The Wrong Church, No God

 They leave God out. 

Welcome. Let us pray. "Father, Lord God, all the praise and glory be to You. We come before You in the name of your Holy one, the flesh of God, Yeshua by name. As we come before You today, we pray that You give us eyes to see, ears to hear, and a spirit to receive Your Truth and Your Revelation. May Your Word feed our spirit as the food You so abundantly bless us with feeds our bodies. We ask this in Your holy name, Amen!"

Let me ask you an honest question. I’m being completely honest here. I would love to know how some of you who share the belief that there are many paths to God and Heaven reconcile this. How do you reach God if you leave Him out?

One day, a group of people told someone that Peter, meaning me, was just sitting there at my house, waiting for someone to come to me.  When you do, I have a case with a million dollars and I will give it to the one who comes seeking me and finds me. They even give you my address.{I do not, so do not attempt it}

Well, the person says, "I would love to have that million dollars." However, I do not like your Peter. I would rather go to his home and get the case another way. I do not like the address you gave me. I would have to pass through this or that town, take a boat, and everything. I will find another way.

Do you see how ridiculous this is? Here's the problem: there is only one way to reach me and only one me. So how can you reject me and still get to me? Let’s start with the reason we need to seek out Yeshua, or Jesus as translated. Turn with me to John 3:16-18.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”

What happens if you leave the Son out?

“Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.”

Here, turn to I John 5:12

“Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.”

Why? Turn to John 10, starting at verse 7

“So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”

Go down a little bit further to verse 27

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one."

As a side note, did Jesus never say He was God? Yes, He did. Here is one of them. Look how this offended the “religious folks.”

“The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.”

Then again we see Jesus calling Himself God here.

“Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad." So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."

Say it with me.

“So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.” John 8:56-59

Need more proof? Turn to John 1

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made”

A little bit further we read this.

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:1-3, 14

Yeshua, or Jesus is the only way. Why? Because HE IS GOD!

Look here

“The stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone.” Psalm 118:22

Then here.

“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.'” Isaiah 28:16

Look how Paul puts it in his letter to the Corinthians

“But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,”1 Corinthians 1:23

I apologize, but there is no alternative. It is impossible to reach God if you exclude Him, just as it is impossible to enter heaven if you ignore the path that leads there. This is why some individuals find it difficult to accept the truth.

We tell them, that God so loved the world, that He laid down His Godhood, and His majesty and came to earth as one of us. He lived His life completely Sin free only to be stripped, beaten, humiliated, and hung on a cross for you. You and me. He laid down His life for us, rather, He took it up again. He rose from the dead so we may live.

I know. I hear people all the time say they can’t believe that. It is foolish.

“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God For it is written,

"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."

Where is the wise one? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.” 1 Corinthians 1:18-21

There is no other truth. No other message. No other way. God is God. 

"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. "You shall have no other gods before me.

You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.” Exodus 20:2-6

There is only one way to get to Him

“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6

I apologize if this offends some, but it doesn't change the truth. If Yeshua, or Jesus, is not the cornerstone of the church you are visiting or attending, consider sharing the truth with them. If they do not listen, leave promptly. If necessary, run away. This is a lie, and there is no salvation in it, even if it “feels good.”

If the church you are visiting or are in is telling you ANYTHING that does not line up with this {Holding up the Bible.} Try to tell them the truth. If they do not hear you, leave. Quickly. Run if you have to. It is a lie. There is no salvation in it even if it “feels good.”

If the church you are visiting or are in, does not call sin, sin, and good, good? Try to tell them the truth. If they do not hear you, leave. Quickly. Run if you have to. It is a lie. There is no salvation in it even if it “feels good.”

If the church you are visiting or are in, seems dead, not producing fruit? Try to tell them the truth. If they do not hear you, leave. Quickly. Run if you have to. It is a lie. There is no salvation in it even if it “feels good.”

Be careful child of God. Be careful. There are many wolves in sheep's clothing. There are many deceivers, false teachers and prophets. Jesus would try to educate them but more often than not, they would not listen. What did He do in those cases? He moved on.

Don't waste your time arguing with someone who can't hear the words coming out of your mouth. Not everyone is open to discussion. Try your best, but then move on and let God take care of the rest. However, by simply being present, you might plant a seed, and God can nurture it and help it grow.

Of course, you need to be a child of God first. Are you? If not, say this Prayer. Right now. Wherever you may be, say it in your own words, and do not doubt in your heart. God will hear you. He will send the Spirit of Life to you. Let us Pray.

"Oh heavenly Father, Lord God. I am a sinner. I know this. I know there is nothing I can do to change that. But I know you can. I accept Yeshua's sacrifice for me. I believed He rose from the dead. I repent my sins. Please send the Spirit of Adoption into my life. Help me to get to know the real you. Save me. Please. In the name of Yeshua, Amen!"

That's it. It is that simple. Now go tell someone what you have just done. "That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Yeshua, and shalt believe in your heart that God hath raised him from the dead, You shall be saved." Romans 10:9. You need to find a Church that God leads you to and be baptized the way Jesus said to be. You are now a Child of God. A New Creature. You "have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him."Colossians 3:10

The email, if you wish to contact me, is truthbygod1@gmail.com

May the comfort of the Holy Ghost, and the peace of our Lord Yeshua, be with you all. May God bless you and be with you always.

Until next time, be blessed, be a blessing, and Yeshua is Lord!