Christians awake, the bell has rung and the trumpet has blown. Today in America we have divisions between the denominations that make up our religious community. One is very vast and growing. They are wide open and traveling down a smooth road with a lot of company. They seem to accept everything and claim it good for the gospel of Christ. This group wants to allow more of the world in their activities. This group believes you can be saved from your sin but you don't have to be separated from it. It does not matter if you drink, smoke, sware, or have sex outside of marriage, you are still saved. Their excuse is Christ died for all sin on the cross and your sins are wiped away if you believe in him. Believing in Christ and living for Christ are totally different and if you don't know it today, you will in the end.
Their method is to allow the influence of secular activity in their work in order to bring future converts in and win them for Christ. The truth is, the world cannot and will not save a soul from hell. They also want to coexist with all other religions in an effort to share Jesus in a non-offensive way. Unfortunately the word of God is truth and it can be very offensive. They want a perfect world and are doing what they can to achieve it. Love is what they proclaim, and that is what we are to show them. Love is a wonderful gift of God and to share the love of Christ is what we are intended to do. Without it we are useless for his cause, but what we need to understand is the work on the cross and what that meant then and now. That is the love we need to display. Neither your love nor mine will outshine Christ.
We need to witness and bring sinners in and have them accept the Lord as Savior. The true word needs to be spoken from the pulpit and pray they will receive it and allow the Holy Spirit to convict them. Listen love is great, but love does not save, conviction does. If you are always patting me on the back and saying that my life is fine, I will have love and no conviction. Now, if you through God's word tell me that if I have sin in my heart I will die and go to a devils hell. Is that love better? Is there conviction?
I remember the words of Christ when he told the disciples to go into the entire world and preach the gospel to every creature. Let me say, we are to go out among them, not have them come and dictate to us how we should be. This type of religion is vain and they will still be having church and living the good life in the name of religion when the true church is taken from the world.
Another type of religion is more of a personal nature. They are those who know we need to be separated from the world and live the life God requires us to live. They want to be spotless and blameless when their Lord comes. They know we must be witnesses for Christ and not just a messenger boy who does not live what he speaks. Just as Christ said, go out and compel them to come in that my house will be full. They believe you must turn away from your sin in order to be saved. They proclaim the importance of having a repentant heart and doing the will of God, not man. This group is smaller than the other and seems to be slipping out of the mainstream light of this world. They are looking for a better one that is to come. The road they are on is bumpy and small and not very crowed. Which road or you on? Get up and get into the battle!
Stanley Davis, Author, Writer, and Minister.
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Author of "Hot leads and cold cases", (from the case files of Peter Stone) series, A message to the Church Minister at Servant Heart Ministries in Alabama.
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