LEFT BEHIND

By Rick Mathes

Acts 26:28 And Agrippa replied to Paul, “In a short time you will persuade me to become a Christian.”

While you are asleep at night, Satan is doing push-ups and planning the lies about Christianity he will begin broadcasting when the sun comes up. We are at war and it’s about time you signed up.

Let’s set the record straight: Christian faith is not an irrational leap of faith. The faith we enjoy is perfectly rational and is not an emotional crutch as so many non-believers claim. Our emotions harmonize when we are in tune with the angels.

Superstitions do not have verifiable facts and hundreds of witnesses. No, it is not some old wives tale or legend. Don’t fall for the secular claims that the so called lost gospels of Christ prove that much of what we understand Christianity to be is bogus. I will admit that by my reckoning, only two-percent of those that claim the are born again really are.

Some are run off because they believe that our faith is nothing but a long list of rules: do’s and don’ts. It’s true that the Pharisees were very rigid on their traditions and alleged violations of Scripture but Jesus set them straight and the Bible breathed the breath of freedom once again. We are not under the law anymore. It was instituted to define what repulsed God. But when we submit to His Lordship we only gravitate to holiness.

Christianity is not just a lot of rituals. Christianity is a person: Jesus. All the rest is not relevant. The early church met in a home, near water for baptisms. They sang hymns, reaffirmed the Decalogue, heard a Scripture reading, and had communion and a fellowship dinner afterwards. All the Roman Catholic Popery is nonsense and has no Biblical basis. It is completely made up by the religious elite that think they can invent their religion as they go along. Paul said that if you change anything in what was originally taught, you should be kicked out of the church and relegated to Hell.

Christians have been called fanatics. Do you know what a fanatic is? It’s someone who loves the Lord more than you do!

The most absurd claim by unbelievers, the World Council of Churches and other liberals is that there are many ways to get to heaven. Jesus does not leave that option open to anyone. He said, “No one comes to the Father but by Me.” This is very clear but most don’t get it.