Link: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-episcopal_15met.ART.State.Edition1.4a79441.html

“We’re stewards of property that has been given for generations to the Episcopal Church. We can’t just let people walk off with it,” said Kathleen Wells, chancellor for the reorganized Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth.

The suit was filed in Tarrant County district court and names Iker as a defendant, among others.

Iker could not be reached. In earlier interviews, he said he hoped the property dispute would be ended through negotiation, but he predicted that the Episcopal Church would first file suit.

Bishop Iker’s prediction of a law suit from TEC has come true. Of course it didn’t take a prophet of the caliber of Isaiah or Ezekiel to foretell that such an event would come to pass. A clear understanding of how TEC works would assist any up and coming prognosticator in conjuring up an accurate prediction or two. In this case the diocese leaves and new diocese is established by TEC and the new diocese sues old diocese for property and trust funds claiming to be the real diocese.

Admittedly my understanding of the Canons of the Episcopal Church is somewhat limited but the way I understand things is that the TEC does not start dioceses. The would-be dioceses established themselves and then requested permission to join TEC. This doesn’t seem to be what has occurred but I am betting (this does not take a Jeremiah either) that this is a test of the new model to regain lost assets even though the assets belong to the original diocese not the new one.

It is one thing to violate the Canons but it is something entirely different to set aside the teachings of Christ about Christians suing Christians in a court of law. TEC, however, has demonstrated it has no problems with picking and choosing the teachings of Jesus that they like and discarding those that hinder their agenda. TEC approves of the feed the poor aspect of Christian doctrine but really cannot stomach the command against sexual immorality.

In his book “Apostasy from the Gospel” John Owen described very accurately the actions of an apostate church and how such a church attempts to advance its agenda. His description written in the 17th century has a very familiar and modern ring to it.

• Use of Force
• Accommodate religion to the sinful lusts of man by either
  
  • Denying the existence of God or
  • Giving man a religion that allows him to indulge in his lusts and sexual depravity and yet still appear to be Christian.

The more things change the more things stay the same.

This seem to be exactly what TEC is doing but in order to further spread their apostasy they need money to finance their heresies and buildings in which to instruct those willing to listen and believe in their satanic ranting and ravings. It is truly sad to see how deep in the hip pocket of Satan TEC is. A denomination that was once intent on spreading the true gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has been reduced to a tool of the devil until such a time as the tool is no longer useful and then to be discarded in the rubbish heap of previous apostate churches. Satan laughs.

Hopefully the court systems in Texas and beyond will be able to see through this legal ploy and disengage the “new” Fort Worth diocese from the legal wrangling that were the sole purpose of its establishment by the Episcopal Church. After all, this new diocese did not raise the money to pay lawyers this quickly without the aid of TEC. Acting as a puppet regime to a larger interest they are initiating a process that Christ would not approve of in order to spread a gospel that Christ wouldn’t recognize all the while claiming that this is Christ’s “New Thing”. Seems like the same old things if you ask me, apostasy and heresy.