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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Another Gospel, continued
For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. (II Timothy 4:3,4—NIV)
Because we do not love the truth but have chosen to believe that God guarantees the future bliss of those who have made a "decision for Christ" and done little else, and who believe God will cast into the Lake of Fire basically righteous people who never had a chance to hear the Gospel because of the unwillingness of the believers to take up their cross and follow Jesus, because we believe in such unrighteousness God has sent a powerful delusion on us.
It is difficult for those of us who can tell something is amiss to see through the murk and really describe what is wrong. It is as though there is a strong seal preventing us from understanding the Scriptures. We are fighting our way through the fog.
I think the angel of the Evangelical churches is being rebuked by the Lord. I believe the Lord Jesus is starting to fight against us with the sword of His mouth.
The only manner in which this blinding fog can be lifted is by coming to Jesus Christ and asking Him to help us live righteously so we can see clearly; to anoint our eyes with eyesalve. The whole Evangelical movement has been deceived, it seems to me.
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten he has been cleansed from his past sins. (II Peter 1:5-9—NIV)
Maybe Peter is giving us the answer. Maybe if we will, with God's help, add these virtues to our personality, we will become effective and productive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Maybe then our nearsightedness and blindness will be corrected and we will be able to read the New Testament without having to ignore most of the text because we have been "saved by grace."
If we would behold the land that is very far off, if we would see the King in His beauty, then we need to behave in such a manner that we can dwell in the very Presence of the Consuming Fire of Israel.
The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless:"Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?"He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil— This is the man who will dwell on the heights, whose refuge will be the mountain fortress. His bread will be supplied, and water will not fail him. Your eyes will see the king in his beauty and view a land that stretches afar. (Isaiah 33:14-17—NIV) (from Another Gospel)