Most people spend all their life worrying about making money to feed their families, to put clothes on their back, to buy a beautiful home in a good neighborhood, to buy that nice car to park in their driveway, and to take those nice families vacations, but do you every stop to think about your soul? When you have got all you want….Do you have what you really need? Without Jesus, all those other things are nothing. The Bible tells us to first seek the kingdom of God, then all these other things may be added to us.
In providing for one’s future and happiness, one has plenty to think about. Their retirement and their children’s education, making enough money to pay their mortgage on that beautiful home, and to have money for emergencies, but there is more to think about than material things. There is the spiritual side of life. Where will you or I spend all eternity?
Jesus spake a parable to show us that riches do not secure one from evil. “The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully. And he thought within himself, saying, what shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruit? And he said, this will I do, I will pull down my barns, and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years, take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” Luke 12: 16-19.
WHEN YOU GET ALL YOU WANT…DO YOU HAVE WHAT YOU NEED? One should be sure, very sure, for one never knows at what moment you may be called from this earth, that you may go to, and not from, your treasures.
One of the mistakes of this rich man was, he had the goods, but the years he could not claim, he forgot that life is uncertain, and like so many others, he tried to satisfy his soul with food, drink and merriment. He had all he wanted, but he did not have the thing that he really needed.
God said unto him, “Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasures for himself, and is not rich toward God.” Luke 12: 20-21.
It may be a harsh saying, but men and women act the part of a fool, not realizing that their soul could be required of them at any time and they will have to give an account of every deed done while in this body. In trusting to riches for their happiness, which can only come from God, they are laying up treasures on this earth, and not in heaven.
The rich man thought he had many years ahead of him, but God said, “This night your soul is required of thee.” This he was unprepared for, he had all he wanted, but he did not have what he needed, and all his goods on which he had set his heart were delivered over to others.
Covetousness is a sin that all people need to be warned against for happiness and comfort do not depend on the wealth of this world. The things of this world will not satisfy the desires of the soul. Do not be misguided by thinking that God does not know your thoughts. Think about it, if you have all you want do you have all you need? And be truthful with yourself, for your soul salvation depends on it. Are you like the rich man, laying up treasures for yourself, that is folly in the eyes of God. If you are smart, or if you think, you are wise, then you should be laying up treasures in heaven for Luke 6: 24 tell us, “Woe unto you that are rich! For ye have received your consolation.”
Jesus tells us, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:” St. Matthew 6:19-20. If you have, all you want….do you have what you need? Now is the time to ask your-self theses questions. Do not wait until it is too late.
MY GOD CAN!
Psa. 78: 41 “Yea, they turned back and tested God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.”
Why do people place limitation on the Lord? Many times limitations are placed on the Lord without realizing what they are doing, by the words that come out of our mouth, by their thoughts; by the way, they act. People place limitations on the one that has no limitations. Heaven is His throne, Earth is His footstool, He created everything our eyes survey. He is God in the book of Genesis, He is God in Revelation. He is God in the Beginning; He will still be God in the end. God can do anything but fail. To God, nothing is impossible.
Even though the children of Israel are God’s chosen people, they were stubborn and rebellious, just like we are today, and in their unbelief spoke against God, questioning God’s ability, “Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?” There is nothing that my God cannot do. My God can. I place no limitation on the Lord; He can do far above what I may think He can do.
At the Red Sea, the children of Israel were caught between Pharaoh’s army, and the Red Sea. They complained to Moses, why did you bring us out of Egypt just to be slained in this wilderness? Moses said to them, “Stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord.” The children of Israel put limitation on God even after all the wonders and miracles they seen in Egypt. Nevertheless, God parted the water and the children of Israel walked across on dry land. Because my God can do anything.
The people asked Moses, “Can God feed this great multitude of people out here in the wilderness? My God can. Can God bring water out of a rock? Who ever heard of such a thing as this? However, my God can, for Jesus is that Rock. Who is it that can walk on the water? Nobody but Jesus. Who is He that can still the wind and calm the raging sea? My God Can. What manner of man is this?
The God of Moses, Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, David and the others, I want to remind people, He is also our God. That same God can reach down, and lift you out of the miry pits of sin that we have sunk into, and place your feet upon that solid rock. You may ask who would do that for a sinner like me? My God Can. He can take your sins and wash you white as snow, because my God can. When we are sick and the doctors give up on us, who can heal us? My God Can. Can this man raise the dead also? “Lazarus, come forth,” My God Can. I am the Resurrection, and the life,” Jesus said.
The Chaldean, Magician, astrologer, could not tell king Nebuchadnezzar the meaning of his dream, but Daniel said, “There is a God in Heaven who revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king, what shall be in the latter days.” My God can. “Was thy God able,” king Darius asked of Daniel. “To deliver thee from the lions?” “Oh, king, live forever, my God was able.” Daniel said.
Just remember, when you are down, my God is able to hold you up. When the three Hebrew boys were thrown into the fiery furnace, they said unto the king, “Our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us.” The king looked into the furnace and said, “Did not we thrown three bound into the fiery furnace? I see four men, loose and walking down there, and the fourth is like the Son of God.” My God is able to deliver you from whatever trial you may be going through, for He will be right there in the fire with you. Do not ever put limitations on God, for there is nothing He cannot do. Your friends may turn against you. Members in your church may let you down, but my God is able to hold you up. Elijah said unto the people, “How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.” God gives that chose to every man, woman, and child. Whom will you serve today, God or Satan?
FROM THE DESK OF THE PASTOR
JUST IN CASE:
Many claim that Jesus was not born of the virgin Mary, that he was not crucified on the Cross of Calvary, and that He did not rise from the grave the third day. They claim that the things written in the four gospels are fantasy. That Jesus did not exist.
It is sad to think that the divinity of Christ has been given up by so many people. Some great scholars deny that He ever lived at all, that Christ is only a myth.
II Peter 1:16-19 “For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain. And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.”
The Bible, is the word of God, written in a book by the prophets of old, and the apostles of Jesus who walked and talked with Him for three-and-a-half-years of Jesus’ ministry. The word of God seems to be under more scrutiny today than ever before, but that seems only reasonable, knowing that Jesus is soon to come. Man is questioning whether Jesus ever existed, that it is all a well planned fantasy. They are discounting the miracles that He performed. They are discounting the rapture. They say the apostles are a fake, that they are just someone made up. The spirit of the Anti-Christ is in the land., deceiving many, “even the very elect, if it were possible.” I am telling you brethren who are reading this article, Hold fast to that you already have.
Jesus tells us in St. Matthew 10:32-33, “But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.”
Don’t you think that, Just in case, the Bible is the true word of the one true God, we should be very thoughtful of where we want to spend eternity? Do we want to spend it in those mansions that Jesus has gone to prepare for us, or do we want to spend it in the fires of hell, with Satan and the fallen angels? God gives us a choice. Are we willing to take the chance that all of the Bible is a fantasy, that the things Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John all wrote are fiction? Peter said, “We have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty.”
Scarcely an action or a work of Christ is mentioned, at which Peter was not present. Peter was present at the miracles of Jesus from the very first. He was there on the Mount of Transfiguration. He was there when Jesus fed the multitude. He was there in the court of Pilate. He was there at the tomb with John to witness the empty tomb.
Just in case the disciples are telling the truth, that the Bible is really the word of God, what happens to us if we refuse to believe? What if the great scholars, and the sciences are wrong? What if God is the Creator of heaven and earth, and all the things that are there-in? Are we willing to pay the consequence, because we refused to believe? Each person has to make up their own mind about the Bible. But can every one in the Bible be wrong, from the prophets in the Old Testament, to the Disciples in the New Testament, from Paul in the book of Acts, to John in the book of Revelation?
Just in case, Jesus is real and He did die for our sins, that He is alive for evermore, are you willing to step out on a little faith? For if He did not, then we are all dead in our sins and hell is our new home. I can’t speak for the great Sciences nor the great scholars of our time, but as for me, I believe the word of God, I believe Jesus is a real person, and the things that are wrote about Him are true, but you have to decide what you want to believe. I pray you make the right decision.
FROM THE DESK OF THE PASTOR:
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR?
When you go to church, what do you want to hear? The pastor to tell you “God is love” Something to make you feel good. To skip over the things you do wrong. What do you want to hear?
“Woe to the rebellious children, says the Lord, Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, that they may add sin to sin; Who say to the seers, “Do not see,” And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things; speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.” Isaiah 30: 1; 10
Preachers today are worried, concerned and even afraid to preach the true word of God. They are afraid that their own congregation will not accept the truth or that the world system will not tolerate them speaking out against certain sins like, “Same sex marriages, shacking-up, or anything that is classified as sin. If they speak out on any of those things, it is considered a hate crime. Preacher do not hate the person, they hate the sin that person is committing against God and themselves. What do you want to hear? Do you want the preacher to tell you that it is okay to do those things, when it is not? How can the word of God have any effect, if they skip around the truth and just tell you things that are easy to listen to. Like, Jesus died for your sins. Yes he did. But do you think that because he died for your sins that gives you the right do go out and do anything you want to? No it does not. A sin is a sin, whether you like it or not. Preachers that are called by God cannot water the word of God down, just to please the people.
God told Isaiah 58: 1, “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgressions.” A watered down word of God cannot be effective and do the job that it is supposed to do. It seems that people today want to believe a lie more so than the truth. To put good for evil, and evil for good. This is destroying the foundation on which our Christian value are built. It is already destroying our Nation; and we are closing our eyes and refusing to see what is going on around us. Our leaders are saying it is alright to have the same-sex marriages, and some are even encouraging it, but woe be to them.
The prophets of old were killed far telling the truth, because people had rather heed the false teachers, they wanted to hear smooth things, deceits, just like people of today. Anything you want to do is alright with God, he understands. No, it is not alright, and yes he does understand. Everything is not alright with the Lord, he cares how his children dress, and he cares where they go, what they do, just like you care about your own children. We are His sons and daughters, He is our father.
Jesus was murdered on an old rugged cross for telling the people their sin, for telling the truth, the Apostles were beaten, stoned, imprisoned, persecuted, others were martyred, except for John, for the Gospel, did the truth die with them? Did the truth stopped at them? Is this Nation reverting to the old ways? Cannot the truth be told today?
Cry aloud, do not be afraid of being heard. Speak up, some ones feelings may be hurt, but it better to hurt their feelings than them to spend eternity in hell, and if you don’t tell them the blood is going to be on your hands, just like it is on Pilate’s, and it won’t wash off. Is that what you want, to answer for their sins? Many are dying in sin every day, which has not been told the truth. God said, “Show my people their transgressions.” How will they know, if the preachers do not tell them? They need to know the truth, then they can make their own decision, either to believe or not to believe, to do the right thing or not to do the right thing, but the choice is their. They have that right, don’t you think?
I Timothy 4: 16 “Take heed unto thyself and unto the Doctrine; continue in them, for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.”
What do you want to hear? Tell the sinner, what must I do to be saved. Tell them, what must I do to stay saved. Tell the sinner what is required of them. Tell them what sin is. Sin is an abomination before the Lord, it makes him sick. You may be looking good before your fellow man, but that don’t mean you are looking good before God. Take heed to your ways. Don’t ever think that God is not watching you.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
The city of Sodom, Abraham asked God “Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but once more: Suppose ten should be found there?”
And he said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.” Genesis 18: 32-33
Not even ten righteous people could be found in the whole city of Sodom, but Abraham pleaded with God for Sodom in order to save Lot’s life. Only six people were delivered from the great city of Sodom. Lot and his wife, his two son and their wives, before the city was completely destroyed.
The city of Nineveh was one of the greatest cities of Ancient times. So large was its metropolitan area that it would take three days to go around it. “......Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day journey in extent. And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. The king laid aside his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. For he said “Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?’ Jonah 3: 1-10. God spared Nineveh because they repented. The tale of two cities, one repented, the other did not.
How about today? What would it take for these United States to repent? A disaster? How about just one state? Is that asking too much? How about just one city? Would that be asking too much? The whole city of Nineveh repented, were they wiser than we are today? Or did they believe what God said would happen if they did not. Sodom was destroyed because they did not repent. Many people feel they are righteous, and see no wrong in the way they are living? We need to ask ourselves, are people measuring themselves by their own opinion or by the word of God? Hoping something is so, does not make it so. God spared Nineveh for one hundred years, because they repented and humbled themselves before God. But he completely destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of their wickedness, he could not find just ten people upright in that city. If he came to your house, what would he find? You may think that you do things in the darkness and God does not see, but there is nothing you can hide from God, not even your own thoughts. God is passing by your home, how will he find it? Will he see the blood that he shed on the cross of Calvary, as a cover over your home? Will he know that there are repentant souls within that home or will it be destroyed as Sodom because you harden your heart and would not turn from your evil way of life? Don’t put it off, you know not the day nor the hour God will pass over you.
We dwell in the midst of a rebellious nation, the people have eyes to see yet they see not, they have ears to hear, and they hear not: for they are a rebellious nation. It is not from want of means to know God’s will that sinners perish, but from unwillingness to use the means which he furnishes them. Their ignorance is voluntary and inexcusable. They refuse to see there is a step between us and an awful eternity. It concerns us all to get ready for a future state. When death closes our eyes there is no more space for repentance. The flattering of corrupt teachers cannot hinder the execution of God’s wrath against the wicked. When his judgments comes (as it did for Sodom), like an overflowing stream, it will sweep away both the corrupt teachers of lies and those who put their trust in them. Sodom refused to repent and was destroyed. Nineveh repented and was spared for the next one hundred years. What will you do before the wrath of God falls up this sinful nation? I place before you life and death. The choice is up to you. Please, make the right one.
From the Pastor’s Desk:
John Neal
“Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?” Psalms 85:6.
How many times have you heard the Pastor say, “the church is going to have a revival.” This is to pump up the church members, and try to get others into the church. To revive: means to bring back to life, bring around, wake up, renew, refresh, to recover.
So, in comes some Evangelist to perform C.P.R. on the members of the church. But, have you ever asked yourself, why should they have to have life breathed into them? To be woke up, to be recharged? Is not the Spirit they have, the Spirit of the all mighty God, capable of breathing life into them? There are some so dead, that they don’t need a revival, they need a resurrection. What has happened to the fire around God’s altar? Who poured water on the altar of God today. Elijah, on mount Carmel, put the wood in order, and said “Fill four waterpots with water, and pour it on the wood. Then he told them, “Do it again.” And he said, “Do it a third time.” And when Elijah prayed the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones of the altar and the dust.” I Kings 18: 30-39
What has happened to God’s Ministers today, the Shepherds of God’s people? The Evangelist comes in for a week or two, preaching the same things they have heard from their own Pastors. But because they are different, they seem to strike a spark in a few people. The members seem to be revived for a few days.
We are supposed to be ‘lively stones in the building” Where is the joy of the Lord? Where is the Rock of our salvation? Where is the fire around God’s altar? It is not our altar. When we come boldly before the throne of God, we come into the presence of the Lord, and it ceases from being a wooden altar at some church, or at home, and instead becomes an altar of God. Are we today, not cable of bringing that holy anointing of the Holy Ghost down around God’s altar?
Do you think the Lord wants a Luke Warm Services? He tell us in Revelation, “Because you are neither Hot nor Cold, I will spue thee out of my mouth. That is what Jesus thinks of our Luke warm services. One would think we are breeding a church full of puppets, having to tell them everything to do, “Let us give praise to God in the house of the Lord.” or “Let everyone say Amen” or “Let everyone stand or sit, or raise your hand to praise the Lord.” We are not a bunch of robots, if we feel the fire of God burning in us we should be able to freely lift our hands in praise to our Lord and God, without feeling embarrassed and people staring at us like we are a bunch of freaks. Jesus says, “If you are ashamed of me, I will be ashamed of you before my Father.”
Do you think someone would be asked to leave the church if they were to say out loud, “Thank you Jesus.” Or “Halleluiah.” Whose church is it suppose to be any-way? To some man or to some group of people, or to the Almighty God? The word of God tells us that, “Upon this rock I will build my church.”
The Holy Ghost is the fire, If you don’t have the Holy Ghost, then how can you have any fire in the church? That is the way it came in the book of Acts, and it has not changed. Jesus tells us, “I am the same yesterday, today and for evermore.” Man is trying to change the word of God to suite themselves, But they are heaping coals of hell fire upon their own heads. Where is the Holy Ghost today? It came with “other tongues and with power, as the Spirit of God gave the utterance,” so tell me, why is there no fire around God’s altar? Because too many people are professing to be born again, when they are not, they are professing, but not possessing the Holy Ghost. We are living in the Laodicean church age, neither hot nor cold. The rich-poor church. Rich in the things of this world, poor in the things that have to do with God.
People are being taught what a particular church or pastor believes to be right, what they reason it to be, but it is not always what the Bible says. They give their own opinion, and everyone has an opinion, but they seemed to have left Jesus out. What does the word of God say? The Holy Ghost came on the day of Pentecost and it has not gone anywhere, they spoke in tongues then and we speak in tongues today. It has not changed. God has not changed. Show me in the word of God, where the tongues were taken out of the Holy Ghost. Why do we fight so hard against the obvious? Because the one that we are listening to, Sunday after Sunday, can’t preach what they don’t have, and what they don’t have is the same Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost. Get the Holy Ghost with the tongues and there will be fire around God’s Altar.
WHERE IS DAVID? David was a man after God’s own heart, he loved the Lord and the Lord loved David. He was a man of flesh and blood the same as you and I. He made mistakes, and he had his weakness, he had the same passions, same desires, same temptations, but there was something about David, in spite of his faults, God still loved him. God did not love the sin, but he loved the man. There was one thing David had that seems to be missing in the world today. He knew how to repent. He knew how to praise the Lord. Where is the spirit of David today? When we read the book of Psalms, we can see how much David loved the Lord, and how much he trusted in him. We may often repeat the words of David, and that is fine, but, we should have our own praise to God for what he has done for us, in our own words and not someone else’s. Our words may not sound as good as what David said, they may not be written down in a book here on earth for someone else to read, but God has them all written down is his great record book, and placed in his treasure chest. They are how we feel toward God, from our own lips and from our own heart, and mind. We should always have a praise for God, morning or night, for he is a twenty-four God, seven days a week. If we cannot think of something to thank him for, to praise him for, then there is something wrong with us. We only want to praise him when things are going good, and some don’t even praise him then. When we have money in the bank, our health is okay, our husband or wife is doing fine, our children are behaving, but, when things are not going so well, God still remains God. We need more of that spirit of David in the world, that has a praise for the Lord, no matter what. There are some days we may feel as if the Lord is ignoring us, is that because we are ignoring him? If we deny him, he will deny us. We want Jesus to love us, but do we love him? If so, then how do we let him know that we love him? Do we live our lives as if we loved him? Do we praise him with our whole heart, or do we just offer him lip service? Do we call upon his name, but do not the things he tells us? Jesus said, “If you love me, keep my commandments.” Do we praise him seven days a week, or only on Sunday, where people can see us? Has our free nation become Sunday only worshippers of the Lord? This nation has become a nation of Dignified Christians, too dignified, too proud, to kneel down upon their knees in prayer to the “KING OF KING, and LORD OF LORD’S.” We need to recall to mind that Jesus was not too “Dignified” to be beaten, spit upon, slapped, humiliated, and shed his innocent blood on the Cross of Calvary and die for our sins. Not His, but yours and mine. Sinners, not worthy of one drop of his blood. When the preacher says a prayer on Sunday morning, we just nod our head in agreement. It reminds me of two old red Roasters, setting on the fence at the break of dawn, one crowed loudly announcing the breaking of the dawn. The other was so lazy, he just nodded his head in agreement. We nod our head in agreement to what the preacher has to say, no matter what. We need to open our mouths and lift our hands in praise unto the Lord. Jesus said, “If ye be ashamed of me before men, I shall be ashamed of you before my Father.” Are the people of this nation too proud, dignified, stubborn and rebellious, to lift up their hands and show the world they love the Lord Jesus. This is suppose to be a Christian nation, but they are taking everything away from the creator who created everything upon the face of this earth, including you and me. They have taken prayer out of our schools, and our children are running amuck. They have taken the ten commandments out, they are trying to convince the people that Jesus was not born of a virgin birth. They are telling the people you don’t need to be baptized, there is no resurrection, and that Jesus didn’t really die on the cross of Calvary, it was someone else in his place. How much longer do you think this is going to be a Christian nation? What is left for them to do, take “In God we trust” off of our currency as well. Out side of the church atmosphere, do we ever kneel down and pray? Do we have family prayer, you know, where the whole family sets around the table and holds hands and pray together, or kneel by their bedside and pray, to give thanks unto the Lord for each day that we live, for our food that he has given us, for our home that we have? David knew how to pray and to praise the Lord and he was not ashamed. He said what was in his heart, and showed his love toward God. Where is that spirit of David today? David was a man after God’s own heart. What is keeping us from being like David, a man or woman after God’s own heart? If we have that spirit of David, then let us lift up our hands, and show the world our love of Jesus. WHAT IS TRUTH? Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause, I was born and for this cause, I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice. Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all,” St. John 18: 37-40. Jesus came into this world to make known the truth, and to govern men not by force, but by spiritual influence. “What is truth?” By this question, Pilate manifested both his ignorance of our Lord’s meaning, and his indifference in respect to His doctrine. I find in Him no fault, the Holy Ghost caused to be written on an imperishable record, that it might stand an eternal monument of the falsehood of the Jews, and the perfect innocence of Jesus Christ. What is truth? Truth sat in person and bound before Pilate. Pilate was eager to comply with the custom in order to release an innocent prisoner, but he had not measured the depths of the Jewish hate, which could demand, instead, a robber and a murderer. The Jews preferred Barabbas to the Son of God, the Saviour of the world. When Christ said, I am the Truth; he said in effect, I am a king. He conquers by convincing evidence of truth, He rules by the commanding power of truth. Many souls out there in the world are searching for the truth, but there are so many preachers out there today, and each one is saying I am teaching the truth, how many truths are there today, not everybody can be teaching the truth. So who do I believe, what do I believe? How many gospels do we have? Each one has a different doctrine, one teaches the Baptism in Jesus name, another teaches speaking in tongues as the Spirit of God gives the utterances, another does not believe in either one. What is truth? The dictionary meaning is Fact, reality, honesty, certainty. When Jesus said, unless you believe and are baptized, you shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of God. He told you the truth. Whom do you want to believe God or man? Little by little, the preachers are allowing the world to come into the churches today. They are trying to bring God down to please and pacify man, instead of coming up to where they belong to meet God’s standards. But that will not work; mankind has to go by the laws of Jesus Christ. Our self-righteousness is not good enough. A lot of people do not want to listen to sound doctrine today, they are happy living in a world of pretense. They let and they let until they are all out of the way. They let until the truth has completely slipped away from them. Preachers today, are worried, concerned and even afraid to preach the truth of God’s word. They are afraid that their own congregation will not accept the truth or that the world system will not tolerate them speaking out against certain sins, like shacking-up, or the same sex marriages, or anything that is classified as sin. What is truth? Do you want the preacher to tell you that it is okay to do these things, when it is not? How can the word of God have any effect, if it is watered down to please the people? Do you think that because Jesus died for your sins that give you the right to go out and do anything you want to do? No, it does not. A sin is a sin, whether you like it or not. Preachers that are called by God cannot water down the word of God just to please the people. God told Isaiah 58:1, “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgressions.” Water down word of God cannot be effective and do the job that God intended it to do. People today seem to want to believe a lie more so than the truth. The prophets of old were killed for telling the truth. Jesus was murdered on an old rugged cross for telling the truth. The Apostles were beaten, stoned, imprisoned, persecuted, and others were martyred, except for John, all for the Gospel. Did the truth die with them? Cannot the truth be told anymore? Has people forgotten what truth is? What is truth? God’s word is truth. If you reject Jesus, you reject truth.