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December 29, 2015
Psalm 90
A few more years shall roll,
A few more seasons come,
And we shall be with those that rest
Asleep within the tomb;
Then, O my Lord, prepare
My soul for that great day.
Refrain
O wash me in Thy precious blood,
And take my sins away.
A few more storms shall beat
On this wild rocky shore,
And we shall be where tempests cease,
And surges swell no more;
Then, O my Lord, prepare
My soul for that calm day.
Refrain
O wash me in Thy precious blood,
And take my sins away.
A few more struggles here,
A few more partings o’er,
A few more toils, a few more tears,
And we shall weep no more:
Then, O my Lord, prepare
My soul for that bright day.
Refrain
O wash me in Thy precious blood,
And take my sins away.
(Horatius Bonar - 1842)
June 10, 2015
TEN TIPS FOR A PROFESSING CHRISTIAN WIFE
1
Little secrets lead to bigger secrets. NEVER lie to or mislead your husband about ANYTHING because it won't be long before “your sin will find you out!” Numbers 32:23
2
At some point, you will have to learn that life isn’t all about you. Philippians 2:3
3
Love is about relationship. "The more I love my husband, and seek a relationship with him, the less critical and duty-bound I become." Titus 2:4
4
Be very careful about reading romance novels; they set you up for an unrealistic view of romance. 1 Corinthians 15:33
5
Never live in your marriage with always "one foot out the door," just in case. Don’t give up. Love never fails. 1 Cor. 13
6
Be thankful for the husband you have. Accept him as he is, not for what you want him to be. Colossians 3:15
7
Don’t compare! Don’t buy into the game of comparing him with anyone else’s husband. James 3:16
8
NEVER ask others, "Did I marry the right person?" You are obviously indicating that you have never even committed to being a wife at all! Proverbs 31:12
9
Always speak well of your husband in front of others. Colossians 4:6
10
Deal with difficulties directly with him, not with your “pastor,” your family, your girl friends, or Facebook friends. The success of the marriage is the important part, not whether you are right. 1 Peter 5:6
November 11, 2010
The Christian Church: Distorted and Deformed
Like a dead corpse rotting away, today’s “organized/institutionalized local church system” bares virtually no likeness or semblance to what was once a living and vibrant community of believers who knew what is was to be set free from the entanglements and the yokes of bondage.
Translators are given a great responsibility in making sure they get it right, especially key words. The changing of one word can literally change the world. Do they get it right, or do they have something to protect?
The word “c-h-u-r-c-h” is one of those words that has impacted the world and has subverted the purpose for which it was intended. Because the translators substituted the word “church,” meaning a building, instead of the Holy Spirits word, ecclesia, a word reflecting a functioning body or a community, it has affected our whole approach to the meaning of the body of Christ. We have been given a word from the translators that has nothing to do with the original Greek word ecclesia.
This may come as a surprise to some people but there is no such thing as a CHURCH (institution) in all of Scripture! Oh yes indeed, the word CHURCH is found therein about 100 times; but the English word CHURCH should NOT be there at all. That word is not a TRANSLATION of the Greek word ecclesia; but it is substituted for a translation of the Greek word ecclesia in every place it appears in the NT Scriptures with the exception of three instances; all three found in Acts 19:32, 39, and 41.
Now dear reader, at this point, you have a choice: either believe what the translators had to say or go to the original language and read what Jesus and the apostles had to say. You will surely find no word coming from Jesus that He called the translators to represent His authority.
Doesn’t it stir your mind and heart enough to move you to really examine why this is true and consider all the error it has brought upon the world? Most people in the church are not aware that some Scriptures have been mistranslated, and then misapplied by human leaders.
How did the Greek word Ecclesia, meaning a called out assembly, congregation or community, come to be translated “church”, a word that is neither Greek or English but is of doubtful Latin origin and implies a building and temple worship? What is a word that is neither Greek NOR English doing in a Greek to English translation?
Read the full and complete article: “The Christian Church: Distorted and Deformed”
to find the very revealing answers to these questions.
Warning: It will not be pretty.
Please click the links highlighted to take you there!
www.wickedshepherds.com
Translators are given a great responsibility in making sure they get it right, especially key words. The changing of one word can literally change the world. Do they get it right, or do they have something to protect?
The word “c-h-u-r-c-h” is one of those words that has impacted the world and has subverted the purpose for which it was intended. Because the translators substituted the word “church,” meaning a building, instead of the Holy Spirits word, ecclesia, a word reflecting a functioning body or a community, it has affected our whole approach to the meaning of the body of Christ. We have been given a word from the translators that has nothing to do with the original Greek word ecclesia.
This may come as a surprise to some people but there is no such thing as a CHURCH (institution) in all of Scripture! Oh yes indeed, the word CHURCH is found therein about 100 times; but the English word CHURCH should NOT be there at all. That word is not a TRANSLATION of the Greek word ecclesia; but it is substituted for a translation of the Greek word ecclesia in every place it appears in the NT Scriptures with the exception of three instances; all three found in Acts 19:32, 39, and 41.
Now dear reader, at this point, you have a choice: either believe what the translators had to say or go to the original language and read what Jesus and the apostles had to say. You will surely find no word coming from Jesus that He called the translators to represent His authority.
Doesn’t it stir your mind and heart enough to move you to really examine why this is true and consider all the error it has brought upon the world? Most people in the church are not aware that some Scriptures have been mistranslated, and then misapplied by human leaders.
How did the Greek word Ecclesia, meaning a called out assembly, congregation or community, come to be translated “church”, a word that is neither Greek or English but is of doubtful Latin origin and implies a building and temple worship? What is a word that is neither Greek NOR English doing in a Greek to English translation?
Read the full and complete article: “The Christian Church: Distorted and Deformed”
to find the very revealing answers to these questions.
Warning: It will not be pretty.
Please click the links highlighted to take you there!
www.wickedshepherds.com
February 13, 2010
What Does The Bible Say About Membership In A Local Church?
Most, if not all of professing Christians proudly and loudly quote the verse – “All Scripture is inspired of God and is also profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, instruction, etc.”
We all say that Scripture is our only rule for faith and practice.
We claim that the New Testament documents provide God-inspired direction for the New Covenant people of God, just as the Old Testament Scriptures structured life for Israel.
But where do these writings ever reveal the notion of placing your membership in a local congregation? Where is “local church membership” emphasized?
If “placing your membership in a local church” cannot be found in the Bible, how in the world do all the churches end up with one, and why do we get our feathers so ruffled when it is questioned?
Why do we elevate that which has no foundation in Scripture?
The sad fact of the matter is that nobody really submits himself/herself to the Scripture.
But all of us, to one degree or another, submit ourselves quite well to the traditions of men.
But even our so-called church traditions are not above constructive and corrective criticism. Are they? Should this concern us? The idea of changing cherished traditions takes us out of our comfort zone and leaves us with the stark reality that we have been deceived and misled. Who likes to discover that their belief systems are wrong?
These are vital questions that need to be addressed.
While many “church leaders” will often pay lip service to the idea that the members should examine what is being taught in light of the scriptures, church members are rarely given the freedom to actually do so without serious repercussions. That is, unless the member’s conclusions are the same as the leaders. The question is not "is my teaching elder right or wrong"; rather it is "do you have the right to study the Bible for yourself and do you really have the freedom to come to your own conclusions?"
What Does The Bible Say About Membership In A Local Church?
Are God's people "church members?”
During the New Testament and the times of the Apostles, believers did not, (at least in the sense we today use the phrase “become members of the church”), become members of anything! They did not have to “become a member” of what they were automatically a part of by conversion to Christ.
The events of church history: i.e. – the incorporation of confessions, and creeds, and catechisms, and other traditions of men, have changed that situation.
Two thousand years of corruption has changed everything.
To read the remainder of this article in full, click the link below:
www.wickedshepherds.com/churchmembership.html
Remember, God does indeed have a membership, but that membership is UNTO HIM, not to a place where you go once a week to attend a so-called “worship service!”
http://www.wickedshepherds.com/
We all say that Scripture is our only rule for faith and practice.
We claim that the New Testament documents provide God-inspired direction for the New Covenant people of God, just as the Old Testament Scriptures structured life for Israel.
But where do these writings ever reveal the notion of placing your membership in a local congregation? Where is “local church membership” emphasized?
If “placing your membership in a local church” cannot be found in the Bible, how in the world do all the churches end up with one, and why do we get our feathers so ruffled when it is questioned?
Why do we elevate that which has no foundation in Scripture?
The sad fact of the matter is that nobody really submits himself/herself to the Scripture.
But all of us, to one degree or another, submit ourselves quite well to the traditions of men.
But even our so-called church traditions are not above constructive and corrective criticism. Are they? Should this concern us? The idea of changing cherished traditions takes us out of our comfort zone and leaves us with the stark reality that we have been deceived and misled. Who likes to discover that their belief systems are wrong?
These are vital questions that need to be addressed.
While many “church leaders” will often pay lip service to the idea that the members should examine what is being taught in light of the scriptures, church members are rarely given the freedom to actually do so without serious repercussions. That is, unless the member’s conclusions are the same as the leaders. The question is not "is my teaching elder right or wrong"; rather it is "do you have the right to study the Bible for yourself and do you really have the freedom to come to your own conclusions?"
What Does The Bible Say About Membership In A Local Church?
Are God's people "church members?”
During the New Testament and the times of the Apostles, believers did not, (at least in the sense we today use the phrase “become members of the church”), become members of anything! They did not have to “become a member” of what they were automatically a part of by conversion to Christ.
The events of church history: i.e. – the incorporation of confessions, and creeds, and catechisms, and other traditions of men, have changed that situation.
Two thousand years of corruption has changed everything.
To read the remainder of this article in full, click the link below:
www.wickedshepherds.com/churchmembership.html
Remember, God does indeed have a membership, but that membership is UNTO HIM, not to a place where you go once a week to attend a so-called “worship service!”
http://www.wickedshepherds.com/
February 3, 2010
There's No Place Like Home:
How the Institutional Church destroys families
God oftentimes uses many signs and illustrations in the Scriptures in driving home a point on an issue that He wants to emphasize. One such use is His relationship to the nation of Israel. God uses this as an allegory to show His love and mercy for his unfaithful wife, Israel.
There are a few examples of this particular allegory. One example of God's unconditional love is in the Old Testament book of Hosea.
Hosea was one of the minor prophets, sent by God to preach to Israel. Hosea married Gomer, and they had numerous children. Gomer, being allured and seduced, turned to others gods. She then turns her back on her husband and abandons Hosea to go live in the sin of whoredom and adultery. Hosea was devastated, for he loved Gomer; but she was a whore.
At the end of the book of Hosea, after Gomer had lived a life of sin, Hosea finds her being sold at a slave market. Hosea buys Gomer back, thus expressing his unconditional love and forgiveness.
This whole incident is a reminder of the evil dichotomy currently existing between “church rulers” and the God-instituted rule in the family. How?
It’s a sad story but nevertheless, all too true….and even perhaps going on right now as we speak in many marriages.
How can a faithful spouse (wife) turn into an unfaithful spouse (wife)?...
"....But sadly, she became an unfaithful wife...slowly being beguiled by the church and its leaders, she began to forsake her husband in her heart.....She was ever so lured by their seductive charm; their incessant and never ending call to sit under THEIR teaching and to submit to THEIR headship and to listen to and follow THEIR counsel;
...Through the passing of time, many of her "friends" entered into the scene and now, along with the "elders", encouraged her more and more in the departure from her husband and from the Truth...."
...She in turn was fully and finally seduced by the church and its leaders; seduced by her "friends" and she now became an adulteress, prostituting herself with the "eldership"
...She began to completely forsake her husband and trampled on the marriage covenant by constantly being in rebellion to his direction and leadership. She now no longer saw her husband as her God-given head but had replaced him, not in heart only but in actuality, with her new lover and head, her church leaders.
...She had become indeed a whore; whoring after the “eldership”. She had committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord and his Word; she has sought out and found other counselors and made them her idols; for the evil spirit of whoredom's has made her to err as they seek out more whores to commandeer and control.”
…In spite of this, her husband was patient with her; suffering in silence; enduring her cruel mocking's and slander; laying down his life daily for her; and gave her numerous opportunities to repent and return to him, her true husband and lover.”
.....Though the story doesn't end there.....he has not given up on his unfaithful wife.......
...By the mercy of the Lord, he at last, rescued her from their poisonous fangs, and she returned to him and truly submitted to him and to his God-given headship in everything.
...She lived with him once again, as he lovingly soothed her wounds that she encountered from her abusers........anointing them with oil......she was eventually brought back to her senses;
...She was faithful to him; and gradually her heart was won over by his love and mercy, to truly become his wife; and this was now her care all the days of her life; never to desert him again."
See also: A Word To The Wives
Wicked Shepherds and http://www.wickedshepherds.com/ is exposing these men and their dastardly deeds which have corrupted, contaminated, and disfigured the church; turning it into an enslaving institutional system, which was not founded by Jesus Christ, but by men who love to feed upon and control other human beings.
December 3, 2009
A Word To The Wives
The following article is written primarily for Christian wives, only because they have been more susceptible to the dangers that we will be looking in to. However, husbands should take careful heed as well, seeing that many of them have been snared into the same dangers.
What will be described has mostly taken place in what is generally known as the Reformed Baptist circles because, up until this point, this is the group with which I have been identified with for most of the past thirty to forty years. Nevertheless, the following could be said of any minister and/or denomination, because the problems discussed are the logical consequences of any "church system" in which "rulership" has gone awry. There are churches of all different stripes that will clearly fit the unbiblical practices that will be exposed in this article: Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, WWCG, JW, Mormons, Evangelical, etc., etc.......it doesn't matter!
All are equally susceptible and some are equally guilty of the kind of corrupt leadership that will be described.
I realize that there are some who will not even believe the things that they will be reading. They will chafe; they will mock; they will not heed the warnings and thereby say, “who is this, that we should believe him!”
Many who read this will say, “None of those things could ever happen in my church. No. Not my Pastor. Why,.......I've known him to be a humble man and have benefited much from his ministry.”
Be careful! You may be surprised!
There have been (and continue to be) many cases where a pastor has deliberately placed himself between a husband and wife and used his so-called pastoral authority as a means of manipulating them both into personal loyalty to himself.
Some of these actions have been willfully and deliberately instigated by the pastor in order to break up the marriage through separation or divorce because one of them was beginning to "step on the pastor's toes."
My friend, if your loyalty to, or dependence upon, any church leader ever comes close to being equal to your loyalty and love to your husband or wife, then you are so sick spiritually that you can't think straight.
Read the article in its entirety here:
A Word To The Wives
When those in “positions of leadership” in the church, or anyone else, tampers with someone's marriage... THEY ARE TREADING HOLY GROUND!
http://www.wickedshepherds.com/
What will be described has mostly taken place in what is generally known as the Reformed Baptist circles because, up until this point, this is the group with which I have been identified with for most of the past thirty to forty years. Nevertheless, the following could be said of any minister and/or denomination, because the problems discussed are the logical consequences of any "church system" in which "rulership" has gone awry. There are churches of all different stripes that will clearly fit the unbiblical practices that will be exposed in this article: Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, WWCG, JW, Mormons, Evangelical, etc., etc.......it doesn't matter!
All are equally susceptible and some are equally guilty of the kind of corrupt leadership that will be described.
I realize that there are some who will not even believe the things that they will be reading. They will chafe; they will mock; they will not heed the warnings and thereby say, “who is this, that we should believe him!”
Many who read this will say, “None of those things could ever happen in my church. No. Not my Pastor. Why,.......I've known him to be a humble man and have benefited much from his ministry.”
Be careful! You may be surprised!
There have been (and continue to be) many cases where a pastor has deliberately placed himself between a husband and wife and used his so-called pastoral authority as a means of manipulating them both into personal loyalty to himself.
Some of these actions have been willfully and deliberately instigated by the pastor in order to break up the marriage through separation or divorce because one of them was beginning to "step on the pastor's toes."
My friend, if your loyalty to, or dependence upon, any church leader ever comes close to being equal to your loyalty and love to your husband or wife, then you are so sick spiritually that you can't think straight.
Read the article in its entirety here:
A Word To The Wives
When those in “positions of leadership” in the church, or anyone else, tampers with someone's marriage... THEY ARE TREADING HOLY GROUND!
http://www.wickedshepherds.com/
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