The Need to Address Alternative and New Religious Movements

 Just imagine when you were in school and you were taught to read your alphabets from A-Z. You know that is the way by which you read the alphabet. This is not so when it comes to the system of Gnosticism reading of the text of scripture. There are two crucial areas by which many Gnostics within the professing church: that of "misreading" the context of the Bible to contextualize the meaning of the text and the "reframing" of the characters of the Bible through such allegorical interpretation. (2 Tim. 2:16, 17-18) Whenever there is a perversion of biblical truth it will have such disastrous effect by which to greatly impact the way many Gnostics view God and the world at large. The theistic God of creation is viewed as a inferior Being; the world in and of itself is viewed as as cosmic "mess" by which the "spirit" longs to be freed from its incarceration. It is the "spirit" by which it is imprisoned. Many Gnostics are encouraged to abst...

 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...

 There is an urgency by which we as God's people must contend for the faith! There are spiritual charaltans that are on social media who hold "Contending for the Faith Conferences" by which they appear to defend the faith of the gospel but hide behind the cloak of the Bible to perpetuate such Afrocentric Christianity. They place so much emphasis upon race, culture, and ideology that it explicitly deny that of the core of the gospel message. (Rom. 1:16) There are other facets by which the gospel of Jesus Christ have also been denied as well: that of the law and the gospel by which it is mutually exclusive. How is it possible for people who are saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ can possibly live by the law in order to demonstrate perfect obedience to Christ? When it comes to legalism it is all about performance and how well people are able to perform. If a person cannot live up to the standards of rules and regulations of such a legalistic system eithe...

There is  a need to know the character of many false teachers today who appears to be concern about the spiritual well-being of the church today, but they are wolves in sheep's clothing. Perhaps you may be saying, "How can you know whether a person is fake and phony?" Who give you the authority to just a person? Or There is a lot of hypocrites in the church and that's why I do not attend church. These are many questions that people have about the church especially leaders within the church today. Even though many of the accusation that people have towards the church are most of the time true and that there are religious phonies in the church today by which there is a need to spot out these individuals poses the greatest challenge and threat inside its walls. Such individuals are able to articulate what the church believe and to imitate the life of a Christian but they are sinners in saint's clothing. The condition of false spiritual leaders according to Isaiah 56:...

 Text: Malachi 2:10-12 Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously with one another By profaning the covenant of the fathers? (v. 10) Judah has deal treacherously, And an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, For Judah has profaned The LORD's holy institution which He loves: He has married the daughter of a foreign god. (v. 11) May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob The man who does this, being awake and await, Yet who brings an offering to the LORD of hosts! (v. 12) Why is it that people mistreat one another? Is God's Sovereign over creation? Did the Lord created us in His image and likeness?  What was the covenant by which the people of Israel defile? In this particular article I will begin to address by answering many of these most important questions. First, it is so important to understand the context of the passage/s of scripture within its proper context. Comparing scripture with scripture is proof posi...