The Gospel is the Word of God.
Religion is the words of men
By Trevor Davis
January 19, 2012
www.soundingthealarm.com

It is imperative that professing Christians realize that the gospel of Jesus Christ is not a religion. It is the power of God unto salvation that comes byway of the Word of God containing the message of God. (Romans 1:16; 1Corinthians 1:18)

The Word of God declares that Jesus Christ came to take away the sins of the world. He bore our sins in His own body and was crucified, buried for three days as the scriptures record, and was raised by the Spirit of the Father as written in the scripture. Jesus was handled and seen by over 500 eyewitnesses also as written in scripture. By repenting in godly sorrow, having faith in this message of the gospel, one may be born again unto a lively hope.

This simple message of the cross of Jesus is the power of God yet it is despised by the world and even the religious world.

Today, in these times of the fulfillment of the Words of Jesus and prophets and apostles as recorded in scripture, we have the apostasy underway. From this time, we can see that many of the big-name leaders in Christianity were actually enemies of the cross of Christ by way of their method, purposes and doctrines that denied Jesus. Many of the pedestal preachers of our recent history have sought to blend the world religions into one. Yes this is true. Realize, that the gospel of Jesus Christ by which a man may enter into the Kingdom of God, once being born again, is not just another religion as another box of cereal on the store shelf.

How is it possible that the leading most famous celebrity “ministries” were able to stand side-by-side with other “ministers” that promoted another Jesus, another gospel, and another spirit? How did this happen ladies and gentlemen? It is now evident that the majority of church people that have sat on the pews of institutional religion have not known the Lord in the depth that the Lord has called them. Besides not knowing Jesus personally by personal interaction in prayer, hearing and obeying Him, the masses of the Church Land have been ignorant of the scriptures. I do not mean ignorance of heavy heady head knowledge. I mean ignorance of the basic pure milk of the Word of God that is simply ABC basic. This ignorance stymied maturity in the Church World by and large, and the wolves in sheep clothing have served their master Satan quite well in removing the savor from the salt. (Mt 5:13)  The pew-sitting "laity" are salt-less savor-less people that think they stand but in reality are fallen.  Consider the Church of Laodecia who was lukewarm and self-deceived in their assumptions.  They were blind, poor, miserable, wretched and naked according to Jesus, but they thought they had it all together.  (Rev. 3:14-22)  Now, we have foolishly ignorant, worldly, sensual, devilish religious masses in “Churches”, but they will not be in the eternal Kingdom of God unless they recover themselves from the snare of the devil that has deceived them by cunning crafty words of men.

I repeat here, that the gospel of Jesus Christ is not a religion. It is not just another religion among many religions and “faiths”. The gospel of God was ordained by God through proclaiming (preaching) as Paul the apostle has stated. (Tts 1:3)  God has called His called-out people, the Church, to follow Jesus as their Head. We are called to study the Word of God and learn of Jesus. We must take His yoke upon us and truly serve Him from a sincere humble heart of love and obedience. God will keep these people as His remnant in the coming dark days of the Beast Kingdom.

There is such a dichotomy between the scriptures and the religious Christian Church World for the most part. The Church World is identical to the world is so many ways. This ought not be so ladies and gentlemen. God is commanding all men everywhere to repent and the serve the Lord with gladness. Put away the flesh. Put away the things of this world. You must decide whether it is the Lord Jesus that you want or is it religion that you want? You can not have both.

The icon “preachers” that stand as elevated gods to the religious world have, for the most part, deceived the people by their words and fair speeches as scripture prophesied. They have sought to please men rather than God. They have sought the honor of man rather than the honor that comes from God alone. This is why they became deceived. Now they are deceived and deceive others with their deceivings. But God is able to keep His elect that choose Him and His Words instead.

Seek the LORD. Seek His face! Hear His voice! Follow the Lord. It is Jesus Christ that gave His own soul as a ransom for many. It is Jesus that shed His own blood bearing yours and my sin. It is to Him that we truly owe our allegiance and not to a fallen religious Church World. May God grant you to come outside the camp and bear the reproach of Christ. May God give us entrance into the Kingdom of God and Christ. The sacrifice and sanctification has been offered once already forever through Jesus. By our faith in the gospel of Jesus, God accounts us righteous. From our hearts of faith we believe unto righteousness. God changes His sons and daughters through His power transforming us from the inside out. This is not a religion.

It is no wonder that the majority of professing Christians are shallow in their growth in Jesus. The Word of God is shallow in their hearts. And, thus, they risk Satan stealing the Word that was once sown into their hearts. Others risk giving up their faith when persecution and affliction come. And yet others find the Word of God choked by the lusts and things of this world taking root in their hearts.

Only very few will be saved Jesus said. Very few. But many, many, many shall be deceived and give up their faith. This is a serious time. It is a great time. Now is the time of salvation. It is high time to awake from sleep because our salvation is nearer than we first believed. Examine yourselves and be sure you have authentic faith in Jesus. Not head-knowledge, but real spiritual faith in Jesus dying and raising on your behalf. Why do you believe you have eternal life? Ask yourself this question. Write it down.

If you believe you have eternal life by reason of anything other than the grace and mercy of God through faith, you are believing a false gospel. We are called by God not by our works that we have done, but by the mercy of God we have been called. (Tts 3:5; Eph 2:8-9)  The washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit of our lives in Christ is the very power of God. Again, the religious people that do not believe from their heart the true gospel have not had this transforming power of the gospel in their lives, and thus, they are still un-regenerated people with religious mindsets that cannot save. They are still dead in their sins and the illusions of their corrupted minds.  These are religious people of the flesh and not sons of God in the spirit.

Ephesians 2:7That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

NOTE:

I wrote this exhortation today upon the grieving reflection of influential false teachers that have had excessive influence on unsuspecting people. These false teachers have said that Islam is close to Christianity for example. No, Islam is a religion that is not based on the inspiration of the Holy Spirit contained in scripture. It is a damnable lie of Satan as is all religion. Only the Word of God is true. Only Jesus Christ is the truth. There is no other way to God the Father than Jesus Christ Himself. There is not many paths to God ladies and gentlemen. There is One and His name is Jesus Christ.

Other false teachers are promoting the serpent doctrine that man is a god. Not so. This is a lie.

Note that there are the occultists who believe the doctrine of the Serpent who said man could be a god.  There are New Agers, New Thought, Religious Science, Science of Mind, all believe that they are divine. 

There are those in Christian Church Land that also believe the lie of the Serpent that they are gods.  The "Word of faith movement" holds to this doctrine with many of their chief promoters  such as Ken Copeland, Creflo Dollar, and Fred Price.  Interestingly, there are signals that this doctrine of deification is creeping into the heretical splinter group of the New Apostolic Reformation as well.  This group is entangling themselves with the things of the world and politics in the name of Americana Nationalism through the false belief of Dominionism.  So, this means that the occultic Satanists, New Age-New Thought spirituality has common roots of the original lie of Satan in the garden with those who profess faith in Christ as the Word of faith Movement and NAR.  Is this not absolutely amazingly stunning?  This is a horrible thing that Jeremiah the prophet testified, how the religious system is corrupted from the priest to the prophet, to the people.  And what will you do in the end thereof?  (Jer 5:30-31; Jer 2:12-13) 

There exists today cult groups as the Mormon Church which is founded upon the Serpent Lie believing that God was a man who became God, and men can become themselves a god.  This is the Serpent Gospel. 

The apostate Church World has chief leaders now saying that Mormons are Christians.  Joel Osteen, Cindy Jacobs, a president of Fuller Theological Seminary, James Robison, and others are fallen to such a degree that they are blinded to the truth of their error.  Paul the apostle commanded that believers in Jesus Christ are not to have partnership with darkness and idols, other gospels, or false doctrines. (Eph 5:11; Romans 16:17-18; Tts 1:9-11)  Yet, too many blind leaders are leading the blind into this strange brew of heresy.

Others teach doctrines that they should not for filthy lucre. They make a business out of merchandising the people of God and the Word of God. They handle the Word of God deceitfully, glory in their shameful fleshly enterprises, their god is their fleshly worldly appetite, and they mind earthly things.  This is a dead-give-away for who and what these charlatan wolves are.  (Philippians 3:17-18)

Run for your lives and follow Jesus Christ! 

I must say, that in these coming days, the Lord’s fury is against those who falsely teach the Word of God. Read Psalms 50; James 4:4 Read 1Peter 4:17-18.

Jeremiah 23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? 19Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. 20The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. 21I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.  22But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

Jesus Christ is fierce. He is loving and gracious as well, but He is the Lord. Every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Sooner or later, ladies and gentlemen, this will come to pass. Why not choose the love and mercy of God now instead of the fierce fury and judgment of God later?

Trevor Davis
www.soundingthealarm.com