The Need to Address Alternative and New Religious Movements

There is such a misunderstanding of the Person and work of the Holy Spirit. When it comes to the Person of the Holy Spirit is that the Spirit of God is a Divine Person; not some impersonal "force" or "it" taught by many cults today.  In these times the Holy Spirit is ever mentioned nor it is taught within the Church today as if they have such a complete understanding of the Person of the Holy Spirit, but are teaching doctrines that are contrary to the clear teaching of scripture (1 Tim. 4:1).     The apostle Paul according to 1 Timothy 4:1 says, "The Spirit clearly says that in the latter times some will abandon the faith and following deceiving spirits and things taught by demons."  We are living in the last days where people today within the professing church will abandon the true faith so as to pay attention to deceiving spirits taught by demons." It is important that we as God's people begin to teach what is taught clearly in scripture: th...

Paul encourages the Philippians believers to rejoice in the Lord.  To rejoice in the Lord is to know that we have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ by telling others of our "newfound" faith in Christ.  There is always a threat by others within the Church today whose primary goal and objective is to rob believers of their relationship with Jesus Christ through man-made rules and regulations (Phil. 3:1b).  Legalism, moral plank, and Christian perfectionism is at the heart of spiritual apostasy (1 Tim. 4:1).  The outcome of apostasy is to destroyed the true faith and to ruin the moral lives of God's people.  There are many professing believers despite of the truth of God's Word they will persist in such doctrinal error so as to reveal what they really believe and who they are (Matt. 7:15-ff).      The apostle Paul also warns the Philippians believers by saying: "Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh...

The issue of tongues have been greatly misunderstood by the church today! There are many within both Charismatic and Pentecostal circles who believe that "speaking in tongues" is apart of the believers salvation experience (Acts 19:1).  There is no where that gives indication in the Bible that teach that Christ's death on the cross provides such a second work of grace:  that of speaking in tongues as part of the Christian salvation experience.  If in fact speaking in tongues is apart of the believer's salvation experience than the purpose by which Christ died for our sins is insufficient in securing our salvation.  Christ's death on the cross provided salvation by which a person can be saved from the guilt and penalty of sin (Rom. 6:23).    Throughout this article I will begin to lay the foundation as to how it is important to rightly divide God's Word of truth as to (1) comparing scripture with scripture. (2) the historical context of scripture. (3) th...

Just on today I was listening to a local Radio station by which the Host asked the question, "Is Jesus Black? Or Is this Jesus the Image of a Caucasian of the White European Race?"  What was the image of this Jesus? What Did He Look Like?  Even though it "appears" that there is an interest in the historical Jesus of the Bible but it is a way to to convince others that the Jesus of scripture is not the Savior of the world (contrast, Jn. 3:16, 17).  The history of liberation theology believe in a "Black" Jesus whose purpose is to deliver Black folks from the tyranny and oppression of White domination that have given our forefathers in slavery a "image" of a "White" Jesus by which they are to be in subjugation to white rule and domination.  The historical Jesus of the Bible along with Christianity was taught to our forefathers of slavery that He is the God of the oppress and subservient.  In so many words the whole idea about Christianit...

Part 2 of my wife's video in sharing her testimony as being a "former" member of The Church of God in Christ for 16 years. Even though the video is 37:44 as lengthy but she gives a detail description of the belief and practice of this Bible-based sect that claim to be Christian, but are controversial and questionable in nature. The Church of God in Christ is the largest Black Pentecostal denomination worldwide and has as it membership 4.3 million whose distinctive doctrines: that of holiness and sanctification.  It is "literal" in its interpretation of the Bible but are strict as to its dress and moral code.  It is also legalistic at its core teaching by which "speaking" in tongues is subsequential to the believer's salvation experience (Acts 2:1, 2ff).  The leadership of this strict Holiness sect are ill-advised as to their reading and interpretation of the Bible by which my wife was not properly taught. By the grace of God she have experience t...

People today have different meanings of salvation. For example just recently on CNN it was reported that there was a 17 year old Laquan McDonald that was shot 17 times by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke as I watched the video.  What I see in the video was that Laquan McDonald as he was walking pulled out a 3 inch pocket knife by which the teenager did not pose any threat to the officers by which he kept walking away from other police officers by which Officer Van Dyke shot the first few shots by which the teenager fell to the ground and from that point there were a dozen more bullets that shot through the body of this young man by which I saw gun shot smoke riddle through his helpless body. There were different law enforcement officers on CNN who says that the officer Van Dyke as well as his fellow officers was in imminent danger simply because of the fact that Laquan McDonald "appears" to have approach them by which it was necessary for the officer to use deadly ...

There are so many believers who are "spiritually" handicapped in their own personal and spiritual walk with the Lord.  The reason for such is their lack of the knowledge in the Person of God in Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ is full of grace and truth (Jn. 1:14).  Instead the church have been made to believe that having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is not enough to possess such knowledge, but "knowledge" that transcend beyond what is revealed in scripture.  Jesus Christ is the fount of the wisdom and knowledge of God (Col. 1:9).  In order to know God's will is embedded in scripture through all wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives (v. 9).  The Holy Spirit is divine Truth by which God have disclosed everything we need to know through the revelation of the Bible (2 Tim. 3:15, 16).  God is the Author of scripture by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.  Scripture is complete without any further revelation or revelation of the spir...