The issue has become numbers of people in attendance at our services instead of the transformation of human beings from living souls to life-giving spirits. Success in Gospel preaching is measured by the size of the building and the number of people who attend rather than by the extent to which lives are being transformed. This is a faulty emphasis and it must cease if the Bride is to be without spot or wrinkle other than in an imputed (ascribed) sense.

What good is a wife of the Lamb who is holy by assigned righteousness but filthy and self-willed in personality?

So removed from the Scriptures has the current imbalance become that if someone preaches righteous conduct he is considered to be promoting a cult. It is as though he is assaulting the merits of Christ. The idea being presented is that we are saved by the merits of Jesus alone and any talk of righteous conduct is not only in error but an affront to the Lord's grace!

At first glance the overemphasis on forgiveness through grace seems to be a proper tribute to the perfection of Christ. However, a little reflection reveals what a travesty of God's Word this is. It appears to be so godly, so sound in concept. But it is horribly frustrating to the Lord Jesus who is far more desirous that we do what He commands than He is that we call Him Lord, Lord. Obedience to God is better than sacrifice to God!

The Kingdom of God is destroyed when we state that righteous conduct has no essential place in God's plan of salvation. The Kingdom of God is the doing of God's will in the earth as it is in Heaven.

The Christian doctrine of today contains much spiritual death. It produces conception by holding forth the blood atonement and then aborts the fetus by declaring that salvation consists of a profession of belief in spiritual truth rather than a new creation.

We are in a dreadful falling away from the truth and it is time for God to reveal the diabolical trap into which the Christian churches have fallen. Because the light of godly living is disappearing from the churches the world is reeling in satanic filth. The handwriting is on the wall. Divine judgment is at the door.

The concept of the "overcomer" has been rendered incomprehensible and useless by an overemphasis on the role of grace in the Christian redemption, by the imbalance produced by the neglect of such verses as the following:

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)

Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. (James 2:24)

Faith without works is dead, and no person ever will be saved by a dead faith.

The believers of today are not being fed a diet nourishing enough to produce conquerors.

To be continued.