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Much can be learnt by the Church today by understanding how our Lord spoke to Ezekiel about warning Israel.

Its vital to remember that before the return of Jesus, Biblical Christianity prophecies apostasy meaning to fall away, to forsake truth.
(2 Thessalonians 2 vs 1-17) Apostasy is the opposite of revival. As Christians through complacency and a lack of love for God's Word, fall away from sound doctrine one verse at a time. Its a time for us all to prayerfully study our Bibles like never before. What does God's Word actually say about all the hot issues. Where is each denomination correct and where can they be wrong. Have you searched your Bible and prayerfully believed what you have read, or are you dangerously going with the flow of the modern ecumenical churches.
The rapture and the return of Jesus will be soon. Pray to be found waiting. We don't want to personally fulfil the prophecies of apostasy.

We Christians are to pray for revival in the Church, and our prayers are answered as some Christian return to Jesus and sound doctrine, but if we are as close to the rapture of the Church and Jesus return as we think, then worldwide revival in the Church wont happen. What will be seen is an erosion of Biblical truth, an anything goes mentality. Give me Jesus but don't give me Jesus teachings through His first century apostles. People will be thinking, Jesus brings everybody together, Bible doctrine divides people, let focus on Jesus and His miracles. I say, let us not be deceived, a rejection of Jesus teachings through His first century apostles, is in fact a rejection of Him. Jesus said "If you love me then you will obey my word". And in John 8 vs 31-32. 31 the Holy Scriptures say. "Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Some say and many think, look at the miracles that are happening through this ministry or that ministry, surely the miracles must prove
that the ministry leaders are Biblically sound, but Galatians 3 shows us that God's miracles are received by faith and not by works.
This means that even ungodly leaders could have a signs and wonders ministry through their faith in the miracle working power of Jesus.

I know a man who went with his grandfather to a faith healer who was charging money to pray, his grandfather had something badly wrong with his neck. The grandfather paid his money, and both he and his grandson were intrigued to hear the faith healer pray for healing in Jesus name. The grandfather was healed and asked for more information about Jesus. They were shown to read the Holy Bible.
Through all this they both ended up repenting and giving up their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus set them free from their dead religion and I can testify that my friend Narinda is still walking with Jesus today. Now my point is. The man shouldn't have been charging, the man wasn't a disciple of Jesus, the man was an extortioner, but due to his faith in the miracle working power of Jesus my friends grandfather was healed in Jesus name.

Now some think that all the signs and wonders today are lying signs and wonders. Well I think some me may be, but remember Biblically, satan never raised the dead, healed cripples, opened blind eyes, made the deaf hear, healed a withered limb, healed broken bones, or healed any diseases or illnesses. Jesus did.

We thank Jesus for His sinless blood shed for all our sins, and that we are saved by God's grace through faith in Him, but we need to realize that our Lord has severely warned His Church in Galatians 5 vs 16- 26. Gal 6 vs 1-10.) Its about our lifestyle and what we teach.
(New King James Version)

Galatians 5 vs 16- 26. Vs 16. I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,[c] fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders,[d] drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. End of Scripture.

In the above verses, our Lord warns His Church through apostle Paul's letter concerning many things including heresies, meaning false teaching. It's only recently within the last 50 or so years that the sin of heresies has been removed from most modern Bible translations and it has been replaced by a word that describes what heresies cause. If you go back to the original Geek Holy Scriptures, there you will see God's warning concerning heresies. Many Christians over the last 40 years have had no idea that God's Word has warned us Christians not to practice heresies. (Vs 21 I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.)

It vital to understand that the practice of heresies / false teaching, causes a sect, or factions, within the Church of Bible believers. Meaning that people begin to break away from sound doctrine, and therefore practice heresies, drawing others into their sect causing factions. Remembering that these warnings came in the first century, so there are now many sects within the Churches fulfilling 2 Timothy 4 vs 3.

It's only recently within the last 50 or so years since the popularity of modern Bible translations that most protestant Churches have been working towards ecumenicalism with the RCC. Most protestant Church leaders over the last 20 to 30 years have stopped protesting against Rome's false teachings, and been focusing only on what can be agreed upon. Do you see, if the heresies warnings are gone from the Bible, then its easier to wrongly believe that even false Bible teachers are still going to heaven.

Once the modern Bible translators wrongly replaced the warnings of heresies, with a word describing the outcome of heresies, then the reader, or the Bible student, instead of being warned not to practice false teaching, they misunderstand and think that the warning is not to practice factions, in other words, they think that its against God, to break fellowship with certain Christians on any grounds. Some wrongly believed from this, that to break fellowship with the idolatrous Roman Catholic Church would be to cause factions and therefore to do so, would mean not inheriting the Kingdom of God.

But our Lord commands His Church in 1 Corinthians 5 vs 9 "I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 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.
12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”[d]

We can easily see from the above Scripture why ecumenicalism with the Roman Catholic Church goes totally against God's Word. Can you see, us Bible believers need to be praying for our Roman Catholic friends to repent from their idolatry and false teaching, and to come follow Jesus. Our Lord will lead them out of the Roman Catholic Church and He will use us who believe to invite them to our Churches.

Also the Bible is crystal clear from these above verses, that the Archbishop of Canterbury should be breaking communion with the lesbian and homosexual church. The Bible couldn't be clearer. "not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral". "not even to eat with such a person" Put away from yourselves the evil person, means to put them out of the Church. So simply put, the unrepentant who confesses themselves to be a Christian are to be put out of the Church. So God actually commands that the lesbian or homosexual clergy are to lose their jobs. Now its worth remembering that God still loves and cares for the sexual immoral person who claims to be a Christian, and this should be reflected in our consistent love and care for them. Our prayers are for them to repent and except God's Word and deliverance in Jesus name. Jesus set sinners free. Glory to God. Read 1 Corinthians 6 vs 9-11.

Considering how God's warnings concerning heresies have been taken out of the Bible, its no wonder that so many Christians throughout the world today, when they read God's warnings to His Church are unaware of there gravity. Most of us end up thinking, aaah what does it really matter if unscriptural things happen, as long a person believes in Jesus, aaah what does it matter if my Roman Catholic friend believes and practices and teaches so many false teachings, after all they believe in Jesus. Aaah what does it matter if a man covers his head when he prays or prophecies, after all he believes in Jesus, aaah what does it matter if a Christian woman leads or preaches to the whole church, after all she believes in Jesus. Aaah what does it matter if we watch a minister sprinkle water on a baby's head and tell the family the baby's received new life, and is born again. What does it matter if biblically, baptism is only for repentant believers, does it matter that this minister who has just sprinkled a baby has deceived the child and their family and perhaps the rest of his church, after all he does believe in Jesus.

Over the years I have often had discussions with priests and members of their congregations who promote infant baptism. I have asked them for scriptures to support their actions. The most common one is Acts 16 vs 31 "So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” 32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized. End quote.

Respectfully people normally say. See, all his family was baptized, and in his family there must have been a baby.

A careful examination of these specific Scriptures reveals that there is no baby.
I have often been led by God's Spirit to ask them to read the very next verse, for them to realize that in fact his whole household had believed. Read verse 34 and see.

New King James version. 34 Now when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household".

New international version . 34 The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God— he and his whole family.

I remember asking a vicar friend of mine about 12 years ago about infant baptism, he took me to Acts 16 vs 31-33 to prove infant baptism. My friend didn't tell me of the next verse, verse 34, perhaps he had never read it.
I went home and looked up the verses that my friend had given me, and the Holy Spirit led me to read the next verse, verse 34.

People believe that by having there children baptized their children are now Christians. People believe that if they have been baptized as infants then they have always been Christians.

Now I have been by God's amazing grace, and by His power, evangelizing and preaching and testifying for nearly 18 years to every age group, I have learnt this.

Most people who have been Christened, care nothing for following Jesus. In fact they are no different than any of their worldly friends. But quite often amongst these unsaved people, I hear them say, "well I am a Christian". These are the people in particular that concern me the most. They know nothing of the new Spirit filled life, they are still in their sins, on the wide road to hell, but are convinced they are going to heaven.
WHY. Well its because their parents who meant well, told them that they were a Christian family, although dad never new Jesus, neither did mum, nor anyone in the family, as nobody was born again.

Why does the family think they are a Christian family ? Well its because some well meaning Vicar or Bishop had told them that
"God who has received you by baptism into his church".
So generations of people ignore the command of Jesus. You must be born again, John 3 vs 3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Why do they ignore Jesus command, well its because they think that they have always been Christians. Why, well because they were baptized as a baby.

Countless people are lost in hell due to the teaching of infant baptism that originated not from God's Word the Bible, but through the heretical Roman Catholic Church.

Our Lord has laid on me his heart for the lost, who perish through lack of knowledge. Jesus said in John 4 vs 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

Some Anglican church ministers admit that infant baptism is not taught in the Holy Scriptures.

Clearly infant baptism is not supported in Scripture, in a court of Law, there wouldn't be one scrap of Scriptural evidence to support infant baptism. Anyone in the Church of England or any other Church that baptizes babies, if you have come to realize this, then you aught to prayerfully take it up with your Bishop and Church leaders. If your in the Church of England then work together with others to get the Church of England to rectify article 27 and eliminate children from baptism until they become born again believers. The Church of England, like it or not, has a great deal of influence within other Church denominations, what the Church of England permits effects many.

Now we have established no direct Scriptural support for infant baptism, then to teach it, is false teaching, false teaching is heresy, not a nice word, but its not my word, its our Lord's.

The fact that it has been said "you will find many strong orthodox biblical Born again, baptised in the Spirit evangelical Christians who will allow parents to bring their children for infant baptism.
In the Light of God's Word, this only sadly proves how the heretical teachings of the Roman Catholic Church concerning infant baptism have continued to deceive the protestant churches of Jesus Christ.

Believing and teaching things with no Scriptural support is routed in the Roman Catholic Church, consider prayers to Mary, prayers to the saints in heaven, the worship of the bread in the mass, then there is purgatory, calling on Mary to help in times of trouble, devotion to Mary, giving ones life to Mary, what about the repetitive prayer said using rosary beads, calling the pope Holy Father, or the perpetual sacrifice of Jesus Christ in the Mass.
There is more, but I am sure this is enough to get to the point. Non of the above teaching are supported in the Holy Scriptures, but Catholics will say they believe them anyway. Infant baptism is amongst these unbiblical teachings, and they all ought to be seen as so.

This is why God is calling Christians out of the Roman Catholic Church and He is calling Christians to share God's truth with their Roman Catholic friends, to pray to get them saved and out of Rome in Bible believing Churches.

Hopefully, you aught not need me to highlight all of God's warnings in the Bible about the importance of keeping to sound doctrine, not going beyond his word, not adding, not taking away.

As soon as any correction is brought to a denomination, some will think, ahh, he hates those people, in my case this is not true, its because of the love of God, for people to know the truth, that I speak out. I love Roman Catholic people, some of my good friends are Roman Catholics and many of my friends are X Roman Catholics because they just started reading and believing the Bible.

Some say to teach believers baptism and not infant baptism is legalism. Good point to raise. But to become legalistic is to begin to trust in works to earn salvation, that would mean to fall from God's Grace. Thankfully we are all saved by God's grace through our faith in Jesus Christ, so legalism has no place in a Christians life. Its not legalistic to prayerfully encourage the upholding of God's Eternal Word, when looking at the Bible through the empty Cross of Jesus. Its the mocking of God that all us Christians always try and avoid.

On a personal note,   I did not make up my own mind about baptism, my mind was changed by our Lord Jesus by His Spirit taking me through His Scriptures. When I was first a Christian I was asked to be a godparent at my friends sons Christening, I accepted and stood in St Luke's and became part of the infant baptism service. Our Lord had showed me it was wrong through my relationship with Him, I remember our Lord's conviction before the event, I began to ask questions, but at the time I was only with some new Christians who had never prayerfully studied the subject. One of them said to me, Stan these are Vicars, they can't be wrong. With that I shrugged off God's conviction and went ahead with it. A few months latter or so,  Jesus took me through the study and then I realized.

The Church of England wrongly teaches that an infant becomes part of the body of Christ once he or she is sprinkled with water and prayed over. It is no wonder the Church of England on a whole has become so plagued  with liberal clergy. There are a lot of Bishops who support gay clergy, women Bishops and ecumenicalism with Rome. Could this be that somehow these men have slipped through the net, and were never born again. Could it be that because they had been baptized as infants, and later been confirmed that when they trained for the ministry, no-one actually tried to make sure that they were born again of the Spirit. Other Church ministers just took it for granted and believed, of course they are born again Christians because of their sprinkling and conformation.

In every generation of the Church of England's existence, the almighty has sent his servants to bring correction concerning infant baptism, some of that correction has come from the inside and some from other denominations. Instead of changing article 27, many theologians have tried to tie the old testament law of circumcision with the new testament teaching of full emersion baptism. There argument sounds convincing until you ask for any Scriptural support for there idea. Then it all falls flat. So don't be fooled by not asking enough questions concerning Scriptural support. Sadly the Church of England has still not changed article 27 concerning the inclusion of children.

Well the Church of England is certainly paying for it now.

My prayers are with every Church of England minister of God, who endeavors to uphold God's Word in a Church that is increasingly becoming more and more backslide. I believe that there are many sincere servants of God within the Church of England but infant baptism has been a wedge of deception in the door, as said before, any careful Bible study reveals that baptizing unbelievers has no Scriptural support, but once it had been excepted anyway, then it was only a matter of time before satan attacked the Holy Scriptures concerning head covering as in 1 Corinthians 11. Within the last 100 years Satan began to teach the Church that head covering was cultural and not important in today's Church. Then once this had been excepted, then it was only a matter of time before satan began teaching that it was only right for women to preach to the whole Church, even though this was forbidden in God's Holy Scriptures as, in 1 Timothy 2 vs 8-15, this is even connected with satan's deception in the garden of Eden, proving without a shadow of doubt, that this command was not cultural. Then once women's preaching/teaching to the whole Church was excepted, then it was only a matter of time before satan began teaching that its only right for women to become Bishop's, even though God's Holy Scriptures in 1 Timothy 3 vs 1-13, teach that this calling is to be for a man. Once women Bishop's have been fully excepted then satan would have caused many more Christians to no longer trust in the authority of the Bible. As one woman preacher said to me concerning 1 Timothy 2 vs 8-15, laughing she said, ahh we live in the 20th century now.

Today in England we have the liberals supporting homosexual clergy, and gay marriage, even though our Lord loves all mankind, He calls homosexuality an abomination. The Bible is no longer the final authority of what is right and wrong, and no longer is the Bible the only place to find out God's calling in a persons life. Today many people care more about their own opinions than they do for God's Word.

Prophesy fulfillment. Now I know that all this liberalism is bad, but its all prophesy fulfillment, so true Bible believers can find encouragement in numerous verses like 1 Timothy 4 vs 1 and 2 Timothy 3 vs 13 and 2 Timothy 4 vs 1-5. Vs 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; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you be watchful"

Concerning commentaries, they are never to be our basis for understanding the Holy Scripture, we are to understand difficult scriptures in the light of more easily understood Scriptures. Commentaries can be helpful but only if they uphold the plain teaching of the body of Scripture. You are likely to already know this, but you can find old and new commentaries that speak against God's Word in the Bible

Reaching the lost is my constant joy, this work of encouraging sound doctrine to ministers brings me much heartache. For me to remain silent would be disobedience to our Lord and Saviour. If Church denominations were to just go by the Holy Scriptures, they could work towards total agreement.

Back to the subject of baptism.
How many times does our Lord have to show us His order of things. Believe and be baptized.
1st example Mark 16 vs 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved;
2nd example Matthew 28 vs 19 Go therefore[c] and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
(To become a disciple one needs to have first heard and believed).
3rd example Acts 2 vs 37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”  38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.” 40 And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” 41 Then those who gladly[g] received his word were baptized;
Can you see God's clear order, and can you also see verse 41, only believers were baptized, those who gladly received his word.

39 articles of faith of the Church of England.
To be fair, for a person to become a Church of England Minister, they are taught to believe the 39 articles of faith of the Church of England, and if they pass through their training to work serving within a church fellowship, they are soon very busy people, with a huge work load. Its no wonder that it can take many years for some to realize that one of their Church articles of faith was wrong and against the Holy Scriptures. Now it must be said that these articles of faith are mostly very good and they are nearly all worth believing, they came about after the Reformation when the Lord God freed this country from the Rule of the heretical Roman Catholic Church. Its worth remembering that the RCC hasn't repented of any of their unbiblical teaching. It's just that most of the protestant churches have grown more and more liberal, open minded, and less concerned with the warnings within God's Word concerning heresies. Back in the early days of the reformation when the Church of England was being set up, the Church of England bishops decided to keep infant baptism that they had learnt from the Roman Catholic Church. Human reasoning won the day, get people in the Church of England before they have a chance to make their own choice. This is very likely to have been the thought process leading to the inclusion of infant baptism within their 39 articles of faith. In every generation since then there have been minister inside and outside the Church of England that have known the truth about the error of article 27 concerning infants/children baptism. A few years ago there was a book published speaking about some Church of England bishops calling for reform, in the book they made it clear that these CE ministers wanted to return to the bibles instructions concerning believers full immersion baptism. I spoke at one time to an ex Church of England vicar, he told me how he used to believe in baptizing babies for the first 18 years of his ministry.

Article 11 in the Church of England's statements of faith takes the biblical stance that a person can only be saved by their faith in Jesus.
This statement in its self clearly reveals why an infant ought not to be baptized, as justification is by faith and not the sprinkling of water

XI. Of the Justification of Man.
We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore, that we are justified by Faith only, is a most wholesome Doctrine, and very full of comfort, as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification.

Lets consider article 27 in the Church of England's statement of faith.
XXVII. Of Baptism.
Baptism is not only a sign of profession, and mark of difference, whereby Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened, but it is also a sign of Regeneration or new Birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive Baptism rightly are grafted into the Church; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be the sons of God by the Holy Ghost, are visibly signed and sealed; Faith is confirmed, and Grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God. The Baptism of young Children is in any wise to be retained in the Church, as most agreeable with the institution of Christ.