"When ROCK-STAR PREACHERS SPEW a FALSE GOSPEL"
by Jennifer LeClaire
When preachers tour like rock stars, it´s no wonder
sinners flock to stadiums. Of course, preachers holding stadium-sized events
packed out with lost souls is awesome-unless those preachers present a
hyped-up, watered-down, seeker-friendly gospel that´s giving the assurance of
heaven while sending people to hell.
I am convinced that too many people who claim to be
Christ- followers are not really saved because too many false teachers and
false prophets are propagating a "different gospel" centered on
"another Jesus" (see 2 Cor. 11:3-4). I am convinced that many
self-professing saints are going to sit right next to sinners in hell when it´s
all said and done-thanks, in part, to rock-star preachers presenting a
hyped-up, watered-down, seeker-friendly gospel.
Indeed, these false teachers and false prophets are
moving in a false anointing and presenting a false Christ. And it´s deadly.
Perverting the Gospel of Christ
This is not a new problem. More than 2,000 years ago,
Paul wrote, "But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his
craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in
Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached,
or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a
different gospel which you have not accepted-you may well put up with it!"
(2 Cor. 11:3-4, emphasis added)
Fables and Fairy Tales
I´m also marveling at the masses that are paying to hear
a different gospel, a perverted gospel-a gospel that will send them to hell if
they embrace its doctrines. Some of those "gospels" insist there is
no hell. Some of those "gospels" say we´re all going to heaven in the
end. Some of those "gospels" give you a license to sin without
penalty. False teachers are using familiar Scriptures to justify their stance,
but they´ve essentially turned the Bible into a book of fables and fairy tales.
"Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of
season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the
time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their
own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves
teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned
aside to fables" (2 Tim. 4:2-4).
When the Lord called me into ministry, he gave me
parallel Scriptures out of Ezekiel 3 and Ezekiel 33. I´m a watchman called to
warn the church. If I don´t open my mouth and people die in their iniquity-in
their different gospel from another Jesus-some of the blood will be on my hands
(Ezek. 3:17-19). I don´t want any blood on my hands, and I´m not going to shut
up just because the false teachers-or anybody else-doesn't like it.
Does He Know You?
Jesus put it this way: "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,´ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, `Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?´ And then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!´" (Matt. 7:21-23)
And there will be suffering for eternity. God forbid. Let
us pray that these false teachers and false prophets will be exposed and that
discernment will rise among believers and non-believers searching for the true
hope of the real gospel. Amen.