Daily Devotional, Year 3 – October 14 (Sodom Rising, Part 14: “The Defeated Church & The Victorious Church!”
By admin On May 30th, 2024.
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Daily Devotional, Year 3 – October 14
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Sodom Rising,
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Part 14:
“The Defeated Church & The Victorious Church!”
To read part 1 of this article, click here… “August 22nd (Sodom Rising!)”
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Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not
inherit the kingdom of God?
Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind…
shall inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you:
but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified,
but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus,
and by the Spirit of our God…
What? know ye not that
your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
which is in you,
which ye have of God,
and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price:
therefore glorify God in your body,
and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
1st Corinthians 6:10, 11, 19, 20
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One popular evangelist has been calling for the Church to accept homosexuality as well as same-gender marriage.
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Of course, because of his currently popular stance on this issue, this erring Bible teacher has found great acceptance and even praise from the secular world.
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Audience hands – cropped & altered – Wikimedia – Universal Public Domain
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“CEASE YE FROM MAN”
Isaiah 2:22
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And so, the question of the day is, “Just where is this man going wrong?”
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Oh yes, of course the Bible condemns the sin of Sodom in “going after strange flesh”. (see Jude 1:7) And right here, this man’s false teaching proves to be nothing less than heresy.
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But this pastor defends his error by saying, “Are some 2,000-year-old writings more important than the needs of humans living right now? Are we going to deny these people the right to love another human (of the same-gender)?”
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And by this man’s own human reasoning, many churches are beginning to accept homosexuality and even same-gender marriage in their church!
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Audience hands – cropped & altered – Wikimedia – Universal Public Domain
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“BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD WAS UNTO THEM…THAT THEY MIGHT GO…BACKWARD, AND BE BROKEN, AND SNARED, AND TAKEN…”
Isaiah 28:13
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Well, by his own words, this erring teacher condemns himself, for another very critically important reason.
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And just what is that critically important reason?
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Oh yes, by calling the Bible, “some 2,000-year-old letters”, this popular Bible teacher reveals his true stance concerning God’s infallible Word of truth: he really doesn’t trust it, nor believes it to be “the Word of God”!
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Audience hands – cropped & altered – Wikimedia – Universal Public Domain
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“(GOD) IS ABLE TO DO EXCEEDING ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL THAT WE ASK OR THINK…”
Ephesians 3:20
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But there is another great error by this false shepherd which is much bigger than just his own ministry. As a matter of fact, this great error can be found in a growing number of churches and denominations.
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What this poor man does not understand, and what many or perhaps most churches today do not understand, is that Kingdom of Heaven is all about living the victorious life over sin! Christianity is all about overcoming the world, the flesh and the Devil!
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And these churches who want to capitulate to the currently popular societal dogma concerning sodomy, are defeated, “before they even get out of the gate”, (to use an old expression). In other words, rather than encouraging their parishioners to strive for victory over sin, they instead take the attitude that these sins are impossible to conquer!
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Audience hands – cropped & altered – Wikimedia – Universal Public Domain
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“FOR WE ARE WELL ABLE TO OVERCOME IT!”
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This current-day situation is reminiscent of the true historical account from Numbers 13, in which God’s people lost their courage to go in and take the Promised Land…
“And Caleb stilled the people before Moses,
and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it (the Promised Land);
for we are well able to overcome it.
But the men that went up with him said,
We be not able to go up against the people;
for they are stronger than we.”
Numbers 13:30, 31
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These current-day teachers who are ready to lie down and accept these sins, are committing the very same sin as those defeated spies who told the Israelites that the giants in the land were too big, too bad, and too strong to ever hope to conquer!
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And today’s secular world is so forcefully pushing these abominations upon the society, and especially upon children, that the Church, to a great extent, is ready to roll over and accept defeat.
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Joshua – Parting Advice – www.thebiblerevival.org – Public Domain
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“GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY!”
Proverbs 25:25
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Well, the Good News is that God is ready to bring His people into total victory over sin! Yes, the Church, the true Church-elect is about to “shine forth as the sun”. (Matthew 13:43)
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And while the apostate portion of the Church is about to go down in utter defeat, God’s true sheep are about to receive God’s great blessing in the sight of the whole on-looking world!
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And all those who have been lied to concerning these sins of Sodom, are invited to join God’s faithful remnant, as they take the true Promised Land just before us!
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ABOVE PICTURE – 7 Stars Constellation as the Cross (aka Big Dipper) – winter – signsofheaven.org – not for commercial uses
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“He that overcomes shall inherit all things;
and I will be his God, and he shall be My son.”
Revelation 21:7
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to read part 15, click here…
November 24 (Sodom Rising, Part 15: “Woe To You Who Offend These Little Ones!”)
Jesus with little children – www.lavistachurchofchrist.org – Creative Commons Attribution – Non-commercial use
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to be wise as a serpent concerning the power and influence of the modern-day Bible teachers. Spare me and my loved ones from all the lies and deceit now prevailing in the current-day church-world…
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read…July 13th (Time of Jacob’s Trouble, Part 1: Alone With God), or you can also read… February 9th (Waiting For The Church to Shine!
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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ORION GETS THE VICTORY
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Now if you will stay up all night, you will see that the tables turn very dramatically for our three warriors.
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This is because, as night progresses, and this constellation group moves to the west, God has designed this threesome to now be in the opposite circumstance. Now it is Orion and his Horse who are atop the Dragon. Now Orion is about to cut off the Dragon’s head with his two-edged sword, while the Horse is stomping on his tail. And of course, there needs to be no explanation, because this picture tells the whole story. Jesus wins in the end! God’s people are victorious at last! No wonder the Bible calls this story…“The Good News”!
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ABOVE STAR CHART: Wikipedia star-charts – winter constellation in West with Orion –
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “The Orion Phenomenon”
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TOMORROW…
October 15 (The False Prophet, Part 20: “The Santa Clauses of The Ecumenical Movement”)
Santa’s Portrait by T. Nast 1881wikimedia public domain
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The Open Forum Talk Show with Harold Camping
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS 90-MINUTE TALK SHOW – – The Open Forum Harold Camping September 25, 2002 (youtube.com)
Harold-Camping – courtesy Family Radio
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