INCPU ~
International News and Christian Prayer Update
May 4th,
2009
News Clip
Update ~ 05-04-09
Subject: Fictional
novels that influence America’s population
Hello preachers of righteousness and fellow prayer partners,
For years, our family has seen the effect of false teachers on
friends, and on our country. In this update, we would like to examine three of
them, including Dan Brown, and how their false teaching is rapidly affecting
our society and churches. Below that, we have listed 3 of several Bible
teachers we respect and why. In the future, if God permits, we plan to expose
more false teachers, and tell you about more Real Bible teachers, like Paul
Washer and Ray Comfort & the ‘Way of the Master team’, that God is using
here in the US and in other countries.
First, we should make a note:
For those of us who are worried about the criminals that got into government
and their ‘New World Order’, we need to keep in mind that persecution can come
to America if we don’t take Jesus’ call for discipleship seriously, and embrace
it with our whole heart, and let it change every part of our life. God spits
out lukewarm types (Rev. 3:14-22). The book of 1st Peter explains
God’s goal for spiritual growth, and how God is willing to use persecution, if
necessary, to accomplish that. Studying 1st Peter explains how you
can probably avoid persecution if you are serious about your spiritual growth,
even if trouble breaks out near you.
>> Have you ever thought about the
difference between someone making mistakes and accidentally saying something
that has errors or false information in comparison/contrast to a false teacher
that is deliberately deceiving?
A
growing Christian Teacher:
Every time a Christian speaks about anything, he is at risk of
communicating a false truth. The solution is not to give up, but to keep
studying and grow – God is patient as long as we are growing. False brethren
eventually go back to their sinful worldview, like Demas (2nd
Timothy 4:10). A Christian or Bible teacher who is accidently communicating
error, will honestly listen to God’s Word, and appreciate people pointing out
the false teaching, and admit and repent from teaching wrongly, and continue to
grow to more rightly divide the Word of God. Sometimes it takes some time for
them to see it and grow from it.
An
example of a growing teacher:
Apollos
~ Acts 18:24-26.
Apollos was teaching the fear of the Lord and repentance as best as he knew,
but he had not heard of Jesus. So, God sent Aquila and Priscilla to teach him
more, and he grew from it and continued preaching. Later on, Apollos even
worked as a partner with the Apostle Paul on some occasions (1st
Corinthians 16:12 and Titus 3:13).
A
stubborn, false teacher:
A false teacher has quit learning from the Spirit of Christ. He
is a man who has closed his eyes to the evidence, being blinded by his selfish
ulterior motive(s). A false teacher will refuse to admit that they are in fact
twisting God’s Word, and even after being rebuked will continue to twist God’s
Word despite how much people speak up and point out the false teaching. False
teachers have ulterior motives for twisting God’s Word and are using false
teaching to gain popularity and money. Here are a couple examples in Scripture.
Examples
of false teachers:
Diotrephes
~ 3rd John 1:9-11
A man who liked to be the leader, yet rejected the Biblical leadership and
teaching of the apostle John and his fellow companions. So, after John had
warned him and sent messengers to correct him and yet Diotrephes refused to
repent and submit to the Word of God, John was going to personally show up and
expose him as a false teacher.
The
Judaizers ~ Galatians 6:12-15
This was a group of Jewish people, who even after hearing the
message of Jesus and the preaching of the apostles, faked their repentance and faith,
and continued to put great pressure on the Christians in Galatia to conform to
the Mosaic Law. The apostle Paul strongly warned against them.
Demas
~ 2nd Timothy 4:10
It is worth repeating that Demas stayed around the ministry of
Paul for a while, but his heart was still in the cares of this world. If you
can find out what TV shows someone loves, you can understand a lot about their
heart and desires. Maybe you should offer a Christian kindness to them by
helping them move their TVs to the dumpster.
**
As we hope you can see, there is a huge difference. One is
trying to be honorable, one is not. One cares about the truth, one does not.
One is growing in honesty and clarity in preaching the Word of God, the other
is learning how to be better at deception and how not get caught. One cares
about the Truth, the other is a wolf in sheep’s clothing (2nd Cor.
11:13-15).
So, let’s look at 3 popular writers in today’s culture and their
messages, and see how their books and message compare to what the Bible really
says.
***
Dan Brown
Dan
Brown is well known for his lies, and he is actively working to add to them.
Dan Brown is the author of the deceptive book, entitled ‘The Da Vinci Code’ (2003).
What is interesting is that in a French court in 1993, the documents Dan Brown
used for most of his ‘research’ in his book were admitted to be forgeries under
oath. That is amazing because on the first page of Dan’s book, he states:
“FACT: The priory
of Sion – a European secret society founded in 1099 – is a real organization.
In 1975 Paris’s Bibliothèque Nationale discovered parchments known as Les
Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including
Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo Da Vinci… All
descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this
novel are accurate.”
(quotes from the first page of Dan Brown’s book called ‘Da Vinci Code’)
Here
are a couple quotes from ‘webtruth.org’ that help us understand the deception:
Ø The documents:
“Brown claims on his initial ‘fact’ page that, “In 1975 Paris’ Bibliothèque Nationale discovered parchments known as
Les Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including
Sir. Isaac Newton, Sandro Botticelli, Victor Hugo and Leonardo Da Vinci.”
(p.15) These documents really existed – but they were forgeries, planted in the
Parisian library by a French conman named Pierre Plantard. He and several
colleagues, who formed a club called the Priory of Sion in 1956, put together
numerous fraudulent genealogical documents which purported to prove that
Plantard himself descended from Christ and Mary Magdalene through the
Merovingian dynasty. Plantard the pretender, an anti-Semite with a criminal
record, was eventually forced to admit his fabrications under oath to a French
court in 1993. A French journalist named Jean-Luc Chaumeil, who also
collaborated in a BBC documentary in 1996 which presented evidence demolishing
the whole story, exposed him in several books. Another researcher, Paul Smith,
has been tirelessly exposing the Priory of Sion fraud since at least 1985 (see http://priory-of-sion.com).
As for Plantard, he died in obscurity in 2000.” *
Ø ‘Borrowed’ from books:
“The Da Vinci Code relies on Holy Blood Holy Grail to such an extent
that two of its three authors took Dan Brown to court in London in 2006
claiming he had plagiarized their work. Though they failed to win damages, the
case did at least demonstrate the true extent to which Brown had borrowed from
their ‘research’.”
*
* (Quotes taken
from: www.webtruth.org/articles/cultural-issues-26/gnostic-nonsense-and-the-da-vinci-deception-63.html.)
Why did Dan Brown use forged documents in his book
and quote them as fact just ten years after they were proven to be fraudulent in
court? Whatever his reason, he seems to be making a lot of money on his lies,
and they are causing a lot of people confusion.
Another part of Dan’s deception is that while he
claims his books are fiction, his fictional character appears to be a trustworthy
researcher, pretending to study real facts, and talking with real people about
real documents, etc. It’s like virtual reality. “But isn’t it just a novel? Officially yes, but Dan Brown has gone on
record stating that he personally believes all the claims he inserts about
Jesus marrying and having a child by Mary Magdalene.” * ** Dan Brown is deceived,
and is contradicting reliable Biblical and historical records. He is pushing
his worldview, while disguising it as just ‘fiction’. He is
reiterating disproven lies to question moral standards, and among other things,
the claims and writings of the Bible.
*
(Dan Brown, interview by Charles Gibson, Good
Morning America, ABC, November 3rd 2003.)
** http://www.webtruth.org/articles/cultural-issues-26/gnostic-nonsense-and-the-da-vinci-deception-63.html
I
think it is also very important to make a note here about fiction/fantasy. When
people entertain themselves with something they know is false and fiction, we
take in some false information and it is very hard to completely remove all of
those lies, deception and fiction back out of our mind and thoughts. In John 8,
Jesus said: “‘If
you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the
truth, and the truth shall make you free.’ The Jewish people answered Him, ‘We
are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can
You say, “You will be made free”?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Most assuredly, I say
to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. … Therefore if the Son of God
makes you free, you shall be free indeed.’ ” (John 8:31-34,36) These
Jewish people were correct about being children of Abraham. But when this
conversation took place, these Jewish people were under the rule of Rome, and
they weren’t free like they were implying. But, Jesus didn’t spend time
discussing their physical bondage to Rome. Instead He went to their spiritual
condition, the main subject – he who commits a sin, makes himself a slave of
it. Every time we choose to rebel against God, we are choosing to become a
slave of sin. Only He can set us free, and in the process we will learn not to
choose and embrace that rebellion anymore, and learn to abide more in His Word
of Truth. If we abide in His Word, we are His disciples. “Sanctify them by Your Truth. Your Word is
Truth.” (John 17:17) His Word is Truth, and His Word teaches us to
abhor lies and deception and to love and cling to the Truth.
Back to Dan Brown. Before the ‘Da Vinci
Code’, Dan came out with a book entitled: ‘Angels
and Demons’. In this book, Dan uses the fiction-premise to make the real
and Satanic/witchcraft group, the Illuminati, seem like fiction, made-up, and unreal.
The movie version of this book, ‘Angels
and Demons’,
is scheduled to come to movie theaters on May 15, 2009. There are almost no
spiritually helpful movies these days ~ this one is evil and full of deception.
Please pray for our country, for pastors and Christian leaders to proclaim
God’s Truth.
>> The
facts on the Illuminati: A simple history study shows that the Illuminati
is a very real group of individuals, and just one of several big-money, occult
groups that work behind the scenes. In 1770s, the Sabbateans, the Illuminati,
the Jesuits, the Freemasons, and the Rothschilds made an agreement to combine
forces and to work together to gain control of the world’s governments and
finances, while trying to keep their activities secret. They also planned to
infiltrate every religion with the ambition to working everything toward moving
all religions back under the rule of Catholicism and Rome. The Bilderberg
Group, ‘Council on Foreign Relations’, and the Trilateral Commission are just a
few of their secretive money social clubs where the Elites of the world discuss
how to move the world toward One-World Government, currency, and the ‘New World
Order’, and how to deceive/convince the people to go along with it. You can
find out more about the meetings and some of their activities in World War II
in Barry Chamish’s book ‘Shabtai Tzvi,
Labor Zionism, and the Holocaust’.
(www.lulu.com/content/336970)
>> Also, you can learn more about how the Bilderberg Club and other Elite
money social clubs operate by checking out Daniel Estulin’s book: ‘The True Story of the Bilderberg Group’.
(http://trineday.com/paypal_store/product_pages/Bilderbergers.html)
And
now, Dan Brown is adding to his collection blatant lies and deceptions of his
previous books, with a new book called ‘The Lost Symbol’. Lost symbol of what? I don’t know. But we do know
that he is a liar (quoting falsified documents as fact), and probably a
plagiarist (thief), and should not in any way be trusted. He writes for
money, and is quite likely paid very well for his slander of Jesus Christ
and the Bible, as well as the honorable Jewish people. Dan is untrustworthy, and a very smooth and deceptive storyteller. Please
warn your friends to avoid him.
***
About William
P. Young and ‘The Shack’
The
other day we talked to William Paul Young. He had come to give a talk at a
local entertainment club, the fake church of Joel Hunter. So, we and a few of
our evangelist friends went to talk with the crowds and warn them about the
lies and deceptions in his book. We were quite surprised when he came out to
talk to us. He tried to act so calm and collected as he said that he agreed
with us, even before he knew what we were saying. He also tried to get a couple
of our evangelist friends to back down just because they hadn’t read his lies -
book. It should be noted that we do not have to read every heresy to know how
to disprove it. And we should only examine heresies with
the intent of comparing and contrasting them to God’s Word. In every case, we
need to study God’s Word more, and when necessary briefly look at popular books
and compare/contrast them with Scripture.
So,
after Mr. Young was trying to make us feel bad about not reading his book, we
did have a chance to ask him some questions. Questions like: ‘Why did he say in
his book that God doesn’t believe in order?’ He responded by trying to imply
that all systems of order are man-made, but we pointed out that Jesus,
willingly submitted to the Father, and the Holy Spirit willingly submits to
Jesus. He then tried to explain that away as just church ‘doctrine’ and we
pointed out that – no, this was the pattern of Scripture. He got quiet. We then
asked him to define the gospel. He gave some bland ‘believe in God’ answer. So,
we got more specific, and he gave the ‘God wants a relationship’ thought, but
never mentioned repentance. We also asked him if he believed that it was okay
to entertain ourselves with things that we know break God’s commandments. He
paused and said no. We then asked him if he really believed God was an
African-American lady, as mentioned in his book. He responded – of course not,
that it was just fiction, and that God could present Himself however He chose
to. We reminded him that God only
presents Himself in the Bible as a man and as masculine, never a female. He did
again restate that we basically agree. At that point, he wrapped up the
discussion and left. It was a very interesting conversation. It was very hard
to get him to answer specific questions. He was so deceptive and so smooth.
And, after talking with him, it was clear that, while he pretends to agree with
the Bible, this man does not know God’s Word, and that he is creating a ‘nicer’
god in his own image – one that cannot send anyone to Heaven or Hell (breaking
the 2nd of the 10 Commandments).
The
main problem with William Young is not that he writes fiction/fantasy books or
even that he is making a lot of money doing it. The main problem is that he
says that he believes the Bible and implies that he is not contradicting God’s
Word. By saying that he believes the Bible and yet his writing contradicts the
Word of God, William Young proves himself a liar, and that he does not know
God’s Word. He is adding to the Bible and twisting the Bible for money, and God
will prove him a liar.
A
few days after we saw and spoke with William Young, one of our fellow evangelists
that had been there with us sent a helpful link that compared quotes of his
book with passages in the Bible. I’m going to quote a few points from that link
that I think are very important, and you can see the rest at the link below.
Here are just a few of those points.
‘The Shack’ implies - On the Cross, God supposedly forgave all of humanity, whether they
repent and follow Jesus or not. Some choose a relationship with Him, some do
not, but He forgives them all. (pg. 225)
But God’s Word says: Jesus
was clear that only those who follow Him will inherit eternal life
“Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6)
*
‘The Shack’ implies
- God will never judge people for their sins that He supposedly cannot be
good and just, because He is supposedly only love. (pg. 122, 178-179, 203)
But God’s Word
says:
God
is both loving and just. The Word of God repeatedly invites people to repent
from their rebellion against God and escape from the judgment of God, and
surrender their lives to Jesus.
Some
examples:
“And
when He [the Holy Spirit] has
come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment
to come.”
(John
16:8)
“… I charge you
therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and
the dead at His appearing and His kingdom.”
(2
Timothy 4:1-3)
For those who
are not redeemed:
“Then I saw a
Great White Throne… And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God,
and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life.
And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were
written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and
Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one
according to his works. … And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was
cast into the lake of fire.”
(Revelation 20:11-15)
For those who
are redeemed:
Jesus
cautioned His disciples: “But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak,
they will give account of it in the Day of Judgment.”
(Matthew 12:36)
“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of
Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to
what he has done, whether good or bad.”
(2nd Corinthians 5:10)
‘The Shack’ implies
- God supposedly submits to human wishes and choices like He is a Genie
that is wanting to give us all our wants and selfish desires. (pg. 93-94, 111,
145)
But God’s Word
says:
That
while He chooses to show His love for us by showing us His kindness, He does
not submit to us. The Bible is very clear that we need to submit to Him.
“Then
one [Peter] said to Him,
‘Lord, are there few who are saved?’ And He said to them ‘Strive to enter
through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will
not be able.’”
(Luke 13:23-24)
“When He had
called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them,
‘Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross,
and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever
loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it. For what will it
profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will
a man give in exchange for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words
in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be
ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.'” ~ Mark 8:34-38
“So
likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My
disciple.”
Luke
14:33
Here is a link
that compares more quotes to what the Bible says:
www.leadingtheway.org/site/DocServer/SpecOffer_The13HeresiesExplained.pdf?docID=1821
***
Joel Rosenberg
~ Just a fiction writer or on the ‘inside circle’?
Joel Rosenberg ~ he writes fiction about
real facts. Some people have even suggested that he has accurately ‘predicted’
events. We should realize that fiction about ‘truth’ (or fiction about evidence
or facts) is very rarely helpful. Fiction about ‘truth’ is more often a
creative tool to push deception and disinformation. To make that point, please
allow me to give you a brief recap of some of Joel’s very popular books and his
'predictions'.
Polls show
that a huge majority of the public questions the 9-11-01 ‘official’ story:
CBS/Scientific
Poll:
84% Reject Official 9/11 Story, according to New York Times/CBS News poll. ~ http://freedomisforeverybody.blogspot.com/2008/05/scientific-poll-84-reject...
CNN
poll:
89% of voting-age US citizens believe that there is a US gov’t cover-up on 9-11
~ www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2004/111104cnnpoll.htm
Do you question the 9-11 official story? So do: 170+ Senior
Military, Intelligence Service, Law Enforcement, & Gov’t Officials, 640+
Engineers & Architects, 180+ Pilots & Aviation Professionals, 370+
Professors, 82+ Medical professionals, 230+ survivors and family members, and
200+ artists, entertainers, & media professionals. Also, the ‘official’
story is contradicted by numerous studies. Here are
just a few links with fascinating research, evidence, and important questions:
(http://physics911.net,
www.ae911truth.org, http://firefightersfor911truth.org,
www.journalof911studies.com)
But, what is odd is that Mr. Rosenberg's book 'The Last
Jihad, a novel', was mostly written before 9-11-01, and then published
in 2003.** Because most of the
manuscript was written before 9-11, some people say that Mr. Rosenberg
'predicted' the 'attacks' of 9-11. However, in his book, Mr. Rosenberg
presented the events of 9-11 as an attack from a 'foreign' enemy. Mr. Rosenberg
in his book pushes the Elitist spin.
** http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=940_1207148188
So,
the question is: Did God give Joel a ‘prophecy’ or did he have inside
information?
>>>
In Rosenberg’s book 'The Last Days', Mr. Rosenberg 'predicts'
Arafat's assassination and the 'civil war' it would cause, but completely
ignores and covers the facts that the CIA trains and funds the PLO (Abbas' Al
Fatah party),* and coaches –
manipulates those ‘terrorists’ to fit the Elitist agenda.
* http://www.hirhome.com/israel/cia-fatah.htm
>>>
And then in his books 'The Ezekiel Option' and his
book 'Epicenter', Mr. Rosenberg beats the drums for war with
Iran. This is his worst endeavor, because in these books, Mr. Rosenberg is
helping the Elitists march forward to the war with Iran, despite that fact that
top, well-informed, US and Israeli military sources say that Iran is far from
having nuclear weapons – a fact that the 'mainstream' media keeps spinning and
covering up. Even Robert Gates was forced to admit that Iran is a long way from
having a nuclear weapon.* It is
well-known that the Elitists want a war within the Middle East, or anywhere
else for the matter, because war=chaos, and therefore is the perfect atmosphere
to present and move forward the ‘New World Order’ (NWO) agenda and the
Elitists' version of 'peace'. War is also very profitable for them and their
financial friends.
* http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/162875
Joel Rosenberg
says:
On
Joel Rosenberg’s website, he asks the question:
‘Will the War of Gog and Magog happen before
or after the Rapture?’
And
his answer:
‘The truth is we simply do not know the
answer for certain, because Ezekiel does not say. Many of the theologians I
have cited in this book believe the war will occur after the Rapture. In the
novel Left Behind, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins describe the War of Gog and Magog
as having already happened before the Rapture takes place. In The Ezekiel
Option, I also chose to portray the war occurring before the Rapture…’
But God’s Word
says:
“… [And the saints]
shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand
years. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of
his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four
quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the
number of whom is as the sand of the sea.”
(Revelation
20:6-8)
God is very clear here in the book of Revelation that the “War of
Gog and Magog” is not only after the rapture, but also after the Tribulation,
and after the 1,000 year reign of Christ. It is the final battle. And yet, Mr.
Rosenberg likes to portray it before the rapture? Why? For money. It
makes an exciting novel, right? I guess it doesn’t really bother him that he is
twisting the book of Revelation. God was very clear about false teachers taking
away or adding to the book of Revelation. “… If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him
the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from
the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the
Book of Life, and out of the Holy City, and from the things which are written
in this Book.”
(Revelation 22:18)
Also, Pastor John MacArthur, a well-respected Bible scholar and
teacher, says Magog is clearly defined in the Bible as Russia, but Gog is not
identified. Mr. Rosenberg and others try to insert the name of a current
country as Gog – this time it’s Iran.
Mr. Rosenberg is not a good Bible student, but he does have some
very popular fiction books, and he is making a lot of money off of his
additions to the book of Revelation. Mr. Rosenberg doesn't know the Bible; only
how to write exciting fiction books that march forward the plan of the Elites
and their 'New World Order.'
In
conclusion
- So, is Rosenberg on the ‘inside circle’ or just being used? I don’t know.
But, I do know that his ‘facts’ cannot be trusted. He is a writer of
disinformation and proponent of Elites’ ‘New World Order’ system. Please do not trust Mr. Rosenberg – his
military background and connections make him a very helpful mouth-piece for the
Elitists, which is evidenced by the deception and misinformation he puts in his
books.
***
Now,
before you get discouraged and think that there are possibly no honorable religious
leaders out there, we would like to list a 5 that we respect and we believe
continue to prove themselves to be rightly dividing the Word of Truth. They
are not perfect, but they have a proven track record of actively growing,
and they are actively standing up to the deception of the world’s message and
the hypocrisy of the modern American churches, and standing up for the truth of
God’s Word.
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John MacArthur
‘Widely known for his thorough, candid approach to teaching
God’s Word, John MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and
conference speaker, and has served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church
in Sun Valley, California since 1969. John and his wife, Patricia, have four
grown children and fourteen grandchildren.
‘John’s pulpit ministry has been extended around the globe
through his media ministry, ‘Grace to You’, and its satellite offices in
Australia, Canada, Europe, India, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa. In
addition to producing daily radio programs for nearly 2,000 English and Spanish
radio outlets worldwide, ‘Grace to You’ distributes books, software,
audiotapes, and CDs by John MacArthur. In thirty-six years of ministry, Grace
to You has distributed more than thirteen million CDs and audiotapes.
‘John is the president of The Master's College and The Master's
Seminary, and he has written hundreds of books and study guides, each one
thoroughly biblical and practical. Best-selling titles include: ‘The Gospel According to Jesus’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘Ashamed of the Gospel’, ‘Twelve Ordinary Men’, and ‘The MacArthur Study Bible’.’
>> (description from his radio
ministry site – ‘Grace to You’ ~ www.GTY.org)
Also within the last year, John MacArthur and ‘Grace to You’
released his 40 years of sermon audios for free for download – MP3 format. He
is widely respected as a Bible scholar, because he has invested so much time in
studying God’s Word. He has for years spent 30 hours a week studying God’s
Word, and it shows in his teaching and books. He says in an interview that
despite the other ministries he is involved in, he never sacrifices the 30
hours a week in Bible study.* The
GTY team has done a nice job in organizing his sermon audios, and you can
search the archives by: title, Scripture passage, date, or audio file number.
We encourage you, if you do take advantage of this wonderful resource, please
do donate to his ministry. We donate to them, and we encourage you to do so
too. It is quite a sacrifice to release all of those audios for free, and those
of us who benefit from the clear teaching of God’s Word, need to contribute in
prayer and donations as we can.
Resource link: http://www.gty.org/Resources/Sermons
*
Interview link: www.gty.org/Resources/Questions/QA197
Also, GTY’s gospel tract is our favorite, and if you haven’t
seen one yet, you can read it and buy them on GTY. They are $.15 each,
full-color, thorough, and very worth it. Our family goes street-witnessing
regularly, and this our favorite to pass out to both Christians and unsaved
people, friends, and neighbors. Here is the link for that too:
http://www.gty.org/Shop/Booklets/45GT
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Mark Cahill
About
Mark:
‘Mark Cahill has a business degree from Auburn University, where
he was an honorable mention Academic All-American in basketball. After spending
a few years in the business world, he surrendered his heart to Jesus Christ and
asked God to place him where he could touch as many lives as possible. Within a
year, he was teaching school. Although Mark planned to teach for the rest of
his life, God moved him from teaching at a Christian high school to devoting a
year to full-time evangelism. He then embarked on a speaking career. Mark
speaks to over 25,000 people per year at churches, retreats, conferences,
camps, etc., equipping and challenging the saved to go out and reach the lost.
As one of his students noted, he's still teaching, but in a much bigger
classroom.
‘His true vocation is witnessing, whether at malls, music and
art festivals, beaches, sporting events, bar sections of towns—wherever the
lost can be found. Mark is the author of One Thing You Can’t Do in Heaven
which has been translated into Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Romanian and is being
translated into Nepalese, and One Heartbeat Away. Mark lives in Stone Mountain,
Georgia.’
Mark’s
homepage for Christians:
‘Since I gave my life to the Lord, I exist to glorify the God of
this universe. That includes wanting to see 6 billion people come to a saving
knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Second Peter 3:9 says, “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as
some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish
but for all to come to repentance.” God wants all people to be saved, and
so should we.
‘According to Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ,
“Only two percent of believers in America
regularly share their faith in Christ with others.” For a true Christian,
that cannot be. One of the most exciting aspects of being a believer is telling
other people about the Lord of your life.
‘I want to encourage you, challenge you, and equip you to reach
both friends and strangers for Jesus. What could be more important? Be bold for
what you believe!’
>> (descriptions from Mark Cahill’s
site ~ www.markcahill.org)
Marks’ email – he says that he responds to every
email, question, comment.
You can contact here: mark@markcahill.org
We have had the privilege of meeting and talking with Mark. If
you write him or meet him, you will find him to be personable and living the
same way he is preaching. We respect and appreciate him, and we consistently
pray that God will keep increasing in him a hunger for God’s Word and a passion
for making disciples, and training others to be making disciples.
You can find some spiritually inspiring audios for free here: http://www.markcahill.org/resource.html
And you can buy both ‘One Thing You Can’t Do in Heaven’ and ‘One
Heartbeat Away’, CDs and DVDs, here: http://www.markcahill.org/listen3.html
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K. P. Yohannan
‘Growing up in a small village in South India, Dr. K.P. Yohannan
began his spiritual journey at the age of eight when he gave his life to
Christ. His godly mother fasted and prayed each week for God to call one of her
six boys to serve the Lord. Her prayers were answered when K.P., her youngest
son, surrendered his ambitions to the Lord and committed to full-time
missionary service in North India.
‘After eight years of serving the Lord in the subcontinent
(India), he went to the U.S. for his theological studies and has pastored a
church for four years. However, he was unable to forget the untold millions who
have not heard about the love of Christ in the 10/40 window.
Finally, in 1979, obeying the Lord he resigned from his
pastorate to put his full time into missions. From that small beginning, today
‘Gospel for Asia’ has become an effective mission movement with several
thousand workers in 11 Asian nations.
‘Dr. K.P. spends a significant part of his time traveling to
many nations and speaking on the behalf of the suffering and needy in our
world. His call to the body of Christ is to become His authentic followers and
impact their generation for Christ.
‘He has authored more than 200 books published in Asia and seven
in the West, including Revolution in World Missions (ISBN
0-88419-195-8), The Road to Reality (ISBN 0-88419-250-4) and his newest
book, Touching Godliness through Submission (ISBN 978-1-59589-055-9).
Dr. K.P.'s weekly radio broadcast, "Road to Reality," is heard over
500 radio stations throughout the USA, Canada, U.K., N.Z. and Australia.’
(description on the Gospel for Asia website ~ www.gfa.org/aboutkp)
>> ‘Gospel for Asia’ website ~ www.gfa.org
I read his book ‘Revolution in World Missions’ and was inspired.
Mr. Yohannan is going back to the Biblical model of missions, in contrast to
modern missionary ‘movement’. Here is just a clip from his book ~ giving a word
picture of the life of a typical, native missionaries.
'We begin by invading the house of our
imaginary American family to strip it of its furniture. Everything goes: beds,
chairs, tables, television sets, lamps. We will leave the family with a few old
blankets, a kitchen table, a wooden chair. Along with the bureaus go the
clothes. Each member of the family may keep in his 'wardrobe' his oldest suit
or dress, a shirt or blouse. We will permit a pair of shoes for the head of the
family, but none for the wife or children.
‘We move to the kitchen. The appliances have already been taken out, so we turn
to the cupboards...the box of matches may stay, a small bag of flour, some
sugar and salt. A few moldy potatoes, already in the garbage can, must be
rescued, for they will provide much of tonight's meal. We will leave a handful
of onions and a dish of dried beans. All the rest we take away: the meat, the
fresh vegetables, the canned goods, the crackers, the candy.
‘Now we have stripped the house: the bathroom has been dismantled, the running water
shut off, the electric wires taken out. Next we take away the house. The family
can move to the tool shed...Communications must go next. No more newspapers,
magazines, books--not that they are missed, since we must take away our
family's literacy as well. Instead, in our shantytown we will allow one
radio...
‘Now government services must go next. No more postmen, no more firemen. There
is a school, but it is three miles away and consists of two classrooms...There
are, of course, no hospitals or doctors nearby. The nearest clinic is ten miles
away and is tended by a midwife. It can be reached by bicycle, provided the
family has a bicycle, which is unlikely.
‘Finally, money. We will allow our family a cash hoard of five dollars. This
will prevent our breadwinner from experiencing the tragedy of an Iranian
peasant who went blind because he could not raise the $3.94 which he mistakenly
thought he needed to receive admission to a hospital where he could have been
cured.’
Striking isn’t it? It’s so different from our culture’s ‘Give
me!’ society and ‘I deserve….!’ thinking. That is just a small clip from his
book, and I highly recommend it. His study of missions in the Bible really
challenged my thinking, and strengthened my desire to see missions done God’s
way. You can get a free copy of ‘Revolution in World Missions’ here: www.mygfa.org/offer/freebook
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Please pray for these men and others just like them. There is a
growing team of evangelists and preachers who are holding to God’s Word and
teaching it literally. In the future, if God permits, we plan to expose more
false teachers, and tell you about more Real Bible teachers, like Paul Washer
and Ray Comfort & the ‘Way of the Master team’, that God is using here in
the US and in other countries.
And thank you to each of you who are actively reminding others
of Jesus’ call of repentance and discipleship. And thank you to those who pray
for us.
Fellow laborers and servants of Jesus Christ,
The Henry Family
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