I post this as the Jesus worshiped at LOTWC was the Rolex Jesus. So glad I'm free from that bondage! Joyce Leiphon became Jesus to the people of this church. You can see from the comments that LOTWC is Her church and pastor worship continues to run rampant. As you read this, please ask yourself, what Jesus do you worship?
John says Jesus will burst on the scene in all His majesty at the end of history, and all the world will see Him for who He is. Yet today people pick and choose what they believe about Jesus without accepting His full identity. They craft a god in their own image to meet their needs, then they stick the Jesus label on their idol. Do you recognize any of these false versions of Jesus that are popular today?
1. The Rolex Jesus. Many people worship at the altar of this golden calf. This Jesus promises health, wealth, mansions and luxury cars—but the people who benefit most from his favors are the prosperity preachers who demand that you tithe to them.
2. The Santa Claus Jesus. He lives far, far away and visits rarely. He makes a list and checks it twice, and his love is based on your performance. If you aren’t too naughty he gives you what you ask for.
3. The Rabbit Foot Jesus. Some people treat Jesus like a magic charm. They don’t seek to know Him personally, but they figure if they show up at a church service a few times a year, or hang a picture of him on their wall, they’ll be lucky when bad things happen to other people.
4. The Oprah Jesus. He’s soft, cuddly and adaptable to your spiritual preferences. He lets you define your own morality. He’s like a spiritual bartender—he’ll mix Buddhism, Hinduism and hedonism into your favorite New Age cocktail. He invites you to eat, drink and be merry because all religions lead to heaven.
5. The Fightin’ Fundie Jesus. He’s always angry, especially at homosexuals, women who work outside the home, and stores that sell liquor on Sundays. At any moment he’s ready to unleash an earthquake to destroy America. He doesn’t really like other countries either.
6. The Liberal Mainline Jesus. He’s similar to the Oprah Jesus, but more respectable. He doesn’t mind if you rewrite the Bible, but he requires that you wear a suit to church and that you sing the first, second and fourth verse of every hymn. And he asks that you keep your music very mellow.
7. The Rock Star Jesus. This one is hugely popular today. He doesn’t care how you live your life during the week, or who you sleep with, but in church you must be trendy and use lots of hair gel. Songs must be loud (even if they have no content) and sermons must have a lot of movie clips. Words such as “sin” or “holiness” are off-limits because they are just not cool.
8. The Republican Jesus. When this flag-waving Jesus was transfigured, he appeared with George Washington and Ronald Reagan. He’s willing to bend the rules and let certain conservative politicians and pundits into heaven (especially Mormons) if they promise to keep taxes low and guns available.
9. The Democratic Jesus. He rides on a donkey and dispenses good will, health care and stimulus money to all who are weary and heavy-laden. He steals from the rich, gives to the poor and creates jobs for people who are too lazy to work. He’s fine if you talk about God in speeches, as long as you don’t mention sin or offend a special interest group.
There are many other false versions of Jesus out there, but I think you catch my drift. We need to know, worship and proclaim the real Jesus, the Jesus of the Bible whose robe was dipped in blood because He died for all of us. His name is clearly legible: KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. Let’s tell everybody about Him now so they won’t be caught by surprise when this life is over.
Can I also add, the Father God replacing Jesus, as it is written, they worship and served the creature rather than the Creator. The Bible describes Jesus as the firstborn of all creation. The true Jesus worships his God and our God, his Father and our Father, and walks in the midst of the churches and worships the Father with us as the book of Hebrews describes clearly. But todays Elimite Jesus is proclaimed as our God, in disregard to the Father who raised Jesus from the dead. So the scripture comes true, they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and made God into an image like unto man or like an animal. But GOD is SPIRIT, as Jesus proclaimed, and those who worship HIM must worship HIM in Spirit and in Truth, for SUCH are the worshippers that the FATHER (who did you just say there Jesus?) yes, the FATHER seeks such to worship HIM. Notice Jesus didn't say to worship Jesus, but to worship the FATHER! As the Apostle Paul says to the early church, though the late church, especially the pentecostal Elim and AOG church in the UK among other evangelical churches, have ignored the Spirit of God's words which Paul penned, saying to us there is but ONE GOD, (who is that one God Paul?) THE FATHER. Well that makes it clear then, doesn't it? Well not according to the leaders of many of today's churches, who I am certain would cast Jesus out of their buildings if he came and preached what he did when on earth as man, and if he came and preached what the Spirit of God spoke through the apostles! That there is ONE GOD, and that ONE GOD is none other than THE FATHER and HIM ALONE! And God made Jesus, and then made him Lord and raised him from death, and seated him at his right hand in heaven, as a mediator between man and GOD. A mediator is one in between! He cannot be us and he cannot be God, because he is inbetween us both! Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, BUT GOD IS ONE the apostle Paul said. Yes, we are many but GOD IS ONE! We are in Christ, the 2nd ADAM, the one whom GOD ordained to be a high preist forever, the one who CRIED OUT TO GOD, to save him from death!! OH that we would all get back to the AUTHENTIC gospel, goodnews, truth, and Spirit breathed words which are shown in the book of Acts, and the writings of the gospels and apostles.
ReplyDeleteThere seems to be a famine in the land, as the scripture predicted, of truth. Everyone seems to trust in lies, saying The Temple of God, the Temple of God, the Temple of God, and yet their songs are teaching falsehood and not the truth that the apostles and Jesus taught about God.
TO PROVE what I am saying, simply take a careful look through every chapter of the book of Acts, and look very closely what is taught and preached about Jesus and about GOD, JAH'VEH. Unfortunately through satanic superstition and just as JAH'VEH predicted, they have made the people to forget God's name, which is totally UNSCRIPTURAL and UNGODLY. GOD, JAH'VEH taught us to proclaim HIS NAME, JAH, to the world. Jesus is the greek way of saying JOSHUA, which means, JAH is salvation. Just as Joshua was salvation of Jehovah for the Israelites, so Jesus is salvation of Jehovah for the gentiles and Jews alike, bringing the two people groups together into one man, united in the Messiah, ie the ANOINTED ONE OF JAH! Notice it is JAH that does the anointing of Jesus, it is JAH that gives Jesus the ability to pour out the spirit of JAH upon all who believe that JAH raised him from the dead.
When will you stop being stiff necked and submit to GOD's truth and have the courage to stand against today's man made traditions and doctrines of devils, may JAH grant you the dear reader and all in Christ's church, who have gone a whoring after the teachings of man, strength and power to stand up, in the gap, and proclaim in the gates of JAH's house HIS WORDS, and tear down all these satanic teachings that set themselves up against the knowledge of Christ and of God.
Amen!