Eventually You Will Leave

 

When Jesus saved me, the first thing that happened was I believed in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. I was then given a Bible and told to read — and read I did. Sometime later, I was filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to walk in the Spirit and read my Bible. After that, I was water baptized.

 

Having done all of that, the obvious next step was to start attending church. I went to an Assemblies of God, Charismatic, Calvary Chapel, Baptist, and Nazarene churches. While attending the Nazarene church and continuing to read my Bible, I began to read more and more deeply — and upon doing so, I began to see that the things in the Bible were not in line with what was being presented in church. I'm not talking about the Body of Christ, the true Church — I'm talking about the churches of today, mostly the denominations and their buildings.

 

The more I read, the more I dug deeper, and the more I relied on the Holy Spirit to teach me, the more I began to see that the denominations were in error — in error in many areas. They had deviated from the Bible. They had unshackled themselves from the foundation of truth: the Holy Scriptures and the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. In doing so, they did many things even as the Israelites of old, who abandoned the Scriptures, abandoned the Word of God, abandoned His prophets, and conducted themselves in practices that were absolutely against God and His commandments — against His statutes and ordinances for how to conduct themselves.

 

The Bible is our rulebook — how to conduct ourselves in the world as Christians, and how to conduct ourselves when we meet together in fellowship. These denominations and churches have strayed from that in many areas.

 

If you are truly saved by Jesus Christ and are walking in Him and reading His Bible — preferably, first and foremost, the King James Bible — and if you are not merely relying on a pastor's sermons but are reading and studying the Bible for yourself and relying on the Holy Spirit to teach you (as the Scriptures declare, He will give you the Holy Spirit to bring you into all truth), then you will come to realize that the churches and denominations presented on every street corner are not in alignment with the Holy Scriptures.

 

When that happens, you will have a decision to make. To know the truth and remain in a denomination is something the Holy Spirit, in His work toward you, would simply not allow. If you stay and speak the truth of the Scriptures, you will more than likely be excommunicated or told to leave. So the conclusion is this: you will either realize these things by the prompting of the Holy Spirit and the reading of the Holy Word, and you will come out — for as the Word does say, "Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord; touch not the unclean thing" — or you will be excommunicated or asked to leave.

 

There are no other options.