Yesterday I filled the pulpit at our church and was in the book of Acts 8. This is where it describes Phillip and the eunuch from Africa, who was seeking to know who the Lord was.
The eunuch was a man with great authority and took care of Queen Candaces treasury and must have heard about the God of Isreal and was willing to travel a great distance in order to find out who this God was.
As he was traveling in his chariot, the Lord told Phillip to go to him, Phillip did as the Lord told him and as he approached the eunuch, he heard him reading the book of Isaiah. And he asked him did he understand what he was reading?
The eunuch said no how could he unless someone explained it to him.
Phillip realized that those who have never accepted Jesus Christ as being the Son of God and believed in their hearts that he died on a cross, was buried in a tomb, and then rose from the dead on the third day cannot understand the bible.
Same is true today, if you have never been saved by accepting and believing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, you can read the bible from now until the cows come home and you’ll never understand it.
Spiritually dead people cannot understand things that are spiritually alive, so they cannot understand the bible, they need someone who is spiritually alive to explain it to them.
Phillip who was spiritually alive, preached to the eunuch of who Jesus Christ was, and told him that he needed to accept him as the Son of God, and the eunuch believed and was saved.
Phillip didn’t use any tricks or miracles or anything else to win the eunuch to salvation, he simply told him who Christ is and the eunuch believed and was saved.
But todays a new day in the Christian church. I read in the Saturday paper that a church in Los Angela, Ca. was having a service for pets. You can take your pet there and they will have a service complete with prayers for their spirituality.
There is a growing belief among Christians that animals have souls, which the bible in Genesis clearly states that only man was a three part being, body, soul and spirit. But mans spirit is dead to the things of God until he receives Christ as Savior, its at that point that our spirit becomes alive.
The belief that animals have spirits lies in paganism. If animals had spirits then Christ would have had to die for them also for salvation, we would have to win them for salvation and if we ate one we would be guilty of murder and eating a brother or sister in Christ!
God himself would be guilty of murder as he killed an animal in order to clothe Adam and Eve and ordered the murder of millions of animals for sacrifices.
Thats why its impossible for animals to have spirits and why God said that the earth was for humans use to survive and to care for.
These churches that are having animal blessings are leaving the Gospel of Jesus Christ and dabbling in paganism and false religion.
When churches are no longer are concerned with the salvation of human souls and become more concerned about making people feel good by lying to them that their pets can go to heaven, then that church has lost its way, and has sunk into paganism.
The direction that Americas churches have decided to go with pet blessings, drama teams, worship teams that are nothing more than pride filled showmen wanting attention, shows us that you might as well stay home.
I went to a Baptist church in Alabama, I thought i was going to hear some good preaching and good southern gospel.
All I got was 7 people standing up front with their guitars and hands raised looking all pious singing tired old radio music, and the people (who have to stand) are bored to death and not even singing.
I thought what a waste of precious time, when we could have been singing songs that grabs our hearts because they focus on our Savior, his blood, death, and his glorious Resurrection!
And then to top it off, the preacher misinterpreted Rev. 13:1 by saying the person wasn’t John that was talking, it was the anti-christ!
Come on church!!!
Lets get back to preaching the Word Of God in Truth and in Clarity!!!!
Get away from your pagan direction, your feel good worship times, your positive thinking, politically correct phoony balony sermons,
AND GET BACK TO THE PREACHING OF GODS WORD THAT SAVES HUMAN SOULS!!!
Get your women out of the pulpit, off the stage singing and gyrating to music that are inflaming your mens lust instead of inflaming a passion for God.
Its no wonder the world is flocking to the church, they get a fleshy show instead of salvation.
Shame on the church that continues to sink out of Gods sight.