Ask yourself - are you willing to embrace and believe Truth no matter what your Pastor/Denomination teaches? If they tell you the Truth is a lie, what will you do? Will you remain with them, in your comfort zone? Or will you be willing to follow Jesus "outside the camp"? "Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach". Are you willing to become of no reputation? Or a bad reputation? Called a rebel, a false brother, a liar or worse? Hated of all men for His name's sake? Your own brethren, picking up verbal stones to stone you with? All denominations, all 33,000 of them, profess to know the Truth, all profess that their understanding of scripture is pure, without spot or blemish. And because many of their official "Statement of Beliefs" are mostly true, people think everything they teach is true also. But it's not always what you believe on paper (the letter kills), it's not even that you know Jesus - James and John walked and talked with Jesus and yet Jesus, at one point, said to them - "You know not what manner of spirit you are of", so it's clear, we can confess Jesus as our Lord and Savior (as all Christian denominations do) and yet be of the wrong spirit. Jesus turned to Peter once and said "get thee behind me Satan". Without realizing it, this Apostle who would go on to write two amazing epistles, included in New Testament canon, was speaking on behalf of Satan, yet in most churches today, rather than recognize and rebuke the wrong spirit, Satan's when coming from the pulpit, the people sit and applaud and swallow all of it. If anyone ever did stand up and say "do you know what spirit you are of?" or "Those words you just spoke are from Satan", they'd be kicked out of the church immediately, no questions asked). Because of pride. Pride says "all I teach is true, for I am God's appointed teacher in your life". Now listen to Jesus carefully, as He speaks to the Pharisees, a religious Jewish sect that thought they knew the truth, that believed they were God's chosen people, His representatives on earth, just like denominations do today - "And Jesus said, for judgment I am come into this world, THAT THEY WHICH SEE NOT MIGHT SEE; AND THAT THEY WHICH SEE MIGHT BE MADE BLIND. And some of the Pharisees, which were with Him heard these words, and said unto Him, Are we blind also? Jesus said unto them "if you were blind, you would have no sin: but now you say, we see; therefore your sin remaineth."
Before I expound on this passage let me quickly digress to another - again, Jesus is teaching "But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!" At first glance, this makes no sense, how can light be darkness? But when the understanding from the Holy Spirit comes, it makes perfect sense. From God's perspective, "Light" means "Revelation knowledge", knowledge revealed to us, Spirit to spirit, by the Holy Spirit, not taught by men. Jesus is saying "if the revelation you have of Me is a false revelation, how great is that deception! For it will lead you to Hell!" Many false Christ's/Christian denominations have gone into the world and deceived many. Not to mention all the cults with a false revelation of Jesus. The point is - the Pharisees thought they had light, they thought they could see (you can't "see" without light, but their "light" was actually darkness, for all they knew was taught to them by men, not revealed to them by the Holy Spirit of God. Think about it - Jesus Himself stood right in front of them, right before their faces...they actually spoke directly with Him, yet could not recognize Him as their Messiah. They actually argued Scripture with Him! He who was that very Scripture made flesh. Yet today, countless denominations do the same to the Holy Spirit. They all say "we see" and they are all blind. It is God's mercy to blind those who say they can see but in reality are blind and it is his mercy to bring sight to the blind - He exalts the humble but abases the proud.

To be continued....