The good news of the gospel is of God's amazing strategy for getting good people in heaven with Him like you, it's the salvation strategy of the free gift. It works like this. God doesn't want people in heaven who are good at following rules but are finger pointing, snigering, judging, criticising, condescending, stuck up proud bastards. No. God knows that the only way to keep pride out of heaven is to make salvation a free gift, something you can't earn. Trying to earn entry into heaven just makes people talk themselves up to God, and they become fake and proud. It's like how a boss doesn't really know what a person is like when they are trying to impress them in an interview, and how it's only after 6 months of job security and acceptance that who they really are comes out. So God's strategy for sorting out the proud and stuck up from the humble and real is to see who wants to believe they need God for salvation and who wants to believe they can do it themselves.
We all here about how God is holy and righteous and hates sin, that's supposed to be the good news. The white washed tombs in there long robes have done a thorough job in convincing people that the only way to get into heaven is to be like them. The truth is that no one is capable of producing the kind of righteousness that is needed for heaven, and no matter how hard we try, a blob of mud can't clean itself. The good news is that God gives you the righteousness that He needs from you, because He can't ask you for something He hasn't first given you. So rather then living our lives trying to prove to him how amazing we are, we can appreciate him for having the power to let us be ourselves, setting us free to change us from the inside out if we really need it. We don't have to try to be come like God because that's impossible, and we will stuff it up.
This might sound new to you, but it's the light on a hill that you here about, the only way to fill heaven with good people who like being themselves. The only way God can make us forget about always trying to trick him and being fake around him is to make things like righteousness and salvation something He does in you rather then making you do it. All He desires from you is the honesty and humility to accept that you don't have to be God for him, He can do that Himself, that "the gospel is the power of God to salvation," {Rom 1:16} not the power of you. If you stuff up, He just wants you to admit that you don't have the ability to pull yourself together and you need Him. Then forget it, that's freedom. That way you become a more honest open person who realizes how great God is, and that's who he wants in heaven with him.
Here's two simple verses to think about. Luke 18:9-14. Eph 2:8,9.
Jo ho feathers
I came across a Jehovah's Witness far left religious propaganda article and flicking through read an article "has Christianity failed." It didn't take long until a line like this appeared, "For example, many people pay lip service to Christs teachings of love and peace, while at the same time SUPPORTING VICIOUS WARS. For the same reason, churches may encourage their followers to pray for the Kingdom of God but at the same time lend support to RULERS WHO ACT OPPRESSIVELY." Naturally one couldn't expect anything less from the birds of a feather on the left then hatred for George Bush and the belief that the right is the oppressive of the two political systems. The J.W. religion may drive you through works your entire life to have a chance of getting into heaven and shun you out of there religion for disagreeing over one point of there decided doctrine, but the believe system that wants to set people free is supposed to be the oppressive one.
Our heart is who we are, not our head. Does your heart want life or does it want to hide behind a tangled web of information that leads you on a wild goose chase toward spiritual death. The left believes the world will be a better place if you do what the masters of information tell you to do. The right thinks the world will be a better place if your free and healthy and responsible.
Our heart is who we are, not our head. Does your heart want life or does it want to hide behind a tangled web of information that leads you on a wild goose chase toward spiritual death. The left believes the world will be a better place if you do what the masters of information tell you to do. The right thinks the world will be a better place if your free and healthy and responsible.
Listen to the words they use
A manipulator will say that you don't listen. A controller will say your rebellious. A troublemaker will say "hey mate, you a trouble maker or something. You a smart ass". Tyrants call all who appose them aggressive war mongerers.
"He runs around Europe like a mad man seeing what he can set on fire."
Hitler regarding Churchill.
"He runs around Europe like a mad man seeing what he can set on fire."
Hitler regarding Churchill.
A vanquished Idea
The idea that God pushes his way into the humble heart as apposed to the proud heart pushing it's way into God - Satan has done everything to destroy. He has promoted the belief of the "half truth" side for his purposes. For example. When it comes to evil we are taught that God is all powerful and capable of protecting you. But when it comes to salvation God is week and feeble and pathetic. He is all powerful when we need to face down evil, but piss week when we need salvation. Is there any ulterior motives going on here. Can you see anything wrong with this picture? vanquished.
Birds of a feather
When the warped mind of a terrorist looks at the world they see the same thing that the left does. They see evil in the same places and countries, and dream of a controlled Utopian global society of forcing people to be good on the outside.
They all hate the same things for the same reasons.
They all hate the same things for the same reasons.
End of Church
Most churches are dead. They are a catastrophe, a damned failure. What a disgusting, smelly diseased blight on humanity and God's cause they have festered themselves into. They have proven beyond measure or doubt there unwavering elegance to the forces of death, supporting satan in the spirit realm of religion as well as the physical real of politics. Wise men still seek God, but must avoid most churches at any cost, what a horrid situation they have put the world into, but could one really expect any less. One searches for God and goes to church, but is then turned away after being faced with those who are supposed to be his ambassadors on earth. Those who represent the all mighty, the most infinite in knowledge and understanding, but are among the stupidest, shallowest creatures ever to burst out of the dust.
Most churches are indeed dead, long live the alternatives if there are any, long live those who gather to talk of the light on a hill where ever they are. Long live those who the church tries to destroy.
The churches of today are a failure and devils advocate. As Jesus Himself said, "does anyone light a lamp and put it under a cover." The church is supposed to be a light on a hill. If most people in the community don't know where it is, is it a church. If the building and it's people are seen as weirdos with nothing to say, is it a church. If the message from the church is no different from all other messages in the world, is it Jesus' message. The church's message is supposed to be a light in the darkness. If those living in darkness can't see the message because it is dull and lifeless, is it really light. And don't believe there self-righteous ridiculous excuse that it is all satan's fault. Is it harder to see light because there is to much darkness. Is the true light battling the darkness and loosing. Why do 99.999% of people not go to church, because the darkness is to dark, or because the light is to dark.
But this is the church of today, weirdos have made there case for and against the church, and no one wants to listen to either now, so nothing is done, not for centuries, not since Martin Luther King nailed the 95 thesis to the Roman Catholic church door.
Modern churches are cold and dark places for virtually every soul God creates. Is there something wrong with this picture. Those who thirst for him are led away down a slow path of failure only realizing to late, when there years are gone, spilled out like water on the ground. You are taught to believe in a God that is smaller then almost every aspect of who you are, including your heart and mind. One is instructed to suffocate first, and wait to breath in Him. But the breathing never comes, and when you ask for help you are fed molasses, more lies that suffocate, rubbish about testing times and holding on, that satan obviously hates you, so hang in there. Hang in there indeed, with stupid shallow views of the world and life.
Do not be so foolish as to throw your life away in a church, but live and grow and reach for the true God that is bigger then your wildest dreams and desires. Do not blame yourself because on a dark night the light can't be seen. Don't believe the foolish logic that you can't see the light because you are standing in darkness. O what a contradiction. Instead wait for God to be Himself and catch you unawares. And until then, live damn you, live. And when you die, hopefully you will like God, and not be bitter and angry at Him because of your local church.
Most churches are indeed dead, long live the alternatives if there are any, long live those who gather to talk of the light on a hill where ever they are. Long live those who the church tries to destroy.
The churches of today are a failure and devils advocate. As Jesus Himself said, "does anyone light a lamp and put it under a cover." The church is supposed to be a light on a hill. If most people in the community don't know where it is, is it a church. If the building and it's people are seen as weirdos with nothing to say, is it a church. If the message from the church is no different from all other messages in the world, is it Jesus' message. The church's message is supposed to be a light in the darkness. If those living in darkness can't see the message because it is dull and lifeless, is it really light. And don't believe there self-righteous ridiculous excuse that it is all satan's fault. Is it harder to see light because there is to much darkness. Is the true light battling the darkness and loosing. Why do 99.999% of people not go to church, because the darkness is to dark, or because the light is to dark.
But this is the church of today, weirdos have made there case for and against the church, and no one wants to listen to either now, so nothing is done, not for centuries, not since Martin Luther King nailed the 95 thesis to the Roman Catholic church door.
Modern churches are cold and dark places for virtually every soul God creates. Is there something wrong with this picture. Those who thirst for him are led away down a slow path of failure only realizing to late, when there years are gone, spilled out like water on the ground. You are taught to believe in a God that is smaller then almost every aspect of who you are, including your heart and mind. One is instructed to suffocate first, and wait to breath in Him. But the breathing never comes, and when you ask for help you are fed molasses, more lies that suffocate, rubbish about testing times and holding on, that satan obviously hates you, so hang in there. Hang in there indeed, with stupid shallow views of the world and life.
Do not be so foolish as to throw your life away in a church, but live and grow and reach for the true God that is bigger then your wildest dreams and desires. Do not blame yourself because on a dark night the light can't be seen. Don't believe the foolish logic that you can't see the light because you are standing in darkness. O what a contradiction. Instead wait for God to be Himself and catch you unawares. And until then, live damn you, live. And when you die, hopefully you will like God, and not be bitter and angry at Him because of your local church.
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