There are cracks within the churches. Cracks that are slowly going to tear it apart. These fissures come against the faith as more and more believers choose to change the gospel into a go spell. Everywhere I turn brothers and sisters have joined the ranks of the irreligious, their tongues are like unbelievers that cry, "I am not religious, I am spiritual," interesting, religious meant a devout Christian who practices their religion (faith) daily. Now the world has corrupted the word religious into the world's definition for dogmatic demagogues who talks about fairytale demons and destroy people's lives with austerity and hypocrisy. Now I hear on lips of the 'legions' of Christ saying, "I don't like the word Christian, it has been misused and so many call themselves Christians, that I no longer want to be called one." The term Christian was a derogatory statement St. Paul heard in theater, but he adopted it thrice, saying, "Christian, partisan of Christ, I like it." Now there are those who say we need to cease speaking "Christianense or Churchanese" because people cannot understand words like "reckoning," "baptism," "plumbline," "Have faith," and "anointing." Believers now cry that we put aside religious rhetoric, and abandon the very words used in Bible for more simplistic ones worldly people can understand. Wait, are we welcoming the Sinner into the Saint's house or have we decided to decorate the Saint's house as a Sinner's den? That brings me to another one espoused by so called brothers and sisters, "We are not the house of the holy, we are hospital for sinners." Wait.. but The Apostles clearly refute this in God-breathed Scripture: "What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" (Romans 6:1-2), "In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus, (Romans 6:11), "Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules?" (Colossians 3:3), "As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God." (1 Peter 4:2). "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!" (2 Corinthians 5:17). We are no longer sinners when we accept Christ's free gift of salvation (John 3:16)! We are as the Apostle Peter says most eloquently, "But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." (1 Peter 2:9). Apparently that isn't the popular doctrine of the these Conformist Christians. They want to have Church of Sinners, not Saints and so violate Holy Scripture! It is one thing to invite a sinner to the House of God and endeavor towards their evangelization, it is another to turn the House of God "into a den of thieves," and "a marketplace," for sinners (Matthew 21:13, John 2:16).
The cracks are growing, as one by one, the words we've known to succor us in sufferings and to embolden us in battle are struck down not by the unbeliever, but by believers who want to soften and make the faith more approachable. The Apostle said this was coming, "The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons," (1 Timothy 4:1), and "For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
" (2 Timothy 4:3-5). The saints are abandoning the truth to become more seeker friendly, but they are slicing and cutting aw2 ay the Scripture, and the savory words of the Church in name of evangelism, but by their merciless editing are eliminating the evangelion, the gospel altogether and making a new one, free of righteousness, truth, virtue, and suffering; which the Apostle said, "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God's curse!" (Galatians 1:8). The curse is causing the cracks to fissure, and as more churches embrace impiety and conformity to this age of offense where no one can receive reprove, we shall see more and more of this. In fact, it is not hypocrites and abusers in church that these Conformity Christians want to protect us from, it is from Scripture itself! For it is written, "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking (reproof, reprove), correcting and training in righteousness,." (2 Timothy 3:16, italics mine). It is the Bible, the word of God and God Himself that these Conformists will soon contend with; mark my words, for with each word they caste aside, they grow closer to another gospel.
The undermining of the True Faith is not from without, but from within. Persecution is not our enemy, it is our ally that strengthens faith. It is this impiety, this rising discontent with the words of the church and desire to abolish our ways for the world's answers. This subtle serpent has made its way inside, and it is eating our church alive! Christ is calling us to "But the one who endures to the end will be saved.," (Matthew 24:13) but these conformists would have us stricken the word endure from our vocabulary, and use in its place empathy for the fallen and apathy for righteous living. Well I do not know about you, but as for me, "and my house, we shall serve the LORD!" (Joshua 24:15). The cracks are swiftly becoming a chasm, and those who do not find themselves in Christ, and at enmity to these rising abominations of the Harlot Babelyon, shall find themselves caught unawares: "The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers." (Luke 12:26).
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