Millions of Evangelicals in Hell
[because of the doctrine of "Grace Plus Nothing"]
"Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father,
so also the soul of the son is mine:"
"The soul that sinneth, it shall die." Ezekiel 18:4
Moral conditions in our days are worse than the days of Martin Luther. After Luther once found salvation and was justified by faith, his heart was caused to burn within him by the Holy Spirit. Men were buying indulgences for adultery, stealing, and all types of sins after or even before they had committed them. Their sin was considered unimportant and they had a certificate to prove it from "the church". Luther was aware that in the last 500 years anyone who had opposed "the church" was tortured and publicly burned to death. Yet the Holy Spirit insisted that he had to announce to all that "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." and he nailed the 95 thesis to the door of his church challenging all comers to prove that he was wrong.
We are in a worse situation today and the same thing must be done. This document is the equivalent of the 95 thesis for our day. The people in that day had to admit their sin and buy the certificate of absolution. Now for the greater part of evangelicals who have been taught the grace plus nothing doctrine, even this is unnecessary. Our seminaries have taught us for centuries that God foresaw from all eternity all who would be saved and every small detail of their lives including all the sins that would be committed from the foundation of the world. This doctrine is believed and taught by our most sincere and dedicated bible teachers such as Chuck Swindoll and John MacArther among multitudes of others. For centuries our Seminaries have taught us that God foresaw the sins that would be committed before we were saved and also the sins that would be committed after we were saved. It is taught that we are saved by Grace plus nothing. The message in our churches is that there is no problem, all sins have been forgiven past present and future, we have been freed from buying indulgences, by the reformation. Our evangelical congregations are filled with sin. But the Bible, the Word of God is being ignored. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." Multitudes have found this to be true as they have gone into eternity and fallen into hell. They are filled with consternation, and remorse in Hell. Vengeance has free unlimited application in Hell. They are saying just let us get our hands on our pastor who failed to warn us. Pastors are being, and will continue to be hunted down for eternity by the multitudes who have been misled.
Do all Christians Sin every Day?
Sin is considered lightly and little distinction is made between temptation and sin. It is declared that we all sin every day. When it should only say, we are all tempted every day. To King Saul, Samuel said, "Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned... " Sin is rebellion against God. I Sam. 15:23. Now God created man a little lower than the angels because the angels were able to look on the face of God. Because of this when they rebelled in sin against God there was no way to restore them and they were forever lost without any redemption possible. We cannot see the literal throne of God. When we sin we have a time of probation to decide and come to God as our Creator, confess our rebellion and admit our inability to even approach Him on our own merits only by the mediation of Jesus the Saviour. If we come to Him, relying on the finished work of Jesus and we ask that he give us his forgiveness and his strength to use the time we have left for the purposes that he has planned for us, we will with His help quit all our rebellion. We come into the covenant relationship in which we return the reaching out of God to us by reaching out to Him, constantly seeking to find and do the works and will of the Father with out reservation and God abides with us in our hearts. This abiding is the definition of the grace that saves. Nothing can keep us from being saved for his Spirit is given without measure to all who are fully yielded to Him. "For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." Jn. 3:34 We will find it necessary to suffer the same reproach from the rebels in this world as our Lord Jesus did, being made faithful by his power until death, even martyrdom.
God created man to populate his eternal Kingdom in the New Jerusalem. The glory of the kingdom had to be much more than the ornamentation, than in the streets of iridescent gold. It had to be in the quality of the subjects who populated it. They had to have freedom and the power to exercise private initiative, innovation and free will. For God to create this glorious kingdom, to have the subjects with this dynamic autonomy, God the Son had to decide to come and die at the hands of rebellious men before the creation of man. He placed man over all the world to subdue it, to sow and to reap. He then declared that man was His crop or his flock. "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand." Ps. 95:6-7 With the motive of love he created us and awaits our choice to come in "poorness of Spirit" that is to say in repentance and faith to serve him.
If when we die we are in rebellion against our Creator we are chaff to be burned eternally. If we have broken our rebellion and have come to Him in repentance, His spirit dwells with us without measure and by this walk in the Spirit we overcome all rebellion and sin.
