“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this.
“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ And the Lord said to me, ‘They are right in what they have spoken. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.” (Deuteronomy 18:9-19 ESV)
Now these were God’s instructions to his people of old at a specific time in their history, but much of what is expressed here is repeated for us in the New Testament under the New Covenant which God now has with his people Israel (both Jew and Gentile by genuine faith in Jesus Christ), although not in these exact same words, but with the same general meaning. Such as, for instance, ours is not a physical piece of land, but we are a spiritual nation of people across the entire globe. So for us, this is about us coming to faith in Jesus Christ and about what is expected of us as followers of Jesus Christ.
As we come to genuine faith in Jesus Christ, and thus we are on the path of righteous and holy living and of obedience to our Lord in the forsaking of our sins and in doing what he commands us to do, we are no longer to take on the character of this sinful world. But we are to be different from the world, for now we are to being conformed to the likeness of character of Jesus Christ, by the Spirit, via our cooperation with God’s work of grace in our lives. We must still live in the world, and we are to love the people of the world and to share with them the gospel, but we are not to be like them.
Sadly, though, so much of what is called “church” today, at least here in America, has become one with the world in order to attract the world to their gatherings, so it is barely distinguishable these days between the church and the world. And so many have accepted an ecumenical diluted and altered gospel message which is just leading the way to a one world religion, which appears to be mainly directed toward the blending of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam (Muslims) into one. So pay attention closely to what your leaders are saying who are claiming to believe in Jesus. Many are quite liberal.
But we who believe in Jesus with God-persuaded faith in him are not to learn and to take on the abominable customs and practices of the world. We are not supposed to be like the world to win the world. We are to be like Jesus in order to win the world to faith in Jesus Christ. And this requires that we are crucified with Christ in death to sin, and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now to live as slaves to God and to his righteousness. We are to deny self, die daily to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience if we want to be his disciples (followers).
[Romans 6:1-23; Luke 9:23-26; Ephesians 4:17-32; Titus 2:11-14]
So, be very careful who you are listening to, and from whom you are getting your “truth,” for liars and manipulators of truth abound even within the gatherings of the church (or the false market-driven church). Many preachers are just following what they are taught in their marketing training on how to grow their churches in numbers, and so they are busy trying to figure out how to best market their churches to the people of the world so that the people of the world will come to their gatherings, and so that they will want to come back, which is why they dilute the gospel message.
Make sure that you are listening to what the Scriptures teach (IN CONTEXT), for so many half-truths (lies) are being taught by teaching the Scriptures out of their context to make them say what they do not say if taught in context. Read the words of Jesus and of his NT apostles in their appropriate context, comparing Scripture with Scripture, which must agree with each other. Don’t rely on the words of other humans to tell you the truth (in whole), and don’t rely on memes and short videos, many of which distort and dilute the gospel message and teach the Word of God out of context in order to deceive.
Deny self and die to sin daily, and keep following the Lord in obedience so that you are not taken captive by the empty philosophies of this sinful world. For we are headed toward this rule of the beast (Revelation 13) and toward a one world religion which is a blending of religions and their beliefs and practices. We are headed in the direction of this One World Beastly Order which will force compliance of all people to this one world order of government and of religion. And we are headed in the direction of God’s judgements on his rebellious and adulterous people, too. So wake up!!
[Matthew 24:1-51; 1 Corinthians 15:51-52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18; 1 Timothy 4:1-5; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 2 Peter 3:1-18; 1 John 2:18-25; Jude 1:17-23; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 6:9-14; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13; Revelation 18:1-24; Revelation 19:1-21; Revelation 20:1-15; Revelation 21:1-27, etc.]
For Our Nation
An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.
Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.
https://vimeo.com/379406352
Something to consider prayerfully:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/nothing-changes-new-year-day-lies-devastators/5875998
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