You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your
father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the
truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native
language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Yet because I tell the
truth, you do not believe me! NIV
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the
rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and
against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. NIV
By: Father Larry Winslow
TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN
CHRISTIANITY
The above quote in St. John 8:44-45 is the response of Jesus to the Jews who were claiming their heredity from Abraham and God as their father. Jesus had clearly told them that if God were truly their father then they would have recognised Him and accepted His Word as being that of God. In accepting Jesus they would have had to accept His righteousness and Godliness. And such would have forced them to see and accept the errors of their ways.
However, they rejected Jesus
and all that He stood for. So Jesus clearly and emphatically tells them that
they are really under the control of Satan – The Father of Lies!
Today it seems people feel
that, as long as they are politically nice and politically correct, it doesn’t
matter how they behave or what they believe. In fact, one constantly hears
politicians who claim to be Christian making the inane and totally ridiculous
statement that they do not let their religious faith affect their political
decisions. Of course, such a statement is quite possibly true, but in total
denial of their religious faith. One cannot believe in the totality of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ and not allow that Gospel to be effective and primary in
every aspect of life. To try to accomplish such or to state such is
paradoxical.
In the tenth chapter of the
Gospel according to St. Matthew Jesus states, “Whoever acknowledges me before
men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever
disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.” (St.
Matthew 10:32f) Thus, if an individual fails to stand for the righteousness and
teachings of Christ in any aspect of life that individual is denying God and
calling for his/her own condemnation. And only Satanic influence could lead a
supposed Christian in such a direction.
The Father of Lies (Satan)
takes that which is seemingly good and perverts it into evil. In our world
today Satan has perverted the concept of tolerance from an act of accepting an
individual’s right to walk away from God and His promise in Jesus and into
Eternal Condemnation in the bowels of Hell and into a concept whereby he
purports that God accepts and sanctifies even that which is unholy. While
Christians grieve for such an individual and urge that individual in the Name
of Jesus to come back into the Salvation of God in Jesus, they also accept the
right of that person to use their God-given gift of freewill to choose not to
accept God’s free gift. But, Satan’s perversion of tolerance calls upon
Christians to not only accept an individual with all the sin that is wrapped up
in him/her but also to accept that which is condemned by God as being holy and
righteous. The whole concept of accepting persons as they are so that God can
lead them into the walk of transformed holiness that is waiting for them in
Christ through the Holy Spirit is totally lost in Satan’s misrepresentation of
the Gospel.
Since Satan has so permeated
the secular systems of education, government, judicial systems, and social
environments with the doctrine of relativity the world is now faced with the
evil and unholy concept that nothing is intrinsically right and nothing is intrinsically
wrong. Rather every individual is said to have his/her own rights and own
wrongs, which should only be curtailed if they are doing harm to other persons.
But God’s Holy Word is
clear. There are well defined rights and wrongs that are not only intrinsic to
the Will and Word of God but are also made clear in Natural Law and, in many
cases, in the realm of health and well-being.
The world likes to act as
though such should not matter as it is only in the realm of religious opinion –
and that should not affect the secular non-religious world. But nothing could
be further from the truth. Any such concept removes the true Christians from
the realms of free society. The individual who has received Jesus Christ as
Saviour and Lord is compelled by his/her faith to carry its precepts into all
walks of life. Hence, Christian Faith is going to influence secular society
that includes Christians even if the non-Christians wish to exclude such in the
same manner as that society would like to exclude any thought of God, His Will,
right and wrong, etc from their environment.
Again, as Jesus has so
clearly stated, they are the children of the Father of Lies whose goal it is to
neutralise and eliminate the people of God by dragging them down into the dregs
of his society of the damned. So Christians must stand by their principles and
not allow themselves to be duped into succumbing to the wiles of evil in not
upholding the Holy Word of God constantly before a society that is sick and
dying in its own Satan-led slide into the abyss of sin and unrighteousness.
In Galatians 5:16-26 St.
Paul exhorts the Christian community to live by the Holy Spirit and not by the
“sinful nature” or desires of the flesh. He makes it clear that the Christian
is expected to exude the Fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control) in living unto
Christ through the strength of the Holy Spirit living with them and in them.
The Christian is called to live the life of righteousness within the world that
is characterised by deceitfulness, moral depravity, and overt untruth.
Canadians have become anesthetised into accepting evil as being the norm and a hallmark of the parliamentary system. When a politician reneges or refutes his/her own promises, or states that what was claimed on the election trail cannot be maintained because of “party policy,” the people respond with, “Oh that’s just politics” and let it slide by. When a member of the government is caught having acted unfaithfully, illegally, or immorally, the electorate is encouraged to succumb to the thought that such is the norm and to be expected in politics.
The previous parliament
under Jean Chrétien was comprised of 301 MP’s with the following questionable
statistics (as quoted by the Ottawa Citizen):
It must be remembered that
these are they who are making the laws and ruling regulations by which Canadian
citizens are to live. Yet anesthetised Canadians, even those who would be
called Christians, seem to not care. They still vote for the smooth talker who
will, in their opinion, give them the best (usually meaning economic) personal
gains.
Current Prime Minister Paul
Martin publicly promised to maintain the integrity of the current definition of
marriage. Now, under the guise of being forced by the courts – an oxymoron in
itself according to the democratic system – he is preparing to pave the way to
openly violate that promise. He claims to be a Christian but inviolably denies
the same by his evil and perverse actions.
Prime Minister Paul Martin
promised that any such vote in parliament would be a free vote of all members
of parliament. Then, without even wrinkling his pasted on smile, he revised
that to say that cabinet ministers, under the pain of dismissal, must vote for
his evil legislation. What does this say to backbenchers that may wish to vote
against his Satanic plans?
Further, despite calls for a
public plebiscite on the matter of redefining marriage, Paul Martin refuses to
go to the people. He has his agenda dictated by Satan. And, he knows if he went
to the people of Canada, even though they are quite liberal minded, the matter
would receive a sound defeat as it did in the electoral process in the USA
where the people spoke strongly against such a change. It would seem that Paul
Martin fears the wrath of his demonic boss more than he does that of either
Almighty God or the Canadian electorate.
Paul Martin, one of the key
authors of the 1992 Liberal party election platform in the Red Book,
participated in declaring that if elected the Liberal government would
immediately move to remove the GST. Thus, it is not a matter of whether such
would be right or wrong. Rather the fact that the GST is still around in
outright breach of this promise to Canadians who participated in the election
is an act of outright deception.
In trying to gain victory in
the election of 2004 Paul Martin was pulling out all the stops and exuding lies
as promises in every direction. Not only has he already reneged on his
commitment to allow free votes in the Parliament on sensitive issues such as
same-sex marriage but also he has unilaterally and without any form of shame
broken his firm commitment to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in now refusing to
give 100% of the offshore royalties to these provinces. It is not a matter of
whether such a commitment was wise or unwise. Rather it is a matter of another
breaking of his word and seemingly an unabashed attempt to keep the poor
provinces deprived and dependant upon the whimsical will of this irreverent
federal government.
The Liberal Party along with
its partners on the left in the New Democratic Party, true to the evil whims of
liberal democrats in North America as a whole, seem to be advocates of all that
is immoral and previously illegal. Such is seen clearly in their positive
stances in favour of such horrors as abortion whereby there is an outright
holocaust against unborn human beings. Despite their promises at the inception
of the abortion law that it would only be used in extreme cases where the
physical life or health of the mother was at risk, the use of this immoral act
is now provided at the whim of an individual woman who does not wish to carry
the result of the act in which she freely chose to participate. Even rampant
murder does not seem to phase these inhuman instruments of Satan.
The strange thing is that
many of these instruments of Satan who affirm such abhorrent acts claim to be
Christians because they sometimes attend a Church that claims to be Christian.
Then they justify their actions by stating that they do not let their personal
Christian beliefs influence their political decisions – an undertaking that
cannot be upheld by any committed Christian person..
Of course, a true Christian
must govern every aspect of his/her life in accordance with the Will of God as
clearly shown in the Holy Scriptures. Thus, to act against the faith once
claims to follow is, in reality, an outright repudiation of that faith. Jesus
said, “He who is not for me is against me!” Therefore, these deluded members of
Parliament/Legislature must learn to choose either for Christ or for Satan in
their Parliamentary votes. They must understand that they cannot claim to be
Christian and then act in a Satanic manner.
What is even more perplexing
is that the “Churches” to which these persons claim to belong do not openly
censure or excommunicate these Servants of Satan. Of course, it is must be
understood that the bureaucracy surrounding these evil minions is also working
to suppress any Christian reaction to their malevolence. It was seen before the
2004 election when Roman Catholic Bishops were threatened with action if they
did not cease to publicly denounce “public policy.” Further threats have come
from the government through intimidation focusing upon the charitable
organisation status of the Churches where it is being said that criticism of
public policy from religious sources can be seen as political interference and
could cost them their charitable status.
Political force of the evil
and immoral proponents of all that goes against God and His Divine Will as
clearly stated in His Inspired Holy Scriptures is increasing and will continue
to increase as long as society allows its political representatives this sort
of leeway. Christians in Canada must learn to stand firm against such evil
political activity by their elected representatives by removing their vote from
them and electing only those who are willing to overtly reject the wiles of
Satan and to stand for the moral righteousness of Almighty God.
It does not take a rocket
scientist to see that the judicial system of Canada is firmly in the hands of
Satan. One need only witness the decisions of this decidedly morally
left-leaning body of individuals at the provincial as well as the federal level
to see how far awry it has gone.
Like the political left, it
seems that this body will attempt to justify and regularise anything that is
opposed to the Morality of Holy Scripture. The seeming mantra is, “If it is
God’s Will it must be changed.” And when Christian bodies are allowed to
express their views before the courts they are seen as a nuisance that must be
“tolerated” by the august minds of the Satanic body. Thus, Canadians witness
the attempts to decriminalise abusive substances such as marijuana. Judges are
seen to trivialise cases concerning moral depravation while making every
attempt to turn those who stand for God’s Will into criminals for so doing. In
the name of justice, proponents of immoral and previously illegal positions are
given “rights” while morally responsible persons are put down and threatened
with imprisonment.
In Sweden today a
Pentecostal Pastor sits in prison for preaching the Word of God against a
proclamation of the courts, which made an act, opposed by God’s Word, a
righteous activity within society. And the Canadian courts are slowly working
in the same direction. They are making declarations of righteousness and
“demanding” that the government make changes to reflect their decisions. IN
this “tail wagging the dog” process the government becomes complicit in bowing
to the wills of these evil-minded unelected individuals.
The major support for
abortion rights today, in addition to the inviolable “right of choice” of a
woman, is a Supreme Court proclamation that an embryo does not become a human
being until it is born from the mother’s womb. The fact that this flies
directly in the face of God’s proclamations that not only has He formed the
foetus in the mother’s womb, and not only does he know the purpose of that
child while he/she is living in the mother’s womb, but also that he knows the
child and his/her purpose before he/she was in the mother’s womb. God sees the
embryonic/foetal individual as a living being. Modern DNA sciences also prove
such prenatal human existence. But the Supreme Justices feel that they have a
right to override Almighty God with their own opinions – which of course
violates one of Almighty God’s commandments which says “Thou shalt have no
other god before me” and they have set themselves up as higher gods than
Almighty God. Such evil-mindedness is to be neither respected nor obeyed as
they are not mindful of their positions as servants of their Creator.
With such a track record, in
the current proposed changes to the definition of marriage with its purported
protection of religious individuals from having to go against their faith, how
long will it be before these self-proclaimed demigods attempt to force
Christian persons into the performance of that which goes against the Divine
Will of the One True Creator God? The Province of Quebec has already called for
such a position. The evil New Democratic government of the Province of Manitoba
has already put its Christian employees in a position of “practice the moral
evil or lose your job.” The heretical Anglican Bishop of New Westminster has
expressed surprise that Clergy would be exempt from having to perform such
action. How long will it be before these minions of Satan attempt to force
Christians to bow down to Caesar and burn incense at his altar?
Christians cannot count upon
the courts of Canada to serve the righteousness of the Creator God. Christians
must study God’s Word. They must read, learn, mark, and inwardly digest the
same for two reasons. First such knowledge and understanding will be required to
fight the evil of our judicial system. Secondly, the way things are heading, it
may not be many years until the Holy Bible is outlawed as “hate literature” in
Canada. Strictly speaking Bill C-250 implicitly so defines the Scriptures with
its censures. It will only take one malevolent challenge to give the judicial
system the excuse it needs to take such steps against Christians who are seen
by them as an evil force.
In order to combat these
evil minions of Satan Christians need to vocally oppose their perverse
decisions and to vociferously reach out to their elected representatives to
have these practitioners of the will of Satan removed from their positions of
authority. Further, it is essential that Christians emphasise the work of the
courts in enforcing the law as opposed to the act of making the law. As long as
these socialist leaning members of evil and immoral Will are allowed to enforce
their wicked goals it will be difficult to reverse the current depravity.
However, even they cannot continue in their perversions when it becomes
politically unacceptable for them to publicly stand for their own perversions.
SATAN IN THE CHURCHES
Our battle is against the
forces of darkness residing in the world. And, while human beings can be very
adept at performing evil on their own, the real power of that evil is resident
in the underlying forces of darkness.
In the Temptation in The
Wilderness it is clear how Satan uses even that which in itself is righteous in
a perverted form to attempt to draw the righteous into the darkness of evil. In
essence, in all three temptations, Satan was using that which was seemingly
natural and good, although opposed to the Will of God, to draw Jesus from His
righteous goals through the counterfeit of alternative less demanding goals
that seemed to fulfil the human needs in an easier manner while ignoring the
purposes of God. Satan even used God’s Word in a distorted manner, as do the
revisionist liberals today, in his unsuccessful attempt to lure Jesus into his
evil realm.
When the world around is
observed in all its lack of morality, the counterfeiting work of Lucifer,
(Satan), the fallen Archangel of Light, can be clearly seen using false visions
of glory, joy, and happiness to lure people into the slavery to sin and unrighteousness.
Illicit drug use is sold as a “mind-expanding experience” full of beauty, awe
and wonder. The joy and relaxing elements of “the trip” are extolled. Alcohol
is portrayed as a wonderful means of escaping the “pressures and stresses” of
the world. The illicit use of human sexuality is illustrated as a joyful and
fulfilling end in itself. The participant is lured into believing that a
fulfilling sexual experience outside of marriage (and contrary to God’s Will)
is an intrinsic right of happiness that the prudish “religious” try to deny to
humanity. The concept of a wonderful fulfilling Gift of God found fully only
within the bounds of marriage according to the design plan of the Creator God
is totally obscured and eliminated in the minds of many.
The clear reality is that
all these things simply end up in slavery to evil and a complete lack of
fulfillment within the human person. Satan lures individuals with promises of
joy, relaxation, and freedom and then they find themselves never truly happy,
always up tight, and totally enslaved to the addiction into which they have
been lured. God’s Will has been flaunted in favour of Satan’s allurement and
part of the slavery to the addiction is to grow in the cursing of God and His
divine Will.
Yet, despite all of this
clear experiential view of the results of man’s ways which are against God’s
Will, man’s wisdom that overtly opposes God’s Wisdom, man’s enslavement
contrasted to the freedom God offers in Jesus Christ, even the leadership of
many Christian denominations, in their desire to befriend the world even when
it means abandoning God’s Divinely Inspired Word, are attempting to lead the
people over whom God has given them charge straight into Hell with them.
Jesus spoke to such a
leadership in these words, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you
hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do
not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.” Matt 23:13 NIV
This leadership either
totally rejects Scripture in favour of human mores of the day or attempts to
“reinterpret and revise” the meaning of God’s unalterable Eternal Word to suit
their needs. They abandon the understanding of the Apostolic Tradition upon
which the Church has been founded with Jesus Christ as her cornerstone. They
attempt to produce “understandings and traditions” that totally violate the
clear interpretation of the Divinely Inspired Holy Word of God.
This leadership attempts to
make the Holy Scriptures so complicated and complex that only they can be seen
as being competent in “understanding” them. The whole concept of the
Reformation in opening the Word of God to the simple people to whom it was
written is being retrograded back to the condition of the Church prior to that
time when God’s Word was returned to the People of God.
An alternative approach of
those driven by Satanic forces is to trivialise the importance of the Holy
Scriptures. Despite the fact that the Church has vowed to understand the
Scriptures as BEING the Word of God, many would relegate them to a far lesser
position. A Princeton Professor of Theology has openly stated that the
Scriptures oppose some of the directions of today’s society but then proclaims
that in these cases “Scripture is Wrong!” Dr. Walter Wink of New York has a
similar position in attempting to say that the writers of scripture did not
understand the conditions in today’s world and it needs to be revised. In both
of these situations these intelligent human beings are openly stating that God
is not Omnipotent and All Knowing and is subject to making mistakes even in
that which He has Divinely Guided. Dr. Walter Doeller of Emmanuel/St. Chad
College in Saskatoon sees the Holy Word of God as essentially standing against
some current secular mores but finds that in the Scripture there is “wriggle
room” to allow the Church to accept the stances of the world. Finally Bishop
Benison of Philadelphia makes the blatantly heretical declaration concerning
the Holy Scriptures when he states, “We wrote them, and we can change them!”
In all cases these members
of the heretical leadership are rewriting, revising, or reinterpreting that
which God has given us via His Divine Guidance. And, because such liberal
revisionists have the political power within the Church they are attempting,
through so-called democratic vote, to supplant the Holy Will of God clearly
demonstrated in the His Divinely Inspired Holy Scriptures with the thoughts and
concepts of human minds. In short, they are rejecting the supremacy of Almighty
God in favour of the idols the are setting up as god(s) – their own hearts and
minds. The concept that God’s Holy Word is not open to even “democratic” vote
does not cross their distorted minds.
And such a process is not
peculiar to any given Christian denomination. While moving at different times,
the mainline denominational Churches are being faced with this belittling of
God’s Holy Scriptures and the holding up the supremacy of the “righteousness of
the mind of humankind.” It is a clear demonstration of that against which
Isaiah spoke and recorded in Isaiah 5:20-21 “Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put
bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own
sight.” NIV
Satan used the Scriptures to
attempt to corrupt the Son of God and he is still trying this technique. The
revisionists have developed a system whereby it is stated that if any rule of
Scripture violates the concept of Love in Christ then love should take the
position of precedence. Thus, it can be said that the concept of Love overrides
any stricture that one wishes it to make ineffective. The whole idea of God’s
Love being wrapped up in the Rules and Precepts of the whole of Scripture is
lost to their eyes. But, of course, Satan would blind them to such a simple
anomaly. The idea that God’s Rules and Precepts express His Love is lost in a
wishy-washy meaningless perversion of love that is expressed in humanistic
terms and not God’s Will. There seems to be a complete oblivion to the thought
that God’s Rules and Precepts are clear demonstrations of His Perfect Love.
Hence it is seen that evil is called good and good is called evil as Isaiah
wrote. There is a total misunderstanding of the out flowing of Divine Love as
it is clearly expressed in the whole Creative Process and the bounds so defined
by that act of Divine Love.
The problem is that many
innocent human beings are being dragged down into Hell with this evil-minded
leadership. Of course Satan has so deceived these persons that they cannot see
the evil into which they have fallen – neither the people nor the leadership.
But the inadvertent result is the same. Just as ignorance of the law of man is
not an excuse for breaking it so ignorance of the pure Love of God and its
inherent boundaries that are clearly seen in nature as well is not an excuse
for walking in the ways of evil.
Satan and his minions in the
denominational leadership are working hard to destroy the True Church of God.
Thus, it falls upon the true Bible Believing Christians to stand firm for the
Divinely Inspired Holy Word of God in the face of the unholy teachings and
vehement threats and persecutions being unleashed upon them. It would seem that
the end result will be the coming out of the True Church from within the many
Churches and a coming together to bind in the strength of God’s Holy Spirit in
order to conquer the evil being unleashed by Satan through these unholy and
often unsuspecting individuals.
There is a clear need to
stand firm in Christ and to truly Love and Reach Out to those who are serving
Satan in calling them back into the Way of Truth that is found in Jesus Christ
who said, “I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life; no one comes to the Father but
by me!”
Slowly but surely demonic
process has been conditioning Canadian society to become anesthetised and
amenable to evil ways that oppose the will of God. There has been a
concentrated effort under the guise of multiculturalism to reduce or eliminate
the Christian presence in many facets of life such as governmental activities,
educational institutions, public social events, and so on. It seems that
anything goes so long as it does not involve or make reference to Jesus Christ.
Essentially, society today has become Christophobic.
In public government backed
functions Christian Clergy, if they wish or are graciously “allowed” by the
Satanic forces to participate, are directed not to pray ion the Name of Jesus
as it might be offensive to some persons. Of course, prayers of other faiths
are allowed without censure together with those of seemingly “non-faiths” which
are really praying to no objective divinity. It does not matter if some of
these might be offensive to Christian persons, as they seem to be seen as
persons without rights or feelings.
In the educational
environment any reference to Jesus or to Christianity in general is usually met
with disgust and put-down. This writer remembers sitting next to a young lady
on an aircraft flying to Toronto where she was attending a public high school
for her final year (she had attended a Christian School up to that point). In a
family values class she was shut-up by her teacher when she expressed her view
of family that was based upon Christian values. She was told that “religious
values” were not allowed in that class.
Most people today are aware
of the Satanic elimination of such things as Bible Reading or saying the Lord’s
Prayer in a public school. In some areas students are chastised if they are
found to be in possession of a Bible while on school property. In most school
boards the presence of Christian Clubs on campus is not only discouraged but
also totally forbidden. Again, this Satanic order comes under the guise of
having a respect for multiculturalism and tolerance under its revisionist
definitions that seem to be in a state of constant flux.
This educational elimination
of Jesus has conditioned many, sometimes even those who would call themselves
Christians, into an anesthetised state whereby they take a stance of “well, I
guess that is the way it is.” It seems that even some Christians do not realise
that such a status cannot be accepted or tolerated by the Christian community.
True faith in Jesus Christ involves standing for Almighty God and His Values
clearly stated in His Holy Word in every part of life – including the
educational system. It should be seen as being of utmost importance that
education should provide growth in the Will of God expressed in every subject
area and Christian parents should find it incumbent upon themselves to publicly
stand for such being a part of their children’s education with the proviso that
they would remove them and place them in a Christian Institution if such were
not available publicly. Of course, this whole process is another question and
beyond the scope of this particular work.
Current Christophobic
Canadian society, sometimes even perpetrated by those who would like to call
themselves Christians, is openly attempting to remove Jesus Christ from all
aspects of public life. Every Christmas there is a plethora of assaults upon
the right of Christians to display and/or publicly demonstrate the real meaning
and purpose of Christmas. How often does one hear of those who are offended by
a Manger Scene in a public place? How many times is even the mention of the
Name of Jesus in a carol or hymn criticised or demanded to be removed? How many
schools will not allow the mention of the Christ in Christmas? And, amazing as
it is, this year we hear of a Mayor of a Community having to apologise for
calling the Winter Holiday a Christmas Holiday and of a business leader having
to apologise for referring to the office Holiday Party as a Christmas Party –
all in the Name of Multiculturalism. And, of course, no such censures are
placed upon the use of the name Ramadan or Hanukah. After all, it is only those
nasty Christian things that are to be attacked – at least for right now.
And similar Satanic attacks
are experienced at the Feast of the Central Point of the Christian Faith – the
Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus – Good Friday and Easter Day. There is a
concerted effort to focus everyone on Easter eggs, bunnies, flowers, and
bonnets. Of course, everyone wants the holiday. But the Holy Day is to be eliminated
in every possible manner. In fact, Christians have become so desensitised that
they too will use the Holy Days as opportunity for holidays.
Slowly but surely this
society is moving toward pushing the Christian Churches inside their buildings.
Further, every effort of Satan is expended to make Christians uncomfortable
being Christians in public society. In so doing he is able to reduce the
Christian population with the downfall of marginally Christian persons who are
more concerned with societal popularity than they are in demonstrating the
Gospel of Jesus Christ!
It is against this pressure
that Christians are going to have to learn to take a stance. And this assertion
of faith has to be not only within the confines of the Christian Church – the people
of God - but also in society in general. Jesus has not called members of His
Church into a private club. Rather, He has called the Church together to
worship and praise Almighty God and to be strengthened by the power of the Holy
Spirit. And such strengthening is in order that the people will go forward into
society to inclusively promote the exclusive Gospel of Jesus Christ. No amount
of suppression from intolerant Satanic society should be allowed to deter the
true Christian people – the Body of Christ – the Church!
This brief dissertation does
not seek to go into unnecessary detail concerning the obvious. Rather it is
aimed at highlighting the current circumstances in which Christians find
themselves living in today’s world.
The point in time has been
reached where Christians will be forced into taking a stand for Jesus Christ or
publicly denying Him. Jesus said, “Whoever acknowledges Me before men, I will
acknowledge him before My Father in Heaven. But whoever disowns Me before men, I
will disown him before My Father in Heaven.” – St. Matthew 10:32f – NIV. With
the Canadian Government, Justice System, Mainline Church Leadership, and
Society actively working against the clearly expressed Will of Almighty God as
unmistakably expressed in His Divinely Inspired Holy Scriptures, Christians
have no alternative but to make a definitive stand for Jesus Christ in all
these arenas.
For decades Christians have
been silenced with such thoughts as “neither politics nor religion” are to be
spoken of publicly or socially, or “religion is not be worn on the sleeve.”
This has been a particularly successful effort of Satan to close down the
spreading of the Christian Gospel. So successful has this been that many
so-called Christians have even been duped by it. Now Christians need to ask,
“Whom should we obey?” – the will of manmade regulation or the expressed words
of Jesus “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the
Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to
obey everything I have commanded you.” – St. Matthew 28:19f – NIV.
455 years after the
beginning of the 16th century English Reformation with the
publishing of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer’s First Book of Common Prayer (of
course, the movement’s beginnings could be traced to earlier actions but the
definitive point is in this publication), the Church once again finds herself
in the need of Reformation. By the end of the 15th century
corruption (both Satanic and simply human) had so invaded the Church that she
had to be brought back to her Apostolic roots. Today such evil has again
invaded the Church. With the promotion of an idea that God is doing new things
even if He is seen to be contradicting Himself in His Own Scriptures the
revisionist liberals are trying to redesign the Church into a “modern entity”
based upon humanism and human intellect by selling such as superseding the “old
fashioned Holy Scriptures.” Such teachings as stating that believing the Bible
as it is written is merely a non-intellectual Sunday School faith are in vogue.
Some proponents of such a change (e.g. Bishop Spong) are misusing the term
“reformation” by alluding to their actions as being such. But reformation is reforming the Church in
the light of true tradition (Apostolic Tradition) and the plainly understood
Word of God. The revisionists have attempted to pull the Scriptures from the
hands of the people with the teaching that they are far too difficult for the
ordinary person to understand just as the pre-Reformation Church had done. True
Christians have to recall to the people that the Scriptures were written by man
under the inspiration of Almighty God through His Holy Spirit for the common
man. It is only in the ego of man that they are made to be subject to the
scholarship of man. Therefore, True Reformation in the Light of Jesus Christ is
where the True Church needs to direct herself.
Such a walk in today’s world
will not be an easy one. The revisionist liberal leadership sells itself upon
the concept of openness, inclusivity, and tolerance. But such is available only
to those who agree with their perverted and Satan led directions. Therefore, as
is clearly in effect in the Episcopal Church of the USA and has shown its head
in some regions of Canada already, these same inclusivists can become extremely
vehement and aggressively vicious towards those who stand firm for the pure
Gospel of Jesus Christ. So strong are these revisionist liberal types in the
wish to “modernise” the faith by accepting secular wisdom and non-scriptural
principles of faith, including the acceptance of “other ways to salvation than
Jesus,” that they have become essentially Christophobic. In actuality, like
true followers of the Satanic directions, they become so agitated when
confronted with the Truth of Jesus Christ, the simple Name of Jesus and the
inviolability of the Holy Word of God as clearly illustrated by Jesus that they
are forced from within their own volatile nature to lash out with ferocious
intensity against anyone who openly opposes their wickedness. Thus, since these
persons are in power in the mainline Churches in Canada today, Orthodox
Conservative Christians who stand firm and faithfully for the pure Word of God
and true Faith in Jesus Christ can expect persecution and even martyrdom of the
highest magnitude.
But such cannot deter the
Christian community. The English Reformation of the 16th century
would not have taken place if there had not been strong faithful Christian
persons willing to stand for the truth of God. So, in today’s Reformation,
there must be strong and committed Christians willing to stand firm for the
pure faith of God in Jesus Christ via the power of the Holy Spirit – and let
Satan unleash whatever he will! God is faithful to His promises for those who stand
fast.
The intent of this work has
been to bring together some of the clear evidence of the rule of Satan in
Canada today and to call the True Church of Jesus Christ into action. Of course
there are many additional matters that could, or even should, be discussed with
regard to the Canadian Government, Justice System, mainline Churches, and
society in general. And, of course, there are many additional things that need
to be said concerning the response of the True Faithful Christian Church. Such
will be the focus of a much later work. Suffice it to say, at this point, that
Christians need to be called to action. And, by Christians is meant the whole
True Body of Christ. There are members of the Orthodox Conservative Christian
Right Wing leadership that are currently working toward this end. But their
efforts alone are not enough. The power is in that of God’s Holy Spirit working
through the whole of the faithful Body of Christ!