Many churches today are teaching doctrines that are traditions of men instead of the commandments of God from the New Testament Bible.
This is antichrist in the end time church. This is the apostasy that Paul said had to come before Jesus returns.
II Thess. 2:3-4 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
"The falling away" are churches falling away from scripture. When this happens the door is open for antichrist to come into the church and set up doctrines of men, departing from scripture which is the doctrine of Christ for the church.
For example: The Catholic church teaches their followers to pray to Mary. This is their "tradition" set up by men and not by God.
Jesus says: John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
In the New Testament Bible, we are taught to pray directly to God through Jesus Christ.
Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Mary is dead. She is sleeping. She cannot hear you or watch over you. No dead person can do these things. Dead people are asleep.
Jesus shows us that dead people are "asleep".
12 Then said His disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that HE had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
Some church people in both Catholic and Protestant churches think dead people watch over them.
The Bible shows us that dead people are asleep.
I Thessalonians 4:13-17 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep (dead).
16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep (dead).
16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
God watches over us. Dead people are sleeping until Jesus returns.
In churches today, there are many traditions of men which are opposite to the doctrines of Christ in the Holy Bible.
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The protestant churches usually call crackers and grape juice, "The Lord's Supper."
But we commune with God through prayer and through the Bible which is the Word of God.
As we partake of scripture correctly and apply scripture to our lives, we "eat and drink" the flesh of Jesus and the blood of Jesus. This is "The Lord's Supper."
Therefore those who wrongly apply scripture, "eat and drink" damnation to themselves.
I Corinthians 11
28 But let a man examine himself (as he reads Bible), and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
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Matthew 15
1-2 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why do Thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
3 But HE answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free.
Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto ME with their mouth, and honoureth ME with their lips; but their heart is far from ME.
9 But in vain they do worship ME, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto ME with their mouth, and honoureth ME with their lips; but their heart is far from ME.
9 But in vain they do worship ME, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
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In February, 2021, a pastor of a Baptist church in Georgia (USA), announced to the world news media that homosexuals and lesbians were welcome to come to their church.
This is shockingly against the Bible.
Romans 1:26-28 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
When I read this on CNN International, I thought of how close we must be getting to the return of Jesus and the great tribulation and the end of this world!
For when the churches fall away from scripture this way, we draw much closer to the end.
The Southern Baptist Convention removed that Baptist church in Georgia from their association of approved churches. They said they were removed because they went against the "tradition" of the Baptist church. (They did not mention any scripture at all, just "tradition.")
Even the Southern Baptist Convention pulled away from citing scripture. (antichrist and the end times)
In The Bible, we read the following concerning homosexuals and lesbians:
Romans 1:26-28
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
When we, who are of God, give a reason for doing something, it should be because of a scripture in the Bible and we should present that scripture for all to see.
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But to be approved by man many omit Bible.
The Bible, the scriptures, are the only thing keeping antichrist back.
2 Thessalonians 2:7-8 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only HE who now letteth will let, until HE be taken out of the way.
When Jesus, THE WORD, the Holy Scriptures are removed, then antichrist moves into the church.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:
The apostle Paul said antichrist was already there in the churches among the elders even, just waiting until Paul was out of the way so he could move in and speak perverse things to the church.
Acts 20:29-30 Paul says to the elders of the church at Ephesus: For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
The apostle John also told us there were "many" antichrists in his day coming into their church. They came into their church, in John's time, and stayed there until they saw they could not take over and speak their perverse doctrines, and then they left.
I John 2:18-19 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Many denominations came as a result of those who did not want to follow sound doctrines in the church groups.
These denominations set up their own doctrines and left the doctrines of Christ. They set up their own churches by their own fleshly preferences.
Some churches even use some scripture for a time only to "fall away" from that instruction and set up other teachings by their own thinking to please men.
It seems unreasonable to say:
* whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. (The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery) Words spoken by Jesus in Matthew 5:32
* Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. (I Cor. 7:10-11 ... a commandment of the Lord says Paul)
* For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. (Rom. 7:2-3)
If the divorced woman remarries, she commits adultery.
* Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery. (Words of Jesus in Mark 10:11-12)
* The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. (I Corinthians 7:39)
* But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
(Word of Jesus in Matthew 32:5)
- Man who divorces "a faithful wife" will be the cause of her adultery if she remarries.
- Faithful wife who has been divorced by her husband commits adultery if she remarries after divorce.
- Man who marries divorced woman commits adultery.
When churches change the doctrines of Christ away from the New Testament Bible, they fall away from the Word of God and this allows antichrist to come into that church group and reign over the church group.
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The Catholic church once taught their followers that if a woman was divorced and she remarried it was a sin. Also they taught that a man could not marry a divorced woman. But they taught no scripture to back up their rules.
(Also the Catholics taught their followers that they could not read the Bible for they would not understand the Bible and they might get it wrong.)
And more than once, I have heard Catholic individuals say their church told them they did not need to read the Bible for the Catholic priest would tell them what they needed to know.
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The current Southern Baptist Convention is now stating that they do not welcome to their churches homosexuals or lesbians because it is against their "tradition", but they present no scripture.
As time goes by, they change their rules in their churches, falling away from the doctrines of the scripture of the New Testament Bible, and this is antichrist in the churches.
Their followers often do not know what God says in the Holy Bible about these subjects.
When we say what we believe, we must also tell the scripture upon which our belief is based, otherwise the doctrine is weakened and we get to the point we don't know if this is really what God says or not.
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Satan came to Eve to cause Eve to doubt that which God said:
Genesis 3:1 Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
The devil is the father of lies. Even in his statement to Eve, he presented perversion of the word from God, for devil said, "every" tree? No, God didn't say "every" tree. The devil twists scripture.
(When I recall a scripture, I like to go to that exact scripture in the Bible, for the devil has a way of adding things which are not in the scripture. So I like to read that section of scripture from the Bible and check exactly what the Bible says to us.)
Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
(See how the devil twisted this scripture when he spoke with Eve.)
Jesus said this concerning the devil.
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
And when we fail to quote exact scripture, we are beginning the falling away from scripture.
Soon it becomes tradition and something other than the exact word from God.
Then we, too, fall away from scripture.
We must deal very carefully with the Word of God and quote that word correctly to others even when they will not understand.
The scripture is all that stands between us and antichrist.
Do not try to lure people to yourself. Speak the pure Word of God and let them depart if they wish to do so.
I Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
I Timothy 4:2-3 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 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;
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Other scriptures in this Podcast:
II Corinthians 6
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be MY people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
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When we speak the exact scriptures to them, they will often depart from us when they are unbelievers.
If the unbeliever depart, let him depart.
They will be as thorns in our sides and pricks in our eyes if they are unbelievers and we try to be with them.
Numbers 33:55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
By speaking the scriptures, we drive the unbelievers away from us.
If they agree with scripture, when we speak, then they will be saved and given the Spirit of God.
But as long as an unbeliever chooses to come around you, speak the Word of God as the Spirit brings that word to your mind.
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