 Harvest Crusade
2009
If you've come across this site after
attending the Harvest Crusade, I'd like to welcome you to this
webzine. It is all about what it means to acknowledge Jesus Christ as
the One and only Son of God, and to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth as Jesus Himself
said in the fourth chapter of John.
The key to this website's concern is
that the church today is so infected by the World System that it
cannot effectively minister the Truth and Grace that Jesus is. This
is really not necessarily new, the World has had its church for
millennia, the question is how much have those who have Jesus' name
on their lips grafted themselves into that church. While I do
believe Harvest Crusade does wonderful things to share Christ with
others, if it is contracted as a 501c3 non-profit tax-exempt
operation, it is indeed doing formal business with Caesar.
This
premise does not in any way reject or censure the World System's
legitimate services provided for those who demand them. It is about simply understanding the
distinction between the World System and the Kingdom in which Christ
reigns, identifying the myriad ways that System promotes counterfeit
Christs to keep people paying for its services, and encouraging
those who want to be 100% His to end their unnecessary contracts
with it.
I enthusiastically invite you to look
over some thoughts about it all. The following may help you
move about more easily:
You may go straight to the
Site Map to peruse what you'd like.
You may also go to a
Table of Contents through which you may
explore what's here as a book.
You may also go straight to the
Q & A detailing how a church makes
itself a part of the World System.
For quick reference, I provide a brief
thumbnail overview of what this is all about:
1. Each and every individual is someone who does
or has done horrible things.
Each person was made to reflect the beauty and glory of God, to do wonderful
things in this world, but each has messed that up and as such goes
around wrecking his or her life and the lives of others. In other words,
everyone is a sinner. 2. The only way
not to be a sinner anymore is to humbly put one's soul in the hands
of Jesus Christ, who is God come in the flesh and who offered His life as the
substitute for our punishment because of our sin. He offers to "buy
us back" with His blood, or redeem us from our sinfulness, and we may choose
to accept His generous gift of life.
(These first two parts
of the premise are standard features of the message of Christ.
Responses for someone who is not so familiar with them are offered in the
Frequently Asked
Questions page
of this site. The following highlighted parts of the premise are
aspects that many Christians question.)
3. Because many
would not come to Him to find truth, grace, joy, and peace in His
Kingdom, God sent the preeminent evildoer Cain out to build a city
and prosecute their sinful conduct. The result is the World System,
today administered by the United States Government, the Roman
Catholic Church, and the Federal Reserve. All of these institutions
collaborate to manage the sin of those who ask them to do so, and
they do this by signing any of a number of contracts that signify
such a request. (At any time, Jesus would still extend complete
forgiveness of that sin and full provision of joy and peace for
those who wish to make Him their Lord instead.)
4. Whenever an individual assumes
undue W-4 tax liability or his organization (either business or
church) incorporates, he presumes non-resident alien status or
accepts government employment, and as such he puts himself in the service of the
Legacy of Cain. He becomes beholden to the World and with it he
endures a constant fearful existence, the agony of violent
interactions with others, and the oppressive drudgery of incessantly
defending himself from it all. This arrangement is perfectly
reasonable for the one who chooses not to follow Christ. For those
who name His Name, however, Christ asks for
undivided commitment, and in return they
receive all His benefits and provisions, chiefly
that of being loved and having the capacity to authentically and
tangibly love
others.
5. The entirety of Scripture confirms
that there is a profound dichotomy between those living in the
Kingdom by love and those trudging through the World in fear. Again,
Jesus invites every single individual to live bountifully with
Him in all He has to offer. Not
only do many brashly
refuse His offer, but they pretend to be His and set up grand elaborate
deceptions, some of the most insidious of which involve 501c3
incorporations and all the machinations included therein.
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Brief added note about the
Harvest Crusade event: After the service several organizations
have their members hand out literature. This website is not
connected with them at all, though some of what they share may
be solidly biblical considerations.
Also, the graphic above is
the very same stand-alone image found in Harvest Crusade
promotional material. I did nothing to alter the look, kept the
frames in the same place in relation to one another, and only
excised a thin black strip that separated the two.
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This page was
originally posted at yourownjesus.net by David Beck on August 15,
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