“…[K]nowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day…”  (Romans 13)

 

Allow me to acknowledge the harshness of our titles.  Let me acknowledge the Scriptures that teach us that we ought not to be offensive for the sake of being offensive. Let me also acknowledge the Scripture that is above that tells us The time of our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. Allow me to infer from the fact that our salvation is nearer also means to condemnation of others is nearer as well!!!  Therefore, we are not being offensive for the sake of being offensive but we are being offensive for the sake of other’s condition of nearing destruction and eternal torment in the fires of Hell.  Let me acknowledge that our message should be offensive, hence the armour of light and the whole armour of God that is needed to protect ourselves while being offensive for the sake of souls that are coming nearing to their condemnation than when you and I first believed!!!

God loves you isn’t working, folks Or rather, let me correct myself our presentation of God’s love to the deceived isn’t working so well anymore and maybe our presentation never did…that is to say our presentation of God’s love without the background of God’s holiness, righteousness, anger, and wrath.  In the past, preachers of sound faith, preached the law of God, the anger of God, the sinfulness of man, and God’s hatred of sinfulness and ALL workers of iniquity!!!  These Biblical truths moved those that were full of sin and those being filled with all unrighteousness. These that were living in sin and under the penalty of sin, while pleasuring in that very sin were shaken out of it by the fact that God’s veri righteous and holy hate was about to fall upon these persons and their families.

The persons that were under God’s wrath, anger, holy hatred were shaken, terrified and then fell down before God in the condition of being undone and filled with sin and covered in sin and pleading for His grace, His mercy, His forgiveness, and His guidance in a new way and in a new walk in His service and under His reign of love and righteousness.

In other words it’s “high time” to quit smiling and padding the backs of sinners and others in false and damnable religions.  It is “high time” to wake up and wake others us, it’s “high time” to say, “Mohammad is in Hell, Buddha is in Hell, the gods of the Hindu’s never existed, Jehovah’s witnesses are condemned liars of (s)atan’s spotted and blemished flocks, and Mormons are blinded by the ridiculousness of their third (3rd) Testament.  It’s “high time” to shout Christ Is Risen and all other religious figures are fallen and have been cut down and are being tormented in Hell’s fire and their deceived and deceiving followers shall follow them.  It is “high time!!!”  As our salvation comes nearer and nearer, their condemnation comes nerarer and nearer as well, lest they repent and believe!!!

I’m not saying every believer should run out with this message without being protected with the Armour of Light, I am saying: we that are veteran witnesses, we that are established and chosen soldiers/witnesses to Christ must also witness to the EXCLUSIVITY of Christ. Truth be told, I may not even be talking about convincing others to believe and be saved as our focus, that would be great, but what i’m talking about is establishing that Christ is Risen and all others have fallen…I’m saying Christ is the Way to the Father.

Buddha, Hindu beliefs, and Mohammad are the ways to destruction and torment.   I’m saying that we must stand and state, “There is none other [N]ame given under [H]eaven, among men whereby we must be saved.”  I’m saying it is “high time” to confess, profess, proclaim, preach, teach, shout, that Christ is the Exclusive Way and Only Name whereby men can be saved…we must also confess, profess, proclaim, preach, teach, and shout that this necessitates and nullifies all other ways to the Father, to peace, and eternal life, and everlasting peace.

If God so chooses to save some according to and in light of this exclusive truth, that is His business, out business is to preach EXCLUSIVITY. Not that Christ excludes those of other faiths and ways but that Christ IS THE EXCLUSIVE WAY TO WHAT THEY DESIRE.

Moses, Gideon, Josiah, the three (3) Hebrew men, Paul and others were all iconoclasts, that means they cut down, mowed over, destroyed all other graven images, false gods, and damning ideologies.  The Ark of the Covenant took out Dagon the false God.

In proclaiming Christ, we must condemn and shut down all other religious ideologies, whether it be works, religions, representatives of damning religions, and thus anything, other than Christ must fall.  This is what ISIS is doing, is it not?  This is what the leftist mindset is doing when they tear down symbols of faith and history, are they not?  Did Paul not tell us to cast down the strong holds of man’s imagination and bring their imaginations, their mindsets, and their beliefs under the obedience of Christ?  I think he did.  Did not the Apostles knock down the dead religion of the Jews, They did.

What was it that gave them the boldness to make these claims and to destroy these idolotrous ideologies? What is it that gives us the boldness to state these truth, to stand by these truths, and if needed, die for these truths? One thing and Only One Thing….

……The Resurrection  and the Life of Christ gives us this boldness and Only the Resurrection. Allow me to logically show the evidence of the Empy tomb with one single question.  Where is the Body?  Either Christ rose from the dead and verified, validated, gave veracity to all His past claim and prophesies of the future or someone took the Body.

Who would have taken the Body?  Would the Pharisees or Sadducees or other political or religious opponents of Christ take the Body?  Of course not…that would prove Christ’s claims even if Christ rose not.  It was these parties that wanting Roman guard stationed at the tomb.  Therefore it could not have been the above.  Did the Apostles steal the Body away?  I don’t think so, the guards were posted.  Would the Roman powers steal the Body, of course not, they wished none of this happened and they certainly wouldn’t do anything to incite amd encourage the followers of Christ’s new way.  So, reader, where is the Body of Christ? Logic and systematic decuction knocks down any theory of the Body being stolen.

Once you eliminate all possibilities, whatever remain, no matter how improbable or impossible it may seem…it must be…it must be the truth.  Therefore, Reader, Christ rose again!!!  Therefore, Reader, Christ is risen!!!

Other evidence?  Five-hundred (500) men saw Christ alive over the course of forty (40) days.  The Apostles that saw Christ lived lives according to Christ’s Words, and Christ’s Way….unto death.  No man dies for a lie or a doubtable premise.  Even a man of the counsil that opposed Christ said, leave it alone, if it be not of God it will die, but if it be of God it shall live.  Reader, Christ-ianity lives because Christ lives.

All religious ideologies are death cults that lead to eternal condemnation in Hell with their lying leaders. It is only Christ-ianity that professes, puts forth, and proves all the claims of it’s Founder, it’s Creator, Author, it’s Lord and it’s Saviour.

Christ’s Resurrection and witnessed Ascension negates, nullifies, and necessitates the destruction, the dismissal, and the dispatchment of all other religions of imagination and their deceived and deceiving leaders and founders.

The graves of Buddha, Mohammad, and yes, King David are established; The Grave, the Tomb of Christ is established as well…..it has been established and it is EMPTY.

Reader, Christ Lives and loves, this means so shall we live and love.  This also means all other ways are death and destruction. This is the message of Easter. This is the message of Christ-ianity and this is the message sent from Heaven in the Person of Christ.