Three Woes

Three Woes  -  Seventy

     Woe, woe woe.   My people are equating spirituality on the bases of manmade rules concerning success.  They say, “if you look right, sound right and smile right you will be successful.  What is sad is that my people believe that certain preachers are of God simply because of their crowds and their building.  This is the farthest thing from the truth.  Listen to their message and what are they saying.  Is what they are saying based on my word.  In the early church days there were many who acted the part of righteousness but in truth they were wolves in sheep’s clothing.  Jesus warned us about this.  All the apostles had problems and concerns with them.  False teaching is false teaching.  It will always garner the crowd because it appeals to mankind’s based nature.  Security, self worth and significance.  Listen to under lying message.  It will either have to do with man trying to recapture paradise lost by words or it will talk about how to make you a better you.  Man is a sinner and will never recapture his salvation through works or self improvement.  He has to come to the Father through the Son.  Jesus’ name is the only name through which men can be saved.  If mankind could have saved himself there would have been no need for Jesus to come but because man could not save himself that is why Jesus came.  It is only through the broken body and shed blood of Christ that mankind can come.  It is was the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ that secured salvation and nothing else.  Anything that adds or subtracts from this truth is a lie from the pit of hell.  It does not matter how pretty or eloquent the messenger.  Satan poses as an angel of light.  Paul put it simply in Galatian 1, “if any man or angel brings a message different than that which I brought let him be accursed.”   Many preachers have the curse of God upon them for what they are preaching and accepting.  They are saying that there are many ways to God.  They are accepting robber religions born in the Middle East that say there are other names for God and that He has other prophets.   Jesus said, in John 14:6, that He was the way, the truth and the life and that no man could come to the Father but through Him.”  End of sentence period.  Anything else or anyone else is a lie.  To accept them is doing away with what Jesus did and is under a curse from God.  Those who expound half truths or are accepting of other truths are deluded and they are deluding those who hear them.  It does matter how big the following or the building.  The world love sits own and that is why many go to hear them.  Church we are not ok, no matter who says it.  Only Jesus can keep us.  Only the Holy Spirit can make us into the image of the Son.  So today throw off the shackles of self righteousness, delusion and self improvement.  Embrace the cross and follow the Lord.  He is the only one who can set you free and keep you free.