At the behest of the living God, I, Andrew, son of the prophet Artis, have been sent to you all. The things which God spoke in my ear for your sakes and the things which he commanded me to say are these.
You are, all of you, liars
who say “I am a sinner saved by grace” and you, all of you, who say “I am saved” profane the name of God and you call God himself a liar.
And you, all of you, who say, “It is impossible to be perfect,” lie and call Yahweh a liar.
For thus the Lord has said, “For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed” and “if the righteous turn away from his righteousness, and commit iniquity,and do according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done, shall not be mentioned: but in his transgression that he hath committed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.”
With these lies do all who repeat them profane the name of God and cause the heathen to blaspheme. For with these lies you do, all of you, make poor excuse for rebellion, so that you may sin and sin and sin and sin again without repentance. And you say unto those who would judge you for your crimes, “I am forgiven for all my sins and made perfect by the grace of Christ in the sight of the father; the Lord does not hate me.” But, the Lord does hate you and he has not forgiven you at all, neither is the grace which God gives to any man everlasting; hypocrites! For you, all of you, do continue in sin.
“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.”
And you rebel against and deny commandment to be perfect so that you may sin and sin and sin again with repentance. And you say to those who would judge you according to God’s law that sinlessness is neither required nor possible and with such wanton words you do continue in your transgressions. You liars cause the heathens to curse God for the hypocrisy of those who say they are his children. For even the sons of Satan do repent from time to time, but they say of God’s children “they are no better.” But this is what the Lord has said,
“Therefore thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression, nor the wickedness of the wicked shall cause him to fall therein, in the day that he returneth from his wickedness, neither shall the righteous live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.”
The Lord does not lie neither does he ever change, but you have heard the same thing in both testaments old and current as a testimony to you of God’s law and desire. Hear again what John has said,
“Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.” (Your pastors, your prophets, your fathers and mothers, your brothers and your sisters.)
Hear Paul,
“God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”
Hear Christ,
“I pray not for these alone, but for them also which shall believe in me, through their word, That they all may be one, as thou, O Father, art in me, and I in thee: even that they may be also one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory that thou gavest me, I have given them, that they may be one, as we are one, I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.”
And do you not know that Christ spoke much against all sin and condemned it and them who committed it? What then, do you imagine that Christ prayed for your perfection in vain? Is he a vain person whose prayers the Father hates or considers not? Why do you even call Christ a liar?
God is not a God who commands actions that cannot be accomplished and then punishes you for it. God is no trickster! Yea, all that God commands is possible to obey and if you cannot, shall you then not pray that he should help you?
Hypocrites. He who said, “Ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy” also commanded his Christ to command you, “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Thus the Lord has said unto all men, even those who are called now “Christians” whom he has promised that they shall live if they believe in his name,
“When I shall say unto the righteous, that he shall surely live, if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall be no more remembered, but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for the same.”