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Easter at Church
Well, praise Jesus
today everyone. I wanted to speak about something that I've been thinking about
for the last few days and that's in regard to Easter, church, and Christian
fellowship. Now there's a few reasons why I and my family don't celebrate
Easter. There of course is the reason that it has a lot of its roots in
paganism. I know that the Christian church has adopted many holidays and tried
to make it Christian, including things like Halloween. They have trunk or treat
instead of trick or treat and they invite people to their church, and they try
to be a testimony for Jesus and try to turn something that's worldly into
something that's godly. But it ends up just being a gimmick. And I tend to
steer away from anything that is pagan or has its roots in paganism and is
ungodly.
As disciples of
Jesus, we don't want to look anything like the world and we certainly don't
want our roots to be pagan or to be practicing things that had roots in evil or
Satanism. Now one of those things is also Easter. If you research a bit about
Easter, you will notice how it does have a lot of its roots in paganism, but
how the Christian church tried to relate Easter with the Passover and made it
into the Christian version of the Passover where we now celebrate that Jesus
has resurrected from the dead. And all of those things are good to remember,
that Jesus died on the cross for our sins, that He resurrected, and He made the
way for us, that He made atonement for our sins.
But here's the
thing guys, when you start mixing Santa Claus and Christmas with Jesus' birth
and when you start mixing the Easter bunny and pagan eggs and pagan rituals
with Jesus' resurrection, you're left with something that is not truly for a
disciple of God at all. And this is the same thing that happens in church all
the time. They mix the culture, things of the world, with things that are godly
and they have this collaboration of falsehoods with things that are truth. And
this is what Satan does all the time. But besides the fact that Easter has its
roots in a lot of things that are pagan. The main reason that I keep myself
separate from this holiday, even though it's a high holy day for the
Christians, is because it is rooted in a lot of hypocrisy within the Christian
church.
So forget about
the whole pagan thing for a minute and hear me out on the fact that most
Christians are only Christians one day of the week. They're very hypocritical.
They want to say Jesus is risen, He is risen indeed, but they only celebrate
Jesus as risen on their high holy days. But the rest of the year, they're
living like Jesus was dead and they are alive to their sins. So they're into
pornography, they're smoking pot, they're lusting after women, they're not
raising their children for the Lord or living for God every day. They're not
overcoming sin, temptation. They're serving themselves all the time. Yet then
when there's a high holy Christian day or high holy Jewish day, they act as
though they're Jewish or Christian. And that is hypocrisy.
So as for myself,
I don't keep this particular day or Christmas or Halloween or any of these days
because they're rooted in paganism and in Christian hypocrisy. And if we come
to really love and obey Jesus, He pulls us out of the world, out of falsehood,
and He writes His truth and His love and His justice on our heart. And we trade
those things of the world, those lies and falsehoods and false brotherhoods,
false churches, we trade that for the truth, things that are really noble and
upright and pure, the things of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit hasn't called
us to be part of Easter festivals or Easter egg hunts or church potlucks after
church on Sunday. He's called us to be holy every day. So of course we
acknowledge that Jesus died on the cross and He resurrected. Of course we
believe that Jesus was born of a virgin. And all of these things that the
Christians celebrate, we also celebrate in our hearts knowing that they're the
truth. But we don't keep them mixed with pagan ritual and with fellowship
that's ungodly.
Now a lot of
Christians say, well I don't believe in any of that pagan stuff, nor does my
church. Well the Lord has called me to be separate from false believers, from
false churches. And this is also somewhere where a lot of Christians get led
astray. I notice a lot of Christians spend a whole lot of time looking for what
they call a family, Christian fellowship, some wise counsel. But at the end of
the day, they're looking to be justified by men and have friends of their
choice. But they're not dedicated to follow Jesus even if the road is lonely.
If we want to be
in the truth, we have to seek first fellowship with our Creator. And if we seek
first fellowship with God, and if in all of our being we want to be right with
God, then we're not going to be throwing our energy towards trying to start a
501c3 church, or start a home church, or pretend that we're loving because we
are starting Bible studies in our house. We have to wait on the Lord and ask
Him how we can truly be in fellowship with Him and be dedicated to Him. And
then after we have fellowship with God, then He leads us in how to be fruitful
and how to multiply. But that does not happen with joining a local church, or
becoming a 501c3, or being ordained by your local government. You have to be
ordained and set apart and commissioned by God. You have to receive His Holy
Spirit.
And sadly, most
Christians are just looking for a church group, they're looking for a club. They
feel lonely. And instead of waiting on the Lord, knowing that He is their best
friend and always there for us, they jump the gun, they go out in front of God,
and they go find what they think is a good fellow brother or sister, a good Christian
Bible-believing church. And for a minute it looks like it's good, and then down
the line, Satan uses those brothers and sisters to get them off of the straight
and narrow path. I don't know how many times Christians have started out good
with Jesus, seeking fellowship with Him, wanting to be in the truth, but then
because they were lonely and sought out fellowship with other believers first,
and not God, then they were led astray by the devil.
Who do you think
the devil will use to distract you if you are serious about God? He's not going
to use an atheist, he's not going to use a Buddhist, he's not going to use
someone that's an unbeliever. Satan will use a fellow brother or sister,
someone that you trust, to get you off the straight and narrow path, because
that's who you will allow into your life. So we have to be very careful who we
allow into our life, who we allow to guide us.
Jesus said, Call
no one on earth your father, call no one your teacher or one your leader. Jesus
wants to be our leader, He wants to be our pastor, He wants to be our shepherd.
And if you're making other people, if you're setting up other people as your
pastor, your leader, your spiritual father, then you're kicking Jesus out of
His rightful seat. So you're kicking Him out of that chair, and you're setting
up your own pastor or your own father to be your leader and your teacher. Too
many Christians do this, and the next thing they know, they're fighting for
their own marriage, they're fighting for custody over their children, they're
fighting over their house, their marriages are falling apart, and the last
thing they're thinking of is how they can really just please God and be a light
to the world, because they're fighting for their own souls to their own death.
If we want to be
really steadfast and be able to praise the Lord and worship Him and bear in
good fruit, we have to get things right from the beginning. We have to stay
separate from the ungodly churches that are participating in things like Easter
and pagan rituals, and we have to stay separate from so-called brothers and
sisters who God did not put in our life, but who the devil is trying to implant
in our lives to distract us from the Kingdom of God. We have to be steadfast in
the truth and walk with Jesus in His truth, even if no one else goes with us. It's
like that song that says, “I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back,
though none go with me, still I will follow, no turning back.” That's how we
have to be. If we are dedicated to Jesus, even if none of our friends go with
us, even if we can't find a church that truly follows the Lord, we will still
go with Jesus, even if it is just you and Jesus, we will go with Him. And as we
follow the Lord, He, as He promises, will give us everything that we need.
So don't let a
church distract you from following the Kingdom of God, don't let a brother or
sister distract you, because Satan uses many brothers and sisters to distract
the church and get people off of the straight and narrow path. Suddenly you are
not concerned with the things Jesus is saying, but you have all these new
concerns that are coming from a brother or sister or someone that has pushed
their way into your life. Jesus didn't put them there. Their dreams or visions
are not coming from God. They are coming from that person's imagination, and
they are trying to manipulate you and make you believe things that are on their
conscience, not things that are coming from the Holy Spirit.
And too many
Christians are just so distracted by another brother or sister's dreams and
visions and feelings for their life. You need to get your focus back on the
Lord and get away from these people, get away from these organizations. Jesus
cares for your soul. He will put the right people in your life. And the people
the Lord puts in your life, you better keep in your life. For me, that is my
wife, my children, the people that are close around me, that the Lord Himself
has truly put in my life. But when other people try to push their way into your
life that God has not put there, they will try to manipulate you, they will try
to take your money, they will try to steal from you. Everything that Jesus has
blessed you with, they will try to take away what is rightfully yours. That is
the business of Satan, to take from you what God has rightfully given you.
And the churches
are notorious for doing this. They will strip everything that God has
rightfully given you. If you are a man, the church will strip away your
God-given man authority to raise your household, to have authority over your
wife and your children and your own life. They want to pervert you. They want
to steer you away from the truth that they can be your leader. They are zealous
for your soul, but not for righteousness, but for a perverted reason so that
they can control and manipulate and fleece you and their flock.
Will we be
dedicated to Jesus and remember the new covenant? Of course Jesus is alive, of
course He died on the cross, He resurrected, He is alive, He is King of Kings
and Lord of Lords, the tomb is left empty, of course. But will we truly follow
the Lord in righteousness, or will we be saying in some church somewhere, He is
risen, He is risen indeed, and then going to some Easter egg hunt. Meanwhile,
Satan is stripping away any spiritual authority the man has, and taking away
the things that God has rightfully given your family. Will you let Satan strip
the life God has given you away, or will you take back what is rightfully yours
and hold on to the truth and grow with the Lord so that He can bless you and
your family?
I hope this makes sense to you because too
many Christians are allowing Satan to strip them of everything they have, true
manhood, true righteousness, the ability to be a testimony, to be a light to
the world. They're falling into false religion, they're falling into idolatry
and adultery and every sort of evil. These churches that we have across America
are full of falsehood, and they are leading people to hell every day. We need
to, as men, stand up for the truth and warn people that they need to get out of
dead religion, get out of paganism, get out of false relationships. Just leave
those relationships that God hasn't put in your life. If someone is in your
life that God hasn't put there, don't allow them to speak anything into your
life that they call truth. Don't listen to them. Jesus has given His Holy
Spirit to lead us and to guide us. He hasn't given some brother or sister to be
your spiritual authority or the leader of your marriage. Don't allow someone to
strip away the truth of the Holy Spirit from you.
I hope someone out
there finds Jesus for real, puts their faith in the new covenant and is not
distracted by the Christian church, by Easter, by Christmas, by Halloween, by
any of those traditions of men. Far too often, Christians hold to the
traditions of men. All of these holy days, yet far too quickly, they forget the
commandments of Jesus Christ. They forget that Jesus is alive, He is Emmanuel,
God with us, He loves us and He cares for us. People forget that. They forget
that He wants a relationship with us and He wants to lead us every single day. Do
we want to be led by our Creator or do we want the way of the world, false
fellowship, false brotherhood? Do we want the truth or do we want lies? May the
grace of Jesus be with you.
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