Friday, June 20, 2014

The spirit of Jezebel still afflicts modern denominations

It is hardly new news that denominational bodies throughout the world are taking a sympathetic view towards what God's word calls sin, and clearly denotes as false theology. At the least it goes back to the church in Thyatira (Revelation 2:18-29).
Rev. 2:20  Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Some bad teaching was going on in the church. It was propounded by a woman called Jezebel by the Lord.
We don’t know if that was her given name, or Jesus is giving her a nickname that describes the awful person she was, comparing her to Jezebel in the Old Testament who was truly evil.

Instead of talking about God’s pure morality, she was telling people it was O.K. to be sexually immoral.
Instead of pointing people to the cross and calling them to believe and worship Jesus, she was leading them to make sacrifices to idols. Jesus speaks out against such teaching.We need to know that there are things in our individual lives, hopefully not this bad, that Jesus is not O.K. with, and there are things being taught in some denominations, and even more sadly in local churches that Jesus is not O.K. with.

The Christian church has to be careful about what it teaches. We’re about Jesus. We’re about the cross. We’re about the new birth.We’re about walking with Christ day by day, all the days of our lives.We're about forsaking sin. We’re about looking for His coming back, because he promised to do that.Those are the things we want people to hear when they come to church. Unfortunately Thyatira was a church that had goofed and allowed a false teacher to be part of their ministry.

If a woman, or man for that matter, comes to a church and offers to teach some "higher knowledge" than the Bible has she/he is offering some form of an ancient heresy called Gnosticism. Any so-called spiritual teaching that disregards the meaning of the Bible is not Christian. Needless to say, she/he should not be allowed to teach in a church that names Jesus as it's Lord. I wish the church at Thyatira had done that: Oh, no, you can’t teach that stuff in this church, we’re a Jesus church. I wish all churches and denominations who have fallen for false faith had done that. We’d all be better off. You, and your church, have to constantly be on your guard. There is a right and a wrong, and God decides it, not denominations who have left the Bible's teaching, not Hollywood, or Jezebel, or our increasingly immoral society.

Jezebel would have said, O don’t worry about it, it’s OK. Let me warn you: Whenever somebody says it’s O.K. don’t worry about it, worry about it until God’s Spirit uses God's word to convince your heart it is really O.K. Have you ever had one of those situations where you couldn’t put your finger on it, but you said to yourself, “In my gut I know this is wrong”? Well, you are the gut of the church, when you have a feeling always check it with the Word of God, and let the Spirit of God convince you of whether it is right or wrong.
  
Interesting the reaction of Jezebel and her people, to Jesus’ grace.
21  And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
The grace is I gave her space to repent. Interesting today people say “I need my space.”
She still would not get right with Jesus.

Hey, if there is something in your life that shouldn’t be there,
Don’t be like Jezebel.
Turn away from it and get it out of your life.

There were bad things coming for Jezebel, and those who followed her and would not repent.
What is good in God’s eyes brings a good end, but the bad in God’s eyes brings a bad end.

Jezebel bad things are coming.
Wrong doing has it’s rewards, and they are not something you want, if you want the best of life.
 22  Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
23  And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.


Bad news for Jezebel.

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