GO AHEAD ...You can sin and get away with it

That was really the message Satan gave to Eve in the garden. “Ye shall NOT surely die ...” God doesn’t REALLY mean what He said — you CAN sin and get away with it. God isn’t going to do anything about it. You would think after 6,000 years of experience and seeing what sin really does to people, men would finally wise up to this lie of the devil, but we see that such is not the case at all. Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth DEATH — EVERY time, no exceptions. But the gospel the people still want to hear the most is the one that will give them this same message. The preacher they seek after the most is the one who will echo Satan’s words in their ears:  “Ye shall not surely die.” While they profess to know God, but in works deny Him; while they claim to be redeemed, but continue in their sin; while they comfort themselves with the idea that they “are going to heaven when they die” yet remain as much in and of the world as any child of the devil, it sure is a comfort to them to hear “ye shall not surely die.” The devil doesn’t have to come to them with these words himself because he has plenty of mouthpieces in the pulpits of the churches.

“Once saved, always saved!” has brought forth so much rotten fruit that even those who truly believe in the doctrine of eternal security are ashamed and blush to hear these words. The very basis of “once saved, always saved” is “ye shall NOT surely die” even though you live in continual, habitual sin for years after your “conversion.” You CAN sin and get away with it — God isn’t going to do anything about it. Whether you like it or not; whether you believe it or not, THAT IS the message that is understood by most people when this doctrine is taught in this distorted manner. Look at how the young people have turned out that have grown up in the fundamental Baptist churches. By far the majority of them live as if they believe they can sin and get away with it — you know they do! They really don’t believe that God is going to do anything about it either.

There is eternal security for the BELIEVER, and for no one else. There is no way you can take the Bible and give security to an unbeliever, yet that is what most try to do using the doctrine of “once saved, always saved.” A believer is clearly taught in the Bible as one who is believing in Christ RIGHT NOW. A believer is not someone who made a start and believed one time at some point in the past, but now doesn't care a thing about God or his church. That person is an unbeliever.
(1 John 2:19)  They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Woe to the preacher, or any person, who tries to twist and wrest the Scriptures to give such a person “security!” What an ungodly, wicked, and stupid thing to do! Here is a person who is deceived and deceiving themselves and then someone who claims to have understanding about the things of God and the way of salvation echoes to them the very words of the devil that brought sin into the world in the first place. Get mad, holler and scream, disagree with what is being said here if you want, but whether you like it or not, “THE SOUL THAT SINNETH, IT SHALL SURELY DIE,” GOD says so. God also says, “SIN, WHEN IT IS FINISHED BRINGETH FORTH DEATH” — EVERY TIME, NO EXCEPTIONS, AND NOBODY IS EXEMPTED!

Surely there is someone reading this now who says to themselves, “this ignorant hillbilly doesn’t understand the gospel at all.” Let me say that if you understand the gospel to be an exemption from the penalty of sin, and therefore, a license to continue in sin, you are the one who is deceived. You are deceived by your corrupt education that you received at the feet of false teachers, and you are deceived by the pride of your heart because you think you have such a higher understanding than some of us poor dummies who still think sin is 100% deadly. You are as deceived by the devil as Eve was!

Eternal security is a true doctrine that has been distorted, added to, and used to destroy the foundations of the gospel message. The distorted teaching of this doctrine has changed salvation from a life-changing deliverance from the bondage of sin to nothing more than a little ritual, basically no different than the Catholics. Say a little prayer, acknowledge a list of facts, and you are in, and on your way to heaven, no matter what happens from now on. You may not set foot inside a church the rest of your life, but you made a profession of faith, and no one can say you aren’t saved now. You are going to heaven, “whether you want to or not.” “You may go kicking and screaming, but you are going.” “You may go early, but you ARE going to heaven.” HOGWASH! You better not be so foolish as to believe the devil on that one! It is the same thing he told Eve 6,000 years ago!

Hey, if you don’t believe this, then why do you tell saved people to ask forgiveness from God when they sin? Didn’t He forgive them their past, present, and future sins when they got “saved?” That is what you told them. Maybe you better go back and think that one over, too, ...huh? Preachers preach a distorted view of eternal security and then try to put a little fear back into people about sin by threatening them with “chastisement,” saying, “God will chasten you if you live in sin.” But at the same time they refer all the time to people as “saved” who are living in continual, open, habitual sin, and prospering well in the world. The young people, and multitudes of others who have passed through our ranks, have watched for a while now and listened to this phony baloney and they have rejected it’s powerless message. If it is true that God chastens only HIS children, (and it IS true) then that means there aren’t many of HIS children in the modern church, because there aren’t many who are being chastened, and everybody knows it. God chastens us to straighten us out and He knows what will work. What I hear described as chastisement these days doesn’t usually work this way.

The only hope is to get some reality back in our Christianity. When Ananias and Saphira lied to the Holy Ghost they dropped dead on the spot, and it put fear in everybody. There is no fear of God in our churches today. He is a great big, cuddly, kind and gentle old man upstairs who doesn’t do anything about sin but forgive it. So search your message REALLY well and see if the people are hearing, “Go ahead and sin, you can get away with it — God isn’t going to do anything about it.” We can’t MAKE people live right, but we sure can try to make them realize there WILL be fearful consequences if they don’t. Make sure your message is pure and FROM GOD. God will not give people this message. There was a vast difference in what God told Adam and Eve and what the serpent told Eve. The words were similar, but the message on the receiving end was completely different. That is what has happening in our churches for years and we are beginning to reap the harvest now.   Make straight the way of the Lord, — John 1:23

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