Thirsty For God Church: Which Jesus Will You Worship This Holy Week?

What a joyous week here's as all of Christendom rejoices within the sacrificial death and resurrection of the Son of God, the Messiah, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

but did you know that there's "an additional Jesus" that the Scriptures warns us about?

in reality, the Bible teaches that many of those that consider they are Christians might be following the inaccurate Jesus this Easter Sunday – a extremely critical error because the "other Jesus" can't shop them from their sins.

The "different Jesus" is a cultural concoction of form, ceremony, idolatry, sin and deception. he's whitewashed on the outside, but interior, he's filled with useless men's bones (Matthew 23:27-28).

In 2 Corinthians 11:3-four, the Holy Spirit warned that people can be instructing "another Jesus" ("Jesus" potential "Savior"):

i am afraid that simply as Eve turned into deceived by the serpent's crafty, your minds may also by some means be led off beam out of your straightforward and pure devotion to Christ. For if a person comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preach, or in case you obtain a distinct spirit from the one you received, or a special gospel...

it is the nature of deceivers to pose as angels of mild.

In 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, the Holy Spirit warns of men posing as "angels of light" who come to deceive:

Such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no ask yourself, for devil himself masquerades as an angel of light. It isn't stunning, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their conclusion might be what their actions deserve.

Such hirelings fill the pulpits of an striking variety of church buildings, preaching immorality, selfishness, unbelief, greed and even worse. they're tares (weeds that look like wheat) among genuine wheat (see Matthew 13:24-30).

now not only do many follow a unique Jesus, nonetheless others deceive many by using proclaiming that they're the Christ – that means "the anointed one." in the "Olivet Discourse," Jesus warned of "false Christs" who would deceive many:

watch out that no person deceives you. for a lot of will are available my name, claiming, "i am the Christ", and should deceive many…many will flip far from the religion...many false prophets will seem and deceive many individuals... (Matthew 24:four-5, Matthew 24:10-11)

And in 1 Timothy four:1, it says: The Spirit evidently says that in later times some will abandon the faith and observe deceiving spirits and issues taught by using demons.

there's an fundamental point of the true doctrine.

individuals today want to criticize the want for true or sound doctrine (1 Timothy 1:eight-11; 2 Timothy four:three; Titus 1:9; Titus 2:1). Many don't even analyze it, even though Jesus' closing command to His disciples turned into to train the individuals to obey all that He commanded (Matthew 28:18-20).

In 1 Timothy 6:three, it says:

If anybody teaches false doctrines and does not comply with the sound guideline of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly instructing, he is smug and knows nothing.

In 2 Timothy four:three-four, we examine:

For the time will come when guys will not put up with sound doctrine. as an alternative, to go well with their personal wants, they will acquire round them a superb number of teachers to claim what their itching ears want to hear. they will turn their ears faraway from the truth and switch apart to myths.

And, in 2 Peter 2:1-3 we find:

there were additionally false prophets among the people, simply as there could be false lecturers amongst you. they'll secretly introduce harmful heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them - bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their shameful approaches and will deliver the way of reality into disrepute. of their greed, these academics will exploit you with studies they have made up. Their condemnation has lengthy been hanging over them, and their destruction has now not been snoozing.

watch out for made-up studies.

Hmm – "studies that they've made up" – seems like tons of what you see on the historical past and other channels. they devise ridiculously inaccurate and blasphemous types of Jesus and His story – fiction that is constantly aired round Easter as a way to sow doubt into the minds of viewers about Jesus' divinity, His atoning death on the go and the should bow the knee to Him as Lord & Savior.

So – which Jesus will you be following this Holy week? it is vitally vital that the Jesus you worship is the one authentic Jesus and never probably the most concoctions of guys and fallen angels.

Worship the precise Jesus.

In John four:23-24, Jesus mentioned:

actual worshipers will worship the daddy in spirit and fact, for they're the sort of worshipers the father seeks. God is Spirit, and His worshippers must worship in spirit and in certainty.

if you were to stroll as much as my chum Karl and call him David, no be counted how a good deal you desired him to be David, it effectively wouldn't be authentic. There is just one of my chums named Karl and he is defined by his own being, existence, historical past, DNA, and personality.

He cannot be made David via calling him David. Neither can Jesus. If somebody has redefined Him, then it is not truly Him that they talk of or worship.

The Scriptures show a Jesus who's:

he is the one who hung on that pass 2,000 years ago and who rose from the useless to prove that he's God.

He turned into endowed with a superb realizing of the Scriptures from a extremely early age, calling the Temple in Jerusalem His Father's residence (Luke 2:46-49). He told the religious leaders of His day:

in case you don't agree with that i am the One I declare to be, you are going to certainly die to your sins.

In other words, realizing Him appropriately, following Him faithfully and worshipping Him actually are crucial to being saved. To worship and observe one other person is not the identical and should not prevent, despite the fact that you call him Jesus.

The real Jesus reaffirmed the total old testament (Matthew 5:17-20) even to the tiniest of letters and punctuation features.

Yet, He did not condemn those that struggled with sin, offered they believed in Him, repented of their sins and followed Him. in fact, He came to die for them so that they may be with Him in heaven.

Being God and the most effective Savior given to guys by God (Acts 4:12; John 14:6), and being sinless (John 8:48; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 7:26; 1 Peter 1:19; 1 Peter 2:22; 1 John three:5), His death on the move changed into the simplest skill wherein we could be saved. He paid the penalty for the sins of anyone who would follow Him.

be aware, Jesus overturned some tables and a few beliefs.

There are all types of cults, religions, liberal denominations, and particular hobby agencies who've created an additional Jesus and who bow right down to him (or her, in some cases).

The real Jesus warned that if we do not believe that he is the one He claimed to be (God, Savior, Creator, upholder of righteousness, and so on.) then our worship is not for Him but rather for a powerless facsimile that may keep no one.

Salvation and heaven are at stake in this be counted of biblically sound doctrine, with its name to give up to the authentic Savior of the realm.

that you would be able to examine His "manner of get away" in what is affectionately referred to as, "The Romans road" (Romans three:10-18, Romans three:23-24; Romans 5:1, Romans 5:eight; Romans 6:23; Romans eight:1; Romans 10:9, Romans 10:13).

that you can then respond to His invitation all the way through this Holy Week to take pleasure in eternal lifestyles with Jesus Christ in heaven.

Dr. David Kyle Foster (M-Div, Trinity Evangelical Divinity school; D-Min, Trinity college for Ministry) is the author of changed Into His photo andLove hunger and is the founder/director of Pure passion Media (www.PurePassion.us). examine extra of his take on sexual sin and brokenness in his most recent booklet, The Sexual curative Reference edition.