I wrote a manifesto once before: MANIFESTO. And that manifesto still stands, so consider this an addendum.
Apostate organized-Christianity has turned “outreach” to the “unsaved” into a capitalist-corporate venture, over the last one-hundred and fifty years or so. Christian denominations (FACTIONS: Galatians 5: 19-24) have made a mockery of our Lord’s commission to His eleven disciples:
16But the eleven disciples proceeded to Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had designated. 17When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some were doubtful. 18And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28)
Our risen Lord was speaking, here, to the men His Father had given Him to carry His message to the known world (basically, the Mediterranean/Middle-East/Asian area of the world): the message of what He had taught them, and what He had accomplished on the cross for all of humanity and creation. In essence, these eleven men, who had been with the Christ for three years, and knew, first hand, Who He was and what He had accomplished, were to spread the Gospel of Grace (the Gospel of the Kingdom) throughout the known world at that time. And, in accomplishing this task, they would establish, would anchor, His Church, His Body, on the face of the earth. The Lord’s great-commission was not given to anyone but these eleven disciples (and the traitor/murderer’s replacement, Matthias), who would, with the power of the Holy Spirit indwelling them, work great wonders and miracles, just as their Rabbi, Creator (Elohim), and Savior (Jehovah), had done before them.
Nowhere in this scripture does our Lord and Savior state that His commission to the disciples was for anyone else, including us today! Nor has anyone else, since that time, had the same miraculous Spiritual-effect on this world that the original apostles had; the men who had been commissioned by their risen Lord and Savior to carry out His command at that time.
The children of God, today, as has been the case for the last two-thousand years, DO NOT have a great commission from Christ to do as the apostles had done two-thousand years ago. It is the corporate-capitalistic lie of Christendom that believers, today, have the same function as Peter, Paul and James. It is a bald-faced lie perpetrated by a Godless, man-created religious-system whose god is its obscene need for greed and power.
Christ saved all of mankind (past, present and future), and the whole creation as well, when He set aside His Deity, and allowed His chosen-people (at that time) to falsely accuse, torture and murder Him on a Roman cross. And in so doing, our Lord and Savior became the propitiation, the perfect, righteous in the eyes of the Father, sacrifice without blemish, for all of the sins of mankind that had ever been, or ever would be, committed on the face of this earth. Thus, no human-being, today, can save the world, or even one person, for that matter, from eternal separation from the Lord and the Father, since the Christ already accomplished that task two-thousand years ago. When our Lord cried out to His Father in heaven, “It is finished,” He meant it! And then He gave up His Spirit and died.
THEREFORE,
we are all here according to the purpose of our Lord’s will, and we must seek, first, His kingdom and righteousness (seek Him, personally), so we may find out what our purpose is, to the extent that He will graciously allow us to know.
There are pockets of places in this world where the Lord is using His children to still spread the gospel of grace and kingdom to those who have not had the opportunity to really hear and know the Truth: places like China and Indonesia, for instance. I am not speaking of these faithful and blessed servants who do the work of our Lord in those places! But most of us live in areas of the world where Christ has not only been “preached” into the ground, for hundreds of years, but has been so misrepresented (used and abused) by self-serving religionists that the unregenerate (the “unsaved”) now reject the Lord almost solely on the basis of their opinions about these obnoxious “church-going” hypocrites, these God-fearin’, conservative-religionists, who FALSELY claim to represent the Lord and Savior: the willfully-ignorant nincompoops who, in a religious stupor, stand on street corners handing out cutesy little-tracts, or stand at funerals with signs that state, “God hates Fags,” or “God is glad your son died in Afghanistan,” and simply because their money-grubbing, devoid-of-Spirit “reverend, priest, pastor, or presbyter,” told them to.
This monstrous, eighteen-hundred year-old, work of Satan (Christendom) can be laid, first, at the feet of the people in charge of these religious menageries (denominations/non-denominations), the clergy, the Vatican, and”church”-boards, etc, and then at the feet of the pew-sitting, self-seeking fools who, week after week, blindly follow their even blinder guides (with theology degrees) right down the path to hell!
I was not brought to where I am today, by my Lord, to save the world or the people in it! he has made it quite clear to me that He has saved the world, so I don’t have to do it myself. And, besides, I couldn’t even save myself, so how could I possibly save the world or anyone else? I am here to complete the purpose I was foreknown and predestined for, before the foundation of the world. I am not here to attend “church,” or pay “tithes,” or take part in man-created and manipulated “ministries.” I have one purpose, which is known to the Lord only, so I must draw near to Him, everyday, in order to have some sense of where He is taking me, what my purpose is, and when my purpose will be fulfilled. To live is truly Christ, for me, since I have nothing invested in this world any longer. If it were not for Christ, I would not be sitting here writing this post, BELIEVE ME! I hate the Godless political/economic/religious-system of this world, and so, without Christ, I would have no reason to keep hanging around here!
We all make our choices, and we all have to live with the results of those choices. If people choose Satan over my Creator, Lord and Savior, then they have made their choice. What they get because of their choice, on that soon coming day, they will have coming to them. I have no time nor compassion for these people, since they have gotten what they wanted, and who am I to question their choice? I am only called, in scripture, to love my true brothers and sisters in Christ, and so these are the folks who will get my love. If the Lord wants me to speak truth to the unregenerate, then He will bring me into contact with them, and He, through His Spirit in me, will then speak the Truth to them. But the decision will still be on them, not me, or the Lord! Every last one of us is solely responsible for our choice of whom we shall serve, our Lord or Satan!
Those who reject my Lord, also reject God the Father, and so they can, as they’ve chosen, go to hell; if there will be such a literal place at the end of this age?
You need some serious help my brother!! You are at a place of spiritual confusion that will allow passivity to overtake you and bring you to a place of utter hopelessness. Repent of your double-mindedness and allow the Spirit of the Living God to raise you up in to a newness of life that you have only been scratching the surface of. God is with you, but are you with God??
Eddie,
You question whether I am “with God,” and yet you refer to me as “brother.” If you are offended by what I have written, then you may want to find out if you are “with God.”
Like most religionists, you seem incapable of using the name that is above every name: Christ the Lord, the Creator, the Savior.
Eddie, I don’t know you, and you don’t know me, but I can tell you, from your comment, that we are anything but “brothers” in Christ, in the Spirit.
Take care!
PS
This will be my last approval of and response to your comments, unless, that is, you change your approach to communicating with me!