yo, vco, is it ok He Has my back?
i am not writing to insult you, and i don't want to insult you, but to this last one it sorta seems you want to think you're under attack. and we want you to Defend He. and we don't want to critisize. "is you ready to fire at enmity to The Cross somewhere?"
No, I did not feel attacked, nor did you insult me. Plus I already sense that you truly are a genuine Christian Brother.
I do however know that throughout the world, Christian beliefs are always under the attack of the evil one.
I just believe in BOLDLY proclaiming the Word of GOD to present the TRUTH.
It is what the Apostles were KNOWN FOR:
Acts 9:27-29 (ASV)
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27 [/SUP] But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus
he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.
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28 [/SUP] And he was with them going in and going out at Jerusalem,
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29 [/SUP]
preaching boldly in the name of the Lord: and he spake and disputed against the Grecian Jews; but they were seeking to kill him.
Acts 13:46 (ASV)
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46 [/SUP] And Paul and Barnabas
spake out boldly, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. Seeing ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Acts 14:3 (NKJV)
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3 [/SUP] Therefore they stayed there a long time,
speaking boldly in the Lord, who was bearing witness to the word of His grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
Acts 18:26 (ASV)
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26 [/SUP] and
he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more accurately.
Acts 19:8 (ASV)
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8 [/SUP] And he entered into the synagogue,
and spake boldly for the space of three months, reasoning and persuading
as to the things concerning the kingdom of God.
Acts 28:31 (GW)
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31 [/SUP] He spread the message about God's kingdom and
taught very boldly about the Lord Jesus Christ. No one stopped him.
We live in an age (the Laodicean age) where the MAJORITY of Churches are teaching a Watered Down, Sugar Coated gospel to make it more palatable to the WORLD; and I happen to believe that is a FALSE GOSPEL. Their LOVE for Christ is LUKEWARM at best, and they go to Church for Christian Entertainment, NOT TO WORSHIP OUR LORD. Even Jesus Christ said that Watered Down Christianity sickens Him and He is about to VOMIT THEM OUT OF HIS MOUTH:
Revelation 3:15-16 (NKJV)
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I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.
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So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
For a long time I could not figure out why it was better if one's love for CHRIST was cold, instead of lukewarm. And then I began to notice a pattern in the Christians that attended the Lukewarm Christian Entertainment Centers, that call themselves Churches; and were those that ONLY taught the Love of Jesus, and NEVER his Wrath. They thought they had enough of GOD, they thought they did not need anymore understanding of HIS WORD, they even thought they were spiritually rich when in reality they were nearly spiritually bankrupt, and their entire focus was on edifying self, instead of edifying others.
THEREFORE THEY HAVE MADE THEMSELVES UNTEACHABLE.
1 Corinthians 10:23-24 (NASB)
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23 [/SUP] All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but
not all things edify.
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Let no one seek his own good {The word "good' is not in the original language manuscripts.}, but that of his neighbor. {We are supposed to be edifying others, NOT SELF.}
While at the same time every Christian whose love for Christ is Cold, KNOWS His relationship with Christ was not right, and therefore,
HE WAS VERY TEACHABLE.
So, I refuse to let my teaching style be less than what the Apostles gave us as an Example.
Please do not take it personal, but do take it very serious. I will always try to minimize my personal opinions in what I say, AND I WILL ALWAYS BOLDLY PROCLAIM WHAT THE WORD OF GOD ACTUALLY SAYS.
Yes I consider a watered down gospel a false gospel, and will ALWAYS strive instead to present the TRUE GOSPEL.
Jude 1:3-4 (NIV)
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3 [/SUP] Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt I had to write and
urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.
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4 [/SUP] For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.
2 Timothy 3:2-5 (NIV)
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2 [/SUP] People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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3 [/SUP] without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
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4 [/SUP] treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--
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having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.
