Grace Revolution?—Or Deadly Deception?

By Robert B. Scott

The grace revolution is praised by millions, but the Bible shows it is an end-time apostasy from truth that will end in death for many and hell for a few. It sets the stage for the appearance of the man of lawlessness who will oppose Jesus at His coming and for the union of evangelicals and charismatics with the mother church. Jesus condemned the teaching of lawlessness and hell for a few who turn permanently from the truth they knew.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Apr 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490833958

Robert B. Scott

Pastor Robert B. Scott is a prolific author and seasoned veteran of biblical exposition, having pastored since 1972 in Quebec and Alberta, as well as France. He and his godly wife Lynda, who made the initial edit before the professional editor finished the book, are great grandparents who have a long history of studying and loving God’s Word.

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Grace Revolution?— Or Deadly Deception?

ROBERT B. SCOTT

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ISBN: 978-1-4908-3395-8 (e)

WestBow Press rev. date: 04/08/2014

Contents

About Our Cover

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1

Kingdom of God—

Bible Theme and True Gospel

Chapter 2

Elijah to Restore Truth and Bring Hearts Back to Father Love

Chapter 3

Don’t Confuse Self-Effort with Grace-Empowered Performance

Chapter 4

Amazing Grace

Chapter 5

True Righteousness

Chapter 6

Choosing Tradition over the Commandments

Chapter 7

Strong Last Words

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Appendix IV

About the Author

About Our Cover

M ost of those who are deceived by this false grace revolution, the beginning of the last days’ falling away, will face only death. They will miss out on being Jesus’ bride and the first and better resurrection. They are not lost forever, however. They can still be saved in a later resurrection, yet they lose the glorious reward of the bride of Jesus. Only a comparatively very few, those who were enlightened with the truth about law and Grace, Jesus and His empowerment in us to keep the law, will miss out on eternal life and face the sad fate of hellfire depicted on our cover. This is a rare situation, but because it is a possibility, we must warn those who have turned from the truth they once knew. Our cover is a solemn warning to those who knew and even taught the truth so that, as Paul said, they will not be disqualified (1 Corinthians 9:27; 10:12).

Dedication

I dedicate this e-book to the memory of Steve Hill. Steve stayed with Jesus during a seven-year health trial before passing on from this life. One of the most important and prophetic visions he had was one in which he saw in vivid images a spiritual avalanche, and he has a book by that title that warns of a coming and great deception that could cause the death of millions. He always sought truth, and he chose to guard the truth God gave him without letting go. He was passionate about truth, as I am.

He got emotional about the prospect of having to try to rescue unsuspecting saints from the avalanche of false doctrine that is now descending upon them. He foresaw this grace revolution, and one of his colleagues, Dr. Michael Brown, has also written books on this hyper grace. I thank Dr. Brown for speaking out against these layers of false teaching that have come in a way we have never seen before.

These are the very last days, and all the spirits of deception have been released from the pit to prey on sincere and unsuspecting pastors, TV evangelists, and gullible saints who need someone to extend a pole to find them under the snow and pull them to safety. For some few, it could be a matter of snatching them out of the fire of hell (Jude 23) before they turn from the truth they once believed for a clever, end-time lie. It’s a grace rebellion against the King of the Kingdom and His laws. They are only laws of love, boundaries to keep us far away from death and danger.

These laws are good, and God’s love and grace in Jesus fulfill their requirements or demands (Rom. 8:4). Jesus doesn’t give burdens, but He wants, as does our Father Love, everything good for us. He wants to pour out blessings upon us. While Satan stole a dedicated man of God from us, God will receive him now for his reward. Other men of God, dedicated but misled, are now basking in the accolades of millions of believers who don’t check what they hear in the Book of Love and truth.

Grace and truth came indeed with Jesus. He is the Grace that fulfills the law, but deception and death come from Satan, the one who inspires men to twist the pure and unadulterated truth. You will read this truth in this e-book, the fruit of nearly fifty years of study of this subject by a pastor of over forty years and the author of a number of books. This author joins the valiant, past efforts of Steve and the present efforts of Dr. Brown to pull sincere Christians out of the snow or out of the fire before it’s too late.

In these last and perilous days, truth is being attacked and honesty is such a lonely word. We pray for the comfort and continued success of Steve’s family, friends, and ministry. We pray especially that you all will keep your eyes on Jesus and your fingers in the pages of His Word so you will not fall. God bless you richly. Pastor Robert B. Scott

Acknowledgements

I first want to acknowledge and thank the Holy Spirit whom the Father and Jesus have sent to lead us all into all truth. He has done this for me in my study of law and grace for almost a half-century. For fourteen years now, I have also been privileged to learn at the feet of an especially Spirit-led man. Gerald Budzinski is an apostle of judgment who insists on preaching only what God tells him to give, refusing to please any itching ears. He receives special revelation from our Teacher, the Holy Spirit, who never contradicts but illuminates the Word.

My amazing wife Lynda has burned the midnight oil to help me edit and proofread this manuscript as she has faithfully done since we were dating. I could never have had the e-book ready in time for this urgent message to get out without her dedicated help.

Martin Bishop, an able web developer friend, helped with production, and his wife Shelley aided me with justification by faith, my faith in her ability to justify some longer quotations with her knowledge of Microsoft Word. They, along with my YouTube videographer Tim Starozik, deserve a note of thanks. And thanks to anyone I may not have mentioned. God thanks you.

Jesus echoes my thanks to the Father and Holy Spirit in Isaiah 48:16: And now the [Eternal] God has sent Me [Jesus] and His Spirit. Only the Holy Spirit can bring truth from a Bible that is written in code like a puzzle, through stammering lips and a foreign tongue (Isa. 28:11). Because men haven’t found the key to understanding, obedience, much error has ensued—yes, even the great falling away of an end-time apostasy from truth.

Because sincere and gifted teachers haven’t tested the spirits and proven all things according to the Word, I see partial fulfillment of Isaiah 41:17: The afflicted and needy are seeking water [the Holy Spirit to teach them and the washing of water by the Word to be the Bride of Jesus], but there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst.

Soon believers and non-believers alike will experience the famine of the Word (Amos 8:11), which is why we wanted to get this warning out before it’s too late, and before millions are swallowed up by this last days’ apostasy. We believe this book is from God. He says, I, the [Eternal], will answer them Myself, as the God of Israel [the believers] I will not forsake them (Isa. 41:17).

Our warning cry is God’s heart for His people, not wanting us to die but to have His heart and Jesus’ grace to keep the law that brings life (Ezek. 33:11, Deut. 5:29). He hates lawlessness with a passion we all need (Mat. 5:19).

In these days of fear and catastrophe where millions are falling headlong into deception, we need the love Jesus and his ancestor David, a man after His own heart, had for God’s perfect and holy law, expressed in Psalm 119:165: Those who love Your law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble.

We want to inspire you with a love for our Father’s loving boundaries of protection that Jesus spoke as the Word in the Hebrew Scripture and in the New Testament. The One who told us we prove our love for Him by keeping His commandments (John 14:15) is the Grace and the Truth that empowers us to obey all the laws He gave to Moses and the many He added later to fill the law to the full.

Preface

T V evangelists have begun to resurrect an old heresy that is deadly. They say that the words of Jesus are not to be taken seriously because He was talking to those under law, which they say is done away. They preach a gospel of grace and not the gospel that will be preached before the end, the gospel of the Kingdom, the same one Jesus preached (Mark 1:14-15; Mat. 24:14). It’s not a revolution, but a lawless deception and rebellion. As an author and Bible student, I have known the truth about law and grace these charismatic preachers have abandoned since 1967. We even play their videos and audios in the church I now pastor and at http://www.freedomtruthseekers.com . Nevertheless, we see their twisting of truth that millions are applauding as a dangerous open door to the prophesied last day’s apostasy leading to the appearance of the man of lawlessness. We don’t condemn anyone to hell, and we explain briefly the extensive and unknown truth about hell. We love and respect these gifted TV evangelists, yet God has commissioned us to warn you of the lawlessness they teach, which Jesus condemns in Matthew 5:19. I am compelled to warn you of a deception ending in Jesus destroying the man of lawlessness and those who follow him (2 Thes. 2:3-8). Never has there been such an urgent need for an e-book, especially in the wake of a lawless mother church beckoning even charismatics back to the fold. They are accepting unity with the mother church, a shocking fulfillment of prophecy. All who prayerfully read need to check everything in their Bible. Don’t believe them or us. Believing right means believing God and His Word.

Introduction

W e need God’s grace or empowerment to make this a love letter to those who have blessed us for many years with their Holy-Spirit-inspired revelations and especially to those they have unwittingly misled with a subtle and popular deception they call the grace revolution. We aim to show that God doesn’t lie, and that His Word is consistent in teaching the exact opposite of this wind of doctrine that is flooding the earth.

We want by the grace of Jesus to explain clearly from God’s Word the falseness you may have assumed to be biblical, but is instead a clever deception that could open the door for the universal church to beckon its protesting daughters back into the fold. Sadly and surprisingly, wolves in sheep’s clothing are about to start what looks like the great end-time apostasy or great falling away.

I want to show that God is Love and that love is the fulfillment of the law (Rom. 13:10). I pray you can see this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome (1 John 5:3). I also hope you can see the gospel that Jesus preached was that the kingdom of God is at hand, so we need to repent and believe in the gospel (Mark 1:15). For two whole years Paul welcomed all who came to him, preaching the kingdom of God (Acts 28:31).

I must show you why this teaching is heresy from God’s Word. I do hope, however, that you will see that the God of the law is kinder than the god of false grace. He gave us the laws of His Kingdom of Love to protect us within his fatherly boundaries. He didn’t give the law to condemn us, but to bless us and to see His children live joyous, successful lives. Do good, get good, sounds like we are doing it ourselves. That’s not true. We allow Jesus in us to do it with the cooperation of our will. His true grace is more than enough to enable us to overcome every weakness, to endure every trial, and to climb every mountain in life.

Do you think you will have a vibrant, abundant and eternal life doing your own thing your own way, doing what is right your eyes? God’s law is called the way in Acts. It’s a way of life based on the rules of the Kingdom, laws of love made because our Daddy in heaven loves us more than we can even imagine. He’s given us the path to overflowing joy and delight, the law that we delight in and gladly obey, because it’s the way to peace (Ps. 119:35, 163-165).

Some of you, I hope many of you, don’t have peace about this grace revolution. You can’t put your finger on it yet, but you will as you use your fingers to flip to verses in every part of your Bible, verses that will make you wonder how you were ever enamored with this revolutionary teaching or why you never really understood it. It’s so easy to be deceived when all the demons of deception have been unleashed to marshal the best of men to fight the returning Jesus.

We love God’s people, and we don’t want you to be deceived. We want you to be part of the Bride of Jesus.

Introducing the Introduction

Why should you listen to me? First of all, I am speaking God’s Word without my private interpretation. What I write is based on years of studying law and grace and the various and sundry heresies on those subjects, whether it be legalism or greasy grace. It’s an easy subject to be misunderstood when addressing, so I’m going to say like politicians, Let me be clear. They hardly ever are, but I want God’s Word to speak loud and clear.

I am a law keeper by grace. Jesus in me is the Grace or empowerment to walk in the gift of righteousness He has given me. I often fall short of my Father’s standard of perfection (Mat. 5:48), so I need His mercy, which is only a small part of grace, every day.

The perfect righteousness of Jesus as He did what His Father said by the power of the Holy Spirit is an unearned gift. I didn’t earn it and you can’t either. Nothing in this book should be construed to mean that you have a salvation by your own works or effort. God calls our own righteous efforts to keep the law filthy rags (Isa. 64:6).

Righteousness is a gift, yet it has a definition. Love Himself, our Father in heaven through His Son Jesus, defines it. Neither you nor I have any right to define righteousness. There’s a right way of living, and a wrong way. To decide for ourselves right and wrong was what God told Adam not to do.

The tree God forbade represented good and evil, or deciding what is good and evil. That tree didn’t symbolize the law. It represented mankind deciding what should be called good and evil, righteous or unrighteous. It was like Israel when everyone did what was right is his own eyes because they had no king and thus no law.

The gospel of God is the gospel of the Kingdom of God. Mark 1:14-15 shows clearly this was the gospel Jesus preached and Acts 28:30-31 shows that Paul wasn’t lying when he said to follow him as he followed Jesus (1 Cor. 11:1) because he preached the same gospel.

The Kingdom of God is not only the gospel but also the theme of the Bible. Adam became king of the earth. God made him in His image, yet he had free will, as we also have. Jesus came to be the last Adam, dying for the lawlessness Adam committed. Adam and those born after him adopted a sin nature, which Jesus replaced in us when we accepted Him.

We still have to fight the flesh by God’s grace, however, and also the power of sin, which is not a sin nature, but sin as an entity that must be opposed. Jesus told Cain to master it (Gen. 4:7). We all take various amounts of time to adopt our new identity in Jesus, which Paul didn’t have in Romans 7, calling himself wretched. At last he gained it in Galatians 2:20. He finally knew how much God loved him, despite the unforgiveness of those whose relatives he had murdered in his past.

God’s definition of righteousness was simple at first. It was only, Don’t eat of that tree. Satan even twisted that, saying, Did God really mean what He said? He has always meant what He said, and the saying Jesus did it all is misleading. He told the woman who broke the law by committing adultery that He didn’t condemn her, yet He said, Go and sin no more.

Jesus: I Will Remember Your Sins If You Teach and Practice Lawlessness

This false teaching likes to put the accent on no condemnation, which is fine and good, and we agree heartily. However, the part about committing sin or lawlessness no more is a truth with which they can’t agree. It is impossible to agree with Jesus when you have no more law. No law means no sin and nothing to resist by God’s true grace or empowerment.

Millions applaud the phrase, And your sins He will remember no more! But they don’t really hear the truth Jesus preached: Go sin no more! God’s truth is simple: sin equals lawlessness (1 John 3:4). To those who practice it, Jesus says, Depart from Me (Mat. 7:23). Does that sound like He will remember the sins of these people no more? Their lies demand a repeated response, which we are obliged to make so you don’t have to fall for their repeated lies.

Jesus is the One who gave the Law to Moses, and later He came as Grace and Truth. He is the Grace and the Love inside us that empowers us to keep the law He gave to Moses and amplified in the New Testament. It’s essentially the same power Jesus received from His Father to keep the law perfectly, the Holy Spirit.

Jesus didn’t come to bring more laws, they claim. Oh yes, He did! Haven’t you read the Bible? He added many laws and expanded the ones He Himself gave to Moses in what is referred to pejoratively as the law, as if it’s a bad word. The Father and Jesus always say the same thing. They are good, and anything they say is good, including their laws of love.

You can’t separate the unified Godhead, so we know that the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit live in us. The Holy Spirit leads us, as does Grace inside us in the Person of Jesus.

We are unable to go and commit lawlessness no more without the power of Jesus in us. We must, however, decide to invoke His help, His grace. It’s not that we do nothing. We must read and study God’s instruction Book, the Bible. It shows us how to love like our Father Love. We have to know what righteousness is and decide to practice righteousness (1 John 2:29; 1 John 3:9) rather than lawlessness, which is sin. The law and the Word of God define sin.

The Holy Spirit reminds us of what we have studied in the Word, and He will never tells us to believe something or do something that contradicts the Word.

Romans chapter 8 confirms that Jesus doesn’t condemn us (Rom. 8:1), yet verse 4 tells us that those who walk by the Spirit fulfill the requirement of the law. We can go and stop sinning or sin less and less by the power of the Spirit, or Grace or Jesus in us. Walking in righteousness is the same thing as walking in the Spirit.

You can’t pretend to be righteous. You can’t walk in righteousness without keeping the law, and you can’t do that without lots of grace from Jesus. Jesus said the law would always be there as long as the earth existed (Mat. 5:17-18). He said teachers of lawlessness would be called least in the Kingdom. Remember, God’s Kingdom is based, as is every kingdom, on laws, a territory, and citizens.

We are to be law-abiding citizens of a kingdom whose laws will not be abolished as long as the territory, in this case the earth, exists.

As I was walking today in downtown Edmonton, I chose to obey the little man that was lighted up on the illumined sign, because I knew that I would be safe and blessed with a body that would still be alive to finish this book. The law says to obey traffic and pedestrian signs. Man’s laws are almost always for our good. God’s laws are always, always for our good. Some call the Mosaic Law a burden, but burdens aren’t good. God gives blessings, not burdens.

People Need Jesus, True Grace

I’m a people person. That’s why it grieves me that so many wonderful people are swallowing a lie that could kill them.

My mother says I’ve never met a stranger. I said hello on my way to crossing the street when the sign said I could walk, to a man with a Jewish cap on his head. I greeted him with shalom, exchanged some words, and as I was walking away from him, I decided to return and ask him some questions, since this Jewish law is seen as a burden.

I asked him if God’s law was a burden to him. He