REPENT, Fornicators, Homosexuals, Liars, Thieves, Masturbators, Obama Voters, Buddhist, Dirty Dancers, Hindus, Gangster Rappers, Muslims, Drunkards, Feminists, Immodest Women, Democrats, Liberals, Evolutionists, Atheist, Potheads, Sodomites,
HELL AWAITS YOU!
I think they about covered everyone! Needless to say, it is evident our public ministries are not bringing in the public! Now, in regards to the above sign, Hell only awaits those who have rejected Jesus Christ and his blood atonement!
People read these few “lists” in the Bible of groups of people that aren’t allowed in the Kingdom of Heaven without realizing that NO sin will pass over that eternal veil. It’s why we must be born again. That’s what this and other passages are simply saying. Heaven is a Holy place with a Holy God. Sin will not enter in because we will have glorified bodies, like Christ, when we reside in glory. Dolts!
This over emphasis on the repentance is so damaging. I said OVER emphasis! Repentance is a biblical theme. But we are preaching a gospel of grace. Repentance is a part of the gospel, not THE gospel. People repenting from anyone of these things listed above is no indication of true salvation! In fact, the same street preacher holding that sign could potentially be guilty of every sin thereon as well.
I have seen a little 8 year old girl holding a sign which read “Good mothers don’t swear, smoke, or drink alcohol!” Sigh…… C’mon people? Really? This is our own wisdom and our own “boxed off” thoughts. People who drink and smoke, they have now somehow lost all their goodness and morals? I have news for you, smoking and drinking does not determine goodness or ones eternal destination!
We have to have our cute sayings a slogans, ideologies, opinions, etc. Where is the scriptures? We have “Ask me why you deserve Hell” on our public ministry signs we hold? As if we don’t deserve Hell ourselves? We hold signs displaying things like “Women are keepers at Home”, while we are out trying to preach the gospel of the grace of God? Why do we have signs like this? Are we preaching the gospel, or are we reforming the public? Ar ewe preaching the gospel, or protesting our standards. Are we preaching the gospel, or judging peoples eternal destinations?
It’s the word that does the work anyways. It’s the word that slices and dices, not you. It’s the sword that brings offense, not our hateful angst filled words. These examples of public ministry being done in this way are clear, and working definitions of giving the offence of Christ purposefully.
Seeking provocation and conflict is not becoming of Believers who testify of Jesus Christ. This would be called frowardness, and it too is an abomination. Provocation and conflict have their times and are allowed under circumstances. But these ways are not the rule.
You never saw such arrogance with the truth with Paul or Jesus Christ. What you saw in Christ in the gospels, and his manners with religious was his holiness and a testament to the fact that he was in fact, the Son of God. Why would we rather be so bold with our boldness to blast the sinners while excluding ourselves from a list of sins that any sinner can commit as opposed to preaching Christ crucified?
It’s humorous how these men leave out certain sins, such as pride, envy, greed, hatred, variance, emulations, strifes, divisions, frowardness, contention, arrogance, and disdain for “others not like them” from their nifty homemade, blast em signs.
This preaching attracts followers, but I fear only after it’s own kind! The confrontational sort of street preaching will not yield fruits of the spirit! You may get fruit, but it will be after their own kind.
This way of carrying the gospel message will not bring fruits of righteousness! This spirit of destruction and preeminence is not just on the street corners, it has largely affected the pulpits where men are preaching to dwindling seats because the standard is so far set above them. There is no striving together, it is striving apart.
Philippians 1:7 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
I Corinthians 1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
Are our prophets preaching the Prophets message or the Gospel of God? If we do preach repentance and hell stronger than we preach Him, we are heeding to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils, it is only our arm of flesh seeking responses from sinners in our own timing.
The manner of Paul was entirely different from the manner of the prophets and the Old Testament and any thunderous street preacher today. The prophets’ spirit we see in our pulpits and street corners among our own ranks today are bordering on a perverted gospel, and inducing works for proof of salvation instead of works meet for repentance.
Matthew 11:13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Prophets and the Law, until John! This is referring to the Old Testament prophets and the law which was the schoolmaster. And John as well had a distinct message to deliver! That had nothing to do with the grace of God, through faith, not of works.
We are to be like the prophets in 1 Corinthians 14, who we know are preachers, like Paul in his manners, and not any of the prophets in the Old Testament. There is a stark difference!
Matthew 23:34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
These are NT prophets, the disciples and apostles of the early church specifically. Not you, so gte off your persecution high horses. Some of them did in fact face cruel deaths and punishments. These are not the Old Testament prophets, or a prophecy of our generation, but the preachers and apostles that came from Acts, and more specifically, Paul.
Jesus prophesied of their demise. They were killed, crucified, scourged, and persecuted from city to city. Prophets in the New testament are preachers. We are to prophesy according to the proportion of our faith as Paul tells us in Romans.
Paul had the gift of prophecy in the sense of coming to visions and revelations. We have the gift of prophecy in the sense that we have his Book, the holy scriptures contained in one volume and we have seen the endgame laid out in the scriptures.
Today, among public ministry, if some men don’t see conflict, hardness, or persecution in their ministries as the prophets, they feel the need to create it. If no one is standing against them, they have to create the illusion of combat. They feel as if this is the intended effect and reaction they are to seek. “Make a decision today!” They want to be outcast by other Christians. They want to be persecuted by the lost. They want to be upbraided by the world.
It makes them feel as if they are in the trenches or the front lines. Because, “Ye all who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution” right? I mean, doesn’t the word say, “Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ”? Our hardness we endure, and our persecution we suffer, in America the land of the free, many times is deceptively self-induced piousness and our own demented thoughts of being soldier martyrs for God. These actions among bible believing men are childish at best, and only display silly laden men seeking attention and glory. It is a cloak of righteousness!
If we are preaching another gospel, another spirit, or another Jesus, we are false prophets ourselves. You men, check yourself! If the gospel we preach is not aligned with the gospel of the grace of God found in Paul’s epistles, we are false prophets, preaching a false gospel. If we add unto his word, or any variation to the gospel or New Testament Christianity we see in the NT, we are false teachers, subverting houses, bringing in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that “bought them” (2 Peter 2:1). How are we bought?
“Which he hath PURCHASED with his own blood!”
It’s a damnable heresy to preach another gospel that doesn’t include the blood atonement. And all of you repentance preachers never mention the blood or the gospel. There is a pattern with you men that is unbecoming of Paul and the NT message of the grace of God. They talk about a gospel, believe the gospel, but they never get specific! They may even mention the blood in a verse, but they never expound on what it means!
The only GOSPEL that has the blood atonement, is the gospel that PAUL PREACHED. Having said that, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John tells of the historical accounts of his blood sacrifice, but the disciples did not go everywhere preaching the blood atonement, but rather, they preached a Kingdom coming.
The synoptic gospels are gospels we read and believe. We believe his visage was marred more than any man. We believe his blood was offered up for us on the mercy seat in heaven. We believe he rose again the 3rd day. By the word of God we see these things. Not in the gospels, but in Paul’s revelations, visions, and preaching and teaching do we see the gospel of grace and the sound doctrine for the NT Christian.
Phillipians 1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
We have made it a custom, dare I say a tradition today where every time we see judgment, rebuke, reprove, or any thing along those lines in God’s word, we think it is God telling us to judge. That judgment in Phillipians is not the judgment of the sinner, it’s discerning.
Knowledge shows up with discernment several times in Proverbs. Why don’t we observe context? Why is it every time we see judgment, we think that is what allows us to be judges of every mans sin and his own conscience? “All judgment” in Phillipians 1:9 is discernment.
John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
What do the brimstone, Hell bringing preachers do with this? Fundamentalist would rather have this judgment committed unto them. Some preachers would rather have cause to judge in place of the Lord’s judgment. The great under shepards that they are. They need to help God control the wickedness of the world.
Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
1 Corinthians 6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Our public practices are more complicit with this. Judging the world! We want this now! But it isn’t now. It is when we have a glorified body, and we are standing on the winning side. We throw out the fact that we will judge angels in a future biblical event as some proof text that we can judge others here and now. We want to judge them now! We lack that longsuffering and doctrine with the rebuke, reproof don’t we?
Judgment must begin at the house of God, so then we start smiting the sheep and the sinners? Why? Because we are going to judge angels? Who is running the houses of God into the dirt? You men running it! Judgment needs to begin with you, not the pew-sitters underneath your jackboot. We are going to judge angels when we have glorified bodies, not here on this earth!
Jesus Christ himself in all his hardness and plainness was more interested in saving then judging and he had the power to destroy both body and soul in hell on the spot if he so desired. There will be a judgment. It is appointed unto man once to die but after this the judgment.
John 12:47-48 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
John 16:8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
In the last day! He is saying, you are in grace, but I will judge the world when I come! He did not come to judge the world, he will come to judge the world. The only thing that is judging men and should judge men is the book of God. He is not even standing in judgment presently right now! The wrath of God is on a person upon their rejection of the gospel! Though wrath and condemnation may be at a sinners feet, there is an APPOINTED day for the judge to judge in righteousness.
Let us examine the definition of the word Judgment in Websters 1828 -
Judgment - The act of judging; the act or process of the mind in comparing its ideas, to find their agreement or disagreement, and to ascertain truth; or the process of examining facts and arguments, to ascertain propriety and justice; or the process of examining the relations between one proposition and another. In Scripture, the spirit of wisdom and prudence, enabling a person to discern right and wrong, good and evil.
Or.
In law, the sentence of doom pronounced in any cause, civil or criminal, by the judge or court by which it is tried. Judgment may be rendered on demurrer, on a verdict, on a confession or default, or on a non-suit. Judgment, though pronounced by the judge or court, is properly the determination or sentence of the law. A pardon may be pleaded in arrest of judgment. The final trial of the human race,when God will decide the fate of every individual, and award sentence according to justice. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Eccles.12
Two definitions. The later is about a final permanent judgment of mankind. He is our propitiation. A pardon may be pleaded! Romans 3:25
Judgment - Synonym's
Discernment, wisdom, awareness, decision
Judgment - Antonym’s
Ignorance, misjudgment, indecision, stupidity or foolishness.
Why do we not see when Paul says a spiritual man judgeth all things, he is saying to discern, he is absolutely NOT telling any Christian to begin judging the world and individuals in the manners that many Fundamentalist zealots do.
We are supposed to stand against the wiles of the devil, and to love not the world. We are never told to stand against the world systems and establishments. We are not to reform the world, or sinners. The holy Spirit can only bring that type of spiritual reformation.
We are to preach about sin to the Christian only for their edification, admonition, exhortation and the correction, of the body, and then to the unbelieving, preach all men are sinners who must repent and turn toward God and Christ crucified. Give men the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ!
Our purpose and intended effect behind our preaching should be to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. Acts 26:18
Acts 19:26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
People repented and converted at the preaching of Paul. And we already covered what he preached. Paul used his life, persuasion, reasoning, conversations, and preaching to bring about this turning unto God. The manner of Paul is not studied in our churches because men are to busy studying the manner of the law, so they can be preachers of the law. Paul said:
We are not to approve the law!
That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
Phillipians 1:10
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. Hebrews 8:6
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