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Why Jesus is the Only Way to God

Why Jesus Is The Only Way to God

Today, in 2011, Christians need to be
knowledgeable and willing to give an account for the hope that is in you by
explaining why Jesus is the Only Way to God. Satan has blinded millions by
telling them there are many ways to God and Jesus isn’t the only way. The very idea of the leaders of the major
religions of the world being dead doesn’t seem to bother their followers. Buddha
is dead, Confucius is dead, Mohammed is dead, Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science
founder) is dead, Gandhi is dead and numerous Dali Lama’s have died.
Christianity is the only religion that believes its leader is alive, that being
Jesus Christ and Christianity is the only religion that believes that God became
man and came in the flesh.
So
why is Jesus the only way to God? It’s really pretty simple, and this is what
you should answer. There had to be a
sacrifice for man’s sin to redeem man, and that sacrifice had to be God’s own
bloodshed for mankind in the form of His Son Jesus Christ.
Man is very
sinful and when man gave up all rights in the Garden of Eden to Satan including
death and hell, Satan became the ruler of this world and then had the authority
to destroy man, breaking man’s covenant with God and sending man to hell. There
became no hope to reach God without blood sacrifice. Buddha couldn’t be the
sacrifice, Confucius couldn’t be the sacrifice, Mohammed could not be the
sacrifice and Mary Baker Eddy certainly couldn’t be the sacrifice. Only Gods own
Son could be the sacrifice, the part of God Himself, the second part of the
Trinity.” Without the shedding of
blood there can be no forgiveness.”
(Hebrews
9:22).
Look, if “sin entered into the world by one man
(Adam) and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all
sinned.”(Romans 5:12). “So then as through one transgression there resulted
condemnation to all men, even so through one-act of righteousness (Jesus
Shedding His blood on the cross) there resulted justification of life to all
men.”(Romans 5:18).  God was not caught
off guard by Adam and Eve sinning in the Garden, God knew this would happen and
already had a plan for mankind. God knew the end before the beginning! Why do
you think God sent the Ten Commandants to mankind? So they would know they are
sinners and secondly, so they would know there is no way man can live by the
laws. That’s why God set up the Temple and rules for animal sacrifice and the
Priest would lay hands on the goat, (therefore the term scapegoat) and pray for
the sins of the people, looking forward to Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God. But
now Jesus died once and for all and sprinkled His blood in the Temple in heaven
to rescue man and pay the price that the Father required for the forgiveness of
sin. By the obedience of Christ, the many will be made righteous. Where sin
increased, grace abounded all the more.
All mankind has to do is believe that Jesus paid
the price for our sins, and that all the wrath of God meant for mankind was
satisfied on the cross of Calvary by Jesus, His only begotten Son. No other
religion can claim any redemption by obeying some kind of rules or laws. You
can’t be saved by doing works of any kind. Salvation is a free gift of God! It’s
by grace you are saved through faith, and even that is not of our own doing.
Why? Because God gives the grace to us in the first place and He gives a measure
of faith to all mankind, so nothing is from us, the only thing we must do is
believe that Jesus is Lord and God raised Him from the dead and confess it with
our voice or mouth. And God will send another comforter, the Spirit of Truth,
the Holy Spirit to help you and give you strength and guide you into all truth
and anoint you and seal you for that day of
salvation.
How could anyone worship an idol, a thing made by
the hands of man? How could anyone believe a religion that states it’s ok to
kill others for some sick demonic holy war and believe a false religion that was
started 600 years after Christ? How could anyone believe that cute little quotes
on being wise and living and some fortune cookie could actually save them or get
them closer to God? How could anyone think for one minute that science of the
mind over matter is the way to God? And how could anyone think there are
hundreds of gods, forbid to eat meat while millions starve and think that it
good to come back as a cow or some other animal, make images to worship and give
food too some shrine that rots or birds eat and burn incense and bow down in
religious mockery, thinking they are doing something grand? People perish for a
lack of knowledge God says. And Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy the
hearts and minds and bodies of humans. How could anyone get sucked up into New
Age, Unitarian or the hundreds of false religions of the world that deny
the Jesus is the Son of God? The main reason is because they did not seek God
with all their hearts or they find something that satisfies their sin and
lifestyle. They want their ears tickled and be part of a social gospel, they do
not love the truth and they will be lost sadly.

Why is Jesus Christ the ONLY WAY to salvation and
God? Because someone had to be a pure
and sinless and holy acceptable sacrifice to God the Father, shedding their own
blood and be God in the flesh of man as Jesus was and He arose from the dead and
is alive today. He defeated death and hell and the grave, no one or no religion
could have done that but Jesus. “O Death where is your victory? O Death where is
your sting?”(I Cor.15:55)

  “And there is salvation in no one else; for
there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we
must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) Mohammed doesn’t love you, Buddha doesn’t love you,
Confucius doesn’t love you, Gandhi doesn’t love you, they are all dead and could
not pay the price for your sins. But God loves you and Jesus loves you and God
will help you in this evil world. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever, give
your heart to Him and you will see……

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Holy Spirit Baptism is For All Believers

Holy Spirit Baptism is For All Believers

   We have all heard the saying “Knowledge is Power”. Every company in world teaches this
to their employees, and every University in the world pounds this in their
students heads. Now if God says in Hosea 4:6 ” My people are destroyed for lack
of knowledge”, why do so many saved Christians simply rely on their Pastors or
Priest to tell them the gospel instead of studying for themselves to find the
truth? Unbelief is actually preached from the pulpits of America because they
follow their denominational doctrines. The perfect example is the Baptism of the
Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. Acts 7:51 states: ” You
men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always
resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your Fathers did.” Now that’s
quite a statement…but it doesn’t have to be that way….Let’s take a look at
what every saved Christian is entitled too and the blessing that
accompany it.
First of all Jesus Himself said in Acts 1:5 ” for John
baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days
from now.” and again in verse 8 “but YOU will receive power when the Holy Spirit
has come upon you….” Everyone has heard the story of Pentecost how they were
ALL filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues. But wait,
that was then right, not for today? Give me a break, what you saying is I am not
going to believe it is for today as our denomination doesn’t teach
that….Really, how could anyone not believe that it’s for today when you read
Acts 2:17-21 ? “…I will pour forth of My Spirit on All Mankind…..its not
just for 2000 years ago. Jesus pours forth this promise of the Holy
Spirit…Jesus, have you asked Him believing in faith to pour out the Holy
Spirit that is promised on you? Your unbelief will rob you of such a blessing
that God has promised you. Forget what you church says, Believe the Bible, not
the doctrines of men….Lets look further….
Look at Acts 2:39 ” For the
Promise is for YOU and your children and for all who are far off
as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.” What promise? look at
the verse above: the gift of the Holy Spirit !! This promise is for anyone who
is saved, not just for certain denominations or special people. Will you believe
the Bible or your denomination? Unbelief will keep most of the things God has
for you to bless you and help you. Crack through that barrier of denominational
teaching and believe the Bible. You will say to yourself, ” Oh I wished I had
done this long ago….Ask Jesus to baptise you in the Holy Spirit even now….He
will, but you must ask.
Remember how you got saved ? You believed from
your heart, it’s the same in receiving the Holy Spirit, believe from your heart
and you will open up a new realm of God’s blessing and wonder. Let’s say you are
saved and have followed the Lord in baptism and you have not yet received the
Holy Spirit Baptism or spoke in tongues…Look at Acts 8:14-17:” Now when the
apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent
them Peter and John, who came down and prayed for them (the Gentiles, like you
and me) that they might receive the Holy Spirit . For He (the third person of
the Godhead the Holy Spirit) had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had
simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they began laying their
hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit.” So you see the
baptism of the Holy Spirit was not taught that you are supposed to receive Him
when you come out of the water back then in all places, just like today, it is
still not taught correctly.
But thank God you can receive the Holy Spirit
by laying on of hands or better yet, when you pray and ask Jesus Himself to
baptise you by faith, for it is Jesus who gives the gift (the promise) when you
pray with faith believing just like when you got saved. It’s so sad that most
denominations rob you of this great anointing because of their traditions and
doctrines of men.You receive POWER when you receive the Holy Spirit…Look at
Acts 10:38: ” You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy
Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing ALL
who were oppressed of the devil, for God was with Him.” and in Acts 11:16,17:
“….John baptized you with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy
Spirit.” ….” if God gave to them (the Gentiles, like you and me) the same gift
as He gave to us also after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I
that I could stand  in God’s way ?” You seeing it now? Yep, it’s for you
too!
Look at Acts 5:32 ” And we are witnesses of these things; and so is
the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him” See, you are
guaranteed to  receive the Holy Spirit if you obey Him. You have obeyed Him
right? You became a Christian, you were saved right? So you have all the same
rights anyone has to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit ! You know full
well, God is NO respecter of persons….He doesn’t play favorites….
How can any preacher or priest or Christian not believe Mark 16:17,18 ? These
signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out
demons,they will speak with new tongues, they will pick up serpents, and if they
drink any deadly poison it will not hurt them,they will lay hands on the sick
and they
will recover.” Uh Oh, your pastor or denomination has
dismissed this quote of Jesus Himself because of the phrase they will pick up
serpents and IF they drink any deadly poison , it will not hurt them.”
Duh…what happen to Paul in Acts 28:5 when a viper came out and bit down and
fastened on Paul’s hand and they expected him to die but he shook it off and
suffered no harm ? Or what about the numerous stories of the early evangelist
and missionaries today who have been snuck poison and it did not kill them?
Unbelief of your pastors and priests, spilling forth a doctrine of unbelief,
because their faith is dull and they hold to their traditions of men and
traditions of their denominations. And honestly, many would get kicked out of
their churches if they preached the truth, so in order to keep their jobs, they
turn their heads away from the truth. Are you kidding me, Jesus Himself spoke
Mark 16:17,18, so is Jesus a liar, I don’t think so. God is not a man that He
can lie. Don’t get mad at me, get mad at your church and teachers who don’t
preach the whole truth for the sake of their tradition or church doctrine. But
now you know the truth. You see it for yourself, you are just as worthy as the
early Christians to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit! Do we break
fellowship with them? No way, we love them as they are saved and are our
brothers in Christ, They are just lacking the faith concerning the Holy Spirit
and knowledge of what they are promised. Probably not being taught in their
denomination.
Speaking in tongues is for today as you have seen with your
own eyes. Now look at I Corinthians 12. Here, you see the gifts of the Spirit.
and in verse 13 it says “For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body,
whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.” Chapter 14
verse 5 states “Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you
would prophesy.” how can you do either if you have not received the baptism of
the Holy Spirit? Verse 39: Therefore my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy,
and do not forbid to speak in tongues.”
There are so many more
verses in scripture to validate the baptism of the Holy Spirit but lest I wear
you out I will finish with this: Paul says in I Corinthians 2:4,5 ” and my
message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and Power so that your faith would not rest
on the wisdom of men, but on Power of God. and finally in I Corinthians
4:20 ” For the kingdom of God does not consist in Words, but in POWER. Is there
power in your life? What about your church? Are signs and wonders and
demonstrations of power happening there? Why not ? Unbelief….. but now you
know you can have power, the power of God, the power of Jesus, the power of the
Holy Spirit. Just pray in faith today believing just like you did for salvation
and the anointing will be yours forever…..
” If you then being evil give
good gifts to your children, how much more will the Heavenly Father give the
Holy Spirit to those who ask Him !” See my blog So your afraid to
speak in tongues for more…..