Are there Masons in Your Church?
Ed Decker
When the average person thinks about the Masons, he pictures the fellows with the funny hats and tiny cars coming down the street in the local parade, or the Masonic cornerstones on most of our public buildings. Rarely does the picture include secret, occult rituals of Ba’al worship performed behind closed lodge doors. This is what is hidden from the public view of the Masonic orders.
To the church, the backroom agenda of the Lodge is even more mysterious. While the Mason will publicly nod to the authority of his pastor, his real headship comes from the lodge and often, it is in conflict with his church. When push comes to shove, it is often the curious, right teaching pastor who will get the shove from a board controlled by the lodge.
The men sworn by blood oath to Freemasonry have submitted to their pagan god, JaoBulOn, a three headed deity so foreign to the God of the Bible, that to bow one’s knee to it in the lodge is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
How can any church experience the presence of the Holy Spirit when pastors, elders, deacons or any of its members submit to this vulgar god of the lodge? How can the Lord’s presence be in a church where Ba’al worship is present in its congregation? It can’t! Our God is a jealous God. He will not share His place with another. I didn’t say it. He did!
How can any family be sanctified in the Lord when the head of that family bows his knee in pagan, blood rituals to another god. He has opened a door to the demonic to his wife and children.
I thank God for the boldness of men like Charles Finney. Charles Finney was a Mason and a pastor, an educator and an evangelist. It didn’t take him long to realize that the things of the lodge were the unrighteous, ungodly acts of depraved man. He didn’t just leave…he took the words of Ephesians 5:7-14 to his heart and acted:
“Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
For ye were sometimes darkness,
but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and
righteousness and truth;
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness
but rather reprove them.
For it is a shame even to speak of those things
which are done of them in secret.
5:13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest
by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and
Arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”
Since the days of Charles Finney, thousand of other men of God, pastors and teachers like him, have taken stands against this darkness that grips the church and its families in a stranglehold. Many have paid a dear price for their actions, having chosen to be dead to the flesh than not be obedient to Christ. You will hear from several of them in this work as well.
Listen to these powerful words of Dwight L. Moody to pastors.
“I don’t see how any Christian most of all a Christian Minister can go into these secret lodges with unbelievers. They say they have more influence for good but I say they can have more influence for good by staying out of them and then reproving their evil deeds. Abraham was more influence for good in Sodom than Lot was for good. True reformers separate themselves from the world rather than becoming a part of it. But Dwight L. Moody, some say, if you talk that way you’ll drive out all the members of secret societies out of your meetings and out of your churches, “What if I did?” said Dwight L. Moody, better men will take their places. Give them the truth anyway and if they would rather leave their churches than their lodges the sooner they get out of the churches, the better. Those are the words of an Evangelist, Dwight L. Moody. “I would rather have ten members,” he said, “who are separated from the world than a thousand such members. Come out of your lodges. Better be one with God that a thousand without Him.”
Concerning a Christian as a member of a Masonic society we have this from the very Word of God.
“And I heard a voice from heaven saying Come out of her my people that Ye not be partakers of her sin and you receive not her plagues for her sins have reached unto heaven and God hath remembered her iniquities.” (Rev. 18:4-5)
Any Comments? Pastors? Laymen?
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Why do you quote Charles Finney in the Masonry article? There is little to no evidence that this man was a believer in Christ. Surely there is a better source for a quote. Thanks for the very good information exposing Freemasonry.
Quite the contrary. I find much evidence of his strong Christian faith. Here are just an extremely few of the evidences of his faith
from the vast amounts of his teachings/preachings and writings where he shares his very strong Christian faith.
Finney was an extreme critic of Freemasonry and exposed it publicly and in his writings
THE WAY OF SALVATION
01 Guilt of Sin –
02 Self-Hardening –
03 Lost Soul –
04 Is God Angry –
05 Praying For Salvation
06 The Bible Proved By Conscience –
07 The Narrow Gate To Life –
08 The Broad Way To Destruction
09 Sin Persisted Leads To Hell –
10 Sinners Totally Reject God –
11 Doom Of Neglecting Salvation
12 Good For Christian –
13 Terrible For Sinner –
14 No Pleasure In Doom –
15 Rich Man And Lazarus
16 Spiritual Needs –
17 Heart Belief –
18 Be Ye Holy –
19 Self Denial –
20 Following Christ
21 Prevailing Prayer –
22 Confidence In Prayer –
23 Praying Always –
24 Prayer For The Holy Spirit
25 Suffering And Afflictions
I agree with you Ed about Charles Finney. It is the hard core Calvinists that have been brain washed to beleive Finney was not saved. The Calvinist can sin with impunity because they are special, they were chosen before the foundations of the world were laid. They don’t believe that we excersise free will, a doctrine that is found in Genesis to revelation. In order to buy into their Catholic Augustinian doctrine of demons one must tear out whole chapters of the Bible that contradicts them.