Today's talk is on the intimidation factor of speaking up in evangelism. Sometimes, we're either too harsh or to intimidated to speak up as the Church.
Check out the talk here!
Friday, August 23, 2024
Friday, August 16, 2024
What IS the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
Whereas some believe the gospel is found in the definition of what is a true Christian, the definition of a true Christian (among many defining characteristics) isn't just someone who believes they can be free from sin but someone who is indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God.
Unless one is born again (John 3:3) they can't see the kingdom of God let alone conquer their sins.
Desiring to be free from sin is obviously to be coveted but it's not the gospel.
Our being free from sin is a consequence of believing the true gospel which is that we believe that Christ is the Son of God, The Creator, who came into the world to die for our sins and by faith, God, the Holy Spirit indwells us by God's grace.
Having made Him Lord of our lives. We now walk in the Holy Spirit, purifying ourselves and growing in Christ to a mature stature towards the resembling of Christ's perfect moral standard, by God's grace and power.
We're saved by grace alone, through faith alone, and in Christ alone. It is a gift of God and not of our merit or "good" works.
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Friday, August 9, 2024
Spanking prohibited! (worldly wisdom)
Why would "the world" be against parents spanking their children? The research, the stats, the "experts" all say, it's unhealthy and counter-productive for good outcomes. But what do they mean by "good outcomes" and do they even care about the Biblical wisdom that instructs "spanking when necessary"? On this podcast, I try and bring clarity of the finer points of this argument.
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Friday, July 19, 2024
Anti-Calvinist: Bad Bible readers!
Saturday, June 15, 2024
"Born this way'ism" is a lie
Is homo attraction sin? (Orientation, born this way, etc.) All that is a lie. Homo attraction isn't the same as hetero attraction.
The Bible calls it unnatural. Lust can come from attraction. The attraction to a painting, flower, etc. IS a natural attraction.
One can change their mind on what once attracted them.
Can you change your mind on finding attraction in a flower? But can you change your mind about being attracted or infatuated to people. I believe we can.
To say it can't be done for homosexuals is to believe in the false "born this way'ism" being taught in the culture. Even if an attraction persists, the grace of God will continue conforming a renewing mind to change. There can be no more attraction to money, women, sexual lust, lying, cheating, etc. We wait on Him, until we're healed and/or until He comes!
Are we willing to believe it?
1 Corinthians 6:9-20:
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.11 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 Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
FLEE SEXUAL IMMORALITY
12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.14 Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power.15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall become one flesh.”17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.18 Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral man sins against his own body.19 Or do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?20 For you were bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.Friday, May 31, 2024
Sinless Perfectionism Heresy (update)
For more on the errors of Christian legalism and Sinless Perfectionism, go to my YouTube video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrhyXWgSgKwYpCPnLGlPDbHui4To_H1FO&si=6RsLRtSzKhWZtvmQ
This will demonstrate how inconsistent legalism and sinless perfectionism is not only historically wrong but how this bad understanding of scripture will continue to degrade other orthodox Christian doctrines.
In the first video, this brother states that "WORKS is the SALVATION". which is complete heresy...
On the 2nd video, he'll change his position on sinless perfection claiming a believer in Christ CAN "POSSIBLY" SIN after maturity in Christ. If this is the case, it's no longer sinless perfectionism.
Video 3 demonstrates further how bad doctrine is progressive! You go from adding rocks to our road to causing an avalanche that can end up flattening us and destroying us unless we humble ourselves to the truth of The Word of God!
Video 4 demonstrates how having a WORKS RIGHTEOUSNESS gospel does absolutely nothing to convince the world of the truth of God (in an apologetic sense). The message of the cross and regeneration is FOOLISHNESS to those who are perishing (1 Corinthians 1:10).
Let's continue praying to The Lord for the humility to recognize when we're wrong so that we can accept our blind spots wherever we have them in order to continue growing in God's truth.
PART 2
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Sinless perfection is the theological position that a Christian can become SINLESS at some point in their walk with God.
Some falsely believe that this "perfection" can happen as soon as they're saved (born again).
People who believe this completely distort the doctrines of Justification, Sanctification and Glorification.
They completely misread the exhortation given by the Apostles to the early church to "walk in a manner worthy of your calling". (Ephesians 4:1; Col. 1:10; 1 Thess. 2:12, etc.)
This false teaching was rejected in the early 4th century but will resurface often when certain believers take on a hyper-literal reading of certain Biblical proof texts.
For more on the false doctrine of Sinless perfectionism, watch/listen to the following videos.
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