Sunday 31 May 2015

K031. The true gospel that Jesus preached is not just to make people feel less condemned

Many 'grace' preachers say, "Only the gospel of grace is the true gospel because it is the only gospel that really show more love, more grace, and more Jesus Christ. Hence, naturally and DIVINELY, we who preach grace have the most noble intention to help people to feel less condemned and to prosper them; not ourselves. But, yet we are still the most misunderstood by those who are jealous of us in spite of our great teaching  .."
I will tell them, I cannot judge your intention because I am not God but I can judge that your basis of preaching the gospel is so wrong (so subtly - probably nobody notice that you've used these words in the beginning of your preaching "Only the gospel of grace is true .." ):

1. The true gospel is not based on our intention. We may have very good and noble intention to preach it; but if it is the false gospel, it can never become true based on the intention of our preaching it. Of course, we are not particular about it whether we can preach everything right and complete in one sermon; but if we  cannot preach from the right basis, everything that we preach will crumble, even if we preach beautifully and convincingly.

2. The true gospel is not to remove the condemnation feeling of the sinners or the people who sin. It is to remove sin. Hence, if a so-called 'gospel of love, peace, prosperity, or grace' can make people (both sinners or saints) feel less condemned, it is not necessarily the true gospel. Please think, If the gospel is just to help people to feel less condemned, does it make sense for Jesus to upbraid or reprove the cities and all the people in the cities?
Mat 11:20-24 KJV  Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:  ..  (24) But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
Mar 6:11-12 KJV  And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.  (12)  And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
Act 2:37 KJV  Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
If the true gospel is just to make people feel less condemned, why would Jesus and His disciples preach repentance to Jerusalem and the cities like Nineveth, Sodom, and Gomorrha? Yes, some of the Jews might not feel condemned, no matter how we preach, or whether we preach more condemnation or less condemnation. But I believe that many who felt condemned by their sins would repent.

Now I will ask the radical grace preachers, If the true gospel is just to help the people to feel less condemned, are you saying that Jesus and His disciples had preached the wrong gospel or the obsolete gospel that is inferior to yours?

Of course, I do not deny that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the gospel of grace; but it is not just all about grace. I have said in (K029) that the gospel of Jesus Christ is to be saved by grace and to take up our cross and follow Him. Of course, we may not want to rebuke the people too harshly if they would just want to keep thinking of the grace of God or just the repentance of sins because of their ignorance.
Heb 5:12-14 KJV  For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; .. (6:1) Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God .. (3)  And this will we do, if God permit.  (4)  For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

But, if the ignorant would keep using their ignorance to nullify whatever Jesus has said (words), taught (doctrine), and commanded (commandments), something is not right with what they believe even if they profess that they have right believing and that they always have good intention to help others to feel less condemned. In this case, we have no choice but to rebuke them with the words, doctrine, and commandments of Jesus Christ:
Mat 7:22-24 KJV  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?  (23)  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.  (24)  Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
I used to think that those who work iniquity or lawlessness are those who are lawless, but now I realize that, in the eyes of the Lord, those who work iniquity are those who know (or receive) His words and ignore doing them (nullify, corrupt, or twist His words to justify their old selves for not doing them).

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