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Many people that we speak with will often ask us 'why do you cling so tightly to God's Holy Word?' and why we are always finding ourselves in a place where we need to defend the Word from various man made errors we see all over today. The fact is, nothing is more precious to us and to God than the message of His Word that has been revealed to man so he can find his way out of his sin problem and back to his Creator. We know this as we where lied to for many years by modern pastors and we were void of the saving truth even though we sat in the pews each week.
The bible is THE message of Christ (the gospel) and getting it biblically right is of the most importance indeed. This post will attempt to define that biblical gospel from those false versions that are being taught all over the religious world causing much destruction and perishing of souls in the end. After reading this post we hope you will cling to ONLY the truth, be made new and then proclaim a biblical gospel to those around you for God's glory and their eternal salvation.
Gospel means good news and it is the amazing story of the Creator God making a way for mankind to find peace and salvation with Him through the sacrifice of His Son the Lord Jesus Christ.
Read about the 1 Corinthians 15 biblical gospel here:
http://spiritandtruthdiscernment.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-gospel-1-corinthians-15-good-news.html
Also go here to read or listen to the complete biblical gospel message for salvation:
http://spiritandtruthdiscernment.blogspot.com/p/how-to-be-redeemed.html
That message is the heart and soul of our ministry to the world. The gospel of Jesus Christ!
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ
Romans 5:1
By reading and listening to the above links you now should understand the biblical gospel as taught by God's Holy Word. It is not of man or by man and nor should it ever be corrupted by man at all.
Moving on, perhaps a good way to illustrate why we stand so strong on a biblical gospel is to highlight one of the MANY experiences we have had (which are not at all uncommon) encountering a false/unbiblical gospel message and the affects of it on a man's soul and life. Please know this story is NOT to make fun of this man but to illustrate what is at stake when men pervert the truth thinking they are helping someone, when it really sends them off in error to perish in their own sins.
Note: The following story is true though I omitted enough details to still keep it a private matter.
Since we live by many waters and enjoy fishing once in awhile to add some fresh meat to our freezer; I often get the chance to witness to men who are by the lakes and rivers. One day I saw a man fishing so I went over to talk with him. We talked about how they were biting, where we where from and what we did for our work. Then he noticed a scripture verse I had on and he asked about it and a witnessing opportunity took place. I told him it was to proclaim God and he said "amen and I like the bible too".
I said "you know the bible"? and he tried to quote a verse but he couldn't. I asked him if he was born again and if he was going to heaven and he said "yes indeed he was". I then asked him to tell me his testimony in the Lord. (If you're in Him you should have a testimony.) He went on to tell me that one day when he was a teenager some man at a camp told him about Jesus and asked him to say the sinners prayer. He prayed that day and that is why he believes he will be going to heaven and is indeed saved. The man told him back then by that prayer; he was for sure going to heaven! As we talked I asked him some basic biblical questions and he didn't know the answers. He then admitted that in the 35 some years after that day that he claims he was saved; has not read or learned the Word of God at all nor has he really had the desire to. I asked him "sir how could you know and live for God in obedience if you don't even know God's Holy Word, the bible"? He said "that's a good point"! (keep in mind this man at first was swearing like a sailor, he was telling me all about his living for the things of the world and he was at least "partially" inebriated I later learned.) He was honest and admitted that his life is far from that of a decent Christian man, he was very fallen and he felt very bad about it all. At least he was honest about his situation. I went on to lovingly tell him the biblical gospel of faith and repentance that leads to new life, obedience and holiness because, I cared about him. Then I told him he really has a HUGE problem as he has been living a lie thinking he was saved while he is living in much sin, he doesn't even know God's Word and that he cannot claim Christ in his current un-regenerated spiritual condition. He agreed and seemed visibly shaken by the idea he was a false convert all those years! I left him a gospel tract with our blog / my cell number and offered to help him when he decided to biblically repent and come to Jesus Christ; we then parted ways. I have not heard back from him and one has to wonder; will he be so willing to repent, surrender all of his life and kill his fallen flesh/desires and come to the true biblical Jesus today? The fact is this: he was living his whole adult life thinking "just a prayer" would give him eternal life which is a lie from hell. At least he has the truth today and can act upon it before he dies.
We have told you this true witnessing story to expose just how false most of the gospel messages being proclaimed today, really are. They sadly have people thinking they are in Christ but the fact is they are not per God's Word. The only way to confront such error is with the truth of the gospel.
Please understand that the following methods of salvation are NOT found anywhere in God's Holy Word at all:
Just saying a prayer or the sinners prayer
Just raising your hand at a revival meeting
Just walking up to a religious building alter
Just joining a modern religious organization
Just being good / doing good works
Just believing in Jesus
Just going to church weekly
Just having been born into a religious family
It is so very sad that most modern pastors, todays evangelists and those working with youth are ALL pushing these types of weak and unbiblical gospel messages that CANNOT save anyone at all! The result is people living in a state of sin and un-regeneration that will never offer them eternal life to come, but God's wrath to come!
We care so we speak out. There is ONLY one way to come to new and eternal life in Jesus Christ and that is through faith in His work on the cross by repentance (a turning away from) for your sin you have committed against a Holy God and then being born again in His name to become a child of the Living God. (See Ephesians 2:8-9, Luke 13;3 and John 3:3)
Unless you come to Christ the way the Lord has designed and outlined in His Word; you are coming man's way and that will be rejected in the end as God will not be mocked. (see Galatians 6)
Jesus also calls such people a 'thief' and a 'robber'.
Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. (John 10:1)
When the church first started read what Peter said about coming to eternal life:
Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit
Acts 2
Why are most all people changing and perverting the gospel truth today you may ask? There are many reasons at work and perhaps the biggest factor is man made denominational religion has warped and altered so much of God's Word over the many centuries. Here is a list that is but a few of them:
Man made denominational religion
Biblical ignorance
Emerging / false doctrines that have left the historical biblical truth
The desire to fill up the pews (for money/numbers) even if they are false converts
Preaching to itchy ears of this culture
Love of the flesh (no desire to repent or leave sinful ways)
An ever more man centered and Godless culture
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
2 Timothy 4
These weak gospel techniques are referred to as easy believeism by biblical Berean's and they miss the mark of God's Truth by many miles! They must be rejected as lies (Revelation 22:14-15) and be exposed as evil as well (Ephesians 5:11) Exactly why they are being offered in each case is known only by God but surely some of it today is in part to deceive, generate money/people in pews, to be popular and to cater to the flesh of people and not the truth of the Holy Word. The enemy satan is at work no doubt.
The salvation that God offers from our sinful state is a gift of God (see Romans 6:23) but those who truly received it and are born of God now desire to follow in holiness and obey their Lord out of love.
And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
Hebrews 5:9
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
Romans 6:1
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:8
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
1 John 3:9
Jesus warned about those who claim Him but they don't obey Him and He rejects them in the end.
Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
Matt 7
He also said this:
If you love me keep my commandments
John 14:15
The message of God's Holy Word is very clear.
Salvation is a gift of God received by faith alone through repentance that leads to a holy and obedient life lived all of your days as evidence you are truly His child.
Please don't ever settle for man's many false gospels that may fill up buildings and make people feel good; but it cannot honor a Holy God or redeem His true people that Christ came to save with His spirit and truth. (John 4:24)
We hope by reading our posts on the biblical gospel (loaded with God's Word) and hearing this sad true story that is not uncommon at all; you will see the importance of clinging to God's Word and His saving gospel alone and not be swayed into mans error that could led to one's damnation.
www.dontperish.com
https://www.dontperish.com/john-424-radio-audio-page-1.html
(Once there use control F and type Importance of the Gospel to find that audio)
Many people that we speak with will often ask us 'why do you cling so tightly to God's Holy Word?' and why we are always finding ourselves in a place where we need to defend the Word from various man made errors we see all over today. The fact is, nothing is more precious to us and to God than the message of His Word that has been revealed to man so he can find his way out of his sin problem and back to his Creator. We know this as we where lied to for many years by modern pastors and we were void of the saving truth even though we sat in the pews each week.
The bible is THE message of Christ (the gospel) and getting it biblically right is of the most importance indeed. This post will attempt to define that biblical gospel from those false versions that are being taught all over the religious world causing much destruction and perishing of souls in the end. After reading this post we hope you will cling to ONLY the truth, be made new and then proclaim a biblical gospel to those around you for God's glory and their eternal salvation.
Gospel means good news and it is the amazing story of the Creator God making a way for mankind to find peace and salvation with Him through the sacrifice of His Son the Lord Jesus Christ.
Read about the 1 Corinthians 15 biblical gospel here:
http://spiritandtruthdiscernment.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-gospel-1-corinthians-15-good-news.html
Also go here to read or listen to the complete biblical gospel message for salvation:
http://spiritandtruthdiscernment.blogspot.com/p/how-to-be-redeemed.html
That message is the heart and soul of our ministry to the world. The gospel of Jesus Christ!
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ
Romans 5:1
By reading and listening to the above links you now should understand the biblical gospel as taught by God's Holy Word. It is not of man or by man and nor should it ever be corrupted by man at all.
Moving on, perhaps a good way to illustrate why we stand so strong on a biblical gospel is to highlight one of the MANY experiences we have had (which are not at all uncommon) encountering a false/unbiblical gospel message and the affects of it on a man's soul and life. Please know this story is NOT to make fun of this man but to illustrate what is at stake when men pervert the truth thinking they are helping someone, when it really sends them off in error to perish in their own sins.
Note: The following story is true though I omitted enough details to still keep it a private matter.
Since we live by many waters and enjoy fishing once in awhile to add some fresh meat to our freezer; I often get the chance to witness to men who are by the lakes and rivers. One day I saw a man fishing so I went over to talk with him. We talked about how they were biting, where we where from and what we did for our work. Then he noticed a scripture verse I had on and he asked about it and a witnessing opportunity took place. I told him it was to proclaim God and he said "amen and I like the bible too".
I said "you know the bible"? and he tried to quote a verse but he couldn't. I asked him if he was born again and if he was going to heaven and he said "yes indeed he was". I then asked him to tell me his testimony in the Lord. (If you're in Him you should have a testimony.) He went on to tell me that one day when he was a teenager some man at a camp told him about Jesus and asked him to say the sinners prayer. He prayed that day and that is why he believes he will be going to heaven and is indeed saved. The man told him back then by that prayer; he was for sure going to heaven! As we talked I asked him some basic biblical questions and he didn't know the answers. He then admitted that in the 35 some years after that day that he claims he was saved; has not read or learned the Word of God at all nor has he really had the desire to. I asked him "sir how could you know and live for God in obedience if you don't even know God's Holy Word, the bible"? He said "that's a good point"! (keep in mind this man at first was swearing like a sailor, he was telling me all about his living for the things of the world and he was at least "partially" inebriated I later learned.) He was honest and admitted that his life is far from that of a decent Christian man, he was very fallen and he felt very bad about it all. At least he was honest about his situation. I went on to lovingly tell him the biblical gospel of faith and repentance that leads to new life, obedience and holiness because, I cared about him. Then I told him he really has a HUGE problem as he has been living a lie thinking he was saved while he is living in much sin, he doesn't even know God's Word and that he cannot claim Christ in his current un-regenerated spiritual condition. He agreed and seemed visibly shaken by the idea he was a false convert all those years! I left him a gospel tract with our blog / my cell number and offered to help him when he decided to biblically repent and come to Jesus Christ; we then parted ways. I have not heard back from him and one has to wonder; will he be so willing to repent, surrender all of his life and kill his fallen flesh/desires and come to the true biblical Jesus today? The fact is this: he was living his whole adult life thinking "just a prayer" would give him eternal life which is a lie from hell. At least he has the truth today and can act upon it before he dies.
We have told you this true witnessing story to expose just how false most of the gospel messages being proclaimed today, really are. They sadly have people thinking they are in Christ but the fact is they are not per God's Word. The only way to confront such error is with the truth of the gospel.
Please understand that the following methods of salvation are NOT found anywhere in God's Holy Word at all:
Just saying a prayer or the sinners prayer
Just raising your hand at a revival meeting
Just walking up to a religious building alter
Just joining a modern religious organization
Just being good / doing good works
Just believing in Jesus
Just going to church weekly
Just having been born into a religious family
It is so very sad that most modern pastors, todays evangelists and those working with youth are ALL pushing these types of weak and unbiblical gospel messages that CANNOT save anyone at all! The result is people living in a state of sin and un-regeneration that will never offer them eternal life to come, but God's wrath to come!
We care so we speak out. There is ONLY one way to come to new and eternal life in Jesus Christ and that is through faith in His work on the cross by repentance (a turning away from) for your sin you have committed against a Holy God and then being born again in His name to become a child of the Living God. (See Ephesians 2:8-9, Luke 13;3 and John 3:3)
Unless you come to Christ the way the Lord has designed and outlined in His Word; you are coming man's way and that will be rejected in the end as God will not be mocked. (see Galatians 6)
Jesus also calls such people a 'thief' and a 'robber'.
Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. (John 10:1)
When the church first started read what Peter said about coming to eternal life:
Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit
Acts 2
Why are most all people changing and perverting the gospel truth today you may ask? There are many reasons at work and perhaps the biggest factor is man made denominational religion has warped and altered so much of God's Word over the many centuries. Here is a list that is but a few of them:
Man made denominational religion
Biblical ignorance
Emerging / false doctrines that have left the historical biblical truth
The desire to fill up the pews (for money/numbers) even if they are false converts
Preaching to itchy ears of this culture
Love of the flesh (no desire to repent or leave sinful ways)
An ever more man centered and Godless culture
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
2 Timothy 4
These weak gospel techniques are referred to as easy believeism by biblical Berean's and they miss the mark of God's Truth by many miles! They must be rejected as lies (Revelation 22:14-15) and be exposed as evil as well (Ephesians 5:11) Exactly why they are being offered in each case is known only by God but surely some of it today is in part to deceive, generate money/people in pews, to be popular and to cater to the flesh of people and not the truth of the Holy Word. The enemy satan is at work no doubt.
The salvation that God offers from our sinful state is a gift of God (see Romans 6:23) but those who truly received it and are born of God now desire to follow in holiness and obey their Lord out of love.
And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
Hebrews 5:9
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
Romans 6:1
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:8
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
1 John 3:9
Jesus warned about those who claim Him but they don't obey Him and He rejects them in the end.
Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
Matt 7
He also said this:
If you love me keep my commandments
John 14:15
The message of God's Holy Word is very clear.
Salvation is a gift of God received by faith alone through repentance that leads to a holy and obedient life lived all of your days as evidence you are truly His child.
Please don't ever settle for man's many false gospels that may fill up buildings and make people feel good; but it cannot honor a Holy God or redeem His true people that Christ came to save with His spirit and truth. (John 4:24)
We hope by reading our posts on the biblical gospel (loaded with God's Word) and hearing this sad true story that is not uncommon at all; you will see the importance of clinging to God's Word and His saving gospel alone and not be swayed into mans error that could led to one's damnation.
www.dontperish.com
Matthew 3:8
Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance