Our Warning Against Those Who Deny the True Diety of Christ


Sandra D In what I am writing here, you can see that there are many, many people who are denying that Jesus Christ is the true Son of God. These people want to make Him just a teacher or someone who lived a good life and is an example to follow. But if Jesus is not a part of the Trinity, then He is not the One we should be giving our whole lives for. But it is He that is the true Son of God. He was all man and all God in one. He is deity true. He lives today at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for us. He defeated Satan and all the evil followers of this wicked one. And he took the keys of death, hell, and the grave from Satan. These no longer have any fear or hold for us.



I John 2: 18-23 -- "Little children, it is the last time: and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us (did not hold to the truth), but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us, but they went out, that they might be made manifest (show) that they were not of us."



Many today are now saying that Jesus is not who the Bible says He is. They have another way to God. Their other way is by contemplative meditation. This is one of the main practices of the emerging church people. In this meditation, a person is in a type of situation much like yoga. The person gets into the silence and shuts his mind down by repeating a word or phrase (mantra) over and over many times. When a word is repeated many times, the soul begins to sink deep inside ones self. This is a state of self hypnosis. In this state, the mind is no longer thinking at all. The spirit of the person is now open for any and all spirits to come into it. We know that the spirit of God doesn't work this way. So, the spirits that come into the person in this state are the evil spirits that are in this world.



I have read that many hollywood actors go into this type of meditation before beginning to act. They say it is not them doing the acting, but another person altogether. This is like another person has taken over the actor's mind and body. People who practice this meditation think that they are getting deeper into fellowship with God. They believe that their spirit combines with the spirit of God. This teaching is leading people to think that they have a "secret way" of communing with God. While in this state of self hypnosis, a person can be inhabited by an evil spirit who then can control the thinking of that person. It gives some people a kind of god-complex, making them think they are god.



I John 2:23 - "Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father; but he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also."



The people of the emerging church movement deny that Jesus is the way to God. They don't believe that Jesus is the "door" as the Bible teaches He is. They do not believe that a person must accept Jesus as Savior in order to be saved. And not only these people think this way. There are a great many people in our nation and the world today who do not believe Jesus is "the way." They say that a God who would let only those who accept Jesus be able to be in heaven is not a good God. They believe that a God who would condemn people to hell because they don't accept Jesus is not a just God. But the Bible teaches just the opposite. God is a just God. But God is also a God of compassion. He didn't have to make a way for people to come to Him after the fall of Adam; but He did. God gave a part of Himself, His Son, to be sacrificed in a cruel way in order for all mankind to have the choice to come to Him and be a part of His kingdom.



As I wrote before, "kingdom now" is a big term with emerging church people. They believe that they can establish a perfect world now if they do certain things. They believe that God is in every person, therefore every person is god. This is the belief that Oprah Winfrey bases her church upon. It is the teaching of Rick Warren and many other leaders of this false movement.



I John 3: 8 - "He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil."



The Bible can't be any clearer about who Jesus is. Those who don't believe Jesus is the Son of God just either do not read the Bible or they don't want to believe. Maybe the sin that is the favorite of the devil, the pride of life, has them blinded. Whatever is the cause, they are headed for hell as surely as they live in this world and are of this world.



Sandra