Fallen Christianity : a compromised faith always leads to decline

According to a recent Pew Poll, Christianity is in a state of decline. The article states multiple reasons of why it's happening, but  may I suggest the real reason for the it could be our compromises of the faith. A compromised Christianity always leads to decline. In this article, I will speak about some of those issues.
1 Compromising in order to attract the youth

A lot of churches are compromising their faith in order to keep or attract young people. So in order to do this, we try to introduce a "fun atmosphere" to entertain them. People seem to forget that the main focus of worshiping God is not to entertain the youth but to point them towards God. So churches introduce or accept a lot of worldly things such as baptizing rap music, a genre of music that promotes violence and rebellion by calling it Christian rap. The logic is if we put the name of God in it, it becomes Holy. We then ignore the fact that God does not accept "strange fire".

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. So fire blazed forth from the LORD's presence and burned them up, and they died there before the LORD.Leviticus 16:1,2

The Catholic Church did the same thing in the middle ages by baptizing pagan customs into Christianity. The church became corrupt, its people steep in idolatry, superstitions and delusions. They took the idols of the pagans and gave them Christian names. "There is nothing new under the sun", we keep repeating the same mistakes and thinking that somehow we are different than our ancestors.

Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what the LORD spoke, saying, 'By those who come near Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the people I will be honored.'" So Aaron, therefore, kept silent. Leveticus 10:3.

God said that people who come before him must know that he is Holy (separated from profane things), and that he will be honored. So when we come before God, the focus should not be on ourselves and how we feel but for honoring Him alone. When we come to that understanding we will stop focusing on entertaining the youth. When the church start making those compromises, instead of converting the world ,they become converted by them. So as we keep trying to win the youth; using strange fire tactics, the youth become more worldly and finally realize "If I'm already listening to rap, why not go into the real thing?" Christians must understand that we cannot use the ways of the world to convert them. The Word of God is all sufficient. 

2 Tickling ears messages in order to make people feel comfortable

Like using baptized paganism to attract the youth , many churches use a similar system in order to bring more people in. Taking away the offences of the Cross. Many churches for fear of not offending sinners do not preach the whole counsel of God. The idea is that we should make the sinner feel comfortable in church so that he/she does not feel they are being attacked. The result is we have a message being preached around that is no more than psychology or self-help masquerading as Christianity.

They tell the seers, "Stop seeing visions!" They tell the prophets, "Don't tell us what is right. Tell us nice things. Tell us lies. Isaiah 30:10

Imagine going to a hospital being diagnosed with a terminal disease and the doctor is afraid to offend you by telling you the truth, so he goes around telling you feel good messages while you are dying. This is what many churches are doing to people. People come to church to hear a message of salvation from the Lord. Church is a hospital, filled with people sick with  the terminal disease called sin. The goal of the preacher is to preach the whole counsel of God to people so that they may be led to repentance and have Eternal life.

3 Conclusion:Pleasing the Youth and tickling ears messages are leading people away

The Bible say that we should train up the child in the right way, not the child training the adult. Now I am not saying that people whether they are old or not cannot make suggestion to enhance the worship experience, but everything that is done should be done in accordance to God's will and not bringing strange fire before him.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.Proverbs 22:6
Christianity gets its power from the Lord and once we turn our back on the Lord, we lose that power. The way we lose that power is not only by rejecting God outright but by adopting worldly or pagan customs, bringing idolatry in the house of God and preaching delusions to people. And when God leaves, the church declines, thus the recent poll is a true reflection of the condition of the church.

Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect . Romans 12:2.   

When people realize that the church is no different than the world they become worldly Christian or abandon the church altogether . When Christianity stood counter to the world in the days of the Roman empire, it grew rapidly because it was not diluted. Why go to church when I can go to a therapist or some other social club that will make me feel loved and comfortable in my condition. Let us not live according to this age of compromise and be lukewarm, stand for God , stand for the truth and expose the works of darkness in the House of God .God Bless.

 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. 16'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. Revelation 3:16


http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/americas-changing-religious-landscape/

http://biblehub.com/leviticus/10-3.htm

Abortion: sacrificing Children to Molech(Satan)

Blood of the Innocents

Do not permit any of your children to be offered as a sacrifice to Molech, for you must not bring shame on the name of your God. I am the LORD. Leviticus 18:21

Then they fell into the trap of worshiping idols.They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons and to the gods of Canaan.Then they poured out the blood of these innocent children
and made the land filthy. Psalm 106:36-38

 Abortion, an abomination passed as women's right by the father of lies is the continuation of ancient devil worshiping cults. In every age, Satan repackage the old abominations into what is called a more enlightened position and people fall for it.

Women's Right to murder

Molech worship is an abomination unto the Lord which originated from the Ammonites. One of the rituals connected to Molech worship is the sacrificing of children unto the god Molech, as an expression of their devotion to him. When Israel fell into idolatry, which happens most of the time in their national history, one of the gods they worship is Molech, and thus they offer up their sons and daughters as human sacrifices to it.

This day the saying is that a woman has the right to murder her own child. What about the right of the child to life? Any one who take part of these behaviors are participating in a modern form of an ancient practice.

Sacrifice a child to the god of pleasure

They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek, though I never commanded—nor did it enter my mind—that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin. Jeremiah 32:35

"Moloch was one of many pagan gods worshiped by means of human sacrifice. Pagans who worshiped Moloch often sacrificed one of their own children, who was ritually murdered and then placed in a sacrificial altar of fire. The sacrifice of the child was to assure a blessing of prosperity for the family".

We have fallen into the lie of Satan that "we will be like God knowing good and evil", so we go about determining what's right and wrong. And we go into unrestrained sexual immorality and when a child is conceived, we get the right to permit whether or not this child will come into our lives and restrain our fun, therefore we will go into the high places of planned parenthood and sacrifice this baby to lust (Satan).

 Feminism and child sacrifice

Today the demons of human sacrifice  have new names: Career, Convenience, Money, Lust and Self. 
Wholesale numbers of children have been “sacrificed” at the hands of abortionists for the sake of convenience, immorality, or pride. Hundreds of thousands of babies have been killed so that their parents can maintain a certain lifestyle.

The introduction of radical feminism has allowed this vile practice to return. According to some statistics, over 1.2 million babies are sacrificed yearly to Molech. If you have done a child sacrifice to Satan, you can still come to God for forgiveness and if you are thinking of doing so, please refrain and pray that God may give you the strength to keep and love that child. Do not buy into the feminist lie in order to destroy life, but accept the truth of God and let the babies live.

God hates “hands that shed innocent blood” (Proverbs 6:17), and we can be sure that God will judge this horrendous sin.


  http://www.gotquestions.org/child-sacrifice.html#ixzz3WNIcIDin

http://www.religiousfreedomcoalition.org/2011/01/21/worshiping-moloch-%E2%80%93-the-human-sacrifice-of-children-to-assure-prosperity/


http://www.revisionisthistory.org/massacre.html

Deception: Easter, Is It from God?

Greater Abominations

And He said to me, "Yet you will see still greater abominations which they are committing." Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, mourning the god Tammuz. Ezekiel 8:13,14 .

Easter, a festival that many Christians believe is celebrating the resurrection of Christ actually has nothing to do with the Savior. The mourning period for the Babylonian god Tammuz are the 40 days of Lent. These rituals are parts of the same pagan idolatrous worship that were plaguing ancient  Israel. Catholics began the season with Lent, a forty-day period of abstinence and “mourning” leading up to Easter.

According to the above verses,  Ezekiel saw them involved in a rite in which they were mourning the death of a Babylonian god whose myth said he was resurrected to new life, a mockery of the redeeming death and life-giving resurrection of the true Son of God.

Easter Sunrise Service

He said to me, "Do you see this, son of man? You will see things that are even more detestable than this."Then he brought me into the inner courtyard of the LORD's Temple. At the entrance to the sanctuary, between the entry room and the bronze altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs to the sanctuary of the LORD. They were facing east, bowing low to the ground, worshiping the sun!Ezekiel 8:15,16

Notice that beloved these abominations are being done in the temple of God. According to the New testament, Christians are now the spiritual Temple of God. And we know according to the Bible there is nothing new under the sun, so the idolatrous practices that occurred in ancient Israel have return but under different name and pretexts.

Millions of professing Christians will rise a little early on Easter Sunday so they can participate in a local “sunrise service”  that supposedly honor  Jesus’ resurrection. Later that day, little children will hunt for beautifully-decorated Easter eggs, supposedly laid by the Easter bunny.

The verse above clearly refers to  some sort of pagan sunrise service, in which they honor the sun more highly than God, to whom they contemptuously show their backsides.

Pagan Easter Bunny and Egg and the resurrection of Christ?

Ask  yourself, what does bunnies and eggs have to do with the resurrection of Christ? Absolutely nothing! BUT....the bunny and eggs are symbols of fertility and goes all the way to pagan idolatrous

worship.

When church-goers are practicing things in their church buildings that are directly associated with paganism and witchcraft, and is well-received by the world, one has to go check their Bible to see if it is from God. Beloved, do not simply indulge into traditions or follow rituals because your pastor says so, but do it because it is from the Word of God.

Do not learn the way of the nations for their customs are delusions. Jeremiah 10:3

I will pronounce my judgments on my people because of their wickedness in forsaking me, in burning incense to other gods and in worshiping what their hands have made. Jeremiah 1:16

The reason for Israel's rejections was persistent idolatry, always abandoning the true God and we should not think as Christians that we are any better. The bible says that Satan has gone out to deceive the nations. Easter celebrations is one of those deceptions. Beloved, if it's a religious holiday that is not in the Bible then it is simply not from God but is a deception from the wicked one.

Let us forsake the worship of pagan gods masquerading as Christ and return to the true God. Let us not continue in the path of wayward Israel.

These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God. Matthew 15:8,9



http://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/cgg/ID/13229/Weeping-for-Tammuz.htm
http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/tracts/tract1.html

Modern Idolatry by Church going Christians

Even while these people were worshiping the LORD, they were serving their idols. To this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their ancestors did.2 Kings 17:41


Many church-going Christians are deeply involved in idolatry, while claiming to worship the true God. The reason is that many of us Christians think of idolatry as bowing down to wooden idols as in times passed, not knowing that idolatry is not simply worshiping a wooden statue but it is the act of putting anything before the True God.


Idolatry : an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed. In Judaism and Christianity, the worship of someone or something other than God as though it were God. The first of the biblical Ten Commandments prohibits idolatry: "You shall have no other gods before me."

Many Christians believe that these things do not apply to them and that God is number one in their lives. But that is always the thought of an idolater. No one ever thinks that they are idol worshipers, but in this writing we ask the Lord to help us see our idolatry so that he may help us worship him only.

Idolaters or True worshipers?

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Matthew 6:33


On this verse we can see whether or not we are idol worshippers, for on the preceding verse Christ said "Do not worry then, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear for clothing?' 32 "For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

God knows what we need and we should always come to him first  for all things but notice that the verse say the gentiles (those who do not know God) seek these things with passion. They are consumed in their desires to acquire these things, and in turn those worldy things become gods to them.
Now let's see some common gods we Christians are worshiping these days. To find out, you will need to think about this question: What consumes your thoughts? What takes most of your time? Is it spending time with God? Is it school?....work?....hobbies?

Modern gods in the Church

Materialism: preoccupation with or emphasis on material objects, comforts, and considerations, with a disinterest in or rejection of spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.

Hedonism: the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good

Self-esteem: an inordinately or exaggeratedly favorable impression of oneself.

This is not an extensive list by any means but it does cover many of the idols that so-called Christians are worshiping just like ancient Israel .

We worship at the altar of materialism, we exhaust ourselves working multiple jobs, doing sometimes sinful things in order to acquire more stuff. Keeping up with the Jones' or as we say sometimes fulfilling and living the American dream is the greatest pursuit for many Christians and yet  a three minute prayer put us to sleep.

The Almighty Dollar  In god (money) we trust is the true god of this modern age. So pervasive is this god that we have whole churches now preaching god wants you to be rich.


How you spend your time determine who your God is.

So friends, If you feel bored when you try to read the Bible for a few minutes, if you can't wait to get out of church because the preacher is boring or find the message is too long but you can spend hours studying for school, hours watching television, hours playing games, listening to pagan music, you should reconsider when you say the God of heaven is your true god because apparently you don't really spend much time with him .

These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Matthew 15:8

This is the condition that many Christians find themselves in, going to church as a routine because it is the right thing to do but not truly have any relationship with God. It's alright to pursue things that will help us, but the Kingdom of God and its righteousness must be the priority .
 Beloved, let's not deceive ourselves. If we do not spend quality time daily with God, then something else is taking our time and we are mere idolaters in the church of God " professing a form of Godliness but denying its power".



Examples

I don't have time to read my Bible, because  I am too busy with school and work .

I don't have enough time to pray before I go to sleep,  too tired after watching T.V.



http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-5.htm

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/idolatry?s=t

Live and Let Live; a lie from Hell

We hear that expression all the time, that if whatever  your neighbor is doing is not hurting you or anybody else, then you should let him do his thing and hold your peace. But, can a Christian who profess to have the love of Christ for humanity live according to such teaching?

The answer is no!

The world is saying that live and let live is the highest definition of tolerance and love but in reality it is a satanic ruse to destroy souls. Example, let's say you have someone you truly love and they don't accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior and you truly believe that unless they do they will perish, will you hold that crucial information from them and still claim you love them?
But yet this is what many Christians are being led to believe in this day and age and it is resulting in increasing darkness .

Bible: I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Luke 13:3


Christian : I love my neighbor, I believe the Bible is the Word of God, it's truth will set one free.

Atheist: There is no God! there is no universal truth or life after death....

Christian: Well, I love you and I don't want to get into a debate with you, if that's what you believe. If it makes you happy, then that's fine.

Bible: the soul that sinneth it shall die. Ezekiel 18:20

Female Co- worker: I live with my boyfriend and I think marriage is just a paper

Homosexual friend: yea, I was born gay and I know that God is fine with that because HE is love. What do you say to that our Christian friend?

Christian: Well, I believe in live and let live. I don't do these things but if you guys do them and it brings you fulfillment then that's just fine, who am I to Judge?

Bible: If I say to the wicked, 'Wicked one, you will surely die,' but you do not speak out to warn him about his way, that wicked person will die for his iniquity, yet I will hold you responsible for his blood. Ezekiel 33 :8

So you see friends to claim that you are a Christian and yet allowed your fellow brothers and sisters to believe in errors that will lead them to perdition is not love but pure hatred. You are making yourself an accomplice in their destructions. It is selfishness of the highest order to hold the truth that will bring life to others for yourself and not share it. Do not fall for the societal lies of Satan but ...


Bible: go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone. Mark 16:15

Should Christians Keep Their Religion In The Closet?

In this day and age, every type of perverse lifestyles are coming out of the closet while Christians are going in. Should us, Christians, allow that to happen? Should we ignore the scriptures and buy into false ideas of peace?



Separation of church and life

A strong lie that has greatly paralyzed the church is the idea that one's religious belief belongs in the confines of the church or in the privacy of their homes. My friends, this is a lie straight out  of the pits of hell. Can you imagine Jesus Christ limiting his religion to the privacy of the synagogue or his carpentry? If we claim to be Christians, we must follow the master into preaching the good news wherever and whenever opportunity arises. There can be no separation of church and the rest of our lives because the building structure is not the church. "Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own" 1 Corinthians 6:19 .

Satan's way of silencing truth

Keeping our faith in Jesus Christ in the closet has allowed Satan to manifest his works in the open. As Christians, our most important task is to spread the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. How can we then spread the message when we spend the majority of our time at work being afraid of sharing our faith with others on the job? We will talk about anything but God and yet we claim that God is the number one in our lives. Saying is one thing, but actions speak louder than words. How do we think our co-workers would feel if in the day of judgment they see us being saved while they are not?...and the reason of their perdition could be because we talked to them about every worldly thing such as the world cup, the super bowl, the latest sitcom etc. but never about the salvation of God? Satan has used this idea of separating God from the rest of our lives to limit the reach of the Gospel.

Evil spreads when truth is silenced

As is evident in our society, Christians stay silent in order to be liked and not create divisions while others would not hold their peace. The explosion of the homosexual movement is a case in point. They are seeking to muzzle others while broadcasting their beliefs wherever they go because they associate their sinful acts with who they are. How many times have we shared with our co-workers  and friends, neighbors etc. the love of God and his ability to rescue any from their struggle? As Satan is using others to spread his lies on the earth, we should allow God to use us to counteract the enemies' lies with the truth of the Gospel that will set the captives free.

Let your light shine before men

Beloved! fall no more for this satanic lie of separating our belief in God from the rest of lives that is allowing the destructive works of darkness to spread like wild fires. But from this day forth, let our light shine on darkness so those who were stumbling may see. We are the temple of the Living God and as such our faith goes wherever we go. May God give us the strength to be his ambassadors to all people.

You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house. Matthew 5:14,15