Saturday, February 25, 2017
Monday, February 20, 2017
Woe Unto the Pastors
We are living in a day where hardly any good churches can be found. With the exception of a few, Independent Baptist Churches are corrupting like crazy. With doctrinal errors like: Zionism, the pre-trib rapture, repent of your sins salvation, and false Bible versions, God's people are being scattered.
The question is why are we being scattered? Why is it so hard to find a good Baptist Church that does not compromise truth? Why are so many Baptist Churches allowing false doctrines to creep in? The reason is behind the leaders: the Pastors.
Jeremiah 23:1-2 reads, "Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord."
The reason why God's people have no Church is because of the Pastors. God has set Pastors to rule the flock rule the flock (1 Tim 5:17), and they will have to give an account of the Church (Heb 13:17).
In this post, I'm going to give you three reasons why Christians are leaving their Church homes; as a result they are turning to the world, and why Pastors are bringing destruction to themselves.
1) The Pastors are Covetous
Ezekiel 22:25 reads, "There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof."
This point is pretty obvious. Pastors today are more interested in you buying their books than you reading your own dusty Bible. God said in Proverbs 23:23 "Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding." Ya hear that Tony Evans? Ya hear that Bob Gray Sr.? Ya hear that Brian Mosley? Men like these are the reason why people have lost their trust for the local Church.
I remember my first year of soul-winning. When I knocked on people's doors, sometimes they thought I was asking them for money. I hadn't even said anything but "I go to a Baptist Church". That was enough for them to think I was some covetous wolf.
False prophets give Churches bad reputations. Paul said in Galatians 5:12 in regard to False prophets, "I would they were even cut off which trouble you." God knew that whenever you have wolves and sheep together, you have trouble. Again, it is written, "Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?" -1 Corinthians 5:6.
If you have one corrupt man selling his corruption, then every man becomes corrupt. If you have one corrupt cell, you have cancer, and it spreads. God said in 1 Corinthians 12:25 "That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another." You can't have the same care one for another when there is a schism; two sick people can't make each other well. It takes somethingthat is not touched by the filth of the sickness to make something well: God's word.
When God's people stop reading their books and start reading their Bibles, there would not be so much deception. God said in 1 Corinthians 14: 29, "Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge." When the Pastor is preaching a sermon, you are supposed to be judging what he's saying, making sure that it is what the Bible says. And if you don't know how to do this and you're a man, you need to get serious, or else people will keep making money off of you.
"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
2 Peter 2:1-3
2) The Pastors don't win souls
Jeremiah 23:1-2 reads, "Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord."
There is another spiritual truth we can gain from this passage, and that is soul-winning or visitation. God commands the Pastor to "...do the work of an evangelist" in 2 Timothy 4:5. Sadly, the alter call has substituted soul-winning in many churches. The alter call make Churches lazy because no one goes soul-winning like God commanded. In Luke chapter 10:1, Jesus sent his apostles out two by two into every city WHERE HE WAS ALSO GOING TO GO!!! Jesus didn't send out his apostles and he remained lazy. He went as well.
When Pastors don't win souls, they become stupid. I'm not saying that out of disrespect, I'm saying that because that is what God said in Proverbs 11:30 where it reads "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise." That goes for every Christian. If you don't get people saved, you are a fool. Sorry for actually telling you the truth this Sunday.
I can't stress how important this subject is. This one point would require an entire blog post.
Pastors as well as saints need to win souls for Christ.
Acts 5:42 "And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ."
3)Pastors Don't Preach the Bible
Isaiah 56:10 "His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber."
This verse can't be truer. If you understand why people used dogs, they were not for pets. Dogs, among many uses, can be used for protection; therefore we have "watchdogs". The signal that a watchdog uses to alert is his loud, powerful bark.
God is saying that the Pastors are dumb dogs that cannot bark. They love to sleep and let the enemy come in unnoticed. The Pastor is supposed to preach against sin, false doctrine, and false prophets. God commands Pastors in Isaiah 58:1, "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins." Agains he says in Ezekiel 6:11, " Thus saith the Lord God; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence." God wants Pastors to scream or cry against sin.
Timothy is told in 2 Timothy 4:2, "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine." Reproving someone is when you calmly and politely tell them they are wrong. Rebuke is when you sternly and aggressively tell someone they are wrong. God wants Pastors to be able to point out and REBUKE sin.
God commands Pastors in 1 Timothy 5:20, “Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.” And God expects Pastors to name names. Paul did this several times in his epistles to Timothy. He did it in 1 Timothy 1:20, 2 Timothy 1:15, 2 Timothy 2:17-18, and 2 Timothy 4:10. God wants Pastors to preach against Tony Evans, Joyce Meyer, Joel Osteen, Jonathan Cahn, Bob Gray Sr., Bishop Jakes, Pope Francis, Steven Furtick, Billy Graham, and Desmond Tutu. These men and women are leading people to hell and no one even cares.
The problem with the sermons in Baptist Churches today is not what they do cover, it's what they don't cover. It isn't what Pastors do preach, it's what they are not preaching. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are wonderful books of the Bible, but what about Esther, Malachi, Hosea, Nahum, Ezekiel, Romans, Revelation, 1 John, and Hebrews? Salvation is a wonderful sermon topic, but the majority of the Church should be saved, if not, there is a massive problem. God designed the Church to be for the saved. You can only call your church a church if it has saved people, or else it's just an assembly. Church is the assembly of believers, not a building.
Christians already are saved; therefore we don't need every Sunday sermon to be about: grace, love, forgiveness, charity, and John 3:16. All of these topics are wonderful, but you cannot exclude the other important vitamins necessary to live a godly life. Doctrines regarding: separation from the world, marriage, the death penalty, end-times bible prophecy, soul-winning, sodomy, feminism, and abortion are not being touched with a ten-foot pole. Why? Because Pastors are scared.
They know that if they preach what God says about sodomy, half their choir would have to be thrown out of the Church. They know if they preach what God says about feminism that their Church secretaries would quit. They know if they preach what the Bible says about separation, half of their Church would leave.
The reason why they gained these big congregations without preaching the Bible is because they preach to please men. Galatians 1:10 says,
“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”
The Elders today do not serve Christ; they seek to tickle ears with fancy cliches. Dead Churches exist because of dead pulpits, void of the whole counsel of God.
Don't get me wrong, if your Pastor is doing a study on the Book of Matthew, God bless him. What I'm concerned about is what will he preach when he gets to chapter 7 verse 6? What is he going to say when Jesus starts calling names in Matthew 23? I'm concerned that your Pastor will exclude out the negative verses in favor of a positive sermon.
Hopefully, when you start reading your Bible cover to cover you'll see that most of the Bible is negative. The beginning of the book is Adam being thrown out of paradise. The end of the book is God judging and punishing the inhabitants of the earth. Despite the lies you've been told, God is not only love, but he is also holy, just, and jealous.
God created light and darkness. He creates good and evil. “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.” –Isaiah 45:7.
Instead of believing everything you hear, read the Bible and judge for yourself. In these days, hardly anyone cares about the truth.
“ 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;”
-2 Timothy 4:3
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
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