The grace that is preached today does not teach us to deny ungodliness, to deny worldly lusts, to live soberly, righteously, and in a godly manner in the present world. It simply does not teach this!

The grace preached today teaches that God saves us by an unconditional amnesty unrelated to our denial of ungodliness, unrelated to our denial of worldly lusts, unrelated to any attempt to live soberly, righteously, and in a godly manner in the present world.

The grace preached today is not the grace of God in Jesus Christ, it is a very sophisticated weapon of the enemy to destroy the building of the Kingdom of God.

The sword of judgment is hanging over the United States. If I am hearing the Lord correctly we have one more opportunity of repentance left. If we Christians do not at once turn away from our sinning and begin to keep God's commandments there will be disastrous consequences for our nation.

God stands ready to assist every believer in Christ as he or she, young or old, turns from the worldly lusts, profanity, and violence that fill the media and the entertainment world and begins to seek help from above. God's grace in Christ is wiser and more powerful than anything Satan can present and will help us overcome every deception and temptation.

We must keep God's commandments found in the New Testament—every one of them. God will help us do just that if we will pray, read the Bible, attend the meetings of fervent believers, give, serve, and do all else the Bible commands.

Listen to me! There will be no rapture (as currently conceived) to deliver you from trouble. It isn't going to happen. Go back to the Bible. Put on the whole armor of God. Prepare yourself to stand in the evil day that is upon us, the age of moral horrors.

We have been grievously deceived, but the Lord Jesus will help us to turn from our wicked ways if we will make the attempt.

Perhaps the greatest misunderstanding ever to affect Christian thinking is the defining of Divine grace as magic spectacles God wears so our continued unrighteousness is seen as Christ's uprightness; our moral filthiness appears as Christ's purity, and our stubbornness is transformed into Christ's meekness and obedience.

While a certain element of the above is true when the sinner comes to Christ, to prolong this concept past the time the sinner gets on board, such that we are dealing with an unscriptural, mystical dispensation of grace, is to wreck all God has set out to accomplish under the new covenant.

There was a believer in Corinth who was behaving immorally with his Father's wife. According to current teaching Paul should have said, "There's no problem here. All God is seeing in our brother is the moral purity of Christ. He is saved by grace, not by works of righteousness he has done."

Gentlemen, we have been deceived royally. The enemy is proving to be a personage of considerable skill in the war of righteousness.

Pretty strong statements! But how do they square up with Paul's teaching in the early part of the Book of Romans?

Paul, reacting against the Jews who were attempting to make the blood atonement of Christ a part of the Law of Moses, spoke eloquently of God's willingness to ascribe righteousness to us when we have no righteousness of our own to bring before Him. We Gentiles make much of this assigning of righteousness to us—righteousness given through Christ while we yet are sinners.

(To be continued.)