“Satan the adversary, the ‘bringer of light,’ opposes the advances of the Gospel primarily through the realm of ideas and deception. The object of his deception and the subject matter of his deception is who? It is Jesus.
That is why for the first four-hundred years the Church fought vigorously for the Person of Christ, to the shedding of blood to the laying down of their life. There is a reason why they could not worship at the emperor’s altar. Beloved, if Jesus is just a good teacher, if He just shows you the way to God, then they can easily worship at the altar of the emperor. Yet hundreds and hundreds of thousands of believers year after year after year were led to the lions, were filleted alive, were skinned alive, were run through, were crucified upside down, were hung on crosses, they were burned and set on fire. Why?
Because He is not optional. He is the unique, supreme, revelation of the Living God. When you have Him you have it all. When you do not, you do not. Satan will oppose that revelation over everything, and he will do it through the most popular polished people on the globe. He does not mind feeding the poor. He minds the testimony of Jesus who is the only King who will return and set the poor truly free… [The testimony of Jesus Christ] is the subject matter that will enflame our hearts and set us on fire and make us fearless before the most powerful men and women of the earth.”
–Allen Hood, The Excellencies of Christ
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November 9, 2008 at 9:41 pm
1 John 2
“22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
Let Truth Abide in You
24 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.”
If you don’t have the right Jesus then you do not have the Father, not the jesus of mormonism, not the jesus of christian science, not the jesus of the jehovah’s witnesses, not the jesus of the muslims, not the jesus of da vinci.
Put your faith in the REAL Jesus of Scripture lest you die in your sins.
The Portrait – Da Truth
November 15, 2008 at 9:48 am
Yay! I am so excited for this class!
January 3, 2009 at 10:47 pm
What a profound statement …
September 4, 2009 at 2:34 am
you must be anti Catholic right?