Another
Jesus
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed
bear with me. For I am jealous over
you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may
present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But
I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so
your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
For if he that cometh preacheth ANOTHER
JESUS, whom we have not
preached, or if ye receive ANOTHER
SPIRIT, which ye have not
received, or ANOTHER GOSPEL,
which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him”
(2nd Corinthians 11:1-4). The
Apostle Paul was not the average minister.
Paul had a sincere desire to go above and beyond the mere formalities of
religion, he truly cared about people and wanted to protect them from false
religion and false prophets. Here
in 2nd Corinthians 11:1-4, Paul warns us that some people are dangerous and
extremely hazardous to our spiritual health.
There are many people today, just as then, who preach ANOTHER JESUS—not
the Jesus which the Scriptures portray. If
someone comes along and teaches that Jesus never died on the cross, then you
know he’s an imposter—a heretic (Islamic Muslims).
If someone teaches that Jesus’ blood is not significant, then you know
he’s a false prophet (John MacArthur). If
someone says that Jesus is not Almighty God or that there is no Godhead
(trinity), then you know that he is a liar (Jehovah Witnesses).
If someone teaches that trusting Jesus as Savior is not enough in itself
to be saved, then you know that he is of the devil (Seventh-Day Adventists).
If anyone says that a priest can forgive your sins or that you should bow
down and pray to an idolatrous statue (Mother Mary), then you know that he is of
the devil (Catholics). There are
thousands of religions across the globe. My
dear friend, salvation is not found in any of them!
You don’t find salvation in a religion, you find it in a person—Jesus
Christ!!! There are many concepts
of Jesus in the minds of people throughout the world but the true Jesus is only
portrayed in God’s Word. Did
you ever stop to realize that there are counterfeit Jesus' and bibles just as
there are counterfeit dollars. We
are warned by the Apostle Paul against accepting ANOTHER JESUS.
Notice
that Paul also warns us of those who bring in ANOTHER GOSPEL or ANOTHER SPIRIT,
“For if he that cometh
preacheth ANOTHER JESUS,
whom we have not preached, or if ye receive ANOTHER
SPIRIT, which ye have not
received, or ANOTHER GOSPEL,
which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.”
The Gospel is the “good news” of
salvation—By God’s grace through our faith in Christ alone.
There are religions everywhere which teach OTHER methods of getting to
Heaven. They do this to their own
destruction! Notice that we are
commanded to TEST other people concerning their faith before we enter into
religious conversation with them, “Beloved,
believe not every spirit, but TRY
THE SPIRITS whether they are
of God: because MANY false prophets are gone out into the world.
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that
Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have
heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world”
(1st John 4:1-3). People are
spirits in the flesh, that is what we are!
When we try (or test) the spirit of another, we are simply finding out
whether or not they have God’s Spirit. We
are NOT to judge or condemn anyone, we are simply told to decipher whether or
not they are saved. Either they
have God’s Spirit or they don’t. Every
Believer has God’s Spirit! The
test is simple! The Bible tells us
what the test is. If a person fails
this test, they are NOT of God and have not His Spirit.
The test is to ask the other person what they think about Jesus!
Specifically, you want to find out if this person believes that Jesus
Christ is Almighty God. “Every
spirit that confesseth that JESUS
CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH is of God.”
What does this mean? Nearly
every false religion believes that Jesus had a fleshly body.
This Scripture must mean something entirely different. Here’s the real question: Do you believe that Jesus existed
before He came to the earth? Do you
believe that the pre-incarnate Christ became flesh? Do you believe that Jesus is Almighty God?
Do you believe that the Godhead (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) became
flesh? The Jehovah witnesses
believe that Michael the archangel became Jesus—they have the spirit of
ANTICHRIST. Every false religion
attacks or diminished the deity of Jesus Christ in one way or another.
Many new perversions of the bible diminish Christ’s deity!
These HIV bibles that change and twist important Scriptures concerning
Christ are all of the devil. Listen
to what the King James Bible proclaims concerning Jesus, “Who, being in the
form of God, thought it not robbery to be EQUAL with God”
(Philippians 2:6). Pick up an
NIV (New International Version) and make sure your sitting down when you read
it. The NIV says that Jesus thought
“equality with God not a thing to be grasped.”
How wicked and how deviate these Bible corrupters are.
Hell will be hot!!! We
are surrounded by deceivers, “For
many DECEIVERS are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist”
(2nd John 1:7). Those who deny
that Jesus Christ is Almighty God in every way are NOT of God!
Jesus is the Creator, He is the Father, He is the Holy Spirit, He is the
Son, He is Omnipotent (all powerful), He is Omnipresent (all present), He is
Omniscient (all knowing), Jesus is Wonderful!!!
We’ve
often heard the saying, “all rivers lead to the ocean.” This simply is not so with salvation. It all depends which way you are going. Do all airplanes lead to Chicago? Of course not! There
is a great danger in adopting the silly sayings of ignorant people concerning
God and salvation. Another lie you
may have heard is “We are all God’s Children.”
That sounds cute but it’s NOT true!
We are all God’s creation, but we are NOT all God’s Children.
You are only a Child of God if you’ve been born-again into God’s
Family. I witnessed to a man
concerning his faith and He said he believed in reincarnation (a belief that we
all existed as a pre-life form. This
doctrine teaches that when a person dies, they come back again as an animal,
etc). This of course is another lie
of the devil! Nevertheless, I asked the man why he believed such a thing
and he said his beliefs were based upon the fact that a caterpillar changes into
a butterfly. His beliefs concerning
God and salvation were based on his won logical human reasoning.
This is the foolishness of the human mind!
Listen to the warning of Proverb 14:12, “There
is a way which SEEMETH RIGHT
unto a man, but the end
thereof are the ways of death.” It is a dangerous and foolish thing to decide for
yourself what is right and wrong. God’s
Word is pure, decent and upright—there is NO reason for any sensible person to
ignore the Bible. There are nuts
everywhere in this world who know NOT the Lord and have adopted a crazy insane
form of thinking. Even some
Believers end up out in left field because of a lack of proper Bible knowledge
and a close walk with God. There is
a fine line between faith and foolishness.
We must combine common sense with godly wisdom.
The
Believer is to try the spirits (test other people) to see if they are saved or
not. If the person is not saved, we
are to avoid yoking up with them, “BE
YE NOT UNEQUALLY
YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS:
for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion
hath light with darkness?” (2nd
Corinthians 6:14). This means that a Believer is NOT to marry an unbeliever; a
Believer is NOT to go into business together with an unbeliever; a believer is
NOT to become close friends with an unbeliever, etc. This is a command from God!!!
If a Believing man marries an unbelieving woman, he will have the devil
for a father-in-law. We are
not to entrust a Sunday School class or other position of church leadership to
an unsaved person.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the SIMPLICITY
THAT IS IN CHRIST”
(2nd Corinthians 11:3). “In whom the
god of this world (Satan) hath
BLINDED THE MINDS of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them”
(2nd Corinthians 4:4). Satan is a master counterfeiter! The Bible is clear that salvation is SIMPLE!
Salvation is found in the person of Jesus Christ, nowhere else.
Satan BLINDS the MIND of the unsaved in an attempt to prevent them from
accepting the truth. Most people
already KNOW the truth but willfully reject it.
They have some form of FALSE THINKING that overrides God’s truth.
Humanism is an insane form of thinking that invades the human mind
convincing it of it’s own superiority over God and His Word.
This is the big problem—humanism!
Humanism has no church, no organized religion, no building—yet it is
the biggest religion in the world. Humanism
is the religion of “self.” “Beware lest any man spoil you through PHILOSOPHY
and VAIN DECEIT,
after the TRADITION OF MEN,
after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ”
(Colossians 2:8). Satan uses
counterfeit Jesus’, false gospels, corrupt bibles, worldly philosophy, useless
teachings and loyalty to erroneous traditions to blind the minds of billions of
people around the world. “And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God,
that ye may keep your own TRADITION”
(Mark 7:9). Remember, “...LET
GOD BE TRUE, but every
man a liar” (Romans 3:4).
Ignorance
concerning Christ won’t keep you from being saved BUT a misconception of Who
He is may. If you will only believe
on the True Christ as He is, you may be saved.
The only way to be saved is to simply believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ apart from all else. However,
if you’ve been taught that Jesus is not God and you refuse to admit that your
thinking is corrupt, you are in danger of hell fire! You must believe on the correct Jesus. You must acknowledge Christ as He is. If you only view Christ as a prophet or as a good man, you
can trust him all you want but it won’t do you any good because you have found
another Jesus. Let’s
read this powerful passage again, “But
I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so
your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For
if he that cometh preacheth ANOTHER
JESUS, whom we have not
preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or
another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him” (2nd Corinthians 11:3,4). The
Apostle Paul warned of false prophets who would bring in damnable heresies,
teaching ANOTHER JESUS which was not of the Scriptures.
If you say that you are trusting Christ AND keeping the seven sacraments
to be saved, then you have never completely trusted Christ.
I have witnessed to many folks who will tell me that they are trusting
Jesus AND something else (baptism, good works, church membership,
confirmation, confession, religion, Saint Anthony, uncle Joe, etc).
You must trust Christ alone to save you!
Our faith + Jesus & good
works = hell
Our faith + Jesus = heaven
It’s
as simple as that folks!
Our faith + the wrong Jesus
= hell
Our faith + the true Jesus = heaven
We
must make sure we are completely trusting the “Jesus” of the Scriptures and
not some mythical or fictitious Jesus. Most
religions have a misconception of Christ and nearly all false religions diminish
Christ’s deity (that He is God). We
read in John 6:40? “And
this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which SEETH
THE SON, and BELIEVETH
ON HIM, may have everlasting
life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Do you see Jesus? How do you see Him? Have
you been viewing a counterfeit Jesus? Hopefully
you have found the true Jesus and are trusting Him.
This booklet—All About Jesus— has been written to help you recognize
the proper Jesus of the Bible. All
you need to do is simply believe on Him the best you know how.
Call upon His name for salvation and the forgiveness of sins.
Now
don’t misunderstand me, when I got saved, I was green behind the ears and very
ignorant concerning Who Christ was; HOWEVER, I did not have a distorted image of
Who Christ was. There’s a big
difference! If I had been in
a false religion or had been influenced by a corrupted perversion of the Bible,
I would have had a more difficult time getting saved.
Why? Because I would have
had to admit my thinking was wrong in order to grasp the truth. This is very difficult for some people. Salvation is NOT difficult but we tend to make it difficult.
The hardest thing about getting people saved is first getting them lost.
Fortunately, when I was saved it was only a matter of accepting and
believing the truth. All I knew was
that I was a lost sinner and needed Jesus to save me.
I only knew that I was a sinner and that Jesus had died on the cross for
me. That’s all you need to
know to be saved. God only
requires a child-like faith to be saved. Salvation
is NOT difficult.
The
problem is that many people have been taught misconceptions concerning Christ.
As I’ve already mentioned, you’d be surprised how many people will
say they’re trusting Jesus AND SOMETHING ELSE.
This is NOT acceptable to God. Seventh-Day
Adventists claim to have faith in Christ yet will tell you that their faith in
Christ alone cannot save. They
believe that when a person dies that their works follow them afterwards.
In other words, the bad or good they did in life can have an affect on
their salvation after they’re dead and gone.
They believe that Jesus will decide whether or not they are worthy to be
resurrected and enter heaven. This
of course is a lie and totally unscriptural. To be saved, these folks would have to admit the errors of
their thinking and then turn to Christ ALONE for salvation. No one is worthy to be saved, no one.
Salvation is a GIFT from God, paid for by the precious blood of Jesus
Christ. If we believe on
Jesus—that ALONE is perfectly sufficient and acceptable to God for salvation.
I
AM simply saying that you CANNOT be saved if you willfully maintain certain
distorted views of Who Jesus really is. Certain
misconceptions would not matter. For
example: some people view God as a big ogre up in heaven with a big stick
ready to beat us over the head when we sin.
This is FAR from the truth! However,
this misconception would NOT keep a person from getting saved.
However, If you believe as Islamic Muslims do—that Jesus never
died on the cross—then you simply CANNOT be saved until you repent of your
unbelief, you are an unbeliever. Sadly,
there are over one billion Muslims in the world who do not believe that Jesus
was ever crucified. “Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him”
(Proverbs 26:12). We must NOT
create God in our own image. There are over one billion Roman Catholics in the world who
believe good works are necessary to salvation and that Mary is a co-savior with
Jesus. The Bible says there
is more hope for a complete fool than for someone who is too blinded by pride to
admit the errors of their way. It
is a foolish thing to create God in our own image. We must realize that we are created in God’s image and
CANNOT redefine God. Good works are
NOT a necessary part of salvation and WILL prevent you from being saved if you
trust in them for salvation. Mary
CANNOT save you and praying to her is idolatry! “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you THE
TRUTH?” (Galatians 4:16).
This is plain old-fashioned Bible teaching.