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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Saved—From Hell to Heaven or From Death to Life?, continued
So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. (Romans 7:4—NIV)
Satan in Peter would have prevented the blood atonement and also the triumphant resurrection of the Lord—all in the name of "love"!
On many occasions God does give us a love for people. We feel His love moving toward individuals to whom we are to be ministering. Such Divine love is very different from the "passion to save the lost from Hell" that is enjoined on believers, who ought to be fed the Word of God until they are ready to bear fruit.
The minute a baby is born into the Kingdom he is commanded to go out and get more babies. How about feeding the baby until he or she is old enough to get married to Christ?
There is no doubt in our mind, because of personal experiences we have had, that God at times permits a believer to feel the Divine passion, the Fire of Divine love that is always ready to receive the sinner who turns to Christ and begins to think, speak, and act in a righteous manner. But such Divine passion comes in God's time and in God's way to bring about God's purposes. It is not a duty to be laid on each convert, a duty to which the majority of believers are unable to respond but which only sears their conscience, deadens their faith, and denies them the food they must be fed if they are to grow to maturity in the Lord.
The Christian Church must always proclaim that the wages of sin is death and that there is no deliverance from God's wrath except through the Lord Jesus Christ. In addition the Church must address itself to changing the converts into new righteous creations through Christ's grace. If it does not it is just selling fire insurance and cares little about God's desire that His children walk in holiness and obedience to Himself.
Why don't we preach the Bible instead of the traditions of men? We have made a business out of "saving souls" with our "four steps of salvation." The Holy Spirit of God uses ten million steps of salvation.
We are presenting a packaged salvation, a canned forgiveness that operates by the wisdom and power of the flesh and sometimes is practiced for the glory of man. It lacks the breadth of God, the knowledge of the Lord, the timing of the Holy Spirit, the righteousness, holiness, and genuine compassion of the Holy One of Israel.
Nowhere in the New Testament is the salvation that is offered through the Lord Jesus Christ described as deliverance from Hell—nowhere!
The wicked are always assigned to Hell. The wicked belong in Hell.
People who continue in sin are worthy of death.
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. (Romans 1:32)
If the Lord Jesus came to deliver the wicked from Hell and death apart from their conversion into upright, holy behavior, He would be working against the righteous judgment of the Father.
To be continued.