One of my favorite blogs to read is Soup's Kitchen. A couple days ago Soup wrote a great piece on the Blood of Jesus that I just have to direct your attention to. In a time where ‘feel good’ sermons are drawing masses of people to churches that never preach the Gospel and then ‘invite’ people to come to Christ, Soup brings to light the fact that many people who confess Christ are not confessing the Christ of the Bible.
Many people believe that there is a “god”, but fail to acknowledge the fact of sin and sins consequences.
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Auntie -
Yes, when we choose not to accept God's Grace of forgiveness of sins through the Blood of Christ, we will be separated from God for eternity.......but thats only part of the consequence. The Bible is clear, very clear that there will be torment for eternity in a real place called hell.
I'm not calling you a 'feel good' person, I'm just believe that when people are preached to, they should be told 'the whole truth'. Not just the fluffy marshmellow stuffing.
Yes, Jesus loves us. That's why He came here to save us. That's why the Father sent Him (John 3:16).
Imagine you saw your child playing on a railroad track with a full speed train bearing down on him. Would you slowly walk toward the child softly telling him that you loved him and wished he would move off the track? Or would you be running and screaming all the way to the tracks to pull him off before he was struck and killed?
I know you would choose the latter because you loved your child more than anything and would never want to see him harmed.
The same is true with God. He loved us so much that He sent His One and Only Son to die in our place. Why? To save us from our sins and the wrath to come for those sins.
People are coming forward today to call Jesus their Savior and 'fall away' later. The problem is they never fell forward. They heard a feel good sermon that had no eternal effect on their souls.
I like you Auntie, very much. You are a warm hearted person, I can tell.
Yes, there are people who will never listen to a message that preaches only hell. Preaching only Hell will send people away quicker than a fool at the gas pump trying to light a smoke.
That's why good preaching addresses the conscience. A person needs to hear why they need to be saved before they can be told how to be saved.
I mean think about it, who needs to fear God when He has no thoughts of retribution? Non-offensive style preaching has minimized the exceedingly offensive nature of sin by removing God's Law from its message. Sin has merely become something that separates, rather than what it is--an anvil for the Justice of a holy God.
Is this the same Soup that went nuts on Vox Day's blog and got himself banned?
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