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I thought to say this at the beginning of saying all that other:

It is Satan who says, "You don't need to repent of your sins."

I would not want to be on the receiving end of God fighting against me with the Sword of His mouth.

No, but the Lord has my mouth at His disposal, and it is He Who fights.

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Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
Revelation 2:16
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He likes to call other people "smooth talkers" and "forked tongue" and "those people online," while he is all of those, and more of the descriptions he uses to deride people publicly, but through a veil of ambiguity. Nothing I have said here is ambiguous, but straightforward and beckoning directly.

That Pastor emphasized and bragged about rejecting and excommunicating people "all the time" tonight in his sermon, but my prayer is that when, if he sees his need for repentance, that he wouldn't let his own shame and fears of problems keep him from running to and falling in the arms of the Lord.

My hope is not closing off that Pastor from salvation, but his own investment in his own idols and false dogmas over so many years make it seem very unlikely that he would even begin to consider that his preaching has been Satanic, and his "salvation" is damnation, and he is in need of repentance.

That Pastor, and many like him, are so much invested in their false religion, so very far out on their isolated islands of theologies, that it seems like it would be impossible and so scary for them to admit that they have been wrong all along, but where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.

It says a lot when a church has a Pastor who can read Scriptures which define him as a heretick, and in that same sermon he self-condemns himself by making up heresy, and while twisting the Scriptures to talk about some other poor soul who self-condemns theirself, without seeming to have the truth.

It says a lot when a church calls the police and lies, and lies some more, and continues to make up more lies, to have a person arrested, merely because that person is standing outside their church on a public road, holding my Bible up, not saying a word, but just standing there in obedience to God.

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Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2 Timothy 3:5
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Without natural affection,
trucebreakers,
false accusers,
incontinent,
fierce,

despisers of those that are good,

Traitors,
heady,
highminded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2 Timothy 3:3-4
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This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

For men shall be

lovers of their own selves,
covetous,
boasters,
proud,
blasphemers,
disobedient to parents,
unthankful,
unholy,
2 Timothy 3:1-2
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Everything that Jesus said, everything that the Bible says, is true, and is becoming true. Truly, the big rich churches are exactly like the Bible says those kinds of people would be. Truly, the people alive today in these end of days are exactly like the Bible says they would be.

Without seeing our need for Jesus Christ, it can so easily seem right to go along with these modern hypocrites who teach these damnable heresies which don't save anyone, and which make their own disciples more than twofold children of the Devil than they are, as Jesus says.

So many people are missing seeing their need for Jesus Christ, either because God has not shown them this yet, or because when they were shown it, they rejected Christ.

I cannot thank God enough for showing me my need early on, in ways that caused me to relinquish my will for sin, and to hate sin.

A lot of people are joining churches nowadays, then leaving disillusioned, and becoming "deconstructionists," as they become motivated to "deconstruct" what they perceive as the Gospel, but it is a false Gospel they have been hoodwinked by, and false bodies of believers whom they have encountered.

There are very many people today who have been sold a false Gospel which teaches them that they not only can live in their sin, but that they have no choice but to sin every day, and so they go on sinning, since everyone around them seems happy in it, and "even the Pastor admits he's a hypocrite."

Repentance and baptism and the resurrection from the dead are the foundation of our salvation. The Bible says that if someone comes that far, but falls away, there is no way to bring them back to repentance. It is saying this in context of repentance being the point of enlightenment and salvation.

But, if, after you turned around, and maybe even thanked me for saving you from going off that broken bridge, if you somehow decided that you were just going to go ahead and turn back around and go off that bridge anyway, then the offered gift of salvation is rejected and your apathy is your death.

If, as you were driving towards certain death, where the bridge was out, and you happened to see me standing there telling you that the bridge is out up ahead, and you heeded my warning and turned around, that is a form of repentance, turning around, changing your mind, and living and not dying.

If you are driving towards a bridge and the bridge is out, and I see you going towards it, it would be wrong for me to not warn you. I would wave my arms, jump up and down, and do whatever I could to get your attention to prevent you from driving off the broken bridge; I might even get in your way.

We *were* sinners, we *were* children of darkness, we *were* slaves to sin, we *were* filthy and corrupt and destined to Hell, but there is a very stark contrast between what we *were* and what we become when we are renewed by the Holy Spirit by our faith in Jesus Christ by repentance and baptism.

Anybody who identifies as "just a sinner saved by grace" doesn't know the grace of God, or they would not identify as any kind of sinner, but they do so to allot theirselves and those around them the room to go on sinning, acting as if that is God's plan for them, but the Bible is clear about this.

Some people have been taught that repentance is a "good work," and therefore it's not required for salvation. No. Repentance is a stopping of "bad works" and is coupled with confessing our sins, to turn away from them, to turn towards God, to live free from the sin and death that awaits sinners.

I have posted only a small selection of the Scriptures which highlight the very Gospel that Jesus preached and commanded us to preach, regarding repentance from sins and this unto salvation, unto life, but there are plenty more that anybody can find by typing "repent" into biblegateway.com.

Anybody who has separated repentance and baptism from salvation is preaching some other Gospel which Jesus did not preach, some other Gospel which Jesus did not tell His disciples to preach, some other Gospel which is not the Gospel, but a damnable heresy, so easily refuted with Scripture.

Go back and read the Scriptures I posted here tonight, if you have been taught that God does not require us to repent of our sins.

John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, and all His disciples preached the very Gospel of repentance and remission of sins, for salvation, unto salvation, this is the Gospel.

That spiritual leprosy does not belong to the body of Christ and it has never belonged, and God is removing it from the body.

I have done what I could to say what is right, to tell those who will listen that the Bible says what it says, and I have seen some repent, but some are stubbornly damned.

Their spiritual leprosy has infiltrated the hearts and minds of so many people today, which tells people, "God doesn't say you have to repent," and, "Baptism is just a token, like a wedding ring," and, "Grace is so good you can go on sinning," and, "You have no chance not to sin today and tomorrow."

They claim to be "independent" and "fundamental" but they have large meetings with others that they depend on for funding and they "ride the circuit" and make phone calls to get each other into other churches where they can go preach and make some money while they spread their heresies.

This single church pollutes many other churches, and has done so for decades, and those churches also pollute many others, and they keep a strong stranglehold on what they call Christianity, but even several of them poo poo on the name of Christian, and openly say to use the name Baptist instead.