The gospel of entertainment!
Gal 1:6 I marvel that you so soon are being moved away from Him who called you into the grace of Christ, to another gospel,
Gal 1:7 which is not another, but some are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.
Gal 1:8 But even if we or an angel from Heaven preach a gospel to you beside what we preached to you, let him be accursed.
Gal 1:9 As we said before, and now I say again, If anyone preaches a gospel to you beside what you have received, let him be accursed.
Gal 1:10 For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Today we are seeing basically two different gospels being preached from the pulpits! One is of truth, and the other is of the lie! Most who are being deceived cannot see this and cannot discern truth from error.
To contrast the differences, we just compare the early church to the modern church today.
One preached repentance and faith proven by deeds:
2Co 7:10 For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation, not to be regretted, but the grief of the world works out death.
2Co 7:11 For behold this same thing (you being grieved according to God); how much it worked out earnestness in you; but also defense; but also indignation; but also fear; but also desire; but also zeal; but also vengeance! In everything you approved yourselves to be clear(pure)in the matter.
Act 20:21 testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
The other preaches confession, or admitting you are a sinner bound in flesh that cannot be put to death, because sin is inbred into you, but the word says otherwise:
Eze 18:20 The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
One gospel preaches the narrow road, the straight gate, and the crucified life, the other is all about fun, games, music, skits, focus and accountability groups, picnics, socials, dinners, parties, and a host of other worldly attractions and distractions, that do one thing, and that is cloud the hearts and minds of the lost, to remain in bondage to the world and sin.
But Jesus said:
Luk 13:23 And one said to Him, Lord, are the ones being saved few? And He said to them,
Luk 13:24 Strive to enter in at the narrow gate. For I say to you, many will seek to enter in and shall not be able.
Mat 7:13 Go in through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there are who go in through it.
Mat 7:14 Because narrow is the gate and constricted is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
The true gospel wasn't written by the blood of many fearless men and women of God, to be made into a circus side act! It wasn't written to entertain, but to prepare the hearts and souls of the few who would obey it, and walk a life worthy of their creator.
But today the gospel of entertainment has gone to new lows! Where you can go and enjoy the world and all its glitter, and still be saved, where you come for your fast food salvation, say a few words, apologize to God for being a poor helpless sinner, then go about enjoying all the vain attractions and fun!
But is this what Jesus meant by the narrow way! Is this why He paid a high price for, by shedding His precious blood at Calvary? So His creation could bask in the glory of knowing they are saved IN their sins, that all’s His blood could do for them is cover them as they have their cake and eat is too?
2Co 11:3 But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity due to Christ.
2Co 11:4 For if, indeed, the one coming proclaims another Jesus, whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive another spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel, which you never accepted, you might well endure these .
Many will say you don't save your self, we are born poor helpless sinners, repentance isn't mandatory for true forgiveness, or the biggest lie used today is that Jesus took my place on the cross, took my punishment and wrath, and when God sees me, He sees Jesus and not my wicked old heart!
If this is the gospel you sit under each week, and you have not crucified your flesh with Christ, through repentance first as scripture commands, then you have not been truly converted, you cannot receive the things of God, and His truth will be obscure to you to say the least!
Don't kid yourself; I did for 15 years, buried under many layers of lies that kept me in great bondage to sin and the ways of the world!
The only way for me to come out of this mess was to flee the system, and actually crucify my flesh with Christ once and for all in repentance, the spirit was upon me convicting me of sin, righteousness and judgment, and it was heavy as I departed from the false church and all its vain glitter and glitz. I had to learn the gospel all over again, and lay aside all wickedness and evil, to receive the implanted word of God for real!
Jas 1:21 Therefore putting aside all filthiness and overflowing of evil, receive in meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls.
Jas 1:22 But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Jesus said to be sober, diligent, steadfast, worthy, an over comer, pure, undefiled, holy, He told us to count the cost, abstain from all appearances of evil, depart from iniquity, love not the world and its vain attractions, stand fast, abide in Him, produce good fruit, to love Him is to obey Him, seek first His kingdom, flee all sexual immorality, be a doer of His word, count the cost, don't look back, and most of all He called for all His creation to repent or perish, go and sin no more, and to crucify your flesh with Him in repentance! Plus many more commands, that He has called us TO DO, He didn't or will not do them for us, BUT will give us all we need IN Him to obey Him, and serve Him with all our heart and soul!
Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf.
Gal 5:24 But those belonging to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
Gal 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
So which gospel do you love and obey? The one that says you can sin and will surely not die, where fun and games in the main attraction along with a lot of good works and compromised preaching? Or the one that is calling all sinners everywhere to repent or perish, to come out from among the world and its ways, to actually crucify your flesh with Christ, and walk in His great mercy and strength. Loving His truth above all else, and being a diligent follower, walking in purity, sincerity and love!
Now some final warning s coming from Jesus to His lost church:
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Luk 11:23 He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
Joh 8:11 And she said, No one, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I give judgment. Go, and sin no more.
Luk 13:3 I tell you, No. But unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
Rev 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; therefore be zealous and repent.
Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him and he with Me.
Rev 3:21 To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame and have sat down with My Father in His throne.
Jesus is knocking; will you repent and invite Him in?
Tommy 6-10-12
