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BY GRACE ALONE THROUGH FAITH ALONEThank you for taking the time to view our church's website. Everything about it is constructed to be informational and designed to bring honor to the glory of God. The purpose of this particular site is to draw your attention to the Scriptures and hopefully, to evaluate your soul and your life from that standard, not a man's, nor an institution's, and not even a church's. That proposal, dear reader, from where we are in time, grows more radical each year. We desire that everything that appears here be above board, out in the open. Upfront , from where the title was taken. All too often the cultic mindset has influenced us to be as deceptive as they are, conveying themselves as sheep in the ways in which we would identify, so as not to see them as wolves, and highly dangerous. Many a group will tout their programs, their ministries, their buildings, mention Jesus Christ and salvation, but never let the reader in on their real belief system: Grace plus works, or just plain works for salvation.
The above verse is not hard to comprehend. If anyone adds to the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ in salvation, then their salvation cannot be of grace, it must be of works. It matters little how close it might come to the true saving Gospel of Christ - it is still false - and unable to save the first soul from an eternal separation from God. Read with me Ephesians 2:8-9,
Dress the Gospel of Christ up in an assortment of good works for salvation and the opposite occurs. No salvation at all, but rather, condemnation. Is that what you want, condemnation? Or do you, as Jesus asked of the impotent man in John 5:6, ".Wilt thou be made whole?" Do you rest content with being spiritually impotent? If so, the Gospel means little to you in this life and you'll not respond to God's saving grace through what Jesus did on the cross and in His resurrection from the dead. But, should there be one of you concerned about where you will spend forever, God makes known to you His wonderful plan through the Lord Jesus Christ: Jesus died on that cross because of your sin (mine too). He actually took to Himself upon His body the entire debt of sin that you owed (you weren't even born yet), and shed His precious, sinless blood to satisfy God's demand of justice. In other words, His death was in substitution for yours. You should have been the one to die. When He arose three days later from the grave, God was satisfied that the sin debt was forever paid for, and never to be repeated. The offer of salvation is now presented to all who will receive Jesus Christ by faith as their personal Savior from sin:
One second after you die you will discover there were not many roads to heaven. Just one, and that is through Jesus Christ. Please, don't rely on your efforts, your baptism, the sacraments, the 10 Commandments, your church membership. None of those things will play any part in your admission to the family of God: only by accepting what Christ did for you, and understanding why He did that, will you spend eternity with Him. The time is running short for you to respond. Please don't delay one more second.
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“And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.” - Ezekiel 33:31 There is much in all of life that is not what it appears to be. On the surface, one could conclude it to be so. But, going deeper reveals something else altogether: sometimes sinister, sometimes deadly, or sometimes perverted– but always deceptive. James 1:22, says, “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own souls.” It is incredible how much effort we put into being deceived by others when ultimately the deception comes from within ourselves. Let’s cite some examples, though these are not the sum total of all that goes on in life. We are interested in buying or renting a house. We drive up and look at it from the outside, and check it over a second time. It is to our liking by what we see. Then we go inside and inspect the rooms, the flooring, the appliances, the a/c and heat. Our entire time of inspecting however, is on the basis of the outside only. We go ahead and get the house, and slowly and surely discover major and expensive problems that were there had we checked. The house was not what it appeared to be. The same is true with things, or groups, or churches, or people. We can, and should try to check out as much as we can about those we become involved with, but even then we do not know the extent of everything. There is an element of trust involved, yet we must always remember Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” The LORD knows the hearts of all people, but we do not know the extent of what our hearts are capable of. The examples of this are so numerous, we could take years citing them all, and by then, there would be a whole new list. May this serve as a warning to each of us: things and people may not be what or who they appear to be. Impulsive action on our part, based on primarily the external, can injure or cause us to compromise or worse, destroy our testimonies for Christ. |
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