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UNREAL CHRISTIANITY’S LOVEFEST WITH ANTI-CHRISTIANITY [Part 1]

One is a great pretender, the other an evil saboteur. One claims to love Jesus, the other hates Him with a passion. One is Judas, the other the spirit of antichrist.

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? [2Corinthians 6:14-16]

SOCIALNEEDIA

One may wonder why so many Christians never take Christianity seriously. Rather than leave all and enter the spiritual Kingdom of the Lord Jesus, they prefer to hang around on the edges with one foot in the world. Of course, the one foot is actually both feet and indicates a heart never given and a sacrifice of real repentance never made. Such Christians have rarely been born again and merely choose a Christianity of their liking, one comfortable to them, or continue in an incorrect family tradition started at some point in the past by an errant ancestor. The main draw is the social connection and a sense of belonging, which is something everyone wants to various levels, and all the better if little or no demands are made. False Christian constructs and ministers take full advantage of this for their own personal and/or sinister reasons. They make it as easy as possible for one to remain perfectly comfortable in their sin.

It is this “social Christianity” in which the partakers thereof are infinitely more interested in and desirous of social acceptance, social credibility, social contacts, social family and friendship relationships, and pretty much social everything. They err, however, by desiring and seeking such relational need above the only relationship that matters most, that of a real relationship with the Lord Jesus. When one eventually does embrace the Lord, one’s other relationships and social standing often goes by the wayside, which proves real Christianity is a divider promoting absolute separation unto the Lord’s spiritual kingdom and the true fellowship thereof.

“Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.” [Matthew 10:34-36]

That is, a relative few choose Him but most do not and those who do not sometimes do not appreciate those who do.

Peter began to say to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You.” [Mark 10:28]

Thus, when one chooses the Lord, one is rejected by the world:

“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.” [John 15:18-19]

It would seem as though such Scriptures and direct teachings of the Lord cannot possibly be genuine. They are often treated in such a way, of course, by either neglect or outright shunning, revealing a clear indication of a Christian’s true motivation. Perhaps yet another of the Lord’s “hard sayings” puts the importance of the issue in better perspective:

“Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.” [Matthew 10:32-33]

When one chooses the Lord Jesus with ALL one’s heart and gives ALL one’s heart and life to Him, one will be accepted by the Lord. The Lord’s great love will then become more than His previous one way unrequited effort toward such a one, and allow Him to be loved in return by His new faithful follower. This total love of each is what makes the His covenant work. The Lord will accept nothing less.

TRUE SEPARATION

Again, His love is a constant. It is always there. God IS Love. It is our love, however, that He longs for, and when one chooses to love Him with all one’s heart, it causes His covenant to come into effect and become established. It must be remembered, though, that when one turns to the Lord, one must also turn away from the things of one’s prior life without Him. For many new Christians, they end up losing everything they had, which often includes friends, family, and whatever comprised one’s social construct. This is the true dynamic of what takes place when one becomes a real Christian. Everything must be put forth as part of the total sacrifice one’s life becomes.

Think of it terms of throwing oneself upon the Altar of Sacrifice as the OT priests did with any number of animals which was a picture of the future Sacrifice Lamb. This is what true repentance is and reflects the Lord’s effective purchase of His new children by paying the inestimable price of His own Blood. Real Christians thus understand that they are saved by the greatest sacrifice, one that bought their redemption, remitted their sin, rescued them from an unfruitful life, and saved their soul.

Such a separation from the world is thus as the great chasm of eternal division mentioned in the Lord’s story of Lazarus and the rich man:

“Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’” [Luke 16:22-26]

That great divide between the good place and the bad place will happen one day for all eternity but in the meantime it happens for every person who passes from this life while dead in sin and without the Lord. They likely end up in the same place as the rich man. Would it not therefore be infinitely better to make the greatest choice before then though it causes great ongoing division in one’s life?

ONE CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS

This is why Unreal Christianity is hopelessly deceived and why whoever joins with it becomes deceived also. Such Christians believe they can have the world and the Lord’s kingdom, though such is impossible and makes a complete mockery of the Lord, His teachings, and His mission. It is also why Unreal Christianity takes it a step even further by accepting and even embracing Anti-Christianity. Unreal Christians simply do not understand the spiritual world since they are not in it and do not walk in the Spirit.

But those evil ones who oppose the Lord Jesus and who “are of your father the devil” are definitely connected to that part of the spiritual world aligned with demonic forces. Such evil forces therefore have greater power than mere natural men in a fake construct though with a Christian name or front, and the evil ones are thus able to manifest great deception over such people. This is what happens when one manufactures a worldly artificial Christianity which exists on a mere natural level. It may be “down to earth,” socially acceptable, and comfortable to one’s fleshly nature, but has no spiritual power and is not in union with the Lord.

Now, regarding real Christians, they are fully aligned with the Lord and in union with Him. They cannot be deceived by evil, at least not for long depending on one’s spiritual maturity level. Real Christians therefore know that the Lord Jesus is God, is exactly who He says He is, has the only way of Life, and that no one comes to the Father except through Him. Real Christians also know that all the religions and belief systems of this world are mere false constructs in league with the devil and must be opposed and exposed. It does not matter if such false religions are small or large or even comprise a billion people—they are still wrong, they still oppose the Lord Jesus, and they must be called out for what they are in hopes that the deceived ones stuck within them can escape and no longer be trapped. Also, when put to the test, the Lord Jesus will win every spiritual battle against such demonic forces and their deceptive religions though He must do it through and with the help of His people.

VEILED PACT

How then can it be that many so-called “Christians” instead actually accept such false religions and the leaders and people thereof? Instead of standing against them and stating what they are, they join them and at best never say a word. They actually invite them in!

What kind of asinine evangelism statement is that?

Again, just as the devil is referred to by the NT as “the god of this world” and heads up every kingdom of this world, he also heads up every false religion. This is why those who do not oppose the devil will be deceived by him and is also why so many Christians have embraced the spirit of antichrist.

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God’s Friends, Enemies, (and Frenemies)

Mar 12

Posted by RJ Dawson

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If one’s enemies are not the enemies of the Lord Jesus, then one is by default an enemy of the Lord Jesus.

The enemies of the Lord are narcissists at heart. They love themselves more than the Lord. They love the idea of taking life by the horns, and by engaging in their own pursuits. Because they have never surrendered their lives to God, their hearts remain uncircumcised and thus incapable of doing the good the Lord requires. And because of that little problem, they find it no problem to break God’s laws whenever they must to advance their own program.

Many of the most popular and successful people in the world are thus hellbound. They will have their success in the here and now come hell or high water. They will not be stopped. They will lie, cheat, and steal if need be, and give the appearance of forthrightness. These surfacely successful people are the most contemptuous people on the planet and will get their due when the life and health they take for granted fails.

At that point they’ll join that rich guy that treated Lazarus so bad. They will have traded the possibility of eternal life for the eventual fires of hell. Perhaps if they had been taught this at whatever school or church they attended things could have been different. But in the end they will know. They will know without question that they fouled up big time but simply refused to repent.

One wonders why the drive for success in this world is so bewitching. One wonders why some people drive themselves toward success to the point of damning their soul forever. What is it that is so great about the pleasures of this life? Why can’t people see that life is short? Why can’t they see that pursuing the pleasures of this world improperly—the desires of the eyes, the desires of human appetites, and most of all, the desire to make a name for oneself and live by personal pride—results in merely temporary happiness?

For example, consider the great politicians of this country who make it to places of great power. And consider how they had to either cheat to get there or must cheat to remain there. Everyone knows that successful politicians are successful liars, except for very rare exceptions. To politick is to lie. Politics is such that battle is constant, a war of words is always brewing, and people at the top fight like rabid dogs to get their piece of bone. They do it all with a smile and flair, however. It is one of the great wonders of the world.

But perhaps the greatest wonder is how they continue to do it and get away with it year after decade after century, and the public remains seemingly as stupid and gullible as ever.

The strange phenomenon makes perfect sense, though, when one discovers that the voters have their own ulterior motives and agendas. Some refuse to vote their conscience because they don’t want to be thought a fool. This is the biggest kind of fool. Some vote for idiots simply because they themselves are idiots. And some know exactly what they’re doing. The evil people with big smiles they vote into office are exactly like themselves. They are both evil, according to the Lord’s definition of the word, because both have an evil agenda.

Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us. For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself. [Philippians 3:17-21]

For the unseeing unbelievers, passages of Scripture like the preceding are the stupidest thing they ever heard. In their minds, the obvious crazies are those who risk everything on some invisible pie-in-the-sky nonsense that has no bearing whatsoever on reality. And as long as they remain on an upward track of gaining more, whether it be money or power or fame, they will inevitably remain on that track chasing what appears obvious as a visible, tangible carrot that has yet to fail them thus far.

Like a gambler on a winning streak with no sense to stop, who knows it can’t last, such people continue on in their sold-out state anyway, regardless of warnings, essentially because they are fully invested in their chosen path. The bewitching nature of success presents itself by the lack of any meaningful failures. In other words, probably the best cure for gambling is very early repeated failure.

Which brings up a strange idea. Because the kingdom of God appears upside down and backward, the reality is that this world and its way of conduct is upside down and backward. Which means great success in this life most often means eternity in hell. Which means one is blessed by not having success until one is safely in the kingdom of God, and one’s success is orchestrated by Him.

I mean, the Lord was always talking about some unseen treasure that did not involve the usual counterfeits most people fall for. If one were to follow this extrapolation trail, one would then understand why the Lord lived the kind of life He lived, and taught the kind of discipleship He taught.

But one obviously cannot build big church buildings and great denominations on such discipleship, which means the real gamblers of this world are not the blatant sinners, but pseudo Christians.

The following passage contains more evidence of lying unreal Christians than most can fathom, but it’s all right there. It can all be applied to what I term unreal Christianity, which continually pokes its skinny finger in God’s eye and continues in ongoing, perverse disobedience, regardless of warning. Such passages are disavowed, put aside, neglected, and rejected, and whoever brings them up gets some form of what the Lord got for bringing them up:

“The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them.

“They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger. But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men; for they broaden their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments. They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues, and respectful greetings in the market places, and being called Rabbi by men.

“But do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers. Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. Do not be called leaders; for One is your Leader, that is, Christ. But the greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.” [Matthew 23:2-13]

Now, surely we do not think the Lord was limiting His teaching here to just the Pharisees of the first century, do we? The shoe fits just as much if not much more on the big foot of fake Christianity, because the very things He said not to do is being done by the majority every Sunday morning. If you don’t believe me, read it again. And again. And keep reading until the deception starts to fall away. It’s all there. And He taught it all for a reason, and it’s a reason we better pay attention to.

Otherwise, we will go into eternity having been convinced we are God’s friends when the opposite is true. Consider the possibility.

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward. By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing Him who is unseen. [Hebrews 11:23-27]

Had Moses embraced Egypt he would have become God’s enemy. But he made the decision, like Abraham before him, to leave all and be a friend of God.

“You are My friends if you do what I command you.

“No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.” [John 15:14-15] [1]

This is truly an astounding statement!

The Lord defines His friends as those who

(1) Do everything He commands, and

(2) Know everything He knows.

Wow. This explains a few things.