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THE CHURCH EXPOSED
[12/2004]

THE CORPORATION CHURCH                                                 THE BIBLICAL CHURCH
The Secular/Visible Church                                                             The Invisible Church
  Is under the authority and control of the government—501(c3)   Under the authority and control of Jesus Christ—Col 2:10
  Has the Seal of Caesar—501(c3)   Has the seal of the Holy Spirit-2Cor 1:22
  Is an organized corporation—501(c3)   Is an organism as the body of Christ—1Cor 12:27
  Has corporate leaders—Pastors; Treasury; Secretary   Has no leaders but individuals
  Has Professional Clergy—Reverend, Doctor, Father etc.   Has elders and deacons as ordinary people—AC 14:23
  Thrives on the building “so-called” temples of God as in “house   of God”   Does not thrive on buildings, for we are the temple of God—  Acts 17:24
  Thrives on the Tithe and Offerings—Mal 3:8   Knows that God loves a cheerful giver—2Co 9:7
  Uses it’s tithes and offerings to maintain buildings and to pay   for its professional clergy, entertainers   Uses its cheerful giving to support the needs of the Saints—  2Cor 8, 9 and Widows—1Tim 5
  Is very politically active—Edmund Burke*   Is not politically active—Matt 22:21
  Is a one man ministry—Eyes fixed on the Pastor   Has our eyes fixed on Jesus—Heb 12:2
  Creates all sorts of ministries   Has ministries according to the faith and grace given by God—  Rom 12:3, 6
  Has Articles of Corporation—Rules to live by   Has no such articles—only the Word of God
  Is controlled by Caesar—501(c3)   Is controlled by the Holy Spirit—Rom 8:9
  It’s mission is to change nations of its evils—Edmund Burke   It’s mission is to make disciples of men—Matt 28:19,20
  Worries more about the condition of the world—Edmund   Burke   Worries about the condition of the saints—Acts 4:32-35
  Believes in worship on Sunday (1hr)   Believes in worship 24/7—Rom 12:1-2
  Hires paid entertainers for praise and worship services   Has no such entertainers—Eph 5:19
  Patterns its likeness after the worldly corporations   Does not patterns its likeness after the world—Eph 2:2
  Believes Satan can and will destroy the church if we don’s   stop him   Believes that the gates of hell will not prevail—Matt 16:17; Jam   4:7
  Preaches 30-45 minute sermons   Teaches to prepare God’s people for works of service—Eph   4:12
  Has motivational speakers—2Tim 4:3-4   No motivational speakers—2Tim 4:3-4
  Believes that mega churches proves God is at work in their   ministry—2Tim 6:5   No such belief—2Tim 6:6-7 But adheres to the biblical   foundation-‘if the Lord wills’—Jam 4: 15,16
  Finds it political activity in the Old Testament   Finds its example from the book of Acts


* British orator, philosopher, & politician Edmund Burke’s statement that,
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing,”
"I owe no duty to forum, campaign, or senate. I stay awake for no public function. I make no effort to occupy a platform. I am no office seeker. I have no desire to smell out political corruption. I shun the voter's booth, the juryman's bench. I break no laws and push no lawsuits; I will not serve as a magistrate or judge. I refuse to do military service. I desire to rule [govern] over no one--I have withdrawn from worldly politics [from the life of secular society]! Now my only politics is spiritual--how that I might be anxious for nothing except to root out all worldly anxieties and care." "...The sword is ordained of God outside the perfection of Christ . . . it will be asked concerning the sword, whether a Christian shall pass sentence in worldly disputes and strife such as unbelievers have with one another. This is our united answer: Christ did not wish to decide or pass judgment between brother and brother in the case of inheritance, but refused to do so. Therefore we should do likewise." Quintus Florens Tertullian (160-220 A.D.)
North African defender of the faith. Tertullian was born of heathen parents in Carthage, Africa. He studied law and lived an exceedingly sinful life until he received the Lord Jesus Christ at the age of 30. He became an intense, hard hitting defender of the fundamentals of the Christian faith against the traditions of Romanism. He joined the Montanists, a group of premillennial, Bible-believing Christians, and spent the rest of his life writing and preaching primitive Christianity as opposed to Romanism with its ecclesiastical traditions and ceremonies contrary to the Scriptures
The delusion has become so strong that today the name "church" no longer means anything but a building! The name "Christian" no longer means anything either! It usually means just some kind of hypocritical, self-righteous church person who goes to that building on Sunday!

THE CHURCH TODAY BEARS NO MORE RESEMBLANCE TO JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES AND EARLY CHRISTIANS THAN CAPITALISM DOES TO COMMUNISM. Yet the church says, "If you aren't going to church and following our way, then you're wrong." How can they be so deceived? Because they rejected the Truth!

WHY DO THEY REJECT THE TRUTH? Because they're unwilling to pay the price! "Because they received not the love of the truth... for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they might believe a lie." (2 Thess. 2:10,11)

THE MAIN LYING DELUSION behind the church system and the way of all false religions is that they are all dependent upon self--righteousness and their own way. Paul said about the Jews, the church system of his day, "They have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness (through grace) and going about to establish their own righteousness (through religion) have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God." (Ro. 10:2,3)

THE PROPHET JEREMIAH, IN A JUDGMENT UTTERED 2,500 YEARS AGO AGAINST WICKED ISRAEL, SEEMS TO PERFECTLY DESCRIBE THE CHURCH OF TODAY when God says through him: "Among My people are found wicked men... their houses (are) full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich, ... they judge not the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge...."

THE PROPHETS PROPHESY FALSELY and the priests bear rule by their means: and My people love to have it so.... Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?" (Jer. 5:26,31)
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