Sound Doctrine: Beyond the Milk with Pastor Bo

The hyper Pente-rascal movement today has brought in mega churches and mega problems. one of it i that it has deregulated the Christian faith walk so much so that the born again title is now a million for a penny.

This movement thrives through display of emotions, excited utterances, spiritual ecstasy and demonstration of feelings. The services are with social appeal with an eclectic orgy of soul music. The pastor is a motivational speaker not really a Gospel preacher. He must heat up the atmosphere with some gyrations and orations to charge people’s emotion for spurious healings and miracles, which are a mere placebo. But this is what some people think Christianity is and have thus accepted as normal what is really abnormal.

How did the church fall into this system, religion, and denomination doctrine? It is clear that God did not give us religion, including Christian religion: He gave us a Person, Christ Jesus. Christian must reject the new normal as religious knowledge is always a deterrent to spiritual revelation.

A lawyer asked Jesus the question: "who is my neighbor?" But he was not looking for a sincere answer; it was just to tempt Jesus. Jesus answered him, anyway, but with a parable. At the end of the parable, Jesus threw the question back to him - He was deflated and humbled. 

Knowing your true neighbor is will great but knowing your duty to your neighbor is humbling. 

This is an extract from a message on Almsgiving: The Forgotten Church Tradition Part 2 (Take Heed Series)

Almsgiving was not only a doctrine preached by Jesus and upheld by the Apostles, it was one of the fundamental traditions of the early church.  

However, Almsgiving has sadly disappeared from the pulpit today, no thanks to Pentecostal movement leaders.    

Possessed by the spirits of greed, materialism, and mammon, these pente-rascals have changed the God-ordained practice from giving to the poor to giving to themselves.   

This message is about BREAKING THE SPELL OF PENTE-RASCALISM on believers and to remind believers of the warning of Jesus to TAKE HEED HOW, and not “IF” you give alms.  

Jesus said there is a “reward” for this practice from “your heavenly Father” if you give correctly, to the right people, and at the right time. 

It's time believers returned to Almsgiving as a fundamental Christian doctrine. You will learn who you should give alms to and when.  

This is part of the TAKE SERIES which seek to highlight the DIRECT WARNINGS OF JESUS IN THE SCRIPTURES.

In Matthew 6:5, Jesus warned believers to Take Heed how they pray. He warned that we should not pray as hypocrites who use vain repetitions, "for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”   

Are There Still Apostles Today is part of the Removing the Veil series. 

It is a quick look into the doctrine that:

1. Only the 12 disciples are qualified to be called Apostles, and 

2. After the disciples died, the office of the Apostles ceased.

Essentially, there are no Apostles today.

Removing the Veil on the Origin of the word, Church: A spiritual journey on the Biblical and Historical past of the church.   

Did Jesus say, "I will build my KURIAKON" (Church)" or "I will build my EKKLESIA" (ASSEMBLY)?   

Kuriakon is a Greek name for the house of a pagan goddess known as Circe. 

In German, it is called "Kirche," Cherche in Scottish, and Churche in old English, and now Church. Church (was and is) a BUILDING people GO to worship. Hence, the term, GO TO CHURCH. We do not go to church in Ekklesia because we are the Assembly and we express the assembly when we gather.  

The practice, leadership, style, festival, worship, clergy, service, etc, of the church today is sharp and direct contrast to the Ekklesia founded by Jesus and practiced by the early Assembly.  

The criminal substitution (not translation) of the Greek word, Ekklesia to Church (rather than (Assembly) is deliberate and against the law of language and translation. 

Removing the Veil on the Origin of the word, Church sheds more light on this and also answers the question of how, when, why, and who substituted Ekklesia with Kuriakon.  

The powerful priests of Circe (and other pagan religions) who were forced to become Christians by the Emperor's decree criminally took over the Assembly in about 320AD. They massacred the early Christians, burned their scrolls (inserting many of their pagan doctrines in the bible in the name of translating it - and are sadly with us today).  

They fed many believers who resisted them to wild animals in stadia and persecuted others to death for many centuries following. They successfully took over the true Assembly and continued their pagan worship of church, leading to the dark ages where only them was known as the church. Many whistle-blowers who revolted were labelled "heretics" and were burned alive.   

Believers in the early Assembly who escaped the persecution hid their scrolls and manuscripts in caves as they fled. Some of the original manuscripts discovered thousands of years later have been found to be in sharp contrast to the early Assembly's beliefs and doctrines but have been banned by the same people who exist today as the Church. Now they have many offsprings of various denominations. Many of them are ignorant of their past and sadly practise the same pagan worship as Church in the name of Jesus.   

Removing the Veil on the Origin of the word, Church is to help you as a believer know that you have the right to know if you are serving Jesus who promised to build His Assembly (Ekklesia) in Mat 16:18 or ignorantly serving the god of Church that the pagan priest forced on the world in the name of Jesus.

Little did many know or realize that the word “Church” is not in the Bible, the original Bible.

In the popular word of Jesus, "I will build my church," the word translated as "Church" is "Ekklesia" in the original Greek manuscript. The correct translation is "THE ASSEMBLY." Many think that it really doesn't matter (Church or Assembly) but it does when you consider the fact that Church existed during the time Jesus made this statement. He clearly chose the word Ekklesia (Assembly) over the Greek word, Kuriakon (Church).

According to the Oxford Dictionary, the origin of the word “Church” is from Old English cir(i)ce, cyr(i)ce, related to Dutch Kerk and German Kirche, based on medieval Greek Kurikon, from Greek Kuriakon (dōma) ‘Lord’s (house)’, from kurios ‘master or lord’.

It was called:

The pronunciation metamorphosed to chereche, chiriche, chirche in the middle English. Then “Churche,” and “Church” in modern English as we know it today.

There are stack differences between the Church and the Assembly: 

When all other religions were forced to convert to Christian religion by Emperor Constantine, the powerful priests came into the assembly and continued their pagan practices as Christians without being born again or converted. When the leaders of the True Assembly objected to this, they unleashed terror on them. They persecuted and killed many while others fled. They then took control of the Assembly appropriating titles to themselves as they fit. They labelled those who opposed them as heretics, burned the Bibles, fed many to wild animals, changed meetings from houses to civic buildings and changed the style of meeting from Fellowship to Clergy-Laity system where no one could talk or participate. Owning a Bible  was punishable by death. This is the time the Bible was tampered with and many pagan doctrines and festivals were introduced into the Bible in the name of translating it. That is the Church we have today. Does the True Assembly still exists?