Dear Editor,
This article is not to hurt any person but if it does it is a good thing. This article is about expressing the truth which most people are afraid to do in St. Maarten.
Myself a man who is not perfect and fighting my own war of the soul, I notice most churches in St. Maarten are lukewarm and do not aid in strengthening the spiritual part of the human.
Most churches in St. Maarten preach a false love of God. They preach God is love and He loves you just as you are. That is wrong and deceiving people. When you go to church, the church has to confront sin and tell people to turn away from it, because it will destroy your soul. This is the love of God!
God’s love does not tolerate or accept sin. Thou shalt not sin is a clear command. Most churches now are a safe haven for people to live comfortable in sin, calling them good because they pay their tithe.
You cannot buy your way into heaven. We have gone far worse; now we accept homosexuals and lesbian leaders as pastors in the church.
There are people going to church for 20 or more years, and their spiritual life have nothing to show, it is because they do not know God, they know about God. Being lukewarm is good for nothing. Revelation 3:16 “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.”
Lifestyle is what the churches should preach about and how God wants us to live. Christianity is a lifestyle pleasing to God and not to yourself. God said if you love me keep my commandments, he did not say do as you wish or please. The freedom of Christianity is the freedom to do what is right and not the freedom to live in sin. God’s love commands loyalty.
A Christian should not condone laziness, lying, adultery, abortion, homosexuality, and woman and man living together and not being married, murder, and stealing. You welcome all sinners to church, but you tell them because God is love He simply cannot and will not accept you in this state.
As a preacher, it is better you tell them the truth even if they never come back to church than not telling them the truth and leaving them lost for ever.
God’s love demands obedience and loyalty to him. God’s love is to reject evil and Satan. A lukewarm church is in reality counterfeit Christianity.
The conclusion is that many people in the churches are deceived into thinking they are saved and they are not, because the churches do not preach the God of the Bible.
1 Peter 4:17: “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins with us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God?
1 Peter 4:18: And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Let the truth be revealed and God bless you all.
The Patriot Miguel Arrindell
