Be Careful Or Your Denomination May Block Your Way To Heaven

Be careful or your denomination may

block your way to heaven. That's our

message. The text is taken from Matthew

13: 24-30. Here's a word of caution. This

message is not meant to hurt believers

in Christ in any Christian

denomination. And it is not intended to

cause you to leave your Christian Church.

God knows we have too many people

leaving the churches for various reasons,

some good and some bad. But this

message

is all about establishing truth and

making sure that the focus of believers

in Christ is upon Jesus Christ Himself

and not upon a

denomination. I have many friends in the

Catholic church and various Christian

denominations who are solid citizens of

the kingdom of God. and I have no doubt

that they will rise in the resurrection

because they have become one with the

Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. And

they have not made their Church

organization or their denomination a God

like some others have

done. However if you are in a

denomination that has been declared a cult

I certainly advise you to leave as soon

as

possible. Father we give You thanks and

praise for Your love and mercy. Bless

Your Word as it goes forth with power

under the anointing of Your Holy Spirit.

Bless the listener Father we pray, that

You give them understanding that they

may share it with others in Jesus name

we pray

amen. The first time we see the word

Church in the Bible is in Matthew

16:18, where Jesus Christ said unto the

Apostle Peter, "Thou art Peter and upon

this rock I will build My Church and the

gates of Hell shall not prevail against

it."

According to the book of Acts the

Christian Church was simply referred to

as the Way or that Way, and this is found

in Acts 9 and 2 and 19

and 9. And this was the way it was for a

while. Perhaps it seems as if they did

not know what to call this new movement,

which had turned the world upside down

suddenly. This movement which Christ had

referred to as His church. And if the

truth be told they were calling Christ

Church exactly what it is. Indeed it is

the Way, and the only Way. This clear and

precise title given the early church was

simplistic yet purposeful. Clearly Satan

would not have wanted the Church of the

Most High God established through His

Son Jesus Christ to be called the Way,

because it would have been too easy for

men and women of the world who were

lost

to find their way to Christ's great

church. And therefore it is no surprise

that the name disappeared after a while.

Believe it or not today there are some

45,000 or more denominations of the

Christian

Church. Since the devil could neither

destroy Christ's, nor His Church, he

turned to creating division and planting

error in every Church. Which led to this

diversity that we have

today. But Christ had already said that

the gates of hell would not prevail

against His Church and He proved it by

rising from the grave. And further proof

is the fact that the Church of the Most

High God continue to roll on unhindered

and is the number one religion in the

world

today. According to a 2012 Pew research

study of the 232 countries and

territories of the world. A whopping 157

of these countries have Christian

majorities and it is amazing

that as the Church divided, it multiplied

and grew. And today 2 thirds of the nations

in the world can be considered Christian

nations, because the majority of people

living in

these 153 countries are believers in

Jesus Christ. There are also about 13

nations

in which Christianity is the state

religion and these are considered

theocracies.

Unfortunately denominational diversity

has led to much confusion about which

Church, which denomination is better for

a new believer to

join. Around 100 AD the term Christianity

began to be used and followers of Jesus

Christ began to be called

Christians. A few years later in 110 ad

the term Catholic Church was used in a

letter written by a zealous defender of

the faith known as St Ignatius of

Antioch. Father of the Church at that

time. The word Catholic simply meant

universal Church. Later it became known

as the Roman Catholic Church. And over

the years the Church strayed away from

some of the teachings of the Holy

scriptures. Then along came a man called

Martin Luther in the early 1500s known

as the father of the Protestant movement,

who posted 95 thesis which were 95

errors in the doctrine of the Roman

Catholic Church. Which triggered a break

away from

Catholicism. And just as the Catholic

Church strayed away from some of the

teachings of the Holy Bible and

substituted traditions for doctrines.

Martin Luther also strayed away and made

mistakes. And with every denomination

that was formed thereafter errors were

made practically.

However Luther's three main beliefs were

solid. Number one, he believed that the

Bible is the only Authority for

Christians. Secondly, he believed that

faith alone justifies a person in the

eyes of God. And scripture clearly states

that without faith it is impossible to

please our God. Thirdly, he believed that

salvation is a gift from God. In other

words we are saved by grace through

faith and therefore salvation cannot

be earned or bought. These three pillars

of the Protestant movement directly

opposed errors that were in the

teachings of the Catholic Church of that

day. As new denominations were formed,

many erroneously claimed to be the only

true Christian Church. In fact as recent

as

1965, the Vatican council made the bold

and erroneous declaration that whoever

would refuse to enter or to remain in

the Roman Catholic Church could not be

saved. Lutheran theology says that there

can only be one true visible Church and

that is the Lutheran

Church. The Amish fraternity believed

that the established Church had become

corrupt and displeasing to God and that

God had used them to replace it. The

Quakers also say that they are the one

true Church of Christ. The Seventh Day

Adventists believe that they are the

final remnant of God's true Church or

the last remaining

part. Some of them also believe that all

who worship on Sunday are

lost. The Jehovah's Witness cult claimed

that they are Jehovah's one and only

true

organization. And finally the Church of

latter day saints, another cult, claim that

they are the only true and living Church

upon the face of the whole earth.

These are just some of the denominations

that claim that they are the only one

true Church on

earth. What are believers in Christ to

make of all of this confusion? And how

did we get this far away from the one

true Church that Jesus Christ rarely

established at the Last

Supper? And this is none other than the

work of Satan to cause people of God to

be confused about what is

truth. But he has failed miserably.

One great benefit that came along with

the Protestant movement was that Luther

believed a copy of the Bible should be

in the hands of every believer. And so he

translated the Bible into the German

language. He did this so that believers

in Christ in his country, should not have

to depend on the Church to give them the

Word of

God. They would each be able to secure a

copy of their own Bible and this was

simply

marvelous. Because of Luther the German

people had a copy of the Bible available

in their native language. And then about

80 years later English-speaking nations

were able to have their own Bible in

English. However in his German

translation of the Bible Luther

considered omitting 25 books which he

disputed. Books such as Genesis, Exodus,

Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Esther,

Job,

Ecclesiastes, Jonah and Tobias. He said

that too much of the teachings of

Judaism were in these books and so he

placed them at the back of the German

Bible. As denominations made the bold and

erroneous claim that they are the only

true Church of Jesus Christ. An evil

spirit of pride entered the Church

causing members to take their eyes off

Christ and make their denomination their

God. And now instead of falling in love

with the God of Heaven and the Savior of

their souls, they fell in love with their

brand of Christ Church. And they took

great pride in the traditions and dead

rituals of their denomination. And even

today exclude all who are not a part of

their organization. But Christ is not an

organization. Neither is His true Church

an organization. The Church of Jesus

Christ is a living, harmonious, invisible

body in which there is true love and

acceptance among its members. In

fact according to John 17 and 20, Jesus

Christ prayed that all who would believe

in Him would be one. And the scripture

says He prayed in this

fashion and I quote, "That all may be one

as You Father are in Me and I in You.

That they also may be one in Us. That the

world may believe that You have sent Me

and the glory that You gave Me I have

given them, that they may be one, even as

We are one. I in them and You in Me, that

they may be made perfect in

one." The mere fact that so many

denominations came along claiming to be

the one and only true Church is great

evidence of the nasty work that Satan

has been doing in the Church. He

systematically planted his wicked

servants in the Churches among the

leadership and used them to inject error

into Church doctrine in practically all

of the

denominations. He even whispered in the

ears of good men causing them to go off

on a tangent at

times. A tangent that was not in

accordance with the Word of

God. The question is what do we do about

all of this. Should we work to root out

the wicked from among the true servants

of the Most High

God. Well Jesus Christ Himself gave us

the answer in the parable of the wheat

and the weeds found in Matthew 13. In the

parable, the Kingdom of Heaven is said to

be like a man who sowed good seeds in his

field but an enemy came in secretly and

sowed bad seeds. And Christ said that the

field represents the world. The good

seeds are the true children of the

Kingdom, and the weeds are the wicked

children of

Satan. And when His servants asked Him

whether they should go and gather the

weeds or remove them. Christ the Master

of the Harvest said, let them grow

together until harvest time. At that time

the Son of man will send forth His

angels and they shall gather out of His

Kingdom, which is His church all the

offensive evil men and women in the

Church of the Most High God. And shall

cast them into a furnace of fire which

is hell. And He said there shall be

wailing and gnashing of teeth. At that

time the righteous shall shine forth

like the sun in the Kingdom of their

Father. And finally my friend, the Church

shall be one with the Father, one with

the Son and one with the Holy Ghost. God

bless and keep you in Jesus mighty name.

Hold fast until our savior

returns,

amen. You've been listening to this

message and perhaps you do not know

Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. We want

to give you an opportunity to make that

commitment today.

Please engage your heart and say this

prayer after

me. Father I am a

sinner. I am sorry for all my

sins. Dear Lord I crave Your

forgiveness. Thank You Lord for having

mercy on

me. Today I invite Jesus Christ into my

heart. Dear Lord Jesus make my heart

Your

home.

I give You the key to my heart because I

now belong to You

forever. Please give me the Holy

Spirit to lead me into all

truth. Thank You Lord for saving my soul,

amen. Welcome friend to the body of

believers in

Christ. There are a few things that we

would like for you to make sure that you

follow. Number one,

become water baptized as quickly as

possible. Let your pastor know that

you've given your heart to Jesus Christ

and you want to be

baptized. Secondly, we encourage you to

begin reading the word of God every day.

It is your daily food, you will need it

to remain strong in Christ. Begin in the

Book of John then go to Matthew, Mark,

and

Luke, reading audibly as often as

possible. Pray daily,

attend at your local church and one glad

morning the Savior will come and receive

us all unto Himself, and we shall forever

be with the Lord. God bless and keep you

in Jesus mighty name, amen.