After having a few Twitter “discussions”
this past week, it became clear to me how easy it is to take the focus of
Christianity, i.e. our faith, away from Jesus Christ! It’s easy because our
rebellious, arrogant sinful nature has a problem with having to rely on Jesus
Christ for our eternal salvation. We would prefer to do it ourselves or at
least use another human being or organization so we can derive some sense of
importance or self-righteousness from them. I can sense this attitude rising up
in myself at times…..it is from the pit of hell, by the way!
But the truth is, as I Timothy
2:5 notes, “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man
Christ Jesus…” And as the prophet Isaiah notes, “all are righteous deeds are
like filthy rags…”
The reality is…after the
literal fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, human beings were without
hope EXCEPT THAT….God’s pronounced judgment on the serpent (Satan), gave hope
to humanity by promising a coming Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Genesis 3:15 notes,
“And I will put enmity between your seed and her (Eve’s) Seed; He shall bruise
your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
Adam and Eve fell in the Garden of Eden because they were deceived by
Satan to believe God was holding out on them, because of fleshly lusts and
because of our sinful desire to be righteous and wise without God.
The reality that humanity is
condemned to eternity without God in hell is a given because of our sinful
nature.
Indeed, John 3:13 is an eye
opener. It notes, “No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from
heaven, that is the Son of Man, who is in heaven.” Even Abraham, our father in faith, was per
Luke 16:24 held in a place apart from hell, a waiting place. However, Abraham,
Noah, Moses, David, the Old Testament prophets and others living righteously by
faith alone were not admitted to heaven until Jesus died for their sins.
The truth is we owe Jesus an
INFINITE THANKS, as well as praise and worship for dying to save our souls. No
other man, church, organization, ritual, or sacrament can take Jesus’ place.
Jesus is an integral part of these things but there is no one way to be saved
apart from Jesus Christ. The fact that many don’t appreciate Jesus’ work for us
is evidence of an “attitude problem” that will lead them to hell. From God’s
perspective, HE offered His only begotten Son for our salvation, rejecting
Jesus means YOU CHOOSE TO GO TO HELL, where God is not present!
Indeed, only Jesus IS THE
WAY! John 14:6 notes, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to
the Father, except through Me.” On his show, “The Story of God,” actor Morgan
Freeman said one of the things he learned was that everyone’s truth is their
truth. COMPLETE NONSENSE! Pope Francis recently came out, in the name of peace,
and said that both Muslims and Christians and anyone who worships a god,
worship the same God. WRONG! BLASPHEMOUSLY WRONG! This is manifestly wrong and
offensive to the true God, specifically Jesus Christ, since it wrongly removes
Jesus Christ from the Godhead. You can’t “gloss over” the utterly essential
role of Jesus Christ for human salvation. A proper view of God means viewing
things from God’s perspective, not based on our own human wishful thinking! A Roman
Catholic pope who has said Mass hundreds of times should know better and will
have to answer for such blatantly false teaching, denying the divinity of Jesus
Christ.
Religion isn’t about a
Masonic global peace or appeasing pagans. It is about worshiping God in “spirit
and in truth.” There is A TRUTH and you can know it! God isn’t about making
human beings feel all “touchy-feely” and deceived that they are OK and the
“everyone’s truth is their truth” nonsense. Does this apply anywhere else in
human study or science? Sorry, but Christianity is fundamentally at odds with
Islam and every other pagan world religion. They CAN NOT BOTH BE TRUE!
We owe our eternal salvation
to Jesus Christ. He is worthy to be trusted as our Lord and Savior! Religion is
not a democracy! God makes the rules. If no human beings were on God’s side,
then “news flash”: the true God still wins!
The bottom line really
is….”For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes (a very active, not a passive belief) in Him should not perish
but have everlasting life.” John 3:16. John 3:18 makes it clear, “…he who does
not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of
the only begotten Son of God.”
If you would like to donate
to my GoFundMe page please go to www.gofundme.com/DanielLionsDen
or donate directly to my church, the Lion’s Den Society, by Paypal.com with danieldeohara@gmail.com as the
payment email address. May God bless you per Genesis 12:3 as you give. I will
pray God’s blessings on your life according to Psalm 23, Psalm 103 and John
10:10.