Pastoral Emphasis from 8/20

As of 6pm today, the boiling water notice for Cary has been lifted.

For those of you that own a Dell laptop, Dell is issuing a massive recall of 4.1 million battery packs, used in several of its laptop lines, because of a risk of overheating and fire.

Some of you may have seen the interview with Carlton Pearson who is now teaching a Doctrine of Inclusion. This doctrine is essentially Universalism. Universalism treaches that all men will be saved and go to Heaven. It claims that all people are born the children of God, hence denies the necessity of Christ's dying for sin. It teaches that all religions lead to the same destination. Also holds the belief that there is no eternal punishment for sin, hence there is no need for salvation.

We must expose false teaching by declaring what God says about salvation and eternal punishment through His Word. The following scriptures clearly tell us that not all men will be saved. But only those who accept God's Son, Jesus Christ. Those who reject Christ will face eternal punishment in Hell.

Scriptures:

John 3:16-18 (NIV)
¹⁶"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
¹⁸Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

John 3:36 (NIV)
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."

Matthew 25:46 (NIV)
"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 (NIV)
⁸He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
⁹They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power

Revelation 20:15 (NIV)
If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

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