Lawless grace, the doctrine that to be saved we need only make a profession of faith in Christ without a transformation of our personality, must be driven from the churches immediately. If it is not, our nation will be visited with terrible judgments! God has given His Son to speak to us but we are not hearing Him. We have invented a "dispensation of grace" by means of which we hope to go to Heaven by doctrinal belief. There is no new creation in it. There is no house of God, no resting place for God in it.

Let us not imagine for one moment that an individual can profess faith in Jesus Christ and this mental assent to theological truth makes the person suitable as a house for God, as a resting place for God. How could it? Nothing has taken place in the personality. Christ has not been formed. The personality still is characterized by worldliness, lust, and self-will. Is such an untransformed believer, an individual who has never taken up his cross, qualified and competent to be the eternal dwelling place of God? This is absurd!

Sometimes I think our present doctrine of lawless grace is schizophrenic—split off from reality.

The Evangelical teaching of today is unscriptural, and moral chaos has resulted. It is not too late for us to change, but perhaps soon it will be too late!

Cut Off From the Head!

There is another aspect of "Christ in you" we would like to mention.

Throughout Christian history, it appears, the believers have attempted to do the work of God according to their own understanding. There have been notable exceptions to this.

When we Christians see the need that is present in the world, and yet have not learned to die to our own enthusiasm and ambition, we go forth to "build three tabernacles," not knowing what we are doing, just as was true of Peter on the Mount of Transfiguration.

It is my personal belief that at any given period of time, most of the Christian work is being performed by conscientious people who do not know what the Lord's will is. They are guessing and making assumptions. But they have not heard from God.

Part of entering the spiritual fulfillment of the Old Testament feast of Tabernacles is waiting until we know what the Lord wants us to do.

If you think this is easy you haven't tried it.

Perhaps most American Christians do not hear from the Lord. The majority are occupied with the American culture, which is very colorful and exciting for many of the citizens (not for all!). They suppose if God wants them to do something He will break into their spiritual lethargy and instruct them.

Then there are many who are religious leaders. They invent one plan after another to save the world. They may have great apparent success in "getting souls saved." One may wonder how much of this is of God. Perhaps all of it, I don't know.

I do know this: when we seek to move past Pentecost into Tabernacles, so to speak, we face a major issue: do we or do we not dare to let go and let Christ build His own Church?

To be continued.