Imagine a world with no gospel.
Complete replacement theory. God or no god? Sin or no sin? Who gets to decide? Separation or no separation?
Hell or no Hell?
Saviour or no Saviour?
Can we invalidate the gospel?
These are the bipolar realities of this final stage. We are nearing the finish line 🏁 🏃♂️ 💨 of this world.
As we are sprinting to the end … evil grows stronger.
2 Timothy 3:13 “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”
How does evil behave?
Evil attacks Truth. Smash at the foundation.
Seduce & deceive.
Albeit the four truths we are about to mention are abundantly obvious. Immutable.
Un-twistable.
Non-pervert-able.
So swing your sledgehammers, all ye evil seducers. Bring your best weapons.
The Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.
There is no acceptable replacement for Truth. Your substitute is disqualified.
The big 4 truths of the gospel are:
God will still be God.
Sin is sin.
Separation is sure and swift.
And the Savior is our only option.
Are there any (valid) questions? What part of the whole Gospel did you not receive?
Oh, some don’t like the God part. What part about God can we reject?
Some don’t like that God is Judge.
Quick question: who made you? Remember the last thing you hand-crafted? The designer gets to judge that thing they designed. Just part of the process.
Some have said, “I just don’t want to feel guilty. So I had to delete God.”
If evil can just delete any of these four concepts listed above, then the gospel goes away. So they try. Vehemently.
For example: the definition of sin is definitely under attack. Ask anyone on the street to define sin. You will likely get fluffy marshmallow mush words for an answer.
My opinion of sin doesn’t matter. God‘s opinion matters. God gets to write the dictionary on sin.
The lost world, devoid of the gospel, must actively substitute fluffy garbage 🗑 to hold the place where these four truths belong. The Truth belongs in our heart. Satan and his teeming hordes of Darkness would not have it so.
The lost world is blind to these four truths:
God is God.
Sin is sin.
Separation is certain.
Salvation is singular.
What’s our job?
Acts 26:18
“To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in Me.”
“Therefore seeing we have this ministry, … if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, Who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For God, Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” 2 Cor 4.
Flip the Light on.
God shined in our hearts.
We give the light of the knowledge.
We have this ministry: help the lost and blind receive Light.
Notice the minds are blind.
Therefore speak to the hearts.
Let’s take a tour of the lost man’s heart.
The heart feels.
The mind thinks.
They work together, yet they each have a distinct function.
Examine the deceptions the lost embraces:
His mind is set on self. “I don’t need God because I am one,” is his inward position. Something must replace God in his heart & mind. And that something is weak. The replacement is shallow. It’s a hollow nothing-burger. The lost person’s heart does not feel wholly complete. Self is hollow. The hunger for satisfaction is not satisfied with just exploring self. My heart craves God-level comfort and peace and joy and purpose! Self is a silly substitute.
Regarding sin:
“My sin can be offset somehow. My sins are small. I experience no major consequences instantly for sin, so hopefully that just continues indefinitely. I’m not hurting anybody and I’m not hurting God.” All kinds of self-justification. Blinded by Darkness. “I don’t FEEL like I’m in trouble. Normally I’m pretty good. Based on my own perception.” “Sure, I sin, but I’m also nice sometimes.” “If God was really serious about sin, He would’ve sent more consequences by now.” “I just have a hard time believing there’s an eternal penalty against my natural human nature.” “It’s not like I can stop. What am I gonna do… not sin tomorrow?”
Separation
“The whole concept of eternal separation from God just seems so foreign because I’ve never experienced it.” Just like Noah’s generation had never experienced liquid drops descending from clouds 🌧. “I’d be shocked if I end up in Hell. Just seems like a foreign concept based on my experience of reality here in this world. It’d be kind of nice to know what’s coming. I mean, if I could take just a 10-second vacation to get a glimpse of Hell. Maybe just a little jump in and jump right back out, that would motivate me.”
“I’m hoping God loves me so much He just forgets about all the dumb stuff I did. If God really loves me, why would He want to be separated from me?”
“I’d rather believe in rainbows and unicorns and fluffy bunnies than have to stretch my emotions to embrace the concept of an angry God. I don’t like anger. I’m kind of allergic. If God was truly so angry at my sin that He was ready to send me to The Eternal Lake of Fire 🔥 wouldn’t you think I could smell His angry breath breathing down my neck even now? According to Scripture I’m condemned already. But I don’t feel condemned. I feel kind of free. At least I can do stuff.”
“I just want to enjoy life. I’m just gonna take my chances and hope I don’t get separated. Maybe I will. Maybe I get kicked off the plank and have to jump into the Lake. But at least I enjoyed Earth. Because it seems if I sign up to believe Scripture that I lose out on some key experiences in this world. Like going to Vegas or watching my garbage Hollywood Flix. My addictions are comforting. I won’t get to do those things in Hell, so I might as well do them now. YOLO. Bucket 🪣 List. Just ignore the future. Feels good do it. Follow your heart in circles.”
Saviour
“Yeah I’m pretty sure I have a savior. Somewhere. If He wants to save me He can. Maybe I’m my own savior. Who knows? I feel saved. I’m not on fire. Don’t really have a desire to find out more. I just kind of wanna float through this life and hope for the best in the next. Whatever will be will be. It’s not up to me really. If I meet God and He likes me, that’s great. If He’s got a problem with my personality well… I guess I can’t fix that.”
“I thought about it. I don’t really feel the need to accept a Saviour because first, I’m not sure who God is. Secondly, I’m kind of foggy on the concept of sin. And third, I just don’t see the purpose for long-term consequences like Hell. So salvation doesn’t make sense. If I believed solid … in any of the other three Truths, then sure I would feel the need to get saved. Whatever that means. But I don’t… agree with the first three points, so I cannot embrace your point four. Emotionally or logically, I’m still not feeling it.”
There’s all kinds of excuses for spiritually blind people. Except when they meet the True Light. Then all the excuses evaporate.
Envision meeting God as Judge.
You did not like the idea of sin… well, sorry, sin is reality. You sinned against Me.
You did not like Hell. Doesn’t change the fact. There it is. Now you can smell it and see it and feel it. Too bad you didn’t believe earlier.
You didn’t embrace your need for a Savior. So now you have no Savior. Since you cannot save yourself, you are lost… eternally. You had plenty of opportunity. Time’s up. Goodbye. Depart from Me.
Most of the world population is believing a lie. Most of the world is living in a world of delusion. Most of the people are existing while resisting the gospel.
Resisting the Truth of who God is. Resisting the Truth of what sin does. Resisting the consequence of eternal separation. Resisting the offer of salvation from the only qualified loving Saviour.
“… so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was” 2 Tim 3.
“Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of Whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it” Acts 7. Got Stephen murdered. Martyred for presenting the Truth.
Accurately Stephen called-out the resistors.
You actively resist the Holy Ghost.
Just like your family.
You persecute preachers and truth carriers.
You killed the Saviour instead of accepting His offer.
And you resisted the law as delivered.
You fought against God and lost.
You could not keep the law.
You couldn’t admit your sin.
So you killed the only Solution.
Sweet move.
Sounds just like your forefathers.
Resisting the Holy Ghost and His prophets.
So who did this to yourself?
There is no universe where the gospel does not exist. You cannot destroy it.
100 years from now in Hell, sin is still sin.
100 years from now in Heaven & on the New Earth, God is still God.
100 years from now, the Savior is still supreme.
Truth is unavoidable long-term.
Resisting is stupid.
Fighting against God is foolish.
1 Peter 1:25
“But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.”
Hebrews 4:2,7
“For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. … To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.”