The Days of Your Youth

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 Dear “With Your Smartphone All
the While”, Blue-Whale Playing
Generation...
Blue Whale. We are not talking
about the big fish in the sea.
The “Blue Whale,” referred to in
this piece, is an online game that
ultimately dares its players to act
out a death-wish – their own! This
smartphone game pushes the users
of this game to carve an outline
of a Blue Whale on their skin and
eventually drives them into suicide.
That’s one reason this game got the
name “whale” – a fish with suicidal-
tendencies that is known at times to
deliberately swim towards beaches
only to die. If a player refuses to
obey the “dare” for a dangerous
task, threats such as, “We will have
your parents killed…” rapidly follow.
Yes people – including children
and teens – World-over are either
talking about the Blue Whale
challenge or playing it. Leave alone
the Blue Whale game, aren’t we are
living in a time when folks are with
their smartphone all the while?
When I went to the Scripture
to discover a response for this
disturbing global trend, the
following observations welled into
my soul:
1. OPERATION: Devil’s Devious
Operation, Discern It!
The Blue Whale is ultimately
indicative of a “true tale” – certain
truths about Life – life about living
with capital L. Only a person deeply
disillusioned with life would take
the lead from games such as this
and eventually decide to end one’s
life itself. The Bible, God’s Word
in human words, presents Satan
as the one who comes to steal, kill
and destroy (John 10:9). It is quite
possible that Satan uses online
games such as the Blue Whale, get
unsuspecting folks to fall-in-line
with his sinister plan of destruction.
In the Bible, we read of a demon-
influenced man ‘cutting himself with
stones’ – attempting suicide (Mark
5:5). Satan does not just sow inside
of us thoughts of suicide. The Bible
teaches that His primary goal is to
lead us towards fleeting-pleasure
offering sin – something that
separates us from God (Isaiah 59:2)
and robs us of all lasting joy. “Joy”
leaving our lives, when “sin” enters
is not just a fact found in the Bible
(Lamentations 5:15; Psalm 51:12)
but an experience we all relate to in
our day-to-day lives. The shot-put
ball of guilt in the heart after a sin -
be it an affair with a colleague in the
work-place or hours of porn-surfing
when your spouse is asleep - stands
testimony to that.  So, beware of seemingly innocent
This leads me to a well-known
statement that Jesus made that is
found recorded in the Bible: “I have
come to give life – life to the full”(in
John 10:10). This implies, apart from
the “alone and apart from everyone”
Jesus (Jesus said he was the ONLY
WAY in John 14:6 of the Bible)
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj
no one can find that paramount
peace, that supreme serenity, that
maximum meaning, that Himalayan
happiness. 
Apostle Paul, a Jesus-follower,
wrote about the “purpose in each
step” (I Corinthians 9:26, NLT, The
Bible) that Jesus gave him, when he
followed Jesus through the smooth
and stormy phases of his life. 
2. INITIATION: It May Be An
“Innocent” Initiation, But Very
Rarely It Stays That Way!
The Bible teaches that we must
“reject every kind of evil” (I Thess.
5:22, NLT). A Bible Translator
who put God’s Word in the
contemporary English language of
his time, J. B. Philipps, translated the
same verse this way: “Steer clear of
evil in any form”. Alcohol might, at
first, ‘go down smoothly,’ but ‘at the
last it bites like a serpent and stings
like a viper’ (Prov. 23:30-31, NASB).
A game like Blue Whale which may
start out merely as a “time-pass”.
It will not remain a “time-pass” - it
may even lead to your passing away!
initiations into this dangerous game!
Many seemingly-innocent things
we start doing, once we have a
smart-phone eventually leads to
self-destructive behavior such as
marriage-wrecking sexting, total
neglect of Bible reading and prayer,
etc.
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3. DECISION: There Cannot Be A
More That Is More Dumb Than The
Decision To Commit Suicide!
The Blue Whale Game lures its
players to end their lives. A teen in
Mumbai stood atop a tall building,
took a picture, uploaded it on his
Instagram account with the caption,
“Last Picture”, before jumping off
the building to his death. This
was one of his Blue Whale game
“tasks”. Leonid Bershidsky wrote
for Bloomberg these lines how
this game’s players are coaxed
into choosing suicide over sailing
through the ups and downs of life:
“For the last 10 days, the player
needs to wake up at an appointed
early morning hour, listen to music
and contemplate death. Those who
get cold feet and want to leave the
game receive threats, often that
their parents will be killed.”
God’s Word, the Bible, however
challenges us from taking the dumb
decision to end our life. You really
cannot “end” your life, because God
has stamped eternity in everyone’s
hearts (Eccl. 3:11). In other words,
we will go on living forever even
after we die – either in heaven
or hell (2 Cor. 5:1; Rev. 14:11).
The God of the Bible invites us to
“choose life” over “death” (Jer. 21:8;
Dt. 30:15, 19).
When an earthquake and the
resulting broken-open-prison-doors
resulted in the real possibility of
all the prisoners under his charge
of escaping, the Philippian Jailor
wanted to end his life (Acts 16:27).
“Everyone in the prison will now
escape. I will not have a job and
maybe the Government, I am
accountable to, will even kill me.
So why don’t I end my own life?”
Those were the Jailor’s thoughts.
He reached for his sword. That’s
when Paul spoke up. With the
prison gates now blown open,
the Jailor was sure that there was
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no way that any prisoner would
remain in prison. That’s when Paul
comforted him saying, “Don’t harm
yourself! We are all here!” (Acts
16:28). He went onto present the
ultimate solution for any suicide-
considering person: belief on the
‘Author-of-Life’ (Acts 3:15)/‘hope
for all nations’(Matt.12:21)/ ‘One
to Whom we who have fled to take
hold of the hope set before us’
(Heb. 6:18)[Acts 16:31].
Choosing suicide believing the
lie, “no one cares for me,” is
foolish because there are people
whom God has placed in our
lives who indeed care for us. The
administrators of the Blue Whale
game may want you to die, but your
parents want you to live! Not just
live, but thrive! The love of a parent
is an imperfect picture of God’s love
for you (Psa. 103:13). “A foolish
son brings grief to his father and It is quite possible that Satan
bitterness to the mother who bore uses online games such as the
him” (Prov. 17:25). It may be said Blue Whale, to get unsuspecting
that suicide by a son (or daughter) folks to fall-in-line with his
sinister plan of destruction!
will make this verse more real and
heart-shattering than any other
told me. “They just say ‘Okay, okay,
thing in the world!
whatever’ while they’re on their
4. ADDICTION: Watch Out for the phones. They don’t pay attention to
Sin of Smart Phone Addiction! their family.”’ This article postulates
The fact that our world is lock- with stunning statistics that today’s
stock-and-barrel addicted to the teens are so glued to their ‘screen-
smartphone is undisputed! Even time’ (time with smartphone/IPad)
believers are no exception! Jean that they don’t mind giving their
Twenge, a researcher who has been ‘sex-time’ a miss! Jean’s description
researching generational differences of the common-to-literally-
for 25 years, starting when she was everyone smartphone addiction
a 22-year-old doctoral student in is memorably accurate: ‘Curious, I
psychology. This American writer asked my undergraduate students
at San Diego State University what
in a September 2017 article for they do with their phone while they
Altantic Monthly that went viral on
sleep. Their answers were a profile
how the smartphone has destroyed in obsession. Nearly all slept with
an entire generation, makes the
their phone, putting it under their
following practical observation that pillow, on the mattress, or at the
indicates how much this generation
very least within arm’s reach of the
(whom she calls iGen) is addicted to bed. They checked social media
the smartphone: ‘One of the ironies
right before they went to sleep, and
of iGen life is that despite spending reached for their phone as soon as
far more time under the same roof they woke up in the morning (they
as their parents, today’s teens can had to—all of them used it as their
hardly be said to be closer to their alarm clock). Their phone was the
mothers and fathers than their last thing they saw before they went
predecessors were. “I’ve seen my to sleep and the first thing they
friends whose families do not talk saw when they woke up. If they
to them,” Athena (a typical iGenner) woke in the middle of the night,
they often ended up looking at their
A game like Blue Whale which phone. Some used the language
may start out merely as a “time- of addiction. “I know I shouldn’t,
pass”. It will not remain a “time-
pass” - it may even lead to your but I just can’t help it,” one said
passing away! about looking at her phone while
in bed. Others saw their phone
as an extension of their body—or
even like a lover: “Having my phone
closer to me while I’m sleeping is
a comfort.”’ What Jean found true
about her students is perhaps true
of all of us reading this piece!
The Bible is very clear in this:
addiction of any sort is sinful!
The Voice version, which is my
new number one modern English
Bible Version, of that familiar
Bible version about this issue – I
Corinthians 6:12 – goes this way:
‘I can hear some of you saying, “For
me, all things are permitted.” But
face the facts: all things are not
beneficial. So you say, “For me, all
things are permitted.” Here’s my
response: I will not allow anything
to control me.’
Apostle Paul calls himself a bond-
slave of Christ in Romans 1:1.
When you read the relevant cross-
reference passage for Romans 1:1 in
the Old Testament (Exodus 21:1-6),
we understand who a bond-servant
actually is: “A bondslave was one
who worked willingly because he
sold himself into slavery out of love
for his master” (the words of Jamie
Mitchell). The bond-servant gets
his ear pierced by the master as if
to proclaim to the world, “Seven
years were not enough for me to
serve you, master! These seven
years of serving you as a slave were
like life in heaven! I now want an
entire lifetime to serve you!” Paul
was so pleasurably pierced in his
heart by the love of Christ that he
self-introduces himself as Christ’s
bond-slave in Romans 1:1. If you
are OnePlus One phone-owner,
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Romans 1:1 should remind you
to love your Lord more than your
phone.
When it comes to ways to
overcoming addictions the
Bible presents the method of
“addiction substitution” – the way
of substituting a God-honoring
addiction in the place of the sinful
addiction! This is a Scriptural
principle of overcoming addictions.
Let me explain:
The devil returned with a great
strength into a heart that was
“swept” and “clean” – that is
what we read in Matt. 12:44-45.
The words “swept” and “clean”
indicate to me that the once-
addicted person got rid of his
sinful addictions, successfully. But
the Devil came back into his life,
because he continued to keep his
heart empty, instead of plugging it
with an nobler, non-sinful, God-
pleasing addiction!
The same principle underpins
Psalm chapter 1: Addiction to
bad company can be overcome
when you start to meditate on
God’s Word, in the free-time you
will now get, by giving the long-
hour meetings you have with your
boozing/porn-watching/‘wicked’
friends, a repeated miss! The same
principle undergirded Apostle Paul’s
words in Ephesians 5:18: Those who
ditch drunkenness can successfully
bid bye to that addictive habit by
an ongoing over-flowing experience
with the Holy Spirit!
In short, we need to consciously
seek to replace God-delight with
Gadget-delight! We need to
Choosing suicide believing the
lie that “no one cares for me,” is
foolish because there are people
whom God has placed in our
lives who indeed care for us.
purposefully seek to swap Sweet-
Spirit-time with Screen-time!
We need to replace, “What-in-
the-Word” Bible Study time with
WhatsApp time
Like Daniel we need to
“resolve”/”make a deliberate choice”
not to do that which displeases
our Lord (Dan. 1:8). Since “evil
desire” can result in full-blown “sin”
as Apostle James warned (James
1:13-15), we need to deliberately
desire the “eternal pleasures” that
come with a life that is intimate
with the Infinite (Psalm 16:11)
rather than “chose” to “enjoy the
fleeting pleasures of sin” (Heb.
11:25). We must say, “I would
rather be in the sweet presence
of Jesus meditating the Word and
celebrating his goodness than be
with my smartphone all the time
indulging in gossip-chats, sexting,
porn-watching or unvarnished time-
murder!” (that’s one way to apply
Psalm 85:10).
Have you already wasted tons of
time with your smartphone? Have
you sinned against the Lord aided
by your smartphone? Come back
to him like Peter. Don’t go away
further from him like Judas! Both
committed sins. Peter’s sin of denial
of Jesus was far more serious than
Judas’ sin of betrayal of Jesus. Yet,
in the end, Judas whipped out a
rope and committed suicide while
Peter wept in repentance and raced
back to Jesus!
Will you run to the foot of the Cross
of Christ and place your smartphone
there as a sign that you love him,
more than anything else – including
the phone?
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WHICH ADDICTION?
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj
Facebook addiction or addiction to
gazing at His face ’n reading His Book
OBAMA’S CONCERN
When Barack Obama
was the US President, he
posted his family picture
on FACEBOOK (in 2011);
it drew 71,000 likes and
11,000 comments. His elder
daughter Malia was 13 then
and she was old enough to
start using FACEBOOK. But
the President has said that
he would wait for four more
years before he would
consider allowing her to
do that. In an interview,
the then-President
described the thinking
behind the Facebook
ban as: ‘Why would
we want to have
a whole bunch of
people who we
don’t know knowing
our business? That
doesn’t make much sense.’
(from www.dailymail.co.uk,
17 December 2011).
Obama’s point brings us to
the debate on the utility of
FACEBOOK.
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SUICIDE AFTER READING A FB UPDATE
A young girl student at Indian Institute of Management,
in an Indian city, hung herself to death after she read
the FACEBOOK update of her former boyfriend, who
had just ditched her in the year 2011.
Her death brings us to the question about how intense
an influence FACEBOOK can cause in our lives.
HOOKED TO FACEBOOK?
There are those who will have to look at their
FACEBOOK account, even as they are brushing their
teeth in the morning. They are so obsessed with it.
PLIGHT OF BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS TODAY
It is a sad fact that born-again believers spend more
time on FACEBOOK rather than on God’s book, the
Bible. It is scary to note that we would be sitting in
front of a laptop with FACEBOOK opened, rather
than seek the face of God! This is sinful. God will
not tolerate this. Here is why:
TIME FOR READING GOD’S WORD DAILY?
The admonition to read God’s Word daily
is found in the Bible
at several
places and
in several
ways.
The Kings of Israel should carry a
copy of the Laws of Moses and read
them DAILY - this was a command
that God gave them (Deut. 17:19).
In the New Testament era, we
believers are the kings and queens
in God’s eyes for Peter writes we
are “royal priesthood” (I Pet. 2:9). So
the expectation that was upon the
kings of Israel falls on us as well.
The believers of Berea were
noble because they searched the
Scriptures DAILY to see what Paul’s
teaching them was in line with it,
Luke writes (Acts 17:11). So, we
must not only READ the Bible
Are you addicted to Facebook?
Is this a common scene in your
home?
everyday, but SEARCH it which
implies, deep study coupled with
meditation. This must not be done
once-in-a-while or when we feel like
it, but DAILY.
When we can find time for
FACEBOOK, daily, when we don’t
find time for God’s book daily, even
after knowing that God expects us
to spend time with it, daily, it is clear
case of idol-worship.
TIME FOR SEEKING GOD’S FACE
DAILY?
The admonition to spend time
DAILY seeking the face of God via
prayer is there in the Bible.
“Blessed” is the man who watches
“daily” at wisdom’s gates, the Bible
teaches (Prov. 8:34). Jesus is God’s
wisdom (I Cor. 1:30). God desires
that we eagerly wait, daily, at the
gate of His Son, seeking fellowship
with Him, the way a girl would
desperately wait for her man/boy-
friend to appear at her hostel gate
to meet her at the agreed-upon
time. This waiting, which practically
means spending unhurried times
in prayer, should become a daily
drill. But what, perhaps, a daily drill
once upon a time, is now gone. This
is because the thrill of being with
the Lord is lost, as we have lost
our first love for Him, and we now
divide the time we otherwise spend
with God with other lovers - such
as FACEBOOK. This must change.
We must return to Him and start
seeking His face.
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IN LOVE, REALLY, WITH WHAT
OR WHOM?
It all boils down to this crucial
question - Whom are we, really,
in love with? Are we in love with
the holy habit of just gazing at his
face - is it the one thing we will
do, come what may (Psa. 27:4)?
Or are we in love with gazing at
faces on FACEBOOK? The lady we
meet in the Bible book of Song of
Songs says, “I will seek him whom
my soul loves” (Song of Songs 3:2).
If it is REALLY TRUE that we love
the Lord; our heavenly bridegroom,
we will take special efforts to seek
Him. We will seek Him by spending
time in prayer. We will seek Him
reading His Word, the Bible. We will
not seek FACEBOOK more than
Him. We will not spend more time
on FACEBOOK than seeking his
FACE and reading His BOOK (as it
has been popularly put by several
preachers/writers).
BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
We must return to the Holy Art of
seeking the Lord before it is too
late. Hosea 5:6 talks about the
possible time, when we will try to
seek the Lord, but He would not
be found. There is a possibility that
it would be too late for us to seek
Him. It would be too late to seek
Him after our death. It would be too
late to seek when He returns as a
judge. It would be too late to seek
Him, when the Holy Spirit stops
speaking to our stubborn hearts. So
do it, now! Log out from Facebook
and log into his presence. Before
you get online with FACEBOOK,
take time to get inline with HIS
FACE and HIS BOOK. Tell him, how
desperate you are for him. If we
seek God with our “whole heart” we
will be “blessed” (Psa. 119:2).
And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days
of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep
all the words of this law and these statutes
SEX-LACED, FLIRTY CHATS -
WHAT WOULD GOD THINK
ABOUT IT?
And possibly, there are things that
we do while on FACEBOOK, that
displeas God, very clearly. 58% of
those surveyed in the Outlook-
Durex Sex Survey published by
Outlook on December 26, 2011,
said that FACEBOOK, Twitter
intimacy leads to sexual encounters.
Do you chat with an online friend
or stranger in a flirty, sex-laced
manner? Godless chatter will not
please God, we read in God’s Word,
time and again. Paul warns us
against ‘godless chatter’ twice in
his letters (I Tim. 6:20; II Tim. 2:16).
The writer of the book of Proverbs
writes that a chattering fool comes
to ruin, twice (Prov. 10:8,10). On
the Day of Judgment we will have to
give account for every idle word we
uttered, Jesus warned (Matt. 12:36).
To place things in context, I could
make that “every unnecessary word
we type while on Facebook.”
LUST FOR FACEBOOK LIKES!
While there is nothing wrong in
looking for encouragement. We
must honestly ask ourselves if
we really need to post things
on FACEBOOK to gain people’s
approval - something that God will
not appreciate. Is there a lust for
FACEBOOK likes in your life? Paul
wrote that he could not be a servant
of Christ by seeking approval (shall
we say here, “FaceBook likes”) of
men (Gal. 1:10). I often tell myself
that the FACEBOOK likes on my
posts are not indicative of God’s
approval.
FACEBOOK AT THE EXPENSE OF
THE FAMILY?!
A person’s family relationships
will invariably suffer if he spends
excessive time on FACEBOOK.
Deuteronomy 17:19

Galatians 1:10 warns us against
the modern temptation we all
have to lust for more FB likes!
Jennifer Aniston reportedly split with her boyfriend
based on the accusation that he had the time for
Twitter but no time for replying her text messages to
him. Face to face conversations with family members
should take precedence before “face booking”. The
Bible teaches that spouses must meet the needs of
each other (I Cor. 7:3). This would mean, not just the
need for sex but the need for a meaningful conversation
or a warm hug. Too much FACEBOOK kills the time that
is needed for all of these to be developed.
Overcoming Smart-
phone Addiction
By Understanding Truth Found
In 2 John 12 and 3 John 13!
Smartphone addiction will be thing of the past when
we recall the Face-to-Face conversations the New
Testament calls us for. The senior-most leader of the
early church, Apostle John, a man who was in his
nineties, wrote twice that he preferred face-to-face
conversations than letter-correspondence. He does that
in 2 John 12 and 3 John 13 (easy to remember). 3 John
13 goes this way: “I have much to write you, but I do
not want to do so with pen and ink” (NIV).Why does he
do that? Maybe, during those days, there was an extra-
craze for writing letters, because letter writing was
relatively a new fad among the youth and young kids of
his time just like Facebook and WhatsApp is a new fad
during our time. Everybody was perhaps spending all
their time in writing on paper, scrolls and parchments.
What he basically said was this: “Writing on paper is
good, making a book is good….but nothing like meeting
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THE ACID TEST TO DISCOVER IF YOU ARE A
FACEBOOK ADDICT
One must answer this question, honestly: am I addicted
to FACEBOOK? Addiction to even lawful things are
forbidden in Scripture (I Cor. 6.12). The best way to find
out is to check, for how long, you can be away from
FACEBOOK. When I suspected FACEBOOK addiction
in myself, I decided to keep it off during the week we
both (my wife and I) were fasting and praying. I could
make it! It was not that tough! I do use FACEBOOK,
mainly to post Bible messages and Ministry News. I do
not respond to chat starters that go like, “Hi, Duke...”
because of my many commitments. I usually reply, “I
appreciate the fact you are writing to me. However I
am not able to chat. Please send what you want to send
as a single message. Then, I will respond.” This practical
step has helped me overcome the temptation to waste
time when I am online.
QUIT FROM FACEBOOK, IF YOU MUST!
Let us use FACEBOOK in a God pleasing way. If we
are not able to handle FACEBOOK the way God would
want us to handle it, I would say, it is better to avoid
it altogether. Joseph refused to be even with Mrs.
Potiphar, we read (Gen 39.10). He was wise to avoid
temptation altogether. We too can follow suit when it
comes to FACEBOOK. Avoid it altogether, if you are not
able to win over the temptations it brings.
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj
a person, looking the person in the eye and talking
with that person!” And if he was alive now, I am sure he
would said, “Stop being on WhatsApp all the time. Stop
being on Facebook all the time. Keep your phone down.
Go and meet people. Fellowship with real people.” I
must note here that the concept of the Online Church
defeats the very purpose of the church! In a church, in
a youth fellowship, you can get to meet each other, rub
shoulders with each other, give each other a holy kiss
(Rom. 16:16; I Cor. 16:20; I Thess. 5:26) or a shoulder
squeeze or a warm hug. You can encourage each
other in respective walk with Jesus Christ with direct
conversations! This is not possible in a virtual space!
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“As He is, so are we in
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this world”
A Hyper-Grace Supporting
Phrase In I John 4:17?
I have often seen Hyper-Grace
teachers use the final portion
of I John 4:17 – “As He (Christ),
is, so are we in this world!” – to
teach that no matter how much
we sin as believers, God the
Father sees us like he sees Christ!
Therefore, according to them,
just as God the Father would not
ever condemn or consign Christ
to hell, we as believers can never
be condemned or go to hell. In
one of his devotional books, a
popular hyper-grace false teacher
and cultic pastor from Singapore,
says (quoting this very verse), “It is
wonderful to know that God does
not measure and judge you based
on your performance today. Instead,
he looks at Jesus, and as Jesus is,
that is how He sees you... As new
covenant believers we do not have
to fear the day of judgement…
because as he is, so are we in this
HYPER-GRACE
world!”(100 Days of Favor, page
199).
How do we respond to this?
Before we interpret any Bible
passage, we must first figure out the
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context of that passage. Let us get
the context of I John via the writings
of Andreas J. Köstenberger. He
writes, ‘John probably penned
his epistles a few years after his
gospel, to congregations familiar
with the gospel. He seems to imply
this by repeated references such
as “which you have had since the
beginning” (i.e., the gospel; 1 John
2:7) in John’s first two epistles
(also, e.g., 1 John 1:1; 2:24; 3:11; 2
John 5, 6). Possibly, proto-gnostic
(a group who believed it did not
matter if you sinned with your
body)or other false teachers had
infiltrated the congregations under
John’s jurisdiction and shaken
believers’ confidence by denying
the reality of sin (l John 1:8, 10)
and maintaining the necessity of
special “inside information” (this
is the implication of 1 John 2:20,
27). In his first epistle, written
shortly after those teachers had
left the congregation (1 John
2:19), John seeks to reassure the
still shaken-up believers (see esp.
1 John 5:13; see also 2:20, 27;
3:24; 4:13).’[Encountering John:
The Gospel in Historical, Literary
and Theological Perspective, 2013
Edition].
The hyper-grace teachers’
interpretation of I John 4:17 is
wrong, because of the following five
reasons:
1. THE “PAROUSIA” REASON:
First, we must remind ourselves
of the larger message of the Bible
Book, this verse is taken from. It is
taken from I John. John, obviously,
will not contradict what he himself
wrote under the inspiration of
the Spirit, elsewhere in the same
book. What did he write in I John
3:2? This: “Dear friends, now we
are children of God, and what we
will be, has not yet been made
known. But we know that when
Christ appears, we shall be like
him, for we shall see him as he
is”. What John is teaching here is
very clear: we are not yet fully like
Christ here and now! But when
Jesus appears the second time
(an event called ‘’parousia”), we
will be fully like him!! So, till that
time comes, we need to grow in
holiness, enabled by his grace, daily!
In fact, the very next verse, I John
3:3, which goes this way, “All who
have this hope(of Christ’s Second
Coming) in him(Christ)
purifies themselves, just
as he(Christ) is pure,” is a
clarion call for daily holy Scripture Twisters
living! So, in a sense we
are “already” like Jesus, but Hyper-Grace cult false teachers, in
“not yet” in the ultimate
sense. We believers will be their desperation to seek biblical
fully like Jesus when the
second coming happens. proof for their false claims, will twist
So, in I John 4:17, John
was not opening a window any Scripture according to their
for believer to live in sin,
because “as Christ is, so convenience!
we are in this world”!!!
Hyper-Grace cult false teachers, in
their desperation to seek biblical
proof for their false claims, will twist
any Scripture according to their
convenience!
2. THE “PLURAL PERSONAL
PRONOUN” REASON
Second, when we zero-in on
the word “we” (a plural personal
pronoun) found in I John 4:17[“As
He (Christ), is, so are we in this
world”] and the rest of the epistle,
we can understand that the
hyper-grace teacher’s sin-excusing
interpretation of I John 4:17 is
wrong. The interpretation for this
passage should not be in opposition
to other “we” passages in this book.
In I John 1:6, Apostle John writes, “If
we say WE have fellowship with him
while we walk in darkness, we lie
and do not practice the truth”(ESV).
Here Apostle John was making this
clear: close fellowship with Jesus
will result in the conscious forsaking
of sin (‘darkness’). In I John 2:3,
Apostle John issues another “we”
statement which goes this way:
“And by this we know that we have
come to know him, if we keep his
commandments” (ESV). According
to the Apostle, as we understand
it from this portion of his letter,
knowing Jesus and knocking off
the commands given by Jesus
[including his commands against
lusting(Matt.5:28), loose language
(Matt. 5:22), etc] cannot go on side-
by-side. I John 3:24 which goes,
“Whoever keeps his commandments
abides in God” is another “we”
statement that re-hammers the
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same point – lest we miss it the
first time, Apostle John mentions
it. In fact, he already mentioned
this in the Gospel he wrote (Check
out John 14:21 – “Whoever has my
commandments and keeps them, it
is he who loves me” and John 14:15
is not much different).
In I John 2:28, Apostle John pens,
“And now, little children, abide
in him, so that when he appears
we may have confidence and not
shrink from him in shame at his
coming”(ESV). The message that
the Apostle John intends to drive
home here is plain as a day. It is this
message: “If we don’t abide in Jesus,
here and now, he reserves the right
to abandon us when he returns! If
we shamelessly keep sinning, we
will be ashamed on that final day!”
Let us zero-in on every “we”
reference in I John because I John
4:17, the Bible reference often-
quoted by hyper-grace cultists, also
has a “we” in it [“As He (Christ), is,
so are we in this world!”]. We want
to know from the author’s other
“we” references in this letter, if the
‘we’s are allowed to live in sin! The
reason we are doing this is because,
hyper-grace cultists want to imply
from I John 4:19 that ‘staying away
from sin’ (what they unfortunately
call by a negative word called
‘performance’) is not something
we should be bothered about. The
The climax is the flat rejection
of hyper-grace camp’s
false derivations found in I
John 5:18: “We know that
everyone who has been born
of God DOES NOT KEEP ON
SINNING….”(ESV) (or “make a
practice of sinning“ as we read
in the New Living Translation).
next stop in this “We” journey is
I John 3:12 which goes this way:
“We should not be like Cain, who
was of the evil one and murdered
his brother”(ESV). Hyper-grace
deceivers would like you to believe
that “righteous living” has
nothing to do with turning
from sin! If that were so,
why would Apostle John
write, “We should not be
like Cain, who committed
the sin of murder!” If
“righteousness” has nothing
to do with sin as hyper-
grace hell-headers make it
to be, then such examples
will not be quoted by Bible
writers. But such examples
are quoted! So, hyper-grace
teaching is thoroughly and
totally unbiblical!
The final “we” passage we will refer
to understand the behavior that
God desires from the “we” referred
to in I John 4:17 – the Bible verse
the hyper-grace cultist builds
hype around – is I John 5:18. The
question we are asking is direct: Is
I John 4:17 promoting, “your sin
does not matter to God” teaching?
The answer is straight: “If it can
be shown beyond any doubt that
elsewhere in the same letter, John
the apostle promotes this bizarre
teaching, then we can come to the
conclusion “your sin does not matter
to God because when God sees you
the believer, he sees Christ”. But as
we have seen so far, the evidence in
the rest of I John does NOT support
this dangerously wrong, taking-
people-to-hell, teaching. The climax
is the flat rejection of hyper-grace
camp’s false derivations found in I
John 5:18: “We know that everyone
who has been born of God DOES
NOT KEEP ON SINNING….”(ESV) (or
“make a practice of sinning“ as we
read in the New Living Translation).
3. THE ‘PERFECT’ REASON
“Love has been perfected among us
in this: that we may have boldness
in the Day of Judgment; because as
He is, so are we in this world”- that’s
how 1 John 4:17 reads (NKJV).
The basic implication of this verse
is this: “those who abide in Christ,
there is nothing to fear on the Day
of Judgment!” The previous verse – I
John 4:16 – speaks about “abiding”
(ESV)! If “love perfected” would give
us boldness on the Day of Judgment
(as I John 4:17 teaches), we must
ask the question how is “love
perfected”? The answer comes from
I John 2:5 which says, “but whoever
keeps His word, in him truly the
love of God is perfected. By this we
may know that we are in Him.” The
perfected love of God will never be
in the possession of the believer
who keeps kicking – instead of
keeping – the commands of God –
that is the message of I John 2:5. So
the message of I John 4:17 cannot
be that of hyper-grace - “Don’t
worry about sin; for God sees only
the perfect Jesus, not stubbornly
sinning, you!”
4. THE PRESENT-CONTINUOUS
TENSE REASON
There is another reason as to
why we must dismiss as brazen
deception the hyper-grace camp’s
interpretation of I John 4:17 to
justify a life of sin. It is this reason:
throughout his writings, John
uses present continuous tense,
deliberately, to make a theological
case for continual abiding in Christ
and a constant rejection of sin.
David Pawson writes, “There is the
same use of present continuous
tense (in John’s epistles/letters
as there is in the Gospels). ‘Who
it is that overcomes [goes on
overcoming] the world? Only he
who believes [goes on believing]
that Jesus is the Son of God’ (I John
5:5).’” [Once Saved, Always Saved?,
page 49].
Pawson continues: “Recalling
the analogy of the vine and
the branches, John reminds his
correspondents that ‘God has
given us eternal life, and this life is
in his Son. He who has [is having]
the Son has [is having] life; he
who does not have [is not having]
the Son of God does not have [is
not having] life’ (I John 5:11-12).
We cannot have this eternal life
in ourselves independently of the
Son. We must ‘remain’ in Him to
enjoy it.” This is what John implies
by his consistent employment of
the present-continuous tense in his
writings: “The initial act of turning
from sin and putting one’s faith in
Christ is not enough. This must be
done continually throughout one’s
life!” Pawson points out that John’s
use of the word, “if” in I John 2:24
as another clear indication that the
“once saved, always saved” wrong
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teaching (which the hyper-grace cut off from the branch(symbolic
cult teachers embrace) is simply of losing one’s salvation) and be
not biblical. Read I John 2:24 for thrown into the fire(symbolic of hell
yourself: ‘See that what you have punishment)(See John 15:6).
heard from the beginning remains In Second John there is only one
(abides, stays) in you. If it does, you chapter. But even in that lone
also will remain (abide, stay) in the chapter, John lashes out against
Son and in the Father’. the wrong teaching of ‘once saved,
Howard Marshall points out that always saved’. He writes, “Watch
in I John 4:2, John says, “Jesus yourselves, so that you may not lose
has come in the flesh” instead what we have worked for, but may
of using the past-tense to say,
“Jesus Christ came in the flesh”.
He explains why John’s first epistle
has so many occasions of present
continuous tense usage: “The
Overcoming
use of present and perfect tenses
become significant, if the point is Rev 2:7
that, Jesus Christ has come and still
existed”[The Epistles of John, page To him who
70]. This is what the false teachers
of his time, the Gnostics, denied. overcomes I will give
They wrongly believed and taught
that Jesus only became divine to eat from the tree
when he got baptized and stopped
being divine just before he died at
the Cross. In our context, the false
of life
teachers of our time, the hyper-
grace cult teachers, deny the need
for daily abiding in Christ, the need
Rev 2:11
for continuous faith in Christ and
the need for steady rejection of
“…He who overcomes
besetting sin, in the life of a God-
pleasing believer.
shall not hurt by the
5. THE ‘PACK’ REASON second death”
I John 4:17 - ‘as He is, so are we
in this world’ - cannot be used to
justify the wrong, taking-people-to- Rev 2:17
hell teaching of hyper-grace. This
is the main point of this essay. The “To him who
final reason why I believe so is this
reason I call as the “pack” reason. overcomes I will give
Let me explain – in the entire pack
of John’s writings, John consistently
has called for continual abiding in
some of the hidden
Christ and a constant rejection of
a life of sin. Apart from First John,
manna to eat…”
Apostle John wrote, the Gospel of
John, Second John, Third John and
Revelation. Let us see, in a nutshell,
Rev 2:26
how he calls for the constant
abiding of the believer, in Christ,as a
“And he who
condition for getting into heaven, in
each of these books: overcomes, and
In John’s gospel, Jesus makes it clear
that the once saved Judas (his name
keeps My works until
was written in heaven – Luke 10:20)
was now lost (John 17:12). It is in
the end, to him I will
the same Gospel Jesus used the
vine analogy to memorably call for give power over the
the continual abiding of the believer
in him. If the believer stubbornly nations;
refuses to abide, he would be
win a full reward. Everyone who
goes on ahead and does not abide
in the teaching of Christ, does not
have God. Whoever abides in the
teaching has both the Father and
the Son” (2 John 8,9 ESV). Without
“abiding” there is a real danger of
“losing” - that is the message of this
portion of Scripture. Lose what? Not
just “rewards” in heaven but even a
place in heaven! Why do I say that?
Read verse 9 again – “Whoever
abides in the teaching of Christ has
both the Father and the Son”. If this
is true, the corollary is also true:
“Whoever does NOT abide in the
teaching of Christ will NOT have
the Father and the Son...” In other
words, those who stubbornly refuse
to ABIDE are on the WIDE road to
destruction, hell, a place of torment
where the dweller will not have any
fellowship with the Father and the
Son!
In Third John he writes, “Those who
do evil prove that they do not know
God” (verse 11, NLT). Those who
do not know God-in-flesh, Jesus,
will not make it to heaven – this we
know from other books John has
written.
In the book of Revelation, the
Apostle John records, that
“everyone who LOVES and
Testimonies we at G4 Mission have received of late
“ “
a young working professional
writing from an Indian City
Your short clip against learning
sex technique from porn which
I saw on YouTube is…just wow…
bless you for having the courage
to speak that…it’s so apt n
true.99% of preachers would not
even reach that topic…hats off
to you, Bro. Duke…love you for
your straightforwardness…I’m
sure young Christian men
have entertained these kind
of thoughts at some time or
another…
“
an English Church Pastor from
Vellore writing to Duke via
WhatsApp after reading his
article on the dangers of teens
falling in love.
The Christian young people
definitely need to hear this...
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practices falsehood” will go to hell
(Rev. 22:15). So the believer who
stubbornly remains in sin, and just
loves to sin continuallywithout
turning from sin, that’s the kind
of believer who will go to hell
ultimately. John writes the following
just after he wrote this: “Nothing
impure will enter it (the New
Jerusalem, which is symbolic of
heaven), nor will anyone who does
what is shameful and deceitful”
(Rev. 21:27). Note here that he does
NOT write, “nor will anyone who
DID what is shameful....” So, the
thrust of this portion of Scripture
is this: “those who CONTINUALLY
DO WHAT IS SHAMEFUL AND
DECEITFUL without repenting will
ULTIMATELY land in hell”.
The message of Revelation
presented by John (the author
who penned seemingly-hyper-
grace-promoting I John 4:17) is
straightforward. Revelation calls
believers to “ENDURE” (Rev. 3:10
makes a command we cannot
disobey) and “OVERCOME”(Rev.
2:11). Revelation 2:11 in the
accurate-to-the-original-text New
American Standard Bible goes this
way: ‘He, who has an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit says to the
churches. He who overcomes will
a young man via email after
Duke answered his questions
concerning his romantic
relationship with a non-believer.
You cleared my doubts and
showed right way through bible,
Bro. Duke
“
a young woman working in
Infosys who got Duke’s book in a
Youth Retreat.
I read few pages bro Duke of
your book, Straight Talk…I read
chapter 8 where you talk about
True Romantic Love from the
book of Song of Songs. I really
thank God for the revelation that
God has given you!
not be hurt by the second death’.
This Bible passage makes clear
that he who DOES NOT overcome
WILL be hurt by second death (the
corollary of Rev. 2:11). What is
second death according to John?
Revelation 21:8 equates second
death to hell punishment. So, the
message of Revelation 2:11 penned
by Apostle John (he was basically
recording words that Jesus himself
gave him) is this: only overcomers
make it to heaven.
So, when we read I John 4:17 - ‘As
He is, so are we in this world’ - we
must see it in the light of the entire
pack of John’s writings. That would
mean this: As He is, so are we
(we, who are abiding, we, who are
overcoming, we, who are persisting,
etc) in this world! Let not the hyper-
grace cult false teachers con you
and take you to hell with them, in
this regard! Be careful! Be vigilant!
Let me conclude with what Arthur
Pink scripted as a devotional
definition of what it means to
“abide” in Christ: “To abide in Christ
is to have him for our supreme
object, to center our affections
upon him, to make him our center
and circumference – to make him
our all in all”.
“
a young working professional
writing from an Indian City.
I haven’t read a useful book in my
journey than your book, Daniel in
Dell, Bro. Duke.. I got into train at
6:20 PM and kept reading it… I
really wanted to thank you. Such
a great book…you mastered the
Bible.
“
a college professor writing from
Virginia Beach, USA.
Duke, I have always admired
and thanked God for the ways in
which you tap into contemporary
issues and news to preach God’s
Word. I need to do something
similar (perhaps in reverse) for
the systems engineering courses I
teach in this particular university!
I plan to listen and re-listen your
sermons and messages with this
objective in mind :-)
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My Witness
Sherlyn Roy

for Jesus in
the Corporate
Company I
Work for
It’s Twelve years I’m in this desired firm (my dream
company) working happily.
I am held by Isaiah 25:1 “Lord, you are my God, I
will exalt you. I will praise your name, for you have
accomplished wonders, plans formed long ago, with
perfect faithfulness’’. This verse gives me assurance
that my position as an HR for the past 7 years in this
very same company is God’s plan for me.
During the initial stage of my career my perspective
to job was not the one I hold so dearly now. No
doubt my hard labour of 7 days a week sometimes
for 12 hours a day, to accomplish company’s goals
complemented the company to a greater extent
that good performance ratings, timely promotions,
covetable opportunities were lavished on me. The
Lord, in His gracious mercy helped me achieve
excellence in my professional as well as personal
status.
It was then the Spirit of God intervened. A spiritual
mentor altered my perspective towards my job
by highlighting on God’s plan and purpose in our
workplaces. He opened my eyes to comprehend
my workplace as a mission field where the harvest
is plenty but the laborers are few. It envisaged the
purpose of my post in that desired firm and then the
work ecosystem began to change.
Being an HR I get to encounter many employees
on various aspects. I incorporated the Lord in

Sherlyn Roy talks about how the

Lord enabled her to be a witness
in the top Corporate House she
works!

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my conversations with each employee in his both
professional as well as personal concern with His
specific direction. It became a natural way to problem
solving rather than relying on my own wisdom. I have a
Bible on my desk which I reach out for His guidance and
wisdom. It is my “Rod and Staff”. That Bible on my desk
instigates the visitor to unfurl a conversation which
ultimately is about Jesus.
There have been countless miracles at my workplace.
Time wouldn’t suffice should I attempt a book penning
down all that God’s hand has been on miraculously.
Be it dealing with tough bosses, difficult colleagues,
rebellious employees, economic downturn (to name
few), I’ve seen the Sovereignty of God reign supreme.
He has also given me windows of opportunity to speak
& share with my colleagues on how the breakthroughs
have happened. I see them marvel at my ‘going to God’
for everything.
There have also been times when I could profess my
faith among colleagues who approached me during
their tough circumstances such as dealing with
sicknesses, grief, painful relationships and the like. I
shared from the Bible to encourage them and prayed
with them in the name of Jesus my Lord. More than
Does the Bible
Challenge Us to Read it
Daily?
The Guardian reported that people spend about three
hours a day on their smartphone (29 December 2016).
While we spent a lot of time with our smartphones, do
we even start an important thing like Bible-reading?
Is there any challenge in the Bible that calls us to read
the Bible DAILY? Indeed! Where?
The first challenge to read the Bible daily comes
from HEAVEN! During the wilderness journey of the
Israelites, manna from heaven came down! The people
of Israel had to collect the manna from heaven daily
and consume it immediately (Ex. 16:3). The Bible is a
Heaven-inspired book (2 Tim. 3:16). We must spend
time daily in God’s Word, collecting God’s truth for us
from it for our spiritual nourishment!
We have a challenge from the PALACE, next, inspiring
us to read the Bible daily! The Kings of Israel were
called to acquire a copy of the Laws of God and read
it daily, the Law of Moses proclaimed (Dt. 17:18-19).
In the New Testament, aren’t we the kings, as we are
called the royal priesthood (I Pet. 2:9)? Should we also
not read God’s Word daily so that we will know how
to behave in his Kingdom and extend his rule on earth
daily?!
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once, my colleagues have admired my inclination to
pray about things rather than dispense advice about
how they should approach the matter.
In the Corporate world observes your lifestyle, your
language, attitude and conviction. Therefore I have
always been conscious to be a person of integrity and
humility, aiming to build people (my motive) and striving
to reflect Jesus and His character through my life to
those around me.
As you read this you may wonder that it may have been
an easy journey all through. Not in the least!
These 12 years, there have been numerous situations
of struggle, defeat and temptation... pretty much like
waves hitting the rocks during high tide. But through
the high and the low tide, God has enabled me to keep
my eyes on Him, the author and finisher of my faith.
I praise God for how He has been leading me. I know
that every instance at work, every employee I speak
and write to, every colleague and supervisor I work
with, every problem I have faced and every recognition
received have been orchestrated by the Grand Weaver
– Lord, my God to redeem every man to Him, through
His Son Jesus and the finished work on the cross! To
this end, I press on…
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj
The third challenge for daily Bible reading comes from
the TEMPLE! Jesus had this noticeable habit of going to
the Temple, and teaching there daily (Lk. 19:47; Matt.
26:55). He taught in the Temple daily as if to tell us that
we should take efforts to be exposed to his words daily
and lap them up!!!
The fourth challenge for daily Bible reading comes from
the PRAYER-CLOSET! Jesus taught us to pray for our
“daily bread” (Luke 11:3). As much as we need physical
bread we need spiritual bread, don’t we? Don’t we need
it daily?
The fifth challenge for daily Bible reading comes from
the HOUSE! The believers of Berea, went HOME and
checked up the Word of God daily (Acts 17:11). Why?
They wanted to check if the spoken Word of God
preached by the apostles was according to what was
written Word of God!
If we read three chapters of the Bible on weekdays
(Monday through Friday) and four chapters in the
weekend (Saturday and Sunday), we can complete
reading the full Bible in a single year! Why not try that
this year?!
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The Footwear that
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj
Ivanka Trump
Repeated in Her Brief
India Trip! The Things
We Must Repeat...
As Ivanka Trump was in Hyderabad
for a big summit in November 2017,
the zoom cameras and journalists
got mighty busy. She wore six
different outfits in her public
appearances, they said. But listen
to this: she wore the one particular
black footwear twice. Yes, she
repeated a black footwear. That was
indeed a rare thing for a celebrity
of her stature to be doing, isn’t?
(She is the daughter of the U. S.
President, the Telangana IT Minister,
KTR, even called her the, ‘most
powerful woman in the World’). A
middle class ‘miss’ might repeat her
chudithar, saree and footwear, worn
in her public appearances, but not
the daughter of a millionaire - many
fashion experts felt.
Yup! The act of repeating even
footwear during a short trip by a
woman who was the target of a
million flashbulbs, the moment
she landed in India, seems
unfashionable! What is about
REPEATING, that people hate it!
What about repeating things that
concern our spiritual life? There
are things that Jesus, God-in-flesh,
repeated in his life every day. He
never got bored of repeating these
basics. He repeated these because
he deeply loved his Father in
Heaven, not because of any other
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compulsion. What did he repeat?
Let me repeat what he repeated, for
our convenience.
He REPEATEDLY talked with His
Father. He prayed often (Luke 5:16).
He REPEATEDLY had times of
fellowship with his disciples. This,
we understand from John 18:2 and
Luke 22:39.
Jesus REPEATEDLY taught about
God in the Temple (Check out Luke
19:47; 21:37). He also taught the
crowds in public square, as His
custom was (Mark 10:1). He was a
Witness for Yahweh and His own
claim to be God in flesh.
Jesus also read the Word of God ‘as
his Custom was’ not just in public So, let us REPEAT, what Jesus did!
but also in private (Luke 4:16). Let us pray daily. Let us read the
Bible daily. Let us have regular
We are called to “follow in the steps fellowship in our workplace/in
of Jesus” (I Peter 2:21). We are our place of study. If there is no
called to copy His Habits after we fellowship there yet, go ahead and
have chosen to turn from sin and start one. If there is a fellowship,
trust him as Savior. He is not only join in and take part in its activities
the “Purger” for our sins, but the using your God-given talents. Let us
best Pattern for us! also have fellowship with a Bible-
believing Local church - regularly,
without a break. Let us talk about
Ivanka’s repeated footwear Jesus, repeatedly. Let us REPEAT
during her India trip becomes the things Jesus REPEATED.
the starting point for something
that is very important!!! There is great value in this kind of
REPETITION. We become more like
Jesus!
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Hugh Hefner:
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj
Bible Lessons
From the Playboy
Founder’s Life
Hugh Hefner, the founder of the
most famous porn magazine in the
world, Playboy, died on September
28, 2017 at the age of 91. I present
here foundational Bible truths
wrapped around events in his life.
1. The Lesson about NUDITY ON
THE OUTSIDE:
Time magazine in a 1967 story
on Hugh Hefner mentioned that
he made the semi-nude or nude
photograph “respectable”, “classy”
and “cultured”. But for a believer
in the Lord Jesus, watching nudity
of a person, desirously, other than
that of a person’s spouse is sinful.
At least 12 times I counted the
phrase, “You shall not uncover the
nakedness…” in Leviticus chapter 18
in the English Standard Version of
the Bible. God wanted nudity only
in the context of Holy Matrimony!
On the Day of Judgment, Jesus
would reward those who clothed
others (Matt. 25:36,43). You can
imagine what He would do with
those who take off their clothes
for profit before the camera and
others who enjoy this act, calling it
“entertainment”. Because Oholibah
“flaunted her nakedness” God
“turned in disgust from her” (Ezek.
23:18, ESV). The world may go
“wow” at the sight of a picture or
a video of a topless person. But
God says, “Woe!” When we expose
ourselves to naked images without
restraint, we are opening the door
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for the Devil to enter our lives (Read
Luke 8:27 and figure that out).
2. The Lesson about AGONY ON
THE INSIDE:
Holly Madison, who spent seven
years of her life as one of the
many girlfriends of Hugh Hefner,
confessed to People magazine
this: “It was a constant struggle. I
was trying to sell this image of ‘Oh
everything is so great here,’ but I
was miserable inside.” The Bible
explains how this “miserable inside”
feeling which every person – not
just Holly Madison – feels from
time to time. It comes because
of sin. Inner ‘’groans” and “sin” go
together, the Bible teaches (Read
Lamentations 1:8 in the NASB).
The only person who can lift us
and enable us to overcome this
“miserable inside” feeling is the
OnlyGod-in-flesh Jesus. He never
sinned and so never felt this way.
That made him qualify to be the
only sin-substitute who could save
all of us who have this agony on
the inside. There will be “agony on
the inside” for every life that is lived
without a living, daily relationship
with the One who said, “I have
come that you might have life – life
to the full” (John 10:10).
3. The Lesson about DELAY FROM
ABOVE:
Hugh Hefner lived to the ripe old
age of 91. This was in stark contrast
to another person who also died
in the same month – September
2017 – Nabeel Qureshi. Nabeel,
a Christian Apologist who was
saved from the Islamic background
succumbed to cancer at the age
of 34. Why? There are no easy
answers. The long-life of Hugh
Hefner reminds me of the long-
suffering love of God. He perhaps
kept lovingly extending the life of
Hugh Hefner in the hope that he
would repent in the extended year.
In Luke 13:6-9 Jesus narrated a
parable the lesson of which is quite
direct: God gives us time on this
side of eternity so that we would
make use of that time to repent,
to turn to him and be fruitful in
the work of building his Kingdom.
Peter puts it this way: “Instead
he (the Lord) is patient with you,
not wanting anyone to perish, but
everyone to come to repentance”
(2 Peter 3:9). Does this mean,
every unbeliever will go on living
till he is 91 like Hefner? No. The
fact remains our Lord gives enough
opportunities for every unbeliever
and stubborn believers to repent
before it becomes too late. When it
is too late? After death, repentance
become too late as there is only
judgement to expect after death
(Hebrews 9:27). So, let us come
back to the Lord NOW, in case we
have gone away from him.
Let us never forget these lessons
which have been put in the format
that Jesus used in Luke 13:1-5 (a
message of repentance wrapped
around a contemporary event).
 Paul wrote to the Corinthian church that they should

7
“learn” from his example and “not go beyond what is
written” (I Cor. 4:6). John warns that we must not “add”
words to the Word of God and it is very dangerous to
do so (Rev. 22:18). We must not “add” to God’s Words,
lest He proves us to be liars (Prov. 30:6). There is
nothing -- including types of miracles, I would say – that
needs to be added to our faith which was “once for all
given” to us, writes Jude (Jude 3).
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj I agree with the respected Indian Bible Teacher
R. Stanley who wrote, “If each group accepts and
advocates an extra-Biblical phenomenon as a ‘new

Miracle Money, thing from the God’, where is the standard for our faith
and practice? Are we not shaking the foundations?”

Gold Teeth,
We must ask ourselves like as Apostle Paul did, “What
does the Scripture say?” (Rom. 4:3) when it comes to
any matter of confusion. And only follow the leading of

Gem-Stones,
Scripture. Like the Berean believers, we must check on
every teaching we hear and every ministry practice we
see, including those that concern healings/miracles to

Instant Weight
see if they are in harmony with the written
Word of God (Acts 17:11) even if the
visiting preacher to our church/town

Loss...
was a certain “Apostle Paul”!
Since there is no record of
these kinds of miracles
(“miracle” money/gold teeth
appearance/instant weight
loss/appearance of

What Would Gem-Stones, etc) in

the Bible, we should
not be carried away

The Bible Say? by them.

2. THE APOSTLES
DID NOT
UNDERSTAND
Some present-day “miracle” workers point to the JESUS THAT
promise of Jesus that His followers would do “greater WAY
works” than Him (in John 14:12) with miracles that Respected
are explicitly not recorded in the Bible like “miracle” Bible
money’s presence in bank accounts, sudden gold teeth Scholar,
appearance, instant weight loss and height increase, Robert E.
etc are, in fact, the “greater works” that Jesus spoke of. Coleman,
This is pure rubbish. Here is why: writes on
1. THE BIBLE DOES NOT SPEAK ABOUT THESE what the
When there was a controversy in the early church meaning
about preaching the Gospel to the Gentiles, what of doing
did the EARLY CHURCH do? They went back to the greater
written Word of God to decide the course of action. works
For them, the written Word of God was the final court than
of appeal. Apostle James said, “And with this the words Jesus
of the prophets agree, just as it is written.....” (Acts was:
15:15). He goes on to quote a passage from the book
of Amos that talks about how even “Gentiles” will be
called by Yahweh’s name (Acts 15:16,17, a citation
from Amos 9:11,12). This was James’ implication:
The Bible says we can preach to the Gentiles
and so we can do it! Notice that he spoke
these words after others “finished” speaking
(Acts 15:13). Man’s opinion can be taken,
if it aligns itself with God’s Word.
Otherwise, it should be thrown aside.
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“Beginning when Peter preached the Gospel to a crowd
at Jerusalem, about three thousand were converted.
That is more than Jesus could count as believers in
three years of active ministry which makes a greater
number of converts compared to what Jesus did during
His active ministry on earth. After that the outreach
accelerated daily, until within a generation, the Gospel
penetrated large segments of the civilized world, and
the work was going forward unabated when the book
of Acts closed (Acts 28:31).” Therefore preaching the
Gospel far and wide (something that Jesus did not do)
is doing greater works than Him. To say that it means
working miracles like “miracle” money, gold teeth,
instant weight loss, appearance of precious stones, etc.,
is a rape of the context. If the Apostles had understood
it that way, then we would have seen the Apostles (in
the book of Acts) working miracles that Jesus never
worked. But that does not happen. Instead even the
Apostles never replicated some outstanding miracles of
Jesus like walking on water, feeding a large crowd with
little food, or paying tax with money that seems to have
miraculously appeared in a fish’s mouth, etc. There were
times when the Apostles “sold their lands and houses
and brought the proceeds of what was sold” for the
work of the church when there was a financial need
among them (Acts 4:34). “Jesus materialized money in
the mouth of the fish; so let’s do that in our context!”
– NO APOSTLE/GOSPEL WORKER IN THE BOOK OF
ACTS DID THAT, DID YOU NOTICE?! Instead they sold
their property to raise funds!! The Apostles understood
Jesus’ “greater works than me” comment differently:
Jesus never once even left Israel as an adult to preach
about the Kingdom of God; And the Apostles scattered
to different parts of the world to do it! This way they
performed greater works than Jesus did!
Apostle Paul in his farewell message to the elders
“Therefore preaching the Gospel
far and wide (something that Jesus
did not do) is doing greater works
than Him” writes Robert Coleman.
at the Ephesus church warned about “savage
wolves” who would raise up among them,
“distorting the truth” and “drawing away
disciples” from the Lord (Acts 20:29-
30). So what was the anti-dote for such
a situation? The believers and leaders
of Ephesus had to compare all teaching
that were to come to that church in
Paul’s absence with the “whole will
of God” that Paul already
had preached to them
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(Acts 20:27) and the “Word of His Grace” (Acts 20:32).
If any new teaching or “miracle” practice came to the
Ephesian church that did not line up with the above
two, the teachers were to be considered “ravenous
wolves” and out-rightly rejected. This was Paul’s
message.
In the same farewell address Paul writes that he worked
“hard” with the hands that God gave him to supply the
needs of himself and his ministry companions (Acts
20:34). It would have been easier for Paul to organize
“miracle money” appearances to raise funds! But he did
not do that. Let’s follow the lead of the Apostle who
wrote, “follow me as I follow Christ” (I Cor. 11:1). Let us
hold on to “the teaching of the apostles” (Acts 2:42). Let
us hold on to the “trust-worthy message as it has been
taught” (Titus 1:9) by the Apostles.
3. EVEN THE DEVIL CAN WORK MIRACLES!
Pharoah’s magicians, obviously with the help of evil
spirits, performed miracles (Ex. 7:11-13). Like the
Yahweh-sent Aaron, they could turn rods into serpents.
But the serpents that came out of Aaron’s rods
swallowed up the serpents from the rods of Pharoah’s
magicians. The lesson from this narrative cannot
be missed: Even the Devil can perform counterfeit
miracles, but our God is more powerful than the Devil.
Yes, our God is all powerful
In the book of Acts, we read about a girl who through
the evil spirit could predict the future (Acts 16:16). In
the book of Revelation we read about “demonic spirits
performing signs” who give life to a dead idol (Rev.
16:14-15). Paul warns that the Devil can dupe folks
by showing up as an “angel of light” (2 Cor.11:14). A
Bible Teacher whom I love, Warren Wiersbe, quotes
from Revelation 11:7 and Revelation 17:8, to say that
the Anti-Christ, whom the book of Revelation calls
“Beast” would even rise from the dead! So, let’s not be
carried away by miracles that any self-claimed prophet
of God does. Even if he does miracles mentioned
in the Bible, Jesus said he must be evaluated by his
“fruit” – a character that is in line with the written
Word and content that lines up with the written Word
(Math. 7:15-16). Doing “mighty works” in His own
name does not even guarantee anyone a place in
heaven, Jesus remarked (Matt. 7:22,23).
The validation for anyone’s life and
ministry should be
checked to see if
they have the
foundation
which
Jesus talked about: “hearing His
words and doing them” without
floundering (Matt. 7:26,27).
4. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN GOD
CHOOSES NOT TO HEAL OR DO A
MIRACLE
While God miraculously allowed
Peter to escape from Prison, he
allowed James to suffer a violent
death (Acts 12:2, 6-11). Luke
records both these stories in the
same Bible chapter as if to say,
“Pray for miracles. Sometimes,
God choses to give them to us.
Sometimes he does not! Learn
to salute His Sovereignty!” While
some women received their dead
through a prayer of faith others lost
them with the same kind of prayer
of faith (See Hebrews 11:35-39).
The writer of the Hebrews says,
“They were ALL commended for
their faith” (Heb. 11:39). Yes, both
who received a miracle escape and
those who did not, but had to die as
martyrs... BOTH were commended
for their faith! When Paul made a
prayer for the removal of a thorn
in his life (was it a disease?), God
clearly told him, “My grace is
sufficient for you….” (2 Cor. 12:8-
9). In other words God told Paul
here: “The thorn will still be there
in your life. But My Grace will be
more than enough for you to handle
the pain….” It could be said that
because of such experiences, Paul
did not think it was “unscriptural” or
“unspiritual” to leave Trophimus, a
valued ministry team member of his,
“sick at Miletus” (2 Tim. 4:20).
This is not to say that we should
not expect miracles when we
pray for our needs. We certainly
should. I can tell you about many
miracles I have received and folks
I have had the privilege of praying
for, have received, after a simple
prayer of faith in Jesus’ name. My
own daughter was declared dead
in her mom’s womb by a doctor’s
scan report. But Jesus raised her up,
after prayer. Today, she is a healthy
10-year old girl. There are other
miracle stories and testimonies
from our ministry that I could
instantly share. But if I am honest
with you, there have been many
times when healings/miracles have
NOT happened after I prayed. I am
not ashamed to say this. I know
this is true of everyone in the
ministry. Only Jesus who ALWAYS
knows God’s Will in any matter
ABSOLUTELY has not experienced a
“healing/miracle” failure. But sadly,
there are those among us who
want to highlight only the “healing/
miracle success” and pretend as
if there aren’t any healing/miracle
failures. This is deception. This
is trickery. At such times when
healing/miracles do not happen, I
learn to salute the sovereignty of
God and wait for full “redemption
of our bodies” which will only take
place on the other side of eternity
as Paul teaches us in Romans 8:23.
I keep moving on without being
discouraged because I know that
only in heaven, on that Grand Final
Day, will all “pain” be completely
removed as the Scriptures teach me
in Revelation 21:4. If Jesus planned
to do miracles in response to each
one of our prayers, immediately,
always, then and there, why would
Jesus himself teach in Luke 18:1
this truth “that men always ought
to pray and not lose heart?” (Luke
18:1, NKJV).
house or greet him as you would a
In conclusion, I would like to say true brother” (2 John 10, The Voice).
that I am not for a ‘miracle’ ministry Therefore, based on that above
that does not have a biblical warrant teaching, any brazenly-unbiblical
or an apostolic stamp. John writes, ministry should not be supported or
“If any person comes to you with a encouraged by biblical believers and
teaching that does not align with church leaders. Are we listening?
the true message of Jesus, do not
welcome that person into your

The “Fear Not”s of Christmas (Luke 1:26-35,

Lungi.When you say that word, it could
mean a South Indian home wear or 1st name
of South Africa’s new fast bowler! Context
determines meaning. Read the Bible in
context. For eg. 2 Cor. 5:21 cannot support
HyperGrace after u read next vs, 2 Cor.6:1
‘Don’t receive grace in vain.’
Duke Jeyaraj via Twitter.
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Matt 1:18-25, Luke 2:8-16) - we have heard
about them! If the Christmas story were to
happen today, I would like to think we would
have this “Fear Not”: “Fear Not! You will not
miss ANY THING SIGNIFICANT in life if you
do not check you WhatsApp and Facebook
once-in-each-half-hour! Kick the FOMO -
Fear of missing out!”
Duke Jeyaraj via Twitter.
 8
The Hostel Dweller
Evangelin Duke

Turned Google
Generation Missionary
Evangelin Duke shares her life-story in brief

I entered the mind of God the there free. I took up that invitation.
father in eternity past. Then one After I finished my Class Twelve, I
fine day, God sent me into my wanted to do medicine. I wanted
mother’s womb. I was born into to study in the famed Christian
a missionary family. My parents Medical College and Hospital.
were missionaries with Blessing But, alas, I did not get admission
Youth Mission, an Indian Missionary there! I was disappointed. I ended
organization. Since they served in up doing a Bachelor’s degree in
the interior parts in one of India’s Zoology in a little-known college
most backward States, Odisha, I in Odisha. After that degree, I
grew up most of my life in Boarding came to Chennai to do a post
School. I went to Santhosha graduate diploma in Hospital
Vidhyalaya, a Boarding School for Administration. During that
missionary kids in Dohnavur, in the time, I stayed in Women’s
Indian state of Tamil Nadu. During Christian Hostel in Vepery,
those days, my grandmother, who Chennai. That’s where
was a Government School Teacher some of the most hip girls
near Vellore, would come once a of Chennai stayed. This
month to see me. In fact, I stayed in was significant because,
hostel for over two decades of my the Lord would use the
life! ministry experience I
When I was in Boarding School, would have there, as
there were special meetings held a foundation for
for students. During one of those my future ministry
meetings, when I was class 10, I among the Google
not only accepted the Lord but also Generation!
committed for fulltime ministry. I led a prayer cell in
One of the things I liked to do, post my hostel. I invited
this experience was to memorize girls to go with me
large chunks of Scripture. During to the local church.
one of the School holidays, I went I was soon
to be with my parents who were employed as Public
in Odisha. My dad took me to Relations Assistant
Sunabeda Public School, a Christian in Madras Medical
School nearby. I recited the entire Mission. I worked
book of Philippians in that school. hard. I worked
The owner of the School, invited me there for about 2
to be a student in that School with years.
a promise to make my education
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About that time, I received a
letter. It was from Duke Jeyaraj, a
missionary kid like me. He was a
Bible College student in Bangalore.
He asked if I would marry him. I said
‘yes’! It helped that God showed
Duke to me in a dream prior to
Duke writing me this letter! To tell
the truth, I never tried to contact
Duke, post this dream nor did I tell
any common friend then about this
dream I had! Frankly speaking, I
don’t think, I would have ever said
‘Yes’ to Duke, but for this dream
– he was certainly not the kind of
guy I was wanting to wake up with,
the rest of my life! Having read this
don’t ask God, “Lord, show me my
life partner through a dream!” It
simply does not work that way!
When Duke was a youth pastor with
a church in Delhi, we got married.
The year was 2001. I joined him in
the ministry of shepherding youth –
the most modern youth I had ever
seen!
Pretty soon, it became clear to
us that God wanted us to be
evangelists to youth, rather than
be pastors to them. So, we joined
the organization where our parents
worked, the Blessing Youth Mission,
as missionaries. We both travelled
to different places in India preaching
in youth meetings and youth camps.
My husband would coach me in
preaching. I was an eager learner.
I recall that we travelled from
Trivandrum to Siliguri to preach in
one youth camp – a journey that
took more than two full days!
After serving God for three years in
Blessing Youth Mission, I suggested
to my husband that we must start
our own ministry that focusses
just on ministering to the Google
Genners. Within months, we
moved to Hyderabad. There we
launched the Grabbing the Google
Generation from Gehenna Mission,
the G4 Mission. My husband
worked in call-centers (last one he
worked for was part of the HSBC
Bank Group) to support our young
family (we had two small kids by
then). And used the extra money,
from the 11,000 rupees salary he
got then, to publish a magazine for
the Google Generation called, “The
Days Of Your Youth” – a magazine
that wrapped Bible Truth around
contemporary events. I helped with
the editing of the magazine. As I
stayed home and took care of kids,
he would travel and preach in youth
meetings/youth camps during the
weekends. At times, I too travelled
with him along with the kids. Once,
we travelled to a small town in
Maharashtra called Dapegaon with
our daughter just a few months
old, for a youth camp. I also began
receiving invitations from different
churches to preach in Women’s
Meetings.
Then one day, I was moved by the
Holy Spirit to ask my husband to
quit his job. My husband quit his
job on November 7, 2008, with the
British International Bank, HSBC, in
Hyderabad (by this time, his salary
had increased to Rs. 25,000/- a
month). Our daughter was not even
one, at that time! We trusted God
to meet our needs. Our needs were
met through the giving of folks in
India/from India who had heard
us preach. Now, we were able to
preach in more youth meetings
together. The Lord blessed the
ministry. The altar calls we gave,
had tremendous responses! Not just
that, I started to get invited to speak
in church revival meetings as well.
I would get calls from girls in the IT
World, from home-makers, asking
if they could share their problem
with me. I would hear them out. I
would give them a practical solution
from the Bible. I would pray with
such folks and share with Words as
the Holy Spirit places them in me.
I was thrilled when I was invited
by the organisers to be a co-
preacher with my husband when he
preached in programs in Singapore
and Bangladesh. Flying into a city,
preaching through the day and
I spend a considerable part of my
life in a hostel where some of most
hip Google Generation girls were
in Chennai during my growing
up years. The Lord was preparing
me for a ministry among Google
Generation down the line, there!
taking the late-night flight back
home to join our kids who, at times,
would stay at home, alone – that’s
one thing we have done. Many-a-
time, I have chosen to stay back
home and take care of our kids,
even when the organisers wanted
me to join my husband, depending
on what the Holy Spirit would tell
me to do on a case-by-case basis.
This journey has been wonderful,
though not without challenges.
Despite these challenges, I am eager
to fulfill my calling to bless the
Google Generation, along with my
husband till my last breath, till the
return of Christ.
(WhatsApp Evangelin Duke using
this number, 888507588, if you
need to).

Virat Kohli married Anushka Sharma taking
a break from international cricket. His team
mates, led by Rohit Sharma, would have
played 6 more international games before
the year-end without him in the team (3
ODIS and 3 T20S). Virat was just 51 runs
short of breaking Kumar Sangakkara’s world
record of 2868 runs - maximum runs scored
in international cricket across formats
(Tests, ODIs and T20s) in a single calender
year (Sanga did this in the year 2014). Kohli
finished with 2818 runs this year. Even
if Kohli had played one more game, he
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could have had the World Record for the
maximum international runs in a year in his
pocket. Yet, he chose time with Anushka An Ultra
over a shot at a World Record! Short Bible
Lesson
This reminded me of the biblical order
which goes this way: God first, Family
from the
second, Ministry/Work third. We Timing
understand that from Bible verses such as Virat Kohli
this one: But if someone does not provide Chose
for his own, especially his own family, he for His
has denied the faith and is worse than an Wedding
unbeliever (I Tim. 5:8).
 9
Why We Must Give the
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj

Hellish Shack Movie

Theology a Whack
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj uses the acronym w-h-a-ck to give a biblical rebuttal of the
Trinitarian Gospel which he labels,“Twisted Trinitarian Gospel”and shows
how its connected to the equally-dangerous hyper-grace false teaching.

Here is a summary of the
movie/book The Shack from
ChristianityToday.com, “To
summarize, the shape of the novel
is this: Mackenzie (Mack) Phillips’
youngest daughter, Missy, is
abducted and brutally murdered
during a family vacation. Following
Missy’s death, Mack, who has
always had a somewhat tenuous
relationship with God, falls into
what he calls “the Deep Sadness.”
One wintry day, Mack receives a
letter from God (in his mailbox)
reasons to give the movie/book, The
Shack, and the connected “Twisted”
Trinitarian Gospel presented by
William Paul Young, the author of
The Shack, a whack:
W: The Shack Compromises the
WAY:
In The Shack, Jesus declares, “I’m
not a Christian,” and then explains,
“Those who love me come from
every system that exists. They were
Buddhists or Mormons, Baptists or
Muslims, Democrats, Republicans
to join them in their transformation
into sons and daughters of my Papa,
into my brothers and sisters, into my
Beloved.” This statement is in direct
contradiction with the Biblical Jesus
who claimed to be THE Way, THE
Truth, and THE Life (John 14:6).
This quip of Jesus in The Shack, is
directly opposed to the Bible Truth
found in Acts 4:12 – Salvation is
found in no one else except in the
name of Jesus. In The Shack, Jesus
tells Mack that he is “the best way
any human can relate to Papa (God

The Movie, The Shack, which

released in the U.S. earlier this
year, promotes several biblically-
wrong teachings including the
teaching that is certain to lead
several to hell: the teaching of
hopeful universalism!

and many who don’t vote or are

asking him to meet God in the shack
where Missy’s bloody dress—the
only evidence of her murder—was
recovered. The rest of the book is
a conversation between Mack and
the Trinity.”
I want to use the acronym w-h-
a-c-k to outline five main Biblical
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not part of any Sunday morning
or religious institutions. I have
followers who were murderers and
many who were self-righteous.
Some are bankers and bookies,
Americans and Iraqis, Jews and
Palestinians. I have no desire to
make them Christian, but I do want
the Father) or Sarayu (God the Holy
Spirit).” Please notice this: Jesus
is not the “only” way in The Shack,
but just the “best” way! What a
terrible heresy!!! This declaration of
Jesus in The Shack stands against
Jesus’ repeated invitation to all and
sundry to “come” to him: “Come
to me, all you….” (Matt. 11:28);

“Anyone can come after me, but
that ‘anyone’ should be willing to
bear the Cross….” (Matt. 16:24, my
translation); “Let the little children
come to me….” (Matt. 19:14); It is
one thing to say that Jesus “seeks”
us, but totally another thing to say
that Jesus wants to “join us” as The
Shack bizarrely proclaims. Jesus
came to “seek” Zacchaeus-like
sinners, the Gospel proclaims (Luke
19:5). But only after he expressed
an attitude of repentance (Read
Luke 19:8), did Jesus announce
“salvation” in his house (Luke 19:9).
Jesus calls us to take a U-turn from
sin and turn towards him. Biblically
this process is called “repent.” In
Luke 13:1-5, Jesus said this twice,
“Unless you repent you too will
perish!” “Perish”/ “die” is the biblical
word that ultimately means eternal
hell punishment (2 Thess 2:9,10;
Rev. 21:7-8).
William Paul Young in his 2017
book, Lies We Believe About God,
quotes a verse that perhaps makes
him believe that Jesus was the
“best” way and not the only way.
Here is that verse: “…the living God,
who is the Savior of all men, and
especially of those who believe”
(I Tim. 4:10, NIV). This verse does
not teach that God ultimately
saves from hell all people and that
Jesus is the best way to be saved.
Absolutely not! This verse is talking
about “common grace” that God
extends to all people, even if they
are not believers. Matthew 5:45
talks about this – God causes his
sun to rise on the evil and the good,
and sends rain on the righteous and
the unrighteous. “In him (God), we
live and move and have our being”
– Paul mentions this truth to the
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William Paul Young, the author
whose book The Shack movie is
based, suggests that Christ is the
‘best’ way. But the Bible’s truth
is that Christ is the ‘only’ way:
there is one God and one mediator
between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus, writes Apostle Paul
(I Tim. 2:5).
unbelievers he was preaching to in
Acts 17:28, quoting from a secular
poet whose works they were
familiar with. God gives certain
graces to all folks, allover – that
was Paul’s point. In that sense, God
is the “Savior of all men.” I agree
with John Samson who writes this
about this verse: “This grace should
actually amaze us because God is
under no obligation whatsoever
to give it (his common grace) to
anyone. It can never be demanded.
God sustains the lives of His sworn
enemies, often for many decades!
However, as wonderful as it is, it
is only a temporal grace because
all unregenerate people eventually
die and will face the judgment
(Heb. 9:27).” So the essence of I
Timothy 4:10 is this: God gives
common grace to both believers
and unbelievers. But the reception
of common grace does not mean
automatic hell punishment. In the
same sermon where he talked about
common grace for all in Acts 17 (in
verse 28), Apostle Paul talks about
judgment for those who refuse to
repent and turn to Christ (in verse
30-31). In the same book which
William Paul Young quotes from to
‘prove’ that Christ is the ‘best’ way,
the Bible truth that Christ is the
‘only’ way comes out: there is one
God and one mediator between
God and men, the man Christ
Jesus (I Tim. 2:5). There is also the
teaching that warns about a coming
judgment: “the sins of some men
are obvious, reaching the place
of judgment ahead of them; the
sins of others trail behind them” (I
Tim. 5:24). In the same book is the
teaching that only the repentant,
truly humble rich people will make
it to heaven (I Tim. 6:17-20). When
this is the case, there is no basis
to conclude that all folks will be
ultimately be saved and that Jesus,
at best, is only the best way, and not
the only way, as William Paul Young
wrongly teaches.
In a very subtle way, The Shack
demeans Jesus and makes the One
who is THE truth, a liar! Here is
how: Papa (God the Father) asserts
“regardless of what He (Jesus) felt
at that moment, I never left him”
when Jesus said, “My God, My
God, Why have You forsaken me?”
hanging on the Cross. So, according
to The Shack, Jesus was a liar or
emotionally unstable. A foundation
for starting a cult is well and truly
laid, when Jesus’ very character is
attacked and William Young does
that in The Shack!
James De Young, a former friend
of William Young, the author of
The Shack challenged the theology
of this movie with a book titled,
Burning Down The Shack: How the
‘Christian’ Bestseller is Deceiving
Millions. De Young brilliantly
explains how subtly the theology of
The Shack attacks the uniqueness
of Jesus by magnifying one select
character of the God the Father, this
way: “There is a de-emphasis on the
person of Jesus Christ (by William
Young, the author of The Shack)
because he is very exclusive – he’s
the only way to God. They don’t
like those statements, so there’s an
overemphasis on the fatherhood of
God and a lack of teaching about
Jesus Christ, and yet when you
look at the New Testament and the
prophecies of the Old Testament,
Jesus Christ is preeminent and
he’s the one to whom we go
for everything: to understand
truth, how to find comfort and
encouragement in our daily lives,
and so forth.” What James De Young
wrote about The Shack theology is
also true about the “leading-people-
to-hell” hyper-grace cult false
teaching as well.
W-H….:The Shack Compromises
HOLINESS:
Papa (Who is God the Father in
The Shack) tells Mack (the main
character of The Shack), “I don’t
need to punish people for sin. Sin is
its own punishment, devouring from
the inside. It’s not my purpose to
punish it; it’s my joy to cure it.” The
message of The Shack is obvious:
“Don’t worry about sin. There is no
punishment for it!” The Shack, thus,
serves as an inspiration for unholy
living. The Bible, however, calls each
one of us for holy living, at times,
pointing to the “coming wrath” of

Papa (Who is God the Father in
The Shack/represented by the
woman pictured above!) tells
Mack (the main character of The
Shack), “I don’t need to punish
people for sin. Sin is its own
punishment, devouring from the
inside. It’s not my purpose to
punish it; it’s my joy to cure it.” A
teaching that is so wrong, that it
will take people to hell!
God. Colossians 3:5-9 was written
for believers. There apostle Paul
warns believers about “wrath of
God that is coming” if they do not
turn away from sins they were so
used to doing in their former life.
Read that passage yourself and you
will get it: ‘Put to death, therefore,
whatever belongs to your earthly
nature: sexual immorality, impurity,
lust, evil desires and greed, which
is idolatry. Because of these, the
wrath of God is coming. You used to
walk in these ways, in the life you
once lived. But now you must also
rid yourselves of all such things as
these: anger, rage, malice, slander,
and filthy language from your lips.
Do not lie to each other, since you
have taken off your old self with its
practices.’
There is another clear way The
Shack implies unholy living is okay.
Jesus, in the movie The Shack says,
“my life was not meant to be an
example to copy; being my follower
is not trying to be like Jesus; it
means for your Independence to
be killed.” The basic message of this
movie/book is this: “As a believer
you need not copy the holy Jesus!”
This is absolute rubbish! The
ultimate purpose that God has for
any believer is best expressed by
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this familiar verse: “For God knew
his people in advance, and he chose
them to become like his Son, so
that his Son would be the firstborn
among many brothers and sisters”
(Rom. 8:29, NLT). If believers were
not supposed to copy Jesus, Apostle
Paul would have known. Hear him
please on this subject, directly.
He says, “Follow my example, as I
follow the example of Christ.” You
have to make up your mind, dear
reader: to follow the heretic called
William Paul Young of The Shack
fame or Apostle Paul of the Bible
who taught that we must follow his
example as he followed Christ’s!
Not just Apostle Paul. Hear the
words of Apostle Peter as well on
this subject: ‘Christ also suffered
for you, leaving you an example, so
that you might follow in his steps’ (I
Pet. 2:21, ESV). Apostle John, wrote
in similar vein, this: ‘whoever says
he abides in him (Christ) ought to
walk in the same way in which he
walked’ (I John 2:6, ESV). Don’t miss
the word ‘ought’ in Apostle John’s
statement, I just quoted. Walking as
Jesus walked is not an option for a
believer – it is an obligation!
W-H… : The Shack Compromises
yet another “H” – the doctrine of
Hell.
The Shack refers to the “fallacy of
belief in God sentencing anyone to
hell.” The author’s viewpoint is this:
God does not punish anyone. But
this is directly contrary to Scripture.
God told Moses, “in the day when
I punish, I will punish them (the
people of Israel) for their sin” (Ex.
32:34 NASB). Yahweh does not
beat about the bush in Leviticus
26:18: “If also after these things you
do not obey Me, then I will punish
you seven times more for your
sins.” Is there no more punishment
for sin post the Cross? Absolutely
not! The author of Hebrews writes,
“How much severer punishment
do you think he will deserve who
has trampled under foot the Son of
God, and has regarded as unclean
the blood of the covenant by
which he was sanctified, and has
insulted the Spirit of grace?” (Heb.
10:29). Disobedience to the Gospel
message (which is “repent from sin
and trust in Jesus, the only Sin-
Savior”) will result in “everlasting
punishment” – these are Apostle
Paul’s Spirit-inspired words post
the Cross (2 Thess. 1:8-9). Post the
Cross, our God continues to be a
“consuming fire” (Heb. 12:29) as he
continues to be a “compassionate
father”!
W-H-A… :The Shack Compromises
the A-TONEMENT:
In The Shack, Mack discovers, “scars
in [Papa/God the Father’s] wrists,
like those he now assumed Jesus
also had on his.” Papa (God the
Father) says in The Shack, “When
we three spoke our self into human
existence as the Son of God, we
became fully human. We also chose
to embrace all the limitations that
this entailed. Even though we
have always been present in this
created universe, we now became
flesh and blood.” No where does
the Bible speak of scars in hands of
the Father God. God is spirit (John
4:24). A spirit does not have a body
or body parts like the mouth with
which it can eat as Jesus himself
confirmed (Luke 24:39). Only Jesus
(the Word) became “flesh” (John
1:1; John 1:14). Because Jesus had a
body, he could shed His blood for us
on the Cross. Both God the Father
and the Holy Spirit did not chose
to incarnate (that is take up a body)
and therefore cannot have scars.
At least eight times, the Bible talks
about “the blood of Jesus/Christ”
(Rom. 3:25; I Cor. 10:16; Eph. 2:13;
Heb. 9:11; Heb. 9:14; I Pet. 1:2; I
Pet. 1:19; Rev. 1:5). But the Bible
never speaks about “blood” of God
the Father or the Holy Spirit!
W-H-A-C… :The Shack
Compromises biblical truth on
C-REATION-CREATOR Divide:
In The Shack, Jesus says thus to
Mack: “Papa (God, the Father in
The Shack) is as much submitted
to me as I am to him, or Sarayu
(Holy Spirit portrayed as a lady in
The Shack) to me, or Papa to her.
Submission is not about authority
and it is not obedience; it is all
about relationships of love and
respect. In fact, we are submitted
to you in the same way.” Read that
again! The Shack teaches that the
Trinity is submitted to us humans,
created beings!!! But if you read the
Bible, the Creator-Creation divide is
crystal clear! For starters, the Bible
makes it clear that while God is holy,
each human is a sinner!!! Apostle
Paul writes in Romans 3:4, “Let God
be true and every man a liar!”
The Bible teaches that a day is
coming, when unbelievers will be
separated from the God-head and
cast into hell. Read Matt. 13:30 –
“Allow both (wheat and tares) to
grow together until the harvest; and
in the time of the harvest I will say
to the reapers, “First gather up the
tares and bind them in bundles to
burn them up; but gather the wheat
into my barn.” Notice here that all
tares do not become wheat at the
end of time – Jesus himself said. If
all people in the World would be
saved and merged into a fellowship
with the Trinity, this would have
happened. But it does not happen.
Jesus himself pointed this out, as we
just saw! So, the truth is, some will
be saved, and others will be lost.
But William P. Young, as it is made
clear by his 2017 book, Lies We
Believe About God, believes that all
people in the World will be saved!!!
In fact in The Shack, Papa (God the
Father) says, “The Whole World”
(not just “those who believe”) will be
ultimately saved.
Just like all cults start off with a
wrong idea about the Doctrine of
God (think of Jehovah Witnesses
who say that Jesus is not God),
William Paul Young, through his
writings, has fuelled the rise yet
another cult! Beware!!
W-H-A-C-K: The Shack
compromises on THE
K-ONFESSION TEACHING IN THE
BIBLE.
“Forgiveness does not establish
relationship. In Jesus, I have
forgiven all humans for their sins
against me, but only some choose
relationship.” This is one of the most
anti-Scriptural statements you will
read/hear in The Shack, mouthed
by the so-called God, the Father. In
the movie, The Shack, the Lady-killer
(a serial killer who killed women)
who apparently raped and killed the
little daughter of Mack, is forgiven
by the Trinity, even if he did not
ask for forgiveness. Mack’s father,
a stubborn, unrepentant alcoholic
who never asked for his sins to be
forgiven, is shown in The Shack, as
being in heaven. Mack is already
forgiven, even before he asks for it
in The Shack. William Paul Young,
in his 2017 book, Lies We Believe
About God, writes, “So what is the
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Good News? What is the Gospel?
The Good News is not that Jesus
has opened up the possibility of
salvation and you have been invited
to receive Jesus into your life. The
Gospel is that Jesus has already
included you into His life, into His
relationship with God the Father,
and into His anointing in the Holy
Spirit (My note: Notice here, the
reference to the Trinity, hence the
name Trinitarian Gospel, but I would
call it Twisted Trinitarian Gospel).
The Good News is that Jesus did
this without your vote, and whether
you believe it or not won’t make
it any less or more true….Are you
suggesting that everyone is saved?
That you believe in universal
salvation? That is exactly what I am
saying!”
This is where The Shack theology
of William Paul Young gives a
handshake, a hug, to the hyper-
grace theology put out by the likes
of heretic Pastor Joseph Prince
All tares do not become wheat at
the end of time – Jesus himself
said (in the parable of Wheat and
Tares in Matt. 25).
of Singapore! The only difference
is this: The hyper-grace blokes
teach believers need not confess
their sins to be forgiven; The Shack
teaching (called Trinitarian Gospel
now) is that both believers and
un-believers need not confess
their sins to be forgiven!!! But
this goes against the teaching of
the Bible that God commands all
people everywhere to “repent”
(Acts 17:30-31). A realization of
sin precedes repentance from sin.
And repentance from sin will result
in confession of sin. This is the
teaching of I John 1:8-10. God’s
kindness should lead to repentance,
Paul wrote (Rom. 2:4). And when
we don’t repent, the wrath of God
is stored up against us, Paul warned
(Rom. 2:5). Paul also wrote, “Let
everyone who names the name of
the Lord depart from iniquity..”(2
Tim. 2:19). No one can truthfully
say, “I believe in Jesus,” and not
turn decisively from sin – that is
Paul’s point here. Will a believer
be perfect? No. John writes, “No
one born of God makes a practice
of sinning, for God’s seed abides in
him; and he cannot keep on sinning,
because he has been born of God” (I
John 3:9). When a believer does sin,
he needs to repent from that sin,
confess it and get back to Christ as
this book teaches (I John 1:8-10).
William Paul Young quotes John
12:32 to teach that all will be
eventually saved and that none will
go to hell in his 2017 book, Lies We
Believe About God. Let us revisit
John 12:32 again. Jesus says here,
“But I, when I am lifted up from the
earth, will draw all men to myself.”
Young points that “draw” in the
original Greek means “to drag.” So
he basically says, “even if you don’t
chose to believe in Jesus, you will
be saved.” This is not true. If Jesus’
meant to say what Young implies,
why would he say just fourteen
verses later, “I have come into the
world as a light, so that no one
who BELIEVES IN ME should stay
in darkness” (John 12:46). The
corollary is true: if there are folks
who refuse to believe in Jesus, they
would go to the place of “outer
darkness” – hell (Matt. 22:13).
John 12:32 never meant to teach
that all would be saved. Similarly
when the Scripture says, “at the
name of Jesus every knee should
bow” in Philippians 2:10, it does
not mean all people will be saved
automatically in the end. Read four
verses below – in Philippians 2:15,
Apostle Paul talks about being
“blameless and pure children of
God without fault in a crooked and
depraved generation (meaning, hell-
heading generation).”
In the same way, we could take each
Scripture this cultic group spear-
headed by the likes of William Paul
Young quotes and do a rebuttal. But
there is no space for the same in
this article.
The acronym W-H-A-C-K presented
above will help us to whack the
theology that William Paul Young
and The Shack fans try to embrace
and popularize. The Trinitarian
Gospel Young popularizes, should
be called, “Twisted Trinitarian
Gospel” (TTG), for it twists certain
elements of the Trinity to teach that
all are saved even though they don’t
know it now.
Remember, that Apostle Peter
warned us about false teachers
who will “twist” Scriptures to the
destruction of themselves and their
followers (2 Peter 3:16).
 10
Practical Bible Lessons
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj
Starting with the George Bush
Sr.’s Groping Sex Scandal
He was 93 years old when this particular incident
happened. Read that again – 93! What happened?
Jordana Grolnick, a young New York theatre artist,
had just finished doing her role in a play in a theatre
in Maine, in the North Eastern part of United States.
Among the audience was a US Former President. Yes,
George Bush Senior was there with his wife. He came
to watch the play in a wheelchair. After the intermission
of the play, the President wanted to meet the drama
cast. He was ushered back-stage. That’s when Jordana
and the other members of the cast stood around his
wheel-chair so that a photo could be taken. When
this was happening, the President spoke up. “Do you
know who my favorite magician is? It is David Cop-a-
feel”, he said. As he spoke he inappropriately touched
Jordana’s backside as she stood next to him with his
hands as everyone’s eyes were focused on the camera.
As the photo light flashed, the president fondled
Jordana’s backside. “He dug into my flesh” were her
exact words, when she spoke about that incident. The
young actress did not escalate the matter though she
did not appreciate what happened and was clearly
uncomfortable with what had happened. But when the
Harvey Weinstein alleged sexual harassment stories
broke-out in 2017, the trickle of women across the
globe who openly talked about horrific cases of sexual
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harassment they had faced turned into a torrent.
That’s when Jordana finally spoke up. Chicago Tribune
reported, “The former president’s officer said he
routinely tells the same joke ‘and on occasion he has
patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-
natured manner.’ The statement says he apologizes
‘to anyone he has offended.’” (In its October 26, 2017
post).
This incident brought to my mind some crucial Bible
lessons.
First, the lesson about GROPING. When we read
passages like Ezekiel 23, we understand that touching
women in places they should not be touched, is a sin
against God. I have dealt with this matter in my article,
“How Far Is Too Far?” and so won’t go into it again.
Please email me at emailduke@gmail.com for this
article, should you desire to read it.
Sexual Temptation is no respecter of a person’s age.
Ask George Bush Senior, well over ninety, now!
Second, the lesson about GOSPEL-SHARING. Instead
of taking the slightest opportunity to discreetly touch
the person of the opposite sex the sinful way (like Bush
Senior unfortunately did in this case), we must grab the
opportunity to share the Gospel.
Let me illustrate this with an example. At the age of
23, in the year 1998, I was invited by a Sri Lankan
Tamil pastor to preach to youth in the German town
of Botrop. I preached eight messages that God used
to bless teens (all second generation Sri Lankan Tamils
who spoke German) during that youth camp. Blessing
Youth Mission’s music missionary, uncle R. Elisha also
joined me in the pulpit ministry, those memorable
days, with great effectiveness. After the meetings
got over, the pastor who invited us took us for sight-
seeing. We stopped to see Amsterdam. We drove past
Belgium. Finally we were in France. We were in Paris.
You don’t go to Paris and not see the Eiffel Tower,
do you? So, we drove to see the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
That’s when I spotted a young Sri Lankan Tamil couple minister of the Gospel apparently asked him a question.
who were there to see the same engineering marvel. He asked, “Rev. du Plessis, how old should I get before
A picture clicking time invariably followed. We also I stop experiencing sexual temptation?” The senior man
took pictures with this couple! When we were about of God replied, “When I get that old, I will let you know,
to leave, knowing that it may well be the last-ever time son!” As you smile, don’t miss this point: it is not wrong
I may ever get to meet them on this side of eternity, to feel sexual
I spoke up. I told them this: “I came from India all the temptation; even
way to Germany to tell the youth in Germany that Jesus Jesus was ‘tempted
Christ, the only God-in-flesh, can transform lives and at all points!’;
give it meaning, purpose and joy. Jesus has graciously what is sinful is
transformed my life and has given me joy that stays this: yielding to
amidst the storm. The same Jesus, who died on the sexual temptation
Cross for all of our sins and rose again, can give you or any temptation
both that same joy if you start relating with him, right (Heb. 4:15); sexual
away!” I am not sure if I said those exact words, but I temptation can
did say something like that! They were stunned to hear come to people of
my words. But they smiled, nodded their heads before all ages; Daddy-
they walked away. I haven’t got the chance to meet to-grown-up-
them again in the last 19 years as I write these words daughter, Lot,
in 2017. But I believe, on that day, 19 years ago, God faced sexual
graciously used me to sow the seed of the Gospel in temptation
their hearts. It takes about eight to nine occasions of (Genesis 19)!
Gospel-sowing for a person to come to Christ, I have
read some-where! So, when we meet people – even Also, we must When he was over eighty years
if it for a photo-op near a sight-seeing site – let’s not not forget that of age, David du Plessis, gave an
miss the opportunity to sow the Gospel. Apostle Paul even senior, older, unforgettable answer when asked
exhorted us to “make use of every opportunity as women can face about sexual temptation!
the days are evil” (Eph. 5:16), didn’t he? Yes, we must sexual temptation.
not “touch” those we meet that way, inappropriately. I read the review
But we can take the opportunity to “touch” them which The Hindu published on the 2017 movie, Lipstick
with the Gospel! And hear this: if we did touch them on my Burkha. The review talked about a 56-year-old
inappropriately in a meeting like that (say during a woman in this movie who indulges with phone-sex with
photo-op) giving into the lust of the flesh, we will a man not her husband. Yes, it is true! Sexual desire has
certainly not have the face to share the Gospel with no age bar or sex bar! So what should be done? If you
them, wont’ we? are a married man, do not forget your responsibility to
bring sexual pleasure to your wife in a loving-caring
Third, a lesson about GRANDPAS and GRANDMOMS. way, no matter what her age is. Also, when it comes
We would like to believe that they do not have ANY to drawing sexual purity boundaries, be careful that
sexual temptation. George Bush Senior just proved us you do not cross them even if the concerned is an old
wrong. Let me tell you a real story I have heard being woman! If you will not get into “locked room” set up
narrated in a many a sermon on sexual temptation. It with a young girl who is not your wife (rightly so, if you
is a story about David Johannes du Plessis (7 February followed Paul’s admonition in 2 Timothy 2:22 like Billy
1905 – 2 February 1987), a South African-born Graham did!), follow the same principle even if the girl is
Pentecostal minister. When he was about 80, a young older or really old!

Psalm 34:10 reads this way: “The young lions do
lack and suffer hunger; But they who seek the LORD
shall not be in want of any good thing”. While young
lions may have a lack, but we who reach the Google
Generation Youth of our nation, have graciously had our
Young needs met. This is so, because Indians obey the nudge of
Lions the Holy Spirit to give to the ministry. Let us then give
Suffer up the details of the expenses paid out of the giving of
Lack, but these Indian friends.
We Who
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Is the “Hell to Heaven”
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj
Teaching from Heaven?
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj examines this bizarre teaching put forth by a Chennai
Hyper-Grace cult pastor in biblical light
During a seminar in Hyderabad,
a Chennai based hyper-grace
pastor used a combination of
Revelation 21:25 (a verse that says
heaven’s doors will not be shut)
and Revelation 22:17 (a verse that
says, ‘The Spirit and the bride say,
“Come!”’) to elucidate a point that
there is a real possibility for those
who have gone to hell (‘the lake
of fire’) to make it to heaven. Here
are the two verses in question
printed in full: Revelation 21:25 –
“In the daytime (for these will be
no night there) it gates will never
be closed”(NASB); Revelation
22:17 – ‘The Spirit and the bride
say, “Come.” And let the one who
hears say, “Come.” And let the one
who is thirsty come; let the one
who wishes take the water of life
without cost’(NASB).
The question here before us is
this: Can those in the lake of fire,
when they positively respond to
the “come” of the Spirit and the
Bride(which can be taken to mean
the church)(Rev. 22:17), move
from hell to heaven? Is this ‘hell to
heaven’ teaching (that is the phrase
I will use in the rest of this article for
this teaching), straight from heaven?
Is it from God? Is it Biblical?
I want to use the acronym H-E-L-L
to give an answer that is not only
scriptural but also, hopefully is
memorable:
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H-IS TEACHING (JESUS’
TEACHING) ON “HELL TO
HEAVEN” TEACHING:
I am referring to Jesus’ teaching
here. From Jesus’ teaching, we
know without a shadow of doubt
that those in hell, cannot come to
heaven. Once a person goes to
hell, he cannot come to heaven.
Jesus’ understanding about this is
reflected in His narration of the
conversation between the Rich
Man who went to Hades and a
beggar named Lazarus who went
to Abraham’s side. Hades is just
one of the many phrases Jesus
used to refer Hell and Abraham’s
side for Heaven [I say this based on
Revelation 20:14 which says, ‘Then
death and Hades were thrown into
the lake of fire(another name for
Hell)]. The Rich Man was in torment
– thanks to the flames in Hades that
behaved like any flame we know
would, causing intolerable heat
(Luke 16:23). He did not request for
a fire-engine be sent from heaven
to extinguish the flames in hell. All
that the rich man wanted was a few
drops of water from the fingers of
Lazarus who once ate what fell from
the rich man’s fingers when he was
on earth (Compare Luke 16:21 and
24). But this request was turned
down by Father Abraham. Abraham
makes a key observation in this
Jesus-narrated incident. Abraham
told the rich man in Hades, “You
ARE in agony!”(Luke 16:25). He did
not say, “You WERE in agony!” The
message of this passage is clear: the
punishment for those who reject
Christ is an on-going process in their
after-life period – it will never end!
And to quench and quell the hopes
the hell-dwelling Rich Man had
about crossing over from hell into
heaven, Abraham told him: “And
besides all this, between us and you
there is a great chasm fixed, so that
those who wish to come over from
HERE TO YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE,
AND THAT NONE MAY CROSS
OVER FROM THERE TO US.”’ (Luke
16:26). This Jesus-narrated event
teaches us that once a person goes
to eternity without repenting and
trusting in Jesus, he can never enter
heaven after his death. The same
person cannot escape from hell and
get into heaven. Jesus, at this point,
could have easily chosen to mention
about any such opportunity. He
could have said, “The Holy Spirit in
heaven, along with other believers
(‘Spirit and the Bride’) keeps on
saying, ‘Come!’ Do you hear their
voice, rich man? Repent from your
sin of loving money more than me!
Confess your sin. Put your faith
in me. Then you too can come to
heaven, even though, at this point,
you are in hell!” No, Jesus did NOT
say that! Why? Jesus knew that NO
CHANCES or OPPORTUNITIES
would be given to anyone who dies
and goes into a Christ-less eternity
to come back to heaven/God’s very
presence, afterwards!
This is not the only time when
Jesus taught that hell punishment is
forever and that there is no escape
from it. In Matthew 25:41 He used
the phrase “eternal fire” when He
talked about hell punishment for
the Devil and his angels. Jesus also
taught that there is no escape from
this hell punishment as recorded in
Mark’s Gospel also. In this Gospel
He taught us to be ruthless in our
dealing with temptations to sin, if
we want to avoid ending up in hell,
“where fire never goes out” (Mark
9:43 NIV) and where “worms that
eat (body parts like the eye) do not
die” (Mark 9:47-48 NIV). In other
words, Jesus was teaching that
In other words, Jesus was teaching
that there is NO WAY anyone
could worm their way out of hell,
ever!!!
there is NO WAY anyone could
worm their way out of hell, ever!!!
Robert Peterson after noting that
Jesus used the word ‘Gehenna’
three times in Mark 9:43-48
summarized this passage thus: “hell
is a place where fire goes on and
on. So it is worthwhile depriving
yourself of a hand, a foot or an eye
if by doing so you can go to heaven,
because those are temporary
deprivations, whereas the torment
of hell is eternal.”
Jesus repeatedly used one phrase
to describe life in hell. This phrase:
“a place of weeping and gnashing
of teeth”. He uses that phrase a
stunning four times in Matthew’s
Gospel itself. Check that out in
Matt. 8:12; 22:13; 24:51; 25:30. If
Jesus believed in the ‘hell to heaven’
teaching put forth by this Chennai
Hyper-Grace cult pastor, he would
have slightly modified this phrase.
He would have said, “Hell is a place
weeping and gnashing of teeth till
you say, ‘I’m coming’ in response to
The 2010 Tamil movie, Endhiran,
featured a scene in a dumpyard.
Jesus compared to hell as a
dumpyard just outside Jerusalem
called Gehenna!
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the ‘come’ invitation of The Spirit
and the Bride!” But He did not say
that. The “ing” in the phrase that
Jesus used for those who will dwell
in hell – “weeping and gnashing of
teeth” – implies ongoing, eternal
torment. In other words, those in
hell will forever regret for having
rejected Jesus when they had so
many opportunities to believe
Him during their lifetime. And
they will express their sadness
through weeping and anger through
gnashing of teeth! This would be
non-stop!
Let’s move to the next Biblical
argument to understand why
how this bizarre “hell-to-heaven”
teaching by this Chennai hyper-
grace cult pastor is false.
E-PISTLES TEACHING ON “HELL
TO HEAVEN” TEACHING:
Not just Jesus, but the epistle-
writers of the New Testament too
ensure that the word “eternal”
prefixes the description of the
fearful fate of those who reject
Jesus after their death. Apostle
Paul writes that “those who do
not know God and do not obey
the Gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ” (2 Thess. 1:8) will pay “the
penalty of eternal destruction,
away from the presence of the
Lord and from the glory of His
power” (2 Thess 1:9, NASB). The
above-mentioned hyper-grace cult
pastor in Chennai states, “Paul did
not ever use the word, ‘Gehenna’
in all his 14 epistles. If Paul can
present the Gospel without using
the word ‘Gehenna’ why can’t we
also do that?” For those of you,
who do not know, ‘Gehenna’ is
the Hebrew word Jesus used for
hell. Chaim Milikowsky writes, ‘In
the New Testament the Gehenna
appears eleven times, seven times
in Matthew, twice in Mark, and
once each in Luke and James…it is
a place of punishment in the last
judgement’. Gehenna was actually
a real place during Jesus time – a
place outside the city of Jerusalem
where the city’s waste was dumped
and set to fire, burning continuously
in order to consume the waste.
Peter Kreeft writes, “Gehenna, the
word Jesus used for hell, was the
valley outside Jerusalem that the
Jews used for perpetual burning
of garbage because it had been
desecrated by heathen tribes
who used it for human sacrifice.”
While Paul and the other apostles
obeyed Jesus’ command, “teach
them (those who become Jesus’
disciples through their ministry) to
observe everything I taught you!”
(Matt. 28:19), they were under no
compulsion to do so using Jesus’
language or vocabulary. Jesus
used the ‘Gehenna’ imagery to talk
about hell, because he ministered
mainly to the Jews. And Jews could
immediately connect with the
Gehenna imagery the way Chennai
folks would have readily connected
with the Kodungaiyur Dumpyard
or Perungudi Dumpyard. A movie-
reviewer called, Ilyaghilli, recalls
a scene in the 2010 Tamil movie,
Endhiran (released in several other
languages), starring Rajinikanth,
which featured a dumpyard in
Chennai this way: “Scenes like
dumping the dismantled robot in a
corporation dustbin and showing
that it is taken to a dumpyard of
normal garbage look totally bizarre
in today’s era of e-waste disposal
campaigns and considering the
fact that a robotic scientist cannot
dispose his years of work just like
that. Add to it that fact that the
robot can reconstruct itself even at
such a crippled stage!”
Coming back from the Endhiran
movie dumpyard to the dumpyard
our Master talked about –
Gehenna… James, the half-brother
of Jesus who ministered to Jews
primarily (‘the twelve tribes
scattered among the nations” –
James 1:1) used the very same word
(‘Gehenna’) when talking about hell
in his epistle (see James 3:6). But
Paul’s ministry was among Gentiles
primarily (Acts 9:15). Gentiles, that
is, non-Jews, may not have grasped
the usage of the word ‘gehenna’
to depict hell, the same way, even
someone from Hyderabad may
not grasp well the usage of the
imagery of Kodungaiyur/Perungudi
dumpyard to depict hell. So, Paul
was under no compulsion to use
the word, “Gehenna” like Jesus
did or James did! But did he teach
about eternal conscious punishment
like Jesus did? Absolutely, as we
just saw in 2 Thessalonians 1:9!
Peter’s name for hell was ‘Tartarus’
(2 Peter 2:4). While the names
which different Spirit-inspired Bible
authors gave for hell was different
(one Bible Scholar notes that there
are twenty-six total references to
hell in the Bible), the reality of it
and the gruesome gravity of the
on-going suffering of those who go
there, can never be in doubt!
Not just Apostle Paul but the other
epistle writers also spoke about
‘eternalness’ of hell-punishment
thereby totally negating the wrong
teaching on ‘hell to heaven’ this
Chennai Hyper-grace pastor was
teaching then. The epistle-writer to
Hebrews (it could have been Apollos
or Barnabas or Priscilla or someone
we do not know) stitches the
word “eternal” with “judgement” in
Hebrews 6:3. So, in his view, once a
person is judged, he goes to a place
and STAYS in that place “eternally”!
There can never be escapism from
the place of his stay, which we
know is hell from other portions of
Scripture, to heaven! Not just the
Hebrews-writer, the epistle-writer
Jude also teaches that ‘his hell-to-
heaven’ teaching is wrong. He talks
about “eternal” punishment for the
stubborn-till-death, homosexuals of
Sodom and Gomorrah in his letter
(verse 7). So the hell-dwellers from
Sodom won’t hear a ‘come’ from
heaven! Sodom is doomed forever!
So the hell-dwellers from Gomorrah
won’t hear a ‘come’ from heaven
which will make them go, “hip, hip,
hurray” in anticipation of switching
their dwelling-place from hell to
heaven!
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Moving onto the next Biblical
argument against the crazy ‘Hell to
Heaven’ hell-taking wrong teaching
put forth by this particular Chennai
hyper-grace cult pastor. We are
using the acronym H-E-L-L to
outline these points. H-is-teaching.
E-pistles teaching.
L-ONG LOOK AT REVELATION ON
“HELL TO HEAVEN” TEACHING:
A long look at the Book of
Revelation will reveal that this ‘hell
to Heaven’ teaching is wrong. If
it can be convincingly shown that
in the view of John, the Apostle,
who wrote the Book of Revelation,
that there was a route to escape
from hell, then this ‘hell to Heaven’
teaching can be accepted. But
if one were to read the book of
Revelation in full-LENGTH (all the
22 chapters, and not just chapter
21 and chapter 22), he or she will
understand that it never entered
John’s mind that there would be
any escape route out of hell or a
supposed invitation from heaven-
dwellers to hell-dwellers to migrate
their location from hell to heaven.
Read Revelation 14:10-11. This
is the punishment for those who
worship the Anti-Christ and follow
him: “the smoke of their torment
will rise forever and ever, and they
will have no relief day or night, for
they have worshipped the beast
(the Anti-Christ that is) and his
statue and have accepted the mark
of his name!”(NLT). The smoke from
hell will forever keep rising as this
Scripture in Revelation teaches,
because despite the fire constantly
burning the bodies of the hell-
dwellers, their bodies don’t get
burnt as they keep writhing away
in unspeakable discomfort! John
Walvoord writes, “The ultimate
convincing argument for eternal
punishment is found is Revelation
20:11-15…. In this passage…the
beast and the false prophet, cast
into the lake of fire at the beginning
of the millennium (Rev. 19:20), are
still there a thousand years later
and are declared to join Satan in the
torment which will continue “day
and night forever and ever” (Rev.
20:10). After describing that all pain
would forever end when people
reach heaven’s shores in Revelation
21:3-4, Apostle John, writes that
the ‘cowardly, the faithless, the
murderers, the sexually immoral,
sorcerers, idolaters, liars,’ will end
in the ‘lake that burns with fire
and sulfur’ (Rev. 21:8 ESV). Based
on Revelation 20:10 where John
writes that in the lake of fire that
will be ‘torment for day and night
forever’ we can confidently be
sure that even in the lake of fire
mentioned in Revelation 21:8 after
folks have entered heaven, there
will continuous torment in hell for
its inhabitants, after all there is only
ONE lake of fire! There will not be
a way of escape from hell as this
Chennai Hyper-Grace cult leader/
pastor suggests at that point – after
people have reached heaven!
So when there is a clear teaching
by the Spirit-inspired writer of
the book of Revelation that hell
punishment is forever (as seen
above), there is no way he would
have meant that there will be an
ongoing opportunity for people
to keep entering heaven all thro’
eternity when he wrote, “on no
day will its gates be shut, for there
will be no night there” (Rev. 21:25
NIV). The key phrase in that verse
is the word “for” – “for there will
be no night there”. The meaning
can be this: ‘only on earth, you lock
‘The overall, overwhelming
message of a Bible book cannot
contradict the message of one
passage of that book!’ By teaching
the ‘hell to heaven’ doctrine from
Revelation 22:17, the Chennai
Hyper-Grace Cult pastor, violates
this principle!
your doors at night; this is heaven
– there is no night here, so there is
no need to lock doors here; evil has
been once-for-all eliminated!’ Also
read two verses below –Revelation
21:27. It goes this way: “Nothing
impure will ever enter it, not will
anyone who does what is shameful
and deceitful, but only those who
names are written in the Lamb’s
book of life.” This verse is talking
about the qualification to get to
heaven. It is this: repentance from
sin while on earth (‘nothing impure
will ever enter it, nor will anyone
who does what is shameful and
deceitful’) and placing one’s faith in
Jesus who died on the Cross when
still on earth (‘only those whose
names are written in the Lamb’s
book of life). I included the words,
‘when still on earth’ for this reason –
the Scripture says there, ‘only those
who names ARE WRITTEN in the
Lamb’s book of life,’ and not, ‘those
who names WILL BE WRITTEN in
the Lamb’s book of Life!
Does John the Revelation writer
mean that those in heaven – the
Holy Spirit and church believers
(‘the Spirit and the Bride’ – will
invite those in hell with the words,
“Come!” POST the Second Coming
of Jesus (Rev. 22:17)? No. Read this
verse above. Read Revelation 22:7.
That verse records Jesus’ statement,
“Look, I am coming soon!” (also
repeated in Rev. 22:12) Notice the
tense here: I AM COMING SOON!
The portions below Revelation
22:7 is talking about the time
BEFORE the Second Coming of
Jesus! Rewind back to Revelation
22:6, this already evident truth
will be even more evident. That
verse says, “And he said to me:
“These words are trustworthy and
true. And the Lord, the God of the
spirits of the prophets, has sent his
angel to show his servants what
must soon take place.”Revelation
22:16, which is just one verse
before Revelation 22:17 – the
verse under our microscope – is
also strikingly similar. So, all the
verses from Revelation 22:6 and
below are talking us back to the
situation that is described in
Revelation chapter 1 where John is
in an island seeing visions, hearing
from Angels, hearing Jesus speak
about “what you have seen, what is
now, and what will soon take place
later” (Rev. 1:19). In other words,
John is addressing the material
from Revelation 22:8 and below to
present-day believers – believers
who are still on earth awaiting the
return of Jesus Christ! So when
we read, “The Spirit and the Bride
say, ‘Come!’”in Revelation 22:17,
that is applicable to us, present-day
believing living before the Second
Coming. We (the Bride of Christ) are
called to join the Holy Spirit in the
ministry calling people to Christ (see
2 Cor. 11:2)! Our message today,
empowered by the Spirit is this:
Come to the one who said, ‘Come
to me all you who are weary and
heavy-leaden!’ That is how we live
out Revelation 22:17. Revelation
22:17 cannot be lived out AFTER
the Second Coming, after people
have gone into heaven/hell as this
Chennai hyper-grace pastor wrongly
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suggests.
Revelation 22:14-15 goes this
way: “Blessed are those who wash
their robes that they may have the
right to the tree of life and may
go through the gates into the city.
Outside are the dogs, those who
practice magic arts, the sexually
immoral, the murderers, the
idolaters and everyone who loves
and practices falsehood”(NIV). Do
these set of verse imply that the
“Come” of verse 17, is for those in
hell? No way! I like the way Eugene
Peterson translates these verses to
underline the finality of the fate of
those who go to the City (heaven)
and those outside it (hell). He
writes, “How blessed are those who
wash their robes! The Tree of Life
is theirs FOR GOOD. But outside
FOR GOOD are the filthy curs;
sorcerers, fornicators, murderers,
idolaters – all who love and live lies”
(Rev. 22:14-15). Because, those
outside the city are there “for good”,
there is no logic in believing that
the “come” of Revelation 22:17 was
even directed to them as this hyper-
grace, twisted Trinitarian Gospel
preaching Chennai pastor suggests.
Revelation 22:16 goes this way: “I,
Jesus, have sent my angel to give
you this testimony for the churches.
I am the Root and the Offspring of
David, and the bright Morning Star!”
This verse needs a closer look to
determine the timing and direction
of the “come” invitation by the Spirit
and Bride in Revelation 22:17 (just
one verse below). Revelation 22:16
basically says this: the supernatural
revelations given to John in the
book of Revelation about present
and future are actually a “testimony
for the churches”. John needs to
share this with the churches or
church believers. The next verse
is also talking about the church,
albeit figuratively. The word used
in the next verse for the church is
“Bride” (see Rev. 22:17). Here is
the full verse: ‘The Spirit and the
bride say, “Come.” And the one who
hears say, “Come.” And let the one
who is thirsty come; let the one
who wishes take the water of life
without cost’ (Rev. 22:17 NASB).
So, this is what this verse teaches:
The church which is the bride of
Christ, empowered by the Spirit
should cry out to the lost people
here and now, “Come!” That’s what
every reader of this book (‘the one
who hears’ as John put it in Rev.
22:17) should also do. In fact the
phrase, “he who has an ear, let
him hear what the Spirit says to
the church” is mentioned several
times in the Book of Revelation as
a phrase to label any believer from
any church who will chose to listen
to the message of Revelation down
through history up until his death or
Return of Jesus (see Rev. 2:7; 2:11;
2:17; 2:29; 3:6; 3:13; 3:22). If that
person has not yet come to Jesus,
here and now, before the Second
Coming or before that person’s
death, should come to the Living
Water Jesus (see John 4:14) in
repentance and faith.
Now, we come to final letter in the
acronym chosen to drive home
the point that Revelation 22:17 is
talking about “call” to be given here
to the unsaved on this earth and not
in the next life, undergirded by the
Holy Spirit. That letter is another L.
L-OCKING OF ONE’S CHOICE
BY GOD & “HELL TO HEAVEN”
TEACHING:
Throughout the Bible, we see
examples of how God would give
ample choices to a person (Only
God determines how many chances
are enough for a person). But if that
person, continued to defy God and/
or reject Jesus, God would sort of
“lock” that choice (to borrow a term
from Amitabh Bachchan when he
runs the popular TV quiz-program,
“Koun Banega Crorepathi”). After
this ‘locking’ is done, there is no
chance for the concerned person
to be saved even on this side of
eternity. There are several examples
found in the Bible that underscore
this understanding:
When the Spirit and Bride (Church
Believers) say, ‘Come’ and when
John writes, ‘the one who is thirsty
let him come’ in Revelation 22:17,
he definitely cannot be talking
to hell-dwellers as this Chennai
Hyper-Grace cult pastor suggests
because the same passage clearly
says Jesus has NOT yet come
the second time (Rev. 22:8,12 –
twice!!!). That was clearly a call for
believers on earth here and now to
echo Jesus’ ‘Come to me’ message
through the power of the Holy
Spirit!
Pharaoh repeatedly hardened his
heart. That’s when God chose to
actually harden Pharaoh’s heart.
In other words, God ‘locked’ or
‘froze’ or ‘made Pharoah’s free will
permanent’ so that he would not be
able to turn from sin and come to
the Living God! Tina Miller points
out that ‘the first time we read
that God caused Pharoah’s heart
to be hard was when the sixth
plague hit – the boils in Exodus
9:12.’ God gave enough chances
for Pharoah. He did not freeze his
free will till after the fifth miracle.
But when Pharoah continued his
stubbornness (made his heart,
hard, in other words – please check
out – Exodus 8:32), God decided
‘enough was enough’. But after God
hardened his heart, Pharaoh could
not repent. When this is the case,
what makes us think that even after
a person dies and lands up in hell,
that person will have an opportunity
to hear of “come” by the Spirit and
Bride, as suggested by this Chennai
Pastor and cult leaders? This is not
a one-off story in the Bible. Read
the stories of King Manasseh. The
story of Judas in the New Testament
[Jesus froze his free will / locked his
stubborn choice to reject Jesus after
Evangelin Duke powerfully preached God’s Word in the AG Church led by Rev. Dr. V.
T. Abraham in Kozhikode (May 2017).
Duke Jeyaraj along with G4 Mission volunteers gave the Bubbly/Dhoni wala Gospel
tract in the Railway Station, outside a Cricket stadium (May – Dec 2017).
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giving him many changes to repent
– chances he blew up – when he
told h im, “What you are about
to do, do quickly!”(John 13:27)].
The story of the Pharisees and
Sadducees whose stiff-necked ways
made Jesus lock their choice to
reject Jesus when he promised hell
for them (Matt. 23:33). The story of
the Devil and his angels, whose free
will was also frozen by God after he
gave them enough chances (Matt
25:41). The story of the hyper-
grace teachers of biblical times
who got themselves ‘designated for
condemnation’ by God because they
constantly turned God’s grace ‘as an
excuse for sexual freedom’ (Jude 4,
ESV/GW). A reading of Romans 1
where we read, “God gave them up”
thrice (Rom. 1:24,26,28) also brings
forth the conclusion God does
choose to lock the freewill of those
who stubbornly give up on him. The
phrase in Genesis 6:3 – ‘the LORD
said, “My Spirit shall not strive
with man forever…’ (NASB) – also
teaches the very same thing if one
were to check the similar context
there.
These stories remind us of the
many times God froze free will of
stubborn folks before death, before
the Second Coming of Christ, after
giving them enough chances. When
this is the case, why will God give
those in hell another chance to
repent (which is what this Chennai
Pastor’s strange interpretation of
Revelation 22:17 entails). Jonathan
Edwards explained why infinitely-
long torment in hell is a reasonable
punishment for those who will go
to hell: they have sinned against an
infinite God!
So, if we considered the Biblical
and theological arguments weaved
around the H-E-L-L acronym,
we will understand this ‘hell to
Heaven’ teaching purported by
this Chennai Cult Pastor is a lie,
straight from hell! Yes, the hell to
heaven doctrine, he teaches, is
not from heaven! This Chennai
cult pastor and others like him,
“gag God by silencing the severity
of his warnings and minimize the
awfulness of the punishment that
justly awaits those untouched by
his redeeming grace” (to borrow D.
A. Carson’s lines). If they will not
repent, this lot will go to hell, and
take people there! This article is an
earnest attempt to somehow stem
this rot!
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Duke Jeyaraj was invited by Good Samaritan Fellowship, Madurai, to
minister to its church believers during August 2017. His message on
Named New Testament False Teachers was memorable.

Duke Jeyaraj was invited by Rev. Dr. B. Ebenezer

At our base in Hyderabad, we held Fountain of Tears Against to preach God’s Word in the church believers
Mountain of Fears Fasting Prayer once a month. People received retreat of the Metropolitan Mission Church in
miracles. Vijayawada (Aug 2017).

In the centrally-located home of the Daniels in Hyderabad, Duke

Jeyaraj, continued to teach Sound Doctrine to an inter-church and
inter-generational crowd once in two months.

Duke Jeyaraj presented the Gospel to the

students of Mamta Medical College, Khamman, The Dukes were invited by Sir Ashok Ambrose to minister in
in a Christmas Celebration event (Dec. 2017). Sunabeda, Odisha, during June 2017. The Lord touched several lives.
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Time Can Be Up for Anyone
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj

of Us Reading This
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj brings out a Bible Truth from viral Oprah Winfrey speech

Oprah Winfrey famously said while talking about powerful, rich men who
take sexual advantage of women who worked under them, this: “Their
time is up!” She did this on 7 January 2018 in her acceptance speech
at the 2018 Golden Globes.
That reminded me of the fact that for anyone of us reading
this, the time can be up! Now, is the time for ALL of us to
turn from sin and put our faith in Jesus who died for us on
the Cross and rose again, the Bible teaches (2 Cor. 6:2).
The Bible gives us three reasons why this time can get
over quickly:
1. We can die anytime. Apostle James wrote, “The
reality is you have no idea where your life will take
you tomorrow. You are like a mist that appears
one moment and then vanishes in another”
(James 4:14, Voice). 2. Jesus can return any
second and after that it will be too late to come
to him. In Mark’s Gospel we read, “You, too,
must keep a watch! For you don’t know when
the master of the household (that is Jesus) will
return--in the evening, at midnight, before
dawn, or at daybreak” (Mark 13:25, NLT). 3.
The Holy Spirit who is speaking to us now
may stop speaking to still-stubborn-in-sin
us, and when this happens we can’t get
saved. In the Book of Genesis, we read
these words of God, “My Spirit will not
struggle with humans forever…” (Gen. 6:3,
GWT). Eternal Hell awaits those for who
still haven’t turned from sin and put their
faith in Jesus (Luke 13:5) and this period of
grace time to do that will be eventually
up! But a joy unspeakable and full of
glory awaits those who turn from
sin and turn to Christ, right now (I
Peter 1:8, The Bible)!!! So, why
not do turn from sin and put
your faith on the risen Christ,
right now – before your
“time is up”?

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 What Won’t Stop
God’s Judgement
Dr. Duke Jeyaraj’s Bible Lessons from Actor
Dileep’s Arrest & Events Thereafter.
February 17, 2017. It was night on the National
Highway 544. A car carrying a popular actress is waylaid
by six men in a stretch that connected Kochi Town to
the Cochin International Airport. The actress is raped.
The act is videographed. She is told that all this was
being done in obedience to a powerful man’s order.
She is dropped after two-plus harrowing hours. We
are talking about Malayalam movie star, Dileep’s case
here. From that story we will learn three truths about
judgement from the Bible.
1. Our Position Won’t Stop God’s Judgement:
Dileep is known to be the number 3 in the Malayalam
movie world just behind Mamooty and Mohanlal.
Yet that position of influence did not do much when
the police came to arrest him on 10 July 2017 after
questioning him for over 12 hours. The Bible teaches in
Revelation 20:12, both great and small will stand before
Jesus to be judged on the final day. The rickshaw puller
and the rich and famous – both the categories of folks
will have a day of judgement. Everyone will have it.
2. Our Pointing Fingers At Others Won’t Stop God’s
Judgement:
The Week magazine reported that after two months
after this tragic car-rape event, Dileep pointed fingers
at the character of the actress. He said that they
were “close friends who had spent time together in
Goa”. In other words, according to Dileep, the wrong
company this actress kept resulted in her being raped
and videographed. King David tried to point fingers at
the person who stole the daughter-like sheep from his
neighbor to prepare food for his guest(think of story
narrated by Prophet in 2 Samuel 12). But God could not
be fooled. God could not be distracted. He was still the
man who committed adultery.
3. Our Presuppositions Won’t Stop God’s Judgement:
An Open Magazine report about this heinous crime goes
this way: the violated and videod actress sought refuge
in Director Lal’s house on that tragic night after being
dropped . And she went to see the police and filed an
FIR. Those who committed this crime were, perhaps
certain that the victim would not go to the police. And
this presupposition perhaps emboldened them to follow
their alleged Sender’s instructions to the letter. “Get a
closeup of the victim’s engagement ring in your video
shot!” – Dileep supposedly told this to the quotation
gang. We too have our presuppositions that makes us
believe that there will not be a day of judgement or that
in that judgement all would be made to escape because
our God is a loving God. But the Bible points to the
contrary: “If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,
from there I will search them out and take them; and
if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them”
(Amos 9:3). Mount Carmel was a mountain range that
ran for 21 kms and jutted into the Mediterranean sea. If
anyone tried to run beyond Mount Carmel, they had to
jump into the sea, which was even a worse thing to do!
The message: the judgement of God cannot be escaped,
ever!
But if we turn from sin (Luke 13:1-5) and put our faith
(John 1:12) in Jesus who died on the Cross for us (Isa.
53:4-5) and remain in Him (John 15), enabled by His
Grace (Titus 2:11-12), then, there is no condemnation
for us (Rom. 8:1). This, the Bible teaches. Are we
listening?
(Go to www.PurposeSpot.BlogSpot.com to read more
such presentations by Duke Jeyaraj).