FORBIDDEN SCRIPTURES No.

5 Try this test: Read the verses below from the Bible and then think back and try to remember the last time you heard a sermon taken from this text. Probably you never have. That is because these verses are among a good number which contradict the beliefs of most modern preachers and churches. Because of this most preachers have never preached on these verses. Probably they have never dealt with them except to try to explain them away, assuring their hearers that they do not mean what they say. Think of it! Modern professing Christians who refuse to believe all that the Bible teaches while claiming to believe that the Bible is Gods Word. So, take the test. Read these verses and decide if you and your preacher and your church really do believe all that the Bible says. Perhaps you will decide that some changes need to be made not in the Bible but in your thinking and understanding. Here are some of the Forbidden Scriptures about salvation that only a few people believe. My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons (Hebrews 12:5-8). God says, Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble (Job 14:1). We are all born both spiritually dead and dying physically for by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned (Rom. 5:12). All suffer the consequences of Adams disobedience! That is one kind of suffering, but there is another. First Peter 2:20 speaks of being buffeted for your own faults. Let me illustrate that: a man gets drunk, wrecks his car, and loses his legs. It is his fault. God may forgive him, but He does not give him new legs. He suffers the rest of his life for his own sin. A third kind of suffering exists. Our text says God loves some people. Because He loves them He disciplines them by means of suffering. They are His sons. God chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. He purifies all His children this way. The phrase whom the Lord loveth speaks of one group of people and means there is another group. God is not said to love these others. He does not chasten them. They are designated in the text as illegitimate. They are not true sons of God. They suffer because of Adams sin. They also suffer the consequences of their own sins, but they receive no spiritual benefit from their suffering not being chastened of God. God just leaves them alone. Did you ever hear a preacher at invitation time tell the lost that if they come to Christ they will be chastened and scourged: that God will put them through great trials and difficulties? I think you never have! That would not fit with the new, false gospel of enticing people to make a decision or to pray the magic prayer! It just would not be enticing to the flesh! Many preachers attempt to deceive people with enticing words (read 1 Cor. 2:4 and Col. 2:4). They appeal to fleshly desires. They promise a great family life, good health, prosperity, etc., etc., as well as eternal life, trying to get folks to come and pray the prayer. They do not tell them Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution (2 Tim. 3:12) or that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God (Acts 14:22). Neither do they tell them that Jesus said Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a mans foes shall be they of his own household (Matt. 10:34-36). Jesus meant that often some family members would reject Him and oppose their believing relatives causing great sorrow and trouble in the family circle. In spite of these Bible truths, most preachers use smooth words that tickle the ears of pleasure-loving people

promising them eternal life for a one-time prayer. They do not preach that God is angry with the wicked every day (Psa. 7:11) or that God hatest all workers of iniquity (Psa. 5:5). Instead they do what no preacher in the New Testament ever did. They falsely assure lost sinners that God loves them and has a wonderful plan for their lives. They minister to the sinners pride. As a result, proud people who are blind to their total depravity and inability to do anything pleasing to God, pray the magic prayer motivated only by carnal desires. They are healed, but never wounded. They are saved before they are lost. They do not hunger and thirst after righteousness (Matt. 5:6). The falseness of their professions is seen after a time in their lives. If God has not, may He enlighten you to see the awfulness of sin your sin and give you the twin graces of repentance and faith. Jesus said, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish (Luke 13:3, 5).