Reference: Matthew 27:22
Do you think my friend if you lived in thedays when Christ actually walked on this earth as a man and preached the gospelthat you would have been one of those that cried to have him crucified? I haveheard many say that they certainly would not have been one that would have saidto crucify him, but are you aware of the fact that the heart of man isdeceitful above all things, and is desperately wicked and you may have been oneto help crucify Christ if you were there as it happened? Are you sure that youknow your own heart and its true ways and thoughts? Are you willing to allow meto prove whether or not that you would have been one that would have cried tocrucify him? Whether you know it or not Christ is being crucified again in thevery day and age that we are living in. You may wonder how this can be possibleseeing that Christ has already been crucified and hanged on the cross and hasrisen from the dead etc. Will you believe me if I tell you that you can crucifyChrist today by refusing to receive the truth that the gospel reveals? Are youaware of the fact that Christ is the revealed truth of God that the gospelreveals? If you reject truth then can't you see that you are refusing to haveChrist to reign in your heart and life? The rejection of Christ when he was onthis earth in the form of a man led him to be crucified on the cross ofCalvary. This I am sure you understand.
The people was given a choice whetherto accept Christ or Barabbas. Christ was rejected and Barabbas was received.The rejection of truth means that you want Christ to be crucified and done awaywith. This would prove that you do not want Christ if you refuse to receivetruth, because Christ is the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE.Since Christ is truth then it is easy to see that rejection of the truth is therejection of Christ. When the people rejected Christ and wanted Barabbas,Pilate then asked the people what they wanted to do with Jesus which is calledChrist and they all said, to let him be crucified. This meant that they wantedhim to be done away with. If you do not want to receive the truth of the gospelthen this means that you want it to be done away with also. This proves thatyou want Christ to be crucified. Do you want Christ to be crucified my friend?If you say no but refuse to receive and obey the truth that the gospel revealsthen your deceitful heart is deceiving you. Can you see this simple fact? Thewhole world today is led to believe that they are receiving Christ by theirconfession of him saying they accept Christ as their Lord and Saviour, but whenthey are faced with the true facts that the gospel reveals they refuse toreceive it saying it is false doctrines of the devil etc. What is your reactionwhen you are told that you must be baptized in water in the name of JesusChrist for the remission of sins? Do you reject this teaching saying it is ofthe devil and you want nothing to do with it? Why do you call it of the devil?Have you taken your Bible asking God to show you the truth of the matter or doyou believe anything and everything someone tells you thinking it is the trueword of God? Did you know that the word of God says that you are cursed if youplace your confidence and trust in the arm of flesh? (read Jeremiah 17:5) Toplace your confidence in the arm of flesh means that you believe what yourpastor tells you thinking he is of God and that he cannot possibly be wrong inwhat he is telling you. This my friend is following man and placing all yourfaith or trust in him instead of resting and placing your trust in Christ whichis the truth of God's word and not man's word. To trust in Christ as yourSaviour means for you to place all your trust in what the word of God revealsabout the situation. The common belief today by the false prophets and teachersis that to trust Christ is to just accept him as your personal Lord and Saviourby making a decision on him and then to confess it publically. If you refuse tobelieve the fact that to receive Christ means for you to receive and obey everyword of God that the gospel reveals then you my friend are rejecting Christ andcrucifying him the second time. Your refusal to receive the revealed truthactually proves that you would have been one of the people that cried to lethim be crucified when Pilate asked what to do with him. You may try to excuseyourself by saying this article is false doctrine and you don't have to receiveit. My friend, if you can prove without a shadow of a doubt that this articleis false teaching then please allow me to tell you that you would be silly andignorant to accept it, but you better prove it before you reject it and call itof the devil etc. I am telling you that today's teaching by the clergymen inthe denominational churches of the teaching that to accept Christ as yourpersonal Lord and Saviour thinking this makes you a born again child of God isfalse and contrary to what the gospel reveals. I say this based on the factthat Christ is the word of God and that we are told that man must live by everyword that comes from the mouth of God and not only a verse or two. Just to saythat you accept Christ as your Lord and Saviour does not make you a born againchild of God filled with his Holy Spirit no more than changing your name tosome great outstanding character of the past and thinking you are thisindividual. I know for a fact that your pastor tells you that you are a bornagain child of God if you confess to accept Christ as your Saviour or that youare a born again child of God based on the fact that you accepted him as Lordand Saviour and that you spoke in tongues and received the Holy Ghost... Neither one of these teachings are in accordwith what the gospel reveals. If you refuse to be reproved by someone that istrying to show you that you are in error then according to the word of AlmightyGod you will absolutely be destroyed of him in a way that God desires. Yourrefusal to be reproved proves that you are in error because if you have truththen nothing will shake you or cause you to get mad at anyone who may differwith your way of belief. The Bible says that the Holy Ghost is the reprover ofthe world as so stated in John 16:7-11. There are thousands of people blaspheming the word of Godand crucifying Christ the second time by their ignorance of what the gospeltruly reveals about any subject in question. There are people who will argueuntil they are blue in the face about a subject they are totally ignorant of.This can lead to very serious trouble especially in the realm of religionbecause to fight against truth will prove you are fighting against God and notonly the person that is telling you the truth. If you reject truth fromsomebody then you are actually also rejecting Christ, because Christ is theway, the TRUTH, and the life.... If you hate someone that tries to reprove youof what you may believe, you are refusing to be reproved and according to theword of God in Proverbs 10:17 and 15:10 and 29:1 you will suffer the consequences. Your ignoring reproofwithout doing or saying anything about or against it will also place you in thevery same category as those who do say and speak against it. You can refusetruth either by your direct rejection of it or by your failing to do anythingabout it. Your failure to obey truth will cause you to receive lies to bedamned. Do you refuse truth speaking against it or do you refuse it keepingsilent? You are a crucifier.....