We've Got A Bunch Of Self-Righteous Preachers Today

Ezekiel 33:13, “When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.”

It is a disturbing truth indeed that most churches today have a self-righteous unsaved pastor. No one is saved who preaches that believing the Gospel is not enough to be saved. Those wicked false pastors all claim that repentance is also needed, because they misunderstand Bible repentance. In fact, the man who BELIEVES on Jesus Christ HAS repented!

Repentance is not a separate step from believing. Bible repentance, if you look it up on Google (see: metanoia and metanoeo), simply means: “a change of mind.” Metanoia is the Greek noun form, and metanoeo is the Greek verb form, which means: “to think differently.” A person who believes the Gospel only did so because they changed their mind from unbelief to belief. Today's deceived preachers have been lied to by other sinister ministers, foolishly led to think that repentance means to turn away from your sinful behavior. But this is self-righteousness, and not the imputed righteousness of God that is by faith alone.

We've got a bunch of wicked self-righteousness pastors today, who lean upon their own understanding instead of trusting the Lord. Ezekiel 33:13, “When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.” There you have it! If any man trust IN HIS OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS, all of the good deeds and preaching for Christ, and all of his dedicated service to follow Christ as “Lord” won't be remembered in eternity.

If you want further evidence, read what Jesus said:

Matthew 7:21-23, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

All we hear today from fools like Marty Herron, Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, Steve Pettit, Gary Walton, Chuck Phelps, Ray Comfort and thousands more unsaved infidels is that to get to Heaven, you must make Jesus the absolute Lord of your life, turn away from your sins and follow Jesus from now on faithfully. Folks, they are preaching another gospel! This is not the simple Gospel that the Apostle Paul preached in 1st Corinthians 15:1-4:

1st Corinthians 15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”

Paul defines “the gospel” as Christ's death on the cross, burial and bodily resurrection the third day. There is no inclusion of turning away from your sinful behavior, nor of making Jesus the supreme “Lord” of your life, nor of counting the cost and paying the price, nor of faithfully running the Christian race to the end, nor of water baptism, nor of speaking in tongues, nor of attending a church, nor of doing good deeds, nor of confessing Christ publicly, nor of inviting Christ into your life, nor of anything else! You may do all these things and still never have been born-again at all!!!

Paul said in Galatians 1:12 that he received the Gospel directly from Jesus Christ Himself. Childlike faith in Christ has always been God's only simply plan of salvation for humanity (Acts 10:43). NO ONE has ever been saved by works, nor by partial faith in Christ plus works. If they did, then God owed them salvation, which is just not possible because none of us could ever perfectly keep the law to merit Heaven (Romans 4:4-7).

I know that I preach on this topic a lot, but it needs to be driven home. “YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN” Jesus exclaimed in John 3:3-7. You cannot be born-again by turning away from your sinful ways in a lame attempt to appease the wrath of God against you as a guilty sinner. Only the sacrifice on God's only begotten Son on the cross can do that, by the precious blood that He shed and sprinkled upon the Mercy Seat in Heaven (Hebrews 9:12, 22-24; 12:24).