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The Prince of this world has long been striving and seems almost close to achieving that victory. it is the natural result of the error by the Church; a lowering of the standard of the Kingdom of God through the introduction of the gospel of convenience, a walk with God without transformation of life , a Christianity without the Cross. The church surrendering this basis of her power and legitimacy has made her to exist in a perfect and harmonious accord with the world.
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What is the true test of Godliness? How can one fellowship with the true church without being contaminated by the religious impositions of men of today?
The Prince of this world has long been striving and seems almost close to achieving that victory. it is the natural result of the error by the Church; a lowering of the standard of the Kingdom of God through the introduction of the gospel of convenience, a walk with God without transformation of life , a Christianity without the Cross. The church surrendering this basis of her power and legitimacy has made her to exist in a perfect and harmonious accord with the world.
The visible church has virtually created her own ‘GOD’ a religious deity who seems satisfied with his subjects excesses ,cares little about their sins, highly appreciates their works of virtue, even though these were predicated on human pride , and looks with pleasure upon their bold deeds and intellectual displays. Packages of doctrines, whole pedestals of understanding and range of thinking system which form the basis of people’s faith have been tailored to satisfy the cravings of fallen men.
The God of the bible has been left of his own House. His city lies in virtual ruins while the city wall are continually been compromised so that strangers may enter at will. This book written by Ayodeji Ezra-Williams brings to mind the words of Jesus Christ comparing the days of his coming to the days of Noah
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Is Body Piercing and Tattooing something Christians should be doing? In some of the most unexpected places we are confronted by a revival of the old tribal practices of body scarification, body piercing and body mutilation.
What is the true test of Godliness? How can one fellowship with the true church without being contaminated by the religious impositions of men of today?
The Prince of this world has long been striving and seems almost close to achieving that victory. it is the natural result of the error by the Church; a lowering of the standard of the Kingdom of God through the introduction of the gospel of convenience, a walk with God without transformation of life , a Christianity without the Cross. The church surrendering this basis of her power and legitimacy has made her to exist in a perfect and harmonious accord with the world.
The visible church has virtually created her own ‘GOD’ a religious deity who seems satisfied with his subjects excesses ,cares little about their sins, highly appreciates their works of virtue, even though these were predicated on human pride , and looks with pleasure upon their bold deeds and intellectual displays. Packages of doctrines, whole pedestals of understanding and range of thinking system which form the basis of people’s faith have been tailored to satisfy the cravings of fallen men.
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What is the true test of Godliness? How can one fellowship with the true church without being contaminated by the religious impositions of men of today?
The Prince of this world has long been striving and seems almost close to achieving that victory. it is the natural result of the error by the Church; a lowering of the standard of the Kingdom of God through the introduction of the gospel of convenience, a walk with God without transformation of life , a Christianity without the Cross. The church surrendering this basis of her power and legitimacy has made her to exist in a perfect and harmonious accord with the world.
The visible church has virtually created her own ‘GOD’ a religious deity who seems satisfied with his subjects excesses ,cares little about their sins, highly appreciates their works of virtue, even though these were predicated on human pride , and looks with pleasure upon their bold deeds and intellectual displays. Packages of doctrines, whole pedestals of understanding and range of thinking system which form the basis of people’s faith have been tailored to satisfy the cravings of fallen men.
The God of the bible has been left of his own House. His city lies in virtual ruins while the city wall are continually been compromised so that strangers may enter at will. This book written by Ayodeji Ezra-Williams brings to mind the words of Jesus Christ comparing the days of his coming to the days of Noah
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Slide 1: Title: Exploring the Mindfulness: Understanding Its Benefits
Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
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Slide 4: Benefits of Mindfulness for Physical Health
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What About Hypocrites in the Church
1. “I would never become a Christian! Look at all the
hypocrites in the church!
2.
3.
4. “I would never become a Christian! Look at all the
hypocrites in the church!
5. Look at all the scandals of tele-evangelists, the Health
and Wealth preachers, the Name it! Claim it! Frame it!
hyper-faith prosperity preachers, two-faced frauds and
conmen! I don’t want to be part of hypocrisy!”
6.
7.
8. God is far more offended by hypocrisy than you are.
The Bible contains the greatest condemnations of
hypocrisy ever recorded.
9. The Apostle Paul wrote about: “False apostles,
deceitful workers, transforming themselves into
apostles of Christ, and no wonder!
11. therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also
transform themselves into ministers of
righteousness, whose end will be according to their
works.” 2 Corinthians 11:13-15
12. Paul also wrote of: “false brethren secretly brought
in…” Galatians 2:4
13. The Apostle Peter taught that we are to lay “aside all
malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy and all evil
speaking.” 1 Peter 2:1
14. The writer of the book of Hebrews exhorts us to: “draw
near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience…” Hebrews 10:22
15. Our Lord
Jesus Christ
exposed and
condemned
hypocrisy
most famously
in the
Sermon on
the Mount
(Matthew 6:1-6;
16-18; 7:1-5).
16. Matthew 23 records our Lord devastating condemnation
of hypocrisy: “All their works they do to be seen by
men… woe to you, …hypocrites!
17. For you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against
men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you
allow those who are entering to go in. …hypocrites!
18. For you devour widows houses… hypocrites! You
make him twice as much the son of hell as
yourselves.
19. Woe to you, blind guides… fools and blind! …blind
guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
…full of extortion and self-indulgence… woe to
you… hypocrites!
20. For you are like white washed tombs which indeed
appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of
dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
21. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to
men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and
lawlessness…
22. …serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape
the condemnation of hell?” Matthew 23:1-33
23. God clearly demands honesty and sincerity.
Our yes must be YES ! and our no, NO !
25. There are of course hypocrites and charlatans in the
medical profession too, who violate their Hippocratic
Oath to never give an abortifacient to a pregnant
woman, nor to do anything to harm a patient.
26. There are innumerable scandals of organ harvesting
from prisoners in China to provide kidneys, livers and
hearts for transplants to patients willing to pay enough.
33. However, none of us should allow the presence of tens-
of-thousands of hypocrites in the medical profession to
stop us from going to trusted doctors and dentists when
we are ill.
34. There are many counterfeit banknotes, but that doesn’t
stop any of us from using genuine notes.
35. We have heard the reports of hamburgers contaminated
with, amongst other things, the ecoli virus, but people
still want real burgers.
36. The church is not perfect. But Jesus Christ is perfect!
Jesus Christ is probably the only person who has
perfectly lived what He preached.
37. He said what
He meant. He
meant what
He said. He
did all that He
promised. He
perfectly lived
up to God’s
standards of
righteousness.
38. You can point
out many
failings, and
even frauds, in
the established
church.
However,
nobody could
ever point out
any such
failure or
fraud in our
Lord Jesus
Christ.
39. Typically, hypocrisy in the church is used as an excuse
for not repenting of our sins or surrendering our lives to
Christ. By pointing out the sins of others,
we try to justify our own sins.
40. It needs to be pointed out that not everyone who
attends church services is a true Christian.
Many have no saving knowledge of Christ.
41. The true Church of Christ consists of born again
believers regenerated by God’s Holy Spirit. By definition
a Christian has to admit that he is a sinner
and is not good enough for Heaven.
42. By virtue of being a Christian one has to acknowledge
one’s sinfulness and depravity.
That one deserves the wrath of God in hell.
43. The Christian Church requires a public acknowledgement of
sin as a condition for membership.
The very ordinances of the Church make this clear.
44. Baptism is for the forgiveness of sins, symbolising
burial and resurrection. The Lord’s Supper reinforces
this, emphasising that we are sinners needing God’s
mercy and salvation by Blood Atonement.
45. The Lord’s Prayer includes the petition to
forgive us our sins.
The Apostles Creed includes the forgiveness of sins.
46. The regular reading of the Ten Commandments in our
churches reminds us of God’s standards
and how we have failed.
47. The General Supplication and other aspects of
church liturgy emphasises the public
acknowledgement of sin and pleas for God’s
mercy.
48. The Church has never claimed to be a fellowship of
perfect people. That would be hypocritical.
49. The Church is a fellowship of sinners who acknowledge
their complete dependence upon the mercy of their
Almighty God to forgive and transform them. That is
what Grace means – God’s undeserved favour.
59. Therefore it is not
logical to use the
existence of
hypocrites in the
church as an excuse
to reject Jesus Christ.
No one could ever
accuse our Lord
Jesus Christ of
being a hypocrite!
60. If you allow a
hypocrite to
come between
you and God,
then the
hypocrite is
closer to God
than you are!
61. If you boycott church because you hate hypocrisy, then
you could end up spending all eternity
with all the hypocrites in hell!
62. There is a lot of hypocrisy in this world. Islam claims to
be a peaceful and tolerant religion, while many of its
members declare Jihad,
63. issue death threats, murder and mutilate vast amounts
of people in the name of their religion.
65. Communists condemn oppression and uphold
themselves as “liberators” and “champions of justice”
while communist regimes have been
the most oppressive in all of history.
66. No other regimes have imprisoned as many people,
executed as many victims, deliberately starved so many
millions, erected such huge institutions of oppression,
67. employed more secret police, imprisoning whole nations
behind an Iron Curtain of barbed wire, mine fields,
electric fencing and machine gun towers.
68. The Iron Lady had this to say about the Berlin Wall: “The Berlin
Wall stands as concrete proof that when people have a choice,
they choose to be free … Freedom has its problems – but we’ve
never needed to build walls to keep our people in.”
69. Just in the 20th century over 160 million people were
killed by communist governments, even while they
claimed to be devoted to “World Peace!”
70.
71. The African Union continually talks about “democracy”
and “human rights” whilst the vast majority of
government leaders represented at the OAU are
dictators.
72. Many in our own country condemn racism while
consistently supporting the most racist regime on the
continent, Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe.
73. Humanists claim to stand for “tolerance”, yet are
thoroughly intolerant of Evangelical Christians.
74. Humanists champion “diversity” and “pluralism”,
and yet they work steadfastly
to exclude Christian views from the public sphere.
75. Teachers who
believe in the
sanctity of marriage
are expected to go
against their own
conscience to
teach their students
“Situation Ethics”
and perverse
“Alternative
Lifestyles”.
76. Evolutionists who claim to be for “freedom of speech”
regularly ban any dissension, or discussion, and fire
those scientists who question Darwinian Evolutionism, or
who seem to consider Intelligent Design.
77.
78.
79.
80.
81. The fact is humanism is the most destructive religion
of all time, and the most intolerant.
82. Even amidst the original twelve Disciples of
Christ, there was Judas
84. Yet that has not
stopped millions
of Christians,
throughout the
ages, from
finding Grace
and peace at the
foot of the Cross.
85. If you have been let down or betrayed,
by a professing Christian, do not let that
come between you and God.
86. Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one
comes to the Father except through Him (John 14:6).
87. Many people despise and reject what they think is
Christianity when they are merely rejecting the
hypocritical churchianity that our Lord Jesus Christ
Himself rejected and condemned.
88.
89. Do not let the
counterfeit
and the false
keep you
away from
the
genuine
and the
real.
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