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| God's wrath: vengeance, punishment, and anger as the consequence of sin. This will be the experience of the majority of the 7 billion people on the face of the earth. Offending God is not a trivial matter.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him. John 3:36
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. Romans 1:18-19
But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. God "will give to each person according to what he has done." To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. Romans 2:5-10 | | |
| We are surrounded by bad examples of the Christian religion. This bad religion often called liberalism in recent history has several major themes: 1) God is not full of wrath 2) Jesus is not a real king who demands submission in his kingdom 3) the average man is not really that sinful. This bad religion has no need for the continuation of the radical Christian movement portrayed in the New Testament. In fact that early Christian movement idea is suppressed in our modern church to make room in the local church for folks in the community who are willing to give up nothing. | | |
| Biblical commitment is the mark of every true disciple: unconditional commitment to the lordship of Jesus Christ. That means all of life - vocation, possessions, relationships, talk, play - is fully at God's disposal. Every member of the body is supposed to be a world Christian. (That means commited to making disciples of all people groups of the world). If not, someone is in rebellion or ignorant. But biblical commitment is not just passive - it is proactive, an eager listening for God's call, a searching of God's will, an involvement in God's cause of world evangelism whatever the location or vocation.
The response at the end of a missions conference is also a commitment. It is a choice to obey God's call to a very special vocation that is at the cutting edge of God's purposes for world redemption.
Because we live in an era when commitment to anything or anyone is not considered worthy of an independent person in control of his or her own destiny, bent on finding personal fulfillment, the ancient call to commitment may be more difficult to accept than in earlier days. Perhaps that is why the volunteers are so few and the dropouts so many. But God still expects commitment, unconditional and irrevocable, both for the one whom he would call to special missionary service and for every true disciple. - Robertson McQuilkin | | |
| I've written a little in the past about the so-called "lordship salvation" controversy. It is a debate over the necessity of Jesus being one's Lord for salvation. Many pastors that are opposed to lordship salvation come out of Dallas Theological Seminary in north Texas. I have personally interacted with some of these pastors in Texas and have seen the damage to the Christian movement that they have caused.
This group created an organization called the Grace Evangelical Society to promote their false views. Which is helpful, since it lets you know what churches to avoid.
http://www.faithalone.org/churches/index.html | | |
| Soren Kierkegaard was an interesting fellow. Today he is famous as a philosopher. But he was also a Christian who spent a good bit of his time writing against the corrupt state church.
"The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obligated to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world? Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church's prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament." | | |
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