Heresy Hunters vs the Holy Spirit

HERESY HUNTERS vs THE HOLY SPIRIT     (# 19)

An imaginary (repeat, imaginary!) young couple recently attached themselves to a calvinistic, cessationistic, heresy hunter church. They wanted to start a family, but were fearful that at least some of the children would be predetermined by the God they loved and worshipped to suffer eternally in hell. Their newly adopted religion has convinced them that God, in His holy sovereignty, had long ago decided who was and who was not to be saved.

How could they bring a child into the world knowing it could be excluded from God’s list of people that He predetermined to be saved? So although they diligently practiced birth control, accidents do happen, and soon their beautiful accident was lying down in her crib, ever so sweet. The question plaguing the young couple and robbing them of sleep was, “On which list is our precious baby on!?” Was she on God’s forever damned list or God’s forever saved list?

Their newly adopted religion taught that God was sovereign and immutable, and therefore, they concluded, no pleading with God could get Him to switch a name from the damned list to the saved list. The words of Jesus regarding  the “broad way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it” convinced them that their little wonder was more likely than not to be on God’s dreadful list. And nothing could change God’s immutable will!

Crying out to the Father and His Son for mercy, daily reading from her children’s Bible, religiously bringing her to sunday school, filling the house with worship recordings, giving thousands of hugs and kisses throughout her teen years – nothing (nothing!) could save her.

Imagination time over, I now speak reality to my FB friends throughout the world. This is the dreadful, weird religion that many of you have embraced and most of you have allowed to diminish your dependence on Christ’s Sent-one, the most holy, holy, Holy Spirit. I beg you…. talk it over with Jesus!