🔥 "comfortable Christianity"

🔥 "COMFORTABLE CHRISTIANITY"

TonyC – July 2025

3 Dangerous Delusions That Will Lead You AWAY From Christ!

Text: 2 Peter 1:10 - "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure"

Author's Position:

• I do NOT believe in 'eternal security' - I believe in 'conditional security'

• The Lord will never leave me, but I can leave Him

• A Christian's spirit cannot be possessed, but their mind and body can be attacked

• I believe in a conditional rapture where carnal believers will be left behind

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MAIN SERMON

🚨 INTRODUCTION: THE COMFORT ZONE CRISIS

Today we're exposing three deadly delusions that have lulled believers into a false sense of security—comfortable Christianity that could leave you behind when Jesus comes!

Church, we're living in an age of COMFORTABLE CHRISTIANITY - where believers are resting on false pillows, sleeping in false security, and heading for the greatest shock of their lives!

Three DEADLY DELUSIONS have invaded the church, and they're sending souls to hell with a smile on their face!

Sermon Illustration: Just because you have a warranty on your car, that doesn't mean you don't have to do recommended maintenance on it! If you never change your oil and the engine blows up after 40,000 miles, your warranty will not cover it!

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?? DELUSION #1: "SURELY SAVED" - THE PRESUMPTION OF PARADISE

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🛡? How often I hear "Brother, I'm SURELY SAVED! I prayed the prayer in 1985! Nothing can change that!"

But beloved, what does the INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD declare?

📖 The Biblical Reality Check

2 Peter 1:10 commands: "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election SURE!"

? If you're already "surely saved," why does God tell you to MAKE IT SURE?

Philippians 3:12-14 - Paul himself declared: "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after... I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus!"

Paul wasn't resting on "surely saved" - he was PRESSING, PUSHING, PURSUING!

💀 The Terrifying Truth

1 Corinthians 9:27 - "But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway."

Even PAUL could become a castaway!

Matthew 7:22-23 - "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!"

These people were SURE they were saved! They prophesied! They cast out devils! But Jesus said, "I NEVER KNEW YOU!"

?? The Conditional Reality

Hebrews 3:12-14 warns: "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God... For we are made partakers of Christ, IF we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end!"

IF! IF! IF! Not "surely saved" but "IF we hold fast!"

2 Peter 2:20-21 should make every comfortable Christian tremble: "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning."

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?? DELUSION #2: "SHIELDED FROM SATAN" - THE MYTH OF AUTOMATIC PROTECTION

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🛡? "I'm a blood-bought child of God! Satan can't touch me!"

Oh, what dangerous deception! If you're automatically shielded, why does the Bible give us so many warnings? Most Christians emphasize that believers cannot be ‘possessed’ by devils. But this is a distraction from the fact of satanic attacks upon believers. It is true that the Holy Spirit and an evil spirit cannot ‘possess’ the same house at the same time, but….. besides the possibility of the believer evicting the Holy Spirit from his ‘house’, man is a 3 part being. Body, soul (mind) and spirit. Even if a believers’ spirit cannot be possessed’, satanic forces can certainly attack his mind and his body.

🦁 The Reality of Spiritual Warfare

1 Peter 5:8 doesn't say relax - it says: "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour!"

He's seeking to devour WHOM? The lost? No! He's after YOU, saint of God!

2 Corinthians 11:3 - Paul warned the CHURCH: "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ!"

These were Spirit-filled believers, and Paul FEARED for them!

🎯 Satan's Targets - Even the Best

Luke 22:31-32 - Jesus told Peter: "And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not!"