Bloodless Gospel Can'T Save — E.A. Johnston

The Church's Moral and Spiritual Decline

We live in a day of moral bankruptcy in the nation, anarchy in society, and spiritual declension in the church. We live in a day of apostasy within our denominations, and compromise in our churches, where a largely unconverted ministry proclaims a bloodless gospel, an impotent Christ, a shrunken God, a sinning religion, and an easy salvation.

The Broad Way and the Loss of Repentance

Hell fills by the hour with dying unconverted church members who swallowed an anemic, diluted gospel, and lived their lives on the broad way of sin. Churches today are strangers to repentance, strangers to holiness, strangers to obedience, and strangers to the lordship of Jesus Christ.

A Prayerless Church Without Spiritual Power

The prayer life of the typical church is superficial, or shallow, or even non-existent. The church has no power or authority, and there's no distinction between the church and the world, as they both look and act the same.

The Laodicean Church and Divine Judgment

If the church of Laodicea in Revelation made the risen Lord sick to his stomach, as they were neither cold nor hot, the modern church today is both an insult to him and blasphemy against him. God has withdrawn himself from our midst, and has left us to our own devices, where we busily occupy ourselves as we fortify our islands unto ourselves, in a last-ditch effort of self-preservation, in a society that is spinning out of control, on a fast track to hell.

The Bloodless Gospel and the Necessity of the Cross

We preachers today have gotten out our mop buckets, and have cleaned up all the blood and gore around Calvary, and made it so pristine there you can sit and have your lunch. But the trouble is, a bloodless gospel can't save.

Redemption Through the Blood of Christ

But the old gospel has power to save. My Bible speaks of a cross on which a blood-stained Savior from sin was crucified. In Colossians 1 14 we read, in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.

And in verse 20 it states, and having made peace through the blood of his cross. But a bloodless gospel can't save anyone. Maybe that's why so few today are saved. The missing element in our pulpits today is preaching that is authoritative, fervent, and heart-searching proclamations about a bloody cross, and a blood-stained Savior from sin, who demands repentance to come to him for forgiveness of sin.

Christ's Death, Resurrection, and Call to Repentance

Until we go back to preaching up the blood, and singing hymns about the blood, we will only continue to promote a bloodless gospel that has no saving power. Listen friends, Jesus Christ was nailed upon Calvary's cross, where he suffered and died, and he was buried.

He rose again, and ascended back into heaven, where he now sits at the right hand of the Father, and he earned that right. By way of a bloody cross, you must get your sins under the blood. You must repent, or just go on to hell.