Newsletter July - August 2004
A Personal Note From Ed
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I cannot remember a Presidential election in my lifetime that is more important than this one...and I go back to the election of Harry Truman.
I feel like the country is on
the verge of being taken over by ravening wolves, set on removing decency and honor and
principles that have made America great, making the dark things the right things and the
right things the dark things. We are at the verge of falling into the same web of deceit
that trapped Ancient civilizations like
The general media prints, speaks and televises anything that will denigrate and pour scorn upon the office of the presidency and our established government leaders, agencies.
This new mode of politics has turned to hate and fear as its operative platform and all the combined prayers of all the concerned Christians, all across this land will have no effect unless we ALL vote.
The difference in we becoming a nation given over to
harlotry or one restored to decency is in the number of Christians who failed to vote in
the last election
I cannot tell you how to vote. I know how Carol and I will vote, but I am convinced that if a confessing Christian is not registered and does not vote, it would be like committing a sin before God.
Are you going to be that vote that didn’t get counted or will your vote be the one that keeps this one nation, under God. That is the way it was set up by our founding fathers. Let’s keep it that way.
Please talk to your pastor and be sure that the church has a voter registration Sunday. Volunteer to get the cards and man the table in the lobby.
Ask the pastor to have the ushers pass out the cards to those who need them at the start of each service and collect them during the offering. Personally do something that will really count this year.
This has been a busy year with a lot of ups and downs. A lot of trials and a lot of miracles. I just praise God that I am still saved, still set free and still called according to His Holy purpose. God has been so faithful to see me through this recovery from my stroke. As I have been going through the healing process, I realized just how tired I had been, how exhausted from the constant battle for souls! Every day I gain more strength and more zeal for the lost.
Years ago, when I was traveling for months at a time, I lay exhausted in a hotel room in Chattanooga and after a long phone call with my wife back in Seattle, the Lord clearly spoke a scripture to me that I remember every time I get weary in the ministry.
"I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name's sake and have not become weary. Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place — unless you repent. Rev 2:2-6
I learned that my first ‘works’ were to be personally right with the Lord, not seeing to it that everyone else was. I went home and made the Lord and my family my first priorities. When both were in order, the ministry to the lost changed dramatically and the fruit became so much more abundant. And the peace and joy came in His rest.
We have traveled the globe, witnessed to hundreds of thousands and reached so far many more through our films, website and books. It has been a long and exciting battle for souls. Yet in every meeting, in every pile of letters, every email batch, there are those whom the Holy Spirit has drawn unto the voice of truth. We have seen the abundant salvation of souls and that is our more than marvelous reward.
Your brother in Christ,
A Simple Look
at Why Mormonism
The major heresy of Mormonism is summed up in its central theological
axiom, the doctrine of The Law of Eternal
Progression. It is as follows: “As Man
is, God once was, and as God is, man may become.”
Basically, it says that the god of Mormonism was once a man who was born to human parents on another planet, grew to manhood, lived out his life being obedient to the laws and ordinances of the gospel presented by the god of that world. Upon his death and resurrection, he was judged (by his god) as being worthy for godhood.
The Mormon god was raised to his godhood and sent with many goddess wives to a planet near the great star, Kolob, somewhere in our present galaxy. There, this god and his wives began ‘procreating’ or physically begetting “spirit” children. We here on this planet are each the offspring of this god and one of his goddesses in this pre-existent Mormon world.
Amazing?
Lucifer rebelled and led one-third of the children to revolt against god and in a great battle, was defeated by Christ and the two-thirds who were “valiant.” Lucifer and those who fought with him were cast to earth without bodies and became the devil and his demons. Those others who were less than valiant became the black race and the very valiant became the “white and delightsome” race.
Mormonism teaches that if Mormons are faithful, pay their tithing, obey all the laws and ordinances of the (Mormon) gospel, do their genealogy and go to the temple for secret, sacred rituals for both the living and their dead, they too can become gods and goddesses as all gods have done before them.
To the Mormon, Jesus is our elder brother, who pointed the way, but isn’t The Way, as we Christians understand. To the Mormon, Jesus was the god of the Old Testament, but once he took his physical form, justified his own spiritual salvation through his works while in the flesh, just as each of us must.
Mormonism teaches that Jesus suffered for our sins in the
What I have just shared is just the tip of a dark and dangerous
iceberg, filled with spiritual death for its unsuspecting victims. Proverbs
The Mormon people are like those of whom Paul spoke in Romans 10, “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to
God... is that they might be saved. For I bear them
record that they have a zeal for God, but not according to Knowledge. For they, being
ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own
righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.”
There is a real zeal to serve God manifest in the lives and actions of the Mormon people. It is my prayer that you will have the opportunity to share that true Joy of Christ‘s righteousness and love with your Mormon friends and loved ones! Let them know that there is only one God and He is not one born of man, One savior and He took all the laws and ordinances that were against us and moved them out of the way, nailing them to His Cross (Col 2:13-15).
It is the message of the Cross and its reality that will free the
Mormon from the bondage of trying to earn salvation through his/her own works. We new creatures
in Christ do good works because we are saved, not to earn salvation, much less our own
godhood. The Bible say there is one God and only one God. The
job is already taken and there will be no openings.
More Book of Mormon DNA Trouble
Another devastating blow to the authenticity of the Book of Mormon just surfaced.
DNA research and Mormon
scholars changing basic beliefs
"Plant
geneticist Simon Southerton was a Mormon bishop in Brisbane, Australia when he woke up the
morning of Aug. 3, 1998 to the shattering conclusion that his knowledge of science made it
impossible for him to believe any longer in the Book of Mormon” "They should
come out and say, 'There's no evidence to support your Israelite ancestry,' "
Southerton said. "I don't have any problem with anyone believing what's in the Book
of Mormon. Just don't make it look like science is backing it all up."
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