Only eight souls were saved....

Lately I have been faced with the stark reality that there are not going to be many people who will go to heaven to be with God. In fact most won’t. How do I know this? Jesus tells us that broad is the way that leads to destruction and many go in there at. Then he tells us that straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leads to life, and few there are that find it. If we wanted to get a picture of how much many and few are, we could reach into our pocket and pull out our change. Now if we took 2 coins in one hand and left all the other change in the other hand, we would have an idea. The hand that has a lot more that 2 coins has many coins, and the hand with the 2 coins has a few. If I took Jesus’ words seriously then I would know that the modern gospel which is claiming to” save” hundreds of thousands of people worldwide isn’t lining up with what He said. So if there are just few that find the way, it would seem that fewer still will walk in it. And it does seem that way, if you are truly walking in it in your everyday life. Some people have imagined themselves on it, but they are on another way in between the broad way and the narrow way. Most are on the broad way. So how does the modern “revival” of hundreds of thousands of people getting saved everyday fit into this warning? Well, to put it plainly, it doesn’t fit.

When I made the commitment to follow Jesus, and to do anything that He said I should do, I didn’t realize how narrow the way really is. Since that commitment was made 4 years ago, I have only met few people who are on this same path. In another place, Jesus asks the question “When I return, will I even find faith on the earth?” If this were not going to be the case, why would he even say this if there are going to be an innumerable amount of people who are “saved by faith?”

Being in the Philippines has in a lot of ways helped me to see through the smoke screen this world uses to blind people. When we are in the states, we don’t see a lot of what most of the world lives in. We don’t see handicapped beggars who sleep in their own urine, unless we make a real effort to find them in the worst parts of our country. We don’t see the tragedy of corruption and hatred all around us normally. But here, it is everywhere. There is not enough smoke to cover it up. We lived in Mindanao for 5 months, and it was the most trying time of my life because I had never been exposed to the what the people there see and live daily. You see the reality of life, and it makes you realize the reality of the narrow way.

The Lord has blessed me with many opportunities to tell people what the bible says in regards to how they are living. Yeah, they may have listened, but they don’t really care. I talked with our neighbor, who is a 16 year old lesbian. I asked if she was concerned that she was going to be judged for that, and she replied “No, it’s what makes me happy”. At least she was honest. I took a look at my brother’s myspace page, and that is when I really understood the reality of my loved ones being included in the "many" category. Jesus tells us that " this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil"(John 3:19) I’ve had to accept the fact that people don’t really want to stop sinning and truly be saved because they love their sin and this world and hate the truth. The bible talks about Noah, how he prepared an ark to the saving of his household, and only 8 people were saved out of a world full of people when the flood happened. Let me repeat that, EIGHT. That’s a few. And it will be the same when Jesus returns to judge this world. It’s a good habit to ask yourself everyday,” If Jesus came right now, would I be in the ark?” Noah was prepared, are we?

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What Rick Warren should have prayed at president Obama’s Inauguration…
After reviewing the recent news of the inauguration that just took place and the prayer of Rick Warren at the event, I took some time to think about the prayer that God wanted to hear Rick Warren pray and so here is the prayer that should have been prayed…
Oh God! I come before you in the height of my apostasy to acknowledge and renounce all the transgressions I’ve committed in the name of Christ. Woe to me a sinner and worse than a sinner for I have compassed sea and land not only to make one, but millions of proselytes two fold children of hell as myself. May this prayer said to you before this nation and the world be the millstone needed that you might use to cast my entire life and ministry into the depths of the sea that I might live to you as a new man rendered useless to this worlds interests.
This day I hand in my resignation to the Devil and his work relinquishing my self from his pride driven ministry that I’ve partaken of. I confess that my ministry has been built on a foundation of money, power and everything else that is so highly esteemed among men. Yes, my ministry has become such an abomination to you that even a nation as utterly depraved and back slidden as this country along with it’s new leader who is just as hungry for pride and power as the last one would invite me to pray before such an ungodly crowd as he swears an oath just as your son forbid us to do.
I confess that through my “Purpose Driven” movement along with its books and materials many have been lead astray by the vile trash I’ve created in your name and call Christianity. I now declare it filth , fit for the dung hill from whence it came. For it is nothing more that the perfect mixture of truth mixed with lies fit to poison any sincere seeker with an inoculation of venom that only desensitizes the soul to the real power and effects of the true gospel. I’ve created a gospel so agreeable to your enemy the world that my popularity has risen to such a pitch of insanity among those who thinking that gain is godliness have become lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God.
I confess that because this nation , it’s churches and it’s professing Christians and now it’s new leader have received not a love for the truth , they have loved my ministry and only because I did so well at tampering with your gospel to such an extent that I turned it into something pleasing and entertaining to the worlds eye. Yes, we’ve become experts at how to have friendship with your enemy the world. We’ve become servants to the pleasures of rich men’s lusts and those who desire to be rich and have polluted ourselves with all their vanities. We’ve disregarded your sons rebuke to the rich when he said it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter into your kingdom. We have even established seminaries built on the very idea that camels can get through that needles eye. So have mercy on the young men we’ve trained to become experts at getting those camels through. That’s right , we’ve searched for a loop hole to get rich men into your kingdom through some other door than the gate of the sheep fold and found that hole in the eye of a needle. That little hole became so dear to us that we set men to the task of getting the camel through. First they started pushing camel hairs through , then succeeded in getting one to squeeze through, then crawl through , run through, jump though, and before you know it we had herds of camels charging though that needles eye by the droves. Once we saw our technique worked we took the most talented of those young men and made them pastures of big churches full of camels but not one sheep could be found.
Just like that great whore riding on her beast , we’ve taken the world and all that is in the world; the rock bands, the attractive dress and entertainment to allure men to join in our whoredoms with the beast that we loved so much. Forgive me for hypnotizing the masses through the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life which our churches have promoted in order to distort the true meaning of the Gospel.
And now in the name of the true Lord Jesus Christ I declare once and for all an end to this Purpose Driven ministry that has only been driving men to hell. Amen…