10/26/22 IT IS A PLAGUE OF DECEPTION

10/26/22 IT IS A PLAGUE OF DECEPTION

IT IS A PLAGUE OF DECEPTION

Just as we see that people water down the Biblical record for children (by actually changing the message), "preachers" have changed the message of salvation to the extent that the average church attender has no idea that God wants to, can and will deliver them from all temptation and sin.

In fact, God demands that we turn from all sin in our repentance. Today, when people talk about salvation, most folks deny that God requires and enables believers to turn from all sin, completely, all the time. They think that salvation is a free pass to heaven, while wallowing in the pig sty of this world.

This is not to say that the failure of a Christian cannot be forgiven or that those who falter along the way are unredeemable. God wants us to be saved more than we can imagine. What it does mean is that most people do not see salvation as deliverance from sin. They do not believe in a grace that reaches us in the gutter-most of life and then lifts us to the uttermost of love and holiness.

They see "salvation" as a forgiveness of sins, which leaves us powerless to overcome trials, testings and temptations. They mistakenly think that coming, "Just As I Am," means staying, pretty much "as I was." They think that God just clears our slate rather than transforming our entire inner being and conforming us to the image of Jesus, and leading us to walk in Christ's steps, away from sin and darkness.