Wrong preaching
I was thinking about why people that I know do not
believe in God any more. It came to me that when we are listening to other Christians
that we sometime hear things that make you stop and think, I don't think that
is what God meant by that. Some say they are doing thing in Jesus name, some
say if you do this or that then God does not love you. Well God loves all, he
might not like what you are doing but he still loves you. He forgives you when
and if you ask. When you see Christian people hurting others or saying that
there is no hope for you because you are a sinner, that is why people are
turning from God. Just to let you know that it is not God who is saying these
things, it is people saying these things. I still believe in God no matter what
people have preached to me. There is good Christians and bad Christians. I know
it is hard to believe in God if people are lying about God. There have been a
few times that I have went to a church and knew deep down inside what I was
hearing was wrong. After I would confront the Preacher about what they had said
and that I did not think it was a good message. They would no longer want me at
their church. One said that women should stay with their abusers because the
bible says to obey, I don't think that is what God meant and I don't think God
would want that. For one God wanted the husband to love their wife as Christ
loved the church. And another one told my Dad that he didn't have to have his
cancer surgery because he did not have cancer because they healed him. My dad
did have cancer and did have to have surgery. I am glad that he finely listened
to me and went to the doctor to be checked because it was spreading. My
favorite one is that if you do not go to church, then you do not believe in
God. Yes, God wants us to be with others to praise his name but you could
praise him at home with your family just as well, if you could not make it to
church. The word says if there is two or three gathered in His Name He is
there. Of course they told me I was wrong. It also says that you can and should
pray alone too. I also think you should spend every day with God, not just at
church. I know there is a lot of good people out there doing God's work but
there also a lot of people teaching what they believe instead of what God says
in His word. So be careful of wolves in sheep’s clothing. And because of some
of the things that I have heard and has been done to me, I started asking
people if they have read the bible from front to back and not one of them said
yes. They said either that they go to church and that is good enough or they
have read a few verses in bible study or they haven't had time. My question to
them was then how do you know if the church or people are teaching you in the
right way? They didn't have much to say. Well God told us that there will be
ones to come and do false teaching in his name. How are you going to know if
you have not read the word yourself? So read the word for yourself and read the
book from front to back. So then when you hear the word you will know if it is
true or not. If it feels wrong, then that is the Spirit telling you it is
wrong. So listen closely to the spirit, God sent the Holy Spirit to help guide
us. Reading your bible will also help you in the spirit of God and bring you
closer to Him.
Father, please help me read and understand your word.
Help me know when someone is preaching wrong in your name. Help me see the
wolves in sheep’s clothing. Guide me in all your ways. Thank you Father for all
you have given me, Thank you in Jesus name Amen.
Ephesians
5:24-25 (NKJV)
5:24 Therefore, just as the church
is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands
in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just
as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
Colossians
3:19 (NKJV)
3:19 Husbands, love your wives and
do not be bitter toward them.
Matthew 18:20 (KJV)
18:20 For where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew
6:5-6 (NKJV)
6:5 "And when you pray, you
shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the
synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men.
Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.
6 But you, when you pray, go into your
room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in
the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you
openly.
1
John 4:1-6 (NKJV)
4:1 Beloved, do not believe every
spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false
prophets have gone out into the world.
2 By this you know the Spirit of
God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of
God,
3 and every spirit that does not
confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit
of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the
world.
4 You are of God, little children,
and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in
the world.
5 They are of the world. Therefore,
they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.
6 We are of God. He who knows God
hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of
truth and the spirit of error.
Matthew
7:15 (NKJV)
7:15 "Beware of false
prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous
wolves.
2
Peter 2:1-3 (NKJV)
2:1 But there were also false
prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who
will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought
them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.
2 And many will follow their
destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.
3 By covetousness they will exploit
you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and
their destruction does not slumber.
Matthew
10:16 (NKJV)
10:16 "Behold, I send you out
as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as
doves.
Luke 10:3 (NKJV)
10:3 Go your way; behold, I send
you out as lambs among wolves.
Acts 20:28-30 (NKJV)
20:28 Therefore take heed to
yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you
overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
29 For I know this, that after my
departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.
30 Also from among yourselves men
will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after
themselves.
Matthew
7:21-23 (NKJV)
7:21 "Not everyone who says to
Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will
of My Father in heaven.
22 Many will say to Me in that day,
'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name,
and done many wonders in Your name?'
23 And then I will declare to them,
'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'
