The Bible shows us that dead people are asleep.
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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;
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
26 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;
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:
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 Corinthians 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. (Romans 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.
(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
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
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.When we speak the exact scriptures to them, they will often depart from us when they are unbelievers.
They will be as thorns in our sides and pricks in our eyes if they are unbelievers and we try to be with them.
