The secular world understands that God is righteous. Worldly people will never believe the testimony of the Christians until they perform righteous works.

This has been true in the past. It is true in the present. The world will have nothing to do with the evangelist or pastor who is caught in immorality.

As for the future—we all hope to go to a new world where there is no sin of any kind whatever. We do not hope for a world of people who are being received of God on the basis of imputed righteousness, because in this case there would still be all the destructive social behaviors that are present today.

At some point in history, I do not know when, Christian theologians took a few verses from the writings of the Apostle Paul and constructed a grace that is purely the invention of the mind of man. This unscriptural grace departs completely from the past, present, and future realities. It departs completely from the Scriptures, Old Testament and New. It is so removed from the Bible and from the Kingdom of God as to be pure fantasy.

The new unscriptural grace has changed the new covenant into a salvation which is no salvation at all. Under the new, totally unscriptural grace, God has come to man and—if he will "accept Christ" (he does not even have to repent!)—declares him eternally free from condemnation regardless of any moral transformation.

A more horrid travesty of the Bible could not be imagined. Here are God's worthies, such as Abraham and Daniel, being introduced to "saved Gentiles" who know nothing of the fiery God of Israel. They are worldly. They are bound with innumerable lusts and passions of flesh and soul. They have no intention of obeying God unless they think they can get something they want out of God.

Such people are not found in the Bible except as objects of Divine judgment.

Today there is little moral strength in the Christian churches. While there is an abundance of ministries and gifts that are operating, the Person, will, and ways of Almighty God cannot be seen in these lovers of themselves.

This is not all. Unlike the suffering saints of history, these spiritual infants are just about to be carried up to Heaven so they will not have to bear witness of the Lord when Antichrist appears. Rather they will be relaxing in their mansion, walking on the streets of gold, totally destroying Paradise by their self-centered, pleasure-loving behavior.

This is the Christian Church as defined by current Christian teaching.

Our nation, the United States of America, is about to be visited by Divine judgment. The reason is, the Christian churches, because of the unscriptural teaching of grace, have not borne a witness strong enough to influence our government. The politicians respond to questionable polls, which in turn are influenced by the immorality and covetousness of the populace. This lack of integrity can be traced to the lack of character in the churches that have been destroyed by the Christian "grace" mystique.

To be continued.