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Creflo physically assaults his Daughter. Is this man your pastor?

Even though false teachers are able to hide their destructive heresies from the church visible (professing Christians), their immoral lives that are filled with sin (because only someone filled with God’s Spirit has freedom from the dominion of sin Romans 8:17-19) are still in plain sight for all to see.

This was exactly the point Jude was trying to make in his short yet very effective letter, in which he called the church invisible (true Christians) to ardently contend for the faith.

“But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error and perished in Korah’s rebellion. These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.” Jude 1:10-13 ] Read more

Pastor Phil Johnson-Speaks the truth!!

Here are some quotes from the video:

“Even good people sometimes deserve critique and need to be critiqued, and we shouldn’t resent it when others critique us and it hard not to because that’s just the natural response of the human ego is self defense when we are critiqued. But when we’re handling biblical issues and particularly the essentials parts of the gospel then it behooves us to get it right, and not to resent critique and to see sometimes the criticism others give us as an oppurtunity to clarify ourselves or to revise what we say or how we say it. There is a challenge on both sides if you’re going to be a critic you have to be the right kind of critic, and if your’e going to receive criticism you have to receive it with the right attitude.”  Read more

COGIC AIMS 2012-Come have your ears tickled and your flesh gratified!!!

The” grand” old Church of God in Christ wants you to come to their club experience ”Christian” Conference. They list a lot of men and women (flesh) but not once do they mention the Head of the Church: CHRIST! 

Maybe they’re really trying to tell the world something. Something like this:
COGIC is a church without Christ!

Harsh Truth, but the truth nonetheless….

Paul Washer-”The Pulpit is nothing anymore…”

True quotes from Godly Men #6

Let us take comfort in the thought, that there are good things laid up in store for all true Christians, which shall make ample amends for the afflictions of this present time. Now is the season for carrying the cross, and sharing in our Savior’s humiliation. The crown, the kingdom, the glory, are all yet to come. Christ and His people are now, like David in the cave of Adullam, despised, and lightly esteemed by the world. There seems no form or loveliness in Him, or in His service. But the hour comes, and will soon be here, when Christ shall take to Himself His great power and reign, and put down every enemy under His feet. And then the glory which was first seen for a few minutes, by three witnesses on the Mount of Transfiguration, shall be seen by all the world, and never hidden to all eternity.

Excerpt from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels by J. C. Ryle

True quotes from Godly Men #5

I have no greater joy than to know that you walk in the truth, that the people of God walk in the truth. I am truth-driven, I am not success-driven, I’m not style-driven, I’m truth-driven, that is what controls, compels, motivates everything I do, studying the Bible, never to make a sermon or to make a speech but always to discern the truth. Jesus said we aren’t free until we find the truth and then the truth sets us free.

Now anybody who is passionate for the truth is also passionately set against error.

Pastor-Teacher John MacArthur

Pastorial Pride of counting numbers…

Check out this video of a couple of well known pastors boasting in their numbers:

The first 50 seconds of this video (really the entire thing is sad) is quite disturbing for couple of reasons. However I’ll point out the main reason why it frightens me:

There is not one mention of the name of Christ. There is not even one acknowledgement of glory to Christ or God for the work that they have done in the church. Not until 58 seconds into the video does the name of Christ come up and in all honesty it is in passing, not to give glory or thanks. Would this happen in the early church? Let’s see: Read more

COGIC Bishop Blake says pray…But the word of God says: “REPENT”

I came across this flyer of the Presding Bishop of the Churches of God in Christ, Bishop Charles E. Blake, calling for the saints to pray. As I read it an anger (righteous indignation) welled up inside of me. The same biblical anger that caused me to rebuke the Senior Pastor of Childress Memorial C.O.G.I.C, Bishop Samuel E. Iglehart, during a 3 hour meeting, almost 7 months ago for his utter incompotence and biblical ignorance, not to mention his total derilect of duty concerning what the word of God has called a pastor to be (1 Timothy 1:3-7; 1 Timothy 3) and to do (2 Timothy 4:1-5). One day I will write and tell you guys what happen in that meeting. You won’t be surprised, with all the hireligs and false converts running around today, it will enlighten you to just how far COGIC has sunk into postmodern, godless, man centered uselessness.

Usually when I see flyers like this one I ignore them but this one really rubbed me the wrong way. It appears to be a picture of a humble “man-of God” who is doing nothing more but exhorting the saints to pray. But that falseness doesn’t get a pass from those who know him (blake) and the word of God. Read more

“pastor” Tim Keller-Enemy of Christ…

“I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.” 2 Timothy 4:1-5

Read the scripture above. Once you have prayed and asked God for understanding and discernment, I want you to view this video of Pastor Hireling Tim Keller. You tell me if he upholds the charge that Paul gave Timothy and all preachers to come:

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The Foolishness of Preaching the Gospel…

The following excerpt was transcribed from the tape, GL PJ-100, titled “The Foolishness of Preaching the Gospel”  Phil Johnson is the executive Director of Grace to You, a Christian tape and radio ministry featuring the preaching ministry of John MacArthur. Phil has been closely associated with John MacArthur since 1981 and edits most of MacArthur’s major books. Phil is an elder at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, CA. He also teaches courses in writing and editing at The Master’s College and Seminary. And in his spare time he sometimes does free-lance editorial work for a number of evangelical publishers.

The Foolishness of Preaching the Gospel
(1 Corinthians 1:21)

by

Phil Johnson

For more of Phil’s sermons and messages go to: www.SwordandTrowel.org Read more

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