Certain Men Have Crept In Unnoticed

Jude 1-4 KJV,

1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:

2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

‘Certain Men Have Crept In Unnoticed’

This writing is meant to echo the warning of Jude —I believe the warning of Jude is as urgent now as the day Jude first wrote the words centuries ago.

Godless worldviews have been eroding the American and European Judeo-Christian heritage for years. But in this day and hour, the problem has taken a dire turn for the worse. While false teachers have been around since biblical times, their infiltration of the church has increased alarmingly, just as Jesus predicted in Matthew 24.

Well known evangelical leaders have joined in events, alliances, and common causes with a shocking array of unbiblical partners. As a result, many contemporary “Christian” leaders embrace and encourage the false gods and false gospels of Mormonism, the New Age Movement, Roman Catholicism, Word of Faith teachers, the New Apostolic Reformation, Eastern Mysticism, and the spiritual left of our World. Sad to say many of these that are classed as Christian leaders are even embracing Christislam. These false teachers, preachers and leaders say, can’t we all just get along? As long as we are believers, believing in something we are all going to the same place, so why don’t we make room for all of our brothers and sisters who believe in a different higher power, we know Jesus is only one of the many ways?

Our bitterest philosophical enemies have made it past the gatekeepers of mainstream evangelical Christianity and even past many Pentecostal Apostolic preachers and teachers, and now anti-Christian worldviews have assembled within the walls of our churches. As a result, hostile forces wreak havoc in the minds and hearts of true saints of God who are now caught unaware and have no idea as to what is happening to our thinking.

We have allowed the religious Trojan horse into our churches. Because of this we as preachers and teachers are experiencing a breach of integrity and the body of believers are literally confused by all this change that is taking place so rapidly. Our preaching has become compromised by popular and dangerous teachings that are anything but scriptural.

We have seen such a shift in our religious thinking as we have allowed the modern worldview to slither its way into our own personal lives as teachers, preachers and ministers of the gospel. Even we who claim to be Apostolic Pentecostals have let this spirit of change infiltrate our pulpits.

Yes, this philosophy and eschatology of false religions have infiltrated evangelical and Pentecostal ranks as well. For many years now we have had saboteurs of the gospel who have convinced 21st century evangelicals and Pentecostals to embrace and promote heresies of the social gospel, dominion theology, ecumenicalism, mysticism, social justice, and communitarianism and so many have fallen for these lies and embrace them as truth today.

So many of these teachers, preachers and Christian leaders have assisted not only in building this false religious system, but getting us as Evangelical, Apostolic, Pentecostal, Christians to let them slip this into the churches we pastor.

We who are taking a stand against these horrid false teachings and ministries are now in danger of open persecution from within the Christian ranks. This persecution will be felt by anyone who preaches truth as it is written in the Word of God and anyone who will not compromise so they will be accepted. This persecution that we are now feeling from the Christian community is only light persecutions, because the persecutions that will follow will be devastating to say the least, because the worst is yet to come.

So many preachers and churches have weakened their stances and allowing the Worldview to creep into their teachings and they are actually becoming apostate as a church. I feel it will be the apostate church that will be in step with the coming One World Order and be aligned with the Mother Harlot of Revelation 17 who will do the bidding to bring the church world in to follow the One-world leader.

The threat is so prevalent today if we have any spiritual discernment left in us we can see that mainstream Christianity is blending “signs and wonders” with mystical “Christianity” this is already conditioning unaware Christians to accept and to follow a one-world leader. This One-world leader will come on the scene with such sensation and with dynamic demonstrations of power that many will not discern this as a false flow of the real and they will follow after him.

The world’s religions are now converging and emerging through a combination of different ideas, philosophies and beliefs. For years the evangelical Christians along with the Apostolic Pentecostals have stood in open opposition to such things as the “Emergent Church.” The sad thing is that suddenly many of those who are classed as evangelical Christians are now supporting this converging and emerging ideas and teachings in the local church. Can I even say that even many of those who have been with us who are Apostolic Pentecostals are now supporting the teaching of the “Emergent Church?”

I know this writing has shocked many of you. It will cause many of you to despair and to have anxiety attacks. Make no mistake, the situation is grim and does look terrible today. But we who are saints of God still have hope and that is in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. We must open our spiritual eyes and understand what is really taking place what is happening in our world and what we as saints of God can still do to help ourselves as well as others during this end-time crises. If ever we become strong in biblical teaching, preaching, church attendance and the raising of our children now is the time.  Because “Certain men” are indeed creeping in unnoticed, but God is still in charge—and working decisively through those who will not exchange any of the truth for a lie.

Christianity as a whole is under attack, but we evangelical Apostolic Pentecostals are being scrutinized even from within. Formidable forces are currently arrayed and actively working to undermine what remains of the biblical worldview once prevalent in the United States and to distort the Gospel around the globe. These forces are powerful, well connected, well-funded, dominate key media outlets, and constitute the single greatest threat to the church today. What is most frightening, however, is that they profess to be and are widely believed to be Christian.

We who are true born again evangelical, Apostolic Pentecostals must courageously take a stand to exposes these false teachers along with the false doctrines that they are peddling as truth today. Ironically, many of the false teachers and preachers are now being embraced by today's evangelical, Apostolic Pentecostal leaders. It was not so many years ago these false teachers and preachers were widely recognized as heretical and even banished by so many evangelical, Apostolic Pentecostal denominations.

The teachings that were once recognized as heresy are now being endorsed as biblical and Christian by many in our ranks. This is so indicative of the stunning biblical illiteracy and lack of discernment among most professing evangelical, Apostolic Pentecostals who fall for such today.

We are living in a day and age in which most people desire to have their ears tickled,

2 Timothy 4:3-5 KJV,

3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Jude 3, tell us to, “earnestly contending for the faith.” As the saints of God are being tossed here and there by waves of deception and carried about by every wind of doctrine, we need faithful teachers and preachers of God's Word to take a stand and contend for the Gospel. With a passion for the lost we must proclaim this truth as it was given to us. We must be seeking the approval of God over the approval of men. God will continually expose the evil deeds of darkness by naming those who are diverting people away from the purity of this great truth.

Since the very beginning of mankind, error has been more popular than truth, but those who expose the fatal errors of Satan with the light of God's truth are not always popular even in the church. Because it is not popular to stand with Truth, very few teachers and preachers of the Word are warning the church of the growing apostasy which is leading many into a counterfeit Christianity. I urge saints of God, preachers, teachers and Christians everywhere to examine themselves and take a stand with Truth. Let we who are part of the church take the position of exposing the emergent church and its leaders who are ushering in the ecumenical movement of the Last Days.

I challenge evangelical, Apostolic Pentecostal preachers, teachers and believers to stand and proclaim truth as never before. We need a revival in our midst, a fresh anointing in our pulpits and an outpouring of the Holy Ghost in our services. We need to shake the forces of evil and bind everything evil around us and stand for Truth in this hour.