RELATIONSHIPS AND RELIGIOUS AGENDAS
By Paul Proctor
September 15, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
Have you ever tried to reason with a religious agenda? It’s hard to do, isn’t it? You can quote God’s Word until you’re blue in the face, but those who have fully invested themselves into it will not be easily swayed even when it doesn’t square with scripture.
Often, what comes into play is a mystical mindset and performance-based pride involving a “passion” or “vision.” Persuaded with sentimental stories, tender tears and a charming demeanor, a misguided group can, over time, become spiritually deaf, dumb and blind to anyone and anything outside that vision, including God’s Word – following along with a misplaced faith in someone’s persona, position or personal experience.
This happens in the Church today because Christians have largely relegated all things scriptural over to leaders for interpretation having made ministers into magistrates and pastors into priests – relying on professionals to perceive God’s Will for their lives rather than prayerfully reading and studying His Word for themselves like the Bereans of Acts 17 who “received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”
Having now put so great an emphasis on our relationships with one another and the results we covet, no longer do we turn to the Bible for answers to the issues of life, instead, allowing the counsel of the compromised to compel us along with their practical advise and benevolent venture, assuming they are anointed and appointed by God to do so. It is a sweet seduction with eternal consequences and a spiritual short cut for the shortsighted and undisciplined.
Of course, we’re all in need of good relationships and good counsel; but when we rely on “smooth words” instead of God’s Word to direct us, we set ourselves up for deception, disobedience and disaster. And, when we eventually fall and fail, how quickly we offload the blame onto those who misled us rather than taking responsibility for our own neglect – cleaning up the embarrassing mess left behind only to search yet again for another to lead in like manner – never repenting but always repeating the same ecclesiastical error over and over. This is what happens when we think and act relationally and experientially rather than biblically.
God gave us His Word for a reason, not as an option or a last resort. He does not yield to cultures and trends, as do we in the Church today. Nor does He need to try this or that to see what works and experiment with the things of this world to bring about His eternal ends. He who called creation into being with His Word need not alter it to accommodate the flesh and bring rebellion into repentance and faith.
It is only men who change, adjust and experiment – leaning on their own understanding to try and help the One who needs no help – all the while bringing glory to self.
As it was in the Garden of Eden, so it is today; we continue to set aside the Word of God in the interest of Results and Relationships, forgetting that forsaking our way of doing things for His and learning obedience by faith was the point all along.
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” – Proverbs 3:5
Behold they have rejected the Word of the Lord, so what “wisdom” do they have? Jeremiah 8:9 (none) …….. The true “church” or Bride of Christ is a small remnant and a scattered flock. Luke 12:32 We have heard His voice and call to “Come out of her (the harlot organized “church” system)My people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.” Revelation 18:4 True believers are a Spiritual body, assembled in the SPIRIT 24/7, not the fleshly “assemblies” you see on Sunday or Saturday. We both know and follow the Word of God (Jesus Christ) Who is the Truth (John 14:6). “What? know you not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body with her? For two, said he, shall be one flesh.” 1 Cor 6:16 (The Bible is a spiritual book, this is not speaking of the local harlot down at the pub but instead the harlot “churches” you see on every street corner!) “You erected your “shrine” (churches) at the head of every road, and built your high place in every street.” Ezekial 16:31 How degenerate is your heart! says the Lord God, “seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot.” Ezekial 16:30 (501c3 is making a corporation out of a “church” and serving TWO masters instead of ONE. Jesus said clearly that you can’t do that! The steeple on top of most harlot church buildings is the ancient Babylonian symbol of Nimrod’s phallus (the first antichrist who attempted to foment a one world order via the tower of Babel). Nimrod’s phallus is a Freemasonic symbol. Freemasons in the higher levels worship Lucifer and CONTROL organized churchianity behind the scenes. They secure their control at the Bible seminaries whom they finance and don’t allow them to be taught by the Holy Spirit. These false shepherds who attend the seminaries to get their degree ignore this verse: “But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27 And this one: “Men of high degree are lie.” Psalm 62:9
You dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which has eyes to see but does not see, and ears to hear, but does not hear; for they are a rebellious house. Ezekial 12:2 (Outwardly Religious does not equal Inwardly Righteous). Woe to the foolish prophets (preachers/pastors/priests) who follow their OWN spirit and have seen nothing! Ezekial 13:3 Because with lies you have made the hearts of the (inwardly) righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and you have strengthened the hands of the wicked (outwardly religious sinners), so that he does not (truly) turn from his wicked way to save his life (eternal soul). Ezekial 13:22
Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit. Jeremiah 7:8 They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it. Jeremiah 7:30 For the shepherds have become dull hearted, And have not sought the Lord (in truth); Therefore they shall not prosper, And all their flocks shall be scattered. Jeremiah 10:21 You shall fall like a precious vessel. And the shepherds will have no way to flee, Nor the leaders of the flock to escape. Jeremiah 25:35 Those who lead you cause you to err, And those led by them are destroyed. Isaiah 9:16 I have hated the assembly of evil doers and will not sit with the wicked. Psalm 26:5.
They hate the one who rebukes in the gate; They abhor the one who speaks uprightly. Amos 5:10