Setting the Record Straight!

GodThoughtsWired!                Thursday, October 13, 2011*

Evangelizing the Church in the Age of Delusion

Setting the record straight!

"...Because they did not receive
the love of the truth
so as to be saved.  For this reason
God will send upon them
a deluding influence
so that they will believe what is false."2 Thessalonians 2:10-11, bold mine

DELUSION:  "a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact."

The age of delusion is harsh!  "Many...will mislead many...Many...will mislead many...so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect" (see Matthew 24:5,11,24).

The truth is (which is another way of saying, the Bible clearly teaches), there is no such thing as salvation without a changed life.

"Therefore if anyone is in Christ,
he is a new creature;
the old things passed away;
behold, new things have come."
-2 Corinthians 5:17, bold mine

Do you see it?  Everyone who is truly saved is a new creature...everyone!  One of the "new things" to come is the Holy Spirit, along with His power to enable us to "walk by the Spirit and not carry out the desires of the flesh" (see Galatians 5:16).

"And we are witnesses of these things;
and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God
has given to those who obey Him."-Acts 5:32, bold mine

Tragically, and ridiculously, more and more teachers are teaching a false gospel that says you can become a Christian without being a disciple.  It's like saying, "You can be a follower of Jesus Christ without following Him."

And my response?

DELUSION:  "A fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact."

*Originally published March 15, 2011

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