Jesus Christ, The Sevenfold Way Part One

There is only ONE Mediator between God and Man and that is the Man Christ Jesus. One of Satan's greatest attacks upon the Body of Christ at the present time is upon the message of the Cross and the truth of Christ being the ONLY way to the Father. There are not two ways to God but ONE, yet CHRIST, the one TRUE way, is a SEVEN FOLD way of approach for all who believe in Him. He is the ONLY way of access to the Father; the ONLY way of escape (1 Cor. 10:13); the ONLY way into the Holiest; the ONLY path to the new and living way; the ONLY way of Truth; the ONLY WAY; the ONLY Righteousness which sinful wicked man can obtain to be accepted by a thrice holy God. Millions are en route to eternity without God because of rebellion and sin; the cure for that rebellion and sin is found ONLY through Christ and the Cross. As we embark upon a new sermon series we pray the Holy Spirit reveal to the reader the necessity of anchoring our faith in the ONLY way in which we find LIFE, peace and deliverance - the LORD JESUS CHRIST and what He did at the Cross. ANY OTHER GOSPEL that promotes any other way is a FALSE GOSPEL and inspired by SATAN! It is the earmark of the apostasy exploding upon the end time church which we must expose and resist through the power of the Holy Ghost

By Chris McDonald

TEXT: John 14:6 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

As I write this journal in late 2006, the world stands at a cross roads in one of the most dangerous conflicts in the Middle East in half a century through the current crisis between Israel and Hezbollah, along with the West’s standoff with Iran and North Korea over their nuclear ambitions; these events send warning signals to a world lost without God along with an apostate church that the trump of God is about to sound, the dead in Christ will rise first, and then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together to be with the Lord in air together!

1 Thes. 4:14-16
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. [15] For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. [16] For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

What we face at this present time is greater than the threats posed to civilization by Nazi Germany and Soviet Communism and has not only national security ramifications for America but prophetic ones for the church of the Living God.

The rapture of the church is an event that in the opinion of this writer, could take place at any moment. There is NOTHING and I mean NOTHING that has to be fulfilled before this event, which is truly very imminent, takes place. At the rapture, all who are IN CHRIST and have placed their faith in His finished work at the Cross, both living and dead, will meet the Lord in the air and go with Him back up to heaven. Then, at least seven years later, they will return with Him, back to earth, at His Second Coming.

John 14:1-3
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. [2] In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

1 Thes. 4:16c - 18 - and the dead in Christ shall rise first: [17] Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. [18] Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

The Holy Spirit warns us through the writing of the apostles, especially John, Peter and Paul, that a key sign we'd see heralding the last of the last days would be the onslaught of the apostasy of the professing church.

2 Tim. 3:1-8
This know also, that in the last days (this days which we now live) perilous (difficult, dangerous times which the Christians living just before the rapture will encounter) times shall come. [2] For men (who call themselves Christians but are not) shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. [6] For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, [7] Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. [8] Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

1 Tim. 4:1-4
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. [4] For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

2 Tim. 4:1-4
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; [2] Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. [3] For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; [4] And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

These passages are describing the END TIME church, which, according to the Holy Spirit, will become totally corrupted before the Lord's return to earth. The end time church of today has forsaken the preaching of the Cross and as a result has turned to fables! Sound doctrine is laughed at and the true move of the Spirit lampooned and outright rejected by those who call themselves “evangelicals," and "fundamentalists." I heard an evangelist on television the other morning call these who claim to be fundamentalists but don't believe in ANYTHING - miracles, the baptism in the Holy Ghost, the power of God, the power of the Cross - "MENTALISTS!" I could not help but laugh and shout a loud "AMEN." This modern day bunch of theologians trying to navigate the church's thinking about doctrine are 100% worse than the Pharisees of Jesus day. I DON'T laugh when I say that - I say that as Paul did with tears warning those who sit under these demented, demon-inspired men to "DEPART" from them and run from their teaching like you would a diamondback rattlesnake!

The sad note to this statement is that the millions of hearers who place their faith and trust in this modern gospel, which is a FALSE gospel and NOT the gospel of the Bible, will find themselves in eternal jeopardy unless they come to the LIGHT of the Truth of God's word, repent, and believe in Christ and Him Crucified. It’s NOT just that modern preachers don’t preach against sin anymore which is bad in itself; the modern church is no longer preaching CHRIST as the only way to GOD! The reader would be shocked, maybe not, at the scores of so-called preachers, many of who are household names and "stars" on Christian television networks, who give themselves label after label, yet they deny the divinity and efficacy of the blood of Jesus Christ and send millions to hell by their blatant unbelief and heresy!!!.

Let the reader be warned that we are living in the last of the last days when men are truly heaping to themselves teachers, having ITCHING ears, turning their ears away from the only TRUTH that can set men free which is the preaching of the CROSS OF CHRIST and the CROSS alone! It’s not the cross, "and saying 3 Hail Marys" to a priest that saves you mister. It’s not the cross, "cutting your hair above your shoulders," independent Baptists. God help us. It’s not the cross "and" 40 days of purpose or any other of the Rick Warren driven modules of humanistic heresy spreading over the church like wild fire.

It’s a sad indictment on the state of the modern church that preachers preach more out of the Purpose Driven Life and Purpose Driven Church books than they do the Bible!!!! Man of God, if you have not given into the spirit of this age the apostasy we speak, I plead with you today as Paul plead with Timothy – PREACH THE WORD, PREACH THE WORD, PREACH THE WORD, PREACH THE WORD, PREACH THE WORD! Reprove, rebuke, EXHORT, with all long-suffering and doctrine. Get full of the Holy Ghost, get full of the power of Almighty God that will put something deep inside your soul other than a stale cold book report you read behind that pulpit every Sunday putting people to sleep instead of putting people under so much conviction they feel like they are hanging over hell on a broken stick.

1 Tim. 4:1-4
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. [4] For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

2 Tim. 4:2
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

I watched Fox News the other night make Rick Warren out to be some type of pseudo-Savior of the world by what he is doing through his P.E.A.C.E. program and other religious activity to eradicate hunger and poverty in the world. The “catch” phrase of the special, “can Rick Warren save the world,” was as blasphemous statement as this writer has ever heard in his entire life for an evangelical preacher to be lauded as such AND receive such claim without telling people he's NOT the Saviour - but CHRIST is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was bad enough for the news people to do this but Warren didn't one day say a word to declare as John the Baptist did so long ago - "I AM NOT THE LIGHT but have come to point you to THE LIGHT - the Son of the Living God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of Glory, the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world!"

Even the news reporter doing the story said Warren had become more of a head of state than he did things associated with a God ordained minister. Neighbor, let this writer make it clear and make it LOUD and clear without hesitation and apology. There is NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN WHEREBY MEN MUST BE SAVED OTHER THAN CHRIST and HIM CRUCIFIED. There is NO OTHER NAME given among men whereby men’s spiritual hunger can be eradicated, not just the hunger of his physical being. It's not Rick Warren or Allah or Mohammed or the Pope or Joseph Smith or the Assemblies of God or the Southern Baptist Convention or the First United Methodist Church that saves the lost souls of Adam's fallen race - it's the SECOND ADAM, the FIRST AND THE LAST, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, the SON OF THE LIVING GOD!

Acts 4:12 - Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved

I know some read that and say, “Well, are you saying feeding the hungry is not right?” Of course not, God forbid. We hurt as each one of you do who have a true heart for Jesus at ANY individual who suffers from hunger and poverty.

However, and this is where me and Mr. Warren differ in our approach and views world hunger. The sad fact is, whether we want to admit it or not, is that MOST poverty, not all, but MOST is because of the REAL issue – SIN! Warren thinks by putting food in people’s bellies the world will change and there will be peace. That is the biggest fallacy and lie the pit of hell has unleashed upon Planet Earth masquerading as the real gospel. What good will it do millions to have their bellies full yet have their souls empty and spend eternity without God? What good does it do to put clothes on an individual’s back if that individual’s ultimate end without Christ is hell? I know that sounds harsh to some and offends some. I know that flies in the face of 99% of what most modern preachers and church growth seminars are telling you. I know that does not sit well with the majority of those reading this who probably thinks this writer is callous and cold. But neighbor, hear this writer who does not apologize for those remarks because this writer knows that eternity without God is a LONG TIME and if we will deal with the SPIRITUAL issue of SIN first, then the ROOT cause of poverty will be eradicated AND the soul of that individual needing our help will be eternally saved! I'd rather die hungry and go to heaven that have my belly full of this earth's delicacies and die and go to hell! Ask the rich man!

Luke 16:19-26
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: [20] And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, [21] And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. [22] And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; [23] And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. [24] And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. [25] But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. [26] And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

The rich man did not die and go to hell because he was rich no more than Lazarus died and went to heaven because he was hungry and poor. The rich man died and went to hell because he did not allow his riches to bring him into a covenant of faith and belief in the God of Heaven and the coming Messiah; Lazarus died and went to heaven because he did not allow his poverty to KEEP him from the covenant of faith and belief in God and the coming Messiah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hear that reader. Let the HOLY GHOST plant those words in your heart today.

The true gospel deals with the fallen SOULS of men FIRST, and then it addresses man’s physical needs. Christ Himself made it clear it’d be better for an individual to die maim and be saved, than to die WHOLE and be lost! Christ said it’d be better for an individual to die BLIND and be saved, than to die with both eyes and be LOST and spend eternity in hell! God help us. I know this sounds hard right now but it’s burning in my soul, neighbor, It’s burning inside me as I see millions of people hear a message that is taking them down a path away from, not TO, God and those who embrace this false gospel of today will die lost in their sin and wind up in a devil’s hell.

Matthew 5:28-30 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shall not commit adultery: [28] But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. [29] And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut if off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

The modern gospel has turned into nothing more than a social outreach program turning the God of Heaven into a generic being that anyone can approach in their own religious path even if they are Muslim, Buddhist, Catholic, Baptist, or even Satanist without repenting and coming through the Cross of Christ! THAT IS A LIE that is sending MILLIONS TO HELL TODAY FRIEND. MILLIONS are burning in the pit right now crying as Jonah cried out, "SALVATION is OF THE LORD," but realizing that eternal fact TOO LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jonah 2:9
But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.

Call me narrow minded. Call me old fashioned. Call me out of the loop. Call me, as one lady in a homosexual led Methodist church in Atlanta, Georgia, “non-progressive and out of touch with today's realities in the modern church,” but neighbor, YOU CANNOT GET TO GOD EXCEPT THROUGH CHRIST and you cannot get to CHRIST EXCEPT YOU COME THROUGH REPENTANCE AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS! We preach CHRIST CRUCIFIED!

1 Cor. 1:17-19
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
[18] For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. [19] For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

1 Cor. 1:13-15
Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? [14] I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; [15] Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.

There are not two ways to GOD! We are not all going to the same place, seeking the same path, looking for the same thing. Those who have been born again understand that the way to God is a NARROW path - a path of repentance, confession AND FORSAKING of sin, and placing one's FAITH ONLY in the FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Holy Spirit through Paul asks “IS CHRIST DIVIDED?” Is Christ a Baptist Christ? Is Christ a Pentecostal Christ? Is Christ a Methodist Christ? Is Christ a Foursquare Christ? No, HE is THE Christ, the SON OF THE LIVING GOD, the only WAY THROUGH which mankind must be and can be saved.

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

The Spirit of Antichrist

1 John 2:22
Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, which denies the Father and the Son.

The Holy Spirit reveals through Scripture in John's epistle that the spirit driving this spread of apostasy in the last days is known as "the spirit of antichrist." In his writings, John distinguished between the SPIRIT of antichrist, which he said was already working in the church of his day, from the personage of the Antichrist, who is soon to rise upon the earth’s stage after the rapture of the church to plunge the world and Israel into the Great Tribulation period. John actually alludes to both the SPIRIT and PERSON of Antichrist in 1 John 2:22. When speaking of “the” antichrist, in this passage, the Greek Interlinear Bible translates John’s writings as: “Who is THE liar if it is not the one that denies that Jesus is Christ” This is the antichrist.” The Greek text, translated as “the antichrist,” refers not to AN antichrist but to THE antichrist – a specific person. But the PERSON, the Antichrist, will be controlled by SPIRIT, that is already at work in the church paving the way for his appearance at this very moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The spirit of antichrist has been around since John's day - both in the world AND in the church - but the man is yet to be revealed. It is this same spirit that has crept in, especially in these last days, denying the deity and divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ and causing modern teachers and preachers of the gospel to deny the validity of the Cross and the truth of Christ being the ONLY way to God! This spirit not only denies the Lord’s deity, but it seeks to bring man up to the same level of deity as God and bring God down to the same fallen state as man. It's the spirit of the New Age movement that is destroying the church of the living God from within. It is the face of the modern day apostasy!

On four occasions, John uses the word “antichrist,” to define those who have been or currently are in opposition to the SONSHIP of Christ. Thus, there is a SPIRIT of antichrist that has and continues to influence mankind setting the stage for the appearance of THE ANTICHRIST, along with the False Prophet, who will come roaring in on the world scene after the rapture of the church. To state it again, both the spirit of antichrist and THE Antichrist the existence of the true God and the existence of Jesus as God’s Son. This is the fundamental spirit behind Islam, which denies Jesus is the Son of God and replaces faith in Jehovah with a heathen deity named “allah.” In summary then, the true spirit of antichrist, which will control the man of sin, according to the apostle, denies three things:

• The deity of Jesus Christ
• That Jesus is the Son of God
• The relationship between the Father and the Son

1 John 2:22
Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, which denies the Father and the Son.

And this is the scope of Satan’s greatest power play against the church of this hour we live! To the religious Jew, Jesus Christ was simply a man of history who formed a new religion. He is am “impostor” to millions of Jewish people who still look for a Messiah to come and save Israel from her enemies. When the Antichrist comes Israel will more than willingly open her arms and sadly many will open their hearts to him as just that. “THIS JESUS CHRIST YOU TELL US OF IS AN IMPOSTOR,” will be the sounds heard in Jerusalem as the false peace brokered by the Antichrist will be accepted by the nation fulfilling Daniel 9:27.

Daniel 9:27
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

This false peace will not last long and as Paul says, when they say “peace and safety, SUDDEN destruction shall come upon them as travail upon a woman.”

1 Thes. 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

To the Muslims, Jesus Christ was just one of many prophets of Allah, as they strenuously deny He was divine or was God’s only begotten Son. Islam declares, “God is not begotten neither does he beget,” thus denying that God has a Son or that He would ever have a son. These statements under gird the fabric of Islam, but also the very spirit of antichrist behind all false religion! This spirit we speak of seeks to unite the world under the banner of one world order and religion, which makes Islam even more one of the most dangerous religions facing the church of the Living God in this present age we live!

While some in the West, particularly those behind American pulpits, find this to be impossible, let this writer remind you that Islam is ALREADY the dominant religion of the Middle East and the fastest growing religion of North Africa, Europe and 99% of the Asian Rim nations of Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. England and France are RAPIDLY succumbing to this spirit as well as all of Europe. A recent headline just 3 days ago in a commentary section in a well known publication asked the question, "Is Europe Forsaking Christianity for Islam?" The answer to that question is aYES! It's only a matter of time before that same attack comes full circle here to America. It's already taking place but the news media is not reporting it, but it will become more and more pronounced in the days to come along with a stronger resistance to those preaching the true gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The church is about to shed blood for it's stance with Christ; many will fall away when this onslaught takes place but this writer prays every single day he lives that the Lord grant him courage to stand in the day of trial that is coming to America and coming soon! Things are about to get interesting for us child of God before the rapture of the church, mark these words.

The end time scenario also speaks of the rise of a “false prophet,” who we believe will be the one who will play the larger role in “uniting” the world under one banner seeking to eradicate true Christianity and merging it with ALL religions, but especially Islam. He will be a representative, in some form, of Christianity and some scholars believe he could be a future pope, and if not the pope, a high ranking church official – high enough that he would be able to bring “Christianity” together with Islam by simply renouncing the deity of Christ and declaring the Antichrist as “god.” The entirety of the modern church growth movement headed by the likes of Warren, Haggard, Wagner, Hybels and all the such, are coming dangerously close to doing just that at the present time.

Make no mistake and don’t be naïve to think there are not professing Christians, even in America, who think they are saved, but are in fact LOST, who embrace this growing view more and more that Christ is just a mere man along side all other “men” of religion past. The recent movie, “The Da Vinci Code,” was a direct attack on the deity of Christ claiming Christ has some mystical living human “relative” on earth while falsely claiming our Lord was married and had immoral relations with Mary Magdalene. Most Christians with any ounce of anointing and truth in their soul can see the fallacy of that but MILLIONS deceived by Satan cannot! The movie was demonically inspired by those seeking to attack the power of the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

Right now as I write this journal in late 2006 the Purpose Driven Life crowd driven (pardon the pun) by Rick Warren and Bill Hybels screams for “unity” among lines of all divergent faiths. Warren has stated over and over again both in public and private forums he feels Islam is no different than Christianity and that even a Muslim can know God even if he is not born again through the blood of Jesus Christ. Don’t laugh that off. Warren right now is almost acting like a pope to the evangelicals, just as the Pope in Rome acts to the Catholics, in various nations to various nations across the world including the African nations of Rwanda and Burundi and SCORES of pastors and churches across Europe and America. Warren’s banner is one of assimilation, not separation. What do I mean by that? Assimilation is a “merging,” or “mixture,” of ALL faiths under one banner no matter the belief or the source of true faith. Under this system, one can believe in Allah or a Buddhist or whatever and claim he can go to heaven and "all is ok." It’s NOT ok neighbor, it’s NOT ok!

And just so you don’t think I’m just picking on Rick Warren, let me name a few other names while I’m at it. American Evangelical Association President Ted Haggard recently criticized Franklin Graham’s statements calling Islam what it was – A RELIGION OF VIOLENCE, deceit and hate – claming that Christians need to "embrace more of what peace-loving Muslims embrace." Neighbor, if you’re truly born again and the Spirit of God lives inside of you there is NOTHING and I mean NOTHING that Islam has we need to embrace! God help the stupidity of the modern evangelical movement in America. God help us to repent and humble ourselves as Jesus plead with Laodicea to have the scales fall off our eyes and the darkness from off our hearts so to see the truth, the WAY is JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED and NOTHING ELSE!

Rev. 3:16-20
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. [17] Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: [18] I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. [19] As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. [20] Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

The Bible doesn't teach “assimilation,” but “SEPARATION,” a “coming out” of the church from among the apostate system of the world that John saw in the Spirit realm in Revelation as a harlot “sitting on the waters of many people.” The modern gospel has become just that – a pimp station for every peddler of false doctrine known to man for the highest bidder. We’re so afraid to tell our huge tithe paying deacon that drinking, going to dirty movies, whoremongering, and stealing are wrong because if we do and he is doing those things he may take his tithes out of our church.

If our tithe paying member is lost and without God and we know they are but instead of preaching the truth of the gospel we coddle them and make them feel comfortable in our sanctuaries while they live in blatant sin – neighbor we are selling the gospel down the tubes for the highest bidder.

The Bible says, “COME YE OUT FROM AMONG THEM (FALSE RELIGION) and BE YE SEPARATE SAITH THE LORD!” Like Warren, the false prophet will preach a message more than likely of all faiths coming together as “one” under one banner even though ultimately those faiths will be swallowed up at some point by the “worship of the Beast.” The “worship of the Beast,” will be to bring all followers into submission to Islamic justice and the worship of the man of sin. If you remove the obstacle of the issues over the deity of Christ you have a coalition of faiths that can claim to worship the same “god” and yet be worshipping TRILLIONS of gods!

2 Cor. 6:14-17
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? [15] And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? [16] And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [17] Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

Millions believe in a false Christ, produced by the preaching of a false gospel, birthed by a false spirit pointing people to a false way to a false god! You can’t just say “I believe in God,” and think everything is ok. The DEVILS believe in God but they are not saved! Satan himself believes in God but he is not saved.

James 2:19 - You believe that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

2 Cor. 11:3-4
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. [4] For if he that cometh preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

It’s through the SON, the LORD JESUS CHRIST that men come to know the Father and the Father reveals Himself to fallen man! It is through the SON, Paul said, that the Father has SPOKEN to us in these last days. It’s Jesus Christ and Him Crucified!

Hebrews 1:1-3
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, [2] Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; [3] Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Hebrews 2:1-3
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. [2] For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; [3] How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

He that believes on the SON has LIFE, but he that does NOT believe in Christ and what He did for us the Cross has not seen life and the WRATH of GOD abides on Him!

John 3:33-36
He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. [34] For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him. [35] The Father loves the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. [36] He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.

In Christ alone—not in the philosophies, vain deceit, human traditions of the Jews and Gentiles, or the world principles—will be found the fullness of the Godhead in reality, or bodily. Jewish institutions were mere shadows of the realities and of the redemption made through the offering of the body of Christ in sacrifice (Col. 2:14-17; Matthew 26:26-28; Romans 7:6; Ephes. 2:16; Hebrews 10:1-18; 1 Peter 2:24).

Col. 2:9
For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

The Greek word for “Godhead” is "Theotes" (GSN-2320), which means “deity.” The word occurs only here in Colossians 2:9 and relates to the Godhead or Deity personally. THIS PERSON IS Jesus Christ in whom ALL the glory, all the power, all the grace, all the salvation, all the TRUTH, all the ANOINTING, the entire KINGSHIP, all the BEAUTY, all the FULLNESS, all the REASON, all the LIFE, the entire HONOR and all the PRAISE RESTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ask you church, “what part of that do we not understand?” What part of that is hard to grasp as it evidently is with preachers preaching cold dead sermons to cold dead dry congregations sitting in cold dead churches??? Why do we try to preach sermons laced with humanistic psychology does nothing but gender DEATH to our hearers in lieu of preaching the ONLY message that brings LIFE - the message of CHRIST and Him Crucified! Why do we seek to appeal to men’s flesh instead of preaching the Word of God under the anointing of the HOLY GHOST who alone can convict of sin and bring men to a saving faith in Christ?

2 Cor. 11:4 - For if he that cometh preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

The church must come back to Christ and the Cross! The church must come back to the Holy Ghost who alone can bring LIGHT to the darkness of our hearts. The church must come back to being a light to a world in darkness instead of promoting more darkness!! It’s sad when churches lower themselves to the world’s level bringing in rock groups to appeal to our young people’s flesh instead of preaching the word of Almighty God to a generation lost without God and on their way to hell! Don’t ever try to convince me these rock groups present good wholesome “Christian” entertainments to our youth. They don’t! The true church does not mix and mingle with the world. We don’t go where the world goes; we don’t listen to the same music the world listens to; we don’t perform the same music the world performs; we don’t march to the world’s drum beat; we don’t adhere to the world’s belief system; we don’t embrace the world’s value; we don’t cozy up to what the world cozies up to.

If the church world is clamoring after something chances are you’d be wise to run AWAY from whatever “that” may be like a diamond back rattlesnake. The church world today has gotten very adept at labeling that which is of God of Satan and that which Satan produces “of God.” Friend, people getting saved and filled with the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking with other tongues is NOT a bad thing. People getting healed and delivered of every bondage and darkness known to man is NOT a bad thing. People getting full of the Holy Ghost and loving Jesus, loving their wives, husbands and children, loving reading the Word of God, loving coming to church, loving being around God’s people is NOT a bad thing. Yet those things are rejected by the modern church while we embrace things that are laced with spiritual DEATH.

I want to say it again – the church must come back to the Cross. The church must come back to Christ. The church must come back to the preaching of the true gospel. The church must come back to the HOLY GHOST and we must come back to the reality that CHRIST, JESUS CHRIST, EMMANUEL, the ROSE OF SHARON, THE LILY OF THE VALLEY, the BRIGHT and the MORNING STAR, the FIRST AND THE LAST, is the ONLY way to God the Father and the only door through which men may enter to inherit eternal life.

Christ is the personal and bodily manifestation of all the fullness of Deity. When one SEES Christ with the spiritual eyes of one's heart - He's SEEN GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

John 5:17-27 - But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. [18] Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. [19] Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things whosoever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. [20] For the Father loveth the Son, and showed him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. [21] For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. [22] For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: [23] That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. [24] Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. [25] Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. [26] For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; [27] And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

CHRIST and CHRIST alone is God incarnate "IN THE FLESH," and the manifestation of all the fullness of God's power and blessings to men (Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 9:6; Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:34-35). And this same God-man stands at the hearts door of millions today begging to come in and set men free from the sin that is destroying them and sending their eternal souls to hell without God. This same Jesus stands at the door of many a church today knocking wanting to come in and bring life where there is death; light where there is darkness; salvation where there is sin; deliverance where there is bondage; heaven where there is hell; true unity where there is false unity and division; the power of His Word where there is man-made humanistic psychology and philosophy. HE IS THE HEAD of the Church, the firstborn of the Father, the everlasting to everlasting, the Great Shepherd of the Sheep, the way the Truth and the Life. Praise God, Praise God. I feel this neighbor; it’s burning in my soul as I write these words.

As the Son of Man, Jesus came in the FULLNESS of the Holy Spirit, who rested upon Him and worked through His body.

Isaiah 11:2
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

Isaiah 42:1-7
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. [2] He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. [3] A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. [4] He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. [5] Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: [6] I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; [7] To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Isaiah 61:1-11
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; [2] To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; [3] To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

John 3:34
For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him.

Acts 10:38
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

Because of the Spirit’s power upon Him, the fullness of redemption from the Deity came through His body the day He died and now comes to those who place their faith in His Finished Work on the Cross! (1 Peter 2:24).

1 Peter 2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

Col. 2:14-17
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; [15] And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. [16] Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days: [17] Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Ephes. 2:16- And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

This is why we become complete in Him through FAITH in the Cross and why He is the head of all principality and power!!!!!!!! (Col. 2:10; Col. 1:16-18; Ephes. 1:20-23; Phil. 2:9-11; 1 Peter 3:22).

Col. 2:10
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Col. 1:16-18
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: [17] And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. [18] And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

Ephes. 1:20-23
Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, [21] Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: [22] And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, [23] Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.

Philip. 2:9-11
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: [10] That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; [11] And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

1 Peter 3:22
Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

And this is the reason Christ and Him Crucified is the ONLY way to God!!!!!!!!!! Hear me modern church, we can tell people something else and draw crowds by the thousands but the only message that will save men’s souls is that CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY TO GOD THE FATHER and the only way to Christ is through the work of the Cross which allows the Holy Spirit to change our hearts and lives!

1 Cor. 1:22-23
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: [23] But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Christ is a SEVEN-FOLD way to God. He is the ONLY Way, but in His perfection, He embodies SEVEN ways that we come to God through HIM! We will pick up in theme and message in part two of this journal. I exhausted this entire message on my introduction – that’s how much this is burning in my heart and soul right now! Christ is indeed the WAY friend, and we pray today you Know HIM! There is no other than Him who can save, heal, deliver or set free.

Matthew 7:14
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

John 10:7-9
Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. [8] All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. [9] I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Church we must come back to the cross today. The world sits in darkness waiting for the church to bring it the LIGHT of the Lord Jesus Christ. When we lift HIM up, truly, ALL men will be “DRAWN” unto HIM! That’s our prayer today as we close this journal. That’s the purpose of this website – to LIFT UP THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS as man’s only hope. We preach CHRIST and Him Crucified, the WAY to God and the way to eternal life. Praise God. We pick this theme up in the next journal in this series.

John 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

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