When Christians Shut Up About Scriptural Truth, They Become Satan's Dupes!
It is indeed something that Christians can get pressured to shut up or to let Satan run his course by this world gone insane. The greatest information wars is not about coming military state governments, Communist infiltration, secret activities of the Great Whore of Revelation, etc., but the very truth of the Scriptures comes first. As much as those stuff are important to be known but the Bible MUST COME FIRST then the rest of the truth will follow. People must know the truth about salvation FIRST before anything else. A person can be exposing such activities and STILL BE UNSAVED or be doing such activities not because he or she is a Christian but only because of being bitter. Christians should expose the truth to reveal people their need for salvation.
The world can do some of these stuff as means to silence Christians:
- Tell them that God is not happy with them SPEAKING THE TRUTH from the Scripture that Jesus Christ is the only Way to the Father, that speaking against false religion and that they are not showing love and that they are just picking fights and not showing the "beauty of Christianity" as shown by the liberal crowds like ecumenical pastors. This is nothing more than the severe mishandling of God's Word.
- Label the Christians as fanatics and suicide bombers because of their firm stand in Scriptural truth as absolute truth. They say that Christians are just misquoting John 14:6. They call the idea that Jesus is the only Way to be intolerant and hateful. They CANNOT distinguish Christianity from religious fanaticism. They equate Christians who don't tolerate other religions to be as bad as Muslim extremists ignoring the fact that Christians are NOT CALLED to a physical but spiritual warfare. For example, Pastor John Macarthur whenever he speaks in Larry King Live, some people call him "the loony guy who shuts up" or whenever Pastor Paul Washer speaks at Baptist conventions that are badly in need of revival, he's labeled as a dangerous terrorist. That is, they equate men of God with the likes of Nero, Domitian, Diocletian, Osama bin Ladin, the Pharisees and Tomas de Torquemada who are sadly in Hell.
- Support watered down preaching. When a preacher like the Apostle Paul, Apostle Peter the first pastor of the New Testament Church in Jerusalem, James a half-brother of Jesus, Charles Spurgeon and Paul Washer, John Macarthur, Ray Comfort and Estus Pirkle preaches revival and a hatred for sin, don't expect applause. Such men are most likely going to be pressured to water down and if they don't, they will be pressured even when they crack just to get rid of them- after all when Jesus preached He was being pressured to stop and when He refused, the Pharisees really turned Him over the Roman government and PRESSURED Pilate to crucify Jesus while making false charges. When a false preacher who preaches tolerance, love and unity with falsehood comes (ex. pastors who are affiliated with the Vatican and visibly showing their friendship with the Popes or making obeisance with the Popes) they are fully supported. In fact the "Evangelicals and Catholics Together" movement was obviously ran by the Jesuits as many signatures had the initials SJ with them to show Rome's support of such a dangerous movement.
- The "born again Catholic" notion. IF Roman Catholic spies cannot infiltrate any longer with their pretend acts, they will then CONVINCE the believers that they too are believers when they are not.
- Get rid of what is called "hate literature". Many Roman Catholics who chose to remain stubborn to the Gospel want every anti-Catholic book to be banned and burned because their worldly friends were converted to Christianity. The Bible is considered the top one hate literature because it speaks of man's fallen state and that Jesus is the only Way. I've even read what Pastor John Macarthur wrote in some of his books that he is considered a "close minded bigot and a terrorist" because of his stand for the truth.
- Covering up Islamic activities as "Un-Islamic" even when the Koran is clear that Muslims are told to hate and KILL Christians. When the Doulos was bombed in Mindanao, it was merely said as "religious intolerance" when the truth is, that was VERY Islamic.
- If nothing works, KILL THEM ALL that is the CHRISTIANS. From the time of the Apostles to the Roman Emperors to the time of the Inquisition up to the present times. What is really disturbing is that many of them kill in the name of God (John 16:23)! The Inquisition to the Jesuits killed born again Christians who preached the truth in the most horrible manners possible (read Foxe's Book of Martyrs) with the label "All for the greater glory of God" and so did anti-Catholic cults like the Mormons, the Church of England of Henry VIII also persecuted Baptist Christians, the Seventh Day Adventists also persecuted the Baptist Christians, the Mormons also persecuted the Baptist Christians, etc. to name a few- today it's all covered up lest they can't dupe any more people. Today all that is just sealed up from the public but NOT for long as former Roman Catholic priests and nuns who are now Christians are revealing what is no longer a best kept secret.
This is ALL expected already and nobody should expect a Madison Avenue Jesus and saved believers don't. Jesus already warned in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John about persecution. The apostolic letters wrote of persecution of Christians and it is happening- the Scriptures DO NOT LIE. In fact, there is a HIGH COST yet an infinite value in following the Lord Jesus Christ. The problem today is, Christians can sometimes shut up and become Satan's dupes in the process when they refuse to speak up about the truth even if they do maintain their Christianity. Compare that to Jehoshaphat's alliance with Ahab allowed the evil Athaliah to soon enter into the Kingdom of Judah nearly spelling the end of the Davidic dynasty, would have not Jehosheba rescued the infant Joash from near death. Christians can be put under pressure like Obadiah was during the reign of the infamous couple Ahab and Jezebel.
Listen not living a life of sin as a result of salvation is not enough, lifestyle evangelism is not enough, Christians are not only commanded to do God's grace, enduring to the end is NOT enough for Christian life, THEY MUST WITNESS! Sadly while Christians are no longer able to live the way they want, no longer live a life of sin like they used to and will not depart from the fellowship (1 John 2:19) because they are forever saved by the grace of God to which grants power against sin to the believer (not of their own) but they can be GUILTY of chickening out. That is for example, turning the other cheek on the unbeliever and receiving persecution but NOT sharing the Gospel. Or another case is that when a Christian can get bitter (and Christians no matter how saved they are, they can still stumble in the faith even if they cannot live like the rest of the unsaved world) they will purposely refuse to preach the Gospel hoping the other one will go to Hell. God forbid that!
The Apostle Paul warns in 2 Corinthians 4:3-4, "But if the Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the which believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them." People NEED to hear the Gospel. No matter how "good" they are by human standards, they FALL SHORT of God's glory because they have sinned and have violated the Law, ALL are guilty before God and if you have broken even ONE of God's rules, you have broken them all (Romans 3:19, James 2:10-11). All Adam and Eve did was eat the forbidden fruit and YET they had to be kicked out of the Garden of Eden because NOT ONE SIN was ever allowed. What does a lost sinner need to go to Hell? NOTHING. They don't have to be as wicked as Tomas de Torquemada or Ignatius of Loyola, they don't have to be as murderous as Herod, all they need to do is do nothing about their fallen state THEN the wicked life follows. However as said, one doesn't need to be like Hitler or Stalin to enter Hell, every unbeliever will JOIN THEM if they die unrepentant of their sins, to which they don't want to come to Jesus. Talk about how a person may be so charitable YET falls short because his dirty secret life is that of a habitual adulterer and a pervert. These people NEED the life changing Gospel of Jesus Christ to free them from Satan and because ONLY through Jesus can a person have power over sin.