This is my text that I used for tonight's 1/12/2002 sermon on
accepting Christ. I have uploaded the audio to
http://www.onenessapostolic.org/audio
There are many today who claim to have "accepted Christ as their
personal savior" and they claim to be headed to a heaven that is
taught by the Bible. But, the Bible teaches that those who try to
enter heaven any other way than the Bible way, will be lost.
John 10:1 {Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the
door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a
thief and a robber.}
The Bible makes NO MENTION WHATSOEVER of "accepting Christ as your
personal saviour by a mental/verbal affirmation that He exists";
that is a MAN MADE FALSE DOCTRINE. People are being taught
everything from "Just flash your headlights twice" (in the drive
in "church") to "walk the Roman road and make a public
profession"
or "Shake the preachers hand" as though these activities could even
save a gnat!
James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well:
the devils also believe, and tremble.
It is not real brilliant to want to be just as "saved" as the devils.
It is notable that the devils in Legion confessed that Jesus was God
and even made a prayer request. Jesus even granted their prayer
request!
Mark 5:2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met
him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him,
no, not with chains:
4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and
the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in
pieces: neither could any man tame him.
5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the
tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with
thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God,
that thou torment me not.
8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My
name is Legion: for we are many.
10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of
the country.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine
feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine,
that we may enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went
out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a
steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were
choked in the sea.
So if we follow the doctrine of 90% of the so called "christian"
churches we end up just as saved as the devils in Legion. Someone
is lying to someone folks, and it is the con game of con games
because people are loosing their souls. Some deceiving trinity
preacher goes to jail for cheating some old women out of their
savings and no one gives any thought for their souls. Do you think
the "Jim & Tammy" followers are going to worry about the money
when
they find themselves in hell?
When people are deceived by a false-preacher there is no happy ending.
Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind.
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Luke 6:39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the
blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed
into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be
according to their works.
The plan of salvation taught by Jesus' disciples is:
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one
of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye
shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to
all that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Note the 39th verse "as many as the Lord our God shall call" Now, if
your preacher is teaching anything other than the apostles doctrine
(Acts 2:38), then YOUR BIBLE says to "let him be accursed"
Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other
gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
accursed.
The gospel that they had received was clearly Acts 2:38. So, do you
really think that a man that God calls accursed can really be trusted?
Matthew 15:14 {Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And
if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.}
Luke 6:39 {And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the
blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?}
The ditch is hell. If you're following a false preacher you will BOTH
end up in hell. How can a man, accursed of God, tell you how to be
saved. Do you really think that God will honor a LIE just to save a
bunch of people that chose tradition instead of the word of God??
II Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed
into an angel of light.
II Corinthians 11:15 Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers
also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall
be according to their works.
Satan's ministers CLAIM to be ministers of righteousness... They are
of the world, and the worldly LOVE to hear them preach..
II Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried
with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
II Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity,
they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness,
those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ,
but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the
hearts of the simple.
If you obey HIS word, then, and only then, have you "accepted Christ".
The multitudes who claim to have accepted him, while rejecting his
word are merely decieved..OR WORSE:
II Thessalonians 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth,
that they might be saved.
II Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong
delusion, that they should believe a lie:
II Thessalonians 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not
the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
God WILL not only *let* truth haters believe a lie, he will even send
them STRONG DELUSION...Read 2 :12 again, Who does God say will be
damned??
Matthew 7:13 {Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate,
and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be
which go in thereat:}
Matthew 7:14 {Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way,
which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.}
Matthew 7:15 {Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's
clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.}
So, we see trinity denominations with their broad roads, and many who
claim to be saved. Yet they have abandoned Biblical salvation..Is the
Bible right?
Denominal preachers are going to their pulpits with a book under their
arm that teaches that they, and those that hear them, are damned...
Pastor Steve Winter