2 Cor 11:4 . . . he that cometh preacheth another Jesus . . .

It seems that religious hucksters are more numerous than even political charlatans, and this is saying a mouthful. And the agony of it is that they have millions of followers, and they do not even know who the Lord Jesus Christ is. Modern-day preachers have made a conscience soothing, fire escape from hell and named it "Jesus". The modern preacher has made the only Savior to be a pathetic, helpless beggar at the hearts door of the sinner. The preacher of easy-believism and decisionism has made the will of Christ, the work of Christ, and the glory of Christ subject to the sinner's will. These hucksters ask, "What will you do with Jesus? Won't you accept Jesus and let him have his way with you?" This is a blatant lie, a blasphemous delusion, and a snare of hell. Anybody with half a spiritual brain knows that. Shame on you! Your tune will change when you stand in His presence.

Jesus Christ is GOD, the sovereign LORD and KING. That is who He said He is. Religion killed Him for this very reason (John 10:30-33). NO, you don't have Him in your hands to accept or reject, but He has you to accept or reject. He has the right and the power to save you or damn you (John 5:21-23). I believe if I were you, I would bow before the great KING and say "Lord, if you will, you can make me whole."

Why don't you religious hucksters go join a carnival somewhere and sell snake oil? At least you wouldn't be murdering the souls of men.

- Jack Shanks

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it is self". - Pastor Tim James

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Preaching is not designed to teach us something new in every sermon – something we did not know before. Its main purpose is to put us in remembrance. - Pastor Milton Howard

AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH . . .John 1:14

If there be a single verse in the Bible marked with the special emphasis of God the Holy Ghost, surely this is one. Every word tells. Here is the glorious person so much and so highly spoken of before under the name of the Word, declared to be made flesh. And this distinct from the person of either the Father or the Holy Ghost. It is the Son of God only. He is made flesh.

The original word translated flesh, is very strong. It is Sarx. The same word as is used in Rom 3:20, where no flesh is said to be justified. And elsewhere Christ is said to be made in the likeness of sinful flesh. Rom 8:3. And it is a word of the same significance with one in the Hebrew, used in Gen 6:12, corrupt flesh. So that no word of stronger import can be found to denote the vast humiliation of the Son of God in the assuming of our nature. Had the verse expressed that the Word was made Man, though the same nature would have been implied, yet it would not have been so strong, as to the point of degradation.

The word means our full nature, both of soul and body, complete man. And it is so very fully expressed by the word flesh, that the assumption implies the most perfect union of the both natures, divine and human. Not by any change or alteration of the one by the taking of the other; but by the junction forming and constituting one whole person, God and Man Mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Augustine, when speaking of the word being made flesh said, "Not by changing what he was, but by taking what he was not." And what endears the whole, and renders it truly blessed to all his people who are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones, is, that this union of God and Man in one person, is indissoluble and forever. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to day, and forever. Heb 13:8.

- Robert Hawker (1753-1827)