The Antithesis of Grace

The seeker-sensitive movement and most 'progressive' modern congregations would unequivocally agree with such opinions as these, regarding preaching the Gospel: ‘Don’t warn them about Hell, or the wrath of God’, ‘Just let your light shine’, etc. However, these sentiments smack in the face of Biblical hermeneutics, reformers such as Martin Luther, great preachers like Spurgeon and Jonathan Edwards, whom stress warning the lost of Hell as an essential component of Grace through Faith.

This newer, overbearing doctrine is but a slice of modern church corruption; no personal offense intended, but I feel these seeker-sensitive teachings are schismatic and have been one of the chief offenders of causing corruption in the Body of Christ, thus making gain of the sheep. It turns the Grace of our Lord Jesus into lasciviousness, telling the lost that they can come to Christ via taking the term "saved" and disconnecting it from the eternal wrath of God that will be poured on them if they reject Christ, the only way of salvation; this in turn creates ‘churches’ full of false converts, whom are ready and willing to pay tithes, like buying indulgences. This is the antithesis of Grace.

Let's face it, the thing that the lost hate to hear the most is the fact that God will judge them one day for their wickedness, and will throw them away from Him into eternal darkness; what the modern false church has done is try to convince the lost that ‘God loves you just the way you are’, as if God would want pigs in the Holy of Holies. These assertions imply that God, instead of pouring His wrath out on the lost did it to his Son so now God’s wrath is really no big deal, misapplying the Scripture of “God’s kindness leads us towards repentance’, overlooking the fact that God’s kindness is what stopped Him from casting us all into hell as wicked and unprofitable sinners. But, for the righteous, mercy triumphs over judgment, and we rejoice in His grace, knowing the depths of the punishments we were saved from.

When we warn people of Hell, we know that God’s wrath is terrible, but by believing in Christ as Lord, the only way of salvation, we can be spared God’s wrath and judgment, and be made sons and co-heirs with Christ in the Kingdom of God for all eternity. For us, through Christ, crushing brought healing, but for the wicked crushing brings death. Why would anyone forbid warning the lost of an eternal death so horrible and terrible, leading them instead into modern religion, thus denying them the Way of Salvation. What then have these supposed converts been saved from?

As Jesus our Lord said: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.” Matt 23:15

- Steven

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