Ash Wednesday
Easy religion has always existed. One Presbyterian church makes a public offer to the community to get “ashes and free coffee”! Hence, if you lived around that infant baptizing Calvinistic congregation you could get their ashes on your forehead on Ash Wednesday without leaving your car (plus a FREE cup of coffee)! How easy is that! For the alcoholics it is not as flesh exciting as the counterfeit church, which also offered FREE BEER to get people to come to the church service. Both are blown away when compared to Naked church where everyone who goes there can get nude, while the completely naked “pastor” speaks to them! Surely the devil loves these counterfeits!
Getting back to the Presbyterian ashes-to-go church, that is part of the way they do their hollow form of “ministry” to the community! People get ashes (like Catholics do), but continue on, dead in their sins — bound to their sin addictions! The dark senior “pastor” said:
Ashes are a sign of repentance, show up in the Old Testament, sackcloth and ashes in a number of Scriptures. They start the Lenten journey for Christians — a journey of 40 days plus the Sundays of Lent, a reminder of our mortality and humility; also a reminder of Jesus’ temptation of 40 days, so it’s a holy ritual to begin Lent. (1:36-2:02)
Ash Wednesday and Religious Hogwash
His message about repentance is deadly! Ashes are no more a sign of repentance than finding a burlap sack is in an old barn! Paul taught we prove our repentance by our DEEDS (Acts 26:20). Having ashes on our foreheads is worthless. God looks on the HEART. Furthermore, there is NO hint of ashes on Christian’s foreheads in the New Testament; neither is there a special 40 day “Lenten journey.” Every day and all the time (24/7/365) is how Christians are to live in godly fear and holiness. The reminder of our own mortality is Heb. 9:27 and our future judgment before God. Lent is a man-made counterfeit religious period of time. This should be apparent especially when it is preceded by the Mari Gras – a time of outlandish wickedness!
This [ashes on forehead] is a reminder that you are created from dust and that to dust you’ll return, but it’s also a reminder that your life is hid with Christ in God, so God bless you today. (2:06-2:16)
The heretic also told the man in the car that his “life is hid with Christ in God,” as he put ashes on him! That equals a false pronouncement of salvation based on his acceptance of ashes! IF the man who heard those words and accepted ashes knew the Bible, he should immediately leave! Such churches are a religious snare to the community, though they give free coffee with a smile! Remember, Ash Wednesday is not taught in the Bible; neither is Lent.
