The Popular Beliefs of Modern Day Churches
The demands of this rushing modern age are so numerous that many people have little time and still less desire in their short lives to make earnest preparation for their meeting with God.
Hence the majority of people who are too lazy to search the Holy Scriptures for themselves are left at the mercy of those whom they pay to search for them - the ministers, pastors and preachers; many of these pastors and preachers betray these people's trust by studying and expounding economic and social problems as well as the politics of the day rather than the Oracles of God.
People have settled on this lie that if they attend a religious service, are reverent in their demeanor, join in the singing of the hymns, listen respectfully to the preacher, and contribute to the collection, read the Bible maybe 15 minutes a day, they have really worshipped God.
Poor deluded souls, a delusion which is helped forward by the priest-craft and preacher-graft of the day.
So many people take up the study of the Bible, and yet have no more of the life of God in their souls than have their heathen fellows.
Thousands of people read the Bible - may even read several chapters every day, and believe in the Bible's Divine authorship, and become more or less familiar with its contents and go on and present themselves on television shows that they are believers - but lack faith in God.
Faith applies God's Word: it applies His fearful threatening, and trembles before them; it applies His solemn warnings, and seeks to heed them; it applies His precepts, and crying - falling down unto Him for mercy.
Another thing; One of the most popular beliefs of the day is that God loves everybody, and the very fact that these belief is so popular with all classes ought to be enough to arouse the suspicions of those who are subject to the Word of Truth.
God's love towards all His creatures is the favorite line of modern day pastors and preachers.
To tell the Christ-rejecter that God loves him or her is to massage his or her conscience as well as to afford you a sense of security in your sins.
The fact is, the love of God is a truth for the true believer only, and to present it to the enemies of God is to take the children's bread and to cast it to the dogs.
Hence the majority of people who are too lazy to search the Holy Scriptures for themselves are left at the mercy of those whom they pay to search for them - the ministers, pastors and preachers; many of these pastors and preachers betray these people's trust by studying and expounding economic and social problems as well as the politics of the day rather than the Oracles of God.
People have settled on this lie that if they attend a religious service, are reverent in their demeanor, join in the singing of the hymns, listen respectfully to the preacher, and contribute to the collection, read the Bible maybe 15 minutes a day, they have really worshipped God.
Poor deluded souls, a delusion which is helped forward by the priest-craft and preacher-graft of the day.
So many people take up the study of the Bible, and yet have no more of the life of God in their souls than have their heathen fellows.
Thousands of people read the Bible - may even read several chapters every day, and believe in the Bible's Divine authorship, and become more or less familiar with its contents and go on and present themselves on television shows that they are believers - but lack faith in God.
Faith applies God's Word: it applies His fearful threatening, and trembles before them; it applies His solemn warnings, and seeks to heed them; it applies His precepts, and crying - falling down unto Him for mercy.
Another thing; One of the most popular beliefs of the day is that God loves everybody, and the very fact that these belief is so popular with all classes ought to be enough to arouse the suspicions of those who are subject to the Word of Truth.
God's love towards all His creatures is the favorite line of modern day pastors and preachers.
To tell the Christ-rejecter that God loves him or her is to massage his or her conscience as well as to afford you a sense of security in your sins.
The fact is, the love of God is a truth for the true believer only, and to present it to the enemies of God is to take the children's bread and to cast it to the dogs.