To stand beneath the full force of this discussion, first read Sergio DeSoto’s “The Gospel Manifesto” by clicking here.
When God Recalls His Gospel
There are moments in the history of God’s people when Heaven interrupts the noise, rips the veil of complacency, and restores what has been lost beneath centuries of dust.
Sergio DeSoto’s Gospel Manifesto is such an interruption.
It reads like a confrontation, not a commentary; like the voice of a prophet calling the Church away from her gilded idols, shallow assurances, and the counterfeit “gospel” that has sedated entire generations.
For decades, the Western Church has treated the Gospel as a cognitive exercise, a therapeutic relief, a sinner’s prayer, a spiritual sedative. But Sergio fires a flare across the bow when he says:
Most Christians have never heard the Gospel Jesus actually preached.
Not because God has changed.
But because the Message has.
This Manifesto tears down the modern caricature of salvation and rebuilds the Gospel in its original, Hebraic, covenantal form.
And I testify, after decades in the sacred text and in the presence of God: Sergio is right.
What Passes For “Gospel” Today Is Not The Gospel Of Scripture
Sergio’s Manifesto inspires me to join him and stand beside him in heralding the weight and wonder of this news, not as a mere echo of his voice, but as a witness who has seen these same fractures across decades in the vineyard of God. What follows is not a restatement of his argument but the convergence of two independent streams: his written proclamation and the truths carved into me by forty-plus years in the ministry.
The crisis is this:
We have inherited a message that Jesus and His apostles would not recognize.
The prevailing Western gospel, shaped more by sentiment than Scripture, has been reduced to a set of psychological comforts rather than a holy call into covenant. It offers:
Comfort devoid of Covenant,
Forgiveness without Formation,
Belief without Allegiance,
The Promise of heaven later without Transformation now.
This is not borrowed language; it is the hard summary of what I have witnessed through more than forty years of shepherding souls and watching the Church’s spiritual metabolism decline.
The modern gospel diagnoses sin as inconvenience rather than corruption. A gospel that treats salvation as pardon rather than new creation. A gospel that regards faith as agreement rather than obedience.
And the result is as predictable as it is tragic:
Churches filled with:
confidence but no consecration,
activity but not holiness,
congregants who “made a decision” but who were never discipled,
believers who admire Jesus but do not obey Him.
The problem, as Sergio rightly identifies, is not the lack of human effort. The problem is the message they were given.
Sergio names the sickness for what it is:
a gospel that saves no one because it demands nothing!
Might I echo, too…
A gospel that demands nothing cannot deliver anything.
A gospel that requires no death cannot produce resurrection.
A gospel that leaves the old man alive and unburied will never raise a “new creation.”
This is the corruption beneath the crisis. This is the unraveling of the faith once delivered to the saints. This is the reason Sergio’s Manifesto had to be written, and why it matters. This is why I join him in concert and herald this precious truth again.
The Gospel Of Jesus And The Apostles: A Call To Covenant
In “The Gospel Manifesto,” Sergio provokes us to return to the Gospel as the Apostles knew it, the Gospel of the Kingdom.
In Scripture, salvation is not: escaping earth, intellectual agreement, emotional relief, or moral improvement. Salvation is: new creation, covenant restoration, Torah written in the heart, Holy Spirit empowered obedience, and the reign of God invading the whole person (mind, will, and emotions [body, soul, and spirit]).
The Gospel changes everything because it recreates everything.
If sin is death, then salvation must be resurrection. If sin is corruption, salvation must be transformation. And, if sin is exile, salvation must be return.
Anything less is not the Gospel.
Hebraic Belief Is Not A Thought; It Is Allegiance
One of the most brilliant recoveries Sergio makes is the reclaiming of the Hebraic meaning of belief.
In Hebrew, ’emunah means: loyalty, fidelity, embodied faithfulness, and allegiance seen in obedience.
Belief was never ‘mental agreement.’ Belief was a life that proved its confession.
Ephesus: The Crimson Baptism of Allegiance
Early believers in Ephesus descended into public baptisteries filled with red-dyed water. Wearing white garments, they entered the water and rose with their robes permanently stained crimson.
This was their declaration: “I have died with Jesus Christ. I belong to Jesus Christ. Jesus is my Lord, not Caesar.”
Baptism was a public renunciation of Rome’s imperial theology. Belief costs something. Belief marked you. Belief separated you.
This is why today’s “belief,” which requires no obedience, produces Christians who are unmarked, unburied, unchanged, and unprepared for the hour.
Sergio’s Surgical Rebuke Of The Modern Church
Sergio not only identifies doctrinal drift, but he also names the forces that sustain it. This is not a popular message, but it is a necessary one.
The Gospel of the Kingdom requires death, burial, and resurrection. The modern gospel requires none of these; only mental acceptance and emotional sentiment.
Is it any wonder then that Western Christianity is mass-producing uninformed converts, unformed disciples, untransformed lives, and unprepared hearts?
This Manifesto is both correction and mercy. It exposes the idol. It calls the Church to repent and return to its doctrinal home, and it reclaims the Message that actually saves.
The Gospel Manifesto is not only a correction but also a warning!
Sergio ends with a sober truth:
“A gospel that does not produce holiness is not the Gospel of Yeshua.”
And nowhere is that more urgent than right now. Why?
Because doctrinal error never stays doctrinal. It becomes a moral error, then a cultural error, then a civilizational error, then an eschatological catastrophe.
A false gospel produces false disciples. False disciples produce a false church. And, a false church becomes easy prey for a false christ.
Which brings us to the edge of the abyss; to the reason this review does not end with celebration but with warning.
Doctrinal Corruption Always Leads To The Eschatological Counterfeit
Here is the truth as sharp as a prophet’s blade:
A counterfeit gospel prepares the world for a counterfeit christ.
If we misunderstand the Gospel Jesus preached, we will misunderstand the Christ who returns, and worse, we will embrace the Antichrist who imitates Him.
A gospel that requires no repentance will accept a kingdom that requires no allegiance.
A gospel that demands no burial will embrace a mark that demands no obedience.
A gospel that produces no transformation will fall before a leader who promises convenience.
This is why the Church must recover the Gospel. This is why Sergio’s Manifesto matters. This is why your soul depends on what happens next.
For if Volume I reveals the Doctrinal Corruption, Volume II will reveal the Eschatological Consequence.
Everything Sergio exposes in the Church is preparing the world for the rise of the Antichrist’s counterfeit initiation rite, a demonic imitation of the divine pattern we find in Acts chapter two.
And if the Church does not understand this, she will mistake deception for revival
and the Beast for the Messiah.
COMING DECEMBER 24
VOLUME II: The Counterfeit Initiation Rite Of The Antichrist
How Acts 2 Exposes the Final Deception of the Last Days
Volume II will unveil:
The Antichrist’s counterfeit repentance,
The Antichrist’s counterfeit baptism,
The Antichrist’s counterfeit spirit-infilling,
Why only the truly reborn will discern the deception, and
Why the unmarked Church is the most vulnerable population on earth.
If Volume I diagnoses the disease, Volume II reveals the terminal outcome, and the only cure.
Let the reader prepare.
Let the Church awaken.
Let the remnant arise.
