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The Daily Word of Righteousness
A Destructive Concept of Divine Grace, continued
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death. (Revelation 2:11—NIV)
The teaching today is that no one who professes belief in Jesus Christ need be concerned about the Lake of Fire. This is not what the Bible teaches!
The Lake of Fire has authority over eight specific areas of behavior. As long as we practice those the Lake of Fire has a claim on us, grace or no grace.
Otherwise why did the Lord say, "I will never blot out from the Book of Life the name of him who overcomes," leaving the distinct impression that if we do not overcome we stand in danger of the Lake of Fire? Isn't Jesus smart enough to know this is the impression He is leaving?
Do you know what will happen to the individual who takes away from the Book of Revelation? Or is that curse also abrogated by grace?
The teaching today that we are an overcomer by merely taking the four steps of salvation is unscriptural. If this were true, if every professing Christian is automatically an overcomer, then what in the world are the second and third chapters of the Book of Revelation talking about?
Are you willing to live with such enormous inconsistencies? I'm not! I don't know about you but my salvation is much too important to me to leave in the hands of those who argue in circles, saying at one moment the Bible is the fully inspired Word of God and then attempting to prove it doesn't mean what it states.
I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. (Revelation 3:15,16—NIV)
To whom is Jesus speaking? To the angel of the church in Laodicea.
What is He saying?
"I know how you are behaving and I sure wish you were cold or hot, either intensely in love with Me or intensely in love with Satan. You are not filled with Me and you are not filled with Satan. You know what? I don't know what to do with you."
"I like My coffee either boiling hot or ice cold, none of this tepid stuff. I am going to spit you out of My mouth. Ugh!"
What a joy to be spit out of the Lord's mouth! We know we can never lose our salvation because we "stand in grace." How wonderful to be spit from the mouth of Christ (in whose mouth all of us live and move and have our being), knowing we are eternally secure wherever the drops land. We don't care if we are spit out of the Lord's mouth, just as long as we are saved and go to Heaven when we die.
Wait a minute! I think Christ must have been talking to the Jews. Those Jews better get cold or hot if they know what is good for them!
To be continued.