Counterfeit belief systems, and how they are structured.
Posted : 4 Jan, 2016 06:50 PM
When I was a young man, I worked as a bank teller. We had to attend a training session and one of the topics was identifying counterfeit money. They told us that we should not study counterfeit money, but real money, and get to know it intimately. They said if we knew the real thing, counterfeits would jump out.
Such is the case with Satan's counterfeit schemes. There are many varieties of his counterfeits floating all about in the world. Look for them to look very much like Christianity, but have some essential flaw, which robs them of the essential salvation of God.
Two of the main thing about which Paul wrote were counterfeit Jesuses, and a works based gospel, where you earn your way to God.
"But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel, which you have not accepted--you may well put up with it." 2 Corinthians 11.
God through Paul urges you to reject and disregard the heresies that false teachers will bring into the camp, to mark them, and to not tolerate them among you. All major Christian denominations, including Catholics, Orthodox, Baptists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals, Methodists, Church of God, Assembly of God, Wesleyan, Reformed, and others are unified in their belief that Jesus Christ existed as the Second Person of the Triune living God and was co-existent as God before time began, that He took on flesh and came to earth to die for the sin of man. What the deceivers with their "inside information" preach is a lie, and a denial of the divine right of Christ to rule as God. Hebrews chapter 1 exposes this lie for what it is. Heresy. Father we ask the blood of Christ upon this board, and ask that You Lord, would rebuke the false teachings, in Christ name we pray. Amen.
Counterfeit belief systems, and how they are structured.
Posted : 21 Feb, 2016 09:36 PM
Did you know that Paul for seen the spread of the gospel to all nations and that many will try to pervert it was whey he wrote 1corthin 11:19
19For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
You see this lil part "that they which are approved" not by counsel or anyone but by God alone. Over time he seen it would take the world over.
Many over the years loose there ability to judge rightly not judge one another. Many get mad cause the drugloard after years of sin on death bed is saved and rises for years converted to help. Never judge you neighbor.
Matt 7:5
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother�s eye.
This whole chapter is on decernment and judging as a Christian.
Matthew 7King James Version (KJV)
7 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
Counterfeit belief systems, and how they are structured.
Posted : 27 Feb, 2016 02:25 PM
"7 Judge not, that ye be not judged." - Jesus Christ (Matthew 7:1)
If this was the only thing Christ had to say on the matter, your argument would hold. However, this isn't all that was said. This is the most misquoted verse of all of scripture. See what follows, even in this verse same speech.
"... then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother�s eye." - Jesus Christ (Matthew 7:5b)
Every time you assume the brother has not removed the beam, and put himself in the position which Christ said that we can achieve, i.e., being able to rightly judge, you have just violated the very command you have quoted. Christ has more to say on the subject.
"Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.� - Jesus Christ (John 7:24)
The command here is that when we judge, it is to be with righteous judgment. If we were not able to do this, Christ would not command us to judge with righteous judgment. The prohibition, is from judging others while we commit sin.
"And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?" (Romans 2:3)
"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man�s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For �who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?� But we have the mind of Christ." (1 Corinthians 2:12-16)
"For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner�not even to eat with such a person. For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But those who are outside God judges. Therefore �put away from yourselves the evil person.�" (1 Corinthians 5:3-13)
"Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge? I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren? But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers!" - (1 Corinthians 6:1-6)
