Consider this. Satan has an
earthly church too.
It is of course the antithesis of God's truth in Jesus Christ.
Jesus forewarned of this. And of course it arrived.
Then deceitful teachers arrived misleading, as foretold also, even the Elect.
Denominationalism fractured the gospel of Christ and formed it into the image of the fractures. Lutheran's, Methodist, etc....
God is in all that is created of and from him. As Paul reminded us. And so we are without excuse should anyone dare say, there is no evidence anything labeled ''God'' exists.
You will not reach hardened hearts of natural man,woman. Only God can change their condition.
Too often we think we lead people to Jesus. When Jesus said, no one can come to him unless the father calls them.
We are all examples of what proves the scriptures true.
There are actual born again Christians in this world. And there are those who are not.
The way to tell the difference is by,as we're told, the fruits.
That which promotes a teaching they follow that makes Jesus a mere man with a sin nature are not in Christ.
Nor are those who insist salvation is not what Jesus said it was. And as such he lied. Because he can lose us. And we can choose to leave his hand.
Those who know Jesus was God, the word made flesh who dwelt among us as the pure unblemished lamb, with the spiritual sinless nature of God, and are redeemed in him, born again as Saints in Christ, are of Christ. We are irrevocably saved in faith by God's free gift of his grace alone.
Those who mock that are among the numbered the damned.
That which makes Jesus in the image and likeness of man, when Jesus came to save man from their fallen nature, are of the devil.
It really is that easy to tell the difference.
Reach them? My dear, God hasn't done so yet.
Are we going to text a change in them?
What we encounter in those lost ones are that which and of course this is part of that carnal fallen nature, strive to lead us to believe in their false god.
''...shall seek to deceive even the elect.''
I suggest you learn the signs of their condition. Don't think you can talk them out of it. God tells us,that's something only his holy spirit can change.
Meanwhile, be ever vigilant you notice when they try to change us.
Unless it be God's will to change them, their fate is sealed.
Take note when they desperately try to take us with them.
We know that's not possible. Jesus will lose none, and no one will take us from his hand.
Meanwhile, God's own know we can't convince Satan of the truth no matter how much wasted effort we expend in the hopes that may be untrue.
Let Satan's effort to try to lead us to believe his lies , or to persuade us to believe we are not eternally secured by God giving his word literally to seal us in his promise unto the last day, serve as another sign Satan is still prowling this world like a hungry lion seeking souls to devour.
Truth is, the only ones he shall feast on are his own.
Satan was a liar from the beginning. So too are his disciples.
Yes, it really is that simple.
Don't feel bad for those destined to die in their sins.
You are saved by God's will.
They are not.
God made everyone for his purpose. Those to be saved, which is why he wrote our names in his Lambs Book of Life before the foundation of the world, and those made for the day of destruction, whose names are not there.
It's not in our power or our responsibility. All is as God wills.
God is God.
Live with that.
Satan will always explain How Jesus could be God but never explain how it is possible for either to lie..
They will quote Scripture after scripture about Jesus being God but not one Scripture that shows how it is possible for God to lie...
Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which
it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
It is impossible for God to lie.
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
It is impossible for God or Jesus to lie.
I have shown mine, now show me yours that says that it is possible for God to lie.
Anything else is deflection and lies...
So whose will did God Himself come down from heaven to do, if not his own?
John 6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do mine own will but the will of him that sent me."
If you claim that Jesus is God Himself then Jesus only has one will and that is his own will...
If you claim that it was his human will he did not do then you are calling Jesus himself a liar because he said he did not come to do his own will.
If you utilize "God the Son" you are calling Jesus God Himself and Calling God Himself a liar...
Show me one piece of scripture that says that it is possible Jesus or God Himself to lie....
