Gods Blogs

Evangelism is not about making a sales pitch and getting someone to repeat a prayer they don’t understand.  If that’s all we do, then we’re merely innoculating people against the Gospel and increasing the danger that their soul will be lost for all eternity.

True evangelism is about multiplying after our own kind.  Like it or not, we all do exactly that.  So, if we’re liars, we can tell people to be honest, but our example will be one of hypocrisy and that is the role model we will present for them to follow.  How can we teach someone to trust in Christ if we don’t?  If we’re entertaining sin, if we’re living in sin, if sin is our Lord, if sin is the one that gets our trust and obedience in practical matters?  If that is our condition, then how can we lead others to heaven while going to hell ourselves?

I have heard it said that approximately 40% of pastors have committed adultery.  I have a hard time accepting that figure as true.  But, I know that I have seen with my own eyes pastors of churches living in the most brazen and arrogant and flagrant sin, justifying sin, contending for sin, excusing sin, vigorously defending sin.  I have seen pastors turn the very churches they pastor into brothels of adulterous wedding ceremonies mocking the most holy and precious of God’s covenants and calling Jesus Christ a liar by calling “holy matrimony” that which Jesus has called “adultery”.  A couple comes to the pastor asking to be married.  One had already been married but filed for divorce after playing the whore on his or her marriage.  So, in the names of Tolerance and Love, a pastor will close his eyes to his responsibilities and attempt to correct God’s overly harsh and judgmental and ignorant and antiquated ways and bless this marriage born in the fiery pit of hell.  Oh, that Satan worship would be called what it is rather than “Christian love”.  What a scam!  What a lie!

Before we can truly minister, we must put to death all such lying, adultery, cowardice, and sin.  Our fear of man and service of Satan must be ended at once and we must run to Jesus Christ and lay ourselves prostrate on the ground crying and begging forgiveness — not because God is unwilling to forgive, but because the church has been so insincere that one begins to wonder how anyone can take any repentance to be sincere any more.   Hearts have grown cold to the heart of Christ, and have done so in the name of “love” and “tolerance”.

Until sin is dealt a death blow that is effective and true and real, there can be no true ministry.  Either Jesus is Lord of our lives or our flesh is Lord, and one can tell simply by examining who we obey and trust.  If there is one thing that can take away our obedience and trust from Jesus, then that thing is our Lord and we had better stop lying and covering up that fact if we ever want to come into a true and saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.  Hypocrisy and lying won’t get anyone into heaven.

But, when?  Later?  Later is a lie to cover up “never”.  It is always a lie to cover “never”.  Nobody can intend to repent later because when the intention is real, it always insists on laying the ax to the root of sin immediately and laying hold of God’s empowering and liberating grace — empowering and liberating not to live in sin without consequence as God’s beloved enemy from hell.  No such thing is possible — but empowering and liberating to live free from the rule of sin empowered by God’s grace that the Bible says is sufficient.

Until sin is dead, we must never attempt to minister.  It is a great tragedy when a minister gives his heart to Jesus and desires to serve Him the rest of his life and then falls back into a life of sin or never comes completely clean from sin.  It would be better for that minister to stop and forget about having the show go on and immediately press into God for a searching that is complete, refusing to offer a half repentance, refusing to offer a sacrifice that lacks obedience and trust.  After all, if we are saved by grace through faith but there is no true faith to bring about a real repentance that is complete, then how can one minister at all?  If we’re artificial Christians, we’ll reproduce artificial Christians.  If we’re cowards, we’ll serve Satan because perfect love has not cast out fear.  If we’re unfaithful to family, we’ll be unfaithful to God and if we’re unfaithful to God, we’ll be unfaithful to all.  One bit of leaven leavens the whole loaf.  Ninety nine percent pure is one hundred percent impure.  It often takes several truths to get one to believe a lie, and in that situation there is no honor whatsoever in those truths.   Similarly, a million good deeds cannot remove the root of evil that must be present in the heart for even one sin to take place.

Lay the ax to the root of sin and come to Jesus now for forgiveness or set your path toward hell and your example for your loved ones in the same direction.  Every moment of choosing is a “now” moment and never a “yesterday” or “tomorrow” moment.  Choose this day you must.  Who is your Lord this day?  This moment?  Will you make sin your utmost enemy, or will you make Jesus Christ your utmost enemy?  Which will it be?  Heaven or hell?  It is useless to attempt to minister people into heaven while living for hell.  Counterfeit preachers steal the resources from God and apply them to the purposes of hell.  Which will you be?  Counterfeit or real?  Choose this day?

Will you cast this and other writings like this off as obsolete?  Archaic?  Outdated?  That’s one way to get to hell and sooth one’s soul.  Will you focus on things to take your mind and other’s minds off of the truths mentioned here?  Are you too caught up in your life of luxury and comfort to be bothered?  Is your soul and spirit dead and your conscience seared?  Has the Holy Spirit been grieved away so that there will never again be a time in your life from now to eternity where you will ever be persuaded to consider the real things of God ever again?  Is it too late for you?  It is probably too late for many who have considered these things and written them off or who have promised to take them up later.  My friend, Bruce, did this and later hung himself.  He once knew the Gospel was true and desired to come clean and repent one day — some day — after he is married and has children.  But, at that time he was caught up in the temporary joys of sin and did not want to give them up yet.  Sin lead to a lost life and eventually he lost hope and chose to end his life in an act of sin never to hear the offer of grace from God ever again.

Will this be your end?  Will this be your children’s end?  Your parent’s end?  Will you cherish sin while playing the Christian?  Or will you make sure your repentance and salvation are complete?  Will you take hold of the promise of salvation offerred by anyone at random, or will you take it only from the one authorized and able to give it?