Galatians 1:6-8 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-- (7) not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble...
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Local Churches are Giving Standing Ovations to the Wicked (Part 3)
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let...
Continue ReadingLocal Churches are Giving Standing Ovations to the Wicked (Part 3)Local Churches are Giving Standing Ovations to the Wicked (Part 2)
Php 2:19-21 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you. (20) For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your...
Continue ReadingLocal Churches are Giving Standing Ovations to the Wicked (Part 2)Local Churches are Giving Standing Ovations to the Wicked (Part 1)
Every single week, if not every single day, Christians who are either victims of evil in their local churches or witnesses to that evil, contact me and tell their stories. Over and over again. If you have been watching the...
Continue ReadingLocal Churches are Giving Standing Ovations to the Wicked (Part 1)Evil is Darkness – It Always Pressures Us to be Quiet
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. (John 3:19) This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to...
Continue ReadingEvil is Darkness – It Always Pressures Us to be QuietYou Will be Cast Out – The Counterfeit Church Expels Christ’s True People
I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And...
Continue ReadingYou Will be Cast Out – The Counterfeit Church Expels Christ’s True PeopleEvil Reigns in “Churches” When the Spirit Departs
Revelation 2:7a He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. Christ's letters to the seven churches in Asia are recorded for us in the second and third chapters of Revelation. In each one...
Continue ReadingEvil Reigns in “Churches” When the Spirit DepartsAn Absolutely Accurate Description of the State of today’s Church
Our friend Dale Ingraham gave the following assessment of the state of the visible church today. He is saying exactly what I have been preaching increasingly this last year. I believe the church today is much like Israel in Jesus'...
Continue ReadingAn Absolutely Accurate Description of the State of today’s ChurchHow to Watch for the Rise of Evil in Your Church
The following verses from Paul's letter to the Galatians outline a flow of events that has continued to replay itself in every era of church history, and it continues to thrive today. This sequence inevitably introduces evil (through evil persons)...
Continue ReadingHow to Watch for the Rise of Evil in Your ChurchA Typical Distortion of Scripture Used by False Shepherds to Protect the Wicked
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor...
Continue ReadingA Typical Distortion of Scripture Used by False Shepherds to Protect the Wicked