The Gospel the Right Way

If you have to be very careful to not offend others when giving the gospel then you are presenting a false gospel in the flesh. We ought to be warning people in these last days to take a good look at their sinfulness and realize their need for the Savior.

Any worry about the delivery of the gospel is relying on self instead of the Holy Spirit leading.

When the Holy Spirit convicts men of sin they either become angry or ashamed, but they never go away feeling good about themselves.

If your goal is to make people like you by keeping them happy in the exchange, then they will not feel convicted nor will they see a need to be made into a new creation.

Those who make others feel comfortable no matter their life, will merely enable them to continue without any sense of shame. Without shame over sinfulness there can be no salvation.

Romans 1:15-17 "15 That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome. 16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek. 17 For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”…"

Jeremiah 8:11-13 "…11 They dress the wounds of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace. 12 Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all, not even enough to blush. Therefore they will fall among the fallen. When I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD. 13 I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”…"

Ezekiel 3:17-19 "…17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me. 18 If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die ,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood. 19 But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.…"

Notice that Ezekiel warned the people that they were wicked and what would happen to them if they did not repent. This is a picture of how the believers should express the gospel today to those who are perishing.

The modern gospel merely enables the unbeliever to feel loved, happy and fat no matter what they are doing, thereby keeping them stuck in their sin without hope. Their hope is in how many people they can surround themselves with who will validate them. Their hope can never be in Christ as long as they do no see their sinfulness.

When God says "urge them", it is very strong language. There is no urging when the encounters are merely happy happy praising and flattering.

2 Corinthians 5:20
"Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore (urge) you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God."

New Book Coming Soon

The Lord has allowed me to finish a book I have been wanting to write for some time now. The book is being published now, its in the final stages of editing. The name of my book is "Narcissism; Second Timothy Three is Here." Many of the things I write about on this blog and on Facebook are in this book. May the Lord use it to inform and help others who are targets and victims of narcissistic abuse.

Titus 1:10-16

"10 For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
11 who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of sordid gain.
12 One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
13 This testimony is true. For this reason reprove them severely so that they may be sound in the faith,
14 not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
16 They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed."