So true, those so called “Faith Healers” are actually “fake healers” and don’t go to hospitals to heal folks because they are frauds and can only pretend to heal.
Shadrack who lives in Africa asked me what does it mean to be filled with the spirit.
I explained to him that Being filled with the spirit is not charismania, babbling gibberish or falling down, and pretending to be dead. Jesus didn’t touch people and yell at them and push them down, rather he lifted people up and raised the dead.
Nor is it so called “holy laughing” like the damned nor, crawling around, barking like a devilish dog.
Being filled with the spirit is developing a life of spiritual fruit. Let’s see what scripture says,
Galatians 5:22-23English Standard Version (ESV)
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is
love,
joy,
peace,
patience,
kindness,
goodness,
faithfulness,
gentleness,
self-control;
against such things there is no law.”
Hell has really disappeared from the vocabulary of many sorry preachers. Hell has been reduced to a swear word by the lost when wanting to express their anger.
Hell is also even denied by many so called preachers, & only preached by few, because it makes people uncomfortable.
That is true. Unbelievers have no hesitation to talk about hell and to verbally threaten people with it, while the church is reluctant to warn people not to go to hell, supposedly out of love and compassion and concern and a desire to be acceptable.
So while unbelievers have the word “hell” on their lips frequently, many preachers refuse to talk about hell. Scripture describes hell to produce in sinners fear, terror, and panic that drives them in the direction of repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!
The Gospel is Good news! You can be saved from your sin and its ultimate penalty! The word “gospel” simply means “good news,” and that’s exactly what it is. If you understand and believe it, the gospel is the best news that you will ever hear.
It is this good news that gives you the ability to find, to know, and to love God, not to mention escaping your bondage to sin and the ultimate penalty of that sin: eternal death and separation from God. Here are the essential points of this good news that God graciously gives us in the Bible:
*God created and owns everything, including you. Genesis 1:1, Psalm 24:1
*God is perfectly holy. Matthew 5:48
*God requires your perfect obedience to His law. James 2:10
*You have broken God’s law. Romans 3:10; 23
*You will pay the eternal penalty for your sin. Romans 6:23
*You cannot save yourself by your good works. Titus 3:5
*Christ came to earth as both God and sinless man. Colossians 2:9
*Christ demonstrated His love by dying on the cross to pay sin’s penalty. Romans 5:8; 2 Corinthians 5:21
*Christ rose from the grave and is alive today. 1 Corinthians 15:4
*You must repent of all that dishonors God. Isaiah 55:7; Luke 9:23
*You must believe in Christ as Lord and Savior, and be willing to follow after Him. Romans 10:9
This is how one of my unsaved colleagues graded Emily’s response to the assignment!
“Give an example of someone who has impacted your life!”
This Sunday, true believers will celebrate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, and His triumph over sin, death, and the grave.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is . . . the most determinative event of all time because by it, the destiny of every person is ultimately determined. It is the most impactful thing that ever happened in the history of this world. How you respond to the resurrection will determine whether you spend forever in heaven or hell.
People like to think they’re free. Oh, they love to think they’re free. That’s the fashion nowadays. Everybody is free to do his own thing, do whatever you want, do whatever feels good.
On the contrary, man is not free. You don’t do your own will. You are locked in spiritual death. You are utterly insensitive to the realities of God, to the divine realm. You are hypersensitive to the influences of the evil world system around you. You are engulfed in your own personal sin.
Paul’s description of unrepentant man’s status is utterly hopeless; “Dead in your trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1) has only one interpretation.
Dead is dead.
But thankfully Paul does not leave it there.
“But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. “(Ephesians 2:4-7)
The great, wonderful truth of Easter is that Dead people can come to life.”
This Sunday, many churches will be filled with unsaved people making one of their biannual trips to church.
It’s a day when many lost and dead men and women pretend to be spiritually alive.
This pretense of faith only serves to deepen their own self-deception. They need to be brought face to face with the resurrected Lord, and understand the depth of their depravity and their spiritual needs that only He can meet.
My prayer this Easter time that if you are still merely “playing church” that you will truly believe, exercise repentant faith, place your faith in the Savior, and confess Him as Lord. Gty
And like the HIV virus, it kills everybody it infects, not just in time, but in eternity, not just physically but spiritually and there’s no cure for the HIV, but there is a cure for the SIN virus and I have it.
You may ask me what am I supposed to believe in order to get rid of the S I N virus.
*Believe and agree you are a sinner.
*Believe and agree you are alienated from God, and must truly repent and turn from your sin.
*Believe and agree that you are “condemned already” and need a pardon.
*Believe and agree that you need to repent (turn your back from sin) and produce fruits of obedience.
*Believe and agree that Jesus took your punishment on the cross as your substitute, and is waiting to pardon you.
*Believe and agree that God’s justice was satisfied by the fact that God raised Jesus…from the dead.
*Believe and agree that the evidence that you are truly a believer is that you produce “fruits of obedience.”
That’s what you believe. That’s the gospel. And when you believe that by faith, simply trusting God, He, in His mercy takes the righteousness of Jesus Christ and credits it to you because your sins were credited to Christ when He died on the cross.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For GOD hath made JESUS to be sin for US who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
If you have a desire in your heart to believe, the best way to know how is to pray simply and quietly in your heart:
“God, I want Jesus Christ. I receive him now. I don’t want to die in my sin. I want to go where you are. I now repent of my sin, I want to follow you, and obey you and your word. Please save my lost soul. Amen.”
If you do that in faith trusting, He will hear that prayer and your life will be transformed in a moment. If your faith is weak ask him to help you to believe. If you need more information read the Gospel of John, and ask God to teach you the truth of Christ.
A dear religious lady said, “Don’t use that word ‘saved,’ kids don’t dig it. It’s not cool!”
A well known gospel preacher recounts , I preached one time and I was preaching to young people at a youth rally and I used the word “saved.” And I said, “You young people need to be saved.” And a dear religious lady came to me afterwards, and said, ‘You shouldn’t use that word. It’s not contemporary, kids can’t really dig on that word, it’s not cool. You’ve got to use a better word.’
You want to know something? I couldn’t think of a better word. That was God’s word. You know my first reaction was ‘Lady, that’s God’s word. I am not interested in what your word is. What does it mean to be SAVED?
It means to be delivered. From what? From sin, and Satan and judgement, and death, and hell, and only the saving gospel of Christ has the power to do that. Being saved includes:
Forgiveness
A transformed life
Escape from wrath
Life in the spirit
Resurrection
Eternal life with God.
Being saved,” is God’s effective power in the world to bring about deliverance for men, women, and young people from God’s wrath, from sin, and Satan, and judgement, and death, and hell.
The noun “salvation” is used 23 times by Paul, and the verb form ” saved” 29 times. It’s a key word. It means deliverance!
Have you been delivered, or are you just like that “sweet religious lady” who is skipping down the road to hell while telling us not to use the word “SAVED”?
Brian
Passionately telling the religious lost and pagan lost how to be saved, and reconciled to God.
Churches today are literally filled with people who are under the delusion that they have saving faith.
They are looking forward to heaven when the fact is there has never been a transformed life and therefore there’s never been a justifying change in their inner most being.
You can say you have faith but I can’t see that faith unless you show me that faith. And you can’t show me that faith unless you show it to me in a repentant transformed life.
It is not enough to say you have faith, that proves nothing. That’s merely an affirmation which may or may not be true.
Faith in a sense is like the wind, you can’t see it, you only see its effects. It’s like electricity, you can’t see it but you can feel and enjoy and appreciate its effects. It’s like radio waves, you can’t see them, they’re invisible but you can appreciate their effect.
Faith is not known to be real until it is evident in action, deeds, in doing. As in James 1 : 22 put it, or in works as we see in chapter 2.
Faith in James’ mind is a statement equal or a word equal to spiritual life. When he says “faith without works is dead,” what he really means to say, if we can clarify it that way, is spiritual life without works is dead.
There’s no real life there at all. Unless you are living a repentant transformed life, there is no way that your faith can be verified to anyone nor in fact to yourself.
This is how one of my unsaved colleagues graded Emily’s response to the assignment!
“Give an example of someone who has impacted your life!”
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