the Protestants there are about five hundred million Evangelical and Pentecostal Protestants that have for the most part kept the truthful organized religion. The things listed in the paragraph beneath should not use to them. I write about their ain unique issues in a later paragraph.)

Problems :

• About believe that people are saved into the church through infant baptism, contrary to scripture
• Some believe that people are saved by the ritual of baptism
• Many have retained much of the heretical doctrines of the Catholics
• Most lord the clergy over the laity
• Some do abroad with the inspiration and infallibility of scripture
• Some put men under the authority of women opposite to scriptures
• Some condone abortion, all condone nascence control
• Many accept no salvation message and preach only a social gospel
• Too many churches put a flick of a Norwegian on their wall and telephone call him Jesus
• Many call up they are Christians because that is their tradition and civilisation
• Some recall that Christianity is just one of many means to God
• Some churches teach humanism instead of the teachings of Christ
• Some teach a message of materialism
• Some do not believe that Jesus was God
• Some think that Christ is a consciousness and Jesus will non render physically (unity )
• Some teach that man is a perfect spirit and all we run across is an illusion ( Christian Science )
• Some Christian identity cults make Jesus a lesser God - Mormons and Jehovah witnesses
• Most are amillennial and do not teach the imminent return of Christ
• Some teach doctrines of satanic psychology as truth
• Some are state supported churches that are spiritually expressionless
• Most churches have no discipline or accountability for their membership
• Some teach that the Church has replaced Israel and allegorize or spiritualize prophetic scripture
• Some allow flagrant sinners lead the flock

Commendations:
+ Some are community orientated
+ Some have Christian education
+ Many still believe in the infallibility of scripture
+ Nigh still confess most of the essential doctrines of the faith
+ Some support missionaries
+ Some have good youth and social programs

I believe the message from Jesus to these churches is:

Rev 3:i ¶ And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the vii stars: I know thy works, that chiliad hast a name that thousand livest, and m art expressionless .
ii Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were prepare to die: for I have {one} establish no works of thine perfected earlier my God. {1) Many ancient authorities read not institute thy works}
3 Think therefore how m hast received and didst hear; and keep it, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not lookout, I volition come every bit a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
4 But chiliad hast a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments: and they shall walk with me in white; for they are worthy.
5 He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
half-dozen He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

Rev 3:14¶ And to the angel of the church building in Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the true-blue and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:
15 I know thy works, that yard art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert common cold or hot.
16 So because grand art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of zero; and knowest not that thousand art the wretched ane and miserable and poor and blind and naked :
eighteen I counsel thee to buy of me gilt refined by burn down, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that m mayest clothe thyself, and that the shame of thy nakedness be non made manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine optics, that m mayest see.
19 Every bit many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and apologize.
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and volition sup with him, and he with me.
21 He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down downwards with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and saturday down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

The non Pentecostal Evangelicals

Many of the non Pentecostal Evangelicals have had a truthful born over again feel and those that really believe are part of the i true Church building. Some of the following issues may not qualify as truthful apostasy from the religion merely they deviate from the truths of true biblical Christianity considering they add doctrines of men or legalism .

Problems :

• Many Evangelicals place too much emphasis on cocky reliance instead of relying on the Holy Spirit
• Success seminars are taught on some church properties as if they were biblical doctrine
• Many have introduced psychotherapy and its underlying psychologies in their counseling programs and replaced Godly counsel with satanic theories
• Some who phone call themselves evangelicals still embrace the mainline theology that the Church fulfills the promises that were given to natural Israel without status. They say there is no future Kingdom on earth from Jerusalem opposite to many scripture passages that say there is a restoration on earth for natural Israel.
• Some have footling or no church subject field
• Some have occult-like inner healing and birthing seminars
• Some compromise essentials of the Christian faith for unity amongst denominations
• Many pastors chore-shop for materialistic or prestigious positions or run away from problems and divorce the flock they were called to serve
• Many flocks divorce the elderberry of their church over petty squabbles
• The secondary leadership in the church too frequently is picked because of their position in the community or the size of their banking company account
• Some worship the idol of money and care more about their building programs than evangelism of the lost
• Many churches put a picture of a Norwegian on the wall and phone call him Jesus
• Most large churches have a land club mentality. They have wonderful fellowship and they have many programs for those in the social club but they exercise little virtually improving the community they live in either spiritually or physically
• Well-nigh have now replaced real Bible study with written report of quarterly magazines near Bible passages and applications for living
• Many preach that all who drink any alcoholic beverages are sinning. Some even will not allow into their membership or will remove from their membership those who profess to use alcohol. They ignore or spin many scriptures nigh the use of vino. Some just need to cease repeating doctrines that they swallowed from legalistic teachers and study the context of all the passages themselves. Alcohol abuse is a sin simply the Church building needs to exist truthful and credible and should not unduly put its members on guilt trips. They should non label people as sinners who in faith are mostly practicing something that in moderation actually could be a benefit to their health
• Some have created lists of actions of the flesh that they say are sinful such as drinking, smoking, dancing, watching movies or Tv set, or fifty-fifty listening to sure Christian music. Some do not even allow musical instruments in church only these same churches ignore actions of the flesh like gluttony, gossip, and judging everyone every bit sinners who have the greater faith to believe that God does not abide by their list of human made forbidden activities
• Many, to exist all inclusive and to achieve non-believers, take made their worship service on Dominicus to be a time to amusement rather than a time to feed the flock and worship God
• Some utilize the tithe system of government for Israel to the Church. They teach that Christians are required to tithe to their church as if this is New Testament truth. Information technology is not! At that place is not a give-and-take virtually tithing in New Testament instruction to the Church building merely there is teaching about cheerful costless volition giving. If pastors nonetheless insist on didactics people to tithe equally Israel did, they also should know that Israel had three tithes and following that instance will require your members to requite near 23 percent of their increase non ten percent. (Good luck!)
• Many do not fully understand that the Christians are the temple of God. Their building is a building, information technology is not a holy sanctuary. The people who make upward the Church building are the holy sanctuary. There is no special grace for those who come to the front end of the edifice to pray. God's sanctuary is in His people and He is not any more nowadays in the forepart of whatsoever building or near the preacher. Where is the popular altar call even institute in the Bible?
• Many have at present bought into the seeker-friendly church growth motility. They knowingly or unknowingly use paraphrases of the Bible that sometimes twists scripture. They do non teach a salvation bulletin on Lord's day. The leadership in general sees the Church ruling on earth before the render of Christ and they tell their people that studying hereafter Bible prophecy is a distraction
• Many are embracing the Emergent or Emerging Church movement. This movement is redefining the Bible and leading many into mysticism.
• Some have a few of the aforementioned problems as the Pentecostals listed in the next section.

Commendations: + Stiff Christian educational activity
+ Some discipleship
+ Some evangelism
+ A practiced grasp on the doctrine of salvation
+ Virtually go on the essential doctrines of the faith
+ Strong missionary support
+ Belief in the infallibility of God's discussion
+ Mostly Bible centered services
+ Some community orientation/domicile fellowship groups
+ Charity

The Pentecostals

Pentecostals are normally included in the numbers of the Evangelicals but on some doctrines of faith and practice their are huge differences then I volition include them separately hither. Well-nigh of the Pentecostals and Charismatics accept confessed Jesus as Lord and are born of the Spirit. Pentecostals seem to alive out their faith in the flesh the most, but also often in that location is a lack of field of study and accountability in their churches. It has given ascension to quite a flake of deviant Christianity . Some of their behavior and practices have separated them from other true Christians. Some of it is heretical or cultic such as the Oneness and Holiness doctrines, Some of it is occult and parallels new age teaching. One problem with Pentecostals seems to exist a lack of biblical knowledge and proper exegesis of certain scriptures that the Pentecostals like to empathise. However, the main problem is that nobody in these churches will dare challenge any Pentecostal leader that is over them. They can be very much nether bondage to their leaders. They will blindly follow self-anointed teachers claiming direct messages from God and they volition follow their every new whim of doctrine as if it came from God. They are likewise taught to believe in direct revelation from God outside of the scriptures. Thus, so called subjective spiritual experiences leave them broad open to all sorts of deceptions.

A few decades ago most of the Pentecostals/Charismatics split into 4 camps. One camp stayed with truthful biblical Christianity (i.e., the Calvary Chapels), some other camp went on to

experience-based belief and have gone off into a ever descending screw of more and more error and fifty-fifty doctrine of demons (i.e. the Vineyard Motility). The tertiary camp call themselves " Discussion Churches " they accept "embraced proper name it and merits it" theology amid other New Age concepts. The forth army camp is those who have bought into Kingdom now/Reconstruction/Dominion theology that does away with premillennial beliefs nigh Christ's return and replaces it with Dominion Theology where the church rules on earth before Christ returns (i.due east., The New Apostolic Reformation), In some of these churches the camps overlap and information technology gets really hard to sort it all out.

Problems :

• Near confuse being filled with the Spirit for service, with Spirit baptism and teach people that they become the Holy Spirit in a separate experience after conversion, as if you tin can divide Jesus and the Holy Spirit (there is 1 God)
• Many have back rooms where past emotional effort, peer pressure, and trying to speak in tongues they try to become you the Holy Ghost
• Many say the only initial evidence of being born of the spirit is speaking in tongues and say other Christians that oasis't had this feel are not born of the Spirit. Past this doctrine they divide the torso of Christ and by saying that not Pentecostal Evangelical Christians do not have the Holy Spirit they insult the Holy Spirit that is obviously working through all born again believers
• Many appoint new converts and the unproved to positions of leadership contrary to scripture and many of these crusade neat ruin to the Church building
• In many churches there is little accountability and the leadership often goes astray
• Many are ritualistic. Even though most of the members came out of ritualistic churches like Catholicism and Liberal Protestantism they have incorporated new rituals back into the Church . Some of these new rituals are praying and singing in tongues during the service, anointing everything with oil to go rid of evil spirits, raising of hands equally the only correct position of worship, slaying in the spirit, casting out demons, healing lines, etc
• Many have rejected the priesthood of Catholicism but so embraced a new special priesthood who claim to be God's anointed
• Some claim to be prophets and make prophetic statements but their prophecies do not come true, yet they are yet embraced equally prophets by the leadership and most members, contrary to the explicit definition of a truthful prophet in scripture.
• Likewise many in this movement go to the traveling circus clowns like Benny Hinn to find phony healing instead of asking for the spiritual elders of the Church building to pray for them so God will exercise His volition in their lives for His celebrity
• Some think you can go a prophet by self engagement and self volition. They also retrieve you can learn how to be a prophet by going to a prophetic school
• Too many of the leaders are con artists and buffoons who fleece the sheep and open the trunk of Christ to unnecessary ridicule
• Likewise many of the leaders are hypnotists or loud oral fissure slap-up control freaks that coerce the church into altered states of reality and emotionalism
• Besides many confessed conversions are by coercion, peer force per unit area, and emotionalism. Many are pressured to exercise what the leaders ask and presently autumn away considering their coerced conversion was not genuine
• Too many of the leaders twist the meanings of scripture to back up a pet or even deviant doctrine
• Some teach that emotional experience is but every bit reliable as scripture
• Some teach name it and merits it and positive confession -- "if yous believe it you will receive information technology"
• Some teach that we are now gods and we have God-similar power in our words . They assert that nosotros can speak things into beingness
• Some teach spiritual laws and that God is discipline to them and thus make God someone to be manipulated past following some set formula designed by men
• Some teach that faith is believing in conventionalities. They teach yous will receive what yous believe (religion in faith)
• Some claim healing that never happened, hoping that this confession volition really bring it about. Others proclaim hearsay about healing from others as gospel truth
• Some deny the triune nature of God taught throughout scripture
• Some teach that the King James translation is the merely inerrant version (errors and all) . They teach that the King James Bible is the only right translation and that other honest translations of scripture are Satanic
• Some add to "salvation by faith" the false doctrine of "being saved past works of obedience"
• Some say the ritual of water baptism by immersion with a preacher saying the words "I baptize you into the name of Jesus Christ" is required for salvation and say all those baptized by sprinkling or baptized into the proper name of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are non saved
• Some believe that doctrines taught by their denomination are essential for salvation and thus dominion out all other Christians as even being Christian
• Some take an obscure scripture and make information technology a doctrine (similar handling snakes)
• Some claim to cast demons out of true Christians
• Some permit women to exist pastors and to rule over men opposite to scripture
• Some brand railing accusations confronting Satan for sins of the mankind and don't accept personal responsibility for sin in their life
• Some at present follow teaching that every disaster in the US is linked to Israel. Every bit if God allows tit-for-tat disasters to come on the US for every dealing with unbelieving Israel. Fifty-fifty in the aboriginal history of Israel when God brought judgment on the enemies of Israel it was outset spoken of past the prophets and the judgments came in God's ain timing. If one follows this thinking to its logical decision, all the disasters in the world are related to Israel and current events and non to a fallen world. Otherwise, why single out the United states of america who really is State of israel's best friend? These teachers search long and hard after every disaster and can ever observe some obscure link to a dealing the U.s. had with the state of Israel. They are particularly busy in the autumn when it is hurricane season. This instruction is not credible and it opens Christian Zionism up to much ridicule
• Some Pentecostals still follow the teachings of those who claim that there are subconscious equal altitude codes in the Bible fifty-fifty after this theory has been disproved. Some of these are fifty-fifty using their perceived hidden codes as a crystal ball to predict the future
• Some encompass Kingdom now/Reconstruction/Dominion theology , which does away with the restoration of natural Israel and the literal reading of unfulfilled prophetic scripture and replaces it with a foreign doctrine that is not taught in the Bible. They say the Church building will rule on earth earlier Jesus can return.
• Some are continually claiming new biblical revelation or prophecy. The volume stores are full of Pentecostal conjectures that never come up truthful.
• Most Pentecostals too take many of the same human being-made and legalistic problems listed under the non Pentecostal Evangelicals

Commendations:

+ Enthusiastic worship
+ Potent desire to alive out the Christian life
+ Strong Evangelism
+ Many still expect the literal fulfillment of prophetic scriptures
+ Missionary support
+ Some Christian education
+ Some discipleship
+ All believe that original scripture is without error
+ Most go on the essential doctrines of the faith+
+ Some habitation fellowships
+ Charity

Having said the good the bad and the ugly there are many fruitful Christians in the Evangelical and Pentecostal Churches. Here is what I believe is the Lord's bulletin to these people:

Rev 3:7 ¶ And to the angel of the church building in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is truthful, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:
8 I know thy works (behold, I have {1} set up before thee a door opened, which none can shut), that thou hast a trivial power, and didst keep my give-and-take, and didst not deny my name. {1) Gr given}
9 Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, simply do lie; behold, I will make them to come up and {1} worship earlier thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. {1) The Greek word denotes an act of reverence, whether paid to a fauna, or to the Creator.}
x Because thou didst keep the discussion of my {i} patience, I also will continue thee from the hour of {2} trial, that hr which is to come upon the whole {iii} earth, to {4} attempt them that dwell upon the earth. {1) Or stedfastness ii) Or temptation iii) Gr inhabited earth 4) Or tempt}
eleven I come quickly: agree fast that which thou hast, that no one accept thy crown.
12 He that overcometh, I volition make him a pillar in the {1} temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the metropolis of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine ain new proper name. {1) Or sanctuary}
xiii He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

12 He that overcometh, I will make him a colonnade in the {1} temple of my God, and he shall exit thence no more: and I volition write upon him the proper name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name. {1) Or sanctuary}
13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

Conclusion on betrayment in the Church

The scripture says that there will exist a great falling away from the true religion in the last days. It says men will not endure sound doctrine only will have itching ears and volition heap to themselves teachers that volition fulfill their own lusts. We are in those days where many in the church are following doctrines of men rather than the Bible. At that place are about ii billion people who identify with Christianity on the world today but how many are truly the bride of Christ? Jesus asked, when He returns volition He find faith on the globe? The respond for nigh of the world is no. For those who identify with Christianity it is yes and no. Many calling themselves Christians today accept only empty religion and not real organized religion in the Savior.

My all-time gauge is a tithe (ten percent) of those who identify with Christianity are really built-in of the Spirit and volition become at the time of the rapture (Information technology could be more than -- only God knows). If my estimate is correct the ninety percentage of pseudo Christians that stay will hardly miss them. Those that stay volition remain in the apostate harlot church (Rev 17) and experience the great tribulation where they will accept a pick to follow Jesus and lose their lives or follow Satan and lose their soul.

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