Matthew 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.
Matthew 12:50 For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
2 Timothy 3:5 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
Many Evangelicals are into “Bibliotary” in that they worship the bible as the word of God and ignore Jesus who is the Word of God.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.2 He was in the beginning with God.3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
They have also missed the whole point for the necessity of receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and that is not only for witnesses in the power of the Holy Spirit but worshiping God in spirit and truth as Jesus instructed that His true disciples would do.
John 4:23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 7:37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Our of their hearts there is no flow of rivers of living water which Jesus said would be indicative of true Christians. They have missed the whole point for the necessity of receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. They have no personal relationship with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. They are just religionists who have never received the real, authentic Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
When they talk about “the Word of God”, like most evangelicals, they are referring to the Bible. They do not realize or want to, that although we have the written word of God in the Scriptures, we have the living Word of God in Jesus Christ Himself and that the Holy Spirit equips the Church with the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and changes us be removing the works of the flesh and replacing them with the Fruit of the Spirit. He makes all of this an old form of Works Righteousness. Most of their sermons or teaching show an absence of the references to the Holy Spirit. And when receive salvation and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit we come to realize that Jesus can actually talk to people and that He talks to us.
Evangelicals in error believe that everyone receives the Holy Spirit when they believe. And, their idea of what a worship service is supposed to be has nothing to do with what Paul writes in 1 & 2 Corinthians using the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Some falsely purport seven characteristics of the first church:
1. They answered the call to repent.
2. They received Christ as revealed through scripture.
3. They left the perverse generation (or the world system).
4. They gladly received the word.
5. They continued in the apostle’s doctrine and fellowship with each other.
6. They were self-giving rather than self-serving or self-seeking.
7. They rejoiced with gladness and praised God – this is true worship.
They do not see as most Christians observe that “the birth of the Church happened on the Day of Pentecost” when the 120 believers were Baptized with the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues and were sent into the world to be witnesses and the proof was the “Signs Following”. This life is empowered by the Holy Spirit so the Holy Spirit can be our Counsellor and which means that He is supposed to talk with us and give us direction for the Church and individuals (Jn. 15: 7 – 15; Rev. 2: 7, 11, 17, 29; 3: 6, 11, 22).
When Bible teachers talk about the Bible being a “Paper Pope”, what they are referring to a person who does not have the personal relationship with Jesus Christ and have never received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. They are what I call godly men but they are not “Spiritual Men” meaning they are as Paul described, “Any one who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him’ (Rm. 8: 9).
What they describe as “true worship” is not the worship that Paul described (1 Cor. 14: 26f). They cannot say, as Paul wrote, ….nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. They can only say, I know what I have believed but never Whom which means the personal relationship with our God.
Finally Evangelicals cannot say what Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2:
1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God.2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.4 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written:
” Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.16 For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
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