Truth of the Gospel
Following Jesus Christ isn't easy, that's just gospel truth. I see so many people that claim to be followers of Christ, yet they totally disregard the very word of God.
If you've come to this website seeking music that rocks and has a positive message..amen, I try to continually add such artists.
The overall purpose of this website however is much more then that. I want to spread the TRUTH of the gospel, unashamed and in all it's glory.
I fear many are disillusioned, and they don't honestly understand the word. I don't claim to know all, the only thing I claim is total unworthiness, total depravity and that I am wicked, that I didn't find God…He found me.I refuse to take credit, and I don't demand that you listento me, I want you to seek God, and seek the truth in His word. I only hope to shine on that truth to point you in the direction of His message.
I've seen polls that claim 70% of Americans call themselves "Christians", I've even seen polls that claim up to 83% of Americans are. Really?…honestly? That many people claim to be "Christian" and yet as a nation are we living as God told us to? I mean if more then 50% of Americans are Christian then why do most of us live as if we are not accountable to God? Why is this nation a complete contradiction to the word of God? You see… the thing is, you can claim "I'm a Christian" all you want…your claim of "knowing who Christ is" doesn't mean JACK, even the demons know who Christ is and that there is only one God(James 2:19) Their are 38,000 denominations in the Christian faith alone, is that not ridiculous? as if we as "Christians" don't have a hard enough time trying to live the example of Christ! we have
we have to fight amongst ourselves about, more often then not, stupid church manifests.
Don't get it twisted though, I'm not saying don't stand up for the word of God and the truth of the gospel, because we are called to reveal the truth and the reason we believe in IT. What I'm trying to say is fight the right battles. You see out of the "70% of Christians in America" and the 38,000 denomination that claim they are of Christ…there's actually quite a lot who have no business claiming they're Christian. Don't believe me? let me ask you a question, and honestly I want you to think about this…
Did Christ preach a friendly message? I.E Did He preach a message that would make you feel good about yourself?
Most people believe that you seek a relationship with Christ to improve yourself, feel better about yourself. However, Christ's message was all about surrendering yourself. Galatians 2:20 ring a bell? Paul said:
"I have been crucified with Christ: it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."-Galatians 2:20
How can you ignore what Christ Himself said in Luke 14?
"If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple."-Luke 14:26-27
"So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple."-Luke 14:33
is that an easy message to grasp? counting your own life as worthless and surrendering all you are to Christ EVEN if it means leaving your family? Your love and devotion to Christ is so REAL that you wouldn't compromise it for ANYONE? you would hate your own family compared to the love you have for Christ? 70% of Americans have that kind of FAITH? are you kidding me? a more logical number would be 70% of Americans wouldn't even surrender themselves…their wealth their prosperity and security and well being for Christ.
This isn't a joke, this isn't about some sunshiny easy believable gospel of "Just believing"…just say a one time prayer and then continue living for yourself…NO! heresy! FOOLISHNESS! Christ said if you love me you will keep my commandments(John 14:15) He also said do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets I didn't come to destroy but to fulfill(Matthew 5:17)
AGAIN don't get it twisted, this isn't about doing works to be saved, this isn't Mormonism or Roman Catholicism, I do not follow such FOOLISHNESS! the word of God plainly states Only by the grace of God are you saved, not of works lest anyone should boast.(Ephesians 2:8-9)
This website is dedicated to God PERIOD. I seek only to be that living vessel that He works through,
realizing that I could not and can not save myself, and realizing that Following Christ isn't easy(
In fact it will cost me my life) Following Christ is about surrendering SELF and realizing that everything
else under the sun is meaningless.
Rev22-12.com will never water down the Gospel message, and refuses to build its house on the sandy soil
of the Christian-lite prosperity/Universalistic movement
Common Questions
"Why would God, who is suppose to be all "knowing" and all "loving", who says he loves us no matter what..
send us to hell to suffer forever?
Because if he knows everything, and he created me, well then I can't control who or what I am right?
I mean, he knows what I'm going to do before I do it right?
why did He make me love drugs?
why did he make me love alcohol ?
I mean why blame me for it? he created me this way.."
First of all, God is not a Holy God? He doesn't demand Holiness? Does God not despise sin? If God doesn't have a problem with sin
then what was the point of Christ?
I am a sinner, I am wicked, and so is every human-being on the face of the earth, If God sent everyone to Hell would He be unjust? God is creator of the whole universe yet you being the little spec you are in the grand scheme of things are going to claim what's fair and what's not? You can't even wrap your head around how man came to be, and why you are here, and why the world is created how it is, and yet you are going to tell the creator who made the heavens and the earth just how unfair He is and how He must do things?
Christ suffered the very wrath that we justly deserve,and God is unfair in your eyes? We have forgiveness of sins through Christ, by the grace of God and only through God can we ever be saved from our sins. God does not tolerate sin, hence why Christ became the sacrificial lamb, otherwise everyone would perish.
Christ's whole message was a message of surrendering all you are to
the will of God, sacrificing your fleshly desires repenting of your
sins and realizing that you can NOT save yourself. Your problem
stems from the fact that you seem to think that you are good, and
you deserve to stand in the presence of a Holy God who does not
tolerate sin, until you surrender yourself… until you give up trying
to understand God and let HIM reveal himself to you, you'll never
understand.
For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9
Your problem is you are trying to understand a Holy God through your perverse unholy mind, you have to just surrender all you are, all your preconceived notions and ask God to change your heart because only He can. Romans says:
For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9
Your problem is you are trying to understand a Holy God through your perverse unholy mind, you have to just surrender all you are, all your preconceived notions and ask God to change your heart because only He can. Romans says:
Romans 9:20-:
*-"But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'why did you make me like this?'
"Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes
and some for common use?"-*
God said:
"I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion"
"Do you only love God because you fear hell?"
no..plain and simple no. That to me is like asking..
"Do you only love your parents because you fear getting into trouble"
John 4:1-3
every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus as the Christ.
is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
The fact is I love God...not out of fear
not because I have to for my own sake, but because I do
It's a love that knows no bounds, he is my creator, my father, my truth, my light, my everything.
I am not afraid of punishment, I come before God knowing I deserve a punishment
I deserve hell. However, because he loved me so much he sent his only son to die for me.
Through his flesh and blood I am saved.
"So, um..since you are forgiven it doesn't matter if you sin then?
God died on the cross for our sins as you said..
so why don't you just accept that,
believe he is the Lord, and continue on doing whatever you want."
First, yes it does matter if we sin. His willingness to forgive sin, does not at all mean he doesn't care if we continue to do it.
His forgiveness only follows our repentance, then our turning away from that sin.
If we do not turn away from our sins, we will face Gods wrath. No trickery with words by any preacher or teacher can change that.
Paul in the New Testament spent his life, going from town to town...preaching for people to turn from sin.
There is several references in the New Testament on how we as followers of Christ should be.
We are suppose to be like Christ...(Loving, forgiving, no greed, no hint of sexual immorality as it states in Ephesians 5.)
"So you Christians are perfect little Angels then huh?"
no..far from it. Listen we are going to screw up, we are human after all.
There will be days where you fly off the handle..
where you don't treat others "nicely"
where you don't show the Love you're suppose to show.
We need to ask for forgiveness..
pray we don't fly off the handle today
pray we treat others with respect, specially when they don't.
Pray we show the love of Christ.
What we cannot do Is continue doing what we want,
and say to ourselves; "yeah...I'm a sinner..whatever I can't control it..forgive me Jesus"
You think that's legit? you think that's right? how about I come up to you and say
"hey I'm sorry I punched you in the face yesterday...but hey I can't control myself..
so I'm going to punch you again today, but you'll forgive me right?"
ok, so that's a little extreme but you get the point. I hope..
Did you know?
Laminins, which wikipedia describes as:
"A family of proteins that are an integral part of the structural scaffolding of basement membranes
in almost every animal tissue"
Literally they are what holds us together ( seriously look it up )
They are what holds our cells together with other cells,
without them we would..well...fall apart
things would be pretty messy.
What's my point?
have you ever seen what these Laminins look like?
take a look...
I don't know about you, but that looks like a cross to me. God has literally held us together with the cross..
Creation Vs Evolution(Did It really happen like Genesis says)
Listen to Ken Ham explain Creation and Genesis, and how important it is we stand by the word of God.
The Prosperity Gospel Consuming America?
Has America become infected with a wrong Gospel? from tv evangelists to our little churchs,
the Prosperity gospel has spread and it is completely wrong! not even sure what the Prosperity gospel
is? well here's John Piper to explain it....