Canadian Christian Ministry 2018: The Most Lukewarm Church in the Whole Western Nations

By Andre Delage

Canadian Christian parents have lost their parental sovereignty over their children. The government has ownership of our children, teaching religious principles and sexual behaviour that goes against Christian’s ethic and moral values.
The Canadian churches are in danger of losing their “reason d’être.” This book is oriented toward Canadian Christian ministries of all denominations and all Christians around the world who live in a so-called democratic country and has a Charter of Right of some kind to protect their faith and moral values.
In this book, I will focus on Canadian Church’s dismal spiritual condition. Being divided makes us vulnerable. I want to do something about it, after all, I am Christian, a Canadian, I love this country, this province of Newfoundland and Labrador, I love God’s Church, and most of all, I love my children and grandchildren.
The Whole Duty of the Church
“And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs. The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth. The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd. And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” Ecclesiastes 12:9-12 (KJV)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 13, 2019
• ISBN: 9781642588842

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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

God’s nation under King Solomon experienced a period of peace, prosperity, and glory. Yet, this great nation becomes divided into two nations soon after King Solomon’s death. A civil war erupted over tax policies, Israel’s kingdom to the north, and Judah’s kingdom to the south. King Jeroboam of Israel was so troubled over his citizens traveling to Jerusalem, Judea, to worship at the prescribed seasonal festivals that he set up two golden calves, one at Dan and the other at Bethel. After Jeroboam’s death, idolatry became even more rampant than before, and under Ahab, the seventh king, the worship of the idol god Moloch was introduced. Moloch became their god and they practiced a cruel form of ceremony of worship, which consist of a ritual of sacrificing their own infants for the purpose of purging their sins. The infants would be presented as a live burnt offering in the arms of Moloch accompanied by loud instruments of all kinds to subdue the cries of the infants and tearful mother’s agony.

God used the Assyrians to judge the once cherished people of His. They were deported, and never permitted to return to their land. Unbelievable, the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob [Israel] who received their ancestors’ testimony of God’s mighty signs and wonders, who delivered them from slavery in Egypt, and demonstrated His presence during their forty years journey in the desert with a pillar of fire by night over the Holy Tabernacle (Exod. 40:2) and a pillar of smoke to guide them by day en route to new locations. God fed them, provided water gushing out from a solid rock (Deut. 8:15) and salvage their clothes that never wore out (Deut. 8:4, Neh. 9:5–21). How could a nation built on the promise God made to Abram and witnessed its fulfillment turn away to another god?

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children, Hosea 4:6.

Isn’t it a very harsh condemnation from God toward Israel? Consequently, it was the children that suffered the penalty of the parent’s disobedience; never were they to return to their native land. Weren’t the parents instructed to observe the Mosaic Covenant? Were they not warned of the consequences of their disobedience established in the book of Deuteronomy chapter eight? Keeping of the laws was only the beginning, they were instructed to learn from God and to teach His instruction.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye, Psalm 32:8.

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up, Deuteronomy 6:7.

Canadian Church’s Ministries

What about His Church? Would God bring judgment and condemnation to His Church, as He did to Israel? After all, aren’t we priest also (Rev. 1:5–6)? Didn’t God draw us to the truth (light) (1 Pet. 2:9) so that we could share the truth and to live in the truth (John 6:65, 1 Pet. 2:9)?

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope, Romans 15:4.

Not only hope but to receive correction also?

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work, 2 Timothy 3:16

When Paul wrote that statement, the four gospels of the Apostles were not gathered into one book yet, and the epistles were only starting to circulate. The Councils of Carthage recognized the present content of the Bible known as the canon in AD 419. Therefore, Paul was not referring to the New Testament scripture, but he was referring to the Tanakh, the sacred book of Judaism, which consists of the Torah, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa. Today, these scriptures are better known as the Old Testament. Paul instructed Timothy that we are to receive the testimonies of the authors found in the scriptures to instruct us, the new era of believer, namely Christians. I was in error for a great period of time, as so many are still today, believing that the Old Testament scriptures were written for the Jews only. I was wrong.

Israel was God’s chosen people for two main reasons: First, to represent God’s Kingdom and His righteousness among all nations, and second, to fulfill God’s prophetic agenda of salvation through Abraham’s lineage. Israel was God’s priesthood for the purpose to set example of God’s standard of morality among His people and an inspiration to surrounding nations. They failed, and received the same chastisement as to all other nations (Deut. 8:20). And so are the Canadian Church’s ministries who failed to be the salt of the earth among this once great Judeo-Christian nation, Canada.

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. Matthew 5:13-16

Canadian Christians have become a doormat trampled underfoot by the federal and provincial legislative body. Canadian Christians failed (as Israel did in their era [Isaiah 49:6]) to represent God’s righteousness within all Canadian institutions, universities, schools and more importantly, within our own family. I am guilty as charged. For the last forty-five years, I seek for truth and understanding. Only of late have I initiated to apply God’s truth in perspective with the present sociopolitical condition in Canada. In this commentary, I will focus on Canadian Church’s dismal spiritual condition and the desire to do something about it, after all, I am Christian, I am Canadian, I love this country, this province of Newfoundland and Labrador, I love God’s Church, and most of all, I love my children and grandchildren. Nevertheless, I hate this present Church’s spiritual condition in which God’s ministry brought upon itself. The failed ministry is the cause of the loss of our parenting rights and privileges over our children.

We have lost parental privilege over our children’s upbringing

The federal and provincial ownership over our children is the outcome of failing to represent God’s righteousness [morality, ethics standards] in this great nation.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children, Hosea 4:6.

You probably believe that a loving God would never forsake our children, and that I’m interpreting the scriptures to fashion my narrative? We, Christian parents, are the ones that have forsaken our children, in as much as Israel strayed away from God’s instituted instruction, so did Christian ministries. We spoil our children with all kinds of activities and consumer products to make them happy, so we believe. But we are not preparing them to face life’s challenge through our Christian convictions.

The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law, Deuteronomy 29:29

God has been sending clear messages to the Canadian ministries and they ignored the corrections. How have they ignored the signs? They did not yield to God’s word. Canadian Church ministries, you have no excuse, you have the testimonies and instructions of God’s Apostles combined in one book, the Bible. People were burned alive to preserve the truth. The ministries have made God’s word either excessively complex to understand, very elusive, or incredibly fairy tale-like that the church have lost it salt flavour, la raison d’être. The Church drifted so far away from its purpose of teaching God’s standard principles and guidelines that it causes the Church to become like laitance.

Laitance is a weak layer of cement and aggregate fines on a concrete surface that is usually caused by an overwet mixture, overworking the mixture, improper or excessive finishing or combination thereof. Also, could be caused when a slurry mix is used on a deep foundation, where the slurry mix is not completely removed before placing concrete on top. (https://www.wordnik.com/)

In a more basic term, the cement mixture has been contaminated and/or causes by not following the standard mixing instruction. The result is weak cement, a weak foundation.

Look very closely to Peter’s statement:

For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 1 Peter 4:17

Judgment started early in Peter’s ministry, as Peter witnessed God’s judgment toward a man named Ananias with his wife Sapphira, who both lied to the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:1). Lying is the one sin that God hates the most, since it is a lie that brought the origin of judgment, the death penalty. Unfortunately, Canadian Christians do not recognize God’s judgment toward the churches, they view themselves victims, being persecuted for being a Christian (2 Tim. 3:12). Quite au contraire, Canadian Christians brought upon themselves persecutions by not living according to His principles (1 Pet. 2:20, 1 Pet. 3:17). In fact, it is because the Church has falling away from the truth as described in 2 Thess. 2:3, that our Heavenly Father is bringing judgment to His Church.

Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 1 Timothy 4:1

What came first? Disobedience or a lie?

Then the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate, Genesis 3:4-6.

You will not surely die …a tree desirable to make one wise. A lie came first, then the act of disobedience. The woman [to be named Eve by Adam] used her sense of judgment and believed Satan’s lie over God’s truth and so it is today within our churches.

who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen, Romans 1:25.

Christian wives, be aware that some of you have the tendency, just like Eve, to make decision through poor emotional judgment in your life that has a harmful impact in the life of your family and especially toward your children. As it was/is of present time, many make decision according to their eyes, the thing that make them feel good (it feels right), instead of being in obedience to God’s instructions.

Although, Adam blamed the woman for his disobedience, he later called her ‘the mother of all living’ Eve, (Genesis 3:20). Adam understood that through her, the promise of a redeemer was to be born, (Genesis 3:15).

The Feel-Good Gospel vs. the Love of the Truth

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The main theme throughout the Bible is Believe in Me, Trust Me. We learn from the scriptures that the greatest difficulty man and woman have faced was to believe in God and to trust Him. From Adam and Eve to Revelation, the Bible points out man/woman struggled in believing and in trusting God. It does not only imply believing in His existence, but it also implies believing in His instructions.

The Church of the Laodiceans didn’t love the truth. It was content to live in a pool of lies; and so it is with the Canadian Church ministries, it is content believing that it represents God’s light. If God would be living among us showing His signs of wonders and miracles as He did to His people Israel, the Canadian Church ministries would still reject the truth.

Then the Lord said to Moses: How long will these people reject Me? And how long will they not believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them?" Numbers 14:11

Everybody struggles to believe and to trust in God, yet the Bible gave many examples of those who chose to believe and to trust in the living God such as Enoch, Noah, Job, Joshua, Caleb, Moses, Abraham, David, Esther, Ruth, Rahab the harlot (Josh. 6:23), Mary, Joseph’s wife, and lest we forget, the church in Philadelphia, considered to be the faithful Church.

"God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man that He should repent, [change His mind] Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? Numbers 23:19

What is the consequence of not loving the truth? The consequence of believing in lies is to become victim of many more deceptions.

The feel-good gospel is the most deceptive gospel of all. It teaches to rely on our feeling rather than on God’s words, God instructs to trust Him (Prov. 3:5–6). The most deceptive false gospel is the one that teaches to let Jesus enter your heart. Be very careful, for you do not know what spirit you are allowing to enter your body.

For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many, Matthew 24:5

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world, 1 John 4:1.

Many, especially among women fall for the false feeling gospel. I see it in many churches that look for the feeling of the presence of the Holy Ghost within the midst of their assembly. Jesus’ promise suffices.

For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them, Matthew 18:20.

Long repetitive songs with lyrics that do not even reflect sound doctrine followed by deep emotional persuasive preaching to stir up feelings rather than teaching sound biblical doctrines. These itchy-eared Christians are quick to criticize their pastor for his mediocre performance. The Sunday morning service has become a show business, where Christians have turned into spectators, and pastors into performers. The audience expects their pastors to smile like a clown to make them feel good, and to avoid, at all cost, offence by teaching sound biblical doctrine.

Do this in remembrance of me. (Luke 2:19)

In the Manner in Which Jesus Wanted to Be Remembered²

The assembly format instructed by the apostles is simple—pray, sing, learn, and break bread. Jesus taught a new covenant that is to remember Him with a simple act of sharing bread and wine. Not a long elaborated sacramental ceremony performed by the Roman Catholic Church and by so many other related denominations.

Jesus didn’t ask His disciple to remember His birthday (Christmas), He didn’t ask His disciple to remember Him at Easter, Good Friday, Thanksgiving Day, or any of the Jewish festival. He didn’t want to turn His act of mercy and an act of salvation into another complex ritual or religious observance. The assembly of the saints is for our learning, so that we may become more and more in the likeness of our Creator, and to prepare us to reign with Jesus King of kings. Unfortunately, many Christians point fingers at each other accusing each other of backsliding if we don’t go to church whether on a Sunday or a Saturday. Jesus didn’t even mention which day the saints should gather. He only gives instructions about what we are to do when we assemble. The messianic Jews assembled on a Sabbath and in a synagogue format setting, as it was customary. The non-Jew Christians gathered in any giving day of the week, and in the evening, after a day’s work. It was customary to gather into a Christian’s home (Col. 4:15). Throughout centuries, the simplicity in the gospel has been turned into a complicated religion. The parable of the mustard seed explained the transformation of Jesus’s Church into a bureaucratic religion. A tree is not what a mustard seed suppose to turn into.

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it," Colossians 4:17.

Who is the head of the Church? There is no one but Jesus, our Lord, and Christ (Col. 1:18). So why not take Jesus by His word? Why not believe His teaching and apply it? If you find it hard to understand His teaching, ask yourself what lie do you believe, what truth do you reject?

Canadian Christian ministers have no excuse. Paul, in his writing, revealed everything that needed to be known and understood about the modern-day church (Eph. 3:1–12).

"But I am afraid that your minds will be led away from your true and pure following of Christ. This could happen just as Eve was tricked by that snake with his clever lies. You seem to be quite patient with anyone who comes to you and tells you about a