Luke 13:23-24, “Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.”
We are living in the “perilous times” foretold in the inspired Holy Bible in 2nd Timothy 3:1-7. There has never been more corrupt Bible revisions than there is today in America. There has never been more false religion in the United States than there is today. Satan is pulling out all the stops, reltnlessl working to kill, steal and destroy.
The Bible tells us in 2nd Corinthians 4:3-4 that the Devil deliberately BLINDS THE MIND of unbelievers to keep them lost, “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” The Devil wants to take as many people to Hell with him as he possibly can. Please don't take that truth lightly dear reader. The Devil has your number and he knows where you live! We just read that Satan blinds unsaved people, so that they won't see the light of THE TRUTH of the Gospel to be saved.
Jesus made it clear in no uncertain terms that to go to Heaven a person MUST BE BORN AGAIN!!! John 3:1-3, “There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” The word “verily” means “truly.” Jesus said to Nicodemus (a Jew), I am telling you THE TRUTH, that unless someone is born from above they cannot enter into God's Kingdom.
Now you can understand why Satan's greatest weapon is to con people unto living the Christian life without ever being born again. Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to this world! Religion is man trying to reach God through human effort and understanding; whereas Christianity is God to to reach mankind through faith alone in the sacrifice of His only begotten Son through Calvary's cross. Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.
There are not many people today who are giving out the clear Gospel message. The Gospel has been so embellished, changed and butchered that no one can even recognize God's simple plan of salvation anymore. I believe our time as saints is short. Romans 10:15 says that the feet of soulwinners are PRECIOUS!
Carefully notice that the Bible doesn't say the “mouth” or “tongue” is precious, but the soulwinner's “feet.” The reason why is because even the most eloquent speech and cunning wisdom is completely worthless if we don't use our feet to bring the Gospel to the lost sinners who need to hear it to be saved. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty!
Repeatedly throughout the inspired Word of God we read that people were saved by simply believing the Gospel when they heard it preached. As the Apostle Peter preached the Gospel in Acts 10, we see that Cornelius and his friends were saved in verse 43 by simply BELIEVING the Gospel they heard preached unto them.
That is why the Apostle Paul said in Galatians 3:2, “This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” A person gets saved simply by BELIEVING the Gospel which they read or hear preached unto them. It is that simple to be saved. There is no biblical requirement to “be willing to turn from your sinful bad habits,” nor to “become a Christ follower,” nor to “give your life to Christ.” These embellishments are deadly alterations to God's simple plan of salvation. Remember, the Bible warns that Satan intentionally “blinds” the minds of unbelievers.
Jesus answered the disciple's question as to whether few people are saved, with the shocking revelation that very few people will ever enter through Heaven's pearly gates in eternity. Jesus tells us the reason why in Matthew 7:21, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” Jesus tells us what the will of the Father is in John 6:40, “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” The will of God the Father is that you BELIEVE ON HIS SON, JESUS!!! Only Christ has the nail-scared hands and feet.
It's not difficult to see why Jesus said so few people will ever go to Heaven, in lieu of all the counterfeit plans of salvation being preached today across the world. There are over one billion hellbound Roman Catholics today, who have been woefully deceived to trust in Sacramental Salvation instead of Christ alone as the Bible teaches (Galatoans 3:26). The Vatican's Seven Sacraments are a road to Hell, not Heaven. Catholics have what the Bible terms “another gospel” (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4).
There are an estimated 1.6 BILLION Islamic Muslims in the world, who all reject Jesus as the Savior. According to the toxic Koran (which I have read in detail), Jesus was kidnapped and someone else died on the cross. I'm not kidding! The Koran contains ZERO prophecy! It is clearly NOT God's inspired Words; but rather, the ravings of a religious lunatic, Mohammad. Not one Muslim who trusts in the Koran will ever step foot through Heaven's pearly gates. According to the wicked Koran, Jesus is not God's only begotten Son. In fact, Islam says God has no son at all. The Devil is a beautiful liar!
Then there is the Church of Christ (COC) cult, who add more to the Gospel than God requires to be saved. Official COC dogma says that you absolutely must be water baptized to be saved. You must also (they say) publicly confess faith in the name of Jesus. If you don't make this audible public confession, COC deems you still unsaved. And finally, COC insists that you turn from your sinful bad habits to get to Heaven. They misunderstand this heresy to mean Bible repentance. This is the same damnable heresy sadly being taught at Pensacola Christian College and Bob Jones University today. RUN from this dangerous places! Dear reader, RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!! It reall does! That is why Jesus said in Mark 4:24b, “Take heed what ye hear...”
Likewise, the Apostle Paul exhorts the saints in 1st 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.” Take heed what ye hear! Hell is eternally full today of billions of fools who HEARD WRONG! Matthew 7:15, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” The most dangerous thing you could ever do is believe whatever a preacher says without SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURE for yourself to verify if what he is saying is blbical or not (John 5:39; Acts 7:10-11). That pastor could be incompetent, lying to you. Jeremiah 5:31, “The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?” Your pastor could be a Bible ignoramus! Learn to think and study for yourself based upon the inspired Scripture alone, never blindly follow anyone.
And then there are the Seventh-Day Adventists, who errantly teach that you must keep the Ten Commandments to prove that you truly love God. If you don't keep the Sabbath Day, or turn away from your sinful bad habits, then SDA's claim you don't love God, your faith is not genuine, and you are not a child of God. SDA's are very deceitiful. They will superficially profess to believe the same Gospel as free grace believers, when in fact SDA's trust in a works-based plan of salvation. If you doubt what I say, go study up on SDA's exclusive bizarre doctrine called, “Investigative Judgment.” SDA's have what the Bible terms “another gospel” (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4). They also have “anorher spirit,” which is not the Holy Spirit (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4)
So, we have just seen that neither Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses or Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA's) are going to Heaven, because they all preach another gospel. 2nd Corinthians 11:3-4, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.” Paul is warning everyone about FALSE RELIGION!!!
False Religion In The End Times And Antichrist
If you read down to verses 13, 14 and 15, Paul warns us that the Devil masquerades as an Angel of Light, to deceive his victims. Literally, Satan imitates Jesus to trick his victims. When the Antichrist appears on the scene in the world during the Tribulation period, the Bible says that he WILL DECEIVE the whole world (Revelation 12:9). Many people will follow and qorship the Beast, thinking that he is the promised Messiah, the Christ. 2nd Thessalonians 2:3-4, “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”
Notice that the Antichrist will OPPOSE all the things of God, and instead will promote himself as God. The Man of Sin will be the ultimate narcisst. We are seeing an increasing trend across America (and the world) today to reject organized religion, in favor of spirituality without theology. This is all preparatory for the coming Antichrist. We read in Daniel 11:37b concerning the coming Antichrist that “he shall magnify himself above all.” The wicked world will embrace and follow the Man of Sin, as their hero! His poster will be on every teenager's wall, as a form of Rockstar (if not literally one).
Already we are seeing a strange phenomena of everybody and their dog being tattooed. I'm not kidding about the dog tattoos! I humbly believe this is all preparatory for the Mark of the Beast, which is dangerously close to becoming a reality upon the world. We are close to becoming a Cashless Society. The Bible says without the Mark of the Beast, you won't be able to buy, trade or sell anything (Revelation 13:15-18).
Dear reader, the $64,000 question is: Have you been born again? I didn't ask you if you go to church. I didn't ask you if you are religious. I didn't ask you if you have tried to turn away from your sinning. I didn't ask you if you prayed some prayer. I didn't ask you if you had a religious experience in the past. I asked you if you have ever been BORN AGAIN?
That is to say, has there ever been a place and a time in your life when you realized that you are a guilty Hell-deserving sinner; and you realized that Jesus is the Christ, the only begotten Son of God—who died on a cross to pay your debt of sin, and then He was buried, and three days later He physically resurrected from the dead—and you trusted in this 'GOOD NEWS' (GOSPEL), believing on Jesus as your Savior as your only way to Heaven? If you did, then you were born again that very moment and forever, now God's child.
That is the ONLY way to be saved, so that you can someday go to Heavwn to be with Jesus when you die. You simply need to receive Christ's sacririce on the cross as full payment for your sins, BELIEVING that He did it all for you. It's that simple, free and without any obligations or stipulations down the road. The life you choose to live from that day forward (from the moment you get saved) is an entirely different matter of discipleship and service, and not of sonship and salvation. One thing has nothing to do with the other, and this is critically important to keep them seperate (like gas and fire must be kept seperate), lest we corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumblingblocks before the people. To mix and combine service with salvation is the false doctrine com,monly known as, “Lordship Salvation.”
Thank you friend for reading my blog. To God alone be all the praise, credit and glory.
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