BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE
BIBLE
KNOWLEDGE!
QUESTION:
“DO PENTECOSTALS GIVE THEMSELVES A LICENCE TO SIN?”
ANSWER: “YES”
EXPLANATION:
I
was preaching on the street the other day, when man came up and struck
up a conversation with me. Here’s the essence of the conversation.
ME: “Good day. How’s it
going?”
He
looked at my four boards I had propped up against a building and he
said …
HIM: “I believe all that.”
Dear
Reader for your information, the boards have written on them the
following –
Board #1
“All have sinned and come
short of the
glory of God” (Rom 3:23)
Board #2
“For whosoever shall keep
the whole law, and yet offend in one point,
he is guilty of all.” (James 2:10)
Board #3
“…
how can ye escape the damnation of
hell?” (Matthew 23:33)
Board #4
“Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved… in whom we have
redemption,
through his blood the forgiveness of sins …” (Acts 16:31; Ephesians 1:7)
ME: “Good”
HIM: “Yes, I used to go to a
Pentecostal church on the North side … but I
fell from grace.”
ME: “What’s that mean?”
HIM: “Ah … I don’t want to go
into that, but God’s grace is all
encompassing and forgiving.”
ME: “Oh? What line of work
are you in at the moment?”
HIM: “I’m a hustler.”
ME: “What’s a hustler? Do you
have to con people and lie to them and stuff
like that?”
HIM: “On no! I beg.” He said
in a very quiet voice.
ME: “You what? You beg?”
HIM: “Yeh, people give me
things. Yeh, I just do what I want … I go here
and there.”
ME: “Tell me more about this
falling from grace. Are you still in this
state? You seem reluctant to tell me what it was?”
HIM: “Look, forget about sins,
it’s all about God’s grace. He’s the creator
of the universe, it’s Jesus Christ, he died for all our sins, past
present and
future. I’m saved!
ME: “Do you have eternal
security? Never to be lost?”
HIM “Absolutely!”
ME: “Did you have to have
water baptism to get saved?”
HIM: “No!”
ME: “How about afterwards?”
HIM: “No!”
So
here I was confronted with a man, assuring me he was saved, but not
worrying about sin, sins or sinning in the future.
He
had to go, and I said for him to pop back whenever he was in town.
But
he got me thinking …
This
was lining up with other conversations and observations I’d had with
other Pentys. Sin and sinning were not
an issue for them, you know, things like not having a husband or a
wife, but ‘shacking
up’ with their partners for biological relief.
They
say a piece of paper of marriage is not necessary but a commitment
for fidelity to that partner for as long as they are together.
So
serial fornication, that is one partner after another, was not a sin.
Then
it dawned on me they ignore Paul’s injunctions of becoming weak,
sickly and falling asleep, because they will not judge themselves.
No wonder
physical healing is a priority for them!
1.“They
wrongly think they are free from the law, that is, the
law has no more influence or control over them.”
2.
Furthermore,
having been saved, that is if they are, they wrongly
assume they should be sinless.
3. But if sin troubles them, it
can only be Satan attacking them …
it’s not their own flesh that’s doing it.
4. Finally, if it is their
flesh, all they have to do is keep getting ‘purged
and baptized’ with the Holy Ghost … you know like wallowing around
in a big
spiritual bath tub, so that sin will automatically be burned out of
them… or drowned.
So
there you have it folks – I call it “THE LAZY MAN’S CHRISTIANITY”
SO
DO PENTY’S GIVE THEMSELVES A LICENCE TO SIN?
OF
COURSE THEY DO! YES!
They
ignore Paul’s letters to the churches which are all about laws for
living the Christian life as he has the commandments of God also (1Cor
14:37).
Paul
says “Now you are saved, there are laws for Christian obedience if
you love Jesus Christ.”
But
like little children in the sand pit, and ignoring the advice of
Paul, the ongoing problem of sin gets too hard for the Penty’s.
AND
THAT’S WHY THIS FELLOW, THE EX-PENTECOSTAL, IN EXASPERATION SAID
“IF
ALL MY SINS HAVE BEEN PAID FOR, I’M JUST GOING TO DWELL ON THE GRACE
OF GOD.”
Dear
Reader, by now it must have dawned on you, that when you hear these
words from a Penty, they are code words for the following:
“I’M
GOING TO HEAVEN AND THAT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME. I’M JUST GOING TO
IGNORE THIS LABEL OF SIN AND JUST ENJOY MY GRACE FREEDOM!”
Dear
Reader, you may find all this too hard to believe. But this is
pretty standard for Penty’s.
Their
mantra? “Let’s focus on grace not sin.”
You
just have to shake your head about THE ‘WE ARE FREE FROM ALL
RESTRAINTS’ DOCTRINE OF THE PENTYS. It’s also known as “GOD’S
GRACE WILL
DROWN OUT SIN”.
It’s
no wonder they have such a big emphasis on physical healing because
they won’t judge themselves (1Cor 11).
They
stumble most grievously – yes, they are FREE but only from
the curse of the law that demands perfection in order to be
saved.
Truly
unbelievable, isn’t it?
THERE
ARE TWO BLASPHEMOUS GRACE DOCTRINES
1.
The Penty’s – as above
2.
The grace doctrine of Calvinists
Today,
no-one calls themselves a Calvinist.
Having
been discovered as Calvinists, they have changed their name to “Believers
in the Doctrine of Grace”.
But
as it is well known “Once a Calvinist – always a Calvinist!”
A
wig, a nice dress and a bit of lipstick can’t disguise the heart.
**** ****
Harley
Hitchcock
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