II Corinthians 5:21

Quote from scripture " For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us , that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
   There are those who claim that Jesus became sin to save us from sin so that we made be righteous. This can not be!! This is not logical. Note if Christ became sin He would not have been able to be the perfect God man, because His Father would have judge Him to go to Hell because He was not perfect and sinless. Also if He was not perfect than His blood would not have cleanse us from sin which means He was not our Savior. The way this verse should be understood is that Christ was a sin offering, as the Old Testament illustrates in the books of Exodus , Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Be careful what your pastor is teaching. Note I have been out of the church system for 4-5 years and I recognize these men are false teachers and hypocrites. Last year I went through a baptism of repentance and began to understand how I was fooled by the church system. Unless you read the scriptures and are seeking the Truth you will not find the Truth because God looks upon the heart and your motives, and God is not mock. That is why He speaks in Matthew 7:7-8 Ask, Seek, and Knock; you must be persistent with a humble heart and hunger for Him not church activities. Most of the doctrines that are taught in the churches has nothing to do with Doctrine of Christ. Note in Jude 4 states: "For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ." Please be aware in Matthew 7:13-14 that there will be few who will find the narrow gate or be able to enter due to false teachings that abound today. Are you willing to seek the truth or are you going to continue to listen to your pastors who teach nothing but man's doctrines instead of the doctrine of Christ.

Isaiah 55:6-11

 Quotation from Isaiah chapter 55:6-11 NKJV. "Seek the Lord while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, And He will have mercy on Him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, Not are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.  This is incredible the scripture is stating that if you seek Him before the judgment and pursue Him while you have breathe you can be reconcile with God. With this we are to forsake our wickedness and our thoughts and return to Him and there are no hints of original sin that will prevent us to come to Him or excuses because we have free will not like the Armenians teach or the Calvinists. The Armenians teach that we have Free Will but only to do evil not good this is not logical because if you do evil you must be able to do good because God gave us the Ten commandments so He knew that we have the potential to obey Him, if not there was no reason for Him to give these commandments. Also the Armenians speak about Prevenient grace from God that He must some way override our free will so that He can force us to obey Him. Prevenient grace is not spoken of in the Bible it is an invention of man so that he have excuse to live in sin. Plus this theology leads or teaches that God is the author of sin. Wake up and see the Truth do not be bother by the doctrines of men which makes you a slave to sin, but pursue the Truth and you will be set free from sin.

Zacchaeus's repentance Luke 19:1-10

 Here is a brief story of a man who sought repentance in the right manner. Many people think this is a story for kids and it has little to say to us. But in reality it is important and it is foundational because if we do not see the significance of what is being relay by Luke than we will never understand what is repentance in order to have salvation. Let us examine what is being said, "Then Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. Now behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector and he was rich. And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not because of the crowd, for he was of short statute. So he ran ahead and climbed up a sycamore tree to see Him, for He was going to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house. So he made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully. But when they saw it, they all complained, saying, He has gone to be a guest with a man who is a sinner. Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold. And Jesus said to him, Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham; for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."
 So we see that Zacchaeus is anxious he wants to see Jesus and he hopes that he will have the chance to talk to Jesus, so why does he want to talk to Jesus about? He wants to share with Christ what has happen to him, that is he sees that he has wronged people and has gone back to them and reconcile what he has stolen from others and made it right with them. Do you understand it, it is not enough to tell God that you are sorry for your sins that you have committed this is not repentance this does not satisfy God. He wants to see demonstrations that you mean business and no matter how long it takes you must be reconcile with God, many are trying to appease God, that is why you are hypocrites because nothing change within you and you have no victory over sin because you are entangle with it. Look at Romans 6:6 "knowing this, that our old man(sinful heart) was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin." With this you should not be involve in sin period, note only those have gone through baptism of repentance have within them the power to say no to sin and not do it. If you are living in sin, you have nothing in common with Christ. You are being deceived by this cleaver pastors(hirelings) who have no regard for you or themselves as they continue in their lifestyles that demonstrate that they are not of Christ. Look around at the examples of these men who are involved in pornography, divorced, chasing after the opposite sex, it is everywhere there's no denying it and these men are teaching you about the Truth. Wake up before it is too late.

Are you being deceived by the modern church?

As we examine a couple of scriptures, the first is in 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 "And with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." This is a warning to those who think that they can lived a double life, yet this what the modern gospel is that you can live in sin and that God is not going to judge you. Let us examine what Romans 1:24-25 says "Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever." Wow this is about judgment upon those who believed The Lie and worshiped Satan instead of God. This is the same lie that Satan used on eve in Genesis, that if you sin you will not died. Most people will say that Eve did not die at that point but in reality she die spiritually. This is what being taught by these ungodly men in your pulpits and you have no idea what they are telling you. Many are telling you that grace is covering these sins in your life or that God is loving and kind and he would not do something like that to me. Note you are responsible to get right with God and if you choose to continue to live in sin than it is your fault not God's. Do you understand, the gospel today is not the Truth. They are claiming by this false gospel to be saving people in their sins. Note Jesus did not teach this , He taught you must go through a baptism of repentance, this is not some short sinner prayer, which is a lie. It is a season of Godly sorrow which is explain in 2 Corinthians 7:9-11 and the story of Jonah chapter 3. Many people who claim to be Christians say that they have accepted Jesus in their hearts or that they go to church and are faithful. But the truth is anyone can do these things and yet have no faith at all. Just because we acknowledge that Christ died on the cross, He arose, and was resurrected doesn't mean we believe in Him. What we are talking about here is that we can fool ourselves in thinking that we have faith, but this is just acknowledging that something happen in history. The faith that saves man is his willingness to be obedient to scripture and to do them and this means that we must die to ourselves each day and pick up the cross. And this is not being taught in the pulpits today at all. Christ is our example by what he did when He was on the earth.

Justification by Faith Alone

  Is this what the Bible teaches about justification that it is by Faith alone? I thought that was true when I was in the Church system but now I realize that I was wrong. Faith alone has to have a working principle behind it or it is a dead faith just like the demons believe that Jesus is the son of God but there is no change that takes place. For example Abraham does the works of faith that he was obedient and follow God. According to John MacArthur he speaks of a Forensic faith, it describes what God declares about the believer not what He does to change the believer, so it is window dressing. In fact, justification effects no actual changes whatsoever in the sinners nature or character. All it does is changes our status. A good summation is that we are positional righteous, but practical we are unrighteous.    What does the Bible say about this? According to Romans chapter 5:1 says "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."  In 2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new."  Another characteristic of justification,  "to those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires" from Galatians 5:24. The fourth example of justification that we are made acceptable in the Beloved from Ephesians 6:1.
  What these men who teach justification in this manner by "Faith Alone" do not include the deeds of faith which demonstrate that you are a new creature. According to the writers of the New Testament, faith always meant that there were works together with faith, they never understood any other way. For example, we can take marriage to a young man and woman if this man truly loves his wife he will demonstrate in many different ways in how he expresses his love for her. Even they can look back when they were dating and see examples of his love for her, and when they became engage the man would continue to show his affection toward her, by writing notes or repairing something that has value in her eyes. Note it is the way as believers that we being the bride of Christ that we show our affection to Christ by digging into His word, or staying pure and not falling into sin. But according to John MacArthur we do not have to show our love (commitment) toward Christ, because He does everything for us and He does not see us sin. All of life is demonstrated by our willingness to be committed to getting a education to do something with our lives. So why should God do everything for us, because then we would be spoiled and there would be no commitment from us to be righteous. These men are just like the Pharisees they are addicted to their doctrines but they can not see the Truth that we must follow Christ because He was an example to us all. Are you like the Pharisees?

Grace what does it mean?

This is a interesting verse, let us examine and see what it is saying. "For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and Lord Jesus Christ." This verse is explaining what is taking place today in the churches, what do I mean by this. These men are ungodly and they will be judge by God in the future because they have twisted grace, that is they have given a wrong meaning of grace by saying unmerited favor, mercy, and pardon. With this meaning they have taught that grace means that God overlooks man's sin which is the farthest thing from the truth. Or others have said that it is "God riches at Christ's expense." And yet in our hearts we think that God is lowering His righteousness because we are not able to achieve His standard. But this is quite the opposite let us look at Titus 2:11-14 "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people zealous for good works." Do you understand the principle of grace it is not mercy or pardon but it is teaching us that those who have gone through a baptism of repentance it is teaching us not to sin. This is a far cry of God overlooking our sin but He is teaching us to attain to His standard.

James 4:7-10 The Deeds of Repentance

Today Gospel has nothing to do with the true gospel that was preached by the disciples in the early church. In fact what they proclaim by some type of sinners prayer in their services is not in the Bible, it was introduce in the second great awakening by men like Charles Finley, D.L.Moody, and later by Billy Sunday; Charles Finley introduce this in his services in upstate New York plus the anxious bench to put pressure upon the individual to get right with God. Charles Finley used pragmatic ways to bring people to the Lord, but it was not according to scripture. We also know when he came back to this area later in his life there were few who were doers of the Word if any. He thought that he had discover how to preach in a way that he could manipulate his audience to come to Christ, but he was deceive and he deceive others just like your pastor who said to do a sinner's prayer. We also have another gentlemen named Billy Sunday who claimed that he could saved a soul for a dollar. But yet these man did not lead men to salvation, because they did not preach a baptism of repentance which is spoken of in the Bible in four different places(Mark 1:4, Luke 3:3, Acts 13:24, Acts 19:4). Let us read John 1:4, "John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins." In Luke 3:3 "And he went into all of the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.' In Acts 13:24, After John had first preached, before His coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel." And finally from Acts 19:4, "Then Paul said, John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is on Christ Jesus."
 Note the attitude change that is spoken of in James by these words "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your hearts, you double minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up." With this we see that it is possible for us to come to Christ but it must be with a right attitude because God is looking upon our hearts, and He knows if we are coming to God in right manner. If our hearts are not right, God is not mocked. Then he speaks of you hands which are instruments of your heart as you steal from one another and do all kinds things to bring harm to each other. He says you must purify your hearts, you must weep not as the world, but a Godly sorrow, a recognition that you have sinned against a Holy God and that you are worthy of death and Hell. Most people never get past this because their pride will not let them admit that they have a problem with sin. Today people believe that God will cut them some slack that they really did not mean to sin, that is a lie, that you can get in the kingdom under the wire or that He(God) does not see you sin. Pastors will not made it hard for you because they did not come to the Truth themselves, they just preach what they have learned in seminary which is nothing but cheap grace. The doctrines that they teach is tradition that has been handed down since Augustine who introduce original sin, predestination, destroy free will, and deeds that demonstrate that you are a believer. Just what the Pharisees taught in Christ's time they brought down their traditions which had nothing to do with salvation. Seek the Truth before it is too late.