How to Reach Fellow Sinners

As sinners ourselves, it’s difficult to come down on the sins of others with out being hypocritical. This is a criticism of Christians: we’re not perfect, we’re not God, so what right do we have to pass judgement on anyone?

This is why it’s important to acknowledge our own faults and to understand what our roles are as Christ’s followers.

So, how does a sinner tell others about sin? What right do we have to do this? Paul says in 1st Timothy 1:8, “But we know that the law is good, IF a man use it lawfully.”

We should remind ourselves, “as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one,” (Rom 3:10) and “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” (Rom 3:23)

No one is exempt from God’s judgement and everyone is a sinner, as awful as this sounds. But how we address sin is what separates us from the crowd.

We start with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which was a blood atonement for all of our sins. Because we believe this, we believe the Word of God, which was established from the beginning of time.

Put simply, Christians deal with sin by following the Word of God. And then there is everyone else: Those who think sin doesn’t exist, those who think sin doesn’t need to be addressed, those who think humans should do whatever they want as long as it makes them happy, etc.

This is where we have work to do and how we do this work is important.

First, we must acknowledge our own sin and offer personal testimony when appropriate.

Second we should do it with love, as my dearest friend always reminds me. We love the Lord and his creations. We love life and this is why we share the Word with others.

“Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.” Romans 3:19

Third, consider the delivery. There are many fragile, severely damaged people out there, who could be helped by our message and we should treat them gently, while always pointing to the Bible as the arbiter of all things.

The Bible says that “For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.” (1st Corinthians 11:31). The point of informing someone of their sin is to AVOID the true wages of sin, not to justify ourselves before God or before men.

We as Christians acknowledge that it's impossible to follow the Word to the letter. But we understand that God sent his Son to cover our sins for this reason, if we choose to put our faith in him. We can’t be perfect, but we can and should seek to follow him more closely every day. Our mission is to help others do the same.

“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge RIGHTEOUS judgment.”

-John 7:24

Wide is the Gate and Broad is the Way that Leadeth to Destruction Pt 2

“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good...” Psalm 14:1

This message continues from my prior post on The Gateway Experience, a CIA-funded series of experiments on altered states of consciousness with the goal of escaping “the restrictions of time and space.” If you have not read part 1, I would encourage you to do so before continuing because for time’s sake I will not be repeating the past message here. The document I am analyzing can be found right on the illustrious CIA’s own website.

I began this post with Psalm 14:1 because it condemns this experiment and its participants as foolish. To say there is no God is foolish according to the scriptures. To bypass the obvious intelligent design of the universe and the world around us, the field of quantum mechanics has created a concept known as “The Absolute.” In point #18 “Time-Space Dimension” it reads:

“Energy in infinity means energy uniformly extended without limit. It has no beginning, no end, no location. It is conscious force, the fundamental primal power of existence without form, a state of infinite being…. Energy in infinity means energy uniformly extended without limit… Energy in this state of inactive infinity is termed by physicists as energy in its absolute state, or simply “the Absolute.” -Pg 11 (or page 13 of the PDF)

In that long, garbled word salad the author describes a “conscious force” in the universe…but that “force” is somehow not the God of the Bible. Speaking of forces, Daniel chapter 11 predicts the rise of a certain king who worships a certain god…

“[36] And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. [37] Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. [38] But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.” - Daniel 11

The danger of this report is that it passes off mystical philosophy as empirical science. As we pointed out in the first message, many of the “conclusions” of the Gateway experiments are based more on assumptions or inductive reasoning than on any empirical evidence or data. These conclusions about the nature of reality and unseen dimensions of consciousness are not just some new idea expounded by some arm-chair physicists in the twentieth century. This cosmology harkens all the way back to the mystery religion of Babylon.

Worse, the document goes on to suppose that not only are there dimensions of reality outside of our five senses, but that there are “intelligent, non-corporal energy forms” and “possible unwanted out-of-body presences” that can be interacted with in these realms.

In the following messages we will discuss these intelligent, non-corporal energy forms, witchcraft masquerading as science, and the spiritual damage that governments are inflicting on their own people. On YOU, my friend.

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” - 1st John 4:1

Celebrate the Word of God

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 16:18

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

1 John 2:16

(Wicklow Ireland November 2018)