The Daily Word of Righteousness

Grace, and the New Covenant, #9

Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: (Ezekiel 13:22)

The current teaching that no believer will be punished at the Judgment Seat of Christ, that we should reverence God but not fear Him, that once we make a profession of Christ we never can have our name blotted from the Book of Life, and similar teachings are all coming from Satan. "Thou shalt not surely die." It is the same voice. The same lie. It will have the same results—unbearable agony followed by certain destruction.

Every one of God's ministers should throw on the dung heap the terribly destructive doctrine that no believer will be punished at the Judgment Seat of Christ. It is the very opposite of the history of Israel and the prophecies of Jeremiah. It is worse than a myth or error. It tells the disobedient, the rebel, the adulterer, the covetous, he shall live and not die. It presents a false picture of God. It creates moral havoc! It is weighed in the balances and found wanting.

Millions of the Christians of our day are heading toward an angry Christ unless God in His goodness sends such suffering that they turn from their wicked ways and seek the Lord.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (II Chronicles 7:14)

American Christians do not take this Scripture too seriously because they have been taught that they will go to Heaven whether or not they humble themselves; whether or not they pray; whether or not they seek God's face; whether or not they turn from their wicked ways.

The watchmen are not warning the sinners in Zion. The sinners will die in their sin but their blood will be required at the hands of the ministry.

When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. (Ezekiel 3:18)

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Romans 8:13)

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21)

Are you one of those who believe we can ignore the warnings of the Prophets and Apostles and still live in God's sight? I hope you are not!

To be continued.