This new gospel of ‘love and kindness’ is a flawed gospel, the same as any other gospel that is not the Gospel of the Kingdom. The name is a pseudonym at best used to demonize members of the household of faith. It is based upon snippets of scripture taken out of the context of which they were spoken and applied to our daily lives. The promulgation of this gospel is a means of camouflaging and justifying sin. Christians are urged not to judge or condemn, but to project a gospel of love and kindness. This is equivalent to disarming the enemy, then engage him in battle. This urging has rendered the Word of God impotent. Jesus did not hesitate to cast out demons and the use of the whip was an acceptable tool.
The new science teacher stood before his unruly class and informed them, “I was not sent here to give any of you a failing grade, my job is to teach you so that you will pass”… Can it be inferred from the above statement that nobody in the class would fail? At the end of the school year the failure rate was forty-four percent, did the teacher fail to perform his duties? Who failed who? The young student standing in the teacher’s office, eyes fill with tears stammered out, “you said you was not going to fail us.” Maybe the answer to this puzzle can be found in the last part of his speech.
John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. The purpose of the science teacher was not to fail students.
Mankind deserved condemnation, and it would have been right to have pronounced it; but God was willing that there should be an offer of pardon made through the action of his Son and after that condemnation and judgment. If we study the teaching of Jesus, we would learn that Jesus is saying I don’t condemn you, you condemn yourself.
The science teacher reflected back on the speech he had given the class. My closing words were, “If you fail to take advantage of what I have to offer, then you will fail. I gave you all of the tools, I even gave you all of the answers. You failed yourself by refusing to live up to your potential.”
1 John 3:20-21 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.If our heart condemn us, we are condemned. In the presence of the gospel all sin is condemned. When the true Gospel is presented all sin is condemned.
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. The opposite is if we choose to walk after the flesh we are condemned. John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Because of this love and kindness extended by God, certain peculiarities were extended. Yet, when Jesus said, “ask and it shall be given”, does not mean we can say, Lord, deliver me from the storm and it will be done. A common sense application would have John the Baptist crying out, “Lord, deliver me.” Instead of Paul saying, “I am ready to be offered”, maybe he should have said, “Jesus, if you love me, deliver me from this storm.”
Now we know the story, because the bible is a history of God’s interaction with his creation. The Bible is not a book of platitudes to be surgically separated and used as a post or prop as we complete our journey of life. The Bible tells us how it all began and it tells us how it is going to end. The Bible is not a guidebook of how to stand on the banks of the Red Sea and invoke God to part the waters. Nor was the Bible intended to be used as a motivational guidebook that tells us how to achieve richness.
The Bible tells of a God who created man and how he loved humanity. It tells us of how mankind treated his creator and caused his anger and wrath to build. The Bible teaches us that somewhere around four thousand years God showed his never-ending love for his chosen people. A special and chosen people to replenish the earth and have dominion over it after the Devil had brought ruin to his paradise. These people, loved by God, followed a path that was contrary to God’s plan. God showed his love by not destroying them, he divorces them and scattered them among the nations. Then God became silent for four hundred years, and his wrath began to build.
In the fullness of time because of his undying love for his creation, he sent his son as defined in the Kingdom parables. For a little more than three years, his son preached the message of the kingdom. His chosen people turned on him and secretly made plans to kill him. Following in the footsteps of his Father, his Son proclaims that there is no greater love than this; ”a man will lay down his life for his friend”. Before he left this earth he told his follower not to be dismayed, “I am going to send you a comforter who will guide you into the way of truth. The comforter, the Holy Spirit would reside in the heart of man, and man would show his love for God by protecting the spirit of God. Man would present his body a living sacrifice, Holy and acceptable to God. The conclusion of the matter, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit has attempted to engage humanity in a dialog of astronomical proportion.
Many today still do not fully understand the ramifications of the words Jesus uttered on the cross. “It finished”
In the Garden of Eden, the Devil used the Word of God to lead Eve down a path contrary to the spoken word of God. For some unholy reason, unknown to many, we ascribe to live a life after our own choosing and strive to force God to honor the promises made to the Children of Israel. Motivational speakers claim God is parting the Red Sea, but there is no separation of the waters. God is a God of love, but isn’t there is a limit to his love.
For God so loved the world that he gave or sent his only begotton son, what transpired after that was a plea for mercy from the son of God. His cry was, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do”. The concept of a God extending his everlasting love is not scriptural. Revelation depicts an angry God who anger is restrained by the intercession of his son and the works of the Holy spirit.
A message that portrays the workings of the father, Son and the Holy Spirit as an adventure in the application of love and kindness fails to project the true message of God. But the real question is, do we still believe in God?
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