Here are some excellent truths about fake repentance. These words are from a pastor of old named Thomas Watson in England: COUNTERFEITS of Repentance (from Thomas Watson’s The Doctrine of Repentance, Puritan Paperbacks series) To discover what true repentance is,...
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Be Wise About this thing called “A Call to Ministry”
1Ti 1:5-7 The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. (6) Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, (7) desiring to be...
Continue ReadingBe Wise About this thing called “A Call to Ministry”The Disconnect in the Evil Man’s Mind
Rom 1:32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. We know that abusers are never wrong. The kind we...
Continue ReadingThe Disconnect in the Evil Man’s MindThe Secrecy of Evil
Act 26:16-18 But rise and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which...
Continue ReadingThe Secrecy of EvilThe Devil Can Preach a Great “Biblical” Sermon
Jas 2:19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! 2Co 11:14-15 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. (15) So it is no surprise if his servants,...
Continue ReadingThe Devil Can Preach a Great “Biblical” SermonMany Christians Do Not Seem to Know Whose Side they are on or Who the Enemy is
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies,...
Continue ReadingMany Christians Do Not Seem to Know Whose Side they are on or Who the Enemy isThe Many Little Popes in Evangelicalism – How Evil Creeps in
Gal 2:6 And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me. The Apostle Paul was not being arrogant when he...
Continue ReadingThe Many Little Popes in Evangelicalism – How Evil Creeps inLet Me Show You What a Den of Robbers (“church”) Really Looks Like – An inside view
Mat 21:12-13 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. (13) He said to them, “It...
Continue ReadingLet Me Show You What a Den of Robbers (“church”) Really Looks Like – An inside view“The Lord Says” – A Common Line Used by the Wicked to Deceive and Control Us
It is soooo common today for people who claim to be Christians to also claim to speak God's Word to us. They have their little phrases - "Well, the Lord says...." or "The Lord showed me that..." - you've heard...
Continue Reading“The Lord Says” – A Common Line Used by the Wicked to Deceive and Control UsThe Essence of Sin is Lawlessness and the Lawless Love the Rush it Gives Them
Isa 14:13-14 You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; (14) ...
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