PERVERTING THE GOSPEL
Today's teachers of Christianity have perverted the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and His message of salvation. Followers of confessed Christianity have twisted, corrupted and mis-directed the life-saving message of salvation, and the wonderful Good News about the true, revealed Savior, Jesus Christ. Christ's life-saving message is how a sinner can be forgiven and enter God's Kingdom, Gal. 1:6-9. Christianity worldwide has created false christs, (Mat. 24:24) with false messages, that vary from one church to another, with all preaching a perverted, twisted message " turning the grace of Christ into lasciviousness, and denying the true, revealed Christ," Jude 4.
Evangelists, "by their professed to be evangelizing work of Jesus Christ," are preaching a perverted Gospel, by adding more to the message of the Good News of Jesus Christ as Savior, and His message He taught as the Gospel of salvation. These false ministers not only add to the Gospel of Christ, but make "their gospel first in importance," and in reality, it is "another gospel." "Their perverted gospel is their preaching of a Gospel of government," church government, that focuses first and foremost on the "coming of the Kingdom of God, --the coming government of God." This presented, mis-directed or mis-focused gospel message, which really is "another gospel about God's coming Kingdom," or "coming government of God," is really bad news to the world, not good news. At the beginning of the setting up of the Kingdom of God, will be the wrath and judgment-the day of vengeance of Jesus Christ upon sinful and wicked man, and that is not good news that a sinner can relate to for salvation, but bad news, to all sinners of the earth and its inhabitants.
Jesus Christ will not protect anyone from His day of tribulation, wrath and judgment, who is confessing to know Him, but perverts His purpose for coming to the earth. Ministers of the churches of God teach a "perverted Gospel, that focuses on the coming of His Kingdom," to give them support to "their church government," with its power and authority over church members' salvation and lives, rather than on the true Gospel of Christ, and His coming as Savior, and providing salvation for repentant man. Isaiah 66:2 says, "---To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at My Word." Christ came not to men who tremble before other men and their messages of "church government," who fear men, rather than God and His Word. These ministers, through "their government gospel," drive people away from Jesus Christ, Isa. 66:5, as their Spiritual Head, and are working a work of a gospel that is against Christ, and His Good News message.
Isa. 66:2,5-----to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. Verse 5--Hear the word of the Lord, you that tremble at His word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said let the Lord be glorified: but He shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the Good News Message of Christ, that He is Lord and Savior, the only Savior that can save any sinner from his sins and death, and be given salvation if that sinner will repent of his sins, and in faith, accept Christ and His sacrifice. This is tremendous and awesome, good news for all sinners that will accept Christ and His message. The Christ of the Bible came in the flesh to pay man's penalty for sin with His death. He paid the penalty of death--the law's judgment for every broken commandment and statute that was given by Christ from the very beginning, to produce love--love to God and love to neighbor. Every sinner who is desirous of entering God's Kingdom must recognize this truth and act upon it, or remain under the law--its penalty of death. Rom. 6:23, Gal. 2:17-18, Gal. 1:4, Rom. 6: 14-18, Heb. 10: 26-27.
Professed teachers of the Gospel stand guilty and condemned before Christ that teach a "perverted gospel," that add or take away from Christ's Gospel. Teaching heresies and lies about and against the true Gospel is a sin, and a sin of leavening, that will permit other sins to take place, and multiply in a church body. God's Word in Jude 4 says, "False teachers are ordained to this condemnation." They teach a perverted message of Christ by "turning His grace into lasciviousness, (permission to sin-break God's commandments, that teach lies about the true Gospel without shame) and deny the only Lord God and Savior, Jesus Christ," Jude 4. Lasciviousness is shameless conduct, breaking God's 10 Commandments without shame, or repentance, and creates a false obedience of teaching that does not recognize sin, or define sin as ministers define sin, and not as God defines sin. They teach God's 10 commandments only in the sense that the wording of those commandments work in with their "perverted gospel message," and they do this by changing the meaning and their interpretation of God's commandments, to fit their needs, and to support their lies to do "their perverted work."
God commands repentance of sins based on the transgressing of His 10 commandments, in order to receive the true grace of Christ. Christ's grace is His divine favor, His favor of mercy and forgiveness of sins, His favor of the gift and influencing power of His Holy Spirit, and His favor of the gift of salvation, Acts 2:38. All of Christianity's and the churches of God's rebellion against God's 10 Commandments, (commandments that really teach God's love) is rebellion against Jesus Christ, and denies the power of His Holy Spirit, I John 5:2-3, I John 2:4, Rom. 13:10, I John 3:4, II Tim. 3:2-5.
Professed to be believers have been seduced into committing sin by false ministers who teach a grace, whereas a believer can break and profane God's Sabbath, His 4th commandment, without any shame of that as a sin, as it pertains to salvation. For example, they will teach by their hypocrisy, that it is a sin to work on the Sabbath, which includes working at a restaurant on the Sabbath. Yet these "role models of ministers" will go to a restaurant on the Sabbath and ask a person to prepare for them a meal, even if that person is interested in becoming a church member that works there in a restaurant on the Sabbath. Some of these same ministers also will even teach that is alright to work a little at one's job on the Sabbath if it means keeping their job, which teaches the compromising of God Holy Sabbath, being partial in God's law.
These same "spiritual role models" will teach against adultery, and at the same time be living in adultery, or live as a secret fornicator, or secretly engaged in pornography of lustful fornicating. They will lie, live idolatrous lives and take Christ's Name without any shame of sin. If anyone points out these sins to them, they will commit the spirit of murder by hating you without any shame of sin. I Cor. 6:9-10, Mat.5:21-22. All of this is the fruit of teaching a confusing, perverted gospel that is of the flesh. Yet, these same ministers and their followers still believe that God is pleased with them, and they will inherit God's Kingdom. Christ says they are hypocrites and will perish along with all the hypocrites of the world, Mat. 24:50-51
I Cor. 6:9-10----Don't you know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10-Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Church people submit to church ministers and their hierarchies--all based on "their gospel of government," rather than to Jesus Christ, His Word, His law, without shame of sin, and call it all Christ's "amazing grace." Christ has appointed servants (minsters) as overseers to warn His sheep and teach the true Gospel of Christ to His sheep, and to beware of wolves coming in sheep's clothing and teaching their heresies and lies. But those servants are not to be as overlords or masters (misters) over Christ's children. These are examples that will help one to understand Jude 4, "Turning the grace of Christ into conduct without shame--lasciviousness," which all perverts the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ inspired Paul to write in Gal. 1:7-9, "If any person preaches another gospel or perverts the gospel, (meaning to twist, corrupt, mis-direct or mis-focus the gospel), let him be accursed." Because this warning is so very serious, Christ had Paul to repeat it again in verse 9. Ministers and teachers fail to take this warning seriously, and will have to reap the curse of its consequences. Christian churches stand guilty before Christ of perverting the Gospel, because they teach the doctrine of Balaam, putting a stumbling block of sin before people, seducing people into sin, or to teach people they can continue in sin without sin's consequences, and the judgment of Christ. These false teachers teach a gospel that does not require obedience to all of God's 10 commandments, as God defines obedience, and thereby do not bear the fruit of a Godly repentance, in order to be accepted for justification, Rom. 2:13, Gal. 2:17-18, and to receive the gift of eternal life.
Why are the 5 foolish virgins rejected by Christ in Mat. 25:12? Because they didn't know Christ, and were not obeying His Gospel. The true Gospel message teaches that the free gift of eternal life is given because a sinner is repentant, and by this, is forgiven of his sins of breaking God's 10 Commandments. He does not now have to pay for his sins with his own life by his death, and shed blood as the law requires. Christ fulfilled that law of judgment of death for him, but the teachers of the perverted Gospel message do not teach this. Instead they are creating a false image of Christ, with a grace that a person can compromise, be partial in keeping God's commandments, without shame or repentance, Mal. 2:9. Study the whole 2nd chapter of Malachi. These ministers teach a perverted gospel that allows for one to still be accepted without fruit or works of a true Godly repentance, to be accepted for justification and for salvation. This perverted teaching and gospel will bring the curse of God-- the curse of sin and death, Rom. 6:23.
These self-proclaimed evangelists lay great stress and focus on their preaching of the Gospel as "the coming Kingdom, or coming government of God, " and through much emphasis and focus placed on the "coming government of God," they stress and put heavy emphasis on a gentile type, church government in their churches, which Christ plainly says, "It shall not be so among you (His church)," Mat. 20: 25-27. "Their perverted Gospel teaching," teaches that their members must submit to "their church government," in order to be saved by Christ. This is the sin of idolatry!
This perverted message about the Gospel diverts the church's attention away from the love of Jesus Christ, and away from His law that teaches love. This perverted Gospel is nothing less that the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which Christ says, "He hates." Rev. 2:14-15. Where are the true servants of Christ that look at their ministry as servants and helpers of joy rather than as ministers-overlords, and masters ( Mr.) of rank and authority over Christ's little ones? They even cast some out of church services and fellowship because the little ones look to Jesus Christ, rather than to a church organization-hierarchy, and their policy-commandments. Isa 66:5---"Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake---." These ministers will cast you out of their churches, thinking they are doing God's work and service, John 16:2.
These perverted, gospel messages are bad news to its teachers and followers. These perverted gospels have twisted, mis-directed, mis-focused and corrupted the good news of Jesus Christ. If all these ministers and members don't repent of these sins, and begin now to teach, preach and obey the true Gospel, they all will soon come under the curse of God--the coming tribulation of the great and dreadful Day of the Lord. Mal. 4:1-4, Mat. 3:10-12, Rev. 2:14-15. I Peter 4:17, says "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall be the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God?"