Bible Deceive Christians
Well,
praise Jesus today, everyone. I want to just make a short message here while
I'm on my way to work in regards to the deception that Christians have about
the Bible. See, a lot of Christians think that the very essence or the very
pinnacle of good Christian living is reading the Bible and being like what they
say, Bereans. How Acts talks about being a Berean and being noble because you
read the Bible. But the thing is, as far as English-speaking people or the
printing press, the Gutenberg press wasn't even invented until like around
1440. And then the first English Bible wasn't printed for almost 100 years
after that. So if you do the math on how long Christendom has been around, the New
Covenant, you know, believing in Jesus, His death, His resurrection, the
atonement of our sins through His blood. The Bible has been only in existence
for even Christians only a few years. Now, the printing press being invented in
1440 and then the English Bible after that, if you do the math on that,
approximately 71 to 75% of Christians from the time of Jesus up until 2024,
today's date, they have not had access to a Bible whatsoever. Yet they were
still Christians. We can't say living in the age of technology and after this
industrial revolution of the late or the early 1800s, we can't say now that
we're all going to heaven and we're first-class Christians because we have the
printing press and we have all this new technology, we have now Bibles on the
internet, and so we're obviously going to heaven because we can read the Bible
more and we have more access to information. Obviously that's a lie.
So
about 75% of Christians in all of Christianity from the time of Jesus till this
date, 2024, have not had access to the Bible, yet they were every bit as
Christian as we are and they were not missing part of their identity because
they did not have the Bible.
From
the beginning of time until now, what God has required is faith. He requires us
to have genuine faith with actions that demonstrate that our repentance and
that we love God. The very essence of our faith is faith in Jesus, knowing that
Jesus is the one that we worship and that we must follow Him to the very end. To
take Jesus out of the equation, you do not have Christianity. That's why we're
called Christians, because we follow after Christ, we follow after Jesus. But
you can still be a Christian without the Bible and obviously that's true
because 75% of all Christianity existed without the Bible. And I'm just talking
New Testament Christians. I'm not talking about people like Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob. I'm talking specifically after the death and resurrection of Jesus
Christ.
So keep
this in mind when Christians try to make you feel guilty or as if you're not a
real Christian because you're not educated like they are in the Bible or
because you're not reading the Bible every day. Knowing the Bible and knowing
the scriptures, that's great and wonderful and it's a blessing and we have the
resources to do that now, so you should. But keep in mind, reading the Bible is
not the essence and the very pinnacle of our spirituality. What's important is
obeying Jesus Christ. How do we obey Him? What does it mean to be holy and
righteous? Well, righteous means that we are doing what is right in the eyes of
God. And holy means that you're dedicated to the purpose of God, that you're
set apart for Him, that you're sanctified.
Now
there are a lot of Christians who are holy and righteous for the Bible. They're
trying to keep the principles of the Bible. They're sanctified for reading the
Bible, but that doesn't mean they're holy and righteous before the living God. They
basically made the Bible an idol and they bow down, they worship the Bible in
church. They bow down and they worship their pastor because the pastor has
studied the Bible and he knows the Bible maybe even through the context of
Greek and Hebrew. But that doesn't mean that we are safe and secure in going to
heaven and righteous and holy with God because we know the Bible. I think that
can be flushed out in our minds, knowing that the Pharisees probably knew their
scriptures better than anyone. Yet Jesus did not speak highly of the Pharisees.
He didn't say, you're going to be at the right hand of God, I'm going to share
my glory with you in heaven. Jesus spoke angrily to the Pharisees because even
though they searched the scriptures and they read them, they despised Jesus
Christ, they rejected Him. And the Christians today are doing the same thing.
They say they received the prophets; they say that they're biblical like the
Bereans, yet they most often reject Jesus Christ and His words.
So
think about this guys, 75% of Christianity, 75% of Christians to this date have
not had a Bible, yet they are still our brothers and sisters in the Lord. They
are not irrelevant, they didn't go to hell because they didn't have a Bible,
they're not less of a Christian, they're not less of a brother or sister simply
because they didn't have the Bible. So think about this because there's a lot
of people who think in their mind that being a Christian means reading the
Bible. They think that they're better than the rest of the world because they
read the Bible. And that is not the fact of reality. These people haven't
studied history, let alone studied God at His feet. So we need to really get to
know Jesus by His feet. Of course if you have the resource of the Bible, read
it. But know that you are judged according to your works and you need the
holiness and righteousness that comes from God, our Father in Heaven. Be holy
before Him, be dedicated to His purpose and be righteous. Seek out the truth.
I know
I have bad signal through here guys, so bear with me here. Hopefully the video
is clear enough that we can hear it. If not I can always make this video again
later. But we as Christians have to set our holiness and righteousness in Jesus
Christ and practice our holiness and righteousness for Him. Not what people
think and certainly not trying to obtain holiness how they try to obtain
holiness in church. With modern Christianity, with the modern churches, it's
very hypocritical because out of one side of their mouth they are always
talking about how they are saved by grace alone. It's through faith, not of
works. They talk about that because if it was by works then it would be a
salvation by works. They say that all the time but then out of their other side
of their mouth they act like they have to have all these works to be saved. They
have to be reading the Bible every day. They have to go to seminary, and they
have to get more biblical. Then they have to pay tithe to their church and go
to church every Sunday.
So suddenly you realize they are hypocrites
because out of one side of their mouth they are speaking by faith alone. And
then on the other side they are saying, “oh but wait, then there are all these
other laws that you have to keep in order to be a Christian like us”. So
obviously it's hypocrisy.
As
disciples of Jesus, we want to please our Lord and our King Jesus Christ. We
want to be holy and righteous before Him. So are we doing that? Is the essence
of our faith pleasing Jesus and being holy and righteous to Him? Or have we
misplaced that holiness and righteousness by thinking that the Bible is God and
worshiping the Bible and thinking that the Bible is the essence of our
spirituality? That's all I have for today guys.
