Would you be satisfied in heaven, without the One who saved you?
I pray God have mercy on your soul
Why do you treat the cross like a prostitute?
And purvey a false gospel?
You will gain the world but lose your soul
You’re not a Christian
You’re nothing close
Selling only what looks good
You call it prosperity, but you’re wrong
You have forgotten the Cross, the salvation that came
No man can earn it
God is the only reason you’re saved
Your prosthetic happiness will never be enough
It’s purely greed and lust
You’re an imposter
You’ll only reap corruption
I’d rather die than lose my soul
You’re not a Christian
I’d rather die than lose my soul
“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.” - 2 Timothy 4:2-5
“But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.” - 2 Peter 2:1-3
“As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.” - Galatians 1:9
The critical question for our generation – and for every generation – is this: If you could have Heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with Heaven, if Christ was not there?
Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It’s a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don’t want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.
- John Piper’s God Is The Gospel








