Day 80: Three Deceptive Presentations

Let me give you very briefly three deceptive presentations of Jesus. The first one is a sentimental Jesus – all love and no judgment. Jesus so strongly believed in the judgment of God that He died to save us from the judgment of God. A second false Jesus is a kind of Jesus with one foot in the occult, who’s got a lot of mystical answers. Jesus was very practical and He set a very definite standard of practical righteousness, purity and holiness. And then the third picture of Jesus that’s come today is a Marxist revolution, someone who’s got to storm the citadels of the strong and the wealthy and distribute their wealth to the poor. Somebody said about that Marxist version of Jesus, “It’s not a violent revolution we need, but a loving revelation.”