Are you ready for the future? Times are getting rough for
most people and uncertain. We need solid footing in order to survive in this
world of chaos.
This blog is going to be religious in nature. I belong to a
sect called Christianity, but I am far from being your average Christian. In my
book
"Cursed Gospel," I write:
INTRODUCTION
The delusion as it pertains to this book is the belief that
you're a Christian when in reality you're not one at all. The deluded ones walk
like sheep, talk like sheep, and bleat like sheep; but they're not Christ's
sheep. They are pretentious church members or clergymen who think they merit
salvation by living a religious life. But in reality God doesn't know them at
all. They profess they are saved by grace, but then they put an addition to it.
They add to grace their sinful religious practices and turn the grace of our
God into an occasion for the flesh.
“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were
before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of
our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus
Christ” (Jude 1:4).
Their works are sinful because they are done out of the
wrong motives. They seek to be made righteous by good works without the
righteousness of Christ.
You'll find many of these deluded churches on city street
corners taking their place of religious dominance. Their huge edifices makes
Christianity look large and prosperous instead of small and scattered.
"Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it" (Matthew 7:14).
If there are few that find it, like the Bible says then the
true church is not a great force in the world but a small and insignificant
number with limited religious power.
Christianity looks like one big failure when the world sees
the deluded church and presumes it to be the true church of God. You may have
heard that Christianity was responsible for the Crusades, the Inquisition,
witch hunts, and the like. Just because another family has the same last name
doesn't mean that the atrocities perpetrated in that name came from your family
tree.
Not every group that names the name of Christ should be
considered Christian. I suppose Satan would call himself a Christian too! Satan,
the great deceiver is the head of many churches pretending to be Christian.
Having a church called, “The Church of the Doomed,” or, “The Church of Ichabod
(the glory of the Lord is departed),” would not bring many followers into his
house. But having a Christian name like, “The Word of Truth,” or “The
Lighthouse of God,” would certainly bring many into house of worship.
This book will deal with one of the worse and sinister
teachings that have led many to give up Christianity all together. This
teaching literally deludes its followers into a form of earthly piety that many
think will give them heavenly salvation.
The followers of this false teaching soon find out that they
are unable to keep the rigid system of works and shortly fall completely away
from all forms of Christianity. I call this teaching “grace plus works
salvation.”
Nature tells us that if we add certain unfamiliar wild herbs
in our cooking, we could kill ourselves. Poisonous Nightshades have wonderful
looking purple berries, but are extremely deadly. The Bible speaks of a
poisonous stew made from wild gourds:
“And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found
a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred
them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not. So they poured out for
the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that
they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And
they could not eat thereof” (2 Kings 4:39-40).
Many churches today who are teaching a mixture of grace plus
works are serving a deadly pot of false salvation. Grace is good by itself, but
mixed with works it makes for a deadly combination of death and destruction.
The Bible says,
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath
made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I
Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do
the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are
justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace” Galatians 5:1-4).
In Genesis 15, God made a covenant with Abraham. As a token
of the covenant He commanded every male should be circumcised. Every male who
was not circumcised was to be cut off from the Jewish people. If they weren't
circumcised they were considered as having broken the covenant. Circumcision
proudly associated a person with the Jewish religion. It is a very sobering thought
that a simple act of circumcision can forfeit your right of salvation through
Christ,
“Christ is become of no effect unto you.”
Today, keeping the practice of circumcision for salvation
may not be that prevalent. But a different, just as deadly set of actions added
to grace will nevertheless make salvation ineffectual and forfeit our right to
Heaven through Jesus Christ.
As a follower of Christ, you cannot remain
indifferent; there is a choice to be made. Your salvation has to be completely
by grace or by works. There is no mixture. Paul puts it clearly and fearfully
in Romans 11:6,
“And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise
grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace:
otherwise work is no more work.”
Do you trust in Christ alone? When before the Lord you
stand, will He say unto you?
“Well done, thou good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25:21).
Or will He say,
“I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity”
(Matthew 7:22-23).
This is a great beginning. Welcome to this new blog.
