unable to demonstrate to a desperate generation in search of the truth
that
this is the way. One thing I like about Generation X is their refusal to
follow just the mouth of proclamation; they want to see a real
demonstration!

The church no longer possesses one ounce of influence in spite of all its
speaking. This powerless-ness is largely due to the obvious hypocrisy and
blatant public sin of its members and leaders. How can the church offer
society a cure when its roots drink deeply from the same cesspool of
immorality? Society is shouting back at the church, "Get your long bony
finger out of my face!" Don't you dare tell me about my sin or the evils
of
money, you hypocrite! You are supposed to show me the way, go take a good
look in the mirror at yourself. In all of this we can see that there is a
deep spiritual hunger and a real searching for reality in this generation.
This is why the psychic hot line is having such success.

Again, I must ask you to think if
You are a Christian,
You are vital to the cure.

We have Foundational Fathers who set a pattern that we must follow.
Fathers
who followed the same pattern as Jesus, Fathers who issued a call to
Holiness, Virtue, Honor, Integrity, and Righteousness all covered with a
robe of Pure Truth. Paul cried out over and over. Let not this be named
among you ... Be not deceived those who do such things will not inherit
...
Come out from among them ...

Don't even eat with one who says he is a brother and is a fornicator.

He screams from the pages FOLLOW ME as I follow Christ! Honestly, would
you
follow Paul if he had a ***** on the side? Then why would you have a
problem
understanding why the lost in this wicked hour are not looking to the
church
but the psychics!

What Doctrine
Was practiced by the Early Church
That needed to be taken away?

Open Public Confrontation

Strip them of Godly Discernment!
Stop the Holy Spirit from speaking to or through them!

This doctrine, if not removed from the structure of the Early Church,
carried the power to stop them from creating the office of a Holy Man.
(another high priest) A man who would appear as if he was closer to God
than
the common man. Once removed, it would make them accountable to no one but
themselves and, certainly not a body of believers. It would also empower
them with the ability to create False Doctrine for their benefit, as well
as
cover their own Hypocrisy, Heresy, and Sin. The problem is not a new one,
as
you see, but an old established one.

Before you go off on The Pope and the False Doctrines found in the
reprobate
Catholic Institution, let me remind you the Protestant churches have a
Pope
in every pulpit spewing out variations of many doctrines, differing from
one
another every Sunday. While the origin of this False Doctrine has its
roots
in Catholicism, it is also practiced in mass by all of Protestantism. In
fact, the Protestants have perfected it. For organized religion to
accomplish their goal of instituting a holy man, false doctrines, and
unaccountability for their actions they needed to Destroy This One
Structural Early Church Doctrine.

Just convince the people that this man is More Holy and closer to God than
they are. Get them to trust what he says as being from God, even if it is
off scripturally a little. Make them think what he says is a result of
some
kind of special divine insight or comes to him because of prayer, fasting,
or celibacy. (Nowadays it's called the anointing)

Create a board or group of other holy men that we select to hold us
accountable.

Teach them not to question the Holy Man. (Touch not mine annointed)
Teach them to come and sit down, shut up, pay their tithes, stand and
praise
God, then to go home.
Teach them that church matters are a private issue and not a public one.
Teach them that the only way we deal with church matters are behind closed
church doors.
Teach them personal sin is also a private church matter to be kept behind
church doors.
Teach them to remain silent and never allow open rebuke or questions
publicly at anytime.
Teach them that we never discuss any dirty church laundry publicly!
Teach them that it is not love to discuss these things openly.

All we have to do is teach one generation that these things are so and
they
will teach it to their own children as a church truth.

All of which is a lie, and none of which, was a practice of the Early
Church.

This is why the pages of Church History are filled with one Reformer after
another who was moved upon by the Spirit of God, from Stephen and the
Apostles, to Luther, Huss, Wycliff, Wesley, and George Foxx. All of these
men followed the Master Pattern set by the Master Jesus Himself.

Church history is full of the blood of Millions of Martyrs who stood up
and
spoke out against what they saw taking place within the leadership of the
church. Men and women of God who refused to sit down and shut up when they
saw heresy, hypocrisy, and sin within the leaders and members of the
church.

All of Church History shows that Open Public Confrontation has always been
God's way of dealing with a sick religious institution that was claiming
to
be the Moral Agent of God. God has always used Public Exposure, in full
view, for the Entire World to see.

From the days of Jesus to Jimmy Swaggart it has, and will continue to be,
Open Public Exposure of Blatant Hypocrisy, Heresy, and Sin. As long as we
refuse to address the problem, God will continue to use the media to show
us
the problem.

SAINTS,
If we examine Jesus' ministry,
And the way he related to the temple
And the Pharisees we can learn a lot.

Think with me.

Do you realize that Jesus was the will of God in the flesh while he Openly
and Publicly Condemned the very religious system that God had ordained. In
fact, he spoke so bold to the Pharisees that he Publicly called them
Hypocrites, Vipers, Tombs, and Blind Guides many times. He warned the
people
against them continually. He also warned people many times, "To make sure
that YOU do not become like the Pharisees." Listen to the most profound
Open
Public Confrontational statement Jesus ever made to the Pharisees. Can you
imagine the Son of God speaking to the leaders of the temple, as he
Publicly
Declared to them, "You are of Your Father the Devil and His Deeds will you
do!" I can hear you saying, well that was Jesus and I am not Jesus.

Why Jesus, don't you know that these are God's anointed chosen priests?
Jesus, haven't you read what the bible says about touching Gods anointed?
Jesus, if you keep this up the world will think that the Great God Jehovah
and the Nation Israel are not the right way. Jesus, your "gonna" be in
trouble, your "gonna" bring a curse upon yourself. Jesus, don't you know
anything about spiritual authority? Why don't you just go and talk to them
in private? Surely Jesus, there must be a better way to do this in a more
Loving Godly Manner.

Our Early Church Fathers understood and followed the same pattern set by
Jesus. They understood that foundational in All Church Structure there
would
have to be zero tolerance for Heresy, Hypocrisy, and even Blatant Sin
within
the lives of church leaders and members. They chose to deal with such
issues
openly and publicly just as Jesus had done. Why? They knew that if such
serious matters were dealt with behind closed doors, then the heresy,
hypocrisy, and sin would remain within the church. They knew that if these
issues were not constantly rooted out, the very Moral Voice of God (the
church) would itself become hypocritical to those it was called to offer a
more excellent way.

For this reason, Paul openly rebuked Peter before all the brethren about
his
hypocrisy of eating one way with the Jews and another with the Gentiles.

Can you hear the voice of today's leadership? Why not discuss it in
private
Paul, after all, it was not that big of a deal. Why embarrass Peter? Paul,
don't you realize he was the anointed one who spoke on Pentecost? Besides,
he actually walked and talked with Jesus. Why Peter was personally trained
by the Master Himself for three years! You were not! Paul you need to be
more tactful and kind. Perhaps, you're not complete in love yet, Paul.

For this reason, Paul publicly discussed the Blatant Sin of a man who was
sleeping with his own father's wife before the whole church.

For this reason, Peter openly rebuked Annias and Saphira for their sneaky
ways of trying to appear to be something they were not before the body of
Christ. Their lying hypocrisy cost them their lives.

For this reason, Paul went into the temple daily and reasoned (contended,
debated, argued) from the scriptures contending for the faith.

For that reason they beat him, kicked him out, and in the end killed him.
The very same Evil Religious System that God used as a tool in his hand to
crucify Jesus would also be the same one that would destroy the Apostles
and
the Millions of Martyrs that would follow.

Two things are evident from Jesus' ministry and throughout all of church
history.

The first being, the religious system will kill you if you expose it.
Secondly, this is the battlefield of all true heavenly spiritual warfare.
Jesus not only paid the price to redeem the lost; he also exposed the more
serious evils of what a corrupt religious system will do to the voice of
truth.

This fight is not for the faint hearted.
Read the following Scriptures closely.

1 Tim 5: 20-21
20 Those who are sinning Rebuke in The Presence Of All, that the rest also
may fear.
21 I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels
that You Observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing with
partiality.
(NKJ)

Gal 2: 11-14
11 Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I Withstood Him To His Face,
because
he was to be blamed;
12 for before certain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles;
but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who
were of the circumcision.
13 And the rest of the Jews also Played the Hypocrite with him, so that
even
Barnabas was carried away with Their Hypocrisy.
14 But When I Saw that they were not Straightforward About the Truth of
the
gospel, I said to Peter Before Them All, "If you, being a Jew, live in the
manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live
as Jews?
(NKJ)

Rev 3: 19
19 "As many as I love, I Rebuke and Chasten. Therefore be zealous and
repent.( NKJ)

1 Cor 5: 1
1 It is actually Reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and
such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man
has his father's wife!
(NKJ)

1 Cor 5: 11
11 But now I have written to you Not to keep company with anyone named a
Brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a
reviler,
or a drunkard, or an extortioner--Not Even To Eat With Such A Person.
(NKJ)

2 Tim 4: 1-3
2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, Rebuke,
Exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure Sound Doctrine, but
according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will
heap up for themselves teachers;
(NKJ)

The plan to remove Godly Discernment
Was conceived in hell, and placed in the hearts of men.

If we can take away the Voice of Godly Discernment from the body of
Christ,
then, we can take away the Moral Voice of the Church to society. If we can
get the members to look the other way and remain silent when they see
Hypocrisy, Heresy, and Sin within the Church. Then the Voice of the Moral
agent of God will itself appear as a Hypocrite, full of Sin and Void of
Reality to the very people it was called to reach.

The Church needs a good dose of Open Public Debate;
A real contending for the faith,
So it can recast its anchor upon the Rock again.

You are vital to the cure!

How many times have you sat in a church service and had the Divine Alarm
of
the Holy Spirit go off, over something that was said, which you knew was
just not quite right. Normally, the Alarm will be a counter scripture that
will come to mind instantly which would dispute what is being said or
taught. How many times have you stifled the voice of Godly Discernment
because of the fear of offending the speaker, or your fear of being
labeled
a troublemaker? When the Alarm goes off within you, is your first method
of
handling the Alarm a choice to go to them in private? After all, Matthew
18
says, go to them in private. Yes it does, but we are not talking about a
"personal offense," we are talking about the Voice of the Holy Spirit and
Godly Discernment being sacrificed on the altar of fear within your heart!
All because you are afraid of offending the speaker.

When truth is repeatedly sacrificed on the altars of fear and compromise
within the heart, you are destined to be given over to apathy and
complacency. If you continually deny the Alarm of the Holy Spirit and
stifle
the Voice of Godly Discernment, eventually deception will cover the eyes
of
your heart.

The church you attend will become trapped in the vain traditions of men.
If
you and the other members in your church continue to remain silent, you
will
eventually come to tolerate and believe the very lie that the Holy Spirit
was warning you about as a truth.

I am not talking about petty issues or simple mistakes, but Major Alarms.
Alarms that go off when building proposals are introduced that will lead
the
church into debt, as a move of God. Alarms that scream from deep within
the
heart over violations of sound doctrinal issues, alarms that disturb both
the soul and the conscience when it sees Heresy, Hypocrisy, and Blatant
Sin
within the lives of leaders and members.

Remember this! Truth is all Authority; thy word is Truth. There is no rank
with God or Authority given, except it is founded on Truth. No matter who
is
speaking, Apostle, Prophet, Teacher, Evangelist, or Pastor, remember, God
says, "if they speak not according to my word it is because there is no
light in them."

In other words, God will not endorse deception or even error. I promise
you
the Holy Spirit is still speaking to many hearts every Sunday about
multitudes of serious errors. Here's the problem. The ones he is speaking
to
refuse to stand and speak. Sitting in silence is turning the Alarm off. Is
that you?

Today, tolerance for Sin, Hypocrisy, Heresy, and False Doctrine are all
cloaked in a robe of false love that is far from biblical truth. Many
times
I have wondered if the sheep are not under some kind of a spell. Real love
cannot remain silent when it sees injustice, false doctrine, error,
hypocrisy, and blatant sin. Real love will speak out every time! It is
quite
simple to understand. Would you stand by and watch an innocent child be
molested and remain silent? Then why would you stand by and remain silent
in
the presence of deception? Who do you think it is that shows you these
things, who sets off the Alarm?

Let me add that yes we are to judge within the body. Even Jesus did not
say
that we were not to judge, as many have been brainwashed into believing.
In
Matthew 7, (read it) He said we were not to judge as hypocrites. Do not
say
to someone, " Do not smoke when you do." Jesus said, first remove the beam
out of your eye THEN you may help your brother remove his speck.

When anyone stands to speak publicly for God or prints public articles and
books, they should be held accountable publicly. Every society on the
entire
planet does this. Why have the leaders in the church risen above
accountability for their words and actions? How did they turn off your
Alarm? Even Movie Critics have a field day with a bad movie. Think of all
of
the off the mark, boring, repetitious sermons you have heard. It's time to
speak up about it, not shut up. One thing is for sure that the church will
not be the boring, head-bobbing event it now is. Wake Up. Answer the
Alarm!

The Church needs a good dose of Open Public Debate, a real contending for
the faith, so it can recast its anchor upon the Rock again.

If Godly discernment had not been systematically
Programmed out of the body of Christ by the sit down, shut up,
I'm God's anointed with a word for your attitude we see today.
I am convinced we would not have the charlatans of this generation we now
See selling the gospel for a buck Every time we turn on the television.
We have located the virus.
We have examined its symptoms
And side effects on the Church and Society.
We have developed the Vaccine of Truth
And A Cure Named ... YOU!

Now it's time to Inoculate the Victims.

Why do we need such Open Public Confrontation? We desperately need real
change within the church. The bible and history are full of one
confrontation after another. Every time things drifted too far away from
the
truth of the Real Gospel, our Father has always raised up a reformer or
two
to stand in the face of the religious leaders. From John the Baptist to
John
Wesly this is how Our Father chose to bring about real change to many dead
religious systems.

Our Father has fixed his method of change as sure as he set the sun, moon,
stars, and the air we breathe. He intended it to be this way. Change will
only come through Confrontation. Think about this. Change came into your
life internally when the Holy Spirit confronted you about your sinful life
and your need for a salvation. The same thing applies when a wife or
husband
confronts their mate about the real issues within their marriage. When any
individual is faced with the confrontational reality that things are going
to change with or without you, change will surely take place, one way or
the
other.

It will take Open Confrontation Within the Church to drive out the
damnable
doctrines, heresy, hypocrisy, and sin. We must clean it up, or we will
continue to be the mocked and ridiculed as hypocrites in the eyes of the
world. Yes, there will be some mistakes but that must not stop us.

The Heritage of our Foundational Fathers has been trampled by gospels of
prosperity, politics, and escapism. Coupled with enough Cheap Grace and
Sloppy Agape to make it appear that anyone can continue to wear filthy
garments and enter the Kingdom. Millions before us were violently beaten,
stoned, fed to lions, burned at the stake, and had their children killed
all
because they stood up and publicly con-fronted the errors of the religious
system.

Our Fathers knew that if they did not expose the many false deceptions of
the religious system that it would yield a more critical death than the
physical death of the body. They knew that the evil system had the power
to
deliver the serious spiritual death of the soul.

They refused to forfeit Godly Discernment to the fear of offending within
the chambers of their own heart. They stood boldly, refusing to compromise
on the smallest issues like circumcision. From deep within, they
personally
drove out any altar of compromise from within their own soul, so truth
could
never be sacrificed. Instead, they chose without fear to become a living
sacrifice themselves. So that truth and Godly Discernment might live on to
the next generation that was standing by and watching to see if this God
they served was real. This desperate generation is watching us.

We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. Many peer over the
balconies of heaven in this hour to see if the Men in this Generation will
stand and speak.

It is not a question of if we will stand and speak, we must! It will take
more than one generation, but if we will begin our children will inherit a
Godly Christian Heritage without Shame. Let's not sit down, let us
endlessly
and tirelessly expose all that is counterfeit. If we will repent, stand,
and
speak with a fervent heart I know God will send his spirit into a glorious
church in a profound way. Then and only then will the Real Demonstration,
the Genuine Reality of the Gospel of Christ, be visible to society. When
the
world sees that this Christ we serve has the power to produce Holiness,
Integrity, Honor, Virtue, Righteousness, and Truth in the hearts and lives
of His children...

Then society will once again listen,
When the Church,
The Moral Voice of God speaks
And healing will come to our nation.

R. Johnston

Articles @ gotosimpletruth. com