Originally published in "The Lord's Coming Herald & Wesleyan Bible Prophecy Advocate," August Edition 2008
Toward Understanding The Dispensational Sin Of Unbelief
“And when he [the Holy Ghost] is come, he will reprove the world of sin
. . . . Of sin because they believe not on me” (Jn. 16:8-9). “. . . this is
the work of God that ye believe on him whom he hath sent” (Jn. 6:29).
Why is it, friends, that we seldom, if ever, hear a dispensationally indoctrinated
preacher in the Holiness Movement give a full-fledged sermon on the kingdom of
God, which Jesus and His apostles preached? (See Matt. 4:23; 9:35; 10:7; Acts
8:12; 20:25; and 28:30-31 for a few of many references that indicate this
kingdom preaching.)
The reason that most will preach nearly anything but the New Testament gospel
of the kingdom, my friends, is because these preachers do not believe that the
messianic kingdom of God has been established on earth as a present reality.
They do not believe in the kingdom of God, as it has been revealed to us in
the New Testament.
Thus, to talk much about the “kingdom” becomes an embarrassment to these
preachers’ latent dispensational theology. In order to do so they would have
to bring in distinctions involving the so-called “millennium” that are
exegetically painful, making both themselves and their congregations feel
nervous and uncomfortable.
In order to avoid the embarrassment of their own inadequate comprehension of
Jesus’ doctrine of His kingdom, and in order to avoid controversy with those
who may raise their eyebrows over to much going off the deep end in
premillennial eschatology, these preachers and evangelists studiously avoid
dealing much at all with the central idea of the New Testament, which is the
kingdom of God.
Amazing, isn’t it?
Far more than amazing, friends, is the tragic sadness of these misled teachers’ sin of unbelief in the revelation of God.
Think about it.
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