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The Daily Word of Righteousness
White Clothes To Wear, #7
The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. (Galatians 6:8 NIV)
What perfect justice this is! We are going to be clothed in our own conduct.
One can see immediately how different this is from current Evangelical teaching. Current Evangelical teaching is that God does not see our sins because we are covered with the blood of Christ. While this may be true at the beginning of our salvation, there is no scriptural basis for our believing it continues to be true throughout our discipleship.
If it were a fact that no matter how we lived we still would participate in the Kingdom of God, being glorified when the Lord appears, then numerous passages of the New Testament would be bringing a false message. How many times did Paul and the other Apostles warn us about continuing in ungodliness, about the penalty for not becoming the slave of righteousness?
The Lord Jesus had very harsh words for His servants, as expressed in the Gospel accounts. He said if we do not bear fruit we will be cut out of the Vine. By fruit the Lord means the fruit of the Spirit, the moral image of Himself. If we do not experience moral transformation we will be removed from Christ.
The Lord Jesus said if we do not keep full of His Life we will be as the foolish virgins who had the door closed in their face.
The Lord Jesus said if we do not use the Kingdom abilities that have been given to us we will have our gifts taken from us and given to another, and we ourselves will be placed in the outer darkness.
These are very harsh punishments indeed! Today's Evangelical teaching does not allow for these punishments. The claim is made that when we take the "four steps of salvation we are covered with the blood"; God sees us only through the blood of Jesus. If this is true throughout our discipleship, then what do we do with the harsh statements of the Lord Jesus?
Do the many warnings of Christ and His Apostles apply to Christian people or do they not? I think we need a hard, straight, scriptural answer to this question right away. Numerous believers are counting on the "covering of the blood" to conceal their behavior from God's sight. I am saying this is a false, unscriptural hope.
If the blood of the Lamb conceals our behavior from God's sight, why, in the second and third chapters of the Book of Revelation, does Christ keep telling the churches that He knows their works?
I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! (Revelation 3:15 NIV)
Well, does Christ actually know our deeds? Is He troubled about our deeds? I think it is time we Evangelical believers throw out our traditions that are not in line with the unchanging Scriptures!
If I am correct, condemnation is resting on the majority of the believers in America. I think God sees our behavior only too clearly and is telling us to start keeping the commandments of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles. If we do not our nation is in danger of being brought very low.
To be continued.