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Deceptions
By Timothy Horner
This world is being deceived more and more by lies, and what’s worse, people believe these lies. Part I (below) of such lies is the belief that you can get to heaven just by being a good person. Part II of these lies is that there are many ways to heaven. The Bible has been around for so many years. Churches are everywhere.
We have multiple television channels to broadcast preaching, Christians have spread the Word for years. Most people around the world have heard the message of Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father, and yet, it is amazing to see how many millions of people are so lost and wrapped up in themselves or don’t care anything about Jesus. And even worse, we hear too many times of people making fun of Christians or Jesus or God or the church. The world is sadly full of evil deceptions.
Part I: Being a Good Person
I cannot even begin to tell you how many people I have spoken to who believe that they will go to heaven just because they are a good person. Then again, a large portion of these same types of people also don’t believe in heaven or hell. Have you ever seen Kirk Cameron perform his street interviews and listened to the number of people who think they will go to heaven because they are a good person? Have you heard the same thing on movies, TV shows, or interviews performed by talk show hosts? Have you asked others to hear their responses?
We need to find a more effective way of spiritually educating people and get them to look outside themselves, but right now I don’t know what that answer is. I thank God for the nice people we have because they do make a difference or bring some type of balance to things but they too need to know the real truth of Jesus Christ.
I could be wrong about my perception, but I think Joel Osteen may be an example of this issue. Joel seems to be a great inspirational speaker instead of a great preacher. He is good at putting out positive messages and stories and then showing how people can turn their lives around by being good and making time for God. He helps people feel good about themselves, and kind of teaches that they are a part of something much greater than them.
I believe he is part of the problem with deceptions because he does not preach the “Gospel” or the “Blood” or the “Cross.” And that is the real message that needs to be put out. Again it could just be my perception but what I want to get across is that more preachers in this world need to preach the truth of Jesus instead of putting out just a “feel good message.”
Part II: Many Ways to Heaven
There are some individuals who are teaching that there are many ways to heaven instead of the only true way through Jesus Christ. This one really bugs me the most, so I’ll spend more time talking about this problem. Today we have those who proclaim to be pastors and members of the church and yet do not speak in or to the congregation about the gospel of Christ nearly enough—if at all. This kind of goes along with what I was saying earlier in Part I and is also largely in part due to fear of gossip or what people might say about them because of what they had to say about the “Truth.”
Christians are not standing up for Jesus the way that they should be because of that very “fear” of what people may say or do to them for pronouncing to be a Christian and the name of Jesus. This is understandable because nobody wants to lose their jobs, friends, family or become an outcast which is likely to happen, but you must keep this in mind: One, you have accepted Jesus as your Savior and you are a child of God so we will be protected as the children of God. Two, even if God was to allow harm or death to come upon us wouldn’t it be better to wake up back up in heaven and be done with this evil world? By giving your life for Christ, you gain eternal life in heaven!
Now to get on topic, we have well-known people in this world who are teaching others that there are many ways to heaven or that there are many paths to God and for all the people who believe this lie, they will go to Hell for it. This is the kind of deception that is being put out there in the world today. Other deceptions hurting the world population today is (homosexuality and false religions). In today’s world, we have our children going to school with homosexuals and some of these children display their affections of the same sex, some of them have two moms or two dads and the world has accepted this behavior to be normal when it is every bit the opposite, and is in fact, sin.
Please don’t get me wrong. I don’t hate homosexuals but I hate what they do because it is against God, and I cannot stand how this behavior has been accepted in our government, in our schools, in our military, in our neighborhoods. The acceptance of homosexuality is accepting sin, and by accepting this sin to be normal in life—is accepting a deception away from how God feels about this action.
Muslims, atheists, Jehovah Witnesses and other false religions are being accepted in today’s world too and yet Christians cannot pray in schools or at work or talk about Jesus and are being pushed out or made fun of more and more every day. This too, is a deception and has allowed people to accept other religions and beliefs rather than accepting Jesus Christ creating a world of lost souls.
As I mentioned earlier, I am so tired of everyone pushing their sins onto to the world and being accepted. These sins are being accepted because we do not have Christians fighting against them. Do you even know how many millions of Christians are in this world and what kind of difference we could make by all the Christians taking a stand against such behaviors, filth, sins? We could change the world for Christ.
I used to watch Oprah Winfrey years ago but then she became someone very disappointing. Oprah and Obama are similar in a few ways. Both push on the message that, “There are many paths to heaven.” Both push toward the “acceptance of homosexuals” and both push the message that “we are all united and must accept the way people are in order to push out evil.” Note: The purpose behind these messages is to push out the Christians and the message of Jesus Christ.
Obama and Oprah are not alone either because if you listen to talk show hosts, television series and some movies, they are putting the same message out there and if you listen closely you will hear many making fun of God or Jesus. Oprah expresses that, “Heaven is not an eternal destination but an inner realm of consciousness.” She also makes this statement, “One of the mistakes that human beings make is believing that there is only one way to live.” She also says, “There are many paths to what you call God.” This is why Oprah is so disappointing to me and I could go on so much more about our Muslim in office but not right now.
If you have not heard of the word “Universalism” yet then I’m sure you will soon. This is a belief that all creatures and persons will be reconciled to God. This is also leading to a one-world-religion to go right along with the upcoming one-world-government. Now is the time to find Jesus!
Below is what God’s Word (the Bible) says, which was and is and will always be the only truth!
John 14:6: [Jesus said,] “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me”
John 3:18: “He that believeth on him (Jesus) is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
2 Timothy 4:3-4: “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
Romans 5: 1-2: “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”
Romans 3:24: Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus
Ephesians 2:8-9: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
We receive this gift of eternal life through our faith in Jesus Christ.
(Food for Thought) Do you recognize these names?
The 700 Club, John Hagee, Rod Parsley, Benny Hinn, T.D Jakes, Creflo Dollar, Joyce Meyer
Ed Young, Rick Warren, Kenneth Copeland, Joseph Prince, Charles Swindoll, David Jeremiah
You should recognize most of those names and there are more that I have not mentioned here. Regardless of our differences with each other, can you imagine what would happen if all these pastors and their congregations got together, and millions of Christians around the world gathered together with them to fill the streets leading to the White House to take a stand for Jesus Christ! We could have one serious revival.
Everyone else can rally at the White House to take a stand for their rights and beliefs to be heard.
So where are the Christians? Why are the Christians hiding? Why is it that we don’t see Christians going to the White House and rally against everyone and everything else that is against God?
We are a large part of the problem because we choose not to speak up out of fear or whatever.
The homosexuals come out of the closet and the Christians go in…What’s wrong with that?
I just wanted to make note that we Christians cannot change anything if we don’t even try!
Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Isaiah 8:13 “Do not fear anything except the Lord Almighty. He alone is the Holy One. If you fear him, you need fear nothing else.”
Psalm 27:1 ”The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”
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