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A man sleeps with a woman .
They commit fornication .
The lady begins to weep profusely that she has sinned . She begins to ask for forgiveness .
Now the man who is a preacher begins to calm her down .
He says “ There is no condemnation to us who are in Christ . You need to know who you are in Christ . This thing we did is under the blood and you don’t need to cry because we slept together . We have already been forgiven for our sins. Stop crying. If your heart condemns you , God is greater than your heart “
The lady was shocked .
She came to me for counseling .
She began to ask “ is it wrong that I felt bad for what I did ? I slept with a pastor . I sinned with a person who is supposed to provide spiritual guidance. But the pastor didn’t even seem to think we did anything wrong . He showed no remorse and was telling me I didn’t know the word enough because I felt bad “
Doctrines have implications.
Statements like “ you don’t need to confess your sins to God , confess who you are “ have implications.
“ The Holyghost doesn’t convict the believer of his sin but his righteousness. He convicts the sinner of his sin “ has implications.
“ No matter what you do or how you live your salvation is intact “ has implications.
“ Even if you are fornicating and committing adultery at the return of the Lord, you will go with the Lord “ has implications.
You will never find that tone in scriptures .
A message about sin that isn’t aggressively against sin , that doesn’t generate divine hatred and repulsion towards everything that rebels against God will not produce well behaved believers.
Teachings on identity cannot be done without instructions in righteousness .
The saved man is the sanctified man .
The saved man produces holy actions .
He is not the man committing adultery at the second coming of the Lord .
He is the one who by the grace of God is producing fruit consistent with eternal life !
Amen !
@Preacherrapper Excuse me sir.
Does it mean that God has changed, that the one in the old testament and the one revelation proclaim to come are all different God?
Because it's nauseating how you people talk eat with one side of your teeth, as if the other side is removed or bad..
The painful truth is this…
If the average believer in Nigeria were to read the Book of Acts without the influence of our present culture, he would almost conclude that he was reading about an entirely different religion.
Somewhere along the journey… we changed the tune.
The Church in the Bible sang one song. The Church in Nigeria has gradually learned another.
The Church in the Bible sought conformity to CHRIST.
We seek acceptance from men. They raised disciples.
We have become experts at raising audiences.
The sound coming from our altars is no longer the sound that echoed through Jerusalem… through Antioch… through Ephesus… through the Church that “turned the world upside down.”
The frightening part is this…
A generation can become so accustomed to a substitute that it mistakes it for the original.
And perhaps that is where we are.
We have become familiar with a version of Christianity that the Apostles would scarcely recognize.
One of the greatest judgments that can befall a people is not that they abandon the Bible.
It is that they continue holding the Bible while no longer allowing the Bible to define them.
I fear this is where the Church in Nigeria now stands.
We still raise our Bibles. We still quote the Scriptures.
We still end every sermon with, “GOD bless you.” But somewhere between the Upper Room and our generation…
We changed the tune. Read the Book of Acts carefully.
Read the Epistles slowly. Read the words of our LORD without trying to defend our present condition.
Then ask yourself… Who changed? Because it certainly was not GOD. The Gospel has not changed.
The HOLY GHOST has not changed. The demands of discipleship have not changed.
The cost of following CHRIST has not become cheaper. We changed. We altered the sound.
If you are reading this, can you make a solemn vow to the LORD. Tell HIM, “You will commit Your entire life to ensuring that this Gospel will not change in your hands.”