Friday, April 13, 2012

Important Questions

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  1.  Have you heard about the Good News from the Gospel of Jesus Christ as Lord and savior?
  2. Do you pray to God through His son Jesus Christ, or some other intercessors?
  3. Do you follow God’s commandments, as given to Moses, and as vindicated by Jesus Christ through his blood to save us from sin?
  4. Have you at some point, felt that despite your long religious prayers, something was lacking in your life, and that you were merely fulfilling old traditions but your soul was still thirsty and hungry for the truth?
  5. Are you engaged in a protracted struggle against Satan, and feeling that you might actually lose the battle?

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Personal Testimony: The Choice to Believe!

Rosemary K, Gospel Witness/Writer
Personal Testimony: The Choice to Believe!

Members of my family and relatives reading this will be surprised at my bold leap of faith, but let me say that I actually owe no apologies to the religious dogmas that many of you are still enslaved by. I have seen the misery first hand, that religious adherents reap from their failure to accept Jesus Christ. I have seen the devastation wrought by dogmas on people’s souls, the fear, the condemnation, unforgiving ways, the lack of true love and affection, living in sin, and every other unimaginable suffering that people without Christ face. There is no freedom in belonging to world religions, but chaos and darkness. This subject is very close to my heart, because I have witnessed this very disruption in my own family. The living God is for love and freedom from sin, not vice versa.

The Gospel challenges us to seek and we shall find, and that is exactly what I did. There is no turning back to Babylon, because God has been extremely kind and favoring towards me. I have seen many tragedies in my life, with close family members and friends. I have seen people subjected to soul death by the very things they believed brought life, I have lost my closest and dearest blood kin, in very dreadful circumstances; I have seen friends and enemies alike, vanish in an untimely gory manner, with pain that would make even the strongest question God. In my life, I have gone through experiences that seemed to be “dead ends”, but by my belief in Jesus Christ, overcame them. God creates a way where there is no way in human eyes.

Jesus explains this in MARK 10: 27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible. (Holy Bible, King James Version)Even though I look very cheerful and bright eyed, I cannot say I have experienced life as a bed of roses. So how come I am not downtrodden, grumbling, desperate, and cursing God? Because God Loves me, and I love God. With God’s love, no burden is too heavy to bear. God He made us in his image, and gave us of his spirit when He breathed life in us.

GEN: 1:27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created He them. [Holy Bible, King James Version]I grew up and studied in religious schools [which were considered the top/best schools in the country], where I witnessed events that were in utmost contradiction of what the Bible teaches, but were reinforced as the doctrinal ‘truth’ of God!

As with many religions, you will find various offshoots of secret societies, dedications, devotees, followers, legions, even disciples of men that are glorified by fellow men as the deity, supposedly with powers equal to those of the Godhead! In fact, not only is the Bible cast aside, edicts in form of religious books are made to replace it and reinforced as God‘s word. The list is endless, but among them are works like the Pieta Prayer Book, [a painting or sculpture of the Virgin Mary mourning over Jesus Christ's dead body]; Pocket Book of Catholic Prayers; The Catechism, on various subjects like praying the rosary, the lives of saints, ceremonies, etc.

I could not understand how the Bible could categorically forbid certain practices, yet have the same practices carried out in religious orders, as the actual truth and way to salvation.

By Gospel Witness Rosemary K
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THE “BOOK OF LIFE” VS “THE BOOK OF DEEDS”: A BIBLICAL EXPOSÉ OF THE “GOOD DEEDS” DOCTRINE!

Gospel Witness/Writer, Rosemary K
By Gospel Witness Rosemary K


Disclaimer: This writing is for sharing the Good News of the Gospel, according to the Holy Bible, and the teachings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. This is NOT a Theological Paradigm debate,  neither is it affiliated to any Religious Organizations of the World.  This writing is NOT intended for any political correctness, the promotion of secularist views, and/or any world religions.   


Rosemary K Gospel Witness Media is indemnified  from the effects that may arise as a result of reading this Evangelization Newsletter. This Gospel-based message is powered by the blood of Jesus Christ.  


PREFACE: Greetings  and Love from the Lord Jesus’ recent Resurrection Day.  I am writing to illuminate the  promise of resurrection and salvation, based on what the Bible teaches.  This writing is not based on any WORLD RELIGIOUS VIEWS, OR ANY SECULARIST PARADIGMS, but on the TRUTH of God and the prophecies of the  Holy Bible, which is the Word of God.


1.0 CAN  YOUR GOOD DEEDS  SAVE YOUR SOUL FROM HELL?
To those deceived by man’s religions and the claim that GOOD DEEDS will save them for heaven, THIS IS A WAKE UP CALL FOR YOU!
“Do-Good”  Doctrine belongs to Satan!
By their very nature, the Bible says that men’s hearts are wicked; that is where all kinds of sins begin-adultery, fornication, envy, greed, lusts, murder, plotting, and all manner of evil.  Jeremiah 17: 9 ” The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”


Revelation 20:15 "Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire."
2.0  INFLUENCE OF SIN ON PEOPLE:  No matter how holy you think you are on your own, God says that  you are a filthy person fit for hellfire.  Sin and death entered the world when Adam and Eve listened to Satan, instead of the Word of God.   Subsequent generations were all affected by sin and death, so sin is a natural part of people’s lives on earth.   The commandments were given to man to show him how evil he was; to show how he needed a savior! 
Many religions  teach about remission of sin through their own personal sacrifices, leading a “godly life” through their own deeds, paying tithe,  praying through sacred objects and invented intercessors, and much more.  However, the Bible clearly states that all this is in vain, because God’s holiness and view of remission of sins is not that of man. 


2.1 NOAH AND THE FLOODS:  Genesis 6:12 “And God looked on the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way on the earth”  SO HE SENT THE FLOODS AND KILLED OFF THE ENTIRE EARTH, EXCEPT NOAH AND HIS FAMILY.


2.2 SODOM AND GOMORRAH:  The inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah chose death, because they were continuing to indulge in a SEXUAL  abomination forbidden by God.  By their own foolish choice,  they earned the judgment of God, for He was willing to let their cities be, if only ten (10) righteous people could be found in their city!     None righteous was found.
"Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens" Genesis 19:24. "Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly" II Peter 2:6.


2.3  YOUR SOCIAL REALITY CHECK:  Refer to your local news even right now;  you will hear of crime, drugs,  drunkenness,  robberies, murders, kidnappings, adultery, fornication,   and all manner of evil:  most of the doers of these evil deeds profess world religions;  they are the workshop for the devil who deceived them, and by refusing to be born again in Christ, the cycle of evil continues.  Man’s interventions are not enough without spiritual rebirth, because these problems are beyond physical.  Some people may profess “righteousness” based on man’s morality, AND some have even gone a profane step lower  by adding “holiness” prefixes to their religious titles.  God says that is not righteousness because that is glorying in the flesh, and magnifying man’s vile body with an outward fake godliness. 


3.0 JESUS CAME TO TAKE AWAY SIN AND TO DEFEAT DEATH
And still God did not find any righteousness in man,  for man’s good deeds were as filthy rags in the sight of God.  God says YOUR GOOD DEEDS ARE FILTHY.
Isaiah 64:6 ‘We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.”
Even with these vivid examples of how God dealt with human vanities and sin,  PEOPLE of today still think they can please God with their own forms of righteousness and outward godliness/good deeds.  Anyone who thinks they can please God on their own is against Bible Truth, and the Bible says they will account for each word and deed on Judgment Day. 
Matthew 12:36 "But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment. (Words of Jesus Christ)


4.0  HOW IS GOD PLEASED? God is pleased in His Son Jesus Christ, and anything short of that, the Bible says is condemned. Yes, those who have rejected Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and only means to salvation are condemned, NOT by God, but by their own deplorable love of darkness and Satan’s deception.
JOHN 3: 18 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.  (Words of Jesus Christ)


5.0 HOW TO BECOME RIGHTEOUS:  Only Jesus gives the believers the righteousness that God wants, for HE is  the only one who takes God’s wrath from the sinner.  NO matter how Good  you think you are, or how many goods things you do, God says you are unworthy of Heaven, for you are a WICKED SINNER BY BIRTH, until you accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, it is through faith alone.  
Some religions invented their systems of “purging” sins, through confessions, paying fines, fasting, and other religious prescriptions.  The reality is that these religious teachings recycle sin, and the adherents sin, confess their sinful symptoms, sin again, confess the symptoms, and continue sinning forever.  They have no faith, they just have a religion!  Without being saved by the only Messiah, Jesus Christ, NOBODY can get rid of sin.  Jesus Christ is God’s only Official cleanser of sins, and He is the only one who paid in sinless Blood for this.   Addressing sin by man’s methodologies  is like trying to treat a disease when you are not a  physician!   Jesus imputes His righteousness on the repentant sinner, in order for the believer to become a child of God.  Trying to become a child of God on your own, or on the religious ordinance “prescription” is not spiritually attainable.  Being religious is man’s way of godliness, but having faith in Christ is the true Godliness that God wants.  God defines who goes to HEAVEN  by Christ’s Holiness, not by man’s means.  Man’s ways are as filthy rags to God.  Amen.
Revelation 21:27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.


Pagans falsely believe that they can get a blessing by
peering through a crystal ball; a beggarly element!

6.0  THE “DEEDS” DOCTRINE EXPOSED!   The Bible says that if  you are NOT SAVED in Jesus Christ, your deeds will only take you to Hell.  If you are a  deeds proponent of religions, Yes, you will be judged according to deeds,  but since your name will not be in the Lamb’s Book of Life (Christ’s Elect),   the Bible says that your destination will still be Hellfire.  Perhaps the degrees of torment will vary, but still that is cold comfort and NOT salvation!  Still in doubt, see the two-edged sword of the Word of Christ!
All that are judged according to their DEEDS  go to the  Lake of Fire. All whose names are in the LAMB'S BOOK of LIFE will rise with Christ, in the New Jerusalem.
Revelation 20:11-15
11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.


7.0 GOD’S SPIRITUAL WISDOM IS BEYOND THIS WORLD

Only believers have the knowledge of God's spiritual wisdom, the unbelievers chose darkness instead of light-with eternally tormenting consequences.

In God's Kingdom, SINNERS are redeemed by believing in the SON of God, Jesus Christ, who shed His precious blood to take away the sins of the world. It is a done deal, all people have to do is believe, and God will provide direction through the Holy Spirit in their daily lives. Rejecting Jesus Christ and believing in the self, organized religion and dogma, or man's righteousness is being outside of God's grace. We have no righteousness on our own, God says man's righteousness is like a filthy rag! Isaiah 64: 6 We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.

ONLY JESUS CHRIST gives believers the righteousness that is acceptable to GOD, for He is HOLY, without sin. Sinners are cleansed by Jesus to be acceptable to God. Do not be deceived that you can do anything for God- (this includes religious ordinances that are man made to deceive himself in Satan). God already sent you salvation, if you reject HIS terms, He says your “reward” is hellfire. And God keeps His Word.

8.0 NO RABBITS, NO EGGS!  I am sure many of you saw worldly symbols like eggs and rabbits during this Easter season.  However, those symbols mean nothing to born again Christians, they are pagan. The non-believers commercialize and paganize the Lord’s Resurrection.  Beware of false religious symbols of that nature, they are non-Biblical, unchristian, secular, and immoral. The death and resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ must not be reduced to pagan things! Indeed it cannot be, because the Gospel speaks clearly of the mission of Jesus Christ, which is redemption of fallen man.

Pagans falsely believe the universe is a supreme deity.
Romans 1:25 "They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped
and served the things God created instead of the
Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen."
 2 Timothy 1:10 but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

The Son of God is resurrected to conquer death for those that believe. For those shackled in unbelief, it is historical proof that Jesus made miracles on earth and defeated death through resurrection.

Please note that none of the so-called “prophets” and “founding fathers” of world religions has ever resurrected from the dead!   Besides, none of them was the Son of God!  After sowing their seeds of spiritual rebellion, they all died, and on Judgment Day, they will face Christ in Spiritual form to account for their heresies.  Christ says that the fate of those who reject Him will be worse than that of Sodom and Gomorrah on Judgment Day.    Matthew 10: 15  “Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.” (Words of Jesus Christ)

I have  on occasion been accosted by unbelievers, challenging Christ’s teachings, and pouring scorn on spiritual life of which they know nothing.   The same unbelievers will readily believe in the Universe and pagan energies (which  the Bible calls beggarly elements), rather than believe in the TRUTH of God the Almighty Creator of humans and angels, Heaven and Earth!  Unbelievers have a fundamental problem of spiritual enslavement to the created things, a deliberate choice to hold God in contempt, yet the same God rises His Sun  on them, and gives them their very breath everyday!   The reality is that  unbelievers really live in the flesh, they have rejected understanding God spiritually, and they choose to dwell in carnality, which is condemned as enmity to God.  

The  SPIRITUAL significance of Jesus' death and resurrection is central in faith, not the academic arguments of man's foolishness. Beware if you are a believer.  The unbelievers should not deceive you with their foolishness, for the spiritually illiterate cannot speak of God’s Spiritual blessings or His wisdom which is beyond this world. How can they know that which they have not received? 

1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons.
How can Satan cast out Satan, or how does God mix with devils?


9.0  CAN YOU ACCEPT GOD’S  FREE GIFT OF SALVATION?
Are you ready to get saved, or you still maintain that your religion and DEEDS doctrine will save your soul, even though God says they will not?  Christ LAID down His life for your salvation, so for you to reject it is contempt of God, with fatally everlasting consequences.  By rejecting salvation through Christ, you are endorsing Satan’s deception plan to damn all spiritual rebels in hellfire. The Bible says for this spiritual rebellion, your deeds will land you in hellfire- on your own accord, NOT because Christ did not desire to save you.  He is calling you to believe in Him alone, for He already paid the price with his PRECIOUS Blood on the cross.  Do not be deceived by superfluous claims from religious adherents and pagans that you can reincarnate and make it right.  Neither should you trust the dangerous religious dogmas that you can buy salvation through prayers for the dead; go to purgatory to qualify for heaven, or have other intercessors besides Christ!  Jesus NEVER taught about Purgatory,  or other intercessors; all these are rebellious man's concepts.  Get out of spiritual hoaxes by believing in Jesus Christ!  God says all those religious claims are indeed beggarly elements and false prophesies.  It is a Biblical prophecy that the works of Satan shall be exposed and destroyed in the Lake of Fire.   And God keeps His Word. 
Jesus NEVER taught about Purgatory,
it is rebellious man's concept!
Revelation 20:10 "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever."
Are you going to trust in God and get saved in Jesus Christ, instead of Satan the deceiver and inventor of “GOOD DEEDS” doctrine? Once you depart this life unsaved in Christ,  the Holy Bible says your Spiritual foolishness will have no redemption because all unbelievers are already condemned and are hell-bound.  And it is by their own foolish spiritual choice.


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