The Doctrine of "Free Grace Theology" Destroys the Meaning of the Gospel

The Doctrine of "Free Grace Theology" Destroys the Meaning of the Gospel

Introduction to the Doctrine: “Free Grace Theology”

This doctrine gives assurance of salvation to professing Christians who go on living in sin.

Regardless of the way that teachers of this doctrine phrases their teaching and regardless of the contexts of their statements, they present a doctrine which conveys that some Christians remain continually in darkness with no repentance and are still saved.

This Doctrine Discounts the Work of the Cross

1.     The Gospel is the power of God for the salvation to everyone who believes. In the Gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. The righteous man shall live by faith. (Rom 1:16-17)

2.     By a single offering our Savior has perfected for all time us who are being sanctified. (Heb 10:14) Those who have been perfected by Christ’s offering are those who are being made holy.

3.     The work of the cross establishes us in Christ and anoints us with the Spirit, who is God’s seal and guarantee of our eternal inheritance (2 Cor 1:21-22). All who have the Spirit behold the  glory of God and are transformed into His image from one degree of glory to another (2 Cor 3:17-18)

This Doctrine Denies the Eternal Covenant of God For All His People

1.     In God’s eternal covenant, He does not turn away from them, He does them good in all things, He puts the fear of Himself in their hearts so that they will not turn away from Him. He rejoices over them to do them good and faithfully plants them in the land with all His heart and soul (Jer 32:40-41, Phil 1:6, Rom 8:28)

2.     God’s eternal covenant is ordered in all things and secured for all the salvation and desire of God’s people. (2 Sam 23:5)

This Doctrine Denies the Omnipotence and Perfection of the Heavenly Fathering

1.     God disciplines all of those whom He loves and scourges every son whom He receives. Those who are without discipline are illegitimate children and not sons. God disciplines His children for their good so that they may share in His holiness. Those who have been trained by His discipline yield the peaceful fruit of righteousness. This resulting righteousness always proceeds the omnipotent disciplinary action of the perfect Father (Heb 12:6-11)

2.     When we forsake His Law and do not walk in His judgments, when we violate His statutes, and do not keep His commandments, He punishes our transgressions with His Rod and our iniquity with stripes (floggings). Our Savior has been wounded, flogged, and crushed by His Father for our sakes, and the discipline which we endure is nothing compared to His infinite suffering for our sakes. Through His discipline, He does not break off His loving kindness from us, deal falsely in His faithfulness towards us, nor alter the utterance of His lips. For He has sworn long before by His own holiness, which never changes because He cannot lie, that the throne of David, that is, the throne of our Lord Christ, will endure forever like the sun and moon before Him. The witness in the sky is faithful. (Ps 89:30-37, Is 53)

3.     God calls His children to obedience: to be holy as He is holy (I Peter 1:14-16). They are to prove themselves blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom theyappear as lights in the world (Phil 2:14-15).

This Doctrine Makes the “Perseverance of the Saints” Unnecessary

1.     Jesus said that if we continue in His Word, we are truly His discipline and we will know the Truth that sets us free (John 8:31-32). He said that by our endurance we will gain our lives and that the seed in the good soil are those who hear His Word in an honest and good heart, hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance (Luke 21:19, Luke 8:15). He tells us that those who do the will of His Father will enter the Kingdom of heaven (Matt 7:21)

2.     The saints are called to work out their salvation with fear and trembling (Phil 2:12), to be diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing of us (2 Peter 1:10), to bring holiness to completion in the fear of God (2 Cor 7:1) and to realize the full assurance of hope until the end so that we will not be sluggish, but so that we inherit the promises through faith and patience (Heb 6:11-12).

3.     We have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end (Heb 3:14)

This Doctrine is in Contradiction to the Purpose and Will of the Sovereign God

1.     God’s purpose is for those whom He foreknew and predestined to be conformed to the Image of His Son, so that Christ would be the firstborn among many brothers (Rom 8:29)

2.     God’s purpose is that His children are granted His divine power that gives them everything pertaining to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who calls them by His own glory and excellence. He gives them His precious and magnificent promises by which they become partakers of the divine nature and escape the corruption that is in the world by lust (2 Peter 1:3-4).

3.     Christ’s requirement and will for His disciples is that they deny themselves, take up their cross daily, and follow Him (Luke 9:23). Those who are ashamed of Him and His Words will be put to shame before the Son of Man and Father (Luke 9:26).

4.     Christ gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father (Gal 1:4).

5.     Those who lose their taste are good for nothing but destruction (We are the salt and light of the earth) (Matt 5:13-116).

6.     God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification. The word “in” here denoted the entering into a perpetual state or process. He who rejects this is not rejecting man but God who gives His Holy Spirit to us. The Holy Spirit works the ongoing sanctification process in us (1 Thess 4:7).

7.     God’s purpose is for His people to attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of Christ, to a mature man and measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. We are to grow up in all aspects into the Head: Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love (Eph 4:13-16)

This Doctrine Denies God’s Ability or Loving-Kindness to Ultimately Work Obedience in All His Children

1.     God promises to give us a new heart and to put a new spirit in us, to remove our hearts of stone from our flesh and to give us hearts of flesh. He puts His Spirit in us and causes us to walk in His statutes, and we will be careful to observe His ordinances (Ez 36:26-27).

2.     God gives His people a heart to know Him, because He is the Lord, and they will be His people and He will be their God, because they will return to Him with their whole heart (Jer 24:7)

3.     It is God who works in His children to will and to act according to His purpose (Phil 2:13)

For Saved People to Live Continual Unrepentant Sinful Lives is Scripturally Impossible

1.     No one who abides in Him sins. No one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. Those who practice sin are of the devil. No one who is born of God practices sin because God’s seed abides in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God. Those who do not practice righteousness and do not love their brothers are not of God (I John 3:5-10)

2.     The righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression. When God says to the righteous that he will surely live, and he trusts in his righteousness and thus commits sin, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered, but in that same iniquity that he has committed he will die (Ez 33:12-13).

3.     We know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. We should not be deceived with empty words for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. We should not be partakers of them, for we were formerly darkness, but are now Light in the Lord. We are commanded to walk as children of the Light (Eph 5:5-8).

4.     “He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. ⁸ But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” (Rev 21:7-8)

5.     Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. (James 2:17)

This Doctrine Causes Dangerously Inaccurate Interpretation of the Scripture

1.     All of the Pauline epistles, and most of the New Testament books are proposed by Hodges to be written exclusively for believers. Many of these Scriptures are for the edification, rebuke, correction, training in righteousness, and confirmation of regeneration within believers (2 Tim 3:16) Another main purpose is for a testing or examination of one’s faith. We are called to test and examine ourselves to see if we are in the faith so that we may see that Christ is in us. It is possible to fail the test, and for those who are false believers, the failing of the test offers conviction that will hopefully lead to repentance (2 Cor 13:5, 1 Cor 14:24-25). The assumption that such test/examination Scriptures are not meant to remove someone’s [false] hope of salvation when he/she is not truly regenerate is expected to have damning consequences.

2.     When an unbeliever comes into the presence of prophetic words, he is convicted by all, called to account by all, the secrets of his heart are laid disclosed, and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that God is certainly among His people (1 Cor 14:24-25).

3.     Whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God (Rom 3:18).

Justification and Sanctification are Granted to All Believers By Grace

1.     We have been saved by grace through faith and not of ourselves, it is the gift of God, not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. We are God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we should walk in them. (Eph 2:8-10)

2.     Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy, He saved us through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit. (Titus 3:5)

3.     If anyone is in Christ He is a new creation. The old has gone the new has come (2 Cor 5:17).

4.     We are who we are by God’s grace. His grace towards us is not in vain. The grace of God with us causes us to work for God (1 Cor 15:10)

True Believers Do Sin, but God brings about Repentance in His Time as He Continuously Sanctifies Them

1.     “ My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (I John 2:1)

2.     “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9)

3.     How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered!
² How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit! (see entire chapter Psalm 32 written by King David when he repented)

as the watchman who sees the sword coming, The Trumpet Has Been Blown so that the people of God may be warned (Ezekiel 33). This doctrine must not be taught in the house of God. It has likely resulted in condemnation for many in the world.  

Valid Questions of Christianity are Invalidly Answered by Free Grace Theology

Valid Questions of Christianity are Invalidly Answered by Free Grace Theology

11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “Ask Me about the things to come concerning My sons, and you shall commit to Me the work of My hands. 12 “It is I who made the earth, and created man upon it. I stretched out the heavens with My hands and I ordained all their host. Isaiah 45

This document lists the questions that arise in the minds of Christ-seeking people, the heretical way in which FGT answers them, and how Scriptures address these questions. Please understand that my understanding of the true answers to these questions has not been perfected and we will likely be pursuing the Mind of Christ in these areas for our lifetime. 

1. When I look around me at professing believers, most of them are carnal. Are they all going to hell? 

FGT tells us that as long as these professing believers affirmed the Gospel in their minds for at least a moment in their lives, then Christ will never allow them to go to hell, though they live a continuous unrepentant life until death. FGT allows for professing believers to continue living like the rest of the world and to still be eternally secure. 

Jesus tells us that we should enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. (Matt 7:13-14) He tells us to strive to enter through the narrow door, for many will seek to enter and not be able to (Luke 19:24). God did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly (2 Peter 2:5). Christ gave us parables of the separation of the goats and sheep (Matt 25:31-33), the tares growing among the wheat until the harvest time when they will be separated (Matt 13:24-30), and the good and bad fish separated after being drawn up in a net (Matt 13:47-50). 

Thus, it is Scriptural for there to be many false carnal professing believers among us. Eternal life comes through the narrow GATE and the narrow WAY. Many try to enter and will not be able to. The resulting heartache that we experience is also Scriptural (James 4:9, Lam 3, etc.) and we have a Comforter. 

2. I know someone who professed Christ as Savior, fell away from God, and finally died. I want to have hope that God showed compassion to save his/her soul? 

FGT brings false comfort, again, by conveying that the moment of initial profession of faith was enough to arouse God’s salvaging compassion. 

 The Bible tells us that in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good Word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God; but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned. (Heb 4:6-7) A man is enslaved to that which overcomes him. If someone has escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and is again entangled in them AND OVERCOME, the last state has become worse for that person than the first. It would be better not to have known the way of righteousness than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to that person. Such a person is like a dog that returns to its own vomit and a sow, after washing, who returns to wallowing in the mud (1 Peter 2:19-22). The falling away of such people shows that they were never true children of God (1 John 2:19). We also know that we are prone to misjudging others and that no one can snatch the true sheep from the Father’s Hand (John 10) and that to a true sheep’s Master, he stands or falls, and God is able to make him stand (Rom 14:4). We also know that He grants the full reward [eternal Life] to those who are called [regenerated] in their last hour (Matt 20:9) 

We may still have hope that God in His compassion saved our beloved deceased. We know that He can save His sheep in their last hour by regenerating their souls. We know that He can bring about repentance before their death. But the Scriptures grant us no hope that a continually unrepentant person will be saved. In fact, their slavery to sin shows that they have re- crucified Christ, put Christ to shame, and that their final state is worse that the initial state. We must trust in God’s character [and desire for His glorification and the fulfillment of His will] more than our desire for certain people to go to heaven. And we are called to pray and labor for both. 

3. There are many verses that seem to indicate that a Christian cannot sin. For example, “a good tree cannot produce bad Fruit” (matt 7:18), “no one who is born oF god sins” (1 John 5:18), etc. but all the Christians that I know including myself sin numerous times daily. So these types of verses cannot possibly be a test of true faith? 

FGT tried to alleviate this dilemma by inventing a new way of interpreting Scriptures. All references to states of righteousness and carnality within verses written to

groups of believers are proposed to be referring only to believers. Thus the concept of tiers of Christians arose, with the righteous states referring to the top tier(s) and the unrighteous state referring to the bottom tier(s). 

The Scriptures indicate that a true sheep may sin, but cannot continue to sin. John writes to the little children that they should not sin, but if anyone sins there is Christ, the Advocate with the Father, who speaks to the Father in our defense. He tells us that if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. He tells us that there is sin not leading to death that may be prayed for and God will grant life to the one who commits such sin.  (I John 1:9, 2:1, 5:16) The Bible also tells us that when our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things. In this condemnation our assurance comes from our knowledge that we are of the Truth because we love in deed and in Truth. James tells us that if we turn a sinner from the error of his WAY, we save his soul and cover a multitude of sins (James 5:20). And as we read the Psalms, it is exceedingly clear that the people of God have sinned and commit sins that do not lead to death. But the necessary element for the naming of a sin as that which “does not lead to death” is the acknowledgement of guilt, the humble, broken, and contrite spirit, the child-like faith, the changing of the mind/heart away from deception and back to the belief in the Gospel and proclamation of Christ as Lord in Word and deed.  

The purpose of convicting examination Scriptures is to bring the straying believer back to the grace that leads to repentance and to restore communion with God. This is aligned with the Spirit’s guarantee of our eternal inheritance. Until the Spirit brings about sincere repentance, a straying believer SHOULD question their authenticity (i.e. working out his/her salvation with fear and trembling), while trusting that God will surely bring him/her to repentance. He/she should be like Micah who says “Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I fall, I will rise; though I dwell in darkness, the Lord is a Light for me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against Him, until He pleads my case and executes justice for me. He WILL bring me out into the Light, and I will see His righteousness”. (Micah 7:8-9) Another purpose of Scriptural tests of Christianity is to cause the believer to be affirmed in his/her sonship of the Father. Such a believer who practices truth comes into the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been WROUGHT IN GOD (John 3:21). When the believer passes such Scriptural examinations, he/she is completely aware that it is the grace of God that has allowed it. 
 

4. If a true Christians keeps Christ as the Lord, that is, the ultimate Master, of his/her life, then how can I know if I have kept Him as the Lord of my life? I feel like there is a measure of holiness that I need in order to have “Christ as Lord”. And then we are right back

to a “works-oriented gospel”, not the Gospel of grace that we read of in the Scriptures. 

FGT tried to ease this uncertainty of self-holiness by removing the requirement for saved Christians to live as though Christ is Lord over their lives.  

The Scriptures make it clear that the salvation of the true sheep is based exclusively on the imputed righteousness of Christ. Because Christ lived a perfect life and offered Himself as a perfect sacrifice, God looks upon the true sheep as clothed in the garments of salvation and clothed in the righteous robe of Christ (Is 61:10). Those who repent and believe the Gospel are granted eternal Life because of Christ’s righteousness that comes to them by faith. Such saving faith always results in obedience to the commands of God, not just His commands to refrain from unholy practices, but the commands to love God and to love His people. The ocean of holiness extends infinitely beyond the seashore of obedience to the law/restriction of the flesh. The ocean of holiness delves into the riches of His glorious love, joy, peace, grace, comfort… Someone who has truly believed the Gospel cannot be a slave to sin. There is no way to simultaneously believe the Gospel and to remain enslaved to sin. Yes, Christians stumble, even numerous times, but God will lift up the righteous faithfully and justly. A righteous man stumbles seven times and rises again (Prov 24:16). Why does 1 John 1:9 say that God is faithful and JUST to forgive us? In God’s justice, He no longer sees us or treats us as guilty, but rather treats us as beloved and righteous. And because He is omnipotent and loving, He is working, amidst our repeated failures, to perfect righteousness in us. Every experience of our post-regenerate lives is ordained by God IN LOVE and is part of His PROGRESSIVE sanctification process for His children. Because of God’s justice, this must be so. Only if God were unjust, would He allow their lives to be lived in continual resistance to His Spirit, for then He would not be treating them as though they are covered in Christ’s righteousness. Jesus prayed, “I in them, and You in Me, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and have loved them, even as You have loved Me (John 17:23).  

Though humbled repentant sheep may feel that they are far from keeping Christ as the Lord of their whole lives, CHRIST IS THEIR LORD. And because He is their just Lord He is powerfully working in them all the time to keep them in the faith and to perfect their obedience.  

5. How can I ever have eternal security and assurance of my right standing with God if holiness is the mark of a true believer? I never feel holy enough. Does that mean I can never be eternally secure?

FGT tried to give people assurance of salvation by their past profession of faith or past conversion experience. The problem is that FGT does not indicate what sufficient proof for a true conversion experience is since it makes no requirement for the maintenance of faith and the resulting obedience until the end.

God’s desire for His children is not for them to shrink back and be destroyed, but to believe and be saved. In fact He tells us that His righteous one will live by faith, but if we shrink back, His Soul finds no pleasure in us. The true sheep are those who have “faith to the preserving of the soul”. (Heb 10:37-39) It is God’s will for His children to be fully assured of His promise of eternal Life. But this assurance does not come from the [faint] memory of a past experience, but rather from the continuing assurance of the Spirit inside of them. The Spirit Himself confirms to us that we are children of God (Rom 8:16). When we listened to the Gospel of our salvation, and also believed It, we were sealed in Christ with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own people, to the praise of His glory (Eph 1:13-14). Because the Spirit lives in us and is continually working to bring us back to the cross, back to true faith, back to repentance, back to the throne of grace, to bring holiness to completion in us, to comfort us, to convict us, to reveal the righteousness of the Father, to remind us of the coming judgment [that the prince of the world stands condemned], to pour the love of the Father into our hearts, we have assurance. If we tell God “I want eternal security right now”. He tells us “Believe in My Gospel, by which your sin is atoned for and I treat you as righteous and beloved”. And tomorrow if we also tell God, “I want eternal security right now”, the Spirit will keep on revealing the Truth of the Gospel again and again until the very end of our lives as believers. 

The Spirit’s work in our hearts with the Sword of the Word of God day after day gives us assurance day after day. And if we do not sense this work of the Spirit, may be plead with Him to bring us back to grace and repentance so that we may continue in the assurance that we once had. Do we want assurance now? Then may we believe the Gospel NOW! And again, true belief in the Gospel is incompatible with a life lived without progressive sanctification.   

Upon deeper examination, we find that the doctrine of Free Grace Theology is in [almost direct] contradiction to the whole Counsel of the Word of God.

The Peripheral issues of “Free Grace Theology”

The PeriPheral issues of “Free Grace Theology”

This document lists items which are often mistaken to be a part of the conflict between Free Grace Theology/The Teacher’s View (FGT) and the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. Listed below are issues to avoid focusing too much on because they are not an integral part of the fallacy with the FGT doctrine. 

1. The conflict does not involve whether or not salvation is by 100% grace. Both views agree that salvation is a free gift granted by grace through faith, not of works. 

However, the true Gospel involves the certain progression in sanctification in all believers as a result of this free gift. Thus, the progress in sanctification is itself a free gift. The FGT view states that this pre-death progress in sanctification is distinct from post-death eternal Life and is not present in all believers.  

2. The conflict does not involve the use of perilous hypothetical discussion. Rather, the conflict involves differences in understanding of the Scriptures’ descriptions of regenerate and unregenerate souls. We consider the many “If anyone…”, “Everyone who…”, “The man who…”, etc. statements in the Bible. 

3. The conflict does not involve whether eternal security is granted to all believers, but rather whether a person is saved in the first place.  

The true Gospel involves the maintenance of a believer’s faith until the end. Thus a true child of God will be kept in the faith until the end. If someone falls away, this is proof that the person was never a true child of God (1 John 2:19). The FGT view assumes that eternal security is granted to all who have had at least a moment of intellectual affirmation of the Gospel at some point in their lives. 

4. The conflict does not involve whether we have a right to pass condemnation/judgment charges on professing believers. Both views agree that final judgment is left to the righteous Judge, and we can only speak the Word of God and show Christ’s love to all, rebuking in love when necessary. 

5. This conflict does not involve whether or not a Christian can fall into sin, go astray, or commit a terrible crime. Both views agree that Christians do sin, and God forgives the sin of His children. However, the true Gospel removes the possibility for a Christian to continue in sin without repentance. We do not know the exact amount of time that God will allow His child to go astray, but we know that He will bring them to repentance, and that He allows this straying to reveal His glory and power in the face of the child’s weakness as He perfects obedience in him/her. The FGT view suggests that not only can a saved person fall into sin, but he/she can remain astray from God with no repentance until death.  

6. The conflict does not involve whether there are differences in maturity and progress in the process of sanctification among true believers. Both views agree that there is a broad range of maturity among believers and that believers are at different places in their journeys of sanctification.  

However, the true Gospel involves the certain progression in the Spirit-driven sanctification process for all believers. The FGT view suggests that though God initiates the sanctification process in all believers, some believers choose not to respond, and thus do not progress to any degree in the sanctification process.  

7. The conflict does not involve a dispute about the desire of God for the sanctification of His children. Both views agree that God desires for all of His children to be sanctified. 

The true Gospel involves the omnipotent result of God’s desire for His children to progress in the sanctification process: their increasing holiness. Whereas, the FGT view suggests that God’s desire for His children’s’ progress in holiness is not fulfilled in some of His children.  

8. The conflict does not involve whether or not there are professing believers who are not truly saved. Both views agree that there are professing believers who do not have faith, and are thus not saved. 

9. This conflict does not involve whether or not the sinful flesh is present in true believers. Both views agree that the sinful flesh remnant is present in true believers and should be resisted. 

However, the true Gospel involves the daily death to the sinful nature and the certain growth in submission to the Spirit rather than to the desires of the flesh. The FGT view suggests that some Christians remain exclusively in the flesh until death. The FGT view also believes that the sinful man is not dead, but remains alive, whereas the true Gospel involves the death of sinful man with Christ at the time of regeneration.

10. The conflict does not involve whether or not God’s disciplinary action is present towards all His children. Both views agree that God disciplines all of His children. 

However, the true Gospel involves the effectiveness of this certain discipline in the lives of all believers. The Father’s perfect and effective discipline results in the increased sharing of the child in the Father’s holiness. The FGT view suggests that though God disciplines all of His children, this discipline is not effective for some individuals. 

Why is Free Grace Theology so dangerous?

The understanding of the nature of a truly regenerate child of God has been dying in our nation in the recent time. The heresy of the modern day church culture is the granting of eternal security to professing unregenerate believers. Among large numbers of professing believers, there are a surprisingly smaller number of regenerate saved souls. The FGT doctrine seeks to bandage this fatal heresy and to whitewash this darkness. For those who are not brought to their senses and who do not repent, their false assurance will result in damnation. Rather than to proclaim the heretical FGT doctrine, we have a great need to preach to our churches about true conversion. Much of the New Testament explains the life of obedience that always results from true conversion. There is a Spiritual demand to preach on the characteristics of a truly regenerate soul. And for us who seek eternal security, may we continue in our belief in the Gospel. True belief in the Gospel always results in obedience. And when we are convicted as we read the Scriptural examinations/tests of our faith, may we seek Christ ever more strongly, and plead with Him to give us more faith and a deepening understanding of His Gospel, the fountain from which we draw each hour. As God tells us, “You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jer 29:13), “The one who comes to me I will certainly not cast out” (John 6:37), “None of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned” (Ps 34:22), that He “is patient with you, not wishing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance” (1 Peter 3:9), “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy- laden, and I will give you rest” (Matt 11:28). When the Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit is a seal and guarantee of our inheritance, we understand that because the Spirit continues to convict us, inspire repentance and obedience, comfort, counsel, teach, lead…us, we know that we are His children and are known by Him. Without experiencing the ongoing work of the Spirit, the Scriptures grant us no assurance of eternal Life.  

Happy is He who Does not Condemn Himself by what He Approves