BROADCASTS.com

WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. An invitation for you: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/Social_Gospel_or_Salvation_Gospel.mp3 ___________________________________________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, June 13, 2022, and this is Episode #24 of Series 2022. This episode is titled "Social Gospel or Salvation Gospel?" Are you wondering what has happened to the Church? It seems to have gone crazy, like the rest of the world.  But, let me assure you, the true Church of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior is alive and strong. It still adheres to the true Gospel. It still proclaims the true Gospel. It is called the Remnant Church. And it will never go away! As Scripture promises in Matthew 16: 18, "The gates of Hell shall not prevail against it." At the moment, you may not be able to see much of the true Church, but I assure you, it is active and moving and powerful and strong! So, what's going on? Isn't what the world knows as the "Christian Church" the true Church of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? Tragically, no. What the world sees as the Christian Church is, in reality, the Apostate Church. I call it the "Church of the Great Falling Away," described as follows in the Book of Second Thessalonians, chapter 2, verses 1 through 3: "Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition . . . ." This extensive "falling away " is what we are witnessing now in the so-called Christian Church--the Apostate Church. I am specifically referring to the following teachings that the Apostate Church is promoting: 1__Abortion is a woman's right and is okay. In fact, some apostate churches are even calling abortion "sacred." Talk about perverse thinking! These so-called "justice-oriented people of faith" are calling murder sacred.  One such organization is the Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity (or SACRed). This organization promotes abortion as sacred to human dignity. No mention of or thought given to the sacred dignity of the child in the womb. The innocent victim of murder. Such deceptive thinking is what the Bible means when it says that in the last days, people will call evil good and good evil.  2__Homosexual marriage. Apostate churches are sanctioning and blessing marriages between two people of the same gender. This is an abomination in God's sight and clear defiance of His Word. Listen to what God Himself says about it in Leviticus 18: 22 NCV:  "You must not have sexual relations with a man as you would a woman. That is a hateful sin."  In 1 Corinthians 6: 9, the Bible warns that those who practice homosexuality will not enter Heaven but will go to Hell: "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,