There are way over 300,000 churches in the United States alone—all calling themselves Christian. Yet there was only one Christ. Isn’t that weird? Why do we have so many groups, all claiming to follow Him—yet all a little different?

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Gems of Truth

Religion, Power, and the Future of America

Vincent Bujor

Your Church Won’t Be the Same

Pastors are Lying to You

What Church Would Jesus Join Today?

This Will Cause National Ruin for America

Which church would Jesus join in San Diego?

Before we start tonight's presentation, friends, I want to make something very clear to you at the outset.

Okay, I don't want you to misunderstand me here, so it's very important that you listen right now.

Tonight's sermon or message presentation is not a message on denominationalism.

It's not a church, my church is better than your church talk.

It's not looking at what certain creeds are saying or pamphlets are saying, or what certain church manuals saying.

In fact, there is a list of all denominations in the United States that you can find online, over 250 legitimate denominations existing today in the United States.

And it would take forever to go through all those manuals and all those policies and look what every church believes.

And I'm not gonna tell you the name of my church.

I'm not gonna advertise that you need to join my church right now.

I'm here and you are here because we want to find out what this book has to say about the topic.

We have made it clear on Thursday night that this book has some sort of authority based on the predictions that we looked at.

And we realized that if we believe God spoke and speaks to us through this word, then we want to check out what he has to say about this topic.

Did you know that today we have over 250 legitimate denominations in the United States of America.

In fact, if you count smaller regional fellowships and independent groups, you have over 1, 200 of them existing today.

Meeting every week, doing certain worship services and meetings and all that kind of thing.

In fact, If you look at just the county of San Diego alone, you see that we have over 2, 1, 280 churches represented in the whole county of San Diego as we're speaking right now.

But isn't it interesting that we have all these different denominations and all these different churches and all these different buildings, but there was only 1 Christ?

And isn't it interesting that all these people are meeting and are worshiping, but everyone kind of believes the same thing, but each 1 is a little bit different.

You have similarities, you have differences.

And when you talk with other Christians today, you say, what church do you go to?

Well, you know, we do this differently and we believe this.

How is that possible that we have all these different denominations and all these different churches today, not only in the U.S., but also worldwide, that there was only 1 Jesus.

Hundreds of groups all claiming to follow Him, about all a little bit different.

Now, I want to show you something tonight.

I don't have any poisonous substances with me here.

It's an anti-freeze product and things like that.

So just imagine with me tonight that this is real methanol right now.

Now there's nothing wrong with this orange juice.

Thank you for giving me that orange juice tonight.

Now if I take, if I offered you another glass of orange juice, would you take that?

If you like orange juice, maybe you're not an orange juice fan, or you can imagine apple juice, okay?

Whatever juice you like, imagine that juice.

In fact, in the fellowship hall, we have juices that were being offered, right?

Now, what if I took a little bit of methanol and I put it in here?

You see, the devil has an advantage over God.

But the devil can use the truth mixed with lies.

He can use things that God has said, and he can use other things that He's twisting around that God never said.

And so he can present something to us that is kind of true, but not fully true.

And like just this glass of orange juice, it might be fatal for us.

I know that sounds kind of crazy because we see that so many churches exist today.

Now, you know, who am I to say, oh, Jesus has a church?

Well, we're going to find out how he has a church, why he has a church, what the Bible says about it.

But it's not that Jesus is up there in heaven, you know, thinking, oh, you guys just meet and however congregation and group and setting and building and whatever rituals you want, you know, you just meet in whatever setting you like.

And I'm fine with whatever you want to do.

That's not what Jesus is doing right now in heaven.

That's not how he thinks about the subject.

Matthew chapter 16, Jesus told Peter on this rock, the word here is Petra.

This doesn't say, I will build a few churches.

I will build churches, you know, of different denominations.

And we have to also understand that this verse, people take it today and say, well, Jesus said to Peter, he will build on that rock, his church.

So Peter and his successors built a church.

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Religion, Power, and the Future of America

What Church Would Jesus Join Today?

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Your Church Won’t Be the Same

36m

Pastors are Lying to You

45m

What Church Would Jesus Join Today?

42m

This Will Cause National Ruin for America

53m

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