Report from the Britney Spears Outreach

We had four preachers of righteousness at this event. Jeff, Matt, Jarrod and Dave preached, prayed, passed out tracts and had good conversations with the people with met with.

By God’s grace we were not interupted by any law enforcement at the Britney Spears Concert held at the San Diego Sports Arena. We had an open door of utterance to preach, teach and exhort sinners to prepare and turn to God while there is time. We made sure we preached to parents who brought their children to this event. We reminded them of their accountability before God, the sin of shutting up the kingdom of God on their children and the consequence of raising up their children as God haters.

We were mocked, laughed at and challenged by false christians who I deem as false converts. I was physically assulted by male and female (sexually) but understand that is the cost of evangelism. We used the truth horn with great effect and no challenge by anyone. Many tracts were passed out and many meaniful conversations took place among male and female alike. Many homosexuals were out flaunting there sexual desires. We warned them in compassion to turn while there is still time to repent. All praise and glory to Jesus Christ!
God Bless,
Jeff Kangas

Hell – Why Christians Talk About it!

Hell Part One – Why Christians Talk About it!

Written by Keith Mason

Many people think that Christians are judgmental and insensitive (to put it politely) when they talk about hell. This is completely untrue. Let me explain why: The Bible – a provable book, by the way – teaches that the only way people get into heaven is by accepting Jesus as their Savior, everybody else goes to hell. It is important to realize that the hell-doctrine is not “our” belief or “our” message, it didn’t originate with us and we have no authority to change it. It is what Holy Scriptures teach. Christians do not want anybody to go to a place of “weeping and gnashing of teeth,” of “everlasting punishment” in “outer darkness” forever, so they warn people about it in the hopes that they’ll accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. It is vital to the preaching of the gospel that men and women be warned of the consequences of their sin – yes, you and I are sinners. Before people will accept the cure (Jesus) they need to know the result of the disease (hell).

Fear is a good motivator. It is why I came to the Lord. Furthermore, I personally conducted a survey at my church’s men’s-study. Most of them – 75% – accepted Christ because they didn’t want to end up in hell. This is confirmed statistically, too: L. E. Maxwell, Bible teacher and Principal at Prairie Bible Institute, asked his students why they came to Jesus. “Out of 2,507 students, sixty-five percent were moved by fear, and only six percent were moved by love. The remaining twenty-nine percent [either] came with another motive or couldn’t remember why they came to the Savior.”[1] Similarly, Isaac Watts said that not “one person in the whole course of [his] ministry” was there because of “God’s goodness,” rather they were there because they had been awakened to “the wrath to come by the passion of fear.”[2] People won’t let go of their sin unless they have a reason to, and everlasting torment (I.e. hell) is a pretty good reason.

We aren’t judging you either. We are simply telling you that God has (not we Christians) judged you already (he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. John 3:18), and that the only way to escape God’s judgement is to repent and accept Christ (Luke 13:3, John 3:16).

Nor are we insensitive jerks. If a blind man were walking towards a cliff, wouldn’t you warn him? I would. If your neighbor’s house was on fire and you knew he was asleep inside wouldn’t you try and wake him up? I would. When Christians speak about hell they are simply trying to warn the blind guy or the neighbor of what will happen if they don’t repent and accept Christ.

Eternity in hell isn’t something we made up. Believe me, it gives us no pleasure to tell people their destined to go there, but it’s what the Bible teaches.

Hell Part Two – A Description Of It!

Keith Mason

Some who are enjoying the pleasures of sin for a season will brush of God’s eternal justice by joking, “I don’t mind going to hell. All my friends are going to be there.” Obviously those who flippantly say such things don’t believe in the Biblical concept of hell. Ray Comfort says they are like the “criminal who thinks the electric chair is a place to put your feet up for a while and relax.”1

Some people like to picture hell as a hedonistic, pleasure-filled place where they can engage in all the sensual sins that are forbidden here. Others accept hell as a place of punishment but cannot conceive that a loving God would punish people for eternity so they choose to believe hell is a metaphor for the grave. That would mean a man like Adolf Hitler, who was responsible for the death of millions, would be “punished” merely with eternal sleep. It would also mean the Bible is wrong.

The Bible describes hell as:

Everlasting punishment (Matt 25:46)

Weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matt 25:51)

Unquenchable fire (Luke 3:17)

Revelation 14:10,11 tells us the final destination of a sinner: “He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone…the smoke of their torment ascended up for ever and ever… and they shall have no rest there day or night.”

Furthermore, in Luke 16:20-30 Jesus told us the fate of two people who died: a beggar named Lazarus and a stingy rich man. Both men died but they arrived at different destinations. In verse 24 it says the stingy rich man, “cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue; for I am in agony in this flame’.” Almost without exception, Bible scholars say this isn’t a parable or an allegory but a literal happening. Notice that the man was not only conscience but he was in agony.

Dear non-Christian, heaven and hell are real places. Death isn’t the end of life, rather it’s the beginning. Please let the fear of hell drive you to repent, and accept Christ as your Savior.

For evidence the Bible is true see: http://www.BibleProofBook.com You can prove it. We can be more than 99.999 percent sure that the Bible is true.

So, You Are a Christian! By Keith Mason

So, You Are A Christian!

Make sure you are a true convert by examining your life in light of scripture.

A.W. Tozer said, “It is my opinion that tens of thousands of people, if not millions, have been brought into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, [but] they have not been saved.” Similarly, D. James Kennedy said, “The vast majority of people who are members of churches in America today are not Christians. I say that without the slightest contradiction. I base it on empirical evidence of twenty-four years of examining thousands of people.” What! Most within the church are NOT Christians!!! Read on.

Could you be a false convert?
When I am witnessing and passing out tracts and someone tells me he or she is already a Christian, I am often skeptical. Eighty-two percent of Americans claim to be Christian[i] but many factors suggest otherwise. A 1994 Barna Research survey found that one in four American adults who said they were born-again also believed that Jesus sinned while on Earth. This means that millions of “believers” either don’t know their theology, ignore it, or they aren’t really truly saved. According to 2 Corinthians 5:21, Jesus “knew no sin;” Hebrews 4:15 says that Jesus was “without sin;” 1 Peter 2:22 says He “committed no sin nor was deceit found in His mouth.” Furthermore, if Jesus sinned, He wouldn’t be the spotless Lamb of God Scripture says He was (1 Peter 1:19).[ii] According to The Day America Told The Truth, although 92 percent of Americans own a Bible, only 11 percent read it daily. Other surveys have found that 90 percent of Americans pray, yet 87 percent do not believe in all of the Ten Commandments[iii] (who are they praying to? certainly not the God of the Bible). A 2003 Barna survey noted that half of all (so-called) Christians believe a person can earn their salvation by doing good deeds without accepting Christ as the way to eternal life. Again, they either don’t know their theology, ignore it, or they aren’t truly saved. Many of these so-called Christians don’t go to church, they don’t read the Bible, and they don’t follow its teaching. Do you?

Warning:

Consider Matt 7:22-23, when on judgement day many come to Jesus and say, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then Jesus will profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” The word “iniquity,” means lawlessness: i.e. those who don’t follow His commandments (see vs 21). Jesus said, “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15). Many in our churches today not only don’t keep God’s commandments they don’t even know them. As attested to above by Tozer and Kennedy, often they have never become “saved” in the first place because the law is never preached to them and they never see their sin as exceeding sinful (Rom 7:13). There is absolutely NOTHING more important than your eternal soul. Repent, get right with God, and obey His commandments.

To read evidence that the Bible is true visit www.BibleProofBook.com (you can prove it with greater than 99.999 percent certainty).

Bible Prophecy is 100% Accurate! – by Keith Mason

Why Biblical prophecies are 100 percent accurate.

Prophecy
Perhaps the most convincing and hardest to refute piece of evidence confirming the Bible’s truthfulness is prophecy. Prophecy is something that sets the Bible apart from all other religious books. The Bible contains literally thousands of prophecies that have come to pass. In fact, there are 8,362 prophetic verses in the Bible, most of which have already been fulfilled. The amazing thing is that while there have been literally thousands of fulfilled prophecies not once has the Bible ever been wrong – that’s right, it has a 100% accuracy rate, 100% of the time.

Prophecy And The Nature of Time
The reason Biblical prophecy is so accurate is because God has the ability to see the past, pre-sent, and future simultaneously and therefore, can tell us what will happen. In order to under-stand how God can do this, I should explain a little bit about the relationship between God and time. Most of us think of time as a line; we probably can remember back to grade school, when the teacher drew a line on the blackboard. On the left of the line was the beginning of a kingdom or an event or perhaps someone’s life, and on the right side was the end of this kingdom, event or life. Therefore, we tend to think of eternity as a very long line with infinity on the left and infinity on the right. We visualize God as someone who has lots of time.
That may sound nice but it is bad physics. God is not someone with lots of time; rather He is someone who is outside of our space/time* domain altogether. As an analogy, think of a parade. Standing on the sidewalk, we can see the floats going by one at a time. We do not really know what is coming until it gets to us. For us, life is a sequence of events: the past has already hap-pened, we are in the present, and the future has not yet happened. (See Figure 1)

Figure 1
Yet someone in a blimp or helicopter can see the whole parade simultaneously; for him, the be-ginning and the end (the past, the present, and the future) are all happening at the same time. God is like the person in the blimp – He is outside of our space/time dimension altogether.
Since God has this ability to see the past, present, and future simultaneously, He is able to use this ability to tell us what will happen. God can see history before it happens. This is what proph-ecy and foreknowledge is – history written in advance, before it happens.
God, via the Holy Spirit, wrote things in the Bible that, at the time the authors wrote them, could not possibly have been known. (e.g. prophecies covered now, and scientific foreknowledge cov-ered shortly). There is no ‘past,’ ‘present,’ and ‘future’ with God, He just ‘is’ – He is the ‘I AM that I AM’ (Exodus 3:14).

Are you a True Christian or a False Convert? by Keith Mason

A.W. Tozer said, “It is my opinion that tens of thousands of people, if not millions, have been brought into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, [but] they have not been saved.” Similarly, D. James Kennedy said, “The vast majority of people who are members of churches in America today are not Christians. I say that without the slightest contradiction. I base it on empirical evidence of twenty-four years of examining thousands of people.” What! Most within the church are NOT Christians!!! Read on.

Could you be a false convert?
When I am witnessing and passing out tracts and someone tells me he or she is already a Christian, I am always skeptical. Eighty-two percent of Americans claim to be Christian but many factors suggest otherwise. A 1994 Barna Research survey found that one in four American adults who said they were born-again also believed that Jesus sinned while on Earth. This means that millions of “believers” either don’t know their theology, ignore it, or they aren’t really truly saved. According to 2 Corinthians 5:21, Jesus “knew no sin;” Hebrews 4:15 says that Jesus was “without sin;” 1 Peter 2:22 says He “committed no sin nor was deceit found in His mouth.” Furthermore, if Jesus sinned, He wouldn’t be the spotless Lamb of God Scripture says He was. (1 Peter 1:19)

According to The Day America Told the Truth, although 92 percent of Americans own a Bible, yet only 11 percent read it daily. Other surveys have found that 90 percent of Americans pray, yet 87 percent do not believe in all of the Ten Commandments (who are they praying to? Certainly they are not praying to the God of the Bible). A 2003 Barna survey noted that “one out of ten born-again Christians – those who believe entry into heaven is based solely on confession of sins and faith in Jesus Christ – believe in reincarnation, which violates Christian tenets, and half believe a person can earn salvation based on good deeds even without accepting Christ as the way to eternal life.” Again, they either don’t know their theology, ignore it, or they aren’t truly saved. If 82 percent of Americans actually were Christians there wouldn’t be a million abortions a year, a same-sex marriage issue, a premarital sex issue, rampant pornography, etc. Yes, these issues would still exist, but they would be far less prevalent.

Why this has happened? I believe the reason for so many false converts is due to the modern way the Gospel message is presented. Christians tell people, “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16); just believe in Jesus and you’ll go to heaven. The modern message is:
• A God without judgement,
• Salvation without sin or repentance,
• Christ without a cross,
• Heaven without hell.

We say to the unbeliever, Jesus Christ will fill that “God shaped” vacuum in your heart and He will give you love, joy, peace, fulfillment, and lasting happiness, accept Him as your savior today and you’ll have all these things and eternal life too. Many in our churches today know nothing about God’s judgement or God’s law (the Ten Commandments). The Apostles didn’t preach that way. Wesley, Moody, Whitfield, Edwards, didn’t preach that way either; they preached about sin, judgement, wrath, and salvation. These men said that if you don’t use the law, you’ll almost certainly get false conversions. How true! We know there are many false converts in the church because of the facts listed above. Also, consider Matt 7:22-23, when on judgement day many come to Jesus and say, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works?” And then Jesus will profess unto them, “I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity”. The word “iniquity,” means lawlessness, i.e. those who profess to know Jesus but don’t follow His commandments (see vs 21). Jesus said, “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15).

Many in our churches today not only don’t keep God’s commandments they don’t even know them. As said by Tozer and Kennedy, often they have never become “saved” in the first place because the law is never preached to them and they never see their sin as exceeding sinful (Rom 7:13). Paul said, “by the law (the Ten Commandments) is the knowledge of sin” (Rom 3:20); he said the law is “our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith” (Gal 3:24). The law shows us our sinfulness. If we see the sinfulness of our sin, and recognize the grace of God, there is no question, we will abide in Christ (John 15:4) and keep His commandments.

An Analogy
When Christians share the gospel, they often say something like, “you are a sinner but Jesus loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life; and He promises to give you peace, joy and happiness.” This is the wrong approach. First, most people don’t believe they are “sinners,” at least any more than anybody else is. Second, there is no mention of hell, judgment or future punishment. To illustrate this, consider the following:

Two men are seated in a plane. The first is given a parachute and told to put is on, as it would improve his flight. (e.g. he is told he is a sinner but Jesus loves him and has a wonderful plan for his life). He’s a little skeptical at first because he doesn’t see the need for the parachute (after all he isn’t so bad). But he decides to experiment and see if the claim is true (to see if the parachute improves his life). After he puts it on he notices that some of the other passengers are laughing at him because he’s wearing a parachute, and begins to feel somewhat humiliated. They continue to point and laugh at him and soon he can stand it no longer, he slinks in his seat, unstraps the parachute, and throws it to the floor. Disillusionment and bitterness fill his heart, because, as far as he was concerned, he was told an outright lie.

The second man is given a parachute, but he is told to put it on because at any moment he’d be jumping 25,000 feet out of the plane (while he is told of God’s love, he is also told that everybody who does not accept Jesus as their savior will be cast into hell, but he can escape this awful fate by accepting Jesus Christ as his savior, in fact, it is the ONLY way to escape it) He gratefully puts the parachute on; he doesn’t care about the other passengers making fun of him. He is grateful someone told him about the parachute and in fact, wonders why all the passengers don’t put one on.