Works vs. Grace - Todd Friel of Wretched TV & Radio proclaiming the good news of the Gospel, that we are saved by grace and not by works. "For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God's gift— not from works, so that no one can boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9)
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The Black Doctrine of Ellen G. White - Pastor Mike Abendroth Ellen hypocritical lie speaker White - Pastor Mike Abendroth You can contact No Compromise Radio at their website, on their Facebook page, or via email at: [email protected]. Seventh Day Adventism is not Biblical - Colleen Tinker Comparing Seventh-Day Adventism With Historic Christian Faith By Colleen Tinker [PDF] (Colleen is a former Adventist and is the editor of Proclamation! magazine produced by Life Assurance Ministries.) RELATED:
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Ray Comfort witnesses to a hemp advocate on Hollywood Blvd. Ray Comfort lovingly and candidly shares with a man named Victor who goes by the name Victoria. Cross-dressing is an abomination to the Lord "A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God." - Deuteronomy 22:5 There is no such thing as a "gay Christian". According to God's word, unrepentant homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God. See: God and the Gay Christian? "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God." - 1 Corinthians 6:9-10
The good news is that anyone who repents of their sins, including the sin of homosexuality (and/or cross-dressing), and trusts in the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, will be forgiven and granted the gift of eternal life. They will not suffer God's judgement and wrath in eternal hell. As such were some of us... "And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God." - 1 Corinthians 6:11 "For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus" - 1 Timothy 2:5 "Not Mary, not the Pope, not the saints, not the Church, not the sacraments, and not the priests. There is only one Advocate and one Mediator between God and man, and that is Jesus Christ." - Ron Carlson & Ed Decker (Fast Facts on False Teachings) News: Historic Canonization: Two Former Popes 'Sainted' News: Vatican issues official prayers to Saints John XXIII & John Paul II - CNS News: Pope Kisses Skin, Blood Relics in Declaring ‘Sainthood’ to John Paul II, John XXIII | CNN News: Obama says new saints have changed the Church and the world Canonization of the Popes - VCY America Recently, the Catholic Church canonized Popes John XXIII and John Paul II. What exactly does this mean? Within Roman Catholicism, canonization is a decree that establishes the public veneration of an individual whose holy life makes the person worthy of God's special love. This decree is universal and obligatory for all Roman Catholics which means that members are to venerate those individuals who are now deemed as being saints by the church. In order to qualify, a person must be deceased for 5 years and the church must find two miracles associated with the potential saint. On this Crosstalk broadcast you'll also learn: --Why Peter can't be the first Pope. --Why the concept of popes is in violation of Scripture. --Why anyone baptized into Christ is a saint. --How we know God never instituted the papacy. http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2014/04/29/canonization-of-the-popes RELATED: "Is prayer to saints / Mary biblical?" "What are Christian saints according to the Bible?" "What is beatification and canonization and are they biblical?" "What does the Bible say about the pope / papacy?" "What is the true gospel?" Wretched: Pope Worship Pope John Paul II was not a Christian. He denied the biblical Gospel. He did not believe that we are saved by grace through faith in Christ alone. He was a modified universalist and a devotee of Mary, an idolater. Unless he repented of his sins and trusted in Christ alone on his deathbed, he is not in heaven today.
The following is from Way of Life Literature:
John Paul II: Mary's in Life and in Death by David Cloud Though widely praised by evangelical Protestant and even Baptist leaders, the late Pope John Paul II lived and died for Rome’s mythical Mary. Engraved in his wooden coffin, viewed at what has been called “the world’s largest funeral,” was a large letter M for Mary (The Evening Standard, London, Apr. 8, 2005). Thus his papal career ended as it began. When elected Pope in 1978, Karol Wojtyla of Poland dedicated his papacy to Mary, taking as his episcopal motto the Latin words “Totus Tuus,” meaning “Totally Yours” (“John Paul II’s Devotion to Mary,” Inside the Vatican, special insert, May 1996). He had these words of devotion to Mary embroidered on his papal robes. In his 1994 autobiographyCrossing the Threshold of Faith, which sold four million copies in the first year alone, he said: “TotusTuus. This phrase is not only an expression of piety, or simply an expression of devotion. It is more. During the Second World War, while I was employed as a factory worker, I came to be attracted to Marian devotion. ... Mary is the new Eve, placed by God in relation to Christ, the new Adam, beginning with the Annunciation, through the night of his birth in Bethlehem, through the wedding feast at Cana of Galilee, through the Cross of Calvary, and up to the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The Mother of Christ the Redeemer is the Mother of the Church. ... the Mother of God shares in a unique way in the Resurrection and in the Glory of her own Son...” John Paul II venerated Mary on every occasion, private and public. It was his custom to pray the Rosary before an image of Mary on the first Saturday of every month. The Madonna of the Immaculate Conception was brought from the Vatican collection for the occasion. John Paul II worshipped at Marian shrines throughout the world, from the Black Madonna in Jasna Gora, Poland, to Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal, to Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico. He continually exalted Mary in his sermons. We are told that on his trip to Latin America in 1996 he “ended every speech by exalting Mary” (“John Paul Woos Straying Flock,” Christianity Today, April 8, 1996, p. 94). John Paul II dedicated papal encyclicals to Mary. In the one in March 1987, titled Redemptoris Mater, he stated that his objective was to awaken and deepen Marian devotion and he called on all Christians to look to “our common Mother” as “a way of bringing about unity between the divided churches of the world.” In the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, published in March 1995, John Paul II said that Mary is the “mother of all who are reborn to life” and that by bringing forth Jesus into the world “she in some way brought to rebirth all those who were to live by that Life.” He concluded by praying, “O Mary, bright dawn of the new world, Mother of the living, to you do we entrust the cause of life.” READ MORE: http://www.wayoflife.org/index_files/john_paul_II_marys_in_life_and_death.html RELATED: The Pope and the Papacy - John MacArthur The following is from Prophecy Today:
Since Pope Francis has come to power at the Vatican as leader of the Catholic Church, he has been very controversial. [...] Mike Gendron: He [Pope Francis] said, "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has goodwill, who am I to judge?" And yet, Catholics look to this man to be the judge of sin, the judge of what is right and wrong, the judge as far as true doctrine goes and so here he's pretty much giving homosexuals a license to continue in their sin rather than calling them to repentance and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ so they can be saved from the power of sin, he pretty much gives a stamp of approval that he's not going to judge that even though the Word of God has judged this sin throughout from Genesis all the way through the New Testament. READ MORE: Prophecy Update: Pope Francis is the most controversial pope in modern history RELATED: Pope Francis on Homosexual Priests: ‘Who Am I to Judge?’ Pope Francis: Catholics Should Not Be ‘Obsessed’ With Speaking Against Homosexuality, Abortion GAY RIGHTS MAG NAMES POPE FRANCIS 'PERSON OF THE YEAR' DESPITE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE STANCE POPE FRANCIS SAYS CATHOLIC CHURCH COULD SUPPORT SAME-SEX CIVIL UNIONS Pope Accidentally Says ‘F***’ During Blessing Pope kisses the hand of, concelebrates mass with pro-homosexual activist priest Vatican department shares Rome palazzo with gay sauna Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent. Acts 17:30 NKJV
The following is from Matthew Henry: He proceeds to call them all to repent of their idolatries, and to turn from them. This is the practical part of Paul's sermon before the university having declared God to them (Acts 17:23), he properly presses upon them repentance towards God, and would also have taught them faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ, if they had had the patience to hear him. Having shown them the absurdity of their worshipping other gods, he persuades them to go on no longer in that foolish way of worship, but to return from it to the living and true God. Observe, The conduct of God towards the Gentile world before the gospel came among them: The times of this ignorance God winked at. They were times of great ignorance. Human learning flourished more than ever in the Gentile world just before Christ's time but in the things of God they were grossly ignorant. Those are ignorant indeed who either know not God or worship him ignorantly idolatry was owing to ignorance. These times of ignorance God winked at. Understand it, As an act of divine justice. God despised or neglected these times of ignorance, and did not send them his gospel, as now he does. It was very provoking to him to see his glory thus given to another and he detested and hated these times. So some take it. Or rather, As an act of divine patience and forbearance. He winked at these times he did not restrain them from these idolatries by sending prophets to them, as he did to Israel he did not punish them in their idolatries, as he did Israel but gave them the gifts of his providence, Acts 14:16,17. These things thou hast done, and I kept silence, Psalm 50:21. He did not give them such calls and motives to repentance as he does now. He let them alone. Because they did not improve the light they had, but were willingly ignorant, he did not send them greater lights. Or, he was not quick and severe with them, but was long-suffering towards them, because they did it ignorantly, 1 Timothy 1:13. The charge God gave to the Gentile world by the gospel, which he now sent among them: He now commandeth all men every where to repent--to change their mind and their way, to be ashamed of their folly and to act more wisely, to break off the worship of idols and bind themselves to the worship of the true God. Nay, it is to turn with sorrow and shame from every sin, and with cheerfulness and resolution to every duty. This is God's command. It had been a great favour if he had only told us that there was room left for repentance, and we might be admitted to it but he goes further, he interposes his own authority for our good, and has made that our duty which is our privilege. It is his command to all men, every where,--to men, and not to angels, that need it not,--to men, and not to devils, that are excluded the benefit of it,--to all men in all places all men have made work for repentance, and have cause enough to repent, and all men are invited to repent, and shall have the benefit of it. The apostles are commissioned to preach this every where. The prophets were sent to command the Jews to repent but the apostles were sent to preach repentance and remission of sins to all nations. Now in gospel times it is more earnestly commanded, because more encouraged than it had been formerly. Now the way of remission is more opened than it had been, and the promise more fully confirmed and therefore now he expects we should all repent. "Now repent now at length, now in time, repent for you have too long gone on in sin. Now in time repent, for it will be too late shortly." The great reason to enforce this command, taken from the judgment to come. God commands us to repent, because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness (Acts 17:31), and has now under the gospel made a clearer discovery of a state of retribution in the other world than ever before. Observe, The God that made the world will judge it he that gave the children of men their being and faculties will call them to an account for the use they have made of them, and recompense them accordingly, whether the body served the soul in serving God or the soul was a drudge to the body in making provision for the flesh and every man shall receive according to the things done in the body, 2 Corinthians 5:10. The God that now governs the world will judge it, will reward the faithful friends of his government and punish the rebels. There is a day appointed for this general review of all that men have done in time, and a final determination of their state for eternity. The day is fixed in the counsel of God, and cannot be altered but it is his there, and cannot be known. A day of decision, a day of recompence, a day that will put a final period to all the days of time. The world will be judged in righteousness for God is not unrighteous, who taketh vengeance far be it from him that he should do iniquity. His knowledge of all men's characters and actions is infallibly true, and therefore his sentence upon them incontestably just. And, as there will be no appeal from it, so there will be no exception against it. God will judge the world by that man whom he hath ordained, who can be no other than the Lord Jesus, to whom all judgment is committed. By him God made the world, by him he redeemed it, by him he governs it, and by him he will judge it. God's raising Christ from the dead is the great proof of his being appointed and ordained the Judge of quick and dead. His doing him that honour evidenced his designing him this honour. His raising him from the dead was the beginning of his exaltation, his judging the world will be the perfection of it and he that begins will make an end. God hath given assurance unto all men, sufficient ground for their faith to build upon, both that there is a judgment to come and that Christ will be their judge the matter is not left doubtful, but is of unquestionable certainty. Let all his enemies be assured of it, and tremble before him let all his friends be assured of it, and triumph in him. The consideration of the judgment to come, and of the great hand Christ will have in that judgment, should engage us all to repent of our sins and turn from them to God. This is the only way to make the Judge our friend in that day, which will be a terrible day to all who live and die impenitent but true penitents will then lift up their heads with joy, knowing that their redemption draws nigh. The following the from GotQuestions.org: Why are all of our righteous acts considered filthy rags?
“All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away” (Isaiah 64:6). This passage is often used as a proof text to condemn all our acts of goodness as nothing more than “filthy rags” in the eyes of God. The context of this passage is referring specifically to the Israelites in Isaiah’s time (760—670 B.C.) who had strayed from God. Isaiah was writing concerning his nation and their hypocrisy. Yet he includeshimselfin the description, saying “we” and “our.” Isaiah was redeemed and set apart as a prophet of God, yet he saw himself as part of a group that was utterly sinful. The doctrine of total depravity is taught clearly elsewhere in Scripture (e.g.,Ephesians 2:1–5), and the illustration of Isaiah 64:6 could rightly be applied to the whole world, especially given Isaiah's inclusion of himself in the description. The term “filthy rags” is quite strong. The word filthy is a translation of the Hebrew word iddah, which literally means “the bodily fluids from a woman’s menstrual cycle.” The word rags is a translation of begged, meaning “a rag or garment.” Therefore, these “righteous acts” are considered by God as repugnant as a soiled feminine hygiene product. Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/filthy-rags.html |
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