Prevailing against the Gates of Hell?

May 8, 2018 ~ Sherry

“And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” – Matthew 16:17-19

Matthew 16:17-19 is one of the most controversial passages in the Bible. Rome bases its claims to Petrine authority primarily upon this entry. But today I would like to focus on just a small portion of the passage:

“…the gates of hell shall not prevail against (the church).” – Matthew 16:18

I listen to a lot of Catholic talk radio strictly for…

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Tom says:

May 8, 2018 at 2:39 pm

Thanks for the re-blog, Sherry!

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1. Sherry says:
  
  May 8, 2018 at 11:40 pm
  
  YW, Brother! \o/
  
  I thank you for the great, thought provoking posts you do! I’m glad you don’t mind the reblogging since I’ve been in such a slump of late. I pray God’s best blessings for you as you have been a wonderful blessing to me, this blog and its readers with your posts.
  
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  1. Tom says:
    
    May 9, 2018 at 6:53 am
    
    Thanks so much, Sherry, for your very kind words and encouragement in the Lord! I likewise pray that you are greatly blessed as you continue to serve our Lord. What a privilege we have to testify of the Lord’s great love, forgiveness, grace, and mercy!
    
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    1. Sherry says:
      
      May 9, 2018 at 10:11 am
      
      Amen!
      
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Maria Tatham, a gentle iconoclast says:

May 8, 2018 at 5:31 pm

❤

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1. Sherry says:
  
  May 8, 2018 at 11:41 pm
  
  Luvs ya back, precious sister! \o/
  
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  1. Maria Tatham, a gentle iconoclast says:
    
    May 8, 2018 at 11:50 pm
    
    Sherry, can we talk?
    
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    1. Sherry says:
      
      May 9, 2018 at 12:09 am
      
      Yes, but not right now…me poohed, dear friend! Good night! ❤
      
      I pray all is well for you!
      
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God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.-John 4:24

Every time any form of worship by procession, celebration, or ceremonial of man’s invention is offered to God, it is offered in defiance of this word of Christ, and cannot and will not be received; however earnest people may be they have violated the imperative canon of God’s Word; and in fighting for rubrics they have gone against the eternal rubric that God as a Spirit must be worshipped in spirit and in truth. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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“Essence of lies, and quintessence of blasphemy, as the religion of Rome IS… it nevertheless fascinates a certain order of Protestants, of whom we fear it may be truly said that ‘they have received a strong delusion to believe a lie, that they may be damned.’ Seeing that it is so, it becomes all who would preserve their fellow-immortals from destruction to be plain and earnest in their warnings. Not in a party-spirit, but for truth’s sake, our Protestantism must protest perpetually.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon

–The Sword and the Trowel January 1873

Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles nor to the church of God:

Questions: If you set up the pagan Yule/ X Mass tree in the church because you don’t believe there is any harm to you and your fellow believers, will you stop the practice when a former Wiccan comes to Christ Jesus as her Savior and joins your church? Or will you wound her conscience and spoil her rewards from God by your selfishness in letting her believe that some of her Wiccan practices and tokens are OK for her to hold on to? In witnessing Christ before Wiccans, do you think they will see how set apart from them you are during the X Mass/Easter season? Or will they see you as imitating them (which is what you really are doing) and cause them to believe that Christianity is just another pagan-rooted religion?

Another question: Do you care if some of your members leave the church while you are celebrating the Yuletide season because it offends them?

Pretend for a moment that you and your family are the only ones in the world. Pretend you don’t have a TV or any history books from the world. All you have is a Bible. Without any influences from the world, you do your best to follow the Word of God. Based on that scenario, is it likely that you will be cutting a tree from the forest, decorating it with balls, and exchanging gifts on December 25th and saying it is for the celebration of the birth of Christ? Of course not because such silly tradition does not exist in the Bible and it would not even exist in your conscience and you would not even be inspired to imagine such a silly tradition. It is only through the impure minds of the heathens that such a tradition came about.

Therefore, if you do the Christmas celebration, you fully acknowledge that it is solely based on the world’s tradition. It is solely based on what MAN says to do, not God. If you want to continue Christmas celebration, then don’t be a hypocrite and say it’s for Jesus, because it’s not! It’s for the world. Admit you are a heathen and carry on your heathen ways, but don’t you dare put yourself in the same category as the most High and all His people. We are not of the world. ~comment from Duh Enlightened One on a YT Video

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