Give me Jesus over Rives

I listened to Richard Rives' video talking about how grace doesn't cover all sins and violations of God's Holy Law.

Why do you give a man a voice to repudiate the clear words of Jesus and the New Testament?

"All sins and blasphemies shall be forgiven the sons of men." "Pray ... forgive us ... AS we forgive our debtors." According to Rives, if we forgive those who repeatedly and continuously sin against us, we're wasting our breath obeying Jesus' recommendation in prayer because He lied and isn't going to keep His Word.

If Richard Rives is telling the truth, then Jesus is a liar.

I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I've committed against that day ... and it's not Richard Rives I've believed.

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You might claim that what he was trying to say is that people shouldn't presume on the grace of God.

Then why didn't he say it? Who had a gun to his head forcing him to say other than what he meant?

Hebrews 10:26-30 addresses the issue of those who "keep on sinning," and it does it effectively by saying that God will judge the sinning believer and that it's a terrifying thing. It doesn't say what Rives said. Did someone take Rives' Bible from him so he couldn't check the Scripture for accuracy?

Not "sinning willfully" is a good message, and a man who knows both the grace of God and the Word of God can effectively preach on such a topic, but Rives can't and didn't even try. He approached it with the ignorance, presumption, carnal reasoning, unbelief and legalism that is so common from those who get their doctrine from sources other than God.

You need better contributors than those who lie about the Word of God under the guise of supporting it.

You need to print an apology, a retraction and a correction, rightly representing the Word of God, the certainty of which is greater than heaven and earth.

This is a very serious matter. His message wasn't consistent with the New Testament nor the New Covenant.

Gary Sellars