Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

The Bible contains many seeming contradictions. One of the major seeming contradictions is the emphasis on the gift of grace, which seems to contradict the numerous New Testament passages that warn us concerning our behavior.
Whenever we adopt one side of the argument, or try to bring together the two sides in a compromise, we produce error. Truth is arrived at only when we hold both positions as valid, both equally necessary to the plan of redemption.
In today’s preaching and teaching we hold rigorously to the gift-of-grace position. We maintain there can be salvation apart from a change into godly behavior. We clearly are in error and the error is preventing the one thing God insists on—the keeping of His commandments by His people.
Much is being said in America today about the need for godly government and pushing back the tide of immorality. The problem is not with the government or with the American public at large. The problem is that the churches do not perceive correctly the role of Divine grace and are not keeping God’s commandments.
If we of the churches will turn back to the Lord and begin to keep His righteous commandments God will heal our nation. Otherwise we are facing an age of moral horrors in the not too distant future.