"For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own
lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching
ears." —2nd Timothy 4:3
Max Lucado is a best-selling Christian author
and well-known minister. Lucado has written 60 books with over 65 million
copies in print, and currently serves as senior minister at Oak Hills
Church (formerly Oak Hills Church of Christ) in San Antonio,
Texas.
Lucado was named “America's
Pastor” by apostate Christianity Today magazine and in 2005
was named by demonic Reader's Digest as “The Best Preacher in
America.” He has been featured on The Fox News Channel, NBC
Nightly News, Larry King Live, USA Today, and a bunch of
other worldly demonic shows.
Luke 6:26, “Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of
you! for so did their fathers to THE FALSE PROPHETS.”
James 4:4 identifies Max Lucado
as an enemy of God, since he is a friend of the carnal
world. Lucado's books are
regularly on the New York Times Best Seller List. He
has been featured speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast
(where so-called “prayers” are read from a piece of paper,
prewritten and not from the heart). It's all a bunch of
formalism, sinful hypocrisy and ecumenical uniting by error.
God wants us to divide over truth rather than unite by error
(Matthew 10:34).
Tragically, Max Lucado is an ecumenical false
prophet, who teaches the Church of Christ's false doctrine that salvation
comes only after baptism. Lucado deceitfully claims that he doesn't believe
in
Baptismal Regeneration; yet he teaches that water baptism is
essential to being saved, sealing salvation...
"Baptism
effectively seals our salvation."
"In baptism
God signs and seals our conversion to him."
SOURCE:
http://www.maxlucado.com/pdf/baptism.upwords.pdf
On Max Lucado's website, in the article
Baptism: The Demonstration of Devotion, Lucado states:
“Baptism separates the
tire kickers from the car buyers.”
Clearly, Lucado believes that water baptism is
essential in some way to salvation. He speaks out of both sides of his
mouth, which is exactly what all New World Order [NWO] false prophets do.
What's a NWO order false prophet? These are greedy men who have been
selected by Freemasons to corrupt the masses.
Max Lucado stated from the moment he took over
as pastor of Oak Hills Church of Christ in 1988 that he wouldn't take a
salary; yet he has consecutively written 2 books per year for the past
22-years, making himself VERY wealthy, and is often on the New York
Times Best Seller List. You don't get books sold that easy unless
someone is promoting, nurturing and supporting your works. Satan is in the
works!
The following quote came from the Oak Hills
Church of Christ official Internet web site — updated 7/15/95; copied
7/12/96; and re-verified 2/98 (The Oak Hills Church pulled this
statement from their web site in 1999, apparently due to complaints from
evangelicals, and replaced it with a rather generic statement):
"It is necessary
to respond to God's free offer of salvation by faith, repentance, and
baptism. As we confess Christ as our Lord and are baptized by
immersion, God meets us, forgives our sins and gives us the gift of the
Holy Spirit that empowers each of us." (Emphases added.)
This is typical Church of Christ false
doctrine. Most Christians are not aware that Max Lucado is the pastor
of the Oak Hills Church of Christ. Sadly, most Christians are not
even aware that the Church of Christ adds water baptism to the
Gospel; thus, perverting it.
Lucado falsely teaches that water baptism is an
initial sign of being saved. There is NO such teaching in the Bible...
"True believers not
only offer their sins, they yield their wills to Christ. Baptism is the
initial test of a believing heart."
SOURCE:
http://www.maxlucado.com/pdf/baptism.upwords.pdf
1st John 5:13 tells us clearly WHY the
Apostle John wrote his Epistle... so that we could KNOW that we have eternal
life. Interestingly, John never mentions "baptism" even once.
Max Lucado is hiding the fact that he is a
Church of Christ minister...
Recently, his church,
which has some 5,000 members, even changed its name from "Oak Hills
Church of Christ" to simply "Oak Hills Church."
As a result of
Lucado's deception, naive churchgoers have embraced Mr. Lucado's heresies...
Christians of all
denominations have embraced Lucado's work. He has written more than 50
books -- with more than 39 million in print -- including his latest,
"Come Thirsty," (W Publishing Group) which came out last year.
SOURCE:
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=20752
Max Lucado's teachings are dangerous.
Lucado was a speaker at the 1995 Christian Booksellers Association
(CBA) Convention. Lucado gave a call to unity among Christians across
denominational lines. Likening Christians to sailors on the same boat with
"one captain" and "one destination," Lucado urged acceptance between
Protestants and Catholics, Baptists, and Presbyterians (Reported in the
12/95, Fundamentalist Digest). Max Lucado is an unsaved
Modernist who is
actively corrupting America's churches. Any minister who promotes
acceptance of the damnable Catholic religion is of the Devil. The
Devil is using ecumenical ministers to promote sinful compromise between
believers and the unsaved. The Word of God commands us to divide over
truth, rather than being united by error (2nd Corinthians 6:14-17).
The Doctrine of Christ is Virtually
Abandoned
On Max Lucado's website, he has written a
series of articles; none that I found promote the DOCTRINE OF CHRIST...
http://www.maxlucado.com/articles/category/topical/
The Doctrine of Christ is critically important.
Oak Hills Church
claims to believe basic doctrines; such as the Godhead, virgin birth,
sinless life, inspiration of the Scriptures, salvation by grace through
faith, et cetera; but from 99% of everything they teach, promote and make
visibly public, you'd never know what they believe. You shouldn't have to go
dig for what they believe. They do this to thwart criticism and fool
conservative Christian groups, such as Independent Fundamental Baptists.
This is a tactic used by the Devil, i.e., by ecumenicals who claim to
believe like true Christians; while promoting something entirely different
throughout their works and ministries. It's not what ecumenical teach that
is so dangerous; it is WHAT THEY DON'T TEACH!!! Once you understand
this, then you'll see why they are so dangerous.
Read what the Bible has to say about the
all-important Doctrine of Christ. 2nd John 2:9-10, “Whosoever
transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of
Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in
the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father
and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine,
receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed.” What
exactly is the Doctrine of Christ? It is everything that the Bible teaches
concerning the precious Savior; including, but not limited to, Jesus' deity,
Godhead, eternal punishment for Christ-rejecters, virgin birth, sinless
life, death, burial, bodily resurrection, literal blood sacrifice, bodily
ascension into Heaven, and so forth. A ministry should preach these
doctrines continually and without apology. From looking and reading Max
Lucado's works, it seems that the Doctrine of Christ is a mere formality.
Good luck finding anything about judgment or eternal punishment on the
Oak Hills Church (which is a Church of Christ) website!
Apostate Ministers of Unrighteousness
Photo to right: Max
Lucado's 2009, FEARLESS, clearly showing the Masonic pyramid. Just as
Rick Warren, who is an Illuminati plant, so
is Max Lucado. These are dangerous Ecumenical false prophets. Ecumenical
meaning they want to unite all denominations in error; speaking the truth in
one breath, while uniting with liars in the next.
America has been infected with dime-a-dozen,
smiling, happy-go-lucky, imposters who claim to be proclaiming God's
message. In reality, they are serving themselves, making millions-of-dollars from the ignorant public. In John 5:39 Jesus commanded for us
to SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES! Instead, people search for the latest
New York Times Bestseller. These sinister ministers preach
about love, joy, and forgiveness; BUT, they don't mention sin, Hellfire,
judgment and repentance toward God! Oh sure, they mention some of this in
their official doctrinal statement, buried in all their love and unity
rhetoric; but it is all sinful compromise!
That
Illuminati pyramid to the right says a thousand words!
We are living in a generation that wrongly
preaches forgiveness without repentance. There can be no salvation
without repentance. Now, a person does not have to forsake their sins
to be saved; but they do need to become GUILTY before God (Romans 3:19),
realizing their condemnation under God's Law as a sinner and justly deserved
penalty of Hellfire. Repentance is a change of mind that causes us to
turn to the Lord Jesus Christ to save us from our sins. If a person is
genuinely saved, then a changed-life should follow (2nd Corinthians 5:17;
James 2:18). Most people who claim to be "Christian" today are still
hellbound in their sins. They have churchianity without Christianity,
religion without truth.
The preachers who Satan is promoting the most
nowadays are the best "ear-ticklers."
2nd Timothy 4:3 WARNS: "For the time
will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their
own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears"
(2nd Timothy 4:3). Max Lucado is an ear-tickler, just like Joel Osteen
and Rick Warren. They tell people what they want to hear, i.e.,
messages of health, wealth and prosperity. In Matthew 10:34 Jesus
said, "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send
peace, but a sword." What does this mean? It means that
the truth hurts! It means that the truth often causes church splits,
family breakups and persecution for those who uphold it. The truth has
few friends these days. Modernist preachers talk much about the word
"truth"; but they speak lies of deceit.
Conclusion
Max
Lucado is extremely subtle. It is clear from his writings that he
believes that any person who knowingly refuses to receive water
baptism will not go to Heaven. He doesn't believe that a person
is saved through water baptism. He does believe that a believer
who is ignorant of baptism, who hasn't been baptized, may still go to
Heaven. However, for those who do know better, and still refuse to
receive water baptism, Lucado clearly believes that such a person is not
saved. The truth of the matter is that water baptism has absolutely
nothing to do with being saved. It is simply an ordinance that the
Lord established; but NOT as a prerequisite for salvation. If it were
a prerequisite to salvation, then the Apostle Paul and other writer's of the
New Testament Epistles to the churches would have emphasized it. They
didn't.
It is
wrong for Max Lucado or anyone else to teach that baptism "seals our
salvation." Ephesians 1:13 clears this matter up, and identifies Mr.
Lucado as a false prophet... "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard
the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye
believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise."
According to the Bible, each believer is sealed with the Holy Spirit after
they believe. Baptism is NOT mentioned. Water baptism does
not seal our salvation! The Holy Spirit, Who comes to indwell us
at the time of salvation, seals us!
Do as
Jesus commanded and SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES and you'll never be
led astray by false prophets such as Max Lucado.
