Joel Osteen

This morning as I opened my emails, my eyes went immediately to one which was sure to surprise me. Without using the woman’s name, here is what the email said (my comments to the reader are in italics):

“The pastor begins every service holding up and exalting the Bible: “This is my Bible, I am what it says I am.” The pastor ends every service: “Make Jesus your personal Lord and Savior.”  The words of     Satan?  No. The words of Osteen!

How about the Words of Christ?

In between is a Bible-based WONDERFUL message like I was reminded again this weekend. Seated is the mother and wife of his dad, the founding pastor, who is testimony of HEALING Jesus. Love and healing abound. Sin is gone and WHO would even kill a fetus surrounded by such ABOUNDING HOPE!

I would love to know how many of Joel’s congregation is pro-choice. And about John Osteen (Joel’s father) – I watched him as a young woman. Solid Bible teacher.

So I wonder, no longer having a decent church anywhere around, and as Jan Markell points out: Most people in the remnant church have nowhere to go. WHY? Because God planned it that way at the end of the Days of Noah.

The signs of the end are clear. Were it not the end, God would have raised up more Osteens because he GROWS believers.

Oh, so Joel “grows” believers?  How can he grow believers (true believers), when he does not stress to his congregation that SIN separates them from God; and that the ONLY way to the Father is through God’s Son, Jesus Christ?

“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).

Calling Osteen satanic is a sure end-time sign when judgmental bitter religiosity takes of “Christianity.” NO ONE IS DRAWN TO THE LATTER! Ironic; Satan won the battle! Calling GOOD EVIL IS SATANIC!”

Here is my email response to the woman:

“I’m very sorry that you do not realize or discern that Joel Osteen is a motivational speaker at best. Have you ever seen people being called to the altar to repent of their sins and be saved? Does Osteen ever PREACH about sin and how it separates us from a Holy God? NO. He doesn’t preach this from the Bible, which is the only way in which a person can be saved from their sins.

Osteen was interviewed by Larry King years ago. King asked him if Jesus was the only way to heaven. Osteen balked but then said that he couldn’t be the judge of that. WHAT? Jesus clearly tells us in His Word:

“Jesus said unto him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: No man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).

So, Osteen is not agreeing with Jesus about how one gets to heaven.

Have you written to Jan Markell about how you feel about Osteen?

I really do wish that you would.”  – end of my email.

Itching Ears 

“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;  and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables” (2 Timothy 4:3-4).

Jesus IS Truth. The fables of which Scripture speaks are “feel good” sermons about how Wonderful we are, and how God wants us to be free of persecution and to be affluent in this life.

Think “Your Best Life Now” written by Joel Osteen. Why do you think that his congregation is so incredibly large?

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.  Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13-14). (Emphasis added)

“For you were once darkness but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness, righteousness and truth), finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them” (Ephesians 5:8-11). (Emphasis added)

Brethren, notice in the Scripture above, that it clearly says to have no fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness, but that we should expose these teachings and the teachers by whom these teachings come.

Now you may say to me, “But Joel is so positive in his sermons and he does speak occasionally about Jesus.”

I ask the readers this question: “Why did Jesus come to earth?” Was it to give us our “Best Life Now?” This is so far from the Truth, that it amazes me that even the “itching-ear crowd” accepts it!

If we could ask all of those who have been martyred for their faith in Christ, if they thought that Jesus came to give them their “Best Life Now” – I believe that each of them would say something like this:

Jesus came to earth in human flesh to live out a perfect and sinless life and then to be crucified on the Cross of Calvary as payment for all sin, for those who would repent and trust Him for their Salvation. He was resurrected from the dead and is now seated at the right hand of His Father in heaven.

“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Jesus Christ came to earth to give sinners a chance to be reconciled to His Father in heaven. That’s   why he was born. And that’s why those of us who have repented of our sins and trusted in the finished work of Christ on the Cross will be in heaven when we die.

I am not writing these things about Joel Osteen to hurt him. I pray that his eyes will be opened by the Father and that he will see clearly that he has not been preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Can you imagine how many of his congregation and online audience could be saved if Joel told them the true Gospel?

Yes, he would likely lose followers, but how glorious it would be if even a part of his congregation would be convicted of their sins and would repent and receive the forgiveness of their sins!

We should pray for Joel and his wife. Pray that both of them will have their eyes opened to the true Gospel and will preach it boldly!

How Can I Be Saved?

Shalom b’Yeshua

MARANATHA!

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Hatred of Trump Exceeds Concern for Americans

If one sits all day and watches CNN or MSNBC, and believes everything that is being reported, then they have become a Leftwing zombie.

Lenin had another word for these types: Useful idiots aka today as Snowflakes.

People like George Soros – probably the most notorious geopolitical criminal mind in the history of the world – depend on the Snowflakes. These people do not think for themselves, nor do they explore the internet to vet stories which are force-fed to them by the Leftist fake news sources.

Hypocrites 

There are articles flying around the Leftwing universe about the people who are going without paychecks. I feel bad for these people – I do. But what do you think the Demonrats do to show compassion for these people? They go to Puerto Rico to a lavish resort which charges $429 a night! True story:

“Dems Fly to Puerto Rico on Chartered Jet, Meet with Lobbyists as Shutdown Drags On”

The Dems don’t give a rat’s patoot about the people. “Let them eat cake” keeps resonating in my mind as I look at the news. President Trump is trying desperately to keep Americans safe from harm by finally building the much-needed wall on our southern border.

Globalist or Patriot?

Trump is not a globalist, and this enrages the Left. He is the leader of our great country. He knows what type of people are gathering at our borders – wait.………NOT ALL of the people are MS13 gang members, or ISIS or drug lords………but it is very likely that these criminals and terrorists are in the mix. That is why we are a nation of laws! Laws protect the people.

Hey Snowflakes, do YOU want people who are bent on murdering you to be in our country? Personally, I don’t believe that the majority of Democrats (the voters) want murderous gangs and terrorists coming into America.

But the Dems in Congress are globalists. They don’t want borders, let alone walls! They have been having a collective globalist meltdown since the day our president was elected. I have three words for them:

GET OVER IT.

But most of the useful idiot snowflakes spend their days watching news propaganda shows in which the commentator laughs at our president and Conservatives for saying that dangerous people are among those trying to enter America.

Fox News

Even Shepard Smith of Fox News (a known liberal) tells the viewers, “Don’t listen to what is being said – we are not in danger – NOT AT ALL.” I’ve also heard him talk about Antifa in the same manner: “Move on……there’s nothing here folks. The real danger is President Trump and the GOP.”

I seldom watch Fox News anymore since the radical shakeup, which makes it hard to distinguish them from the Snowflake stations. And I REALLY had to stop watching Shepard Smith for my own mental health. I came very close to throwing shoes and anything in reach at my television. And of course, that is counterproductive and accomplishes Zero – except the need to buy a new TV.

Leftists live in LaLa Land

I love my children with all of my heart. But I curse the evil spirits who snatched them away from the Lord during college. And when they fell away from the Lord, they also fell away from common sense and became radical liberals.

My children attempt to pull me into political arguments all of the time. I have learned that I must change the subject quickly or a vicious fight will ensue. Not a discussion; I’m talking a verbal brawl with words said that cannot be taken back. Once those words are said, it’s like toothpaste out of the tube that cannot be pushed back in.

Our oldest son is a doctor of Astrophysics. He can verbally destroy me. As a matter of fact, our other son has the same kind of brain, and I’ve learned that I am no match for either of them in arguments. But I’ve also noticed that when I have attempted to show them TRUTH on the internet, they refuse, and say that whatever I want to show them HAS to be fake news.

Obama and Abortion

In 2007, I did extensive research on Barrack Hussein Obama. I had a strong feeling that he had been propped up and supported by the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America (CDSA) when he became a state senator.

I went to their site (CDSA) and pretended to be a person who was genuinely interested in their party. So, I went undercover? I guess I did!  There was a man back then whose name was Bob Roman. He was the head of the CDSA. I began to write emails to him and said that I wanted to learn more about their ideas.

He would write back to me and describe their Socialist views, etc., etc. One day, while digging in and researching their website, I hit pay dirt on Obama. There were photos of him being honored at dinners for being victorious in becoming a Chicago Democratic Senator. I wrote to Mr. Roman and asked, “How long has Obama been a member of your party?” I never heard from him again.

My boys had been mesmerized by Obama ever since they saw him as keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. It was alarming to me because these boys had NEVER been interested in politics. Well, actually our oldest son had been a staunch Conservative when he was walking with the Lord.

One day I told my oldest that Obama had been supported by the CDSA and I could prove it to hm. He refused to look at what I had found. He told me that it HAD to be a fake website because Obama would never be part of that.

Partial Birth Abortion

On the same day that I tried to get my son to look at the CDSA so he could see the pictures of Obama being honored at dinners, I also told my son about partial birth abortion.

He said he didn’t even know what that was. I described the entire procedure to him. He said, “Mom, that is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. People would NOT do that to babies!” I offered to take him to various sites on the internet to show him that this was happening.

His response to me was, “Wherever you take me will be a false website, so I will not look.” To this day he believes that partial birth abortions were contrived by Conservatives to make Liberals look bad. Can you imagine my frustration? I prayed that, in the privacy of his own apartment, he would look Obama and Partial Birth abortion up – even if it was to prove me wrong.

That was the only way that my oldest would see the truth.

Read About Obama and Socialist Affiliations:

Barack Obama Affiliated Organizations    <click here to read

Let me ask the reader a question:

Do you think that a party which celebrates the murder of innocent babies in their mother’s wombs cares one bit about the citizens of America? That question is rhetorical.

The mass numbers of illegals which Dems are determined to bring over our border are of one importance to them: VOTES! Get them on our soil, connect them to entitlement programs, and have them illegally entitled to vote – Democrat of course. It’s despicable and immoral. But the Dems have no morals or scruples.

And if it were not for double standards, the Dems would have no standards at all!

Brethren, we as Christians are admonished to pray for those who have been appointed over us. We must do this! Without being born again and regenerated, these people CANNOT make godly decisions. It starts with the heart.

Jesus changes hearts.

How Can I Be Saved?

Shalom b’Yeshua

MARANATHA!

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