Congregations Of The Lord Jesus Christ Part 1

Congregations of the Lord Jesus Christ Part 1 Remember the earliest church members were Messianic Jews and they had the first Messianic Congregations. These were the people that either sat at the feet of the Master, the Lord Jesus Christ or had teachers that did so. Today we see a Church System operating that is quite different from the Church system operating in the New Testament. Heb.13:8 "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day and for ever." and the beginning of Heb.13:9 reads " Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrine." One must bear in mind that the translators put in the verse and paragraph breaks and by doing so one could distort the true meaning and flavor of the text. What I am saying is that nothing has changed. Jesus Christ, Salvation, Baptism, and all the other Doctrines have stayed the same. Do not buy into any other doctrines or teachings other than what Jesus and the Apostles taught. The Bible tells us what they taught clearly and precisely. If we choose to discount the teachings of the Bible and not follow and preach them, and/or add to them we have become carried about with strange and divers doctrines. Everyone agreed, right. Eph.4:14 "That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive." My Greek Interlinear (Interlinear Greek-English New Testament numerically coded to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance with a Greek-English Lexicon by George Berry and Strong's Greek Dictionary, published by Baker Book House, ISBN: 0-8010-5034-0) translates this passage as follows: "that no longer we may be infants, being tossed and carried about by every wind of the teaching. in the sleight of men, in craftiness with a view to the systematizing of error." Right here we have it all laid out for us, the systematizing of error. We are taught the ways of the false church system to such an extent we don't even know what a true biblical church operates like. Go slow, read on. 2Cor.11:13 - 15 " For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 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." Understand that satan comes to believers as a worker of the Lord Jesus Christ. Satan will come as a false disciple of Christ to deceive a Christian. True some cult leaders hold themselves out to be serving the Lord Jesus Christ but that doesn't fool the believers. To

deceive the believers satan's workers come as Christian ministers preaching out of Bibles. Note, I didn't say they preach and/or follow the Word of God, I said they preach out of Bibles. They say they are Christian workers serving the Lord. With people that aren't believers he'll operate differently but this isn't our focus in this study. 1Tim.4:16 " Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee." Folks correct doctrine is extremely important, note the words "save thyself and those that hear thee." These are strong words. The Lord Jesus Christ has only one set of rules. All of his churches follow them the same way. Eph.5:23 "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing." The church is supposed to be subject to Christ in everything just like a wife to her husband. John 14:21 " He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." And go to Eph.5: 27: " That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." Look at it this way. The believers are subject to the rules that the Lord has set forth for us in the scriptures. These are contained in teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ and his Apostles and are to be found in what we call the New Testament. If you see a person clearly breaking those rules on a steady, ongoing, long term basis, you have to consider that person as being not saved, even though that person may continually confess to being a Christian. Example: a person has homosexual sex on a steady basis. Now, a believer can't sit down with the Lord and say look Lord I want to have homosexual sex, it's not fair. I want to serve you and love you but you're just gonna have to let me be an actively practicing homosexual Christian. This doesn't work. Let's take another example. A person likes praying to satan and worshipping satan and other unclean spirits. This person soon realizes after having demons cast from him or her that the Bible is true and gets worried about going to the lake of fire for eternity, yet is afraid of getting the unclean spirits mad. Let's for a minute also assume that satan didn't get this person to commit the unforgivable sin, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (see Mark 3:29). I personally believe satan has his highly placed workers commit this sin as a protection for satan, which make me look very doubtfully on all those that testify they were satanic high priests/priestesses and so forth. This hypothetical person then says well

I'll just worship the unclean spirits and the Lord at the same time, that way I'll have no enemies. The person then expresses his or her intents to the Lord and continues to worship the unclean spirits and the Lord Jesus Christ. The person says he or she is saved, said the sinners prayer, and worships and prays to the Lord Jesus Christ on a daily basis, etc. The Lord of course has guidelines and precepts that all believers must follow and if one doesn't, they aren't serving the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord even said if you love him you'll keep his commandments. It is the same for the churches. The difference is the church isn't an individual. We all know there are loads of people walking around saying they are believers and they aren't. Some think they are believers and some secretly worship satan and the unclean spirits which makes them false believers and false workers. God allows this to go on and he has his reasons. At this point I have touched on the subject of eternal security unavoidably) and need to spend a minute on this subject, quoting scriptures of course. What the theologians say is of no importance to me, I go by the word of God. Heb.6:4-6 " For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." Let's also read 1Cor.9:27: " But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." I don't want to get sidetracked here with a lengthily debate on eternal security. The Bible doesn't support a position of your salvation will never be taken from you regardless of what sins you commit. Paul also came out and said he could become a castaway, and he wrote much of the New Testament. If Paul thought he could become a castaway so should you! A Christian can commit a sin and ask forgiveness in Jesus name and repent and that is the end of it. We don't have a license to go into a life of repeated willful sin at will and still retain our salvation. It is a doctrine of devils to say that a Christian can go around sinning at will and never lose his or her salvation. There are churches that say they are Christian but are not. Again God allows this to go on. I will tell you this, it is sinful for us to fellowship with those who say they are Christians and behave contrary to the scriptures. See 1Cor.5:11: " But now I have written unto you not to keep company, If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no not to eat" and 1Tim 6:3-5 which focuses more on those teaching contrary to the word of God:

" If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself." Folks please note we are told by the Word of God to withdraw from such that teach in opposition to the Word of God, not to place ourselves under them as our spiritual leaders. Please also note this applies to all doctrines and teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ, not just to those teaching financial prosperity doctrines. We also have read that a Christian who sins gets chastened by the Lord in 1Cor.11:32: " But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world." Is it not sin that will bring about a chastening from the Lord. We also know that when we sin we are subject to satan's attacks. See 1Jn.5:18: " We all know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." And also see Rom.6:16: " Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey , his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness". Speaking for myself I don't want to yield myself to sin and death, do you? If you want to open yourself up to attacks from satan, receive chastenings from the Lord and serve death just keep on sinning and sin is sin including the scriptural prohibitions concerning fellowshipping with those who hold themselves out to be believers but behave wrong. This also applies if they are leading a so called church teaching and practicing in opposition to God's word. The sin of not withdrawing from those the Bible says to withdraw from and the sin of lying or stealing etc. are all still sins. Sin is sin. As we go on I will develop these themes with a lot of scriptures showing you that satan has set up churches systematizing error to such an extent most of us don't even know how a true church should be operating, and thus keeping many believers in sin by them not withdrawing from those that they are told to withdraw from in the Bible. When we start to take teachings and practices of man and use them to cancel out the Bible or portions of it, we are in big trouble. Hear me out and let the scriptures speak. Most of you always suspected something is amiss in these so called churches, so let the word of God speak and illuminate the errors and hopefully the oohs and aahhs will flow, God willing. Pray now, by yourself is great, for the truth regarding the church. Pray the Lord would remove all the camouflage of the enemy in every area of your life. Pray the

Lord would remove all false doctrines from you. Pray the Lord would reveal to you the things you need to do to make yourself more pleasing to him. Pray the Lord would give you the strength and ability to deal with all these revelations. Fasten your seat belts, let's go do some spiritual cruisin and give satan a bruisin. The entire series and much more on www.messianic.biz