Our Lord Jesus Christ said that He is “The Way, The Truth and The Life, that none may come to Father except through me.” (John 14:6).
Jesus is the Truth and the Only Way, He says anyone who attempts to come by another way will be destroyed, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them. So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.” (John 10:1-9).
It is disturbing then that 49-51% of Christians believe in Dispensationalism/ Duo-Covenant Theology, that The Jews will be saved by the Law and Gentiles by Grace, when the apostles agree that Christianity is grace not the Law at the Council of Jerusalem, “And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith. Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”” (Acts 15:7-11), “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works,so that no one can boast,” (Ephesians 2:8-9), “I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose,” (Galatians 2:21), “and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith,” (Philippians 3:9), and that Jesus is the end of the Law, “For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes: As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God.” (Romans 10:4, BB). It is creepy that Messianic Jews vary on believing Yeshua (Jesus) is God, “Messianic Jewish beliefs: Jesus is the Messiah; views on his divinity vary,” (Messianic Judaism, Wikipedia) when belief in Jesus’ divinity is crucial to salvation, “as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.” (Titus 2:13), “For in Him (Jesus) the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,” (Colossians 2:9), “Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ,” (2 Peter 1:1), “And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life,” (1 John 5:20), “To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen,” (Romans 9:5), and “After discussions, the council (of Nicea) defined the Son as consubstantial (homoousios) and co-eternal with the Father, sharing the same divine nature. This was vital, because if Christ was not the Incarnate Logos (Word of God) with the same fully divine nature, mere humans could not hope to share in eternal life through salvation.” (Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin, Chapter 4: Greek Orthodoxy, Pg 35-36).
Its a shame that 2+ Billion believe in Catholicism, and 700+ Million believe in Eastern Orthodoxy, when neither is Christianity, but look and smell like Christianity but arn’t. Then you have other deceived denominations like Seventh Day Adventists who say Jesus is the Archangel Michael, when Scripture refutes this:
“Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
For to which of the angels did God ever say,
“You are my Son,
today I have begotten you”?
Or again, “I will be to him a father,
and he shall be to me a son”?
And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God's angels worship him.”
Of the angels he says,
“He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.”
But of the Son he says,
“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”
And, “You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands;
they will perish, but you remain;
they will all wear out like a garment,
like a robe you will roll them up,
like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same,
and your years will have no end.”
And to which of the angels has he ever said,
“Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?
Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?” (Hebrews 1:1-14).
It is becoming clear when you look at the percentages, that the prophecies of Christ, “I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith?” (Luke 18:8), “And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. [And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.” (Matthew 24:10-13), and his apostles are coming true. The Apostle Paul foretold via The Holy Spirit that people would abandon sound doctrine, “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.” (2 Timothy 4:3), and “Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me, with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus..” (2 Timothy 1:13). People are falling away from a pure and simple devotion to Christ, “But I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent.” (2 Corinthians 11:3)! They abandon saved by Grace through Faith in Christ Alone According to the Scriptures to follow the traditions of men, “You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)—then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”” (Mark 7:8-13). They trample on The Son of God and His Blood, “How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?” (Hebrews 10:29), and follow pseudo-priests and pastors into hell, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.” (Matthew 23:15).
There is great danger. Many seek to spy our freedom and salvation in Christ “Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery” (Galatians 2:4), and undermine it with returning to the obsolete old covenant standards. They want to enslave you in religious demands aimed to keep you from knowing Christ intimately in a personal relationship, and to hide from you the truth that you may enter holy of holies in Heaven, “Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the most holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through His (Jesus) flesh,” (Hebrews 10:19-20), and we live in God, “All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God.” (1 John 4:15). There is no separation between us and God! We live in Him and He lives in us! (John 17:1-28). The Holy Trinity and us who hold fast to the Truth written in The New Testament: the doctrines of Christ, are One with Him! Don’t be seduced into wide array of heresies topped with crosses, Jesus even said, “there iell be false christs,” (Matthew 24:24), those who masqarade as the Lord but arn’t Him! The way to discern Truth from the lies is to know The New Testament from Matthew to Revelation, and ask for the prophetic gift, and gift of discernment from The Holy Spirit!, “to another discernment of spirits [the ability to distinguish sound, godly doctrine from the deceptive doctrine of man-made religions and cults],” (1 Corinthians 12:10, AMP). Armed with The Scriptures and The Spirit you will be able to stand firm against the doctrines of demons, “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,” (1 Timothy 4:1), and the heresies that abound to enslave people anew in dead works. Amen.
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