This Popular Sermon Is Unbiblical

 

Several pastors, including numerous Bible teachers, have preached this sermon times without number even though it’s unbiblical. Since no one has taken the fore-front to challenge the preaching of this wrong sermon from several popular pastors, I’ve decided to take the fearful but enviable position as the No. 1 Bible expositor in Africa. 

Realistically, some of these pastors preach this sermon to suit their selfish purposes while few of them do so to make sinners realize God can accept anyone into his fold regardless of his or her past.

I strongly believe if this article is shared across all social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn etc, it will go along way to enlighten the church as whole and help the pastors and Bible teachers who are not aware that they have led many Christians astray.

For the record, Saul, who became Apostle Paul, Moses and David can never, and should never, be categorized as sinners. Sinners are quite different from backsliders. 

Permit me to state the difference. A sinner is someone who transgresses a biblical law while a backslider is someone who goes back into his or her previous undesirable pattern of lifestyle after knowing or giving his or her life to God.

From the above definition, it means sinners are quite different from backsliders. Not knowing these definitions, or probably ignoring them, is the reason the, said, popular sermon is still being preached in churches and other Christian gatherings.

What Exactly Is This Sermon All About?

This sermon is usually in the context of “no matter what you’ve done in the time past, God will forgive you.” Stay with me so as to figure out, from the Bible, that this is an errorneous teaching because it is incomplete. 

Have even heard a pastor preached that if you kill someone, the victim just lost his life for nothing, as long as you come to God for repentance. 

The only problem this message seems to pose is that it sounds almost right because the pastors give Bible references of people who committed grievous sins and came to God who accepted them. They cite examples like Moses who was once a murderer becoming a liberator. Also, they cite another example of Saul who led the killing of Stephen becoming an Apostle of great repute. Lastly, they cite David who became a favorite of God after killing and committing adultery at almost the same time.

Although these examples are quite convincing, the sermon is incomplete, misleading and wrong.

How do I mean?

As I started earlier, those three aforementioned people — Moses, Saul and David — were never sinners. To be precise, Moses and Saul were sinners, but David was not a sinner; perhaps, you are just hearing this for the first time, he was a backslider. That was why I started with the definition of the two terms.

Moses did not know God when he killed the Egyptian. More so, Saul did not know God when he led the mob that killed Stephen. However, David knew God, and have first hand experience with him, before he killed Uriah and committed adultery with his wife.

Hope you can see the difference?

The pastors who preach this sermon would have done a better job by stating the post-life of the three people they cited, in most cases. Had they done that, many of the people of God, who are part of their congregation, would have figured out the wrong thing about the sermon.

Moses, later, became a liberator after he met God; Saul, later, became an Apostle to the gentile when he was called by Christ. However, we can't say anything of such for David as he had always known God.

 So, if you study the three story quite well, you will discover Moses and Saul did not suffer for their sins because when you come to God as a sinner, he forgives and cleanses you from your sins.  Let show you what the Bible says about sinners who come to God…

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

2 Corinthians 5:17

“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.

Isaiah 1:18

Therefore, no sinner, if they are yet to come to God, should be condemned for committing sin. It is what they are known for. The moment they are born again and they commit sin, it is no longer business as usual; take note, they can no longer be called sinners but backsliders. 

Do not misquote me, God forgives backsliders as much as he does for sinners. However, he punishes backsliders SEVERELY even after forgiving them. There is nothing like forgive and forget for God when he is dealing with backsliders. Telling the congregation of God what I just mentioned is what makes that incomplete sermon complete. The moment congregation are preached to without, rightly, dividing the portion that belongs to sinners from backsliders, the later will be led astray thinking they are sinners who can do anything and get away with it.

Do you know David was punished severely for committing adultery and murder even though he was God's favorite?

Don’t take my word for it, see it right in the Bible below…

And Nathan departed unto his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.

16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?

19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

2 Samuel 12:15-19

As you’ve read or discovered, God killed the child who was the product of that adulterous relationship even though he knew David loved the child. Despite the fact that David sought the face of God while on the ground for 7 days non-stop with intense fasting, God refused to answer. It was a serious punishment for him. Apart from that, he was cursed, with his family, for the murder even though he was forgiven in verse ten of that chapter 12 of the second book of Samuel.

Conclusively, never rejoice when you hear pastors or Bible teachers preaching or teaching that sermon. It is a sermon meant for only sinners and not backsliders. 

GOD SAVE US ALL FROM INCOMPLETE, MISLEADING & WRONG SERMONS.