The Need to Address Alternative and New Religious Movements

 There are "coded" languages that are communicated with those who are within the world of the health and wealth gospels known as the prosperity faith movement! First, we would think that by the prosperity faith movement being exposed by those who critical of this particular outside of the Word of Faith movement that it would have settled the case. Even though there are books that are critical of the "health and wealth" gospel for example the Health, Wealth & Happiness authors David W. Jones and Russell S. Woodbridge address the historical, biblical, and its theological analysis. But, yet, the "coded" language of this particular movement have not been addressed. (2 Cor. 11:3)  In order to reach those who are entrap within this particular movement known as the "health and wealth" that comes in the form as the Word of Faith is to break into its "coded" language. The only people who can understand such "coded" language is that...

 The church's responsibility is to guard the truth! In turn God have also entrusted the elders who are undershepherds in preserving the message of the gospel. The reason for such is that there is an array of false teachings that are circulating throughout the church today by which contemporary evangelicals have in fact followed suit. Paul to Timothy says that there are going to be people who are not going to put up with sound doctrine but they will be selectice of false teachers who are going to tell them what their itching ears wants to hear. As a result of not desiring to hear solid biblical truth that they will turn away from it be giving heed to falsehood. (2 Tim. 4:3-4) It is unfortunate that many pastors who because of pressure cave into telling people what they want to hear; not what they need to hear. Whenever churches especially church leaders are committed to teaching the truth of God's Word will in fact anticipate persecution and sufferings.  When it comes to guardi...

 Text: Prov. 11:30; Ge. 2:9; Prov. 10:1  "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, [Ge. 2:9; Pr. 10:11] and he who wins souls is wise." "And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground--trees [Ezek. 31:8] that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the gardens were the tree of life [Ge. 3:22, 24; Pr. 3:18; 11:30; Rev. 2:7] and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. [Ezek. 47:12] "The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, [Pr. 10:27; Pr. 3:18; Pr. 4:23; 11:30; 13:12, 14, 19; 14:27; 15:4; 16:22] but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked. [Pr. 10:6] Sermon Outline I. An Examination of the Fruit of the Righteous (Pr. 11:30)   A. The character of God's people (v. 30)      1. They possess the gift of salvation in Christ by which it is the fruit of the righteous. (v. 30)        a) Jn. 3:36.        b) Jn. 10:28-29.      2. Bearing fruit by which to h...