My beloved non Christian friends (moslems, hindus, buddhists, atheists, idol worshippers, etc), I want to ask apology for the condition of the churches today. I know it is not my position to represent the whole churches in the world. I am just nobody, just a voice in wilderness, just a young man who has great desire to know Almighty God and when I found Him and know His unfailing love, I want to share it with you so that you will know that God loves you and want you to be saved.
I was born in Christian family and I was so thirsty about God, I kept looking for Him but I can't find Him. With time, my logic and my understanding developed, and I could see the situation around me better. The more I used my logic and understanding, the more I was tired of being "Christians", being "hypocrites". I saw the condition of the churches and despised them, I even despised myself for my hypocrisy. I chose to be an atheist and hated the churches.
My non-Christian friends, I would always be in agreement with whatever you say about the churches for many of them are not the churches at all. I thank God because He separated me from the churches so that I can see from outside about the situation inside the churches and it is terrible. I was blind when I was part of it, but the moment God opened my eyes, I become to know the reason why people hate the churches. I am very grateful to Him that in my great disappointment about the churches and Christianity, He called me back, He captured and satisfied my heart, He showed His great love to me that make me always wonder and stand in awe, "How great Thou art". I have Almighty God as my Father. Can you imagine that?
My friends, God really wants to lavish His great love to you, to take your burdens, your problems, your painful experiences, your dark secrets, your nightmares, and everything that you find it is difficult to face. He wants to say to you, "My child, don't worry, don't be afraid, I will bring deliverance for you. I will fight for you, you need only to be still (Exodus 14:14). He said "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. You are His creations and He wants to be your Father. He loves you with all His heart.
This Almighty God is the One who created this universe, including us. Even though we are just a breath, a person among 6.7 billions of people, far smaller than sun, moon or other planets, but in His eyes we are the most precious creatures for He created us in His own image (Genesis 1:27). We are fearfully and wonderfully made by Him (Psalm 139:14), our hairs are numbered by Him (Matthew 10:30), He knows everything (1 John 3:20). He knows our past, present, and future. He know our pains, our joys, our problems, our success, everything. We are not a mistake, we are not a scum of the earth, we are not an object of mockery, we are God's possession. He put His wisdom in making us. Just see our thumb-print, there is no other person in this planet has the same thumb-print as we are. We are special in God's eyes, my beloved friends.
I, personally, want to ask apology from you for the condition of the Christianity and churches around the world. The Bible standard about the Christianity, and the church has been diluted. We are no different than "happy, joyful Christians" who love God when everything works perfect and disown Him when things happened on the opposite side, when temptation comes and persecution rise up, we fall away. We are hypocrites and liars. We are selfish, wretched, poor, pitiful, blind, naked but still we claim "I am rich".
We are the most dividing Body in the world. We have more than 39000+ denominations and each of them claiming themselves to be the best. We have faction and dissension and Bible clearly says that most of us will go to hell. God will judge us more strictly because we are behaving as stumbling block and shut the kingdom of God from you.
Galatians 5:19-21
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Many of us said, "I follow Luther" "I follow Calvin" "I follow Wesley" "I follow Arminius" "I follow Moody" the Bible said that when we behave like that, we are worldly, we are carnal, we are infant in the Lord (1 Corinthians 3:1-4). Some people said, "I am Baptist" "I am Charismatic" "I am Pantecost" "I am Orthodox". Again, we have faction and Bible said that we will not inherit the kingdom of God.
The fact that there are more than 3 different church' names within one street hold service at the same time is untolerable. They compete among themselves for people, for building, for money, etc. Each of them says that they are the only one who handle the truth correctly. Many of them put their own name as the name of the church. Do they want to glorify their names or God' name?
My beloved friends, the churches today are not what Jesus wants. He prayed His last dying prayer to the Father for His disciples "May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that You sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me (John 17:23). Jesus wants us to be one so that the world will see that God really dwells among us, that Jesus is really Immanuel, which means "God with us" till the end of the age. But as you can see, each day we just divide ourselves more and more.
Bible demands from us that within the church everybody should serve each others, the strong help the weak and each of us should please our neighbour, for Christ didn't please Himself (Romans 15:1-2). The rich help the poor as Christ that though He was rich, yet for your sake become poor. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. Then there will be equality (2 Corinthians 8:14). Pastors, evangelists, teachers, workers, apostles are their servants not their lords (Luke 22:26). Jesus said, "Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many (Mark 10:43-45).
But the situation inside the churches right now is far from being in unity and we don't have love and compassion about people, we don't care about the needy and the poor, we don't defend the weak, we just selfish, power-hungry, crazy-respect people. We have tax collector's love who love only people who love us and respect people who respect us. We demand something in return from them. My friends, I don't know how to fix this mess but please don't see Christianity from the churches today, but see it from Jesus Christ. Just imagine if all those who say that they love Jesus is start behaving like Jesus, behaving as one body, behaving as brothers and sisters, practicing their love, will the world not in peace?
We claim that we are children of light, and the world is in darkness, the problems, troubles, tribulations we face right now is not because the world behaving as the world, they are in darkness since beginning, but because we, the ones who claim to have light, didn't go to the world and show our light, our true identity as Christ ambassadors in the world. We are lazy, idle, busibodied, self-righteous, proud, selfish Christians. We choose to put our light under the bowl because we are afraid of losing friends, being persecuted, being disowned by people. We don't have heart like Daniel and his three friends who chose to be persecuted instead conform to the world. They chose to stand for the truth instead bowing down to the world.
We know that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father, except through Him (John 14:6), we know that salvation is Gift of God, we know that God is a jealous God and He hates sins, idols, pride. We know that wide is the gate and broad is the road that lead to destruction and many enter it. We know many of you are walking straight to hell unless someone stop you and bring you back to God. We know that He loves you and want you to come to Him, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. We know that God also want you to enjoy all the benefit as the children of the Living God. We know about that very well but we choose to go to heaven alone, we choose not to tell you about this, we are afraid of persecution that we might receive from you. We choose to let you stay in darkness and die without salvation. We do not want to share our light and forever we will be a "happy, joyful Christians" who love God when everything goes perfect, but hate Him when we are persecuted because of His name.
My friends, I know that you also have desire to know Almighty God, you struggle here and there, you wish you can meet God in the church and learn from Christians about God, but when you see how the "Christians" live, those who claim to be Christ disciples, their life is even worse than unbelievers and not only that; you even see many pastors, preachers, evangelists, priests in the news: do poligamy, homosexuality, immorality, money fraud, make name for themselves, and all the sins that maybe you will never find outside the churches.
My beloved friends, I know how your feeling, I know your opinion toward institution so called "church", toward people so called "Christian" for I was in your position. But let me speak out with all my heart about those who claimed to be "Christians", to be "pastors", to be "leaders of the church" but have no love toward each others, no forgiveness, no self-control, and keep on sinning, etc; all of the are hypocrites. Jesus opposed them so much, Jesus wanted them to act in righteousness and holiness, to be a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. He wanted us to express our faith through love. It is not Jesus' will that the Christianity like this. We are too far from the Bible standard. The churches mess up. The church is not a building, the church is the body of believers which Head is Jesus Christ.
Matthew 7:21-23
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
There are many Pharisees and Scribes in the churches in form of pastors, preachers, evangelists, etc. Jesus said to them, "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in the Moses' seat. Everything they do is done for men to see. They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long, they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in synagogues, they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them "Rabbi" (Matthew 23:2-7).
Do not call anyone on earth "father", for you have one Father and He is in heaven (Matthew 23:9). But the fact that many of us call man as Pope (Papa, Father, Holy Father), Vicar of Christ (Christ's Representative). We are deliberately taught by that institution to blaspheme God, we are deliberately taught to follow men (preacher, pastor, priest, pope) more than God, to honor them more than God. We are taught to follow teaching, sacraments and tradition of men instead follow God's Word. God is a jealous God, He will never share His glory to His creations.
They shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces, they themselves do not enter, nor will they let those enter who are trying to. They travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, they make him twice as much a son of hell as they are (Matthew 23:13-15).
My friends, do not allow these men to shut the kingdom of heaven from you, do not allow these men to make you twice as much a son of hell as they are. They are making converts, not disciples. They make people to always depend on them, not God, to follow men, not God. They never tell people to read their own Bible and learn from God. They don't want people to have their personal relationship with Him. They want people to always focus on their teaching so that they can direct them as they like. They want people to keep give them money so that they can buy private jet, luxury house, expensive cars, etc and pay their bills.
My beloved friends, you do not deserve to go to hell because you hate these kind of practices, because you are tired of their hypocrisy. Do not let these people steal your eternity. Jesus also opposed them and want them to serve people not lord and rule over them. Jesus loves you and wants you to be saved.
They said, "If anyone swear by temple, it means nothing, but if anyone swears by gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath". They also said, "If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing, but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath (Matthew 23:16-18)."
They don't care about people salvation, they just want people to flock into their churches and paying tithe and offering. They twisted the Word of God for their own benefit, they make road to salvation wider just to please people's itching ears, they always preach about blessing, about love, about peace, about freedom, about power, about gift of God, about prosperity, about money, about anything good that you can even be found in the world. If people can find the teaching of the churches in the world, why they should go to the church?
These "preachers" know very well that if they preach like Jesus or Paul preached only a remnant will stand till the end and it doesn't need a genius to know that their income is the function of the number of the people in the church. The more they are liked by the people in the world and many new converts come to the church, the richer they will be. Pastors, preachers, evangelists are the good business in making money, especially when we have economic crisis like today.
They have power over people, they have "word of God", many people see them as "God's servants" and because many people are too lazy to read the Bible and can't discern the spirits, whether they are ferocious wolves under sheepskin or true men of God, they can use that advantage to deceive them, take advantage from them and gain glory for themselves. They publish their own books, CDs, casettes and sell them in the church while they are preaching. People just walking around during the service distributing the things. God rebukes them. What do you think, my friends, they are doing good business or God's business?
They even don't care about their own salvation, they don't know that they will be judged more strictly (James 3:1) and it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea (Matthew 18:6). They shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces, they themselves do not enter, nor will they let those enter who are trying to.
My non-Christian friends, do not let these hypocrites and pharisees rob your salvation. That is not what Jesus wants. He wants you to be saved, He wants the Christians start behaving like Him, walk in His path, follow and obey Him. But we love to be on our own. We are gods (little gods) of ourselves we are kings of ourselves. I know some of you are looking for the truth but you can't find it and when you see the Christian, you despised them and because of that, many of you chose to be atheists, you hate this world, you tired with the people, you hope you can find the answer, but you can't. I was like that before until Jesus came and saved me. He loves me so much and He loves you too, my friends.
And the conditions of the churches are not better than their pastors, teachers, etc. The churches mess up. Please don't be alarmed, my friends. God allow that to happen. Bible said "No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God's approval (1 Corinthians 11:19). Many of us believe in everything our pastors, preachers say because we are too lazy to open our Bible and Bible said, "If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit (Matthew 15:14)." Many of us follow blind men but we trust them as "men of God". It is God's mistake or our mistake when we end up in hell because we are too lazy? Not only that, we also have itching ears, somehow we can "differenciate" between "men of God" and "heretic".
If the preachers always talk about money, prosperity, blessing, wealth, freedom, little gods, you be you and not be what God wants, we will clap our hands and say "Wow! Awesome message, it blessed me! He is a man of God, indeed. I will come to this church next week. Finally!! I have found my church where my "faith" could grow". The "faith" they are talking about is like this "Declare with your faith, believe in your heart that in the same date next year, we will have new Mercedes in our garage" or "if you give tenth of your income, God will reward you multiply, give your money to the pastors and the churches and see what will happen. God will bless you abundantly".
But when they talk about judgment, sins, hell, being like Jesus, carry your cross daily, deny yourself, follow Him, they will say "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it (John 6:60)? He is "heretic" "false teacher", let us shut him up. They try to kill them as their forefathers did to the prophets. Jesus said to them "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation (Matthew 23:33-36)
Why don't you read the Bible and find out the Truth by yourself? I tell you the truth from 2.1 billions Christians, there are only a remnant that will be saved, most of us will go to hell. Bible said, "Many are called, few are chosen (Matthew 22:14). God said, "these people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain, their teaching are but rules taught by men (Mark 7:6-7). Many of us wearing mask to the churches. Many of us behaving as a good man but inside us full of selfishness, jealousy, envy, hatred, no mercy, no forgiveness, no love. We just want to be called "children of God" but we act no different from "children of darkness".
Do you want to know the Bible Standard about true genuine Christians, Jesus' disciples? Please read carefully these 3 verses and see from your Christian friends and if they still have these qualities and claimed to be "children of God", go and oppose them.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:19-21
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Revelation 21:8
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
My friends, I am not making the way to kingdom of God to be so narrow, but it is the Bible standard, those mega-church preachers and prosperity preachers are the ones who make salvation is so cheap, precious blood of Christ is unworthy. The Christianity you see today are not Christianity Jesus wanted, we are far from being the radiant church, being the body of Christ. Please, don't see Christianity from the churches today but see it from the Bible, see how Jesus lived, how He died for you, for us to be saved, how He resurrected on the third day and because He lives, we have hope, we have future that after we died, we will also resurrect with Him to the Father's house in heaven.
My beloved friends, if you are not a big fans of the church, neither do I. Let's shake our hand and oppose their wrongdoing. If you repent and put your faith in Jesus Christ. God will give you power to change things. Stop putting your faith in stones or woods or animals or trees or human beings. They can be prophets, wise men, learned men, kings, saints, or whoever. They are all dead. Only Jesus who sinless and live forever, He resurrected on the third day after He died for our sins. He Himself the image of invisible God, the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word (Hebrews 1:3).
God loves you and want you to be saved. Do not allow hypocrites and stumbling blocks in the church to hinder you from Kingdom of heaven. Your soul is precious. Heaven will rejoice everytime a soul repented. Take His yoke upon you and learn from Jesus for He is gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. His yoke is easy and His burden is light (Matthews 11:29-30). You can't go to heaven if you don't know the truth, if you don't know the way, if you don't know the author of life. And Jesus said "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6).
My non-Christian friends, we are all the same, we are all sinners need to be saved, we are going straight to hell, no one is righteous, not even one. We have sinned and fall short the glory of God (Romans 3:23). For that reason, Jesus came from heaven and died 2000 years ago for our salvation, to pay our death penalty, He exchanged His life, His precious blood with our eternal damnation. If you believe in Him with all your heart and surrender all to Him, He will give you Spirit of sonship, and by Him we cry "Abba, Father" (Romans 8:15).
If you read the Bible standard about who will inherit the kingdom of God, it seems impossible for mankind to overcome those things but Jesus said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26)." For that reason we need help from God, we need His grace to be saved. We need God's Spirit inside us to enable us to walk in righteousness and holiness for the spirit is willing, but the body is weak (Matthew 26:41)." We need our nature to be changed, to be a new creation, to be born again and have Holy Spirit inside us, without Him, we will always fall. For that reason, we need Jesus in our life. If we believe by faith His resurrection power, that He died for us and raised up on the third day, that He is Son of God, the Word who became flesh, God Himself, God will pour out His Spirit to us and with Him, we can overcome the world, we are more than conquerors.
Read Bible, repent, asking His mercy and forgiveness, invite Him as personal Saviour and allow Him to rule over you, fully submitted to Him and your life will be full of noise, full of surprise, full of blessing, but also full of persecutions, especially from those hypocrites who are envy with you. "How can you be so holy, so righteous, so yada yada." They will not mock what you have said, but they will mock your personal. Do you know what to do? Bite your tongue and bless them.
My will is only this: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:10-11). I want to see God' Spirit move among people like happened in the past that people can't stop confessing their sins and preaching the Gospel to all the nations. I want to see God conquer the world in these last final days. I want to see Restoration of the Church, Revival of the Church and Purification of the Church. I pray for the fire to come, whatever it costs. Persecution, great tribulations, etc. Let those unbelievers burn the churches where there is no Almighty God there, closed the Christian Bible studies where they teach false doctrines, banned churches that worship and teach another Gospel. But let God judge those unbelievers justly afterward.
I also pray for those unbelievers who try to prevent God's people to preach salvation and the Truth, their plans and devices will fail, they can't stop the Way of God. This is my prayers: God, remove all the hypocrites, all immoral brothers, all children of darkness from the churches, uses any means to do that and bring Your children who still lost out there, who are still confuse and do not know God, who are tired with the churches but hungry for the Truth. Let them find You and come to the true Church where God is the Head, not the pastors, elders, or groups of people. In Jesus' name, I prayed. Amen.
God bless you
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