Out of His Kingdom! Out of His Kingdom!
First the offenses, and after that those who are causing the offenses if they are not willing to be cleansed from their wicked practices.
In the day in which we are living it appears that the Lord Jesus has begun the work of removing from His Church, His Kingdom, all sinful, worldly, rebellious behavior. It is of the greatest importance that we cooperate with the Holy Spirit as He seeks to lead us to confess and forsake our sins. We, through the Holy Spirit, are to put to death the thoughts, words, and actions that the Scriptures define as sin.
For if ye live in the appetites of the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify [put to death] the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Romans 8:13)
The Spirit is ready to help us put to death all the unclean actions of our flesh and spirit.
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (II Corinthians 7:1)
As we said, it is very important that we follow the Spirit in putting to death the unlawful appetites of our flesh. If we do not allow the Lord to cleanse us, then we ourselves will have to be purged from the Kingdom whether or not we name the name of Jesus.
If we will follow the Lord carefully He will remove the lying from our personality, the immorality, the violence and anger, the occult practices, the greed and covetousness. If we work with the Lord, confessing our sins and forsaking them by His power, we will enter the Kingdom of God.
But if we refuse to be separated from our sins, then we will become part of the sin itself. Instead of telling lies we will be considered a liar. Instead of being separated from lust we will become an adulterer. We will become the sin in question. If that proves to be the case we will be thrown into the Lake of Fire whether or not we name the name of the Lord Jesus, because the Lake of Fire has authority over all liars, all adulterers, all murderers, all sorcerers.
Then God will say, "let the liars remain liars; let the adulterers remain adulterers; let the murderers remain murderers." We have turned away from God and now God has turned away from us.
The Lord Jesus has declared that those who practice sin will be purged fromHis Kingdom. If they are purged from His Kingdom then it must be true that at one time they were in His Kingdom.
In the parable of the wheat and tares the Lord Jesus stated that at the completion of the present age the wicked will be removed from His Kingdom. This certainly must take placebefore the saints rise to meet the Lord in the air. Will the believers be resurrected, ascend to meet the Lord in the air, and after that have the tares removed from them or themselves be removed from Christ’s Kingdom? The purging must occur before the Lord returns.
. . . out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; (Matthew 13:41)
All wicked behavior will be removed from the Lord’s Kingdom at the completion of the age.
Before the Lord returns there will be a purging of His Church, His Kingdom, that He may receive to Himself a Bride without spot, wrinkle, or blemish of any kind.
Today the Christian churches contain numerous members who are not walking in the Spirit of God. The hour has come for the Lord to separate the tares from the wheat.
The Book of Jude, written in the first century, speaks of the infiltration of the Christian assemblies by people who are not of God:
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness [immorality], and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. (Jude 1:4)
Peter also warns us concerning the presence of the wicked, of those who never were born of God, in the assemblies of the Christians.
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction (II Peter 2:1).
From its beginning the Christian Church has been a mixture of wheat and tares. The wheat and the tares, the righteous and the lawless, have grown side by side in the Kingdom of God. Now it may be time for the tares to be removed from the wheat and for the righteous to "shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father."
Jude claims that the wicked teachers and members of the Christian assemblies turn the grace of God into lasciviousness, into freedom from moral restraint.
. . . ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness [immorality], . . . . (Jude 1:4)
The Apostle Paul’s teaching of grace is being perverted to mean Christians do not have to obey the moral laws of God.
All persons who, after continued warning, continue to break the moral laws of God without repenting, whether or not they profess to belong to Christ, are not of God. They are lawless people. They are tares. They "worship" with us in the assemblies but they are not of God. We know they are not of God because they practice unrighteousness.
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. (I John 3:7)
The pastors, teachers, and evangelists of our day appear to not believe I John 3:7. They do not believe that it is the person who practices righteousness who is righteous, even as the Lord Jesus is righteous, or that those who persist in wicked behavior are not of the Lord.
The current teaching is that we are acceptable to God by belief alone apart from works. The doctrine of "faith alone" is in clear, direct opposition to I John 3:7. Notice the next verse:
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifest, that he might destroy the works of the devil. (I John 3:8)
The Christian churches of our day are in moral chaos because of the doctrine of "faith alone." It is not true, not scriptural, that we are justified (made acceptable to God) by "faith alone." If faith is not demonstrated in righteous behavior it is dead, "being alone" (James 2:17). This is what the Spirit has declared through James. Let God be true and every man a liar.
The Christian churches throughout the world are filled with people who are not walking in righteousness. They do not practice moral restraint. They are accepted by churches or by the denominations as Christians. They are not Christians. They are tares. They resemble the wheat but they are not wheat. We know they are not wheat because they practice sin. They are not walking prayerfully and righteously before the Lord.