I trust everyone had a great time with family during the Holidays, we certainly did. Sorry for not updating the Blog, was having a battle with sickness and of course the Holidays. Well here we go again dealing with the differences between the true Gospel & the False Gospel. I pray that this causes you to think through what you believe and what you have always been taught, and that it will strengthen your walk with God.
The False Gospel: No Change in Behavior or Opinions
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
“Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
“Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” - II Timothy 3:2-5
“Dead Faith”
The new gospel of today that has come in allows a man to go on leading the same old Christless and godless life, while he professes to be a Christian. In spite of the sinful life he is living, in spite of the wicked state of his heart, he retains a certain shell or outward form of religion. He may still go to church, may still say his prayers, may still read his Bible, may still attend communion, may still teach his Sunday School class, may still preach in his pulpit-but there is no real, vital reality about it at all, because Christ is not there. There has been no vital change worked in his heart by the Holy Spirit!
You see, this false gospel denies the power of the grace of God to break the power of sin in the sinner’s life in salvation and also to keep the redeemed soul walking in a pathway of righteousness and true holiness. So not knowing this power, the professing carnal Christian gives himself over to the lust of the flesh under the guise of “liberty,” and goes on producing the same old fruits of the flesh that he did before he made a decision or profession. His profession of being a Christian is nothing but a thin veneer, a thin clothing of Christianity; there is not vital, life-giving power that sets the sinner free to follow Christ in a life of self-denial and holiness.
“Faith without works is dead” (James 2:26). Our Lord told the church at Sardis: “I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead” (Rev 3:1). Yes, the carnal Christian is still spiritually dead, and even though his preacher will surely preach him into heaven when he dies, he will surely be in hell! These are those described in II Timothy 3:5: “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” And they that teach this false gospel know nothing about the power of our Almighty God to save, break the power of sin, and set the captive soul free to walk in newness of life in Christ, which is a life of holiness. That’s why their converts bring forth the fruits listed in the preceding verses of II Timothy 3:
1 “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 “For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,3 “Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 “Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” - II Timothy 3:2-5
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