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Evil Shall Not Prevent Us!

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Crass, Insolent Attitude Among Many Who Claim to Know Christ

“All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.” Amos 9:10

Note here in this very important verse that the LORD points out an inner attitude among His very own people (of all generations) that has and is leading to their undoing and ultimately the eternal damnation of many. Should we hearken to this warning and learn from history? It is incumbent upon us that we understand and carefully and conscientiously heed this warning before it is too late.

The covenant Jews of Amos’ day said in their hearts that “The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.” This reveals the insolent attitude possessed by these backslidden Jews. In their hearts they imagined “The evil we are now committing is not going to prevent us from the blessings of God, including eternal life.” These people, like many today, were self-deceived into thinking they would not receive a just recompense for their sinfulness. Their whole attitude is one of lightness toward the things of God and a crass disdaining of His holiness and command to be holy.

“All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.” Amos 9:10

Of this Amos 9 text, the Life in the Spirit Study Bible denotes:

“9:1-10 I SAW THE LORD. In this fifth vision, Amos saw the LORD beside the altar in His sanctuary, ready to destroy all the worshipers by bringing the sanctuary down upon their heads. Those who escaped would be killed by the sword; all the sinners among the people would die (v10). Likewise, when Christ returns, He will severely judge all within His churches who are living a sinful lifestyle; none of them will escape God’s wrath.”

Let’s look close at what the LORD is saying to us individually here in Amos 9:10. Please mark this verse in your Bible and make it a matter of personal study and focus. The Almighty identifies here an attitude among many who claim to know Him and He hates it. The first thing the LORD identifies is the “sinners” among His own “people” (not the lost) whom He guarantees will “die by the sword” which means to be eternally judged if they don’t repent. Why? Because they “say (in their hearts)” that “The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.” In other words they vainly imagine in their darkened, deceived hearts that the sin of worldliness they are living in will not “prevent” them from going to God’s holy Heaven because they have been made to believe that they are eternally secure – no matter what they do or do not do. Saints, this is the manifest fruit of this deadly lie of the ages and how it is playing itself out in the hearts and lives of men who have been poisoned by this arsenic satanic seed of the serpent.

Isn’t this the same dark-hearted attitude we see from God’s apostate people throughout the history of Israel?

“For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD. They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword (judgment) nor famine:” Jeremiah 5:11-12

Were we not warned that we shall not escape the judgment of God if we “neglect” to obey His Word of salvation?

“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation.” Hebrews 2:3

The most insidious aspect of this whole deadly deception that is transpiring in our midst is that smiling, comforting men who in many cases are very sincere (yet sincerely deceived), are teaching this lethal lie utilizing selected and out of context Scripture texts to communicate it and make it palatable (acceptable). This they do in the face of Scripture like 1 Peter 4:17-18, which reveals that only a few of those made righteous will escape eternal judgment.

“For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?” 1 Peter 4:17-18

Who is the Almighty going to judge? He is starting at “the house of God” and promises that “the righteous scarcely be saved.”

These who teach and those who buy into the lie of lasciviousness vainly imagine that there will be no judgment to come upon them for their sins. Though some live in sin, they fully believe that they are “eternally secure.” But what does the LORD say?

“And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.” 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10

According to 2 Thessalonians 1, the two classes of people to be “punished with everlasting destruction” are:

“Them that know not God”

and those

“that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ”

“MY PEOPLE KNOW NOT THE JUDGMENT OF THE LORD”

“Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return (repent). I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?” Jeremiah 8:4-9

Concerning this text (in Jeremiah 8:7), Donald Stamps, in the Life In the Spirit Study Bible, writes:

“MY PEOPLE KNOW NOT THE JUDGMENT OF THE LORD.’ The people were ignorant of God’s law. Moreover, their leaders so distorted the Word of God and falsified its message that the people were assured they could sin without condemnation (v.8). In a similar manner, the apostle Peter speaks of those who twist the word of God to their own destruction and to the destruction of others (cf. 2 Pet. 3:16). We must beware of any ministers who teach that those who willfully continue in sin and rebellion against God will still inherit salvation and the kingdom of God (see 1 Cor. 6:9-10).”

“ye shall not surely die”

A refusal to truly repent and die to self is the reason some believe the OSAS myth.

This is the same deadly falsehood that has echoed through the corridors of history and is alive and well in our day, propagated by those claiming to be the representatives of the Son of God, who never hinted nor taught such a doctrine.

To equate this Lie of the Ages, sin-justifying heresy to the grace and Gospel of Jesus Christ is nothing less than blasphemous! The historical account of Jesus Christ reveals in crystal clear language that He came to take away sin and save His people from not in their sin. Any person who believes they are saved and yet is living in sin, is under the judgment of the Almighty. Any person teaching that one who was once saved is always going to be saved no matter what, is teaching a false gospel and “deceiving the hearts of the simple.” (Rom. 16:17-18) Beware!

If Jesus Christ came to die and take away about sins, how is it that we justify living in them?

Creating a god in their own image, some vainly imagine that the LORD in not going to judge them for living in sin and that He somehow understands their sins. Perhaps the world of sin-justifying psychology has corrupted their minds.

While speaking about obeying and abiding in Him, Christ stated:

“If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.” John 15:22

There is no excuse for living in sin after Christ shed His blood to be the propitiation for our sins.

The Lie of the Ages is embodied in the notion or idea that man can live in disobedience to his Maker and still remain in His grace. We must deny emotions and sediments and lock into and wholly embrace God’s written revelation of Himself. If not, we will be at risk of being separated from His presence as the first man and woman and millions upon millions throughout history have been.

Biblical version of salvation is one of initial faith to be justified and to continue in that faith, accessing His grace while abiding in Him and His teachings.

PRAYER: LORD Almighty, You told us in Your Word that You are going to judge Your own people and that those who justify sinning will be eternally damned. In any way my thinking has been corrupted and contaminated by the lie that justifies sin, please forgive and cleanse me Jesus. LORD please purify my heart, thoughts, actions, and life. Please fill me afresh with Your Holy Spirit and Your truth. I now return to You and love You Holy Father and look forward with fervency to being with You and Jesus my Savior and LORD. In Jesus’ holy name. Amen.

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Sabbath Keeping, Justification, Sports, and Non-Essentials [podcast]

Hint: If something is not specifically named as a sin in God’s Word, leave others alone about it. MYOB, right? (Mind Your Own Business)

In this podcast, you will hear about a Recent Phone Call from Hell I received and how it was dealt with.

Over the years, I’ve conversed with men who are religious but not saved. Oh and boy are they fervent and sincere, and yet sincerely dead wrong. This particular phone conversation was no different. Many times Paul’s writings were born out of his defense of the faith of the original Gospel and this message is the same. Perhaps there’s a two-fold blessing in this:

Continuing to established the essentials set forth in the original Gospel of Christ (John 21:15-17; 1 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 3:15-17, etc.).
A constructive example of how to biblically handle religious people like this (remember Jesus was most stern and straight with the rich and the religious. See Matthew 23, etc.).

“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 14:12

If all your religious activity hasn’t produced “righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost”, all you have thus far is religion, not Jesus. Listen closely to what happens when Jesus saves you:

“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” Romans 14:17

This is the truth of God, the fruit granted to all who’ve truly believed on the LORD Jesus Christ and thereby been saved. One thing’s for certain: The LORD desires to give you “righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost”.

Jesus is the Sabbath of Every Saved-by-Grace New Testament Saint – Not a Certain Day

“Sabbath” means intermission, to rest. All of God’s people now rest from attempting to keep the law perfectly and instead rest in the righteousness of Christ, the only One who ever kept the law perfectly.

“For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.” Hebrews 4:3

“Hebrews 4:3: For we which have believed do enter into rest – The great spiritual blessings, the forerunners of eternal glory, which were all typified by that earthly rest or felicity promised to the ancient Israelites, we Christians do, by believing in Christ Jesus, actually possess. We have peace of conscience, and joy in the Holy Ghost; are saved from the guilt and power of sin; and thus enjoy an inward rest.” Adam Clarke

“There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.” Hebrews 4:9-10

“In Hebrews 4:10 we are directed to our risen Lord, who has finished the work of Redemption and rests, as God did when He pronounced Creation to be ‘very good.’ When we understand what He meant by ‘It is finished’, we, too, shall rest.” FB Meyer

Some today uphold a certain day instead of the LORD who makes all days (Galatians 4:9-11). They prove to be lost souls. False teachers are known in that they uphold something, ANYthing other than Christ.

“Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.” Colossians 2:14-19

Justification

It has been wisely stated that “If you’re flirting with Moses, you’re cheating on Jesus.”

Have you memorized John 1:17 ?

“For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” John 1:17

How does God save us?

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9

The law finds us all guilty of breaking it. Even if it were just once, just one law we broke, we are guilty of breaking all of it and 100% fully worthy of death.

“For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” James 2:10

God alone can justify us and He does such exclusively through the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ His only begotten Son. “It is finished” means “paid in full.”

“When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.” John 19:30　

“Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” Romans 4:4-5

“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” Romans 5:1-2

“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” Romans 10:4

Sports are Not a Sin – Unless they become One’s Idol or put before God.

Paul uses three different sports/games to illustrate spiritual truths, realities. This alone informs us, proves that sports in and of themselves, games, are not a sin. Running (track and field), boxing, and wrestling (1 Corinthians 9:24, 26; Ephesians 6:12).

In all the lists of soul damning sins found in Scripture, not one of them names sports or playing a game as a sin. If that were the case, playing a game of cards with grandma, or going to a nephew’s soccer game, would be a sin. Not. However, the misuse of anything on this earth can come out of a sinful heart of idolatry. Use and misuse. Work out YOUR own salvation with fear and trembling and cease being a busybody in the lives of other believers concerning things not essential to one’s salvation (Romans 14; Philippians 2:12-13; 1 Peter 4:15).

“And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.” 1 Corinthians 7:31

What the Bible Teaches about Non-Essentials, Things not Essential to Salvation.

Never judge or destroy God’s work in the life of another saint for things that are non-essential, NOT essential to salvation.

“Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. 5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. … 15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. … 20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.”

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