Quiz: Are you loving or unloving?

An e-mail received this evening from Brother Gil Neves, a contender of the faith and Truth.

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Here’s a quick and simple six-question quiz to determine whether you’re loving (“tolerant”) or unloving (close minded and “intolerant”).

1). You’re sitting in a coffee shop when a woman at another table gets up–leaving her coffee unattended–to get a napkin. As she does, a man walks by her table, pours a powdered substance into the woman’s coffee and quickly exits the shop. You immediately warn this woman of what just happened. Your reaction is:

A. Loving.

B. Unloving. This is none of your business. Quit interfering with other people’s lives.

2). A small child runs toward a bush to retrieve his ball that rolled into it. You know that the bush contains a rattlesnake nest. You yell out for the kid to stop. Your yelling at this child is:

A. Loving.

B. Unloving. Who are you to impose your beliefs onto this kid. His parents have a right to raise him how they see fit without your close-minded “snakes are bad” views being forced down his throat.

3). You are woken to the sounds of fire alarms and the smell of smoke in your apartment complex. As you hastily exit your apartment you notice that no one has alerted your elderly neighbors who are  deaf. You bang on their door (and even kick it in if necessary) to alert them of the pending doom. This action that you’re taking is:

A. Loving.

B. Unloving. Have you considered that perhaps this couple is happy where they are? Why wake them from their slumber? If they’re happy, then leave them be.

4). On a dark and rainy night you observe a family in a car heading home in the direction of a washed-out bridge. You holler and flail your arms, making every effort you can to get their attention to warn them. Your behavior is:

A. Loving.

B. Unloving. All roads lead to their house. Who are you to tell them that the road that they’ve chosen to go home will lead to their deaths?

5). While sitting in your car waiting for your friend in a bank, you observe a man walk into the bank wearing a stocking on his face and carrying a gun. You call 911.This judgment of the man’s intentions is:

A. Loving.

B. Unloving. “Judge not lest ye be judged!” Who are you to judge this man’s heart. Maybe his intentions are good and he will do no harm to those inside. You’re always so negative and have no faith in other people. You’ve condemned this man already. Jesus would have never done that, He would have befriended him. You need to be more like Jesus.

6). Your friend is going to die in his sins, and when he wakes up on the other side of eternity, will find himself in Hell. You share with him the fact that his unrepentant sin will condemn him before a holy God and that he deserves God’s wrath (just like everyone else) because he’s transgressed God’s laws. You further explain that any of his attempts to purchase God’s forgiveness by his own obedience to the Law or good works is futile because not only are we saved by faith apart from the works and the Law, but God’s grace is not earned, it is a gift. You share with your friend that through the death of one Man, God has provided forgiveness to sinners, but this unmerited favor for sinners is only found in God’s Son, Jesus Christ, who ransomed us with His own blood. God’s only Son took our sin upon Himself on the cross and, in turn, imputed his perfect righteousness to us. You tell your friend that Jesus became a propitiation for him in order to absorb the wrath of God that he deserves. You urge your friend to repent and put his trust in Jesus Christ alone for salvation. This discussion with your friend is:

A. Loving.

B. Unloving. Insert any of the above “B” answers (or all of them) here.

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Did Rick Warren Pray to Allah in the Name of a Muslim Prophet?

An e-mail received this evening from Brother Gil Neves, a contender of the faith and Truth.

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Rick Warren—who is one of President Barack Obama’s bridges to the evangelical church—managed to pray an inaugural prayer that made nearly everyone happy, with the exception, that is, of the one true God to whom the prayer was supposed to be addressed. While Warren began by quoting the Hebrew Schema, and addressing the biblical God of all creation, who warned, “You shall have no other gods before Me….for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God…” (Exodus 20:3, 5b), Warren went on to invoke the Muslim deity Allah. If that was not bad enough, Warren quoted both the Bible and the Koran, and he prayed in the names of Jesus Christ as well as the Muslim prophet Isa! I felt this perilous travesty needed to be addressed, especially since Time Magazine has dubbed Rick Warren “America’s New People’s Pastor,” and he is influencing millions of people through his books and public persona.

Tragically, Warren’s incorporation of the Islamic deity in the name of a Muslim prophet went over the heads of the vast majority of Christians who heard his inaugural prayer. While Warren’s prayer may have pleased President Barack Obama, who gained countless votes by riding on Warren’s back into the evangelical church, God warned us in His Word that religious syncretism would characterize the great apostasy of the last days (Revelation 17)!

While I suspected that Warren’s prayer would be as inclusive as possible, even I was surprised when Warren actually quoted the Koran and used the oft-repeated Koranic formulation for Allah i.e., “The compassionate and merciful one.” In fact, of the 114 chapters in the Koran, 113 of them begin by describing Allah as “The compassionate and merciful one.”

Near the end of Warren’s prayer, he prayed, “I humbly ask this in the name of the one who changed my life, Yeshua, Isa, Jesus….” Of course, Isa would have been understood by Muslims, who had already heard him praying to Allah, to be the Islamic prophet mentioned throughout the Koran. Warren’s prayer to Allah, in the name of Isa, is absolutely indefensible:

“The priests said not, where is the LORD? And they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.” –Jeremiah 2:8

Not only is “The compassionate and merciful one” a distinct and precise Koranic formulation reserved for Allah alone, but “Isa” is used in the Koran in reference to an alleged Palestinian prophet who, according to the Koran, is not the Son of God and did not die on the cross for the sins of the world. He is not only antithetical to the biblical, historical Yeshua revealed over a thousand years earlier through the Old Testament prophets but, according to millions of Muslims, he will return to renounce Christianity, destroy all crosses, support the mass murder of Jews and forcibly convert the world to Islam. It is believed that Isa will not only destroy Jews and all crosses, but that he will support the coming Muslim Messiah—the 12th Imam or Mahdi—who many Christians believe will be the Antichrist.

Islamic scholar Ahmad Deedat, states that the name Isa (pronounced Ee-saw) is a cognate of the patriarch Esau (Ahmad Deedat, “Christ in Islam, Islamic Propagation Centre International” p. 7-8). This is blasphemous in that God reveals in His word, the Bible, that Esau was a fornicator and “sold his birthright” for a pot of stew (Hebrews 12:15-17). Lest anyone be deceived into believing that Isa is simply another name for the biblical Jesus, it should be understood that Isa is in no way an Arabic transliteration of the Hebrew Yeshua, nor is it another name for the Son of God! In fact, Muslims do not believe that Isa is the Son of God or that he died for the sins of the world.

Arab Christians do not follow the Islamic prophet Isa, nor do they follow the teachings of the Koran. During my last trip to Israel we visited a missionary from our fellowship that was working with Arab believers who reach the Arab community with the Good News of Jesus. During that trip I had the privilege of spending precious time at the home of these Arab Christians who are on fire for Jesus. All of these Arab believers referred to Jesus as Yesua, which derives from the Arabic for Jesus, Yasu! I also spent a considerable amount of time with our Arabic Christian bus driver, who taught me the Arabic Christian praise to Jesus Christ, “Yesua Habibi.” Yesua Habibi is a beautiful Arabic expression, which means, “Jesus, my beloved” or “Jesus, the love of my life!”

The name for Jesus among knowledgeable Arab Christians is not “Isa,” but “Yesua,” which is very close (as you may have observed) to the Hebrew name for Jesus, Yeshua! The name “Yeshua” literally means, “God is salvation.” This is the crux of the matter and underscores the infinite difference between Yesua and Isa! Any Arab Christian who refers to Jesus as Isa is either unaware of its Islamic origin in reference to the false Christ of Islam (Matthew 24:4-5; 2 Corinthians 11:4) or is beholden to pagan Islamic tradition and influence that should be rejected outright.

If you are aware of the differences between the biblical, historical Jesus, and the Muslim prophet Isa, then you may understand why Muslim Arabs refer to Isa instead of the Arabic Yesua, and why knowledgeable Arabic Christians refer to the biblical Jesus as Yesua and not Isa. When God revealed to Joseph that the prophesied Messiah had come into the world, He specified that His name should be called Yeshua, meaning, “Yahweh is salvation.” This was because Jesus was the fulfillment of the promise that Immanuel, “God with us,” had been incarnated in human flesh. God revealed that He was to be named Yeshua because His name was pregnant with prophetic significance and meaning:

“But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’—which means, “God with us.” –Matthew 1:20-23

The name Jesus, that is commonly used by English speakers, is the Latin form of the Greek Iesous, which in turn is the transliteration of the Hebrew Yeshua, which means “Yahweh is salvation.” One of Jesus’ many titles by which he is called today in fulfillment of biblical prophecy is “Immanuel,” but the personal name given to Him at His birth, Yeshua, not only reveals that God is with us, but a dimension of His purpose in coming into the world: that He came into the world to save His people from
their sins, i.e., “Yahweh is salvation.” Thus Peter could exclaim:

“[F]or there is no other name under heaven given to men by whom we must be saved.” –Acts 4:12b

Tragically, Muslims have been taught to reject Yeshua—Yahweh is salvation—and as a result Islam rejects the testimony of God and rejects that Jesus is Yahweh (“God with us”) and that He is salvation (died for our sins); hence the rejection of the historical biblical Jesus and His divine name, Yeshua. In rejecting Jesus for Isa, Muslims reject the original testimony of God in favor of Isa, even as Isa or Esau rejected his birthright for a bowl of stew. Indeed, Muhammad went out of his way to repeatedly deny both the Sonship and the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. In so doing Muhammad engaged in a serious case of historical revisionism, 600 years after Christ, and claimed that Isa, a Palestinian prophet, not the Son of God, was born of Mary. Also in so doing he was able to give the Koran a much-needed historical attachment, nebulous though it was, and at the same time appeal to nominal Christians who he believed would more easily convert to Islam.

The Koran was not only written over 600 years after the fact of incarnation of the Son of God, but was written to make it appear to be another revelation of the one true God who inspired the Bible. The Koran, in affect was (and is) used to blind hundreds of millions of people to the central message of the Bible: that eternal life comes through faith in the Son of God, who died for our sins; was buried and rose triumphantly over the grave (John 3:16; 20:30-31; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)

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Street Preaching 11 & 12 May 2012

Praise Report

CSA BMX & Cycling South African Championships 2012

The Word of God and the testimony of our Lord Jesus Christ were taken to Alexandra Park, Pietermaritzburg, KZN from Friday 27^th through Sunday 29^th April 2012. The 27^th April was a public holiday named Freedom Day – the date of South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994 – which was a springboard for the sharing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who is the ONLY One who can truly make you free (see John 8:32, 36). I was able to speak to a few young “up-and-coming” African cyclists under their team tent, and I do request prayer for Siphiwe Msibi, Bongani (a Zionist) and Pecko who engaged me in conversation and asked searching questions, and also for their teammates who heard the Good News of Jesus Christ, too. [On Saturday, I was able to hand them each a Sesotho ‘Help From Above’ – ‘Thuso E Tsoang Holimo’ – booklet as I had found out they were from Gauteng province and Sotho speaking.] A few other conversations were had with various cyclists and some of their family spectators, and there were also some who rejected the Biblical material on offer to them. We pray for God’s mercy to all who heard and received the Gospel of His blessed Son Jesus Christ.

Many Gospel tracts were handed out on the first day, and later I was joined around lunchtime by Frances, Dehan and Peter and Sheila Clover from a local Baptist Church who handed out Gospel Tracts and evangelised one-on-one on this public holiday. Their sacrificial endeavours were directed in the direction of the heretic following of the ‘Universal Church of the kingdom of god’, who were present for an open-air prosperity-gospel service at the Midlands’ Cricket Oval, alongside the Sax Young Cycling Track. It was also during this time that I engaged an unmarried young mother, with her infant in her arms, named Lungila – a ‘Universal Church’ attendee – who was extremely open to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, praise God, who said she would definitely read the material I had given her and she would examine the claims I had shared with her about the UC’s Brazilian pastors sharing ‘another gospel’ and not the True Gospel of the Bible.

Later, when the co-labourers had left me, I found myself being enraged with a righteous anger against the false preaching by the English speaking Brazilian pastor – who had an isiZulu translator – who spoke a man-centred, prosperity-blessing, false gospel for all to hear, including those in attendance at the BMX and Cycling tracks as the Cricket Oval is right next to them. I was at the refreshment tent at the time and raised my voice against the heresies he was teaching – calling him to teach the people correctly and that he is sending them to hell with his lies – that they must all ‘Ukupenduka’ (Repent). It was at this time when one of the UC’s ushers came eye-ball to eye-ball with me telling me to leave, but I called him to “repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21) to his face. The usher was ushered away by another usher. Praise be to God for giving me boldness and courage to withstand these evil speakers. I dusted off my feet after many on the Oval’s bleachers and those standing around heard the call to repentance!

On Saturday, Brother Lungisa Zondi and I headed back to the tracks. We handed out some Gospel Tracts and had some brief conversations. It was whist standing up at the top of the bleachers watching some of the action taking place on both sides of us – the bleachers were between the BMX and Cycling tracks – during one of the BMX heats a rider crashed going into turn one, and whilst he lay there injured on the track (we had sympathy for his mishap and prayed our God would heal him of his injuries), whilst he was receiving first aid medical attention, there was a lull in proceedings as the Lord opened an opportunity for me to raise my voice from the top of the bleachers and use the accident as a reference that we do not know what might befall us, and just as this young rider did not know that he would be receiving this medical attention today, while he knew that he was taking risks being a BMX rider, so is life full of risks and calamities and death can visit any person present at any time. From there our gracious God allowed me to share the Law and the Gospel of Grace to competitors and spectators alike calling them to repentance toward Him. I heard some murmurs, which did not distract from the preaching of the Good News of our Glorious God Jesus Christ. I had asked Brother Lungisa afterwards who filled me in who ‘murmured’ – some from the tents below us – as I had also noticed some quizzical glances during the preaching, but we also wished the rider a speedy recovery in Jesus’ Name when he was taken away by ambulance. Praise be to Jesus!

Later in the day we had another interesting encounter with a young coloured Roman Catholic man named JP. What started the conversation was that we saw three men in bright red tracksuit tops with a badge over the heart and Ephesians 6:11 emblazoned thereunder. I looked up the Scripture first, being:

¹¹Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ~ Ephesians 6:11

When I noticed on the back, just below the collar was an emblazoned “The armour of God”, I questioned JP, who was standing closer to me, where they fellowship? Where are they from? Etc. Making ‘small talk’, and then we found out that JP is a Roman Catholic and his two friends are protestant believers – although the two friends never entered into the conversation at all – Lungisa and I shared with JP the heretical teachings of the papal system. He listened at first, but then started getting defensive, until later he said: “This conversation is ending now.” We challenged him and do hope and pray the Holy Spirit brings this man to examine his faith and the false teachings he is receiving about Mary being sinless, the mass and substantiation, child baptism, praying to saints, statues and idolatry, doing the rosary and “Hail Mary’s”, the teaching of purgatory, Mary being co-redemtrix and co-mediatrix (heresies) in the RC Catechism, etc. He was not well versed in his own beliefs of the Romish Church as a new-believer of that system and it would appear that his two ‘protestant friends’ have never warned him of the RC heresies. We do wander if they are true friends at all? We also shared the analogy of: “Imagine if we drove past your house on the way to the tracks today and we saw your house on fire and your family caught inside. If we did not stop and help, would you call us friends? No, of course not! You would have wanted us to stop and help. Well, we are now warning you that your house is on fire.” We were warning him of the “wiles of the devil.” The three of them left shortly thereafter, and we had some “stares-to-go” from them! This was yet another day giving Glory to Jesus!

On Sunday, we headed out again to the SA Champs and Lungisa had a long conversation with some question-asking youth on the same bleachers we found ourselves on the day before. We handed out some more Gospel Tracts and took some photos of the proceedings on this last day we would be there. We do thank God our Father for allowing us the privilege of sharing His Word with all He directed us to. Soli Deo Gloria.

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City Centre Evangelism

On Wednesday 2^nd May I was strengthened of the Lord Jesus Christ and was able to preach non-stop outside the Master of the High Court, Pietermaritzburg’s building for two and a half hours without a break and without anyone coming out to stop me. I also noticed some windows were opened and a staff member stood at the window on the first floor listening. Our Lord Jesus Christ continues to glorify our Father.

On Thursday 3^rd May, Lungisa and I were lead of the Holy Spirit to preach at various points in Pietermaritzburg. We started walking down Church Street. Outside PEP Stores Lungisa preached to lines of people gathered on the curb to the sidewalk as they waited to get various government grants. While Lungisa preached in isiZulu, I handed out Gospel Tracts to all in line and passer-by foot traffic. From there we proceeded down to the Magistrate’s Court. There were some illegal street hawkers plying their trades selling their wares on the sidewalk as I preached the sins of sinful man being transgressors of the law and sinners against God and redemption through Jesus Christ alone. Many heard including court-goers, and when the City Municipal Police arrived, they spoke to Lungisa about me preaching outside a court building that has trials in progress, I was able to finish and it was also at the very time my preaching had ended. We thanked the officers and Lungisa gave them Gospel material, too! No time to argue about rights to preach or not, when the Word went forth at its given time, but the illegal hawkers they scattered like cockroaches being found out when the lights are turned on! They heard the Word of God; they might have escaped the authorities in this lifetime, but they haven’t escaped God their Judge. Unless they repent, they will perish!

We continued down Church Street passing masses of humanity until we came to the Muslim mosque. Brother Lungisa and I were greeted at that time, as we prepared to open the Word of God, to the blaring midday “call to prayer”. Lungisa said he was willing to preach even with that noise, but it stopped, and the Islam-worshippers of the moon god made their way past us towards the mosque. While Lungisa preached I handed out some more Gospel Tracts to the foot traffic downtown, when an Indian woman standing nearby came over and asked me for one. Her name is Chandin and she is a born again believer of Jesus Christ. Chandin told me that her sister, Shamilla Ramsuk, has just had an operation and is in the East Street Midlands Hospital (which was about 200-300 meters away from where we were standing) and that she is a “kinda-believer” and she wanted us to pray for her. I asked her certain questions about her sister and found out that she does believe in Jesus Christ, but her belief is not strong. I took down the particulars of Chandin’s sister’s whereabouts at the hospital and was told that visiting hours was at 15H00. I said we would visit her. She then left, and I started trying to get Gospel material into the hands of the Muslim men returning to their work from the mosque. I managed to get one or two men to take, might be more, but what I did notice, that I shared with Lungisa after he had done preaching, was seeing that the men either rolled up the hems of their pants to show off their socks or ankles or had them sewn short, as a show that they are not “prideful” but “humble.” This is outward works of self-righteousness. Yet they were full of pride not to take some material, as they either clasped their hands behind their backs or nodded “no”, coming from the mosque, but what caught some of them in their lust was seeing “money” extended to them – yes, the “Ten Grand” money tract. Makes you think, doesn’t it? Why did they go to the mosque at all?

We than headed back uptown to where the “seed-sower” was parked and made our way back downtown to the hospital as promised. We found a parking right outside the hospital – thank you Father – and made our way in to go and visit Shamilla. At 15H00 we visited her and we were able to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with her and her husband. We gave them Bible literature, when Chandin also arrived. This was more a trial for us as well as an opportunity to share Christ with this family – would we be obedient to a request to visit someone in hospital? We thank God for directing our steps to preach at various points along Church Street, and therefore we were approached by Chandin and had this blessed opportunity to visit the sick in hospital and share Christ. Praise God for showing us to be not only hearers, but doers of the word (see James 1:22). We left them each with a copy of “Why Christianity?” (http://www.livingwaters.com/) and we prayed for Shamilla’s healing both physically and spiritually in Jesus’ Name. It was an absolutely wonderful day, all praise and glory to our Great King and God – our Lord Jesus Christ, the Righteous.

Saturday City Outreach and the Hindu Temple

On Saturday 5^th May we headed out as usual into our city to preach on the corner of Church Street and Commercial Road opposite the City Hall – a very busy intersection, with a ‘Flea-market’ also on the corner in the old Court gardens. This day we would have a larger gathering of seed-sowers: Lungisa Zondi, Thulani Mkhize, Phillip Amakye, Jono Anderson and me. We had gone to buy some booklets and isiZulu Gospel pamphlets and then hit the street corner. Lungisa had arrived earlier and was preaching already before we arrived at various times. Town was bustling with much foot traffic, the preaching went forth, Gospel material was handed out, Phillip sang a praise song to Jesus and Lungisa was asked by an African girl to go with her and investigate some wicked men who used evil witchcraft to hustle her out of her money. It all was happening today, and even our supply of booklets and pamphlets were gone in no time at all – about 600 or so. Our Lord had me expound Hebrews 8 and 9 – showing a better new covenant sanctuary and sacrifice through Jesus Christ, the Redeemer and Saviour. With our Gospel Tracts exhausted, we decided to go buy the last box of English booklets and hopefully head out to the Copesville Informal Settlement – as we had been speaking about the wickedness that had beset that area. On our way downtown, we had also sought the Lord where we should go preach. It appeared to be ‘aimless driving’ around this corner, down to where the Sangomas (Witchdoctors) gather with their devilish concoctions and herbs, turned right down a one way, almost turned to go against the traffic (not realising it’s a one-way east), righted the vehicle and after negotiating some heavy traffic we found ourselves back in Church Street passing the Muslim mosque heading out of town, when – here proceeding on Church Street heading towards their temple is a whole gathering of Hindu devotees with incense, smoke and coals, orange flower-like decorations, all filing down the sidewalk to the beating of tambourine-type drums. What a clatter. This was what we were looking for. We headed to the Hindu Temple to distribute Gospel Tracts to warn them of idolatry and point them to Jesus Christ.

On arriving, we made our way to where the Hindu devotees were filing into the temple. So we approached some men sitting at two tables outside the walls of the temple – one had all idols and other paraphernalia on it and the other some fruit. We were checked-out and it was spiritual warfare immediately. I asked what was happening with all the commotion and then asked if God lives in idols. That was all that triggered the vilest filth to pour out of men’s mouths, who told us to &%#^!$* take our Bible and &%#^!$ take our Jesus and &(@^#$% get out of here!!! When challenged that they were supposed to be worshippers and they were cursing so badly they subsided somewhat, but still poured scorn and filth from their filthy hearts. People were telling us to leave. I attempted to read Psalm 115 against the idolatry taking place; the evil and wickedness was prevalent in that place. It was thick!

Lungisa and I ventured across the road, and he raised his voice and preached against the wickedness of idolatry and pointed them to Christ Jesus, but there were mockers who came and engaged us across the road. One Indian man passing by was not even in the temple, but had alcohol on his breath and was inebriated and appeared to be the self-appointed spokesperson for the entire Hindu community and ecumenicalism. He told me that we all worship the same God and that we must just all love everyone. We have heard this lie so many times, but the biggest idolatry of all was when he told me that the Hindus also believe that their father and mother are gods and they take preference even before God the Creator. Blasphemy, he was called to repent for he is a wicked man to think parents are gods before the Creator God. After this man, there was an elderly Indian man that was in his car that was parked in front of Lungisa listening for a long while, before moving into the side-street and dialoguing with me. The conversation never really was going anywhere, because as he would ask a question, he wouldn’t let me finish an answer when he would be on the next point – which was mocking God’s Word. Lungisa preached on, when this man in the car said I was swearing at him, because I called him to repent of his wicked and evil ways. He parked his car and angered he came sticking his fingers in my face. By this commotion, the small crowd was gathering, from people leaving the temple. I pushed the man’s finger out of my face telling him to get his pagan hand out of my face, when he started resorting to racial slurs against me, calling me: “@#*&^% Yorll white ting. Get out of here with your apartheid!” I can understand that these men uttered such filth by the demonic spirits governing them. At a point, I called Lungisa to join me dusting off our feet and leaving, which we received rapturous applause, but it was then that I noticed Thulani speaking to a young African man, witnessing to him, and him and I also ended up witnessing to another African man drawn to the scene by the commotion, but wanting prayer. We shared the Gospel with him, telling the Indians that we are going nowhere until we have spoken to these that want to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. At this point they left us.

Brother Lungisa preached on, until another Hindu priest came out from his home-temple, about 100 metres down the road from the main Hindu Temple, and we engaged him in dialogue. At one point I tried to reason with the man that: “What if I believed your grey fleece top was yellow. Would what I believed to be true, be true?” He then retorted: “What if there were 1000 people who said it was true, then you would start doubting yourself.” I said: “That cannot be true. I wouldn’t doubt myself. So you are saying that would be truth to them?” He then answered with the most incredible answer I have ever heard: “Yes, because majority rules!” “WHAT!!! You’re lying to me! You can’t be serious!” was my response, but laughing he was most serious. I was also shown his idolatry statue to which he and his devotees pray, and I read him Psalm 115 and for a time he listened, but he was in denial of the Truth. There was nothing left for us to do, but he did take a Gospel of Jesus Christ booklet, despite his own protests.

Our Great God gave us a glimpse of the utter debauched and reprobate minds and evil and wicked hearts He has to look upon everyday. What a stench it is! What an abomination! O, how miserable our own sin must be to God our Father! Let us keep this warning foremost in how we live our lives. Our Great God is a strong tower and a place of refuge. He delivered us from evil men, and He is worthy of all praise and worship. Jehovah is Mighty to save.

²¹Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. ²²And of some have compassion, making a difference: ²³And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. ²⁴Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, ²⁵To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. ~ Jude 21-25

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Soli Deo Gloria.

Light of Christ

The Truth be Told

Wide Is The Gate: The Emerging New Christianity

Important Notice

COUNTRY-WIDE CALL FOR DISCERNMENT SEMINARS

– JUSTIN PETERS

1 – 17 JUNE 2012  

A Call for Discernment
Peter warned his readers and indeed us today that  “false teachers will be among you who will secretly introduce destructive heresies” and  they “will make merchandise out of you”  (2 Peter 2:1-3).  Many of today’s false teachers can be found in what is more commonly referred to as the Health and Wealth or, Prosperity gospel.  Popular American prosperity preachers such as Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, TD Jakes, and Joel Osteen are attempting to redefine Biblical Christianity by teaching dangerous doctrines that distort the Gospel and enrich themselves at the expense of the poor, the desperate, the sick, and the widows.

Critical Questions
These false teachers have provided a dangerous model for many African preachers to follow and they too are leading many astray.  Can we really speak things into existence?  Did Jesus die spiritually?  Are we little gods? Should people be slain in the Spirit?  Is it always God’s will to be healed?  If a person is not healed is it because of a lack of faith?  Do signs and wonders authenticate the Gospel?  What is the true Gospel?

Coming Soon to South Africa
You are invited to attend a seminar entitled A Call for Discernment presented by Justin Peters, as he explores all these questions and many more from a Biblical perspective.  A Call for Discernment includes dozens of video clips from today’s prominent prosperity preachers. The Word of God is then expounded to counter-act their claims and teachings.

Discernment Seminar
Come and learn Biblical truth and be equipped to “speak the truth in love” (Eph. 4:15) to those caught up in these false doctrines and gospels.

Watch a promo with extracts from the Call for Discernment Seminar here.

For more information about Justin Peters’ ministry see: www.justinpeters.org.

A Call for Discernment Seminar – Endorsements
Dr John MacArthur, Pastor of Grace Community Church, Los Angeles, USA:

“The dangers of the Word of Faith Movement are as real as they are pervasive.  The message from thousands of pulpits is that God wants you to be happy, healthy and rich.  But this is not Biblical Christianity, as Justin Peters so adequately demonstrates in his exceptional presentation. With clarity and credibility, Peters exposes the Word of Faith Movement for what it really is – a farce.  Local churches will benefit greatly from his personal experience and vast research on this important topic.”

Pastor Rod Bunton, Grace Church, Tallahassee, Florida, USA:

“Justin Peters is exceptional. He is well prepared, well researched and articulate.  His seminar presentation provides excellent documentation exposing the Word of Faith teachers who prey on both unsuspecting believers and non-believers.  Our church came away from these sessions knowing we had been Biblically equipped to respond to these heresies.”

Dr Paul Mitchell, Director – Martin Lloyd-Jones Recordings Trust, UK:

“No one with even the most rudimentary knowledge of Scripture can fail to be appalled by the utter nonsense being propagated by the Word of Faith or Prosperity Gospel celebrities, whose shows dominate ‘Christian’ television.  Tragically, numerous people are walking the road to perdition by trusting the false gospel of these charlatans, rather than being obedient to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  I urge all Christians to attend one of the Justin Peters’ A Call for Discernment seminars, which are being used of God to rescue many from error and apostasy.”

Be like the Bereans
Believers need to imitate the noble Bereans in Acts 17:11 who:  “searched the Scriptures daily to find out if these things [taught by Paul] were so.” In our case, we need to evaluate the things taught by the Word of Faith teachers in the light of Scripture.

“For there are many ….. idle talkers and deceivers… whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.” Titus 1:10-11

Paul warned the church elders against false teachers (“savage wolves”) coming into the church “speaking perverse things to draw away disciples” Acts 20:29-31.

Paul’s warned in 2 Cor 11:4-5 against false teachers who “preach another Jesus” and a “different gospel.”

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine….and will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.”  2 Tim 4:3 – 4

Paul urged his readers to guard the unity of the church:  “Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.” Rom 16:17-18

What You Can Do:

Pray for these seminars as well as for Justin Peters and the attendees.

Attend one of the seminars, purchase the DVDs and distribute them far and wide.

Forward this invitation to as many people /churches as possible, across the country.

Request all recipients of your e-mail to also forward it.

Send a reminder or follow-up e-mail to all recipients a week or so before the start of the seminars.

Help advertise the Seminars in your local church.

Country-wide Seminars:

Pretoria: Friday, 1 June, 19:00, Saturday, 2 June, 9:00 – 13:00, Reformed Church – Wapadrand. Directions: www.gkwapdrant.co.za. Contact: Wessel Smith, 082 746 8661.

Kwasizabantu Mission, near Kranskop, KwaZuluNatal: 5 – 7 June, 19:00. Domino Servite School hall, KwaSizabantu Mission. Directions: www.ksb.org.za. Contact: Rev Kjell Olsen, kjell@cft.org.za.

Mooi River:  Wednesday, 6 June, 9:00am. Mooi River Baptist Church. Contact: Ps Clinton Stone, 078 515 7147.

East London: Friday, 8 June, 19:00, Saturday, 9 June, 9:00 – 13:00, Beaconhurst School, Hillcrest Drive, Beacon Bay.  Contact: Ps Angus McKee, 043 – 748 6073.

Port Elizabeth: Sunday 10 June, 18:30 and Monday 11 June, 19:00. Evangelisasie Sentrum, 26 Cleeve Rd, corner of Cotswold Drive, Cotswold. Contact: Ps Alan Mckenzie, 082 452 3278.

George: 12-14 June, 19:00. Dutch Reformed Moeder Kerk, corner of Courtenay and Church Streets. Contact: Hannlie Maher, 083 323 3636.

Cape Town: Fri 15 June, 19:00 and Sat, 16 June, 9:00 – 13:00, Plumstead Baptist Church, 20 Toulon Ave, Plumstead. Contact: Ps Jason Labushagne, 083 448 1667.

Note: the venue of the seminar is not necessarily the hosting church. Entrance is free. A Call for Discernment DVDs will be on sale at all Seminars.

“Contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints… For certain men have crept in unnoticed…ungodly men, who deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.” Jude 3-4

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Unpopular Bible Doctrines ~ Part 11

(Doctrine 49 repeated)

50)      God has and will shut the door on people who cry out to Him for mercy

Genesis 7:16; Luke 13:24-30; Matthew 25:10-13; Deuteronomy 23:1-3; Matthew 22:9-14; Proverbs 51:24-32; Jeremiah 11:11-14; Ezekiel 8:18; Micah 3:4.

51)      Imprecatory Psalms (Biblical prayers that accuse the wicked, call for the destruction of evil doers and a rejoicing in God’s judgment against the wicked) are popular with God, but not with men

Psalm 94:1-4, 23; Psalm 58:6-10, 137:8-9, (see also Isaiah 13:1, 16, 19, 21:1-10, 47; Jeremiah 50-51; Habakkuk 2:4-20); Psalm 69:22-28; Psalm 59:12-13, 109:6-15, 139:19-22. [Psalm 2:45]

52)      God says He is revealed as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19), historically known as the Trinity

Matthew 3:16-17, 28:19; Ephesians 4:4-6; Titus 3:4-6; John 3:34-35, 14:26, 15:26; 16:13-15; Romans 14:17-18, 15:13-17, 30; 1 Corinthians 6:11, 17-19, 12:4-6; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22, 3:4-6; Galatians 2:21-3:2, 4:6; Ephesians 2:18, 3:11-17, 5:18-20; Colossians 1:6-8; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5, 4:2, 8, 5:18-19; 2 Thessalonians 3:5; Hebrews 9:14; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 John 3:23-24, 4:13-14; Jude 20-21. [1 John 5:7; Matthew 16:13-17; Acts 8:5-13; John 3:18, 10:30-33, 1:1, 14; Mark 14:62-65]