When we resign ourselves to all of these new ideas that modern evangelicals support as "new light", we have neglected to check out the old tried and true light that Christian Bible scholars have confirmed for centuries.
Modern evangelicals do not address the important issues of the straight and narrow way of Christ that hang in the balance as they just plow forward with the contradictory ideas of the old covenant that are not at all supported by consistent Scripture teachings.
Is it that they choose to remain unaware? I don't think so actually.
I think that if they were adequately informed of the serious problem that exists, they would happily come into Christ's straight and narrow way, and rejoice greatly in it.
The almost insurmountable fact, as Mr.
Merrill Jenkins once noted, is that "Those unaware are unaware of being unaware.
" Perhaps this explains why they stand where they do today, positioned against all of the wonderful new covenant truths that the apostles labored so long and hard to bring to our attention.
Undoubtedly they well knew the insurmountable reality that they faced to try and convince the rigid human mind to pay very close attention to the right things, instead of drifting off with just any strange teacher or prophet who presents himself with many of the wrong things.
But a great void and vacuum has created a serious situation in christendom, and we stumble around like blind men searching in the dark, because the good guidance of that highly acclaimed straight way has not really been found.
The question needs to be addressed today, are you supposedly a heaven-bound Christian? If so, then you need better information than has been available.
Nowhere in sacred Scripture are we commanded to be taken over and obsessed with thoughts of any future glorious earthly kingdom in Israel! Nowhere! No such command can be found anywhere! Other commands are easily found, however, such as in the Great Commission (Mt.
28:19), or at Col.
3:1-4 where we are told to let heaven fill our thoughts.
Certainly no earthly kingdom found here! Indeed, if the heavenly were to really fill our thoughts, then the earthly must give way to this.
Our modern church leaders need to realize that the straight and narrow way seriously needs their attention.
Then they would realize that the temporal minded earthly kingdom leaves much to be desired, and the waiting church needs more spiritual sustenance and much less of the earthly.
The stuff of any future revival is not found in any earthly kingdom, but it is found in the pages of sacred Scripture.
Only, the church has been missing it! It's a terrible thing to have to say, but it is so true! Some would then counter that those of us who would let heaven fill our thoughts are "no earthly good anyway", another real slam against Scripture truth and against any who stand with it.
Yet, God wants us to be heavenly minded.
One could justifiably ask what good has been done to the earth by insisting on the future glorious earthly kingdom in the Middle East.
Certainly the Palestinian peoples deserve a more appropriate and better response from Christians to this question, as do all peoples on earth for whom Christ shed his precious blood on Calvary's cross.
But many have been too distracted by this strong delusion (II Th.
2:7-12) that has overtaken the church in the void left by the failure to carry on the required work in the way called straight.
Thus they have lost their way today, and once they become aware of this and pursue that straight way prescribed all throughout the New Testament, they will find all of the good things that Christ died to give to them today instead of in a future day.
Such Scriptures as I Pet.
2:11, Heb.
10:22, and Eph.
1:3 ought to be applied to Christians and to the new covenant, for these guide us into God's straight way which is filled to overflowing with rich blessings that are hidden from us until we accept by faith the hidden truths that are just waiting there for us to discover and send us gladly on our way to our heavenly homeland.
Just as Christian in Pilgrim's Progress stumbled around in the dark, so, too, do we.
But when we come into the straight way we come upon the new covenant that contains his miracles for us today, and then we won't be stumbling around any more.
Somebody has well said, "Only the unthinking are fooled into a sense of security.
" Those who hope to spend eternity in God's heaven should start putting their own thinking caps on and doing some very badly needed homework with Christ and his new covenant materials instead of spending so much of their precious time vegetating in the world of the false shepherds today who are leading so many into the ditch (Mt.
15:14.
See also II Co.
11:12-15).
But God has provided a far better way, and you can easily find it in the information below.
Then you will find his rich and more abundant life (Jn.
10:10, Titus 3:6) that He so richly supplies for those who remain in his established way.
Modern evangelicals do not address the important issues of the straight and narrow way of Christ that hang in the balance as they just plow forward with the contradictory ideas of the old covenant that are not at all supported by consistent Scripture teachings.
Is it that they choose to remain unaware? I don't think so actually.
I think that if they were adequately informed of the serious problem that exists, they would happily come into Christ's straight and narrow way, and rejoice greatly in it.
The almost insurmountable fact, as Mr.
Merrill Jenkins once noted, is that "Those unaware are unaware of being unaware.
" Perhaps this explains why they stand where they do today, positioned against all of the wonderful new covenant truths that the apostles labored so long and hard to bring to our attention.
Undoubtedly they well knew the insurmountable reality that they faced to try and convince the rigid human mind to pay very close attention to the right things, instead of drifting off with just any strange teacher or prophet who presents himself with many of the wrong things.
But a great void and vacuum has created a serious situation in christendom, and we stumble around like blind men searching in the dark, because the good guidance of that highly acclaimed straight way has not really been found.
The question needs to be addressed today, are you supposedly a heaven-bound Christian? If so, then you need better information than has been available.
Nowhere in sacred Scripture are we commanded to be taken over and obsessed with thoughts of any future glorious earthly kingdom in Israel! Nowhere! No such command can be found anywhere! Other commands are easily found, however, such as in the Great Commission (Mt.
28:19), or at Col.
3:1-4 where we are told to let heaven fill our thoughts.
Certainly no earthly kingdom found here! Indeed, if the heavenly were to really fill our thoughts, then the earthly must give way to this.
Our modern church leaders need to realize that the straight and narrow way seriously needs their attention.
Then they would realize that the temporal minded earthly kingdom leaves much to be desired, and the waiting church needs more spiritual sustenance and much less of the earthly.
The stuff of any future revival is not found in any earthly kingdom, but it is found in the pages of sacred Scripture.
Only, the church has been missing it! It's a terrible thing to have to say, but it is so true! Some would then counter that those of us who would let heaven fill our thoughts are "no earthly good anyway", another real slam against Scripture truth and against any who stand with it.
Yet, God wants us to be heavenly minded.
One could justifiably ask what good has been done to the earth by insisting on the future glorious earthly kingdom in the Middle East.
Certainly the Palestinian peoples deserve a more appropriate and better response from Christians to this question, as do all peoples on earth for whom Christ shed his precious blood on Calvary's cross.
But many have been too distracted by this strong delusion (II Th.
2:7-12) that has overtaken the church in the void left by the failure to carry on the required work in the way called straight.
Thus they have lost their way today, and once they become aware of this and pursue that straight way prescribed all throughout the New Testament, they will find all of the good things that Christ died to give to them today instead of in a future day.
Such Scriptures as I Pet.
2:11, Heb.
10:22, and Eph.
1:3 ought to be applied to Christians and to the new covenant, for these guide us into God's straight way which is filled to overflowing with rich blessings that are hidden from us until we accept by faith the hidden truths that are just waiting there for us to discover and send us gladly on our way to our heavenly homeland.
Just as Christian in Pilgrim's Progress stumbled around in the dark, so, too, do we.
But when we come into the straight way we come upon the new covenant that contains his miracles for us today, and then we won't be stumbling around any more.
Somebody has well said, "Only the unthinking are fooled into a sense of security.
" Those who hope to spend eternity in God's heaven should start putting their own thinking caps on and doing some very badly needed homework with Christ and his new covenant materials instead of spending so much of their precious time vegetating in the world of the false shepherds today who are leading so many into the ditch (Mt.
15:14.
See also II Co.
11:12-15).
But God has provided a far better way, and you can easily find it in the information below.
Then you will find his rich and more abundant life (Jn.
10:10, Titus 3:6) that He so richly supplies for those who remain in his established way.