Are We Worthy of the Kingdom?

Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring. All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. (I Thessalonians 1:4,5)
Unfortunately, the current teaching of “grace” is warping our concept of the Divine redemption. It is as though if we say “I accept Christ as my Savior,” there is nothing else to do. We can then live in any manner we please while we are waiting for the unscriptural “rapture” to carry us to our mansion in Heaven.
If we read Church history, and about how the early Christians suffered as they dared to go against the religious teachings of their day, we might wonder why they did not just “accept” Christ and continue with their merry manner of life.
The truth is, we are being deceived with the teaching of lawless grace and the any moment “rapture” of the immature believers in Christ. We are preaching a new gospel, a gospel of easy believism rather than stern obedience to Christ and God.
This new doctrine of “Dispensationalism” began in the nineteenth century, according to my understanding, and continues to the present hour as though somehow it were in the Bible.
It is not in the Bible. The Apostles of the Lamb would never have had anything to do with it.
The idea is that there absolutely is nothing we do to “earn” salvation, and so we can live our life as we please while we are waiting to die and go to Heaven. It is true that there is nothing we can do to earn salvation; but we must be proven worthy of the “Kingdom,” not of Heaven, but of the Kingdom of God.
Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring. All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. (I Thessalonians 1:4,5)