The Apostle James said, 4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. James 4:4
10 Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked. Psalm 97:10
4 For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; No evil can dwell with You. 5 The boastful will not stand before Your eyes; You hate all who do injustice. 6 You destroy those who speak lies; The Lord loathes the person of bloodshed and deceit. Psalms 5:4-6
Many times Christians just “parrot” what they've heard someone else say.
Even pastors just “parrot” what somebody else has taught them and they never study the scripture topic thoroughly themselves, or they take it out of context and this may be the biggest issue with many teachers and pastors.
It's almost as if they have adopted the old cliché, If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The people have been conditioned and programmed to continue to pay a "tithe."
There is no scriptural basis in the new covenant for a tithe, as I've said in previous videos, they're afraid that if they don't keep that hanging over their fellowship, the people won't give enough to sustain their staff and all their expenses.
The other false teaching is the pre-tribulation rapture, and even pastors that I respect overall are still hanging on to that false teaching. It's a false doctrine, and it is not based on the word of God. I use to believe it because men I sat under years ago when I first came to Christ were teaching it.
It's based on their assumption that in the beginning of chapter 4 of revelation, John writes after these things. But ironically the king James version which almost is universally, respected as it should be, says, "After this I looked...."
But if you're going to continue to preach a false doctrine, you need to use translations that will support you in your teaching.
They also say that the churches are never mentioned after chapter 4, but that's totally ridiculous, because if that were true, we wouldn't be seeing martyrs under the altar in chapter 6.
Martyrs are saints who are killed because of their faith in the name of Jesus Christ.
It's nothing new, things like this we're going on in the early church. Paul wrote to Timothy and said,
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. 17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus; 18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some. 2 Timothy 2:15-18
I'm afraid this is what's going to happen when some people who have been anchored to that false teaching about the pre-tribulation rapture, are suffering much more than they anticipated before the Lords return.
And this is why I believe Jesus said, "42 And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and sensible steward, whom his master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their rations at the proper time? 43 Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. 44 Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 45 But if that slave says in his heart, ‘But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delays His coming’ and he begins to beat the other slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk; 46 then the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect, and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the unbelievers. Luke 12:42-46 & Matthew 24:45-46
Why would Gods servant say in his heart to himself? The Lord is delaying his return? Could it be, because he believed that Jesus would return much sooner than what he sees happening in the world?
I think most believers forget what Jesus said, 1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. John 15:1-6
15 ‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. 16 So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of My mouth. 17 Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have no need of anything,” and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked, Revelation 3:15-17
Think about it.
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