For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. (Ephesians 2:8-10)

I’ve been writing on this blog for some time, and my understanding of the Gospel has remained the same. The word Gospel means “good news.” While people may have different ideas about what is good, in Christianity this good news is the promise of free salvation. At first, faith might seem like a condition for receiving that salvation, but even faith itself is a gift from God.

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8)

Everyone whom God has chosen will hear this good news in one way or another—and they will be saved. Yet we do not know who these people are. What we do know is that each believer confesses that God sent Jesus Christ to save the world, and God knows who belong to Him.

Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His;” and, “Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to keep away from wickedness.” (2 Timothy 2:19)

God has given us a system on earth to learn about Him—the visible church. We see church buildings and people who call themselves Christians. The visible church teaches about God, but it is only a shadow of the real church—the invisible church. Everyone who belongs to the invisible church is saved. The church is the bride of Jesus Christ. God created Adam and Eve with this purpose in mind. From the very beginning, He has been revealing His plan. The ultimate goal is His Kingdom.

There are many visible churches around the world, but not many truly teach the Gospel. In fact, many of them enslave people. They have chosen the path of the Pharisees who persecuted Christ and His church.

The reason I write on this blog is to share what I have come to realize: God is angry at the churches of this world. They no longer preach the good news but spread lies. The Reformation was beautiful, yet the Reformers were not perfect. What we suffer today is, in part, the result of the errors they made.

The first error was believing that the new covenant was merely a continuation of the old covenant. They did not understand the difference. Because of this, they concluded that Jesus Christ had to keep the law perfectly in order to impute righteousness to us – the Active Obedience of Christ. They made the new covenant conditional—thus, grace was no longer grace.

The second error was their desire to make Christianity a religion for everyone. They dreamed of building Christian nations. But Christianity was never meant to be a mass religion; it has always been for a relatively small group of people. In trying to make everyone in their nations Christian, they compromised the Gospel. Ironically, those who call themselves “Christian nations” now stand at the forefront of persecuting true Christians. They mock and ridicule those who speak the truth. Everyone thinks they understand Christianity, yet few actually read the Bible and understand it. And this, too, fulfills the prophecy.

Some were being persuaded by the things said by Paul, but others would not believe. And when they disagreed with one another, they began leaving after Paul said one parting statement: “The Holy Spirit rightly spoke through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers, saying,

‘Go to this people and say,
“You will keep on hearing, and will not understand;
And you will keep on seeing, and will not perceive;
For the hearts of this people have become insensitive,
And with their ears they hardly hear,
And they have closed their eyes;
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart and return,
And I would heal them.”’ (Acts 28:24-27)

In 2017, I was led to see the abominations within the new church that separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century. The most troubling teachings are Covenant Theology and the doctrine of the Active Obedience of Christ. They are not from Calvin. These errors left the separation—the Reformation—only half-finished. Today, both Reformed churches and the Roman Catholic Church proclaim the same message: conditional salvation.

Churches that proudly claim to speak the truth and insist they are the true church do not understand the Gospel. This realization made me both angry and sorrowful. And the disease seems incurable. I do not yet know if it is God’s will to let the churches of this age die so that true Christians might be freed. Like birds trapped in a slave house—freed, yet too weak to fly over the fence—many Christians perish within the confines of that house. This is also to fulfil the prophecy:

Nevertheless I must go on My journey today and tomorrow and the next day; for it cannot be that a prophet would perish outside Jerusalem. (Luke 13:33)

What we must hold on to until the end is this one truth: grace is grace. Grace is not conditional.

This raises the question of how we should understand such unconditional grace. Yet false Christians love to argue about things they will never truly grasp. It often feels like a waste of time to explain to them how Christ’s death fulfilled the law.

At times, I even think it is a blessing not to have grown up in a Reformed church—or in any church at all. From a young age, many are immersed in complex theologies and doctrines, and when they are shown what the Bible actually teaches, they reject it. They believe they know the truth, yet they know nothing. In the end, they return to the slave house.

However, for those who come to see what is wrong, that early education can become a blessing. It helps them understand what the churches are doing wrong—and why God is angry.

Keeping the law as a means to gain salvation—as shown in the conditional covenant—has no place in the new covenant. Yes, Christ accomplished the work needed to save us. Some may call this fulfilling a condition. But we do not say our salvation comes from the works of the law. Salvation is a free gift. Old is old and gone. New is new.

We do not boast that we chose to believe in God, because even faith itself is not from us—it is the gift of God. People hate grace because they do not understand it.

For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. (John 1:17)