DAYS OF APOSTASY

The articles that follow is definitely controversial to say the least.
But believers in the LORD Jesus Christ are to be discerning because we live in the last days that the Bible speaks of which is characterized by apostasy.

Read and consider prayerfully the things that are written remembering the warning of the LORD Jesus Christ in

Matthew 7:21-23
King James Version (KJV)
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21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Pastor Manny


RICK WARREN SAYS HE IS NOT INTERESTED IN CHANGING THE DOCTRINE OF HERETICS (Friday Church News Notes, October 10, 2008, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) –

In a recent interview with Christianity Today, Rick Warren said: “We need to mobilize a billion Catholics and Orthodox. I’m not really that
interested in interfaith dialogue. I am interested in interfaith
projects. Let’s do something together. You are probably not going to
change your doctrinal distinctives, and I’m probably not going to
change my doctrinal distinctives. We have different beliefs. But the
fact is, we do serve the same Lord. Let’s work on the things we can
agree on” (“After the Aloha Shirts,” Christianity Today, Oct. 1,
2008).

To the contrary, the apostle Paul said that those who pervert
the gospel of the grace of Christ are cursed of God (Galatians 1:6-9).
Obviously, then, those who preach the true gospel and those who preach
a false one do not serve the same Lord. Christ told the Jewish leaders
who denied salvation by grace that their father was the devil (John
8:44). Beware of Rick Warren. He is the blind leading the blind and is
building the devil’s harlot rather than Christ’s bride. (See http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/howrome.htm.)

The prophet Amos wisely asked, “Can two walk together, except they
be agreed?” (Amos 3:3), and Warren replies, “Who cares if they agree
or disagree; let’s just walk together.”


BARACK OBAMA’S SPIRITUALITY (Friday Church News Notes, October 10, 2008, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “Obama Grew up with the Bible and the Koran,” Lighthouse Trails, Sept. 2, 2008:

“Recently, when Barack Obama was interviewed by Rick Warren, Obama told Warren that Jesus Christ
was his Lord and Savior. Yet this ‘banner’ Obama raises is one that
has an interspiritual foundation, representing a new kind of
‘Christianity,’ one that looks more like Brian McLaren’s spirituality
than traditional, biblical Christianity. Stephen Mansfield’s book [The
Faith of Barack Obama, Thomas Nelson publishers] addresses the concern many have that Obama may be a closet Muslim, but he dismisses the possibility in the book, saying he was too young to be a ‘full convert to Islam’ (p. 18). But what emerges from this book is a man who is New Age in philosophy, believing that all religions are legitimate paths to God, and all humanity is connected together (spiritually speaking - i.e., God is in all). Obama does clearly believe that the form of Christianity that he committed to at Trinity Church in 1985 is not the
only path to God. ‘I am rooted in the Christian tradition,’ he has
said. Nevertheless he asserts, ‘I believe there are many paths to the
same place and that is a belief there is a higher power, a belief that
we are connected as a people.’ He first saw his broad embrace of faith
modeled by his mother. ‘In our household,’ he has explained, ‘The
Bible, [t]he Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf ... on
Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to a church, just as
she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year
celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites’ (p.
55 of Mansfield’s book, quoting from Audacity of Hope, Obama, p. 203).

After his interspiritually-based upbringing, Obama later spent twenty
years in a church, which promotes the panenthestic (God in all),
interspiritual approach. In a 2006 article in United Church News,
Obama stated that the teachings of the UCC (United Church of Christ),
of which he was a member (Trinity United Church of Christ) until
recently, are ‘foundation stones for his political work.’ Just what
are those ‘teachings’ comprised of? On Trinity's website, on the Yoga
page, the following statement is highlighted: ‘Within each [of] us is
the seed of Divinity. Each Soul is divine. I bow to the divinity in us
all!’ This is classic Hinduism that teaches that divinity resides in
every human being. It is also the message of the New Age movement--
man’s divinity! ... Obama insists that to base national ‘policy’ on
biblical truths ‘would be a dangerous thing’ to do (Audacity of Hope,
p. 220). There is one sentence in Audacity of Hope that sums up Barack
Obama’s spirituality. He states: ‘When I read the Bible, I do so with
the belief that it is not a static (stable) text but the Living Word
and that I must be continually open to new revelations’ (p. 224).”

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