Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

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.