This is Howard Pittman, a BAPTIST PASTOR whom I often mention when talking about how FEW are GOING TO HEAVEN now. In 1979, he DIED in the ambulance on his way to the hospital. At the gates of heaven, the angels told him he HADN’T MADE JESUS LORD. He had served self, so couldn’t enter, and that only 2.5% were entering heaven then, 44 years ago. Imagine how much lower the percentage is today. THIS IS SERIOUS!
I definitely don’t agree with Michael Brown on ‘Christian’ Zionism*, and he’s been too loose on salvation. But this is mostly good, after he gets going. My first comment below corrects one thing he said.
Michael Brown starts this statement by quoting Romans 6:1-2:
“‘What shall we say then, SHALL WE GO ON SINNING so that grace may increase? BY NO MEANS! We died to sin. HOW CAN WE LIVE IN IT ANY LONGER?’
OH! THIS IS A SPIRITUAL REALITY. YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A SLAVE TO SIN. In Jesus, you don’t have to be a slave to sin. It’s a lie. It’s a lie that your mind is telling you. It’s a lie that church tradition has told you. It’s a lie that the world tells you. It’s a lie that the Devil himself tells you. In Jesus, you know longer have to be a slave to sin.”
Something is seriously reverse-Christian with dispensational theology that the Scofield Study Bible birthed. Scofield was a scoundrel (see video above), and the Oxford University Press added additional false doctrinal notes after Scofield died. Chuck Baldwin explains the horrible fruit.
NOTE: I do NOT believe at all that God is done with the covenant to the true Jews. Chuck does, but I do NOT believe in replacement theology. Also, there is a rebellion clearly mentioned in Romans 11 that most pastors never mention — until the fullness of the Gentiles happens. People should read Romans 11 very carefully. Pastors aren’t telling us the whole truth, and many are teaching false doctrines that are disastrous!
“‘Christian’ Zionists are worshiping an idol.” – Chuck Baldwin
“I will bless those who bless you [Abraham] and curse those who curse you [Abraham]; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you [Abraham’s seed: Jesus Christ].”
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The sign that Rep. Jim Jordan and Rep. Mike Johnson are proudly standing by says “Blessed are those who Bless Israel.”
Steven Ben-Nun wrote in a comment below the photo (click on photo to see):
“That is not what it says. It says nothing about Israel, but that all families will be blessed through Abraham, that was through his seed Jesus Christ! Now you got it from a real Jew! – Steven Ben-Nun, Israeli News Live, 10/17/23
The Bible (Gen. 12:3) does NOT say 'he who blesses Israel will be blessed.' "It says nothing about Israel, but that all families will be blessed through Abraham, that was through his seed Jesus Christ! Now you got it from a real Jew! – Steven Ben-Nun, Israeli News Live, 10/17/23 pic.twitter.com/JalkBNayvr
“The most misquoted verse in the Bible must be the promise God made to Abraham in Genesis 12, where he told Abraham he would bless those who bless HIM [Abraham] and curse those who curse HIM. The covenant later in Genesis 17 was passed on to his Seed on the child, which was Jesus Christ, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know what happened to those who cursed Him and those who blessed Him.” – Steven Ben-Nun
The pretribulation rapture has only been a doctrine since 1830. The pretribulation rapture was not a doctrine for 1,800 years of Church history.
If you had asked a scholar in the 1400s or the 1600s, they would have gone blank on you. A woman in Scotland had a vision in 1830 of the pretribulation rapture.
A few teachers, John Darby and Scofield, got hold of it and made it famous. It was a heresy to most people. By around 1930, it became established, but mostly only in America.
It’s not a doctrine that’s widespread around the world, except for the places where American seminaries have taken it. ~Mike Bickle
Claims and counterclaims surround the recent crisis in Gaza. Yet, we can’t understand the right or wrong of events in the troubled Mideast without knowing God’s spiritual law about Palestine. This law was repeatedly set forth over 3000 years ago.
If you are a Christian, you must take the Bible very seriously — as the written word of God. Jesus said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Word shall not pass away.” (Mark 13:31) This means the eternal truths laid down thousands of years ago in Holy Scripture remain true.
Yet, many evangelical Christians say God’s law no longer applies to the modern state of Israel. What law am I talking about? In the Old Testament, God repeatedly instructed His people, the Israelites, that the land of Canaan was to be holy. It could only be occupied by a holy, obedient people. When they rebelled, God allowed them to be driven out. They could only reenter in repentance. [1] God says that if Israel rebels, “The Lord will scatter you among the nations”(Deut. 4:27). But if they repent, “The Lord your God will restore you from captivity” (Deut. 30:3).
Yes! God promised the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants forever (Gen. 12:7).
Yet God said Jews can only occupy it in obedience. He told Moses that if Jews rebelled, He would expel them (Lev. 26:27-34, Deut. 4:26, 6:18, 28:58-64). They could not return except in obedience.
The Marxist Zionists who reoccupied Palestine during the last century were not obedient to God. Israel today still rejects Jesus Christ. In violation of God’s law (Lev. 19:34), they cruelly oppress the “strangers in the land.”
Result? Strife, war, terrorism.
Someday, at Christ’s second coming, a repentant remnant will give Christ true obedience. Then, as their Redeemer, He will uphold their right to all the land, from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates.
Israel today is spiritually lawless. Hers is a counterfeit return. Israel is preparing the world, not for the coming of Christ but anti-Christ.
This is based on a list of 31 verses that’s being shared on social media. I removed 2 verses; added more, and edited some of the text.
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Partial List of Scriptures that refute “once saved always saved” and “only believe”:
* drift away (Heb. 2:1)
* wander away (Mt. 18:12,13)
* wander away from the faith (1 Tim. 6:10,21)
* wander away from the truth and destroy the faith of others by false teachings (2 Tim. 2:18)
* whole body cast into hell for looking at a woman to lust after her (Mt. 5:27-30)
* sins not forgiven for not forgiving others (Mt. 6:15)
* cut down and thrown into the fire for not producing fruit (M. 7:19)
* lose your saltiness (Lk. 14:34,35)
* fall away (Mt. 11:6; Mk. 14:27,29)
* fall from grace (Gal. 5:4)
* ‘brothers’ who practice sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, hatred, jealousies, outbursts of anger, envyings, drunkenness, etc. will not inherit the kingdom (Gal. 5:13-19)
* “Be not deceived. God is not mocked.” Those who sow to their flesh will reap corruption, not eternal life (Gal. 6:7,8)
* stop believing and fall away in time of testing (Lk. 8:13)
* turn away from the faith (Mt. 24:10)
* wander away from a pure heart, a good conscience and a sincere faith and turn to meaningless talk (1 Tim. 1:5,6)
* broken off and severity for not continuing in His goodness (Rom. 11:19-22)
* turn back and no longer follow Jesus (Jn. 6:66)
* have your faith shipwrecked (1 Tim. 1:19)
* leave the straight way and follow the way of Balaam (2 Pet. 2:15)
* get cut off from Christ and become like a branch that is thrown into the fire and burned (Jn. 15:6)
* go astray (Jn. 16:1)
* insult the Spirit of grace after being sanctified by Jesus’ blood to go into raging fire (Heb. 10:26-29)
* turn away from Christ to follow Satan (1 Tim. 5:11-15)
* depart from the faith (1 Tim. 4:1)
* turn your ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths (2 Tim. 4:4)
* acquire a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God (Heb. 3:12)
* without sanctification, falls short of the grace of God and is rejected (Heb. 12:14-17)
* turn away from him who warns us from heaven to not escape (Heb. 12:25)
* didn’t overcome, defiled garments, name blotted out of the book of life (Rev. 3:1-5)
* become lukewarm and get spit out of Jesus’ mouth (Rev. 3:15,16)
* did not remain faithful and be hurt by the second death (Rev. 2:10,11)
* have God take away your share in the tree of life and in the holy city (Rev. 22:19)
* wander from the truth and become a sinner in need of having your soul saved again (James 5:19,20)
* return to sin after knowing the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Pet. 2:20-22)
* be carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your secure position (2 Pet. 3:17)
* be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings (Heb. 13:9)
* the cowardly, sexually immoral and all liars will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur (Rev. 21:8)
Jesus: “That servant who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes.” – Luke 12:47-48
Many people argue that because salvation is a “free gift,” that humans do nothing to earn it, and therefore can do nothing to lose it.
God’s Word:
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him. John 3:36 NAB
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 1 Cor. 15:1-2 ESV
“How can they be worse off if they received something that can never be taken away from them?”
20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.” 2 Peter 2:17-22 ESV
Most born-again Christians would become lost again:
“God had foreseen… that faith even after baptism would be endangered. He saw that most persons after attaining unto salvation would be lost again by soiling the wedding dress, by failing to provide oil for their torches.” ~ Tertullian (c. 213)
Excellent video! I found this segment especially helpful:
19:15 Charles Stanley says: “In 1 Corinthians chapter 3, Paul makes it very clear about losing our reward when we live a life of sin.”
But Paul wasn’t talking about living a life of sin in 1 Cor. 3. “If any man’s work is burned” refers to his work, the Corinthians falling away:
Aaron Gallagher: “[Paul is] saying that if those converts that [he] taught, were baptized, if they fall away, Paul will still be saved but they won’t.”
1 Corinthians 3
1 Brothers… 3 for you are still fleshly. … 6 I planted. Apollos watered. … 9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it. … 12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble, 13 each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is. 14 If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. 15 If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
Romans 11:20 ..Don’t be conceited, but FEAR; 21 for if God didn’t spare the natural branches [the Jews], neither will he spare you. 22 See then the GOODNESS *and* SEVERITY of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, IF YOU CONTINUE in his GOODNESS; OTHERWISE YOU WILL ALSO BE CUT OFF [like in Mt. 7:19 and John 15:6].
“Continuing in His kindness is required to avoid being cut off from this tree.”
“There are upwards of 80 passages in the New Testament that suggest in one way or another that a believer can fall away from the faith.”
9:00 John Calvin‘s explanation is that Paul is basically lying to his readers to scare them. R. C. Sproul avoided the passage completely.
Dilemma: Calvinist pastors who teach the perseverance of the saints ‘omega’ version of OSAS personally know those who were certainly born-again and did not persevere.
Time Stamps Basics and History: 0:00 Can lose salvation: 16:25 Cant lose salvation: 24:57 Implications: 41:23 My Testimony: 50:49
Here are some of the verses I found: Conditional Security Passages (51)
2 Peter 2:19–22, Hebrews 6:4–8, 1 Corinthians 9:24–27, Hebrews 10:26–31, Mark 4:13–20, Hebrews 3:12–19, Galatians 5:4–7, Romans 11:18–23, James 5:19–20, Colossians 1:21–23, Matthew 7:21-23, Hebrews 10:35–39, 1 Timothy 4:1, Revelation 2:4–5, Acts 14:22, John 15:1–4, Hebrews 12:14–17, 2 Peter 1:3, Matthew 10:22, Matthew 25:1–13, Luke 12:46–48, Luke 21:34–36, 2 Peter 1:10–11, 2 Peter 3:14-17, 1 Timothy 1:18–19, Matthew 5:13, Acts 11:23, Galatians 4:9–11, 1 Thessalonians 3:4–5, Hebrews 2:1–3, Revelation 2:13, Revelation 2:16–17, Matthew 13:18-23, Luke 8:11–15, Luke 14:34-35, Matthew 3:10, Luke 3:9, Matthew 24:4-13, Mark 9:43–50, Luke 13:6-9, John 8:31-32, Romans 8:12–17, Hebrews 6:11–12, Hebrews 10:22–24, Galatians 6:7–9, Philippians 3:17–4:1, 1 Peter 1:6–9, 2 Peter 2:1–3, 1 Timothy 6:10, 2 Timothy 2:22–26, 1 John 2:24, Revelation 2:25–29, Revelation 3:10–11, Revelation 3:12–13, Revelation 3:21–22.
Once Save Always Saved Passages (14)
Ephesians 1:13-14, John 10:26-30, Romans 8:28-39, John 6:37-40, Philippians 1:6, Romans 6:3-5,8, I Corinthians 1:7-9, 1 Peter 1:3-5, John 14:16, Ephesians 4:30, Hebrews 13:5-6, Jude 24-25, John 5:24, 2 Corinthians 1:22
Jesus and Paul did NOT see Adam and Eve as a metaphor, but taught Genesis as being truth.
Plus, science confirms the earth has to be young, not mentioned here — and is not addressed at all in our public, atheism indoctrination schools.
Related:
The 10 Best Evidences from Science that Confirm a Young Earth
1. Very Little Sediment on the Seafloor
2. Bent Rock Layers
3. Soft Tissue in Fossils
4. Faint Sun Paradox
5. Rapidly Decaying Magnetic Field
6. Helium in Radioactive Rocks
7. Carbon-14 in Fossils, Coal, and Diamonds
8. Short-Lived Comets
9. Very Little Salt in the Sea
10. DNA in “Ancient” Bacteria
Unrepentant heterosexual lust, lying, etc. too. Let us be FREE — walking in HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD — REJOICING! Let’s Worship Jesus as the Lord of our lives — holy unto Him!
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Can someone be a Christian and practice homosexuality at the same time? Dr. Christopher Yuan explains why the answer is no.
Ephesians 4:29-30: Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God….
Colossians 3:8: But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. NIV
Ephesians 5:3-4: But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. NIV
“Living for His glory results in rejoicing.
• It’s characterized by praising and declaring Him to the world.
• It’s confidence in God….
• Submitting to God; that is being resigned to His will.
• Obeying God so your good works are seen and bring glory to God.
• You serve people in a way that brings glory to God.
• And you rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. That God will be glorified is your hope.”
36:15 “Don’t you know that a little sin, carelessly indulged in will prevent your salvation?”
“These little sins show that you are still a slave to sin.” “It shows the deceitfulness of your heart, and manifests that you still love the ways… of sin.”
“If you love sin; though, it is a little one, your heart is not right in the sight of God. You are still a stranger to divine grace.”
“God will never be one with you until you and your sins are split apart.”
“A sin is a sin, whether done in private or before the wide world.”
“Tell thine own conscience now what it is. Look it in the face. Confess it before God. May He give you grace to remove that sin and any other, and turn to Him with full purpose of heart.”
“Christians, recollect that little sins will spoil your communion with Christ. Little sins, like little stains in silk, may damage the fine texture of fellowship; little sins, like little irregularities in the machinery, may spoil the whole fabric of your religion.”
“..my friend, will you have your sin and go to hell, or leave your sin and go to heaven?”
“..will ye keep your secret sins, and have eternal fire for them? Remember it is of no use, they must all be given up, or else you cannot be God’s child. You cannot by any means have both; it cannot be God and the world, it cannot be Christ and the devil; it must be one or the other. Oh! that God would give you grace to resign all; for what are they worth?”
Is The Didache a blueprint for the way churches should be?
This is one of the writings of “the early Christian fathers” that I especially liked. It’s big on unity!
What if we compare The Didache to what is practiced in today’s ‘churches?’
But every Lord’s day gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one who is at odds with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned.
Is there even one ‘church’ in America that requires reconciliation? How many pastors have fully reconciled so they’re qualified to lead?
The Didache mentions prophets being a common leadership ministry in the late first century church (like Ephesians 4:11). Where are they in today’s churches?
The Didache also has“the way of death” list that is similar to Paul’s “will not inherit the Kingdom” list in Galatians 5.
It’s the difference between the old and new covenants. The 6th commandment, ‘Thou shall not commit adultery’ meant sex outside of marriage. In the New Testament Jesus says that lusting in one’s heart after women is adultery – Mt. 5:27-29. Prager is Jewish.
The Holy Spirit helps us overcome when we completely submit to God (cold turkey to lusting 100%), resist the Devil and the lust demon flees, even homosexual lust! >>> FREEDOM!!!
“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.” (1 Cor. 10:13)
