True and False Christianity

Introduction:

1. A Distorted Gospel Leads to a Distorted “Christianity”

2. Signs of Distorted Christianity

Wants to Make a Good Showing in the Flesh

Abvoids Persecution for the Cross

False Piety

Boast in the Flesh

3. Signs of a True Christian

Boast Only in the Cross

Is Crucified to the World and The World is Crucified to him

Is a New Creation that Transcends the Flesh

Bears in their body the Marks of Jesus

4. Application

True Christianity is always at war with Distorted Christianity

Distorted Christianity is always first in line to persecute true Christianity.

Distorted Christianity is a part of the world and it’s system, therefore, as much as the church is at war with the world and it’s system, the true and living church is at war with distorted Christianity.

Distorted Christianity has taken root in the American church today, especially in the larger denominations, and we must expose it, opposed it, and confront it in light of the true and living Gospel.

Think about this today:

Whitefield was a Calvinist Wesely was an Arminian

Edwards was Reformed Finney was an Arminian

Ravenhille was a Pentacostal, Francis Schaefer and D. James Kenedy were Presbytarians.

Not to mention Ian Paisley who was Presbytarian but also a fudnamentalist. And of course how could I forget men like J.C Ryle and the Great Chalres Spurgeon.

You know what’s interesting about all these men I just mentioned? They come from across the theological spectrum, and across denominational catagories, but do you know one thing they had in common?

All of them, every single last one of them, was dogmatically opposed to easy believism. Every one of them, despite whatever other dissagreements they may have had, would have hated the form of christianity that grown up in America today.

What kind of a Christian are you?