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While about 2 billion people profess a belief in Jesus, do most accept the true gospel or a false one? The World Council of Churches, the Vatican, and others are working for a type of unity--but is that unity based on the love of the truth or something else? Jesus warned that many would take the broad path that leads to destruction and not the straight and narrow one that leads to life. The Apostle Jude warned Christians to contend earnestly for the original faith, yet relatively few who claim Christianity even know what the original Christians actually believed. The Apostle Paul warned that people, even in his day, were willing to accept a false gospel. Does the Bible show that most will be deceived by signs and lying wonders which are soon to come? Does the New Testament encourage interfaith and ecumenical unity or, as the Apostle Paul wrote, being separate? Dr. Thiel and Steve Dupuie go over these topics and encourage people to learn more about the true gospel of the kingdom of God.
A related written article is also available titled 'False Gospels being pushed–believe the true Gospel of the Kingdom of God, not the ecumenical interfaith one' URL: https://www.cogwriter.com/news/doctrine/false-gospels-being-pushed-believe-the-true-gospel-of-the-kingdom-of-god-not-the-ecumenical-interfaith-one/
A related written article is also available titled 'False Gospels being pushed–believe the true Gospel of the Kingdom of God, not the ecumenical interfaith one' URL: https://www.cogwriter.com/news/doctrine/false-gospels-being-pushed-believe-the-true-gospel-of-the-kingdom-of-god-not-the-ecumenical-interfaith-one/
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00:00Greetings, friends. This is Steve Dupuy for the Bible News Prophecy Program with Dr. Bob Thiel,
00:10bringing you news and analysis of world events in light of Bible prophecy.
00:14Dr. Thiel, we know that before the return of Christ, there will be massive deception by Satan
00:20in an attempt to turn the whole world against God. Talk to us about how Satan might go about
00:26accomplishing that deception. Well, in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, the Apostle Paul warns
00:33that those who do not have the love of the truth are going to be deceived by signs and lying wonders.
00:38Yet before this occurs, other steps are taking place to encourage humanity to compromise toward
00:45more of a one-world religion, if you want to call it that. Now, this former Roman Catholic who's now
00:50Protestant by the name of Mike Gendron. And in his newsletter this week, he put out the following,
00:57gospel compromisers and men-pleasers. As we approach the day of the Lord's glorious return,
01:03Satan must know his days are numbered because he continues to blind the minds of believers
01:08from the light of the gospel and the glory of Christ. He's also recruited a growing number of
01:15Protestant leaders who are compromising the gospel and denying its exclusivity. The Father of Lies has
01:24many willing partners who foolishly remove the essentials of the gospel to make it more inclusive.
01:31They do this for the purpose of drawing a larger following, gaining more influence, and to be loved
01:36by more people. This men-pleasing gospel makes people feel comfortable in their sin because it
01:42over-emphasizes God's love while ignoring his holiness and his hatred of sin.
01:49And continuing, this article says,
01:52After the Apostle Paul condemned anyone who would preach a distorted gospel,
01:56he warned about those who would please men over God in Galatians 1.
02:01Yet there are many man-pleasers today.
02:04We're alarmed by many so-called Christian podcasters
02:08who have Roman Catholics on their shows to promote their heretical books and resources.
02:13Tragically, gospel compromisers and men-pleasers are getting very little resistance.
02:19Paul admonishes us to repent of such apathy with a strong rebuke.
02:24He wrote in 2 Corinthians 11, verse 4,
02:27If someone comes proclaiming another Jesus than the one we've proclaimed,
02:32you receive another spirit than the one you've received,
02:35or you accept a different gospel from the one you've accepted,
02:38you put up with it.
02:41Anyway, Gendron continues with,
02:43We must contend earnestly for the one and only gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
02:46because so much is at stake.
02:49We must have a growing compassion for false converts
02:53who've been deceived by false gospels.
02:55Then he says,
02:57Why so few follow the narrow path?
02:59Of course, now Jesus said that's what was going to happen.
03:01He says,
03:02The broad way looks more inviting
03:04because it's a way that seems right to the man.
03:07But in the end, there are ways of death.
03:09Proverbs 14, 12.
03:11Jesus pleaded with people to strive to enter God's kingdom
03:14and be set free from Satan.
03:18He cites Luke chapter 13.
03:21Only the truth will set captives free
03:23and only when we abide in God's word will we know the truth.
03:27Many gullible people fall afraid of false teachers
03:30because of their deceptive appearance.
03:33As servants of Satan, they, quote, 2 Corinthians 11, 15,
03:37disguise themselves as servants of righteousness
03:39whose end will be according to their deeds, end quote.
03:43Like anything that's counterfeit,
03:45the goal is to fool people.
03:46False teachers master deceptive lies
03:49with an air of religious authority.
03:51They hide their fatal gospel
03:54under the thin veneer of truth.
03:56But what's inside is really deadly poison.
03:59They often hide their blasphemies and heresies
04:01with the illogical arguments and traditions of men.
04:05They have no fear of God
04:06and they twist and distort the word of God,
04:08their own destruction, as it says in 2 Peter 3, 16.
04:11So, the promotion of a false gospel
04:16is one way Satan will promote deception.
04:18Do you agree that God's love is overemphasized
04:22in the proclamation of the true gospel?
04:24Well, no, I do not agree
04:26about the gospel compromisers
04:29overemphasizing God's love.
04:31God's love is infinite.
04:32But the compromisers do not understand it,
04:35nor do they properly teach it.
04:37Yet, I do agree
04:39with Gendron's overall position
04:42that compromisers of the gospel
04:44meet little resistance.
04:46That's part of why
04:47most professing Christians in this world
04:48don't understand the true gospel.
04:51Now, that said,
04:52Mike Gendron's correct.
04:54The false ecumenical interfaith gospel
04:56is gaining acceptance.
04:58You know, as the apostle Jude wrote,
05:02true Christians are too,
05:03according to Jude 3,
05:04to contend earnestly for the faith
05:06which was once for all
05:07delivered to the saints.
05:09For certain men have crept in unnoticed,
05:12long ago were marked for the condemnation,
05:15ungodly men who turn the grace
05:17of our God into lewdness
05:18and deny the only Lord God
05:20and Lord Jesus Christ.
05:23End quote.
05:24Now, true believers believe and teach
05:26the true gospel of the kingdom of God,
05:29which, by the way,
05:30has Jesus as our savior
05:32and our soon coming king
05:33to actually run a kingdom
05:34and get rid of the world's kingdoms.
05:36Now, let me add
05:38that one of the earliest false gospels
05:41was actually put forth
05:42by a guy named Marcion of Sinope
05:44in the second century A.D.
05:47He taught against many books
05:48of the New Testament.
05:50He taught against the original faith.
05:52He taught against the Sabbath.
05:53And he also taught against
05:54the coming millennial reigning
05:55of the kingdom of God on this earth.
05:58Yet on those last three points,
06:01the bulk of the world's compromised churches
06:03agree with this Marcion guy.
06:05Now, that said,
06:08a while back,
06:09Mike Gendron had something else
06:10in an earlier newsletter.
06:13He said that the greatest attacks
06:14on the gospel today
06:15are the frequent attempts
06:17by evangelicals
06:18to make it more inclusive
06:19to everybody who's ever been baptized.
06:22Many are seeking
06:22to broaden the narrow road
06:26by embracing,
06:27promoting apostate forms
06:29of Christianity.
06:30Some undiscerning ones
06:33have been seduced
06:34by the Pope's
06:34aggressive ecumenical agenda
06:36to unite all
06:38professing Christians
06:39under papacy.
06:41Part of the Pope's strategy
06:42is to look for soft targets
06:43within various churches
06:45who will promote Roman Catholics
06:47as valid.
06:49tragically,
06:51this has been successful.
06:53He says,
06:53more recently,
06:54various evangelical leaders
06:56have been pushing
06:57a popular book
06:58written by
06:59Rod Dreyer
07:00who's a major promoter
07:02of Roman Catholicism.
07:03He's a former Roman Catholic
07:04and he became a member
07:07of the Eastern Orthodox faith.
07:09His book is called
07:10The Benedict Option.
07:11He calls people of faith
07:13to live like a monk
07:18in a collapsing culture
07:19and also to do things
07:21that the Bible doesn't teach
07:22like the daily sacrifice
07:24of a Eucharistic Christ.
07:26Anyway,
07:27Gendron continues,
07:28like most proponents
07:29of ecumenism,
07:31Dreyer promotes subjective
07:32spiritual experiences
07:33experiences over
07:34the objective truths
07:36of Scripture.
07:38He says,
07:38for evangelical leaders
07:40to recommend such a book
07:41that applauds
07:42heretical people
07:44and false traditions
07:46is lamentable.
07:48And it's terrible
07:49because they're not
07:50guarding sound doctrine.
07:52And this is,
07:52they reject,
07:53people should reject
07:54false gospels.
07:56So this has confused
07:57many people
07:57who trust Christ.
08:00He also wrote
08:01The Accommodation
08:02of Doctrinal Error
08:03and Falsehood
08:04will always be dangerous
08:06to the life
08:06of the church
08:07because we're supposed
08:08to be set apart
08:09or sanctified
08:10by the truth
08:10as Jesus said
08:11in Matthew,
08:12excuse me,
08:12John 17, 17.
08:15He also then quotes
08:162 Peter 3, 17.
08:18It says,
08:19God warns us
08:20to, quote,
08:21be on your guard
08:22since you are not
08:23carried away
08:24by the error
08:25of unprincipled men
08:26and fall from
08:27your steadfastness.
08:29The critical issue
08:31in the church today
08:31is the purity
08:32of the gospel.
08:33It's the rudder
08:34that must guide us
08:35through the stormy waters
08:36that have been stirred up
08:37by every wind of doctrine.
08:39Either we seek
08:39the approval of God
08:41by protecting
08:41the purity
08:42of the gospel
08:43or we seek
08:44the approval of men
08:44by applauding
08:45those who peddle
08:46another gospel.
08:47He says there's
08:48no other option.
08:50Now I agree
08:50and I think he should,
08:51of course,
08:51become part
08:52of the church of God.
08:53Anyway,
08:55to finish up
08:56what he wrote,
08:56he says,
08:57as Christians,
08:57we must contend
08:58earnestly for the faith
08:59and challenge those
09:00who embrace
09:01the false gospel.
09:03We're fighting
09:04an age-old war
09:05against the powers
09:09of darkness
09:09against the truth.
09:11The truth of God's word
09:12is our only hope
09:12in a world
09:13spinning out of control.
09:15We must endeavor
09:16to defend
09:16the glory and honor
09:17of our Lord Jesus Christ
09:18and the purity
09:19of his gospel
09:19and the sanctity
09:20of his church,
09:21end quote.
09:23Anyway,
09:24while I don't agree
09:24with various
09:25Protestant misunderstandings
09:26of the true gospel,
09:27it's true
09:28that the ecumenical
09:30interfaith forces
09:31promoted by the Vatican,
09:32Eastern Orthodox,
09:33and various Protestant leaders
09:35are certainly not contending
09:37for the faith
09:37that was once for all
09:38delivered to the saints.
09:40You tie faith
09:42in with the true gospel.
09:45Is this promotion
09:46of a false gospel
09:47a fairly new doctrine?
09:50No, not really.
09:51The Apostle Paul
09:52warned that in his day
09:53people were turning
09:54to a false gospel.
09:55In Galatians chapter 1,
09:57we're going to start
09:58reading in verse 6.
10:00Paul writes,
10:01and I marvel
10:02that you're turning away
10:03so soon from him
10:05who called you
10:06into the grace of Christ
10:07to a different gospel,
10:08which is not another.
10:10But there's some
10:10who trouble you
10:11and want to pervert
10:11the gospel of Christ.
10:13But even if we
10:14or an angel for heaven,
10:16or let's say an apparition,
10:17I'll add that,
10:18preach another gospel to you
10:20which we've not preached to you,
10:22let him be a curse.
10:22As we said before,
10:24I'll say again,
10:25if anyone preaches
10:25another gospel to you
10:26to what you've received,
10:29let him be a curse.
10:31For do I now persuade men
10:32or God?
10:32Or do I now seek
10:33to please men?
10:35For if I please men,
10:36I would not be a bond
10:37servant of Christ.
10:39But I make known
10:40to you, brethren,
10:40the gospel that was
10:41preached by me
10:42is not in according
10:43to man.
10:44So going back
10:47to the book,
10:47The Benedict Option
10:49for a minute,
10:50should we really live
10:52like monks
10:52in this collapsing society?
10:55No.
10:55And as far as living
10:56in this collapsing society,
10:57the Bible teaches
10:58we have the patience
10:59of the true saints
11:00to endure
11:01despite what's happened.
11:02So in Mark 13,
11:03Jesus warned brothers
11:04going to betray
11:06brother to death,
11:07et cetera,
11:08and we're going to be hated
11:08by all for his name's sake.
11:11But he who endures
11:12the end will be saved.
11:14In the book of Revelation,
11:16we hear about
11:17in Revelation 13,
11:18various Christians
11:19are going to be killed.
11:21And Jesus called this
11:22the patience
11:22and the faith
11:23of the saints.
11:25And in Revelation 14, 12,
11:27we're told that here's
11:28the patience of the saints.
11:29Who are the saints?
11:30Those who have
11:30the commandments of God,
11:31who keep the commandments
11:32of God,
11:32and have faith in Jesus.
11:34The Bible doesn't promote
11:35some type of Benedict Option.
11:37It promotes
11:37the kingdom of God,
11:39which few who claim
11:40Christianity actually understand.
11:41Jesus is going to return
11:43as king of kings
11:43and eliminate the governments
11:45of this world.
11:46But there have been
11:47all kinds of discussions
11:48between the Greco-Roman Catholics
11:50and the Protestants
11:51to just wash over things
11:53and go over things,
11:55push ecumenical unity.
11:58Now,
11:58in Apostle Paul's time,
12:01he warned,
12:02this is 2 Thessalonians 2,
12:03starting with verse 7,
12:04for the mystery of lawlessness
12:06is already at work.
12:07Only he who now restrains
12:10to do so
12:10will do it
12:11until he's taken out of the way.
12:13So there's a restrainer in place,
12:14but that's going to go away.
12:15Then the lawless one
12:16is going to be revealed,
12:18and it's going to be
12:19according to the work of Satan
12:20with all power,
12:21signs,
12:21and lying wonders.
12:22People who didn't receive
12:25the love of the truth
12:26are going to fall for this.
12:28Why?
12:29That they all may be condemned
12:30to do not believe the truth,
12:31but have pleasure
12:32in unrighteousness.
12:32So,
12:35now a lot of people say
12:36that this is terrible.
12:38You're preaching
12:39a satanic message
12:40when you say
12:40you have to be separate.
12:42Well,
12:43the Bible is very clear.
12:44The Apostle Paul wrote
12:46in 2 Corinthians 6,
12:49don't be unequally
12:50yoked together
12:51with unbelievers.
12:52What communion
12:52has light with darkness?
12:54What accord
12:55does Christ have
12:55with basically Satan
12:56or believers
12:57and unbelievers?
12:59Verse 17,
13:01come out from among them
13:02and be separate,
13:03says the Lord.
13:03Don't touch what's unclean
13:05and I'll receive you.
13:06I'll be a father to you
13:07and you'll be my sons
13:08and daughters,
13:08says the Lord Almighty.
13:10So,
13:11real Christians
13:12will be separate
13:13for those
13:13who will not
13:16sanctify the word of God.
13:19Yet the Vatican,
13:20many of the Orthodox
13:21and Protestant leaders
13:22are pushing
13:22the opposite agendas.
13:24By the way,
13:24I will comment
13:25that the type
13:26of Christian unity
13:27that some talk about
13:28is not going to happen
13:29until Jesus returns
13:30according to Ephesians 4,
13:32verse 13.
13:34Now,
13:35the continuing church
13:36of God,
13:36which is not Protestant,
13:38you know,
13:38we teach
13:38our history
13:40from the
13:41Apostolic Church
13:43of Acts 2
13:43and we hold
13:45the original
13:45biblical doctrines
13:46and we proclaim
13:47the gospel
13:48of the kingdom of God.
13:49How can we learn
13:52more about the proclamation
13:53of the true gospel
13:54of the kingdom of God?
13:56Well,
13:56we have a free booklet
13:57available in many languages,
13:59available at ccog.org.
14:02It's a free e-book
14:03called
14:04The Gospel of the Kingdom of God.
14:06Yes,
14:06called The Gospel of the Kingdom of God
14:08so that hopefully people
14:09will understand the name.
14:11Anyway,
14:11that said,
14:13you know,
14:13many biblical doctrines
14:14that early Christians held
14:15are not held to
14:16by Protestants today
14:18nor the Church of Rome
14:19nor the Eastern Orthodox
14:20for that matter
14:21and those who are interested
14:22in the truth
14:23have the true love of the truth,
14:24they can prove that
14:25if they're willing.
14:27Thank you,
14:27Dr. Thiel.
14:28For more interviews
14:29with Dr. Thiel
14:30in addition to written
14:31as well as audio articles,
14:33visit our website
14:34at BibleNewsProphecy.net.
14:36This is Steve Dupuis
14:37for the Bible News Prophecy program.
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