What’s Wrong With Christianity - Part 2 Series

Today is Part 2 of What’s Wrong With Christianity. As I said in Part 1, these messages are not asking what’s wrong with Christianity. Instead, they are describing what’s wrong with Christianity from the viewpoint of the Body of Christ.

I’m going to repeat something that I said in the first message. Everything I’m going to talk about is predicated on one thing: that you believe what this book says. And remember, I held up my Bible? If you don’t believe what the Bible says, then you are not going to agree with these messages.

And that’s okay with me. I’m past being concerned about people receiving what I say. My single responsibility is to God. As long as I please My Father, I’m good. You see, as a teacher of the Gospel, my charge is to teach you the truth. What you do with the truth – well, you will either hear it and accept it or you won’t. My earnest prayer is that you will.

In the first message, we looked at several passages that shows the Bible teaching absolutes, teaching standards by which Christians are to live, and teaching living a holy lifestyle.

Absolutes is what’s wrong with Christianity – for most Christians. Please turn to Hebrews 11:6. “But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”

There is only one way, one way, to please God and that is with faith. Not how much you give in the offering plate. Faith is the only thing that pleases God and when He sees faith, He rewards it. There are many in the Church who would disagree with this.

We also looked at James 1:13. “Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.”

The phrase “neither tempteth he any man” refers to what was just said. God doesn’t tempt us with evil. If you’re in a car accident, it’s not God trying to teach you a lesson. But that is one of the strongest teachings in the Church today. And it’s not true! This is one of the absolutes that the Bible teaches and yet, many in the Church disagree with it!

The second thing that we looked at as being wrong with Christianity was Christianity teaches that the Bible IS THE ONLY STANDARD by which all of us are to live.

One of the verses we looked at was Psalm 119:128. “Therefore, I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right, and I hate every false way.” When God speaks, when the Bible speaks, whatever the topic, the Bible is right. Whatever the Bible calls sin is sin and it doesn’t matter what society says or how you feel about it.

The third and last thing we looked at was holiness. For most Christians, living a holy lifestyle is unobtainable and that makes it one of the things that’s wrong with Christianity. But the Bible is very clear on this point. Turn to I Peter 1 and we’re going to read verses 13 through 16 again.\

(13) Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

(14) As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

(15) But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.

(16) Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

Again, holiness is not what you do. Holiness is who you are as a child of God. But, there are too many in the Church who really don’t care about living a holy lifestyle. Christianity has a set expectations that they don’t want to follow. And for those who continue to pursue unholy living without repenting, they could spend an eternity in the lake of fire.

Now, we’re going to look at some other things that are wrong with Christianity. Turn to Jeremiah 17. I’m going to read verses five through eight from the Amplified Bible. Follow along with me. When I read this ladies and gentlemen, it was “Wow!” Sometimes I don’t think we really appreciate what the Bible is telling us.

(5) Thus says the Lord: Cursed [with great evil] is the strong man who trusts in and relies on the frail man, making weak [human] flesh his arm and whose mind and heart turn aside from the Lord.

The strong man, ladies and gentlemen, is us, those of us who are born again with the life and nature of God living in us. We are the strong man! And God says we curse ourselves when we put our trust in the frail man – anything other than God.