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What is the Gospel? A Series, Part IV

When the End Comes

A Sermon,

Preached on the Lord's Day

in

SANTA ANNA, July 15, 2007

For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Throughout the scriptures, judgment is inexorably linked to the Gospel of God. Here the Apostle Peter makes such a forceful and clear statement of this link, that the importance of it cannot be denied. Vain religionists and false professors tend to divide mankind into two groups – First, the professing Christian (all of whom they believe to be saved), and second, the profane secularist or atheist (who they believe to be the lost). The Apostles, however, consistently divided mankind into three groups:

The righteous – not righteous in and of themselves, but them who are made righteous by the work of Christ done on their behalf and imputed to them. These are those who are clothed in white, purified by the blood of the lamb, separate from the world and from unrighteous professors.

The unrighteous professor – he who calls himself “Christian” and who professes to believe despite all evidence to the contrary. This man sleeps in false comfort and blindly walks into eternal peril with nary a concern for his eternal well-being. In this group we place all false-brethren, all the disobedient, the followers of all false religions, and all those who follow and believe a lie.

The world – all those who live on like there is no God, who neither profess Him nor do Him service, who serve their carnal man every day of their lives, and who scoff at any imminent judgment. Some of these have received and rejected the Gospel, and theirs will be a severe judgment – some have never heard the Gospel, nor have they sought the God of Creation as nature demands – their judgment is sure, but will not be as severe as both the unrighteous professor, or the atheistic worldling, both of whom have rejected the Gospel.