Denying the Power Thereof

The apostle Paul prophesied of these last times, saying that there would be many who would have a “form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.” And of these he said, “from such turn away" (II Tim.3:5). Usually when this scripture is mentioned it is said to be speaking of those who do not believe in miracles and the supernatural operation of the holy Ghost. And while it’s true that that kind of unbelief is included in the statement, it is more broadly and truly applied to those who do not believe in a complete and literal deliverance from the nature of sin. In other words it applies to everyone who is under the confusion and bondage of the modern traditions of Christianity. That is the earmark of Christianity today, to believe that sin is something that we all just have to live with; and we’re not accountable for our sins. Everyone who believes the Gospel of Christian ‘grace’ is simply acknowledging that they either are not reading the Bible, or that they don’t believe what they are reading. Not only so, but they are also acknowledging that they have either never experienced the true new birth, or that they have been led astray from what they experienced, if they have. "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body" (I Cor. 12:13). The holy Ghost baptism is how we get ‘into Christ,’ which according to II Cor. 5:17 is how we become "a new creature,” wherein we are told that “old things pass away, and all things become new.” So what are the things that ‘pass away,’ and what things ‘become new?’ "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.“ "And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness" (Rom. 6:6; Eph. 4:23,24). So with just those two scriptures we can see that Jesus died and rose for us to have a real deliverance from sin, and a real capacity to be holy. Friend there’s only one kind of holiness, and that is to simply not have sin. God is holy and he doesn’t have sin, and the scriptures are replete with the commandment of God, "Be ye holy, for I the Lord thy God am holy.”

So where does this Christian ‘grace’ come from that allows people to remain sinners, but not be accountable for sin because of their ‘faith’ in what Jesus did? The modern Christian Gospel of supposed grace was started by the false teachers that Jude spoke of: “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness" (Jude 1:4). When men preach a Gospel of grace that allows for sin to remain with those who believe that Gospel, that is absolutely turning the "grace of our God into lasciviousness.” It is also absolutely “denying the power” of the true Gospel of Christ, which Gospel the scripture says “is the power of God unto salvation" (Rom. 1:16). So I ask again the question that I asked in a recent post: Is God’s power sufficient to heal the sick, cast out devils, raise the dead, and perform any other kind of miracle except delivering us from the nature of sin that we we’re born with? If that’s the case, why do we have to be born again, and what is the new birth experience for? I know that we were all born with sin, but is that what the NEW BIRTH is about too? C’mon, I don’t think you can really believe that. All of these questions have actually already been answered by the few scripture references that have been used in this article, and the remainder of scriptures in the Bible only confirm these references. It is certain that they are not contrary. I have people who try repeatedly to convince me of the marvelous ‘grace’ of the modern Christian Gospel, and that sin is okay as long as we don’t like it. If we don’t like it, more than we are willing to put up with it, then we should purify ourselves from it by the power of God's holy Spirit as we are admonished by the scriptures to do. If we don’t, then according to the scriptures we will not be saved (I Jn, 3:3; Heb. 12:14). Flee the deadly web of these erroneous doctrines and traditions my friend, and hide yourself safely in Christ, where sin has no place (Rev. 18:4; Col. 3:1-10; I Jn. 3:5,6). Amen.