Today, all the faith of believers is uniformly based on what they see and hear on Sundays, and the emotions they feel are mistaken for God’s grace. There is not a single believer who doubts this. On the contrary, most have already been conditioned by this emotion and teaching, and thus spend their entire lives repeating sin according to personal interests, unable to escape the yoke of sin, and endlessly repeating meaningless repentance without ever truly changing.
As a result, believers have come to regard sin with indifference or even justify it with arrogant claims and standards, thereby allowing their good conscience to become desolate. Their hearts grow increasingly empty and afflicted, and their titles and faith become hollow shells, with their first love and original faith having long disappeared. In their weary and tainted hearts, fatigued from chasing after the vain hopes and desires of this decaying world, they seek comfort and emotional stimulation that stirs up expectation and hope. But the limits of such faith, built on emotional inspiration, have nothing to do with the life of Christ that follows the love of the cross, nor with the fundamental reason God created humanity. Instead of setting a holy example, they defile the love of the cross and degrade even the holy name of God to be no better than a worm. It is a world in which faith becomes an enemy of the Word, of God, and of Christ—teaching and learning only opposition.
God created mankind, and gave us the Sabbath, worship, tithes, offerings, shepherds, faith, hope, love, spiritual gifts, and grace—all for one reason: to make us into His perfect children. This is the purpose, providence, truth, and Word behind everything.
Thus, through tithes and offerings, God desires to raise up among us the divine nature that resembles Him—a love modeled after the cross, by which we feed, give, and care for the poor and afflicted sheep. It is a model and example of mutual care, compassion, and service. All of creation, ideals, values, truth, and the Word exist for this reason. Therefore, the kingdom of God—whose source is love—is a kingdom of love. Anyone who does not possess the love of the cross, which is the divine nature that reflects God, cannot enter the kingdom of God. Only those who dwell within the love of the cross are truly the children of God and the people of Christ. Thus, the love of the cross is our way, our truth, and our life.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.(1 John 4 : 7~16)
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.(1 John 4 : 7~11)
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:(Colossians 1 : 10~14)
It is not a faith that seeks to become a child of God within the kingdom of God, worthy of salvation, but rather a faith that continually multiplies sin, bound to the path and mire of sin due to self-serving interests. Because of this, people increasingly justify and excuse their sins, transforming their own assertions and pride into a kind of faith and doctrine. As a result, most pastors have become corrupted upon corruption, heretical upon heretical, teaching success, happiness, morality, and ethics—worldly teachings that will perish—with emotional inspiration and moral lessons leavened in, making them seem like the love of the cross that leads to salvation.
Most believers, too, pursue their own happiness, affection, and success, placing their hope and comfort in inspirational lessons that seem as if they will come true at any moment. In doing so, they end up despising the love of the cross and the holy will of God that are worthy of salvation, and instead follow a faith made only of words and theories, or moralistic and ethical teachings that completely distort and corrupt the essence of the Word. These are believers trained and armed by such sermons—legalists in essence.
Because they continually repeat sin according to self-interest, they are unable to be born again, and as a result, their good conscience becomes increasingly desolate. Drawn by teachings that lead them away from their first love and original faith, they cling to momentary inspirations, tears, and comfort that arise from lessons about worldly life worn down by fatigue and hardship, mistaking these emotions as the grace of God. This is the greatest reason why the true fruits of Christ, based on the Word, cannot be borne.
Yet, there are almost no believers who doubt this. Most believers spend their entire lives tied to sermons and teachings that offer fleeting emotions, comfort, and hope that disappear as soon as they turn away. Their faith is like running in place—like a squirrel’s wheel, spinning only to return to where it started.
However, it is not easy for the countless believers who have been deceived by the false leaven of emotional tears—emotions that ultimately oppose God by distorting the essence of the Word—to discover that they are merely flailing in place, constantly praying for corrupt and perishing blessings. Most believe in their own tears and emotional experiences. But the faith, comfort, and tears that exist solely for one’s own happiness, desires, and hopes can never be complete before God; on the contrary, such emotions and tears often make them enemies and adversaries of God. Yet few pastors or believers know that their emotions and tears are in vain before God and actually oppose Him. And so, the blind lead the blind, and both fall into the mire of sin.
Why did God create man? If it were merely so that mankind could eat well and live well, then the Almighty God—who lacks nothing and to whom nothing is impossible—would never have created the poor, the sick, the grieving, or the hopeless. God did not create humans simply to make them happy and prosperous.
The sole and fundamental reason God created mankind was this: He, who is the origin of all things and the foundation of all foundations, created man in order to make them His perfect children. To this end, God created mankind to instill within them His most essential nature—His own divine character. That is why He sent the love of the cross into this world: to grant us the character of God, which is the love of the cross. Therefore, the love of the cross is the way, the truth, and the life by which we may become true children of God. It is the seal and qualification that makes one worthy of entering the kingdom of God.
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.(Hebrews 12 : 16~17)
However, most churchgoers today do not possess the true faith of Christ that aligns with God’s holy will—a faith that, according to the Word, pursues the love of the cross and is worthy of salvation. Rather, they do not follow a faith that seeks the love of the cross, but instead pursue worldly desires, hopes, and personal happiness. As a result, because their lives are driven by self-interest, they continually repeat sins of jealousy, envy, hatred, pride, lust, strife, and deceit. They have been deceived by worldly teachings that are contrary to the love of Christ—a divine character that mankind must receive from God in order to be saved—and thus they live lives that ultimately make them adversaries and enemies of God.
All their lives, they have only chased after fleeting emotions and tears that vanish the moment they turn away. And so, most churches today are without fruit or testimony, offering only teaching through seeing and hearing, lacking true example and spiritual guidance.
Now is the final opportunity to seriously and soberly examine whether your faith is like that of Esau, who traded the glory of salvation for worldly hopes, dreams, and perishable blessings. Are you truly a Christian who follows the holy will of God and strives to fulfill the love of the cross? Or are you merely a churchgoer who has nothing to do with the Word?
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.(1 John 2 : 15~17)
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.(James 4 : 3~4)
People! What is it that you believe in? What do you rely on and call faith? Are you not, like Esau, mistaking for the faith of Christ your pursuit of perishable, worldly blessings, ideals, hopes, and happiness—things that can never satisfy—and living a faith in which you continually repeat sin according to self-interest, unable to be born again, merely placing before God meaningless repentance and reflection, while continuing in sin?
Because your sins are continually repeated according to your self-interest, and because you offer nothing but powerless repentance without true transformation, is it not time to recognize that what you have taken as faith—your own self-justifying claims and pride which rationalize sin—may, in truth, be lies and distortions that you have elevated as doctrine and made into a god?
Due to the fact that sin is inevitably repeated in a self-serving life, one cannot be born again—yet today’s Christianity is filled with baseless and false claims that people have repented as Christ did, or that they have received the Holy Spirit. These falsehoods have spread like leaven throughout the earth. This is the tragic reality of modern Christianity.
It is now time to examine whether your faith is truly one that has followed the spiritual gifts and fruits of God, born of the love of the cross that is worthy of true salvation, or whether your faith has strayed—based on your own claims, thoughts, and judgments. Place it before the Word and discern, soberly and truthfully, whether it is aligned with the true reason and faith that God requires.
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.(1 John 4 : 16~17)
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.(1 John 4 : 7~11)
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:(Colossians 1 : 10~14)
It is time to break free from the pride of centering your entire life on yourself—judging and measuring everything by your own standards, without focusing on the content of the Word, and bearing no fruit or testimony. The most terrifying Satan and devil is none other than yourself, who has distorted and corrupted the essence of the Word.
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.(2 Corinthians 10 : 12)
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.(Psalms 17 : 10)
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.(Proverbs 18 : 2)
Because people are taught and learn a faith that conforms to their own preferences and desires, rather than the true faith united in the love of Christ, their beliefs are not rooted in the beautiful and genuine faith of Christ. Instead, they turn their own sins—committed according to self-interest—into doctrines, rationalizing them through pride and excuses. This results in a distorted and corrupted interpretation of the Word, which they call faith. As a result, the majority of believers live with double-mindedness—acting one way inside the church and another outside. Their faith is a hypocritical one, marked by constant inconsistency between words and actions, and they live with a duplicitous demeanor that hides their true selves behind outward appearances.
Pastors, despite appearing holy and gentle in their sermons and public image, live outside the church no differently from worldly people, and are thus hypocrites with shameful double standards. Likewise, the congregants—though they may appear devout in prayer within the church—harbor jealousy, envy, hatred, pride, lies, and conflict just like those in the world. They act according to their own self-interest and preferences, and therefore all alike possess a fabricated faith born of self-justification, shaped by their own interpretations of the Word to suit their own desires.
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.(James 2 : 10~11)
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.(John 8 : 34)
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.(Romans 1 : 28~32)
The faith of Christ, which follows the holy will of God, never seeks or desires anything that is perishable and of the world. However, those who pursue worldly, perishable desires such as personal happiness, blessings, and hopes inevitably add sin upon sin by calling upon the holy name of God in vain through prayers filled only with selfish demands. Pursuing covetous blessings, happiness, dreams, and ideals, they are deceived by the spirit of the world—the spirit of happiness, the spirit of blessing, the spirit of hope—who is in truth Satan and the devil masquerading as God and as Christ.
This is the true state of faith among today’s churches, pastors, and believers. And this is why the Day of Judgment has been appointed—because the blind are leading the blind, and on that Day of Judgment, both will fall together into the pit of death.
Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so. Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.(2 Chronicles 18 : 20~22)
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.(2 Corinthians 11 : 13~15)
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.(2 Corinthians 4 : 4)
Vain prayers that seek perishable things of the world are inevitably rooted in a faith, teaching, and learning influenced by Satan and evil spirits. Therefore, those who belong to the world and to the flesh—which are destined to perish—can never bear the fruits and testimony of Christ that are worthy of salvation through the love of the cross. This is why today’s Christianity continues to deteriorate—corrupted upon corruption, distorted upon distortion, deception upon deception, and heresy upon heresy—inevitably falling deeper into decay and apostasy.
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.(Deuteronomy 5 : 11)
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.(Exodus 20 : 7)
Because they pursue perishable things of the world—having nothing to do with the salvation of Christ that follows the love of the cross—they give rise to sin according to self-interest, through a hypocritical and profane faith. As a result, false gods, masquerading as if they were God or Christ, work according to the measure of greed harbored in the hearts of believers. These are the spirits of the world who lead those belonging to the world astray: the god of materialism, the god of greed, the god of lust, the god of fleshly lineage, the god of carnal desire, the god of emotional affection, the god of sexual immorality, the god of happiness, and the god of blessing (fortune-seeking).
Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself: And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him; That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.(Ezekiel 14 : 4~11)
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? For all those things hath mine hand made, and those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.(Isaiah 66 : 1~4)
They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.(Hosea 9 : 3~4)
What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.(1 Corinthians 10 : 19~21)
Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the alter? What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.(1 Corinthians 10 : 18~24)
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.(Jeremiah 13 : 10~11)
Those who pursue perishable things of this world—such as dreams, ideals, hopes, happiness, and blessings—will inevitably have the spirits of this world and of the flesh working within their hearts, leading them into deception. This warning applies to both pastors and believers who claim to believe. Within the prayers, faith, teachings, and learning that seek only worldly desires and human happiness, disregarding the holy will of God and the love of the cross that leads to true salvation, the spirits of bloodline, carnal desire, emotional affection, lust, and greed are certainly at work. As a result, the spirit of jealousy, the spirit of envy, the spirit of hatred, the spirit of pride, the spirit of lust, the spirit of strife, and the spirit of falsehood continually operate—causing sin to accumulate all the more.
Thus, most pastors and believers today walk the broad and easy path that leads only to judgment and hell. Their prayers and tears for personal happiness and blessings are prayers that take the holy name of God in vain, prayers that deny the love of the cross, and prayers that only increase sin while further desolating their good conscience. These prayers are born from falsehood and distortion, increasing only pride and arrogance under the guise of faith—ultimately amounting to a faith more detestable and sinful than that of unbelievers.
Far from setting an example or being a model, these Christians have, before the eyes of the world, degraded the beautiful love and sacrifice of Christ—who was crucified for their sins—lower than that of a worm. They use the words of the cross as mere talk, becoming objects of mockery. This is the true reality of pastors and believers in Christianity today.
It is now time to reflect on whether the faith you claim to hold is, in fact, a detestable faith that brings dishonor to God’s holy name and the love of the cross. Remember: from the beginning of Genesis, those who claimed to believe in God often became His greatest adversaries and enemies. Yet there is not a single person on earth who considers their own faith or themselves to be enemies of God or Christ.
Nevertheless, many seek to serve both God and the perishable world, alongside materialism—following corrupted doctrines and heresies, picking and choosing what suits their tastes. They merely see and hear, mistaking moral impressions and emotional inspiration as the grace of God. Because of this, they fail to bear true fruit grounded in the Word, and instead continually pile up sin according to self-interest.
They are guided to confuse pride and stubborn will with faith, further planting arrogance, falsehood, and obstinacy in the hearts of believers who are already weighed down by sin. And so they remain trapped in endless cycles of meaningless repentance (mere reflection), never escaping the bondage of sin. Their initial faith—their first love—has vanished, leaving behind only hollow titles and positions.
Because they pursued what is perishable and justified their sins through self-centered pride and ambition, their sermons and teachings, far from reviving the spirit, only lead to a desolate heart and a weary spirit. What, then, can be gained from such instruction?
Elders who have dried up and withered from chasing momentary inspiration and shallow lessons—whose tears have long dried up—what meaning do they now hold? What worth is there in deacons whose hearts no longer feel?
Where is the abundant liberality and the overflowing gratitude? In works of service reduced to mere moral and ethical duty—filled instead with strife, arguments, and division—what true fruit remains?
Blind to the distinction between human righteousness and the righteousness of God, they elevate morality and ethics as the essence of faith. Even worldly companies or idol worshipers practice such kindness, love, and service as basic decency. Yet these are taught and learned in churches today as if they were the sacrificial love of the cross—love that lays down one’s very life.
Then with what can the example of the cross be revealed? With what can such people be admonished or turned back?
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.(Isaiah 9 : 15~17)
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.(2 Corinthians 11 : 3~4)
Those who try to serve God while also serving the world and material things cannot belong to the love of the cross. They are merely walking the path of sinners who, driven by self-interest, only add sin upon sin and are unable to turn back. Because they have not been born again, they are simply slaves to sin, endlessly repeating it.
Within the kind of faith that seeks personal success, happiness, and perishable blessings, there is no love. Therefore, such a person can never receive the forgiveness of sins in Christ, nor true faith, nor wisdom, nor spiritual gifts, nor the Holy Spirit—because they are not united in love.
Thus, the emotional stirrings you feel in pursuit of your blessings and happiness are by no means the inspiration, teaching, or grace of God. Instead, they are deceptions led by pastors who, though they appear to be God’s shepherds, are in fact possessed by the spirit of Satan—disguised as shepherds of God but leading you only to long for the perishable things of this world. These are pastors blind to the truth, governed by the spirit of materialism, the spirit of delusion that tempts with worldly things, and the spirit of speech and theory that masquerades as the shepherd of Christ.
Deceived by the corrupted sermons and words of heresy—designed to sound sweet like worldly temptations and to lure you into pursuing worldly desires, happiness, and blessings—many people spend their entire lives walking in place, clinging to vain and repetitive repentance (mere reflection) that can never lead to rebirth. As a result, most churches today only train people to become increasingly desensitized to sin, to treat it lightly, or even to become bold in their pride concerning sin.
The emotional impressions, lessons, and tears that fail to lead you away from the sinful path of self-interest must be dismissed—they are all falsehood, distortion, dead faith, and entirely unrelated to salvation. They are teachings and emotions given by the spirit of the world, which opposes God and is an enemy of the love of the cross.
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.(James 5 : 19~20)
They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.(Jeremiah 23 : 17~22)
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it. And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.(Malachi 2 : 1~6)
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches: repent.