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▋ INTRODUCTION. Contrary to the cults doing the rounds that preach-teach all kinds of heresy and doctrines about ‘salvation’ (moral & spiritual salvaging, rescue) through ‘biology’, ‘psychology’, ‘evolution’ and the wonders of ‘scientific knowledge’ (while at the same time dismissing the Moral Law of Moses and the Lordship of Jesus Christ as collectively encapsulated in the term ‘Judeo-Christian values’ as irrelevant for our age), we, as Evangelical Christians, adamantly still stick to the Gospel as preached by Christ and His disciples and as affirmed later by that indefatigable apostle of missions and Christian apologetics … the Apostle Paul of Tarsus.
No modern psychology-driven cult, biology-driven false doctrine or pagan evolution-driven worldview about the 'human condition' will deter us from the Holy Scripture as given to us through God's faithful servant Moses and God's Son, Saviour of the world and Messiah of the Jews ... Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ. We know a false cult when we see one; in fact, we usually can smell them from miles away long before we see them.
▋THE APOSTLE PAUL’S DIRE WARNING. AntIcipating the heresies and cults to come, the Apostle Paul has already, during his short tenure on earth, issued a warning of grave concern: for future generations:
“For if, indeed, the one coming proclaims another Jesus, whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive another spirit, which you did not receive or another gospel, which you never accepted, you might well endure these. But even if we or an angel from Heaven preach a gospel to you beside what we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we said before, and now I say again, If anyone preaches a gospel to you beside what you have received, let him be accursed.”
[2Corinthians11:4; Galatians1:8-9MKJV].
▋THE GOSPEL IN A NUTSHELL. Summarised as follows:
➤ Jesus Christ.
➤ Jesus Christ.
“Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins, for if you do not believe that I AM, you shall die in your sins.”
[John8:24MKJV].
➤ The Apostle Paul.
“And so it is written, ‘The first man, Adam, became a living soul,’ the last Adam [JESUS CHRIST] was a life-giving Spirit.”
[1Corinthians15:45MKJV].
By the way, notice how the Apostle Paul here affirms the fact of Adam as the 'first man' of history ... there never was some mysterious 'pre-Adamite' man or race to have predated Adam ... it is all nonsense. So, in contrast to what the World Transformation Movement is trying to tell you about the so-called 'Human Condition', here is the true 'human condition' explained:
By the grace of the Creator (YHWH or ‘Yahweh’) (i) the first man Adam has given humankind BIOS (physical, biological) life; (ii) the ‘Last Adam’, i.e., Jesus Christ, has come to give humankind ZOE (authentic, spiritual life). When a person accepts Jesus Christ as Saviour, he/she is immediately born again into the family of God, and he/she becomes a son or daughter of God (John1:12).
There is thus no way that any preponderance of secular ‘knowledge’ about biology, psychology and science (no matter how advanced) is going to take anyone from BIOS life to ZOE life without the God of the Bible. Only God, in the person of Jesus Christ (‘Immanuel, God with us’) can give ZOE (authentic spiritual) life. Authentic, permanent and everlasting ZOE life cannot be cultivated in a (physical/psychological) 'test-tube', no matter how hard the World Transformation Movement is trying to persuade you otherwise; it is a gift from God the moment we become born again at the point of accepting Jesus Christ as Saviour. The Bible teaches:
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
[Romans6:23MKJV].
Jesus Christ Himself has warned:
“The thief [e.g., the false cult founded on secular scientific knowledge] does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I [JESUS CHRIST] have come so that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.”
[John10:-11MKJV].
▋THE TRUE 'HUMAN CONDITION' THAT NO PERSON ON EARTH IS LIKELY TO SURVIVE. This condition, which will haunt us in this life all until we have made our peace with God, is explained fivefold i.e., in terms of five human situations known as:
- the condition of being in Unbelief
- the condition of being Unjustified
- the condition of being Unredeemed
- the condition of being Unsanctified
- the condition of being Unsaved.
➤ Unbelief.
“Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins, for if you do not believe that I AM, you shall die in your sins … “For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son [JESUS CHRIST], that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
[John8:24; John3:16MKJV].
P.S. We must BELIEVE in Jesus Christ as the Saviour sent by God, or die in our sins.
➤ Unjustified.
➤ Unjustified.
“Because by the works of the Law none of all flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law is the knowledge of sin … being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus … Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.”
[Romans3:20, 24; 5:9MKJV].
P.S. We must be JUSTIFIED* by the Blood (Sacrifice) of Jesus Christ, or face the wrath of God at the Great White Throne Judgment in the Herefater.
*Justified: Just-If-I-Had-Never-Sinned (Absolution/blanket amnesty founded on the the Grace of God through faith in Christ).
➤ Unredeemed.
➤ Unredeemed.
“… being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus … Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.” [Romans3:24; 5:9MKJV].
P.S. We must be REDEEMED by God's GRACE through the REDEMPTION that is in Christ Jesus.
➤ Unsanctified. When we come to Jesus Christ to accept Him as Saviour, we are:
➤ Unsanctified. When we come to Jesus Christ to accept Him as Saviour, we are:
- sanctified by the HOLY SPIRIT [Romans15:16];
- sanctified in CHRIST JESUS [Hebrews10:10];
- sancitified by the BLOOD of the COVENANT, i.e., the BLOOD of CHRIST [Hebrews10:29]; and
- sanctified by FAITH in JESUS CHRIST [Acts26:18].
➤ Unsaved. The Bible warns in no uncertain terms:
➤ Unsaved. The Bible warns in no uncertain terms:
“And there is salvation in no other One; for there is no other name [than the Name of Jesus Christ] under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved … for God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes on Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.”
[Acts4:12; John3:16-18MKJV].
▋CONCLUSION. The 'Human Condition' that no human is likely to survive is to, at the moment of death, for such a human to be found to have been in UNBELIEF about Jesus Christ, UNJUSTIFIED by the Blood of Christ, UNREDEEMED by the REDEMTION that is in Christ Jesus, UNSANCTIFIED in Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit, faith in Jesus Christ and by the Blood of the Covenant, and UNSAVED through the Name of Jesus Christ.
Be this the case, no amount of so-called 'knowledge' about biology, psychology or science will save any of us from the wrath to come at the Great White Throne Judgment which is to presided over by Jesus Christ as the Chief Justice designated for the occasion. Jesus Christ warns again today:
"For as the Father raises the dead and makes alive, even so the Son of Man [JESUS CHRIST] makes alive whomever He wills.
For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son [JESUS CHRIST], so that all should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father.
He who does not honor the Son [JESUS CHRIST] does not honor the Father who sent Him. Truly, truly, I say to you, He who hears My Word and believes on Him who sent Me has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death to life.
Truly, truly, I say to you, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God [JESUS CHRIST], and they who hear shall live.
For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has given to the Son [JESUS CHRIST] to have life within Himself, and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man."
[John5:21-27MKJV].
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