2nd Corinthians 4:3-4, “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
NO! Charlie Kirk Was Not Thinking of Converting to Roman Catholicism!
Although his wife grew up in a Catholic home and was baptized into their damnable cult, I seriously doubt if she was still attending the Catholic church at the time of her husband's death. That would make no sense at all, and mean that Charlie was going along with his wife's foolishness, which doesn't seem like Charlie at all. He ran his own home as the leader. Clearly, Charlie understood that the Catholic church is WRONG about Mary's Immaculate Conception (that she was sinless), her Assumption into Heaven instead of dying, and the sin of worshipping (venerating) Mary. There's just NO WAY that Charlie said he was "This close to converting" to Catholicism, unless it was a sick joke.
For the record, lest somebody unfairly get angry at me, I have never said that Charlie didn't go to Heaven. Nor do I hate the man, God forbid. I love Charlie Kirk. I am simply focusing on his ecumenical statements and shoddy plan of salvation that confuse everyone. The fact that Roman Catholics are trying to claim Charlie as one of their own proves the dangers of ecumenism. Ecumenism is laying aside doctrinal differences to promote better unity. But dear reader, it is better to be divided by truth than to be united over error.
Shame on Charlie Kirk for coddling false religions! He should have directly TOLD THE TRUTH that sacramental salvation is a path to Hell, fire and damnation! He should have TOLD THE TRUTH that Mormonism's works-based Lordship Salvation cannot get anyone to Heaven. Instead he boasted that half of his Turning Point staff are Mormons, and his wife was raised and baptized a Catholic, and he thinks we don't "VENERATE MARY" enough. SHAME on Charlie!!! ...
Charlie Kirk's Heartbreaking Last Take on Mary:
“We don't venerate her enough!”
“We don't venerate her enough!”
Kindly said, Charlie Kirk talked out of both sides of his mouth. In one interview he says that Catholics are wrong to venerate Mary, but then in another speech he foolishly says that Protestants have "over-corrected" and "don't venerate Mary enough." Bullcrap! That kind of wicked cult-serenading talk just confuses lost sinners and does more damage than good. It couldn't be more obvious that Charlie was coddling the cults! If you think that is wise in an attempt to win the lost to Christ, you are a darn fool friend! You don't make a thief honest by telling him that law abiding citizens have over-corrected and we don't steal enough. Charlie Kirk was an ecumenical poster boy for Lordship Salvation. I am concerned about where he went in the afterlife, but I won't say he went to Hell at this point.
Someone upset today sent me an email and insisted that Charlie is in Heaven, because he never denied Jesus as his Savior. Well, every hellbound cult member believes that same thing. Mormons and Catholics all think Jesus is their Savior. They all believe that Jesus died on a cross for their sins, was buried and resurrected the third day. The problem is that they also believe MORE is required to get to Heaven, which apparently Kirk also believed from his statements.
“If your Christianity is nothing more than an insurance plan for the afterlife—that is not a conversion—that is not legitimate Christianity. If you're like, 'Hey, I went on Easter, I raised my hand—just in case the Christian thing is right—I'm going to Heaven because I did the thing; I signed the paper. That is an insult to God. ...it's you acting as if God is there like BlueCross and BlueShield in case you have a broken leg.” —Charlie Kirk, YouTube video titled: "Charlie Kirk STUNS hosts on Jesus Christ and the True Gospel (Must watch)"
https://www.youtube.com/live/mZQFrfS96f4
That is not how a redeemed child of God talks folks! Charlie is clearly implying that Easy-Believism is false. He errantly teaches that if the only reason you came to Jesus Christ was to escape the everlasting fires of Hell, you're not legitimately saved. Someone may argue that Charlie Kirk was not s preacher or theologian. Folks, it doesn't matter! Jesus in no uncertain terms warned in John 3:1-7 that unless a man is “born again,” he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. Charlie did thankfully claim to be born-again, which is why I am careful not to say he went to Hell. But the plain truth is that due to his series of contradictory comments, I simply cannot determine if he was saved or not. Remember, even hellbound Mormons, Roman Catholics and Jehovah's Witnesses all falsely claim to be “born again.”
The inspired Word of God is very clear in this matter...
2nd Corinthians 6:14-18, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”
By God's grace, as long as I have sanity, it will be a cold day in Hell before I ever praise hellbound Mormons, Roman Catholics, Seventh-Day Adventists, Churches of Christ, Lutherans, Jehovah's Witnesses or any other FALSE RELIGION! The idea that babying lost sinners in their damnable false religion is a flawed unbiblical concept. The Apostle Paul said that he refused to tolerate false teachers for even one hour. ...
Galatians 2:5, “And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.”
I love that Paul told them exactly WHY he refused to tolerate false prophets, no not even for an hour. It was so that THE TRUTH of a free grace Gospel would triumph victoriously among them, unpolluted. In other words, we don't need or want to hear the other side's opinion. No, I don't want to have an “open mind,” I am as narrow-minded as the inspired King James Bible!
Every redeemed child of God has a duty to speak THE TRUTH about the cults, not serenade them in hope that one day they might repent of their DEAD WORKS to believe the Gospel. It never happens that way! Coddling members of false religions doesn't work!
And to close, I am a Charlie Kirk fan myself. I watched and loved his college debates. Charlie was one of the best human beings who ever lived. I will miss him tremendously! That being said, I must speak up as a born-again child of God to TELL THE TRUTH. Mormonism and Roman Catholicism are of the Devil, both highways to the eternal Lake of Fire, which is what Charlie should have told them.
Whenever professed evangelical Christians sinfully hobnob, pander, coddle and partially go along with the accursed false religions, it ultimately always lead to apostasy, confusion and the Gospel being muddied to obscurity. Beware of Billy and Franklin Graham, Ravi Zacharias, Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, Robert Schuller, Chuck Colsten, Pat Robertson's The700 Club, CBN—to name just a few ecumenical heretics! Sadly, Charlie Kirk belongs on that list too.
Dear reader, kindly said, by giving satisfaction to members of a religious cult, you will NEVER win those lost sinners to Jesus Christ using such a lame strategy. They need to be told THE TRUTH. They have been entrapped by Satan in a damnable religious cult.
The Apostle Paul recounts his salvation experience, at which time God told Paul the purpose for his life would be to preach THE TRUTH of the Gospel to win the lost to Jesus Christ. ...
Acts 26:15-18, “And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.”
Paul was to preach the free grace Gospel to turn lost sinners from Satan unto God, so that their sins would be forgiven through faith in Jesus Christ. Paul didn't pander to the Judaizers who preached a counterfeit gospel, he rebuked them sharply (Titus 1:9-14).
Some of the churches which Evangelist Paul had started on his numerous missionary journeys had fallen prey to religious false prophets. Such was the case with the churches of Galatia (Galatians 3:1-3). Paul told them THE TRUTH (Galatians 1:6-9). He didn't pander to the cults, not for one hour (Galatians 2:5). Consequently, the deceived members of those corrupted churches became angry with Paul, counting him as their enemy. Galatians 4:16, “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.” Please don't miss that last sentence. Paul said, “They zealously affect you, but not well.” Charlie Kirk pandered to the cults and they favorably responded to him, which he liked, but that was not good.
There is a fine line between faith and foolishness. As with many truths in the inspired Word of God, there are numerous seeming contradictions and paradoxes. For example: In 2nd Timothy 2:26 that Bible teaches not to fight, war and debate with those who disagree with Gods Word. We are exhorted to be gentle, kind and meek toward unbelievers. Yet, in Titus 1:9-14 Paul exhorted young Titus when dealing with false teachers to “rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.” The latter cannot be done without fighting and starting a war. So we must have wisdom and rightly divide the Word of God. Clearly we ought to do our best to gently and patiently teach lost sinners the free grace Gospel and Christ's teachings. And yet, there comes a time when we must SPEAK THE TRUTH without apology or compromise.
I do not believe when 2nd Timothy 2:26 teaches to be gentle and patient that it means to pander to, coddle or go along partially with damnable false religions. Paul said in Titus 3:10-11 that after warning a heretic TWICE, if that man still refused to repent to adopt the truth of a free grace Gospel, Paul didn't waste any more time on him. Paul knew at that point that the man was corrupted of himself, foolishly unwilling to obey the truth of God's Word.
I certainly do not believe it is required to stop talking with someone after two conversations; I humbly think this is just what Paul chose to do, and I think it is good wisdom to follow. There is a dying world all around us without Jesus Christ. We only have a limited amount of time on earth. I'd rather preach a sermon to a thousand people; than to preach a thousand sermons to one man who reuses to heed the truth. Paul said the man who still rejects the truth after two admonitions is subverted (corrupted) of himself.
A lot of people are saying that there is a great revival happening right now because of Charlie Kirk's untimely death. It's leading a lot of people to attend church, especially young people. That being said, because of Charlie's sinful ecumenical compromise and shameful pandering to Mormons and Roman Catholics, it is sadly not a revival of biblical Christianity. The lines between religion and a free grace Gospel have been blurred and obscured so badly that the false religions will benefit more than anyone from Kirk's tragic death. Beware of the dangers of ecumenism! We should have no desire as born-again saints to hobnob with false religions, nor with the damnable Lordship Salvation crowd at Bob Jones University and Pensacola Christian College (PCC), et cetera. I found FOUR different plans of salvation at PCC. SHAME! These ungodly institutions are spiritually rotten to the core! RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!
Satan's greatest weapon is to con people to live the Christian life without ever being born again. John 8:45, “And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.” God intended that THE TRUTH offend those who are living contrary to THE TRUTH. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty. Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. We must stay true to the simplicity of the Gospel! Repentance regarding salvation is a change of mind from unbelief to belief. We must earnestly contend for the faith (Jude 1:3). THANK YOU for reading my ministry blog.
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