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The Church System

The true church is composed of all genuine believers in God, who follow Jesus by doing their best to obey the things he commanded us to do.  It is not a building or a denomination or a religion. Anyone who believes in Jesus in this way is part of the true church.  Anyone or anything else is not.  We do not hate those who are not part of the true church, but we do hate the hypocrisy, self-righteousness, and lies of those who claim to be the church but are not.  And we hate the spiritual system of the devil which is behind them. Jesus commended the Ephesian church for this, saying, "This you have, that you hate the deeds of the false apostles, which I also hate." (Revelation 2:6)📷 The false church equates itself with God, and their buildings with his service. The delusion is so strong that the name "church" no longer means anything but a building. The name "Christian" usually means some kind of hypocritical, self-righteous church person who goes to that building on Sunday. The church today bears no more resemblance to Jesus and his disciples than capitalism does to communism.  Yet the church says, "If you aren't doing it our way, then you're wrong. "How can they be so deceived?  Because they rejected the Truth!  Why do they reject the truth?  Because it is uncomfortable. "Because they received not the love of the truth for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they might believe a lie." (2 Thessalonians 2:10-11) The main lie behind all false religions is that they replace God's righteousness with their own righteousness (i.e. self-righteousness).  Paul said of the religious system in his day, "They have a zeal for God, but not according to the truth. Being ignorant of God's righteousness (in Christ's teachings) and trying to establish their own righteousness (through religious rules) they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God." (Romans 10:2-3) Some will say they have no religious rules now, because they're not under the 'law'. But everyone is under some kind of law. They all follow someone's rules. Take a closer look to see if it's the rules Jesus gave us or if it's the rules their denomination or pastor has made for them. They say of Jesus' teachings: "I don't have to follow those rules, because I'm under God's grace."  But ask if they can be a Christian and not go to church; if they can be a Christian and break the laws of the land; if they can be a Christian and teach doctrines which are different to their doctrines.  All of a sudden they'll become very religious about following rules; but it's their rules that they are committed to and not the rules that Jesus gave us. When you compare the life and teachings of Jesus with what is happening in the churches, you see that the churches have not shared much with the poor. Instead, they suck the last drop out of the poor to build fancy temples and to live in luxury.  The most popular teaching in the churches today is the "prosperity gospel".  Most will claim that they don't fully support it, because they know it is a damnable heresy; but they turn right around and teach it anyway, saying that wealth is a sign of God's blessing and that poverty is a sign of God's punishment.  They totally ignore the fact that they, the rich, created the poverty by taking from the poor in the first place, to support their own greed.  The communists say religion is the opiate of the people.  The kind of religion they have seen is exactly that -- a horrible drug that makes the masses oblivious to the needs of mankind.  The religious system likes it this way.  They can control their people better in this stupor. But the most pitiful part about it is that the vast majority of so-called Christians prefer to be told lies rather than the truth, to be deceived children rather than responsible adults.  God says, "My own people love to have it so." (Jeremiah 5:31) The prophet Jeremiah, in a judgment uttered 2,500 years ago against Israel perfectly describes the church today. God said through him: "Among my people are found wicked men.  Their houses are full

of deceit.  Therefore they have become fat and waxed rich.  They judge not the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper.  The right of the needy do they not judge either.  The prophets prophesy falsely and the priests bear rule by their means.  And my people love to have it so. Shall I not punish them for such things, says the Lord.  Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?" (Jeremiah 5:26-31) The churchianity system is already spiritually dead but just doesn't realise it.  Soon her buildings will be closed, her pastors will be liquidated, her services banned and her Bibles burned.  And it will be God's judgment on a church which failed to live up to the name by which she was called. Her buildings will be destroyed for the same reason the Jewish Temple was: to get her eyes off her buildings and back onto the Lord! "The Most High does not live in temples made with hands." (Acts 7:48) "God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." (John 4:24) "So trust not in lying words, saying The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these." (Jeremiah 7:4)" Those who claim to be God's people have forgotten their maker and build temples. But I will send a fire upon their cities, and it shall devour their palaces." (Hosea 8:14) Too many have tried too many years to patch up the old church system.  Yet the great revolutionaries from Noah to Christ had to totally do away with the old and start anew. Jesus refused to compromise with the Pharisees. He attacked them head-on, saying, "Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  You wash the outside of your cup and platter, but inside they are full of extortion and excess; You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful outwardly but are full of dead men's bones and all sorts of uncleanness. I tell you the truth, publicans and prostitutes will go into the kingdom of heaven before you!" The devil's reaction to God's revolution is always a system-preserv-ing compromise.  He will ask us to wait, to negotiate, to lay down our weapon (the Truth) lest we offend people, and all for the purpose of stalling while he continues to work behind the scenes to destroy us. But God has never been for reformation of the old rotten carcass.  He wants to bury it and resurrect a completely new person. Jesus said, "No one puts a piece of new cloth on an old one; otherwise the new piece will tear away from the old piece.  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will expand and burst the skin and be spilled and the skin will perish.  But new wine must be put into new bottles (or skins), and both will be preserved." (Luke 5:36-38) In Bible times wine bottles were made of leather.  The leather would stretch when it was new.  As new wine fermented, the skin expanded with it.  But if old wine was left in the skin for too long, it would harden.  An old wine skin, or old "bottle" would crack if you tried to pour new wine into it.  Jesus taught that the old wine of religious tradition is addictive, and those who are hooked on their denominations will never be able to appreciate the new wine. (Luke 5:39) What God is doing today takes "new bottles" who are not restricted by denominational ties. These new bottles have a new loyalty to Christ alone. And Christ gives them his new wine. Our relationship with the church There are many stages of growth in Christian faith.  Sincere people can be trapped in false folds under false shepherds, or wandering about dazed and lost, sometimes even under sincere shepherds who are trying themselves to find the right fold. When we say "Let the dead bury the dead," we mean don't go out of your way knocking on church doors to revive them.  But if they come asking for help, we should do all we can to help them, as Jesus did with Nicodemus. Jesus said, "I have other sheep which are not of this fold.  I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one fold and one shepherd." (John 10:16) The one fold is the kingdom of heaven. The one shepherd is Jesus. Our

fellowship is just a part of that bigger body.  If we limit our vision to just ourselves, we cease to be a part of the kingdom of heaven, and we became a part of the false church, which is more loyal to itself than to God. 📷 Jesus talked about a field that contained both good plants and weeds. (Matthew 13:24-30)  He said to leave the weeds alone, because in trying to pull them up, you could easily damage the good plants.  Sometimes we have to take that approach with people from other religions. Don't rush into telling them what you think is wrong with their doctrines or with their leaders.  Just concentrate on loving them and, as opportunities arise, offer them a little more truth than they already have.  God's Spirit will convict them about specific errors if you will work on winning their hearts through love. But even the parable of the good plants and the weeds said there would come a time ("the time of the harvest") when the weeds (or lies) would have to be destroyed. In trying to help people in false churches and false religions, we must be careful not to let their errors confuse our spirit.  And we must watch for opportunities to show them a better way. We must not compromise our convictions or water down our message; and above all, we must stay dropped out.

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Charity

You should give to charities because it is the right thing to do, and not because you have to bail the charity out of financial disaster.

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Men's Liberation

If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children, he cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:26)

Jesus includes emotional ties to wives in with all the other luggage that we must dump before we can properly call ourselves Christians, or disciples of Christ.

We believe in the sanctity of marriage, and we have taught that Jesus never instructed wives to leave their husbands. But we see universal suffering that stems from the inability of men everywhere to forsake their wives for God.

Husbands everywhere end up hating themselves and hating their wives just because they do not have the courage to follow God regardless of marital pressures.

It is noteworthy that we have never had one married couple join our ranks. Of those who married in the community, a high percentage fell away--always because of pressure from the wife.

Over and over we have shared with men who could see the truth in what we were saying. But when a woman came into the picture, the spiritual vision faded.

The problem is not women; it's men. When we become liberated from our emotional dependency on women, then (and only then) can we learn to love them as God loves us.

I challenge every husband reading this to honestly face his own dependency on his wife. That very dependency is the root cause of the war between the sexes.

Emerson once said, "Violence is not power, but the absence of power." Similarly, sexism is an expression of the frustrations both sides feel at not being able to control themselves emotionally, because they are not yet yielded to the powerful will of a loving God.

And we believe the onus is on us men to take the first step in changing this.

The Bible says leaders in the church must first be leaders in the home. Yet preachers traditionally have the most rebellious kids in the congregation. I was told by one preacher that rebellion is 'natural' and that my own children would rebel too one day.

But when I submitted to God's rules, trying never to let my wife stand between me and a clear conscience, I found her (and our children) mirroring that same submission in their relationship to me.

My flesh craved the comfort of having my wife as a spiritual crutch. I married her in the first place because of a deep emotional need. But I prayed for strength to stand alone if need be. And God answered.

Today my wife and kids are so loyal that our enemies call them puppets. Of course we know otherwise. They are the first to speak up if they see me heading into error. Our unity is not based on blind loyalty, but from a common desire to know the Truth and to walk in it.

I forsook my wife and she forsook her children for God. The paradox is that what we turned loose of, God gave back.

This is true liberation.

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The Psalm 91 prayer for protection is being preached a lot during this coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, and it certainly is an inspiring passage to read whenever we are going through difficult times. But have you considered that Psalm in the context of the rest of the Bible...specifically the teachings of Jesus? How do you reconcile teachings about martyrdom and Christian persecution with ones about protection, health and prosperity? This video will help you to understand the bigger picture.

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When men become liberated from their emotional dependency on women, then they can truly love them as God loves them.

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What did Jesus say about the end times (the last days)? He talked about global wars, natural disasters, great signs in the skies, false prophets, lying signs and wonders, religious deception, the great tribulation, and the rapture of the Church (which takes place at the same time as the return of Christ). Doomsday predictions often focus on just one or two of these things, but this video will give you a more grand overview of everything that Jesus said about the end time signs.

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Eternal Life I want to look at this concept of “eternal life”, which is, in my opinion, often expressed too casually in Christian circles.  To be fair, some idea of life after death has persisted in many religions throughout history.  And Jesus spoke with such confidence about an afterlife that his followers have come to accept rather easily that eternal life complete with pearly gates and streets of gold is a concept that should ring true with everyone.   However, I get the feeling that Jesus was trying to describe something that really goes far beyond the imagination of the average person, and which he could only describe in terms which would do little more than hint at the truth, i.e. that this “life” he offers us is wonderful beyond comparison to anything that we have experienced in our lifetime. Einstein, who was also a believer in God, revolutionised a lot of scientific theory about the material world, showing that matter can be changed to energy, and even that time is a concept that does not cover everything that we know about our existence.  It is very difficult for the average person to imagine something, for example, “outside” the universe or “before” the universe began.  Words like infinity and eternity tend to still come across to us like endless extensions of what we already know.  I am certainly such a person. It makes “perfect sense” to me, for instance, that it is no easier to explain “Who made God?” than it is to explain “Who made the universe?” and so any Christian argument which ends with “In the beginning, God…” seems a little unfair, given that we criticise the evolutionists for never dealing with things like “Who made the Big Bang?”   But lately, and particularly after watching the movie “Interstellar”, I have started to think a little more deeply about these things.  What “Interstellar” did was to suggest that Black Holes may be gateways into eternity.  For the first time I saw Eternity as an entirely new dimension, not just a lot of what we already know now going on and on.  There is this other dimension which is not only impervious to time, but also impervious to space.  Eternity exists right now, but right now (as we know it) is not a PART of Eternity.  Right now as WE know it is temporal, i.e. outside of Eternity. I thought about the concept of the New Jerusalem, as I described it in “Survivors”.  It was a huge pyramid-shaped planet that just suddenly attached itself to earth.  Inside the pyramid there was no need for the sun, because God himself is the Light. Now what if that pyramid took the place of the Black Hole in “Interstellar”?  What if our entry into the New Jerusalem brings us into contact with the incredible Light and Force that created the entire universe… a whole new dimension of sights and sounds and smells and pleasure that makes us literally one with the Creator himself?  What if that union is all that he has been wanting for us since Adam and Eve? And what if that amazing Force is not just powerful, but is also incredibly personable, knowing every detail of our existence here on earth, and having overseen it all from the start of creation? It may also be related to me turning 70 recently, and feeling just that little bit closer to finding out for myself what lies out there.  I know that, for a little while after I turned 70, I entertained thoughts about possibly having it all wrong and being disappointed; whereas now I think I may have had it a bit wrong, but only because it’s so many times more wonderful than anything I had been able to imagine previously. Even now I know that the way I’m describing this is not going to turn most people on the way it has turned me on in the past few months, but, by the same token, talk of streets paved with gold doesn’t do much for me (and perhaps for others) once I saw through the whole “love of gold” mentality as Jesus taught it.  Gold speaks to a world that is obsessed with such things, to get their attention long enough that we might gradually be able to get them to appreciate the indescribable joys of being one with God in another dimension called Eternity. I would hope that a few people who think that religion is contrary to science could at least consider the amazing spiritual possibilities in stuff that Einstein discovered and described with regard to light, energy, time, and space. Because if there really is a dimension called Eternity, then it provides an answer that has always been missing in evolutionary theory.  There is, indeed, a first Cause, which answers to no one in our finite existence.  He made the entire Universe, and he did it through the power which he wields in a place called Eternity.  Where is there anything to match that in evolutionary theory? For God so loved this world that he gave his only Son, so that anyone who believes in him should not perish, but should have eternal life!  Even so, Come, Lord Jesus!

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An open minding video for people that go to churches.