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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Another Gospel, continued
For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and miracles to deceive the elect—if that were possible. So be on your guard; I have told you everything ahead of time. (Mark 13:22,23—NIV)
We are teaching today, by extracting a passage here and there, that the way of salvation is to receive the blood atonement, believe and confess that Jesus Christ is our Savior and Lord, and we will escape Hell and go to Heaven when we die. This approach and goal is more Gnostic than Christian. It is the Gnostics who stress the emphasis on a mental position that will free us to go to Heaven. This is not the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ as found in the New Testament.
Can you see we have created another gospel? We are not teaching and preaching the Word of God but traditions we have created. We have made proselytes to our religion, not new righteous creations in Jesus Christ.
In fact it is taught today we are "saved by grace alone," meaning that any effort we make to live righteously only pollutes the pure and perfect grace by which we are saved, supposedly. No other concept could be more destructive of God's intention!
Brother, sister, there is no such thing as a state of grace in which God does not see our behavior. This is not the new covenant. This is a philosophy derived by employing selected passages of the Bible as axioms and deducing our own plan of salvation from them.
We are in gross deception.
Can you see how different what is currently presented as the plan of salvation is from the new covenant set forth in the New Testament? The difference is awesome!
Let me present a couple of passages to demonstrate how our ability to perceive what is written in the New Testament has been destroyed by the "state of grace," "Gentile salvation," currently taught as being the Word of God.
Romans 2:6-9
The following is a classic example of our departure from the New Testament.
God "will give to each person according to what he has done." To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; But glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For God does not show favoritism. (Romans 2:6-11—NIV)
If you are an Evangelical, I'll bet you anything you are saying, "the above passage does not apply to me because I am saved by grace."
Your perception, your ability to read and profit from the New Testament, has been harmed by the traditional "four steps of salvation."
Paul says:
God will give to each person according to what he has done. Right or wrong?
To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, He will give eternal life. Right or wrong?
To be continued.