The Great Deception of American Christianity

In this episode I featured several charismatic leaders speaking in tongues and tested their tongues with Language Identification Software. In every case the tongues were false. This is proof that the modern charismatic tongues are not the same tongues spoken of in the Bible. This is part of the Great Deception of the last days with great false signs and wonders. These tongues are powered by the wrong spirit, the spirit of demons.

Welcome back to another Great Deception of American Christianity podcast. Don Britton discusses the pitfalls of the "charismatic movement" and the issues with "fake deliverance" ministries. He emphasizes the importance of understanding "true deliverance" from sin and addictions, rather than falling for the deceptive practices often seen. This episode sheds light on "false teaching in the church today" and challenges the notion that the "devil is a lie."

Welcome back to another Great Deception podcast. Don Britton addresses a crucial "spiritual podcast" topic: the "charismatic dilemma." He questions the absence of prevalent signs and wonders often associated with the charismatic movement, prompting listeners to consider potential "deception in the church." This episode serves as a vital "bible teaching" to help discern authentic spiritual experiences from potential misdirection, especially concerning "false prophet" teachings in the "last days deception."

Welcome back to another Great Deception of American Christianity podcast. Don Britton raises a pivotal question for listeners: Does Jesus's sacrifice mean there's nothing left for individuals to do for their own personal "salvation"? This episode challenges common teachings within "american gospel" and encourages a deeper "bible study" into what true faith and commitment to "jesus christ" entails. He discusses the concept of "once saved always saved" and its implications for the modern "church".

This podcast shows how a believer can become an unbeliever and fall away. Also that believing is more than a mental acceptance of facts about Jesus but also includes obedience to Him and enduring until the end.

There are countless false teachers amoung us today. This podcast identifies five of the most common marks of a false teacher.

Welcome back to another Great Deception podcast as Don Britton explores the dangers of the `nicolatians` and their connection to a `free grace heresy` prevalent today. He examines their mention in `revelation 2`, specifically in the context of the `church of ephesus`. Don also discusses the historical `teaching of balaam` and how these ancient errors still resonate in modern spiritual challenges.

Welcome back to another Great Deception podcast as Don Britton explores the profound **spiritual symbolism** of the two women in the Bible. He discusses the true **bride of christ** versus the unfaithful harlot, offering crucial **bible interpretation** for understanding their meaning. This message reinforces core **christian teachings** and encourages steadfast **christian faith** in discerning the true path.

Welcome back to another Great Deception podcast where we explore profound biblical themes. Today, we focus on the concept of two women in the Bible, one representing the true bride of Jesus Christ and the other, the harlot, symbolizing spiritual adultery. This message challenges believers to discern the true path and avoid the pitfalls of an apostate church, reinforcing the importance of faith and adhering to god's word from revelation.

The church is full of men that do not fulfill their God-given responsibilities to provide, teach and protect their families. These passive men love their sports, hobbies and pornography more than God or their wives and children. The church is full of corruption because these passive, selfish so-called Christian men have not stood up and confronted falsehood or false teachers in the church, but have just sat by and allowed the American church to fall into apostacy. As a result they have become worse than an unbeliever. So, where are the real men of God today?

In this podcast Brandon tells about how he came to the Lord after being in the Baptist church. We also discussed some about the cost of discipleship and how the church is not telling all that is required by the gospel leaving people in deception.

The American Church is full of idolatry. The pastors and the members are following the ways of the world in both ministry and personal living. An idol is anything you love more than the Lord. And worship of an idol is what your heart goes after to serve more than the Lord.

In this podcast I cover several of the most common ways people fall away from God. We live in a generation of most having fallen away from the true gospel into apostacy even though so many go to church on a regular basis. Going to church is not a sign that someone is a believer. Only having a transformed life of loving God with all of our heart proves us to be a true beleiver who bears the fruit of repentance from sin and from the love of this world.

The Lord is shaking up this country and the chruch. Charlie Kirk's death has caused a lot of people to consider life and the purpose of it. The church is being shaken up and some will fall away and some will come to the Lord before it is too late. Can you be shaken or are you steadfast?

What kind of messages do you usually hear from your pastor? Do you leave uninspired and unchanged week after week. Then listen to the podcast and see why?

This episode exposes many of the myths about the Devil and reveals who really has all authority.

The gospel was freely received and should be freely given.

The one who came to steal, kill and destroy was not refering to the devil in John chapter 10, but the hirling/paid pastor.

Watch out for the false shepherds. The ones who are hired to tickle your ears. They will lead you to the pit.

The modern gospel promotes a false idea that you can just have an easy "believism" of God and be saved without any thing else being required. Often you hear "faith only" or "Jesus plus nothing" or "grace only" or "just believe", etc. and you will be saved unconditionally. None of these concepts are based from biblical studies but come from the traditions and teachings of men and are deadly to the soul if the other requirements for salvation are met.

Biblical grace is very different that the teachings and treaditions of men in the modern American Church.

Religious traditions overtake most people because "this is what we have always done", without any consideration of what the bible actually says. The danger is when teachings about salvation are accepted because this is "what we have always believed" without checking the scriptures and people are mislead into believing falsehoods and lose their souls.

This podcast is a follow up on the state of the American Church examining the root causes of the moral decline.

We used to be a Christian country. But look at us now. The moral depravity, the greed for material possessions, the obession for godless entertainment, the disregard for the things of God and the terrible condition of the church.

I have covered the state of the American church for the last 6 months. Does it matter to you? Are you a part of it? Are you going to remain a part of it? What are you going to do about it?

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. (2 Cor. 11:3) So, what has happened to our modern-day “Christianity” is that the serpent (Satan) has led the minds of our modern church leaders and members astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ by creating all of this “Christian” confusion, complication and chaos with many denominations, many ways to heaven, and with many different “jesuses.”

This interview was about my book "The Great Deception of American Christianity Without Christ"

Remember that the modern American Christian church is full of sin and worldliness. Today's church uses grace as a license for sin and teaches the easy escapism doctrine of the rapture. It also teaches unconditional eternal security and the false doctrine of salvation by “sinner's prayer” rather than repentance for forgiveness of sin. It's no wonder the church is full of sin. The narrow way has been eliminated by modern paid hireling pastors, and now this modern church that is so full of sin teaches its members that they can appease their conscience and please God by singing a few songs on Sunday and call it a “worship service.” This is such an insult to the Almighty, All Knowing, Master Mind of the universe, who is far more intelligent than every human on earth put together. To sug­gest that this awesome, super-genius, magnificent God and Creator---has a phsical need to wait until everyone can get together at church and start the music for Him to be worshiped is absolutely insane. How could anyone think that all He wants from us is to gather together weekly and sing Him a few songs on Sunday as if we were mechanical robots being directed by a “worship leader”?

Have you ever noticed that the sign in front of the “church” building reads something like this: “Worship Service” 10:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, 6:00 p.m. on Sunday evening, and 7:30 on Wednesday evening. Of course, some meet on Saturday or possibly other days of the week, but the message is still about the same. The subtle suggestion is that worship is something that has to be done in a building at some specific address and at some set point in time. But is this what the Bible teaches about worship for the New Testament church?

It seems that here in the “Bible belt” of the south, that most every­one claims to be a “Christian.” There are approximately 43 million Baptists worldwide as well as 1.2 billion Catholics and 66 million Lutherans. And a large percentage of those numbers are here in America, especially here in the south. That is only considering three of the major denomina­tions. If you included all the many, many other denominations, you would have to realize there are many more millions that claim to be “Christian.” So, almost everyone in America has been exposed to some kind of church or religious experience at some point in their life. Everything from attending church meetings to Christian camp to vacation bible school to Sunday School to a personal friend or family member telling them about the gospel. In these various contacts situations, most people have been compelled to pray the “sinners' prayer” or asked to “believe in Jesus” or told to just “accept Christ”, etc. It didn't matter if they were 5 years old, 10 years old or older. And once they were convinced to take one of these easy and quick steps to be saved, they were told that now they were saved and that heaven was guaranteed.

So, there is nothing new. Even thousands of years ago in Jeremiah's day, there were preachers doing the same thing as we have today— telling the people of God that they will have peace and that no calamity could come upon them, even though they walked in the stubbornness of their own hearts. Obviously, these preachers had not stood in the council of the Lord that they should see and hear His Word. And if today's modern preachers had heard from God, they would have turned the American “Christians” away from their sins, rather than giving them a license to sin. Remember, as it says in Psalm 81, those who despise the Lord are the ones who pretend obedience to Him while they refuse to obey God and con­tinue in sin. So, it is the same in the American church today.

Last Week I covered Part 2 of the myth of unconditional eternal security. I pointed out that a believer does have eternal security in his salvation, but that his security is conditional. As long as the believer meets those conditions, he is secure in his salvation. Last week, I also discussed several more of the biblical exceptions to the doctrine of once saved, always saved. Today I am going to continue to discuss even more of those exceptions with part 3. If you missed last week or the week before and want to hear it, go to the Wilkins Radio Network website, click on programs, scroll down to Christian Myths and open it up and you will see all of my broadcasts and you can listen to them there.

A common doctrine concerning salvation today is called “once saved, always saved.” The belief is that once someone has been saved, nothing can be done, either by an outside force or by the person himself, to cause him to lose his salvation. Some Scriptures, taken alone, seem to support this belief, while many other Scriptures seem to completely contradict this belief. So, it seems today that many, many preachers and Bible teach­ers are focusing on a few Scriptures which seem favorable to this doctrine, since it is popular, while completely ignoring the many, many other Scriptures that contradict the belief of “once saved, always saved.” Any time someone picks out a few Scriptures to support their own view, they have opened themselves up for deception and error. This practice is the recipe for heresy and all false doctrines. This is the very reason we have so many denominations and different doctrines being preached today. In this message, I will use many more than a just few scriptures to prove that there are clear Biblical exceptions to the idea of unconditional eternal security. I hope you will listen with an open mind to the Word and really examine the Scriptures carefully as if the life of your soul depends on it, since it really does. Check it out for yourself to see if what I am saying is true. What can it hurt for you to do that?

Let me start out by saying that there is security for a believer in his salvation. But that security is conditional, not unconditional as is mostly taught today. Often in the Scriptures a promise is preceded or followed by an “if ”, or a “but”, or the condition to receive the promise is discovered by further study. A statement in the Scriptures that is taken by itself, (out of context) and not considered in the light of other Scriptures might lead someone to conclude that the promise has no conditions, when in fact it does in view of the rest of the Bible. So, it is important not to just pick and choose verses that please the hearer, but to take the whole counsel of God to get the true and complete understanding con­cerning salvation.

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. (Ephesians 2:8–9) There are two kinds of works in the Bible. 1. Works of the law (religious works, good deeds, missions, church programs, rituals, ceremonies, rules, etc.) that will not save you. 2. Works of obedience (obeying God and His Word). Without these works of obedience to God and His Word, you can­not be saved. Most grace teachers do not distinguish between these two kinds of works (works of the law vs. works of obedience) and teach that any effort on your part to be saved is wrong because they say that Jesus “did everything for you”. They teach that any kind of works or effort on your part will not affect your salvation, but only belief or faith in Jesus will save you. I have even heard one preacher on TV go so far as to say that to repent or even forgive others is not necessary for salvation, but to only accept Jesus and believe in Him and you will surely be saved. He suggested that for you to do something, even do anything such as repentance or forgiveness, in order to be saved, is nothing more than an attempt at “works” for salvation.

Last week I shared about the original true eternal gospel that has been around since the beginning and contrasted that to the modern gospel of today. Todays message is going to be part two of “what ever happened to the Gospel”? For your information, there are many different gospels around today, but there is really only one true gospel. I hope that what I am going to share with you today will stimulate your thinking and have you checking with the Lord and His word to see which gospel you have received. If you have the wrong gospel then you have the wrong Jesus and as result of the wrong Jesus you have the wrong spirit which is not the Holy Spirit and you very well may miss heaven in the end. Gal 1:6 I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; Gal 1:7 which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. Gal 1:8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! Gal 1:9 As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed! Gal 1:10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.

There is a tremendous difference between today's modern gospel and the gospel of the bible. The original gospel has been around since the beginning of the creation. It is an eternal gospel that was established before the foundations of the world and has never been changed by the Lord or His Word but has been greatly perverted by modern teachers. The true gospel has been watered down to satisfy men's desires to live according to the ways of the world while promising them freedom and salvation without a radical change in their lives. This modern gospel takes away the very elements of true salvation such as total surrender to God, repentance from sin, the fear of the Lord, whole-hearted obedience to the Lord, denying oneself of worldly desires, carrying one's own personal cross, bearing good fruit or being cut down, overcoming the flesh—the devil---and the world, plus enduring to the end, all of which are required for salvation.

From the multitude of sermons on “tithing” you would get the impression that God had filled the Bible with hundreds of verses on paying the tithe to the church. But the fact is that there are fewer than twenty verses in the whole Bible that talk about the tithe and almost all of them are in the Old Testament and all of them are associated with the Old Testament Jewish law. It seems, with many pastors, that a tithing message comes up frequently as if that is one of the main things God has on His mind. Many Christians have been beaten down with this message and left to feel guilty, if for some reason, they could not come up with the ten percent to put in the plate. It seems that many preachers stress that the tithe should be paid even before a past due mortgage or an unexpected medical expense. But what is the tithe? To whom was it to be paid? What was the purpose of the tithe? Does it have anything to do with the church today? Did any of the New Testament churches pay tithes? Did Paul instruct any of the churches to pay tithes? Let us find out if the modern teaching on tithing is a biblical truth or a myth?

For several weeks I have been sharing about the state of the American church and the various “easy believism” teachings being taught today. And how these easy believism teachings have given the typical church members a false sense of security believing that they will have unconditional eternal security concerning their salvation even though the American church is morally bankrupt and lives exactly like the world by practicing sin. These false messages have been promoted by our modern pastors who have watered down the gospel to make it more popular so they can tickle ears for the sake of numbers and offerings. These pastors leave out one's own personal cross, repentance of sin, overcoming, self-denial, bearing fruit, enduring to the end and entering by the narrow and difficult path which is the only way to eternal life.

Many teachers and preachers today are saying that Jesus did everything for us on His cross and there is nothing else we have to do to be saved except just believe in and accept Jesus. This statement suggests that if you do believe in Jesus and accept Him that you will be saved unconditionally and have eternal life no matter what you do after that and that nothing else is required for your salvation. These teachers sum up this “easy believism” in the statement “Jesus plus nothing”. This really sounds good and will certainly tickle ears, but is this all that is required for one to be saved?

There are various teachings on the “rapture” today, but the most popular one says that “Christians” will be taken away first and those who remain will go through great tribulations and troubles here on earth. Since the term “rapture” does not appear in Scripture and since the doctrine of the modern “rapture” has only been around for a couple hundred years, it would be wise to see what the Bible says about it. Pay careful attention to the order in which the end of time unfolds.

Most Christians today have no idea how to identify a false teacher or a false doctrine. It probably is because the churches in America are full of false teachings today because they are full of false teachers. This is a result of Satan influencing the church to adapt the ways of the world devising false teachings that make sin acceptable in the church and perverting grace into a license to sin. As a result, the gospel is presented as an easy “believism” message of faith plus nothing, as I covered last week, without the call to repentance of sin, without having a changed life, without walking on the difficult, narrow way, without denying oneself of worldly desires, without carrying one's own personal cross and without the giving up of one's life totally to the Lord. This is the great falling away that was spoken of about the last days. www.Christainmyths.org

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. 2 Peter 2:1-3. These false words are words that create an easy "believism" message deceiving hearers into thinking that faith without action or faith without works of obedience are going to save them. Listen and find out if that is true.

The grace of God has been turned into a license to sin by the modern Amercian Christian Church. The pastors love to tickle ears for their own personal gain of power, approval of man and the unjust gain of money. This false grace has mislead millions and caused said many other millions to go to hell. If you are practicing any known sin willfully, then you are not being saved by grace.

There are so many churches, so many denominations, so many doctrines, so many traditions and teachings of men. All of these divisions have mislead countless members to think they are saved by their participation in religious practices, when none of these have anything to do with salvation. In this podcast I challange everyone to check to see which gospel did you receive and which Jesus did you get and which spirit came with it. There is really only one church and only one gospel and only one true Jesus. Jesus is not a Baptist or Catholic or Methodist or anything other than the exact representation of His Father in Heaven.

They tell you to just pray the sinner's prayer and you will be saved and go to heaven. Where in the Bible did anything like that ever happen or was anyone ever told to do such a thing. There are many times that men were told to seek God and told to turn from their sins and idols. They were told to bear fruit and endure to the end. They were warned and warned over and over again that sin would cause them to be separated from God. The teachings of men have reduced the requirments of salvation to just say some words or raise your hand or just stick up one finger. Many souls have been lost because of the false methods and many more will be lost if men don't wake up and repent while they still have time.

As I have said before the Amercian Church is full of sin. This leads to a conclusion that the church must be full of lost people who think they are saved. Lost people practice sin, that is their nature. The bible says that no one born again practices sin, so it is reasonable to conclude that if anyone is practicing sin, he must not be born again. In this podcast I go into three major reasons why the church is full of false converts who believe they are going to heaven. I also explain how some who actually were born again, have passively accepted the church system, settled down with the week to week attendance and have become lukewarm. Lukewarm believers, even though they may be generally good people, will end up in hell according to Jesus in the book of Revelations.

The state of the union/the state of American=The State of the Chruch. There is coruption from the White House all the was done to the local county commission. How did America drift so far from the noble and decent and Christian country we once were. Is it not because our church leaders made various compromises with the world in previous generations. And didn't they do to please people rather than God? And didn't they please the people so they could keep their position of power and income? So, is not the church also corrupt today with there being no differnce in the conduct of the average church member than the rest of the world? So, now instead of the church setting the moral standards for society, the world has taken over the church.

As I listened to a radio broadcast on Moody Radio this week, I was very disturbed by the false statement i heard. The speaker said that once we were saved that all of our sins of the past, all of our presents sins and all of the sins we will ever commit in the future are already forgiven. This statement is very misleading and terribly false. In this podcast I compare this statement with the words an old testament prophet, Jesus, Paul, Peter, James and again with Jesus from the book of Revelation. The truth is very evident once you stop listening to men and start listening to the Word of God. The whole American church world has become a place of great deception. The most dangerous place to go is to church in America today without being on the alert and having a knowledge of the Scriptures. We were warned to NOT BE DECEIVED with empty words. False teachers tickle ears for power, money and the approval of man. They are wolves in sheep's clothing. Beware!

The first requiement Jesus had for anyone who wished to follow Him was to deny self. Jesus will never share the throne of your hear with yourself. That is why He said that you have to lose you life in order to find it. Today's false gospel says otherwise. There are even tracks produced that picture a man's heart with self on the throne of his heart and Jesus de-throned lying beside the self throne. This is typical of todays modern gospel that teaches that you can keep your sin and selfishness and still go to heaven. But it has never been this way with God. From the old days of the children of Israel and the prophets of old until this very hour, God has always required a whole heart for men to be forgiven and saved. The present gospel preached almost everywhere today is not the gospel of the Bible or of any of the prophets of old nor of any of the Apostles of the new testament and certainly not of Jesus Christ as He spoke when He walked on this earth.