USELESS FAITH

By Rick Mathes

1 Corinthians 15:14 and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain.

What if there was no Jesus, salvation or resurrection to eternal life? What an awful dismal condition of sin would we all be in? Irreversible death and damnation would be the universal consequences of our wasted life.

If there were no resurrection of the elect to glory we would have to write off all the preaching in churches to be fraudulent and worthless. I have to admit that the majority is Satan knows that to conquer the church he has to destroy or at least minimize the empty tomb and our hope of heaven. When dean men are ordained as dead ministers with the words of death, hell swoops in with its nets and the flames burn hotter with the new catch.

Our faith is dead if we have a dead Jesus. The cross is empty and so will our faith be empty if we are fed a useless faith of false dogma, distorted gospels and self-gratifying priests and carnal ministers of lies.

We would still be in sin and have no salvation. The only result of this temporal life ending would be the endless abyss of Satan’s furnace of flames and howling hell-hounds. It is an awful though to advance in age knowing that each heart-beat is one step closer to dying and going to hell. When we don’t have any hope of salvation we have no desire to stop or curtail our sinning. I know that without Jesus I would be dead, go crazy or be in prison. How about you? What is your “Plan B” or are you going to cast you fate to the wind? (Kismet)

We would be so hopeless and miserable without the gospel according to Jesus. Fools, we would be just plain fools being committed to Christianity without the resurrection. Without it, there is no possibility of eternal happiness.

The next time our faith drops and our trust weakens, we must return to the good old fashioned original gospel and know that our Redeemer lives. Oh, how I pray that it will be so!