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The author’s intent in his study, Lord willing, is threefold:

1) To uncover the hindrance on the subject’s inner being, and to expose who was accountable inside and outside the church for thwarting his knowledge of salvation, assurance, and eternal security for a place prepared in Heaven by Jesus, never to be lost.

2) To decrease the number on the wrong road thinking they are being taught the right way to Heaven, and increase the actual growth of the Church by converts added to the Kingdom of God.

God says to humankind through Paul’s letter to the Galatians,

“I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from Him that called you in the grace of Christ, unto a different gospel; which is not another gospel; only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from Heaven, should preach unto you any gospel, other than that we preached to you, let him be anathema (he is to be accursed)! As we have said before, so say I now again, if any man preaches unto you any gospel other than which ye received, let him be anathema! For am I now seeking the favour of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ,” (Gal 1: 6- 10).

3) We need true yielded Christians, born of God, for leading souls into knowing and believing the true Gospel. How else shall sinners be saved out of the pit unless we show them compassion and tell them the Gospel message for their salvation, (Jude 22-23)? The true Church must let the love of God, through Christ by His Holy Spirit, ring sound in and through her mind, heart, spirit, and soul, and from her mouth as ‘sweet harmony’ to a world, crying for truth. Thus they, too, may be converted and added to the Church, over which Christ, alone, is the Head that people may know Him and know they have eternal life, (1 Jn 5: 20). The informed ethical practice born of God exercised by spiritual church leaders is essential in all settings, inside and outside of the church.