I am a retired pastor of
the Church of God (Tennessee). My name is Isaac Livingston. I am from Neyyoor India. |
Email: Pastor True Gospel
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In Christianity, we respect pastors, priests, elders, and so on. We will not talk back to bible teachers and pastors since we must not judge them. Instead, we honor them with respect, give tithe and offerings. But Jesus paid taxes to Caesar, and the bible does not say that he paid tithes. "1 Peter 2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:" Scripture says that his life is an example for us to live our 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." So, if we live the way that he lived, we will reach God the Father, when we attain eternal life. So, let us see how he lived.
We see the pictures of Jesus as an old man in a robe, with long hair, long bear, etc. We assume that he was a polite weak old gentle man, talk respectably with people, behave decently, etc. Let us see the truth. He came to the ministry when he has completed thirty years old, and he was crucified when he has completed thirty-three. He lived as a very young man. He was an old-style carpenter, so, he must have been a strong man. He has done miracles; told men that he will make them fishers of men; he must have had a commanding voice; and so, when he called young men to follow him, they followed him. His disciples were also young, they were not old men as you see in pictures. So, Jesus was a strong young man, surrounded by the gang of strong young men. His disciples served their master with respect. At one time he had eighty disciples, which was a small army. And a lot of young men were willing to give a hand to him if it was needed, and so, they could not arrest him in the day. "Mark 11:18 says, the scribes and chief priests ... feared him, ..." Even the top leader of the temple, the chief priest, feared him. "15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; 16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple." Look at the language used; cast them out, that is, he threw them out; overthrew the money tables; he did not allow any vessel to be carried through the temple, etc. They were not peaceful actions, but forceful and violent. He was a violent young man. He has done it with the team of his disciples. It was not a peaceful protest, but it was a violent revolt, but for the cause of God. "17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves." John 2:14-17 say that Jesus made the whip with chords and whipped them out; so, he made the whip; so, it was premeditated. He did it because of his zeal for God and his temple. "John 2:14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise. 17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." Jesus was a violent young gang leader for the cause of righteousness and holiness. He was not a polite peaceful religious gentleman. He was never a hypocrite; he never put up a show; and he was real.
When Jesus was a man, the Pharisees, scribes, all priests including the high priests, Sadducees, and temple people, were considered servants of God. But they were all enemies to Jesus; and so, they must have been the servants of Satan. So, God gave the world, the temple, and all the temple people, to Satan. Let us see how Jesus handled this; since we must follow him. Jesus said to religious leaders in "John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do." We find such remarks all over; but let me take a few verses from Matthew 23. "13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. (Please notice, they are condemned for long prayers, even now we have prayer ministries; we pray all day long, and so, God condemns us also). 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. 16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! 17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?" True godliness is that we must follow the steps of Jesus, but not the ways of religious hypocrites. Guile is telling false praises, and it is mentioned that Jesus had no guile in his mouth. So, he did not praise anyone, if it is not true. In order to have eternal life, we must follow his ways. So, we must also say woe unto these hypocrites, who are our preachers and authorities in churches, who are doing the same as those of the time of Jesus. Our preachers also twist scriptures, deceive people, and serve another Jesus, who is Satan.
In John 14:6 and in 1 Peter 2:21&22, God tells us to follow the ways of Jesus. He did not live as a polite chicken, but Jesus lived as a violent young gang leader for the cause of righteousness and holiness, for us to see and follow. But they killed him, and God raised him from his death. When Jesus was resurrected, he was seen only by a few people, and it was also in private. Even when people see him, they could not recognize him. Jesus did not reveal himself readily even to his own people. It could have been wonderful, if Jesus had visited Pilot, Herod, Chief priests, all Pharisees, and made them all fall on his feet. Not only he did not do that, but he also made his own people to doubt his resurrection. His own disciples were left with nothing positive to prove that he was raised from death. When Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, only his disciples saw, and there was no tangible proof left. Jesus commanded his disciples not to depart from Jerusalem, until they receive the promise of God the Father. They received the baptism of the Holy Ghost with gifts on the day of Pentecost. Jesus Christ gave them the mission to preach Jesus Christ and his gospel. They were against a well-established organization, the Jewish religion. They were, Chief Priest, Scribes, Pharisees, and the Jews; king Herod and Pilot were also with them. They determined to destroy the small band of disciple. They had power and they began persecution. The future of the ministry looked bleak and weak, despite the fantastic resurrection, which was kept almost as secret, with only a few witnesses. Please take this to heart; the plan of God is to keep the ministry appear non-existing; yet it is the power of God; only those, who have the true love and faith in Jesus Christ, will know the mystery of God. God keeps his future Sons safe inside the mouth of the enemy. It is the Spirit church, inside the church of another Jesus and in the world under Satan.
At that time, only disciples and followers were Christians. Jews and Romans persecuted them; especially Nero killed them left and right, and those were terrible times. Then Romans destroyed the temple of God in 70 AD as Jesus foretold them. Israel priesthood was abolished since there was no more temple or sacrifices. So, Jesus Christ has removed the old testament setup as he foretold in Hebrew 10:9. ("Hebrews 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.") Satan was cast down from heaven as in John 12:31 ("John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.") and in Revelation 12:9 ("Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."). But God allowed Satan to be a prince and god of this world as in 2 Corinthians 4:3&4 ("2 Corinthians 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.") and in many more verses. So, Satan can do a lot of things in the world, and he was persecuting, torturing, and killing Christians. At this time, Satan persecuted Christians by Roman government. At 306 AD Constantine the Great, became emperor for Romans, and he became a Christian. Emperor Constantine ordered Christianity to be the official government religion. He made one of his largest contributions to the faith by summoning the Council of Nicaea on 325 AD, which guided the church doctrine for centuries afterward. God allowed Satan to use this opportunity to take over the world church; Satan presented a constitution of the church to the Emperor, and got it approved. This is how Satan got the church under him. Satan built the church doctrines, similar to old testament priesthood, put his own people in power. It is in 2 Thessalonians 2:4. "Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." Now, Satan shows himself as god and receives worship of people. Bible calls him as another Jesus. The true Christians, who followed the Lord Jesus Christ, went underground, and they were again persecuted. Christian authorities forced true Christians, who followed Jesus Christ, to surrender to religious Christianity, and killed those who did not surrender. It is now history. But even now, we see religious Churches, but the Spirit Church is hidden with God.
Under the influence of Roman empire and other nations and governments, Christianity grew and spread. Big pompous churches were built, the old priesthood was installed, and the ceremonial worship started, instead of the worship of God in truth and Spirit. They became the established Christians. As Jews hated, persecuted, and killed the disciples and the followers of Jesus, these established church authorities also hated, persecuted, and killed the disciples and the followers of Jesus; and they follow the same worship as the Jews, except they could not do animal sacrifice in the temple. They took the first system that Jesus has removed, and installed them back in churches, and began to worship another Jesus, the devil. Many changes came to Christianity, with splits and new denominations, but Satan kept himself as god of all divisions. Power, money, big buildings, popularity, fame, and the governments were also with churches, and so, many became Christians because of attraction, and for favor. But in truth, they were under another Jesus, another Spirit; preaching another gospel, which is opposite to the gospel that Jesus Christ preached. We are all in this church thinking that we are for the Lord Jesus Christ. It is for the past 1700 years; so, we are used to it, and nobody can convince us otherwise. If we carefully study scripture, then we will find the truth. We are still under the control of Satan, and he is under the name of Jesus. It is in "2 Corinthians 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth 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." We are living in this system of churches and worship, and we all do it in the name of God and the Lord Jesus Christ. If it is the case, who are the true Christians and where are they? They are those, who follow the true Jesus Christ. True resurrected Lord Jesus Christ is Spirit, he is omnipotent God, he is no longer a man, and he is now in the world in Spirit, turning his people away from their sins. It is in Matthew 1:21 and in Acts 3:26. "Matthew 1:21 ... thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Acts 3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities." People cannot Join Jesus Christ as family like Jews, or as a society, or as nation, or such any group. We, as individuals must know about God through our conscience. Then we must communicate with this God, who is Jesus Christ, who is in the omnipotent Spirit. Then, God will reveal his word to us through his Spirit, and then we will know the truth. At this point, we have become Spirit Christians. Even if we are in a worldly church, at this point, God will join us in his body, the Spirit church. So, we will be in a Spirit Church, within a world church. As the outside worldly church is worshipping another Jesus Christ, we will be worshipping the true God Jesus Christ in the Spirit. So, we will be the true Christians, in the middle of the fake church, who are religious and think that they are genuine. They are all blinded by God, and by Satan as well.
Religious people venerate dead heroes as God, or adore a certain ideology or faith, and worship them. There are so many religious beliefs and practices around the world. Christianity is one of the prominent ones. Every religious people claim that their religion is pure and true; and will cling to it arrogantly. In Christianity, the bible is considered the word of God, it is unique, the accounts and the doctrines are pure, and are irrefutable. However, even though Christians claim that they do all things according to the bible, they will not do anything according to the bible. But they use the bible as the façade, to put up a front; but they believe and do as their preachers teach. So, Christianity strays away from the bible about 99%, but they claim to observe 100% bible. But their claim is not true. It is a great religion with good social establishment, and it has many denominations, like octopus arms or tentacles.
If we can discern the Spirit, the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ, who is God, will be real to us. If we cannot discern the Spirit, then we will be under the religious Christianity with another Jesus, who is the devil. Every Christian may have a bible, the word of God. The Spiritual Christians will follow the true bible; but religious Christians will get one or more perverted versions of bibles, so that they may pick up whatever they prefer. They study and repeat the narratives or clichés of preachers. Every religious Christian will say their portion or narrative as they are actors in a drama or in a play. They represent religion, but not God. They will not be real to themselves; but speak a false narrative in an imaginary space of religiosity. When they speak about God, nothing will be true or scriptural; they all will be made up imaginary stories. They will be acting and will be proud of it. What all they say will be lies, but they will neither be ashamed of it, nor feel guilty for it; since it is as a play for them in a religious drama, and it will be accepted by all of them. But God sees our life, but not how excellently we are acting. So, we must be truthful in testimonies and in witnessing.
Salvation. Churches preach that Jesus Christ saves us from punishment in hell when we are deserved to be punished; and it is by the blood of Jesus Christ. No! it is not. Jesus Christ will be the most righteous Judge. If we are deserved to be punished, he will punish us. Jesus Christ is turning us away from our sins and iniquities. If we do not commit sins anymore, Jesus Christ will forgive our past sins by his blood. This is called, we are saved from sins. Then, we will inherit heaven as Sons of God. This is salvation.
Grace. Churches preach that we are saved by grace, that is, we will be admitted to heaven, despite of our sinning. They will neither give any reason for that, nor will define what grace is. What they say is not true. Grace is the power of God given to us in times of need to overcome sins. If we overcome sins by the power of God, we are saved from sinning. This is what, we are saved by grace.
Saved by his blood, but not by our obedience. Churches preach this vehemently, but it is a blatant lie. Jesus Christ himself says it, and we see it in many scriptures, that we must obey God, especially the commandments of Jesus Christ to enter heaven.
Saved not by works. "Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" God told us to be righteous and be holy. In this verse, two works are done; one is by us, another is by God. We do "works of righteousness." This is our obedience to God in the basic level; that is, not to do harm to our neighbors. It will qualify us to enter paradise, like the thief on the cross, and to receive more grace from God. God uses this verse also as a stumbling stone for the disobedient people to fall, as in "1 Peter 2:8, it says stumble at the word, being disobedient:." Then, God will do "the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost." This is to make us holy, which is to save us from sinning. Then we will inherit the kingdom of God as Sons of God, so, we will be in new heavens. "He saved us," refers to, saved us from sinning, which will make us holy. But churches preach a lot of nonsense using this verse.
Love and fear. The word of God repeatedly teach that we must fear God. "2 Corinthians 7:1 ... let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Hebrews 12:28 ... serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: Revelation 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; ..." We must fear God, in order to have a part in the kingdom of God. But churches preach that we must love Jesus Christ, but we must not fear him.
There are so many such false teachings comes from churches. But they never preach the truth and always preach enticing words of man's wisdom and they are from Satan to deceive people. Their worships are in ceremonies and rituals, but not in Spirit and truth.
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Matthew 28:20, & Mark 16:15. Jesus Christ preached his commandments to obey, as his
Gospel; it is the true Gospel to inherit Eternal life. Genesis 3:1-4 & 2 Corinth 11:2-4. But Preachers, who are Serpents of Satan, preach the life of man Jesus just to believe, but not to live as a chaste virgin, as the gospel; it is another gospel, which cannot and will not give Eternal life.The true gospel will convert evil people to do good and thereby they will inherit the kingdom in heaven.
John 3:19-21 say that people are two kinds, evil and true. Evil doers will not come to the Light, who is God; but people of truth come to God for their deeds to be made manifest. We have good and evil people by our standard of our society or culture. These evil people may be converted to be doers of truth by the power of God, and they may inherit the kingdom of God in heaven.
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