To view this blog on my website, click here.
I have heard a lot of stuff lately from people who say they are Christians. Some say that preaching Jesus as the ONLY way to heaven is wrong. Some say that it is wrong to tell people that Homosexuality is wrong. Some say that you don’t have to tell people they are sinners or that they need to repent and place their faith in Jesus. What Bible are THEY reading?
Let me address these one at a time, not with my own words, but with His Word:
John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me…” But some people want to say they believe in Jesus AND that there can be other ways. If you really believe Jesus, you cannot believe that. How can you believe two things that are completely contradictory? It doesn’t work. If you do come to Jesus, remember what He says in Luke 9:23-24: Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. If you are interested in your agenda and the things you want in this world more than His, are you truly following Him?
I Corinthians 6:9-11 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. So if you say it is possible for a Homosexual to enter into the Kingdom of God, then those who life a life to steal, live in drunkenness, those who are greedy, crooks, live for immorality, those who glorify anything and everything above God and those who commit adultery as a part of their normal lifestyle, will also enter the Kingdom. If you say this is possible then you deny God’s Word. It is clear that these are practices of Christians or Followers of Jesus before we were sanctified and justified…not after. If we don’t tell people they are wrong for living in homosexuality, then let’s not have doctor’s tell people they are dying from cancer – let’s not have teachers tell kids they are failing – let’s not tell our children that playing with guns is wrong. I will agree that some people get on a bandwagon about homosexuality and only talk about how wrong that sin is without ever talking about any other sin, but if we represent Christ then we must, in a loving way, share the truth with all people about all sin and His forgiveness.
Luke 13:3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Luke 13:5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 2 Cor 7:10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. And there are many other verses about repentance. It is clear that repentance is necessary for salvation. What is repentace, though? Repentance is to change your mind, your attitude and your direction in a way that you submit your life to the Lordship of Jesus and your primary concern is to do His will. We must be transformed daily by the renewing of our minds.
There is some crazy stuff goin’ on out there and a lot of crazy stuff makin’ its way into churches. We cannot and should not accept these teachings by so-called experts as truth when they are clearly false teaching. Remember what Paul wrote to the Church at Corinth in 2 Corinthians 11:3-6 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. But I do not think I am in the least inferior to those “super-apostles.” I may not be a trained speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way. - So if you want the truth that is perfectly clear, read the Bible and compare what you hear with the truth instead of listening to people who will conform the Word of God to their own beliefs.
Oh – by the way – When someone says that God is a jealous God, that doesn’t mean He is jealous OF you, it means He is jealous FOR you. That means that the praise and glory and time you give to other things, He wants.
For His Glory,
Crayzee Joe
