The Question has been asked: Can God... lead us into ALL truth if we remain a member of the Organized Church?

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1 God s Spirit will lead us into ALL truth. John 16:13 The Question has been asked: Can God... lead us into ALL truth if we remain a member of the Organized Church? s What Does the Bible say? 1. We Cannot serve two masters: No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Luke 16:13 2. Family and Friends cannot come before God If any man comes to Me, and hates not (the advice of) his father, and mother, and wife, and children, he cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:26 3. The Pharisees were members of the organized church. They were looking forward to the Messiah (even though they didn t recognize Him when He stood right before them) so they could be considered Christians. What did Jesus call them? Vipers, hypocrites, the synagogue of Satan,...of your father, the Devil. 4. What are the doctrines of the Organized Church: a. God is a KILLER God: a literal hell fire b. God can only save those who let Him. The others will be tortured with no chance of being saved. Thus Jesus Christ FAILED in His mission on earth, which was: Behold the Lamb of God who TAKES AWAY the sin of the world. (John 1:29)

2 c. Sunday Sacredness: It was God who made the Seventh day (Saturday) holy, and told us to worship Him on that day. It was the Pope, claiming to be God on earth who designated Sunday as the day of worship. d. Sunday resurrection e. Present-day prophets f. God knows when you are born whether or not you eventually will be saved and many won t be saved. g. Worship a killer God: Love Me, or I ll kill you. h. Trinity: Jesus and God are different and then the Holy GHOST! i. Everlasting hellfire j. Sunday sacredness but not really sacred (do anything you want on Sunday Ball games, work k. Christians go to heaven when they die which is utter spiritualism l. Speaking in tongues a Satanic practice m. Once saved, always saved n. The Ten Commandments were done away with at the cross. o. We re not under the law. We re under grace so we don t have to keep the Ten Commandments. p. Must be a member of a church in order to be saved q. Saved by Grace. Works are unnecessary and actually wrong. r. Jews are God s chosen people and they are saved by their race. s. Jesus will rule on earth with the Jews during the Millennium t. Jesus secretly came into the Jehovah s Witnesses in 1929 Do we believe those doctrines? Do we go to church to learn new truths about God, to become one with God, or for social reasons? Churches have now become nothing more than Social Networks - the equivalent of a brick and mortar Facebook! What TRUTH does ANY organized church teach? The belief that Jesus will return literally. But even some churches don t believe that! That is about the only true belief that many Christian churches have in common. 2

3 Can a person change the Organized Church by remaining a part of it? God explicitly told the Israelites that they should not associate with those who did not believe as they did. That s why God planned to run out all the Canaanites (with bees and hornets) before He brought the Israelites into the Promised Land. Jesus said about the majority of Christians: They honor me with their lips....but their heart is far from Me. Matt 5:38 Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of iniquity! Matt 7:21-23 But our surrender must be complete. We must say, as Jesus did: I came not to do my OWN will, but the will of Him who sent me. John 6:38 God must get us alone in order to teach us directly God can t teach us the truth about the Political scene unless we stop reading mainstream newspapers and mainstream news magazines, and watching TV news. God can t teach us the truth about Health until we stop going to doctors. God can t teach us the truth about Him, until we stop listening to seminary-trained pastors and theologians. God can t teach us to think and study - for ourselves until we stop allowing others including pastors, denominations, and church members - to think for us. 3

4 God can t teach us to stand alone for Him until we stop relying on the support of churches. Going to church is a disincentive to studying God s Word on our own. It deludes us into thinking we already know the truth, and since we go to church - - that suffices for being a Christian. Everyone likes to be a member of a large religious group, particularly of a large religious group that believes the same doctrines we believe. That gives us confirmation that our beliefs must be right. If we must stand alone with only God on our side - or if there is only a small group that believes as we do, we will be ostracized by the larger groups. And that is very hard for anyone to handle, including Christians! Everyone wants to be liked and no one wants to be ridiculed. And that gives Satan Great Power over Christians! But does it really have a negative impact on our relationship with God, if we just go to church once a week? After all, church members are Good People! How could it possibly be detrimental to our relationship with God to go to church each week? Let s digress for a moment. Are there other activities that we could participate in just once a week that could have any impact on our spirituality, morality, and godliness: our relationship with God? Would there be an impact on your life, and your relationship with God, if, just once a week, you: Watched pornography? Stole from a convenience store? Burglarized someone s home? Committed adultery? Cavorted nude at a nudist colony? That s unfair, you say, because those things cannot be compared to going to church! Many of those activities break the commandments, but God never forbid us to go to church. 4

5 All right, then let s look at these activities: Would there be an impact on your life, and your relationship with God, if, just once a week, you: Hung out with gamblers in a casino? Went to a bar and drank with your drinking buddies? Went to see a violent movie? Had a séance with a spiritualist? You might respond again, That s unfair. We know those activities are not godly. All right, then let s look at these activities: Would there be an impact on your life, and your relationship with God, if, just once a week, you: Participated in mass at a Catholic church? (After all, they re good people!) Went to a Pentecostal church where members speak in tongues and are slain In the spirit? Watched Joel Osteen on TV, and his hypnotic preaching to a crowd of 50,000 people? (Again, they re all Christians, so they must be good people) Attended Rick Warren s church - who believes the Jews are God s chosen people and is a member of the Jewish Illuminati-controlled Council on Foreign Relations? But those churches are teaching doctrines that we KNOW are wrong, you say. All right, then look at these activities: Would there be an impact on your life, and your relationship with God, if, just once a week, you: Watched the mainstream news on television? 5

6 Read Time magazine, or some other mainstream news magazine? Read a Harry Potter book? Read a Stephen King novel? You might respond, Yes, it might have an impact, since doing something like that repetitively could lead someone away from God and away from truth. (Remember, Aristotle and the Catholic church - both have said: Give me a child until he is 7, and I will show you the man. ) All right, now let s look at these activities: Would there be an impact on your life, and your relationship with God, if, just once a week, you: Attended a church whose pastor and members believe that God will torture you in hellfire if you don t love Him? Attended a church whose pastor and members blasphemed God by believing that God is a KILLER? Attended a church whose pastor and members believe that No one is perfect thus revealing that God is a LIAR when He says, You shall be perfect (Matt 5:48)? Attended a church whose pastor and members believe that John the Baptist was LYING when he introduced Jesus on the banks of the Jordan, saying, Behold the Lamb of God, who TAKES AWAY the sin of the WORLD (John 1:29), and that Jesus FAILED in this mission because His death on the cross did NOT save the world but only offered to save those who make the right choice? Attended a church whose pastor and members believe that the apostle Paul was lying when he said, God is the Savior of ALL mankind, especially of those who believe (1 Tim 4:10), because obviously, according to beliefs of the church, God is incapable of saving ALL mankind? Attended a church whose pastor and members believe there are prophets in this era, even though the Bible says that God spoke through prophets thousands of years ago, before Jesus Christ was born, but NOW only speaks through His Son, Jesus Christ, who is the Word the Bible? 6

7 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds... Hebrews 1:1,2 Attended a church whose pastor and members believe that God created billions of people who have been born into this world, whom He knew before they were born, would live a very difficult life with the sorrow of losing loved ones, who would die a painful death from disease, who would never know Jesus Christ, and who God would resurrect from the dead in the Second resurrection, only to KILL them again artificially keeping them alive in hell to torture them with fire as long as they deserve with NO SECOND CHANCE of being able to turn to God? Would spending time with those people enhance your relationship with God, and increase His ability to teach you truth? Or would it have the opposite effect (since nothing is neutral)? Would spending time with those people enhance your understanding of the true character of God? Would you, as one person, have more impact on the hundreds in the church, or would the beliefs of hundreds have more impact on you? Why was God going to run out all the pagans in Canaan BEFORE He was going to bring the Israelites into the Promised Land? Did God want the Israelites to associate with the pagans so they could convert them? But church members are NOT pagans, you respond. The real questions are: Are they not considered pagans just because they go to a Christian church? How many of the doctrines of today s churches misrepresent God and His character? 7

8 And how many of the doctrines of today s churches were taught by Jesus when He was on earth? When the Bible tells us, Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers (2 Cor 6:14) does that apply only to marriage? Or does it apply to a business partner? Or does it apply to those we spend our time with when worshiping God? Commercial advertisements work Corporations spend millions of dollars on television commercials because they work. The mainstream media understands that if they say something enough times, the people will believe it, for example, the party line involving: The JFK assassination was done by Lee Harvey Oswald The Robert Kennedy assassination was done by Sirhan Sirhan The Martin Luther King, Jr., assassination was done by James Earl Ray The Oklahoma Bombing was done by Timothy McVeigh The 9/11 Twin Towers were destroyed by passenger jets flown by Arabs who did not know how to fly commercial planes The Boston Bombing was done by the Tsarnaev brothers The Sandy Hook School Massacre was done by Adam Lanza, who appears never to have existed. Your vote actually Counts! Even though major Republican leaders admit that the delegates at the Convention choose the nominee NOT the voters. During the Holocaust, Hitler gassed 6 million Jews The Germans started World War II We had to murder millions of Japanese (with nuclear bombs) and millions of Vietnamese and Koreans because they were all a threat to the United States. We had to burn children alive at Waco, in order to save them from being abused. 8

9 We had to destroy Iraq in order to bring them democracy. We had to murder Saddam Hussein before he could destroy the United States The Palestinians are a threat to the Israelis The Jews are God s chosen people even though they HATE Jesus Christ! We must destroy Syria, Lebanon, and Iran because they are planning to destroy the United States. Certainly it is true that being told a lie over and over again causes most people to believe it is the Truth! Will it have an effect on our spirituality, morality, integrity, and our soul, if we willingly listen to good people telling us UNTRUTHS about the character of God? When is the last time you learned a new truth about God by going to church? NO ONE Went to church for the first 4,000 years of earth s history? Why didn t God tell Noah to form an organized church, so he could preach to them about the coming flood? Why Didn t God have Moses form an organized church in the wilderness when He brought the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land? Why didn t God tell Ezekiel, or Daniel, or Jeremiah, or Isaiah to form an organized Church? Why didn t Jesus Christ, Himself, form an Organized Church when He was on earth? (The temple in Jerusalem, and the sanctuary in the wilderness were NOT organized churches. NO ONE, except the priests were allowed inside, under penalty of Death!) 9

10 Who formed the first Organized Church - A building where people came inside to have man teach them what to believe about God? The Pharisees! Those who hated Christ and called for His death! The murderers of Christ developed the system of synagogues (of Satan) which became the model for today s Organized Churches! Everything they taught was wrong, and Jesus strongly rebuked them by saying: You make the Word of God of none effect by your traditions. Mark 7:13 Are today s organized churches any different? You need no man to teach you One is your teacher Christ. 1 John 2:27; Matt 23:8 Satan has put his character on the face of God, and the whole Christian world has believed it. Christians are worshiping Satan while believing they are worshiping God. 10