J.A. Matteson
Be on guard against and flee from a gospel void of a demand for repentance. "They keep saying to those who despise Me, 'The LORD has said, You will have peace' and for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, they say, 'Calamity will not come upon you'" (Jer. 23:17). That which requires little supplies little. Justification is a free gift but it will cost you everything. There is a great evil in the land, false shepherds espousing a gospel of a broad road, a wide gate, an easy path that soothes sin rather than slaying it. Many fools believe their feel good delusions over the exacting clarity of the word of Christ, and their faith is in an idol, a deity of their own imagination, one which does not save. The Lord Jesus Christ stated, "Blessed are the poor in spirit", a sense spiritual bankruptcy and desperation characterizes the redeemed who, upon hearing the indictment of the message of the cross are convicted of sin, righteousness and judgement. The gospel of Jesus Christ does not reform the sinner, it slays him. And the life which he henceforth lives he lives by the power of God to the glory of God. Blessed are the shepherds who proclaim the pure milk of the word, and blessed are the ears which hear it and are saved by it.
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