Dear Brother,
@MedicBravo
In many respects it's a glass half empty, half full scenario.
It's the question that I've always wondered on and still can only say that God's Will, will be done. Not in the Calvinist way, but in the knowledge that none of can say for a surety, whether another is Saved or not. Oh, we can presume to guess by the lives they live, what they say, but until that last breath, does any of us can say, yay or nay for a certainty? And that's not the question I wonder about, but rather if we hear as we do many a preacher that is heretical, are those who receive Jesus Christ by their preaching, be any less Saved in Jesus?
While those leaders are left to as our Lord said, "
And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!' (Matthew 7:23 NKJV).
Maybe, the Holy Spirit will draw them eventually away from such places, towards ones that are faithful disciples, and that adhere to Scripture in their teaching, preaching, and even bring others along with them. Only God can say. Though I hope this to be the case, so that if few leaders there be, that those others are left to Matthew 7:23, and that as Paul said we might be in all things to all people, that some might be saved.
For though I am free from all [men], I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more; and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those [who are] under the law, as under the law, that I might win those [who are] under the law; to those [who are] without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those [who are] without law; to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some. 1 Corinthians 9:19-22 NKJV
I see the failures, out there as you do brother. The corruption of Scripture, to accommodate those who live against the very tenets found therein. Not surprising, but we fight on, not with a hopelessness of no change, but in and with the Hope that is Jesus Christ, and as Paul said "...save some". "
But thanks [be] to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Corinthians 15:57 NKJV).
If we need to go to the very churches that say they know Him, but don't, in order to save some, if we find ourselves in such places. Do we stay quiet, or leave it to others to speak up, instead seeking what grants us comfort? Better to stay, and help rebuild, reenforce the shaky foundation on sturdier soil, then to leave them to their own devices, and be but another example of Christian failure, instead of one that can show atonement for sin that we all need and is found in the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
Again, I guess it's a glass half empty, half full decision that we all must make.
With the Love of Christ Jesus dear brother.
YBIC
Nick
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